Anti Qing

Chapter 73
After receiving the order, Wu Zhaosheng and Hao Yaoqi immediately put down what they were doing and came to the tent of the Chinese army together.

After performing the clasping salute, the two stood side by side.

"General Zhi summoned the two of us to come here. Is there any urgent military business?"

Li Zijing was sitting on the north side with a local map behind him. Seeing that several people had arrived, he looked to the side with a smile.

"Brother Waqi and Brother Ma know each other, so I won't say much. General Wu is new to my front battalion. Let me introduce him."

"This is Wu Zhaosheng, the Wuwei General of my former battalion."

Wu Zhaosheng was slightly taken aback when he heard Li Zijing's introduction.

Li Zijing did not mention in his words that Wu Zhaosheng surrendered from the Green Camp of the Qing Army, which saved Wu Zhaosheng from an embarrassing situation.

When Ma Shitai heard what he said, he cupped his hands and said with a smile.

"This time, for the powerful villages around Longju Village, I have to thank General Wu and Brother Waqi first."

"My headquarters only has more than 200 veteran soldiers and more than 1000 ordinary soldiers. The rest were transferred to the North last September."

"With this amount of troops, it is more than enough to defend Longju Village, enough to reach an army of [-]. But if you want to completely control the surrounding area, it is really difficult."

"Now that His Majesty wants to stick to the pass, there will be no time to look south in the short term. Without the help of King Chuang, I really don't know what to do."

Wu Zhaosheng also returned a salute, saying neither humble nor overbearing.

"How to arrange, the last general will follow the orders of General Zhi."

Li Zijing also laughed, looked at Gu Junen who was standing beside him, and said downwards.

"What's the situation around here? Please tell me, General Ma. I'm new to the front battalion. After all, I'm not as familiar as the garrison."

Ma Shitai nodded and stepped forward.

"It's natural."

"Everyone, please see that there is Luchi City in the east of Longju Village, Gucheng Ridge in the west, and Zhaizigou in the south. It looks like a four-dimensional outline."

"There are Chen and Huang two landlords in Longju Village. The Chen family is based on the mountain of Chenjia Village, three miles west of the village, and has a family of thousands of people."

"The Huang family colluded with the local boat gang. According to the water and drought wharf, there are 3000 people."

"These two powerful landlords have been harassing for years, making it impossible for me to implement the policy of equalizing land in the village, let alone build a place."

Saying that, Ma Shitai shook his head slightly.

"In September last year, most of my troops went north to help. Now there are less than [-] old people staying in the village. It is the limit to guard the four villages. Materials are scarce, and there is no way to recruit more people."

"If King Xiao Chuang can help the humble officials and eliminate the Chen and Huang landlords, Longju Village will be stable enough, and the assets in the village can be taken by themselves."

Li Zijing pondered for a while and asked downwards.

"The landlords of the Chen and Huang families are doing harm to one side, and our Dashun army is doing justice for the heavens. Naturally, we will wipe them out."

"Wu Zhaosheng, your troops are small, so I will go to Chenjia Village, three miles west of the city, to help General Ma destroy the Chen family."

Wu Zhaosheng's expression was serious, and naturally he had nothing to choose, so he stepped forward and clapped his fists.

"The last will obey!"

Li Zijing looked to the other side and said in a deep voice.

"Hao Yaoqi, you lead the original troops of my former camp to recapture the flood and drought wharf for General Ma. It will also be beneficial to reach here on the Xiangyang trade route in the future."

Hao Yaoqi didn't take the fighting power of the villages in these places seriously at all, without the slightest fluctuation on his face, he replied in a low voice.

"Order to control the general!"

Li Zijing nodded slightly, then got up.

In the shocked eyes of everyone, they looked around the field.

"As for this general, I will lead thirty elite cavalry, and go to the west of the city with Wu Zhaosheng and General Ma to watch the battle."

Hao Yaoqi was dumbfounded, and quickly stood up.

"General Zhi, why do you need to go out in person to deal with these two powerful local villages? You just sit in the camp and listen to our good news!"

Gu Junen also quickly persuaded him, and glanced at Wu Zhaosheng vaguely.

"That's right, General Zhi, what Brother Waving Banner said is right. This mighty village claims to have a thousand people, but it doesn't have much fighting power. Why go there in person?"

But Li Zijing got off the table and picked up the Yanling Saber.

"I've made up my mind, you brothers don't need to persuade me any more."

"My hands have been itchy for a long time during the march, and finally there is a battle. I am not allowed to go into battle, and I am not allowed to watch the battle?"

After speaking, Li Zijing walked out of the tent.

West of the city.

Chen Village.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The servants on the wall of the village were sparse, each carrying a long gun, staring sleepily at each other.

The sound of rumbling drums suddenly came from the village at the foot of the mountain where the Tuzhai was located.

A large black banner rose against the wind, and more than [-] Qing soldiers from the front battalion were slowly advancing under the leadership of Wu Zhaosheng.

Chenjiazhai is located on Chenjia Village, the terrain is a little higher, the Dashun army had just arrived at the foot of the mountain, and sharp-eyed servants immediately spotted it.

What followed was the rapid sound of gongs in the earthen village.

"Bang bang bang—!"

Feeling the trembling of the ground under their feet, the servants climbed up the wall of the village, but they were all shocked and stunned.

At the foot of the mountain, the Dashun Army, which was densely packed in black, was attacking upwards in a neat formation, and before they could show their heads, there was a dense rain of arrows.

Wu Zhaosheng rode his horse and stood in front of the battle. Before the battle, he mobilized all the archers who had suffered a stroke and distributed the arrows.

Most of these soldiers who surrendered from the Qing army were soldiers from the Ming border before they surrendered. Now the morale of the army is stable, and there is no pressure to deal with the Tuzhai.

The battle knives in their hands kept beating on the big shield, and they roared in conjunction with the marching drums of the army.

"Kill!" "Kill!" "Kill!"

More than a thousand family members in the village usually just bully and bully the villagers, they have never seen this kind of battle, and they have no fighting spirit for a while.

There was no battle, and there was chaos in the village.

"It's the bandits coming!"

"Run!"

The head of the Chen family and several wives and concubines ran out of the lobby, but before they had time to react, there was a burst of piercing sound.

Arrows rained all over the sky, falling on the small earthen village.

There were countless screams in the village. Although the Chen family's servants were said to have thousands of people, in fact there were only a dozen of them in armor.

Most of the servants went into battle in commoner clothes, holding knives and guns.

Facing these soldiers of the Qing army who had experienced bloody battles, they were not at the same level in terms of fighting will or weapons and equipment.

"Don't run!"

"I'll kill you all if you run away!"

The Patriarch of the Chen family held a sharp Miao knife with a cold light, and kept shouting loudly, trying to lead a dozen elite armored servants to maintain the situation.

But the situation in the Tuzhai collapsed. Facing the Dashun army coming in full force, they had no chance of winning. Many people had already waved the white flag and bowed their knees to surrender.

There was another sound of piercing in the sky, and the dense arrows turned and fell.

The two sides had never fought, and there were already heavy casualties in the Tuzhai. The screams, wailing, and begging for mercy filled the ears of the Patriarch of the Chen family.

Even his favorite concubines left him and fled in all directions.

"It's over, it's over!"

Everything happened so suddenly that the head of the Chen family was ashamed.

It never occurred to him that under the current situation of Dashun being besieged on all sides, there is still room to mobilize the regular army to suppress this small village in the mountains!

With a huge bang, the gate of the earthen village fell down.

Wu Zhaosheng took the Yanling saber in his hand and rushed into the village first, and killed three Chen family members who were running around with a wave of his hand.

Behind him, there are a large number of Shunjun troops filing in.

"Whoever descends shall be spared death!"

"Shoot and kill those who resist!"

"Women and children will not be killed!"

As soon as he entered the gate, Wu Zhaosheng immediately shouted three military orders.

The Shun army broke in from the gate, no longer maintaining any formation, and launched a killing feast in the earthen village.

Countless servants screamed and fell to the ground. Their resistance was minimal. Only those who dropped their knives and guns in time and knelt down to surrender could be saved from death.

(End of this chapter)