Yin Youcai was the first to lead his troops into Yongcheng to encircle and suppress the Twist Army, and he was also the most familiar and understanding of the Twist Army. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Headmaster." Yin Youcai said slowly: "In recent years, floods and droughts have been alternating in northern Anhui, northern Jiangsu, eastern Henan and western Luxi, and the time when the green and yellow are not connected is often the most difficult time for the people. ”

Yan Yangtian didn't come to suppress the twist for a long time, and it was mainly to encircle and suppress Zhang Zongyu and Lai Wenguang in Hanzhong and Shangnan in Shaanxi, and he was not familiar with the situation of the twisting army in the late Suzhou, Yulu and Lu areas.

Whether it is a twisting army or a twisting bandit, in essence, they are all ordinary people, 'those who live are for the people, and those who come out are twisted.' This sentence summed it up very incisively, and Yi Zhishu said with a slight sigh: "When is the summer grain harvest season in the Huaibei Plain?" ”

"Around the Dragon Boat Festival." Yin Youcai said without thinking.

"It's only March 3, and there are still two months left before the summer grain harvest." Yi Zhizu said slowly: "If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, what is the consumption of tens of thousands of troops in two months?" Have you calculated this account? Instead of spending this money and food on hundreds of thousands of troops, it is better to use it to help the people, which is more cost-effective! ”

Yin Youcai was surprised, "The principal plans to appease?" ”

"Our purpose is to quell the chaos, and encirclement, suppression, and appeasement are just means." Yi Zhixiang glanced at him and said: "Compared with encirclement and suppression, I am more inclined to appease, I have to be a last resort, I don't want to see white bones everywhere, thousands of miles of uninhabited scenes." ”

"It's not that the students are against appeasement." Yin Youcai hurriedly said: "The Twist Army is different from the Taiping Army, they have no clear goal, purely to survive, most of the Twist Capital is capricious, it is not to be believed. ”

Hearing this, Yi Zhishu couldn't help but pop up a person in his mind - Miao Peilin, this guy rebelled against the Qing Dynasty three times, renegade twice, the head of the rat at both ends, capricious, known as 'the most unprincipled warlord', Chen Yucheng, the main general in the later period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was trapped.

Yan Yangtian served a cup of tea to each of them, and then chuckled: "When you enter the navy, you just want to be capricious, and you don't have a chance, so why worry?" ”

Hearing this, Yin Youcai pursed his lips, "Let those people enter the navy?" No, a rat poop spoiled a pot of soup. ”

"The navy's pot of soup is not as bad as a few rat droppings." Yi Zhi's disapproving Dao, after a little thought, he said: "We have sufficient troops, we don't have to be too stubborn, one is to suppress and appease, advance quickly, and quickly narrow the encirclement." First, capture the thief and capture the king first, boldly intersperse, and first knock out the banners and banners, thinking that they are deterred! ”

"Yes." Yan Yangtian and Yin Youcai hurriedly got up and responded in unison.

"Sit." Yi Zhizu beckoned the two of them to sit down, and then asked: "Eighteen shops twist the head, where is Zhang Lexing, the king of the Han Dynasty?" ”

"Back to the principal." Yin Youcai hurriedly said: "Zhang Lexing was originally from Zhang's old village, and he left after the incident and moved to live in Zhang Xiaozhuang, which is not far from Pheasant River Collection, but most of the time he lived in Yinjiagou, ten miles west of Pheasant River Collection, which is also a famous village in northern Anhui - Yingou Village. ”

Yin ditch village is not only famous in northern Anhui, in northern Jiangsu, Henan East and Luxi is also famous, Zhang Lexing chose Yinjiagou to establish a village, the natural fancy is the geography of Yinjiagou, Yinjiagou has an arc ditch in the south, there is a vortex river in the north, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is a natural military stronghold, Zhang Lexing led people to dig a long ditch in the west to communicate the vortex river and the arc ditch, and built a wall near the water to repair the village and fortify the artillery, and built Yinjiagou into a famous big village!

It is not uncommon in northern Anhui, northern Jiangsu, eastern Henan, and western Luxi, and it can even be said that it is everywhere, but the size and scale are different, since the outbreak of the twisting chaos, the army of the twist army built the village for self-protection, and the ordinary villages also set up a group to train and build the village for self-protection, so that the village of the village quickly spread, and thousands of villages seem to have emerged overnight.

As early as the Li Zicheng uprising and the White Lotus uprising during the Jiaqing period, the people built a village on a large scale to protect themselves, which is not only the spontaneous initiative of the people but also the promotion of the local government, after all, this is the best way to prevent the looting of the rogues.

However, the northern Anhui twist army has taken the construction of the village to the extreme, and all kinds of single villages, complex villages, and groups of villages have emerged in an endless stream, pushing the development of the village to a peak!

In the north gate building of Yingou Village, Zhang Lexing, the leader of the Han League, in his early forties, squatted alone on the wall with a cigarette stick, looking at the slowly flowing vortex river with a worried face, and the sunset in the west pulled his shadow to the elder.

Gong Deshu, the master of the white flag and the border flag, slowly climbed the city tower, glanced at Zhang Lexing, who was sitting on the wall, took out a cigarette stick from his waist and slowly filled a pot of cigarettes, "Borrow a fire." ”

Zhang Le didn't reply, he handed over the cigarette stick, and Gong Deshu, who was waiting, returned the cigarette stick before he spoke: "Why can't this Yuan Qi get along with us?" We never rob Yuanqi's shop. ”

"I heard that the big shopkeeper of Yuanqi, Yi Zhicontent, has arrived in Yongcheng." Gong Deshu said in a muffled voice.

"Is this a personal overseer?" Zhang Lexing knocked the cigarette stick on the wall, and then refilled a pot of tobacco shreds, and smoked it.

"Concentrate your forces and break through." Gong Deshu said in a deep voice: "We are not the opponents of those new armies. ”

"Breakout? How to break through? Zhang Lexing said in a sullen voice: "Besides, there is a lot of rain in this season, and it is not suitable for large-scale marching. ”

Gong Deshu looked at him and said, "What should I do?" Sitting and waiting to die? ”

"Wait, it's not too late to break through when you receive the summer grain." Before the words fell, a twenty-five or sixteen-year-old junior ran over quickly, and when he saw the two of them, he hurriedly said: "Uncle, Jiang's village is broken!" The mandala is also broken! ”

Hearing this, the two of them were startled, and quickly stood up, Zhang Lexing thought he had heard it wrong, "What? Jiangjiazhai and Mandala are broken? ”

Jiangjiazhai, although the scale is not large, but it is quite solid, it is the village of Chen Wanfu, the leader of the black flag, and the mandala is the village of Ren Zhu, the leader of the blue flag, it is a double-layer call built with the small Renzhuang mandala mountain as the center, divided into two layers inside and outside, four miles in the inner circle, eight miles in the outer circle, it is a large number of far and near!

Gong Deshu asked, "Is there anything wrong with people?" ”

The clansman of Zhang Lexing's clan is called Zhang Qing, and he ran all the way in a hurry, and took a few breaths before he said: "I heard that the casualties are not very large, and everyone is coming to us, but the artillery of the new army is too fierce, and I heard that the east gate building of Jiangjiazhai collapsed in one shot, and the shells exploded layer by layer like we ploughed the fields.

Jiang Jiazhai did not let go of a shot and ran away, the casualties were not large, the mandala called for the organization in charge to withdraw to the inner call to hold on, was a kind of small cannon that would turn the crying father and shouted mother, seeing that the situation was not right, he hurriedly evacuated, and heard that more than 400 people were killed and wounded. ”

Zhang Lexing hurriedly asked, "How many days has the mandala been fighting?" ”

"What days?" Zhang Qingdao: "Half a day! ”

Quite a while! Zhang Lexing's face turned pale, and the mandala was also a big cry, and there were more than 3,000 people, and it was broken in half a day! How long can he hold on to this Yin Gou Village? A day or two? Thinking of this, he was so anxious that he pulled out his feet and left, "Let's talk about it when we go back." ”

Zhang Lexing hurried back, and when he saw this situation, he directly called the people sent by Jiangjiazhai and Mandala to report the news into the ancestral hall, and asked people to close the gate, so he asked carefully.

After asking carefully, Zhang Lexing sent the two away, and then looked at Gong Deshu and said, "What do you think?" ”

"Capture the thief and capture the king first, this is specifically for our Five Banner Banner Masters." Gong Deshu said in a deep voice: "They are too bold, they didn't take us seriously at all, and they dared to intersperse in and directly attack the Huzhai of the banner masters, and they seem to have the intention to release water and let them escape......." ”

"Intentionally let them escape to Yingou Village?" Zhang Lexing took off the cigarette stick in his mouth, "What do you mean?" ”

"Is there food in Yin Gou Village?"

"Holy shit, this is trying to make us civil unrest." Zhang Lexing scolded angrily, the people and horses of all banners fled to Yingou Village, tens of thousands of people, people eat horses and chew, how can there be so much food in Yingou Village, after a long time, it must not be messed up?

Gong Deshu shook his head slowly, "It's not that we have internal strife, it's that I don't want us to break through and escape." ”

Zhang Lexing said in surprise: "What do you mean?" ”

Gong Deshu didn't look at him either, he smoked a cigarette with his head stuffy, and said: "At the moment, there are two or three thousand people transferred, and there may be supplies along the way, what if there are twenty or thirty thousand people?" ”

Zhang Lexing scolded angrily: "Dog Day's heart is not an ordinary poison, this is to wipe us out!" After scolding, he stood up and said, "Break through, you can't go their way!" ”

Gong Deshu sat still, and said slowly: "This is a dead end." ”

"What? Deadgame? Zhang Lexing looked at him in surprise and said, "Didn't you say that you broke through before?" ”

"The new army is eyeing this big Han alliance leader of the big boss." Gong Deshu's tone was indescribably frustrated, "Since you intend to let all the banners defect to Yingou Village, you must not be afraid that the big boss will be able to lead the crowd to break through, and you will not let the big boss break through easily."

People have begun to intersperse, our every move, I'm afraid we can't hide from people's eyes and ears, there are fewer troops, the big boss can't break through, and when the troops gather more, the new army is afraid that we will also be surrounded like buckets. ”

Zhang Lexing was really anxious now, going back and forth in the empty hall, and only after a while did he say: "There is no other way?" ”

"Yes!" Gong Deshu said in a deep voice: "Break through alone!" ”

"!" Zhang Lexing said angrily: "Are we the kind of people who leave their brothers and run for their lives?" ”

Two days later, the news that two banner lords were broken came one after another, and Chen Wanfu of Jiangjiazhai and Ren Zhu of Mandala also led the horse team to Yingou Village.

Seeing the two flags brought are elite, Zhang Lexing couldn't help but be secretly happy, and hurriedly ordered a good reception, and set up a table of wine banquet for the two of them to be shocked, after three rounds of wine, Gong Deshu knocked on the side to ask about the battle situation, Chen Wanfu is a straight intestine, and said straightly: "The artillery of the new army is too powerful, not to mention the accuracy, and the power is amazing, the East Gate Building was blown down with a shot, not afraid of the alliance leader and the brothers jokes, we didn't shoot a shot, and ran directly, the cannonball was like chasing our heels and running, a little late, I'm afraid I won't have a chance to sit here and drink. ”

Gong Deshu then asked, "What are the casualties in the stockade?" ”

"The casualties weren't very large." Chen Wanfu said: "There are not many cavalry of the new army, and they did not chase us, they escaped, we went around again, and some brothers who escaped said that the new army broke the village, and did not kill indiscriminately, but just destroyed the village, handed over all the firearms, knives and guns, led all the horses and mules, and requisitioned dozens of young people. ”

"I don't have the Wanfu brothers to see the opportunity quickly." Ren Zhu smiled bitterly: "This time the loss is big, the artillery of the new army, whether it is large or small, is extremely powerful, and the shells are as if they don't need money, like plowing the fields, advancing layer .....by layer." Speaking of this, he sighed lightly, "If you don't resist, you won't die so many people!" ”

Zhang Lexing said curiously: "What's going on with the artillery of the new army?" ”

"Hiding behind the battlements was also bombed by shells, and there was nowhere to hide." Ren Zhu recalled the situation at that time and still had palpitations in his heart, and muttered: "This battle can't be fought at all, we have been beaten all the time, and we can't do it." ”

Seeing that he looked frightened, Zhang Lexing looked a little down in his heart, but his face did not show it at all, he persuaded him to drink diligently, and when the banquet was dispersed, Chen Wanfu and the two said goodbye, he looked at Gong Deshu and said slowly: "I am all frightened, no matter how many troops there are, I am afraid it is useless......." ”

Gong Deshu didn't answer this, he poured a glass of wine and sipped it lightly, Zhang Lexing filled a pot of cigarettes, lit it and sprayed a cloud of smoke, and said: "It's not possible to go on like this, how about taking the initiative?" With a horse team. ”

Gong Deshu said slowly: "It's not that the big boss doesn't know how powerful the new army musket is. ”

Zhang Lexing said boredly: "This doesn't work, that doesn't work, is it really possible to sit and wait for someone to come to the door?" ”

After drying the wine in one gulp, Gong Deshu said, "Zhao'an." ”

Zhao'an? Zhang Lexing paused for a moment before he said: "People are completely sure to exterminate us, will they recruit peace?" ”

"Yes!" Gong Deshu said firmly: "The big boss will wait and see, they will definitely recruit An!" ”

Zhao'an, Zhang Lexing did not resist, he rebelled for a way to live, he had no ambition to be the emperor, nor did he overthrow the revenge and ambition of the Qing court, purely to live a better life, the current situation is that they can't fight, they can't fight, they can't escape, they can't escape, if the court can recruit An, it is undoubtedly the best choice.

After hesitating, he said with a suspicious face: "The imperial court will really recruit peace?" ”