Most of the big and small bosses who defected in Pingfeng Village were related to local village owners such as Li Hao and Pu Xiang. For example, Zhu You had received bribes from Li Hao before. After they defected, they naturally led their subordinates directly to join these old acquaintances.
under his command.
Therefore, from the beginning, in the competition for Dazhong's legacy, Li Hao undoubtedly had the biggest advantage.
But he could not restrain his men. After these soldiers invaded Pingfeng Village, they salivated over the beauties and treasures that Dazhong had hoarded. They took advantage of the power of the Little Tiger Squad to fulfill their evil desires and massacred people in the village.
Rape, arson, robbery, and rape turned the strongest mountain stronghold in Xiong'er Mountain into a hellish scene.
In Li Laiheng's ears, he heard the murderous shouts of the looting soldiers, and the muscles on his cheeks trembled violently. But he knew that it was necessary to divide the various local villages in Xiong'er Mountain and to collect all the mining soldiers from Pingfeng Village.
evil.
A necessary evil!
Li Laiheng could not tolerate the fact that the Little Tigers had to pay such heavy casualties to defeat Yu Dazhong, so he allowed the local village owner headed by Li Hao to take advantage of the first-come-first-serve advantage of Shuiloutai, inherit the strength of Pingfeng Village, and become a new Yu Dazhong.
Let them plunder and kill. This will sow the seeds of hatred between Yu Dazhong's remnants and the local copycats. It will also transfer the hatred of Yu Dazhong's old troops towards Li Laiheng to Li Hao and others.
What the Little Tiger Team has to do is to come forward to suppress the remaining soldiers of the Mining Army when the fire is about to get low.
Turning your hands makes clouds, turning your hands makes rain.
Li Laiheng also knew that his hands were too dirty, but he also understood more and more deeply that he could not be an open, honest, simple and sincere person like Li Zicheng.
If it is for the sake of the overall situation, he will not hesitate to use dirty tricks to bring light to the people.
"You know that I have sinned against you, but Spring and Autumn is the only one who knows it? Hahaha, what kind of nonsense is this!"
After Li Laiheng laughed at himself, he led his troops out of the room where Guo Junzhen was recovering from his injuries, and together with Li Shiwei sent troops to suppress the chaos in the village.
Except for the warehouse in Pingfeng Village, which was taken over by Bai Wang and Hao Yaoqi, almost everything in the village was looted by the rebels. Many large items, furniture, food, horses and grass that were not snatched were also robbed.
The soldiers set fire to the fortress.
The fortress was littered with the corpses of women who had committed suicide. Li Laiheng waited until some unbearable mine soldiers began to fight back against the looting of the village soldiers, and then he asked Li Shiwei to lead the troops to isolate the village soldiers in Li Hao's village from the mine soldiers and their families.
Come on.
"How dare you rob me? Li Shiwei, where is my blunderbuss? Fire it for me!"
Li Laiheng saw that after the Little Tigers sent out troops, there were still many village soldiers who were not willing to let go, setting fire to, killing and looting in the village. He was about to kill the chickens and scare the monkeys to establish power against these rebel soldiers who did not obey the orders of the Little Tigers, so he asked Li Shiwei to kill the Birds' bowls.
Guns and general cannons were set up high in the village and fired directly at the marauding rebels.
At this time, Li Hao gradually realized that the situation was not good. He lamented to Zhu You, Yu Dazhong's old subordinate, who had just defected to him: "They are all crazy! I am afraid that no one in the remaining troops of Pingfeng Village will defect to him."
Under my command!"
Large-caliber blunderbuss and general cannons can directly blast the rebels into pieces of human flesh at a very close range. Such a scene made Zhu Youye shocked by Li Laiheng's courage.
Seeing Li Hao's distressed and wailing look, he couldn't help but feel that his new partner seemed to be far less powerful than the Shaanxi people.
So many villagers in Xiong'er Mountain followed Li Laiheng to attack Pingfeng Village. In addition to being afraid of Dazhong, many people also wanted to recruit Dazhong's old troops after breaking the village and become the second overlord of Xiong'er Mountain.
But now it seems that Yu Dazhong has gone and Li Laiheng with more terrifying skills has come. Can this be considered a good thing?
"Guan Dui, Li Jiyu's envoy is here!"
Li Laiheng snorted coldly and handed over the task of rectifying the post-war order of Pingfeng Village to Li Shiwei. He then went to meet the envoy sent by Li Jiyu. This envoy was his old acquaintance Shen Jingbang.
Apparently Li Jiyu had also made up his mind to get a share of the pie after the demise of Yu Dazhong. His original intention was to send Shen Jingbang here, under the banner of forming an alliance with Li Laiheng, and try to contact some people like Li Hao who were not directly affiliated with Li Laiheng.
Local village owner.
But when Shen Jingbang saw that the village soldiers from various families were killing Pingfeng Village and being directly suppressed by Li Laiheng, all the village owners were so angry that they didn't dare to take a breath. He knew that the task assigned by Li Jiyu was impossible to complete. This Li Laiheng was clearly a better person than Yu.
Dazhong is a more ruthless character.
Moreover, Yu Dazhong only killed people, but Li Laiheng was cruel. He wanted to completely unify the various villages in Xiong'er Mountain and twist the loose alliance into a rope.
Shen Jingbang knew that the plan to link up with Li Hao and others must be very slim, so he simply put the task aside and focused all his energy on building a relationship with Li Laiheng.
Originally, Li Jiyu asked Shen Jingbang to come to Pingfeng Village because he wanted him to try to get some of Yu Dazhong's inheritance from Li Laiheng. But when he saw Li Laiheng's unkind expression, he immediately changed his policy. Not only did he not ask for Pingfeng Village from Li Laiheng,
Instead, he paid for the supplies he had hoarded in his own pocket and gave Li Laiheng several collars of armor and a batch of grain as gifts.
"'Master Li's troops are like those of Zhuge and Cao Cao. These gifts are specially sent by our Yuzhai to celebrate Master Li's victory over Pingfenzhai! In addition to these armors and grains, there will also be some mules, horses, pigs and sheep as gifts.
I hope Mr. Li will accept it as a new year's gift."
Li Laiheng's unkind expression improved slightly. He thought to himself that Li Jiyu and Shen Jingbang were really bright-sighted people, and their ability to adapt to the changing circumstances was admirable.
In comparison, people like Li Hao were reluctant to part with their capital when attacking the stronghold, and after the stronghold was broken, they made enemies with the remnant soldiers of Pingfeng Stronghold for some women's money. It can be said that they "cared for big things but cherished their lives, and saw small profits and forgot their lives."
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"Then I would like to thank the leader of your village for your kindness. From now on, our two families will have many days of getting along with each other, and even fighting together. Everything will be long in the future."
After Li Laiheng thanked Shen Jingbang with his fists, he asked his soldiers to take Shen Jingbang to find a clean house to rest that had not been looted by the rebels. He then summoned all the generals from the Breaking Army System and the Little Tiger Team System, and went to Yu Dazhong with everyone.
The specific arrangements for the aftermath were discussed in a meeting hall.
Bai Wang successfully protected the warehouse in Pingfeng Village from the rebels. At this time, he had almost counted the materials in the warehouse. He was smiling, and his mouth was almost grinning so much that he was almost as big as Hao Yaoqi.
You can tell by looking at it that the harvest is extremely fruitful.
"Little Tiger, we have really made a fortune! There are more than 20,000 stones of rice and wheat in Pingfeng Village alone, plus other pigs, muttons, wine and meat, which is enough to support an army of 2,000 people for a year!"
Hao Yaoqi added: "Yu Dazhong is so damn rich. Lao Bai and I found more than 8,000 taels of cash and countless jewelry in the warehouse. The most important weapons and armor are all
A portion for a hundred people.”
"We also found a large pile of gunpowder where the cannons were stored in Yu Dazhong. Although Li Hao and his subordinate Zhu You were asked to move half of it, the rest was nearly a thousand kilograms."
Li Shiwei also added about the situation when he led the bird gun team to take over the fire gun artillery in Pingfengzhai. The seizure of nearly a thousand kilograms of gunpowder was crucial to the intruder army, which was not yet able to produce gunpowder on its own.
"Okay, okay, it's really great." This
Such a rich harvest made Li Laiheng feel that the heavy casualties paid by the Little Tigers this time should be considered worth the money. After saying a few good words, he asked Gao Yigong how the matter of recruiting the miners was going.
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After Gao Yigong paused for a while, he said in a deep voice: "Li Hao has contacts with many leaders in Pingfeng Village, so many of Yu Dazhong's old troops defected to him. But because they could not restrain the rebels from killing, many of the mine apprentices
The family members, wives and daughters were killed by the camp soldiers. After I came forward to recruit them, most of the mine soldiers felt that the military discipline in the camp was better, so more of them returned to our army."
He stretched out his right hand, clasped his thumb, leaving four fingers and said: "Including the firearms craftsmen, gunners, and gunners recruited by Li Shiwei, we have recruited a total of about 400 Yu Dazhong's old troops."
Four hundred people...
Although the number is not as high as Li Laiheng expected, it is still a good result. After all, although the combat effectiveness of these four hundred people cannot be compared with the old soldiers who broke into the camp, they are not militiamen and they are proficient in civil engineering, so they are quite good.
good.
"Have all the big and small bosses in Pingfeng Village defected to Li? You can't tell that this despondent guy has a lot of connections." Li Laiheng said jokingly, then asked, "Are there any boss-level figures who have defected to us?"
"That's true. There is a small leader in the Mining Army named Miao Lichen. He is a craftsman who specializes in making thunder for Yu Dazhong, a type of explosive that can defeat ten thousand people. Miao Lichen has some qualifications in the Mining Army.
, he was also the first person to choose to join the breakout camp to seek protection after his family was raped and robbed by the mine apprentices."
"Very good, I remember this person. In the future, I plan to organize the mining soldiers in Pingfeng Village into a separate camp responsible for attacking the city, digging the ground, and making fortifications. If Miao Lichen is qualified, he can
Let him be the leader of the camp."
"this……?"
Gao Yigong and Bai Wang looked at each other, both of them hesitant. Finally, Gao Yigong persuaded him: "But Miao Lichen is from Henan, not our old brother from northern Shaanxi. Use him as the camp leader, old brother."
Maybe some of you will be dissatisfied?"
Li Laiheng snorted and said: "We will live in Henan and Huguang for a long time in the future. How can we always only use people from Qin instead of people from Henan and Chu? Even Yu Dazhong knows how to incite Shaanxi and Henan people.
Regarding human contradictions, I use this Miao Lichen as the leader of the camp to tell everyone that the camp invasion is not just for the Qin people, but for all the poor people in the world."
This was actually Li Laiheng's long-premeditated arrangement. Due to historical reasons, almost all members of Chuangying were from Qin. This also greatly affected Chuangying's ability to attract talents from outside. He felt that it was necessary to expand Chuangying.
The basis of rule was to absorb people from Yu and Chu to the middle and upper classes of Chuangying.
In fact, Li Laiheng coincided with Li Zicheng on this point. At this time, Li Zicheng, who was galloping in other areas of Henan, was also trying his best to attract local people from Henan to join the Chuang camp. Although Li Yan was a nobody, the twenty-two generals of the Chuang army
Tian Hu, Ren Guangrong and Ren Jirong in the film are all natives of Henan.
Niu Jinxing, the future prime minister of Dashun, was also a native of Henan.