"Master, look, there is Aquarius Mountain in front of you."
With the support of everyone, Zhang Heng and Qian Zhenren arrived at the peak opposite Aoping Mountain.
Master Qian raised his eyes and saw Aoping Mountain with dense green vegetation and numerous fortresses and watchtowers.
Looking to both sides, there are two hills on both sides, forming a defensive position, just like the two ears on the vase.
"Guarded by mountains and protected by a bottle, Baoping Mountain is indeed a good place. If you can be buried here after your death and gather the energy of the earth, your descendants will be blessed and live longer."
Qian Zhenren sighed first, then looked at Zhang Heng: "If I guessed correctly, the spring on Baoping Mountain should be at the mouth of the Hukou, and the water veins should be in the back mountain, leading to the Dongling River ten miles away."
"Uncle Master is right. According to the bandits on the mountain, there is indeed a spring on the top of the mountain that lasts all year round."
Zhang Heng responded, and then asked: "Uncle, is there any way to seal this water vein and make the springs on Aquarius Mountain dry up?"
"It's not difficult."
Master Qian withdrew his gaze and told everyone: "Let's go to Dongling River."
Dongling River is a small river.
It seems that it has nothing to do with Aoping Mountain, it does not pass under the mountain, and it is ten miles away.
But after arriving at the Dongling River, Qian Zhenren laughed heartily, pointed to the river beach and said: "This is the water vein of Aoping Mountain. As long as I open an altar here and nail the water vein, in less than five days, the water veins of Aoping Mountain will be there."
The springs will surely dry up."
Zhang Heng calculated silently for a while.
In the Zhang family in Dagou Town, there was a cousin who was a member of the clan and was a bandit on Aoping Mountain.
With this inside line, Zhang Heng knew very clearly what happened on Aquarius Mountain.
First of all, because there is a spring on Aoping Mountain, water is collected once a day, and there is no habit of building a reservoir.
As long as the water veins are cut off, it won't be long before the bandits on the mountain will have no choice but to abandon the mountain.
By then, the watchtowers, wooden forts, and bunkers on the mountain will become decorations, and the bandits on the mountain will become headless flies.
"Bring me my magic weapon, I want to open the altar."
Zhenren Qian is impatient and doesn't want to wait any longer.
"You two go move things, you two, follow my uncle's orders."
Zhang Heng gave instructions to everyone.
After everyone started to take action to build an altar for Zhenren Qian, Zhang Heng called Zhang Zhentian and Zhang Zhenhu: "Cousin, there are 800 bandits on Baoping Mountain, and our militia only has 300 or 400 people. In this case, you go back to town.
I can gather another thousand young men and come up with them."
After talking to Zhang Zhentian, Zhang Heng looked at Zhang Zhenhu again: "Huzi, please contact Mr. John of Deutsche Matheson and ask him to send another thousand Mauser and a hundred short guns. In addition, if there are infantry artillery and Maxim
Let’s do the same thing, and then our militia group will have to be the size of a regiment.”
"Clan leader, just wait and see."
Zhang Zhenhu went happily.
As the actual manager of the militia, no one hopes to expand the strength of the militia more than he does. After all, no one will disdain that they have too many soldiers.
"Chief, Dagou Town is just a small town. Unless you provide money for a militia with more than a thousand people, the town cannot afford it."
Zhang Zhentian expressed his worries.
"Don't worry, I will set up a factory in the town later, and then the militia will be useful."
"Besides, the world is not peaceful right now, and there's no telling what will become more and more chaotic in the future."
"We don't have a gun, and we don't have strong words. If we have an armed force of our own, we have to think twice when others want to touch us."
Zhang Heng has no intention of competing for the dragon.
But he doesn't want to be unable to protect himself. After all, the burden of the Zhang family in Dagou Town rests on him, and he needs to be responsible for those who support him.
A regiment of a thousand people may not sound like much, but it is actually quite a lot.
He who is stationed in Dagou Town is like a local emperor. As long as he does not violate taboos, no one will send a division to encircle and suppress him.
Don't be afraid even if a division comes. After Baoping Mountain is captured, we can build it again. This will be the new militia station.
There are many attic fortresses on Aquarius Mountain, and a thousand people are guarding them. Even a division of ten thousand people may not be able to defeat them, and the gain outweighs the losses if they defeat them.
Otherwise, many years later, Zhang Zhenhu, who became the new mountain king of Baoping Mountain, would not have been recruited by the Wang Puppet regime.
Five days later.
Aquarius Mountain.
"Master, the spring has dried up."
On the mountain, a group of people gathered in front of a spring.
"How could this happen? Wasn't there a steady stream of water yesterday?"
"Master, yesterday's water output was actually abnormal. It was much smaller than before. I just thought it was a drop in groundwater and didn't think much about it. Who knew there was not a drop of water left this morning."
“How long can the water supply on the mountain last?”
"Two days at most."
"so little?"
"Master, we don't have the habit of storing water. Who knew the spring water would dry up?"
Looking at the dry spring, everyone felt embarrassed.
In the afternoon of the second day.
There was not a drop of water left on the mountain, and people who went down to fetch water kept coming one after another, but they never came back.
The bandit leader of Baoping Mountain sat on the main seat with a melancholy look on his face.
The second master, who was sitting below, looked at the third master and the fourth master, and couldn't help but said: "Brother, it's definitely not possible without water on the mountain. We will all die of thirst if we stay on the mountain any longer. In my opinion, we should go down the mountain.
"
"Can't go down the mountain."
Yidan Tiao said with a sad face: "Since the morning, I have sent four waves of people down the mountain to collect water, but none of them have come back yet. I'm afraid..."
"Officers and soldiers surrounding the mountain?"
The Third Master asked tentatively.
"It's almost the same, but I'm very surprised. How did the officers and soldiers know that we were short of water?"
The look in Yidanchao's eyes became unkind.
When the other bandit leaders saw it, they all looked at their nose, nose and mouth, and mouth and heart.
But the seeds of doubt have been planted. Looking at the sworn brothers in front of me, they all have distrustful eyes.
"Surrender without killing, surrender without killing!"
Two nights later, the third leader, who was so hungry and thirsty, went down the mountain overnight with his close associates.
What was waiting for him was the militia soldiers surrounding him. Looking at the torches all over the mountains and plains, the Third Master was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground: "Don't shoot, I am willing to surrender."
"Are you the third boss of Baoping Mountain, Zhuyeqing?"
Looking at the ordinary man who was tied up and brought in front of him, Zhang Heng shook his head slightly: "He looks very ordinary!"
"Sir, I am willing to surrender and help you capture Aquarius Mountain."
Zhuyeqing didn't know Zhang Heng, so he thought these uniformly dressed people were private soldiers of the warlord invited by Yangjiang County to suppress bandits.
"Oh, you're quite cooperative."
Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows: "Tell me, what's going on on the mountain?"
"Lack of water."
Zhuyeqing didn't dare to hide it: "Actually, there was no water this morning, but there is some wine hidden in the mountains, so I will still be thirsty for a while."
Zhang Heng was a little strange: "If you can't die from thirst, why did you come down the mountain?"
"To tell you sir, I don't drink. I get rashes all over my body after drinking."
Zhuyeqing was a little embarrassed.
The crowd roared with laughter.
A bandit who can't drink is still a bandit. How did the third-in-command become a bandit who can't even drink?
Zhuye Qing blushed when he was laughed at, and tried his best to defend himself: "Who said that if you don't drink, you won't be a hero?"
When everyone heard this, they laughed even louder.
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ps: As promised, there will be more updates. I owe you a chapter and will be sent on Sunday or Monday.