Indeed, this is blood feud.

This is the blood feud between the unruly people and the big men.

Xiong Tingbi's fantasy can only be innocent fantasy. He wants to solve it in a peaceful way, but the gentry who was in anger did not want it.

In their opinion, the unruly people must die.

Since a peaceful resolution is impossible, Xiong Tingbi can only attack.

His offensive plan is relatively conservative, that is, to retake Daye first. After all, this is a small county town. It is easier than attacking Wuchang City, which is full of cannons, and it is all heavy artillery. There is no place to stand there. There is only a few miles in a straight line between Huangzhou Fucheng and Wuchang City. The 18-pound heavy artillery with the largest elevation angle can even form cross firepower on the river surface. The Yangtze River warships with the largest seven-pound cannon in his hand...

I can't hold on even a single shot!

So he first attacked Daye, and he also fantasized about defeating Daye to force the workers to surrender.

Of course, it is still just his fantasy.

At least in the minds of Zhen Shu and his officers, this battle is to massacre the city and kill all the troublemakers.

They fished out hundreds of dead bodies by the Yangtze River.

They are all men from the gentry families in Huangzhou Fucheng and Wuchang County. Although they have been soaked in the river for a few days due to seasonal reasons, they can still recognize their appearance.

These are their clans or in-laws, and even if they are not, they are all old friends of classmates.

It can be said that every corpse caught was crazy, and there were even many people who took out his own father's body like Zhen Shu.

The core of Xiong Tingbi's subordinates were originally scholars of Wuchang Prefecture and Huangzhou Prefecture.

The combined number of Jinshi students produced by these two prefectures is more than one-third of that of the entire modern Hubei and Hunan.

And Huangzhou Prefecture itself is nearly one-quarter.

After all, Xiong Tingbi was just the commander of the Dingsheng Army. Because of the nature of the gentry army of the Dingsheng Army, he decided that he would definitely be influenced by the officers of the aristocratic families. When the main officers of the Dingsheng Army were all staring at their blood-red eyes and trying to kill people, what could Xiong Tingbi do? If he dared to stop him, those who were like Zhen Shu who dared to shoot him with a revenge on his father were no longer simply suppressing the rebellion, this was the real blood feud...

"I would rather kill three thousand by mistake than miss one!"

On the mountain road leading to Daye on the south bank of Cihu, Zhen Shu, wearing armor, rode on a horse, holding a knife and roaring murderously.

Beside him were soldiers marching in a hurry with bird guns, all of whom were blue cloth uniforms and full of iron armor. Among them was a field cannon dragged by horses.

They have no spearmen.

But there were burly figures in the middle, with wooden boxes hanging on their chests.

These boxes are grenades, which are placed in a wooden box similar to that sold cigarettes in the Republic of China for easy access and hang on the chest.

In addition, these people are carrying sabers on their shoulders.

They are not only grenadiers, but also the most brave storm-selling team.

"Stone also needs to be cut by three swords!"

Zhen Shu, the Minister of Justice during Chongzhen in history, added a sentence immediately.

But at this moment, several figures flashed in the mountains and forests ahead, and smoke rose in the forest. The whistling bullet hit a soldier. The latter fell down with a scream. The soldiers in the march raised their guns to fight back. Then the figures ran out in panic and ran away along the mountain road toward the front.

"Chase!"

Zhen Shu shouted without hesitation.

The vanguard soldier immediately chased with a bird gun and opened fire during the pursuit. One attacker fell down and screamed there while the others continued to escape. The mob's performance made Zhen Shu sneer. Then he also urged the war horses to lead the cavalry team forward, and soon arrived next to the injured attacker, stepping on the latter's chest with his horse's hooves without hesitation...

"Open Daye, you won't seal your sword for three days!"

He shouted.

The soldiers were obviously excited to speed up...

They like this. Even though Daye is a small county town, it has developed well over the years thanks to iron ore.

Besides, there are women!

However, they did not notice that just as the fallen leaves were piled up not far away next to them, a man suddenly pulled the rope in his hand.

"boom!"

The explosion like the sky collapsed and the earth suddenly cut off the Dingsheng Army with a long snake.

The explosion of air waves carried gravel and even knocked Zhen Shu off his horse in an instant. He screamed in horror and fell to the ground, struggling to get up in the dust and smoke, and then looked at the chaotic team, and at the same time, a broken arm landed in front of him from the sky. The next moment was dense gunfire, and the soldiers of the Dingsheng Army fell one after another, and some people even escaped instinctively...

"Breaking back, fight back!"

Zhen Shu lay on the ground and yelled.

Through the smoke of gunpowder, he could see the attackers in the mountains and forests retreating.

Behind them are tens of thousands of troops stretching to Huangshi Port. This kind of sneak attack will definitely not last long. As for the explosion, it is just that they are hit by a landmine.

Landmines in this era are already very scientific. Use devices like rotary wheel ignition guns to use an iron wheel that can rub flints. The power of the iron wheel is a large stone. Once the trip cord is passive, the stone falls and the stone drives the iron wheel to rotate and rub flints to ignite gunpowder. It takes time to lay the mine, and the fire silence rate is high, so if someone lurks and pulls the hair, the success rate is higher. This is already a very scientific weapon. Because it takes time to lay the mine, it is very powerful.

Usually, a bucket of gunpowder or a bunch of small landmines are buried underground and then detonated at the same time.

And this is obviously a barrel of gunpowder.

The chaos caused by the explosion and attacks ended soon.

As the smoke filled the gunpowder, Zhen Shu got up with blood stains, and the protection of her armor made him not hurt.

"Continue to march and pay attention to your feet!"

Looking at the mess around, he said hatefully.

The unlucky soldiers quickly cleared the bodies and wounded soldiers, loaded the latter into a carriage and transported it back behind, and then continued to move forward tremblingly.

But they no longer had the excitement they had before.

This is a real war.

They will die at any time.

But they had just walked less than a mile away. In the gravel pit dug by mine seekers on the roadside, the mines that were detonated with slow-burning objects like timers exploded again, and then countless gravels that were blown off fell from the sky. The Dingsheng Army once again suffered dozens of casualties. However, Zhen Shu, driven by hatred, ignored the persuasion of his subordinates, continued to move forward with the already terrified soldiers. Cold guns and mines accompanied them. They left dead bodies all the way less than ten miles of mountain road.

After walking out of the mountains and forests, they immediately faced the countryside that was already firm and clear.

Zhen Shu, who was venting anger, ordered everything to be burned without hesitation, and even the well was destroyed by him. In short, she looked like a real return group.

They led the destruction all the way to the periphery of Daye.

But before they could start siege, the guerrillas in the iron mine area behind them broke out and kept attacking their logistics team.

The people of Daye chose to defend their homes.

The battle started like this.

The small town backed by Yuanhu Lake is like a peninsula, and the weather turns cold and the lake is frozen, and the ships are no longer accessible, but the ice layer is not thick enough to pass, which almost protects it on three sides. The surrounding season is full of reed marshes and soft swamps. The only choice of the Dingsheng Army is to attack from the north. But behind them are guerrillas going south from Wuchang. The armed workers are very clear that they cannot defeat the Dingsheng Army when fighting head-on, but this is a hilly area full of swamps, which is most suitable for them to fight guerrillas.

Attack the logistics team of the Dingsheng Army, bombard the military camps with small mortars, and even organize small troops to raid for a short time. Usually at night, the ammunition they carried was immediately withdrawn to Wuchang City after taking out the supplies, and then leave the city again.

Xiong Tingbi had to divide his troops to attack Wuchang.

But the result is no difference. He just gained the same battlefield, because from Huangshi Port to Wuchang, there is still a terrain of nearly a hundred miles, countless ups and downs, continuous mountains and forests, and countless swamps that can be trapped in just one step although frozen.

A series of villages with solid walls and clear fields.

There are large pits dug from mining everywhere, and mines are everywhere.

Even the guerrillas destroyed all the bridges, and even the roads that could have been passed through heavy artillery have been dug.

The city is guarded by everyone, and there are attacks from countless guerrillas outside. Xiong Tingbi, who is in his hometown, feels like he is in a foreign land, as if everything around him, all the mountains, forests, all swamps, and even every inch of land is resisting him, and even the air makes him feel suffocated.

But there is also good news. Faced with this uprising, the gentry of Huguang acted incredibly efficiently.

Chengtian and Suizhou all went south and attacked Wuchang Prefecture City. The militias organized by gentry in Yuezhou, Jingzhou, Chengtian, De'an and other places continued to arrive. Similarly, militias in other counties in Huangzhou Prefecture also took the initiative to encircle the city. Even some militias in Jiangxi took the initiative to join, and even the gentry in Changde, Yang He's hometown, was still hiring chief soldiers. Faced with this uprising, all gentry worked together rarely, which was much more united than in history when they faced foreign invaders.

Of course, this is useless.

Because Xiong Tingbi knew very well that Yang Feng would not give him too much time.

Yang Feng...

"Macheng, the best place in Jingchu's cultural and educational culture, and the glorious place of sages, was finally destroyed by the slave uprising. The great scholars were indeed slave owners per capita."

Yang Feng stood by the river in front of the county and looked at the city wall made of blue bricks in front.

Well, the great scholar is indeed a slave owner per capita.

The reason why Macheng was captured by Zhang Xianzhong in the late Ming Dynasty was very simple. The serfs in the city rebelled, and they even organized their own clubs, one of the Liren Society and the other one of the straight roads, and then raised an army to respond to Zhang Xianzhong, and finally overturned the table with the great scholars.

This small town, which is very unknown in modern times, was the first in the imperial examinations in Huguang counties at this time. More than 100 Jinshi were born in the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years. You should know that the entire Huguang is only 1,200. Even Wuchang Prefecture, which is second in the imperial examinations, has only less than two Machengs. The number of Jinshi means that there are many families and many wealthy families who have been in the generations. There is even a former Jinyiwei Palm Seal Liu Shouyou and Mei Guozhen's cousin. He is still here to support his old age, and the former Jinyiwei Palm Seal who was born in Wuji.

There are also top families like the Mei family.

The entire Macheng is full of luxury houses of aristocratic families, Liu Shouyou's Liu Jinwu Fu, Zheng's Baike Garden, and Mei Guozhen's Huanyang Building.

There are too many aristocratic families, and there are really not enough serfs.

And today...

"Master, you're ready!"

Wang Min, a garrison guard of Yinshan Pass, dressed in a civilian dress beside him, whispered.

The latter was surrounded by a large number of Red Turban soldiers dressed in civilians, and even those soldiers disguised as merchants in the distance were moving closer to this place.
To be continued...