Just after noon, the officers and soldiers who came to collect food in the morning came again. This time, there was no large group of people coming. It was still the same few people, but there was no figure of Tang Yin, Ding Chen San, etc. among them. I wonder if they were afraid of death.
He didn't dare to come because the officers and soldiers didn't let him come.
Ma Degui was not a rough man. After the official army left, he sent someone to find out the details of the Lushun General Soldier. The people who came back reported that the Lushun General Soldier's soldiers and horses lined up along the official road for several miles.
It was so densely packed that there were tens of thousands of people there.
This number frightened Ma Degui. How come the Ming Dynasty's miscellaneous generals now have ten or twenty thousand soldiers?!
The frightened Ma Degui didn't have the heart to resist. Bullying is not the way to bully. He subconsciously asked people to find the people who went to the county to file a complaint, but everyone had been gone for almost an hour. It was estimated that the petition papers would have been delivered long ago.
It's in the hands of the county magistrate. How can I get it back?
It didn't matter if he couldn't catch the writ, it was important to prepare food and grass quickly. But Ma Degui didn't expect that the tribesmen who usually obeyed his words would quit. What the army wanted was food and grass for 3,000 people for half a month. This amount would empty out the entire village.
I can’t even get it together!
Ma Degui said that if the officers and soldiers wanted so many, they would not be doomed. If they gave him dozens of shi of food first and a hundred sheep in addition, it would be regarded as the village doing its best. After all, the soldiers and horses of the Lushun general were from outside.
The guest army cannot really attack Majiazhai with open arms.
Unexpectedly, the tribesmen still refused to agree, and the ones who shouted the loudest were young people. These guys were used to bullying Han people, and they got into it. They even shouted that they would not give a grain of food to the officers and soldiers, otherwise Tangyin would
Hui Hui will be ridiculed by the Hui Hui people in Henan.
Losing one's life is a small matter, but losing one's talents is a big deal! If you want to be unable to hold your head high in Henan and make those Han people laugh at you for this matter, then you might as well fight to the death with the officers and soldiers. Even if you die, it will only make the Hui people look bad! Besides, there are
Lord Steamer is protecting us, how can the officers and soldiers defeat us? If we really die without a sword or a gun, then there are still seventy-two virgins in heaven!!!
The shouts of the young people also made some older Hui people become enthusiastic. The local government and army could not even defeat the rogue bandits, so how could they defeat us.
Even though he has 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers in Lushun, we also have a lot of people! The Hui people in a radius of ten miles, the horse gang bandits who came to help, and even the people in the village, they can only make up 4,000 to 5,000 people. If it is just a knife like this
Those who don't want to be cut down will obediently send food and money to the officers and soldiers, and no one will be willing to accept it!
What's more, Henan has suffered from drought for many years and there is no harvest in the fields. Handing over dozens of dan of grain to the army means that the old and young in the village will be hungry for a while. This cannot be said anywhere. There is no such thing as letting others in this world.
Fill your stomach and starve yourself!
Ma Derong, Ma Degui's third brother, who came from the county town, was also a staunch militant. He told his boss that the Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers were really useless now. He heard that the 5,000 officers and soldiers of Nanyang Guards Station were driven away by a few hundred bandits.
.At present, there are several thousand good Hui people in our village. Even if there are another twenty or thirty thousand officers and soldiers, they will not be without the strength to fight.
Ma Derong also said that since the second brother Ma Dexi has gone to ask Lao Huihui Ma Shouying to send troops to help, if we really give food to the officers and soldiers, then Lao Huihui doesn’t think that we are not of the same mind as him and help the officers and soldiers to fight them!
Offending Lao Huihui is much more serious than offending the government. Lao Huihui is not a religious believer who abides by strict rules. I heard that he even eats meat and kills people in a blink of an eye. If he really offends Lao Huihui, the Majia Village will be in trouble.
It will be broken within a short period of time, and then the whole village will be dead!
Since this is the case, it is better to give it a try. If the army is really defeated, then the Ma family will have the final say in the realm of Tangyin! Besides, we don’t really want to fight with the army, as long as we can hold on for a while.
On the third or fifth day, when Lao Huihui's soldiers arrive, they will kill the officers and soldiers until they are howling like ghosts and wolves. Wouldn't it be great to destroy Tangyin County together?
In the face of strong opposition from the "warrior faction" and the fear of Lao Huihui Ma Shouying, plus the temptation to loot Tangyin City after breaking it, Ma Degui finally made up his mind and decided not to hand over a grain of food, and took up swords and guns to fight with the officers and soldiers.
It’s over.
In order to cheer up the parishioners who came from all over the country, Ma Degui specially asked Ma Xiangming, an old servant who was over seventy years old, to give sermons and pray for everyone. He also slaughtered several cows and dozens of sheep to provide for the parishioners and horse bandits.
They eat and drink.
With God's blessing and cattle and sheep in their belly, everyone in Ma's village suddenly became high-spirited and murderous.
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When the officers and soldiers who came to receive the grain saw that Majia Village had not moved a grain of grain out, they turned around and left without asking.
Ma Degui knew that as soon as these officers and soldiers left, the commander-in-chief of Lushun would immediately send a large group of troops, so he immediately organized a capable bandit army of 2,000 soldiers plus 600 cavalry to go out of the stronghold and line up, commanded by the youngest Ma Derong, ready to wait.
When the officers and soldiers came, they attacked them head-on while they were not yet firmly established, letting them know that the Hui people were not to be trifled with.
After waiting for an hour, there was no sign of the officers and soldiers. The Huihui people suddenly started laughing, saying that 80% of the time, that bullshit General Soldier of Lushun knew how powerful our religious people were and didn’t dare to send troops. Then there were those who said that bullshit General Soldier of Lushun.
He was trying to scare us with big words, bullying us and fearing the strong. Seeing that we were outnumbered, we knew we were in trouble, so we obediently led them away.
It would be best if the officers and soldiers did not come. Ma Degui wanted this, but he was still worried. He asked the horse bandits who were assisting him to send people to check and find out whether the soldiers and horses of the Lushun General were coming or not.
The horse bandits who were sent came back soon. They reported that the government troops had arrived, not far ahead. As soon as they heard the arrival of the government troops, the Hui people started to commotion again. Ma Degui also became a little scared, but then
The number of officers and soldiers mentioned by the horse bandit made the old man laugh.
The General of Lushun really underestimated our Majia Village and only sent 2,000 men to attack. Aren't you out of your mind? There are four to five thousand heroes in our Majia Village now!
The news that only 2,000 officers and soldiers came was quickly known to the Hui people. Suddenly, the previous nervousness and uneasiness disappeared, and instead they were gearing up and excited, waiting for the officers and soldiers to come and give them a blow in the head.
It turned out that there were only 2,000 officers and soldiers in Liaodong. They were led by thousands of families, with no cavalry. They all carried muskets and swaggered towards Majia Village. This group of officers and soldiers was surprisingly brave. Even a sentinel cavalry
No, when they saw the Huihui who had already formed their formation from a distance, they stopped in fright. After waiting for a long time, the Huihui soldiers did not see any intention of taking the initiative to attack. Instead, they just lingered there without knowing what they were doing.
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To avoid disharmony, the chapter name was changed to Zhongyuan Pingthief.