stubborn thief

Chapter 184 Happy
happy.

Happiness is when one's wishes come true, and when one is drowsy, someone gives a pillow.

But for two opposing people, it is difficult for them to be happy at the same time.

Especially when these two people are Gao Yingxiang and Du Wenhuan.

Du Wenhuan didn't sleep in Yanshuiguan, he just waited for the bandits on the other side to cross the river, he liked to fight such battles.

Killing someone is not a merit, taking two hundred heads from Liu Shizi is a merit, and taking two hundred heads from this group of grass bandits is also a merit.

Rewarding silver and merit are the same, but the risk of paying is very different.

Du Wenhuan would rather beat all the thieves in Shaanxi in a circle than fight Liu Shizi, unless he can beat Liu Shizi once and never get up again.

If one were to choose the leader of the gangsters that Yansui town generals were least willing to provoke, the current Liu Chengzong definitely topped the list.

Liu Shizi has a strong revenge mentality.

Anyone who provoked him ended badly.

Not to mention Li Bei, in the impression of the Yansui town general, there is not even a grave.

Ai Mu, the battle at Wen'an Station was really just a matter of avoiding it, but this matter is not over yet. Before Du Wenhuan sent troops, Ai Mu was already a victim of the defeat. Who knew that after Hong Chengchou investigated, he installed another The charge of instigating servants to rob Beijing Yunyin.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the silver cannot be robbed by Ai Mujiading.

Not to mention that Ai Mu's army has always had his father's demeanor. The Ai family has been in charge of the army for two generations in the bitter cold of Dingbianying. If they want to grab money, they have to wait until they are defeated?
Is there any evidence?
No, on the contrary, there is evidence to prove that it was Ai Mu's servants who robbed them. They couldn't find those servants, but they could only find Yanzhou soldiers. According to the confessions of Yanzhou soldiers, they were General Ai's defeated servants, and they wanted to steal money to help General Ai regain his strength.

Everyone thinks that Liu Chengzong did it, and even in the official name, Liu Chengzong robbed the money.

But all the officials and generals in Yansui Town knew that there was no silver in the West Road, only eight thousand catties of stones in it, and it was robbed by Liu Chengzong at that time.

Yinzi was robbed almost at the same time on the East Road. In the huge Yan'an Mansion, who else is there besides Liu Chengzong? It's gone.

Now that Ai Mu can't explain clearly, he can't get rid of his grievances. The Chongzhen Lord in the Forbidden City was furious and ordered Hong Chengchou to escort Ai Mu and Zhang Nian to the capital.

There is nothing terrible about putting the same thing on other generals. Anyway, even if the house is turned upside down and the house is demolished, it will not be worth 3 or 13 taels, let alone [-] taels.

The key is to turn Ai's family upside down...it really is.

After all, this is really not a good time. First, there was the invasion of gold, and then there was the mutiny of King Qin's army. The capital also made a clerical error of more than 100 taels of silver, and the emperor was so angry that he wanted to kill someone.

Now that the magistrate of Yan'an has informed the thieves, the emperor did not intend to handle this matter through the local bureaucracy in Shaanxi, but directly sent Jinyiwei and eunuchs into Mizhi.

Let the Ai family prove that the money of the Ai family belongs to the Ai family.

It's okay for Jin Yiwei, who is a decent eunuch?
They came, this money may not belong to the imperial court, but can it still belong to the Ai family?

Du Wenhuan sighed in the official office of Yanshuiguan.

What is the law of the sky, and what is the determination of man to overcome the sky?

It will rain in the sky, it will be unlucky to hit Liu Chengzong, the harder you work, the faster you will die, this is called the nature of nature.

When it rains, you need to open an umbrella, avoid Liu Chengzong, and touch fish to live a long life, which makes people conquer the sky.

As soon as the news of Shanxi's return to the bandits' breakthrough came, Du Wenhuan hurriedly put on his armor.

Du Wenhuan ambushed in Yanshui Pass, and the ready-to-go cavalry came out in single file. The soldiers were divided into five posts and chased after Gao Yingen's troops. The sound of trampling horseshoes exploded under the night.

As soon as Gao Yingen led the team to run back, Du Wenhuan knew there was an ambush, but he still rushed to the river bank.

The cavalry on the left and right flanks paid attention to the possible ambushes on the two mountains during the attack. The front post pursued bravely, the middle post was used as a reserve, and the rear post made a detour on the flanks to prepare for flanking the ambushes lying in wait on the river bank.

After all, Du Wenhuan is a veteran, and he is also very familiar with the terrain around Yanshuiguan, and knows all the places where ambush can be hidden here.

In terms of the strength of the bandit soldiers, Du Wenhuan's opinion was similar to that of Li Bei. He was not afraid of too many bandits, but only of few bandits.

There are more than [-] bandit soldiers, even if there are [-] elite soldiers among them, and if [-] miscellaneous soldiers are defeated, they can still fight with [-] elite soldiers.

Blocked by the bank of the river, no one can escape.

Gao Yingen has never run so fast in his life.

The more you run, the more anxious you are, the more anxious you are, the more panting, the more panting, the less you can run.

The officers and soldiers behind them drove them to the bank of the Yellow River like crazy.

Even Gao Yingen himself couldn't tell whether they were running like a rout or retreating now.

Anyway, everyone knows that the goal is to run to the bank of the Yellow River.

Under the night, the thieves held a torch and dragged a line of fire in the air. The light of the torch was pulled by the wind so small that it was almost invisible.

This scene made Du Wenhuan, the general in the rear, very excited, as if he had returned to his youth.

But despite being careful all the way, there were no ambushes of bandits in the mountains.

This made Du Wenhuan more vigilant. It was abnormal. Even the peasant army should know that an ambush could be set up here. Could it be that this is the gangster who accidentally hit Yanshui Pass for the first time?

Thinking of this, Du Wenhuan asked people to call back the left and right cavalry to prevent the bandits from outflanking them after they reached the river bank, and then continued to approach the river bank.

When he approached the river beach, the former army had already fought with the bandits.

The ambush is here.

When they arrived at the river bank, there was a loud cry of killing. Hundreds of bandit soldiers stood up from the river bank, firing their bows and blunderbusses, and beat up 30 outposts of the officers and soldiers for a while, and then charged forward with swords and spears.

Although he suffered a slight setback, it was within Du Wenhuan's expectation. His rear post had circled from the mountain road to the north side of the river beach, and a single impact could drive these bandits into the Yellow River.

At this moment, Du Wenhuan saw some dark slopes beside him.

He said to the servant who lit the torch: "Go and take a picture, what are those things?"

I don't remember that there is a cemetery beside the Yanshuiguan river beach!

The servant held a torch and looked to the side. He didn't see the stele, but a mound built like a tomb.

Looking around again, there is a small grave mound every ten steps, extending all the way to the cliff on the river bank.

To his surprise, when did these things appear here?

It can't play the role of covering the ambush. Could it be that the thieves dug a trench here, and the excess soil was piled outside?
Like Fu Renxi, Du Wenhuan didn't think about artillery.

The Western Army has always been a powerful army in the world, and it is its mission to fight against the northern captives. Even with limited heavy artillery, it still has a lot of casualties, and it is not its strong point to attack cities and destroy customs.

What they are best at is fast horses, light knives, soft bows and long arrows, three-eyed blunderbuss general cannons, and they are full of powder and run fast.

If there is any professional skill, it is probably setting fire in the tribal tent.

Just get a heavy artillery with [-] catties of shells and give it to Du Wenhuan. He doesn't know who to allocate it to. What kind of thing is it that marches fifteen miles a day in the desert?

I just want to blow up the city wall. There are 42 tribes in Hetao, but there is not a single city.

First, there is no city, and second, if you don’t form an formation with you, solid-fire artillery is almost useless to this side.

Du Wenhuan couldn't think of this.

At this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a large number of flashes erupting from the opposite bank.

"Ok?"

Pieces of light flickered on the opposite bank.

Just as Du Wenhuan instinctively let out an 'hmm' in doubt, he heard muffled sounds one after another amidst the roar of the Yellow River.

boom! boom! boom!
Gao Yingxiang bent over on the opposite bank, covering his ears, and kept turning his head to look at the other bank, the corners of his mouth almost reaching his earlobe.

The gunpowder on the eyelet of the little lion cannon beside him was burning, and smoke came out with a chirping sound, and then 'bang! With a sound, the gun body recoiled violently, and the shells whizzed through the gunpowder smoke and smashed to the opposite bank.

36 large and small lion cannons bombarded two catties and three catties of shells one after another in a parabola to the opposite bank.

In the sky full of gunpowder smoke under the night, the eyes of this old man were shining, as happy as a child watching the fireworks for the first time during the Chinese New Year.

炮？
Du Wenhuan's mind was still confused, but subconsciously he felt that there should be no guns in this place.

But the shells did come, and landed precisely among his troops.

Then his feet were empty, and the neck of the war horse was hit by a shell, bending it into a strange angle, and the mount suddenly became short. Du Wenhuan jumped up with the saddle on his body and fell to the ground without even thinking about it.

On the other side of the river, Shi Cheng and I kept waving our arms to drive away the gunpowder smoke in front of us, trying our best to observe where the shells fell.

But it's hard to tell. The torches of the frontline officers and soldiers on the other side of the bank have not changed. On the contrary, some torches have become messy in the rear position.

This made him angrily raised his hand and punched it in the palm of his hand, and shouted beside Gao Yingxiang: "Boss Gao, I made a mistake again. With this earth embankment and the height of the cannon, I hit too far back!"

How could Gao Yingxiang care about these things? His brain was buzzing with the sound of the guns, and he couldn't hear anything.

Turning his head, he only saw Shi Cheng and I opening our mouths, and couldn't hear what we were saying, so he was still grinning happily, nodded, and shouted loudly: "Yes, let's do it again!"

What is accurate and inaccurate, is it important?
The joy is over.

The artillery bombardment brought unparalleled strength to Gao Yingxiang. He held up the sharp knife on one side and shouted loudly to cheer up the subordinates on the other side: "Kill, kill!"

Gao Yingxiang has always been dissatisfied with this knife, and the Guan knife he was thinking of was snatched away by Ma Ke.

Later, I found several long knives, but none of them were as easy to use as the one at that time.

But for him right now, it doesn't matter what the knife is or isn't, Pao.

The gun is the most important thing. He heard that there is a gun post in the Lion Camp.

Gao Yingxiang made up his mind that when he returned to Shaanxi this time, he must have a good chat with Liu Chengzong.

The craftsmen under him have been studying with me for two months. It's not that I didn't devote myself to teaching Shicheng, but I just couldn't learn it.

As long as Shicheng and I are standing by the side, the craftsmen will know how to make the cannon; but once Shicheng and I are not around, they will not know how to make the cannon.

I tried to cast two doors in Xiangning, but it was useless. The cast was indeed a cannon, but it was strangely shaped, thick in places that should be thin, and thin in places that should be thick.

So Gao Yingxiang gave up. Anyway, after thinking about it, this matter is easy to solve.

Copper is not a problem, silver is not a problem, and grain is not a problem.

But one of these three things can solve Liu Chengzong's problem.

As long as he can solve Liu Chengzong's problem, can his Chuangjun be short of guns?

It's not that Gao Yingxiang has never used cannons before. His troops have many pack cannons. The Francophones they carry are directly made of iron as a small stool, which is usually placed on the mule's back. can run.

But that thing can't play this feeling at all.

This lion cannon is too powerful.

Gao Yingxiang was dancing his sword and cheering. The gunpowder smoke gradually cleared. The auxiliary soldiers of the work sentry pushed up the muzzle of the gun, poured some water into it to extinguish the unextinguished gunpowder, then pressed the muzzle of the gun to let the water come out, and started to clean the barrel of the gun with a tool.

His tinnitus just improved a bit, and then he realized why the officers and soldiers were in a mess, and then began to retreat, even the officers and soldiers who were holding torches on the flanks and preparing to attack also walked into the mountain.

Gao Yingxiang was so happy, he turned his head and pointed to Shi Cheng and me: "Look, Mr. Shi, they were repelled by a single volley!"

Shi Cheng and I were also stunned, looking at the situation on the other side, puzzled.

He wondered if it shouldn't be. Looking at where the shells landed, they didn't hit the front line of the officers and soldiers.

His sentry auxiliary soldiers didn't have professional artillery, so they couldn't talk about aiming. The shells fired basically depended on the quality of the artillery.

The cannons are placed in a line, and the angles of the muzzles are the same, so the shells fired should also be in the same line.

Therefore, there is no part of the enemy army that focuses on fire, it just hits it flat.

The officers and soldiers should not have been retreated directly.

In fact, the officers and soldiers didn't want to retreat, but the unexpected shelling made people panic. The front-line generals watched the shells fly over their heads and turned their heads to follow the shells.

Then I saw a neat row of shells smashing towards the rear coach's position, and the coach next to the torch shortened and disappeared.

Where can there be wars on this front line, just retreat on a large scale.

Gao Yingen's troops were beaten to retreat, and his men were defeated in the pursuit. Gao Yingxiang, who was lying in ambush by the river bank, made an elite attack, which stopped the defeat.

After finally regrouping the troops, his own people were almost defeated by the artillery fire from the other side.

They knew that it was their own cannon, but no one could trust the gunners, and the parabola of the cannonball could not be seen in the dark. When the cannon sounded, they were confused.

Gao Yingen was about to shout for the blessing of Zhong Dou Xing, when he suddenly saw the officers and soldiers retreating, he shouted for pursuit.

The offensive and defensive situation changed in an instant, Gao Yingxiang's elite soldiers did not move, but Gao Yingen's defeated army rushed forward in a swarm to take advantage.

To be honest, the fight was not very good, but it did disrupt the front line where the officers and soldiers retreated in a large scale in the dark.

When the servant helped Du Wenhuan, who fell off the horse and was injured, to get up again, the cavalry outflanking saw that the main force had retreated. They didn't know what happened, and they retreated ignorantly.

Du Wenhuan was so angry that he limped and ran towards Yanshuiguan. After a good battle, he fell behind, and when he got up again, it was like this.

Gao Yingxiang on the east bank of the river was overjoyed to see the enemy retreating, but he was not dazzled by the victory, and he knew very well that this was not a victory.

It just fulfilled his wish to fire a salvo of artillery once. When he really has so many artillery in his hand, he doesn't know when he will wait.

Finally, Gao Yingxiang closed his eyes to stabilize his emotions, and ordered to his cronies: "Go to the other side and tell Zhongdouxing, don't chase after Yanshui Pass, remember to bring some corpses of the officers and soldiers back, let a box of gold see if there are any suitable."

After finishing speaking, he let out a long breath, looked left and right, raised his smiling face for a while, and then said: "This place can't stay anymore, demolish the pontoon bridge, let's go south. Go back to Shaanxi from Hancheng!"

　good afternoon!

　　
　
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