31. Take the lead
Du Cheng is a very shrewd person, and he also knows the official army very well.
From the beginning of entering the city, they were given only a few hours, and if they were delayed, it would be troublesome for the officers and soldiers to come.
With his knowledge of the government, at least the news will not reach the government until dawn, and the state will report that there will be no orders before noon tomorrow, and he still has time to flee to the sea.
He stood in front of the county yamen and kept scolding his subordinates, hurry up, hurry up, if you wait for the official army to come, there will be no fart.
He looked at Jiang Dazui, and always felt that something was wrong.
"Big mouth, you come," Du Cheng beckoned Big Mouth.
"Big boss, you say," Big Mouth heard the greeting and hurried over, but he was not injured, and had been watching things.
"Big mouth, big brother wants to thank you, if it wasn't for you to find out the news, we wouldn't have gone so smoothly."
"But the eldest brother is still a little worried in his heart, Guangling is still too close to the Jiangkou, you are familiar with that side, can you please go over there to explore the way."
Jiang Dazui didn't even dare to say it, and he patted his chest very moved and assured Du Cheng that as long as he had his own breath, he would definitely ensure the safety of his eldest brother, and he also volunteered to take someone to the front to inquire about the news.
"Big mouth, my brother remembers your kindness, I saved my brother's life, and my brother will remember it for the rest of his life."
"Big brother, don't worry, I'll take my dozens of brothers and leave immediately."
"Big mouth, don't, if you can help my brother, I'm very happy, how can I let you be in danger, I'll give you three hundred brothers, you go from the mouth of the river to the riverside, as long as there are no officers and soldiers, you can rest over there."
Seeing that Dazui was heading towards Jiangkou with more than 300 people, Du Chengcai was a little relieved.
If you want to go back to the sea, Dajiang is the only way, and docks can be found in Guangling, Jiangkou and even Tonghai downstream.
It is said that Guangling is the most suitable here, but Du Cheng knows that the truth of the three caves of the cunning rabbit is to leave a back hand for himself at any time, in case of a problem, there is a way out, Jiang Dazui is.
He believed that the news of the attack on Guangling must have spread, and if there were officers and troops coming down from the river now, the Guangling wharf would be very dangerous, and if we wanted to go smoothly, we had to think clearly.
It has been two days since General Luo arrived in Dapu, and they have been completely hidden for the past two days, not to mention the county government, and even the surrounding people rarely know about it.
After a heavy rain today, General Luo's heart relaxed a little after two days, and he also thought the same way, such a heavy rain bandit should not come.
Although he still let his subordinates rest, but according to the habit of soldiers, he left a squad at the door of the barracks, and lined up more than a dozen people to patrol outside the barracks.
The guards are not comparable to the guards and militias, and they are very attentive to the safety of the barracks.
Just after midnight, Luo Shen was woken up by his men.
The guards outside caught two deserters, and they knew that it was the soldiers guarding the city in Guangling who took advantage of the chaos to escape.
Luo Shenjiang's sleepiness disappeared all of a sudden, how is this possible?
Luo Shen will pace back and forth in the room anxiously, thinking of coping strategies.
It is unrealistic to go to Guangling, the city will be broken when the soldiers escape, and there is no point in going again.
He remembered General Chen's arrangement, and now the key is to trap these bandits on land, as long as they don't enter the sea, sooner or later they will die.
Guangling enters the river, two roads, one is the side of the river mouth, the other is the side of the sea, as long as they go out a few miles in front of them, blocked on the official road, the bandits have nowhere to go.
By the way, there is also Tonghai, so we must quickly send someone over there to deliver the letter.
It's such a coincidence, when General Luo Shen and his people just arrived near the official road, they didn't even prepare.
More than 300 people led by Jiang Dazui collided head-on.
In such a face-to-face battle, neither side took advantage.
General Luo has 2,000 people in his hands, and Jiang Dazui has only more than 300, almost five dozen one, but he is still not optimistic.
In the muddy water on rainy days, the officers and men suffered more losses, but the pirates were more accustomed to it, and in addition, the pirates were originally strong in individual combat, and as soon as the two sides started fighting, the casualties of the officers and men rose sharply.
General Luo Shen secretly complained, he was afraid of whatever he was afraid of, it was dark, it was raining, and he couldn't even arrange the formation.
If you fight it, you are not afraid, but you are afraid that it will be exhausted, and if there are pirates in the back, it will also be troublesome.
But what can you do if you don't fight now, as soon as you withdraw, the morale of the army will be scattered.
General Luo was also a ruthless man, and he went up with a hundred of his own personal guards.
He is very smart, and as he advances, he constantly attacks the bandits who are alone, and then gathers his men little by little.
At first, it looked inconspicuous, but after half an hour, Jiang Dazui saw the problem.
There are almost 300 people gathered around General Luo, and they are still robbing and killing pirates everywhere.
Jiang Dazui saw that the situation was not right, and there might be trouble if he continued to fight, and he was a pathfinder, and he couldn't lose his life.
As soon as the horn sounded, Jiang Dazui quickly fled back with the rest of the people.
Luo Shen General has no intention of chasing at all, how to chase this, to catch up loosely is to find death.
General Luo Shen really didn't know where these bandits came from, and he didn't think about how this group of bandits got here, so he made it clear that the road here could not be placed.
He felt in his heart that the most likely thing was that the pirates from Guangling were here to explore the way, thinking that they would go back directly.
He was right, Jiang Dazui came to explore the way, and it was because of this that he encountered the immortal battle of officers and soldiers.
But he also thought wrong, Jiang Dazui is more familiar with this side, since Dapu can't go here, then take another way, his next target is Fanjiazhuang.
At this point, Luo Shenjiang is really negligent.
Fan Rong, the eldest young master of the Fan family, belongs to the lighter sleeper, he sleeps less when he is older, and he has a good habit, the lunch break is thunderous, one or two quarters of an hour at noon every day, and at night it is simply a half-hour book or current account, and he rests directly.
More than two hours after Guangling was attacked, he was woken up by his family, and the bandits entered Guangling, and some people ran out.
The old man went to Yangzhou, and he was in charge of the family, and when he heard the news of the pirate attack, he didn't panic too much, and he was still prepared for this.
He asked the whole family to wake up, and all the old and weak women, children, and children all hid in Lushan.
Fortunately, the Fan family dug a few big caves in Lushan, and prepared a lot of emergency supplies, otherwise these old and weak women and children would not be able to stand such a strong wind and rain.
However, this has been a habit formed for decades, and it is not the first time that Fanjiazhuang has encountered problems.
Then, he arranged all the family members in the family, the first family in Jiangkou is not talking about playing, there are 300 young and strong family members alone, guarding the village and guarding the town.
In fact, there is no need for Uncle Fan to shout, the elders of several families in the entire Fan family village have come to the Fan family, and without the protection of the Fan family, the other families can only be slaughtered in the face of the bandits.
"Now the bandits are rampant, and it looks like a big disaster, I don't know how Uncle Fan is going to deal with it, as long as we can use a few of us, Uncle Qing Fan will arrange it." A few people are not verbose, but now it is a matter of life and death.
"Don't worry, I think my Fanjiazhuang was originally built along the mountain, and there are paddy fields outside the village, even if the bandits come to attack, there is no equipment, as long as the young and strong people on the Zhuangzi are gathered and the bandits are not allowed to enter the village, there is no big problem."
Fan Rong comforted them, "Although the bandits are coming now, the main thing is to fight the county government, there is no intention of running here at present, and there is still time to make arrangements, we mainly prevent the bandits from coming back here." ”
"Of course, let's say one thing here, no one is afraid of danger, especially those who collude with pirates, my Fan family promises that as long as I die in the battle in the protection of the village, my Fan family is responsible for their family." Uncle Fan shouted a word of encouragement again.
Fanjiazhuang is a large village and town with thousands of people, except for the Fan family's own family, other families can also make up hundreds of people, at least a thousand young and middle-aged people, and then organize it, it is really difficult for ordinary bandits to break in.
The worship leader surnamed Lu arranged by the Fan family is responsible for the protection of Fanjiazhuang this time.
Lu Fengfeng is a native of Hangzhou, since he was a child in Yandang Mountain to learn from the Taoist heirloom Yunzhonghe, skilled, good at using knives, the original set of ghost hand seven knives, the people in the rivers and lakes called the ghost hand knife, usually many people call Lu Qiye.
Although Lu Qiye was born in the rivers and lakes and didn't know much about marching and fighting, he was familiar with how to defend his home and nursing home, so he summoned all the families who could fight and arranged them on the edge of Zhuangwei according to the region.
Especially the Zhuangmen, he didn't do any protection at all, and directly transported several truckloads of stones and clods, and sealed the back of the Zhuangmen.
The clan elders don't care what he does, what is there to block the door, and reopen it after the big deal is, the most important thing at the moment is to be foolproof.
Lu Qiye has studied the topography of Fanjiazhuang, the pirates are attacking head-on, the one-zhang high polder wall, it is impossible to climb up, follow the ladder, as long as there are people on the polder wall with knives to guard, it is difficult for the pirates to come in.
Now the pirates are attacking in the dark again, they don't have the kind of equipment of the official army, they don't have time to make siege equipment, and they don't have bows and arrows, both sides are facing the enemy head-on, and the pirates don't have several times the strength of the bandits, so they can't enter at all.
But he still kept an eye on it, and put twenty family members by the water gate on the side of the mountain behind Fanjiazhuang, which was a hidden door, invisible from the outside, and in case of an emergency, at least a few key people from the Fan family could be sent out.
The Fan family had just finished making preparations, and the people led by Jiang Dazui were directly killed.
Lu Qiye thought wrongly, the pirates who couldn't even stop the county seat, where could the polder wall of Fanjiazhuang stop it, and after a while, Zhuangzi broke, and the pirates swarmed in all of a sudden.
The advantage now is that during the day, the Fan family also has manpower, a high-walled compound, and a few offerings with outstanding martial arts, the Fan family will be fine for a while.
But the people in Zhuangzi suffered, although a large part of them ran to the mountains, but there were still many who did not have time to leave, not only were their belongings robbed, but many people lost their lives.
Fortunately, it was Jiang Dazui, these bandits, the most important thing was to rob the boat and the dock, so some of them were killed directly on the dock.
This is also what Du Cheng told several times, he must prepare the ship before tonight, and take advantage of the darkness to withdraw to the sea.
Jiang Dazui controlled several big boats, and immediately asked people to go halfway to inform the big boss that Fanjiazhuang could go here.