Chapter 81: The Thieves Are Coming
Changgou Town, located in the northeast of Wanglong County, is about 20 miles away from Wanglong Town, covering an area of 40 square kilometers and a town area of 2 square kilometers. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Because Changgou Town is located in the plain, the territory is mostly plain, and the adjacent Shidao Town is the two major production towns in Wanglong County.
Changgou Town originally had a population of more than 26,000 jin, but after the Qing army entered the country, it was severely persecuted, and a large number of people either died or fled, and now the population of the entire Changgou Town is only more than 10,000.
"Quick! Fast! ”
"Let's go! Everyone rush to the weir field as soon as possible! ”
"Ah, the boss, something has fallen"
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In Changgou Town, there is chaos.
Teams of people in Changgou Town were packing up their things and preparing to rush to Yantian Village, a port village east of Changgou Town.
At this time, 2 days had passed since the battle of Tuanshan Village.
After the battle of Tuanshan Village, the Guards Battalion rested in Tuanshan Village for one night, and then left for Wanglong Town again on the second day.
With the defeat of the 600 Eight Banners Iron Cavalry and the 10,000 slave army, the Qing army in the entire Wanglong County has been swept away, and some of the defenders who fled and were responsible for garrisoning the town have also absconded.
When Sima Yu led the army to Wanglong Town, the entire Wanglong Town had already opened its gates, and a large number of people were standing on both sides of the galloping road outside the city, watching the arrival of the Guards Battalion army burst into cheers.
The people of Wanglong Town, who were already unbearable to the oppression of the Qing army, had been longing for this day for a long time.
On the afternoon of the end of the battle of Tuanshan Village, the people in Wanglong Town had already received the news, and the entire Wanglong Town was suddenly boiling.
"The hearts of the people are available!"
Sima Yu, who was riding on a war horse, looked at the cheering people of Wanglong Town on both sides, and Sima Yu couldn't help but moisten his eyes slightly, and muttered to himself.
At a glance, most of the people standing on both sides of the road were already emaciated, and some middle-aged men were like leaves in the wind that could fall at any time, which shows that the Qing army was oppressed.
However, this also made Sima Yu more confident in defeating the Qing army.
Since ancient times, those who win the hearts of the people win the world, and the Qing army does not know how to treat the people well, even if the military power is strong, it will definitely not last.
After entering Wanglong Town, Sima Yu immediately ordered Huang Jingtian to organize people to distribute food to the people.
After all, most of these people, who had been starving for a long time, were already weak, and their current bodies probably couldn't support them until when Sima Yu transferred them to Zhongba Island.
In the battle of Tuanshan Village, although Sima Yu and the others defeated the Qing army in Wanglong County in one fell swoop, there were still more than 10,000 Eight Banner Iron Cavalry and more than 100,000 slave troops in the entire Luzhou territory, and the strength of this Qilin expedition could not be matched at all.
Therefore, after this victory, Sima Yu did not plan to garrison the territory of Wanglong County, but planned to gather all the remaining people in the entire county, and then transfer all of them to Zhongba Island.
While using the naval army to constantly attack the Qing army along the river and maneuver with the Qing army, he continued to gather the people everywhere and expand the strength of Zhongba County
At the same time, Sima Yu also used Wanglong Town as a temporary base and sent people to various villages in Wanglong County to collect and recruit people.
After the entry of the Qing army, Wanglong County, which originally had a population of 150,000, is now less than 100,000, and many of the remaining people have cooperated with the work of the soldiers of the Guards Battalion after getting the grain obtained by Sima Yu to open the two people's livelihood pillars (860,000 kilograms of grain) again.
The sailors under Yu Dayou were the main force for the people to evacuate from Wanglong County, and they were divided into several branches, and began to transfer displaced people in Yantian, Hongzui, Tuku, and Dashipan.
Changgou Town, located in the west of Wanglong Town, is close to Yantian Village, so the evacuation route of the villagers of Changgou Town was also arranged in Yantian Village.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
Just as many people in Changgou Town were busy, an army of more than 2,000 people 1 mile outside the town was rapidly killing Changgou Town.
The soldiers of this army are all armed with spears, dressed in cloth clothes, and dressed in various ways, and it can be seen at a glance that it is not a well-trained regular army, and before it has even approached Changgou Town, the shouts of killing have been heard from far and near.
"Oh no, the Golden Beach thieves are coming, everyone hide!"
"Hide!"
However, with the defeat of the Qing army, the few defenders who were originally responsible for the defense in the entire Wanglong County also all absconded or hidden, and Sima Yu also had to gather the army together because the entire guard battalion is now only more than 3,000 people, and there is simply not enough manpower to be distributed to all parts of Wanglong County.
Therefore, there was no one left in the entire Changgou Town, in the face of the attacking Jintan thieves, there was no one in front of the huge Changgou Town to close the city gate, and many people in the town fled in panic, so that the Jintan thieves who did not receive the slightest obstruction quickly attacked the Changgou Town.
Some of the people of Changgou Town who couldn't escape, or hid at home, were forced out one after another, and the entire Changgou Town was almost ransacked, and even the large amount of grain that Sima Yu ordered the people to distribute just now was plundered by the Jintan thieves.
"Big brother, we have blatantly attacked Changgou Town like this, aren't we afraid that the army of Wanglong Town will come to retaliate?"
On the side of the road outside Changgou Town, Wen Dan, the second leader of the Golden Beach Thieves, looked at the nearly 3,000 people of Changgou Town who were escorted by many Golden Beach Thieves, and said with a slightly worried expression.
"Why should the second brother be anxious, even the Qing army couldn't help us at the beginning, and now we have more than 1,000 new brothers, and there are more than 3,000 soldiers and horses in Wanglong Town, what can I do?"
Beside Wen Dan, Ruan Guo, the leader of the Golden Beach Thieves, who had a big beard on his face, a strong figure, and a long machete stuck in his waist, saw this, waved his hand and said indifferently.
Ruan Guo and Wen Dan came from the Northern Song Dynasty, and they were two water thief leaders before, with dozens of brothers under their command, and after coming to this world, they did not submit to Zhang Xianzhong's rule, and had already settled on the island in Jintan Lake, a few miles west of Changgou Town.
Since Ruan Guo and the others are familiar with water, good at water stations, and there are not many people, they will sneak into the vicinity of Jinwan Lake at the slightest disadvantage, and the army will not be able to exterminate them at all.
With the outbreak of the war between the Qing army and Daxi, Ruan Guo and Wen Dan took the opportunity to lead people to rob all parties many times, and their strength gradually increased, and by the time the Qing army entered, the entire Golden Beach thieves already had nearly 1,000 people.
After the Qing army entered the country, some people who could not bear the persecution of the Qing army also gradually began to join the Jintan thieves, and in just a few days it has expanded to 2,000 soldiers and horses, if it were not for the fact that the big island located in the Jintan Lake is only 10 square kilometers in size, and it can no longer feed too many people, the strength of the Jintan thieves may be further strengthened.
After the battle of Tuanshan Village, the guard battalion defeated the Qing army, some of the fleeing slave soldiers were afraid that Sima Yu would settle their old accounts, and they also threw themselves under the command of Ruan Guo and Wen Dan, and now the soldiers and horses of the entire Jintan thieves have grown to nearly 4,000 soldiers.
This time, the two also led the army to come, wanting to loot some supplies and manpower while the entire Changgou Town was leaderless.
"Big brother, this army defeated more than 10,000 Qing troops in the first battle of Tuanshan Village, if the other party attacks, we must not underestimate it" Wen Dan looked at Ruan Guo's indifferent expression and was anxious, and couldn't help but remind him.
Wen Dan had studied in a private school for a period of time before, and his personality was a bit of literati caution and cowardice.
"Haha, second brother, you are too cautious, I'm afraid the army of Wanglong Town can't take care of us right now! In the battle of Tuanshan Village, although they defeated the Qing army in Wanglong County, this was only a small group of Qing troops, and the main force of the Qing army was not scathed at all. Once the Qing army gets a small one, it will inevitably send a large army to retaliate. Zhang Xianzhong gathered more than 100,000 troops that day, and he was not the opponent of the Qing army, could this army in Wanglong Town still be able to resist the attack of the Qing army? They obviously expected this, so they gathered a large number of people to prepare for the transfer, and at this time, time is extremely precious for them, how can they entangle with us for the sake of thousands of ordinary people."
Ruan Guo glanced at Wen Dan and interrupted him with a wave of his hand, his expression full of arrogance and complacency.
Recently, the continuous expansion of power has made Nguyen Quoc have begun to expand his self-confidence.
Wen Dan was stunned when he heard this, and felt that what Ruan Guo said was reasonable, so he didn't say more, and immediately the Jintan thieves and his party took a large number of people and looted materials to the direction of Jintan Lake.