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As for the Gujiazhuang itself, because the Gu family was very rich in the private salt business, it was built quite solidly at the beginning. In addition to a strong village wall, trenches were dug outside the village wall, and there were also ditches built at each corner of the village.

Diaolou has a very strong defense.

Moreover, a large amount of private salt must be stored regularly in the Gujiazhuang. There are also many warehouses built in the village. In addition to the private salt business, the Gu family also hoards a lot of grain. The hoarding of goods makes a fortune, and even

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A large dungeon was specially used to hold the women who were kidnapped by his men from surrounding counties. In addition to being abused by himself and his men, he would also transport the women who got tired of playing with them to Nanzhili.

, sold to a brothel as a prostitute.

When they captured Gujiazhuang this time, they also seized dozens of young women from the dungeon, including some women from wealthy families who were also kidnapped by the Gu family.

After the selection process, several women from wealthy families all had small feet. Sea Wolf did not want women with such small feet, so he naturally sent people to contact their families and asked them to get a sum of money as a reward to take them back.

As for the remaining young women, Yu Xiaotian was not very kind and ordered people to take the time to comfort them and recuperate their bodies. After they recovered, they were transported to Fushan Institute and shipped back to Taiwan.

Go to the island to replenish the number of women on the island of Taiwan.

This Gujiazhuang is simply a military station tailor-made for them. It is perfectly suitable to serve as a military station. It is right near the official road and has a complete defense system, a large number of houses, various warehouses, and dungeons.

It is much better than building a temporary military station, and more importantly, it can be put into use directly.

So this Gujiazhuang, even if it was put into use by Yu Xiaotian, became an important military station for the Yu Jiajun in the Jiaozhou area. After handling the affairs here, the Yu Jiajun immediately began to move northward towards Pingduzhou.

Go.

Pingdu Prefecture is about a hundred miles away from Jiaozhou. Yu Jiajun only walked three days from Jiaozhou to Pingdu, and the average daily distance was about sixty miles.

More than sixty miles was not a long distance in later generations, but in the Ming Dynasty, it was really not that close. Many farmers may not be able to travel so far in their lives, and the quality of road traffic in this era was only

It's so bad that it's hard to imagine.

Even the official road is not very wide. Basically, it is simply rolled on the land with stones to become a road. There are not even drainage ditches on both sides of the road. Over the years, there are very few

The government invests in maintenance. Vehicles and pedestrians walk on the official road all year round, which crushes the official road even lower. Once it rains, it becomes muddy or simply turns into a ditch.

Marching on such a road, and there are many baggage vehicles in the army, even if the Yu Jiajun's baggage camp uses four-wheeled carriages that are quite good in this era, but if you want to travel hundreds of miles a day, you can't do it at all.

At the end of the day, walking sixty miles is already the limit. Otherwise, the cavalry, infantry, and baggage vehicles will be out of touch, making it difficult to look at the beginning and the end.

It was impossible for such a large army to advance in secret. One day after they left Jiaozhou City, sporadic unidentified riders began to appear in front and on both wings of the team, observing Yu Jiajun's movements from a distance.

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Of course, once Yu Jiajun's scouts and cavalry discover them, they will immediately go to expel or chase them. However, these scattered riders often do not confront them head-on, and immediately drive away. The scouts intercept the battlefield, which becomes very dangerous.

difficulty.

Yu Xiaotian simply did not require the scouts to cover the whereabouts of the army, and just headed towards Pingdu Prefecture in a swaggering manner.

Pingdu Prefecture was captured by the rebels in February and has become a rebel-controlled area. After entering Pingdu Prefecture, a large number of corpses began to appear on both sides of the road.

Most of these corpses are the corpses of ordinary people. Some corpses have begun to rot due to the gradually warmer weather. Some corpses are still relatively fresh. It seems that they were killed not long ago. Basically, they are stab wounds. Some corpses

There were no injuries, as if he died of cold and starvation. It can be seen that the rebels caused great harm to the people of Pingdu Prefecture during this period and killed many people.

The smell of putrid corpses could already be smelled in the air. Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered the officers and soldiers to collect the corpses along the way and dig pits and bury them on the spot to prevent the corpses from severely rotting and causing an epidemic when the weather turned hot.

After entering Pingdu Prefecture, we encountered many villages along the way. Among these villages, more than half have been turned into ruins, and traces of fire still exist. These villages were all destroyed by the rebels.

The people inside were either killed or forcibly carried away, and most of them abandoned their homes and fled, joining the ranks of refugees fleeing.

Of course, there are some village forts with strong walls and strong self-protection capabilities, and have not been conquered by the rebels. However, the people in these village forts have already become frightened when they see the army marching.

When they came over, they immediately closed the gate of the village, the police gongs blared, and there were many figures on the walls of the village, taking a defensive posture.

Yu Xiaotian sent people to shout outside these villages to inform them of their identities so that the villagers should not panic. When they learned that this army was an official army sent by the imperial court to suppress the rebellion, the people in the village breathed a sigh of relief. However,

They still refused to open the door to welcome Yu Jiajun. The most they could do was send a small amount of wine, money and food from the village. The more they could give was a pig, a sheep, or a few chickens, which could be considered as labor for the army.

Yu Xiaotian was too lazy to talk nonsense with them and asked someone to inquire about the situation of the rebels before continuing towards Pingdu Prefecture.

The rebel general currently stationed in Pingdu Prefecture is a rebel general named Li Fujie. This man is said to be Li Jiucheng's former soldier and his adopted son. He is not too old, probably in his twenties or thirties.

At that age, he was cruel and bloodthirsty. He commanded more than two thousand rebels under his command, most of whom were surrendered skirmishers. The main force was the old Dongjiang Army, which consisted of about three to four hundred people and was stationed in Pingdu Prefecture City.

After the Yu Jiajun entered Pingdu Prefecture, Li Fujie learned the news about them and immediately sent about a thousand rebels out of Pingdu City and rushed to the direction where the Yu Jiajun came from, blocking the Yu Jiajun's advance.

way out.

On May 20, a cavalry company led by the Yu Jia Army was intercepted by the rebels. A small-scale conflict occurred between the two sides. The Yu Jia Army Cavalry Company complied with the request and did not engage in a deadly battle with them. They made contact and tested it.

After testing the opponent's strength and killing dozens of rebels, he took the initiative to retreat and reported the situation to Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian ordered the army to stop, sent an infantry battalion to defeat the rebels, and ordered a cavalry company to follow them to pursue the defeated rebels.

After receiving the order, the battalion immediately advanced lightly and quickly rushed to the location of the rebels. The cavalry company followed their flanks, protected their flanks, and escorted them to the rebels' position.

The rebel generals formed a formation and tried to block the way of the Yu Jiajun. Both sides didn't say much nonsense. Even when they started fighting, the rebels never expected that the Yu Jiajun was so capable of fighting, and the firepower was so fierce. They didn't wait for them.

When they rushed to the Yu Jiajun formation, they heard a shocking sound of firecrackers, as dense as exploding beans.

The rebels were immediately beaten and their corpses lay all over the ground. As soon as they faced each other, the whole army was defeated, leaving behind two to three hundred corpses, and fled back towards Pingdu City.

The cavalry company was ordered to immediately start a pursuit and defeated them all, including the rebel general leading the enemy army. They also killed him on the spot, chopped off his head, and sent him back to the front of the army to resume his duties.

This was the first frontal battle between the Yu Jiajun and the rebels after they entered Laizhou. Of course, it ended with a complete victory for the Yu Jiajun. In this battle, more than 570 rebels were killed and three rebels were captured alive.

Of the more than a hundred people, the rest were all routed by the Yu Jiajun's cavalry, and not many rebels escaped back to Pingdu City.

Yu Xiaotian laughed and ordered the battlefield to be cleared. Since he is now a Ming army, he must work according to the Ming army's method, cut off the heads of the rebels, treat them with salt or lime, load them on carts, and

The captured weapons and armor were also stripped off and loaded into carts, which will be used in the future.

In order to use it as proof of merit, the headless corpse was left on the spot for the prisoners to dig a deep pit and bury it. At the end of the day, the battlefield was cleaned up. If it weren't for the blood stains left on the ground, no one would believe it.

There actually was a fierce battle just now, killing hundreds of people.

After this confrontation, Yu Xiaotian felt more confident. Although the rebels have been very arrogant recently and are almost invincible, it depends on what opponent they are facing. When they encounter his Yu Jiajun, these rebels will

The army is basically at the level of the Five Scum and does not pose any substantial threat to them, so Yu Xiaotian is completely relieved.

Fighting in the current hilly and plain areas, unless the rebels come with tens of thousands of troops, it may put some pressure on them. If the same number of rebels are in front of his Yu family army, they will only be beaten, and they will not even have the strength to fight back.

None. After all, the weapons, equipment and tactics used by his Yu Jiajun are far superior to those of the Ming Army in this era. It will not be easy to defeat this battle.

Li Fujie, who was stationed in Pingdu, was shocked when he learned about the report of the rebels who had returned from defeat. He knew that this time he was in trouble. He did not expect that these officers and soldiers from Fujian could actually fight.

, to be so powerful, the more than a thousand soldiers and horses he sent were actually destroyed by them when they met each other, so he no longer dared to send people out of the city to intercept Yu's army in the wild.

So he quickly ordered his men to close the gate of Pingdu City tightly, and sent people to rush to Laizhou City to find Kong Youde to report for help. At the same time, he rectified his soldiers and prepared to defend Pingdu City. Relying on the stronger wall of Pingdu City, he

Help the Fujian officers and soldiers block Pingduzhou City.