In order to solve the supply problem, Yang Peng was forced to pull out the original backbone, and handed over all the recruit training to his eldest brother Zhang Xiang. Zhang Xiang's characteristics are not outstanding, and he usually doesn't talk much. But he has the best patience and is very patient with anyone.
Everyone can be "sincere". Of course, he also gets angry sometimes. For example, if you can't complete the training task, Zhao Xiang's old face will fall, which is enough for you to drink a pot. He won't scold you, let alone hit you.
Let me explain to you. Once he shows off his Big Brother style and starts from "Think about the past, I was back then", he can talk from morning to night and make you surrender automatically.
Yang Peng often talks to his brothers: "The biggest treasure in our team is Big Brother Zhang Xiang. Without his support from behind, we wouldn't be where we are today. You can be like a man and a devil, and Big Brother's hard work is not worth it."
I'm inside. You can scold me, but whoever dares to be disrespectful to big brother Zhang Xiang, be careful I turn my back on you!" Because of Zhang Xiang's comprehensive support, in peaceful days, Yang Peng slowly turned into a dumper.
The shopkeeper stared at the map hanging on the stone wall all day long.
It was early September, and it was the busy farming season in the Song Dynasty. After more than two months of constant running, the six groups purchasing supplies finally raised enough food and salt for hundreds of people to last for two years. Zhang Xiang
He was not idle for two months. In addition to formal military training, he led the new soldiers to expand the secret camp. Because the original cave was halfway up the mountain, it was often inconvenient, so after research, Zhang Xiang led the new soldiers to dig a new cave at the foot of the mountain.
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Yang Peng personally drew a sketch of the excavation plan, requesting that it be conducive to defense and retreat. As a result, the underground maze turned into four cave entrances, one entrance and three exits. One of the entrances was hidden in the middle of a cliff, and six ropes were usually prepared.
In the event of an emergency, you can use these ropes to escape. Iron miners are very skilled at digging caves, and they have completed the task in three months. Everyone usually moves halfway up the mountain, so that outsiders can see
Missing. But the stored supplies are all in the cave at the foot of the mountain. All the bows and arrows originally stored in the Baiyunding cave have been moved here, and half of the sixty boxes of arrowheads have been brought over. Baiyunding only left thirty boxes of arrows in case of emergencies.
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The three-dimensional defense plan conceived by Yang Peng has basically taken shape. The core position is the crossbow originally equipped for the cooking squad. Now it has become the crossbow on duty for the secret camp. It is in a bunker in the middle of the only passage into the cave. This bunker is not
It was not built out of a fortress, but dug out, and there were two people on duty 24 hours a day. With food in hand, there was no panic in mind.
Yang Peng's mood finally improved when he saw the food being stored in the warehouse. Unfortunately, God did not follow his wishes, and he was only happy for three days. Suddenly, a piece of news that made him furious suddenly came! That night, Liu Zhiliang came back from reconnaissance outside.
His face was red and swollen, and his face was ashen. He gave Yang Peng a piece of news that almost made him faint from anger!
It turns out that Liu Zhiliang has always had a soft spot for Pialing Town. On the one hand, Yang Peng let his eight brothers live and eat in an inn for half a month. Not only did they improve their health, but they also started to cause trouble together.
This led to today's situation. On the other hand, when he was in the first temporary station, all his things were brought back from Pialing Town.
Because of this, Liu Zhiliang would go to Pialing Town to visit the owners of inns and tailor shops whenever he had the opportunity. He had never stopped doing so for more than a year, and the fellow villagers in Pialing Town also liked this young man. Although not
We all know what Liu Zhiliang does, but everyone is willing to get close to him and tell him any news. Last night, when Liu Zhiliang returned from Xintun, he took another detour to Pialing Town and found that there were more than 20 households in the town.
People hung mourning in front of their door, and there was a lot of mourning! When he found the innkeeper and asked about it, Liu Zhiliang almost exploded his lungs!
It turns out that the owner of the tailor shop has a son and a daughter. The 15-year-old son is studying in a private school in Yingzhou, and the 13-year-old daughter usually helps at home. All in all, the family of four in the tailor shop is still in the middle of nowhere in Pialing Town.
At an upper level, my life was fine. What's worse is that my eldest son was caught working as a laborer on his way home from vacation today! However, after all, he has been studying for many years and has a lot of ideas. He escaped at midnight six days ago and returned home. The old man
When the couple heard that the arrested laborer had escaped again, they knew something was wrong and hurriedly hid their son in a small cave in the back mountain.
Unexpectedly, the afternoon before yesterday, fifteen men in black suddenly came to Pingling Town and broke into the tailor shop to arrest them. Since they didn't find the shopkeeper's son, those bastards were going to arrest the old tailor to make up for their loss. During the struggle between the two sides,
The thirteen-year-old daughter rushed out to reason with the men in black. Not only did she not help, but she caused a disaster! The fifteen bastards tied the old couple to the gate and dragged the little girl to the street.
Stripped naked and fucked to death in public!
The half-grown boy who was hiding in the back mountain heard his sister's heart-wrenching cries. He couldn't bear it anymore, so he ran home from the cave and fought fifteen beasts with a hoe. In the end, he was shot to death by random arrows!
The old tailor and his wife had already bitten their tongues and committed suicide when their daughter was brutally murdered. In this way, the loyal family of four was exterminated! Snap!
Yang Peng was so angry that he smashed a big hole in the long table with one palm. Then he roared: "Who are those bastards? Where did they come from?"
"Brother, don't worry, the origins of those beasts have been found out!" Liu Zhiliang took a deep breath, and then said: "They are all subordinates of Cui Futing, a big boss, and they are currently repairing the road on the front line of Niuxintai."
This Cui Futing was not created by man!"
It turns out that Cui Futing, the big boss, made his fortune by exploiting commissions from contract workers. He was originally just a labor and accounting clerk for a Khitan contracting team, and later relied on the Khitan Ye Qi Helong to establish Yihexiang.
Daqi, through bribery, contracted from the Khitan the road from Yingzhou to Yingzhou, mining, road construction, bridges, highways and other civil engineering projects in the Yingzhou mining area.
At its peak, Yihexiang Large Cabinet had more than 10,000 tenants. Cui Futing subcontracted the project layer by layer to Zhong and Xiaobantou. Each small number usually had 20 workers. When Xiaobantou arrived at Yihexiang Large Cabinet for settlement,
A layer of the total salary must be allocated to Cui Futing. In less than three years, Cui Futing went from being penniless to having assets of 2 million taels of silver at that time.
Cui Futing himself cannibalizes people without spitting out their bones, and his subordinates at all levels follow the same example. They are all inhumane bastards! He obtained an iron ore mining right from the Khitan people, and then subcontracted it to
The little boss’s name is Lu Qixiang.
The job assigned by Lu Qixiang was four cents for each cubic meter of iron ore dug, and the money he paid to the miners was nine copper coins for each cart of coal dug. Not to mention, Lu Qixiang always showed up every month
There are many celebrations, and workers must follow the party. It’s useless if you don’t follow the party, because they have already deducted it from your wages!
It is said that a strong laborer can earn ten daizi a day, which is about forty-five copper coins a month, but in fact this is far from the case! Less than ten people can earn one or twenty copper coins a year.
One percent, and they still owe money. Most of the workers can only make ends meet, and the remaining workers have worked hard for a year, but they can’t cover the food expenses and instead owe Lu Qixiang money for food!
Therefore, people who find themselves deceived or forcibly captured will try their best to escape. For this reason, Lu Qixiang has maintained fifty or sixty nursing homes to deal with escaped workers. According to villagers familiar with the situation, Lu Qixiang once
One time, ninety-seven workers were executed in public by the Taizi River on the charge of gathering a crowd to cause trouble!
The fifteen miscellaneous people who appeared this time were Lu Qixiang's men, who specialized in road construction and maintenance, and another little leader named Qiu Wancai! According to Liu Zhiliang's reconnaissance across the river, Lu Qixiang and Qiu Wancai are now responsible for repairing the roads in the Niuxintai area.
Lu, he has more than 130 workers. But Qiu Wancai supports more than 50 thugs!
"Okay, okay!" Yang Peng laughed angrily: "These damn bastards are so impatient that they dare to act recklessly around me! Shi Liancheng, notify the brothers above the deputy squad leader to come over to me immediately for a meeting
!" The meeting only had two contents. The first was to listen to Liu Zhiliang's briefing. Before Liu Zhiliang finished speaking, the whole cave was already turned upside down! This was Zhao Jinxi's first time to participate in a formal combat meeting, and it was also his first time to hear such a situation.
What a tragic disaster! For a moment, she became so powerful that she immediately took out her crossbow and slapped it on the conference table: "What are you guys still talking about here? Why don't you hurry up and kill them!"
"Sister, sit down!" Although Zhang Xiang was so angry that he had blue veins on his head, he could still keep his composure: "Since everyone has convened a meeting, there will naturally be a charter. Cui Futing will not talk about it for now, but Qiu Wancai has one
There are more than fifty people. We need to make a careful calculation and not act hastily." "Brothers, be quiet!" Yang Peng pointed at the map and said: "If we want to get to Niuxintai on time, the biggest problem we face is the Taizi River.
!The retreat route is also very difficult, because we must capture the culprit alive this time!"
"So I ordered: Zhang Xiang leads the first squad and the communications squad to rush to the Sanjiatai front line in the southeast of Pingling Town within three days. Your main task is to help us cross the river when we retreat. This is the top priority
", there must be no mistake!" "The third team of Duan Zhixian and Liu Zhiliang took all the equipment and set off immediately after the meeting. The target was Zhengjiaji. On the one hand, they set up the front station, and on the other hand, they searched for the crossing point and raised two boats as backup. Cheng Shijie and
Zhou Dayong's second squad will follow me. The cooking squad is responsible for the defense of the secret camp, but now we have to make three days' worth of dry food immediately! Dismiss the meeting and prepare separately!"
Yang Peng knew that this time was different from the past. The previous times were ambushes. This was the first frontal attack by a small force. With the addition of several new soldiers, the coordination of the battle was not known. I was angry.
, get angry again. Once engaged in combat, commanders at all levels must be calm-minded. Everyone worked separately. Yang Peng was alone in thinking hard about the map, and kept gesticulating on the map with his hands. Maybe he was too involved.
I don’t know when Zhao Jinxi came in or how he sat next to him.
Zhao Jinxi was also very immersed in watching, but she did not look at the map, but stared at Yang Peng for a moment! What Yang Peng was worried about was not how to annihilate Lu Qixiang, but about a hundred households team of the Yingzhou Khitan army! From Yingzhou
The straight-line distance to Niuxintai is only more than 20 miles, and the road along the road is only more than 40 miles. In other words, once the battle starts, it must be resolved within an hour. If the fight becomes a stalemate, the Khitan
If you ride out on horseback, you can reach the battlefield in an hour.
Although the brothers under his command were not a ragtag group, they were still far different from the well-trained Khitan army. A head-on confrontation would definitely be doomed. After careful planning for a long time, Yang Peng realized that he had too few available troops.
After arranging reinforcements for one squad, only one squad and one crossbow squad of 20 people were left to attack. In terms of firepower density, it was pretty good, and three crossbows were enough to kill the opponent.
With a bang, Yang Peng suddenly punched the table, which made Zhao Jinxi jump up in fright. Only then did Yang Peng realize that there was a beautiful woman sitting next to him, and he immediately became a little unhappy: "Hey, when are you coming here?"
Yes, why didn't you follow Big Brother? Do you know the consequences of disobeying military orders?"
"Who disobeyed the military order? Who disobeyed the military order?" Zhao Jinxi straightened his chest and pushed it directly against Yang Peng's chest: "I have been ordered by Big Brother to come here to be your personal bodyguard!" "Be my bodyguard!"
?Are you kidding me?" Yang Peng didn't believe Zhao Jinxi's words. Based on his skills, he might be safer if he didn't have personal bodyguards. Zhang Xiang is so cunning, how could he do such an ulterior thing?
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Zhao Jinxi ignored Yang Peng's words at all: "Believe it or not, I came here under orders and followed you every step of the way. I did not violate military orders." "Haha, I understand!" Yang Peng suddenly slapped his head: "Good on you.
Zhang Xiang actually did this to me!" It turned out that Zhang Xiang was ordered to find a ferry, and Zhao Jinxi found him and asked to join the offensive force. Zhang Xiang suddenly thought that his brother liked to rush to the front the most, and he was really not like a commander.
Just give him a burden so that he won't ignore it. So he gave Zhao Jinxi a temporary order, and he came here, and he was confident.
Yang Peng and Zhang Xiang knew each other well. They were both "Mongolian doctors" and everyone knew the folk remedies they prescribed. So after a moment of confusion, Yang Peng saw through Zhang Xiang's treacherous plan. But now it is a fait accompli.
Zhang Xiang's treacherous plan has been a great success! Let's stop chatting and get back to the main story.
After a day and night of climbing over mountains and ridges, Yang Peng led a large force and finally arrived at the back mountain of Zhengjiaji in the evening of the next day. This was the scheduled rendezvous point, but Duan Zhixian was the only one here. Seeing Yang Peng's arrival, Duan Zhixian
He quickly stood up and reported: "Report to the head, we have found a place, the water depth is less than fifty centimeters. You can wade directly through the water, there is no need for a ferry!"
"God help me!" Yang Peng was overjoyed when he heard this: "Give me the order, let everyone rest and eat dry food on the spot, and wait for the next order!" Yang Peng took Cheng Shijie and Duan Zhixian to the front mountain where Liu Zhiliang was, because there you can overlook the Taizi River from a high place.
Of course, Zhao Jinxi strictly followed Zhang Xiang's orders and never left his side. After giving Yang Peng a headache, he continued to have headaches.
"Brother, come and see!" Liu Zhiliang saw Yang Peng arriving and shouted in a low voice: "The opposite side is Niuxin Terrace. I sneaked over to see it this afternoon. During dinner, all the little bosses and black-clothed
The thugs were all concentrated in the house next to the river in the courtyard with lights. Because the work shed was right in the middle of the courtyard, the workers had no chance to escape even if they wanted to."
Bai Shujie stared at the other side of the river and asked casually: "How many people are there specifically, and what are their weapons and equipment?" Liu Zhidian nodded and said, "In order to guard the workers, Lu Qixiang actually got a crossbow. It was placed in the northwest corner of the courtyard wall.
Go up, specifically to monitor the door of the labor shed. As for the other people, there are about forty people in total, less than fifty. They all have long knives, and no long guns were found."
Bai Shujie said in a deep voice: "Shijie, in an hour, you will lead the second squad to go west along the Taizi River and set up an ambush around ten miles away. Once the Khitan arrives for reinforcements, you will immediately send someone to notify me and give me
Block for ten minutes!, which is what you usually call about a quarter of an hour. If no Khitan comes, you will immediately withdraw and join us at the specified time."
"Zhixian, I'll leave the crossbow on the wall to you. You must not let him shoot an arrow!" After giving Duan Zhixian instructions alone, Bai Shujie then said sternly: "The other soldiers in the third squad will be commanded by Liu Zhiliang, and the crossbow group will follow me.
Take action, follow my orders and launch an attack!" Under Zhao Jinxi's reminder, when it was the third watch, Yang Peng shouted: "Inform brothers to check the equipment, don't make any noise, and follow me across the river!"
Duan Zhixian was right, the river water was only submerged above the knees. Although the river bed was bumpy, everyone was holding hands, and there were no accidents. It was early autumn, and the river water at night was quite chilly. But it was still refreshing.
Endurance will not affect crossing the river. Besides, the military orders have fallen like a mountain. Everyone is thinking about the battle that is about to start, and they are not in the mood to consider the problem of the river water.
"Pass to the back: Check your equipment quickly, step lightly and get ready to go up the embankment." Yang Peng pulled Zhao Jinxi by the waist and ran up, and the brothers behind him naturally followed suit. A few guys slipped and fell a few times, falling down.
It was nothing serious. Yang Peng climbed up the river embankment and saw the railway near the river. Across the road was the so-called "Taizi", which was just a relatively high flat land. It was a nearly square yard with long sides.
One hundred and fifty meters of walls form a large courtyard.
Except for a few sporadic dim lights in the yard, everything was pitch black. Because the enemy's crossbows were on the side of the road, Yang Peng had to take his troops to take a detour. Duan Zhixian was left in place, waiting for the opportunity to take down the enemy.
The enemy's crossbow. At about 1:30 in the middle of the night, Yang Peng had already touched the root of the southernmost courtyard wall. He looked up and saw that the wall was not very high. It looked like a wild beast, less than 1.6 meters. Yang Peng
I slowly poked my head out, and there was indeed a row of brick houses next to the southernmost wall. There were two men in black chatting at the door. These must be the guys on the night shift.
Yang Peng lowered his voice and ordered: "Liu Zhiliang and I went in first to kill the sentries. When the others heard Liu Zhiliang's greeting, they climbed over the wall from here. The two crossbows of the crossbow group were set up on the wall to specifically attack.
Enemies rushing out." After saying that, he pulled Liu Zhiliang up the mountain. When he saw Zhao Jinxi still wanting to follow him, Yang Peng glared and growled: "What nonsense! Just meet us here!"
Yang Peng and Liu Zhiliang took a detour up the hillside, and then went under the wall. Fortunately, for the sake of heat preservation, the house was not high. Yang Peng climbed to the roof without much effort, and then pulled Liu Zhiliang up again. He was crawling.
Arriving at the position near the gate, he was now looking down at the two men in black below. Originally, Yang Peng was going to use darts, but now the two people were directly below. The darts could only hit the top of the head, which could only guarantee a fatal hit.
But there is no guarantee that the enemy will not make any sound.
Jump down and restrain the enemy in an instant! There is no other way! Yang Peng made a gesture towards Liu Zhiliang, then pulled out a two-handed crossbow and flew down, with two hand crossbows pointed at the top door of a man in black.
My heart was shattered! "Pfft!" That's probably what a ripe watermelon sounded like. Liu Zhiliang did the same thing. He killed another man in black and then slowly placed the two corpses on the ground.
Yang Peng opened the crossbow with both hands to guard the door, and at the same time monitored the two side doors on the left and right. There was no sound inside the room, and the slight snoring was still very even. Liu Zhiliang walked to the courtyard wall with his hands and feet, and greeted the soldiers.
Then one climbed over the wall and entered.
All the personnel were divided into three groups, led by Yang Peng, Liu Zhiliang and Zhao Jinxi respectively, and watched all three doors to death. Yang Peng then pushed open the door and ducked in, and the five soldiers behind filed in and dispersed.
There is actually a kang inside, with their heads facing out and their feet facing in. One by one, they are arranged neatly. On the walls on both sides of the door, there are neatly hung long knives. Eighteen on each side
There were thirty-six people in total. Yang Peng waved his hand, and the two soldiers quickly collected all the long knives on the wall and took them outside.
Leaving four soldiers at the door to monitor the dreaming bastards, Yang Peng first came to the door of the room on the right controlled by Zhao Jinxi. The situation was exactly the same, Zhao Jinxi had already taken control of the situation. This room was small, with only four people in it, but there were
Six-hand crossbow.
"Whoosh!"
There was an arrow sound from the room controlled by Liu Zhiliang, and then a scream was heard, followed by a chaos, and then a soldier was helped out. Yang Peng didn't know what happened, so he quickly shouted: "
The bastards in the room, listen up, come out one by one with your hands on your head, and beat anyone who moves to death!"
After a period of commotion, all thirty-six people in the room controlled by Yang Peng came out and squatted in the center of the yard. In the room controlled by Zhao Jinxi, four guys were also escorted out and watched alone. Only the room controlled by Liu Zhiliang was tied up with ropes.
He dragged out two people, a man and a woman.
What happened after all? Let’s look at the breakdown next time.