Chapter 473: Beforehand (First Update)
"No, I asked a few, and they all said that they were paid temporarily, and they were told by the head of the official that they couldn't say it, I think this kind of private work must be a violation of the king's law, and I have suffered such a big loss, who dares to come again, I am afraid that the deputy general of Wolf Mountain will also be strictly restrained." Yoshika analyzed.
Zhao Jin nodded, and said along this line of thought: "But these regiments of the Feng family practice village bravery, and if they don't come back after they are put back, these people can't be released!" ”
"What do you mean, big brother?"
"Don't always think about killing, now we are building roads and wharves over there, and there are iron yards and mines in the north of the river, and there are people everywhere who want to work, and they will be caught and taken back to do hard labor!" Zhao Jin said with a smile.
Most of the Feng family brigade were captured and captured, the officers and soldiers were in a team, the Feng family regiment was trained in a team, and the remaining bandits and strongmen were in a team, divided into three guards.
The most unlucky thing in this is those bandits and strongmen, the homeless people who searched with bamboo guns have fought with them, it is really a blood feud, often even if they say surrender after seeing it, they will not let go, more than a dozen bamboo guns are stabbed, and the upper body is poked.
Far from the water source and the downwind of the stockade, a large open space was cleared by grass, and the corpses from all over the place were moved in, and the contents of the corpses were searched.
There is still sunset on the horizon, but most of it is already dark, and there are many beasts here with a thick bloody atmosphere, and these beasts dare not approach, and they can't stop snooping from afar.
The corpses were piled up over there, poured the grease and the like carried by the Feng family's brigade, and directly set fire to it, the homeless people and those Jianghu men were busy, cutting the grass to help the combustion, Zhao Jin had already instructed to burn these corpses thoroughly, and then the ashes and residues were used to fertilize the fields.
As for the wounded on the side of the Feng family's brigade, the lightly injured ignored them, and the seriously injured ones were given a good time, and the Zhao Ziying and the homeless people didn't have so much time to pay attention to, and the screams and begging for mercy kept sounding, and the corpses were carried out of the coffin.
In the walls of the homeless village and the surrounding open space, a large number of bonfires have been lit, and the most honest group of captives have also been selected to take turns to mow the grass and light the fire.
It was already night, and it was pitch black all around, and the captives who had been driven to mow the grass would inevitably have the idea of escaping, but there were archers following them, and those who escaped while it was dark often could not escape the arrow.
The dozens of short, swarthy archers also followed silently, and if anyone ran away, they didn't shout, or raised their bows and arrows, or chased after them directly, in such a dark night, they could actually keep up, and they could come back after killing people.
The soil behind the gate of the stockade has been dug up, making it convenient for the inside and outside of the village to enter and exit, the homeless people have really been sad and joyful in the past three days, and there is also some panic at this time, the people who have been assigned to the work are busy, and those who have not been assigned sit all over the wall, looking at the Zhao Zi battalion and the reinforcements stationed outside.
The aroma of the food had already begun to waft, and many of the horsemen had gone out to hunt their prey and come back, just in time to add some meat.
A place has been cleared out of the stockade, a large bonfire has been lit, Zhao Jin, Ji Xiang and Dong Bingfeng are sitting in this central position, Zhang Hubin and a few Lian Zheng who followed, the team is sitting around, everyone has a tired look on their faces, but everyone is also very relaxed.
"This person is the hero, Wei Mugen, come here!" Zhao Jin greeted with a smile.
A thin boy walked in with a winc, Wei Mugen's age was actually not much younger than Zhao Jin and the others, but he hadn't eaten a few full meals since he was a child, and compared with the sturdy Zhao Ziying people, he was like a child who hadn't grown up.
The Feng family sent cavalry to clean up the sentinels around the stockade, Wei Mugen escaped a catastrophe and crawled out of the village to report the news, the first rare thing is that he did not get lost, relying on the stars to mark the direction, and the memory of the time he came, he was actually found on the way, the second is lucky, after walking for less than two hours, he met the team escorting materials.
At that time, the Jianghu people who escorted the materials to the stockade saw Wei Mugen, and thought that they were homeless people who had escaped from the stockade, so they were directly tied up, and Wei Mugen pointed to the sky and said that the stockade was attacked by someone.
At first, I thought it was a lie, but Wei Mugen stammered and said that, it was not something that a homeless person could make up, all kinds of sneak attack methods, and the dead Jianghu man still had acquaintances in the team escorting the supplies
After confirming that it was seventy percent credible, the team immediately turned around, and freed up six horses for three people, so that they could hurry up and report to Xuzhou, and the team transporting supplies went to Yutou Town to temporarily stop, and God knows if there were ambushes on the road ahead.
When the messenger set off, Zhao Jin had already led a large group of cavalry to Fangcunji, because two days ago, someone from Yutou Town sent him an urgent letter, and the business house related to the Feng family was allocating materials, and he heard from the boatman who was transporting the materials that these materials were transported to the east bank of Luoma Lake.
The Feng family has no property on the east coast, and this kind of unreasonable move will of course be noticed by Zhao Jin's eyes, and then inquire about what the materials to be prepared are, and it can almost be judged what the Feng family is going to do.
Zhao Jin's people pay attention to the business and passenger travel between Xuzhou and Pizhou every day, and a few people who reported the news were stopped as soon as they arrived at the Fangcun market, and Zhao Jin immediately set off and rushed to the east side of Luoma Lake non-stop.
When marching, a team of 100 people, if someone asks, they call themselves merchants, and the inspectors along the way are also very knowledgeable, so the fierce and vicious team passes, if they check and inquire carefully, it is estimated that they will definitely be able to find out the flaws, but don't think about making a fortune, nine times out of ten you will die on the spot.
Well-informed people know better what the road is about, but this team of people does not harm the township, rob the merchants, and do not attack the city, there is no case, there is no report, that is, it is peaceful, and everyone still clearly remembers the bloody storm in Pizhou during the first month, and no one is troubled.
Zhao Ziying counts the horse team, counting all the people who can ride horses, there are about four hundred in total, most of them are the so-called horseback infantry, can ride horses, and can also run fast on horseback, but it is not possible to expect him to ride a horse to charge and fight, but there are a large number of Xuzhou warriors at the junction of Xuzhou and Pizhou, and many of them are still on horseback, otherwise there is no way to intercept the salt barons of the salt team.
The Feng family's salt team didn't dare to come over from Huai'an Mansion, and the other salt lords and salt dealers also knew that they took the initiative to pay the regular elements, but there were always those who were bold and risky and wanted to cross the border secretly.
There are a lot of people from Xuzhou Wei in this group, and there are more people in the rivers and lakes who are close to Zhao Jin, Zhao Jin called for it, and everyone was shocked, and they got such a big benefit from catching salt just now, and they should help.