Finally, Jiang Bugao, who was burnt to dust in the grass, took the last few people who escaped by chance, and struggling to paddle the oars toward the Baishui dock hidden in the depths of Taihu Lake. No one dared to relax for a moment, even if it was sweating, head and face, eyes drenched.
Because the other party was terrible, these peaceful thieves were far more brutal and terrifying than all the officers and soldiers he encountered. Not only are the well-equipped bows, crossbows, knives and guns killed in an extremely orderly manner, but there are also endless firearms.
With their fierce fighting courage and personal skills, the pirates and wudders who tried to stand in front of them were like ridges of rice fields that had just been cut in autumn, and they were set on fire again. Grass ** average. In the end, it is hard to escape the end of lying down or turning into ashes.
He originally wanted to lure these peaceful thieves into the familiar grassland. He was slightly defeated by the boat and the location, and thought that he would regroup; but he never thought that the other party would not follow the rules at all, and directly use the flammable water. The firearm burned the grass into one piece.
Therefore, the hundreds of fresh forces around him who have not yet taken action are under the burnt and unable to hide; the original means of concealing the boat and attacking on the water has become an unrecoverable true defeat. Up.
Then almost everyone rushed forward to kill and cut their heads, with that fanatical look; it was like looking at a live animal in a ward walking, or a money bag lying on the ground waiting for someone to pick it up.
Even those defeated pirates would rather risk being burned to death and burn, or risk diving in an attempt to escape by the water. But these peaceful thieves can't help cutting down the burning grass, and holding the bow of the sword, they continue to wade through the water for the last moment;
They were still yelling unevenly, while desperately shooting arrows at the human body floating in the water; they didn't stop until there was no more redness in their field of vision to move.
But just after this battle was defeated, Baishuiwu and Changshanwu, who were responsible for this attack, had nearly three thousand Ding Zhuangs, and there was no way to return to their hometown.
For Dawu, one of the few in the two Taihu Lakes, it was a huge loss. Not to mention that the owner of Changshanwu, "Heishigong" Fang Yansen, was sunk on the shore. I don't know.
Therefore, Jiang Bugao, who was able to escape his birth this time, had the first idea on his return journey, not to start the crowd again looking for opportunities to retaliate against these peaceful thieves; instead, he immediately gathered the remaining young men and annexed them nearby. The same great loss of strength is justified by the group of dragons without a leader, Changshanwu.
Only by using the remnants and sites of these former allies as nourishment, can it be possible to protect one's basic site from being coveted and spied by the new situation and variables of the Thirty-Seven Wu United in Taihu Lake.
After all, the Fangshan Island on which he settled into the Wuji is not the largest among the many islands in Taihu Lake, but it has the largest arable land and irrigation water sources across the island; there are bamboo trees in the low hills. And water catches;
Coupled with the seizures and collections of local villages and towns from the inshore travellers, they have provided and maintained a handful of rampant land and water forces. However, after this damage, I don't know when it will recover.
After all, in this idea, there are many people who sacrifice their lives for a bite of food because of war and displacement; however, it takes a lot of effort and setbacks for the boss to gradually eliminate and temper a person who obeys instructions and acts well. .
This time I was really blinded by the interests of Xu Yi from Hangzhou; it was just for the first to send 800 dan rice and 60 stone salt, and the following 1,500 pieces of silk and silk cloth. Easily compromised the important capital of these rampant lakes.
What's even more ridiculous is that the dock owners in the rear, and even some people are waiting for the price to make friends with each other, and then eat together.
In the meantime, the only turning point was that after the Taiping thief actually confronted Thirty-Seven Wuzhai in Taihu Lake, he lost more power in other Wuzhai villages to be able to overcome this difficulty.
However, when he sailed out of a hidden waterway on a small silt-filled continent, he saw a jaw-dropping scene.
In the distance, the gray and white Fangshan Island mixed with this verdant shadow was billowing black smoke; the largest dock, which was originally full of large boats, walkers and paddles, had been burned to the ground. And from the far shore, there were faint sounds of fighting and crying.
Obviously, this was not a merger and plunder between ordinary Taihu pirates, but a planned invasion and siege. The boats gathered around the week are also painted and painted, which is in sharp contrast with most of the boats that are different from the old to the new ones.
"Turn your head and go quickly, there is no way to go back to the island..."
Jiang Bugao did not hesitate to urge the oars to turn around and leave. Even the wealth he has accumulated over the years, there are more than two dozen women, both old and new, and their children are all on the island.
However, the clippers patrolling near the islands, with the blue Kunpeng flag hanging on their sails, have also used their tools to observe and notice his group of people, and have begun to paddle double rows of long oars and turn to chase.
There are also a few weirdly-looking ships with big wheels, which are slowly rolling in the water, and continue to project waves of fire and roar toward the arrogant and stubborn buildings and figures on the shore.
In another place, Xishan Island, the largest of the many islands in Taihu Lake; the flat land and hills originally occupied by the three major dock owners, Chen, Huang, and Bai, have long been inserted with horizontal waves representing the Taiping Army naval division. Green flag.
Only the hundreds of pirates who had retreated to the Three Peaks Cottage on the North Mountain of the island were still trying to resist. But under the bombardment of the firearms that the boat masters successively carried down from the ship, their destruction was just before dark.
On the flat land on the east and south sides of the island, hundreds of households who had originally lived in the area were also driven out of their homes. After being screened by the working group accompanying the Taiping Army, they will be relocated to the shore to accept the divisional management of men, women, and children in separate camps.
After all, those who can live here all year round, most of the people who are closely related to the water bandits, can't talk about how many innocent or good people are. After completing the basic cleanup, this will be the berthing site of the new Taiping Squadron Taihu Sub-camp in the future.
At this moment, watching one of the leading parties in this methodical and cruel scene, Xiaowu on the nearby Sanshan Island advocates Guangbei, is also full of a certain kind of terror and horror, and a faintly happy complex mood.
After all, this may also mean that since the rebellion of Yuan Chao on Wengshan (now Zhoushan Island) in the first year of Baoying (762), the pirate forces that have repeatedly banned the waters of Taihu Lake for more than a hundred years have been exhausted. .
—I am the dividing line —
And on the other road, Jinling, the state city of Changzhou.
Zhou Ben, the leader of the top helmet and the leading soldier, rushed to the wall with a card to protect the head, and the capstone rushed to the wall, and quickly twisted the swords and spears that were pierced after passing the city disc in the air; seized the weapons of the defending army. Flick and pick.
Suddenly, amidst the screams and exclamations, one after another, defenders fell from the wall. However, Zhou Ben only relied on a pair of flesh palms and extraordinary courage, with his bare hands, he brought the enemy in front of him and lifted his arms and lifted them down the city.
Therefore, when he stood firmly on the city plate, after falling to the fifth one in a row, within five steps to the left, there was no defender who dared to approach any more. Then, he rose up and struck at one of the enemy generals with the most complete outfits.
The moment he pulled the opponent who couldn't dodge, suddenly raised his head and screamed and screamed; the nearby defenders couldn't help being dejected, and dropped their weapons one after another. Yelling and fleeing;
"Jiangzhu was caught..."
"It's not good, the enemy will be caught and guarded..."
But the peaceful soldiers who were fighting up and down the city couldn't help but yelled with morale.
"Zhou Laihu..."
"Zhou Laihu..."
"Zhou Laihu..."
At the same time, the Jinling Mausoleum is facing southeast, and the Jiulong Mountain near Wuxi City on the east bank of Taihu Lake is also in the midst of trembling and shaking the sky.
Du Wei Wang Tianming/Wang Yanzhang, who is responsible for the siege of the city, is also in the middle of the reinforcements from Wuxian County, Suzhou. I saw him with left sword and right spear, leaping forward and stabbing like flying, one after another, he overturned everything that dared to hinder and hinder his existence;
Born abruptly in the enemy’s way, he drove a tortuous path of blood, and he was chasing through the scattered enemy's formation. He was surrounded and supported by the left and right army, and had no life to run to the rear. Figure in robe.
That was a gray-bearded veteran and the leader of this Wuxian soldier. It's just that the helmets and heads that describe the embarrassment have been lost, and the hair bun has been shattered and thrown on his shoulders, without any prestige or other temperament.
Seeing that the target was getting farther and farther among the collapsed enemy soldiers, Wang Yanzhang, who was already feeling exhausted and sore, couldn't help but get anxious; he suddenly stopped to grab half of the spearhead and flew with full roar. Throw it out.
In an instant, an arrow pierced through at least two enemy soldiers who were in the field of vision. Then, they cast off slightly and brushed the shoulders of a rushing soldier, and the diagonal nail landed on the enemy. On the thigh of the military veteran; suddenly a painful buttocks sat on the ground, and he screamed hoarsely.
Then, in front of those stubborn enemy troops, Wang Yanzhang grabbed his hair and dragged a long bloody veteran on the spot; those enemy soldiers also let go of their weapons, kneeling down. The ground was crying loudly.
Suddenly, there were continued cheers that began to resound in the wilderness:
"Wang Tie Gun...Wang Tie Gun..."
"Going forward, the king's iron spear..."
Shortly afterwards, the defenders of Wuxi city head under the symbolic siege, when they saw the reinforcement flags and the heads thrown all over the city, they also seemed to have completely lost their courage and fighting spirit, shouting in an uproar. There was a scramble to flee down the city wall; then they became a little fleeing figure that opened the door to break through.
In the cities of Yixing, Wujin, Jiangyin, Great Wall, Anji and other cities that have changed hands in the rear of Changzhou and Huzhou, many people who have returned, surrendered, and returned to build are also marching out of the city with their bare hands and gathered in the Jinzhou of Runzhou. Go to the mandala, accept training in different places and organize them into supplementary camps and reclamation teams.
Under the leadership of the members of the "three detachments", the local battalions that completed the change of defenses began to carry out methodically in the city to gather idlers, settle accounts, publicize and promulgate new regulations, and even determine tax and temporary regulations. Follow-up occupation and maintenance work such as conscription and labor.
Once the city is consolidated, they will form an armed task force to go to the countryside in batches, starting from the suburbs and the villages near the road, to check and estimate the existence of the local surnames of Haoqiang one by one; and based on the actual situation, ban them. , Relocation, exile, or labor service, or even the on-site trial of punishment.
In a relatively direct and rude manner, the local situation is controlled in a short period of time, and eventually more labor and resources that can be dismembered or used are released. (End of this chapter)