Chapter 129: It's a pity

After the panic of the first two days, before Li Meng sent out his troops, the local tyrants and landlords who had been bargaining dispersed a lot, the Peng family in the ancient city and the Qiu family in Tingkou Town were all big men in Laizhou Mansion, although Li Meng was also a local overlord, but it was better to look at the style and talk about the real ability, after all, the Peng family and the Qiu family were all related even in Chengye County, Laizhou Prefecture, and there were many people who could fight.

If Li Meng wins, everything is easy to say, he can't win, and he is not afraid here, although the news from the local tyrants of Jiaozhou and Jimo and Gaomi Xiazhuang is so amazing, but the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are not unseen, that is, the family is stronger, and what can such a salt dealer do.

On the eighth day of the lunar month, the cavalry of the Jiaozhou battalion thought that Pingdu Prefecture, Gaomi, Jiaozhou, Jimo four prefectures and counties, as well as the general stationed in Denglai, the capital of Dengzhou, sent documents, pointing directly to the ancient city of Ji Pengjia and Tingkou Town Qiujia as bandits, saying that they would send troops to exterminate them.

General Denglai vaguely knew who was behind Li Meng, and this time he couldn't lose his strength, and he could share some credit, so he simply pretended to be stupid and let Li Meng act.

Needless to say, Jiaozhou and Gaomi are two places, Jimo County is far away from these two places, and belongs to the jurisdiction of Jiaozhou, so it is natural to beat the side drum, Li Meng in addition to Yanding, there are not too many representatives in Pingdu Prefecture, after Pingdu Prefecture received this official document, there are many friends of the Qiu family and the Peng family in the Yamen of Pingdu Zhizhou, and usually these big families also sprinkle a lot of silver in it, which is also the usual practice of large families everywhere.

Since Pingdu Prefecture is close to these two families, it is necessary to prepare to explain, this is a good citizen, don't be wronged, who knows that the official document here has just arrived, and the victimized people poured into the Zhizhou Yamen, crying and complaining, those officials who were close to the Wang family and the Qiu family wanted to order the officials to drive people out, but they didn't expect that the officials didn't dare to move, and they went out to see to know what it was.

This Wang Zhuzi is also a legend in Pingdu Prefecture, but he is a peddler pushing a cart, but because he received an invitation from Li Meng, he has become a strong party in Guting Town, Pingdu Prefecture in less than two years, and the original old Qiu family is side by side, such a powerful landlord, of course, the officials dare not provoke.

As soon as Pingdu Zhizhou knew about this situation, he simply was "sick", so he asked the history of the canon to take the form first, and then press it down, and also took Li Meng's documents, and used a drag word to see the style.

The relatives of the two families knew that things would definitely not be good, so they had to inform their families and let them prepare as soon as possible, anyway, according to the news of the people who were sent by Kuaima, Li Meng's troops should have set off on the eighth day of the lunar month, and the family was always prepared to run or fight.

The situation is not what you want, Tingkou Town is the transit ferry checkpoint for salt goods from Jiaozhou to the north of Laizhou, there are salt Ding garrisons, and there are also salt lords and salt dealers like Wang Zhuzi who are close to Li Meng.

Wang Zhuzi's more than 30 people, as well as 50 salt dings, and the other party's hundreds of people, of course not opponents, Wang Zhuzi's men collapsed in an instant, but those salt Ding formed a formation to fight to the death, hundreds of people rushed several times, but they could only repel the other party, but they were not defeated.

On the contrary, a bag of Jinqiu Lao San was a little deflated, and after all, this was a private fight, and he didn't dare to delay it for too long, so after the fight, he had to shrink back. Wang Zhuzi only had time to go to the Yamen to make trouble and complain, and the Qiu family also had Zhuangzi in Guting Town, like everyone, desperately recruiting manpower and strengthening the defense, thinking that the horse could be arrived in one day, but eight hundred foot soldiers, how could it take four days, and a lot could be done in these four days.

On the afternoon of the ninth day of the lunar month, Ma Gang led four hundred salt dings along the waterway to the outside of the Qiu family's manor.

The Qiu family didn't think about defending at all, after all, they could make up more than 500 people even if they were strong and strong, otherwise how could they be called Dahao, Qiu Laosan was also used to being rampant in Pingdu Prefecture, and he was very arrogant. Of the 400 salt dings that Ma Gang carried, there were 300 new dings who had been trained for about a month, and there were only 100 veterans.

Five hundred to four hundred, it is the geographical advantage of the Qiu family, and according to the understanding of these people about the Ming army in ordinary times, a group of ruffians and hooligans who can't even eat enough can compare to the local bandits and townspeople, and the Qiu family's victory should be great.

As a result, as soon as the two sides engaged, there was no suspense immediately, and Ma Gang still settled on four hundred salt dices to form a formation and wait for the opponent to attack, consume the opponent's sharpness, and then fight back.

The battle situation is simple and can't even be called a battle, this Qiu family has really accumulated a lot of things, and can actually mobilize more than a dozen archers to shoot a few rounds first, but Ma Gang has ten firecrackers in his hand, and he has already bracked the wooden forks in the first column, and the first row of firecrackers blasted out, and within fifty steps, the archers knocked over six, and there were three unlucky ghosts who were patronized by stray bullets.

After the fire was fired, Qiu Laosan immediately couldn't control the team, and the so-called strong people in Qiujiazhuang immediately collapsed, and the archers still had the courage to continue firing, but they retreated to a hundred steps away to draw their bows and shoot arrows, and the ghosts couldn't shoot at this distance.

Ma Gang gave an order, and the four hundred salt Ding directly pressed up, just because the formation did not press this posture chaotically, more than 100 people scattered around Qiu Laosan, and when it was time for the match, there were less than 200 men left around Qiu Laosan, and these 200 people were not even equipped with spears.

Yan Ding put the spear flat here, and stabbed it in rows, the basic action of assassination is to let people burst out with the greatest strength when stabbing it, and it is a row of stabs, and everything that wants to rush forward has been stabbed with a number of blood holes, and it is directly accountable, Qiu Laosan has some courage, and he wields a simple knife in his hand, but unfortunately he didn't even cut off a few spears, and he was stabbed to death directly.

From the beginning of the sound of the fire, it was useless to kill more than sixty people, and the rest were scattered, Qiujiazhuang with the help of the inner line arranged by Wang Zhuzi, even the village door was not pulled up, and it was directly broken into by Ma Gang.

During the month of Layue, the rivers in the area of Denglai were almost frozen with thin ice, and the movement of ships was quite inconvenient, and Li Meng's 800 soldiers could only travel by land, which took more time.

Li Meng's march this time, he led 400 people, Chen Liuzi and Wang Hai each led 200 people, during the march, every day was not fast, Li Meng chose the place to camp, and arranged the defense and sentry posts at night, all of which he did himself, and the old army of the Lingshan Guard Station talked to him a lot, and now is the opportunity to practice.

Almost five days on the road, this is to reach the area near the ancient city set, five days, enough for the Peng family to invite reinforcements, Dengzhou Mansion is in tatters, many officers and soldiers thieves and remnants of the army are active there, these people have some military training, and some horses are more or less, and the ordinary government can not be exterminated, it can be said that it is extremely strong.

According to Li Meng's intelligence, in addition to being a big horse in the ancient city, the Peng family in the ancient city set also has the role of providing support, selling and buying stolen goods to those people in Dengzhou Mansion, and is vaguely regarded as the leader.

The person who came to report the news was a local squire who sold illicit salt in the ancient city, and after knowing that there was a conflict between the two sides, he fled from the place with his family overnight, for fear of being destroyed.

When the squire came to report the news, he saw that there were only 800 people on Li Meng's side, and his apprehension was very clear on his face, but Li Meng and the dozen or so soldier leaders below were not abnormal, the 800 people were all veterans, and the war was the war, and everyone didn't feel anything.

The activity area of the cavalry is huge, and when I arrived at the ancient city market in half a day, I encountered the Peng family's brigade on the road, according to the original idea, these people wanted to have an ambush halfway, but first, this terrain is hilly, and secondly, so many people can't control it, the sound is noisy, and the ambush is too easy to expose.

Eight hundred people marched on a large scale, and the five hundred horses of the Peng family and more foot soldiers pressed over, and it was even more immense, and Li Meng, who was on the horse, looked at it from a distance, and there was a feeling of thousands of troops, and the dust was raised high, and there was a lot of chaos.

"This Peng family is the biggest powerful man in Laizhou Mansion!"

Hearing Li Meng's question, Wang Hai on the side replied:

"Peng Kui was originally the commander of a battalion stationed in Huang County, Dengzhou Prefecture, when Kong Youde rebelled, he pulled more than 100 people back to his home, relying on more than 100 people and horses to gradually pull up the force, if you want to count the force, this is almost Laizhou Mansion, no, it should be counted Dengzhou Mansion, it is the largest."

Li Meng nodded, looked at the hundreds of horseback riders in the distance, and the more than a thousand foot soldiers who came with him, and sighed regretfully.

These more than 1,000 hungry people-like foot soldiers, those with weapons in their hands are already elite, many people have wooden sticks in their hands, all of them look skinny, these people are just mouths for eating, don't have no pity, but this horse team is really a good thing, but the habit of the strong bandits has been cultivated, and it can't be gathered, it's a pity!