Chapter Twenty-Nine: Clever Calculations to Take the Empty Village
Wuwen River Water Village, on the periphery is a number of low houses built along the riverbank, from the water gate up a road to pass up, after a few lax guarded closures, you can go directly to a more gorgeous house.
Of course, the magnificence here is only compared to the low and dilapidated wooden houses outside, this house is the "River King Hall".
Outside the River King Hall, two stout water bandits stood outside the hall, which was the place where the River Dragon King usually convened the leaders of the bandits to discuss.
At this time, the water bandits had a rule, whether it was a big or small leader, they could enter the Hewang Hall together during the discussion, but they had to be hierarchical.
When deliberating and drinking, the small leaders are mostly the role of foils, standing on both sides, sitting are some big leaders, even the big leaders are divided into inside and outside according to their prestige.
Some of the big bosses who have a high prestige among the bandits can sit at the front, and the rest are lined up in front of the door, so the building here is relatively large.
There were bursts of laughter from the Hewang Hall, and it turned out that the second-in-command Lang Lijiao was leading more than a dozen water bandit leaders to spend time in the hall.
In the past, more than 100 people could gather here at the same time to drink and discuss things in this spacious lobby, but at this moment, there are only a dozen people here, which seems a little deserted.
Langli Jiao is the second-in-command of this Wuwen River Water Village, and the River Dragon King is a cousin, the two have been in this area since more than ten years ago after becoming water bandits, at that time the Wuwen River has not yet formed a water village, and the only water bandits are only fighting alone, without a unified leader.
With their ruthlessness and extraordinary water nature, the two brothers soon recruited a group of slender men who couldn't survive like them, and slowly, more and more water bandits and homeless people gathered under the hands of the two brothers, and the river dragon king and Langli Jiao became famous along the Wuwen River.
Many slender men and people along the Wuwen River know that there is a river dragon king here, and the river dragon king has a younger brother named Langli Jiao, who robs houses and houses all day long.
The River Dragon King and Langli Jiao did not have the same ambition as Langli Baitiao, and they were only dedicated to being a soil overlord in Wuwen River, until some time ago, Baitiao personally came here to lobby, which made the River Dragon King tempted by the benefits of conquering Ninghai Prefecture City.
However, for Langli Jiao, although he agreed with the decision of the eldest brother River Dragon King on the face, he was dissatisfied with Langli Baitiao in his heart, and volunteered to stay in the water village.
At this moment, in this water village, in addition to a dozen big leaders, there are only about a hundred young and strong water bandits, and there are hundreds of old, weak, sick and disabled, these people are naturally not worth mentioning to the recruits of the six outposts of the Wendeng battalion.
said that he was staying behind, but in fact, Langlijiao knew that now the official army was too busy to take care of himself, and tens of thousands of water bandit troops were heading to Ninghai Prefecture City, how could there be extra Ming troops here.
Lang Lijiao just doesn't want to go out and work hard, the good days of the past few years have long exhausted his original ruthlessness, and now Langli Jiao is a little greedy for life and afraid of death, and just wants to enjoy the days of big wine and meat.
At this moment, Lang Lijiao was holding a woman in a purple jacket in her arms, this woman was committed to a water bandit and had no choice but to do so, she was originally a big lady in a surrounding village and town.
A year ago, more than 1,000 officers and soldiers surrounded and suppressed the Wuwen River, and were defeated by the River Dragon King and Langlijiao.
There were already no officers and soldiers along the coast, and the two brothers came with thousands of bandits to clean up.
met this woman in a village and town, who has always been at the bottom, where has I seen such a beautiful woman, not to mention that she is still a young lady from a large family that she can't reach on weekdays.
Within a few days, the water bandits really made a comeback, and the River Dragon King brought dozens of vicious water bandits to that village and town to support his cousin.
The bandits killed the whole family of the hundred households in the village, hung the heads of the hundred households on the tip of the knife and paraded the street, the blood of the hundred families stained the land of the village, and the river dragon king snatched the trembling woman in front of the whole village and made the lady of the village to Langli Jiao.
At first, the woman was still looking for death and life, but the waves of Jiao's persuasion were fruitless, and finally lost all patience, and took advantage of the alcohol to forcibly take the woman for herself overnight.
The concept of chastity of women in the Ming Dynasty was very strong, but this woman was an alternative, and after being insulted by Langlijiao, she wanted to commit suicide by hitting the wall three times and twice, but she was afraid of pain and did not dare to bump into it.
It didn't take long for Lang Lijiao to be pleasantly surprised to find that this woman had become obedient to herself, and she was willing to stay in Shuizhai to be his wife.
Gentle Township, Hero Mound, Langli Jiao has been lost in the wine-colored days since then and cannot extricate himself.
Lang Lijiao hugged the woman up and down his hands, causing Jiaojiao to gasp again and again, and he was also very happy, picked up a glass of wine and put it in front of the woman, and motioned for her to drink it.
The woman sighed, pushed and refused to drink, and the waves stared wide-eyed.
"Little girl, do you dare not drink it?"
Seeing Lang Lijiao's appearance, the woman became scared, took the bowl and drank the wine in small sips, but choked slightly without a few sips, Lang Lijiao and several big leaders laughed when they saw it.
At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps from outside the hall.
"Oh no, the second master, the stockade is on fire, and the officers and soldiers have come in!"
The water bowl in Lang Lijiao's hand fell to the ground with a click, got up and glared at the water bandit who came to report the news, seeing that his face didn't seem to be a lie, and asked in disbelief.
"What do you say? Didn't the officers and soldiers all go to reinforce Ninghaizhou City, how could they come to Shuizhai, and how many officers and soldiers came? ”
The little leader of the bandits who came to report the news thought for a while, but shook his head and said: "I don't know, there are voices of officers and soldiers on all sides, I'm afraid there will be more than a thousand people, the second master, run!" ”
Hearing this, the rest of the big leaders couldn't care about drinking anymore and got up one after another.
"Second master, let's go!"
"Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood!"
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After Wang Zheng took the dock and the water gate by surprise, he marched inward without stopping.
Before arriving at the water village, Wang Zheng not only let the main force attack at the main gate, but also asked Gao Liang and the other three chiefs to take their respective subordinates around the area.
At the same time as they attacked at the main gate, they launched the Divine Fire Flying Crow, waving their flags and shouting, making the illusion of a large army besieging them.
At first, Wang Zheng just wanted to scare the water bandits, make the water bandits panic, and take advantage of the chaos to seize the walled gate, but unexpectedly the waves did not even resist.
After hearing that the officers and soldiers were coming, they didn't hesitate for long, and then they panicked and fled in the direction of Ninghai Prefecture with more than a dozen big and small leaders, and easily handed over the water village.
After losing their leader, most of the rest of the bandits fled like headless flies.
Wang Zheng took advantage of the victory to pursue, after attacking the water village, he divided into three ways to chase and kill the fleeing water bandits, killed more than 100 water bandits at dawn, rescued more than 300 men and women imprisoned here, and captured more than 50 water bandits who fled from various places.
Almost without encountering any resistance, he easily seized the Wuwen River Water Village, which the River Dragon King had worked hard to operate for more than ten years, and all the gold, silver, grain and grass and other materials that had been hoarded here for many years fell into the hands of Wang Zheng.
None of the six outposts were killed in this battle, but on the way to the pursuit, they encountered a desperate counterattack by water bandits, and more than a dozen people from the six outposts were slightly injured.
The remnants of the water bandits in the inlet of the Wuwen River heard that the officers and soldiers were coming so quickly, and even the waves were gone, and they had no intention of resisting, and fled in the wind.
At noon the next day, the Wendeng camp successfully captured the Wuwen River Water Village