I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up
Chapter 255: Bombardment of Shunde Prefecture
Chapter 255: Bombardment of Shunde Prefecture
"Have you found the location? Where is it? How did you find it?" Jiang Bin said happily.
"Several hunters from Taihang Mountains found us this morning and said they knew the location of Xiongfeng Village," Jiang Jiangong said quickly.
"Take me there quickly!" Jiang Bin said as he quickly put on his clothes.
Jiang Bin soon saw the hunters and asked directly, "Do you know the location of Xiongfeng Village?"
"Yes!" Several hunters looked at Jiang Bin's dragon robe and said with some fear, "We often hunt in the mountains and are very familiar with them, so we know the location of Xiongfeng Village."
Jiang Bin was even happier. The accuracy of maps these days was too low, and the terrain in the mountains was complicated. The ideal situation was to have a few guides to lead the way, but he still felt that everything was a little too smooth.
"The previous few times the government troops went into the mountains to encircle and suppress Xiongfeng Village, they returned empty-handed because they couldn't find the location of Xiongfeng Village. Since you knew the location of Xiongfeng Village, why didn't you tell the government troops the location at that time, but instead jumped out now?" Jiang Bin stared at the hunters closely. He had been to the battlefield, so he still had some vigilance. He now suspected that these hunters were spies of the bandits.
Several hunters exchanged glances, and the leading hunter spread his hands and said, "The government troops' previous entry into the mountains to suppress bandits has nothing to do with us, so why should we tell them the location of Xiongfeng Village? We just need to prevent the people in Xiongfeng Village from discovering us."
Jiang Bin was stunned by what he said, and had to admit that what the leading hunter said made sense.
"We are also government troops. Why are you willing to come out and tell us the location of Xiongfeng Village this time?" Jiang Bin continued to ask.
The leading hunter sighed and said, "Although life in the mountains is free and easy, there are also many inconveniences, especially the price of salt is much higher than down the mountain. Recently, His Majesty has stabilized the price of salt, allowing us to buy salt at a low price. As a result, the people of Xiongfeng Village came out to cause trouble, and since then, this matter has been related to us."
The hunters' words made everyone present look at each other in bewilderment. This reason was so simple, but it was also irrefutable. They could tell that the hunters' words were not false.
They didn't expect that the Xiongfeng Village, which had been in Taihang Mountain for many years, would be exposed.
"This is what the people want! This is what the people want!" Jiang Jiangong exclaimed.
Everyone present was silent. It had to be said that Zhu Houxuan's move to lower the price of salt really won the support of the people.
Jiang Bin thought about the road protection team organized by the nearby people who braved the severe cold yesterday, and looked at the hunter who took the initiative to lead the government troops. He suddenly felt the people's will.
The team to enter the mountain was quickly assembled. Since the mountain was rugged and difficult to travel, it would be useless to have too many people go, so Jiang Bin led a thousand people into the mountain, which would also reduce the logistical pressure. Only two light tiger squat cannons were brought for artillery.
The Royal Group also hurriedly made a batch of white cloaks, and everyone entering the mountain was given one to increase the concealment of the action.
The heavy snow brought a lot of trouble to the new army, but the snow also greatly reduced the vigilance of the bandits in Xiongfeng Village. No one would think that the government troops would raid Xiongfeng Village in such weather.
When the thousand new soldiers reached the gate of Xiongfeng Village, there was not even a sentry on the wall. The sentries had all gone into the houses to warm themselves by the fire.
The terrain of Xiongfeng Village is very dangerous. A normal attack would cost many lives, but this terrain did not play any role in the surprise attack.
The new troops directly blew open the gate of the village with black powder bags and then rushed in.
By the time the bandits reacted, the new troops had already occupied the advantageous terrain and formed a battle formation.
The bandits still wanted to resist stubbornly, so they gathered their troops and launched a charge. However, during the charge, many people were killed by the volleys of musketeers, and many more were killed by the volleys of bows and arrows. The tiger crouching cannons fired at a distance of 30 steps directly brought the morale of the bandits to the bottom.
The charging team finally collapsed due to the casualties, and the few who rushed to the front of the army could only die in hatred when faced with the solid plate armor.
The failure of this wave of charge directly announced the demise of Xiongfeng Village, and those who fled to the wild in such weather would only die, so the bandits surrendered one after another. The first and third leaders of Xiongfeng Village were captured, and the second leader died in that wave of charge.
The new troops found a large amount of wealth and supplies in the mountain stronghold, as well as evidence of collusion between Xiongfeng Stronghold and several large clans. Most importantly, they found evidence that the Shen family of Shunde Prefecture drove Xiongfeng Stronghold to attack the railway.
Jiang Bin was extremely satisfied with the result. Although the opponents were just some bandits, the battle was fought beautifully. The new army achieved such a great victory with very few casualties. As for the collected evidence and the main leaders of Xiongfeng Village, Jiang Bin did not dare to neglect them and escorted them to the capital by rail overnight.
Three days later, Jiang Bin received an imperial edict from Zhu Houzhao, in which Zhu Houzhao praised Jiang Bin highly and ordered him to go to Shunde Prefecture to arrest the entire Shen and Li families.
Jiang Bin liked this job very much. This kind of job of investigating large families was extremely lucrative and he was simply eager to get it.
He brought a thousand people to the outside of Shunde City, but was greeted by the tightly closed city gates of Shunde City.
This is the first reaction of every local official when facing the army, because the military discipline of the Ming Dynasty official army at this time was not very good.
Jiang Bin was accustomed to this. He confidently took out the imperial edict and showed it to the prefect of Shunde Prefecture through a hanging basket. However, the result was beyond his expectation.
"Sir Jiang, your imperial edict has not been approved by the cabinet, and you do not have the written instructions from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Justice, so I am sorry that I cannot let your army enter the city." The prefect of Shunde Prefecture shouted on the city wall.
After saying this, he returned Zhu Houzhao's imperial edict.
This action made Jiang Bin furious, but after getting angry, he felt helpless.
"What should we do now?" Jiang Bin said to Jiang Jiangong.
Jiang Jiangong recalled the letter he had just received from Zhu Houxuan, in which Zhu Houxuan requested that the Shen and Li families be arrested as soon as possible to deter the local clans that were ready to make moves and reduce their damage to the Royal Group's industry.
He quickly made a decision in his mind, "General, if His Majesty knew that we were stopped by a small prefect with just a few words, what do you think His Majesty would think of us?"
"I know this logic, but this is the provincial capital. We can't get in unless the door is opened. We can't capture the provincial capital," Jiang Bin said helplessly.
"We can consider taking down the city." Jiang Jiangong said seriously.
"Attack the city? Are you crazy?" Jiang Bin said in disbelief. "We can only mobilize more than 2000 troops now. How can we attack the city with such a small number of troops? Moreover, we are still short of siege equipment. Do we have to build ladders now? The new army has not received siege training!"
"No need!" Jiang Jiangong observed Shunde City through a telescope. "Shunde City has no defenses, and the city gates are not blocked. We just need to use artillery to blow down the city gates, and then there will be nothing in Shunde City that can stop us."
Jiang Bin was stunned, but he had to admit that what Jiang Jiangong said made sense. Thinking of the humiliation he had just received from the Shunde Prefecture governor, he quickly made up his mind:
"Okay! Let's do it! Let's bombard Shunde City!"
(End of this chapter)
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