Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 135
Yang Menglong jumped off his horse with a gloomy face, walked into the barracks, and called: "Blow the horn and assemble!"

The buglers took out their horns and blew them with all their strength. The sound of humming was majestic and exciting, and it went straight to the sky, overwhelming the shouts and roars of thousands of troops during training.Hearing the sound of the trumpet, nearly 2000 people immediately gathered around their respective hundred households and formed a column. Under the leadership of the hundred households, they gathered towards the flag at the fastest speed. The movements were swift and orderly, and none of the nearly 2000 people It is rare to make a sound, which shows how effective Qi Hu has been training them in the past few months.

After drinking a few sips of water, the troops had already assembled and formed a huge square formation of forty by forty.Yang Menglong inspected his troops, feeling a sense of pride in his heart.This is the army he pulled out with a lot of effort!This is the army he has fed with strict military discipline, cruel training and generous treatment!Maybe they have been in the army for a short time, and they are not yet capable of defeating too powerful enemies, but they will not be afraid of any enemies!He asked solemnly, "Do you know why the trumpets were blown to gather?"

There were more than 700 people, but no one responded, and needles could be heard on the school grounds.

Yang Menglong said: "Because the bandits went down the mountain, they came to attack Wuyang, and robbed and killed a caravan at the junction of Wuyang and Biyang! They came to kick us!"

The soldiers' facial muscles twitched slightly.It's very shameful to be approached by bandits to kick them out. Those damn bandits are slapping them in the face!

Yang Menglong continued: "The caravan that was robbed transported 6 taels of cash. This was an investment from Master Cheng of Qixian County, Huizhou to our Wuyang Thousand Households Institute. I originally planned to use this money to reclaim more wasteland. Give you [-], [-], or even [-] acres of land, so that you and your family can live comfortably. Even if you are killed or injured in battle, your children can live with this inheritance. to live a prosperous life. But now the money has been robbed by them!"

The soldiers' breathing suddenly became heavy, and red light burst out of their eyes.Originally, the caravan was robbed in their own defense zone, and they had already lost face. Now that they heard that the money brought by the caravan was directly equated with their welfare, they were jealous.Cutting off people's money is like killing their parents. If those bastards robbed the money, their property would be ruined. Can this be tolerated?Absolutely intolerable!
Yang Menglong roared: "What do you think we should do!?"

The soldiers roared like thunder: "Kill them all!!!"

Yang Menglong said: "Yes, kill them all! Leave 300 people to guard the military camp. The others will immediately bring their equipment and set off. Follow me to find the place! Xu Gong, you take all the scouts and ride on the war horses to go first. , go to the front to find out the news, find them, and bite them hard, today I want to let them know that the trumpet is a copper pot or an iron!"

It seemed that General Xiao Yang was really angry, Xu Gong didn't say much, and called: "Follow me from the Scout Squadron!" He took more than 60 scouts and went straight to the barn.Thanks to Commander Liu for sending a group of idiots to send them more than 30 horses. The scouts who originally wanted two people to share one horse can already have one horse each.In just a cup of tea, there was a loud sound of hooves, and more than sixty fierce knights rushed out of the barracks like a gust of wind, and disappeared without a trace.

Xue Siming moved his mouth, wanting to say that he should be the one to take the scouts to explore the enemy's situation, but Xu Gong was the captain of the scout squadron before he came, so he couldn't compete, so he had to give up.He looked at Yang Menglong eagerly, hoping that he would give him a good job.

Yang Menglong said to Qi Hu: "Old man, I will keep 200 people for you. You organize the peasants to deliver food, arrow branches and other supplies to the front line. I will take the people to go first, and finish the work early!"

Qi Hu knew that he wanted to practice with those bandits, so he said, "I'll take care of things like delivering supplies and treating the wounded, so you just have to have a good time."

Yang Menglong said: "With your words, I feel relieved." Turning to the soldiers, he said: "The old rule is that one who kills an enemy will be rewarded with five taels of silver, those who are seriously injured will be given ten taels of medical money, and those who are killed will be given 20 taels of silver!"

The red light in the eyes of the soldiers turned into a green light, full of symbols of silver taels and copper coins... They could only get one tael of silver for a month of exhausting training. Two, this time I made money!Someone was already stamping their feet, impatiently.Yang Menglong arranged for a group of soldiers with poor training performance and weak physical strength to stay and guard the barracks. With the sound of "go", the soldiers who had been waiting impatiently for a long time formed three columns and started from the barracks one after another. Go out and go straight to the junction of Wuyang and Biyang!Yang Menglong rode at the front on a tall horse, holding the imperial-given Zhanger soft steel gun in his hand, majestic and majestic, while Wang Tiechui galloped side by side with him on the horse, and the four-foot-long Mo Dao on his back came again. Coupled with his burly body like a hill, it is frightening.Xue Siming also rode his black battle-colored horse, carrying a four-foot-long special composite bow, a horizontal knife, a black horse horizontal knife, a red bow and white feather arrows, and he was extremely handsome.In Yang Menglong's army, horseback riding is a privilege only for scouts and generals. It's a bit outrageous that he can ride a horse with a hundred households to keep pace with Yang Menglong, but none of the more than 1000 people felt that there was anything wrong, because he Have this ability.

The military only respects the strong.

Song Gongzhuang, a prosperous village that was originally prosperous, has now turned into a sea of ​​flames. Dozens of corpses lie side by side on the grain drying ground. Women's cries and screams, as well as bandits' wild laughter, can be heard constantly in the village. Many bandits ran around in various houses, searching for property, people were killed constantly, and the whole Zhuangzi became a hell.On the grain drying ground, right next to the pile of corpses, a large group of village owners were arguing, turning a blind eye to the screams and cries of the common people, and not listening to them, completely forgetting that they were honest farmers in the past.

The white-fronted tiger with a bunch of white hair on his forehead said with a smile: "That old bastard Liu Jintang is quite sensible, he pointed us to a good place to make a fortune, and he grabbed 6 taels of silver just after entering Wuyang, a big profit!"

Zi Jinxing, who had a pretty face but a dark look in his eyes, said: "My people discovered the 6 taels of silver first, and I will take the bulk of it!"

The white-fronted tiger sneered: "So what if you discovered it? If I hadn't sent cavalry up, you don't know if you would have been able to defeat it! The big head is mine!"

Zi Jinxing was furious: "Bai, you want to eat my share too, right?"

The white-fronted tiger said: "Who cares about your share? I just want to take what I deserve!"

Zijinxing called: "You——"

The tall and burly Guoshan Liang said: "Stop arguing, now is not the time to divide up the spoils! Don't even think about it. If you got 6 taels of silver before going deep into Wuyang, how much money should Wuyang County have? Wuyang How much money should Qianhusuo have? Are you satisfied with just grabbing such a small amount of money?"

Guo Shanliang has more than 1000 men, and he is considered a very powerful bandit in Nanyang. His words naturally hold more weight. After hearing what he said, Zijinxing fell silent and stared at the white-fronted tiger with an angry look on his face.But the white-fronted tiger didn't take him seriously. He has more than 300 good horses under his command, and hundreds of men are all skilled in bow and horse. With such strength, who is he afraid of?He frowned and asked, "Master Liang, do you mean that we continue to fight against Wuyang County?"

Guo Shanliang said: "Yes. Lord Baizhai, 6 taels of silver is indeed an astonishing wealth. Whoever gets this money will be satisfied, but...we don't have much food, and there is food in Wuyang County !"

As soon as this remark came out, the white-fronted tiger was speechless.This year's wheat harvest is poor again, and the life of the common people is difficult, and the life of being a bandit is also difficult. In the past, just robbing a few towns was enough for thousands of people to eat for half a month. Now?They ransacked many villages, but found few grains of food.If there is no food, no matter how much money you rob, it is useless. Money cannot be used as food. If the officers and soldiers surround the mountain, they can only guard a large pile of silver to drink the northwest wind.If they wanted to live a good life for a few months, they still had to grab a large amount of grain, and there happened to be tens of thousands of shi of grain in the Wuyang Thousand Households Office, enough for them to squander them for two years!After making up his mind, the white-fronted tiger said: "Okay, let's continue to fight forward, grab a batch of food and go back to Tongbai Mountain!"

Little Jiaolong was a little worried: "Is it too risky to go deep into Wuyang territory? Officers and soldiers..."

The white-fronted tiger snorted and interrupted: "The officers and soldiers dare not come out to fight us at all! If the poor soldiers from the Wuyang Qianhu Station dare to come out, I don't need your masters to do it, and my three hundred cavalry can kill them It's all clean!"

Several village owners smiled.Although the white-fronted tiger is arrogant, what he said is true. The combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers of the guard station is really scum. To describe them as "fighting five scum" is to praise them. How can such rubbish be their opponents!Crossing the mountain ridge, he shouted: "Let's go when we have enough fun. There is more money and more food in the county town waiting for us to get it!"

"Go to the county seat!"

"Break the county seat, everyone have a good year!"

"Let's go, if you walk fast, you will eat meat, if you walk slowly, you will only eat ashes!"

Thousands of bandits howled like ghosts, picked up their blood-stained weapons, and marched towards the county seat in a chaotic manner.They were so numerous and in chaotic formation that they looked like a swarm of passing locusts!

Ji Youcai walked into Liu Jintang's study with a smug smile, and bowed down: "My lord, everything has been properly arranged!"

Liu Jintang was painting, when he heard this, he raised his head and asked, "Really?"

Ji Youcai said: "Yes, my lord! The students have contacted a total of eleven village owners including Bai-fronted tiger, Zijinxing, Guashanliang, Xiaojiaolong, Heixuanfeng, Mantianxing, etc., and they all expressed that they would definitely snatch Wuyang If that kid dares to come out to fight, they will wring his head off and let the lord vent his anger!" He said excitedly: "They are walking around day and night, and they have already approached Wuyang County without anyone noticing. Territory, I will definitely catch someone surnamed Yang by surprise! If that kid fights with the gangsters, he will definitely die. If he avoids fighting, the adults can punish him severely for the crime of fearing the enemy and avoiding fighting, leaving him speechless. explain!"

Liu Jintang grinned twice, and said: "Let's sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. No matter who loses or wins, it will only benefit us, and there will be no harm...Yang Menglong, you don't pay attention to this old man, let's see how I deal with you !”

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The army marched forward for more than forty miles, and there was smoke and dust billowing on the avenue in front of them, and the sound of crying and shouting was piercing. Looking closely, it turned out that a large number of ordinary people fled to the county town with their families and families.They all escaped from the direction of Biyang, which confirmed Cheng Ji's words, because refugees are the early warning signal of the enemy's attack, and refugees can always rush into one's own defense line before the enemy.These ordinary people must have been terrified. They all fled desperately. The children could not find their parents, the mothers could not find their children, and the old people had no one to rely on, crying loudly all the way.Seeing an army marching against the tide of refugees, the gunpoints stood awe-inspiring, and the crying stopped abruptly. All the refugees stared at the mighty army approaching in a daze, unable to believe their eyes.They knew how the military households in the Wuyang Thousand Households Office were dying, and if they were sent to fight the bandits, they would flee if the bandits were still fifty miles away. You don't even need the magistrate to come to threaten and lure you?Evil door!They dodged to the side of the road in panic, and some pretty women hid in the crowd like ostriches. Experience told them that officers and soldiers are not much better than bandits, and even worse than bandits. If you don't pay attention, you will suffer!Fortunately, as if they hadn't seen them, the officers and soldiers marched forward in three columns, with their heads held high and their chests held high, and more than 1000 shoes were raised and lowered at the same time. , stepping out of a strange rhythm, the whole army is as neat as marching between two straight ropes.This kind of silence made people feel at ease. When the troops passed by about halfway, the common people became more courageous and talked a lot:

"Who led these soldiers? Military discipline is so strict, so many people, but no one said a word or even looked at us!"

"Don't you know? They belonged to Wuyang Qianhu! The new Yang Qianhu was terrible. He led a group of useless military households in Dingxing to kill more than 1000 Tartars. Commander of the Wuyang Guard, these are all soldiers trained by him!"

"It would be great if every officer and soldier was like them! A few more troops with such strict military discipline, do we still need to suffer so much?"

"I don't know if they can beat the bandits..."

"Nonsense, you can tell by their aura that they are a team of tigers and wolves. Those mobs are no match for Master Yang!"

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At the end of the refugee flow was the soaring flames rising from the burning villages and towns. Seeing more and more pillars of smoke rising high, Yang Menglong's expression turned extremely ugly.Wuyang Guard's responsibility is to defend the three counties of Wuyang, Biyang, and Tongbai to protect the environment and the people. If these bastards dare to come to his jurisdiction to burn, kill and loot, wouldn't that be a slap in the face for him!You bastards, since you chose to come to my jurisdiction to make trouble, you have to be mentally prepared to face my monstrous wrath --- you all will die to me!Don't write the word Yang upside down for you to kill me!

When the sun was setting, a group of scouts came galloping from the direction of Shahe, and they had already found the main force of the bandits.

(End of this chapter)