Chapter 048
People are actually making choices throughout their lives. Whenever you get up early in the morning, you can choose to get up or stay asleep. This choice has its pros and cons. When eating breakfast, you can also choose between steamed buns or fried dough sticks, or you can choose to go to work on an empty stomach.
Every choice means that you will gain something and lose something at the same time.
When Cheng Shijie was training Ning Haijun, he told them the consequences of their choices. For example, when facing the enemy, they could choose to turn around and run away. If their backs were exposed to the enemy, they would only die more. Come on, running away won't make them any safer.
For example, in the face of petty profits, if you are greedy for petty gains, you will lose more things. If you pick up a sesame seed, you will lose the watermelon.
Under this subtle influence, Zhang Huairen wanted to use the discarded money to attract Ning Haijun's officers and soldiers to snatch it. In the end, they could throw away some burdens and gain safety.
Just ask Admiral Ning whether the silver or the head is more important, and any soldier will answer that the enemy's head is more important.
In Ning Haijun's military regulations, it is clearly stipulated that whatever is captured must be returned to the public. No matter whether it is a ingot of silver, a box of silver, or even a mountain of silver in front of them, it will not belong to them, but to the collective Ning Haijun. Regardless of whether they pick it up or not, their share cannot escape.
If they hide property privately, they will also be expelled from Ning Haijun, and their families will also lose the benefits of Ning Haijun's military dependents.
What seems impossible in Zhang Huairen's eyes is actually that simple.
As the killing cries and screams behind him became lower and lower, they could no longer be heard.
Zhang Huairen was actually very tired. It was really hard when climbing the mountain, especially when they climbed a wild hillside with no roads.
"What kind of army is that?"
"There is an army nearby, Dengzhou Guard Zuo Qianhu Station, I heard that Zuo Qianhu Cheng Shijie is a figure!"
"I've heard about him. I heard that Qin Wu brought four thousand followers to find trouble with him, but ended up falling into his hands."
"What a pity Qin Wu, he has many good men under his command!"
Listening to the discussion of his subordinates, Zhang Huairen had a sinister look on his face: "Then get him to join the team. Having such a fierce general joining the team will be of great benefit to our development!"
"What if he doesn't want to?"
Zhang Huairen sneered: "There are a few people in Liangshan who are willing to go up, and they are all forced. If he is not willing, I will tell him that he will not even be able to make a thousand households, and he will have to go up the mountain obediently!"
Zhang Huairen was not bragging. With the power of the Zhang family, it would be very easy to remove a Thousand Household criminal, regardless of whether the Thousand Household criminal committed any crime.
In the Ming Dynasty, it was politically correct for civilian officials to suppress military attachés. In this case, almost everyone took it for granted. Just like in the Wuqiao Mutiny, a chicken of Wang Xiangchun's servant was stolen, and Kong Youde inserted the stolen chicken into the soldiers. Traveling with arrows in the camp, which is the most severe punishment second only to beheading, is to be beaten with a military stick and then have an arrow stuck in the ear.
However, the problem was that Wang Xiangchun did not agree with such a punishment and took the opportunity to step on Kong Youde, a military attache. As a result, he almost overthrew the Ming Dynasty, but it also laid the foundation for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
Seeing that there were no pursuers behind him, Zhang Huairen made a long circle before returning to his home base.
Zhang Huairen's real village is not actually on the mountain, but in a village. Most of the bandits under his command are tenants of the Zhang family. This village called Zhangjiazhuang is exactly like an ordinary village.
After walking in the dark for most of the night, we crossed the Rushan River and arrived at Zhangjiazhuang.
However, just as the bandits under Zhang Huairen were crossing the river, densely packed torches appeared on the other side of the river, a torch that snaked for four or five miles.
Zhang Huairen, who was at the rear of the team, did not notice this abnormality because he was too tired. As a noble son from a wealthy family, Zhang Huairen couldn't hold on anymore after midnight. He asked his bandits to use the cut tree poles to make a He was lying on the simple wooden sedan, soundly sleeping.
"Officers and soldiers, there are officers and soldiers in front!"
The bandits who were walking in front were so frightened that they retreated hurriedly when they saw the officers and soldiers waiting in formation. What was originally a neat formation soon became chaotic.
In the chaos, the bandit who was carrying Zhang Huairen lost his footing and almost threw Zhang Huairen off the wooden sedan. But it woke up Zhang Huairen.
"what happened?"
"Sir, there are officers and soldiers ahead..."
"What's wrong with the officers and soldiers? During the day, the officers and soldiers still have some combat effectiveness. At night, they are all blind and disperse as soon as they charge!"
Although Zhang Huairen didn't know what night blindness was, he knew that the guardsmen were all beggars, military households who were worse than beggars. Almost everyone suffered from blindness.
This is also because of this. There are many famous battles in Chinese history. There are almost no battle-level wars that are decisively won at night. It is not only the soldiers who suffer from nyctalopia at night, but also because the command is very inconvenient.
More than a hundred bandits shouted and killed towards Ning Haijun's military formation on the other side of the river.
Cheng Shijie was slightly surprised when he saw this scene. Where did the confidence of these bandits come from?
You know, through the five-kilometer armed training, the endurance of Ning Haijun's long-distance march can surpass the bandits by ten blocks, not to mention that the bandits took dozens of extra miles of detours in order to detour.
But through interrogating the captured bandits, Cheng Shijie already knew in advance that Zhangzhuang Village was the bandit's lair in Sanshan Town, so he just waited here for the bandits to arrive.
Seeing the bandits screaming for attack, Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "If they want to die, let them do it!"
Following Cheng Shijie's order, Ning Haijun's crossbow shooters, fire gunners, and archers fired arrows at the bandits in the river.
If it were on flat ground, it was indeed possible for these bandits to rush to Ning Haijun's formation, because the rate of fire of both fire guns and crossbows was very slow.
This sentence means that when the crossbow machine is shooting at the enemy, when the enemy enters the effective range, it only has the chance to fire three arrows in a row.
But the problem is, these bandits actually cross the river, which is simply asking for death.
In the darkness, Admiral Ning began to develop, with dark red tongues of flames and gunshots as dense as popping beans.
It's just a pity that the shooting effect is not very good.
After a volley of two hundred firecrackers, only a dozen bandits were shot and fell into the river. However, one of Ning's naval officers' firecrackers exploded. Fortunately, the firecrackers did not have much charge. It was just that his hands were bleeding profusely, but his life was not in danger.
Cheng Shijie realized at the time that until the quality was not up to standard, he must not equip firecrackers on a large scale, otherwise he would be irresponsible for the lives of the soldiers.
These bandits have also dealt with officers and soldiers, so they naturally know that at this time, they can only bite the bullet and rush forward. If they hesitate, they will die.
More than a hundred bandits, despite the cost of twenty or thirty people being shot, still managed to board the river bank and kill Ning Haijun's military formation.
"Hold on, don't panic!"
"Hold the spear tightly and thrust out with all your strength!"
As most of the new recruits, Ning Haijun soldiers were trained to follow orders and formed muscle memory. As Cheng Shijie's orders were issued, these soldiers did not have to think about what they could stab, they just thrust out their spears.
The bandits who rushed up to fight the officers and soldiers were extremely disappointed to find that before they even swung their knives or spears, the spears thrust out by the officers and soldiers on the opposite side hit them in the chest, throat, and face.
The injured bandits either died immediately or fell to the ground wailing!
Seeing this scene, Zhang Huairen found in despair that the bandits under his command had no chance to break through the army's defense line. Even if they could finally break through, there would only be a few of them left.
"retreat……"
Zhang Huairen turned around and ran away. However, after running less than three or four hundred steps, he saw a fire dragon appearing behind him, and there were quite a few of them, hundreds of them.
If there was no charge across the river, he would still have a chance to fight when he still had more than a hundred people under his command, but now he has no chance.
Zhang Huairen said to the Ning Haijun soldier opposite: "Master, stop fighting and leave us a way to survive. I can give you money. How about it? Think about it? Aren't you eating this bowl of rice just for money? We Why don’t I give you money?”
"How much money do you have?"
"Five thousand taels!"
"It's only five thousand taels!"
Zhang Yu said with some regret: "Attack..."
"Ten thousand taels... no, twenty thousand taels of silver. You don't know how much twenty thousand taels of silver is. It's enough for you to spend ten lifetimes..."
Ning Haijun soldiers under Zhang Yu's command swarmed up. They may not have strong combat skills, but the problem is that when they are fighting with more than they are, they are like tigers entering the flock of sheep, dividing the bandits under Zhang Huairen's command by two. Cut to pieces.
Many Ning Haijun soldiers chopped off the heads of the bandits, but muttered: "Ten acres, ten acres, ten acres again!"
Now there are only two ways for Zhang Huairen and his bandits to retreat. There are pursuers behind them and strong enemies in front. They can neither advance nor retreat.
The dozen or so surviving bandits surrounded Zhang Huairen and had no choice but to retreat into the river.
Although the river water was not deep at this time, only about eighty or ninety centimeters, the problem was that the current river water was cold and they would soon be unable to hold on.
Moreover, the Ning navy soldiers on both sides of the river began to go down the river. There were many corpses floating in the river. They didn't have time to cut off their heads. They were all white money and fields.
Zhang Huairen shouted at the officers and soldiers: "I am from Zhensanshan, and I want to see you generals!"
Cheng Shijie stepped forward, but Chen Guodong blocked Cheng Shijie with his body.
Zhang Huairen saw Cheng Shijie. Although Cheng Shijie had lost a lot of weight now, he was still a fat man with a white face, and he did not look like a strong general who was good at fighting.
Seeing Cheng Shijie, Zhang Huairen was somewhat disappointed and said: "General Cheng, can you lend me a moment to speak?"
"Okay, you can surrender. This general will not kill defenseless people!"
"Easy to say!"
Zhang Huairen threw down the long knife in his hand, and a dozen other bandits also raised their hands to surrender.
Soon, four carts gathered together to form a house. That's right, it's a house. This was Cheng Shijie's idea. In later generations, he liked RVs very much, but RVs were big toys for rich people and he couldn't afford them.
In this time and space, he used his craftsmen to build a four-wheel carriage. This carriage is the same as an ordinary box carriage, but when the four carriages are put together, they will form a house with an area of about 60 square meters.
In this house, Cheng Shijie met Zhen Sanshan.
Zhang Huairen was escorted into the house by several soldiers.
"Kneel down!"
Cheng Shijie said: "What do you have to say?"
"Fifty thousand taels of silver, buy my life!"
"Humph, if I chop off your head, I can still get the fifty thousand taels of silver. Your silver will immediately become my trophy... What qualifications do you have to negotiate terms with me!"
"Laiyang Zhang family, is that enough?"
If Cheng Shijie were from Dengzhou or Shandong, he would know the energy and power of the Zhang family in Laiyang. It is a pity that Cheng Shijie is not a native.
The key is that Zhen Sanshan, a tough bandit, has no attitude of being a prisoner at all, which makes Cheng Shijie unhappy.
"not enough!"
Cheng Shijie said towards the door: "Here, take Zhen Sanshan with him and go to his lair to shout. If they don't surrender, we will kill them!"
Zhang Huairen said arrogantly towards Cheng Shijie: "You will regret it!"
Cheng Shijie's big foot kicked Zhang Huairen directly in the face: "Damn it, I really don't know how high the sky is!"
Zhang Huairen lost a few teeth in his mouth. He stared at Cheng Shijie with scarlet eyes: "Haha... you will regret it!"
Cheng Shijie smiled faintly and said: "If you want to anger this general, please give me a favor. I will tell you that there is no way. Cheng Shi, Cheng Hu!"
"Father!"
"It's up to you. Beat him three times a day, even one less meal won't work, but don't beat him to death!"
"yes!"
