On September 28, on a hill in Wagang Township, Tangyin County, Boss Wei's company was ambushed in the bushes.
This company is going to ambush a group of passing thieves.
In fact, in the Henan disaster area, bandits caused great damage to production. Once the poor people became bandits, they not only robbed the gentry, but also robbed other common people. After the bandits robbed the people,
They took the people who had lost all their food reserves and turned them into new bandits until they were large enough to attack the city and take out the stronghold.
Zhang Xianzhong did this, Li Zicheng did this, and the bandits in Tangyin also did this. For the bandits struggling to survive, the idea of killing only the gentry without robbing civilians was unrealistic.
Therefore, once a large number of bandits appear in a place, it will be extremely difficult to restore production in that place. Even after surviving the disaster years, farmers who want to start farming again will be attacked by bandits. If the government mobilizes a large army to suppress it,
Perhaps such thieves will be defeated slowly. But if the court does not have the food and salary to send troops to suppress the thieves, the thieves will snowball and get bigger and bigger.
If you want to restore normal production order in a place, these rogue groups who make a living by looting must be eliminated.
This is the second time Boss Wei's company has been transporting grain to Tangyin, and they have already developed a sense of responsibility for this small county. What they are doing now is to prepare to take down the largest group of thieves in Tangyin County.
These bandits not only plundered the gentry and common people, but also coveted the food of the Tiger Army's grain transport team. The last time he was surrounded by bandits at night, Boss Wei remembered it deeply. If the bandits who surrounded the company were braver, they would have spent thousands of dollars
People attack the Huben Army company in the dark. It is difficult to say whether the Huben Army can hold its position in hand-to-hand combat.
Not only for the safety of transporting food, but also for the people of Tangyin County, the Huben Army must defeat this group of bandits. The soldiers of the Huben Army all have compassion, and they cannot remain indifferent when they see the precarious lives of the people in the disaster area.
.This is the time for sowing winter wheat. Only by destroying the thieves in Tangyin can the people's normal farming be carried out.
Not only Boss Wei's company was fighting against the bandits in Tangyin, but also the grain transport teams sent by Li Zhi to Northern Zhili and northern Henan were fighting against the bandits. With the firepower of the Tiger Army, a company of 200 people was enough to clear out the generals.
of thieves.
The captured bandit scouts did not lie. In front of Boss Wei, there were more than two thousand bandits holding spears and swords, and they were heading towards Fudao Town through the official road.
If these bandits are allowed to attack Fudao Town, the already declining town will inevitably undergo another looting.
The government's archer patrols had no way to deal with these bandits and could only stick to the county seat. But in the eyes of the Huben Army, it was not difficult to defeat these bandits.
Two hundred meters away, company commander Old Man Han suddenly shouted, "Hit!"
The crackling sound of gunfire suddenly erupted, exploding like firecrackers during the New Year, and instantly blood flew across the bandits' ranks. Blood mist sprayed out from the wounds of the wounded, splashing all over the people next to them.
At least more than a hundred people screamed and fell down, twitching and moaning on the ground, rolling continuously.
The other bandits didn't know what was going on. They stared at the injured bandit with their eyes open and looked around.
Boss Wei's company was hiding in the bushes, and it was not easy for the bandits to discover this unit immediately. The bandits were still in panic, and the Tiger Army started shooting for the second time.
More than a hundred people fell down screaming.
None of the dozens of horse-riding leaders among the thieves were spared. They were all knocked down by scoped rifles and fell into a pool of blood.
Only then did the bandits realize that they had encountered a disaster and collapsed with a bang. However, most of the soldiers in Old Man Han's company were equipped with new rifles. These rifles can shoot at unarmored targets within 400 meters. Even if the bandits were far away
Although they were running away everywhere, these new rifles were still hunting down the thieves like mowing grass.
When all the bandits were defeated, nearly a thousand corpses were left on the ground. After this battle, the bandits were defeated and could no longer harm the people of Tangyin County.
The company commander, Old Man Han, smiled when he saw that the battle was easily won, and then took out the huozhezi and lit up the dry smoke.
Boss Wei waited for a long time but did not receive the order from the company commander. He waved his hand and rushed down with his infantry squad: "Let's go! Search for any trophies!"
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Boss Wei's company defeated the bandit and found thousands of taels of silver from the bandit's body, and returned to Tangyin County with great satisfaction.
The company commander, Old Man Han, went directly to the camp to rest, and asked Boss Wei to take people to the place where grain was sold to take a look.
This time, the company transported 1,600 shi of grain at a time and sold it at a low price near Tangyin County. Not only the people in the county came to buy rice and noodles, but also the farmers in the countryside came to buy. The farmers
Although poor, the cheap rice and noodles are life-saving things during the lean years. Farmers still have to buy some even if they sell pots, sell iron, and pawn their clothes.
The people in charge of selling rice and noodles were Shandong Minzhuang who drove grain trucks. These minzhuangs set up ten grain sales points and used huge iron scales to weigh the people of Henan. They were very busy.
Boss Wei walked to the people waiting in line and looked at them, but he couldn't help but frown.
Hundreds of well-dressed men, obviously servants of the gentry, kept jumping in the queue. They always jumped to the front of the queue, quickly bought cheap food, and then took the rice and noodles to the gentry servants a little further away from the food selling point.
They poured the rice noodles into the gentry's servants' poles. Then they took the copper coins and jumped in the queue to buy food.
The common people were usually afraid of thieves and gentry, so how could they dare to confront the gentry's servants? When they saw the gentry's servants coming to cut in line, the common people just bowed their heads and endured it, and no one dared to speak out to resist.
Because hundreds of gentry servants kept jumping in line, in the end at least one-third of the cheap rice and noodles were bought by the gentry.
This meant that the gentry had to buy 400 shi of affordable grain at one time. In Zhangde Prefecture, Henan, where rice prices were soaring, once the 400 shi of grain entered the pockets of the gentry, it would probably be sold at a sky-high price of six liang per shi.
Boss Wei is a very responsible person. He feels that since he has transported grain to Henan with Old Man Han and defeated the bandits, he must do this well and sell affordable grain to the people who are most in need of food.
On hand.
How can Mr. Wei allow the gentry to take all the grain into their pockets?
Boss Wei pulled out his gun and loaded it with bullets.
He strode to the front of the queue, spotted the most arrogant gentleman servant who jumped in the front of the queue, and grabbed him by the collar.
Boss Wei dragged the servant outside the queue, raised his gun and shot the servant in the thigh.
"Snapped!"
The servants screamed like they were killing pigs.
In the astonished eyes of the people in Tangyin County, Boss Wei shot the servant who jumped in line and broke his thigh bone.
