Chapter 12 Cracking Down on Bandits
The sun shone on the bustling streets again, and Wu Song had breakfast. Walk to the school grounds in the prefecture. Today it's time to drill and drill those sixty soldiers, although the bandits don't plan to let them contribute, but we must also let them make some noise, otherwise I am afraid that many more people will be killed.
Wu Song came to the school and arranged for everyone to gather. But when he saw sixty people, he stood sparsely. He said loudly: "Everyone, I have already gotten to know each other the day before yesterday. Please eat wine and meat. And everyone is also a brother, do you still want to eat meat and drink wine today.
Everyone shouted in unison, a little confused: "Yes"
Wu Song said again: "The county order ordered me to take my brothers to exterminate the mountain bandits, I don't ask the brothers to charge into battle, I only ask the brothers, the clothes and armor are clear, and the queue is neat." The order is unanimous. When the brothers can do it, when they will have wine and meat to eat. After speaking, he asked the soldiers to arrange their clothes and armor, and began to practice, and divided into three teams. The axemen is in the front, the pikemen are in the middle, and the archers are last. Ten people in a column, a total of six rows. When marching, follow the original queue in a vertical line. Xu Ming was instructed to direct the exercises.
Wu Song went to the storehouse, found a long knife, found a hard bow, and received more than 100 arrows. Start practicing archery. Wu Song's firearms shooting in his previous life was professionally trained. It is believed that the principle of bows and arrows and spears is similar. It wasn't until I shot an arrow that I realized it wasn't like that. Then he humbly consulted a few sergeants who could use bows and arrows. I learned some of the essentials of archery. Practice taking your bow and arrows seriously, and then let go of the shot. Repeat this more than a thousand times. It wasn't until his arm was sore that he stopped to rest, and took advantage of the rest to instruct the sergeants to practice in the queue. Wait until your arm is better before continuing to practice your bow and arrow.
Three days later, Wu Song was already able to shoot arrows on a horse, and he had a hundred shots, because he had the foundation of firearms, and the moving target was not a problem.
Wu Song saw that the queue of sixty sergeants was already very neat. felt that the time was ripe, and immediately reported to Xu Han of Zhixian County. Prepare to leave the next day to suppress the bandits. Xu Han agreed with great joy and rewarded the three armies. Motivate the soldiers.
In the early morning of the fourth day, Wu Song brought weapons, bows and arrows, arrow feathers, rode horses, and ordered the archers to bring five arrow feathers and set out to suppress the bandits.
Yanggu County is a medium-sized county, there are three bandits in the county (except for one eliminated by Wu Song), which are located in the north, northwest and west of the county, and the three cottages are: Shifo Village, Yanlou Village, and Jindou Village. There were about 100 bandits in each village. Murder and arson, do all kinds of evil. "Brothers in Shandong, don't blame, this book is pure fiction, if there are similarities, it is pure coincidence. Apologize again〉
Wu Song took more than 60 sergeants to the Shifo Village in a neat line, and then ordered the sergeants to change into a horizontal formation and slowly advance to the front of the village. Then Wu Song rode to the front of the village to challenge, and shouted: "Wait for the thieves, don't open the village and surrender, otherwise all the heads will fall to the ground."
The thieves saw that the official army was neatly arranged, the clothes and armor were distinct, and the heart was cold, and they had already told the cottage king Shi Sanxiang, and the mother of the king of Shi had a difficult birth when she gave birth to him, and suddenly heard the thunder of Sansheng, and her heart was tight, but she gave birth to him, and since then he has been named Shi Sanxiang. Therefore, Shi Sanxiang is also quite legendary in the village, after Shi Sanxiang grows up, both hands can carry two hundred catties of things, and like to fight fiercely, and finally accidentally kill people for a while, since then they will gather a crowd to roar in the mountains and forests, Shi Sanxiang makes a big plate axe, weighing more than 20 catties, and has not met an opponent within a radius of dozens of miles. It is also famous on the boundary of Yanggu County. Shi Sanxiang heard that the official army was coming. With a few leaders with him, he carried a large axe. When he came to the front of the village, he shouted: "What a big dog dares to come to my cottage." Don't speed back yet, or you'll be hit by your heads."
Wu Song said: "Don't talk nonsense, but dare me to fight."
Shi Sanxiang was furious, and went to Wu Song to fight with the plate axe, Wu Song saw Shi Sanxiang approaching, holding the knife in one hand and taking out the flying knife in the other, but when he saw that he shouted: "Death" threw out the flying knife, which hit the heart. Without waiting for everyone to find out, he closed his eyes with Shi Sanxiang. With a wave of the big knife, Shi Sanxiang's head was cut off. Wu Song's movements were too fast, and no one noticed Wu Song's first flying knife. I saw Wu Song screaming like a god and died, and then Shi Sanxiang was cut off on his head. They were all scared. Kneel and surrender. Wu Song opened the gate of the village, and if he saw someone who got up and ran away, he put up a bow and arrow, and shouted: "Die", he saw that the person fell to the ground with an arrow, so one by one, there was no one who dared to get up. Wu Song immediately ordered the sergeant to tie up all the thieves and put them in one place to guard. Wu Song summoned a small leader and asked if the money and grain were hidden and ordered Xu Ming to go to the inventory.
He also sent people back to report the victory, and seized a total of 130 taels of gold, 5,700 taels of silver, and more than 11,000 taels of money. More than 5,000 stone of grain. Killed three thieves and arrested 125 thieves. The county commander Xu Han was overjoyed when he heard the report, and immediately recruited the people to carry it.
After transporting the things back to the city, Wu Song gave the county order, and with the order, the sixty sergeants were rewarded with five stone of food each, and the sixty sergeants who accompanied him from then on were all grateful to Wu Song.
At night, a bright moon hangs high in the night sky, and the stars compete to shine on the earth. A pair of sergeants, holding torches, inspected the Yanggu County Ya, which represented the majesty of the imperial court and the national law. On the mansion of the county commander Xu Han, a table of wine was set up, and a few people pushed their glasses to change the lamp, and then stopped, and the table said that the mountain delicacies were delicious, but they were millions of times stronger than the leaves and wild vegetables eaten by the common people in the village. But a few people didn't have the heart to taste those delicacies. After some deliberation by the big guys, an agreement was reached. During the Song Weizong period, grain was always money.
The county ordered Xu Han to get 5,000 yuan, Wu Hui, the county chief Bo Zhang Xing, and Cao Gang, the county governor, each got 600 silver, 600 money, and 600 stone of grain, and Wu Song got 500 silver, 500 yuan, and 500 quintals of grain. Twenty officials of the same rank as Wu Song in the county government received fifty stone of grain each
In addition, another 130 taels of money and 1,000 taels of silver went to Jeju to report the victory.
The main Bo Zhang Xing filled in the official document: Zhenghe 5th year, October 16. The thieves and bandits sounded three times, refused to accept the king, did evil, gathered 127 people, robbed the merchants, and harmed the people in the township, and committed a great crime. After hearing about it, the county commander Xu Han sent Wu Song, the head of the infantry army, and was transferred by the county lieutenant Cao Gang, and sixty sergeants from the county lieutenant office went to round up. Blessed by the emperor, relying on the grace of His Majesty, the virtue of the governor of Yangzhizhou. Dutou Wu Song used his life. Except for the bandit leader Shi Sanxiang and three others, all the other 125 were captured, and 2,200 taels of stolen silver, 3,500 copper coins, and 1,200 stone of grain were seized. Fortunately, there were no casualties.
When everyone saw that the spoils were divided, they drank like Gao Cailie. Ate the food.
Since then, Wu Song has become famous in Yanggu County. Officials of all sizes in the prefecture are respectful.