Late Ming Dynasty: Conquering the world starting from riding and cutting

At this time, as bad news came one after another from south to north, the atmosphere in Jintian was extremely tense and depressing to the extreme.

After more than two months, the Keelung Department Store stores in various stores were all gone. Most of the silver stored in various counters was withdrawn by Qin and Han merchants as payment for goods. The economic strength of the five major families immediately showed their embarrassment. Financial resources were cut off everywhere. It is difficult to maintain the support over time.

People of all ages in the clan have been asking for the public accounts of public funds to be made public so that the clan can reduce land rents and interest rates. Otherwise, it will be like this.

Faced with such a catastrophic situation, Deng Wentian, the soul and leader of the five major families, and Old Madam Deng, had no choice but to muster up one hundred percent of their energy and support their old and weak bodies to summon the children of each family to discuss matters.

However, it is very sad that Old Madam Deng, who used to raise his arms and the mountains responded, is unable to speak well today.

The Bai clan of Ueda, the Kong clan of Xiashui, the Shen clan of Longchuan, and the Peng clan of Xiling all sent their own children here. They were very sorry to say that because of pirates crossing the border, it was inconvenient for the family heads to leave without permission. I hope Mr. Deng will forgive me and wait for the retreat If you kill a pirate, come and apologize in person.

"Alas! It seems that you have really fulfilled that sentence. When a disaster comes, everyone will fly! Ah Wu!" Old Mrs. Deng summoned his most proud grandson, Wulang, "You immediately send someone to contact the Keelung Army, and say that the Deng family is willing to Pay the money in good faith and become obedient people under the Keelung Army. As long as they are willing to withdraw, they will not pursue the previous matter again!"

"No, grandpa! We have fought against them, and they are not heavenly soldiers or generals. They don't have any magical powers! We are afraid of them! We rely on Jintianwei to defend and summon people from all over the country to fight them! In the end, the fish will die and the net will be broken. They It’s not necessarily a good bargain!”

"Stupid thing!"

Deng Wentian waved the crutch in his hand and hit Deng Wulang hard on the head.

"You don't even look at the situation. In the past, when the bells and drums were beaten in the ancestral hall, what was the noise in the neighboring villages? What about now? The bells and drums in the ancestral hall are almost broken, but has anyone come to support?!"

The burning pain in his head made Deng Wulang's mind suddenly become clearer.

He was also a smart man and immediately understood what grandpa meant, but he was just not convinced.

"Grandpa, my brothers and I will take people to several other villages and bring as many young people as we can from the villages to guard the perimeter! What do you think?"

"You did this first. If the Keelung Army is not willing to let us go, it will be a dead end!" Deng Wentian said helplessly.

"Grandpa, don't worry! I will ask my brothers to spread the news in every village. This time the Keelung Army has come to retaliate. Anyone who went there last time will be killed. If you don't want to die, go to Jintian." Come and hold the fence!"

After hearing the idea from his favorite grandson, Deng Wentian couldn't help but nod in agreement. If this was a normal time, he would have to comfort him with gentle words, and he felt happy in his heart.

"Let the people below take care of this matter! Go to the accounting office to collect 50,000 silver dollars, and take the people to Jinping County as quickly as possible!"

"Grandpa, what are you doing?!" Deng Wulang was a little confused about his grandfather's behavior and asked anxiously.

Do you want to escape first? Leave some blood for the Deng family? This terrifying thought flashed through his mind, making him afraid to imagine it.

Seeing Wu Lang's thoughts, Deng Wentian explained: "Don't worry, I'm not asking you to run away, I have something important for you to do."

"My informant in the county government office told me that Weizhou, the leader of the Keelung Army, sent 10,000 silver dollars to the county magistrate Liu Wendou and asked him to sit back and watch. Go! Tell Magistrate Liu that as long as he is willing to mediate, my Deng family will give him five Thousands of silver dollars! Thank you very much afterwards!”

"That's it!" Deng Wulang suddenly realized.

Deng Wulang lay on the ground and kowtowed to Deng Wentian, then turned around and walked out of the hall, asking his brothers to take their own errands.

Deng Wentian was the only one left in the hall, sitting alone on the bamboo rocking chair. The sunlight coming in from the hall door made him unable to open his eyes, so he simply closed them and slowly shed two lines of turbid tears. Sliding off your cheeks!

Not long after Deng Wulang left, the men and horses of the Keelung Army Brigade appeared several miles away from Jintianwei.

The people on the fence first felt the ground tremble, and then a large red flag appeared in their field of vision. The tassels of the iron-pointed helmets in the procession were burning like fire, and the eyes of everyone in the Jintian fence were sore.

In full view of the people on the wall, the Keelung Army under the wall began to adjust their ranks and surrounded the entire Jintian in an orderly manner.

From time to time, a few heads popped up on the edge of the wall and peeked at the city. The timid one had already begun to tremble uncontrollably with his legs.

They have seen many officers and soldiers, and they have also seen pirate teams, but they have never seen a team that can walk for dozens of miles and still walk in such a consistent and orderly manner.

From the looks of it, I can't keep this fence today!

Outside the Huzhuang River, Weizhou led a group of officers there to take a leisurely look at the terrain. Different from the last time, the mood when observing Jintianwei this time was so calm, so calm that even Weizhou himself was surprised.

It was as if I had been here many times without any emotional fluctuations.

In the past two months, Kam Tin Wai has not been idle, and naturally a lot of fortifications have been strengthened.

Ten more horse faces were built on the outside of the Weizi wall, which combined with the forts at the four corners and the original horse faces further strengthened the blockade of the periphery. Coupled with the ten-meter-wide Huzhuang River, this village becomes even more indestructible.

"Everyone, have you seen it? There is only one gate in this village, and people must use this gate to enter and exit the village. If we want to attack Jintian Wei, we may have to attack by force. But if we do this, we will encounter me again. Same situation."

"The river that protects the village, the forts built close to the river bank, and the horses will use bows, arrows, and firecrackers to attack from two sides. In addition, there are troops on the wall in front. Our attacking troops will be attacked from three sides!"

Everyone followed the directions of Weizhou's riding whip and saw that Jintianwei was 150 meters long and about 100 meters wide. The perimeter of the village wall was only 500 meters. Except for the four forts at the four corners and the original eight horse In addition to the face, ten more horse faces were added. Whether it is a fort or a horse face, there are gun holes on it, and the dark muzzle can be vaguely seen.

"No wonder!" Everyone thought about it in their hearts. No wonder they returned without success last time.

"Sir! I have an idea, I don't know..."

"Say it quickly!" Weizhou couldn't wait to look at the young man he met for the first time.

"This fence is actually not big, and there won't be too many people on the city at the same time. We can use our artillery advantage to use infantry to create the illusion that we are filling up the Huzhuang River, luring them onto the wall, and on horseback They fired artillery on the fort and the fort to intercept. Thinking about it, with their artillery and artillery firing skills, even the artillery fire may not have much impact on us. Our artillery fire used this opportunity to suppress the fort and clear out those artillery pieces one by one. !”

Jiang Jianke, the proud disciple of artillery commander Yuchi Cunguo, as the commander of the artillery team of the West Route Army, proposed an offensive plan from the professional perspective of artillery.

"At the same time, the real and the fake are mixed, the real and the fake, the fake and the real. During the lull in the artillery fire at the top of the city, we can really fill in the moat and open a channel for future attacks. Kill two birds with one stone!"