Chapter 114: Entering Lu Zikou
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In the depths of the Luzikou mountain range, there is a place where the terrain is higher than usual, a mountain range encloses a small lake in a ring, and next to the small lake sits dozens of scattered houses, and in the middle of these houses there is a two-story big house built of blue bricks, which is the base camp of the Lin family in Luzikou.
There is a living room in the center of the big house, Lin Yuanteng is sitting in the center of the living room at this time, and in front of him stands a bald man with a scar on his face, he is the head of the leopard who attacked the Wulizhai prospecting team in the valley yesterday.
Lin Yuanteng picked up a three-foot-eight long knife on the table and weighed it in his hand, the weight of five and a half catties was not light or heavy, just right, the blade was sharp, even people who didn't know the goods could see that it was a good knife.
Lin Yuanteng put down the knife with a calm face, and picked up a crossbow from the table. This is a crossbow made of ash wood and cow tendon, which can shoot a distance of hundreds of paces, and is very lethal, and has always been the standard long-range weapon in the army. After seeing this bow and crossbow, Lin Yuanteng's face darkened even more.
After a long time, Lin Yuanteng slowly asked, "Leopard head, have you killed all those people?" β
"Uh......" the leopard head hesitated for a moment before saying, "except for one who escaped by him, we killed all the others." β
"So someone already knows that we did this?" There was a hint of chill in Lin Yuanteng's words.
"Yes...... Yes. At this time, the leopard's head is no longer as fierce as it was yesterday, and it looks like a tamed dog with its head down.
"Waste ......" Lin Yuanteng suddenly scolded, he pointed to the leopard's head and shouted: "How I teach you on weekdays, you have to see it clearly before you start." Don't mess with everyone, but look at it, you take a good look, what are these? People who can afford this kind of thing, a group of poor people who can't even afford to eat, haha? Besides, you will do it, but why do you still have a living mouth, isn't this a handle? β
"The owner. Afraid of what? No matter how powerful they are, they haven't been destroyed by us. The leopard lowered his head and muttered unconvinced, "Besides, what can even officers and soldiers do?" It's not like we haven't fought the officers and soldiers, all of them are some rubbish that will collapse at the touch of a button. β
"You ......"
Lin Yuanteng scolded angrily: "You know a fart, Yingzhou Mansion is different now than before, and now the newly appointed integrity officer of Yingzhou Mansion is not a good stubble, he is ruthless!" Last year, I saw him lead 500 regiments to practice. Kill tens of thousands of rogues and flee, if you really annoy the government, it will be troublesome to send this person out. β
"Won't it?" Listening to Lin Yuanteng's words, the leopard head also hesitated a little, although he was cruel and tyrannical, but he was not completely a brainless fool. As soon as he heard Lin Yuanteng say things so strictly, he couldn't help but ask with some curiosity: "Dongjia, how powerful is the new one's ethics, and five hundred people have defeated tens of thousands of rogue gangsters?" β
"Nonsense, I could see it clearly from the top of the city at the time, can this be fake?" Lin Yuanteng scolded angrily, since the rise of Yueyang. Whenever Lin Yuanteng mentioned the name Yue Yang, his temper would inexplicably turn bad.
"There really are such people." The leopard's head was a little moved, this is 10,000 rogues. Even if you want to kill 10,000 chickens, it's not so easy.
Lin Yuanteng glared at the leopard impatiently, this guy dares to fight and kill on weekdays, and he is a little scheming. But nesting in this place of Luzikou all day long, the horizon is naturally not high. Where is Yue Yang's power, which he, a guy who can only be seen in Lu Zikou, a place with a big palm.
At this time, Lin Yuanteng didn't know that his number one thug had caused a big trouble for him, if he knew that the person killed by the leopard head yesterday was the prospecting team sent by Yue Yang, I am afraid he would not be sitting here so safely now.
Just when Lin Yuanteng was still thinking about whether to let the leopard's head hide in the lair for a while, Yue Yang had already led an army of three thousand to kill Lu Zikou.
Before coming here. Yue Yang had already communicated with the prefect Zheng Kui overnight on this matter, and Zheng Kui also agreed with this. This Lin Yuanteng relied on the fact that he had thousands of absentees and hundreds of evil slaves in his hands, and ran rampant in the Luzikou area, not to mention illegally occupying mines, and colluding with horse thieves. He has never taken the government seriously. Zheng Kui had long wanted to clean him up, but he had never had a chance, and now this guy actually killed Yue Yang's people. Even the heavens will destroy him.
This time, in addition to leading the people to go to Luzikou, he also summoned more than ten merchants in Yingzhou Mansion, including Li Yuan, overnight. Yue Yang told these merchants very bluntly that he would send a large army to wipe out the Lin family and horse thieves in Lu Zikou, and was willing to open up the minerals in Lu Zikou to share with them.
In the face of the sudden arrival, although Li Yuan and the merchants were shocked, no one refused this benefit from the sky. After all, the benefits of mining are known to everyone. But the current situation in the Ming Dynasty is special, as long as there are mines, there are local family underworld forces, and the thugs raised by these underworld forces are even stronger than the local officers and soldiers. If you don't agree with each other, it is to gather the miners to fight, which is a typical fear of power and morality.
Now that there are people who are willing to take them and share the benefits with them, what reason should they not be happy? Although they also know in their hearts that the big head must be eaten by others, there is nothing wrong with following behind them to share some benefits, after all, what do you want to do if you get cheap for nothing.
After a night of noisy shouting, the merchants began to scramble to buy shares. After all, opening a mine has always been profitable, but Lu Zikou has been occupied by the Lin family and some underworld forces before, and the merchants have never had a chance to start, and now that Yueyang has come out to take the lead, it would be stupid if they didn't hurry up.
The next morning, Yue Yang led 3,000 soldiers out, and behind them were hundreds of carts and thousands of exiles that Yue Yang had rerecruited. And Li Yuan and other merchants also followed with their respective families and thousands of absentees, and a group of seven or eight thousand people drove towards Luzikou.
Two or three hours after the march began, the team had already marched into the periphery of LΓΌzikou. But the problem came again, although there are roads in Luzikou, but these roads are really not easy to walk, not only the roads are narrow but also potholes, many businessmen sit in the carriage and are turned upside down, almost even the bitter gall has to vomit out, but for the sake of the future interests, these businessmen have endured one by one.
Yue Yang, who was riding on a horse, looked at these paths that had been spreading into the mountains in front of him, and his brows furrowed deeply, there was an old saying in the 21st century that had been shouted for decades, called if you want to get rich, build roads first, although the words are old, but they are really very reasonable. If there is no convenient road, even if there is a mountain of gold inside, it will not be able to be transported. Just like Luzikou, although Luzikou is only a hundred miles away from Yingzhou City, it takes at least two days to go back and forth, which shows how difficult this road is.
"Looks like it's time to build a road to the mountains." Yue Yang thought as he hurried, this mountain road is at least hundreds of miles or so, if you want to build a cement road, then the cost will be large, it is difficult to build it by Yue Yang alone, but now......
Yue Yang glanced at the more than a dozen businessmen behind him, and showed a hint of cunning on his face, it seems that in the next period of time, his cement factory should have to work overtime to expand production.
The team of thousands of people drove into Lu Zikou in such a mighty way, naturally they couldn't hide the people living in Lu Zikou. From the next day onwards, from time to time some ragged men followed the procession, either hiding in the bushes or following the group, staring at the familiar and strange team with frightened, frightened and curious eyes.
By noon, the team was less than ten miles away from the center of Luzikou, and there were more people encountered, and these people were even swaggering to monitor the team with knives, guns and weapons.
Yue Yang looked at the sky and said to Bai Kai, who had been following him as a guide; "Bai Kai, how far is it from Lu Zikou now?"
Bai Kai was originally going to be sent back to Wulizhai after being rescued, but he heard that Yue Yang was going to lead troops into Lu Zikou to avenge them, this young man refused to go back, he found Yue Yang and begged to follow the army into the mountains, and finally Yue Yang couldn't screw him and had to agree.
Now after listening to Yue Yang's words, Bai Kai pointed to a mountain peak in front of him and said, "Lord Yue, after this mountain, it is the center of Luzikou, and it is still about ten miles away from us. β
"Well, that's right!" Yue Yang turned his head to Hu Laosan on the side and said, "Hu Laosan, order the team to stop and rest for half an hour, eat something by the way, and then let the soldiers all put on their armor, check the firearms and ammunition and prepare to fight!" β
Hu Laosan, who has been training in Yingzhou these days in addition to military training, has long been bored, and now when he heard Yue Yang say that he was going to prepare for a fight, he was immediately happy, and he shouted loudly: "Yes, go and do it immediately!" β
Soon, a melodious trumpet sounded in the procession, and the soldiers of the horse and infantry teams in the team all stopped, and everyone sat down on the ground and began to rest and drink. According to the training regulations of Wulizhai, a small number of cavalry were also divided into the horse team and scattered in all directions, and their task was to be responsible for detecting and guarding against sudden appearance of the enemy.
The hundreds of soldiers in charge of the baggage behind also began to unload the armor on the cart and distribute it to the surrounding soldiers, and the soldiers also began to put on the armor, and soon a group of ironclad soldiers wearing gray armor with only one pair of eyes on their bodies appeared in front of everyone.