Maoyang Town, as the advance base of Cao Kun's invasion of Mengshan, became a concentration of baggage after the brigade entered the mountain, and originally left a foot team to guard the town, but because the official army attacked smoothly, it broke through the Louzi position on the first day and approached Tianmen. Although a fierce battle took place at Tianmen later, Cao Kun's attack was frustrated, so he moved the remaining infantry up the mountain. Cao Kun is not worried about the safety of Maoyang Town, because he is behind him. Moreover, there are also Li Fu's troops withdrawn from Zhangjiazhai to rest.

Of course, he would not have expected that Long Qian's small force would get rid of his search and capture by virtue of its geographical advantage after taking the initiative to withdraw from the position, and move westward to start the idea of Maoyang Town.

Maoyang Town is a big town, and there is a market day every month. In the economic model of self-sufficiency of small farmers, the commodity economy has not yet replaced the self-sufficiency of small farmers, and the peasants' regular market gathering is an indispensable means of obtaining the necessities of life. Naturally, on the 13th of February, the defenders did not have much suspicion of the peasants who poured into the town with all kinds of homemade products on their shoulders or empty-handed, and the officers and soldiers guarding the four gates of the town did not seriously check the villagers who were rushing to the market.

Most of the soldiers of the Wuwei Right Army were children of peasant families, but they looked at everything they were familiar with very kindly, and after getting rid of the soldiers who were stationed at the four gates, the officers and soldiers who had been shopping in the town in the morning gathered back to the town office for a banquet. The gentry of the town specially invited the governor of the garrison to the town office for a banquet, wishing the officials and soldiers to be wiped out in one fell swoop and the Mengshan thieves in the township, which was indeed a great joy worth celebrating.

Li Fu and another officer of the baggage brigade named Liang Huada were drinking at the town office at the moment, and the officers were sitting in a separate room, accompanied by several leading figures in the town. The soldiers had a dinner in the courtyard, and the wine was half drunk, but the food was still served at a high price. The courtyard was filled with shouts of guessing the boxing order, and it was a peaceful scene.

None of the red-faced soldiers who were drinking or drinking noticed the change of the guy serving the food, and when a big man suddenly blocked the door of the main room, holding up a hand-thrown bomb and shouting at the officers in the room not to move, someone was giggling, "Fuck, what are you kidding?" ”

Immediately afterwards, several guys in the yard who delivered vegetables pulled out bombs from their fat waists and lifted them up, "All sit obediently for Lao Tzu and don't move!" Otherwise, we'll die together! ”

This group of murderous outlaws in the eyes of the official army is, of course, the elite of the advanced village led by Long Qian.

Long Qian's plan was very simple, he selected ten people from Wang Mingyuan and Lu Shan's team according to the criteria of boldness and care, and divided them into two groups, Long Qian personally led one group, led by Jiang Yun, and Wang Mingyuan and Lu Shan led the other group. Sneaked into the town first, went to the hotel opened by Jiang Yun's cousin, forced the boss and all the diners with a dagger, tied up the Wuguan personnel and stuffed their mouths and locked them in the firewood room, and then Long Qian and the others changed into the guys' clothes, carried the food box and smoothly mixed into the town office, each of them hid a hand-thrown bomb captured in Zhangjiazhai, and these bombs that were not used in the Mengshan defense battle finally came in handy. Long Qian had already taught everyone how to use it, but he told this group of subordinates who dared to die that they were never allowed to pull the strings without his orders!

The rest of the people were led by Feng Guozhu, Ye Yanbing, Feng Lun, Cheng Erhu and others, approaching the Zhaimen in makeup, and when the gunshots rang out in the town, they immediately seized the door by force!

Long Qian was personally in charge of the officers in the hall, and now, he held the bomb high in one hand and took out the dagger in the other, and the dagger was immediately placed on the neck of the officer sitting on the top, and he didn't know that that person was Li Fu, the infantry officer who had fought with him in Zhangjiazhai.

Li Fu's wine turned into a cold sweat! Out of a subconscious action, Li Fu was about to raise his hand to open the cold dagger, Long Qian's wrist flipped, and the sharp dagger immediately cut Li Fu's carotid artery!

With a scream, blood spurted out far away, squirting an officer sitting on Li Fu's side into a bloody man. Li Fu covered his wound and fell to the ground! A few convulsions, dead!

"Don't push me! We have no grievances, sit and don't move, I don't want to kill people anymore. Without waiting for the others to make a move, Long Qian immediately put the dagger stained with Li Fu's blood on the neck of another middle-aged officer next to Li Fu!

"Order, let your brethren not move!"

"Don't move! Brothers, do not resist. This person was Liang Huada, the officer of the baggage team, Li Fu's tragic death shocked him and obediently gave the order.

The officers and soldiers all over the courtyard were in a state of petrification, the door of the hall was wide open, and several officers and soldiers saw the scene of Li Fu's killing, and the ferocity of the bandits and the small bombs with arquebuses on their heads shook more than 150 officers and soldiers on the spot.

"Jiang Yun, take their guns." Long Qian's heart was also extremely nervous.

Most of the guns of the officers and soldiers were in the treasury of the town office, which was easy to do. The clever Jiang Yun had already found the warehouse, took out two, first loaded them with Wang Mingyuan, stood on a stool and forced them to stop on the spot, and the rest of the people went to get guns one by one, and the situation was basically controlled.

After the officer in the hall was forced by his men to hold him at gunpoint, Long Qian took a loaded foreign gun and fired a shot into the air.

Soon, gunshots came from outside, and Long Qian knew that this adventure was over.

Long Qian's plan won a big victory, and the eight teams had no intention of calculating and winning Maoyang Town in one fell swoop.

But the battle still caused four dead and seven wounded, and the casualties at the gate were actually very small, and when the gunshots rang out in the village, the sentry found that suddenly several farmers who were talking close to the gate rushed over, and the short resistance was immediately crushed. Originally, there were only six sentinels at the gate of the village, two in the north and south, and one in the east and west.

The real battle took place in the back, Long Qian ignored that the officers and soldiers still had more than 20 light and serious wounded, these people were not in the town office, they lived in another courtyard, there were a few guns with them, hearing the gunshots, the wounded and sick immediately organized to resist, but then they were blocked by the Mengshan bandits who rushed in, and the two sides shot at each other. In addition, there were more than a dozen officers and soldiers who were fighting elsewhere, all of whom ran to the town office and fought with the Mengshan thieves who entered the village. When Long Qian arrived, there were already casualties, and Long Qian arrived and ordered to stop the attack.

Let Lu Shan command the brigade to surround the courtyard where the wounded soldiers lived, Feng Guozhu and Ye Yanbing's teams took over the defense of the walled gate respectively, Long Qian returned to the town office, and the officers and soldiers who were captured in a daze were already squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands.

"Who is the highest ruler among you? Stand up and speak. Long Qian shouted.

"It's me, if you have anything to tell me, don't hurt the defenseless people." Liang Huada, the officer of the baggage team, stood up sideways.

"I admire your courage and love for the people." Long Qian put the Japanese-style war knife he brought in on the neck of Liang Huada, the officer of the baggage team, "As long as you do what I say, I guarantee the safety of you and your brothers!" ”

"Don't want me to surrender to you, you wicked bandits." The humiliation that Liang Huada suffered just now turned into courage at this moment, since he wants to die, let's die happily! Team Officer Liang said loudly, "There is a kind of you who cut grandpa." ”

"Listen to the accent, you're from Jinmen. Tianjin is a place for singles, and I like to deal with singles. I hope you're single to the end. Long Qian was not angry, and gently pulled the blade, the sharp blade cut Liang Huada's neck, and a wisp of blood flowed down his neck.

"Brethren, you must not know how long the neck of the Daoist can hold up under the slow sawing of the blade. I bet he can sustain a stick of incense for a long time," Long Qian whispered, "It will take a stick of incense for his neck to break." Who's going to bet? As he spoke, he slowly twitched the blade again.

Liang Huada didn't dare to resist, and the murderous scene of this bearded man killing Li Fu with a knife once again defeated his already little courage. He was convinced that if he struggled, his neck would be cut off by this vicious bandit leader with a smile on his face.

"A good man spares his life." Liang Huada's tongue was a little stiff, and fear slowly overwhelmed courage.

"That's right, people die like lights go out. Don't believe that there is an afterlife, and don't hope that someone will avenge you, that's after you die, you know what a fart! Once I can't hold this knife steadily, your hopes, all your efforts, will be in vain. You can only exist in the memories of your boss, your subordinates, your parents and family. Besides, they don't necessarily remember you yet. It's a smart choice to work together, and we have no personal vendetta between us,"

Long Qian moved the blade away from Liang Huada's neck slightly, "Now let me ask you, what's your name?" What position did he hold in the Wuwei Right Army? Long Qian still had a smile on his face, but in the eyes of the soldiers and gentry present, Long Qian was completely the embodiment of the devil.

Liang Huada truthfully reported his name and position.

"Oh, it turned out to be Officer Liang, disrespectful. Contemptible Long Qian, the word retreats. The brothers were short of money and weapons, and they heard that the new governor Yuan had all the foreign guns and cannons, so they came to borrow a few for use. Long Qian saw that Liang Huada had succumbed, and took away this Japanese-style war knife with an extremely good texture of unknown origin, "As long as you and your subordinates do what I say, I guarantee that my people will not hurt the lives of you and your subordinates, nor will they harm the people of Maoyang Town." What do you think? The people in Mengshanzhai heard Long Qian say that he was a person holding calves, and they were stunned for a moment, and then they all understood. For hundreds of years, the mountainous area of Lunan has been where the strongmen gathered, and it is even more so that the calf is held.

"Tell me about your conditions." Liang Huada covered the wound on his neck with his hand.

"First, order the men in that courtyard to stop the senseless resistance. I promise not to hurt any of them. Second, mobilize your men and help us carry the wounded and supplies and get us out of town! You don't have to go, and when we're safe, we'll let your people back. ”

This requirement didn't seem to be too high, so Liang Huada thought about it and complied.

The wounded soldiers surrendered after Liang Huada shouted.

"Folks, we are here from holding calves, passing by! But rest assured, as long as you do what I say, my soldiers will never kill innocents indiscriminately, nor will they insult their daughters or rob their personal property. Long Qian carried the snow bright sword and said to the gentry of Maoyang Town who were trembling. These gentry had been brought out of the town hall by eight groups of soldiers, and were now all gathered in the open space of the main courtyard.

It was an extremely sharp counterattack. The whole battle ended in less than an hour, and the town of Maoyang was completely occupied by the Mengshan bandits. The hungry and thirsty Mengshan thieves did not like the leftovers, and immediately devoured them after Long Qian's order, Long Qian strictly forbade drinking, this order was silently protested by everyone, although the order of the leader of Zhilu Dao was right, but still could not resist the temptation of wine. It wasn't until Long Qian ordered that he could take it away, which calmed down the "public anger" and buried his head in chewing.

Long Qian's estimate is good, Maoyang Town is indeed the supply base of Cao Kun's West Road army, all kinds of military materials are piled up, it is unrealistic to take them all away, Long Qian ordered to find all the carts and mules and horses, as well as rope picks, pick out the most urgently needed guns and ammunition, silver taels, clothing, food, medicinal materials and cooking utensils, try to load the car, and don't burn what you can't take away, in the face of Ye Yanbing's question, Long Qian said, these things are the blood and sweat of the people, burn them, and the losses are not the officials and soldiers, but the people.

Of course, the cart and the picks are basically the residents of Maoyang Town, Long Qian ordered compensation according to the price, anyway, the silver and both were seized, this move that puzzled the Mengshan thieves was still seriously implemented, because of the success of the surprise attack on Maoyang Town, Long Qian's prestige rose again, showing that his orders would be more strictly enforced.

The move also came as a big surprise to the residents of Maoyang Town. When bandits enter the village, they are already thankful that they can not rape and burn and kill, where have you ever heard that you have to pay for something? Maoyang Town's Qi, the former mayor's surname Qi, an old man with a white beard and a bit of fairy bones, said to the residents of the town, "I have lived for more than seventy years, and I have never heard of a good man in the cottage who has not committed any crime in Qiu." Since the heroes who hold the calves are benevolent and righteous, we can't be unreasonable, look at this, the heroes are leaving, and those who can get started will get started, and help the heroes tie up cheaply. ”

Long Qian clenched his fists at the old man, "Thank you, old man, let's go." As to where we come from and where we are going, it is a matter of life and death for the brothers, so please keep it confidential and be careful not to say much. ”

The villagers naturally agreed one after another, and these plague gods left a moment earlier, and the town was relieved a moment earlier. On behalf of the residents of the town, Old Man Qi solemnly agreed to Long Qian's request. Someone quietly asked the old man, the official army is definitely coming back, can't we fight against the government? Old Man Qi stroked his white beard, stupid, there are so many injuries left in the town, and they don't have long mouths. By the way, we're going to take care of the wounded soldiers, you know?

In these days, it is difficult to be a common man. The strongman can't be provoked, and the government can't be provoked.