Chapter 8: Join the Beggar Gang
Half an hour later, Wang Xiaoran, who had figured out the truth of the matter through interrogation, was full of anger, and his original impression of the beggar gang was very bad, and he completely fell to the bottom.
All the disciples of the Beggar Gang in this team are from the Sichuan Rudder of the Beggar Gang, and the manipulator behind it is Fang Yuan, the proprietor of the Sichuan Rudder, known as Zhang Dayuan.
On the surface, this team is scattered to the countryside around Chengdu City to beg, and at the same time is responsible for finding out information and collecting intelligence.
In fact, after these beggar disciples dispersed to the countryside, they used their identities to cover up, and were mainly responsible for abducting children between the ages of five and thirteen.
When a child is taken away, the fate is usually miserable. Girls are mainly divided into upper and lower classes, the upper class is sold into the hook bar, and the lower class becomes a maid. Boys were either sold into slavery with large families or into slaves by merchants. The worst thing is that no one wants it, they all break their hands and feet to win sympathy, and beg along the streets.
So, it's actually a slave catcher.
Among the beggars, the income from slave hunting accounts for more than 30% of the total income, and a complete industrial chain has been formed to operate in private. And the beneficiaries are the leaders of the Pure Clothes faction in various places.
They now even form information and resource sharing, deploying "goods" with each other and handling sensitive "goods".
And the so-called Pure Clothes faction is actually those martial arts powerhouses who joined the beggar gang halfway. They have their own industries, and joining the Beggar Gang, the world's largest faction, is to find a backer, and the Beggar Gang relies on them to provide funds and grow their momentum, which is mutually beneficial.
For example, the father and son of Taishan, who appeared in the apricot forest, belong to this situation.
Wang Xiaoran won the team of the Zhang family in Sichuan, and it was the third housekeeper of the Zhang family who was the leader, the one who insulted the girl, who had been killed by Wang Xiaoran. This information was taken out of his mouth by Wang Xiaoran.
Wang Xiaoran asked the two guards to kill all the beggar disciples here, they all deserved to die anyway. Then he left the official road with forty-seven children and found a place to stay.
"Wang Zhong. You go and inform our men in Sichuan and ask them to assemble here. I want to destroy the beggars, the Sichuan rudder, and Zhang Fangyuan's family, and atone for the crimes they have committed. At the same time, inform the Yuelai Inn and Kyushu Carriage and Horse Shop to send the children back. Wang Xiaoran's cold voice seemed to come from the Nine Hells.
For Wang Xiaoran, this kind of thing is just a matter of not seeing it. Since you have encountered it, you naturally have to take action for the heavens and let your thoughts be clear.
"Yes, young master. Wait a minute, I'll move the men. "Wang Zhong is one of the two guards, and the other is called Wang Yi, and together they are loyal and unparalleled.
These two brothers were originally a pair of hunters, who were left by their predecessors and learned a good kung fu, and later joined Wang Xiaoran's subordinates, and were completely subdued by Wang Xiaoran, and were Wang Xiaoran's henchmen.
Wang Xiaoran handed over a black metal token representing his identity, made of black iron, and an anti-counterfeiting mechanism to prove his identity to ensure that it could not be counterfeited.
Chengdu City, as the core of the Sichuan Basin and the land of abundance, concentrated most of the forces of the Wang family and Wang Xiaoran in Sichuan. Chief among them were five hundred private soldiers, all of whom were well-trained and had practiced at least one internal and external martial arts.
Usually, they are the dart masters of the Kyushu chariot and horse shop, or the nursing homes of Yihongyuan and Yuelai Inn.
Three hours later, three hundred knights arrived in batches, gathered under the leadership of various leaders, and waited for Wang Xiaoran's order.
Unlike ordinary Jianghu people, these knights are all trained according to the army, and their discipline is not weaker than that of any elite general in each country, and their strength is still victorious.
After all, the investment of hundreds of pounds per person a year is not something that the military of any country in this era can afford.
If there are Song generals again, I am afraid that they will be extremely shocked. Because these knights are not only one man and two horses, but also from the best military horses of the steppe. A steel saber at his waist, plus a delicate crossbow, and a dozen short guns on his back, which can be used to throw.
Among them were a hundred real archers, with a pair of longbows of one and a half meters on their backs.
All knights, wearing a piece of chain mail on the outside and leather armor on the inside, are truly luxurious equipment.
Wang Xiaoran, Wang Zhong and Wang Yi turned over their horses, left the children to the front station of the Kyushu Carriage and Horse Company, and then led the three hundred knights to the headquarters of the beggar gang in Sichuan.
As a gang, the Sichuan branch of the beggar gang is naturally not in the city, but in a mountain temple in the south of the city.
Not far from the rudder headquarters, there is Zhang Fangyuan's manor, where all the power of the Zhang family also lives.
Before Zhang Fangyuan made his fortune, he was actually suspicious of the green forest bandits, and finally cleared his name and joined the beggar gang, but he still distrusted Chengdu City, which was entrenched in the power of the tyrannical government, so he always took his old brother to live outside the city.
Now, this is convenient for Wang Xiaoran to act, otherwise he really can't do this in the city, and he can't destroy the Zhang family.
Chengdu City is one of the most important cities in the world, but there are 6,000 regular soldiers stationed in it.
Although Wang Xiaoran's strength is not afraid, there is no need to provoke.
After making a circle, the three hundred cavalry arrived at the Sichuan rudder headquarters at noon. Wang Xiaoran received a tip that Zhang Fangyuan was furious because of the beggar gang slave hunting team led by the third housekeeper.
Now the headquarters of the Mountain Temple has gathered almost all the forces of the beggar gang near Chengdu City, as well as Zhang Fangyuan's old subordinates.
Zhang Fangyuan was ready to mobilize all his forces to see who dared to use a knife on Tai Sui's head and dare to kill him.
Wang Xiaoran smiled coldly, his heart was right, and he would catch them all, so as not to send someone to find them, which would really save effort.
With a wave of their hands, the knights began to urge their mounts and ran in the direction of the mountain temple.
The sound of horses' hooves burst out, and a yellow smoke billowed in, which naturally alarmed the beggar disciples in the mountain temple.
Zhang Fangyuan stood up suddenly, and then glanced at his old subordinates in disbelief.
As a senior bandit, Zhang Fangyuan was naturally no stranger to the sound of cavalry running, and he heard that it was at least hundreds of cavalry.
There is only one battalion of 500 cavalry in the entire Chengdu City, could it be that the officers and soldiers are dispatched.
"Let's go, go out and have a look!" Zhang Fangyuan took advantage of his light skills, and first swept towards the outside of the mountain temple, and then crossed a wall.
When he saw the three hundred cavalry surrounding the mountain temple, Zhang Fangyuan saw that this was not an officer and soldier, and he didn't know which force had such a strong strength and gathered so many cavalry.
Zhang Fangyuan, who looked a little uneasy, felt that something was wrong today, but he still said loudly: "I don't know which friend is coming, Zhang has not greeted me from afar, and I hope to forgive me." ”
In fact, Zhang Fangyuan also saw that this person was not good, but recently the gang leader Qiao Feng was inspecting Sichuan, and today he has received the news that the gang leader Qiao is coming.
If you delay for a while and wait until the Qiao Gang Leader arrives, you may be able to use the prestige of the Qiao Gang Leader to scare off this group of knights.
Wang Xiaoran didn't bother to talk to this kind of scumbag, and directly signaled Wang Zhong to attack.
"Brothers, there is no mercy!" Wang Zhong shouted with his long knife drawn.