Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

In the mountainous area in the north of Runing Mansion, although there are many bandits, the two most powerful bandits are Li Yaozi and Lei Ying.Among them, Li Yaozi's power is stronger than Lei Ying's.

In the previous days, because the days were passable, basically these two groups of bandits did not offend each other.However, now that everyone's life is sad, there is some friction between the two sides.

And in the process of friction, Lei Ying, who was relatively small, always suffered some losses.Moreover, Li Yaozi, who had the upper hand, was even more aggressive.Therefore, this is also one of the reasons why Lei Ying wanted to surrender to Wu Shigong.

For these bandits, because of Wu Shigong's prestige, it turned out that they did not dare to provoke the caravan escorted by Wu Shigong's army.In addition, Wu Shigong's army was also quite knowledgeable, so they only escorted salt goods and did not escort other commodities on this commercial route.It also gave these bandits a bite to eat.

However, as the life of the bandits became more and more difficult, they robbed caravans more and more frequently, and because they were robbed more and more times, there were fewer and fewer caravans passing through this trade route. This forms a vicious circle.The income of these bandits is getting less and less.

And as Li Yaozi became more and more powerful among these bandits, his ambitions also swelled, so he set his sights on the caravan escorted by Wu Shigong's army, the only one still on this trade road, who was normally doing business.

In Li Yaozi's heart now, although Wu Shigong's prestige still remains a little bit, there is not much left.Because, in the end, Wu Shigong massacred the people of the Holy Spirit Society, and half a year has passed.Prestige stuff also has a shelf life.It also needs to be continuously watered with blood to keep it fresh.

Li Yaozi reckoned: With his own strength, if he could directly confront Wu Shigong's chariot against chariot or horse against horse, he would definitely not be able to do so.But as long as he is in the mountainous area of ​​Runing Mansion, with this home field advantage, Wu Shigong can't do anything to him.

Therefore, when the caravan escorted by Wu Shigong's army passed by this time, Li Yaozi led more than 500 men to build a barrier with tree trunks and stones to block the road and intercept the caravan escorted by Wu Shigong's army.

The leading officer who escorted the caravan this time was Qian Qi.During the smooth escort process, Qian Qi was a little nervous when he met the bandits who robbed him for the first time.So, he shouted loudly: "Which one is in charge of blocking the way ahead? We are Wu Qianhu's caravan here. Is there some misunderstanding!"

Qian Qi's idea was: Wu Shigong's name was reported, and if Wu Shigong's name could be used to solve this trouble smoothly, that would be the best result.

Unexpectedly, Li Yaozi, who was behind the obstacle, also shouted: "I also know that you are Master Wu's caravan. But the mountain is really hard, so I beg Master Wu to give me some food, and leave half of the salt. I, Li Yaozi, are here first Thank you Master Wu!"

Although Li Yaozi came to rob the caravan escorted by Wu Shigong's army, he didn't want to ruin the matter.So, think about bargaining.If the caravan was willing to keep [-]% of the salt cargo in the end, Li Yaozi would be satisfied.Of course, he was also able to find out Wu Shigong's bottom line through this robbery. If Wu Shigong subdued this time, then the next robbery may also rob all the salt goods of the caravan escorted by Wu Shigong.

But after hearing Li Yaozi's words, Qian Qi immediately became furious.It seems that these bandits know where they are coming from.They dared to slap flies on the tiger's head, so let them see how the tiger shows off its power.He stopped Lu Yunhuan who wanted to bargain with Li Yaozi.He immediately gestured to the officer behind him, ready to fight.

Among the officers under Wu Shigong, Qian Qi's position can be firmly squeezed into the top ten.However, Qian Qi knew in her heart that among all the people Wu Shigong brought out of the capital, her friendship with Wu Shigong was the weakest.

At that time in Nancheng Bingma Division, Qian Qi was promoted to the position of Xiaoqi by Wu Shigong because of his father's relationship with Deputy Commander Qian and Qian Qi's relatively good performance in military training.

However, for more than a year later, Qian Qi and Wu Shigong, the commander of the army and horse department at the time, did not even exchange three sentences, and there was no contact.It's just that when Wu Shigong left Bingma Division, Qian Qi couldn't get along in Bingma Division because of family reasons.That's when he took refuge in Wu Shigong.

After arriving at Qianhu, it was also because Wu Shigong's other guards were unwilling to train these new recruits for queue training, so Qian Qi was awarded the position of deputy leader for training new soldiers.

Such a coincidence, in the end, Qian Qi sat in such a high position.Therefore, Qian Qi knew that many of his officers who were from Wu Shigong's guards were not very convinced of his qualifications and abilities.

Therefore, Qian Qi wanted to make a little contribution to silence those who questioned her ability.Therefore, when Li Yaozi and his bandits made a request for extortion, Qian Qi didn't talk nonsense to Li Yaozi and the others, and immediately ordered his soldiers to prepare for battle.

After Qian Qi's order was issued, the soldiers began to line up, and the musketeers began to load gunpowder bullets.This will definitely take a while, a process.And the appearance of the soldiers preparing to fight was also seen by the bandits like Li Yaozi.

At this time, Li Yaozi hesitated a little. After all, he didn't want to formally confront Wu Shigong, but just wanted to show his strength and gain some benefits.If the two sides fight, the conflict will intensify.Once the two sides get angry, it will never stop.

But Li Yaozi didn't issue an order, and some bandits under him couldn't sit still.Seeing that the soldiers were about to get ready, some bandits acted first.They stayed behind the obstacle of tree trunks and stones, and began to draw their bows and shoot arrows.

Now that the first person shoots an arrow, the others also shoot arrows one after another.As for Qian Qi's soldiers, because they wanted to protect the caravan, the entire team of soldiers did not retreat very far.The soldiers in the first few rows of the queue happened to be at the edge of the bow and arrow's range.

However, the bows and arrows used by Li Yaozi's bandits are also hunting bows, not army standard bows and arrows, so the range is relatively short and the power is relatively small.In addition, those bandits' desire to fight is also half-hearted, and some bandits with bows and arrows did not join the bandits who shot arrows.

Therefore, the dozens of arrows fired sparingly wounded four or five soldiers.And because these soldiers were all wearing beggars' military uniforms and protected by this piece of earthen armor, no soldiers were shot to the point of death.

However, even such an arrow shot also caused a burst of confusion among the soldiers.It was only under the severe reprimand of Qian Qi and other officers that the soldiers retreated out of the bow and arrow range in an orderly manner according to the training content.

At this time, the musketeers had already loaded the gunpowder and bullets. They stepped forward to the front of the queue, and under the command of the officer, they fired a row of shovels.

Due to the protection of the obstacles built by tree trunks and stones, this row of she killed and wounded five or six bandits.But at the same time, this also caused a burst of confusion among the bandits.Seeing that a battle had already taken place, Li Yaozi made up his mind to start fighting.

At this time, the situation between the two sides in the battle is a bit delicate.Li Yaozi's bandits were numerous, protected by obstacles, and had an advantage in terrain.

Qian Qi's soldiers are small, but they have the sharp weapon of firecrackers, and the soldiers under him have received good military training.However, Qian Qi's soldiers wanted to protect the caravan, and they didn't know if there were bandits in ambush on the mountains on both sides of the road, so they had to send some soldiers to guard the sides and rear wings of the caravan.Therefore, the fight was timid.

In addition, if the caravan wants to move forward, it must remove this obstacle. However, under the threat of bandit bows and arrows, sending soldiers to rush up like this will definitely cause a lot of casualties.Therefore, Qian Qi did not order the soldiers to charge forward.It's just arranging the firing of the firecrackers.

And because of the threat of gunfire from Qian Qi's soldiers, Li Yaozi's bandits did not dare to break out of the obstacle and face Qian Qi's soldiers directly.Therefore, the two sides were in a stalemate with you and I with a burst of fire.

It wasn't until the end that Qian Qi's soldiers were ready to fire the cannon several times at the obstacle, making a gap in the obstacle, and then Li Yaozi and the bandits scattered.

In the subsequent stalemate confrontation, Qian Qi's soldiers did not suffer any casualties, but Li Yaozi's bandits were killed and injured at most a dozen people, and did not suffer fatal losses.

By this time, it was almost dark.Even if they could move forward without obstacles, Qian Qi and the others were afraid that they would be ambushed by bandits in this dark night.After discussing with Lu Yunhuan, Qian Qi and the others decided to return to the fortress of Qianhusuo and report the situation to Wu Shigong before making further plans.

After Wu Shigong understood the whole process in detail, he praised Qian Qi's actions.Wu Shigong mainly praised Qian Qi for two points: the first point is that Qian Qi dared to fight under the threat of bandits such as Li Yaozi; the second point is that Qian Qi was not impulsive when the situation was unknown , Withdrew his army and caravan to the fortress of Qianhusuo, preserving his vital forces.

As for how to exterminate Li Yaozi and his gang of bandits, you can make a plan and discuss it with peace of mind, and there is no need to worry about it.Li Yaozi's bandit stockade will not grow wings and fly away by itself.

After arranging for the wounded soldiers to recuperate, Wu Shigong first sent someone to Lei Ying, asking him to send some people who were familiar with the road to Li Yaozi stockade, as well as the structure and strength of Li Yaozi stockade.

Unexpectedly, Lei Ying personally brought some subordinates who were familiar with the situation to Qianhusuo Fortress.Knowing that Wu Shigong wanted to destroy Li Yaozi, Lei Ying raised his hands to welcome him.If Li Yaozi and his bandits were wiped out, then Lei Ying's family would dominate in the entire mountain area, which was completely in Lei Ying's interest.

After Lei Ying and his subordinates introduced the situation in detail, after discussing with Xue Yongli and other leaders, Wu Shigong quickly formulated an action plan to destroy Li Yaozi's stockade.

Then Wu Shigong asked Lu Yunhuan to report the case to the county government and his own Qianhu Office respectively.To achieve the legality of this bandit suppression operation.

Although Wu Shigong received an official document from the higher-level Yamen asking him to jointly suppress the bandits.But Wu Shigong's bandit suppression operation this time, after all, went out of his own defense zone, but went to Runing Mansion to suppress bandits.It's easy to attack without a legitimate reason.Especially when the current county magistrate is still Wu Shigong's enemy - Yu Zilian.

Wu Shigong's reason for suppressing the bandits was that the merchants in this county were robbed by bandits on the business road, so Wu Shigong helped the merchants in this county cross the border to suppress the bandits.

After doing all this, Wu Shigong brought 100 soldiers and [-] cavalry, and these soldiers carried more than [-] firecrackers.He took all his own five cannons, and under the leadership of Lei Ying and the others, he headed towards Li Yaozi's stockade and killed them.