Hou Tong was a bandit, and bandits had the style of bandits, and he brought this fine style to the south.
Ning Tian forced others to join the army, but Hou Tong did not do that. As soon as he crossed the Nanding River, he led his men straight to the largest town in the area!
Before crossing the river, Hou Tong already had a bad reputation. It is said that wherever he went, he would immediately attack if he disagreed. This was to give people a chance to ask them whether they would surrender. If they did not surrender, he would directly attack them. The fight started, it was direct and violent!
His style is also very direct. As long as he is willing to pay the protection fee, he can ignore it!
There is such a good thing in the world, and you can really spend money to eliminate disasters, so who wouldn't!
Just imagine, after desperately resisting, there is a high probability that the city will be broken. The city in South Vietnam is not like the one in the Song Dynasty. It is protected by tall city walls. At most, the outer circle of South Vietnam is a natural river, not even a moat. What to use To fend off the bandits? After the city is broken, people die and there is no money. They are all looted by the bandits, and they have to risk their lives in vain. Instead of doing this, it is better to give the money to others directly. Anyway, their goal is very clear, which is to get money!
The first town to try is Guang'an, a coastal town in the east. Guang'an has a population of tens of thousands. Hou Tong led 300 people to fight there. It stands to reason that if they fight hard, they can win, but the city's garrison has already let the court know Deployed to attack Guangyuan, there are no soldiers in the city. Even if there are soldiers, they are not willing to fight these horses. They can't jump as high as other horses. How can they fight?
Guang'an paid 30,000 guan of money and tens of thousands of catties of meat and dry food to successfully send away these plague gods!
Hou Tong is also a man of his word.
, he will leave as soon as he gets the money, and he must not break the rules, otherwise he will make his path narrower and narrower, and in the end he will have no way to go!
Next, Jian'an, Xing'an, and Taiping were looted in four cities. Hou Tong earned a huge wealth that he had never seen in his life!
When he arrived at Nanding River, Hou Tong directly used the money to buy countless large ships, and used the ships to directly send his soldiers and horses to the other side. In order to win the bet with Ning Tian, both parties used incredible methods. operation.
It's just that the South Vietnamese's operations are even more puzzling. This was during the war, and they dared to take money from the rogues and help them with their affairs!
Hou Tong understands the rules of this society very well. If he has money, he can do anything. Even fighting is to make money. Otherwise, who can risk his life on tomorrow?
Hou Tong arrived in the south and pushed forward non-stop. He marched hurriedly every day, 300 miles a day, and reached the southern tip of South Vietnam. His speed was far faster than Ningtian. He found a hilltop in Guangping in the south and became a leader in South Vietnam. Mountain King. .
Hou Tong was never a person who was just waiting to die. He was a mountain king in Guangping, but he was not satisfied with being a mountain king. Instead, he spent a lot of money to bribe the local government. .
It is fair to say that Hou Tong is brave and foolhardy, but looking at the operations of him and Ning Tian, it will give people a misunderstanding, as if Ning Tian is the foolhardy person, while Hou Tong is the foolhardy one. He's the old man who knows the world well.
He has been a bandit in Guanzhou all his life. No matter how strong he is, there is always a big mountain pressing down on him. This experience made him understand that no matter how strong a thief is, he cannot compare with the government. If If you can cooperate with the government, then
Nothing is a problem.
Driven by this magical thought, Hou Tong first took over the local government in Guangping, and the two began to work together!
There are really few officials in South Vietnam who are not corrupt or abusing their power behind the scenes. Most of them treat the people as fish or fat pigs raised in their own homes, and are always ready to slaughter them, suck their blood and eat their flesh!
The reason is also very simple. Officials in the Song Dynasty had Confucius and Mencius etiquette to restrain themselves. This was a moral restraint on themselves. They also had laws and a series of complete systems to supervise them. Therefore, even if they were corrupt, most officials , and dare not be too blatant.
South Vietnam imitated the system of the Song Dynasty, but they learned the essence of the corruption and bureaucracy of the Song Dynasty, but they castrated these Confucius and Mencius methods, taking the dross and discarding the essence. The system also learned only superficially, and did not use the supervision agencies on the table. In addition, the economy in South Vietnam is so bad that even the officials are poor. How can we expect them to lead the people to get rich?
Wei Quan, the magistrate of Guangping Prefecture, is a truly corrupt and cruel official!
They have long known the 'prestige' of Ning Tien and Hou Tong in South Vietnam! He also knew the style of these two people. He was afraid that people like Ning Tian would come to his territory, but he was always looking forward to Hou Tong's arrival!
Because Hou Tong collects money, as long as money can settle the matter, he knows what to do!
Hou Tongzhan was the king of the mountain, so he immediately gave the money to him. If others gave him 10,000 guan, he gave him 20,000 guan, showing his sincerity and determination! In short, we will not fall behind!
Hou Tong was happier than anyone else and immediately established his base in the mountains of Guangping, and then
Secretly formed an underground alliance with Wei Quan!
He came forward to assure Wei Quan that as long as he was in South Vietnam, he would deal with the big and small bandits in Guangping Prefecture, and there would never be a second team to harass him. His goal was to continue going south, so naturally he would not You will let others take advantage of your own rear area! Even if Ning Tian comes, he must ensure the safety of Guangping Prefecture!
There are such heroes, how can they be robbers? This is clearly the God who protects the environment! The patron saint of the people!
When Wei Quan heard this, he was so excited that he almost recognized Hou Tong as his godfather!
Although it is a great sin to conspire with thieves, at this time, wars are raging all over South Vietnam and thieves are swarming. Not to mention protecting the country and the people, all areas are devastated by bandits. Not to mention the refugees, many officials even lose their own lives. Got it! If he meets Ning Tian, it will be a bloody misfortune that has ruined his ancestors for eight lifetimes. Everything will be destroyed, not even anyone will be left alive!
Don't say that he sent money to Hou Tong, as long as his Guangping Prefecture is left intact in the future, the people are protected from massacre, and the territory is safe, Wei Quan will be a great contributor to the sky!
As soon as Hou Tong landed, the first thing he did was to build a stronghold. He built an impregnable stronghold in Guangping Mountain and settled all the people. The second thing was to recruit soldiers and buy horses! Ning Tian robs people, he recruits them, and uses them all as regular troops! The third thing is to continue asking Wei Quan for people, money, and equipment!
For those who didn’t know, they thought that Hou Tong was a regular soldier sent by the imperial court! Things are so formal!
Hou Tong didn't bother Wei Quan. He started by saying that if you don't give it, some people want to give it, but it's okay if you don't give it.
Let's stop talking about friendship, we are going to meet each other with swords and guns on the battlefield!
As soon as these words came out of his mouth, Wei Quan was so angry that he almost spit out his blood. It was equivalent to erasing all his previous contributions, turning his face away and turning his back on others!
Come on, Hou Tong actually raised a regular army of thousands of people in just a few days, with horses and donkeys but no horses! You can ride a bull too!
This Hou family's army not only has the same regular equipment as the imperial court, but also practices every day. South Vietnam's own army usually keeps its equipment in warehouses for long periods of time, all at an advantage to Hou Tong, and their pay and silver are stripped layer by layer. The soldiers below barely had enough to eat. Hou Tong had nothing in his hands but money, which was enough to pay him! If you practice enough every day or go out to fight, you will get bonuses!
Oh my God!
But not only Wei Quan, but also the newly recruited South Vietnamese all regarded Hou Tong as their biological father and followed Hou Tong wholeheartedly.
Even Liang Chuan himself did not expect that he just accidentally took two people to South Vietnam, and actually cultivated two great warlords in South Vietnam. Their strength expanded rapidly at a geometric level, becoming two big tumors in South Vietnam!
Ning Tian's style is the same as Huang Chao in the late Tang Dynasty. He does not establish a base area, but he still wants to absorb the local South Vietnamese for his own use. Moreover, these South Vietnamese are loosely disciplined, all like wolves and tigers, and more destructive than anyone else. Be scary!
Hou Tong followed the route of elite soldiers. He had very high requirements for the soldiers he recruited. He did not want good soldiers. He also drilled every day and equipped the soldiers with the same equipment as the regular army of the imperial court. There was also Wei Quan, a local court in South Vietnam.
Ting provided cover for him. As long as Hou Tong saw a place, he would immediately ask Hou Tong to go up and rob him under the guise of rebellion or thieves. The two groups were simply worse than Fang La Songjiang. If you want to be terrible, if you continue to indulge, the South Vietnamese court will be doomed!
Although the south of South Vietnam is geographically far away from the Song Dynasty, they do not rely on the Song Dynasty to make a living. The Song Dynasty knew that South Vietnam was a scourge, and had always adopted a policy of weakening Vietnam, not having business dealings with South Vietnam, and letting them fend for themselves.
However, the prosperity of maritime business allowed South Vietnam to start maritime trade with the Semu people in the west and Luzon in the southern sea. A shipment of goods could bring profits ten thousand times the output of the land. This made the court of South Vietnam Seeing a different way out, it was the development of southern shipping that gave South Vietnam the confidence to challenge the Song Dynasty in the north. Therefore, at this time, the lifeblood of South Vietnam was no longer the north, which made a living from farming, but the south. These seaport cities have outstanding port business!
The three Nong brothers went out to the mountain to inquire about information. The heavy rain for several days gave the people hiding in the mountain a rare tranquility.
The heavy rain made Liang Chuan and others uncomfortable, and made the South Vietnamese officers and soldiers who were marching and pursuing them even more uncomfortable. There were a large number of them, and marching in the rain would make their feet soaked in water for a long time. This made people prone to getting sick, and once they got sick, it would spread to the entire army. Moreover, it is difficult to make a fire when there is rain. If you don’t make a fire, you can’t eat hot food, and the morale of the troops will become lower and lower. It is already difficult to find people in the mountains, and the rain washes away many traces. Over and over again, even God has achieved success. Liang Chuan and his party!
How long have you waited?
Today, we finally got the long-awaited Nongda people back!
