Chapter 60: The Spear Club
Since ancient times, the people do not fight with the officials, this is the old saying and law handed down by the ancestors of the Zhuang family, and now in this season of war and chaos, I am afraid that the people will not fight with the soldiers. Wang Chuang was originally a reasonable person, but with the expansion of the power of the Spear Club and the compromise of several groups of mountain bandits around him, Wang Chuang gradually developed in the direction of the gentry, Li Linge in Mengcheng is a successful example, and Wang Chuang, who is illiterate in a few big characters, also wants to live a decent life like Li Linge.
With people and money in his hands, Wang Chuang first built a deep house compound, and then sent his two sons to the provincial capital to become foreign students, and Wang Chuang, who was dressed as a squire, gradually began to pay attention to his words and deeds on weekdays. People who don't know what is going on will definitely think that this kind guy is a squire landlord when they see Wang Chuang for the first time, but they don't want Wang Chuang to secretly control the head of the Spear Society, and he is a ruthless person in his bones.
Tang Cheng tried to lure out Wang Chuang by shooting and injuring those green skins in the street and detaining those spear clubs, but unfortunately his attempt did not work, those green skins had been beaten half to death by Liang Dahu and others, but Wang Chuang, who Tang Cheng was expecting, still did not appear. If Wang Chuang doesn't show up, Tang Cheng won't be able to carry out the following plans, everyone knows that Wang Chuang is the head of the spear club, but if Wang Chuang doesn't admit it, Tang Cheng can't come to the door with open fire to rob hard, and Wang Chuang's delay in letting Tang Cheng sit on wax.
Wang Zhuang rang out the gun, as long as it was not an ear, he could almost hear it, looking at the group of men gathered in the distance, Tang Cheng, who was a little embarrassed, was thinking about it. "Scattered in squads, escorted these guys to identify their accomplices, and those who dared to resist were shot in the street for public display." If you can't deal with Wang Chuang, it doesn't mean that Tang Cheng can't deal with the Spear Club, and if you uproot the entire Spear Club, I believe that Wang Chuang, the leader of the club behind him, will definitely take the initiative to show up.
None of the men who hid knives and guns came to watch the wind were surrounded by Liang Dahu and others, and they didn't need to say anything at all, just put the rifles in their hands flat, and the green skins who were surrounded by the group automatically knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. The bloodstained green-skinned men who were beaten up before were completely panicked, the Mengcheng militia was originally only used by the Chamber of Commerce to guard the county seat, and it was similar to the private soldiers in Li Linge's house, these guys from the spear club have always been domineering in Wangzhuang, but who would have thought that they were kicked on the nail board.
The 200 soldiers of the garrison regiment dispersed according to Tang Cheng's arrangement to arrest the spear club in Wangzhuang, and the originally silent Wangzhuang was turned upside down for a while, and there were kicking the door and shouting everywhere. Tang Cheng, who was riding a big green horse, took a squad of soldiers left by Liang Dahu to wander around in the Zhuangzi, it seemed that Tang Cheng's wandering around was aimless, but in fact he was looking for the location of Wang Chuang's house. Judging from the current situation, this Wang Chuang must be planning to be a turtle with a shrunken head, the entire Wang Zhuang has been tossed by Tang Cheng and is about to turn the sky upside down, Wang Chuang is still so able to take advantage of it, Tang Cheng has to admire this person's city government.
"You just need to remember one thing, you are a soldier and he is a bandit, as the old saying goes, since ancient times, soldiers and bandits are a family, but bandits can never be defeated." Tang Cheng on horseback remembered the sentence that Liu Goat had specially explained before leaving. Robert, who raised Tang City, was not a pedantic person, so Tang Cheng had heard Robert say more than once about the bandit family, until Tang Cheng met Liu Goat and followed Liu Goat all the way to escape from Nanjing to Mengcheng, he really understood what the bandit family meant.
"Company commander, in front of you is Wang Chuang's house." The soldier in charge of leading the way grabbed the reins of Tang Cheng, and the direction of his finger was the newly built mansion of Wang Chuang. Tang Cheng on horseback squinted his eyes at this mansion that covered a large area, looking at the red lacquered gate and the two stone lions outside the gate, Tang Cheng almost didn't laugh directly. Tang Cheng, who has been in Beiping for 5 years, has nothing else to do, that is, he and his friends walk through the streets and alleys all day long to play in the alleys of Beiping City, and the love of Peking people for the courtyard directly affects Tang Cheng, like Wang Chuang's move to place two stone lions outside the gate is nothing, but he should not make the two stone lions exactly the same.
"This is a rich man, a rich man." Looking at the Wang family's compound with the gate closed, Tang Cheng's eyes were full of contempt and disdain. was a black-hearted bandit, but now he is thinking about what kind of squire he is, spending money to build such a big mansion, so he has to find someone who knows how to guide him, but he spent money to get a nondescript house, and Wang Chuang dared to call himself a squire. Riding a horse around the courtyard of the Wang family's mansion, Tang Cheng's only thought in his heart was that the courtyard wall of the Wang family's mansion was high enough, and the courtyard wall of nearly 3 meters looked like a walled city, and it would be more similar if the moat and suspension bridge were added to the Wang family's mansion.
If it is changed to the era of cold weapons, this Wang family compound with high walls and thick gates is indeed an easy place to defend and difficult to attack, but now it is already the era of hot weapons, if Tang Cheng brings the mortar of the garrison regiment, it only takes one cannon to open the gate of the Wang family. After glancing at the obviously outcropping head on the courtyard wall, Tang Cheng turned around and left with the soldiers who came with him, since this Wang Chuang had made up his mind not to show his head, and it was not interesting to entangle with him, Tang Cheng had his own way to force this guy to show up.
"Company commander, 63 have been arrested, half of them are not locals in Wangzhuang, these are weapons found from their bodies and residences." Returning to the place where he had made an appointment with Liang Dahu, the soldiers who had come back one after another had already stood in a circle, and in the circle, those who were squatting on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs were the captured spear guild gangs. Tang Cheng, who turned over and dismounted, didn't pay attention to the squatting guys, but followed Liang Dahu to check the weapons that were searched by the soldiers, and when he saw the things piled up on the ground clearly, Tang Cheng suddenly had an urge to curse.
More than 60 people were searched out, but there were less than 10 guns in this pile of broken copper and iron, and the rest were machetes, red tassel guns or something, Tang Cheng actually turned out a bow from it, this thing looked like it was left by the old man, Tang Cheng doubted that this thing could kill people. Liang Dahu, who was glanced at by Tang Cheng, smiled a little embarrassedly, Tang Cheng's order was to capture all the spear clubs in Wangzhuang and collect all the weapons, but most of the soldiers in the 1st company were routs who escaped from the army, and these guys were all old fritters, and they just wanted to see Tang Cheng's jokes.
Tang Cheng's age and his rank as a second lieutenant are the sick stuff of these soldiers, but they are afraid of Liu Goat behind Tang Cheng, so they don't dare to make it too obvious, they just want to use the opportunity of this spear clearing meeting to embarrass Tang Cheng. Liang Dahu's reaction had already made Tang Cheng have a glimmer of clarity in his heart, but this was in Wangzhuang, Tang Cheng couldn't do anything to those soldiers who wanted to see his jokes in Wangzhuang, everything had to wait until he returned to the Mengcheng military camp before he could do anything.
Holding a crossbow that was turned out of the pile of broken copper and iron, Tang Cheng turned around and looked at Liang Dahu, "Ask who this thing is, ask if the other party can make a smaller crossbow than this one, and if you can, bring the person back to Mengcheng." "The crossbow in Tang Cheng's hand is a crossbow made of hardwood, with a bowstring made of ox tendon, and the whole is the length of an arm. When Tang Cheng was a child and followed Robert to preach in Shandong, he saw people hunting in the mountains with such a crossbow, Robert deprived Tang Cheng of the opportunity to have a crossbow on the grounds that Tang Cheng was still young, and now that he has the opportunity, Tang Cheng naturally wants to have such a thing.
The soldiers who sent out came back one after another, and there were more and more pikemen who were captured, and there were more than 100 pikemen surrounded by soldiers. "Company commander, what about these people? There are more than 100 people who have been arrested, but Tang Cheng has not shown his attitude, and after Liang Dahu and the other two platoon commanders discussed, he hoped that Tang Cheng would come up with a solution.
"What to do? Of course, it was brought back to Mengcheng and other regiment commanders for disposal. "Tang Cheng has been waiting for Wang Chuang to appear, but this old guy is intent on being a turtle with a shrunken head, and Tang Cheng, who is a little difficult to ride a tiger, can only bring these people from the Spear Club back to Mengcheng to deal with it, otherwise he will lose a lot of money." Send someone to Wang Chuang's house, isn't he a famous squire in Wangzhuang, let's go to borrow his family's car, load all the things and bring them back to Mengcheng with people. ”
"Actually, there's no need to be so troublesome," Liang Dahu leaned over and muttered quietly, "Didn't the regiment commander always say that our garrison regiment is not strong enough, so he simply incorporated these guys into our garrison regiment." Not only can it cut off Wang Chuang's back road, but it can also solve the problem of insufficient troops in our garrison regiment, and besides, these guys are all locals and are familiar with the terrain here. ”
I don't know why Liang Dahu wants to help him, Tang Cheng squinted at Liang Dahu in some surprise, but the latter old god waited for Tang Cheng to make an idea, and didn't care about Tang Cheng's squint at all, which made Tang Cheng very depressed. Of course, Wang Chuang, who has been talking about Tang Cheng, can't be unaware of the fact that Tang Cheng wantonly arrested the spear club in Wangzhuang, and he also knew about the knife face being shot by Tang Cheng, but he didn't dare to show his face, and now Wang Chuang no longer has the arrogance that he had with his brothers' knives and blood, and now he has a bond, and he will never dare to be an enemy with the garrison.
Wang Chuang's avoidance made Tang Cheng's anti-bandit action a bit anticlimactic, but Tang Cheng's trip was not without gains, at least he added a hundred and ten soldiers to the garrison regiment. Moreover, the soldiers and oilmen of the 1st Company also got a lot of good things in Wangzhuang, and the main altar where the spears were set up in Wangzhuang was completely emptied by them, and the dozen or so boxes of tobacco and soil that Wang Chuang did not have time to transfer were all returned to the garrison regiment.