The bandits were suddenly hit hard, and they froze on the mountainside one by one and stopped! Impossible, the officers and soldiers' bows and arrows cannot be lethal at such a distance! What kind of weapon is this? But they don't have it yet
After reacting, the second row of soldiers opened fire again!
"Second row of fire!" After the gunpowder exploded, the choking smell of saltpeter filled the mountain top, like the smell of death. The bandits stood motionless on the mountainside, naturally becoming the best target. On the short mountain road,
Blood splattered everywhere! The soldiers in the second row fired a volley and killed twenty-six more bandits. In front of the flintlock rifles, these tough bandits were as fragile as paper. Twenty of them were shot
The six bandits fell down on the mountainside like soulless sandbags.
The bandits woke up from a dream and screamed, and some of them tried to escape to the foot of the mountain. The leader of the bandits crossed the mountain and slashed a deserter in the back. Blood flew everywhere, and the deserter fell to the ground screaming.
Guo Shankong shouted loudly: "The officer is slow to reload and can only hit once. If we rush forward, we will win!"
Encouraged by the big leader, the bandits gathered their courage and rushed to the top of the mountain. However, the 150-meter mountain road was not that easy to walk.
"Third row! Shoot!" Amidst the deafening gunfire, thirty pieces of thick black fog emerged from the muzzle of the Mini rifle one after another, shrouding half of the mountain. The bullets were like the call of death, shooting toward a group of people.
The bandits who were struggling to climb the mountain more than a hundred meters away rushed towards them.
The armor-breaking ability of a flintlock rifle at a distance of more than 100 meters is very strong, even if it is wearing armor, it cannot withstand it, not to mention that most bandits are not wearing armor. These bullets penetrated into the body of the bandits one by one, breaking through
It broke the bandits' skin, rotated and penetrated deeper, tearing the bandits' internal organs into a bloody mess.
"Fourth row shoots!" Another large smoke came out from the top of the mountain, and the soldiers in the fourth row pressed the trigger. Jiang Chong, a soldier in the fourth row, aimed at a bandit rushing at the front. The bandit was wearing cotton wool.
A, obviously a bandit leader. Jiang Chong calmly pressed the trigger.
The bolt hit the gunpowder tray and made a soft "click" sound, but it failed to ignite the ignition powder. Although the flintlock gun with a fine steel bolt had an ignition rate of 80%, it could not ignite successfully every time. Jiang
Chong failed to fire the gun successfully the first time. However, Jiang Chong had long been accustomed to this situation in training. He still aimed his gun at the bandit leader and pressed the trigger for the second time.
There was a loud "pop", and the gun hit the ignition powder and spurted out flames. The fire was all around. Jiang Chong was so stimulated by the bright light that he closed his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, he found that the leader had fallen on the mountain road. In this
From a distance, Mianjia couldn't defend against flintlock bullets. This was the first time Jiang Chong shot an enemy. Jiang Chong patted the stone beside him and looked around excitedly at his comrades to see if anyone was there.
He noticed his sniper kill. However, the comrades around him were all reloading, and no one looked at Jiang Chong. Jiang Chong was stunned, and quickly took out a purge to clean the barrel of the gun, preparing for the next shot.
After the fourth row finished fighting, twenty-five more bandits fell on the mountain road. In the first round of shooting, the flintlock rifle killed more than a hundred bandits. The flintlock rifle showed a lethality beyond this era.
"Guo Shankong" saw that the muskets on the top of the mountain had finished firing a round, and shouted with red eyes: "Their guns have finished firing! Charge up! If you charge up, you will win!"
One hundred and seventy steps away from the top of the mountain, the bandits who had suffered heavy losses screamed and rushed towards the top of the mountain with all their strength! These gangsters who gathered in the mountainous area did not understand the reloading speed of the flintlock machine. The fourth row
Five or six seconds after completing the shooting, the first row of soldiers had loaded their bullets again. One hundred meters away from the bandit's forward, the first row of soldiers began to take aim.
"First row, shoot!" In the stunned eyes of the bandits, there was another crackling sound of shooting from the top of the mountain, and overwhelming black smoke came out. Thirty-one rounds of bullets were fired at the bandits!
"Ah!" "Ah!!"
The mountain road of just a few hundred meters turned into a slaughterhouse. A bandit was hit in the head by a bullet. The high-speed rotating bullet broke open the skull and spurted out a piece of blood and brain matter. A bandit was hit by a bullet.
After the Mini bullet entered his body, it stalled and spun sideways, smashing his kidneys and bladder, causing him to fall to the ground in an instant. A bandit was hit in the leg bone by the Mini bullet, and his thigh was hit by a mini bullet.
He was defeated, and he fell on the mountainside and screamed loudly. The screams severely impacted the morale of the bandits.
The bandits discovered that something was wrong. The firepower from the top of the mountain not only shot far and reloaded quickly. Some bandits gradually lost the courage to rush up and began to retreat, leaving other companions around them to the front to bear the firepower from the top of the mountain.
of shooting.
"Second row! Shoot!" "Third row! Shoot!"
Every time a platoon started shooting, a group of bandits fell on the mountain road. The Mini rifle was like a lawnmower, frantically harvesting the lives of bandits on the mountain road. No matter how tough the bandits are, no matter how good your martial arts skills are, you can fight them
, it was just a matter of one shot in front of the flintlock rifle. The bandits in Yanshan were the first targets of the flintlock rifle. By the time the bandits discovered the power of this rifle, it was already too late. The bandits
They lost the courage to continue fighting, and turned around and fled to the foot of the mountain one by one. Even the extremely brave bandit leader Guo Shankong understood that continuing to charge would definitely lead to death, so he grabbed a big knife and ran wildly across the road.
"Fourth row! Shoot!" "First row! Shoot!"
Bullets hit the back, the back of the head, and the thigh. The bandits screamed and fell on the mountainside. With their backs to the top of the mountain, the firepower poured out, and the bandits dropped dozens and dozens more on the mountain road.
The bandits had no fighting spirit, and all the weapons in their hands had been discarded. Even those wearing armor had thrown away their helmets, just to run faster.
They wanted to escape to the 150 meters where the massacre started, beyond what they thought was the range of the muskets. But they didn't know that the Mini rifle had a 90% hit rate at 200 meters, even if it shot 250 meters.
Targets that are meters away also have a 60% hit rate. The reason why Li Zhi just let them go 150 meters before firing was to give them no way to escape.
"Second row! Shoot!" "Third row! Shoot!"
The bandits fled 200 meters away, but the massacre continued. The mountain road was full of corpses, and the bandits who panicked would even trip over the corpses on the ground. Guo Shankong looked at the bandits who continued to fall around him, feeling in his heart
He was inexplicably horrified. Ever since he raised the banner and raised the team at Chaoyun Peak, when had he suffered such a big setback? Even the last time he fought all the way outside the county gate and defeated the county magistrate's archers, he only lost three people.
A good player. In this county, Guo Shankong has become an overlord-like figure. He doesn't even need to take action to rob a village. He just sends someone to the other side and just pays and delivers the goods.
However, today, just for a cup of tea, I have left nearly two hundred brothers on this hillside. I have always been the only one who robbed other people's money, ravaged other people's wives and daughters, and killed other people. When had I ever been so embarrassed?
Now, I am so embarrassed that I don't even know if I can save my life. I am already one hundred thirty or forty steps away from the top of the mountain, but the flintlock guns on the top of the mountain are still harvesting the lives of my brothers one after another!
Where are these officers and soldiers? These are magic soldiers. Where do these officers and soldiers come from? Could it be that I, who has dominated Yanshan County for five or six years, is going to die here today? Guo Shankong couldn't help but look back,
I saw Yang Peng commanding the battle on the top of the mountain. The military attache who defeated him was actually so young. With a "pop", someone aimed at the sky above the mountain and fired a shot at him. The shot was very accurate, "
"Guo Shankong" was hit in the back of the head. The bullet from the flintlock shot into Guo Shankong's head, causing him to lose his life immediately. He fell forward, screaming and fell into a pool of blood.
The other bandits were shocked when they saw this scene, but no one dared to stop and help Shankong up. Yang Peng's soldiers saw the leader of the bandits being knocked down and cheered. Yang Peng seemed to see
With the coming victory, he whistled proudly. The big leader was killed, and the bandits who were still alive were even more panicked.
The more than 40 bandits who were still running for their lives had been beaten crazy by the rifles on the top of the mountain. The rifles chased them to 250 meters away, and the range seemed to be infinite. They wanted to kneel down to beg for mercy, but they just knelt down and begged for mercy.
The people who came down had been beaten to death, and even the kneeling bandits on the top of the mountain were not spared with their rifles, and they were still shot indiscriminately. They finally gave up running down the mountain, and instead burrowed into the woods on the cliff where it was almost impossible to walk.
Crawling on the steep cliffs on hands and knees.
Yang Peng would not let go of these bandits who were fleeing for their lives. He gave an order, and the soldiers rushed down the top of the mountain with their guns raised, walked to the mountainside and opened fire on the bandits who were struggling to crawl in the woods on the cliff. After a burst of gunfire,
More than thirty bandits fell on the cliff that was difficult to climb. The last dozen bandits had climbed too far and could not be hit through the trees. Yang Peng asked the troops to climb into the cliff woods in squad units to chase and kill more than a dozen bandits.
Minutes later, most of the last dozen bandits were beaten to death, and their heads were cut off and taken out by the soldiers.
Seeing that the last few bandits had been beheaded, the soldiers cheered loudly and clapped their hands in celebration. However, after the excitement of victory, the soldiers calmed down and looked at the bloody battlefield. Some people vomited out. The battlefield was full of random things.
Corpses, some people whose hands and feet were cut off were not fully dead, and they were screaming and yelling next to the corpses. The screams made people feel like they were in Shura Hell. Broken limbs were everywhere, and the smell of blood was disgusting. It was everywhere.
Blood collects on the mountain road and flows down the mountain, like a stream.
This was not a battle. The flintlock rifle turned the battle into a massacre. Yang Peng's first large-scale battle in this era ended in a massacre, and he won a complete victory. In addition to the corpses "crossing the mountain and empty", Yang Peng wanted to
After transporting the whole body out, Yang Peng beheaded all the dead and seriously injured bandits, and handed the heads to the civilians to put on the cart. The first time he handled the corpses, many soldiers vomited when they were beheading them. They were seized.
Yang Peng distributed more than 20 horses to three reconnaissance squads to speed up the response of the scouts. After handling the corpses and trophies, Yang Peng tied up all the bandits who were still alive and used them as guides, and led his troops to kill the bandits.
Yunfeng.
The bandits set up a stronghold gate at the most dangerous point of Chaoyun Peak and prepared to defend it. However, this time the mountain-goers came out to attack Li Zhi, leaving only more than thirty old and weak bandits in the stronghold.
Yang Peng lifted Guo Shankong's corpse under the village gate, and the remaining old and feeble men all knelt down and hurriedly opened the gate of the village. Yang Peng secretly thought that these old and feeble men were clever, if these old and feeble men did not open the door, Yang Peng would
Peng planned to build a manhole in front of the village gate and shoot the old and weak with a rifle from a high place.
After the village gate was opened, Yang Peng let the soldiers go in and tie up the old and weak bandits, and began to count the population and materials in the village. After some torture and interrogation, Yang Peng figured out the situation in the village:
There were thirty-two old and weak bandits in the village. These people had committed robberies and killed good people. Yang Peng tied them all up and prepared to escort them back to the village for processing. There were also nine blacksmiths in the village, who were specially trained for the mountain.
Thieves forged weapons. These people had never killed anyone or done anything bad, but it was still a sin to act as an aide to a tiger. Li Zhi asked the soldiers to beat these people thirty times and throw them in the wild.
There were more than 80 robbed women in the village who were used as playthings and slaves by the bandits. They were all rescued by Yang Peng. Women in this era of the Song Dynasty were very particular about chastity. These women did not feel guilty when they were sinking into the den of thieves.
, when they saw Yang Peng leading his officers and soldiers to fight, they all felt that they would never see anyone again in their lives, and three of them even bit their tongues and committed suicide in shame and anger.
Yang Peng did not make things difficult for these women and only allowed them to follow the troops back to the city the next day. There were more than 8,200 taels of silver and 130 taels of gold in the treasury of the village. There were three horses and five donkeys in the stables.
Three mules. In the warehouse, there are 21 pieces of various silks and satins, 42 pieces of cotton, 113 jars of spirits, and 166 swords. Yang Peng was not polite about these trophies and took them all.
personal.
Of course, soldiers should be rewarded when they get spoils of war. Yang Peng rewarded the soldiers who participated in the battle from five taels to ten taels of silver depending on their performance on the battlefield. The civilians who transported supplies were also rewarded with three taels of silver each. It was easy and pleasant to fight, and you could still get so much.
After being rewarded with silver, the soldiers and civilians were all happy. Finally, Yang Peng found five craftsmen in the village. Yang Peng sat in the house of the village leader and asked people to escort the craftsmen up.
As soon as they saw Yang Peng, these craftsmen kowtowed and begged loudly for mercy: "Sir, please spare my life! Your Majesty, please give me a warning! Although we fell in love in the village, we have never done any bad things! The crossbows we made have never been able to use them because we don't have bows and arrows."
Never used it! Your Majesty, please tell me!" Yang Peng glanced at the five craftsmen and said slowly: "Where did you learn this technique?" The five craftsmen looked at each other, and finally the leader came out and replied: "We originally
It was a blacksmith hired by Bianjing, and I learned the method from him."
"On the way to escape, we heard that our Shangguan was beheaded by the officials for treason. We were craftsmen, and our boss had been used as rebels. We did not dare to return to Bianjing. We fled north with nowhere to go, so we fell into despair.
Chaoyunfeng made machine crossbows for these bandits. However, there was a shortage of all materials on the mountain, so we only made two machine crossbows."
Yang Peng looked at the five gunsmiths, thought for a while, and asked the leader: "What's your name?" "My name is Cao Yu!" "Hearing what these blacksmiths said, Yang Peng felt happy and secretly picked it up.
Treasure. Yang Peng doesn’t know how to make a machine crossbow from scratch. But with these five craftsmen, Yang Peng can use some of the technologies he knows to improve the machine crossbow of this era. If his army has a large number of light machine crossbows with flintlocks,
Rifles, the firepower of the unit will be greatly improved.
However, these craftsmen are rebels, thieves, and losers. If they are not punished, they will look down on Yang Peng and not work carefully. Yang Peng thought for a while and said: "You five have repeatedly committed thieves, and I will punish you."
You have no right to be slaves. I will find someone to sign a contract of sale with you later. From now on, you will be my slaves and you will make crossbows for me. You will have three meals a day and no monthly payment. After you have made the new crossbows I need,
Only then will you be restored to your status as craftsmen and receive monthly payments."
The five craftsmen looked at each other, and their faces were full of joy. They were already very happy that the official did not kill them, and the official actually gave them a clear path, which made them happy. They are not afraid of being slaves, they
The bandits who planted fallen grass in Yunfeng and became thieves were also treated as slaves by these bandits. Not only did they have no money, but they were always worried about the encirclement and suppression by officers and soldiers, and their lives were precarious. Now that I followed Li Zhi, not only was my safety guaranteed, but I also had the hope of restoring the craftsmanship.
Identity, isn't this a great thing?
The five people hurriedly knelt on the ground and said loudly: "We originally wanted to be slaves and make crossbows for you!"
Yang Peng smiled and nodded. The next day, when Yang Peng's troops returned to Yanshan County with more than 30 old and weak bandits and more than a dozen carloads of bandit heads, the whole county was shocked.
The news that Mr. Yang had eliminated Guo Shankong spread quickly throughout the county. The streets were deserted, and everyone flocked to the city gate to watch the bandits returning from killing the thieves. Yang Peng's troops had just entered the city and had just taken a few steps when they were attacked by thousands of people.
The people were crowded around.
Guo Shankong robbed people and killed good people in the past few years, and he didn't know how much blood debt he owed. Now that he was wiped out, how could the people not cheer and encourage him? Yang Peng knew the people's psychology, so he specially took Guo Shankong's body
It was hung on a carriage for the people to see. Guo Shankong's burly body now turned into a corpse, and it looked very eye-catching hanging on the carriage. The people spit on Guo Shankong's body to express their regrets.
The anger of Shan Kong!
"Look! He killed someone without blinking an eye and died in vain!" "There are so many heads! They are the heads of those evil bandits!" "There are so many alive and tied up! Now everyone is dead.
Be honest!" "Master Yang is so powerful. He actually managed to conquer the mountain with such a small number of troops!" "Master Yang is so brave. I never thought that our Song Dynasty still has such brave military attachés!"
However, the more than 80 women who followed the soldiers into the city made the people feel conflicted: they were happy that the women in the county had escaped from the clutches of the bandits, but they were also ashamed that these women had been humiliated and lost by the bandits.
If they lose their chastity, their existence will be an unspeakable scandal in the county. But this is not an issue that Yang Peng considers.
News of Yang Peng's triumphal return soon spread throughout the city. Officials and gentry got the news and gathered at the gate of the county government office. After a while, the county magistrate also got the news and hurriedly took these officials and gentry outside to wait for them.
When I rushed to the city gate, I saw the vanguard selection group and officer Yang Peng surrounded by the people.
Seeing Yang Peng returning in triumph on a tall horse, the county magistrate's beard twitched and he was speechless. More and more people came to watch. At this time, even the city walls were full of people, and everyone was crowded
There they looked at the heads of bandits and the heroes who defeated them. However, when the people saw the county magistrate coming, they took the initiative to make way for the officials and gentry to walk to Yang Peng.
The magistrate came closer and saw that no one in Yang Peng's troops was injured, and his old face was even more surprised. His eyes seemed to see a group of magic soldiers and generals. The county magistrate glanced at Yang Peng and asked loudly: "Yang Peng
Sir, have you arrested all the bandits in the bandit den at Yunfeng?" Yang Peng patted his Wusun BMW and said loudly: "Thanks to the Lord County Lord, not a single one has been missed!" "
No one in your department was injured?" "No one was injured!"
The county magistrate took a breath of cold air and thought to himself, was this really a force from heaven descending from the earth? Even the Yang family army that wiped out the Khitans back then couldn't defeat the many with less and escape unscathed. Yang Peng was so brave, and the magistrate's face was very embarrassed. He looked at it
The officials and gentry on the left and right looked ashamed. Yang Peng was unwilling to let the county magistrate go like this. He looked at the county magistrate wearing a seventh-grade official robe and smiled while riding on his horse. "Your Excellency, Mr. County Magistrate,
This was the case that day, how is it today?”
The county magistrate turned red with shame at Yang Peng's words. He closed his eyes in shame and refused to open them for a long time. After a while, the old county magistrate suddenly let out a "cha", opened his eyes, and gritted his teeth.
The man in official uniform with long sleeves pushed the mountain of gold and overturned the jade pillar, bowed his head to Li Zhi, and said loudly: "Thank you so much, Mr. Yang, for bravely venturing into dangerous places regardless of past grudges, to eliminate violence and bring peace to our small county, and to eliminate bandits!"
The status of civil servants in the Song Dynasty was very high, and military attachés often knelt down when meeting civil servants of similar rank. A county magistrate bowed to the ground before a military attache chief. No one had ever seen this happen. If they had not known that Mr. Yang had won such a great battle,
, the common people thought they had seen it wrong. However, since the county magistrate took the lead, a group of officials and gentry also quickly followed. The county magistrate, the chief secretary, and several officials in the county bowed to the ground one by one and shouted loudly: "
Thank you, Mr. Yang, for bravely venturing into dangerous places regardless of past grudges, to eradicate violence and bring peace to our small county, and to eradicate bandits!"
Not only the officials and gentry saluted Yang Peng, but also the famous scholars and students in the crowd, seeing their parents taking the lead in saluting, bowed to the ground one by one and bowed down to Yang Peng who was riding a horse. When the common people saw the scholars and gentlemen, they bowed to Yang Peng.
The disciples saluted like this, knowing that the scene was solemn at this time, and none of them dared to speak, which made the east city gate surrounded by thousands of people quiet down.
In the center of thousands of people, Yang Peng rode on his horse and looked at the officials and gentry who were prostrating themselves on the ground. He bowed his hands in vain and said lightly: "It's a small effort, so why bother?" The county magistrate who was prostrated on the ground heard this.
Qing Piao Piao's face became even redder, and he stumbled a step forward, almost falling to the ground. When they went to suppress the bandits, only Yang Peng and Liu Zhiliang had horses, but on the way back, there were more than thirty donkeys and horses.
The triumphal journey of the First Company of the Second Battalion was easy and pleasant.
When Yang Peng returned to Hope City and handed over the heads of the bandits and the old and weak bandits to Zhang Xiang, Zhang Xiang looked at Yang Peng with a different look: after Yang Peng finished handling the work of eradicating the bandits, he returned
Hope Village began to expand the production capacity of the soap workshop. Yang Peng spent a month going to Yanshan to suppress bandits. It was already mid-December, and Hope Village was full of businesses waiting to flourish: the rammed earth walls of New Hope Village had been repaired
Three-quarters of the time, the work of laying bricks has been completed. In mid-September, the second batch of masons and carpenters began to repair villas in Hope Village. So far, 600 small villas have been repaired.
A soap workshop that can accommodate the expansion of production capacity has also been built, south of New Hope Village. Yang Peng intends to move all the factories and workers in Cangzhou City to Hope Village. Of course, the newly built soap workshop will not recruit people in Cangzhou City.
.This time Yang Peng directly held a "job fair" in Hope Village to recruit people, and required all new employees to move into Hope Village and rent them in newly built small villas.
A small villa with four bedrooms costs two cents and seven cents a month. If the worker is a single man, it only costs seven cents to rent a house. Even for a couple with children, it only costs one cent and four cents to rent two houses.
, which is less than one-tenth of a worker’s monthly salary, and the workers can afford it. The job fair went very smoothly, and it only took Yang Peng half a day to recruit 80 honest workers who were willing to move into the new building in Hope Village.
staff.
If you want to know what happens next, let’s look at the breakdown in the next chapter.