Chapter 167: Igniting the Flames of Hatred
67 Ignite the flames of hatred
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The officers and soldiers of Yongcheng County and the Cai family, have they continued to move towards us? And how can such officers and soldiers help the Cai family?
I remember the last time we went to the county seat to make a big fuss, but the Wang family and the Cai family of the county lord had a lot of conflicts, is it that now they have reconciled, that is not a good thing for us! ”
Li Zixiao is not sure whether the Cai family is just going to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger to test them this time, or whether they plan to attack their village once and for all and completely eliminate them, and he has to formulate different coping strategies for different situations. (.. )
"Big boss, I still have to ask Han Tong about this, he was in charge of monitoring the Cai family before, he should know best" Liu Chonggang took over the scout team, and there were a few scouts under him who could be used for the time being.
"Then let Han Tong in."
Soon, Han Tong was called in by Quartz, and when he heard Li Zixiao ask about the Cai family and the group of people in the government, he was also sad and indignant.
He saw the tragic situation of more than 20 brothers in the White Tiger Camp having their heads cut off, and one of them was his little fellow countryman, who was gritting his teeth with hatred at this time.
Han Tong shook his head heavily, gritted his teeth and replied: "No, I didn't meet the county officers and soldiers and the people of the Cai family on the way to Baihu Village this time.
I asked my brothers who were monitoring outside the county, and after they raided our old camp, they had already returned to the county and did not come to our side!
And I also heard from the brothers who were monitoring the outside of the city that this time the Cai family led the team with Cai Xuanguang, the third eldest of the Cai family, personally leading the team, and it is estimated that they didn't know that our large army had gone to attack Linjiabao before.
That's why I didn't dare to come to attack our cottage, but went to Baihu Village, and at the same time I heard that a group of officers and soldiers from the south came to the Yongcheng County Government, and the officers who led the team had a good relationship with the Cai family, so they helped the Cai family.
It was a group of foreign officers and soldiers who helped the Cai family slaughter our White Tiger Village, and those soft-footed officers and soldiers in Yongcheng County generally did not dare to go out of the city to suppress bandits, and most of the bandits were done by local gentry.
I heard that during this time, the Cai family is uniting with some landlords and gentry in the county such as the Liu family, and is preparing to organize a group of villagers to go into the mountains to suppress bandits, which is obviously aimed at us! ”
Li Zixiao nodded and said: "Well, what Brother Han said makes sense, it is very likely that this is the reason, and the information brought to us is also very detailed, if you have any ideas, you will also talk about it." ”
At this time, Qian Guangyuan followed Li Zixiao's words and continued: "Big boss, combined with the information given by Han Tong, there are two good news for us.
One is that the officers and soldiers who participated in the attack on us belonged to those who came to pass by, and the officers and soldiers with the troops had a close relationship with the Cai family, so they came to help the Cai family.
And this time the Yongcheng County Decree did not send people out, which shows that the contradictions between the Cai and Wang families still exist, they have not reconciled, and the pair of officers and soldiers will soon leave Yongcheng County and go south.
This second, the reason why the Cai family chose the White Tiger Village to attack this time is that it is estimated that they are not ready to attack our White Snake Village, and Ye didn't know that we had come out to fight Lin Jiabao before.
After all, Lin Jiabao is located in a remote area, and it is impossible for the Cai family to get the news so quickly, so the Cai family's first round of retaliation will pick our weakest White Tiger Village.
Since the big boss is determined to take revenge on the Cai family immediately, I think the most important thing to be wary of is this kind of foreign officers and soldiers, this is an uncertain force, and we don't know anything about him.
Therefore, we must first find out how many officers and soldiers are there in this army that passes through Yongcheng County on the way south? How long will you stay in Yongcheng County? How much strength can be supported by the Cai family and so on.
In short, the clearer the situation of this foreign army of officers and soldiers, the better, so as to facilitate our next plan of action to retaliate against the Cai family. ”
After everyone heard Qian Guangyuan's analysis, including Li Zixiao's core members of the cottage, they all nodded, admitting that Qian Guangyuan was indeed quite reasonable.
These foreign officers and soldiers are indeed an uncertain factor, since they are close to the Cai family and participated in the slaughter of their White Tiger Village, they are their enemies.
After Li Zixiao pondered for a while, he said: "Mr. Wenrun said very reasonably, 'plan and then act'.
Now let's not rush to act, the Cai family can't run away there, let's deal with this situation of foreign officers and soldiers first, it's right to be careful. ”
He raised his head and instructed a few people under him: "You guys step up the training of your subordinates, the ones we brought back this time, plus the homeless people recruited by Zhang Ergouzi from outside, there are more than 100 people who have come to the cottage newly."
You have to train this group of recruits for Lao Tzu as soon as possible, and be ready to pull them out to fight at any time, and you don't drop the chain for Lao Tzu when the time comes.
In addition, Liu Chong trained the scout team as soon as possible, sent all the current scouts out, and closely monitored every move in Yongcheng County.
Later, you will have someone send a message to Zhang Ergouzi, and find out the details of this group of foreign officers and soldiers to Lao Tzu, if possible, hum, Lao Tzu will use this group of officers and soldiers to pay tribute to the more than 20 brothers we were killed.
Let's all go down and prepare, let the brothers bear with it first, and when the situation is clear, I will take you to settle accounts with the Cai family. ”
Everyone nodded in agreement with Li Zixiao's arrangement, and then got up and went down to get busy.
And just when Li Zixiao and his subordinates were discussing what to do next, the Cai family's compound in Yongcheng County was now a different lively scene.
In the Cai family's compound, the Cai family held dozens of tables of banquets in a row, and two or three hundred people wearing the costumes of officers and soldiers and the clothes of the Cai family were gathering together, munching and drinking.
Cai Tianyuan, the head of the Li family, even came out to toast everyone once, and now he is sitting on the main seat drinking with an officer wearing an official mansion, and the two sides chatted happily and laughed and seemed very happy.
"Nephew Zhao Xian, tell the brothers, let them eat meat and drink wine, and they will be full of wine and meat today." Cai Tianyuan sat next to the young officer and said to him with a laugh.
"Uncle Cai, you are too polite, it's just a gesture, Brother Jing Heng and I (Cai Xuanguang) are also old acquaintances, and besides, it is the responsibility of our officers and soldiers to exterminate the mountain bandits.
The current Yongcheng County Master is too disagreeable, and he actually connived at the mountain bandits to become so big, and when I return to the capital, I will definitely find a way to react to my boss.
When the time comes, he will be in front of His Majesty, and his county order will come to an end, I think Uncle Cai is a decent person, and he loves the township, and is even willing to fight against the mountain bandits, love the country and the people, you are the best candidate for the county order! ”
This officer surnamed Zhao was obviously complimenting Cai Tianyuan, Cai Tianyuan had lived for dozens of years, of course he understood, but he was still very happy.
As for what the officer surnamed Zhao said, why go back and report to the boss, ask the saint to participate in the Yongcheng county order, depose him, and let himself do this county order, directly go in the left ear and out the right ear, and pass with a smile.
Jokes, now the whole country of Daming has become a pot of porridge, internal and external troubles are frequent, natural disasters are rampant, Emperor Chongzhen's busy hair is gray, where is the time and energy to depose you in a small county and county order!
However, of course, Cai Tianyuan would not peel the face of this officer surnamed Zhao in person, and they did their Cai family a great favor this time.
At least it made him breathe a bad breath, some time ago, Li Zixiao led people to make trouble in the county at night and robbed him of thousands of taels of silver from his Cai family's store, which made the roots of his hatred itch, and he kept thinking about revenge in his dreams.
Before that, he handed over the matter of exterminating Li Zixiao, a bandit, to his third son, and the Cai family also contacted the officers and soldiers of the Suiyang Guard.
The Cai family made a lot of efforts, made a lot of promises, and spent a lot of money to get the officers and soldiers of the Suiyang Guard Station to agree that they would come to help them after winter and exterminate Li Zixiao's bandits.
If Li Zixiao's bandits are not exterminated, then who will still be afraid of their Cai family in the future, and the majesty of their Cai family in this area of Yongcheng County will plummet, which the Cai family will never allow to see.
Originally, they had been preparing, just waiting for the officers and soldiers of Suiyang Wei to come after this winter, and then help them exterminate Li Zixiao's bandits.
When the time comes, let's see who dares to touch the tiger whiskers of his Cai family, and the majesty of his Cai family in this area of Yongcheng County will never allow provocation.
However, such a group of officers and soldiers who suddenly came from Kaifeng Mansion a few days ago were still Cai Xuanguang's old acquaintances in the past, which immediately made Cai Xuanguang come up with such an idea of attacking Li Zixiao's camp.
However, Cai Xuanguang knew that his old acquaintance Zhao Jie had brought more than 100 soldiers this time, and it was impossible to attack Li Zixiao's old nest, White Snake Village, but he set his eyes on another Li Zixiao's cottage, that is, White Tiger Village.
Cai Xuanguang also sent someone to find out two days ago that after Li Zixiao's gang of bandits defeated Scarface's bandits, they actually sent people to occupy Scarface's original cottage.
This surprised Cai Xuanguang, the bandits of Scarface have been rampant in several counties north of Yongcheng County, and for a few years, they are notoriously difficult, and I heard that the government has also paid him off for this, but they have all failed.
But now it is folded in Li Zixiao's hands, doesn't that mean that the strength of Li Zixiao's mountain bandits is already very strong, which is not a good thing for the Cai family.
As a result, Cai Xuanguang gave birth to the idea that before the officers and soldiers of the Suiyang Guard Station arrived, he wanted to pull out Li Zixiao's new cottage.
Otherwise, when the officers and soldiers of the Suiyang Guard Station came and attacked Li Zixiao, this guy would have another cottage, and when the time came, it would be even more difficult to eliminate him.
So, he wanted to persuade Zhao Jie to help him lay down this new stronghold of Li Zixiao.
However, when Cai Xuanguang persuaded his old acquaintance to help him attack a mountain bandit, at first Zhao Jie heard that he was going to attack a mountain bandit den with two or three hundred entrenched positions, and immediately refused.
An hour and a half later, Li Zixiao and the others finally waited for this group of officers and soldiers, who were obviously unprepared for someone to ambush him here, laughing and talking with each other one by one.
"Dazhu, let the brethren prepare, listen to my orders and start attacking."
Li Zixiao was standing in the small forest on the left side of the official road, looking at the group of officers and soldiers who appeared swaggering on the official road at this time, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he said to Zhou Dazhu next to him.
"Attack!"
When this group of officers and soldiers reached the center of the official road forest, Li Zixiao gave an order, and Zhou Dazhu, who had been prepared for a long time, left and rushed out of the forest with two hundred and fifty pikemen and sword and shield soldiers.
As soon as Zhou Dazhu and his men rushed out of the woods, they immediately followed the plan they had planned before, and two hundred and fifty of his men quickly formed three spear phalanxes, which surrounded this group of officers and soldiers in a fan shape, and slowly approached each other.
"Put the spear flat, walk in unison, one, two, one."
Under the slogan shouted by Li Zixiao himself in the back, the three columns of pikemen in front, under the protection of the two-wing sword and shield soldiers, pressed towards the panicked group of officers and soldiers on the official road.
And the group of officers and soldiers on the official road, when Li Zixiao and the people had just rushed out of the woods, were also taken aback, scattered into a mess, and then stabilized their positions in Zhao Jie's shouting.
"Damn, there is such a bandit who is not long-eyed, and he dares to attack Lao Tzu, brothers should go up and hack them to death."
When Zhao Jie saw that there were bandits ambushing them, he immediately became angry and roared loudly at his subordinates.
In fact, this Zhao Jie really has no ability to lead soldiers, and he is just a bandit together, and he was later ordered by the government and put on an official skin.
And Zhao Jie took the initiative to join the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture to do things, in fact, he acted as a dog for others, specializing in doing some things for the prefect that could not see the light, but he also mixed up, and followed those big corrupt officials to make a lot of money.
Therefore, Zhao Jie still had the same way he used to fight as a bandit, ordering his subordinates to rush up and slash and kill, and the battle depended on the courage of his subordinates.
The more than 100 officers and soldiers under Zhao Jie experienced the panic at the beginning, and reacted that there were bandits who dared to come and ambush them, and they immediately became angry and cursed loudly, but they didn't pay attention to Li Zixiao and them at all.
"Everyone, rush to kill this group of things that don't know whether they are alive or dead, and dare to ambush us."
These officers and soldiers did not change their banditry, they were used to being arrogant, and they didn't pay attention to Li Zixiao and them at all, and rushed towards the queue of three captains in a daze.
But when this group of guys who didn't know whether they were alive or dead rushed to the front and back of the spear array, they found that the other party was like a big hedgehog, and they had nowhere to put their mouths.
When the few people who rushed to the front were stabbed by spears and died tragically, these guys finally came to their senses, and they could see that a frontal assault on such a spear phalanx was no different from looking for death.
Especially the unlucky guys in front have already paid with their lives for their recklessness, like pouring cold water on the heads of the people behind.
Don't look at these guys who have changed their official skins, they look very fierce on weekdays, bullying the people, molesting women, taking advantage of the arrogant, arrogant and domineering, this kind of thing will be learned as soon as you learn.
But behind their seemingly fierce and arrogant nature is their nature that is becoming more and more afraid of death.
When they experienced glory and wealth and enjoyed a life of drunkenness, all this completely corroded their previous hearts that were not afraid of death and dared to fight.
In the past, they thought that they had a cheap life, and if they died, they would die, it was no big deal, in order to get a bite to eat and let themselves live, they dared to fight with their lives.
But when they were ordered by the imperial court, they followed their boss to follow a big official, helping the big official deal with some shady things, extortion, killing people and setting fires.
When the big man eats meat, he will not forget to throw two bones for his lackeys to eat, which makes these people have a lot of savings in their hands and live a luxurious life.
At this time, no one wants to rush up, whoever rushes again is ****, who doesn't want to go back alive, and there is a room of concubines at home waiting for him!
As a result, there was a strange scene at the scene, more than 100 people had just rushed up viciously, but just a few people died, and they all retreated.
"Who told you to step back, rush!" Zhao Jie rode on a horse behind.