This battle made Xu Wei realize that the powerful in this world are still very effective as watchdogs. There are dozens of forts in the entire Wei County. If each of them resists fiercely like the Huang family's forts, they can attack up to 10
His escort at Gewu Fort was about to perish on the way to attack. Obviously, the road to becoming a local tycoon was not as easy as Xu Wei imagined!
But Wang Lei and the others didn't think the casualties were huge. In the past, they might not be able to break through a fort even if they paid thousands of lives, but now they only suffered 200 casualties. It was an unprecedented victory. As for replenishing troops, it was even easier. They had many people behind them.
There are tens of thousands of people, how can they still find no one to replenish the troops! What they don't lack most is people.
They even thought that if Xu Wei opened his door to recruiting troops, it would be easy for them to recruit tens of thousands of people. With tens of thousands of people, not to mention capturing Wubao, even Wei County could be captured, and then capture the entire Jizhou, completing
The mission that the great sage and mentor failed to complete. The different perspectives of both parties led to them looking at the problem completely differently.
Then came the popular stage of beating up the local tyrants, allowing the surrounding refugees to identify the crimes of the local tycoons, and hanged dozens of relatives named Huang Haoqiang and their henchmen. Then the food was distributed to the surrounding people, and all the gold and silver treasures were moved up the mountain and collected.
Tens of thousands of brothers went up the mountain.
I have to say that the local tycoons in this era are rich. This small local tycoon in Wei County has millions of dollars, more than 200 sets of armors and weapons, thousands of pieces of cloth, and 100,000 stones of food. This is probably more than the money in Wei County.
Warehouses and grain depots cost a lot of money. No wonder the Eastern Han Dynasty government had no money, and all the money went into the hands of these powerful people.
It can be said that such a Wubao is simply a self-sufficient small world, which reminded Xu Wei of medieval castles.
Although the names are different, they are both manor economies, and both sides face the same situation. Western Europe completely fragmented its political power due to castles, and became the sick man of Eastern Europe. Entering the Middle Ages for thousands of years, Westerners were repaired by the Mongols and the Persians.
, repaired by the Ottomans.
In the east, as the territory of the Han people was filled with forts, the country became a small vassal state. Its strength declined unprecedentedly. It was beaten by the Huns, the Xianbei, the Jie people, and the Qiang.
After being beaten by the Di people, the glory and majesty that the Han Dynasty spent hundreds of years building were completely defeated by the manor owners of the two Jin Dynasties. It was not until the Sui and Tang Dynasties that Chinese civilization began to rise.
It can be seen that the manor economy is a backward system in both the East and the West. Each manor is like a cancerous cell devouring the power of the country.
After Xu Wei became a rich man, Zhen An came again and exchanged thousands of sets of cowhide armor for all the belongings in Xu Wei's hands. She seemed to know Xu Wei's difficulties and told Xu Wei a few things about Wubao.
The name said: "These are the forts built by Shi Changshi and his relatives. Because they are outsiders, their defenses are not strong. Moreover, because they are doing evil in the local area, the local people do not obey them. If Commander Qu attacks these forts, not only will
The harvest will be rich, and the casualties will not be too high!"
Xu Wei looked at Zhen Ju strangely. Not only was the Zhen family not afraid of his way of attacking local tyrants, but he also wanted to borrow a knife to kill someone. Aren't they afraid of getting themselves burned?
It seems that the local powerful people's hatred for the Shi Changshi has exceeded their hatred for the Yellow Turban Army.
With this information, in the next 10 days, Xu Wei led tens of thousands of refugees to attack three more forts in succession. These forts had more money than the local tycoons, and the harvested food and money piled up a hill.
Because most of Xu Wei's subordinates wore rattan armor, the name of the rattan armor thieves caused a sensation throughout Wei County. The powerful people in Wei County felt insecure and began to strengthen their own forts. At the same time, they also asked the prefect to find a way to deal with the increasingly rampant rattan armor.
A thief!
At this time, the prefect of Wei County was also dumbfounded. The ones Xu Wei defeated were all powerful men who were related to the Shi Changshi. They were all people with powerful eyes and hands. If he had not caught this group of rattan thieves, he, the prefect, would have been defeated.
I can't do it anymore.
So he led 5,000 county soldiers to Hukou Mountain again, and this time he brought a month's worth of military rations. This time, he would not return unless the rattan bandits were wiped out!
Looking at Hukou Mountain, the prefect of Wei County said with a sullen face: "The army will use the villages as small groups to clear out the rattan thieves on Hukou Mountain. I will not spare any of you!"
The captain asked in a low voice: "What should we do with the refugees who go up the mountain?"
After the weather started to get warmer, there were more and more refugees on Hukou Mountain. After all, some wild vegetables and prey could be found on the mountain.
The prefect said gloomily: "Didn't you hear what I said? There are no common people here, only rattan-armored thieves. The best way to deal with the thieves is to root them out!"
The captain looked at the prefect and said in panic: "No!"
The Han army's 5,000 troops were like a big net, going from the mouth of the pot to the deep mountains to encircle and suppress them.
At this time, Xu Wei had long been hiding in the mountains with the refugees. After searching for a day, the Han army only killed a few unlucky refugees in Hukou Mountain.
But the prefect of Wei County did not give up, but ordered the soldiers to go deeper into the mountains and forests. He did not believe that the rattan armor thieves could hide tens of thousands of people in the mountains.
After Xu Wei learned that the Han army was scattered up the mountain to encircle and suppress them, he also divided his escort into three teams and attacked separately.
Xu Wei's army was all refugees who went up the mountain, and they knew Hukou Mountain very well. The prefect of Wei County even divided the army into small groups. This gave Xu Wei a fighter opportunity, 10 times the strength of his troops, and in the valley
When ambushing the Han army squad, Xu Wei basically fired three rounds of crossbows, killing most of the Han army, and then stabbed the remaining Han army with spears.
In a few days, Xu Wei and others relied on their large numbers and advantageous location to surround and kill 5 Han troops, but they only injured a few soldiers.
Such casualties frightened the Han army, and they had to change their tactics and move with a force of a thousand men. They were not too far away from each other and could support each other, but this way the range they could search was too small.
, and the actions became sluggish.
Faced with the new tactics of the Han army, Xu Wei also changed his tactics. He stayed on the mountain to contain the Han army, and asked Wang Lei and Niu Gui to cut off the Han army's food road and invade Yecheng. As long as the food road was cut off, he could go up the mountain.
The Han army had to retreat.
Before leaving, he told Wang Lei and Niu Gui: "Fight if you can, and run away when in danger. The most important thing is to save the lives of the soldiers! It is impossible for these Han troops to stay here with you in Wei County!"
Wang Lei smiled and said: "Captain, don't worry, I will conquer Yecheng if I have the chance and make this dog official lose his lair!"
Wang Lei and others set out from Hukou to invade Wei County!
Xu Wei divided his 1,000 soldiers into 10 teams and asked them to harass the Han army and contain their actions!