Chapter 80 Very confident
"Humph!"
Zhang Xianzhong looked gloomy and said to Bai Wenxuan beside him in a cold voice, "Even if the news of our army's departure is leaked now, what will happen to Tianjiazhuang Fort?"
"Our army will be able to arrive outside Tianjiazhuang and set up camp by this evening at the latest."
"Can such a huge manor fly away?"
He knew very well that it was impossible for the three wealthy families in Dingbian City to decisively abandon all their assets and run away.
Otherwise, they would have escaped long ago. Why would they wait until today?
This is a typical case of not crying until you see the coffin, and still wanting money!
Do they really think that they can withstand the attack of the army led by him personally?
If he had underestimated his rebel army, the Dingbian City would not have fallen into the hands of Zhang Xianzhong so easily.
Even though the manors of the three wealthy families had much stronger defenses than the county town, they had one biggest shortcoming: they had no city defense formation to defend against the enemy.
In this magical world, only the towns built and conferred by the imperial court, with the official seal as the center of the formation to call upon the fortune of the city, can arrange and use the city defense formation to defend against the enemy.
This kind of protective formation cannot be activated by other existing formations because the range it covers is too large. It can only be activated with the help of the dynasty's luck. There is no other way.
Although these wealthy families also have magical weapons and spiritual weapons, they are only single magical weapons that can only protect themselves or a very small area. Their power can cover an area of ten feet in radius, which is already the limit of the best magical weapons and spiritual weapons.
Of course, there are other formations, such as those magic weapon ships, which have defensive formations on them, but the range they can protect is also limited. At most, they can only protect an area of about a hundred feet in radius.
A wealthy family's manor would occupy at least tens of thousands of acres. How could it be possible to guard it thoroughly?
They are just some local gentry, not local officials appointed by imperial decree, and the place they live in is not a subordinate town built and appointed by the court. How can they activate the official seals corresponding to the formation to arrange and use the city defense formation?
As a senior veteran of the border army, Zhang Xianzhong knew a lot of secrets, so as long as his strength was sufficient, he didn't care about the little tricks the other side was doing.
If he did not want to take this opportunity to train his army in various experiences of camping in the wild, he would have enough confidence to strike while the iron is hot today, directly capture Tianjiazhuang, and stay there overnight!
However, for the sake of his own long-term future, keeping the people in Tianjiazhuang alive for one more night seemed insignificant.
After all, what he will rely on in the future will be his own level of cultivation and whether he can train a truly elite army.
Only with both can this rebel army go further.
Compared to taking advantage of this actual combat training to improve the rebel army's war capabilities and allow the soldiers to accumulate certain combat experience, whether they can quickly capture Tianjiazhuang is not worth mentioning.
The territory of the Ming Dynasty was so vast. God knows how many wealthy people and noble families there were.
In the future, there will be plenty of such manors and castles that need to be captured by my army. As long as the soldiers' fighting power is strong enough, won't they be able to take them as they please?
"Let Feng Shuangli deal with the rats hiding in the city. We don't need to pay any attention to them. The army will head directly to Tianjiazhuang in the northwest!"
Zhang Xianzhong had no expression on his face. He coldly shouted to Bai Wenxuan beside him, "Pass the order down. After leaving the city, speed up the march. You must camp outside Tianjiazhuang before dusk today. Those who disobey the order will be severely punished!"
He didn't take the other party's tip-off seriously at all. They were just making a useless struggle.
Especially since Zhang Xianzhong had just made a breakthrough in his own cultivation, he had absolute confidence in taking down the target Zhuangbao in one fell swoop.
After a month and a half of rest, training, expansion and preparation for war, the rebel army under Zhang Xianzhong, although still far from being an elite force, is no longer a mob.
According to his estimation, although his army was not large in scale, it was much stronger in some aspects compared to most of the rebel groups.
Even if he is not as good as Wang Ziyi, Wang Jiayin, Luo Rucai and others, he is still better than most of the rebels.
After Zhang Xianzhong finished speaking, Bai Wenxuan solemnly took the order and left, and hurriedly sent out a fast horse to notify the soldiers of the logistics camp and the youth camp who were following behind.
About a quarter of an hour later, the army had already left the west city gate, and the marching speed began to gradually increase, and soon they disappeared at the end of the official road.
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"Sure enough, it's here!"
"Hmph!" In the main meeting hall of the main courtyard of the Tianjiazhuang Fortress, which covers an area of more than 30,000 acres, the head of the Tian family, Tian Yuantao, had a cold face and stern eyes. He looked at the spirit pigeon he had just released, which rushed out of the open window and flew away in an instant, muttering to himself.
He sat on a sandalwood armchair at the main seat, thought for a moment, looked at a thin, middle-aged warrior with a black beard sitting on the right side in front of him, and asked, "Zhao Yuming, have we completed all the preparations for the defense of Tianjiazhuang Fort?"
The chief of the household guards is a servant of the Tian family.
Zhao Yuming's ancestors for three generations were all servants who shared life and death with the master's family. Both his father and grandfather had served as leaders of the servants and guards in Tianjiazhuang, and had been trained vigorously by the master's family at all costs.
He is also the hidden trump card of Tianjiazhuang over the past decade: the only martial arts master in the early fourth level of Qi Refining in Tianjiazhuang.
Over the past ten years, Zhao Yuming has solved countless problems for Tianjiazhuang through his overt and covert actions.
"Return to the master. For more than a month, I have been personally supervising the farmhands and improving the various defense measures of our Tianjiazhuang."
"As early as yesterday, all the planned work has been completed."
"Humph!"
There was a fierce light in his eyes, and he snorted coldly and said, "I want to see how the rebels led by Zhang Xianzhong plan to attack our Tianjiazhuang."
"Which of our wealthy families doesn't have a solid foundation? Can those peasants shake it?"
"Even the elite Tartar cavalry that entered the pass to attack Caogu last year could not do anything to us. After besieging the city for a day, they had no choice but to retreat in disgrace with nothing gained."
"No matter how powerful the bandit leader Zhang Xianzhong is, can he be stronger than the Tartars who even most of the Ming army is terrified of?"
He stood up suddenly, patted his hairy and strong chest that was exposed through his open shirt, and said loudly to the head of the family, Tian Yuantao, nonchalantly, "Since Zhang Xianzhong dared to come today, I would like to meet him and see if this villain chief can block ten of my moves!"
To be honest, if it weren't for the strict order from the head of the family, he would have long wanted to lead hundreds of his servants and guards, as well as thousands of farmhands, to launch a counterattack against Dingbian City, and perhaps be able to recapture the county town that had fallen into the hands of thieves in one fell swoop.
You know, in the past, nearly half of the Tian family's income came from various shops in Dingbian City.
Ever since Dingbian City was occupied by Zhang Xianzhong, in the past two months, the three wealthy families entrenched in Dingbian City have suffered countless direct and indirect losses. The losses are really too great.
As a senior martial arts master at the fourth level of Qi Refining, Zhao Yuming was not afraid of Zhang Xianzhong, who was at the same level as him.
Now he had received accurate information that Zhang Xianzhong had personally led a large rebel army to attack Tianjiazhuang Fort, which was exactly what Zhao Yuming wanted.
"That's good!"
"Yuming, the defense of Tianjiazhuang this time depends on you!"
After listening to what Zhao Yuming said, Tian Yuantao finally let go of his heart, which had been in his throat. He patted his shoulder and said earnestly.
"Master, I am here with hundreds of servants and guards, so you can rest assured!"
"What can a mere mob of bandits use to fight us?"
"Thinking of capturing our Tianjiazhuang Fort is nothing but a fool's dream!"
He discussed with the head of the family for a while before turning around and leaving in a heroic and high-spirited manner.
Now that he is facing a powerful enemy, he is not the kind of reckless person. Of course, he has to continue to inspect the defense of the entire fortress, check for deficiencies and fill in the gaps in order to deal with the attack of the rebel army.
Even if he was confident that he could defend Tianjiazhuang, it was not impossible that an accident might happen, which would lead to Tianjiazhuang being captured by bandits.
(End of this chapter)
