Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 240

There is no rush to deal with thieves. This Datong, Xinzhou and the others have been fighting for many years. If they were easy to deal with, they would have been wiped out by the government army long ago. What's more, the opponent has a background in the government army. Bad food.

For five or six days in a row, Song Qingshu held back his troops patiently. He just stopped the training of the musketeers, and dragged them to the official road north of Dai County and Fanzhi and the Hutuo River. Five hundred cavalry patrolled back and forth, with the remaining strength, and then the autumn harvest.

With this large team defending the small Dai County, the powerful landlords in Dai County felt relieved, and many of them even took the initiative to organize Minzhuang to help in the battle. Sun Chuanting was overjoyed by the sudden increase of 2000 people, He led people into the mountains to chop corn and plan potatoes.

It can be regarded as 27 days of hard work in the war, and all the hard work that was so hard to sow was harvested before the snow fell.

This year can be regarded as a stable cat winter. During the slack season in July and August, Scarface presided over the construction of the old camp in Lingfeng Valley. They are all brick-and-tiled houses built with burnt bricks, similar to the rural courtyards of later generations. It is thickly coated with clay accompanied by straw, and the roof is even thicker with straw to keep warm.

Moreover, Song Qingshu also moved over the heated kang from the Northeast of later generations. Two corn poles were stuffed into the stove, and this huge big heated kang suddenly became warm. Many beggars got up every morning. Painful thing.

In the early morning, the baked golden potato slices on both sides exude a unique fragrance just by adding a little salt. There is also corn and sweet potato porridge, served with a plate of oil and chili. Laoying, after all, half of the wealth of Xinzhou can be stored here. After breakfast, sitting on the hot kang and listening to Zhou Yuji practicing the soldiers running circles outside, it is one of the great pleasures in life.

Even Caiwei became a little lazy, sitting cross-legged on the kang, with a few long needles running back and forth in her hands, she was actually knitting a sweater.

Shi Tianfu and Cao Sanxi went to the grasslands and brought back a lot of wool. These days Han people actually don’t know how to spin wool, so Song Qingshu saw a business opportunity. After consulting Tang Ruowang, he used his own soap and alkaline water to degrease the wool. , Qihuojun also started selling wool, and now even in Taiyuan, knitting a sweater for your husband or sweetheart has become the most popular fashion trend of the season.

With the wool, Li Gu'er also followed hard thinking and meditation to design a new clothing style, holding a brush, and scratching on the rice paper.

In fact, it is a good thing for women to have things to do, so that they can spend their boundless energy on housework. Song Qingshu fully supports their careers. At this meeting, Song Qingshu is also sitting cross-legged on the kang to accompany them quietly. , but he was not lazy, but was carefully reading a long letter.

The letter was sent by Qiu Ming. This kid is also developed now. He has become a famous general in Shanxi from a low-level general. Unfortunately, the famous general is not so easy to be. After building a good relationship with Xu Dingguo, this guy had to follow Xu Dingguo in Taiyuan The peasant uprising was suppressed everywhere in the basin.

His two strokes are actually very average. Fortunately, Dang Shousu, who Song Qingshu gave him to monitor him, is also a general. The beggars selected by the Five Hundred Musketeers and Broadswords were his personal soldiers. He never fell behind in every battle. For his sake, at the moment he was fighting fiercely with Zhang Miaoshou and Bai Jiuer, both of the 36th Battalion, in Hequ, and the letter was sent from the front.

Qiu Ming enjoyed enough, he was fighting a war, and he still wanted to find a girl. The first part of the letter was to ask Song Qingshu, in the name of his eldest cousin, to help him propose marriage to the fourth lady of the Zhang family in Puzhou. Welcome to Dai County, and it must be fast, he accidentally made the big girl's stomach big!
Song Qingshu had a black line on his forehead when he saw this matter. It is popular in later generations to marry with a son, and his own elder sister did it like this. Unexpectedly, it is also popular to marry with a son these days!I really don't know what the fourth house of the Zhang family thinks.

But this is a good thing for me. Firstly, Qiu Mingbiao is loyal, and he begs himself to handle all the marriage proposals. The feeling of closeness is self-evident. Second, the Zhang family in Puzhou is a big family in Shanxi. Zhang Siwei, who was once a university student, has a complicated relationship in the officialdom, and the Zhang family is still a member of Shanxi merchants. Zhang Shiding, the shopkeeper who cooperates with Song Qingshu, is also a Zhang family.

Even Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, was originally from the Zhang family in Pu County, and the eldest daughter of the fourth room of the Zhang family was close to the core. Asking Qiu Ming to marry him further narrowed his relationship with the Zhang family in Puzhou.

Seeing this, Song Qingshu was not ambiguous at all, and directly approved a note to Shi Tianfu, asking him to prepare the betrothal gift, and quickly go to Puzhou to apply for the betrothal gift.
After explaining these things, the next article is about the current affairs related to Song Qingshu, about Fan Zhi's horse thief.

Although the family background is relatively low, not as good as those generals in the frontier army, Qiu Ming is also very clear about those dirty people in the frontier army. After reading the ins and outs, Song Qingshu suddenly gained confidence in his heart.

Anyway, the autumn harvest is over, it's time to fight those two bastards and let them know who is the boss of the mafia!

But just as Song Qingshu was thinking about it, the door was suddenly pushed open, and a fiery figure ran in frivolously.

"Stupid, fool! Thief, here we come!"

Seeing Xing Hongniang's excited, panting words, Song Qingshu almost fell off his chair.

The thieves are hard to deal with not because of how powerful they are, but because they can't find them. On the surface, these people are either farmers, businessmen, or even scholars, and there are many thieves among themselves. They also don't know each other, and they are all recruited through the leader. When they are going to do a case, they will be covered with black cloth and gather together from all directions. Generally, there are five or six hundred thieves, and only the leader leads a core team of five or sixty people. Find the lair of Huntian Long and Han Qinhu, the leaders of the two thieves.

But when they call at the door, that's easy!

Regardless of the fact that most of the begging army is still busy with the final work of the autumn harvest, harvesting seeds and storing them in storage, if you really want to single out Xing Hongniang's [-] standing armored cavalry, you can beat these amateurs to the north.

Putting the letter in his pocket in a hurry, Song Qingshu got on his boots, ran out and yelled anxiously.

"Old Zhou, hurry up and join the soldiers, we are going to fight!"

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The thieves destroyed a village in Dai County. When they heard that the thieves were coming again, all the powerful landlords in Dai County couldn’t sit still. Two or 300 people rushed to the county seat. I heard that Song Qingshu was going to send troops to wipe out the thieves. The few people waited and watched again and sent their slaves to follow behind.

This time, Sun Chuanting also dropped his work and followed him. He is also a native of Daixian County. Yu Qihuo's army followed Song Qingshu, and if he won the battle, he would naturally go to lead Song Qingshu, but he could also get some credit for killing more.

This also applies to Zhou Yuji.

"It's right ahead!"

What I found was the little radish from Tanmaying. His people are not only cavalry, many of them are not beggars. The old farmers recruited directly in the local area will report whenever there is a trouble. The northern peak of Mount Wutai in the southern part of Fanshi County converges, and as soon as it goes south to the junction of Dai County and Fanzhi, it is discovered by Xiaoluo.

Dai County is not big, and the order arrived. In less than an hour, six teams of 500 people in the shape of Shuangpin converged from six directions and broke into Fanzhi County. Song Qingshu's more than 100 soldiers and Liu Zongmin's sword The team stayed together, and the soldiers were selected from the musketeer team. If you encounter a thieves who are good at riding and shooting, you will not suffer from shooting against each other!
Going all the way to the northeast, within less than half an hour, the old farmer who led the way pointed forward tremblingly, and followed his fingers. Behind a small dirt bag not far away, more than a dozen strands of cooking smoke drifted faintly. It was already noon, and it was estimated that the thieves were lighting a fire to cook, which was also in line with the law of the thieves' activities. Usually, they attacked at night.

"Marshal, let my old Liu go! Guaranteed to unscrew that stupid bird!"

Liu Zongmin was behind, and was the first one who couldn't hold back anymore. These days, Sun Chuanting is in charge of the house, but he is in charge of him. Every day is training except for training. If it weren't for Song Qingshu, there would be a seven-day rest and bathing system, which can be done every six days. Taking a day off can give him something to look forward to, he's going to be sleepy and crazy.

After finally having a battle, he was naturally impatient, but unfortunately, watching from a distance with a binoculars, Song Qingshu didn't turn his head, and pressed him with a strong sentence.

"Hold on!"

"General Liu! Thief horses are all light cavalry. If you can't beat them, they will run away. With your two legs, you can't catch them. Moreover, they are familiar with the terrain. If they can't beat them, they will scatter and scatter, even if they send out cavalry to chase them." , may not be able to accomplish all in one battle, what is needed now is patience!"

"Leader Miaotou, Leader Zhang, Leader Zhao, and the others joined together to cover all sides. What we need to do now is to wait here, so as not to be discovered by thieves, and wait for the arrival of several groups of people. Naturally, it will be indispensable at that time." General Liu, you are a fierce general!"

Sun Chuanting was kind enough to help explain, but unfortunately, his tone of voice with ice cubes seemed to be seriously lacking in charm. Adopted the radical method.

"It is said that Commander Miao Mei has experienced hundreds of battles, and his skill is no less than that of General Liu. General Liu, are you afraid that you will not be able to capture the leader Miao, so you want to attack first?"

"Bird! I will be afraid of his old Miao?"

Sure enough, Liu Zongmin, who was furious, turned his head immediately, and yelled at his sword team: "Let me lie down, if the target is exposed, I will pinch you down first!"

After all, it was a devil-like training. The beggars of the Broadsword Team lay silently in the reeds, hiding by the Hutuo River, and even Xing Hongniang’s cavalry, with the reins in the horse’s mouth, followed the people on their stomachs, far away. If you look at it, you won't be able to find it unless you get close, so it starts to lurk.

After lurking for about a few sticks of incense, just as Song Qingshu was fascinated by watching through the telescope, Zhou Yuji suddenly ran over with a stern face and bowed his back.

"Master, something is wrong!"

"Oh?" Song Qingshu turned his head in shock, while Zhou Yuji's tone became more serious.

"The last general also fought against bandits and Jurchen cavalry in Liaodong. These people come and go like the wind, and they are extremely vigilant. Often, before the big team arrives, some scouts will go out first. This gangster has not been wiped out for more than ten years. It is expected The vigilance is not weak! But after such a long time, they have not sent anyone out to patrol and investigate, something is wrong!"

Hearing what Zhou Yuji said, Song Qingshu's heart skipped a beat...

(End of this chapter)