1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 2205
Of course Yuan Tao is not a timid person, but he will never let his brothers work hard for these profit-seeking Yangzhou salt merchants.If he left the bunker to take the initiative to attack in such a dark night, he would completely give up the environmental advantage he had built up with great difficulty, and might be plotted against by his opponent instead.

It's not that the Dai brothers don't understand this truth, but of course they hope that the Haihan armed personnel who spent a lot of money to hire will not only serve as guards in Dai's village, but also deal heavy blows to their opponents.It's fine if they want to attack the other party's territory. They also know that the little money spent can't persuade the Haihan people, but now that the other party has come to call, if they sit back and watch such a great opportunity slip away, it will be bad for them. To be honest, I am a little unwilling.

Dai Yingda said: "Treasurer Yuan, if you let them go at this point, it will be a big hidden danger after all. Maybe they will come again tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Only when it hurts can we learn the lesson! Today, the other party still doesn't know our details, and the opportunity is rare, so we must act when it is time to act!"

Yuan Tao responded: "If they come to attack during the day, then it's okay for me to call my brothers to fight with them outside the village, but at this time, if we want to attack them, it's pitch black ten feet away, how can we guarantee that we can deal with them?" Realize an effective attack? Besides, if we want to take the initiative to attack, the intersection of the village will become a clear target. At that time, the opponent only needs to hide in the darkness and shoot at the intersection, and we will become the target of slaughter! "

Compared with these civilians, Yuan Tao, who had military experience and combat experience, clearly judged the situation more accurately.In the current environment, whoever strikes first will be passive. Yuan Tao can see this very clearly. If he hadn't considered the identity of these salt merchants as gold masters, he wouldn't even want to explain such superficial military common sense.

Of course, it is very possible that these salt merchants did not fail to consider the problem he mentioned, they just wanted the Golden Shield men to kill a few more enemies for them.Reminiscent of Dai Yingfan's experience of serving in the Ming army, Yuan Tao can more and more conclude that they are deliberately pretending to be confused in order to force him to take action.

But Yuan Tao will not be influenced by them. He is very clear about his mission, and he also knows that the group of people who came to attack Daijiazhuang tonight are by no means mediocre. A rash attack will not only put his troops in danger, but also This may lead to the collapse of Daijiazhuang's defense system.So he insisted on standing still, and never created any opportunities for his opponents to take advantage of.

During the conversation, Yuan Tao's men came to report, and the spies sent by the other party to climb over the wall and enter the house had all been taken down.However, in order to ensure that these people would not send out warning signals, they did not leave any room for their actions. All of them were wiped directly on the neck, and they died before they could make a sound.

Yuan Tao's idea of ​​building a defense system in Daijiazhuang is to reduce the number of entrances to the village as much as possible, and ensure that each passage is under the strict control of the defender.Therefore, he also expected that the other party would find another way after realizing the danger of the entrance to the village, and dispatched a few experts in advance to wait in the houses around the intersection, waiting for the other party to send people over the wall to investigate.

These people climbed over the wall and went in. Before they could even see the furnishings in the yard, they were grabbed from behind and cut their throats.

Xie Liang waited outside for a long time without reply, knowing that something was wrong, he contacted Xun Fen again and asked the Musketeers under his command to cover his retreat.But Xun Fen rejected his request, and insisted that Xie Liang command his men to rush to the entrance to the village.

"Brother Xie, we're all here, we can't go back without firing a shot!" After Xun Fen rushed over to meet him, he continued to urge him to act: "If we don't make some noise, we won't be able to tell the boss if we go back!" Confess! Send some brothers to go inside first, if we really can’t get in, we won’t be too late to withdraw!”

Xie Liang knew that what Xun Fen said was indeed the truth. Lu Kangtai gave such a high reward, it must depend on the result, and some people have to die before they can count on their opponents.

So Xieliang immediately transferred 50 people and asked them to touch the village from this intersection, while the rest of the people still gathered at the intersection and waited.In order to avoid revealing their whereabouts, they could not light up any lighting objects, they could only walk along the base of the wall in the dark to the depths of Zhuangzi, to see if they could find other portals or fork roads that could be entered on the way.

These people walked deep into Zhuangzi for a while, and found that both sides of the road were still tightly closed, and there was no other route to choose from.

After they marched to a certain location, there was a burst of fire flashing in the darkness ahead, noisy gunshots sounded at the same time, and then several people fell to the ground in response.When they realized that there were several muskets firing at them in front of them, about half of them fell under the dense rain of bullets.

In such a narrow passage, there is almost no room to dodge and hide on the left and right. Coupled with the continuous shooting in front, only a very small number of people who chose to lie down at the first time escaped the bullet rain.And those who tried to turn around and escape or rushed forward bravely, none of them were spared, and all fell into a pool of blood.

The gunshots came suddenly and stopped quickly. The people waiting at the intersection just realized that there was an exchange of fire ahead, and before they had time to figure out whether to reinforce the companions in the passage, the battle had come to an end.

The other end of the passage was still pitch black and no movement could be seen, but more than half of the 50 people who entered the passage just now were dead or injured. The smell of blood wafted out of the air, but no one dared to rashly rush into this death tunnel to rescue their companions.

"The dog thieves in Daijiazhuang are really prepared!" Xie Liang said bitterly, but he was secretly glad that his judgment was correct, so he didn't personally lead the team to fight this first battle, otherwise he might have fallen inside by this time , Even his own life was involved.

"It's from Haihan!" Xun Fen had already heard some clues from the gunshots fired just now.

The gunfire just now was dense but not chaotic, and there was a short interval between each round of gunfire. As far as he knew, this was obviously a level that only a well-trained musketeer team could achieve. With such neat firing, it is obvious that those Haihan people should be ambushing at the other end of this passage.

Send musketeers into the passage to confront the opponent head-on?Xun Fen would not choose this approach. He didn't know the situation at the other end of the passage. It is very likely that the other side had already built a bunker in advance. On the contrary, it will expose one's own side and become a living target for the opponent's musketeers.

The battle plan they drew up in advance was to sneak into Daijiazhuang in a stealthy state, control several key points in the village, and then attack together.Although a plan had been made for the Haihan people to participate in the resistance, the current situation clearly far exceeded their expectations.

The reconnaissance intelligence of Dai's Village beforehand was seriously insufficient, which caused them to encounter great difficulties in the first step of trying to enter Dai's Village, and the Haihan people in the village directly attacked without any warning, which made them all the more difficult. When he came up, he kicked the iron board.

Just now Xun Fen insisted on trying to test the reality of this passage, but now the ambush inside was really drawn out, and he didn't know what to do.

"Brother Xun, the matter has been revealed, we should evacuate here quickly, and don't be intercepted here by the other party!" Seeing that Xun Fen judged that there were Haihan people setting up an ambush inside but could not come up with a countermeasure, Xie Liang was also anxious at the moment .

Xun Fen said: "Is it too hasty to give up at this point? Maybe we should check if there are other passages nearby?"

Xie Liang hurriedly said: "Brother Xun is so confused! Since they set up an ambush here in advance, they are sure that we will enter the village from here, and they will leave you no other way to go. Even if there is, it must be the same as here. It is a trap that has been set long ago!"

If it weren't for the many years of friendship, Xie Liang would have lost patience with Xun Fen long ago.However, the protagonist of this operation is the musketeer team commanded by Xun Fen, and he can't abandon Xun Fen to announce his retreat.

Xie Liang thought that after Daijiazhuang set up an ambush to invite the king into the urn, there must be something later, if he didn't retreat quickly, he might not be able to leave.But Xun Fen was still thinking about how to complete this task, even though he knew that his opponent was on guard, he was still unwilling to give up.

"Brother Xie, if we can take down Daijiazhuang, you and I will be able to live comfortably for the rest of our lives. Do you really want to stop trying?"

"Brother Xun, if you keep the green hills, you are not afraid of running out of firewood. In my opinion, if you don't evacuate quickly, you and I may be gone for the rest of our lives!"

Xie Liang repeatedly urged Xun Fen to change his mind, but many people were still dissatisfied with leaving behind the damaged companion in the passage.This group of people lingered outside Zhuangzi for a long time before slowly retreating along the original road to the river bank where they landed.

Yuan Tao and others who were supervising the battle in Zhuangzi soon got the report. Although the Dai brothers hoped that Yuan Tao would give orders to pursue the retreating enemies, the orders issued by Yuan Tao were still very conservative. The opponent's movements ensured that they evacuated to the south bank of the canal without killing another carbine.

"Treasurer Yuan, why don't I let the people from Dai's Village go out to chase after him, so as to teach those thieves a lesson!" Dai Yingfan couldn't hold back any longer, and asked Yuan Tao to fight.

Yuan Tao said: "Take a good measure, and you must know that the poor will not chase after you, and don't let them bite back!"

Seeing Yuan Tao let go, Dai Yingfan immediately summoned people to go.He has already seen that although these Haihan people use money to do things, they will not really work for Daijiazhuang. The grievances with the Shanshan salt merchants must be completely resolved, and ultimately they have to rely on themselves.

An hour ago, when the opponent was still crossing the river, Dai's Village had already noticed it and made preparations for the battle in advance, and the young and strong in the village had already assembled.It wasn't until this time that he finally got the order to attack.However, the passage had not been cleared at this time, and there were still many intruders in it, so the attacking team took another path, exiting through the gate of Daijiazhuang in the north, and then detoured to pursue the retreating enemies.

Yuan Tao ordered people to light up the lights and clear out the enemies in this passage first.The few people who were lucky enough not to be shot before had already slipped out in the short time after the ceasefire. At this time, the people still in the passage were either dead or injured. Basically, they had lost their ability to resist, and they were all brought under control soon. up.

"Boss Dai, what do you plan to do with these people?" Seeing that the situation was settled, Yuan Tao took the initiative to ask Dai Yingda for his opinion.

Dai Yingda said: "If it is reported to the officials, the opponent will pay money to calm the situation. After all, we will not be able to sue them, and it will not be of any benefit to us. I plan to call the heads of the families after dawn to check the results of tonight's battle together. Then all the survivors were executed, how does Shopkeeper Yuan feel?"

Yuan Tao nodded and said: "In this way, all seven surnames will participate, and no one will dare to sway left and right!"

Dai Yingda saw that Yuan Tao saw through his purpose, so he simply said: "Even if these people are handed over to the government, they will be silenced soon, and we can't keep them. It's better to use them as an example to scare the monkeys, let us Huizhou salt Since then, Shangneng has united as one to overcome the difficulties together.”

Dai Yingda's words are beautiful, but in fact, these people are going to be used as sacrifices.On the one hand, as Yuan Tao said, it can unite the seven surnames and no longer waver between war and peace; on the other hand, it can further consolidate Dai Yingda's position in the group of Huizhou salt merchants.

As for these dozens of lives, he knew that the other party would definitely not take the initiative to report to the officials, so no matter how he dealt with them, there would be no trouble from the yamen.

Of course, before doing anything, you still have to ask the confession that should be asked, and squeeze as much useful information from these people as possible.And this job was completed by Jin Dun, they had to complete the interrogation of more than a dozen captured survivors before dawn.

However, most of these captives have not received special anti-interrogation training. In addition, they are already injured and their mental state is already very fragile, so interrogation will not be too difficult.

The attacking team led by Dai Yingfan had a brief battle with the retreating opponent by the canal. Dai Yingfan, who was determined to intercept the opponent, suffered a small loss and lost seven people in the battle. In the end, he still failed. Stop the opponent and watch them board the boat and cross the river.

Of course, Dai Yingfan was not without record. During the pursuit, he killed five of his opponents and captured five of them alive. It was a small achievement, but it was probably far from his expected goal.

Compared with the more than [-] deaths and dozens of injuries caused by Jin Dun's ambush in the village, such results are really shabby. When Dai Yingfan came back, he could only claim that he had injured many enemies with knives and bows, but he couldn't stop them in the end. Let these wounded escape on board, otherwise the results of the battle should be more eye-catching.

(End of this chapter)