Zhang Chu was very angry when he received the report, and he also understood that all this was inevitable. The truth of this world only exists within the range of cannons, and the law of the jungle is the basic law of survival, and everything else is just a cosmetic.

Fortunately, Zhang Chu had already ordered the Yanchang County Security Army to strengthen its vigilance, and Li Yi's cavalry responded in time, and the security army suffered little losses, and also wiped out a cavalry unit of the Yi Army. But this can't be counted, since they dare to break ground on the head of the security army Tai Sui, they must be punished as they deserve, only if the enemy is beaten will there be a friendly and peaceful situation, the security forces of the five counties are all mobilized, all kinds of war materials and personnel are gathering in Yanchang County, Zhang Chu decided to retaliate.

Everything was ready to stop, and before sending troops, Zhang Chu found Li Zhongxiao.

Li Zhongxiao is a little confused these days, there is always an unreal feeling, living in Zhongyang is still not the original self, the original daily brocade clothes and jade food still do not know the taste, but now the coarse tea and light rice are very fragrant, and the body is getting stronger and stronger, maybe if it goes on like this, an old son will be born that day. Although I just do some copying work in the yamen every day, I feel that it is much more fulfilling than talking in the court before. I don't know if I am the first thief in the Ming Dynasty, but I feel that the connection with the security army is getting closer and closer.

The security army was going to take action, and Li Zhongxiao also felt it, but he didn't know what Zhang Chu was looking for him to do, but he didn't expect Zhang Chu to give him a difficult job.

"Write a letter to the Governor of the Trilateral Governor, Wu Zhiwang." Zhang Chu saw him come in and said.

"This" Li Zhongxiao hesitated, Wu Zhiwang knew him, and he really wanted to write a letter to an acquaintance, Li Zhongxiao was very embarrassed. Although he is working for the security army, he doesn't want people to know that he has taken refuge in thieves.

"Not in your name. Write in my name, you must be willing to write, and write in the letter that I have a pure heart for the court, and it is only because I was forced by the homeless people and bandits to organize the villagers to protect themselves. This time, Wang Jiayin and Wang Er and the two bandits fled to the northern part of Shaanxi to harm the township, and I, Zhang Chu, decided to risk my life to lead the people to fight against the two thieves, hoping that the governor could send troops to cooperate, and it was really not possible to allocate 100,000 taels of silver for food. Zhang Chu knew what Li Zhongxiao was thinking, so he explained.

"You really want to serve the court." Li Zhongxiao asked cautiously.

"That's right, I beat these two thieves, the court has to thank me, I can't write the words of the flesh, and I don't understand what you officials like to hear. You pick up the good ones and say that you can move Wu Zhiwang to tears. Zhang Chu replied.

"Well, I'll do my best. However, if Wu Zhiwang has 100,000 taels of silver, it will be strange if he can't come to beat you. Li Zhongxiao secretly said that the hearts of the people are really not ancient. This Zhang Chu never seems to blush when he talks nonsense, and he still has a set of crooked heresies.

After the letter was written, Zhang Chu copied it, not to mention that Li Houye's level in this regard is still very high. Zhang Chu himself was a little moved when he saw it, and felt that he was so righteous and awe-inspiring, thinking about the court wholeheartedly. Send someone to send the letter out, and then find a way to pass it to Wu Zhiwang.

Wu Zhiwang was in a very complicated mood after receiving the letter. Zhang Chu's gang of thieves are entrenched in Yanchang, Zhongyang and other places, if it weren't for the lack of food, they would have sent troops to exterminate them a long time ago, but I didn't expect this thief to dare to write to him. This is also an opportunity for thieves to kill each other, and if the thieves are weakened, it will be much easier to put the guards in order and destroy him. However, this thief has never seen silver, and he only opened his mouth for 100,000 taels, is it easy for the Ming Dynasty to take out 100,000 taels of silver now, and there is no money for a tael of silver. can only use empty words to coax this thief, let them fire first and then talk about it. One less thief is one. So he did not hesitate to write a long letter to Zhang Chu, praising Zhang Chu's behavior in protecting the township, and at the same time promising that if he could exterminate the bandits, he would report to the court to ask for a reward for Zhang Chu. Then he sent someone to pass the letter to Zhang Chu.

When Zhang Chu wrote a letter to Wu Zhiwang, he did not forget to write a letter to Wang Jiayin, accusing Wang Jiayin, this time Zhang Chu did not use someone else's ghostwriting, but did it himself, and the letter was written impassionedly, the letter emphasized that the two families had agreed to take care of each other, and had carried out many transactions, and were moving towards the goal of making a fortune for both sides, at this time Wang Jiayin was treacherous, and suddenly attacked the security army, this behavior was very shameless, and caused huge losses to the security army, Wang Jiayin must compensate.

When they received Zhang Chu's letter, Wang Jiayin and Wang Er were full of uneasiness. I wanted to yin the security army, but I didn't expect the security army to react quickly and reoccupy the checkpoint, and they didn't attack rashly, so the two had to withdraw the ambush team and wait for news from the cavalry.

Unexpectedly, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the security army was so strong, and the cavalry sent out did not even have a chance to escape, and the strength of the other teams of the security army was still unknown.

The two knew that Zhang Chu would definitely retaliate, and urgently ordered all battalions to strengthen their defenses. Unexpectedly, I waited for Zhang Chu's letter.

When the two saw the letter, they felt that they could take this opportunity to ease the atmosphere first, so they sent Wei Xue to see Zhang Chu. Zhang Chu's attitude was very clear: "Come with the silver." Wang Jiayin: "It's impossible to lose money, but we can have a good talk." So Wei Xue was kicked around like a ball, and both sides were waiting for their chance.

Wang Jiayin's troops can't stand still, six or seven thousand people will be eaten up if they stop in one place, there is no way Wang Jiayin made a risky decision, divide the troops, leave the main force to hold the Fugu area, and then send a team of 3,000 people to go out to collect food. After these days of investigation, Zhang Chu's security army in the five counties combined will not exceed 2,000 people. There are also five places to defend, so the security army in Yanchang County will not have more than a thousand mobile forces.

The leader who ordered the troops to march steadily and steadily, step by step. If you are attacked and retreat into the camp to defend the camp, the main force will go to the rescue after receiving the information, and maybe you can surround the security army and eliminate the security army in one fell swoop.

The actions of the rebels began very smoothly, and several landlords' forts were taken down and food and goods were collected. In this way, as long as it takes a few more days to collect enough food, more men and horses can be recruited, and then the security army can be wiped out.

It was the fifth day, and the rebel army had finished collecting the grain and escorted the captured villagers to prepare for transport back to Fugu. The leader of the rebel army faithfully carried out Wang Jiayin's order, drove the soldiers and villagers to build a strong camp and strengthened the guard post when they camped at night, and they could return to Fugu in two days, and the trip would be a great success.

But at midnight that day, the soldiers on guard heard the unusual noise outside the camp, and immediately reported to the chief, and the spy horses were sent out, and they were soon beaten back, and they came out of the camp not far from the cavalry of the security army, and when they saw them coming up, they beat them, and could only flee back. But I also figured it out, the security army called. The leader immediately ordered the soldiers to prepare for defense, and constantly strengthened the camp, and quietly sent people back to Fugu to ask for help.

The security forces did not attack immediately, but camped outside the camp and rested.

As soon as it was dawn the next day, the drums and trumpets of the security army sounded, and they formed a formation in front of the camp of the rebels. The rebels did not dare to slack off, and mobilized most of their forces in the direction of facing the security forces. At this time, the rebels also saw that there were not many people in the security army, only about 1,000 people. Eight hundred infantry formed a phalanx in the middle, and more than two hundred cavalry outside the formation stood by to protect the flanks of the infantry. The tactics of the security forces were carried out in strict accordance with the regulations, and the artillery was advanced into the artillery positions that had been erected last night. The slight difference is that this time the security forces brought four new guns, which can fire four-pound shells, which are newly produced by the Zhongyang factory. And the previous small cannon became a supporting role.

The cannon sounded, and with the smoke rising from the artillery position of the security army, four shells flew towards the camp of the rebels, three flew into the camp, overturned the tents in the camp, and one hit the wooden stake that was used as the camp wall, and the thick wooden stake was immediately broken, and a large hole appeared in the camp wall. The flying sawdust also injured several soldiers. After three rounds of unhurried fire from the artillery of the security army, several large holes had appeared in the camp wall. The leader knew that the camp could not be defended, so waiting for men and horses next to the camp wall would only increase casualties, and the security army had no intention of attacking immediately, and it seemed that they wanted to use artillery to inflict casualties on the rebels. Now we can only take advantage of the weakness of the small number of the security army to attack quickly and fight with the security army, so that the artillery and cavalry of the security army will lose their effectiveness. The leader made a decisive decision and decisively ordered all the soldiers to go out of the camp and attack the infantry camp of the security army.

This time, in order to fight for food, Wang Jiayin sent out all the young and strong, and the combat effectiveness is still there. Under the strict orders of the leader, he rushed out of the camp at the risk of death. After paying more than 300 casualties, they finally approached the infantry phalanx of the security army, at this time the rebel army still had more than 2,000 troops to fight, which was much stronger than the security army, and the rebel army gradually assembled to advance to the security army, narrowing the distance between the two sides, and the artillery of the security army had lost its effect. The infantry of the security forces in the column quickly crossed the artillery position, and the distance between the two sides was closer, and they were within range of the bows and arrows, and the leader of the rebels ordered the archers in the ranks to gather and prepare for the attack, and the gunfire was already ringing in the security formation. On the periphery of the security infantry formation, four hundred musketeers formed three platoons, the first of which had opened fire under the command of the squad leader. The security forces used newly produced flintlock muskets, which eliminated the intractable arquebuses, allowing the queues to line up tighter and shoot more bullets. After one round, dozens of people in the ranks of the righteous army were shot, and the momentum of the forward rush was stagnant. After the security musketeers had fought a round, the first platoon retreated to the queue and reloaded, the second platoon stepped forward to shoot, and then the third platoon, the second platoon finished firing, and the first platoon had finished loading and came forward to shoot. This is actually a change from the crossbow arrow formation, except that the crossbow arrows are replaced with muskets to ensure continuous firing.

After three rounds of gunfire, the impact of the rebels was stopped, and the team had no ability to move forward, and the leader wanted to rush through the gap between the security army's ammunition, but the gunfire of the security army was continuous, constantly harvesting the lives of the rebels.

The hopeless attack exhausted the courage of the soldiers, and some of them took the lead in turning and fleeing, and immediately the whole team collapsed, and the rebels turned and ran towards their own camp behind them, where there must have been a little more security. It's not easy to come out, and it's even harder to go back. The cavalry of the security army rushed over and slashed the men who ran at the front, driving the crowd back. The chaotic flow of people gathered together, being slashed and stripped by the cavalry layer by layer, the muskets of the security guards behind kept ringing, and people kept falling, and everyone felt that they were about to face the terrible lead bullets and sabers. The desperate rebel soldier fell to his knees and raised his hands. And so the battle ended.

Zhang Chu, who was outside the battlefield, straddled his horse and prepared with a gun, wanting to rush and kill. Then I found myself a mascot again, and I could only pose to accept the cheers of the team members.

At this time, He Jin drove his horse over, congratulated Zhang Chu and asked, "Marshal, the casualties of our army are not large. Is it possible to set up an ambush to eliminate the rebels who came to the rescue in one fell swoop, and Wang Jiayin will be completely finished. ”