"Boss, let's come down," said a thin yellow-faced man to a tall black man in the midst of a reed swing by the Xiejiang River in Anren County.

The black man's name is Qin An, and the yellow-faced man's name is Jiang Bao, before Liu Heima invaded Chengdu, the two were the blacksmith and the teacher in Anren City, and now they are the big boss and the second leader of a group of bandits, and the bandits' den is in a swamp a few miles outside the city.

This swampy area by the Xiejiang River is a few miles in circumference, overgrown with all kinds of aquatic plants and reeds, and it is a good place to hide in the open plain, and over time it gathers the remaining refugees of the Mongols, at most there are more than 200 people.

After a battle between the weak and the strong, Qin An became the big boss with his strength, and Jiang Bao became the second boss with his strategy.

Anren was a small city that was not taken seriously by the Mongols, and only sent a cavalry squad of fifty men and two hundred new annexes to guard it.

For Qin An's gang of bandits, Anren's Mongolian army also tried to surrender, but Qin An, Jiang Bao and others were all ruined because of the burning and looting of the Mongols, where would they surrender.

Seeing that the soft could not be done, the Mongol army came with bows and arrows and sabers

"Persuade". It's just that the Mongolian army has no naval army, and the terrain in the swamp is complicated, as soon as it enters the reeds, it is attacked by harpoons and short spears, but it suffers a lot of losses.

The Mongolian army in Anren City invited the Mongolian army from neighboring Yizheng County to come and attack together, but before the reinforcements came, Qin An's gang had already fled without a trace.

The swamp is connected to the Xiejiang River and many other small rivers, and it is easy to escape by boat. With fishing and aquatic plants such as rice, taro, and lotus root planted in the depths of the swamp, plus robbery, Qin An's gang of bandits lived well.

When the secret man attacked Hengyuan Fort in the fire, a large number of Mongolian troops were transferred from various prefectures and counties in western Sichuan, and the small city of Anren County was basically evacuated, leaving only 50 new annexed troops to defend the city.

Taking advantage of the emptiness of the Mongolian army, they even lured the fifty new annexed troops out of the city according to Jiang Bao's strategy, and took the opportunity to rob Anren City, robbing a lot of things, and even weapons such as knives, guns, bows and shields.

After the battle of Hengyuan Fort, the cavalry of the nearby Mongolian army and the elite of the new annexed army withdrew to Chengdu and Qiongzhou, although Jiang Bao did not know the reason, but also knew that the situation had changed, so he offered a bold plan to Qin An - to recruit the new annexed army to capture Anren City.

At this time, the people in Anren City were panicked, and a large amount of grain was transported away by the Mongolian army, and Qin An and his gang robbed the little food left, and there was a shortage of food in the city, and even the fifty new attached troops were so hungry that they were yellow and thin, not to mention the people in the city.

Therefore, Jiang Bao contacted Chengzhong, and the new attached army actually agreed. This made Qin An'an Zhongle blossom, and he couldn't imagine that he who was originally striking iron would actually become the lord of a city, and he trusted Jiang Bao even more.

At that moment, he listened to Jiang Bao's advice, and after preparing to enter the city, he no longer robbed, but persuaded the farmers to protect the territory and the people.

Of course, the first thing to do after entering the city is to prepare for the autumn harvest. The vast expanse of rice outside the city will be harvested in a few more days.

A fleet of ships tracing the Xiejiang River north woke up the sweet dream of Qin An and his gang. This Thunderbolt army's fleet has more than 20 large ships and more than 10 small ships, which is not at all something that Qin An and his gang can fight against.

After the flotilla came down and a few people shouted outside Anren, the gates were opened, and the new annexes in the city were apparently more willing to surrender to the Thunderbolts.

Another group of men and horses came down from the ship and took over the city, and the fleet headed for Dayi City upstream. Although Anren and Dayi are both counties of Qiongzhou, they are far less important than the latter, and the goal of the fleet is obviously Dayi City.

Seeing that the cooked duck was taken away by someone else, this made Qin An's nose crooked. Carried away by anger, he immediately ignored Qin An's dissuasion, and summoned all his men to attack Anren City, wanting to take back what should have belonged to him.

When the fleet docked in Anren City, Qin An, who was hiding on the side, could clearly see that there were less than fifty people ashore, and there were already one hundred and seventy people under him.

As for those new annexes, Qin An believed that they would not help the newcomers. Of course, Qin An believed that even if the outsiders added these new annexes who were too hungry to hold weapons, he would have the ability to capture Anren City.

The bandits' aggressive offensive came to an abrupt halt with a few cannon shots. In fact, Qin An's judgment was correct, there were only more than 30 people who took over Anren City, they were a platoon of the Perak Army and a few soldiers from the Guizheng Battalion - they were here to persuade them to surrender.

Moreover, as he expected, the fifty new annexes of Anren City did not assist in defending the city—the Thunderbolts thought they were in the way of the city, but only let them maintain law and order in the city to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the fire to loot.

What was beyond Qin An's imagination was the strength of the defenders, even far superior to the Mongols. He imagined that the rammed earth walls of Anren City were low, and the number of his men was several times that of the defenders, and the siege should be carried out in one go, but he was frightened in one round, and fled completely in an instant.

In the eyes of the Thunderbolt army defending the city, these rabble actually resisted two rounds of artillery bombardment before escaping, which is also a bit tough.

In fact, the Thunderbolt army defending the city looked down on these bandits, and this time there were only two light mother and child cannons in the city, and the first round of shelling was only a test shot, and it did not hit a few people at all.

These bandits had no idea the power of the artillery, and the sound of the cannon was like the sound of firecrackers during the Spring Festival.

When the second round of shelling beat the people who rushed to the front to a bloody belly, they knew that something was wrong, and they turned around and fled, and they also caught Qin An and Jiang Bao, who were behind them.

Back in the swamp bandits' den, Qin An found that there were many fewer people coming back, so he asked Jiang Bao to count the number of people.

After a while, Jiang Bao replied to him with a dark face, saying that there were only about one hundred and ten people now. In fact, the Thunderbolt Army's second round of four shells only killed and wounded more than a dozen people, and the reason why there were fewer people who returned to the bandits' den was because the casualties brought by this artillery were really shocking.

These bandits were originally illiterate farmers, fishermen, and small craftsmen, and were extremely superstitious about ghosts and gods, and Jiang Bao often exaggerated the myths of ghosts, gods, and Buddhism to control these people.

Superstitious belief in gods and Buddhas is a double-edged sword, which is conducive to controlling the mind but is easy to be counterattacked. After the rise of the Thunderbolts, its

The saying that "thunderbolts fall from the sky, subjugate demons and eliminate demons" slowly spread among the people of western Sichuan along with his achievements. Some of the bandits who saw the power of artillery surrendered directly, some were so frightened that they could not afford to be captured by the pursuing army, and some knew that their sins would not be tolerated by the Perak army, so they fled directly to Meizhou, Yazhou and other areas outside the jurisdiction of the Perak army.

After waking up from the sweet dream of the Lord of a City, Qin An had no choice but to honestly continue to be a bandit in the swamp.

I knew that as soon as the Thunderbolt Army came, I would not be able to live in peace as a bandit. Before the autumn harvest, the Perak ships brought in a large number of refugees, repaired the city, harvested rice everywhere, and even built a cantonment point next to the swamp.

This reclamation point was protected by low earthen walls and trenches, and Qin An and his gang suffered great losses under the spears and grenades when they went to sneak attack several times.

If it is said that the cantonment point is just a reclamation point, what is even worse is that the Thunderbolt army has transferred ships to block the entrance and exit of the swamp, and even the small rivers in and out of the swamp are patrolled by small boats.

It is said that the swamp is not enough to sustain life, and it cannot be looted under the blockade, and even the autumn harvest does not receive much rice, and the amount of fish caught has been greatly reduced.

Therefore, not long after, Qin An and his gang mixed wild vegetables with grain, and they could only mix more than half full. The hungry bandits slipped away to a settlement on the edge of the swamp.

After the establishment of this cantonment site, refugees were recruited everywhere to reclaim the wasteland, and it was said that as long as they were willing to work hard, they would be able to eat enough, which attracted many of Qin An's subordinates to take the risk of disguising themselves as homeless people, and the Perak army would screen those who came and punish them with hard labor according to their crimes.