stubborn thief

Chapter 293

The spring of Chongzhen's fifth year will soon arrive.

Since the beginning of spring, all Yan'an Guard Banner troops have been mobilized to build battlements on the abandoned castles of Heilong Mountain, and transported [-] Dafolang cannons to the mountain. , Conducting a massive siege drill.

Yang Yanchang organized this siege drill not to attack any city, but because of Huanglong.

The person he admired most was Huang Long, a native of Shenyang. Chongzhen regained Luanzhou, which was occupied by Houjin in three years. When the infantry attacked the city, they concentrated on using artillery to destroy the battlements and clear the defenders, and won the first place in the battle of Luanzhou.

However, in this era, the road is far away, and as a regional general, it is difficult for him to leave the simple and honest Yan'an Mansion. Ever since he returned to Yang Yanchang after aiding Liao Dynasty, he knew that it might be difficult to see Huanglong in the future.

Unless Huanglong comes to be the commander-in-chief of Yansui.

But a few years ago, upon hearing of the Wuqiao mutiny, Huang Long had his ears and nose cut off by Geng Zhongyu, the younger brother of the guerrilla Geng Zhongming. Yang Yanchang knew that he would never see him again in his life.

Yang Yanchang has always been greedy for enjoyment and doing nothing.

The Yan'an camp was drilled by the generals and schools every ten days. The soldiers of the [-] battalion did not hesitate to engage in a big exercise with the [-] banner army who was the commander.

In the past three years, the two mothers-in-law and aunts have given him five children, plus five free children, perfect.

Only this time, Yang Yanchang wanted to do something to continue the artillery command skills shown by Huanglong in the Battle of Luanzhou.

Of course, he didn't count on himself. He started from trying a hundred households in his life, and ended up trying to build a hundred households. He didn't count on fighting big battles or anything.

However, Commander Ren Quan'er of Yan'an Guard still has the hope of fighting a big battle, so he wants to reproduce it for three thousand battalion soldiers and three thousand banner troops in Liu Chengzong's hometown of Heilong Mountain. The battle for Luanzhou that happened before.

How much they can learn depends on their own good fortune. After all... the drill has failed. Their artillery can't accurately hit the battlements, let alone shoot an even barrage of barrages from the breach at the top of the city to both sides.

But Ren Quan'er has always been serious about learning.

Learning is good.

Among other things, the calligraphy taught by Li Bei is still being written; the assassin skills taught by Li Bei are still being practiced by Ren Quan'er.

Waiting for General Yang Shen to cheer up and plan to take back the power of Yan'an Mansion, the Commander can test the assassin skills on him.

In the seventh year of Zhengde, the case of expelling thieves, beheading famous thieves to one level, conferring one rank, hereditary.

General Yang Shen, this famous thief, is enough for Quan'er to enter the capital to command and envoy.

In fact, during the entire four years of Chongzhen, Ren Quan'er's heart was very complicated.

The folk customs of Yan'an Mansion have been simple and simple since ancient times. Although Yulin Town was still severely drought last year, the harvest in the south of Mizhi was not bad, except for the death of four county magistrates from the seventh to ninth ranks, two deaths from the Qian Zong, and one magistrate. Apart from being run away in anger and the people beating the governors of the three sides, nothing happened to Yan'an Mansion.

Officials were too angry to die because they were too tempered, but it was normal to lose their temper. After all, under the careful training of Commander Ren, even if the folk customs of Yan'an Mansion had a bumper harvest, the government would not even want to see a grain of food.

Not only the government, but also the guards don't want to see him.

Who are the people who are still staying in Yan'an Mansion?
Anyone who has at least the skills of joining the army, being a thief, failing to repay debts, begging, selling wives and sons, selling oneself, robbing, eating wealthy households, killing people, eating Guanyin soil, eating people, defeating officers and soldiers and being defeated, saving many times Li Bingjia, was led by the lion camp to resist taxes, and was appointed as a command envoy to train tax avoidance, etc. Half of them have rich experience in survival.

This group of people stamped grain from the fields, not to mention the coming of the Heavenly King Lao Tzu, even if Liu Chengzong came back, they would not even think about collecting court taxes from them.

On the contrary, the main job of Yan'an Guard Commander Ren Quan'er in the past year is to restrain the people as much as possible, prevent them from taking food from the government and guards, refrain from insulting officials, and try not to beat him when the three governors come next time.

But this work is more difficult.

Ren Quan'er was in Yan'anwei's army field, and recruited people to cultivate it. When it was time to harvest the grain, the grain was still undercooked in the field, and the recruited people rushed to harvest it in the dark. After harvesting, they drove the cart to load the grain and disappeared into the boundless night. Here, Ren Quan'er was left with dark cave dwellings.

The wind passing through the valley seems to still retain the curses of the people: still want to collect the grain grown by grandpa?Bah, dog officer!
Now the people of Yan'an Mansion do not accept any higher-level leaders, and have summed up a set of philosophy of life that is very in line with their own interests.

Regardless of whether it is the Lion Army, the Land Farming King, the Sweeper King, Lao Huihui, Hong Chengchou, Huang Hu, Chuang Jiang, or any commander, the help and weapons provided to them are just to make them work hard and squeeze their wool.

Then accept the help, accept the weapons, and don't work for them, you can turn the leaders' baldness.

It's like a black hole here.

The government was bald, and the thieves who went out from Yan'an Mansion were not too happy to come back. They couldn't afford to offend the villages of Yan'an Mansion.

After a long period of famine, drought and war, the simple and honest Yan'an Mansion has reached an unprecedented level in military knowledge and weaponry.

The four counties of Fushi, Yanchang, Ansai, and Yanchuan in Yan'an Prefecture are the places where Liu Chengzong once fought.

However, in order to facilitate the purchase of supplies by the Lion Camp, and not want them to be robbed by others, the villages were placed in places that are easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Each village has a population of hundreds of people. Men, women, and children range from just walking to 99. On average, two people have a spear, four people have a knife, six people have a bow, eight people have a set of armor, and ten people have a gun. , Twenty people a cannon.

Although the level of equipment is uneven, leather armor, cloth face, lock, two crotches, and cotton armor are all considered armor; single-eyed, three-eyed, and bird guns are all counted as guns; , are considered guns.

However, there are many villagers in the village who provide professional and technical guidance, such as ex-Lion Camp veterans and deserters from the Ming Dynasty Frontier Army. Coupled with the training of the people, the villagers look like they are sunburned, malnourished, pale and emaciated, but there is a drum , pulled out is two or three heavily armed centurions.

The peasant army who came back from other provinces did not collect food, but could still enjoy the treatment of being a commander, and they could communicate with the local people as brothers and sisters.

But if you go to a village to collect food, and then want to walk in Yan'an Mansion, you will either step on landmines on the road, or you will be beaten by guns for a while while walking, and you can't find anyone to treat you.

Anyway, life is a multiple-choice question, you have to choose one to go out happily and go to heaven happily.

Yan'an Mansion is no longer the Yan'an Mansion in the past.

Originally, the development pattern of the leaders was very healthy. They won battles in Shanxi and returned to northern Shaanxi to sell their stolen goods;

But now, they don't dare to go back to northern Shaanxi. After winning the battle and returning to northern Shaanxi, their elite soldiers want to settle down in the villages established by Chengyun.

After losing the battle, the defeated soldiers even wanted to settle in northern Shaanxi.

Last year, there was a leader named Bai Guangen who lost a battle in Shanxi and wanted to recruit troops when he came back. His own people went to the village to settle down. Bai Guangen wanted to ask for someone, but was pointed and scolded by several security chiefs.

Those security guards are not in good health, some are lame, some are missing hands, but their tempers are getting bigger and prestige is getting higher and higher. When they scold him, they just say: "I and the commander beat Huanglong!" Shan, you are still leading the horse for Huntian Monkey!"

They can't be beaten, and compared with the security chiefs, the little leaders who came up later are all juniors, and they don't have any temper at all when they are scolded. Count one, they are all bandits.

Moreover, no matter how powerful the bandit leader is, he would not dare to make trouble in Yan'an Mansion. First, the three village chiefs can pull out a team comparable to the generals of the army, and then there are Ren Quan'er and Yang Yanchang's [-] battalion flag army. They are not allowed to make trouble in their hometown.

The security chiefs were all happy to see the newcomer, and they limped to the county government office, wrote a note and handed it to the household book office, and the household registration was considered lost.

In some places there is no county magistrate, and in some places the county magistrates dare not say a word. The court discovered the big problem in Yan'an Mansion as early as Zhang Nian was arrested and died in imperial prison in Beijing.

Just in time for the rebellion of the brothers of the Shen family, the emperor changed the three governors, but Yang He did a good job in recruiting Liu Chengzong, so he threw Yang He to the Ministry of Rites.

The new trilateral governor is Hong Chengchou. He has long wanted to solve the problem of Yan'an Mansion. After some investigation, he was very surprised.

Hong Chengchou calculated in his mind that collecting taxes would at least solve the problem of salary arrears in Yan'an camp.

Here's what he thinks:

The combat effectiveness of the Yang Department is obvious to all. In Yan'an Mansion, the Liu bandits were defeated many times, and when they aided Liao, the whole division arrived and obeyed the command.

It's just that the imperial court has found it difficult to supply his soldiers with food and salaries recently, which makes the fierce general useless and can only guard Yan'an Mansion.

General Yang Shen also assured Hong Chengchou that as long as the salary and food are paid for three months, the Yan'an camp can be mobilized immediately, whether it is to go to Shanxi to suppress the rebellion or to block the banks of the Yellow River.

Hong Chengchou found the crux of the Yan'an problem. There is no organization in one place. Places like Yan'an Prefecture where there is a wide range of mutual protection in villages also have their own leaders, and the leader is the Baochang.

To solve the problem of tax collection, it is necessary to bring these people together to discuss.

He didn't believe it anymore, do these people really think that Yan'an Mansion can go on like this forever?
Hong Chengchou was stationed in Yan'an Mansion last year and sent out invitations to the security chiefs everywhere, but none of them came.

Later, he used the old method, since you are like a piece of iron, then I will break them one by one. Two security chiefs accepted his invitation, and he recommended him to be the chief executive officer.

Hong Chengchou was very happy, everything is difficult at the beginning, as long as these two people have the status of Chief Qian, other security chiefs will naturally come to him after seeing it, and the tax collection problem can be solved.

Unexpectedly, before other security chiefs came to join him, the two bosses went home and were hanged from a tree by the villagers and beat to death.

This is not a matter of one person getting promoted and getting rich. Each village does have some surplus food, but it is not enough to pay taxes to the court, and there are countless people who have hatred against the court gathered in the village, so they cannot collect taxes at all.

More than 500 people were drawn from the two villages, armed with blunderbuss and cannons, and marched towards Yan'an Fucheng with gongs and drums. By the time it reached Fucheng, it had become an army of more than 3000 people.

This impenetrable prefecture city seemed to have the four characters "open when encountering soldiers" written on the city gate, and it was not stopped at all. The villagers directly set up cannons in front of the magistrate's yamen, and Yang Yanchang was so frightened that he rushed to persuade everyone.

Anyway, I can't talk, but you guys have no brains. The Yan'an Mansion is so hard to maintain. Just after you can live, you will do such evil things again. Although you are not afraid of killing the governor of the three sides, can you tell me? Are the soldiers still willing to suppress you?At that time, everyone will go to the grass, what good will it do you?
Anyway, everyone beat Hong Chengchou anyway.

Yang Yanchang thought that when the governors of the three sides left Yan'an Mansion, they should be very unhappy, very rude, and didn't even say goodbye to the savior.

When I went back, I didn't dare to mention the tax collection in Yan'an Mansion again. Ren Quan'er even wrote the memorial to impeach the governors of the three sides and force the rebellion against Yan'an Mansion, but it was useless.

The situation in Yan'an Mansion is very complicated now, but it is also very safe.

The officers and soldiers can't come in, the post station can't be repaired well, and the bandit leaders who go out don't dare to come back. When the bandits come back, they become obedient citizens who are only loyal to themselves.

Ren Quan'er's banner army, Yang Yanchang's battalion soldiers, villagers from all over the country, Gao Yingxiang from Shizigou, which one is a good person?

So Ren Quan'er was very distressed, and wanted Liu Chengzong to fight back to Shaanxi every day.

For Ren Quan'er, this is not just a matter of loyalty or disloyalty. The fact that no one is in charge of the overall situation in northern Shaanxi makes him very uneasy, because his status in the general environment of Yan'an Mansion is quite uneasy. It doesn't feel like a human being inside and out.

First of all, he can't serve the imperial court. Serving the imperial court means that Yan'an Mansion has to collect taxes, and the villagers can pull up the army to kill him tomorrow.

Secondly, he had to prevent Yang Yanchang from serving the court. No matter how Yang Yanchang had no prestige and had been the nominal leader for so long, if Yang Yanchang wanted to serve the court, he must be killed first.

In the end, he had to guard against Gao Yingxiang. The Gao family army in Shizigou was also an army that should not be underestimated.

Of course, other people's situation is similar to his, they are all wary of each other, and no one wants to take the lead too much and attract the imperial court to send troops to encircle and suppress.

But Ren Quan'er knew that this strange balance would not last for long. When the leaders outside could no longer support them, the imperial court would sooner or later put its hands on the Yan'an mansion again.

With this anxiety in mind, Ren Quan'er led the flag army around the fort built by Chief Liu in Chief Liu's hometown, practicing engineering skills from Liaodong, and occasionally adding a little bit of city defense skills that he had figured out. .

Watching the artillery smash the earth barriers on the fort, Ren Quaner rubbed his hands on the Liujiamao of Heilong Mountain, exhaled, and prayed silently in his heart: "Taizu Emperor... Emperor Zhenwu bless you, let Commander Liu come back soon! "

　Good evening, happy new year!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)