Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the towns and villages in the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong have often been attacked by pirates, bandits, Hongyi bandits, and Japanese robbers, so in order to protect themselves, most coastal villages have built walls and fences to defend against foreign enemies and wild beasts.

These cottages and villages, which were originally just self-preservation, slowly evolved into a means of resisting the imperial court when the Ming Dynasty paid more and more heavy taxes, using walled walls to prevent officials from coming to the door, and refusing to pay grain and taxes by force.

Until the end of the Ming Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the soldiers were not stopped, and it was a disaster year, so the people in many villages and cottages in the mountainous area of Zhangzhou were busy farming and cultivating the land, and they may become bandits in the slack season.

This kind of village and cottage of the peasant and thief is the most difficult to identify.

However, even if this kind of cottage is attacked, there is not much oil and water. After all, it's all bitter haha, and if you can't survive, you will become a thief.

As soon as Zheng Chenggong led the soldiers and horses to Zhangpu, he encountered this situation.

At that time, Zheng Jiajun had just landed, and the forward Yang Cai led more than 300 marines to explore the way inland.

On a turning avenue on a small hill a few kilometers offshore, one or two large trees blocked the way.

Big trees fell on the road, blocking the road tightly. Dozens of people in the road seemed to be helping to move the fallen trees.

The soldiers of the Marine Corps saw this and stopped.

Opening roads in the mountains and crossing rivers and building bridges was originally one of the tasks of the forward.

Yang just wanted to arrange for the soldiers to go and help clear the road quickly, so that the follow-up brigade could pass smoothly.

A sharp-eyed soldier walked up and said to Yang Cai: "General, something is wrong with the situation. ”

Yang Cai hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"General, those trees don't seem to have fallen naturally, and looking at those broken places, they obviously look like they were cut with a knife and axe. General, beware of deception. ”

Yang Cai tried to look, but the cut was just as he said, when he just wanted to put his subordinates on guard.

Suddenly, there was a sound of gongs. Immediately after that, a group of people poured out from behind the corner of the mountain road, and one or two hundred people also sprang out from the weeds dozens of paces away from the marines on both sides of the road, and nearly a thousand people brandished all kinds of strange weapons and screamed at them.

Seeing that there was an enemy, Yang Cai shouted: "There is an ambush, brothers quickly form a formation." As long as we hold on for a while, the general will come to our rescue! ”

The faces of the soldiers of the Marine Corps were a little ugly, they were too careless, they didn't expect that there were people in ambush here who wanted to attack them.

However, they have been trained for a lot of time, and this is when the effect of the hard training on weekdays comes out.

They quickly formed a formation under the command of Yang Cai, and the rattan armor soldiers all held shields in one hand and machetes in the other, standing in a circle on the periphery, protecting their comrades with bows and arrows inside.

Three hundred marines formed a circle and prepared to resist the enemy, waiting for rescue.

When Yang Cai was thinking about carrying a heel this time, he hurriedly asked someone to shoot an arrow into the sky, which was to warn the general that there was an ambush here, and also to tell the general that we needed support.

Hearing the sharp chirp, the robbers were stunned, and when they were only seven or eight paces away from the marines, they all involuntarily stopped and looked at them.

The same color of rattan armor, bright knives and guns, and strict formation, at first glance, it is a hard bone that is not easy to gnaw, and they dare not step forward easily.

At this time, several people with a torn turban on their heads, wearing a collared cloth vest, with their arms exposed, and holding real weapons and knives, came to the forefront of the robbers.

One of them shouted, "Brother Lan, they don't seem to be the doglegs of those squires, but more like a regular army." ”

When I heard the person who shouted that these people in front of me were the army.

The people around him with all kinds of strange weapons suddenly made a fuss, and many of them were frightened, and they couldn't stop retreating.

When Big Brother Lan saw this situation, he immediately shouted: "What about the army, over the years, have we defeated fewer armies?" If we let go of these dogs, if they go back to report it, those dog officials will send a large army, and we will all be even more miserable. If you want me to say, we should kill them now, so that we can save our village and protect our wives and children. Kill! ”

In order to dispel their fears, and at the same time to boost the morale of the robbers, the big brother Lan was the first to rush forward.

Seeing that the eldest brother in the lead had rushed, the other robbers also stepped forward one after another to prepare to fight.

"It's coming, it's coming!" Yang Cai thought silently in his heart, just about to open his mouth to shout "kill".

Not far away, Zheng Chenggong was galloping on a horse, holding a bow in his left hand, taking an arrow in his right hand, putting on an arrow, and when he saw it closer, he shouted. "Medium!"

said that it was too late, it was fast, the arrow was like a meteor, and it hit Brother Lan's right arm holding a weapon in an instant.

Brother Lan screamed and fell to the ground.

This scream stunned the robbers around the road, and when they looked at Big Brother Lan, they looked up to see which bastard shot the big brother who took the lead.

But when they saw a horseback general rushing towards this side with thousands of soldiers in the distance, these people panicked and shouted, "Officers and soldiers are coming!" Turning around and fleeing, wishing to grow two more legs, nearly a thousand so-called robbers fled from the weeds and mountains and forests in a chaotic manner.

Looking at this situation, Yang Cai was a little stunned, what kind of ambush is this, it is not professional at all.

came quickly, went so fast, could it be that he saw the general coming and wanted to cheat and retreat, Yang Cai was a little unsure.

Yang Cai, who was closest to the robbers, was stunned for a moment before he thought of attacking.

But the robbers ran fast and were familiar with the terrain here, and they fled without a trace in a while.

The Marines were unfamiliar with the situation here, and did not dare to chase too far, and the sky was about to get dark, for fear of another accident.

After chasing him out for some distance, he came back after catching a few live mouths.

That big brother Lan was carried away by a few people who followed him before, but the marines didn't follow and let them run away.

After Zheng Chenggong heard the gunshots, he was afraid that the forward troops would lose, so he hurriedly rushed over with the rest of the soldiers and horses. I didn't expect this battle to be so simple. From the beginning to the end, it was over with one arrow of its own.

won so easily, which made Zheng Chenggong, who was ready to do a big job, a little uncomfortable.

Not long after getting off the ship, he was ambushed, and although there were no casualties, it was always annoying.

After setting up the camp, Zheng Chenggong ordered the soldiers to bring up the few live mouths.

Zheng Chenggong asked angrily, "Who are you?" Who is your leader? Why ambush us here? How did you know we were going to go ashore here? Say it quickly, or Lao Tzu will chop you into meat sauce one by one! ”

Zheng Chenggong was very angry, threw out all the questions in one breath, and then looked at these people, if they didn't give a satisfactory answer, these people were afraid that they wouldn't survive tomorrow.

Those captives were stunned by Zheng Chenggong's many questions for a while, and they didn't know which one to answer.

The captives were sluggish, and they saw a row of soldiers standing behind Zheng Chenggong looking at him murderously, and Zheng Jiajun, who was tied up behind him, was holding a sharp broadsword and shaking it in front of his eyes, and the cold blade grazed his neck from time to time, bringing out a trace of blood.

One of the cowardly captives could not stand the intimidation, and was so frightened that his pants became wet, and the air suddenly smelled of it.

Zheng Chenggong was disgusted and didn't want to see this guy again, so he sensed with his eyes that a soldier dragged this guy out and cut it down!

The man struggled desperately for mercy as he was dragged out, but with a scream, all the screams stopped in an instant.

When the soldier returned, he brought a bloody head.

Seeing that this army was so ferocious, the defense line of the few remaining captives suddenly collapsed, and they were busy crying and telling what they knew.

Several people spoke incoherently for a long time before Zheng Chenggong understood.

These guys are all ordinary people from villages near Zhangpu, who were oppressed by a squire named Wang Fugui, and even forcibly robbed their farmland by force, leaving them without a livelihood and having to be displaced as refugees.

This year's drought in Fujian has caused countless refugees and hungry people in various places. Even ordinary old Baixin can't survive, let alone these outcasts.

Forced to desperation, under the call of a young man named Lang Deng, they gathered as bandits and lived in the mountains on weekdays.

When food was insufficient, he made a living by robbing merchants and people, as well as plundering the villages and cottages of some squires.