Chapter 108 Ting * Duzhou

Gujiazhuang itself, because the Gu family is engaged in private salt trading, and the family is very rich, so it was built quite strong at the beginning. In addition to a strong wall, there are trenches dug outside the wall, and there are also turbulwarks in each corner of the village, which has quite strong defense.

And in Gujiazhuang, a large amount of private salt should often be stored. In the village, there are also many warehouses built. In addition to trading in private salt, the Gu family also hoarded a lot of grain, hoarded goods and made a fortune. They even dug several large dungeons to specially imprison his envoys who were forcibly taken from surrounding prefectures and counties. Use, and then, in addition to being spoiled by himself and his subordinates, the woman who is tired of playing will be transported by him to Nanzhili and sold to a brothel as a prostitute*.

When they took Gujiazhuang this time, they also got dozens of young women from the dungeon, some of whom were even tied up by the Gu family.

After the selection, several women from large families are all small-footed. The sea wolf does not want such small-footed women. Naturally, they send people to contact their families and ask their families to take a sum of money as a reward and take them back.

As for the remaining young women, Yu Xiaotian was not very kind. He ordered people to take time to comfort them and take care of their bodies. After their bodies recovered, they were transported to Fushan and shipped back to Taiwan Island to supplement the number of women on Taiwan Island.

This Gujiazhuang is simply a military station tailored for them, which is simply suitable as a military station. It is located near the official road, and has a perfect defense system, a large number of houses, various warehouses, and dungeons. It is much better and more important than temporarily building a military station. It can be put into use directly.

So this Gujiazhuang, even if it was put into use by Yu Xiaotian, became an important military station of Yu Jiajun in Jiaozhou. After dealing with the affairs here, Yu Jiajun immediately began to move north and headed for Pingdu Prefecture.

Pingduzhou is about 100 miles away from Jiaozhou. Yu Jiajun has only walked for three days from Jiaozhou to Pingdu, and the average daily journey is about 60 miles.

More than 60 miles is not far away in later generations, but in the Ming Dynasty, it is really not close. Many farmers may not be able to go so far away in their lives, and the quality of road traffic in this era is only poor, which is unimaginable.

Even if it is an official road, it is not very wide. Basically, it simply uses stones to crush the land and becomes a road. There are even no drainage ditches on both sides of the road. Over the years, few government invest in maintenance. Vehicles and pedestrians walk on the official road all year round, crushing the official road lower. When it comes to rainy days, it will be muddy or simply become a ditch.

Marching on such a road, and there are still many heavy vehicles in the army. Even if the heavy battalion of the family army uses a pretty good four-wheeled carriage in this era, but if you want to travel a hundred miles a day, you can't do it at all. At the end of a day, walking 60 miles is already the limit. Otherwise, cavalry and infantry still have heavy vehicles. The car will be disconnected, which will make it difficult to care for the beginning and the end.

It is impossible for such a large army to advance secretly. A day after they left Jiaozhou City, sporadic unknown riders began to appear in front of the team and on both wings, observing the movement of the family army from afar.

Of course, once the scouts and cavalry of the family army find them, they will immediately go to expel or chase them, but these sporadic riders often do not confront them and immediately pluck their horses and leave. It becomes very difficult for the scouts to block the battlefield.

Yu Xiaotian did not require the scouts to cover the whereabouts of the army, so he swaggered towards Pingdu Prefecture.

Pingdu Prefecture was conquered by the rebels in February and has become a rebel-controlled area. After entering Pingdu Prefecture, a large number of corpses began to appear on both sides of the road.

Most of these corpses are the corpses of ordinary people. Some corpses have begun to rot because the weather is getting warmer, and some corpses are still relatively fresh. It seems that they should have been killed for a long time. Basically, they are all knife and gunshot wounds. Some corpses are unharmed, as if they were starved to death. It can be seen that the rebels The scourge of the people in Pingdu Prefecture is really not bad, killing many people.

The air has begun to smell the smell of rotten bodies. Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered the officers and soldiers to collect these bodies along the way and dig pits and bury them on the ground to avoid the subsequent corpses from seriously rotting after the weather turns hot, causing the epidemic.

After entering the territory of Pingdu Prefecture, many villages were met along the way. Among these villages, more than half of the villages have become ruins, and traces of fire still exist. These villages have been destroyed by the rebels. The people in the village are either killed or forcibly taken away, and most of them have abandoned their homes. And he fled and joined the ranks of refugees fleeing.

Of course, there are also some village castles with strong wall and strong self-defense ability, which have not been conquered by the rebels. However, the people in these village castles have already become frightened birds. When they saw a large army pulling out, they immediately closed the village door, the police gongs sounded, and there were shadows on the wall of the village wall, and they made a lot to defend. Posture.

Yu Xiaotian sent people to shout outside these villages and inform them of their identities, so that the villagers did not have to panic. Knowing that this army was an officer and army transferred by the imperial court to suppress the rebellion, the people in the village were relieved, but they still refused to open the door to welcome the Yu family army, at most sending a small amount of wine from the village. And money and food, just send a pig, a sheep, or a few chickens, which can be regarded as a labor force.

Yu Xiaotian didn't bother to talk too much with them. After asked about the situation of the rebels, he continued to fight towards Pingdu Prefecture.

At present, the rebel general stationed in Pingdu Prefecture is a rebel general named Li Fujie. This person is said to be a former soldier under Li Jiucheng's command. He is an adopted son. He is not old, about 20 or 30 years old. He is ferocious and murderous. He has commanded more than 2,000 rebels, most of whom are surrendered. Some scattered soldiers, the main force of about three or four hundred people, were stationed in Pingdu Prefecture.

After Yu's army entered Pingdu Prefecture, Li Fujie learned their news and immediately sent about 1,000 rebels out of Pingdu City, rushing to the direction of Yu's army, blocking the way of Yu's army.

On May 20, a cavalry company, a former general of Yu's army, was intercepted by the rebels. There was a small-scale conflict between the two sides. The Yu's cavalry company did not fight to the death with them as required. After contacting them and testing the strength of the other side, they were attacking After killing dozens of rebels, he took the initiative to retreat, and the general reported it to Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian ordered the army to stop stationing, sent an infantry battalion to defeat the rebels, and ordered a cavalry company to follow him to chase the defeated rebels.

After receiving orders, the battalion immediately advanced lightly and quickly rushed to the position of the rebels. The cavalry followed their flanks, protected their flanks, and escorted them to the front of the rebel array.

The rebels lined up and tried to block the way of Yu's army, and there was no much nonsense on both sides. Even if they opened the fight, the rebels never thought that Yu's army could fight so well, and their firepower was so fierce. Before they rushed to the Yu's army, they heard a shocking, bean-like dense fire. .

Even if the rebels were beaten with corpses everywhere, the whole army was defeated, left two or three hundred bodies, and fled back in the direction of Pingdu City.

The cavalry company was ordered to immediately start pursuing and has been defeating and dispersing all of them, including the rebels led by the enemy, who were also killed on the spot, chopped off their heads and sent them back to the front of the army.

This was the first head-on battle with the rebels after the Yujia army entered the territory of Laizhou. Of course, it ended in a complete victory. In this battle, more than 570 rebels were killed and more than 300 rebels were captured alive. The rest were all defeated by the cavalry of the Yu family army, and many rebels did not escape back to Pingdu City at all.

Yu Xiaotian laughed and ordered to clean up the battlefield. Since he is now the Ming army, he has to work according to the way of the Ming army, cut off the heads of those rebels, treat them with salt or lime, put them on the cart, peel off the captured armor, and put them on the cart. In the future, it will be used as evidence to test. Yu's headless body was dug a deep pit and buried on the spot. One day, the battlefield was cleaned up. If it hadn't been for the blood stains on the ground, no one would have believed that there had just been a fierce battle here, killing hundreds of people.

After this confrontation, Yu Xiaotian's heart is even more confident. Although the rebels have been very arrogant and almost invincible recently, it also depends on what kind of opponent they are. When they meet his Yu's army, these rebels are also at the first level of war, and they can't pose any substantial threat to them at all, so Yu Xiaotian's I was completely relieved.

At present, unless tens of thousands of rebels come to fight in the hilly plains, it may put some pressure on them. If the same number of rebels are only beaten in front of his family army, they don't even have the strength to fight back. After all, the weapons and tactics used by his family army now are far more than There are too many Ming troops in this era, and it is not easy to defeat this battle.

After Li Fujie, who was in Pingdu, learned about the report of the rebels who had fled back, he was shocked. He knew that he had encountered a hard stubble this time. He did not expect that these officers and soldiers from Fujian could really fight. They were so powerful that more than 1,000 soldiers and horses he sent were actually killed by others. So he no longer dared to send people out of the city to stop the Yu family army in the wild.

So he quickly ordered his men to close the gate of Pingdu City. While sending people to rush to Laizhou City and ask for help, he rectified the soldiers and prepared to defend Pingdu City. Relying on the stronger wall of Pingdu City to block these Fujian officers and soldiers in Pingduzhou City Down.