Chapter 130 Obstruction

On the day after he just won the Beiliu victory, news also came from Taipingzhuang in the southeast of Yangcheng. Li Shuanzhu led his generals, plus several local township soldiers, defeated more than 700 Yangcheng County garrison organized by Yangcheng County and the local villagers in Taipingzhuang, killing dozens of people on the spot, and More than 300 people were captured alive, and the patrol inspector surnamed Zhang who led the team was also beheaded on the spot. The remaining Xiangyong and the garrison of Yangcheng County immediately dispersed and fled cleanly. The batch of grain finally organized by Yangcheng Zhixian County also fell into the hands of Li Shuanzhu.

After Li Shuanzhu won, he organized manpower to transport this batch of grain back to Lianhuazhai, and led more than 1,000 township soldiers to the Beiliu Battalion to meet Xiao Tianjian.

So far, the two armed forces that intended to be unfavorable to the Xing Tianjun were defeated by the Xing Tianjun, so that Wang Jinsong, the magistrate of Yangcheng County, was so scared that he directly closed the gate and did not allow anyone to enter or leave. For fear of the anger of the Xing Tianjun, he sent troops to attack Yangcheng County and took him out of Yangcheng County and killed him.

And Xiao Tianjian is not interested in attacking Yangcheng County, because Yangcheng County is a sign, and it is not very good for Xing Tianjun. After all, the county represents that it is a symbol of the imperial court. It is there, which means that the imperial court has not lost this place, even if it is actually controlled by Xing Tianjun outside the city. As long as Yangcheng County is still within the control of the court, it will not attract too much attention from the court.

Other Rebels don't understand this. They always think that attacking the state capital or county can make them gain a great reputation and can get a lot of wealth and food. In fact, this is not the case. Once they attack a state capital, they will become an official thorn in the eyes. It will inevitably attract the official's crazy revenge, which has not only been reflected in this era, but even future generations have learned a profound lesson.

At this point, Xiao Tianjian probably knows better than anyone else in the world that a city and a pool are not important to him, and the basis for his and Xing Tianjun's survival is in the countryside. Although the handicraft industry in the Ming Dynasty has been very developed in this era, farmers still occupy the absolute among various industries. Most of them, not to mention, in this era, rich people like to buy land. A large number of people's land is annexed, so that the vast majority of farmers are reduced to their tenants. They have to be exploited by them. Farmers' desire for land is probably difficult for ordinary people to imagine. Only by acquiring the hearts of these farmers, Xing Tianjun has The possibility of survival.

So from here on, he didn't want to go to Yangcheng County. His fundamental goal is to expand his power in the countryside. Since he wants to expand his power, his biggest enemy is the landlords who control a large amount of land at present.

Therefore, after he led his troops to defeat the officers and soldiers, he immediately began to sweep on both sides of the Qin River. The first goal was to point directly at the major Zhuangbao built on both sides of the Qin River. The reason why he chose them as the target was that the Xing Tianjun occupied the current area, and there was a Huze River in the north. As a boundary, the area south of Huze River is basically under the control of Xingtian Army, and only to the east of Dongye Town is an area where various forces are intertwined. The land owned by major Zhuangzi is directly bordered by the area controlled by Xingtian Army. Although Xing Tianjun took over his previous control from Zhao Datong, it did not control it. Live in the area along the Qin River.

These large Zhuangzi also took this opportunity to encroached on some land that belonged to the area controlled by the Xingtian Army, and also fought with the people under the jurisdiction of the Xing Tianjun many times, killing and injuring many people, just because the Xing Tianjun did not put his energy on this side some time ago. On the surface, they don't invest too much energy in these places, but the big people in this area have already regarded Xing Tianjun as their biggest enemy. This time, as the news that the government wanted to destroy Xing Tianjun came out. The big families in this area were quite active, paying money, working hard, and food. He just wants to use the power of the government to strangle Xing Tianjun in Yangcheng, and the provincial Xing Tianjun will threaten their interests in the future.

Since it is now in the agricultural leisure season, and the officers and soldiers have just been defeated by Xing Tianjun, Xiao Tianjian has just freed his hands to deal with the hostile forces in this area.

So at the beginning, Xiao Tianjian did not intend to show mercy. He divided his several sentries into three groups, two sentries and one group, responsible for one area, and he himself led a team of soldiers and horses to attack Zhuangzi in this area.

Zhuangzi on both sides of the Qinhe River were attacked and plundered by the insurgents in the early years, so the local big families learned a lesson, built a tall wall for their Zhuangzi, and made the young and strong among their tenants, their Zhuangding, and hired some people with skills as their family mates to protect them. Zhuangzi.

However, all large rich families are more or less organized with such armed forces. There are dozens of people and hundreds of them. They can basically deal with the poles of an ordinary robbery, and even resist the invasion of large thieves. In addition to defending against thieves, they have At that time, he even made an opposition to the government. After all, as the saying goes, bandits are like combs, soldiers are like ruts, and officials are shaved. Sometimes soldiers are more powerful than bandits. In this regard, the interests of the common people and the rich are the same to a certain extent, so they are very effective.

But this is also limited to this. When they met the well-trained and well-equipped Xing Tianjun, these civilian local armed forces are no match for the Xing Tianjun.

After this half a year of operation in the local area, Xing Tianjun's good reputation has long spread all over the localities. The vast majority of the people know that Xing Tianjun's style of behavior is very different from the ordinary poles that rob houses. When ordinary poles plunder villages, they not only attack the rich people, but they just need to fight. Zhuangbao, but whether you have money or not, burn, kill and loot wherever you pass. No matter how poor the ordinary people are, they also have to search for them. As for the officers and soldiers, they are more powerful than bandits. Therefore, even for their own lives, the ordinary people are willing to help the rich people guard the village and protect themselves at the same time. The safety.

However, what Xing Tianjun has done in the past few months is very different from those local poles in the past. Xing Tianjun has never harmed ordinary poor people. On the contrary, he treats the people well. He has no food to eat, no clothes to wear, and what makes the people more grateful to them is that they also divide the fields and seeds for the people. This practice of tapping bones and sucking marrow to squeeze their blood and sweat has long been recognized by the people in the jurisdiction of Xing Tianjun. Naturally, the people around their control area have already heard such news.

Therefore, since Xing Tianjun will not harm them poor people, these rich tenants are no longer interested in selling their masters.

From the beginning, Xing Tianjun called out their slogan "Rob the rich to help the poor, and divide the land". Although this slogan is short of eight words, the effect is extremely effective. After understanding the style of Xing Tianjun in the early stage, these tenants of Zhuangzi heard the roar of Xing Tianjun outside the village. My son will also work hard to help the rich resist the Xing Tianjun!

It is often the Xing Tianjun's side that surrounds Zhuangzi. As soon as they opened the gun, Zhuangzi's Zhuangzi's Zhuangdings immediately dispersed as birds and beasts and ran away. They rarely received fierce resistance when attacking. As long as they suppress the limited resistance on the Zhuang wall with birds, then they can safely and boldly push the car to hit Zhuangmen. Zhuang No matter how the construction is explained, it can't withstand the impact of a heavy crash. Soon he will be knocked away by Xing Tianjun from the outside and rush into the village. After entering the village, the Zhuangding people in the village are not even the opponents of Xing Tianjun. Soon they will be cleaned up and take down the whole village.

There was even such a situation. After Xing Tianjun surrounded a Zhuangzi, he just shouted at the beginning and let the people inside abandon their weapons and surrender. Some of the bold tenants inside tied up the big households in the village by themselves, opened the door of the village and greeted them out, handed over the big household to Xing Tianjun for disposal, and then became happy. Lie waited to divide the fields and grain for them. After all, the big families have been riding on their heads for a long time. Once these tenants who have been bullied for a long time have a way to vent, they will not miss the old days. Sometimes some cruel tenants simply don't wait to tie the landlord and send them out of the village, so they will go directly to the village. Zi killed them, and once these tenants went crazy, they even ruined the women of rich families. When they did such a thing, the people who lost control were more crazy, so that sometimes after conquering a Zhuangzi, Xing Tianjun would go into the village to suppress them to avoid harm to the innocent. The person.

In this way, the overall progress of Xing Tianjun is very fast. Sometimes in a day, he can even capture two villages in a row. In just ten days, he basically knocked down more than a dozen villages within more than 20 miles on both sides of the Qin River.

And the Xing Tianjun captured a lot from these Zhuangzi. Basically, these large families have a lot of grain storage and gold, silver and white things. After Xing Tianjun captures a Zhuangzi, he will give part of the grain money of the large families in the Zhuangzhong to the poor, and the rest will be transferred from their jurisdiction. Move a group of local soldiers and transport them back to Lianhuazhai for storage.

But things were not as good as they thought. Ten days later, when Zhao Erlu led his troops to attack a Doujiabao, he encountered unusually fierce resistance. No matter how the generals under Zhao Erlu didn't shout and publicize their policies to Zhuangnei, the people in Doujiabao were not moved at all. So Zhao Er donkey had to lead his troops to take a strong attack.

But I didn't think that the people in Doujiabao resisted extremely fiercely, and Doujiabao Zhuangding's equipment is also quite good. There are no less than 70 or 80 pairs of hard bows alone, 20 or 30 hard crossbows, not to mention all kinds of knives, guns and halberd, there are actually a lot of flying knives and arrows (several varieties of cluster rockets in the Ming Dynasty). In addition, it is also prepared. With quite enough limestone rolling wood, boiling water boiling oil and other things, as soon as the Xingtian army launched an attack, they used these things to cover their faces, so that Zhao Erli and Li Shuanzhu, who cooperated with him, attacked several times. On the contrary, they damaged a lot of soldiers.