Chapter 2205

Of course Yuan Tao is not a timid person, but he will never let his brothers risk their lives for these profit-seeking Yangzhou salt merchants. If he leaves the bunker and takes the initiative to attack in such a dark night, he will completely give up the hard-earned construction.

If you take advantage of the environment, your opponent may take the opportunity to plot against you.

It’s not that the Dai brothers don’t understand this truth, but of course they hope that the Haihan armed personnel who spent a lot of money to hire will not only serve as guards in Daijiazhuang, but also deal a heavy blow to their opponents. If they want to attack the opponent’s territory

That's okay, they also know that the little money they spent can't win over the Haihan people, but now that the other party has come knocking on the door, it would be a bit unwilling for them to sit back and watch such a great opportunity slip away from their eyes.

Dai Yingda said: "Shop Manager Yuan, if you just let them go, it will be a big hidden danger after all. Maybe they will come again tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. As the saying goes, you can only be a thief for a thousand days. How can you prevent a thief for a thousand days? You have to let them eat it."

Only through pain can we remember the lesson! Today, the other party does not know our details. The opportunity is rare, so we must take action when it is time to take action!"

Yuan Tao responded: "If they come to attack during the day, then it's okay for me to summon my brothers to fight with them outside the village. But if we attack at this time and fight them, it's pitch black ten feet away. How can we guarantee that we can defeat them?"

Achieving an effective attack? Besides, if we want to take the initiative, the intersection leading out of the village will become a clear target. Then the opponent only needs to hide in the darkness and fire at the intersection, and we will become the target of being slaughtered!

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Compared with these civilians, Yuan Tao, who has military and combat experience, obviously has a more accurate judgment of the situation. In the current environment, whoever takes action first will fall into passivity. Yuan Tao sees this very clearly. If

Not considering the identity of these salt merchants' financial backers, he didn't even want to explain this superficial military common sense.

Of course, it is very possible that these salt merchants did not take into account the issues he mentioned, but simply wanted the men of Jindun to take action for them to kill a few more enemies. Recall that Dai Yingfan also served in the Ming army.

, Yuan Tao was able to conclude more and more that they were deliberately pretending to be confused and wanted to force him to take action.

But Yuan Tao will not be affected by them. He knows his mission very well, and he also knows that the group of people who came to attack Daijiazhuang tonight are by no means mediocre. A rash attack will not only put his troops in danger, but also put his troops in danger.

This may lead to the collapse of Daijiazhuang's defense system. Therefore, he insisted on standing still and never created any opportunities for his opponents to take advantage of.

While he was talking, Yuan Tao's men had already come to report that the spies sent by the other party to climb over the wall and enter the house had all been captured. However, in order to ensure that these people would not send out warning signals, they did not leave any room for action.

He was directly wiped on the neck and died before he could even make a sound.

Yuan Tao's idea of ​​constructing a defense system in Daijiazhuang is to reduce the number of entrances to the village as much as possible and ensure that every passage is under the tight control of the defender. Therefore, he also expected that the opponent would be aware of the danger of the entrance to the village.

After that, he found another way and dispatched a few experts in advance to wait in the houses on the left and right of the intersection, waiting for the other party to send people to climb over the wall and come in to investigate.

These people climbed over the wall and went in. After landing, they were grabbed from behind and had their throats cut before they could even see the furnishings in the courtyard.

Xie Liang waited outside for a long time but received no reply. Knowing that something was wrong, he contacted Xun Fen again and asked the musketeers under his command to cover his retreat. However, Xun Fen refused his request and insisted on letting Xie Liang command his troops to rush forward.

This is the entrance to the village.

"Brother Jie, we're all here. We can't go back without firing a shot!" Xun Fen rushed over to meet him, but continued to urge him to take action: "If we don't make some noise, we won't be able to give anything to the boss when we go back.

Tell me! Send some brothers to go inside first. If we really can’t get in, it won’t be too late for us to retreat!”

Xie Liang knew that what Xun Fen said was indeed true. Lu Kangtai offered such a high reward, and it must depend on the results. Someone must die before he can defeat his opponent.

So Jie Liang immediately mobilized fifty people and asked them to go to Zhuangzi from this intersection. The remaining people still gathered at the intersection and waited. In order to avoid exposing their whereabouts, they could not light any lighting objects and could only follow the wall.

Walk into the depths of Zhuangzi in the dark and see if you can find other entrances or forks along the way.

These people walked a little further into Zhuangzi, only to find that both sides of the road were still tightly closed, with no other route to choose from.

After they marched to a specific position, there was a sudden flash of fire in the darkness ahead, and noisy gunfire sounded at the same time, and then several people fell to the ground. When they realized that there were several muskets in front of them,

After firing at him, about half of the people fell into the dense hail of bullets.

In such a narrow passage, there was almost no room to dodge or hide on either side. In addition to the continuous shooting from the front, only a handful of people who chose to lie down in the first place were lucky enough to escape the hail of bullets. They tried to turn around and escape or

None of the people who bravely rushed forward to kill were spared, and they all fell in a pool of blood.

The gunshots came suddenly and stopped very quickly. Those waiting at the intersection had just realized that a firefight was taking place ahead. Before they had time to figure out whether to reinforce their companions in the passage, the battle had come to an end.

The other end of the passage was still dark and no movement could be seen, but most of the fifty people who had just entered the passage were dead or injured. Those waiting outside the village could clearly hear the screams and moans of the injured companions, as well as

The smell of blood wafted in the air, but no one dared to rush into the death tunnel to rescue their companions.

"The dog thieves in Daijiazhuang are really well prepared!" Xie Liang said bitterly, but he was secretly glad that his judgment was correct, so he did not personally lead the team to fight the first battle, otherwise he might have fallen inside by this time.

, even his own life was involved.

"It's the Haihan people!" Xun Fen had already heard some clues from the gunshots fired just now.

The gunfire just now was dense but not messy. There was a short interval between each round of gunfire. As far as he knew, this was obviously a level that a well-trained musketeer team could achieve. These musketeers under his command may not be able to perform in actual combat.

With such neat firing, it was obvious that those who were ambushing at the other end of this passage were the Haihan people.

Send musketeers into the passage to confront the opponent head-on? Xun Fen would not choose this approach. He did not know the situation at the other end of the passage. It is likely that the opponent had built a bunker in advance, so that he could rush into the passage and aim at the invisible side.

A random bombardment in a certain place will not only fail to kill the enemy, but will expose one's own side and become a living target for the opponent's musketeers.

The battle plan they drew up in advance was to sneak into Daijiazhuang in a stealth state, control several key locations in the village, and then attack together. Although they had made a plan that the Haihan people would participate in the resistance, the current situation was obviously far away.

exceeded their expectations.

The reconnaissance information on Daijiazhuang was seriously insufficient beforehand, which caused them to encounter great difficulties in the first step of trying to enter Daijiazhuang. The Haihan people in Zhuangzi took action without any warning, which made them even more difficult.

When I came up, I kicked the iron plate.

Just now Xun Fen insisted on testing the reality of this passage, but this time the ambush inside was really drawn out, and he didn't know what to do.

"Brother Xun, the matter has been exposed. We should evacuate this place as soon as possible. We don't want to be intercepted here!" Xie Liang became anxious when he saw that Xun Fen had judged that there was an ambush from the Haihan people inside but could not come up with a countermeasure.

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Xun Fen said: "Is it too hasty to give up now? Maybe we should explore whether there are other nearby ways to enter the village?"

Xie Liang said anxiously: "Brother Xun is confused! Since they set up an ambush here in advance, they are sure that we will enter the village from here. How can they leave you any other way to go? Even if there is, it must be the same as here.

It’s a trap that was set a long time ago!”

If it hadn't been for many years of friendship, Xie Liang would have lost patience with Xun Fen long ago. Unfortunately, the protagonist of this operation was the musketeers commanded by Xun Fen, and he could not abandon Xun Fen and declare a retreat on his own.

Xie Liang believed that Daijiazhuang had set up an ambush to invite you to enter the urn, and there must be something behind it. If he didn't retreat quickly, he might not be able to leave. But Xun Fen was still thinking about how to complete this mission, even though he knew that his opponent was already on guard.

Still unwilling to give up.

"Brother Xie, if we can capture Daijiazhuang, you and I will have enough food and clothing for the rest of our lives. Do you really not want to try again?"

"Brother Xun, if you keep the green hills, don't worry about running out of firewood. In my opinion, if you don't retreat quickly, you and I may not even be able to survive the rest of our lives!"

Xie Liang urged repeatedly, and finally Xun Fen changed his mind. However, many people were still dissatisfied with leaving their injured companions in the passage. The team lingered outside Zhuangzi for a long time before slowly walking along.

They retreated back to the river bank where they landed.

Yuan Tao and others who were supervising the battle in Zhuangzi soon received the report. Although the Dai brothers fully hoped that Yuan Tao would order to pursue the retreating enemies, Yuan Tao's orders were still very conservative, and they only asked people to step up surveillance.

The opponent's movements ensure that they evacuate the south bank of the canal without killing another carbine.

"Shop Manager Yuan, why don't we let my men from Dai's village go out to pursue them, so as to teach those thieves a lesson!" Dai Yingfan couldn't hold himself back any longer and took the initiative to request Yuan Tao to fight.

Yuan Tao said: "Keep your measure in mind. Don't chase the bad guys. Don't let them bite you back!"

When Dai Yingfan saw Yuan Tao relent, he immediately gathered his troops. He had already seen that although these Haihan people were paid to do things, they would not really work for Daijiazhuang.

To end it completely, you still have to rely on yourself in the end.

An hour ago, when the opponent was still crossing the river, Daijiazhuang had noticed it and prepared for the battle in advance. The young men in Zhuangzi had also gathered early. It was only at this time that they finally got the order to attack.

However, the passage had not been cleared at this time, and there were still many intruders in it, so the attacking team took another route, exiting from the Daijiazhuang gate in the north, and then detoured to pursue the retreating enemies.

Yuan Tao ordered people to light lights and clear out the enemies in the passage first. The few people who were lucky enough not to be shot earlier had already taken advantage of the short time after the ceasefire to sneak out. At this time, the people still in the passage were very

They were immediately injured, and basically lost their ability to resist, and they were all under control very quickly.

"Boss Dai, how are these people going to deal with it?" Seeing that the situation had been decided, Yuan Tao took the initiative to seek Dai Yingda's opinion.

Dai Yingda said: "If we report it to the official, the other party will probably spend money to calm the situation. After all, we will not be able to sue them, and it will be of no benefit to us. I plan to call all the family heads after dawn to review the results of tonight's battle.

Then all the survivors will be executed, what does Shopkeeper Yuan think?"

Yuan Tao nodded and said: "In this way, all seven major surnames will participate, and no one will dare to sway back and forth!"

When Dai Yingda saw that Yuan Tao had seen through his purpose, he simply said it bluntly: "Even if these people are handed over to the government, they will be silenced very quickly. We can't keep them. It's better to use them to scare the monkeys and make our Huizhou salt

From now on, Shang Neng will unite as one to overcome the difficulties."

Dai Yingda's words were beautiful, but in fact he just wanted to use these people as sacrifices. On the one hand, as Yuan Tao said, it can unite the seven surnames and no longer waver between war and peace; on the other hand, as Yuan Tao said,

This can also be used to further consolidate Dai Yingda's position among the Huizhou salt merchants.

As for these dozens of lives, he knew that the other party would definitely not take the initiative to report it to the government, so no matter how he dealt with it, there would be no trouble from the Yamen.

Of course, before taking action, you still have to ask for confessions and squeeze out as much useful information as possible from these people. This task is done by Jindun. They have to complete the investigation before dawn.

More than a dozen people captured alive were interrogated.

However, most of these prisoners have not received special anti-interrogation training. In addition, they are already injured and their psychological condition is very fragile, so interrogation will not be too difficult.

The troops led by Dai Yingfan had a brief battle with the retreating opponents by the canal. Dai Yingfan, who wanted to intercept the opponent, suffered a small loss and lost seven men in the battle. In the end, he failed.

Stop your opponents and watch them board the boat and cross the river.

Of course, Dai Yingfan was not without success. During the pursuit, he killed five opponents and captured five others alive. This was considered a small achievement, but it was probably far from his expected goal.

Compared with the result of Jindun's ambush in the village, which resulted in more than 20 deaths and more than 10 injuries, this kind of result is really a bit shabby. When Dai Yingfan came back, he could only claim that he had injured many enemies with his sword and bow, but he failed to intercept him in the end.

Let these wounded escape on the ship, otherwise the results of the battle should be more impressive.
Chapter completed!