Chapter 349: Phoenix Women's Army
Seeing the lance, Chen Kefu had already guessed the identity of the other party. This fruit is different from the standard horse lance he used, the head of this horse lance is larger than that of ordinary horse lance, and looking at the face of the lance, it can be seen that the head of the lance is made of copper.
The lance is no longer than a spear, and the head of the lance has a knot, and it can be used as a small mace with a nail head on it. And the lance that Chen Kefu sees at the moment has a head that is one size larger than that of an ordinary horse lance, and the nail head on the lance is copper sè. The person who makes this kind of lance must be a person with amazing strength, and most of the routines used are the number of fierce ones that open and close. This kind of lance has a name, which is called the golden nail jujube yang lance.
And among the Wagang, the person who uses this weapon, according to the information he got from the secret service, is only the second boss known as the red-haired spirit officer of the flying general, Shan Tong Shan Xiongxin.
As he expected, as soon as the tigress Zhai Wushuang saw the man come out, she immediately smiled and rode forward to meet her.
"Second uncle, are you here to pick me up? I'm back, and you're still engaged in such a big battle? Immediately, the man smiled, looking at Zhai Wushuang's eyes full of doting, "According to the itinerary, jiāojiāo, shouldn't you come back two days earlier?" Did you encounter any trouble on the road, tell the second uncle, and the second uncle will help you solve it.
Zhai Wushuang withdrew to Shan Xiongxin, "It's not those minions of the imperial court, when I came back, I happened to meet the marshal of the imperial court, Chen Ke, who rebelled and fled from Beijing." As a result, the entire Henan County was full of people searching for him, and there were many pursuers in Xingyang County. We had to be careful along the way, and there was a bit of a delay on the way. Second uncle, where are you going? Shan Xiongxin smiled: "Do you remember that Liu Zhiyuan who went to Donglai Cottage a few times?" He is Li Mi, the prince of Pushan County, who raised troops with Yang Xuangan back then. ”
Zhai Wushuang frowned and thought for a moment, "Oh, that guy is Li Mi, why is he here again?" Are you here to persuade your father to fight for the world or something? This man is not a good bird to me at first glance, and it is not good to listen to him. Now that we have a good life, why listen to his nonsense. If he was really that powerful, then he assisted Yang Xuangan to raise troops back then, why did Yang Xuangan lose so quickly? "I don't bother to care about these things, anyway, your father and your brother Xu are discussing it." However, this Li Mi still has two brushes, and a few days ago he came to the door with Wang Bodang, the head of Jiyang White Tiger Cottage. That Li Mi said that he could help us integrate Wagang and the nearby cottages, and we were still skeptical, but I didn't expect that he really persuaded several nearby cottage owners to come together yesterday. Now your father and your brother Xu are discussing with them in the Juyi Hall, in addition to Wang Bodang, this time there are also Wang Dangren, Zhou Wenju, Li Gongyi, and Xie Yingdeng, four nearby cottage owners are also discussing together. I didn't find it interesting to stay there, so I took the brothers on patrol. ”
After Shan Xiongxin said a few more words, he galloped away with the men and horses. Chen Kefu looked at the five hundred cavalry, all of them brave and strong, and couldn't help but raise the strength of the Wagang Army by a level in his heart again.
Wagangzhai was established by Zhai Rang in the seventh year of the great cause, and after Zhai Rang established the village, Shan Xiongxin, who was originally in the same county as Zhai Rang, also brought many young rangers to come and run. Shan Xiongxin is a landlord with a lot of wealth, and his defection to Wagang is actually the same as Zhai Rang's helplessness. Zhai Rang turned out to be Fa Cao of Dongjun, and he made friends in black and white, and Shan Xiongxin was also one of his friends. Shan Xiongxin is ostensibly a landlord in Dongjun, but in fact, many of his businesses in Dongjun are opened under the care of Zhai Rang, and there are many illegal things. As soon as the umbrella Zhai Rang fell, Shan Xiongxin immediately became the target of the new Fa Cao.
As soon as he saw that the situation was not good, he simply took his family wealth and dragged a group of Daoshang brothers straight to Wagangzhai in Huaxian County to join his old brother Zhai Rang. The duo of Zhai Rang and Shan Xiongxin accounted for 1 of Wagang, and they specialized in robbing the wealthy families in the vicinity, and they did a good job. As a result, Xu Gai, a large landowner whose home is not far from Wagang, can't do it, and according to the flaws of the group of bandits in Wagang, it won't be long before their Xu family will be wiped out.
When there was nothing to be done, Xu Shiji, the son of Xu Gai, who was only seventeen years old at the time, asked for a generous gift to go to Wagang, wanting to break the fortune and avoid disasters. As a result, after arriving at Wagang,
I don't know how, after coming and going, Xu Gongzi instead entered Wagangzhai and became the top three. ,
In fact, Xu Shiji, who was born in a strong place, is not an honest person. According to the history of the book, in his later years, he was very proud of his experience when he was young, and once said, "I was a rogue thief at the age of twelve or thirteen, and I killed people whenever I met them: I was embarrassed to be a thief at the fourteenth or fifteenth fiveteenth or teenth century, and those who were unhappy were killed (if I saw something that was not satisfactory and unpleasant, I would kill them): seventeen or eighteen was a good thief, and it was a murder when I went into battle: I was a general in the world at the age of twenty, and I used soldiers to save people from death" It can be seen that Xu Shixun has killed people at a young age, and he is the same as Zhai Rang and Shan Xiongxin, and they are not good birds.
After joining the gang, he persuaded Zhai Rang, "Nearby is your and my hometown, the villagers, it is not appropriate to intrude, the Song and Zheng prefectures are close to the Yuhe River, and there are many business travelers, so it is very convenient to go there to rob the officials and goods." It is precisely because of this that Zhai Rang and Shan Xiongxin, two fierce men, changed their strategy according to his words, from specializing in robbing wealthy families nearby, to looting a lot of ships not far away, and pulling up a fleet of ships, specializing in plundering merchants on the canal, which can be regarded as rabbits no longer eating grass by the nest.
With the two fierce generals Zhai Rang and Shan Xiongxin, coupled with Xu Shiji's strategy, the Wagang Army continues to grow. Many heroes nearby came to vote, Huang Junhan, who had saved Zhai Rang's life, sat in the fourth position, Huang Junhan history, later entered the Tang Dynasty, and finally sealed the country, in charge of the military of the five states.
In addition, there are wealthy Jia Xiong, literati Fang Xuanzao, Zu Junyan rushed to defect, plus Zhai Rang's eldest brother Zhai Hong and old subordinate Wang Ruxin, nine people are the head of the cottage, with the little overlord Zhai Rang as the big leader. Wagang developed rapidly, and the number of troops soon exceeded 10,000. However, at that time, their development also provoked Zhang Xutuo, who repeatedly led troops to encircle and suppress Wagang. Although Wagang has Zhai Rang, Shan Xiongxin, and Xu Shiji, these fierce men, until the ninth year of the Great Cause, before Zhang Xutuo entered Liao, there were more than 30 battles of all sizes, none of which were victorious, and every time he was defeated and fled. In front of Zhang Xutuo, a natural enemy, Wagang is like a leek, and if he finally grows a little stronger, he will be wiped out by Zhang Xutuo immediately. As a result, Wagangzhai was the earliest of all the peasant armies to revolt, and had several powerful leaders, but the number was always less than 10,000.
It was not until Zhang Xutuo died in the Liao battle that the Wagang army grew stronger again in more than a year, and even belonged to the most powerful one among the counties of Henan. Today, there are nearly 20,000 soldiers in Wagang, including nearly seven or eight thousand veterans and 2,000 cavalry. There are hundreds of boats, and the north and south sections of the canal near Dongjun are all within the sphere of influence of Wagangzhai, and the money and grain are widely imported every day. It is precisely because of this that Li Mi, who was originally incognito, but was discovered and pursued by the imperial court, directly targeted Wagangzhai.
However, the goddess has affection, and King Xiang has no intention. For this Li Mi, who was once a nobleman of the Great Sui Dynasty who was the Duke of Pushan, Zhai Rang and Shan Xiongxin did not have the slightest good impression, and even after Li Mi came a few times, they were ready to kill him. Fortunately, he had been moved by what Li Mi said, and Wang Bodang, who was determined to follow Li Mi, immediately made a statement to Zhai Rang. "Although Li Mi is Yang Xuangan's old department, he is an outlaw and homeless. This man is full of talents and can be used for work. It's better to do this first, let him go to the neighborhood to recruit thieves from all walks of life, if he succeeds, he is a talent. If it is not successful, it is not too late to kill. ”
It was precisely because of these words that Zhai Rang stopped his murderous intentions, and finally agreed to Wang Bodang's proposal. For Zhai Rang, there is no Zhang Xutuo in Henan, and it is the time for them to expand their territory and make their business bigger. If you can merge the various cottages in the vicinity, it will undoubtedly greatly increase your strength.
And today, Li Mi successfully explained that the five cottage owners, including Wang Bodang, merged with Wagang.
There are 20,000 soldiers in Wagangzhai, and the number of Wang Bodang's five cottages together is nearly 10,000. Last year, due to the pacification of Liaodong, the imperial army was able to be transferred back to the Central Plains from the border passes, and under the encirclement and suppression of the armies in various places, many small-scale rebel armies, or bandits, were wiped out. For Wang Bodang and others, when integrated, the stronger their strength is, and the more they can resist in the face of the imperial army.
Zhai Rang, Li Mi, Xu Maogong and others were gathering in the hall to celebrate while drinking. Chen Kefu and Sun Simiao, who were pseudonyms Andy Lau and Sun Shimiao, were taken directly to the inner fort by Zhai Wushuang.
The inner fort of Wagangzhai is specially inhabited by the families of the cottage brothers. They are not regular troops, they are rebellious people. Every copycat minion, whether voluntarily or coerced, will eventually connect the old and young in the family to the cottage inner fort. In the past four or five years, the men in the cottage have gone out to loot, and the fùwidow has been weaving clothes and cooking in the cottage, and there is no tax to serve in the military, and there is no oppression by the government.
When Chen Kefu was finally carried into Zhai Wushuang's mansion, Chen Kefu couldn't help but feel bad. It is said that it is a government courtyard, but it is more like a military camp. The courtyard of the mansion was deep, and there was no more than half a man along the way. As far as the eye can see, all of them are women in light armor. The women were all young and strong women, with bows and swords and spears in their hands. Everyone wore a big braid that was coiled around their heads. The clothes are also imitation male soldier attire with tight cuffs, and none of them are dressed in women's clothes.
Although these people are all women, with Chen Kefu's rich experience in battlefield killing, he can still see at a glance that these women are not just appearances. These people stood there as straight as guns, their eyes like lightning, and they were obviously trained. In particular, each person's figure is not as weak as an ordinary woman,
Basically, they are more than six or seven meters tall, and they are all long and strong, although in this way, there is no femininity of a woman, but there is also a kind of murderous atmosphere.
Zhai Wushuang, who was walking in front, seemed to feel Chen Kefu's surprised gaze, turned his head and smiled, and said proudly, "Surprised!" These are all my aunt's Phoenix Women's Army, there are 1,000 people, all under the command of my aunt and grandmother, and they are not weaker than male soldiers. My aunt and grandmother just want you men to know that women are inferior to men! Chen Kefu smiled and nodded, "I don't like red clothes, I love arms, the eldest lady and these sisters really deserve to be a woman." It's just that "halfway through the words, Chen Kefu deliberately paused and didn't speak, just smiled and looked at the wheat-skinned tigress Zhai Wushuang...