Chapter 22: Not the worst

Seeing that things were developing in a good direction, Wu Wei's worst fears happened.

In June of the first year of Chongzhen, Gao Yingxiang raised troops in Ansai.

Wu Wei was already mentally prepared for Gao Yingxiang's army, and he was not too worried about his own safety, because according to historical records, he did not take the county seat, which means that his target was likely to be only to loot large households, that is, those who are still hoarding food. It's just that unlike the previous history, there is now an outcast camp of more than 20,000 people outside Ansai City! This is a variable, no one dares to say, so many homeless people gathered together, will they be coerced by Gao Yingxiang to attack the county seat!

Wu Wei, as a new landlord, naturally hated people like Gao Yingxiang, and when he heard the news of his rebellion, he scolded Gao Yingxiang as a thief together with the squires who rushed to the county government after hearing the news. He was surprised that he joined the queue of verbal criticism and writing against Gao Yingxiang so naturally, it seems that his ass really decides his head, he has been educated by the party for so many years, and he has changed color in a few days after becoming a landlord class.

Originally, Wu Wei thought that the poor people in the world were one family, and it was natural for the victims to respond to Gao Yingxiang's rebellion. Unexpectedly, Tong Guò communicated with Zhao Wenzhuo and his father, they did not welcome Gao Yingxiang, mainly because the reputation of these so-called peasant rebels was not good. "Why are you so afraid of Gao Yingxiang, doesn't he not kill the poor?" Wu Wei once asked Zhao Wenzhuo curiously.

"They are a gang of robbers, they will first take all your goods and livestock, and then they will take you as a man to carry what they have stolen for them, and if you don't do it, they will be a knife at will."

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"They also spoil women, and when they enter the village, they rob younger women, and sometimes they fight with their own people. The woman who can't be taken away when you defeat the battle is also a knife. ”

“……”

"The thieves are the lazy and second-rate people with the worst reputation in the village."

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This is the memory of the Chinese peasants from their personal experience for generations, the so-called peasant rebels, are all ordinary **, in order to survive and angry troops, no strategic goals, no political program, their initial simple idea is to grab the food of large households, but in the process, the evil of human nature is released a hundred times and a thousand times, so they have changed from the victims of the tragedy to the people who create new tragedies. They don't show mercy when they hurt people who are weaker than them because of their so-called class attributes! Equal wealth is always a false slogan, and "grabbing money, food, and girls" is the voice of the "rebel army"! No matter how the political textbooks of later generations paint and dress them, they can't change their essence in the hearts of the common people, and they have a common name together with bandits and robbers Tartars, "thieves"!

Therefore, after Wu Wei arrived in this era, although the exploitation was very heavy, the tenants basically stood aside with the owner in front of the thieves, unless those who really couldn't survive. In fact, it is easy to understand this point when you think about it, the three dozen Zhujiazhuang in the Water Margin, aren't the villagers of Zhujiazhuang also farmers, and they are not heroes who deal with the peasant rebel army together with the landlord class? Could it be that just because the other party is a peasant, and I am also a peasant, okay, let's stop fighting, let's fight the landlord, people who think like this can only say that there is something wrong with their brains.

Zhao Wenzhuo's family is a tenant and the most oppressed peasant, even he does not sympathize with Gao Yingxiang, it seems that although the disaster is severe, but at the beginning of the peasant uprising in this history, it has not yet reached the point of confusion among the people, and the people still believe in the government and are not completely desperate for survival. It seems that he crossed at the right time, if it is any later, after the peasant army sweeps the country, there will be thieves everywhere, then things will not be easy to do. Thinking of this, Wu Wei couldn't help but be secretly happy.

The thief is as anxious as a spark, Wu Wei Ming county order, calling on the county's big households to donate money and food, recruiting young and strong people to defend the city, this time the big households are very enthusiastic, donating money and grain than the previous disaster relief raised ten times, Wu Wei can't help but sigh, the landlord is not stupid, I know that sometimes wealth is not saved! The city wall of the county town is rammed, only more than 3 meters high, and there is no sense of security when you look at it, and it is not as deterrent as the high courtyard wall full of glass stubble in the previous life. The weapons in the arsenal are also outrageously crude, I don't know if it's something from the Jiajing period, the steelmaking level of this era is low, the iron tools are easy to rust, and they haven't done any maintenance, the knives, guns, bows and arrows are rotten, and several pairs of armor are also about to rust. Looking at the native soldiers and young men who were equipped with these tattered weapons, Wu Wei was a little sad, could he really stop Gao Yingxiang's army by relying on this? When the time comes, you have to be smart, and when you see that the situation is not good, you can quickly slip away. To his surprise, the county magistrates and the squires were triumphant at the organized rabble, and when they inspected them, the county magistrates said more than once that they were "in order" and praised them as "tiger warriors". Wu Wei couldn't help but guess, isn't this kind of armed force the worst in this year?

Soon, his guess was confirmed, and Gao Yingxiang's army arrived, claiming to be 20,000 people. However, the imaginary siege did not take place, as his route passed through Wu Wei's newly purchased Grange, and he collapsed at the slightest touch with an ambush there.

To everyone's surprise, it was the 1,000 young men recruited by Wu Wei who defeated Gao Yingxiang's 20,000 army.

The details were quickly figured out, when they heard the news of the attack of the thieves before, the young men recruited by Wu Wei also took the initiative to ask to participate in the defense of the city, the reason is very simple, they were already people who were struggling on the death line, because Wu Wei survived, and now the whole family depends on Wu Wei for food and clothing, and the daily food supply is much better than that of ordinary homeless. Seeing that there is a job in hand and a hope for the future, at this time, Gao Yingxiang called, if you want to destroy everyone's food and clothing, everyone will unite to fight with him! Although his courage was commendable, Wu Wei did not think that the young men who had not experienced a day of military training could defeat the army, so let's call the peasant rebel army an army. He reassured everyone and told them to quickly hide with their families, although the county decree did not allow the homeless people to enter the city, but it was still possible to run farther south, and when the thieves left, he also gave them a few days' worth of food.

But looking at the current situation, it is obvious that the young men did not listen to their own words, they bravely brandished hoes and shovels and rushed towards the enemy, just touched, the opponent's brigade of men and horses was in chaos, a few people were still resisting, more people ran around the mountains like headless flies, shouting while running: "The officers and soldiers are too fierce, everyone has iron weapons in their hands, and half of the head of a guy is gone!" "The hoe is powerful, I'm afraid it won't weigh several pounds, and it will be a big blood hole when you take it!" Gao Yingxiang and more than a dozen of his henchmen and old brothers rode horses, but they were also squeezed by the crowd and couldn't move, and their efforts to suppress it were to no avail, and finally they were besieged by the young men and fled without a large army. As soon as the leader ran, the thieves completely collapsed.

Wu Wei saw that the team of thieves collapsed on the city wall, and his heart moved, and he hurriedly reported to the county order who was still puzzled and rushed out of the city with more than 200 township soldiers. Some thieves knelt on the ground and cried when they saw that the situation was not good, and the official had spared his life, and the villain was a good citizen who was coerced, and they couldn't distinguish much for a while, so they all tied their hands and feet with straw ropes and threw them aside. Everyone chased out seven or eight miles, but they didn't encounter a battle, but the thieves who couldn't run captured countless prisoners, and the right to practice for a while was a long-distance run before collecting troops and returning to the court.

In this battle, five were killed, two were seriously wounded, and more than a dozen were lightly wounded, and the result was more than 40 beheadings and more than 800 prisoners, most of whom were skinny and skinny, unclothed, and looked like beggars. After inquiry, Wu Wei learned that there were more than 10,000 people in the group of displaced people, of which more than 4,000 were young and strong, only Gao Yingxiang and a small number of old brothers had horses and weapons, and most of the others were armed with forks, sticks, wooden sticks, etc., and there were very few iron tools. Originally, Gao Yingxiang was preparing to attack the city together after encompassing the tens of thousands of victims in the camp of displaced people outside the city, but he didn't expect to be knocked to the ground by more than 1,000 young men with shovels and hoes who suddenly rushed out outside the county.

It turns out that many of the more than 1,000 young and strong people have township party or kinship relations, and the people of Shaanxi are fierce, and their villages usually fight a lot because of water grabbing, and they are quite skilled in cooperating with each other, and they are shovels and hoes made of pure steel, all of which are very heavy and sharp, and the weapons of the general border army are probably not as good as they are, so they rushed out unexpectedly, and they crushed Gao Yingxiang's army at once.

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