Chapter 13 Defeat Lao Dangdang
Like this, the bandits rushed towards the mountain village, one was as anxious as the other! At this time, Lao Dangdang was also eager to retake his mountain village and drive away the hungry people.
Zhang Biwu did not retreat. He was not far from Lao Dangdang. He looked at him from a distance. The smoke covering the sky was a dozen cavalry sent by Zhang Biwu. He tied it behind the horse with branches, and then ran back and forth, raising the smoke, thus deceived Lao Dangdang and made Lao Dangdang think that Zhang Biwu had already retreated.
Huang Qi said: "Biwu, Lao Dangdang is in a hurry to go back! Should we kill a shot immediately?" Zhang Biwu sighed and said: "Zhao Dayong and Zhao Dawei's men have not arrived yet! Alas! Okay! You can't miss the best opportunity! Start an attack on the enemy immediately! I think as long as we fight for a while, we can wait until the arrival of the Yuan Zhao Dayong and Zhao Dawei's men!"
Zhang Biwu immediately put on his helmet, and he rushed out first, with Zhang Biwu leading the way. The other brave men were naturally extremely brave, and they also fought out at the same time! They wanted to vent all the resentment just now!
Old Dangdang and his people thought that Zhang Biwu had gone far away and would not come back, but they did not expect that Zhang Biwu's men would quickly kill him and shoot him back.
At this moment, Lao Dangdang could only respond in a hurry and then rely on his reinforcements to rescue him. When the two sides had just fought, chaos broke out in the rear of Lao Dangdang. This was Zhao Dayong and Zhao Dawei's men who arrived and started attacking.
When Zhang Biwu and his brave men saw that the people from the side came, they cheered up and rushed towards Lao Dangdang fiercely! Unstoppable!
Old Dangdang shouted: "What's going on? Didn't Zhang Biwu retreat? Why did they turn around and hit me so quickly? And how could an enemy appear in the back of me?"
In fact, Zhang Biwu had long remembered the old Dangdang's men. Now he must defeat the old Dangdang's men as soon as possible and then block the two armies coming to support.
Lao Dangdang absorbed Zhang Biwu's attention as soon as he floated, and Zhang Biwu immediately took Lao Dangdang directly.
When Lao Dangdang saw a man flying towards him, his subordinates could not stop him at all, and there were many people following him! Although this person was very young, he was unstoppable!
Lao Dangdang thought that only Zhang Biwu! Yes! This person is Zhang Biwu! Lao Dangdang was afraid in his heart. He dared not confront Zhang Biwu. He could only escape in panic. Now saving his life is the most important thing.
How could Zhang Biwu let Lao Dangdang go when he saw Lao Dangdang? He had to be caught and then killed. Unfortunately, Zhang Biwu's mount was not Wanhu Hou. Wanhu Hou was killed when he was in Jinan, otherwise he would have killed Lao Dangdang long ago.
Zhang Biwu could only aim his gun at Lao Dangdang and threw it out. Lao Dangdang was still wary of it, and he dodged the shot from the side. But Zhang Biwu's real killing came!
With a "swoosh", an arrow shot over, and this time it hit Lao Dangdang, who turned over and knocked off the horse.
Lao Dangdang's subordinates immediately collapsed and could no longer resist. As for returning to the mountain village, they didn't think about it. They just scattered birds and beasts, and they all scattered and ran away in a hurry, but they wanted to escape!
Zhang Biwu did not chase after Lao Dangdang's men. He just defeated Lao Dangdang's men, that's all! Next, he immediately led his men to fight against the two troops coming to support with a victorious momentum.
The two men who came to support were Yidougu and Clay pot. These two men were out of loyalty and came to help Lao Dangdang, but they did not expect the situation to change so quickly. They had just come and wanted to attack Zhang Biwu forward and backward, but now Zhang Biwu faked retreat, and quickly defeated Lao Dangdang with a retaliation, and killed Lao Dangdang. If Yidougu and Clay pot were to continue, how much chance of winning would there be?
Yidou Valley and the citrus jar were both frightened by Zhang Biwu's reputation. Now that Lao Dangdang is dead, it is meaningless to help him. Instead, he will offend Zhang Biwu and have the intention to retreat.
Zhang Biwu knew this and ordered the entire army to accelerate the attack and force Yidou Valley and the earthen jar to retreat.
Yidougu and the wattle jar dared not fight with Zhang Biwu anymore. Most of them retreated. Under Zhang Biwu's pursuit, they lost several consecutive formations.
Don’t chase the poor enemy, and Zhang Biwu didn’t want to pursue them relentlessly. He just took the baggage abandoned by a dou of valley and clay pots! As for how much money and food can Lao Dangdang give them to the cliff? This is foreseeable. Under the crazy snatch of hungry people, there will be no more left.
By the time Zhang Biwu led his army back to Lao Dangdang's village, it was a mess, and the granary had been looted. It was true that there was not much left, and there were still many money and other things left. This was because during the famine, most of the hungry people were just trying to grab food. As for money, they couldn't eat them, so they were not the focus.
In famine and hardship, food is of course even greater than the temptation of money on people.
Huang Qi came to Zhang Biwu, sighed and said, "We worked hard to fight a war, but now we can't get much money! There is not much money or food! This battle is really in vain!"
Zhang Biwu looked at Huang Qi and said, "No! Huang Qi, our battle was not in vain! Because we let so many people have a meal! This battle is worth fighting! Although we can't grab much money and food, at least there are still some! This is also something to be happy about! Okay! Go back to Lingbao! I think Li Zicheng should have heard of this!"
As soon as Zhang Biwu said that, he asked someone to set off immediately.
As Zhang Biwu said, when Li Zicheng heard the news that Zhang Biwu defeated Lao Dangdang and eliminated Lao Dangdang, he laughed. If Zhang Biwu really wanted to compete with him for the people's hearts, it would be bad. Fortunately, Zhang Biwu left all at once. Yidougu, Waguzi and others came to join Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng took them into account.
At this time, Li Zicheng was constantly expanding his power, and Chongzhen didn't understand at all! Li Xianfeng did not report the matter, and the court was kept in the dark, allowing Li Zicheng to slowly expand his power in Nanyang, so that he made a last splash!
Li Zicheng attached great importance to Zhang Biwu's arrival in Nanyang to suppress the thieves this time. He was afraid that Zhang Biwu would tell Chongzhen toughly, so he would die. He also wanted to know how Chongzhen's attitude towards Zhang Biwu was.
Li Zicheng also had a spy in Beijing. His spy knew that Chongzhen did not trust Zhang Biwu, and that Zhang Biwu's military pay and officials' salaries could not be sent. This was Chongzhen's instruction.
At the same time, Chongzhen also sent the East Factory spies and the Jinyiwei to stare at Zhang Biwu. If Zhang Biwu had any unjust actions, he would capture Zhang Biwu. Zhang Biwu's every move was under Chongzhen's surveillance. Even Zhang Biwu attacked Lao Dangdang, among which the hungry people included the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang spies, and of course, even Zhang Biwu's courage was also included.
Look, Zhang Biwu's attack on Lao Dangdang was submitted to Chongzhen, and the narration was detailed in detail.
Chongzhen looked and looked again and said, "Zhang Biwu did not submit a memorial saying that he had owed his salary and military pay. If he had trained his salary, he would attack the bandits! And the governments in various places turned a blind eye!"
Wang Chengen replied, "Yes! Emperor!" Chongzhen sneered and said, "Okay! Your Zhang Biwu is a lazy bull type. If I don't beat you, you will not work hard! I can't give you military salary and wait! You can keep helping me to pacify the bandits!"
When Wang Chengen heard Chongzhen say this, he sighed. He knew that it was very difficult for Chongzhen to reuse Zhang Biwu since Chongzhen had suspicion of Zhang Biwu.
"Oh!" Chongzhen sighed and said, "I thought Yang Sichang could easily destroy Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, but I didn't expect..." Chongzhen's eyes couldn't help but fall on the Tangbao.
But Jiantang newspaper said: "On the sixth day of the ninth month, the Ming army was defeated at Guanyinyan. The supervisor of the army, Wan Ji, stationed in Wushan, and Shao Jiechun stationed in Dachang to support each other. Later, Jiechun used his general's words to believe that Dachang was on the upper and lower horse ferry, and the water was shallow and flat, and it was difficult to guard it. So the troops were divided into three places, each of which sent three or four hundred people to defend. The rebel army suddenly arrived and broke Shangma ferry first.
Yuan Ji urgently ordered the generals to gather in Tanjialing, Qibangkan, Qianxi and other places, and sent Zhang Zukai's troops to station Jingbi. Jiechun sent Luo Hongzheng and Shen Yinglong to help him. Zhang Xianzhong had already broken through Jingbi and went to Dachang, and then captured Dachang."
Chongzhen's mood is very bad now, and he feels very heavy. If Zhang Xianzhong escapes from Sichuan again, he doesn't know what to do, and it may cause the situation to collapse even more!
Now that natural disasters are constantly coming, the people are living in dire straits. Even if Chongzhen wanted to help the people, where did he ask for money? Since his struggle with his royal relatives failed, he really had no way to raise money except for increasing taxes! But now the tax is so heavy that the people have collected their lives. If they have to collect their sons and continue to collect their grandchildren!
Chongzhen was worried, he was frowning, he was thinking about a way!
Suddenly my eyes lit up! Tariffs! Yes! Increase tariffs! Chongzhen thought that on July 15, Deputy General of Linqing Huang Yinsi presented the "Sea Transport Map". The lifting of the sea ban really increased the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty a lot.
The Ming Dynasty had been in a state of seclusion for a hundred years, and now it was a forced one. At the suggestion of Zheng Zhilong and others, the sea ban was opened to preserve the country of his ancestors. This was indeed an immediate effect and increased a lot of income. Now, in order to successfully suppress the thieves, Chongzhen only thought of this, and increased tariffs! As long as the bandits were pacified and the worries of the Eastern Captains were relieved, the world's tariffs would be immediately reduced.
Chongzhen had made up his mind, so he wanted the cabinet to discuss it.
Chongzhen, who had already raised money and had a good plan, felt relaxed. Chongzhen couldn't help but see that Johnson Chan had prepared the old piano and another foreign instrument. He now became interested and wanted someone to play these instruments.
Chapter completed!