Chapter 29: Magical Calculation to Take the Empty Village
Wuwen River Water Village, outside, are some low houses built along the river bank, and they pass up from the water gate along a road. After passing several lax protections, you can directly reach a more gorgeous house.
Of course, the gorgeousness here is just compared to the low and dilapidated wooden houses outside, this house is the "Hewang Hall".
Outside the Hewang Hall, two stout water bandits stood outside the hall. This is the place where the Helong King usually convened all the bandits and leaders to discuss.
At this time, the water bandits had a rule that no matter the leader, they could enter the Hewang Hall together when discussing matters, but they had to be clearly layered.
When discussing matters, when drinking, the small leaders are mostly used as a foil. Standing on both sides, there are some big leaders sitting, even the big leaders are divided into inside and outside according to prestige.
Some big bosses with high prestige among the water bandits could sit in the front, while the rest were lined up in front of the door, so the construction here was relatively large.
There were bursts of laughter from the Hewang Hall. It turned out that the second-in-commander Lang Lijiao was bringing more than a dozen bandit leaders to the hall to have fun and drink.
In the past, this spacious lobby could even allow more than a hundred people to gather here to drink and discuss matters at the same time, but at this moment, there were only a dozen people here, which seemed a little deserted.
Langlijiao is the second in command of the Wuwen River Water Village and is a cousin with the Helong King. Since they became water bandits more than ten years ago, they have become bigger and bigger in this area. At that time, the water village that has not yet been formed in the Wuwen River has only fought alone and has no unified leader.
With their ruthlessness and extraordinary nature, the two brothers quickly recruited a group of boatmen who could not survive like them. Gradually, more and more water bandits and refugees gathered under the two brothers, and the Dragon King of the River and Langli Jiao became famous along the Wuwen River.
Many boatmen and people along the Wuwen River know that there is a River Dragon King here. The River Dragon King has a younger brother named Langlijiao, who robs the family and does everything he wants.
The Dragon King of He and Langli Jiao did not have the ambitions of Langli Baitiao. They only wanted to be a land king in Wuwen River. Until a few days ago, Langli Baitiao came here to lobby, which made the Dragon King of He moved to the benefits of conquering Ninghaizhou City.
However, for Langlijiao, although he agreed with the decision of his elder brother Helongwang, he was dissatisfied with Langli Baitiao and volunteered to stay in the water camp.
At this moment, except for a dozen leaders, there were only one hundred young and strong water bandits in this water camp, and the last one was hundreds of old, weak, sick and disabled. These people were naturally not worth mentioning to the new recruits from the six posts of Wendeng Camp.
It is said that he is a stay-at-home, but in fact, Langlijiao knows it. Now the official army is too busy to take care of itself, and tens of thousands of bandits are heading to Ninghaizhou City in a mighty manner. How could there be no extra Ming army coming here?
Langlijiao just doesn't want to go out and work harder. The good days in recent years have long wiped out his original ruthlessness. Now Langlijiao is a little greedy and afraid of death, and only wants to enjoy the days of wine and meat.
At this moment, Lang Lijiao was holding a charming woman in purple clothes and jacket in his arms. The woman had no choice but to commit herself to a water bandit. She was originally a wealthy lady in a village and town around her.
A few years ago, more than 1,000 officials surrounded Wuwenhe and were defeated by Helongwang and Langlijiao. Taking advantage of the momentum of victory, the two brothers took the water bandits out of Wuwenhe Bay for the first time.
The figures of the official army had long disappeared along the coast, and the two brothers brought thousands of water bandits to clean up.
I met this woman in a village and town. She has always been the lowest-level Langlijiao, who has never seen such a beautiful woman, let alone the lady from a wealthy family whom she could not contact on weekdays. Her lust gradually arises at that time.
A few days later, the water bandits really made a comeback. This time, the Helong King brought dozens of vicious water bandits to the village and town to support the place for his cousin.
The water bandits killed the whole family of a hundred households in the village and hung the heads of a knife on the tip of a knife to parade. The blood of the whole family of a hundred households dyed the land in the village red. The King of Helong snatched the trembling woman in front of the whole village and became the wife of Langlijiao.
At first, the woman was still seeking death, but Langlijiao tried hard to persuade him but finally lost all his patience. He took advantage of the alcoholism and forced the woman to take it for himself overnight.
Women in the Ming Dynasty had a strong sense of chastity, but this woman was an alternative. After being insulted by Langlijiao, she wanted to hit the wall and commit suicide, but she was afraid of pain and didn't dare to hit her.
Not long after, Langlijiao was surprised to find that the woman became obedient to her and willingly stayed in the water village to be his wife.
The gentle land, the hero's tomb, and the dragon in the waves has since been lost in the days of wine and sweetness.
Langlijiao held the woman up and down, causing her to pant, and she was also very happy. He picked up a glass of wine and put it in front of the woman, and whispered to her to drink.
The woman yelled and pushed her and refused to drink. The dragon glared at the big eyes.
"Little nymph, how dare you not drink it?"
Seeing Langli Jiao's appearance, the woman became scared. She took the bowl and drank the wine in small sips. After a few sips, she was so choking that she was breathing slightly. Langli Jiao and several big bosses laughed loudly when they saw it.
At this time, a burst of rapid footsteps came from outside the hall.
"It's not good that the second head of the house, the village is on fire, and the officers and soldiers are in! "
The water bowl in Langlijiao's hand fell to the ground with a crack, and stood up and stared at the water bandits who came to report the news. Seeing that his face was not as fake, he asked in disbelief.
"What did you say? Didn't the officers and soldiers all go to reinforce Ninghaizhou City? Why did they come to the Water Village? How many officers and soldiers came?"
The little water bandit leader who came to report the news thought for a while, but shook his head and said, "I don't know, there are voices of officers and soldiers on all sides. I'm afraid there will be more than a thousand people. Second leader, run away!"
Hearing this, the other big bosses no longer had to drink and stood up.
"Second leader, let's go!"
"Stay the green mountains here, don't worry about losing firewood!"
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After Wang Zheng unexpectedly seized the dock and the water gate, he kept marching inward.
Before arriving at the water camp, Wang Zheng not only let the main force attack at the main gate, but also let Gao Liang and three other soldiers take their subordinates to detour around.
Gao Liang and the others fired the Divine Fire Flying Crow at the same time as the main gate attacked, shook flags and shouted, and made the illusion of a large army siege.
At first, Wang Zheng just wanted to scare the water bandits and panic, so that they could seize the village gate in the chaos. What was unexpected was that the Langli Jiao did not even resist.
After hearing that the officers and soldiers came, they didn't hesitate for a long time and fled to Ninghaizhou with more than a dozen leaders, and easily handed over the water camp to the direction of Ninghaizhou.
After losing the leader, most of the other water bandits fled around like headless flies.
Wang Zheng took advantage of the victory to pursue the water camp and then divided into three groups to chase and kill the fleeing water bandits. At dawn, more than 100 water bandits were killed, more than 300 men and women were rescued and more than 50 people were captured in the escaped water bandits everywhere.
He easily seized the Wuwen River Water Village, which the Helong King had worked hard for more than ten years without any resistance. The gold, silver, food, and other materials that had been hoarded here for many years fell into the hands of Wang Zheng.
None of the six posts were killed in this battle, but during the pursuit, they encountered a water bandit counterattack before death, and more than a dozen people in the six posts were slightly injured.
The remaining bandits in the water bay of Wuwen River heard that the officers and soldiers were coming so quickly that even the dragon in the waves disappeared, and they had no intention of resisting, and fled in the wind.
Chapter completed!