Chapter 83 The sad fate of people

As for the actions of the various departments of the Xingtian Army in Lushi County, it can basically be said to be as fast as snow. Because of mutual distrust, the local forces have tried their strength to collect their own fortresses as much as possible, sweeping the snow in front of the door, so that it is not an effective resistance to the Xingtian Army at all.

Moreover, the Xingtian Army is now fully equipped with a complete range of arms, and firearms are also quite sharp, especially a large number of equipment, which makes the Xingtian Army have a considerable firepower suppression ability. In addition, each battalion of the Xingtian Army has a direct artillery team, equipped with light three-pound guns, and each battalion has also assigned some professional soldiers, plus the knife players have attack. The city's sharp weapon, Thunderbolt bullet.

Such a combination of firepower makes Xing Tianjun now have a strong offensive ability. Although the gentry in these places do not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy weapons and other things for their private armed forces, after all, their financial resources are limited, and the quality of equipment is not comparable to that of Xing Tianjun at all. Even if there is a ignition, it is old-fashioned. Guys, there are very few people who can have birds. Most of them are mainly cold weapons such as bows and crossbows. Once suppressed by the fire of the Xing Tianjun, they can't lift their heads on the wall.

In addition, the generals of each battalion are already familiar with fighting such a battle. The cooperation between the arms is quite tacit. First, they use the fire with the fireman to suppress the defenders. The knife player is responsible for covering the engineers to clear the obstacles outside the Zhuangbao. Finally, the spearman and the knife player carry the ladder to attack hard under the cover of the artillery and the gunner, that is, No matter how brave Zhuang Ding is under the gentry, he is helpless in the face of such an attack. He can often break the last Zhuangbao with a drum, and he can also guarantee that he will not pay too much.

After the two battalions were sent out, they almost broke through the Zhuangbao in Lushi County one after another under the leadership of the guide according to their respective booked goals. It is not an exaggeration to describe them as broken.

In the face of such an offensive by the Xing Tianjun, the gentry in Lu's County were suddenly stunned. Some gentry couldn't stop the Xing Tianjun. Before the arrival of Xing Tianjun, they also learned from the group of people in Lu's County, cleaned up some soft things, and took their families to escape early, and some people were reluctant to give up. He had a family business, so he quickly sent someone to contact Xing Tianjun and asked to surrender to Xing Tianjun and obey the instructions of Xing Tianjun.

For these local squires who voluntarily surrendered, Xing Tianjun did not overdo it. He immediately disbanded the armed forces at hand, donated part of his family food, and let his Zhuangding act with the army to support Xing Tianjun as an auxiliary soldier.

In this way, Xing Tianjun's action was also much more convenient. In addition, after hearing the news, the local people came to defect, which boosted Xing Tianjun in Lushi County. Even some local mountain thieves and small poles also defected to Xing Tianjun one after another to accept the consolidation of Xing Tianjun. Providing a guide for Xing Tianjun, Xing Tianjun couldn't find any opponent in this area for a while.

The difference from the smooth military operation is that the search for the whereabouts of Niu Jinxing was not smooth. Tietou's men visited the county for two days and could not find Niu Jinxing. Even some local government officials and servants caught could not tell the whereabouts of Niu Jinxing.

But the only thing that is certain is that a yaman confirmed that Niu Jinxing was in Lushi County. When the yaman learned that Xing Tianjun was visiting Niu Jinxing, he took the initiative to tell him that he had heard of this person and said that Niu Jinxing was escorted from Lushan County half a month ago. In Lushi County, at that time, the officials in the county government office happened to hear that Xing Tianjun had invaded Yongning County. The officials here were worried about this matter, so they didn't care much about Niu Jinxing. Later, it was this government official who took Niu Jinxing to the prison and temporarily locked him up. Later, when the officials in the city ran away, it was in chaos. The county government office The prison was also opened, and the prisoners inside ran away when the city was in chaos, so now no one knows where Niu Jinxing has gone. Whether he died in the army or escaped from the county.

After Xiao Tianjian got the reward, he sighed slightly in his heart. This is really impermanent! So he asked people to continue to investigate. No matter what, he had to find a way to find this person. If it really didn't work, he posted a notice in the city. In short, he must find a way to find Niu Jinxing.

The news of Xing Tian's army's entry into Lu's County also quickly spread all over western Henan. Feng Yijun in Henan Province was naturally more panicked. The company sent people to the governor Chen Biqian for help, and asked Chen Biqian to quickly dispatch troops to Yongning and Lu's army to suppress the Xing Tianjun.

And the counties in Shanzhou and counties in the north of Lushi County are like a panic. Lu Tianqing, the governor of Shanzhou, quickly dispatched troops and horses to reinforce Yixiang County, which is adjacent to Lushi County. At the same time, he ordered the garrison of Hangu Pass to strengthen its defenses and strictly prevent the Xingtian army from taking advantage of the situation to go north to attack Hangu Pass and cut off the connection between Henan and Shaanxi. What's more Yueyue directly asked Hong Chengchou for help, and asked Hong Chengchou to send Shaanxi troops east into Tongguan to assist in the subjugation of the Xingtian army.

For a while, the situation in various places in western Henan suddenly became tense. Seeing the Xing Tianjun attack in Lushi County, he could not transfer troops to deal with Xing Tianjun.

Xiao Tianjian's side took more than ten days in Lushi County. He went down seven Dazhuang Forts in a row. The south control area reached Zhuyang Pass, and the Guandaokou at the junction with Yixiang County was controlled to the north. Where the soldiers passed, the local Zhuangbao either opened the door and surrendered, or was broken by the Xing Tianjun.

This time, because of time, Xiao Tianjian, in order to stabilize the situation in Lu's County as soon as possible, so that the local people's financial and material resources can be used by Xing Tianjun as soon as possible, he also took relatively fierce means. In order to achieve the purpose of quickly deterrence of various local forces, he personally ordered Luo Li and Li, once they met the desperate resistance. Zhuangbao, no more polite to them, directly conquered them, and then slaughtered the whole family of the gentry in Zhuang, together with their peers in Zhuang, and left them to continue to make trouble.

After Luo Li and Li were ordered, they also faithfully carried out Xiao Tianjian's order. As long as they met such a Zhuangbao that vowed not to surrender, they would gather troops to break it and slaughter all the people in the village. In this way, it really played a role in deterrenting the local resistance forces and forced more small forces. They had to bow their heads and serve the criminal Tianjun. Surrender.

However, with the deepening of the use of troops, Xiao Tianjian gradually began to feel the lack of troops. The number of soldiers and horses he brought into Lushi County was less than 4,000. These people were divided into three ways, so that with the development of the operation, the troops gradually began to be stretched.

Fortunately, there are many exiles in Lushi County, and there are more and more people attached to them. In a short period of time, nearly 20,000 people gathered. Even if Xiao Tianjian ordered to draw troops from the command of Luo Li, he immediately set up two troops in the north and south of Lushi County. A new military camp of 1,500 people came to assist Xing Tianjun in controlling the area of Lushi County.

Both of these two new military camps recruit strong people and Zhuang Ding who are armed in the place where they are surrendered. While being trained by the old soldiers of the Xing Tian Army, they take over the work of local garrison. There is no need for them to go into battle for the time being. Under the leadership of the old soldiers of the Xing Tianjun, it is more than enough to do such things in such a garrison, such as Only then has the shortage of troops in the Xingtian Army been alleviated.

Until the tenth day when Xing Tianjun entered Lu's County, Xiao Tianjian had lost a little confidence in finding Niu Jinxing, but at this time, he got a message from Tietou that Niu Jinxing had been found.

Speaking of which, Niu Jinxing is really unlucky. After he was admitted to Juren, he should be able to get close to the officialdom, but because he sometimes didn't pay much attention to what he said, and offended some officials or people who were also from a scholar, after getting the entrance examination, he could not be hired by the government, so I can only be idle at home.

Fortunately, he is also a small landlord in Lushan County. At least he has some land in his family. When he is idle, he sets up a library to teach some students to study. He is also well-off with his apprenticeship and his own land. However, he accidentally offended a guy surnamed Wang, who is a relative. He is quite powerful in Lushan and goes to the county. In the government, he falsely accused him of not paying for resistance, and also forcibly occupied more than a dozen young women. The official of Lushan County took a lot of money from Wang, so he confirmed the crime of Niu Jinxing. First, he asked Niu Jinxing to take out 500 taels of silver to settle it. At this time, although Niu Jinxing's family was not poor, he took out 500 taels of silver at once, which was also It was impossible, so it was directly assigned to Lushi County.

Niu Jinxing could only admit that he was unlucky. On the cold road, he was escorted to Lushi County all the way. On the way, he also suffered a lot of errands who escorted him. When he arrived in Lu County, he wanted to spend some money to do a slightly easier job. Who knew that the man surnamed Wang was going to kill him all and was in Lushi County in advance. He spent money to buy out the official, and because of the attack on Yongning County by the Xing Tian Army, he did not give him a chance to find a way at all, so he was put into prison.

Niu Jinxing stayed in the prison without tears. There was no way to ask for help. Every day, he could only drink a mouthful of rotten vegetable soup and a small moldy cake in the prison. Fortunately, his son also followed him to Lushi County and spent some money outside the prison. He sent more or less to the prison to eat a little every day to maintain Niu Jinxing's livelihood, if not In this case, Niu Jinxing may die of hunger in prison.

What's more unlucky is that suddenly the Lushi County was in chaos. The official ran clean overnight. The defenders in the city immediately began to plunder the city. Someone took the opportunity to open the prison and released the prisoners in the prison.

Niu Jinxing was also wrapped out of the prison. His son found him and hid everywhere in the messy city. Fortunately, Niu Jinxing's clothes were ragged and he was not favored by the soldiers, so fortunately he was not killed by the soldiers. He was taken by his son and finally fled to the City God Temple in the south of the city, wandering among the exiles. In the middle.

Poor Niu Jinxing and his son were frightened and angry again and a lot. After hiding in the City God Temple, the father and son suffered from the cold. On the one hand, they were sick and did not dare to reveal their identity to others. On the one hand, they were afraid that the people of the Xing Tianjun would arrest them, and on the other hand, they were afraid that they would go back to the government to investigate. He was accused of escaping from prison, and he did not dare to leave Lu's county or show up.

Fortunately, Xing Tianjun entered the city and quickly put down the chaos of the defenders, and gave porridge to help the refugees outside the Chenghuang Temple in the city. The kind-hearted refugees felt sorry for their father and son and brought them a bowl of porridge every day to save the lives of their father and son. Otherwise, their father and son would definitely die in the Chenghuang Temple.

Later, some people said that Xing Tianjun was looking for a person from Niu Jinxing in the city, which was learned by Niu Jinxing and his son. However, they didn't know how the thief army knew his name. They were afraid of being rashly coming forward and being harmed. They continued to hide his identity and did not dare to show up, so they dragged it down and let Xing Tianjun look for many days inside and outside the city.

It was not until Niu Jinxing was really sick that his son gritted his teeth and admitted their identity to people. He found a refugee to help report their identity outside the Chenghuang Temple. Only then was it was that Xing Tianjun's people quickly taken out of the Chenghuang Temple, placed in a house in the city, and found Langzhong for Niu Jinxing. The father and son were diagnosed and treated, which saved Niu Jinxing and his son's life.