The artillery in Pingfeng Village suddenly turned its muzzle and fired several shots in succession in the direction where Yu Dazhong and the supervisory team were gathering. Amidst the roaring sound of the artillery, the coalition forces attacking the village were greatly inspired. Local soldiers such as Li Hao and Pu Xiang
The leader of the village experienced a great ups and downs in his mood. He was extremely excited at this time, and everyone wanted to be the first to rush into the screen village.
Li Hao shouted happily: "Pingfenzhai is broken! Pingfengzhai is broken! You son of a bitch, Yu Dazhong, and the brothers in Lijiazhai are all 'in'. It's time for revenge!"
The soldiers of several local cottages were not very active when they attacked the stronghold before. Now they all saw the fires and thick smoke rising in Pingfeng Stronghold. Even Yu Dazhong's own artillery turned its muzzles and fired.
Among us, who doesn’t know that Yu Dazhong is finished!
At this time, they were as if they suddenly woke up from a nap, and suddenly became extremely brave and active, surging forward like crazy, wanting to be the first to rush into Pingfeng Village and compete for the gold and silver treasures that Yu Dazhong had accumulated over the years.
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Li Laiheng looked back at the large crowd rushing toward the gap in the village wall. He suddenly felt that the dense crowd was very spectacular. The faces of the soldiers in each village were flushed with excitement. Their eyes were no longer afraid of Dazhong.
, but filled with greed for the treasures in Pingfeng Village.
Li Laiheng was silent for a moment and sighed to Zhang Pizhu: "Go and remind Yigong and Lao Bai to take control of the troops and don't let these camp soldiers loot and kill indiscriminately, and don't let the soldiers who broke into the camp follow and kill innocent people indiscriminately!"
"Yu Dazhong, it's finished!"
After the artillery of Pingfeng Village turned around and fired into the village, Fang Yiren and Li Shiwei, who had been suppressed, were able to free up their hands. Li Shiwei was a brave general who was used to fighting. Although he was injured in many places by the defenders' artillery fire, he did not feel any pain at all.
What's the matter? Poor Fang Yiren is in a miserable state. He is a son of a noble family. Now his face is covered with cannon fodder and blood, and his ears are so painful from the sound of cannons.
After Li Shiwei glanced at Fang Yiren sympathetically, he advised him to go to the rear to rest. After all, the overall situation of the battle was decided, and he would not be left behind.
However, Fang Yiren is not stupid. He knows that at times like this, he cannot take things lightly, which has shaken his position in Li Laiheng's heart. No matter whether he tries to escape back to his hometown in Tongcheng or continues to hang out with the Little Tigers, Li Laiheng cannot let Li Laiheng feel that he is a fool.
He is a cowardless person!
"Stop talking about this, let's hurry up and lead the cannon team to cover the army. That's the main business!"
Fang Yiren rolled up his sleeves, and together with Li Shiwei, he led the cannon team forward to shoot. There were several booms, the earth trembled, thick smoke and dust filled the sky, bricks, tiles and wood flew in all directions. There was a door pier.
He was thrown ten feet away. Some bricks flew into the inside of the second gate and on the ramp, injuring the few stubborn defenders.
Yu Dazhong also led the supervising team and tried to use the threat of beheading to control the defenders to continue resisting the Little Tigers' attack. However, these last few shellings completely destroyed the fighting spirit of the defenders. Many of them were forced to do so by Yu Dazhong.
Instead of defending the stronghold with all their lives, they all abandoned their shotguns and muskets and fled to the rear for their lives.
While these people were running for their lives, they were shouting, "Run for your life! Run for your life! They have already entered the village!" Although Yu Dazhong led the supervising team and killed more than twenty people in one breath, they finally failed.
It didn't help that even his most trusted team members were greatly shaken at this time and were no longer willing to sacrifice their lives for him.
When the people who were supervising the battle team saw this, they all fled for their lives. Some of them fled to the rear, but more people, led by some small bosses, shouted that they had already been in tandem with the coalition forces attacking the stronghold, and that they were internal response troops.
, suddenly transformed into a party attacking the stronghold.
Yu Dazhong's eyes were red, and he slashed two more people with his sword. But at this time, the soldiers who had been forced by his power and did not dare to resist even when the blade was at their necks were suddenly filled with courage.
Their eyes were full of disdain for Dazhong, and they all swung their swords to fight back.
"Fuck! Why!"
Only then did Yu Dazhong realize that the situation was over. He saw the coalition forces rushing in like the water of the Yellow River. He laughed miserably, and under the cover of his last few close associates, he turned around and fled back to the inner house in the center of the mountain stronghold.
Yu Dazhong's wives and daughters all lived in the inner house. He had no intention of fighting. He held a big knife and forced his wives and daughters, saying: "Hang yourself quickly! Hang yourself quickly!"
Unfortunately, before it was too late, many local copycat soldiers and rebel garrison soldiers rushed in. They no longer felt any fear in their hearts towards Yu Dazhong, who used to be as fearful as the devil, and several soldiers surrounded him.
He casually hacked Yu Dazhong to death, and then rushed to fight for Yu Dazhong's wives and concubines.
Pingfeng Village was filled with the screams of women and children. Hao Yaoqi originally wanted to plunder and kill his old friend Guo Junzhen because of his injuries. However, Guo Junzhen was seriously injured and restrained him repeatedly.
Troops, let everyone give priority to controlling the warehouses in Pingfeng Village, try to maintain military discipline and order, and don't plunder like those short-sighted soldiers.
Although Hao Yaoqi was angry, but seeing that Guo Junzhen was injured, he did not forget to control military discipline, so he had no choice but to endure it all, wiped the blood on the sword, and stopped killing people indiscriminately.
Li Laiheng, Gao Yigong, and Bai Wang gradually took control of the troops and finally entered the stronghold. By this time, the soldiers from Li Hao and Puxiang's strongholds had all dispersed in Pingfeng Stronghold and were plundering as much as they wanted.
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Thousands of people, men, women, old and young, gathered in various houses in the village. Many of them died. A small number of young women hanged themselves, and many women who did not commit suicide were played by the soldiers.
Killed later.
Li Laiheng frowned tightly and was very dissatisfied with the actions of the fortress soldiers. However, everyone suffered heavy casualties during this attack on the fortress, and he could not say anything to these allies.
Gao Yigong and Bai Wang didn't feel too much about the massacre in the stronghold. They just felt that it was the defenders' stubborn resistance that should be blamed. The coalition forces that attacked the stronghold suffered so many casualties, so it was inevitable that they would have to vent after the war.
After Li Laiheng looked at the situation in the village, he still couldn't control his emotions. He shook his head and said: "I have repeatedly emphasized that indiscriminate killing of innocent people is not allowed, especially adultery, but even the Little Tigers are not immune to people doing random things. We must truly become a people of benevolence and justice.
Master, it’s not easy to be disciplined!”
"Laiheng, we relied more or less on the help of locals like Li Hao and others in this battle, and we were able to take Pingfeng Village at such heavy casualties. Even if the old master is here, he can't restrain everyone to strictly observe
military discipline!"
After Bai Wang persuaded Li Laiheng, Gao Yigong also said: "If Yu Dazhong hadn't been so stubborn, naturally there wouldn't have been so many people killed. Why do you care, Laiheng?"
Seeing that even Gao Yigong and Bai Wang said this, Li Laiheng could only smile bitterly in his heart. He then changed the subject and asked: "I don't know if Yu Dazhong has been caught or has been killed. This big bandit from Henan,
We must not let him go and cause more trouble."
Then Li Laiheng gave an order: "Lao Bai, you take the soldiers and horses to take over the public and private warehouses in the village with Hao Yaoqi. You can't let the soldiers in the village take away all the good things! After that, you will lead people to search for Yu Dazhong."
His whereabouts must be seen alive, and his body must be seen dead!"
Unknowingly, Li Laiheng had increasingly developed the habit of giving orders from a superior. He automatically put himself in the position of the leader of Gao Yigong and Bai Wang. After arranging the aftermath tasks, he took Zhang with him.
Pi Fu and other soldiers went to the walled city and found the injured Guo Junzhen.
Although Guo Junzhen was shot by the three-eyed musket, he was wearing armor, and the village soldier was in a panic and the shot was very skewed. The lead bullet only hit the outside of Guo Junzhen's ribs, and did not cause any particularly serious injuries.
As soon as he saw Li Laiheng coming to visit him in person, he struggled to his feet and said in a painful voice: "Guard the team! If we let the village soldiers kill and loot like this, we will forge a bloody feud with the miners in Pingfeng Village!"
Li Laiheng nodded. He also knew that the miners in Pingfeng Village were proficient in civil engineering operations and were an extremely valuable resource. At this time, soldiers from all villages were looting the village while recruiting remnants. Naturally, Li Laiheng would not let him go.
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He said to Guo Junzhen: "Junzhen, you did a great job! You are right, we can't let the village soldiers continue to kill like this, otherwise how can we recruit mining soldiers? Every village wants to recruit them
There are some remnant soldiers from Pingfeng Village, but they act so cruelly that the Mining Army will never join them!"
Li Laiheng clenched his right hand into a fist. He ordered Zhang Pilu to take Guo Junzhen to a clean house in the village to rest. He joined Fang Yiren, Li Shiwei and others to lead the elite troops of the Little Tiger Team to suppress the chaotic order in Pingfeng Village.
And protect the families of those mine soldiers.
Fang Yiren was worried, secretly wondering if Li Laiheng had deliberately let those cottages with ambitions to seize Dazhong's inheritance to kill and plunder first? So that they would become enemies with the miners and no longer be able to annex the screen.
The remaining soldiers of the village?
Thinking of this, his spine almost shuddered.
In Pingfeng Village, the gunpowder smoke was still there, and the thick smoke and burning flames had not dissipated. All Li Laiheng could hear were the village soldiers raping, killing, and plundering, and the prisoners in the village wailing and screaming. If he failed, then something like this would happen.
Bad luck will also befall the Little Tigers and Chuangying.
"The three major local bandits in Henan, who were as famous as Yuan Shizhong, Li Jiyu, and Shen Wandeng, were destroyed in this way!"
The smell of blood in the air made Li Laiheng particularly awake.
"Li Shiwei, go and suppress all the rebels, and protect the mine soldiers and their families into the temporary camp of the Little Tiger Team!"
This is a corner of the chaotic times in the late Ming Dynasty. This is the end of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, and the great chaos in the world has begun.