Stove households, too, want to farm!

It's just that the land near the salt field will have the problem of salinization to some extent.

They don't have a lot of yields, which is a bad thing and a good thing at the same time. The big landlords don't look down on it, and the land is not serious, so there are many yeoman farmers among the stove households.

When the salt army surrendered, the officials of Datong swarmed away and divided the fields according to the principle of proximity.

The saline-alkali land belongs to the lower field, and one person can divide it into 20 acres, and it is purely reaped by extensive planting and thin harvest when cultivating.

The year-long war here has reduced the population of the counties, and the land is not very tight.

But they couldn't get any land, so they migrated further north.

The further north you go, the sparsely populated it becomes!

In the future, those stove households will work part-time and work in salt factories to subsidize their families. If you really don't want to boil salt, and you don't have enough to eat in farming, then go to the county seat to wander, or simply go to sea with the boat.

Shanghai had already opened its port, and due to the general division of land in the south, the wages of maritime merchants to recruit sailors were very high.

In particular, the sand people in the Yangtze River Delta, even if their families have land and property, are willing to enlist in the navy or apply for sailors.

Those sand people, one is more afraid of death than the other, and they are more fierce than the fishermen in Guangzhou.

At the mouth of the Yangtze River, the river rushes out of large and small sandbanks. Chongming Island, for example, is now three sandbanks, and part of the area has been reclaimed as farmland.

Some people went to the sandbar to cultivate the land, which was very salinized, and the harvest was not high, and they had to take great risks. They joined forces to fight against the government, to prevent large households from grabbing familiar land, and they could be transferred to water bandits at any time.

These people are the sand people!

Zhao Han's newly built Shanghai Navy unit is dominated by the Yangtze River sand people, and more than eighty percent of them have a history of water banditry.

Anyway, the stove households divided the fields and compiled them into civil registration, so that they could obtain personal freedom, and they would not be subject to too much restriction on the salt factory.

The lease of the land for the salt factory for a period of 30 years is also the result of long-term negotiations.

If the lease period is too short, the salt factory owner will only choose to make quick money and frantically exploit the salt cooks, let alone think about improving the salt production process. And every time the lease license is renewed, it will attract a crazy robbery, which will only exacerbate corruption.

The 30-year license is only a sharp sword in the hands of the government, and most salt factories can be renewed when they expire.

The production, transportation and sale of salt are completely separate, and the merchants themselves will establish the relevant ecology.

The Shanshan Merchant Gang suffered heavy losses this time, did not get a single license, and almost withdrew from the salt merchant stage. Who told them not to join Zhao Han in advance?

Fei Ruhe's strategic goal was to occupy Huai'an, and then besiege the Yan Army with Zhang Tieniu.

Since the Salt Army surrendered, then change the combat objectives.

Zhang Tieniu's army dispersed to suppress bandits, and many small groups of salt troops were still resisting.

Fei Ruhe crossed the Huai River and took the entire Huai'an Prefecture together, which was equivalent to capturing the entire area near the sea in northern Jiangsu.

Huai'an Mansion City doesn't need to fight at all, this is Xu Ying's base camp!

However, Li Zheng and Xiao Zongxian encountered fierce resistance along the way.

……

"This guy is crazy, isn't he? He was unwilling to surrender. Li Zheng was quite surprised.

Xiao Zongxian said with a smile: "Others have an army of 200,000, but we only have 7,500 regular soldiers, and there are less than 10,000 people, so naturally we are not willing to surrender easily." ”

They are talking about Gu Zongrong, a little-known figure.

The Cao army and Cao people along the Grand Canal revolted, and all the righteous armies were exterminated, but Gu Zongrong continued to grow. And he also has a territory in Shandong, entrenched in Xuzhou and Yanzhou, and has fought back and forth with Zuo Liangyu.

This guy had 200,000 troops, known as 800,000, and resolutely refused to surrender to the Datong army.

However, the officers and soldiers guarding the Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum were several thousand, and when they saw the Datong army, they immediately surrendered.

"Dashuai, Zhao Thief's soldiers are here!"

"Don't be afraid, follow me!"

Gu Zongrong not only dared to resist the Datong army, but also did not defend the city, and directly led more than 100,000 people to kill.

These rebel troops all wore red scarves on their heads.

Among them was a force of thousands of men, dressed in bells and whistles. There are many monks in the army, who are not Buddhas or Taoists, but like Buddhas and Taoists, holding magic weapons in their hands and pretending to be ghosts.

Zheng Pan, the missionary beside Li Zheng, held up a clairvoyant mirror and exclaimed: "These are White Lotus disciples!" ”

Xu Ying's news has obviously lagged behind, and Shandong Caojun has already merged with the White Lotus Sect. Xu Ying knew that there was a White Lotus Sect in Yanzhou, but she didn't know the leader of the Cao Army, so she actually joined the sect and became the leader of the White Lotus Sect.

Moreover, it is also the convergence of the two branches of the White Lotus Sect to integrate the teachings of the Wuwei Sect and the Wenxiang Sect.

The thief leader Gu Zongrong claimed to be the reincarnation of "Zhongxing Fulie Emperor", which was originally the title of Xu Hongru. Xu Hongru had more than 2 million followers in Shandong, and his rebellion failed in the second year of the Apocalypse, and his subordinates were still rebelling until the Chongzhen period.

Another thief leader, Dong Zhanrong, claimed to be the "Yang Emperor Pole Buddha" who came into the world.

The cooperation between these two people, with Gu Zongrong as the main and Dong Zhanrong as the auxiliary, absorbed a large number of believers from the Wuwei Sect and the Wenxiang Sect.

The thieves under their command have twelve heavens, twelve Buddhas, and twelve stars, a total of thirty-six road leaders.

Originally, there was also a reincarnation of a "mixed yuan ancestor", but because he wanted to seize power, he was sent back to heaven some time ago to enjoy happiness.

Zhongxing Fulie Emperor Gu Zongrong and Yang Emperor Buddha Dong Zhanrong, each sitting in a 32-carrying sedan chair, led nearly 200,000 troops to set off.

Before and after their sedan chairs, there were women throwing flower petals all the way, and monks beating gongs and chanting mantras, and carrying dozens of flags of all sizes.

As for the soldiers of the White Lotus Sect, most of them were dressed in tatters, with spears, waist knives, hoes, clubs, shuttle darts, and flat poles...... There are all kinds of weapons.

"Stop!"

"Get off the sedan car!"

The sedan chair of the two stopped, thousands of people around them stopped in confusion, and more than 100,000 people farther away were still marching.

After tossing for a long time, the two wings of the army walked out of a mile, and the troops of nearly 200,000 people finally stopped.

The gods who were mixed in the army began to chant incantations and dance the gods, as if they were giving the soldiers the ability to be invulnerable, and they were saying that if they died in battle, they could enter the Elysian World.

Li Zheng used a clairvoyant mirror to see Zhile: "I haven't fought with the instructor yet, I should let General Fei come over." ”

Fei Ruhe has beaten the Esoteric Sect......

Xiao Zongxian said: "Let the artillery prepare and aim at the two sedan chairs." ”

Thirty-two sedan chairs, it is difficult not to attract attention, and it is still so obvious to be mixed in more than 100,000 or 200,000 people.

"Get up!"

The two large sedan chairs were lifted again, and the morale of the White Lotus cultists who were overwhelming all over the world became even higher after asking the gods.

Or rather, fanaticism!

However, the formation of the army can only be described as a mess.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Each division had 500 artillerymen, 20 men serving one gun, and a total of 25 field guns.

There are also new tricks for artillery shells, which fire ordinary ammunition at long distances, and chain and shotgun shells at medium and short distances.

The shells were fired, and they were just test shots.

The pro-soldiers of the two thieves were each hit by several cannons, and the nearest shell passed a few meters away from the sedan chair.

The Chinese army immediately became disorganized.

Zhongxing Fulie Emperor Gu Zongrong was taken aback, and hurriedly jumped down from the sedan chair, drew his sword and shouted: "Mixed Yuan Patriarch bless!" Kill! ”

Dong Zhanrong, the Yang Emperor Buddha, also jumped out of the sedan chair, holding a magic weapon and shouting: "I have cast a spell, and the enemy will die tragically within three quarters of an hour!" Kill me! ”

"Kill!"

Nearly 200,000 people, desperate to begin to charge.

The two sides were three miles apart, such a long distance, and by the time they arrived, they were probably exhausted and out of breath.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Twenty-five shells fell again on the Chinese troops of the two, plowing more than a dozen passages that were bloody and fleshy.

Some fled in terror, and many more were still charging, as if they could actually ascend to Elysium after death.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Another round of shelling, this time with chain shells.

Two solid shells, connected by chains. After discharge, the shell began to spin at high speed, and the thing had become an area of effect.

These disciples rushed so fast that the next round of artillery fire was fired, and they ran as fast as they could within a hundred paces.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

This time it's a shotgun launch, and it kills in a large area!

Countless disciples screamed and fell to the ground, and Gu Zongrong, the Emperor of Zhongxing Fulie, was also scratched on the arm while hiding in the crowd.

When he saw his own soldiers scattering and collapsing, he couldn't help but shout: "Kill the thief and demon, and ascend to bliss!" ”

But the momentum of the rout still couldn't be stopped, and Gu Zongrong could only ignore those personal soldiers and run to the team next door to continue the charge.

That's nearly 200,000 people, and there's no organization at all.

They can barely understand the flag order, and when they fight, they just bury their heads and rush forward. This caused a miraculous phenomenon, Gu Zongrong's handsome banners fell, and several units of the Chinese army were collapsing, but the troops on both wings were unaware of it, and continued to charge in a formation that was more scattered than the cavalry.

With such an outrageous religious army, it is easy to beat the master to death with indiscriminate punches.

"Circle Formation!"

Li Zheng shouted when he saw this.

Nearly 10,000 civilian, civilian, and artillery units were huddled in the center, and 4,000 melee soldiers were outside, forming a circle with the help of grain trucks.

Two thousand firecrackers, lined up in a line ahead.

"Release!"

In this case, they did not dare to shoot in turns, and all two thousand guns were fired.

After the shot, the firecrackers rushed back into the formation, temporarily converted into spearmen with bayonets, hiding behind the rattan players and waiting for the opportunity to stab.

The volley of firearms just now caused several more troops to collapse.

At this moment, the enemy army has probably broken and fled 20,000 or 30,000 people, and the remaining more than 100,000 are still charging, surrounding the circle formation of the Datong army.

There are many people and there is a bird for use.

On the periphery of the circle of the Datong Army, there were many grain trucks and baggage. Even if you can get over these burdens, there is still a long wolf whire. Even if you can rush through the wolf, there is still a spear array. Even if you rush through the spear formation, there are still the shields and waist knives of the rattan players, and the bayonets of the musketeers.

And those bandits, who can really engage in the battle, are only five or six thousand at most, and the remaining more than 100,000 are all blocked by their own people.

The bandits who rushed to the front finally climbed over the baggage obstacles, and in the blink of an eye, they were stabbed into a sieve by wolves and spears. Many of them woke up from their frenzy and turned and fled in fright, only to be blocked by friendly forces behind.

The bandits who were blocked from the periphery could only sleepwalk on the battlefield because they could not engage in battle. They rushed three miles, and their bodies were so weak that many of them sat down so tired that they even collapsed from the loss of fanaticism.

Until now, the Datong army has not suffered a single casualty, because no bandits have been able to break through the spear formation.

It's a pity that the cavalry of the Datong army is not enough, if it is accompanied by a cavalry. Killing from the outside at this moment can immediately collapse the entire army of more than 100,000 enemies.

The corpses around the circle piled up more and more, and even filled in the obstacles.

But the Datong army is fighting more and more easily, because the bandits engaged in the battle have collapsed and are fleeing in the opposite direction. More bandits squeezed in, inside and outside the bandits, their own people crowded their own people, which had already caused a stampede, and few people were fighting at all.

Xiao Zongxian said: "Remove the bayonet, load the ammunition, hide behind the shield and fire a salvo!" ”

"Bang bang bang!"

Two thousand firearms, only a few meters apart to shoot at the target, almost a circle of people fell.

The pressure from the outside squeezed in, squeezing down the bandits inside, and thousands of bandits were trampled to death by their own people. However, everything inside collapsed, and the howlers tried to escape, but the bandits outside did not know it.

In the crowd, the bandits who ran wildly for three miles and calmed down were so tired and weak that they were completely unconscious and squeezed around there.

Many people don't even know where the Datong army is, because there are heads in all directions.

Gu Zongrong and Dong Zhanrong, the two leaders of the emperor and the Buddha, were also squeezed into the crowd and unable to move.

Dong Zhanrong shouted: "I am the Yang Emperor Pole Buddha, don't squeeze anymore." Alas...... Yes! ”

The Yanghuang Pole Buddha accidentally fell to the ground, probably because he had not cultivated enough Buddhism, and was trampled to death by his own believers.

Finally, the outermost bandits felt bad, and more and more people fled in panic.

In the process of escaping, there was another stampede, and Gu Zongrong was tripped in a daze. This Zhongxing Fulie Emperor also followed in the footsteps of the Yang Emperor Pole Buddha, leaving countless footprints on his body.

"Doodoo Dot ~~~~~~"

The trumpet sounded, the Datong soldiers attacked, and even the people rushed out to help capture the prisoners.

"Ugh!"

A Datong soldier stepped on the corpse and accidentally broke his foot, becoming the only wounded on our side in the whole battle.