The hidden thieves and rangers in Yangxia County were killed and stunned.?
I think they were still making fun of Zhao Hongrun a few days ago, laughing at the latter, a dignified king, who dared not say anything after the army was captured, and did not dare to collect their weapons from the whole city.
Unexpectedly, only a few days later, they would realize the consequences of King Su's anger.
Zhao Hongrun used sharp methods to make the hidden thieves and rangers in Yangxia County realize one thing: he was by no means a soft persimmon that could be easily manipulated.
What? After the arsenal was attacked, spend more effort to collect the weapons in the city? Implement another sword ban?
There is no need at all, just kill those disobedient guys!
Even when some merchant navy soldiers killed the rangers who carried weapons with them, they did not even look at the weapons that fell to the ground, and they still fell to the ground.
Who dares to pick it up?!
Whoever picks them up will be killed! Pick them up again and kill them again!
When words can't be resolved, just beat the opponent down with your fists. This is the strategy that has always been tried and true.
As of the evening of February 17, the hermit guilds and ranger groups in Yangxia City had suffered a devastating blow from the main force of the merchant navy. It is unknown how many lives were lost in this melee.
And among them, the vast majority are people from hidden thief forces and ranger groups.
It has to be said that these two may have been called local tyrants and local snakes in Yangxia in the past, but in front of regular armies such as the Shang Shui Army, they are nothing more than weak chickens and a group of rabble.
As the fierce soldier Yang Wu said, those main soldiers of the Shang Shui Army who participated in the suppression generally expressed that the thieves and rangers in Yangxia were too weak and could only rely on the strength of their numbers to make a noise.
When the Shang Shui Army began to suppress them, this group of people died and fled, and they were defeated within a short time of meeting them.
This is not as powerful as the Hu slave soldiers enslaved by the Jiejiao tribe, let alone the original Jiejiao cavalry, which has now been renamed the Northern Sichuan Cavalry.
It is precisely because of this that the soldiers of the main force of the Shang Shui Army never regarded this suppression as a battle at all, because in their view, it was simply some kind of exercise used to digest food after meals.
I saw only the soldiers of the main force of the Shang Shui Army. While suppressing the thieves and rangers in Yangxia County, they chatted with their companions about the rewards given to them by the court after the Battle of Sanchuan a while ago. Some of them were still smoking.
Think about how to use that post-war reward.
Facing the main soldiers of the Shang Shui Army who did not take them seriously at all, the thieves and rangers in Yangxia County were also angry. Late at night on February 17, they targeted the merchants patrolling the streets.
The navy soldiers launched a retaliatory counterattack.
However, when they rushed out of the secluded alleys in crowds and attempted to attack the Shang Shui soldiers patrolling the streets, although the latter were far fewer in number than the former, they did not rush.
There were several large wooden boxes set up in front and behind the team.
Then, they heard sounds similar to "chunk, tug, tug, tug, tug, tug, tug, tug, tug", and the thieves and rangers were horrified to find that most of their companions had died inexplicably.
"This thing is so easy to use...even more useful than a repeating crossbow."
Yang Wu, a soldier of the Shang Shui Army, looked at the group of hidden thieves and rangers who were retreating in embarrassment in the distance. He excitedly patted the war weapon, crossbow box, or mechanism that was shaped like a big wooden box next to him.
Crossbow box.
You know, they didn't even take action just now. They just used those crossbow boxes to kill the hidden thieves and rangers, their faces turning pale as they fled in embarrassment.
But while the thieves and rangers were fleeing in confusion, Yangwu's Shangshui soldiers who were responsible for patrolling the streets didn't even bother to chase them. They gathered around the crossbow boxes one by one, looking fresh on their faces.
There was a lot of discussion.
They felt a little proud and proud, because as a direct line of troops under King Su, their merchant navy always had access to some of the latest war weapons developed by the Smelting Bureau.
For example, the company heavy crossbow and detachable catapult used in the last battle of Sanchuan.
They had already asked the soldiers of Chenggao Army, and from the latter's mouth, they learned that among the garrison troops in Wei State, their Shang Shui Army was the first army to use this kind of war weapon.
Although those repeating crossbows and catapults were handed over to the Chenggao Army after the war as powerful weapons to consolidate the power of the Chenggao Pass border fortress, the Shangshui soldiers were still very proud: after all, they were what they had left.
Although the Shang Shui army was all from Chu, they were using the latest and most powerful weapons from Wei, which made them even more convinced that King Su really regarded them as his direct army.
Look at the Dangshan Army, what a terrifying Wei army, but do they have such weapons? No!
This is the benefit of being a member of the Merchant Navy. Once the Metallurgical Bureau has a new weapon, they can always be the first to try it and appreciate the huge power of the latest weapon.
"With such a useful weapon, I wonder why His Highness Prince Su gave up on letting the Smelting Bureau improve it..."
Yang Wu shook his head incomprehensibly. Then, he seemed to have thought of something. He glanced at the empty streets and alleys, and then at the crossbow box that was still spitting out crossbow bolts, and frowned.
Asked: "How do you turn this thing off?"
"It can't be turned off."
Next to him, his companion Le Bao shrugged and said: "During the day, several teams of brothers tried it. Once the switch is turned on, this thing will continue to shoot crossbow bolts. You have to wait until all the crossbow bolts in the box are fired."
It won't stop until it's finished... Two teams of brothers tried to force it to close, and the thing broke immediately."
Le Bao's words made the nearby Shang Shui soldiers suddenly realize: No wonder King Su abandoned this seemingly powerful war weapon. It turned out to be a defective product.
"But this thing is quite interesting." Yang Wu grinned.
It's a pity that he stopped laughing immediately, because these crossbow boxes that were still firing crossbow bolts formed a fire net, and they could only stand there and stare until they finished firing the crossbow bolts in the boxes.
What? Continue patrolling with these gadgets? What if you bump into a comrade from another team and accidentally injure them?
"This thing...just give up if you give up."
Yang Wu took back his previous praise for the crossbow box and said sadly.
His words made the surrounding merchant navy laugh.
Compared with the happy worries of Shang Shui's soldiers, those of the thieves and rangers were much more miserable.
You must know that they are not as fierce and good at fighting as the Shang Shui soldiers, so they went to retaliate against the former with the strength of their numbers. Unexpectedly, the Shang Shui soldiers took out the machine crossbow box, folded their hands, and did nothing.
Can defeat them.
How to fight this?
It has to be said that the gap in weapon configuration between the two sides is too great, which leaves the hidden thieves and rangers in Yangxia City with no room for counterattack in front of the Shang Shui Army, and it is simply a one-sided massacre.
That night, the civilians in Yangxia County spent the night in fear. For fear of harming themselves, they did not dare to sleep a wink all night.
Waiting until the next day, February 10th, some brave civilians got up early and watched what was going on in the streets in their homes.
They saw with horror that the Shangshui soldiers were dragging corpses one after another into secluded alleys, and on the street, there was a large patch of road stained red with blood almost every other section of the road.
, a famous merchant navy soldier was cleaning the blood stains with ashes.
There is no doubt that last night's conflict between Yangxia Hidden Thieves and Rangers forces and the Shang Shui Army ended with the latter's victory.
"This military master..."
An old man who seemed to be in his fifties, carrying a hoe, walked out of an alley timidly, and carefully asked a merchant soldier on the street: "Who are you, the military men?"
Is it under martial law? Let me go sow seeds in the farmland outside the city so as not to miss the spring plowing..."
"You go your own way." The merchant soldier waved his hand and said kindly.
Unfortunately, the armor on his body was bright red, which made the old man feel a little trembling.
However, later facts proved that these Shangshui soldiers, who looked fierce in front of the thieves and rangers, were quite kind in their attitude towards ordinary civilians.
Even some Shangshui soldiers secretly told the civilians who appeared on the street one after another to stay away from the trails to avoid being frightened by bad things.
For example, dead bodies piled up like hills or something.
Due to the kindness of the Shang Shui Army, the civilians of Yangxia who had been frightened all night finally had the courage to come out.
But later, when these civilians thought about it carefully, they felt that their fear was completely unnecessary: although the Shang Shui Army was composed of Chu people who defected to Wei, they were also the army of Wei now. How could they attack for no reason?
They civilians?
Once they figured this out, the civilians in Yangxia County were no longer afraid of the Shang Shui Army. They continued to do what they did in the past and do what they do today. Some went out of the city to plow the farmland outside the city, while others were busy with other tasks.
As a result, the streets in the city, which were deserted at dawn, gradually became lively again.
It was as if nothing had happened.
At the same time, Zhao Hongrun was in the hall of the county government office, carefully reading a special map.
On this special map, there are marked the hidden thief forces such as Yi Qiu Zhong, Black Spider, Mang Ya, Duan Lou, etc., who have secretly built a thief stronghold outside the county town.
Only there is no location for the bandit camp of the Fuqiu people.
The reason is very simple, because this map is exactly the map that Jin Gou, the leader of Fuqiu, presented to Zhao Hongrun in secret again.
That old man... is so ruthless, he doesn't care about the friendship between his colleagues, or are they his enemies?
Zhao Hongrun stood up and walked back and forth in the hall with his hands behind his back.
To quell the hidden bandit forces in Yangxia, Zhao Hongrun formulated a two-step plan: the first step is to eliminate the hidden bandit forces in Yangxia County and block the tunnels that lead to outside the county; and the second step is to
It is a formal attack on the secret thief strongholds built by hidden thief forces in the mountains and forests outside the county.
The question is, if the hidden thieves forces such as the Yiqiu Clan, Black Spider, and Mourning Crow are eliminated, and only the Fuqiu Clan is left, is this really appropriate?
That insidious and ruthless Yiqiu general received the Golden Gou, Zhao Hongrun thought that he was not completely sure that he could control such a heroic figure.
But without the help of the people in Fuqiu, Zhao Hongrun had a hunch that the battle he would send the Shang Shui Army to encircle and suppress the hidden bandit forces would probably cause the Shang Shui Army to suffer heavy losses.
After all, those hidden thieves are not comparable to those in Yangxia County.
Just when Zhao Hongrun was struggling, Zongwei Zhou Pu came to the front office, clasped his fists and said, "Your Highness, there is a man named Yuma in the county jail. He has been calling for a meeting with Your Highness since last night."
"Yuma?"
Zhao Hongrun was stunned for a moment, then looked thoughtfully at the special map in his hand. (To be continued.) 8