Daming pirates

But Zhao Zhizhou suddenly thought of the agreement he had made with Liu BuTong. In addition, these Xishan Village team trainers seemed to have unknown origins and were not so easy to deal with. He had to send people to sneak out of the city at night and go to Xishan Village to meet Liu BuTong directly.

We discussed that we would like to invite Xishan Village, who is co-guarding at Beiguan in the county, to train with the team, so that they can also help out with several other city gates when necessary.

Liu BuTong is now selling heads. He is very happy with the sales and is in a good mood. The guys at the north gate have nothing to do all day long. The fight at other city gates is quite lively. It seems a bit embarrassing to see it this way, so he and

After some discussion, Wu Shengtian agreed to Zhao Zhizhou's request.

However, Liu BuTong still left some back-ups. He agreed that Zhao Zhizhou would ask the Xishan Village Tuan Lian Xiangyong who was guarding Beiguan to assist in other places when necessary.

However, the number of personnel mobilized at each time cannot exceed half, which is a hundred people at most. It is best to mobilize fifty people at a time. They cannot be used as mules. They must be given sufficient rest. In addition, the specific command must be given

Li San's families will be responsible for themselves. Someone must count the enemy troops they kill. In battles, rewards must be based on records and merit, instead of having to take back the heads to count.

After Zhao Zhizhou heard this, he could only hold his nose and admit it. Who asked him to ask for help now? Moreover, these Xishan village troupe trained Xiangyong are indeed powerful. The blunderbuss in their hands are really sharp. This is Muping County.

Whether they can hold on or not really depends on how well they are trained in the Xishan Village team.

As a result, in the next few days, Li San finally had a battle. Almost every day, as requested by Zhao Zhizhou, he sent a platoon to other city gates to provide reinforcements in places where the fighting was fierce.

In this way, the rebels were in bad luck. They found that no matter how much they concentrated their forces to attack any city gate these days, they would be incited to be fired randomly from a firecracker on the city wall, killing many people and injuring them.

Their morale was so low that Chen Guangfu did not dare to easily send people to harass the major city gates anymore.

It was not until more than ten days later that another rebel reinforcement force with more than 2,000 troops appeared outside Muping County, and the morale of the rebels was boosted again.

After receiving reinforcements, the rebel army's strength reached more than 3,000 people. In addition, the number of people they had recently coerced nearby, some bandits and rebels they had collected, and some Liaodong people who came to surrender spontaneously, made the rebels' strength more than 3,000.

The total strength of the rebels outside Muping County swelled to six to seven thousand people.

Of course, those who can fight are the main force of 3,000 to 4,000 people, and the more than 1,000 gangsters and rebels who have been recruited. The other 2,000 people are mostly people who have been forcibly held hostage and can only be used as cannon fodder for them.

The leader of the army this time was a close associate of Li Jiucheng, named Zhang Tao, who was also an old member of the Dongjiang Army. He used to be a general, but now the rebels suddenly turned around and this guy actually became a deputy general. He was extremely arrogant for a while.

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After he led his troops, he immediately clamored to start attacking the city. However, Chen Guangfu was still eager to take revenge from Xishan Village. Since they were currently short of food and supplies, it was best to capture Xishan Village, which was relatively weak in defense.

, after obtaining a large amount of grain and boosting morale, it was not too late to attack the fortified town of Muping County.

After hearing this, Zhang Tao thought that this was reasonable. Muping County was also a fortified city with complete city walls. Attacking the county town was certainly not as easy as attacking a village. According to the locals, Xishan Village needed food.

If you want women, you have women, and there are thousands of refugees.

If they capture Xishan Village first and capture Tuweizi on Yangma Island, in addition to getting a lot of food, they can also capture a lot of women and enjoy them. At the same time, they can also take thousands of refugees and give them

Used as cannon fodder.

Taking Xishan Village was obviously a good deal, so Zhang Tao nodded and agreed, and aggressively promised that this time he would personally lead his troops to attack Xishan Village and Yangma Island Tuweizi.

After the agreement was reached, the rebels no longer hesitated and divided their forces into two locations. Chen Guangfu continued to sit outside Mouping County, while the newly arrived Zhang Tao was responsible for leading the troops to attack Xishan Village and Tuweizi on Yangma Island.

Zhang Tao led more than a thousand rebels, of whom nearly 500 were from the old Dongjiang tribe and had quite good combat effectiveness. In addition, he also brought hundreds of newly recruited local bandits and more than 700 refugees who were held hostage.

With a roar, they drove towards Xishan Village.

As soon as they moved here, Xishan Village immediately received the news from the scouts. The sound of alarm gongs rang over Xishan Village again. Teams of Sea Wolf infantrymen and newly formed rural soldiers came under the leadership of officers.

, rushed up the wall of the village.

This time the enemy troops were coming with force and strength, and their target was not just Xishan Village, but was preparing to capture Tuweizi as well.

Therefore, including the troops guarding Tuweizi, they were all mobilized this time.

The refugees in Tuweizi heard that thousands of rebels were coming to attack their Yangma Island Tuweizi, and they immediately became a little confused. However, this chaos did not last long, and they were stopped by the Sea Wolf officer who was stationed here.

It was suppressed by the bullet.

An officer of the Sea Wolf climbed up to a high platform in the middle of the wall, shouted into a large copper loudspeaker to the refugees inside the wall: "You all heard clearly, whoever dares to cause trouble again will be punished for collaborating with the enemy! Immediately

Drag them out and kill them! All women and children should immediately return to your dens to stay. Among the men, except for the young and strong men, they will stay and wait for orders according to the original establishment. The rest of the idlers will also retreat into their dens.

Stay inside, anyone who disobeys orders and runs around in the village will be killed without mercy!

Anyone who makes a lot of noise will be killed without mercy! Anyone who wanders around in the huts will be killed without mercy! Anyone who tries to defect to the rebels will be killed without mercy! There are all of them now, take action immediately. After half a stick of incense, if there are still people who don't

You obey the order and I will kill you! Damn it, you guys are so nervous! I'm holding on from the front. As long as there's still one alive among us, we won't let the rebels come in!

Unless all of us are dead, you can do whatever you want! As long as one of us is breathing, you will have nothing to do!..."

When the refugees in Tuweizi heard this, they were both moved and nervous. What was moved was that these warriors from Xishan Village actually said that as long as they lived, refugees like them would not be harmed by the rebels. What was nervous was that they were afraid

The rural soldiers could not withstand the rebels and allowed the rebels to invade the Tuwei.

But now they were protected by the village soldiers in Xishan Village, so naturally they could only listen to their orders, so the noisy scene was immediately suppressed, and all the idlers were driven back to their huts.

As a result, only more than 300 young and strong men who had been selected in advance were left. As the second echelon of auxiliary soldiers, they were responsible for transporting ammunition, bows and arrows, providing hot water, rescuing the wounded, etc. in the earthen enclosure. They were also responsible for controlling the entire

Monitor the refugees in Tuweizi and prevent them from moving around.

About three thousand rebels soon arrived outside Xishan Village under the leadership of Zhang Tao. Zhang Tao reined in his horse and looked intently at Xishan Village and the Yangma Island Tuweizi on the ice a few hundred meters away.

Go, with a look of arrogance and disdain on his face.

After looking at Xishan Village and Tuweizi, Zhang Tao didn't find anything too special. It was just that the village wall and the earthen wall of Tuweizi seemed to have a strange structure. They were not built as a straight wall.

, but there were twists and turns with protrusions and depressions in places. He didn't see any benefit of building the wall like this, let alone the reason why.

But he still listened to Mr. Qian, surnamed Wan, who introduced the situation here. It was said that the local brave here had very sharp blunderbuss in his hands, which was very difficult to deal with.

After listening to the introduction of Mr. Qian named Wan, he made some preparations and asked people to get a batch of door boards, bed boards, or Eight Immortals tables from nearby villages, and gave them to his subordinates who were leading the charge.

The bandits and soldiers, and a large number of people who were brought in, prepared a mess of cloth bags, wooden boards, firewood bundles and the like, and the cloth bags were filled with ice and snow outside.

It is impossible to dig soil in this weather. Ice and snow are put into cloth bags. After filling, they can also be used as sand to fill the ditch outside the village. The function of firewood bundles is the same, except that it can prevent arrows and bullets.

, it can also fill in trenches and open up channels for attacking the village wall.

In addition, before he came, he prepared dozens of ladders for his soldiers to use. After crossing the trench, he put the ladders on the wall of the stronghold to attack the stronghold.

It can be said that he thinks that his preparations have been quite sufficient. As long as he takes action, Xishan Village will be within his reach.

In addition, in order to take down Xishan Village and Tuweizi this time, he also prepared a powerful weapon, that is, he brought fifty gunners from Dengzhou City this time, plus a gun weighing 1,500 kilograms.

At this time, he also brought one of the Hongyi cannons. In his eyes, even the city could not withstand the bombardment of the Hongyi cannons, let alone the small Xishan Village. As long as two cannons were fired casually, the inside of Xishan Village would be destroyed.

People will definitely be scared to death.

So he came here this time, full of confidence and determined to win, and just waiting to enjoy the beautiful women he recovered from Xishan Village after capturing it.

When they worked with Mao Shuai in Dongjiang Town, they lived in poverty. Later, Mao Shuai was killed by Yuan Chonghuan. They were dissatisfied. In addition, Dongjiang Town was internally divided. The soldiers and generals were plotting and attacking all day long.

There was no longer the unity as before. They could not see hope or gain a foothold in Dongjiang Town, so they had no choice but to flee back to Shandong.

But after arriving here, those Shandong people were picky and picky, making things difficult for them and being unwelcome in every possible way. They wanted to kill them all. Although Sun Yuanhua treated them fairly well, that was all.

They were not allowed to enjoy too many material things, and although His Majesty Sun Yuanhua was not very strict, after all, they did not dare to make mistakes easily here.