Chapter 45: The Bandits

Gaizhou is not peaceful.

He Shizhong's Tengbao battalion was originally temporarily dispatched to Gaizhou by He Fangxiong when the Liao army attacked Gaizhou, to assist He Shihu in guarding Gaizhou City. However, the Liao army retreated suddenly, and before the Tengbao battalion arrived in Gaizhou, the Liao army had already retreated.

After the Liao army retreated, He Fangxiong repeatedly ordered He Shibao to transfer the Tengbao battalion back to Jinzhou. He Shibao ignored He Fangxiong's order and categorically ordered Tengbao's camp to settle in Gaizhou. He Fangxiong previously controlled the only cavalry battalion of the He family, the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, and relied on the Xiao Cavalry Battalion to deter He Shibao, who did not dare to openly disobey He Fangxiong's orders. However, in the first battle of Yingzhou, the Xiaocai battalion was destroyed, and He Fangxiong's prestige in the clan was no longer what it used to be. Without the existence of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, He Shibao has become unscrupulous, and now he even dares to openly disobey He Fangxiong's orders.

He Fangxiong is old, if there is no accident, the Duke of Wu'an, who symbolizes the status of the head of the He family, will be inherited by his eldest son, He Shilong. He Shibao is a very ambitious person, and he is not willing to accept that the position of the head of the He family will be inherited by He Shilong. In his opinion, he was more capable and qualified to inherit the position of the head of the family than his eldest brother, He Shilong. He Shilong became his brother, but what else would he do besides indulging in wine all day long?

The status of He Shihu, who was born as a concubine, is very embarrassing, according to Da Zhao's regulations, unless all the concubines are dead, otherwise the concubine is not qualified to inherit the title. He Shihu had no intention of competing with He Shilong and He Shibao for the position of the head of the He family. But He Shihu couldn't stay out of it.

He Shilong is nominally in charge of the soldiers and horses of the He family's Fuzhou, and He Shibao is in charge of the soldiers and horses of the He family's Jinzhou. The difference in the strength of the two states is not large, if He Shilong and He Shibao are in the same room after He Fangxiong's death, the importance of He Shihu is self-evident. No matter who He Shihu supports, who will have more strength to compete for the position of the head of the He family.

Obviously, He Shibao asked his son to take the Tengbao camp to Gaizhou with the intention of containing He Shihu.

He Shizhong is not a good bird, and as soon as he settled in Gaizhou, he hit the idea on the acres of Pingshan Fort. It's a pity that He Fangxiong asked He Tengxiao to serve as a thousand households in Pingshan Fort, and He Shizhong's attempt did not succeed. Later, He Shizhong's secret collusion with Liaodong horse bandit Li Shu to attack refugees at night was revealed, and He Tengxiao knocked him hard and suffered a big dumb loss.

He Shizhong has always held a grudge against this. He Shizhong couldn't fight for Pingshan Fort, and set his sights on Yunguan Island, but at this time, He Shihu ordered He Tengxiao to leave Zhenyun Guam again, and He Shizhong pounced again. In this regard, He Shizhong added a little hatred to He Tengxiao. Moreover, He Shizhong has had a strong jealousy of He Tengxiao since he was a child, and he has always been unaccustomed to He Tengxiao. He Tengxiao became famous after the battle of guarding Pingshan Fort, and He Shizhong felt like his heart was stuffed with a ball of thatch, and he was panicked.

He Shifa, the former Qianhu of Pingshan Fort, was nowhere to be found before the war, and there is no news so far, but there are many soldiers and civilians in Pingshan Fort scattered in Gaizhou City.

The life of these soldiers and civilians in Gaizhou was not easy. They lost their original land, and more importantly, they abandoned the fort and absconded before the war. Naturally, deserters and fugitives who abandoned the fort and absconded were not welcomed and looked down upon. These soldiers and civilians of Pingshanbao have lost their land, no one has a decent life before, and the army is not willing to accept deserters, so they can only barely make ends meet under the disdainful gaze of the soldiers and civilians of Gaizhou City. This kind of life is not the same as the decent life of self-cultivation and self-sufficiency on the land that belonged to Pingshan Fort. Therefore, these deserters and fugitives inevitably have a resentment in their hearts, and there is nowhere to spread it.

He Shizhong took advantage of the resentment of the deserters and fugitives of Pingshan Fort to incite these deserters to recapture the land that originally belonged to them in Pingshan Fort.

These deserters naturally hoped to regain the land that once belonged to them, and under the leadership of a few soldiers, eight or nine hundred men with sticks in their hands rushed to Pingshan Fort to grab the land that belonged to them.

The incident was sudden, and the soldiers and civilians working outside the fort were defenseless in the face of such a sudden attack. Dozens of soldiers and civilians were wounded by these deserters, who had lost their minds. A large part of the crops planted have also been spoiled by these deserters.

At the time of the incident, He Tengxiao was still on Yunguam Island, and the affairs of Pingshan Fort were temporarily represented by Ling Feng. The deserters and fugitives stormed Pingshan Fort, and Ling Feng sent scout Pegasus to inform He Tengxiao at the first time, while leading the army to protect the people outside the fort into the fort.

After being transferred to a 100-household team on Yunguam Island, there were two 100-household teams of more than 200 people who remained at Pingshan Fort, as well as more than 300 trained people.

With more than 200 soldiers all battling the battle, and more than 300 trained soldiers to help defend the city, Ling Feng was not afraid of the eight or nine hundred deserters with sticks and clubs gathered outside the fort. Thousands of Liao army iron cavalry stormed Pingshan Fort but failed to gnaw Pingshan Fort down, what are these rabble afraid of?

"Fucking thief!" Ling Feng looked at the deserters gathered outside the fort at the head of the city, and scolded, "If it was Manyu, Lao Tzu would have opened his own target!" ”

Although Ling Feng was not afraid of these rabble, these deserters were still the people of Da Zhao, so Ling Feng did not order a counterattack. Otherwise, just these rabble, Ling Feng was confident that as long as he brought a team of 100 households to kill, he would be able to kill them.

"These fools!" Lu Bingwen is a scholar after all, and he rarely sees such a scene, he only feels that the momentum of the people under the city is terrifying, and his face is a little pale with fright, "It must be bewitched by someone!" They don't fight for the acres of Pingshan Fort early, and they don't fight for it late, but they come to fight at this time! ”

"Fight?!" Ling Feng sneered, "Where did this group of turtle grandsons go when the Liao soldiers came to Pingshan Fort?" Now he suddenly came out to compete with us for the acres of land in the mountain fort, and he is not ashamed! ”

When Ling Feng and He Tengxiao had just arrived at Pingshan Fort, there was only one general banner soldier of Zhang Yuyang and more than 100 residents who stayed in Pingshan Fort and were reluctant to leave. After these people's acres of land He Tengxiao finished checking the acres of Pingshan Fort, not only did he not lose their acres of land, but even added some heaven and earth to them. They deserve it! What qualifications does that group of deserters and fugitives outside the city have to fight for this field!

"Ling Qianhu!" A soldier pointed to the deserters who were surrounding Pingshan Fort, "They are going to storm the city." ”

"Someone!" Ling Feng's eyes were almost bursting with fire, he couldn't bear it anymore, and ordered, "The cannonball is loaded, the arrow is wound!" Put! ”

This land was kept by them with blood, and since those deserters want to fight back this so-called land that belongs to them, they naturally have to exchange it for blood!

"Lord Qianhu, but after all, they are the people of Da Zhao" A gunner was a little unbearable.

Ling Feng pushed the gunner away and lit the cannon himself: "From the moment they stormed Pingshan Fort, they were no longer my Great Zhao Zimin!" It's the thugs who rob our land! ”