The most cruel thing is that in the second half of 163o, the Special Reconnaissance Headquarters believed that each special reconnaissance unit under its command should be given the opportunity to practice in actual combat. [Read the latest chapter] Multiple special reconnaissance teams were deployed to various states and counties in Qiongbei to carry out extensive "hunting". The special reconnaissance team works as a team and sneaks into the core of the mountainous area to conduct raids and ambush operations. Even the most stubborn bandits find it difficult to withstand this type of battle in which a gunshot rang out suddenly, one person was killed and the enemy was nowhere to be seen. During the transfer process, the invisible God of Death always followed the team. Except for the sound of gunshots that harvested human lives from time to time, any bandits who left the sight of the crowd would completely disappear from time to time.
Hu Lanyan's team couldn't stand still, and they ran away with only twenty or thirty people left. He didn't dare to disband the team and go down the mountain to live an honest life. They had destroyed the work team, and now the Australians offered a reward of 3,000 currency notes for his head. Those who provide valid information can also receive one hundred to five hundred circulation coupons. Any bandit who captures or kills Hu Lanyan and Guer will be pardoned and the Australians will resettle them. After the news came out, Hu Lan saw that all his men were glowing green, looking like hungry wolves.
Hu Lanyan complained all day long that Gu Er had come up with the idea of "eliminating the task force" and had completely made a deadly feud with the Australians. Now he no longer even had the possibility of surrendering and recruiting troops.
Gou Er had no choice but to flee. While running around, I accidentally saw a notice: the notice was about the trial of "war criminals". Because the notices were old, most of them were damaged. However, the content above can barely be seen. Roughly speaking, the Australians convicted some officers and soldiers who came to "suppress bandits" and were captured as "war crimes." Some are "hard labor" and some are "death penalty". The trial of Australian officers and soldiers was not a shocking thing to him, but Gou Er saw Lai Da's name at the end of a long list of people sentenced to death in the notice.
The news of Lai Da's death shocked Gou Er very much - Lai Da was not an important figure, but just one of his capable dogs for driving. Even if he is at the end of his rope, Lai Da is not an important person to him. But Laida's death seemed to announce something to him.
After being in panic all day long, Hu Lanyan finally couldn't hold on in Danzhou. They gathered the remaining 20 or so people together and announced that they could no longer stay in Danzhou and were preparing to flee to Changhua. If you are willing to follow, you can continue to follow. If you are not willing, just break up.
Most of Hu Lanyan's gangsters were locals from Danzhou, and no one wanted to go to Changhua. Furthermore, no one knew how to survive in Changhua. Many people had long thought of disbanding and going home. As soon as Hu Lanyan said "disband", all of them ran away except for a few die-hard elements.
"Do we really have to go to Changhua?" Gou Er knows a little about Changhua. This place is full of "savages" who go a little deeper into the interior, which is the territory of the common people. They are a small group of foreign bandits who are not familiar with the place and cannot understand the language." There is no movement at all. Not to mention that there are only about seven or eight people left.
"Of course not." Hu Lanyan had already made a plan, "Let's cross the sea! Go to the Champa Kingdom! I have a few old brothers there who pull a few boats on the sea for business, so I will go to them for the time being!"
Although Gou Er didn't want to leave his hometown, he was now desperate. He could no longer live on Hainan Island, so he might as well go overseas to hide for a while. He roughly knew that Champa was not far from here, and it was just a day or two. About the boat. If things turn around, it will be easy to come back.
So Hu Lanyan, Gou Xunli and four or five cronies quietly found a fisherman on the beach and took a few taels of silver to Jiangping. Jiangping is a "three no matter" zone on the Sino-Vietnamese border. Most of them were "fishermen" who were half fishermen and half bandits, and there were also many desperadoes from China and Vietnam. When the group arrived at Jiangping, they finally settled down and had a peaceful sleep. The next step was to go back to their old business and continue to do what they had no business doing. Old business.
Shen Hu wanted to win a lot of votes, so he sent people to gather troops in Jiangping, and these two followed him. Now Gou Xunli and Hu Lanyan, with their ten or so brothers, gathered in a valley dozens of miles away from Hongji. Bandits with different costumes and strange shapes gathered around the fire. Either sit or stand. Some are cooking and eating, some are taking off their rags and catching lice, and some are drinking and gambling. From time to time, there are bursts of laughter and strange screams. They are holding all kinds of weapons. : Rusty broadswords, sharpened bamboo guns, and some people carried European sabers and Japanese tachi and katana. Some people simply carried farm tools and harpoons. Some of them looked "professional" The tough bandits were armed with bows and arrows and matchlock guns. There were even a few small iron cannons.
Er Er lay on the ground and took a nap. It was warmer here than in Qiongzhou. Hu Lanyan drank wine happily. This was sent by someone sent by Shen Hu. The leader of each group received more or less some meat and wine.
"Brother!" Hu Lanyan kicked Gou Xunli, "Stop sleeping! Get up and drink together!"
Gou Xunli slowly got up and took the clay cup. The wine was local rice wine, unfiltered, and suffused with wine dregs. A sour smell of drunkenness immediately rushed into his nose. To be in In the past, he would not even look at it. Even the low-level servants and thugs in his mansion would not drink such bad wine. Then he thought of the Gu family members killed by the Australians and his missing son." He was holding the cup in a daze and forgot to drink it.
"Brother, what's wrong? I had wine today and I'm drunk now." Hu Lanyan smiled meaningfully, picked up the cup and took a sip.
"It's nothing." Gou Xunli took a sip, "I'm going to go to war with the Australians tomorrow..."
Hu Lanyan looked around and whispered, "Brother, what do you think we will do tomorrow?"
Shen Hu pulled such a miscellaneous team, and Shen Hu couldn't control the troops at sea. Naturally, the leader of the pirates was responsible for the attack, but among the thousands and hundreds of people on the ground, there must be an order problem in the battle. Who comes first and who comes last.
"I'm afraid that Shen Hu will force our brothers to take the lead and help him blame and consume the Australians. In the end, he will come to reap the benefits." Hu Lanyan said.
"There are only about ten of us in total, and Shen Hu doesn't like it. It's not our turn to be consumed." Gou Xunli thought for a moment, "He probably thinks there is a piece of fat over there. I think: Shen Hu will Engage in a two-pronged siege.”
"What do you mean?"
"You think about it, Shen Hu has hundreds of people himself, but he has roped in so many people to work together. He must feel that he is not sure if he can do it alone. But he is also afraid that others will take too much of the benefits. So he must not let outsiders take over. Take the lead.
Besides, everyone is not an idiot. Who is willing to charge into the battle and kill his own people in vain if there is no benefit? So he must have led the team to attack one road, and other small teams joined forces to attack the other road. Whoever breaks down the stronghold and grabs the stuff will get it. As long as the stronghold is breached, his large number of people will definitely take advantage of it. "
"That's right!" Hu Lanyan said with sincere admiration, "I also think there must be something Shen Hu has in mind, but I just can't figure it out." He poured himself a glass of wine, "What do you think our brothers will do? ? There are only a few people. If we rush into the team tomorrow and break through the village, we won’t be able to grab anything good..."
"Brother, do you think you can break through the stronghold tomorrow?" Gou Xunli said with a bitter smile, "If Shen Hu can escape with his life tomorrow, it will be considered a blessing. They don't know. We brothers don't know the Australians yet. What’s the ability?”
Hu Lanyan shook his head: "No way, I heard from Shen Hu's spies that there are dozens of people inside who have Australian muskets, and the others are long..."..."
Gou Xunli shook his head repeatedly. Hu Lanyan thought about his group's experience in Danzhou and immediately became discouraged.
"What do you think we should do? Just run away like this? But let's come here for no reason?"
Of course, this trip was not completely fruitless. We had agreed in Jiangping that we would give him some money and food when we arrived at Hongji. Hu Lanyan's group also received some silver rice.
"Luo Humph, I think if I want to talk to Shen Hu about setting off cigarettes and then charging, the Australians will suffer a bit!" Gou Xunli said fiercely. Although he knew it was of no importance to the Australians, he still hoped that You can kill a few more thieves to relieve your anger. "Then?" He rolled his eyes and whispered.
Shen Hu stood on the mound, with dozens of close followers standing behind him. He watched with satisfaction as his "people and horses" drove towards Hongji. Although the appearance of these people and horses is not much better than that of calligraphy and painting. Moreover, due to the plundering of jianyín along the road, the team was very long and moved extremely slowly. Shen Hu looked at one guy who was probably wrapped in a few rag packages that he had snatched, and the other guy who probably had just raped a woman in the village he passed by. He didn't even wear any clothes at all, and was walking on the road struttingly. Fortunately, the weather here is warm, so you won't get frozen even if you're naked.
Shen Hu didn't care much about the behavior of this group of people. Anyway, in half an hour, a large group of people from Shen Hu's village and other smaller gangs around them will all arrive at Hongji. The mere thirty soldiers guarding the mining area are definitely no match. According to reports, there are only about seven to eight hundred adult men in the mining area. Most of them will definitely not take up arms to resist, and most of them will flee for their lives. The remaining resistance is nothing more than the local warriors. A few cannons might cause some trouble, but he estimated that the fall of the stockade would be delayed for a few hours at most. Moreover, it seems that the walled city in the mining area is not strong at all. Although the wall is very thick, it is quite short and can be climbed up with a little effort.
You can definitely get a lot of good things by breaking down the stronghold. There are now hundreds of people living in the three villages on the Hongji side. There is a lot of food and grain alone. I heard that a lot of fine Chinese goods were also shipped, as well as ships parked in the port - but they were the prey that Jiang Ping came to "climb the sea to protect". Fan Haibao has long coveted Hongji's boats with new fishing gear that can catch a lot of fish at once, so he hit it off with him this time. a.
