Song Xiang also got up very early today. As long as he had money, he always got up early. After occupying this mining area, Song Xiang discovered the market place of Dahuai Village. So, Song Xiang always went to the market here.
The county government officials and helpers who were collecting the bad regulations were all driven away, and they came to collect the money from the stall themselves.
Although the amount of silver sold in these stalls is quite small compared with the silver sold for iron ore, no matter how small the mosquito legs are, they still have some meat! At least they can go to the county town to pick up a few girls with thin skin and tender flesh to play with.
It's been a few days. This is much better than those prostitutes who look much rougher.
Therefore, Song Xiang would always appear in Dahuai Village every market day in Dahuai Village. Those horse bandits who lacked entertainment would also come to Dahuai Village on this day to have some fun.
But just as Song Xiang was breathing in the fresh air of the mountainous area in the early morning, he suddenly saw a horse running towards him from the mountain road in the distance. The horse riding on that horse was none other than one of his horse bandits.
The horse bandit's subordinate went to a village ahead to spend the night with an old friend of his, but he came back so early. Could it be that something happened in that village?
When the horse bandit saw Song Xiang from a distance, he immediately ran over quickly, got off his horse twenty or thirty steps away from Song Xiang, and rushed toward Song Xiang while crawling on the ground.
At this time, there were a few slow-witted horse bandits around Song Xiang who joked: "Huzi, why are you in such a mess? Is the man you like chasing after you?"
But the horse bandit didn't pay attention to the others at all. He shouted hoarsely to Song Xiang: "Master of the mountain, there are officers and soldiers, there are officers and soldiers coming to attack here."
The words of this horse bandit immediately made all the horse bandits change their expressions. Song Xiang quickly asked: "How many people are there?"
“It’s pitch dark and you can’t see clearly, but you can hear the noise and the number of people is definitely not small.”
At this time, a horse bandit suggested: "Master of the mountain, these officers and soldiers seem to be coming with bad intentions! Should we go back to the stronghold to avoid them?"
"Escape! What can we do to avoid it?" Song Xiang immediately made a decision, "Destroy this army here."
Although He Fei's surprise attack caught Song Xiang off guard, and Song Xiang didn't know how many people there were in He Fei's vanguard army, Song Xiang understood that today's Dahuai Village was a place to go to the market, and many miners and miners' families would be there.
Come to Dahuai Village. As long as you leave, the miners will have no resistance at all as they are leaderless, and they will definitely be wiped out by the army.
And Song Xiang's strength is based on having so many miners who have received military training. Without these miners, who is Song Xiang, who only has a few horse bandits? Sooner or later he will be driven out by the army.
Life. To retreat to the mountain temple as a mountain village is just to linger.
And Song Xiang was not completely without his own efforts. After Song Xiang occupied this mining area, in addition to using iron ore to earn money and train the miners in military skills, he also gave the miners better living conditions.
In addition to increasing the income of the miners, allowing them to basically feed their families, he also gave the miners another benefit, that is, on the market day in Dahuai Village, the miners can have a day off.
This kind of modern concept makes people doubt that it was not Wu Shigong but Song Xiang who traveled through modern times.
You don’t want to say that Song Xiang did learn a lot after serving as a soldier under Wu Shigong. Making money, training troops, winning people’s hearts and seizing territory were all done in a systematic way. Given time, maybe Song Xiang will
Xiang will indeed grow into a character in this chaotic world of the late Ming Dynasty.
But just because of this rest day, Dahuai Village, which is the market place today, was filled with miners who came to the market. If Song Xiang did not have this benefit, today's market would only be filled with miners' families at most.
, they are all old, weak, women and children with little fighting ability, so Song Xiang has absolutely no confidence in resisting He Fei's vanguard army.
So under Song Xiang's order, the miners who came to the market lined up one after another under the leadership of their mountain masters according to previous training.
Just because they were going to the market today, the weapons in their hands were still uneven. But it was also because the miners also had to travel through the mountains. In order to deal with wild animals, they still had some self-defense weapons, so at least the miners were not bare-handed.
In this way, more than 1,200 miners were gathered at once. More than 200 horse bandits led by Song Xiang and selected strong miners lined up behind the miners as a reserve team. And behind them
Behind him, there were two to three thousand miners' families gathering momentum.
At this time, Song Xiang felt a little confident. He felt that the longer the delay, the more miners would rush to Dahuai Village for the market. In the end, the greater the certainty of defeating the official army.
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And the miners are now a little superstitious about Song Xiang, who led them to defeat the mine boss and the government army, and led them to live a good life. Therefore, the miners are also confidently preparing to fight with the officials.
Army battle.
But after all, these miners were not a well-trained army like Wu Shigong. They spent more than half an hour lining up and distributing weapons. By the time Song Xiang and the others were ready, they had already seen a black line on the mountain road.
Pressed over quickly.
He Fei was very anxious along the way. After passing the village, the sky began to lighten up. On the mountain road, there were also some scattered people going to the market.
At the beginning, Hefei's soldiers still drove those who were going to the market to the mountain road, as long as they did not hinder the army's progress.
But later, in order not to waste more words, the soldiers began to use their knives freely. But then, those people who were going to the market, after seeing He Fei's vanguard army from a distance, all dropped their goods and ran away.
Escape to Dahuai Village or both sides of the mountain road. However, these abandoned goods will always block the movement of the convoy, which in turn makes the army's progress even slower.
When He Fei finally saw Da Huai Village from a distance, he also saw that there were thousands of people lined up in front of Da Huai Village, preparing to fight him. So He Fei immediately shouted:
"Speed up more and rush in!"
The entrance to the mountain pass leading to Dahuai Village is a trumpet, and this trumpet is still some distance away from Song Xiang's miners who lined up in front of Dahuai Village. So He Fei judged: As long as his army rushes out of the mountain pass,
If you line up in the open space between the trumpet and the miners, then with your well-trained soldiers and long-range strikes with fire cannons, the miners in front of you will definitely be defeated by you.
But something unpleasant happened again. At the bell mouth, there was an overturned cart full of goods. It must have been left behind by some escaped salesman.
But the position where the cart was parked was quite bad. The horses and people could move around from both sides of the cart, but the cart's path was blocked. He Fei rode his horse and came to the cart.
He ordered loudly: "Hurry up and get people to move this cart. Everyone get off the cart and run to the front to line up."
However, Song Xiang also discovered this situation, and he immediately shouted an order: "Quickly go forward to the mountain pass and block those officers and soldiers!"
Under Song Xiang's order, the miners immediately ran towards the mountain pass.
He Fei looked at the miners running over, and then at his soldiers carrying the cart. He estimated that it would be too late by then.
He Fei can also retreat to the mountain pass at this time, wait until his soldiers are assembled, and then slowly attack the mountain pass. But in this way, if he wants to capture the blocked mountain pass, he will definitely suffer a lot of casualties. In addition, there will be a lot of casualties.
, if those miners have time to build an earthen wall at the entrance of the mountain pass, they may not be able to attack it with their five hundred soldiers.
He Fei's eyes suddenly turned red. He thought about his mission, and also thought that he had to redeem himself this time. If his action failed, what good would he do in front of his master?
What will happen? He Fei, who has tasted the feeling of being a master, is absolutely unwilling to go back to live the same life as before.
So He Fei jumped off the horse, grabbed the spear hanging next to the saddle, and shouted behind him: "All guards, follow me."
Seeing He Fei rushing towards the dark miners in front of him alone, the guards around him also jumped off their horses, picked up their spears, and rushed forward. The ten cavalrymen also jumped off their horses and rushed forward. They saw that he was alone.
Di was riding on the horse, Shumo also sighed, finally jumped off the horse, and rushed out with the spear.