nucmednet Chapter 432 Lure the Enemy
Chapter 432 Lure the Enemy
Seeing this, Chen Da was overjoyed and quickly spoke out to stop them:
"Fellow villagers, please be quiet for a moment. We warmly welcome those who are willing to come. However, we only need 1,000 people to go down to the two mines, so please give priority to those who sign up. But before that, there are some things that need to be resolved before we can continue."
After saying this, he walked towards the person being held captive again and said in a low voice:
"As long as you tell me the truth and tell me who else is in your gang, I will let you go and I promise not to hold you accountable."
When the two men heard Chen Da say this, they looked at each other, their eyes revealing hesitation and fear, and then whispered, "Let's talk."
Seeing that these two spineless people surrendered so easily, Chen Da couldn't help but smile with satisfaction. He stopped talking and immediately escorted them to the back.
At this moment, the people were surging in crowds, and everyone was scrambling to sign up.
Yunfeng once again announced a surprising piece of news:
"Qualified miners will own their own houses after one year, and will receive a red envelope every year, which will be paid out in one lump sum when they can no longer work."
Although this kind of extra benefit may not make everyone excited, it is better to have it than not, and it always brings some hope and expectations to people.
The rest of the process was relatively simple: registration and filling out the required information. Finally, Chen Da cleared a few more people based on the information on the application.
It turned out that these people were here to cause trouble, and were arranged by Shi Li.
After arranging all this, Zhao Yongqiang ordered people to go to a village below Langyu, which was Shi Li's hometown.
They arrested all the people related to Shi Li and sent someone to inform Shi Li, asking him to come for negotiations.
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Guwu County, this is Shi Li’s lair.
He produced weapons on a large scale here, mainly cannons, of course there were also some small hand-held shotguns. However, their cannons were still the same, without any innovation or improvement.
When he learned that his family and friends had been arrested, Shi Li was furious and instantly smashed all the cups on the table.
"This damned group of road guards, with only a few thousand men, actually dared to challenge me!"
His eyes were wide open, his face was flushed, the veins on his forehead were bulging, and he looked like an angry lion.
Hou Lin had been indulging in leisure and pleasure for a while, and his fighting spirit was no longer as strong as before. Seeing Shi Liqi in such a state, he asked:
"What happened to make you so angry?"
Seeing Hou Lin asking, Shi Li tried to calm down and said:
"The Pingyang railway guards not only seized the two mines, but also took my family away."
"How dare they!" Hou Lin roared, standing up suddenly. "We are strong and powerful now, and they dare to be so presumptuous! I will take my men to destroy them right now."
Kui Zheng was sitting in the lower seat. Seeing Hou Lin's impulsive behavior, he quickly stood up and comforted him:
"Chief, we have endured many hardships over the past two years and finally have the troops we have today. But for whom did we suffer all this?"
Upon hearing this, Shi Li fell into deep thought. After thinking calmly, he said, "Sir, what you said is..."
Although he hadn't finished speaking, Kui Zheng knew that Shi Li understood the deep meaning behind it, so he nodded and said:
"That's right. Since the Wang family is using us, why not involve them this time? Otherwise, we can confess everything to the railway protection team."
Shi Li was very clear about what Kui Zheng meant.
"General Hou, I think what you said makes sense. There is strength in numbers. Let's drag the Wang family into this as well."
Hou Lin didn't have much of an objection to Shi Li's words. He had become somewhat lazy over the past two years, and he tried not to worry about things that could be saved.
"Okay, then let's do as you say, sir."
Kui Zheng was quite surprised. This was the first time Hou Lin agreed with his suggestion. He couldn't help but touch the beard on his lips happily.
Shi Li really believed what Kui Zheng said and sent someone to tell the head of the Wang family what had happened. He also wrote in detail the words that Kui Zheng threatened them in the letter.
After reading the letter, Wang Shizun, the head of the Wang family, hurriedly invited Wang Danwang to discuss it together.
"I really didn't expect this matter to be so deeply involved. In the end, it angered the aristocratic families. This matter is really difficult to handle."
Wang Shizun frowned and looked worried.
Wang Danwang is now the prefect of Bingzhou. He originally proposed those ideas in order to obtain more iron ore resources.
When he learned that there was an iron mine in Liangyu, he thought of asking Shi Li to plunder it for him, and he really didn't consider other aspects too much.
Now that Shi Li was using this matter to threaten him, he was not afraid, but he did not want his plans to be disrupted by this matter.
"If we send troops now, we will have to use our Wang family's troops in Bingzhou. Doing so will definitely cause dissatisfaction among those in the court, which is indeed difficult to handle. However, we cannot just ignore this matter."
How could Wang Danwang not understand what Wang Shizun said?
He felt that what the Patriarch said was nothing, simply nonsense. But at this moment, he really couldn't think of a way to have the best of both worlds.
"How about this? We can select some people from our family to join their team and equip them with some weapons. As long as we can win this war, everything else will be easy."
In the end, Wang Danwang still had no intention of deploying the palace troops into this war, and could only find a way from the clan soldiers.
"Our Wang family can still spare 20,000 people from Bingzhou, so who will lead the team this time?"
Since the head of the family agreed to send someone, things would be much easier. Wang Danwang could just pick someone from the clan who had the ability to lead troops.
With the support of the Wang family, Shi Li not only increased his numbers, but the Wang family also sent him many sophisticated weapons, especially advanced mortars, which were good things that his clan army had never had.
After seeing these weapons, he secretly swore in his heart that he must imitate them after the battle.
This time, under the guise of negotiation, Shi Li sent Hou Lin to lead 50,000 people to first keep an eye on the railway protection team near the mining area, and then sent Yu Shaoqin and Mu Hui to lead the Wang family soldiers, a total of 100,000 people, to attack Pingyang by detour.
This time, Shi Li was determined to take Pingyang and make it his new stronghold.
But what he never expected was that every move of Gu Wu was closely monitored by Zhao Sheng's intelligence agency and reported at any time.
"Very good. Since they have sent over 100,000 people here, we must completely destroy them this time."
Zhao Sheng looked at the information handed over by Zhao Yongsheng and said excitedly.
"We must destroy them this time. Send Ma Biao and Shan Ning's two divisions over, and Zhao Yongqiang will also send the remaining two battalions of the railway protection team. We must completely crush the power of the ? tribe in Bingzhou this time."
After listening to Zhao Sheng's instructions, Zhao Long quickly wrote down all the orders and said:
"I'll go down and make arrangements right away, and pass the order from headquarters on to the two division commanders."
Now that Zhao Sheng has Zhao Long to help him, it is indeed much easier for him to handle things.
"To prevent any accidents, it would be best to send another regiment from the special operations brigade to eliminate the main villain of the war."
The special operations brigade that Zhao Sheng mentioned was reorganized from Chen Qian’s Special Second Regiment, and Zhu Biao is now the commander of the Special First Regiment.