Chapter 028

"This year's drought has seriously reduced grain production, and there is no way to water the dry fields of the left thousand households, and at least seven or eight percent of the harvest will be reduced.

As soon as Qin Wu's words came out, all the bandits were silent.

At present, the disaster is serious, the life of the common people is not easy, and the life of being a bandit is also not good.

But the question is now? They ransacked many villages, but they did not find a few grains of food. If there is no food, no matter how much money they grab, it is useless, and the money cannot be used as food, and if the officers and soldiers surround the mountain, they can only guard a large pile of silver and drink the northwest wind.

If you want to live a good life for a few months, you still have to grab a lot of food.

And Cheng Shijie is frantically buying grain, tens of thousands of stone grain, enough for them to squander for two years!

Qin Wu's staff reminded Qin Wu again: "Big boss, could this be a trap?" ”

"Trap"

Qin Wu snorted and laughed: "Although our Zhejiang army is rotten, at least it can still fight, but Shandong has been peaceful for too long, and the Shandong army can no longer fight, and we haven't fought with Dengzhou Wei!" ”

"That is, there are only a thousand households, hanging alone in Ninghai Prefecture, and I heard that the city wall there has long been dilapidated......"

Speaking of the city wall of the Thousand Households, Xi Zuo hurriedly said: "The big boss, the new Thousand Households, has been repairing the city wall for more than a month, and now the city wall of the Thousand Households is not low!" ”

"So what, no matter how hard the turtle shell is, Lao Tzu will smash it to pieces with a hammer!"

The second leader of the Qin Five Division, the tall and mighty Liang Youcai said quite arrogantly.

"The officers and soldiers did not dare to go to war at all, if they went to war and did not work hard to make a move, they would be able to kill the officers and soldiers with 500 good men.

Because of the poor performance of the Dengzhou Guard, the Qin Five Divisions despised the Dengzhou Weizuo Thousand Households Incomparably Much, and the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers of the Guards was too scum, and it was a compliment to describe them as "the five scum of the war".

Qin Wu made up his mind and said: "We will hit the Thousand Households of Dengzhou Weizuo, grab a batch of grain, and then go back to Linglong Mountain!" ”

The leaders of the bandits said arrogantly: "Hit the Thousand Households of Dengzhou Weizuo and spend the Fat Year!" ”

"Let's go, grab food, grab money, grab girls!"

"Walk fast and eat meat, walk slow and only eat fart!"

Qin Wu is actually a smart person, and he knows very well the urine nature of Ming officials. If it was an ordinary peasant rebellion, they would immediately send troops to suppress it, because the peasant rebellion basically had no strength, did not understand military affairs, and the peasants were also timid, killing the leader, and the rest did not have to worry.

Qin Wu himself never rushed to the state and took the initiative to attack the county seat, so that the official government of Dengzhou Mansion, including Sun Yuanhua, who had more than 6,000 Western-style firearms troops, did not know about Qin Wu's existence.

Of course, either you really don't know, or you pretend not to know.

Qin Wu actually did not have more than 1,000 troops as claimed to the outside world, in fact, his troops included the rest of the Zhejiang army, the deserters of the Shanxi army, and the Shandong Xiangma. The division is divided into six parts, with more than 4,000 people.

This is actually not the most important thing, the most important thing is that he has a horse team, and once this horse team rushes into battle, the combat effectiveness is absolutely amazing.

Although the five Qin departments despised the Dengzhou Weizuo Thousand Households very much, they almost poured out, leaving only more than 500 old, weak, sick and disabled guards to guard the camp, more than 3,800 bandits, carrying more than 1,000 carts, and slaughtering the Dengzhou Weizuo Thousand Households.

From Linglong Cottage to Zuoqianhu, the distance is actually not close, more than 250 miles.

Thousands of bandits cried wolf-howling and picked up their various weapons, and marched in the direction of Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu in a chaotic manner. They were numerous and disorganized, looking like a group of displaced people crossing the border.

The five Qin troops dispatched, but the villages and towns along the way were frightened, and they reported to the Dengzhou capital city or the Dengzhou Wei Commander Si Yamen.

Soon, Jin Yousheng, the commander of Dengzhou Wei, received the news.

Jin Yousheng looked at the information and frowned.

In fact, Jin Yousheng is a very principled person, he has a close personal relationship with Geng Zhongming, but when Kong Youde's rebels attacked Dengzhou City, Geng Zhongming wanted to surrender the city, but Jin Yousheng was the most critical person.

According to the record of "Shandong Tongzhi", in the fifth year of Chongzhen, the rebel Kou Dengzhou besieged the city for seven days. The anti-Fu Sun Yuanhua sent Zhang Tao to attack him, and made Yousheng defend. At that time, the officers and soldiers were bait by thieves, and at the beginning of the battle, they suddenly retreated for no reason, and wanted to guide the thieves into the city. Seeing that Yousheng was well guarded, he didn't dare to move. On the eve of the night, Yousheng boarded the patrol to the south gate, and the rebels outside the city sent cannons to attack him, and Yusheng was killed. ”

Huang Zuxin cautiously asked, "Lord Commander is worried that the traitor Qin Wu is powerful?" ”

"If you don't worry, it must be prevarication!"

"Let's sit back and watch the tiger fight, no matter who wins or loses, it will only be good for us, and there will be no harm......

"They are also the soldiers of this commander."

Jin Yousheng sighed and said: "Zuo Qianhu must have also heard the news, he neither rescued nor escaped, he is still responsible, Zuo Qianhu lacks ordnance!" ”

"We're not rich!"

"Send them 600 guns, 6 cannons, 1,000 catties of gunpowder, and 50 armor, send them quickly!"

"Yes!"

Jin Yousheng continued: "Don't transfer from the command envoy Si Yamen, it's too late, transfer from the middle left thousand households, tell Liu Jintang, the middle left thousand households, don't do anything!" ”

Huang Zuxin looked at Jin Yousheng with some surprise: "The commander ...... your lordship"

"Go for it!"

……

Since the implementation of the fishing plan, Cheng Shijie has not been idle, but it is a pity that his transportation capacity is limited, and it is impossible to transport a large amount of materials to the end of the Ming Dynasty in one day.

Cheng Shijie was ready and just waited for the enemy to arrive.

The enemy did not come, but the weapons and equipment sent by the commander of Dengzhou Wei arrived first.

"Senhe-sama, please sign for it!"

Cheng Shijie took the list and looked at it, only to see that it read: 600 spears, 200 waist knives, 6 bowls, 1,000 catties of gunpowder, and 50 pairs of iron armor.

After Cheng Shijie signed for it, these soldiers who came to deliver the ordnance left immediately, and they didn't even want a big car. Cheng Shijie stroked the spears with his own hands, this is a spear made of good wood, and the wooden stick used by Zuo Qianhu, not to mention the roughness of the wood, the flexibility is not enough, and the brittleness is too high, which is even more helpless.

Now these guns are made of ash, which can also be called ash rods, with good flexibility, high hardness, smooth wood grain, and is a high-quality wood for making ancient spear barrels.

Although the iron armor is rusty, it is generally good, at least there will be no hole in it.

"Lord Qianhu is sure that Qin Wu will be fooled? Attack our Thousand Households? ”

Cheng Shijie nodded lightly, pointed to the equipment and said, "I was not sure, but now I can definitely come!" ”

Song Kangnian asked a little puzzled: "There is no absolute in everything, what if he doesn't come?" ”

"The first Qin and the five departments need food, and we have food here. Second, that is, the combat effectiveness of the guard is too poor, although we are an army, we will not be taken seriously by Qin Wu, and third, someone wants him to come, so he will definitely come! ”

While Cheng Shijie was talking, there was a commotion outside.

"Senhe-sama, bandits...... The bandits are coming! ”

"Chuan Ben Qianhu ordered, all young and strong, whether they are righteous or not, immediately climb the city wall!"

"Yes!"

Just when Cheng Shijie went to the city wall, the entire Qianhu Institute had become a mess. The wheat on the threshing floor, the working soldiers, including the children, ran around.

Cheng Shijie also threw up the whip and beat several military households, and then climbed the city wall of the Thousand Households.

I saw that on the dirt road to the south, a large puff of dust and smoke was raised, and the sound of horses' hooves shook the heavens and the earth, and cheers came and went.

Song Kangnian hadn't spoken yet, but Zhou Yandong said: "Thousands of households, the number is wrong, this is definitely more than a thousand!" ”

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "This thousand households can see it!" ”

The number of people is boundless, and the formation of bandits is scattered, and it seems that everywhere you look, there are bandits everywhere. These bandits also had a group of knights, who quickly rushed towards Senhu City.

The atmosphere on the walls of the Sennohe City began to become solemn.

"At least four thousand, how can this battle be fought?"

The 1000 households were nominally 100 households, but 3 of the 100 households were located outside, and there were only 700 households inside the 1000 households, of which the middle 100 households and the middle left 100 households were trained outside the city, and they have not returned to this day.

It also means that there are only five hundred households in the entire Thousand Households City, and if Cheng Shijie didn't put an end to these hundred households from eating empty quotas, I am afraid that there would not even be four hundred sergeants.

Although there are five full 100 households, each leading 112 people, this is still a gap of 1 to 10, which makes people feel extremely desperate.

Qin Wu rode a horse and came to the city of Qianhu, he looked at the chaos on the city wall, and said proudly: "Send someone to persuade them to surrender, let them open the city gate and surrender, otherwise after the city is broken, Lao Tzu will slaughter the city, and the chickens and dogs will not be left!" ”