Seeing that Lu Xu was very ungrateful and beat the village unilaterally with only returning cannons, Pei Junxiong knew that Lu Xu was much more cautious than he thought. Looking at the cowardly looks of all his men, Pei Junxiong
Feeling that it was useless even if he stayed here any longer, he simply retreated to the main stronghold and watched the battle from a distance.
After he left, the person in charge of the battle in No. 1 Village became a small leader named Guo Hai.
Theoretically speaking, the bandits are a group where all the people are soldiers. But in fact, most of the time, the bandits are not able to be soldiers. After all, the bandits have formed a small society, and there are also some people in this small society.
The old, weak, women and children.
Even the women and children among the bandits can be trained into qualified warriors, but the old and the weak cannot go to the battlefield.
However......
Bandits are a small society with the wolf as their totem. They believe in the law of the jungle, which is like a wolf. When they were besieged by the Longmen Escort Agency, the law of the jungle quickly came into effect, and the old and weak in the village were eliminated first.
As for the methods of elimination... those are methods that even history books cannot bear to record.
In short, there is basically no one who can't fight in the bandit village now. The entire bandit village has about 10,000 people who can fight, of which the main village naturally has to leave heavy troops for defense. Pei Junxiong left about 5,000 people
in hand.
Pei Junxiong assigned about 1,500 troops to each of the remaining three hills to defend them. In No. 1 Village, Guo Hai was the leader of these 1,500 troops.
The reason why he can be placed here by Pei Junxiong is because he is one of the people that Pei Junxiong distrusts the most.
Pei Junxiong always felt that Guo Hai was plotting against him behind his back. At the same time, Pei Junxiong also felt that it was impossible for Lu Xu to accept the surrender of the bandits so early. Even if Lu Xu had the idea of surrendering them, Lu Xu would have to fight first
It's a tough battle. We must first completely defeat the bandits.
Because only by completely defeating the bandits, and after Lu Xu recruits them, can he manipulate them at will. Otherwise, Lu Xu will just recruit a bunch of uncles to go back.
After all, Lu Xu is now the party with the absolute advantage. Pei Junxiong really can't figure out why Lu Xu wants to recruit a group of uncles to go back to him? So he concludes that even if Guo Hai wants to surrender to Lu Xu, it is impossible!
In fact, his judgment was not wrong. This Guo Hai was indeed the leader of several small bosses who were connecting in private. It was not wrong for Pei Junxiong to put Guo Hai here.
After Pei Junxiong left, Guo Hai looked at the two or three kittens under his command, and then looked at the powerful Wei'anbao Army and the escorts from the Longmen Escort Bureau outside. He immediately gave up.
His envoy soon arrived in front of Luo Yingyan's formation.
Hearing that someone in the village wanted to surrender to him, Lu Xu felt very calm. He just asked: "Have you made any conditions?"
Luo Yingyan said: "I mentioned it."
Lu Xu said: "Then kill the envoy."
Zhang Yan said: "Sir, I think this mountain is so steep. Even if we can capture this stronghold, we will probably suffer heavy losses. Since someone wants to surrender, why don't we accept it?"
Lu Xu said: "These bandits are already broken from the core! If they don't want to repent, no matter where they go, they will be a hidden danger in the future."
"If they sincerely repent and are willing to atone for their past crimes, then they should not ask me for conditions. Since they have asked me for conditions, it means that they have no intention of repenting at all. The so-called surrender is just a situation.
It’s just forced.”
"This village is indeed difficult to fight! But I, Lu Xu, am not a fool. You want me to give up my principles for such a group of people? That is simply impossible!"
Zhang Yan is a Jianghu person at heart. What Jianghu people pay attention to is to keep a line in life so that they can meet each other easily in the future. Even when he wanted to besiege Lu Xu, he showed that he was very aware of current affairs. Such a person cannot understand Lu Xu
of persistence.
However, he was also a smart man. From Lu Xu's words, he had already heard that it was impossible for Lu Xu to change his mind, so he stopped persuading him.
Soon, Guo Hai received news that his envoy had been killed.
As a result, not only did this move not scare him, but it actually aroused his ferocity. He smashed the wine bowl in his hand and shouted: "That's too much!"
"I've already become so arrogant, but Lu Xu still doesn't appreciate it! If he doesn't take me seriously, I must make him look good!"
His brothers originally wanted to surrender, but now they saw that Lu Xu had closed the door to surrender. Listening to their boss's bold words, they could only muster up the courage to follow him and shout: "Fight to the end!"
The bandits were very powerful, but in reality the battle on the first day was far from exciting. Before the wall of No. 1 Village was completely destroyed, Lu Xu was not prepared to launch an attack rashly.
So on the first day of the offensive, Lu Xu basically spent it throwing stones non-stop. This situation was relatively common in ancient times!
Early the next morning, Lu Xu came directly to "double the firepower", and the three returning artillery pieces became six.
The Wei'anbao Army, with more powerful firepower, simply launched a saturation attack on the small No. 1 Village!
The No. 1 village, which had been "bombed" continuously by Lu Xu for a day, had become fragmented and could no longer hold on at noon the next day. The wall of the No. 1 village facing Lu Xu and the others had been almost completely destroyed by six gates.
Flattened with cannon fire.
When Han Yidou gave the order and all the return artillery stopped moving, the battlefield suddenly fell into a dead silence!
The bandits held their breath, thinking that Lu Xu was definitely going to launch an attack. Some of the men assigned to control the rolling logs and rocks were shaking with their hands. However, there was only silence on the battlefield, and the Wei'anbao army seemed to have no reaction at all.
Because Lu Xu was observing, after losing the cover of the village wall, the defensive power of Village No. 1 was almost completely exposed to Lu Xu.
Just as Lu Xu expected, a certain number of rolling logs and rocks were indeed gathered in No. 1 Village, but the number was not too large.
In fact, this is understandable, because for the bandits, this defensive battle was unexpected.
For more than two hundred years, the bandits have never thought of fighting an offensive and defensive battle with the government troops in their own mountain stronghold. Therefore, they naturally would not prepare for rolling logs and stones.
Similarly, there are not many resources for making rolling wood and stone in their village. Because the interior of their village has been developed into a suitable place for living, the raw materials that can be used to make rolling wood and stone are all in their village.
outside the village.
And when they realized that they were going to fight a battle to defend the city, they were blocked in the stronghold by the Longmen Escort Bureau. This made it impossible for them to find a suitable one even if they wanted to prepare more rolling logs and rocks.