His target is Liansheng Grain Bank, not Liansheng Bank! Because he knew that if he touched Liansheng Bank, he would be fighting to the death with Liu Haojia! And Lend Lease Bank can’t be touched just by him!
Lend Lease Bank's stores in various places are all built with bricks and cement. They look like ordinary shops, but in fact they are basically a battlefield fortress! As long as they close the door, it will be easy to block the siege of thousands of people!
What was even more troublesome for him was that the people in Lend Lease Bank never concealed the fact that they practiced for half an hour in the morning and evening every day! The content of the drill included everything from guns and clubs to crossbows, which fundamentally eliminated the idea of little thieves targeting banks!
But just when he was annoyed, the second bad news came again! The farmers outside the city who were supposed to be doing spring sowing suddenly shrank into two villages, and swordsmen from the northwest were hired to guard the safety of the villages!
Even when they go out to farm, they work together as a group. After finishing one piece of land, they turn to another piece of land. Although the work efficiency is a little lower in this way, everyone gathers together to make a huge noise. People who want to cause trouble dare not come forward, and even people who want to inquire about information must approach cautiously!
And these people actually have to perform every day! However, the projects they have performed are much less than Lend Lease Bank! What they mainly practice are spears and firecrackers! Those who inquired said that they did not have any formation during the drill. They were just a large group of people huddled together, with those in front using spears and those in the back using firecrackers! Then there was random stabbing with spears and random blows with fire blunderbuss. There was no plan at all!
But Qian Shounian became even more depressed and crazy after hearing this! ! Because this is enough to repel the attacks of ordinary enemies! There were spears in front and fire guns in the back. The salt owl were not fools, so they left when they saw no advantage!
What's more, there are swordsmen on the side. If they are entangled by those swordsmen, the salt lords are not willing! After all, they often have to deal with swordsmen when transporting salt, and sometimes they have to hire a group of swordsmen when they are short of manpower, so they still have friendship with each other!
Therefore, no one is willing to kill the swordsman, because it is not worthwhile to have an enemy for nothing! And wouldn't it be terrible if someone tried to cause trouble while transporting salt? So there were no casualties here at Yan Xiao, but Qian Shounian's thugs killed and injured some people!
Then he sent people to inquire about several other places in the surrounding area, and found that the situation there was similar to here! Where there was no Liansheng Bank, people from Liansheng Grain Bank would retreat into the village and mix with the farmers they recruited.
In places where there is no Zhuangzi, there are people who came forward to organize farmers to gather together and hastily build the prototype of a small Zhuangzi. And daily practice is a must! Such behavior made Qian Shounian feel that a dog cannot bite a hedgehog!
Naturally, their actions could not be hidden from the local Zhang family, not to mention that Zhang Jingping had guessed that they were going to do something from the beginning and was keeping an eye on them. Especially when the swordsmen and salt lords were gathering, Zhang Jingping sent someone to warn them, saying that things should not get too big!
Moreover, Zhang Jingping also sent troops to increase patrols, and judging from the actions of the soldiers, it was obvious that they had been informed and were not biased towards any party. Moreover, Zhang Jingping also tried to play the role of peacemaker and wanted to invite both parties to sit down and talk, but was rejected mercilessly by both parties! This made him feel very embarrassed!
But even so, he didn't want to offend anyone. They are just trying their best to maintain the balance in Datong City and its surroundings. Behind the grain merchants and salt merchants is a collection of powerful families and powerful people. He must not be offended! The other party is a newly powerful nobleman and a confidant of Emperor Wanli. He also does not want to offend. Now that he is caught in the middle, he is a little anxious and regretful, but there is nothing he can do.
Qian Shounian and others naturally scoffed at Zhang Jingping's warning! Now they just don't have time to deal with him, otherwise it would be his turn to point fingers here! Their big problem now is how to deal with these people under Liansheng.
So even though Zhang Jingping helped, there were still several armed fights outside the city, resulting in some casualties! What’s surprising is that far more people died on the Salt Owl side than among the farmers in Zhuangzi!
The reason for this is very simple, because Qian Shounian did not dare to fight with
Liu Haojia was very stubborn, so he specially ordered not to make things worse! Therefore, many methods such as arson were not used. I just wanted to attack with swords and guns to disperse the farmers!
But these farmers showed great courage in order to save their jobs! Moreover, the people who secretly commanded them were regular officers in the Wu'an Army, so they suffered a big loss by underestimating the enemy!
The officers knew that the hastily trained farmers could not be the opponents of the salt owl, so they never fought with them head-on. Instead, they huddled in the village and guarded several intersections! Moreover, they didn't even show their faces at the intersection. They huddled in the passage between the houses on both sides and used their spears to hold the entire intersection! At the same time, the person using the musket will be placed on the roof and shoot from a high position!
What they do is as annoying as hedgehogs! When the Salt Owl attacked, there was nothing he could do against the dense spears! Although the farmers had not been training for a long time, it was easy to stab some people with the random thrusts of the spears!
Especially when firecrackers are constantly being shot down from the roofs of houses, this is the key to causing casualties! Although farmers are not very accurate when using firecrackers, the sound of firecrackers shooting is enough to make people feel frightened! What's more, being hit by a fire cannon will really kill someone!
In the eyes of the salt owls, a well-aimed fire blunderbuss is not scary. At worst, if you dodge it, you will die if you can't avoid it! But the firecrackers fired by the farmers were totally inaccurate. They had no idea where they would hit or who they would hit! This puts them under a lot of psychological pressure!
Especially during a fight, there was a situation where archers and muskets were shooting at each other. It was a disaster! The Salt Owls clearly saw that the opponent's muskets were aimed at the archers, but the lead bullets hit the crowd of Salt Owls who were watching the excitement more than ten steps away, and actually beat the highly motivated Salt Owls team to pieces! This can be regarded as an interesting anecdote during the battle!
In this way, the conflict between the two sides turned into a protracted battle. As time went on, the salt owl had to disperse before the arrival of the official army. So they cost a few casualties but never succeeded!
