Chapter 167: Into the Thief's Den

In the morning, when the first rays of dawn broke in the sky, the battle report of Wushan also returned to Fengjie.

More than 500 were beheaded, more than 200 horses were captured, and more than 5,000 bandits were captured.

Cao Wei, the head of the thieves, and Yang Youxian, the king of the ten antis, were all beheaded in the battle, and more than 5,000 bandits who attacked Wushan County, none of them escaped the net. This is not just a defeat, or even a defeat but a total annihilation of the bandits, especially the acquisition of the heads of two thieves, which is quite a beautiful victory.

"This Liu Jun, this battle is beautiful!" When Mei Zhihuan heard the news, he slapped his face excitedly. Li Changgeng, who was more familiar with Liu Jun, looked relatively calm after hearing this good news. Yuan Jixian was very surprised, more than 3,000 against more than 5,000, and as a result, he not only defeated the bandits, but also wiped out all the bandits, and even killed two bandits. It's just unbelievable, it's unbelievable.

Although many of the bandits are rabble, Yuan Jixian knows that it is not difficult to defeat the bandits, but it is difficult to severely damage the bandits, let alone annihilate more than 5,000 bandits. And even the two thief capitals were taken, Yuan Jixian really believed that Liu Jun had annihilated the other party.

The hearts of the three masters are all hot, and they are victorious, and they are victorious.

They were re-activated by the emperor, and they also wanted to do a career, but they did not obey the transfer of the superintendent Yang Gebu, and came directly to Sichuan, which was a great risk. Although Zhang Xianzhong captured Dachang City before, it proved that their judgment was right.

But if you can't defeat the enemy, then what if you expect it.

And now, with a beautiful victory, they are finally invincible. Now, they finally proved to the emperor that they were right, and proved to the emperor that it was right to use these old ministers.

"Annihilation of the sweeping king and the ten anti-kings, this can be regarded as cutting off one of the arms of Zhang Luo's two thieves."

Mei Zhihuan said to Li Changgeng and Yuan Jixian, "But it's not time to take it easy yet, you have to defeat Zhang Luo and the two thieves to be considered successful." ”

Wushan County.

The battle is long over. When Liu Jun led the soldiers and horses who were ambushed by the river outside the city, and suddenly blocked the defeated bandits with artillery platoons, the thieves who had already become frightened birds were instantly confused.

After only two rounds of shotgunning, the thieves surrendered on their knees. In fact, if it weren't for the nine-headed bird's Franc machine loading and firing too fast, they wouldn't have to play the second round, and the bandits who had already collapsed would have surrendered.

It is not an old thief who has been a bandit for many years, but mostly a number of homeless people who have recently joined the bandits who can't survive, not to mention, the continuous shelling has had an incomparable impact on these thieves. When I looked at my companions, I didn't even see the officers and soldiers clearly. has already been knocked down by a piece of bombardment, and few bandits can withstand the pressure of death.

Although they quickly accepted the surrender and stopped the attack, hundreds of thieves were still killed.

The Hydra disarmed and scattered the captives who surrendered, and then interrogated them separately, and all the bandit leaders were interrogated and held in solitary confinement. And those old thieves who have a lot of blood debts on their hands are also distinguished, and these are all considered by Liu Jun to be unkept. The old thief who will make trouble and rebel sooner or later is irretrievable.

And the rest are also grouped according to the time they were thieves, and the number of officers and soldiers or civilians killed.

Different groups have different treatments.

After several rounds of cross-examination, the ringleader was identified. and the identity of those murderous old thieves, Liu Jun directly asked the Nine-headed Bird team members to escort these people to the dock by the river in Wushan County for a public announcement-sentence-execution.

For these people, Liu Jun was unceremonious and did not show mercy at all. Chop off the head directly by the river.

The heads of the leaders, including the Sweeping King and the Ten Anti Kings, were all packed in wooden boxes, and their identities were also indicated. As for the other captives, Liu Jun planned to add them to the thieves for a longer time. Sent back to Macheng to work in labor reform, which is equivalent to Liu Jun's labor. Those who have joined the bandits for a short time and do not have any blood debts on their hands will be dispersed and handed over to the local government to take care of later. However, Liu Jun still has a plan, that is, to ask Mei Zhihuan to hand over these people to him, settle them in the mountainous area of Qihuang, establish a tunbao, let them go to open up the wasteland and tuntian, and at the same time strengthen the care, so that these people will not be released today, and they will be thieves tomorrow.

Dachang City.

Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were still searching for money and food everywhere, and recruiting troops. In order to reward his soldiers, Zhang Xianzhong sent people to rob all the women in Dazhong City into the camp, and then provided them for his subordinates to amuse. Only the female dependents of the local people who joined them could be spared this catastrophe.

Because of this, many people who didn't want to join the thief army finally had to take this step in order to protect their families.

Luo Rucai, who has more than 100 concubines, even accepted four concubines in Dachang City in one go, all of whom were the daughters of the original big families in the city. And Zhang Xianzhong also accepted four new concubines, but his four new concubines were all the wives and concubines of the officials in the original Dachang City, including those who knew the county and the county, and those who learned and practiced in the regiment. The two have their own love, but they take what they need from each other, these days in Dachang City, they sing day and night, night groom.

"Tell me, how much money has been squeezed out." Zhang Xianzhong hugged left and right, and there were two people at his feet who were helping him beat his feet. There used to be officials and noblewomen with heads and faces in Dachang City, but at this time they were tortured and numb.

Zhang Kewang reciprocated with some pride, "In the past few days, we have collected more than 200,000 taels of silver from the city, and there are also many gold, silver, jewelry, silk, etc., which can also be worth 70,000 or 80,000 taels. This Dachang City is really not ordinarily rich. ”

"In these years, salt merchants are always the richest, and those salt merchants in Weizhou and Yangzhou are many of them worth millions. Any one, the net worth is richer than the people in the entire Dachang City combined. Zhang Xianzhong said with a smile.

These days, he is really in a good mood, he escaped from Yang Sichang's encirclement network, and laid down the rich city of Dachang, found hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and even recruited more than 10,000 recruits.

In the blink of an eye, his Zhang Xianzhong's team was restored again.

"It's almost fine, we should get out of here too, how are the two of them doing now?"

"Back to my father-in-law, Guo Tianxing just sent someone to report back, that is, they have captured Daning City, and they are chasing stolen goods and salaries without much effort. There is no news from the sweeping king's side, and it is estimated that he is almost taking Wushan County now. Zhang Dingguo replied.

In the afternoon of the same day, King Sweeping sent his subordinates back to Dachang City.

"When we arrived in Wushan County, we found that there was actually a team of soldiers and horses stationed in the city, about 1,000 of them. They resisted the city and were very stubborn. A special dispatch from the big boss of my family came to ask the two heads for reinforcements. ”

Zhang Xianzhong was lying in the rattan chair, listening to Cao Yuan's rescue messenger, and snorted disdainfully, "The sweeping king confirmed that the officials and soldiers in the city are in the city?" Didn't you treat the people in the city as officers and soldiers, right? ”

"It's really officers and soldiers, they have several artillery pieces, and they're extremely powerful."

"Got a cannon? That could really be the reinforced officer army. Luo Rucai said on the side, "But where did the soldiers come from?" Maybe it's Qu Tangwei's guards? Or is it the white pole soldier of the stone pillar? ”

"These dog officers and soldiers reacted very quickly, as soon as Dachang was defeated on our side, they reinforced Wushan County. I guess it may be the soldiers and horses mobilized by Zhang Zuokai, the deputy general of the rice bucket who escaped from Dachang. I can get to Wushan so quickly. It can't be Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers, it is very likely to be Qu Tangwei's guards, but with such a thousand officers and soldiers, Cao Wei can't beat them, and he really goes back the more he gets confused. ”

"What do we do now?" Luo Rucai asked.

"Since the officers and soldiers dare to stand in the way, then we will kick them out. It just so happened that we had been in Dachang for a few days, so this time we moved directly to Wushan. ”

However, now there are nearly 50,000 bandits from all walks of life in Dachang City, plus the newly recruited, it is impossible for so many people to leave immediately for a while. Therefore, in the end, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai decided to send their own capable generals to the front army. First went to reinforce the sweeping king and the ten anti-kings, and he and Luo Rucai set off later with most of them.

"King Shuntian, the King of the Mixed World have all stepped forward to listen to the order!"

"The last general!" Zhang Xianzhong's right battalion will be Shuntian Wang He Guoxian, and Luo Rucai's second general will come forward.

"The two brothers each led their headquarters as the vanguard. Immediate reinforcements to Wushan. ”

"Obey."

The second general ordered to retreat, and Zhang Xianzhong glanced at Cao Wei's subordinate who came to ask for help, "Take this brother who reported the news down and prepare some wine and food." and reward him with ten taels of silver. After you have eaten and drunk enough, you will immediately go back to Wushan and tell the sweeping king. Brother Luo and I have already selected two generals to lead a battalion of elite soldiers each, and immediately go to reinforce Wushan, so that he can surround Wushan City and not let the officers and soldiers in the city escape. ”

"Thank you for the reward of the Eight Kings!"

"Well, let's go down."

"The little one quits." The messenger stooped and withdrew.

One of Zhang Xianzhong's personal soldiers took him to the kitchen, "Brother, you look a little raw, you don't seem to have seen it before?" ”

"Really? I've been with the sweeping king for many years, but it turned out that I wasn't a pro-soldier family, and I just mentioned the pro-soldier team not long ago. ”

"Oh, I see. That brother is lucky, he is transferred to the pro-soldier team, and he will definitely have a bright future in the future. ”

"Then borrow the good words of the old brother, I just got the reward of the eight kings, and when I receive the reward, I will invite the old brother to drink together."

"Ouch, brother is still a particular person, okay, my favorite is like you, let's have a few drinks later." The soldier laughed, put his arm around his shoulder, and walked out together.

After receiving the reward, the two had a good meal of wine and meat together, and then when the messenger left, Zhang Xianzhong's personal soldier waved his hand a little reluctantly.

Leading the horse out of the Dachang city gate, the messenger turned over on the horse, galloped away, and ran out of Lixu in one breath before stopping. As soon as he stopped, several people immediately emerged from the bushes on the side of the road.

"Mr. Bai, you are finally back, the brothers are waiting for you in a hurry, if you don't come out again, we are all going to sneak into Dachang City to find you."

Shi Debiao jumped off the horse, let out a breath of wine, patted his chest and said, "I, Shi Debiao, am out of the horse, there is something else that can't be done, then the Eight Kings and Cao Cao are face to face with me, and there is no doubt at all." Zhang Xianzhong's family also told me that he drank wine and ate meat, and even pulled me to worship. ”

"Mr. Bai is amazing, one person swaggered into the thief's den, and came out intact, he was really full of guts, I admire it." A group of team members who didn't close the night patted Shi Debiao's ass one after another.

Shi Debiao is very useful, he was originally a patrol of Muling Pass, from a small miscellaneous job in Jiupin, and then the bandits invaded and lost his own patrol yamen, but later followed Liu Jun to rescue Huang An, which can be regarded as a meritorious atonement, and even joined the nine-headed bird because of a blessing in disguise, and was promoted all the way to the top 100, this is a military attache of the seventh grade, which has risen several levels compared to the inspection.

"Actually, it's not a thing, I think I took our guerrilla adults to pass through the camp of thousands of bandits in the fog, successfully avoided the bandits, and entered Huang'an City unknowingly, so as to ensure that Huang'an City was not lost."

Shi Debiao proudly showed this matter again, and his subordinates had already heard the cocoon, but they still pretended to like to listen to it one by one, and praised it from time to time.

"Let's go, let's go back to Wushan. Next time, you can tell others the story of how you came with me today to help me accomplish this feat. Drive! ”

Shi Debiao led a team of his men to ride away, leaving Dachang City far behind. (To be continued......)