I want to be emperor

Chapter 30
In order to successfully take back Song Blacksmith's family, Sun Jianli also wanted to go downstream to receive a batch of salt, cloth, iron materials and other materials that were lacking in the mountains purchased by the previous caravan, and to purchase chickens and ducks along the way.

He specially dispatched his confidant and leader Wang Xiazi to lead [-] elite cavalry to Lushan County.

Luo Zhixue was fairly familiar with Wang Xiazi. After all, both of them were Sun Jiancheng's confidantes, so they would inevitably have many interactions in daily life.

Luo Zhixue felt quite at ease when blind Wang came out of the mountain to meet him.

Don't look at Blind Wang staring at the name of the blind man, he is indeed blind in one eye, but he is brave and flexible in doing things at the same time.

This person has been with Sun Jiancheng for some years. Before they mutinied, he was a cavalry soldier under Sun Jiancheng's command. When he was suppressing the bandits in the early years, he was injured and blinded by the bandit army in order to protect Sun Jiancheng.

After the mutiny, he still followed Sun Chengli as a personal soldier.

And after Sun Jiancheng succeeded in seizing the position, Wang Xiazi became Sun Jiancheng's personal captain as a matter of course.

This person is Sun Jiancheng's confidant.

Sun Chengli sent this person out to support Song Tiejiang's family, which is enough to prove that Sun Chengli attaches great importance to Song Tiejiang's family.

Don't pay attention to grandson's establishment.

Blacksmiths are scarce talents these days, and if they are blacksmiths who can make guns, they are even more elite among the scarce talents.

Most of these scarce talents are under the control of the government, and a few are in the large-scale bandit army.

For example, Blacksmith Song is actually a craftsman under the command of the government. He usually takes his two sons and a group of laborers to make all kinds of ordnance for the officers and soldiers, not only ordinary swords and spears, but even more than half of the artillery that Luyang closed. They were all made by Blacksmith Song.

Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible for Sun Jianli and his group to recruit such high-level talents.

So the people who Sun Chengli sent out to inquire about the craftsmen took the simplest and most direct method after knowing about top talents like Song Tiejiang.

On a dark and windy night, he directly entered the Song blacksmith's house, holding a sharp knife, and threatened the lives of the Song family members, which forced the three father and son of the Song family to compromise and agreed to follow them.

But even so, some mistakes were made when leaving the city, and the yamen servants at the gate of the city noticed something was wrong. If it wasn't for the rebels who were working at that time, they would have been decisive and rushed directly with a few carriages of the Song family. Guan, and there are several other rebels outside the city readying their horses to respond.

They almost got stuck in Lushan County.

After breaking out of Lushan County, the six rebels gathered together and escorted Song Blacksmith's family's carriage to the west.

However, because of the commotion in Lushan City before, and the fact that there are many thieves and officers and soldiers in Ruzhou, it would be extremely risky for them to go on the road rashly.

For the sake of safety, they chose to avoid the front for the time being, and temporarily hid in a remote place, and sent people back to find Sun Chengli to send people to meet him.

So for the past few days, Blacksmith Song and his family were also forced to stay in a remote and deserted village.

Blacksmith Song looked at the bandit cavalry outside, sighed for a while and turned back to the house.

At this time, there were still his whole family in the house, his wife Song Qian, his 21-year-old eldest son, eldest daughter-in-law, eldest grandson, and eldest granddaughter.Only his 17-year-old second son and his newly married daughter-in-law.

Except for the two married daughters, his entire family is here.

Watching Blacksmith Song return to the house, Mrs. Song Qian stepped forward, glanced outside before speaking, then lowered her voice and said, "His father, how is it?"

Blacksmith Song shook his head: "They are very strict, we can't get out, and even if our family gets out of this door, I'm afraid we won't be able to get far."

After hearing this, Song Qian was slightly anxious: "Then what should we do? Could it be that we really followed them to the mountains? We really are some kind of rebels."

Blacksmith Song glared at her: "Keep your voice down, don't let people outside hear you."

After all, Blacksmith Song sighed again: "What else can we do, our family is here, and you haven't seen them before, but they tied us up that night. They are vicious gangsters, if they are offended, what will our family do."

If there was a second choice, Song Tiejiang would not be willing to follow this rebel!
But they also choose!
He still clearly remembers that night, when these people broke into his house and held their knives in front of his grandson and granddaughter. Back then, if he said no, his blood would be splashed on the spot!
These rebels are not ordinary gangsters, they play rebellion, what reason will they tell you there, innocent or not, what they say is clear, what they want is their father and son to help them build weapons and guns.

If you don't want to follow them, the whole family will die.

And they don't mind killing one person first as a deterrent!

Although Blacksmith Song has only been a blacksmith all his life, he has lived for so long and has seen many officers, soldiers and thieves. He knows very well that these rebels are not good people.

He still remembers that last year a group of thieves came and tried to attack Lushan City. In order to make the officers and soldiers be wary of attacking Lushan City, those thieves directly arrested hundreds of people from the surrounding suburbs and villages and forcibly expelled them. As they attacked the city, the rogues followed behind, and if they didn't follow suit, they went straight down.

The thieves are ruthless, but the officers and soldiers are also ruthless.

The thieves drove out the people and attacked the city, and the officers and soldiers came to cover them with a few waves of arrows. During this period, the artillery on the top of the city also fired a lot of shots, and directly treated the people who were forcibly driven up as thieves.

The rogues were finally forced to retreat.

In the offensive and defensive battle of Lushan City, the officers, soldiers and thieves did not die or injured many people, but the surrounding people were in bad luck, at least hundreds of people were killed or injured.

In these days, don't expect too much conscience and humanity from those officers and soldiers holding weapons or bandit soldiers.

If you encounter them, the best way is to run away.

But Blacksmith Song's family couldn't escape, and the only way was to obediently obey orders.

At this time, his eldest son Song Dalang also came up: "Father, the reason why these bandits captured us was because they wanted us to help them make weapons. This difficulty is over, let’s find a way to get out later.”

"After all, we are craftsmen. They need us. In a short time, our lives can still be saved."

Song Tiejiang said: "This is the only way to do it now."

As he said that, Blacksmith Song glanced outside again, looking at the two bandit soldiers who were in every possible way bored outside the yard, wiping their swords with rags, and finally sighed: "This world, alas..."

Although Song Tiejiang was unwilling, he had no choice but to accept the status quo helplessly.

After waiting for a few more days, when Blacksmith Song saw a group of bandit cavalry coming outside again, he knew that his plan of fleeing with his family was completely unfeasible.

Those who came were the twenty elite cavalry led by Wang Xiazi, in addition to more than thirty young and strong civilian husbands temporarily recruited from Huangjia Village.

In fact, in the previous caravan, there were more than 20 civilian husbands recruited and hired by the existence near Funiu Mountain.

After all, so many goods need to be transported by human hands.

These cavalrymen of theirs are not actually here for transportation, but for escorting supplies.

After Wang Xiazi arrived with twenty elite cavalry, together with several original elite cavalry here, more than 20 cavalrymen began to escort more than 50 people's husbands and more than ten horse-drawn carts to transport a large amount of various materials and continue to move forward.

With these more than 20 cavalry as a threat, although they occasionally encountered scattered bandits on the way, they basically avoided them before they got close.

Blind Wang and his group of cavalry were all leading tall horses, carrying knives, bows and spears, and half of them had armor.

A slightly normal person would know that these people are not easy to mess with.

Not to mention the usual small-scale thieves with tens or hundreds of people, even if they saw a few hundred thieves, they would have to avoid them.

After such a continuous journey, they finally returned to the Funiu Mountain area smoothly. After entering the mountain, blind Wang and the others were relieved.

This time they went out of the mountain to escort Song Blacksmith's family and a large amount of supplies. Their task was still very heavy, and they were afraid of attracting large-scale thieves or officers and soldiers on the way.

Fortunately, nothing happened along the way.

After arriving at the edge of the mountain, blind Wang assigned half of his men to continue escorting Blacksmith Song's family and the purchased supplies back to Sanshui Village, while he turned around with the rest of his men.

He also had to purchase chickens, ducks, cattle, pigs and sheep for stocking as ordered.

Before setting off, Luo Zhixue approached him and told him the importance of this matter: "Whether there are eggs or meat to eat from now on is up to Brother Wang."

So, he had to get this done.

But this time when he was doing business, it didn't go so smoothly. He took people around several villages, and in order to conceal his tracks, he disguised himself as a caravan and went shopping with his husband, and traded some mountain goods by the way. of.

But I didn't expect him to keep a low profile this time...

He only showed up with a few armed guards, and he seemed to be very weak.

At the same time, he also brought a caravan with seven or eight carriages, which seemed to be quite fat.

Ever since, it attracted the attention of interested people.

Blind Wang and the others had just gone to a place called Lijiazhuang to buy dozens of chickens and ducks, and it was only a quarter of an hour since they left. Blind Wang and the others saw Lijiazhuang and followed a group of people.

He still recognizes the leader, Li Yuanwai, who has been trading with him for a quarter of an hour... Needless to say, the others are also his nurses, servants and the like.

And they are all holding swords now, and Li Yuanwai is still wearing a ferocious smile...

They look like this, a fool can see that they want to rob them, businessmen from other places...

This made Blind Wang very helpless...

Luo Zhixue had told him before leaving to keep a low profile when going out and not to mess around.

Otherwise, it is easy to beat the young ones and attract the old ones, and kill the old ones to attract the older ones. Let alone the endless talk, it may even attract officers and soldiers in the end!
But now, Blind Wang can only mutter: "Mr. Luo, you can't blame me for this, I also want to keep a low profile, but the surname Li won't let me keep a low profile..."

After sighing, Blind Wang used his only remaining eye to look at the Li family's nurses who had rushed up screaming, and then picked up a horn and blew it.

In the next moment, more than a dozen cavalrymen hiding in the nearby woodland rushed out on horseback...

(End of this chapter)