Chapter 210: Co-optation

"Rush!" The soldiers rushed into the cottage under the leadership of a platoon leader, ignoring the bandits who threw away their weapons and knelt down to surrender, but they were not polite to the bandits with weapons. ⊥ Top Novel, www.

"Resist me, hold on, turn around and shoot at the officers and soldiers!" Yang Fei was preparing to block the officers and soldiers with dozens of people, when seven or eight bandits fled from the front, and he immediately shouted orders to these bandits.

But the bandits did not stop, and one of the bandits who ran in front shouted as he ran: "The officers and soldiers have caught up, run!" ”

"Damn, I'll wipe your grandfather!" Yang Fei was furious, and killed the bandit just now with a shot, but the other bandits still did not stop fleeing, and at this time, a platoon leader had already chased after him with his soldiers, and the two sides immediately exchanged fire.

I saw a row of soldiers in a group of three, one of them lay down in front of them to shoot, two people in the back squatted down to shoot, one hid behind a stone pier to shoot, and the soldiers who followed up also joined the battle group one after another, Yang Fei was knocked down a large piece here, and only a few died in a row.

The two sides exchanged fire for less than two minutes, and the three companies and nine platoons that were still halfway up the mountain just now rushed over to reinforce them, and as soon as the nine platoons joined the battle, Yang Fei suddenly felt too much pressure, the soldiers on the other side were not only well-trained, but also covered each other and cooperated with each other to shoot, on the other hand, the bandits on his own side were in a mess.

Seeing the bandits on his side die one by one, Yang Fei knew in his heart that he couldn't stand it anymore and had to withdraw immediately. He said to the third child: "The third child, you lead people to withdraw first." Waiting for us a mile away! ”

At this time, he was still thinking about his palace, and asked his brothers to withdraw first. On this basis, these bandits were very convinced of Yang Fei, and did not dare to disobey his orders, but despite this, they still couldn't change the outcome of the battle, two minutes after the third child withdrew with people, Yang Fei really couldn't resist the fact that there were only a dozen people under him, so he could only retreat while fighting, but the soldiers in the back were in hot pursuit.

When Yang Fei caught up with the third man. There were only five people left under him, and the third child arranged it here, and he asked Yang Fei to withdraw with his men and horses first, and Yang Fei was not polite, and went in the direction of Shuizhai with the few people he had.

However, after he ran for three minutes with five people, he heard a fierce gunfire from the direction of Shuizhai, followed by a rumbling explosion, and the officers and soldiers opened fire, and the location of the shelling turned out to be in the direction of Shuizhai.

Yang Fei stopped with the box cannon and looked at the direction of Shuizhai, where countless bullets flew around. After an explosion on the water, a column of water rushed into the sky, and someone was firing from the lake in the direction of the water village, what was going on? Could it be that the Taihu Lake Water Division was dispatched?

Yang Fei's face turned pale, and he scolded: "These sons of bitches raise sailors. Lao Tzu contributes so much silver to them every year, they even have to beat Lao Tzu, what a. When Lao Tzu escaped this catastrophe, Lao Tzu must have bombed all the boats of the sailor! ”

"Big boss. Big boss, no! "A bandit came from the direction of the water village.

Yang Fei grabbed his shirt and asked, "What's going on next?" Say! ”

The bandit swallowed and said, "The big boss." The second master asked me to tell you that all the boats we parked in the water village were scuttled by people, woo woo woo".

"What?" Yang Fei almost fell to the ground when he heard this, and several bandits behind him immediately supported him.

He gasped and asked, "What the hell is going on?" Who did it? ”

It's no wonder that he almost fainted, it doesn't matter if the water village is besieged, as long as the warship is still there, he still has more than 200 people and horses in his hands, plus four hundred wounded, as long as these are all on the ship, with the artillery on the warship and the weapons in their hands, the Taihu Lake Sailor is a fart, the reason why he used to send money to the Taihu Sailor was to keep them, the well water on both sides does not violate the river water, and his dozen warships did not attract the special attention of the Qing court, but now someone has scuttled all his warships, how can he withstand this blow, Without a warship, there is no way out, and this place is equivalent to a dead land!

The bandit said in frustration: "I don't know, it's good, I don't know what's going on, all the warships have begun to sink, at first we thought it was because the things on the ship were filled with too much pressure, but by the time we found out, it was too late, the cabin was full of water, and several big holes were bursting with water!" ”

"It must have been the officers and soldiers who did it, it was they who did it, these damn officers and soldiers, Lao Tzu didn't recruit them, they actually put Lao Tzu to death!" Yang Fei scolded angrily to vent the unwillingness in his heart, but then said decadently: "It's over, it's over, it's all over, Lao Tzu's foundation for more than ten years will be ruined today."

Yang Fei is still regretting his family business, but the few bandits around him can't be calm, the road ahead is blocked, and there are chasing soldiers behind, how to do it? Is it hard to die? But who wants to die?

A small leader urged: "Big boss, what should we do now?" You can't stay here and don't move, the officers and soldiers will chase after you sooner or later! ”

Yang Fei was about to speak, when there was footsteps behind him, and as soon as Yang Fei and the others turned around, they heard the voice of the third child: "Boss, why are you still here, I just heard a large number of gunshots in the direction of Shuizhai, what is going on?" ”

With the arrival of the third master of the cottage, there were really more than a dozen people behind him, originally there were sixty or seventy people when he first blocked the attack, but now there are less than twenty people, and almost seventy percent of them are killed or injured.

Yang Fei said gloomily: "Third child, let's finish, all the warships in the water village have been scuttled by the officers and soldiers, we don't even have a boat now, and the officers and soldiers are still using small boats to fire at the brothers in the water village, we will not have a way to live now!" ”

The third child was shocked: "How can this be? Why did the brothers in the water village so accidentally let the officers and soldiers send people to swim into the water village? ”

"Now that the matter has come to this, what's the use of pursuing those?" Yang Fei waved his hand, his face was a little pale, "Third child, now we have no way to retreat, and there is only one way to die if we resist stubbornly, I Yang Fei has enjoyed it for so many years, and now I am not wronged to die, but I can't let these brothers die with me, it's not worth it, although I, Yang Fei, have done a lot of evil, but I haven't been so mad as to use so many brothers to bury me, I thought about it just now, now I can only surrender to save the lives of these brothers, and the officers and soldiers want to arrest me, Brothers, I really had to go up the mountain and fall into the grass because I was coerced by me, and if I surrendered to the officers and soldiers and asked for your release, I think the officers and soldiers would have agreed! ”

The third child was anxious when he heard it: "Boss, this can't work, if you are caught, you will definitely die!" ”

"Now this is the only way to save everyone's lives, besides, the destruction of the cottage and the sinking of all the warships in the water village have made me disheartened, so you can fulfill me!"

The dozen or so bandits present did not speak, and the surroundings were quiet, but gunshots came from the direction of the cottage and the direction of the water village, and the gunfire in the direction of the cottage was already very loose, and the water village was still fighting fiercely.

After a while, the third child said: "Okay, since the boss has made up his mind, then I have nothing to say about the younger brother, so I can only thank the boss for his kindness on behalf of the brothers!" ”

"Without further ado, we will go to the water village immediately, and the brothers will suffer more casualties if we go late!" Yang Fei said, and immediately walked in the direction of the water village.

During this period, the vast majority of bandits were forced to become bandits, not their families have been bandits for generations, these bandit leaders are basically still very righteous, but they are very ruthless in ordinary times, just because the world is too chaotic, you can't sit in the position of the boss if you are not ruthless.

After Yang Fei led the people to the water village, he shouted loudly for the two sides to cease fire, and told the officers and soldiers who led the attack that he was willing to surrender with the bandits, but the premise was that the government could only kill him alone, and they must be let go after the officers and soldiers collected the weapons of the bandits.

When the commander of the fourth company of the second battalion, who was leading the attack, heard this, he immediately ordered his soldiers to cease fire, and shouted that he could not be the master of this matter, and he must report to the above and let the above decide, Yang Fei thought that this was a matter of course, and told the commander of the fourth company that he could wait, but the officers and soldiers could not attack again during this time, and the commander of the fourth company immediately agreed.

Yang Fei's surrender conditions were quickly reported to Xiao Zhenlei, he agreed without thinking about it, and asked people to tell Yang Fei that the bandits under his command would enter his army as soldiers if there was nowhere to go, and he was not afraid that these people would bring banditry into the army, in the army, as long as the time was long enough, as long as the training was in place, and the ideological work was done in place, no matter how strong the banditry spirit was, it could be worn out.

Then Yang Fei surrendered with the remaining more than 400 bandits, and Xiao Zhenlei immediately arranged for the personnel to surrender, while taking over the prisoners, while collecting weapons, and also found a lot of gold and silver treasures from the cottage.

On October 15th, three days have passed since Yang Fei's surrender, and in the past few days, Xiao Zhenlei has been busy reorganizing the bandits who are willing to be soldiers into a separate battalion, these bandits are basically homeless, even if Xiao Zhenlei releases them, they don't know where to stay, since Xiao Zhenlei recruited troops, they also joined Xiao Zhenlei's army.

Xiao Zhenlei transferred some officers from the first and second battalions to the newly established third battalion as officers, and the battalion commander was Zhou Chuandong, the commander of Xiao Zhenlei's guard platoon, and the third battalion had a total of more than 400 people, all of whom were bandits before.

The cottage in Phoenix Mountain was set on fire by Xiao Zhenlei, and after the reorganization of the third battalion was completed, and the corpses left over from the battle were collected, Xiao Zhenlei was ready to return with the loot, and at this time he finally got the good news he hoped for.

Zeng Qinglin took his remaining more than 80 people and horses, raided Jiang Guodong's camp on the night of October 14, he was all cavalry, and carried out a raid after quietly approaching Jiang Guodong's camp, Jiang Guodong's camp was in chaos, the old soldiers of the two battalions did not have the courage to resist at all, and then they blew up the camp, Zeng Qinglin took the men and horses to slash and kill, Jiang Guodong was killed on the spot, and hundreds of other Qing soldiers died, and those who fled, and after the final count, more than half of them were missing, and only more than 200 people remained. (To be continued......) R527