Chapter Twenty-Five: The King Fights for a Plan to Suppress the Bandits
In May, Jiaodong no longer has the feeling of heat, and a faint coolness covers the earth.
In the camp of the Wendeng camp, Huang Yang, Dong Youyin, and Deng Heizi walked in the queue, according to Wang Zheng's order, while inspecting the movements of the recruits, while helping the recruits to line up the formation.
Wang Zheng stood at the front and gave orders, his eyes not only swept in front of the recruits, but also occasionally swept over the three of Huang Yang.
From the performance of the three people in the queue, it can be seen that Dong Youyin is a little impatient, and when he sees recruits who have made mistakes, he often directly scolds them with sheathed waist knives, and when he scolds, he is spitting.
Compared with Dong Youyin, Huang Yang and Heizi are relatively gentle, and the two of them will stop when they see recruits who have made mistakes, patiently straighten their bodies, and demonstrate in person.
In addition, Kuroko will usually kick a few recruits who have made a mistake or laugh and curse a few words before correcting them.
Just as he was thinking of this, there was a clanging sound of iron armor leaves intersecting, and it turned out that a family member wearing iron armor had arrived.
This Ding is Wu Weizhong's cronies, and naturally understands the importance that his family attaches to Wang Zheng, although he doesn't know much about the reason, but he will no longer have the appearance of others being unruly towards Wang Zheng, and now this Ding smiled slightly, hugged his fists and said.
"Xietai said earlier that he must be training when he sees Wang Sentinel, and that's true."
"After half an hour, the Xietai general will beat the drum in the camp and gather the generals, and the lowly general will be the king sentinel, and he must come to participate."
Hahaha, Wang Zheng nodded and said: "I will go back to Wu Xietai first, and when the subordinate arranges the training of the recruits in the outpost, I will leave immediately." ”
"Good! Then the lowly post will go back to hand over to Lord Xietai. ”
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"Bang, bang, bang."
After the three drums, the people in Wendeng City are all discussing, the three drums gather the generals, this is the most formal way of the Wendeng camp, Wu Weizhong convened the generals in this way, there must be something big happening.
There are six sentinels in the Wendeng camp, three people standing on the left and right, and the leaders are Gao Shan and the sentinel surnamed Liu.
Standing on the lobby in the Zhongjun Hall, Wu Weizhong scanned back and forth in the hall with big eyes, and saw Wang Zheng standing at the end, so he hugged his fist at everyone.
"Disturbing your colleagues, there are really some things that have to be discussed with you, Lord Futai has an order, Wendeng Camp reinforces Ninghaizhou City, and exterminates the two rivers giant bandit Langli Baitiao and the River Dragon King."
Baitiao in the waves, who was originally just a water bandit in a small village along the Jinshui River, was originally an inconspicuous little person in this troubled world.
But for some reason, in the past two years, the development of Baitiao in the waves has become more and more rapid, not only in the eight water villages along the Jinshui River, but also the business of robbing houses on land, and the people along the river have suffered greatly.
Jinshui River relies on Ninghaizhou City, and if Baitiao in the waves wants to develop on land, it will inevitably clash with the Ming army in Ninghaizhou.
However, under the wise and martial decision of Dong Chengping of Zhizhou, the officers and soldiers in Ninghaizhou did not hesitate to implement the method of closing the city and not coming out, and even did not take in the fleeing people, and imposed a grounding order at night.
Although Ninghaizhou's armament is sluggish, there are still three Shenwei General cannons in the city, and dozens of copper cannons of various sizes and types.
In addition, these water bandits are people who are familiar with water and do not know much about land warfare, and Langli Baitiao is not particularly arrogant, and he also knows that it is impossible to succeed in storming Ninghaizhou City.
The drawbacks of Dong Chengping in doing so were too great, and the officials and soldiers were afraid of the war, and they didn't even dare to take in the people, which invisibly increased the arrogance of the bandits.
Seeing that the attack could not be achieved, Baitiao in the waves set his eyes on the villages on the periphery of Ninghaizhou City, and started to encroach.
At the beginning of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Langli Baitiao gathered thousands of people from eight families in the water village along the Jinshui River, and swept out of the Jinshui River Bay.
Since they did not encounter any resistance from officers and soldiers along the way, the bandits burned, killed and plundered all the way, and the people became homeless and homeless, and many of them were coerced.
In March, Langli Baitiao successfully formed an alliance with the Wuwen River Giant Bandit River Dragon King, plus the thousands of people who were coerced, known as the 50,000 water bandit army, all the way towards Ninghaizhou City.
Wuwen River and Jinshui River nine water bandits, the largest of which is naturally the white strip in the waves, followed by the river dragon king, after they formed an alliance, they have been regarded as a unified two rivers water village, the momentum is huge, faintly forming a siege of Ninghaizhou City.
Dong Chengping, the governor of Ninghaizhou, who heard about this, immediately discarded those literati solar terms, and was so frightened that he sent four urgent documents in two days.
The documents were sent into the yamen of the governor of Shandong, and Yang Wenyue, who was the governor of Shandong at the time, attached great importance to it after hearing about it, because Ninghaizhou was located in Muping, and Muping was closer to the Wendeng camp.
Wu Weizhong, the new camp officer of the Wendeng battalion, was ordered to be sent to reinforce Ninghaizhou City in advance to assist Dong Chengping, the governor of the city.
According to the deputy envoy of the inspector and the Dengzhou sub-patrol Xu Chengwen concurrently supervised the military road, and led thousands of officers and troops in Huangxian, Penglai, Qixia, Laiyang and other places, and then arrived, taking charge of exterminating the giant bandits in the two rivers.
There is a huge disparity in strength, there are more than 2,000 soldiers in the Wendeng battalion book, and more than 800 soldiers in the horse army, but in fact, these six sentinels, except for the six sentinels newly recruited by Wang Zheng, are full of quotas, and the rest must have at least half of the shortfall.
In this way, the Wenden battalion actually had only more than 800 people, and there were less than 100 horsemen, and the horses were so thin that they were almost negligible.
The situation is grim!
After Wu Weizhong's words came out, there was silence in the hall, and even the most shouting Liu Sentinel and a few others stopped making a sound, Wu Weizhong also sighed bitterly and shook his head, unable to speak.
If all the members of the Wendeng battalion are full, they can fight, and now they are taking less than 1,000 people to fight the water bandits who claim to be 50,000, what is the difference between this and suicide?
"Everyone, as officers and soldiers of the imperial court, it is incumbent on us to protect the people and eliminate thieves, and it is incumbent on us to kill innocents in vain with Baitiao and the River Dragon King, and we will set off tomorrow as a whole army!"
"Wu Xietai!"
Sentinel Liu suddenly screamed and said: "This march and battle is a job of pinning your head to the waistband of your trousers, and if you can't guarantee it, everyone will die tomorrow night, if you don't have some money, I'm afraid that the sergeant will not accept it!" ”
"Yes, Xietai, our subordinates are all destitute, can we replenish military supplies along the way, and also prevent the soldiers from messing up."
This is nothing, Wu Weizhong didn't think much about it, he easily handed over the power to everyone, nodded and said: "This is reasonable, on the march, you can act cheaply." ”
"I would like to follow the orders of the association!"
With a satisfied smile, Liu Sentinel and the others all hugged their fists in unison.
"So be it, be prepared today, tomorrow..."
Before Wu Weizhong's words landed, Wang Zheng, who had been standing at the end, suddenly came out of the ranks, clasped his fists and shouted: "Xietai, it's probably inappropriate to march like this!" ”
"Oh? So what is Mr. Wang's opinion? Liu Sentinel snorted coldly.
didn't care about the sentinel surnamed Liu, Wang argued.
"Xia Guan thinks that the water bandits are in the dark and I am in the light, and it is very likely that such a fanfare march will suffer the loss of the water bandits, so it is better to take advantage of the weakness to attack the bandit nest of the River Dragon King."
"In this way, the River Dragon King has to return to help, so as to have a dislike with the Baitiao in the waves, weaken the water bandits, and the Baitiao family in the Langli alone can't capture Ninghaizhou City anyway, kill two birds with one stone, why not do it?"