For Wang Xiazi and the others, Luo Zhixue was their general. If Chuang Potian disrespected Luo Zhixue, it would be equivalent to disrespecting the entire Baoxiang Camp.
Besides, Wang Xiazi and other anti-thief leaders who had backgrounds as officers and soldiers have never had a good impression of other thieves. Now, when they encounter these thieves, they are so brazen that it is normal to kill them with a knife.
They had killed many bandits in the past, including this one.
But Luo Zhixue, who was above him, showed a disgusted expression at this time: "You have such a temper, you are still irritable. If you want to kill him, you have to wait until he goes out. This blood will stain the house."
After hearing this, Blind Wang pretended to be frightened: "The general taught me that if my subordinates don't dare to do it anymore, I will carry water to wash the ground right now."
Luo Zhixue waved his hand: "There won't be a next time. From now on, no one else will come to me. If another fool like me comes here and asks me to recognize a thief as my father, just kill him directly. There is no need to bring him to my place to disgust people!"
Luo Zhixue directly chopped down the envoys, but Chuang Potian didn't know yet, but it didn't stop him from taking some preventive measures.
Therefore, when he sent people there for the second time, he directly sent thousands of people there, which was enough to ensure safety on the road. Moreover, if Luo Zhixue succumbed later, he could also recruit Luo Zhixue's troops on the spot and come to Lushan County together. Let these temporarily incorporated Baoxiang battalions be used as cannon fodder to consume the arrows, ammunition, etc. of the officers and soldiers in Lushan County.
If Luo Zhixue is dissatisfied, he can directly attack Luo Zhixue and defeat him. Killing Luo Zhixue will have the same effect in gathering the remnants of Funiu Mountain.
What Chuang Po Tian needs is just a group of cannon fodder, Luo Zhixue itself is not important.
The leader responsible for leading this army of thousands of thieves to Songjiazhuang was Cong Chuang Po Tian's confidant, and he was also his nephew.
Don't ask why you got this name. Nowadays, all the powerful robbers like to give themselves nicknames. Among a large number of robber leaders, there are several who start with "chuang". What are the kings of chuang and "chuang"? Chuang Ta Tian, Chuang Potian, etc., and yes, there is also the one who shoots Ta Tian.
There are also a lot of dragons of all kinds, such as rolling dragons, ground turning dragons, nine dragons and so on.
There are even more names ending with king, such as Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng (now just a Chuang general), Eight Great Kings, Zhengshi King, Zuojin King, Zhishi King, Yiziwang, Shuntian King, Taiping King, Wabei King, King of climbing fields, King of Xingshi, King of reincarnation, King of sweeping the floor...
The names of Chuang Potian and his nephew Ding Potian are both decent names for bandit leaders.
Ding Potian wandered over with his army. On the way here, they looted a few villages and got a batch of food. However, they could only attack some ordinary villages, but they did not have the strength to attack a powerful village like Songjiazhuang. Powerful manor.
To put it bluntly, if you are not strong enough, you can only bully the weak and fear the strong. You can only bully some ordinary villagers and small landowners with little strength.
After robbing several villages, a group of people like Ding Po Tian barely managed to eat a few tons of food, and then they confidently continued towards Songjiazhuang.
On the way there, Ding Potian learned something he didn't know before: Songjiazhuang had money and food!
Ding Potian had never been to Lushan County before, so he naturally didn't know how wealthy the Song family was in Ruzhou. He also didn't know that the Song family manor had far more power than ordinary landowners.
But he still learned about some situations in Songjiazhuang from other people.
It is said that there are dozens of granaries filled with grain in Songjiazhuang.
It is said that the cellar in Songjiazhuang is full of gold and silver.
I heard that the female members of the Song family are more delicate than the other.
When he heard this, Ding Po Tian couldn't hold himself back and drooled directly...
So much food, so much gold and silver is enough for their uncles and nephews to carry the everlasting green, so that they don't have to be humble like before when they see those powerful camp owners.
Although Ding Potian had also heard that Songjiazhuang's courtyard had high walls and many guards, and that the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp that was able to capture Songjiazhuang were also some thugs, and it was said that these thugs from the Baoxiang Camp also had artillery.
But he didn't think so.
Since Ding Po Tian's parents died, he has been working as a bandit with his uncle Chuang Po Tian for four or five years.
I have experienced a lot of big battles and small battles, and I have gained a lot of insights.
In his opinion, the Baoxiang camp in Funiu Mountain was nothing more than relying on a few native cannons to scare the Song family's guards, and relying on the large number of people to drive the cannon fodder to forcibly attack the Song family manor. It is not impossible to go to Songjiazhuang.
But this kind of trick of killing opponents by relying on the number of people is the specialty of thieves like them. He is much more comfortable in playing it than that Luo Zhixue.
No, Ding Po Tian went all the way south, plundering and kidnapping them, and even kidnapped thousands of young men along the way.
After arriving at Songjiazhuang, if Luo Zhixue was dissatisfied and wanted to resist with force, he would ask these young men to go up and use up the energy of the rural protection camp, then use soldiers to charge and kill, and finally use two hundred veterans to plunder the formation and fight. Set the course.
With this thought in mind, Ding Po Tian arrived about eight miles away from Songjiazhuang.
Then he saw a team of more than a hundred elite riders appearing in front of him!
"Officers and cavalry? How come the officers and cavalry appear here? Aren't they all in the north?" Ding Potian just looked at the cavalry formation on the opposite side from a distance and immediately concluded that the cavalry on the opposite side was most likely the official cavalry.
This consistent formation and uniform gray military uniforms and equipment are not owned by the cavalry in the bandits at all.
"Quick, get in formation. The officers and cavalry are coming. Get in formation quickly!" When Ding Potian saw so many cavalry on the opposite side, there was no one to take care of the Song Family Village in front. He was so panicked that he ordered his subordinates to get into formation. On the other hand, he secretly asked the soldiers to prepare the mules and horses.
Once something goes wrong, he will immediately break out with his two hundred backbone men.
If that doesn't work, then he will not hesitate to break out with only a few dozen soldiers with mules and horses.
He has been a bandit for several years and has not died, not because he is good at fighting, nor because he is lucky, but because whenever things go wrong, he will break out with his backbone without hesitation.
And this time, it seemed to him that something was equally wrong!
Although there were only a hundred officers, soldiers and cavalry on the opposite side, which seemed to be a small force, our side would definitely be defeated if they faced it.
He knew very well who the two thousand people under his command were. One thousand of them were young men who were forcibly carried away on the road. They didn't even have weapons. The remaining thousand were better, but seven to eight hundred of them were from recent times. Although these men, who were young and strong in their arms, were equipped with simple weapons such as knives and spears, they were still far from being soldiers in the true sense.
The only people under his command who can really fight are about two hundred soldiers. These soldiers were basically young and strong men who were carried away in the past. After the waves washed away the sand, countless young men who were carried away died one after another, and the remaining ones died slowly. Slowly became a soldier, the main soldier in a rebel army.
These soldiers have been thieves for at least half a year, and some have even been thieves for several years. Their combat power is far beyond that of young and strong soldiers who have just been with them for a month or two.
At the same time, a few of these soldiers also had armor and strong bows.
However, with only these two hundred men, he had no confidence that he could stop the more than one hundred cavalry.
The cavalry on the opposite side don't need to rush over, they just follow them from a distance and come up from time to time and shoot a few arrows to kill them.
Just when Ding Potian looked panicked, he even started to plan whether to run away decisively.
Blind Wang, who was on the opposite side, had already brought his cavalry sentry forward. They did not rush over stupidly, but slowly stepped forward and looked at the chaotic formation of two thousand people on the opposite side.
Blind Wang was not in a hurry. His mission was not to fight directly with the bandits running from the north, but to hold them back.
On the one hand, it is to prevent them from continuing to approach Songjiazhuang and threatening the security of Songjiazhuang. On the other hand, they cannot be allowed to run away and continue to cause harm to the rural areas of Lushan County.
Songjiazhuang is still transferring a large amount of supplies to Songshan Village. Once the thieves are allowed to get too close to Songjiazhuang, it will pose a huge threat to this transportation line, which is not allowed by the Baoxiang Camp.
Therefore, when the reconnaissance cavalry discovered that the five thousand bandits from Lushan City in the north and south were divided into thousands of troops and headed towards Songjiazhuang, Luo Zhixue ordered Wang Xiazi to closely monitor the bandits. Once the bandits approached within ten miles of Songjiazhuang, they would be dragged away. Live with them and prevent these thieves from approaching Songjiazhuang.
At the same time, they cannot be allowed to escape.
Although Lushan County is still in the hands of the Ming government, the vast countryside of Lushan County is theirs to protect and camp, and these bandits cannot just plunder it if they want!
Luo Zhixue and others learned from the reconnaissance team that what Chuang Potian's bandits did all the way south was not human affairs.
These thieves came all the way to plunder after they went south, and they didn't just plunder. In addition to stealing food, gold and silver, these bastards also kidnapped young people on a large scale. In the process, they inevitably killed a lot of people. Special killings, insulting women, etc.
Moreover, they will also bypass the big landowners who have strong defenses and specifically target ordinary villages. This is a typical example of bullying the weak and fearing the strong.
Compared with their behavior in the past few days, what Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp did after coming out of the mountain was simply the behavior of a saint...
After the Baoxiang camp came out of the mountain, they did not attack any ordinary people, but went straight to the Songjiazhuang. When they attacked the Songjiazhuang, they killed one or two hundred people, but they were only limited to the stubborn guards, servants, Song family members, etc. Chiyu was not affected.
For the ordinary people around Songjiazhuang, the Baoxiang Camp did not attack them, and they did not even recruit them for food. They were only later recruited to help transport supplies back to Songshan Village.
Moreover, the Baoxiang Camp has recently begun to recruit soldiers in the surrounding villages. If they are to carry out massacres in these villages, unless they are forcibly kidnapped, who will serve as a soldier in the Baoxiang Camp that has destroyed their own families and people.
But what the thieves like Chuang Potian are doing in Lushan County now is to kill everyone, rob them all, and even burn them all, leaving not a single hair behind wherever they go...
If left unchecked and Chuang Potian continues to struggle like this, the population of Lushan County will drop significantly. Ten rooms and nine empty rooms is definitely not an exaggeration!
If all these people are dead, who will Luo Zhixue look for as a soldier or to collect food?
