30. Chasing the poor

Looking at the less than four hundred men who had withdrawn, he called several of the bandit leaders aside and rearranged them according to his plan.

The county seat can't fight, and the agreed meeting point can't go, so the hundreds of people directly grab something in the side village.

The reason why Yokoi Ichiro is stupid is because he not only can't see the form clearly, but also has bad luck.

When General Liu arrived in Nanmo Town, he has been paying attention to the situation in Fu'an and Tonghai.

The officers of these guards in Yangzhou are really a little different from ordinary guards, most of them were born in the Huai army, and they are the descendants of the Huai king, and they are all promoted from some middle and grass-roots officers in the border army who have experienced a hundred battles.

It is no exaggeration to say that if other guards, such as Qingzhou, encounter a landing and robbery of pirates, they will be delayed by at least twice the speed of response.

There is also an allusion to be said here, the king of Huai defeated the thorn and returned victoriously, and there were less than 6,000 of the 20,000 Huai troops left.

Li Yan, the new general of Yulin, left 5,000 people as the seeds for the expansion of the Huai army, and the remaining 1,000 people were brought to Huaishang by the Huai king.

His plan was to organize the Huai army into three armies on the left, the center and the right, one army and three battalions, each battalion with 3,000 light cavalry, plus one thousand pro-troops from each general, to become a light cavalry assault army with 30,000, which was used as a charge at a critical moment.

I have to say that this proposal is beneficial to both the emperor and the king of Huai, the emperor will not care about the military power of the king of Huai, and these subordinates of the king of Huai have also been returned.

On this point, Li Yan, the general, was very competent, and later learned about it, and the king of Zhou Jun and the British prince also praised it.

General Liu also encountered an accident, and today's heavy rain made the two battalions suffer a lot.

They didn't go to Xinkou, where there were already two battalions of the garrison, and at that place in Xinkou, 2,000 men were already full, and they went again.

So at the beginning, General Liu didn't think about going to Xinkou, he chose a Nanmo that was closer to Fu'an and Tonghai, and it was more than 20 miles to Fu'an, and a little farther to Tonghai, more than 30 miles.

The place is good, a typical Jiangnan water town, a very beautiful and quiet small village. A small river runs through the middle of the village, and the stone road in the middle of the village exudes a strong smell of vicissitudes, and the small bridges span the river, which looks very chic.

There is one point, the village is not big, less than 100 households, and these 2,000 people poured in at once, and they could not be accommodated at all.

Liu Shenjiang has been in Hu Tianye, and he has seen too much about the harsh environment, and he knows that now is a temporary transition, and it will be good to do it for a while.

There was a little cleverness in the village, and he directly vacated the private school in the village, and took advantage of the fact that the barn in the village was now empty, and all of them were vacated to the officials and soldiers.

In the end, he cleaned up a large house that did not live in the local area, and let General Liu Shen live in with his personal guards.

Don't say it, it's really all settled, it's summer now, there are not so many burdens, there is food and sleep, it's good.

It's just that I didn't expect that this heavy rain would be so fierce, and the barn would be fine, because it was about to be harvested, and it had just been renovated, and many places in the private school and the big mansion were leaking, and thousands of officers and soldiers were tossed up in the middle of the night.

General Liu was just about to send someone to find something to see if he could cover some rain, but the wind blew and the rain was heavy.

After being busy for more than an hour, I finally didn't have to sleep in the muddy water, and thousands of people also lay down, so they leaned together in twos and threes, and slept until dawn in a daze.

The people in the village still know the stakes, and they are ready to early in the morning, and General Liu is embarrassed.

They had come out with dry food, but who wouldn't want to eat something hot.

A short time after eating, a sentry ran in to report it.

"My lord, there are a lot of people coming from the south entrance of the village, all of them are scattered, pushing carts, not like our officers and soldiers, but with guys in their hands."

No matter where General Liu goes, the habits of the border army cannot be shaken, and people must be sent to guard around the garrison, even in the hinterland of Huaishang.

General Liu was also taken aback, in such weather, shouldn't it, where did the bandits come from at this time, did they rob it?

There was no time to hesitate, he hurried to arrange it, and the credit he sent was also a credit.

The nearly 100 pirates who ran in front did not expect that there would be officers and soldiers in this village, and rushed in along the stone road at the entrance of the village.

If you want to say that the small village in the south of the Yangtze River is not good, there are also that, although it is built along the river, there is also a section of brick wall at the entrance of the village, plus a gate tower and two gates.

Where can this withstand the impact of the pirates, it crashed away in two hits.

These bandits broke in and were ready to break into the villagers' houses, but who knew that General Liu had secretly ambushed hundreds of people next to the villagers' houses.

Dozens of pirates didn't have any defense at all, so they went directly to their grandmother's house, and the rest of them were a little smarter, and when they found that something was wrong, they turned around and ran.

General Liu not only arranged people here, but also scattered people throughout the village.

The training of the Yangzhou Guards is real, and in the face of these bandits, they also have their own tricks, several people fight one, and no accidents can happen.

As soon as something happened here, the Black Dragon King behind knew about it, and he couldn't figure out where the officers and soldiers came from.

On this one road, we can only rush upwards with a hard head, and anyway, according to the original fighting method, the officers and men will not be beaten at all, and they will collapse all at once.

But he didn't expect that even his more than 500 people gathered together, and he didn't resist the hundreds of people who were chasing.

The Black Dragon King must be glad that General Liu did not arrange all his troops here, otherwise, he would have been surrounded and annihilated.

The entire south gate is a guerrilla belt of 500 people, chasing the pirates and rushing out.

And just when General Liu was about to transfer the people in front of him to encircle and suppress the Black Dragon King, at the entrance of the village in the north, the people led by Qingyu also fled here.

Looking at the torches in the village and hearing the sound of fighting, the Black Dragon King didn't know that this place was blocked by officers and soldiers. Now it can only rush, no matter who the other side is, the key is convergence.

Not to mention, although there are 2,000 people in General Liu, most of them are still in the village, and the Black Dragon King here did not enter the village at all, and rushed down directly along the official road at the edge of the village, and successfully joined the herring fish.

Half an hour later, General Liu looked at the corpses of the bandits that had been collected, eighty-seven.

It's okay, it's just a pity, if you don't put the main forces in the village and set a trap at the beginning, then it's more than that, and it's possible to slaughter all these bandits.

Of course, these exploits were also exchanged for the lives of officers and men, and the guards killed 65 people on the spot and suffered more than 200 casualties.

General Liu knew that the reason why the bandits died so much in battle was because those who were injured and couldn't run were all killed, and there was no room for survival.

It can be said that it is not a geographical advantage, one-on-one, the officers and men have no great chance at all, and it is inevitable that the bandits will be able to escape.

Later, General Chen did not reprimand them, and the combat strength of the officers and soldiers at night was not good, and it was in such a harsh environment.

They are not like pirates, they can have no scruples, the safety of hundreds of people in the village is also their top priority, in such a melee, not a single citizen is killed or injured, and there is no loss of property, which is their greatest credit.

At present, General Liu still has more than 1,000 capable of fighting, and he did not rashly pursue them, first, he could not find out the details of the bandits, second, he did not dare to rashly disperse his troops, and third, he really could not ignore the people here.

However, now a decision needs to be made, first of all, we must chase the fleeing pirates, and we must not let this gang of pirates continue to burn and loot.

General Liu quickly assigned the task, gathered more than 1,000 people with good physical strength, and led the chasing bandits himself, and the rest of the people transported all the dead and wounded officers and soldiers and the corpses of the bandits to Shuyang Mansion.

Nan Mo escaped the catastrophe, but the people of some villages were not so lucky.

A few of the Black Dragon King's subordinates are gangsters who go out on this side of Tonghai, and they are more familiar with Tonghai, and they also know that the rivers here are vertical and horizontal, and most of the villages and towns have direct channels to the big river, among which the larger wharf is Yongfeng Wharf, and this Yongfeng Wharf is less than five miles away from Jijiazhuang.

From Nanmo to Yongfeng, several large villages near the official road were troubled by the bandits.

Since the beginning of their landing, these bandits have not had a smooth journey, and they have not grabbed any property in successive battles, and they have lost a lot of heads. The water and rice have not run out since last night, but fortunately it rained and there was still some water to drink, otherwise this gang of bandits would have collapsed long ago.

Now that they finally have the opportunity to rob, these pirates have done all the evil things they can, especially those damned dwarves, who are even worse than the pirates......

(Omitted here, I don't want to write too much)

In less than two hours, the officers and soldiers arrived, and when they saw the tragic situation in the first village, General Liu Shen regretted it.

He shouldn't have let these pirates escape, didn't he become an accomplice!

Not only him, but even the officers and soldiers of the guard were angry, they were all from their hometown, and they were slaughtered by bandits, where are they afraid of words, this is to slap themselves in the face.

Looking at the expressionless faces of the individual who had managed to survive, the officers and soldiers began to fight desperately.

The distance between the first village was almost two hours, and by the time they reached the third village, it was less than an hour, and the officers and men even ate lunch on foot, so they held their breath and could not let these beasts escape.

When it was just getting dark, the officers and soldiers chased after a village, found that the pirates had just left, and caught two pirates who had not had time to escape.

Interrogation, sure enough, the pirates had just walked less than a quarter of an hour, and they also learned one thing from the pirates' mouths, the pursuit of the guards still played a very positive role, and the further back the village, the shorter the time for the pirates to rob, and sometimes they didn't even have time to kill, and they ran away after grabbing things.

This somewhat relieved the officers and men of the guards, and it seemed that they would have to run faster and chase a little tighter. General Liu looked at the officers and soldiers with high morale, but still did not catch up directly, first let everyone rest on the spot, eat some dry food, drink some water, and recover their physical strength before they could fight.