Chapter 7: Martial arts masters come to seek refuge
The next day, Zhang Huahan asked the troops to prepare for departure. He asked the two girls he had taken in to ride in the carriage with Ding Rou, while he and the soldiers set off on foot. Because last night Zhang Huahan asked Zhang Chao to lead a dozen soldiers who could ride horses.
With the exception of the horse pulling the carriage, we went to explore the place first. After all, it was not easy to find a place that had resources such as coal and iron and a stronghold that was easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Everyone packed up their things and packed them into boxes, and pulled fifty carts of supplies and dry food. There was no money to buy horses anymore, so they had to use people to pull the carts. Fortunately, there were many people, and everyone was ready to take turns pulling the carts.
Just as everyone was packing their things, Zhang Huahan and three battalion commanders led a few soldiers to patrol around. They saw someone making a noise outside the temporary camp. A few people went out and saw a strong old man about fifty years old with a
A sturdy young man in his twenties was arguing with the guards.
After Zhao Qiang, the commander of the third battalion, saw the two men, he happily said to Zhang Huahan: "Commander, my master and my junior brother are here. I asked them to come over." After that, he ran over and said a few words to the guard, and took the two men away.
Come in.
Zhang Huahan looked at the old man with an ordinary appearance and a strong body and the young man with an equally ordinary appearance and a strong body. They did not have the aura and image of a master. They looked more like two peasant men. They were not as powerful as Zhang Liang, nor as good as Zhao Qiang.
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Zhang Huahan and Li Wenhua politely clasped their fists and exchanged polite words, but Zhang Liang said directly: "I, Zhang Liang, have been in the northwest for more than 20 years, and I didn't know that the name Wang Hao existed in the northwest." The old man looked at Zhang Liang and smiled.
He said with a smile: "The old man heard about the name Zhang Daxia twenty years ago. When I saw it today, it was nothing more than that, haha." When Zhang Liang heard this, he immediately said: "Okay, okay, let me learn your kung fu."
." The old man said: "To put it bluntly, real kung fu is for killing people. You can't tell from the competition. Yesterday you and my apprentice hit Lily because you were afraid of hurting him and couldn't use your full strength. If you let go, you don't care whether he lives or lives.
If you say that, you only need thirty moves to win. Zhang Liang, the king of northwest swordsman, is not a person who lives in vain." Zhang Liang stopped looking down upon him after hearing that the other party could see his true identity and praised him highly.
He also has a good impression of the other party.
At this time, the old man looked at a large locust tree next to him that was thicker than a human waist. He said to everyone: "If I didn't practice, you would think that we are here to eat and drink. Okay, I will take out
Come on, some real skills." He walked to the big locust tree, got lucky, and chopped it with one palm. The wind of his palm cut more than half of the big locust tree open with a loud fart sound, and the big tree swayed but did not fall.
Next, everyone should have admired Wang Hao for being able to almost chop down a tree thicker than his waist with his palms, but the old man's thunderous fart sound made everyone want to laugh. Wang Hao retracted his palm and said with a smile: "
Haha, it could have been cut short, but it was no longer useful as it got old. I farted and lost my temper, so I only cut half of it off." Zhang Huahan had the worst endurance. He hugged his belly and burst into laughter. Everyone also laughed.
Everyone laughed, but Zhang Liang did not laugh. He walked to the tree with a solemn face, carefully looked at the crack in the tree, and suddenly turned to Wang Hao and said: "Old hero Wang, let me ask you something, are you a thousand people?"
To tell the truth, were the people you led responsible for killing the unrivaled Iron Tower Toutuo and Yijian Wuhen ten years ago?" Wang Hao smiled and said, "Haha, you are very powerful.
Ah, it seems that you have carefully examined the wound where the thief died. The gangsters were really shameless at the time. They committed murder and arson. Many martial arts heroes were killed by them. At that time, I happened to go to Huashan to meet some old men.
My friend went there, and when he came back and heard about it, he took action with my son. To be honest, my apprentice Qiang'er was very knowledgeable but not a martial arts material, so I didn't call him and asked him to guard the house." Everyone took a breath after hearing this.
Ten years ago, Tieta Toutuo and Yi Jian Wuhen had no rivals across the northwest. There were forty-seven people in their group. Everyone was a good player, especially Tie Ta Toutuo, who had become invincible and invincible.
And Yi Jian Wuhen is also a very powerful swordsman, with superb swordsmanship. He always kills people with only one sword to hit the vital point. He is said to kill hungry people without leaving any trace of wounds. So many powerful masters have been killed by two people, and no one has escaped, and the two
One of the individuals is a child. Wang Hao’s son Wang Hong is only 23 or 24 years old now. He was only 13 or 14 years old ten years ago. It’s so surprising. But it’s reasonable for them to kill each other.
, because I have never heard of anyone with this ability in the northwest, but after seeing Wang Hao’s strength, he did have this ability, and the group of Iron Tower Tutuo and Yijian Wuhen suddenly died and no one said they killed them.
, even if a few second-rate swordsmen said that they killed him, no one would believe it. It seems that it was indeed Wang Hao who did it.
After listening to Wang Hao's words, Zhang Liang knelt down and cried directly to Wang Hao: "My benefactor, it turned out that you were the one who avenged my family's blood feud. The gangsters like Tie Ta Tu Tuo and Yijian Wuhen heard about me.
I had a great reputation and suddenly someone came to my house. I was completely unprepared. Although there were many disciples, none of them were in front of me. I, my two sons and eleven disciples at home fought hard and were no match. The whole family was killed, and only
I was taken away by my eldest apprentice and my second son and escaped with my life. Later, I summoned my friends and apprentices to seek revenge. I was no match for them in several battles, and many friends and apprentices were killed and injured. I thought I could not avenge myself, but suddenly
I was overjoyed when I received news from the disciples who were following their tracks that they were all dead. I ran there and saw that Toutuo of the Iron Pagoda was cut into two pieces with his flesh palms. About thirty people were killed with their flesh palms.
Yes, there was also Yi Jian Wuhen and a dozen gangsters who were killed with daggers. It seems that little brother Wang Hong is a good user of daggers." As he said that, he looked at Wang Hong's two calves and had one on each.
Wang Hao quickly helped him up and said, "I still knew it was too late. Many people were killed by those bandits. Brother Gao, please cheer up. The reason why those bandits are so rampant is related to the incompetence of the bureaucrats. If they
As soon as someone does evil, use the army to suppress it, and so many people won't die. Doesn't Captain Zhang advocate the establishment of a people's army to protect the people? That's why I came here, Captain Zhang, if you do what you say
When doing things, the lives of my father, son and my apprentice will be sold to you. It will never happen like Aqiang left the Ming army in the country. But if you break your promise and do not fulfill what you said, we will leave immediately as soon as we find out." Zhang Huahan.
He immediately swore an oath to heaven, and everyone also swore allegiance to Zhang Huahan.
Zhang Huahan asked Wang Hao to serve as the commander of his private company, and asked Wang Hong to be his personal guard. Wang Hong's wife Zhang Yue'er also came with him. Zhang Huahan arranged for her to get into the carriage. Zhang Liang said that Wang Hong's wife Zhang Yue'er was also a former
The famous heroine later retired. It seems that she later fell in love with Wang Hong, a highly skilled martial artist, and then devoted herself to becoming the Wang family's daughter-in-law.
Zhang Huahan walked forward with everyone. Although his body was tired, the mental power generated by his strong soul supported his weak body, and even slowly improved the body. After walking for a long time, Zhang Huahan felt too dull, and immediately
He said to the company commander Wang Hao and personal guard Wang Hong in front of him: "It's too boring. Let everyone sing a song as a military song. It can improve morale and relieve the boredom of marching." Wang Hao said: "The regiment leader said
That's right, but what song should we sing? We are all rough people, and we can sing songs like wolf horns." Zhang Huahan said: "Tell everyone, I will take the lead in singing, and everyone will sing along. Wang Hong, please go over and tell me
The three battalion commanders in front and Zhang Gao asked their men to sing the military song together with our personal soldier company." The two of them took the order to inform. Zhang Huahan had two songs in his mind that were selected, one was "Serve the Country with Loyalty" and the other
It was the March of the Volunteer Army. It was difficult to choose between the two songs. Let’s just sing the song of serving the country with loyalty and then the March of the Volunteer Army. He immediately led the singing loudly: “Wolf smoke rises, the mountains and rivers look north, the dragon curls up, the horse neighs, the sword is like frost. My thoughts are on the Yellow River.
, the water is vast, twenty years..." The loud chorus mobilized everyone's enthusiasm. From the private company at the end of the team to the logistics and other troops led by Zhang Gao in the middle of the team to the third and second battalions, everyone started singing, and the front group
Before Wang Hong conveyed the order to Zhang Liang to sing the military song, the first battalion had already followed the second battalion behind and sang the military song.
It took five days of walking on the rugged mountain road to reach the place chosen by Zhang Chao. Fortunately, Zhang Chao sent a cavalry back to lead the team to take the shortest and easiest route, otherwise it would not have been possible to reach the place in half a month.
The camp was set up first. After Zhang Huahan met with Zhang Chao, he sent Wang Hong to call Wang Hao, Zhang Gao, 1st Battalion Commander Zhang Liang, 2nd Battalion Commander Li Wenhua, 3rd Battalion Commander Zhao Qiang and others to hold a meeting.
After everyone arrived, Zhang Chao first took out a map he drew, pointed to a valley and said: "There is a mountain village here. They are good at choosing places. The mountains around this valley are very steep, and there are no bright spots."
There are a lot of plants and good visibility. Just send a few sentries to prevent enemies from climbing up. The only weakness is that they are all mountains. It is easier to dig into the valley, but it requires a lot of people to do it, and it is easy to be discovered by the defenders.
So it can still be prevented. Moreover, there is abundant groundwater in the valley, and it is easy to drill wells to obtain water. There is a mineral deposit rich in iron resources in the valley. There are also three larger coal mine resources not far from the valley. The entrance of the valley is
There are more than 1,300 bandits in the village built of wood and stone. The leader is Baida, who is a vicious bandit." At this time, Zhao Qiang said: "I know Baida, he is not a thing, bullying men and dominating women.
, it turned out that he was in the same army as me, and my boss was his brother-in-law, who was not a good person. After the Ming army was defeated by the Dashun army, the Dashun army captured and killed his brother-in-law, and he also escaped.
Come to think of it, his skills are average, and he can pull off two or three moves in front of me anyway." Zhang Chao continued: "They also arrested more than 500 farmers who farmed for them in the valley, and more than 800 women and girls.
For their humiliation, everyone within a radius of dozens of miles has been harmed by them. They all use cold weapons." "Wait, what are cold weapons? Isn't it swords and guns?" Zhang Liang asked strangely, and everyone didn't agree.
He listened to Zhang Chao's explanation. Zhang Huahan explained directly: "Cold weapons are the swords, guns, sticks and other weapons you use now. Corresponding to the cold weapons are hot weapons. Hot weapons are muskets and artillery. We will build a
The powerful thermal weapon troops can shoot opponents from a distance, but that will happen in the future." Only then did everyone understand.
Zhang Chao continued: "The day after tomorrow, the Dashun Army will withdraw to Xi'an. A unit escorting gold and silver treasures snatched from Beijing and other places will pass through here. This escort team has three thousand people. I have estimated the delivery of the Dashun Army.
There are about a dozen teams, so the escort team passing here carries at least five million taels of gold and silver jewelry." Everyone took a breath when they heard the astronomical amount of silver. Zhang Chao continued: "
Bai Da also got the news. He seemed to want to rob this team that was escorting gold and silver jewelry, but he couldn't do it by himself. He contacted the bandits from three nearby large cottages to prepare for a joint operation. He could probably gather four people.
There are about a thousand people. We can first use Baida to sneak attack his mountain stronghold when he leads a large force to rob, and then wait for the bandits and the Dashun army to fight to the death. We can clean up the mess and snatch the money to start our establishment of power.
funds."
Zhang Huahan said to Zhang Chao: "Aren't you afraid of revenge for robbing the Dashun Army? We don't have much strength now." Zhang Chao said: "The Dashun Army has been chased into Shanxi by Wu Sangui and the Qing Army, and the main force is very strong.
They will return to Xi'an soon and they won't care about us at all, but we should try not to reveal our identities when we do it, in case the Qingba Banner finds out about us and we will be in danger. However, our money will be robbed as soon as we come, and we can't escape suspicion.
But without start-up capital, we have no economic support for development except robbery. We can build anything, but we need people. If you don’t have money, you can’t do anything good even if you force people to do it. And we have to buy food. Of course,
We can also rob the Qing army's supplies, so there will definitely be a big conflict with the Qing army, but first they won't have many troops to deal with us, and we will have time to train and produce equipment and then load the guns." After that, he said to the Qing army.
Listening to the confused others, they explained the breech-loading gun and the current form of military power.dd