The most cruel thing is that in the second half of 1630, the Special Reconnaissance Headquarters believed that each special reconnaissance unit under its command should be given the opportunity to practice in actual combat. Multiple special reconnaissance units were deployed to the prefectures and counties in Qiongbei to carry out extensive "hunting".
The reconnaissance team works as a team and sneaks into the core of the mountainous area to conduct raids and ambush battles. This kind of battle where a gunshot suddenly rings out, one person is killed and the enemy is nowhere to be seen, which is difficult for even the most stubborn bandits to withstand.
During the transfer process, the invisible God of Death always followed the team. Apart from the sound of gunshots that harvested human lives from time to time, any bandits who left the sight of the crowd would completely disappear from time to time.
Hu Lanyan's team couldn't stand still, and they fled to death. In the end, only 20 or 30 people were left. They didn't dare to disband the team and go down the mountain to live an honest life - they got rid of the work team at the beginning, and now the Australians are offering a reward of 3,000 circulation coupons.
They want his head. Those who provide valid information can also get one hundred to five hundred circulation coupons. Any bandit can be pardoned as long as he captures or kills Hu Lanyan and Gou Er, and the Australians will resettle him. After the news comes out,
, Hu Lan saw that all of his men were glowing with green light, and they looked like hungry wolves.
Hu Lanyan kept complaining for three days that Gou Er came up with the idea of "eliminating the task force" and had a complete feud with the Australians - now there is no possibility of surrendering and recruiting troops.
Gou Er had no choice but to flee all the way. While running, he accidentally saw a notice: the notice was about the trial of "war criminals". Because the notice was old, most of it was damaged. However, the content above could still be read.
Roughly speaking, the Australians sentenced some officers and soldiers who were captured when they came to "suppress bandits" to some kind of "war crime." Some were "hard labor" and some were "death penalty." It was not a shocking thing for him that the Australians tried officers and soldiers, but Gou
Er saw Lai Da's name at the end of the long list of people sentenced to death listed in the notice.
Gou Er was shocked by the news of Lai Da's death - Lai Da was not an important person, but he was one of the powerful henchmen under him. Even though he was at the end of his rope, Lai Da was not an important person to him.
.But Laida’s death seemed to announce something to him.
Hu Lanyan, who was in constant panic, finally couldn't hold on any longer in Danzhou. He gathered the remaining twenty or so people together and announced that they could no longer stay in Danzhou and were preparing to flee to Changhua. Everyone was willing to follow.
If you have to, you can continue to follow, if you don't want to, just break up.
Most of Hu Lanyan's gang are Danzhou locals, and no one wants to go to Changhua. Besides, no one knows how to survive in Changhua. Many of them have long thought of breaking up and going home. Hu Lanyan
As soon as the group broke up, except for a few die-hard members, everyone ran away.
"Do we really have to go to Changhua?" Gou Er knew a little about Changhua. This place is full of "savages". Going a little further inland is the territory of the common people. They are a small group of foreign bandits who are unfamiliar with the place and cannot understand the language.
There is no movement at all. Not to mention that there are only seven or eight people left.
"Of course not." Hu Lanyan had already made a plan, "Let's cross the sea! Go to the Champa Kingdom! I have a few old brothers there who pull a few boats on the sea for business, so I will join them for the time being!"
Although Gou Er didn't want to leave his hometown, he was now desperate. He could no longer live on Hainan Island, so he might as well go overseas to hide for a while - he roughly knew that Champa was not far from here, and it was just a short ride.
Regarding the skyship, if the situation changes for the better, it will be easier to come back.
So Hu Lanyan, Gou Xunli and four or five cronies quietly found a fisherman's family on the beach and spent a few taels of silver to go to Jiangping. Jiangping is a "three no matter" zone on the Sino-Vietnamese border, where most of the people living there
The "fishermen" were half fishermen and half bandits, and there were also many desperadoes from China and Vietnam. When the group arrived at Jiangping, they finally settled down and had a peaceful sleep. The next step was to return to their old business and continue to do what they had never done before.
old trade.
Shen Hu wanted to win a lot of votes, so he sent people to gather troops in Jiangping, and these two followed. Now Gou Xunli and Hu Lanyan, with a dozen of their brothers, gathered in Jihongji with a large number of people.
In a valley dozens of miles away, bandits with different costumes and strange shapes were sitting or standing around a fire. Some were cooking and eating, and some were taking off their rags and catching lice.
, there were also people drinking and gambling. From time to time there were bursts of laughter and strange screams. They were carrying various weapons: rusty broadswords, sharpened bamboo guns, and some were carrying European sabers and guns.
The Japanese had tachi and daggers. Some simply carried agricultural tools and harpoons. Some of the "professional" looking gangsters carried bows, arrows, matchlocks, and even a few small iron cannons.
Gou Er lay on the ground and took a nap - it was warmer here than Qiongzhou. Hu Lanyan drank the wine with gusto. This was sent by Shen Hu. The leader of each group got some wine and meat.
"Brother!" Hu Lanyan kicked him in obedience, "Stop sleeping! Get up and drink together!"
Gou Xunli slowly got up and took the clay cup. The wine was local rice wine. It had not been filtered and was filled with dregs. A sour smell of spoiled fermentation immediately rushed into his nose. In the past, he
He didn't even look at it. Even the low-level servants and thugs in his mansion would not drink such bad wine. When he thought about the Gou family members who were killed by the Australians and his missing son, he was stunned for a moment.
I was holding the cup and forgot to drink.
"Brother, what's wrong? I had wine today and I'm drunk now." Hu Lanyan smiled meaningfully, picked up the cup and took a big sip.
"It's nothing." Gou Xunli took a sip, "I'm going to go to war with the Australians tomorrow..."
Hu Lanyan looked around and whispered: "Brother, what do you think we will do tomorrow?"
Shen Hu pulled such a miscellaneous team. Shen Hu couldn't control the troops at sea. Naturally, the pirate leader was responsible for the attack. But with these thousands and hundreds of people on land, there must be an order problem in the battle. Who goes first and who comes last?
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"I'm afraid that Shen Hu will force our brothers to take the lead and help him consume the Australians, and in the end he will come back to reap the benefits." Hu Lanyan said.
"There are only about ten of us in total, and Shen Hu doesn't like it. It's not our turn to spend money." Gou Xunli thought for a while, "He probably thinks there is a piece of fat. I think: Shen Hu will do two things.
Road siege.”
"What do you mean?"
"You think, Shen Hu has hundreds of people himself, but he has roped in so many people to work together. He must feel that he is not sure if he can do it alone. But he is also afraid that others will take too much of the benefits. So he must not let outsiders take over.
Take the lead. Besides, everyone is not stupid. Who is willing to charge into the battle and take the lead to kill his own people in vain? So he must lead the team to attack one route, and other small groups join forces to attack the other route. Whoever breaks the stronghold will grab the items.
As long as he breaks through the stronghold, his large number of people will definitely take advantage of it."
"That's right!" Hu Lanyan said with sincere admiration, "I also think there must be something Shen Hu has in mind, but I just can't figure it out." He poured himself another glass of wine, "What do you think our brothers will do?
?There are only a few people. If we rush into the team tomorrow and break through the village, we won’t be able to grab anything good..."
"Brother, do you think you can break through the stronghold tomorrow?" Gou Xunli said with a bitter smile, "If Shen Hu can escape with his life tomorrow, it will be considered a blessing. They don't know that we brothers don't know the capabilities of the Australians yet.
?”
Hu Lanyan shook his head: "No way, I heard from Shen Hu's spies that there are dozens of people inside who have Australian blunderbuss, and the others have long spears..."
Gou Xunli shook his head repeatedly. After thinking about his group's experience in Danzhou, Hu Lanyan immediately became discouraged.
"What do you think we should do? Just run away like this? But let's come here for no reason?"
Of course, this trip was not completely fruitless. We had agreed in Jiangping that we would give them some money and food when we arrived at Hongji. Hu Lanyan and his group also received some silver rice.
"Humph, I think if I want to talk to Shen Hu about that matter of setting off cigarettes and then charging, the Australians will suffer a bit!" Gou Xunli said fiercely - although he knew it was insignificant to the Australians, he still hoped that he could
Kill a few more Kun thieves to relieve his anger. "Then what?" He rolled his eyes and whispered.
Shen Hu stood on the mound, with dozens of cronies standing behind him. He watched with satisfaction as his "men and horses" drove towards Hongji. Although these men and horses looked little better than beggars, and because of plundering along the way*
**, the queue was very long, and the speed was extremely slow. Shen Hu looked at one guy who was probably wrapped in a few rag packages that he had snatched, and the other guy who probably had just raped a woman in the village he was passing by, even wearing his pants.
I walked on the road without any clothes. Fortunately, the weather here is warm, so I won't get cold even if I don't wear anything.
Shen Hu doesn't care much about the behavior of this group of people. Anyway, in half an hour, the large group of people from Shen Hu's village and other smaller gangs around will arrive at Hongji. The mere thirty soldiers guarding the mining area will definitely arrive at Hongji.
Not an opponent. According to the intelligence report, there are only about 700 to 800 adult men in the mining area. Most of them will definitely not take up arms to resist, and most of them will flee for their lives. The remaining resistance is nothing more than the country warriors. A few cannons may cause some trouble, but
He estimated that the fall of the village would be delayed for a few hours at most. Moreover, it seemed that the walled city in the mining area was not strong at all. Although the walls were thick, they were quite short and could be climbed up with a little effort.
You can definitely get a lot of good things by destroying the stockades. There are now hundreds of people living in the three stockades in Hongji. There is a lot of food and grain alone. I heard that a lot of good quality goods have been transported.
Chinese goods, and ships parked in the port - but those are the prey of "Fan Haibao" from Jiangping. Fan Haibao has long coveted the ships in Hongji with new fishing gear that can catch a lot of fish at once, so