Ma Yueying rode her horse to the front of the thief’s silver mine. The halberd she waved, the gate of the thief’s silver mine, was raised high by Ma Yueying’s long halberd, and then she waved abruptly, that huge The wooden door fell apart in the air.
"It's really troublesome." Ji Qianqian frowned and complained as she watched the scene: "She broke the door, and we have to find someone to repair it later. Really, we don't think about it."
Ji Qianqian walked out of the woods when the battle was about to end. The previous battles had little effect on her, or that the young lady from the master craftsman family was actually used to such a life.
"Let him go." Xinwang Zhao Zhen smiled, he raised his head and looked at the powerful female soldier in the distance. After his training, this female warrior not only has the super strength and speed supported by the peculiar drugs, but also has special skills.
With her power, it was impossible to break the gate at all. However, under the training of Xin Wang Zhao Zhen, she now has quite a formidable skill and strength. With the ingenuity of two or two strokes, coupled with instantaneous explosive power, the thick wooden door that was more than two feet high was picked up.
Ji Qianqian stopped answering after hearing the words of Xin Wang Zhao Zhen. He watched that all the soldiers under the leadership of Ma Yueying swarmed in from the gap in the east of the silver mine stockade. The remaining bandit army must not be trusted by Xin. The king’s guards, special forces fighters and Ma Yueying and more warriors from the gangs of the rivers and lakes are rivals, and the battle is set.
"Unimaginable." Ji Qianqian said softly: "These powerful soldiers and bandits from the north have such a lack of resistance to gunpowder. Theoretically speaking, they can get rare gunpowder thunderbolts, and they should be very clear about the power of gunpowder. right."
"You can't say that." At this time, Cui Hu walked over from the other side after finishing the battlefield, and just said: "Miss Ji Qianqian."
Ji Qianqian turned her head, a questioning look flashed in her eyes.
"My Da Song's research and confidentiality of gunpowder firearms is beyond the reach of ordinary people. It is a troubled time, so the bandit army can find a little thunderbolt." Xin Wang Zhao Zhen said: "However, they may not know the power of our firearms. With regard to the thunderbolt in their hands, I am afraid that another one may not be found in the silver mine."
"Therefore, the understanding of gunpowder is naturally inferior to us." Xinwang Zhao Zhen replied.
Ji Qianqian nodded, lowered her head for a moment, and said: "I just didn't expect that gunpowder is still such a rare existence for the world, and it is completely different from what I know. Although I also know that the bandit army must have a little knowledge of gunpowder, but I I used to think that they are Da Song people after all, so naturally they understand a little bit."
The letter king Zhao Zhen smiled. Ji Qianqian lives in the cultural system of manufacturing firearms and gunpowder. It is normal to have such a wrong understanding.
The southernmost silver mine that was captured by the letter king Zhao Zhen was the biggest source of money for the bandit army. The news of his loss spread to the bandit army throughout the forest a few hours after the collapsed bandit army.
For a time, the bandit army in the forest began to become eager to move.
At the same time, the news of course also reached the ears of the highest leader of this bandit army. Ji Yuntian was born in the strongest group of horse bandits in Shaanxi, coupled with his own prestige and high-strength martial arts, so he became the natural leader of south horse thieves and deserters.
But at this moment, he is sitting on the bearskin throne, but he has no intention of recalling his glory, but at this time he is a little irritable.
He became the leader of this bandit army a year ago and went south to here from the siege of the northern golden people. However, they ran into trouble in the battle for the territory. They just encountered the officers and men encircling and suppressing Mingjiao rebels when they entered the Jinghu Lake Road, so they had to enter the forest to avoid their sharp edges.
Although for Ji Yuntian, the forest is far from a happy land, there are barbarians inside. But he decided to take a risk. After he and his soldiers briefly adapted to life in the forest world, they began to discover that the environment and enemies here seemed not as terrible as they had imagined, so they immediately seized the forest located in the forest. In the silver mines and wood farms and quarries.
But this behavior aroused the anger of the local government, of course, it was Mo commander. The officers and soldiers and the bandit army fought in the forest twice, but the army and the local garrison, which led by Mo, were not the opponents who could fight the bandit army with the golden soldiers. The officers and soldiers were not taken advantage of. Drove out.
In the end, Commander Mo even had to hide his face and send someone to negotiate with him. The Bandit Army does not need the wood produced in the forest, but Commander Mo cannot. He supports the wood supply in many places. If something goes wrong, the first thing to trouble him is his high-ranking boss behind the scenes- -Zhang Jun.
Therefore, the deficit returns to the deficit, but the leader must find a way to ensure that he controls the basic wood production every year. The output of the two timber sawmills near Shimen City were among the best in the entire Jinghu Lake Road, and he did not dare to give up easily. But there is no way to recapture it by force. Moreover, this matter cannot be known to other senior officials. Therefore, the only way left is to rely on the means of buying and selling.
Although it may sound unthinkable that an official general should spend money to purchase the products in his jurisdiction, but fortunately, he still has power and resources in his hands. At that time, silver was just as important as copper in circulation, and Ji Yuntian needed it. More money to grow your own power. Do not use salt, iron, grain, and pigs, sheep, and cattle in exchange for wood, stone, and silver. Therefore, the two sides hit it off. This privately unknown transaction is hidden from the upper level. Has been retained.
Ji Yuntian appreciates such a deal, although the Bandit Army has won more than once in the previous battle with officers and soldiers. Their consecutive victories even made Commander Mo have to look down, but this can't conceal the fact that there are few people under him. The number of combatants of tens of thousands of people sounds terrible, but this is all the people where they gathered from north to south.
And Ji Yuntian is very smart. Through constant contact, he gradually understood the real situation of the place he was in. Although there may not be an army that can easily drive them away in the Shimen area, if they rashly appear in the eyes of the authorities, they will not be pleased.
We must know that just under the command of Shimenmo, there are nearly seven to eight thousand people scattered, not to mention the entire Jinghu Lake Road. What's more, if a large-scale bandit and bandit army like them rashly launches an attack on places controlled by the government, it may attract more officers and soldiers to attack.
He knew that this place was under the jurisdiction of Zhang Jun, and this concept was equated with the strongest army of officers and soldiers in Ji Yuntian's mind, which made him a little scared.
Therefore, even if he knew that Commander Mo still controlled some villages outside the forest, he did not dare to easily occupy them. Anyway, the current state makes him very satisfied. He only needs to firmly control this silver mine and other minerals, and he can obtain all the resources and food that come from the general's hands. With these resources, he can expand his strength at will, until one day he can return to his hometown.
In Ji Yuntian's heart, returning to his hometown is still his number one goal. Although it is temporarily safe here, it is not the territory of their bandit army after all.
But it seems that good things are not long, and this day the patriarch felt that he was in trouble.
After adapting to a stable life, he didn't like to fight with others lightly, especially when the development of the bandits just saw a good situation. Because fighting with people would inevitably attract the attention of the surrounding officers and soldiers, he didn't really want to expose his existence now, but the more he thought about it, the more trouble it seemed to come to him. It was like a message coming from the front this afternoon, telling him that someone had rushed into the forest again.
And this time the enemy not only seized their most precious silver mine, but also killed or captured more than a thousand of his men.
Upon hearing this news, Ji Yuntian became furious. On the one hand, he ordered all members of his subordinates who could fight to gather together, but on the other hand, he was so calm and sent someone to inquire about the other party's news.
The defeat ahead made the cautious and clever bandit leader become more cautious. He summoned his confidants here just to hear more opinions.
The first person who spoke was an older bandit army leader in bear skin. This leader turned out to be a veteran of the Northwest Army of the Song Dynasty, with some experience.
The nickname of the leader of this old mountain bandit army is'Daozhi Laohu'. Of course, most bandit army does not say the name of the opponent but the nickname, and this name was bestowed on him by Ji Yuntian. The fox is smart, well-acted, and known for being cunning.
Ji Yuntian gave this name to the leader of the old pirate army to praise his wit and rich experience. But in fact, the leader of the old pirate army is experienced and experienced, so it is very important to speak among Ji Yuntian's subordinates.
"I heard that the tribe who retreated earlier described that there should be a strong regular army in the army opposite," said the leader of the Old Mountain Pirate Army.
"It's gunpowder. It's a pity that we don't have more thunderbolts, otherwise we won't die so many people."
"How many of them are there?" Ji Yuntian asked.
"Two to three thousand people."
"A mere two to three thousand people, we were defeated." The bandit army chief said gloomily: "The general named Commander Mo is really tired of life. I thought that letting other Song troops come to us for trouble, I dare not move him. ?"
He said bitterly, "Let's solve these reckless Song troops first, and then we will kill the bullshit Mo commander. I don't plan to be polite with him anymore. The quarry and village to the south are also occupied."
"If you do this," said'Daozhi Old Fox', "it will cause a backlash from the government's army."
"It doesn't matter, it takes time for them to mobilize. When we grab a fortune nearby, we just return to the north at that time, I will see if they dare to catch up." Ji Yuntian replied disdainfully.
Several bosses in the room exchanged opinions. "Then how do you solve the army that is suspected of being officers and soldiers?" asked another bandit army leader.
"I'll go out myself," Ji Yuntian replied, "It's just a few gunpowder rounds. Gunpowder is difficult to extract, difficult to store, and their inventory must be low."
Then he stood up and said, "Tonight, I want the Song army to pay the blood for our people." Ji Yuntian's sharp voice echoed in the room, and several bandit army leaders bowed their heads. There is no objection.
In their view, those officers and soldiers are indeed a bit reckless.
Because it is different from the news that Ji Yuntian deliberately released, in fact, there are more than 30,000 bandit forces living in the big forest at this moment. In front of this huge force, even the entire local government army on Jinghu Lake Road is gathered together. It's not enough.
Of course, there is Zhang Jun's army behind Jinghu Lake Road, as well as heavy soldiers sent by the court.
But Ji Yuntian knew very well that it was impossible for Commander Mo to mobilize troops from outside without leaking any news in such a short period of time.
Now the army in Shimen City is only the army gathered before. This was the same as the news they had received before, and it seemed that Commander Mo had indeed encouraged the soldiers to deal with them.
But if that guy thinks that this will shake their foundation here, then he will definitely pay for it.
But what Ji Yuntian could not guess was that Commander Mo had already paid the price of his life. It's just not for their bandit army, and the enemy standing in front of them at this moment is the faith king Zhao Zhen who is as familiar with them as them.
The battle in the silver mine ended very early, and the bandit army who came out of the camp left behind only some old, weak, sick and disabled, and they were unable to resist the warriors under Xin Wang Zhaozhen.
But even so, the warriors composed of swordsmen and the disciples of the rivers and lakes paid the heaviest price since the battle in the final battle for the silver mine. More than 300 people were injured and about 70 people died.
Miao Yufeng, Hua Zhonglong and Shan Hongfei breathed a sigh of relief after finalizing the victory. They are people who are used to seeing the difference between life and death, and this casualty is actually somewhat unexpected. No, it should be said to be a miracle. If it weren't for relying on Wang Zhaozhen's command and setting an ambush, they shouldn't say that they only paid such a small price, or even winning is a luxury.
Although this battle with the bandit army was not within their expectations, it was forced by the believer Zhao Zhen.
Therefore, the mentality of the three big leaders at the moment is a bit complicated. It can be said that they are not so willing to fight for the young believer. Everything that Shimenmo led should have nothing to do with them, but for inexplicable reasons, their ambition, selfishness, and self-esteem, they tied them together.
Miao Yufeng, Hua Zhonglong, and Shan Hongfei couldn't help but look at each other, but besides a bitter smile, they still had only a bitter smile in their eyes.
"Inexplicable." The female chief swept the hair from her forehead to the back of her head. She looked at the soldiers in the silver mine who were cleaning up the battlefield and couldn't help saying: "I really don't know what we are fighting for. Do you really believe in Wang Qiansui, but..."
He sighed and continued: "The result of this battle is barely acceptable."
Hua Zhonglong glanced at her and nodded.
"The letter king Zhao Zhen is indeed very good, as a royal family." He said: "I have been very disappointed with the great Song dignitaries since I left the army, but now it seems that he has changed my opinion a little bit. In fact, As a person wandering across the rivers and lakes, it is not necessarily a good thing to be a subordinate of the royal family, but it is about being threatened by the other party, and there is inevitably a trace of reluctance in his heart."
"Humph." Shan Hongfei snorted coldly. The long-haired middle-aged man looked back at the two of them and said bluntly: "In fact, it is nothing more than a mismatch between my expectations and reality. If I could be sure that the letter Wang Zhao Zhen was true. Believe in the king’s words, he included us, I think you may not be unwilling. It’s just that our young king’s roots are not very basic, I don’t know if he really believes in the king. In fact, you and I can see it, he wants to use us Power to achieve one's own goals..."
"Thinking about it, it will inevitably lead to suspicion." He said: "If he doesn't really believe in the king, or just uses my people as a bargaining chip, I will definitely not let him do what he wants."
"However, the commander Mo is the lord of the party after all, but the behavior of the believer Zhao Zhen is somewhat unique." Hua Zhonglong said: "No matter how I think of them, I must be responsible for my subordinates."
After listening to the conversation between the two, Miao Yufeng snorted softly and stayed away. He is different from these two men. The purpose of establishing his own power is just to unite against the oppression of the gentry and powerful. But when he was disappointed, he finally had to deal with the dirty gentry and tycoons and even the higher-ranking royal family. Of course, this royal family may be fake.
It used to be to protect the only sister, but now my sister has also been lost. The female leader sighed, feeling a little confused, not knowing what goal she had left. But in any case, what Shan Hongfei said still made her unable to agree.
Then the three people subconsciously stopped talking. They all looked out of the silver mine. Cui Hu and his cavalry were slowly walking in from the outside, and the young Xinwang Qiansui arrived.
Every swordsman and warrior subconsciously stopped what was in their hands at this moment and raised their heads to look in that direction. In the evaluation of swordsmen and warriors, a person's ability is recognized by them, and it is actually very simple for them to take refuge in desperation. That is whether leaders can lead them to victory and wealth, and a better future.