623 Subduing Thieves(1/2)
Six, two, three surrender thieves
"**Mom!" Everyone was fascinated by the word "reward", and their spirits were immediately mobilized and they shouted..
Niu Dazhang is naturally no exception, but he is thinking in his eyes.
Zhao Wuji pressed down with his hands, and when everyone calmed down, Fang Zi continued: "Everyone, there is one more thing besides this."
A slightly embarrassed look appeared on his face: "We don't have enough food to eat! Therefore, we have to fight if we are not beaten, and we have to fight if we don't fight, unless we want to starve to death."
When he said this, he looked at Niu Dazhang's expression. After seeing that his face was completely different, he felt much more comfortable, but he didn't know that Niu Dazhang was already sneering in his heart.
Niu Dazhang once told Zhao Wuji about this, but Zhao Wuji was short-sighted and could not see that far, so he could not pay attention to it, so the problem soon emerged. Five or six days ago, there was no enough food. At that time, Zhao Wuji woke up and immediately ordered that all food be collected, not waste, and a daily dosage system for each person was implemented, but it was too late.
In the past two days, the last little food was eaten up, and most people could only drink some noodle soup every day to live - of course, not including the privileged class of them.
After this war, there were fewer bodies of the Ming army who died in battle, so they could only ignore it.
Anyway, I'm almost starving to death, what's the point of eating someone?
While talking, a senior brother suddenly ran in and said happily: "Master Xiang, we have discovered the Ming army's armory! Go and have a look. I have a mother. I don't know how many swords, guns, bows and arrows are so many!"
"Take it seriously?" Zhao Wuji was overjoyed when he heard this and suddenly stood up.
A very strong look of joy appeared on Niu Dazhang's face, and an inexplicable and bizarre smell flashed in his eyes.
After a cup of tea, a group of senior executives were already standing in the armory.
This armory is not in the center of the city, but in the southwest corner, next to the military camp. The armory is built of extremely thick bluestone. The large iron gate is five inches thick. It can be seen that it is a dream to open it without realizing it. Such a military aircraft is naturally worthy of such protection. But at this moment, the large iron gate has been smashed open. This place is like a weak woman stripped naked and spread her legs, and let others ravage it.
Originally, when the White Lotus Sect members found that the protection here was so tight, they thought it was a treasure house, but they didn't expect that after opening it, they found that it was full of weapons.
The area inside is also quite large, with a radius of forty or fifty meters, and there are not many types. They are all common weapons - waist knives, long spears, bows and arrows, and round shields, but they are of huge numbers.
Very huge, almost piled up like mountains.
Moreover, the quality of these weapons is very new, and it seems that they were only replenished not long ago. Naturally, they didn't know that this was the poor Qianhu Lord who had been rushing up for a whole year to request new weapons to be replenished. It was only recently approved, and these weapons were transported ten days ago. Before they could use them, they were cheaper to these White Lotus Sects.
When Niu Dazhang saw these weapons, his eyes shining, and he stepped forward and groped with his hands, and he was muttering something in his mouth.
Other senior White Lotus Sect leaders, including Zhao Wuji, were very happy to see these weapons, but they also felt their scalp and were at a loss. Zhao Wuji caught a glimpse of Niu Dazhang's expression, and his heart moved, and laughed: "Why are we panicing here? Isn't this an expert? Brother Niu, tell me, what should we do with these weapons?"
Niu Dazhang was also unscrupulous and pondered for a moment, saying, "Love Master, I have to take someone to count the number first."
Zhao Wuji waved his hand: "You care about this, let's watch it."
Niu Dazhang replied yes.
It’s easy to do things with so many people. In a short while, the number was counted.
There were a total of two thousand waist knives, one thousand spears, three thousand bows, and one thousand bundles of arrows. What surprised Niu Dazhang was that he also found a hundred pairs of armor and a top three-layer foam nail cotton armor in a corner.
"Master Xiang, this military equipment may be the key to the fact that we can smash Li Qingshan down." Niu Dazhang pondered for a moment, walked to Zhao Wuji and said.
When Zhao Wuji heard this, his eyes lit up and immediately said, "You mean?"
"That's right!" Niu Dazhang pulled Zhao Wuji aside and said with a low life: "Master Xiang, please forgive me for your frankness. Although we have many people now, we are mostly mobs. There are more than 100,000 people stationed in Linghe Castle in the city, saying it is a large army, but everyone knows that if this is a supportive situation, most of them can only be considered as people, and only a few thousand people. If the officers and soldiers come here, they may be able to break up and disrupt us. The reason why we are so powerful now is that the Jurchens have attacked from north to south and attracted most of the troops?"
These words were very direct, and Zhao Wuji's face changed slightly, but he knew that Niu Dazhang was so frank for his own good. Who would not know that he would offend people by saying unruly? So he trusted him a little more and said, "Then what do you mean?"
Niu Dazhang said boldly: "According to my idea, what we should do most now is to use these weapons to arm the elites, then use them to charge and train more to form an elite army that can be enforced and banned, and can rush and kill. In this way, it will not only capture cities and territory, but also save our capital. Even if the officers and soldiers fight in the future, everything will be lost. As long as this army is still there, its vitality will not be damaged."
Zhao Wuji nodded repeatedly when he heard this, and felt even more glad that he had obtained the treasure Niu Dazhang.
He slammed his high-high: "Okay, that's it!"
That night, Zhao Wuji summoned all the slightly conspicuous figures under his command and announced in public that the Forward Battalion was established.
The vanguard battalion is tentatively set to be five thousand people, including three thousand infantrymen, one thousand spearmen, one with a knife in his hand, the other with a shield in his hand, two thousand card players, and two thousand archers.
The position of commander of the Forward Battalion naturally fell on Niu Dazhang's head without a doubt.
It was also on this day that the hungry White Lotus Sect members began to eat people on a large scale. They stripped away the Ming army's clothes and scalded them with hot water, released blood, cleared out the intestines, liver and five internal organs, chopped them up and threw them directly into the pot to cook. However, according to their experience, it is better to go into the water.
Share and eat it.
He also named him "Kill Ming Pig (Zhu)".
Early the next morning, Zhao Wuji ordered the remaining Ming army corpses to scrape off the meat and marinate them with salt as military rations.
More than one hundred thousand church members swept towards the south like locusts, and their destination was Wuzhedu.
The area where Wuzhe Tuwen is located is the junction between Wuzhewei and Tunhewei.
Tunhewei and Wuzhewei have similarities. For example, the range of these two places is long strips, but the difference is that Tunhewei relies on the Towen River that flows from north to south to form a long strip from north to south. As for Wuzhewei, it is long strips from east to west. The intersection of Tunhewei and the southern end and Wuzhewei is the Wuzhewei Tuwenou, and Wuzhewei City is located at the intersection of the Towen River and one of its tributaries. The danger of its terrain can be imagined.
To the west of Wuzhewei is the Wuzhewei City, and the Ming army has moved all its military ranks into Wuzhewei and several acropolis around Wuzhewei City to retreat. This is equivalent to giving the eastern and central areas of Wuzhewei, which are more than 300 miles away to the White Lotus Sect.
As the core of the entire Liaobei general's jurisdiction, Wuzhewei has a population of more than 300,000, but because it is too close to the core of the Ming government, there is no fragrant master here, but there are only scattered White Lotus scholars carrying out the uprising.
These populations are all huge resources!
And the south of Wuzhewei is the Duolun Guard of Li Qingshan.
In other words, whoever can take the lead will belong to Wuzhewei!
Speaking of this, we have to mention the current situation in the territory of the general in northern Liao.
At this time, the territory of the Liaobei General was almost in a three-legged situation - the White Lotus Sect, the Ming Border Army, and the Jurchens.
What is amazing is that the most powerful among the three parties nowadays, at least they seem to have the largest power, occupying the most territory and the most military forces, is actually the White Lotus Sect.
The White Lotus Sect was in a craziest uprising, hundreds of thousands of people rose up overnight, and almost overnight swept across the vast land of thousands of miles.
The development of such folk religions is unreasonable.
It was an explosive, crazy, unbelievable high speed and a vast and magnificent feeling of unstoppable power, just like the long river of history.
The White Lotus Sect is everywhere, and the current situation is the same. The power of the entire White Lotus Sect has expanded to one million people, and all the guards under the jurisdiction of the General of Liaobei are inhabited by the White Lotus Sect.
Now the White Lotus Sect has roughly occupied about 70% of the land under the jurisdiction of the General of Liaobei. How big is this land?
It is roughly the same size as a Northern Zhili.
After Amin led the army southward, he was almost invincible and invincible until he was blocked by the Ming officers and soldiers in the Alizhe Guard. Among the Alizhe Guard, there were more than 100,000 Ming troops. Yang Xuezhong even issued strict orders, and those who retreated died, so they all fought against the water and burst out with extremely powerful combat power.
After all, the Jurchens had a smaller number of people, and their elite combat power was weakened to the smallest in the siege battle. Therefore, after several failed sieges, they realized that Alizhewei was not a good bone to chew. Therefore, they simply did not attack the city, but only drove Han slave soldiers and plundered slaves to build long trenches and camps outside the city, and surrounded them tightly, so that the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops in Alizhewei survived by chance, but they were still waiting to die.
The Jurchens only left 10,000 troops to focus on the Ming army in the city, while the other troops attacked from all directions and conquered the cities and lands everywhere. They had already conquered the Wuzhe Zuowei, Wudehanso, Zhenhewei, Namuhewei and other places in the north. The troops even arrived at the Fuyuwei further north, almost close to the Alunwei, Michenwei, Mulijiwei, and the Jiahewei and Wutunhewei, which were originally occupied by them, which also occupied about 30% of the land under the jurisdiction of the General of Liaobei, forming a narrow-range force zone with a length of more than a thousand miles.
The most pitiful one is the Ming border army.
In the struggle between small towns and villages, it can be said that the White Lotus Sect has completely gained the absolute advantage, while the Ming army has completely contracted and defended the city. The territory is only left with Wuzhe Guard, Wuzhe Guard, Wuzhe Right Guard, Tashan Guard and other big cities. However, although the territory is small, the troops are still there, and because the area that needs protection is small, their combat effectiveness has actually soared.
Therefore, among the three parties, although the White Lotus Sect has the largest territory, it has the worst combat power, and the Ming army is second, and the strongest one is naturally the Jurchens.
If the Jurchens had not restrained too much of the Ming army's troops, the White Lotus Sect would not have spread so much.
Therefore, for Zhao Wuji, it is imperative to take down Wu and get out of the Wenshou.
On this day, Zheng Qi, a hundred households, were patrolling the west wall of Wuzhetuo Wensou.
He was not an officer here, but an officer who belonged to the Nanzhen Town of Tunhe Wei. After the Tunhe Wei fell, the White Lotus Sect continued to move south like a bamboo shoot, and beat the officers and soldiers to amazement. When Zheng Qi saw that the situation was not good, he quickly took a hundred people under his command and retreated south. When he passed Linghe Fort, he didn't dare to go in. He ran south for seventy or eighty miles. The brothers were almost exhausted. Seeing that he could run down, his brothers could beat him to death. This was the city.
After entering the city, there were no trouble. At this moment, there were already 70,000 or 80,000 people in the city. The original organization of this Wuzhe Tuwen Institute was only 1,120 people, and the other troops escaped from all over the country.
Chen Yi, the guard of Qianhu, the Wuzhe Tuwen Institute, was also a very ambitious person. He realized that the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect was indeed a great disaster, but if it was operated well, it would be a rare opportunity. The most urgent task is to expand the power, so that if anyone who comes to vote, he will not refuse them, and he will be appointed as a commander and command the entire army.
This place is a key place, and the surrounding area is full of large plains, with many people and quite rich people. Chen Yi was very smart and saw the opportunity early. As soon as the White Lotus Sect rebelled, he sent troops to suppress it, and then robbed food everywhere. After robbing the food, he set fire to the house and drove the people around to prevent them from setting fire to the house.
His methods were also ruthless. Sure enough, the White Lotus Sect's uprising had never affected him, and he also gave him enough time to strengthen his power.
"Get out of here and be on guard!" Zheng Qi kicked a soldier who was dozing on the wall. The soldier quickly smiled embarrassedly and stood up honestly as if he was serious.
However, Zheng Qi sighed and leaned against the city wall, his eyes a little anxious.
He is thinking about his own way forward.
Zheng Qi is already thirty-five this year, and he is a child of a military family. His father was originally a hundred households of Tunhewei. He inherited his father's position and was in a daze all the way. He has come to this day. Speaking of which, Zheng Qi is also a good military soldier, with a big beard, a big beard on his face, and a ghost-headed knife weighs 36 pounds in his hand. He is the first in the battle competition among Tunhewei. A dozen Ming soldiers are no match for her at all. They are extremely powerful and have a very hard hand.
He didn't want to escape, but he had no choice. He had never seen the people coming from the White Lotus Sect's army with his own eyes. He could not imagine the suffocating spectacle and the despair that came out of his heart when facing them!
It is boundless, with a sea of people, and all over the mountains. This is a person who can drown you with just one mouthful of saliva.
It can't stop it at all, it can't resist it!
If he didn't escape, his brothers would run away by themselves, and it would be useless for him to be alone.
"Where can you escape all the way? If you run back, you will be the only one who guards you? But I heard that General Yang issued a death order, and generals from all over the country were not allowed to lose their own land. Whether facing the Jurchens or the White Lotus thieves, if you escape, you will be killed! This time I will die, but if you are here, the White Lotus teaching materials will not be called sooner or later?"
Thinking about it, Zheng Qi was so sad that he felt very upset.
At this moment, a voice suddenly came from below: "I have met the commander."
Then a majestic voice hummed, Zheng Qi was so excited that he quickly stood up straight, and looked at him and saw a middle-aged man in his forties, tall and thin, with a gloomy face, walking up. It was Chen Yi, who was proclaimed as the commander.
He knew that Chen Yi hated others for disrespect for him the most, so he knelt down and kowtowed, "I have seen the commander in the flag."
"Get up!"
Chen Yi waved his hand, stood up and asked, "Is there anything unusual?"
Zheng Qi said: "There is nothing unusual when I say that, one hour ago, a small team was inevitably crying under the city and wanted to enter the city. We were shot to death by arrows and ran away."
Chen Yi looked down at the city and saw several ragged corpses standing there. He nodded, and said, "It's a good job."
To be continued...