"Fuck it!" Everyone was fascinated by the word reward, and their hearts suddenly mobilized and shouted one after another.

Niu Dazhang is naturally no exception, but he has something in his eyes.

Zhao Wuji pressed down with both hands, and when everyone was quiet, Fang Zi continued: "Everyone, in addition to this one, there is one more thing. ”

A slight look of embarrassment appeared on his face: "We don't have enough food to eat!" With this dewarming station, we have to fight if we don't, and we have to fight if we don't, unless we want to starve to death. ”

When he said this, he deliberately glanced at Niu Dazhang's expression, and after seeing that his face was no different, he felt a lot more comfortable, but he didn't know that Niu Dazhang was already sneering in his heart.

Niu Dazhang had told Zao Wou-Ki about this at the beginning, but Zao Wou-Ki was short-sighted and really couldn't see that far, so he didn't pay attention to it, so that the problem soon became apparent. From five or six days ago, the food had already begun to run out of food, and at that time Zao Wou-Ki had just come to his senses, and immediately ordered all the food to be collected, not to be wasted, and to implement a daily ration system for each person, but it was too late.

In the past two days, the last bit of food has been eaten, and most people have been able to survive on a little noodle soup every day – not including the privileged classes, of course.

And after this war, there were a lot fewer corpses of those Ming soldiers who died in battle, and they could only turn a blind eye.

Anyway, I'm starving to death, what is it to eat a handful of people?

While he was talking, suddenly a senior brother strode in and said with great joy: "Master Xiang, we have discovered the armory of the Ming army!" Go check it out. I have a mother, I don't know how many knives, guns, bows and arrows. Too many to count! ”

"Really?" When Zao Wou-Ki heard this, he was immediately overjoyed. Suddenly stood up.

Niu Dazhang's face showed a very strong joy, and an inexplicable and treacherous taste flashed in his eyes.

After a tea hour, the high-ranking people were already standing in the armory.

The armory was not in the center of the city, but in the southwest corner, next to the barracks. The armory is built with extremely heavy bluestone, and the big iron gate is five inches thick, and it can be seen that it is a dream to open this place unconsciously. Nature is worth so much protection. But at this moment, the big iron door has been smashed open, and it is like a weak woman who has stripped off her clothes and broken her legs, and let others ravage her.

Originally, the White Lotus Sect people who discovered this place thought it was a treasure trove when they saw that it was so tightly protected, but they didn't expect that after opening it, they found that it was full of weapons.

The area here is also not small, with a radius of forty or fifty meters, and there are not many types. They are all common weapons - waist knives, spears, bows and arrows, round shields. But the number is huge.

It's huge, it's almost piled up.

And the weapons are in very new condition, and it looks like they should have been replenished not long ago. Naturally, they didn't know that this was the poor Qianhu Lord, who had been working up for a whole year, asking for new weapons. It had only recently been approved, and the ordnance had arrived ten days earlier. Before he could use it, he cheapened these White Lotus Sect members.

Niu Dazhang's eyes lit up when he saw these weapons. He stepped forward and groped with his hands, and there were words in his mouth.

The other White Lotus Sect leaders, including Zao Wou-ki, were overjoyed when they saw these weapons, but they also felt that their scalps were fried, and they were at a loss, Zhao Wou-Ki caught a glimpse of Niu Dazhang's expression, and his heart moved, and he laughed: "What are we panicking about here!" Isn't that a connoisseur? Brother Niu, tell me, what should we do with these ordnance? ”

Niu Dazhang also took the lead, pondered for a moment, and said: "Master Xiang, I have to count the number first." ”

Zhao Wuji waved his hand: "You take care of this matter, let's watch from the side." ”

Niu Dazhang replied.

There are many people who are easy to do, and after a while, the number is counted.

There were a total of 2,000 waist knives, 1,000 spears, 3,000 bows, 1,000 bundles of arrows, and to Niu Dazhang's surprise, a hundred pairs of armor were found in a corner, a high-grade three-layer foam nail cotton armor.

"Master Xiang, this ordnance can't be the key to our ability to smash that Li Qingshan." Niu Dazhang pondered for a moment, walked up to Zhao Wuji and said.

As soon as he heard this, Zao Wou-ki's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, "You mean? ”

"That's right!" Niu Dazhang pulled Zhao Wuji aside, and said in a low life: "Lord Xiang, please forgive me, although we have a lot of people now, we are mostly a rabble, and now in this Linghe Fort, there are more than 100,000 people stationed outside the city, saying that it is a large army, but everyone knows that if this is a scene, most of them can only be regarded as ordinary people, and they are soldiers, that is, there are thousands of people." If the officers and soldiers really come over, I'm afraid that 10,000 people will be able to break us up and mess up, and the reason why we are so powerful now is not because the Jurchens are fighting from north to south and attracting most of the troops? ”

These words were very direct, and Zao Wouji's face also changed slightly, but he knew that Niu Dazhang was really so frank for his own good, who didn't know that he offended people by saying unpleasant things? In his heart, he trusted him a little more, and said, "Then what do you mean?" ”

Niu Dazhang said categorically: "According to my thoughts, the most important thing we should do now is to use these ordnance to arm those elites, and then use them to charge into battle, train more, and form an elite division that can be ordered and forbidden, and can rush and kill, in this way, not only can we conquer the city, but also keep our capital." Even if the officers and soldiers call later, everything is lost, as long as this army is still there, the vitality will not be damaged. ”

Zhao Wouji nodded again and again when he heard this, and he was even more glad that he had the treasure of Niu Dazhang.

He clapped his hands and said, "Okay, that's it!" ”

That night, Zao Wou-Ki summoned all the slightly faceless figures under his command and announced in public the establishment of the forward battalion.

The forward battalion was tentatively numbered at 5,000 men, including 3,000 foot soldiers, including 1,000 pikemen, 2,000 sword-bearers with swords in one hand and shields in the other, plus 2,000 archers.

And the position of the commander of the forward battalion naturally fell on Niu Dazhang's head.

Also on this day. The starving members of the White Lotus Sect began to eat people on a large scale, and they stripped the clothes of the Ming soldiers who had died in battle. The hair on his body was scalded with hot water and bloodied. Clear out the intestines and liver, then chop them up and throw them directly into the pot to cook. However, according to their experience, it is better to go into the water by people.

Divide and eat.

And it was named 'Killing Ming Pig (Zhu)'.

Early the next morning, Zao Wou-Ki ordered that the remaining corpses of the Ming army be scraped off and salted as military rations.

More than 100,000 people are like locusts. Swept towards the south, the destination - the Vultures Detachment.

The area where the vultures are dewarmed is the junction of the vultures and the Tunhewei.

Tunhewei and Wuzhewei have similarities, for example, the scope of these two places is elongated, but the difference is that Tunhewei is relying on the Tuowen River that flows from north to south to form a long strip from north to south, as for Wuzhewei, it is a long strip from east to west. The confluence of the Tunhewei and the southern end and the eastern end of the Wuzhewei is the confluence. It is the Wuzhi Dewarming Station, and the city of the Wuren Dewarming Station is located at the confluence of the Towen River and one of its tributaries, and the danger of its terrain can be imagined.

The westernmost part of the Vultures is the Acropolis of the Vultures. The Ming army has already moved all the military dependents into the Wuzhiwei and several acropolis around the Wuzhiwei to retreat. This is equivalent to ceding the eastern and central regions of the Vultures, which are more than 300 miles away, to the White Lotus Sect.

As the core of the entire Liaobei General's territory, the Wuzhewei has a population of more than 300,000. But it is also because it is too close to the ruling core of the Ming Dynasty, so there is no incense master here. It's just that there are scattered White Lotus disciples who are making trouble.

These people are a huge resource!

And the southern part of the Vultures. It is Li Qingshan's Duolunwei.

In other words, whoever can take the lead will be the one who is the Vulture!

Speaking of which, we have to mention the current situation in the territory under the jurisdiction of the general of Liaobei.

At this time, the territory under the jurisdiction of the general of Liaobei has almost formed a three-legged situation - the White Lotus Sect, the Ming Border Army, and the Jurchens.

But what is surprising is that the most powerful among the three parties now, at least it seems that the most powerful, occupies the most territory, and has the most troops, is actually the White Lotus Sect.

The White Lotus Sect went crazy, and hundreds of thousands of sect members rose up overnight, almost overnight, sweeping the entire vast land for thousands of miles.

The development of such folk religions cannot be taken for granted.

It was an explosive, insane, unbelievably high speed and a sense of unstoppable powerlessness like the long river of history.

The White Lotus Sect is everywhere, and the current situation is also the same, the power of the entire White Lotus Sect has expanded to a million people, and all the guards and offices in the territory under the jurisdiction of the general of Liaobei are infested by the White Lotus Sect.

Now that the White Lotus Sect has roughly occupied about seventy percent of the land under the jurisdiction of the general of Liaobei, how big is this land?

It's about the same size as a North Zhili.

And after Amin led the army south, it was almost all the way like a bamboo, invincible, until it was stopped by the Ming officers and soldiers in Ali Zhiwei, and there were more than 100,000 Ming troops among Ali Zhiwei, Yang Xuezhong gave a strict order, and those who retreated died, so they were all fighting against the water, and they broke out with extremely strong combat effectiveness.

After all, the number of Jurchens is smaller, and its elite combat effectiveness has been weakened to the minimum in the siege war, so after several unsuccessful sieges, they realized that Ali Zhiwei is not also a bone to gnaw, so it is simply not to attack the city, but to drive the Han slave soldiers and plundered slaves to build a long trench and camp outside the city, and besiege it to death, so that the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops in Ali Zhiwei are lucky to survive, but they are also waiting to die.

And the Jurchen only left 10,000 troops to keep an eye on the Ming army in the city, and the other troops attacked from all sides, attacking the city everywhere, and had already conquered the Wuzhi Zuowei, Wudehansuo, Zhenhewei, Namu Hewei and other places located in the north, and even the soldiers once arrived at Fuyuwei further north, almost close to the Wara Mongol tribes where the Alunwei, Michenwei, and Mulijiwei, plus the Jiahewei and Wutunhewei, which were originally occupied by them, also occupied about thirty percent of the ground under the jurisdiction of the general of Liaobei, forming a southeast- It is a long and narrow area of influence that runs northwest and reaches more than 1,000 miles in length.

The most pitiful is the Ming border army.

In the struggle between small towns and villages, it can be said that the White Lotus Sect has completely occupied the absolute upper hand, while the Ming army has shrunk in an all-round way. Stuck in the city, only the Vultures were left in the territory. Vultures Guard, Vultures Right Guard, Tashan Guard and other big cities, but although the territory is small. But the strength of the troops is still those, and because the area that needs to be protected is smaller, their combat effectiveness has actually soared.

Therefore, among the three parties, although the territory of the White Lotus Sect is the largest, it has the worst combat power, and the Ming army is second, and the strongest is naturally the Jurchens.

If it weren't for the Jurchens who contained too many troops of the Ming army, the White Lotus Sect would not have spread so much.

So for Zao Wou-ki, it is necessary to take down the vultures to dewarm. Imperative.

On this day, Zheng Qi of 100 households was patrolling the western city wall of the Vulture's Dewarming Station.

He was not originally an officer here, but an officer who belonged to Tunhe Weinan Town, where a thousand households were located, after the fall of Tunhewei, the White Lotus Sect continued to move south like a broken bamboo, and the officers and soldiers were beaten to the ground, Zheng Qi saw that the situation was not good, and quickly took more than 100 people under his command to retreat all the way south. When they passed by Linghe Fort, they didn't dare to go in, and they ran seventy or eighty miles south, and the brothers were almost exhausted. Seeing that if you run any further, your own brothers can beat themselves to death. This is the entry into the city.

When I entered the city, I didn't suffer any trouble, and there were already seven or eight thousand people in the city at this time. And the original establishment of this vultures was only 1,120 men, and the rest of the troops. They all escaped from all over the country.

Chen Yi, the guard of the Thousand Households of this Vulture, was also an extremely ambitious figure, realizing that the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect was certainly a great disaster. But if it works well, it's also a rare opportunity. The most urgent task at the moment is to expand the power of all those who come to vote, and to entrust them with posts and appoint themselves as commanders to command the whole army.

This is an important place, and the surrounding area is a great plain, there are many people, quite rich, Chen Yi is a very shrewd person, see the opportunity early, as soon as the White Lotus Sect rebelled, he sent troops to suppress it, and then grabbed food everywhere, and after grabbing the grain, set fire to the house, and threw the people around, lest they set fire to the house.

His methods were also ruthless enough, and sure enough, the White Lotus Sect incident never affected him, and it also gave him enough time to strengthen his power.

"Roll up for Lao Tzu, keep it up!" Zheng Qi kicked a soldier who was napping against the battlements of the city wall, and the soldier quickly smiled and stood honestly as if he was serious.

Zheng Qi sighed, leaning against the city wall, his eyes a little anxious.

He's thinking about his future.

Zheng Qi is thirty-five years old this year, he is the son of a military family, his father was the hundred households of Tunhewei at the beginning, he inherited his father's position, all the way to the present. Speaking of which, Zheng Qi is also a good soldier, with a big waist and a round waist, a full beard, and a ghost head knife weighing 36 pounds in his hand. The dozen or so Ming soldiers are not her opponents at all, they are extremely powerful, and their hands are also very hard.

He didn't want to escape, but there was no way, the people who hadn't seen the White Lotus Sect army surging in with their own eyes couldn't imagine the suffocating spectacle, and the despair that came out of his heart when facing them!

Boundless, crowded, and full of mountains, this is a person who can drown you with a mouthful of spit.

Can't stop it at all, can't resist it!

If he doesn't run away, his brothers will run away on their own, and he alone will be of little use.

"Where else can I flee all the way? If you flee further, there will only be a vulture, right? But I heard that General Yang gave a death order, and the generals and officials from all over the country should defend the city to the death, and they must not lose an inch of land, whether it is facing the Jurchen or the White Lotus thieves, and if they escape, they will all be punished! It's a death this time, but if it's here, the White Lotus textbook won't be able to call sooner or later? ”

Thinking about Zheng Qi, his face was sad and uncomfortable.

At this time, suddenly a voice came from below: "I have seen the commander." ”

Then a majestic voice snorted, Zheng Qi was excited, quickly stood up straight, and when he looked at it, he saw a middle-aged man in his forties, tall and thin, with a somewhat gloomy face, walking up, it was Chen Yi, who was the self-proclaimed commander.

He knew that Chen Yi hated others for being disrespectful to him the most in his life, so he quickly knelt down and kowtowed: "I have seen the commander under the mark." ”

"Get up!"

Chen Yi waved his hand, stood up with Zheng Qi, and asked, "Is there anything abnormal?" ”

Zheng Qi said: "Back to the words of the adult." There was nothing out of the ordinary, and an hour ago a small group was inevitably crying under the city and wanted to enter the city. We killed a few of them with random arrows and ran away. ”

Chen Yi looked at the city. Sure enough, he saw several ragged corpses lying there, nodded, and sent Zheng Qi's shoulder: "Good job." ”

After walking around, I was about to go back, when I suddenly heard a soldier shouting in the distance, "My lord, that's our people." ”

Chen Yi and Zheng Qi hurriedly looked at it, and then saw smoke and dust billowing not far away, about two or three hundred people, including about twenty or so horsemen, rushing towards this side of the wolf. Wait to get closer. You can see that those people are wearing big red fat jackets, obviously Ming Army, but the clothes on their bodies are all tattered, many of them have blood stains on their clothes and faces, and some are limping when they walk, and they are still covered with cloths, obviously injured.

Those who rode horses were mostly wearing armor. There is also a fat man wearing a mountain character armor, and he obviously still has an official position.

The whole team fled in embarrassment, looking backwards as they fled. It's like a dog behind him, just four words - embarrassed.

When the team arrived at the city, Fang Cai breathed a sigh of relief. Immediately, many soldiers collapsed directly on the ground and gasped for breath, and the fat man waited for his breath to be even. He shouted, "Open the door!" Open the door! ”

Chen Yi said in a deep voice: "This official is Chen Yi, the commander here, I don't know who is in front of him?" ”

"Lord Chen. Aren't you a thousand households? How did you become a commander? Could it be that he was promoted? Aha, congratulations! The fat man was stunned for a moment, and then squeezed out a smile and said: "Xiaguan escaped in a hurry this time, and all his net worth was lost in Linghe Castle, so he had to make up for Lord Chen later." ”

Chen Yi couldn't help crying and laughing, and said in his heart, when will he still have this leisure.

It's just that his face changed dramatically: "You escaped from Linghe Castle?" Linghe Fort has fallen? ”

"You don't know yet?" The fat man said with a sad face: "Yesterday, I let those damn White Lotus thieves beat me down, poor brother, I hid all night, and I was afraid of going the wrong way, so I finally came to you today." ”

"Open the door and let them come in and talk!" Chen Yi's face sank like water, and he hurriedly ordered.

For him, the fall of Linghe Fort was not good news, which meant that the White Lotus Sect was not far from him.

This made him so anxious that he forgot to interrogate the fat man's name and position and see the seal of the guard.

The sturdy door below rolled open, but a hint of treachery flashed in the fat man's eyes.

As soon as the defeated soldiers saw the city gate open, they immediately rushed in, but the angry fat man jumped to his feet and scolded to no avail.

When the last rout entered, the soldiers defending the city were about to close the gate, when suddenly the fat man roared: "Kill!" ”

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

These routs roared in unison, and their faces suddenly became fierce and hideous, where is there still a lazy look half a minute ago? They all pulled out their blades and slashed into the Ming army around them, and when they were caught off guard, the Ming army defending in the cave of the city gate was suddenly killed.

Blood splattered, flesh and bones flowed.

Then the big fat man wiped the blood from his face. He commanded: "Leave fifty people here to hold on, and the rest will go to the city wall with me, the man who spoke just now is a big official, and if you catch him, you will be rewarded!" ”

When everyone heard that they were rewarded, their eyes lit up, and they were all the most elite backbones of Zao Wouji's incense, and they were also the backbone of the pioneer battalion.

When there was a sound of fighting below, Chen Yi's face changed, and he shouted: "Close the city gate, they are spies!" ”

It's just that it's too late, Niu Dazhang has already led his subordinates like wolves and tigers from the horse road, and in the woods in the distance, the shouts of killing shook the sky, and the White Lotus Sect disciples who were like black pressure and tide rushed towards this side, I don't know how many thousands. At the forefront of these cultists were about thousands of soldiers with spears and swords in their hands, looking very elite.

Chen Yi's heart had sunk deeply.

On the first day of the third month of the 53rd year of Zhengde, the White Lotus Sect of Zhao Wouji conquered the Wuzhi Dewen Station, killed more than 600 Ming troops, and lost 500 themselves, commanding Chen Yi, 100 households Zheng Qi and other officers to lead the Ming army to surrender.

This was the first large-scale surrender of the Ming army and the surrender of high-ranking generals since the outbreak of the White Lotus Uprising. (To be continued.) )