275 captured, Kang's family

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"Kill!"

As Lu Yuantong was chased and killed by quartz and fled for his life, the morale of the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Battalion on Li Tianba's side was greatly boosted, and the soldiers of the three guards saw that the main generals had fled, how could they still have the heart to fight!

"Withdraw, withdraw!"

At the same time, Ma Dahu, Wei Shan and Huo Zong didn't want to watch their officers and soldiers continue to lose money, otherwise they would become the commanders of the light pole when they went back.

When the time comes, they will be nothing if they have no military power in their hands, and Ma Dahu will be the first to give the order to retreat.

When Ma Dahu's subordinates heard the order to retreat, they turned around and fled as if they had been granted amnesty, and they didn't want to stay here for a moment.

"Damn, the guy surnamed Ma withdrew with someone."

Wei Shan saw that after Ma Dahu and the people on the side withdrew first, the remaining soldiers of the Tiger Camp all killed them and shouted towards Huo Zong.

"Let's get out too."

"Okay, retreat."

At this time, it would be a fool not to retreat, Huo Zong and Wei Shan hit it off, they had already wanted to withdraw, shouted, and the two turned around and fled under the escort of their own soldiers.

"Kill!"

Li Tianba led people to chase and kill behind.

"Tiedan, go and give an order to Tianba, let him not lead people to chase too far, so as not to fall into the trap of the enemy, and let him bring someone to meet your master."

Li Zixiao knew that at this time, it was not appropriate to continue to pursue too far, this battle of the Tiger Camp was really broken, but fortunately, the battle was won.

"Yes." Tie Dan couldn't wait for a long time, so he rode his war horse and rushed out.

"Medic, treat our wounded immediately, quickly." Subsequently, Li Zixiao ordered the medical soldier again.

Half an hour later, Li Tianba returned, he led his troops to chase out for three or four miles, and killed more than a hundred guards before returning.

At this time, he was full of anger, with two broken arrows stuck in his arms and shoulders, and his body was covered in blood, so it was impossible to tell whether he was injured or not.

"General, my subordinates came back to resume their lives, and we lived up to the general's expectations, and we won the war."

Li Tianba walked up to Li Zixiao and wanted to kneel down to salute, but was pulled by Li Zixiao and said in a deep voice: "Thank you for your hard work, Tianba." ”

"Let the soldiers rest on the spot and bandage their wounds, you fought very well in this battle, and played the majesty of our tiger camp."

Li Tianba brought people back, and the losses of his 400 soldiers were not too serious, with more than 130 casualties, only about 70 people were killed, and the rest were injured.

Among them, more than 20 people were seriously injured, and nearly half of them were too seriously injured to be revived with the current level of medical care.

At this time, Li Zixiao walked up to a seriously wounded soldier and was stabbed in the abdomen, which slashed his entire abdomen apart.

Even with the naked eye, he could see that his intestines were flowing out, and he was forced back again, and he lay on the ground, blood gushing out of his mouth.

The badly wounded soldier's face was covered in blood, but his eyes hadn't been closed, but he didn't have much time left, and the medic had even given up on treating him.

When the medic asked him what his last wish was, the seriously wounded soldier told him that he wanted to see Li Zixiao.

Li Zixiao came to the badly wounded and dying tiger soldier, crouched down and let a personal guard hold his back and let him sit upright.

"I know your name is Lu Xiaohe, you are a young man from Lujiapo at the foot of Mangdang Mountain, what do you want to say to me in the end, what wishes do you have, tell me, I will definitely fulfill it for you."

Li Zixiao looked at the seriously injured soldier and said in a deep voice, his face sad.

"Ahem...... cough, Lu Xiaohe, a first-class soldier of the ninth army of the third team of the Tiger Battalion, has seen the general.

General, please go back and tell my second brother and let him take care of his wife, his son is not filial, and he will not be able to do his filial piety in the future.

General, how did we fight today, didn't you lose face, those bunnies were down by us, what a bunch of cowards......"

Lu Xiaohe broke off one after another, and finished this passage with difficulty, and finally his arm drooped down, and he lost his breath.

Li Zixiao looked at his body, Lu Xiaohe, who had died, and for some reason felt that his heart was panicked, and he was particularly uncomfortable.

He tried not to let himself cry, but his tears were not controlled by him at all, and they flowed out of his eyes.

"Lu Xiaohe, don't worry, from today on, your mother is my mother, and your brother is also my brother, I will let them live safely and healthily."

Li Zixiao wiped the blood stains off his face for the dead Lu Xiaohe, sorted out the torn leather armor on his body, and said solemnly.

"Tianba, take someone to find out the remains of the fallen soldiers, and then cremate them, bring back the ashes, and put them in the Martyrs' Shrine."

"Yes, General."

Li Zixiao stood there quietly one by one, his mood was unusually heavy.

"General, General, the Stone Camp is back."

Just when Li Zixiao was in a trance, a soldier suddenly shouted loudly, pulling his mind back.

Li Zixiao turned his face to look, and saw a group of remnants in the distance supporting each other and walking towards them, among which Quartz was still tied with a rope and led behind.

"General, live up to expectations, I have captured this dog thief alive."

Quartz walked up to Li Zixiao and pulled the rope suddenly, and Lu Yuantong's shawl was dragged over and fell at Li Zixiao's feet.

At this time, Lu Yuantong looked very miserable, his whole face was beaten into a pig's head, a big mouth was swollen like a ham sausage, and both eyes were cracked, leaving a western slit.

The bridge of his nose also collapsed, and his other faces were also swollen, obviously just after being beaten violently, it is estimated that if it weren't for Li Zixiao's Ming Order, he would have lived.

After Lu Yuantong fell into the hands of Quartz, he could be beaten to death.

Seeing Lu Yuantong's miserable appearance, Li Zixiao did not have a trace of sympathy, let alone blame Quartz, but he felt that he had played well, and couldn't help but go up and give him a kick.

"Take the dog thief down, keep a good watch, and never allow him to escape. Quartz, you rest and heal immediately. No wounded soldiers assembled, on alert.

Send sentinels around to see if we can get some big carts from there, we must get here as soon as possible, this is not our territory after all, and the longer we stay, the more unsafe it will be. ”

Li Zixiao gave an order to the surrounding Tiger Benying team.

After this battle, the Tiger Battalion was really wounded, and there were about 300 soldiers who could still move, and nearly 100 others were injured and unable to march.

In the early morning battle, they lost more than 200 casualties and 100 casualties, which was also the most tragic battle and the most serious casualties experienced by the Tiger Ben Battalion since its establishment.

At this time, Li Zixiao needed a batch of vehicles to transport the belongings in the camp and transport these wounded soldiers.

At this time, the number of carts in his hand was limited, and it was not enough to even take away the belongings in the camp, let alone pull the wounded soldiers.

"General, why don't we go back to Yangzhou City and get a batch of vehicles from Yangzhou." A team will suggest.

"No, we can't go back to Yangzhou, at this time we have just experienced a brutal battle, the soldiers have suffered huge physical exertion, many casualties, and we can't afford to experience another battle.

We don't know what the situation in Yangzhou is now, if there are still officers and soldiers transferred by the Lu family waiting for us, it will be bad.

We can't take this risk now, after resting for half a day and finding the vehicle, we will immediately set off, evacuate to the north, and enter Fengyang Mansion, at that time Wei Hong should send someone to pick us up. ”

Li Zixiao said worriedly, at this time, he just wanted to bring people back to his hole cards as soon as possible, as long as they were out of the Yangzhou boundary, they would be safe.

More than a dozen sentinels were sent out by Li Zixiao, and soon someone sent back the news.

"General, a caravan heading north was found on the official road to the east, with more than a dozen carts escorting goods." A sentry reported back.

"Okay, with these dozen carts, plus we have the existing vehicles, which are enough to transport the wounded soldiers and property, I ordered your battalion commander to order a hundred men and horses to go with me."

When Li Zixiao heard the news, he was immediately overjoyed and gave an order.

When Li Zixiao came to an official road a few miles away with a hundred tiger soldiers, he found a caravan passing by.

And the scale of this caravan is not small, there are dozens of guards alone, but this is not a matter at all for the Tiger Camp.

"There are robbers!"

Suddenly, with a scream, a caravan guard discovered Li Zixiao and them, mistaking them for robbers, and the caravan guards drew their knives and guns one after another, ready to fight.

However, the next moment, the tiger soldiers swarmed up, and in just half a pillar of incense, they wanted to knock down dozens of guards of this caravan.

Li Zixiao didn't let his subordinates kill them, but only injured those guards.

"Whoever is in charge of this caravan, come out and answer!"

Li Zixiao walked slowly in the convoy, scanning the faces of the caravan members with sharp eyes.

And those people were all frightened, and they avoided Li Zixiao's eyes in horror and lowered their heads.

These people were afraid that they would be looked at unpleasantly by this thief leader, so they were pulled out and chopped with a knife, and they lost their lives in vain.

Li Zixiao glanced at these people one by one, and when he reached the center of the convoy, a middle-aged man slowly walked out of the crowd.

The middle-aged man who walked out bowed to Li Zixiao and said: "This master is invited, and he is a model, he is the steward of this caravan and the steward of the Kang family in Pingyang Mansion, Shanxi."

Just now, the guards were unwise and offended this adult, and I hope that the adult will bear with me.

I don't know if you are an officer and soldier of the guard, why do you want to embarrass us, we are all honest businessmen who do our duty. ”

At this time, this middle-aged man had already seen the banner of the Ming Army raised by Li Zixiao, and knew that Li Zixiao was an officer and soldier of the imperial court, so he was slightly relieved and dared to come out to see Li Zixiao.

Li Zixiao looked up and down at the middle-aged man who came forward to answer, and saw that he was dressed as a businessman, with a medium figure and a calm face.

Obviously, this person is a bit bold and insightful, and he can still deal with it calmly after this point, and he should be a person who has seen the world.

Li Zixiao's face was gloomy, and he said to this Liang Xi in a cold voice: "It turned out to be a person from Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi, the richest man in Shanxi, why did I say such a big caravan!"

Hmph, you are embarrassed to say that you are a businessman, if you are a businessman, there will be no profiteers in the world.

Don't think that no one knows about your secret fornication with the Tartars, I advise you to stop it as soon as possible, otherwise you will end up here and die here. ”

As soon as the model heard Li Zixiao's words, his face suddenly changed, their transaction with the Tartars outside the Guanwai was very hidden, and few people knew about it.

Now it came out of Li Zixiao's mouth, which made the model feel shocked.

"This lord laughed, our Kang family strictly abides by the imperial court decrees, and has never had a deal with the Tartars outside the Guanwai, don't listen to rumors."

Paragon denied it.

The Kang family of Pingyang Mansion (now Linfen City) in Shanxi Province gathered tens of millions of taels of wealth in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and can be called the richest man in Shanxi.

Behind the Kang family are the families with the surnames Cao, Qiao, Qu, and Chang with assets of seven or eight million taels.

The way of doing business in the Kang family rose in the late Ming Dynasty and flourished in the early Qing Dynasty.

Kang's built the famous Kang Garden in Yangzhou, which was prominent for a while. In Pingyang Mansion, the Kang family has "thousands of warehouses", and there are thousands of stones of rice and grain. 、

Legend has it that in order to squeeze down another local pawnshop, the Kang family took out 90 gold arhats to pawn in this pawnshop for three consecutive months, each pawning 1,000 taels of silver.

The pawnshop panicked and asked the pawnbroker why there were so many golden arhats, and the person who came said: "My master has 500 golden arhats, and now there are 410 waiting for pawns!" ”

The pawnshop had no choice but to let the Kang family redeem the 90 golden arhats, close the pawnshop and go away.

In addition, at that time, the Kang family also owned a large number of fields and grain storage in Pingyang, known as "the house is even cloudy, just like a family", "there is an old sky, there are millions of Kang, there is no rain for three years, and there are ten thousand stones of old grain".

Kang's family was also one of the eight great Jin merchants in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, but Li Zixiao had no good impression of the current Jin merchants at all.

Because, in order to make money, these Jin merchants have forgotten their Han identity and secretly maintained transactions with the Tartars outside the Guan.

Eighty percent of the Tartars outside the Guanxi were in dire need of iron, salt, copper and other materials, and eighty percent of them were obtained through the hands of Jin merchants, which was completely an act of capital and hostile.

They regarded the imperial court's decree that it was not allowed to trade with the Tartars outside the customs as a piece of waste paper, and the prosperity of these big merchants was all based on sacrificing the interests of the Ming court.

Although these people are the richest people in the Ming Dynasty, they do not have much obligation to the country.

In the Ming Dynasty, they colluded with the government and the protection of the bureaucracy, did not pay taxes, did not say anything, took advantage of the chaos to make a fortune in the country, amassed huge sums of money to hoard goods, and harmed the people.

If this were another time, Li Zixiao would never let go of this Kang family caravan, but today Li Zixiao was not interested in their goods, he just wanted their cart.

What the Kang family caravan purchased from Jiangnan this time could not be tea, cloth, copper and iron, private salt and other materials, and traded them with the Tartars outside the Guan.

Even if these goods were worth any more money, he had to carry truckloads of gold and silver, as well as the wounded soldiers of their tiger battalion.

"Okay, I'm just saying, I can't control this matter for the time being, I'm just giving you a reminder, so that your family master doesn't forget his Han identity.

I'm an officer of the court, and I don't intend to rob you, but now I'm going to requisition your vehicles.

Now unload all your goods, I want all of your big cars, hurry up and unload them. ”

Li Zixiao said coldly.

Li Zixiao's words made the model slightly embarrassed, and he actually wanted to requisition their vehicles.

"Then we ......"

"I don't want to say my words a second time, let your people unload the goods immediately, hurry up."

Li Zixiao didn't have time to listen to the canon's arguments, as for how they would transport these goods later, he didn't want to care, he only needed a cart now.

Seeing Li Zixiao's tough attitude, and then looking at the more than 100 blood-stained tiger soldiers standing behind him, the blood on their bodies had not yet dispersed.

The model was also taken aback by the murderous appearance of the tiger soldiers at this time, and immediately ordered to unload the goods and hand over the cart to Li Zixiao.

And Li Zixiao finally got a total of sixteen carts, plus the twelve carts they had in their hands, the number was enough for Li Zixiao to use.

Come quickly, go quickly, Li Zixiao left and returned non-stop after robbing the cart from the Kang family caravan, preparing to evacuate here.

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