The next day, on the morning of May 251 of the lunar calendar of the sixth year of the Ying calendar, Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin and others led the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" and the three brothers of the Yan family -- Yan Chongyi's leg injury was no longer serious, so he took the initiative to ask to go to battle with the army, but the wayward Yan Ruhua Yan Er Miss did not follow - the Zhuang Ding of Qiulin Zhuang led by him joined forces, left the camp outside Qiulin Village, and marched towards the location of the "Baihua Village" village.

Liu Jinxiu, who came to surrender, was naturally also in the team, although his surrender did not look like a fraud on the surface, Qian Yuanshan and the others still maintained the necessary caution, specially arranged for two clever guards to keep an eye on him, and ordered that if this guy had any abnormal behavior, he would be killed immediately. Therefore, since the team left the camp, the two guards have been following Liu Jinxiu's side closely under the pretext of protecting their safety, and they have not left an inch.

At the same time, Qian Yuanshan also ordered all soldiers, including Zhuang Ding of Qiulin Village, to be vigilant at all times, so as not to attack the enemy halfway.

However, the road from the camp to the "Baihua Village" was very calm, and there were no minions from the "Baihua Village" to interfere and obstruct them, so that Mutel, Chang Shengjun, Yan Chongyi and others, who were responsible for opening the way in front of the team and serving as the top soldiers, felt a little unsteady in their hearts, thinking that this would not be a trap set by Bai Fei, deliberately showing weakness, so as to ambush themselves halfway.

Facts have proved that the worries of Muttel and others are completely superfluous, until the team came to the "Baihua Village", stopped less than 300 steps away from the gate of the "Baihua Village", and formed a good formation, and not a single soldier of the other party dared to come out of the village to fight against them.

Seeing that the door of the other party's fortress was closed, no one came out to fight. Qian Yuanshan ordered his soldiers to come forward to fight, and at the same time took out a telescope to carefully observe the movement on the wall of the other party's wall. As a result, he found that except for a few minions who showed their heads and took a look when his soldiers went to the gate of the village to fight, the other time, the other party's minions were hiding behind the wall, and they didn't dare to look up at all. So much so that he could only see some figures shaking in the telescope, and he couldn't even tell how many people the other party had arranged on the wall.

However, Qian Yuanshan was no longer interested in considering how the other party had arranged the wall at this time, let alone whether the other party had organized a tight defense in the wall, and now he only wanted to end this not very successful training battle as soon as possible, and quickly led the team back to the "Flying Dragon Village" to sum up the lessons of this battle and prepare for the next battle.

Therefore, Qian Yuanshan saw that his soldiers were scolding the enemy for a long time, and the other party did not react, so he ordered the soldiers to return to their own team, just waiting for the news that Muttel and the two squads of rangers who were leading the way to block the tunnel led by Liu Jinxiu came to the ground, and immediately began a regular firearms battle.

After waiting for about half an hour, just when Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin and others began to wonder if Liu Jinxiu was playing tricks and wanted to ambush Mutel and others with Bai Feili in the village, a ranger came to his horse and knelt down on one knee under the leadership of his own guard, and reported: "The eleventh master, the thirty-fifth master asked the little one to pass the word, everything is ready at the tunnel entrance, and you can start by jihua." ”

Qian Yuanshan didn't ask much when he heard this, he stretched out his hand and pulled out the horizontal knife he was wearing, raised it in one fell swoop, paused for a moment, and then slashed down in the direction of the gate of the "Baihua Village" in front of him.

As Qian Yuanshan's horizontal knife symbolically slashed towards the "Baihua Village," the gunners of the two direct-aim guns, which had been ready for a long time, pulled the torch in their hands violently, igniting the primer located on the gun's fuse -- at this time, the artillery of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" was transformed by the weapons department, and it was no longer ignited with the previous gunpowder or combustibles, but instead used a special primer. Moreover, not only the artillery, but also the flintlock pistol was modified accordingly, and the original powder pool was replaced by a primer and a fuse. In this way, both artillery and muskets effectively increase the firing rate, and their influence from the climate is greatly reduced.

With the movements of the gunner, two direct-aim guns almost simultaneously emitted a cloud of white smoke from the muzzle of the gun, and a loud bang was made. Immediately afterwards, I saw that the gate of "Baihua Village" three hundred steps away shook violently, and two big holes appeared on the wooden gate. The stones and dirt bags used to block the gate behind the gate were scattered under the violent impact, and several soldiers who were monitoring the gate were beaten by the rubble and their heads were bleeding, crying for their fathers and mothers. ,

The firing of the two direct-aim guns was like igniting the fuse of a super firecracker, and the four mortars followed closely behind, and began to continuously fire shells at the "Baihuazhai". In an instant, the smoke and dust in the "Baihua Village" were billowing and the sound of explosions was endless.

The shelling lasted for about ten minutes, and the entire "Baihua Village" was completely chaotic at this time. Under the continuous bombardment of two direct-aim guns, the walled gate has been shattered and has no defensive effect. The minions who were originally huddled on the wall of the wall to resist the attack of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" scattered and fled except for those who were killed and injured and could not move. The stockade was full of minions running around like headless flies, and houses were on fire everywhere.

Although there were a few brave leaders who tried to harass his subordinates and organize resistance, no one listened to his orders. The leader and two of his cronies slashed several minions one after another, but they still couldn't stop the frightened men from running away. At this point, the leader could only give up his unrealistic ideas and planned to discuss countermeasures with Bai Fei, the owner of the village. As a result, he found that the owner of Bai Dazhai, who had sworn to everyone yesterday that he would definitely live and die with everyone and never give up, had long since disappeared, and it was estimated that he had already escaped from that secret tunnel.

In the face of such a result, the leader was both extremely disappointed and desperate, he looked at the minions running around him with extremely calm eyes, and then looked at the big village with smoke and flames, gritted his teeth and heart, and with the only two cronies who were willing to follow him, he waved the single knife and spear in his hand, and rushed out of the already dilapidated gate, and screamed and pounced on the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" and Qiulin Zhuang Ding, which were far more numerous than them.

Although the desperate charge of the three bandits made Qian Yuanshan somewhat admired, he did not get any sympathy. Qian Yuanshan nodded slightly to Tang Chao next to him, and the latter took out the horizontal knife on his waist with understanding, and pointed at it with one stroke like Qian Yuanshan just now.

With Tang Chao's movements, a squad of the first squadron located in the front row of the entire team came out of the queue collectively, and under the command of the squad leader, they walked forward a few steps in a neat manner, and then began to skillfully load, fire at the bottom, and raise their guns to aim. Immediately, under the command of the squad leader, twelve muskets opened fire at the same time, killing the three desperate minions who had rushed to less than a hundred paces away from the formation.

After a while, seeing that there were no more minions from the "Baihua Village" who had the courage to charge out of the village, Qian Yuanshan raised the horizontal knife in his hand again and pointed forward. So, except for a small squad of infantry responsible for protecting the artillery position, all the other soldiers, including the rangers and the Qiulin Zhuang Ding, who had been stunned by the artillery fire just now, moved at the same speed in the direction of "Baihuazhai", ready to deal a blow to the cottage, which had been in chaos.

The battle that follows went very smoothly and very simply. After the infantry rushed into the "Baihua Village", while carefully dodging various traps according to the map provided by Liu Jinxiu, they were divided into many combat groups in squads, cooperating with each other, shooting with guns at a distance and slashing with knives at a close distance, chasing and killing those minions who were running around. The Rangers rode back and forth along the wall, cutting down all the minions who were going to flee over the wall in front of their horses.

The almost one-sided killing lasted for more than half an hour, and except for a few clever minions who knelt down early and begged for mercy when they saw that the situation was not good, the other minions and leaders of the "Baihuazhai" who were frightened by the artillery fire and only knew that they were running and shouting were not able to escape this catastrophe.

At the beginning of the year, the whole "Baihua Village" returned to calm, except for a few squads of soldiers who were still searching for the remnants of the enemy who might be hiding in Suiwu, the other soldiers had already escorted a small number of prisoners out of the village and came to the place where they had just lined up to rest.

At this time, Mutel, who was in charge of blocking the exit of the tunnel, also took Liu Jinxiu, Bai Fei, who was tied up by five flowers, and several other bandits who might be the leader of "Baihuazhai", as well as a group of women and children, came to Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin and others.

I don't know if he was injured in the shelling just now, or if he was arrested because he resisted, Bai Fei, who knelt in front of Qian Yuanshan and others, was in tattered clothes and covered with blood, and he couldn't distinguish his appearance a little. Moreover, unlike the scene imagined by Qian Yuanshan and others, Bai Fei, the master of the "Baihua Village" who had been calling for wind and rain in the area of Youdu Mansion and was elected by the cottages as the leader of the general alliance, did not have the backbone and blood that Green Forest should have at all at this time, except for kowtowing like pounding garlic and begging them to spare his life. His current performance is not even as good as the three men who rushed to the death, and he is not even as good as the group of captured minions not far away. Even the thieves who were captured with him were stronger than him, and at least those few showed a reluctance to kneel at first - even though Zuihou was forced by the soldiers to bend his knees and bow his head. ,

Bai Fei's performance not only disgusted Qian Yuanshan and others, but even Liu Jinxiu, who betrayed him without merging with him, felt disdainful. The thieves who were caught with him had even more fever on their faces, and they all moved their bodies to the side, hoping to draw a line with this coward who had no manly temperament.

Qian Yuanshan, who was extremely annoyed by Bai Fei's begging for mercy, waved his hand impatiently to the guards beside him. The two guards immediately stepped forward and dragged Bai Fei, who was still chattering and begging for mercy, to the side, and his life was killed when the knife fell in his hand.

After killing Bai Fei, Muttel pointed to a young woman who was crying, and a little boy who was already scared stupid, and asked Qian Yuanshan: "Brother Eleven, these two people are Bai Fei's wife and son, what should we do with them." ”

Qian Yuanshan looked at his Bai Fei wife who was so frightened by Muter's words that he had stopped crying, and was looking at his Bai Fei wife with a frightened and pleading look, turned his head and exchanged glances with Zeng Zhilin, and saw that the other party did not mean to kill them all like himself, so he waved his hand and said: "Women and children are not within the scope of our attack, give them some money and let them go." Besides, go and give orders to the whole army, and do not be embarrassed by this orphan and widow. ”

Muttel agreed, picked a few of the various valuable things seized from Bai Fei and the others, handed them to Bai Fei's wife, and signaled that she could leave with the child.

Seeing that the person in front of him, who seemed to be the leader of the enemy army, was willing to let go of himself and the child, Bai Fei's wife immediately knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Qian Yuanshan again and again to thank him, and then took the child, put the silver money that Muttel gave her into the burden he carried, and went down the mountain in a panic.

After sending Bai Fei's wife, Qian Yuanshan and the others prepared to deal with several other captured "Baihuazhai" thieves. As a result, before they could speak, the thieves suddenly kowtowed to them in unison, and one of them said to Qian Yuanshan: "My brothers and I had a deep grudge with the 'Five Tiger Village' at the beginning, and the night before yesterday attacked the 'Flying Dragon Village' camp, and the leaders and the brothers of the 'Flying Dragon Village' Liang Zi are considered to be deep. Today, since it is in the hands of the leaders, I know that I will not escape death. Originally, we shouldn't have asked for anything, but just now when we saw that the head of the money let go of the wife and children of the white family, we knew that the head of the money and all the leaders were all benevolent and righteous people and would not kill innocents indiscriminately. Therefore, I dare to ask all the leaders here to be merciful, so that I can spare our wives and children in the same way, and give them a way to live. After speaking, several thieves kowtowed to Qian Yuanshan and the others.

Seeing these thieves who refused to give in at all just now, in order to fight for a way to live for their wives and children, they pleaded with themselves in such a low voice. Qian Yuanshan and the others lamented that no matter how vicious a person is, he also has his human side, and at the same time, they despise Bai Fei, who only knows how to beg for mercy for himself, but does not mention his wife and children.

Originally, Qian Yuanshan and the others didn't think of killing these old and weak women and children, and just now they even let go of the wife and children of the first evil Bai Fei, so naturally they would not be embarrassed by other women and children. Therefore, Qian Yuanshan agreed to the request of several thieves, and asked the soldiers to release the other women and children, and gave some soft money for the journey.

Those women and children naturally knew that their husbands (fathers) were about to be killed at this time, so they had to cry and cry, and a few women also begged Qian Yuanshan and others bitterly, hoping to spare their husbands. But no matter how they pleaded, they couldn't change the fate of their husbands. No matter how sympathetic Qian Yuanshan and the others are, it is impossible to let go of these heinous thieves. Therefore, after crying and begging for a while, those women were forcibly dragged away by Qian Yuanshan's order and driven away from afar.

Although he couldn't spare these thieves, Qian Yuanshan saw that several of them were quite backbone and affectionate, so he still became a good person, and did not behead them like Bai Fei, but gave them a knife one by one, so that they could cut off themselves, and it was good to end up with a whole corpse. Those thieves were indeed pure masters, took the knife and thanked Qian Yuanshan and the others, and wiped their necks themselves.

After solving the thief leader, Tang Chao pointed to the captives not far away, and asked Qian Yuanshan: "Brother Eleven, everyone in charge has been retributed, what should those little minions do?" Did you bring it back to the 'Flying Dragon Village', or did it click on the spot? ”

Qian Yuanshan glanced at the captives, shook his head, and said softly to Tang Chao: "It's not as good now as it was then. When we first arrived, we made some money by selling glasses, and in order to protect ourselves and this first pot of gold, we had to manage to subdue the 'Five Tiger Village', and established the 'Flying Dragon Pioneer Camp'. In order to transform those thieves who rob homes and houses into soldiers who can be used by us and do nothing to the people, we don't know how much energy and effort have been expended. ,

Now it is different, now we have a lot of resources in our hands, and there are thousands of young and strong men who do things for us and obey our management. These young and strong soldiers do not have the bad habits of the original 'Five Tiger Village' minions, and they are easier to control and manage, and they are the best source of soldiers. With them here, why should we ask ourselves to take these bandits? ”

Tang Chao nodded when he heard this, and said, "Then what does Brother Eleven mean, is he going to click these captives?" ”

Qian Yuanshan shook his head again and said, "Now that they have surrendered, we naturally can't kill them for no reason." The phrase 'ominous killing prisoners' is shared by most people, both in this era and in the time and space before us. Therefore, in my opinion, we should hand over these captives to Qiulinzhuang and other villages around Baihuazhai that have suffered greatly, and let the people in these villages decide the fate of these people. In this way, it not only embodies our purpose of 'eliminating harm for the people' and 'doing the right thing for heaven', but also avoids the drawbacks mentioned above, isn't it a double win? ”

Tang Chao thought deeply of Qian Yuanshan's proposal and agreed again and again. Not only him, but Zeng Zhilin, Mutel, and even the Yan brothers also raised their hands in favor of this. Especially the brothers of the Yan family, because they had promised the people of Zhuangzhong before they came that they would definitely kill all the bandits who had plagued them, so they had a hundred supports for Qian Yuanshan's proposal.

Once the prisoners are dealt with, the next step is to think about how to deal with the cottage in front of you. Although Qian Yuanshan and other travelers felt that the "Huguo Xianguang Temple" was built very well, it would be a pity if it was destroyed. But in order to prevent future troubles, everyone still decided to burn the "Baihua Village" so that it would no longer be used by other bandits.

Therefore, after having a late lunch and withdrawing all the soldiers in charge of searching in the village, under the order of Qian Yuanshan, dozens of soldiers first poured all kinds of grease collected from the village on all the houses in the "Baihua Village", and then threw countless torches into the village. In the blink of an eye, raging flames were lit everywhere in the "Baihua Village", and the rising smoke enveloped the entire village.

At this time, in addition to a squad of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" and thirty Zhuang Ding of Qiulin Village, who were responsible for monitoring the fire and preventing it from spreading excessively, other soldiers and Zhuang Ding lined up in a neat queue and left the "Baihua Village" against the backdrop of the blazing fire, and walked in the direction of Qiulin Village.

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