Chapter Thirteen: Zhongdu Strikes Thieves
Revolution is a grand festival for the people.
This is true. Revolution can divide the property of rich people, sleep with the wife of rich people, and fully release the desire to destroy. It is even more enjoyable than the New Year!
As soon as the thieves entered Zhongdu, they began to rob the rich families everywhere. Most of the small thieves were mainly concerned about the wealth of the rich families and the white and tender wives.
However, the two strongest bandits, including the King of Sweeping and King of Taiping, not only sent people to rob the rich, but also went straight to Longxing Temple and the Imperial Tomb Enjoy Hall.
After rolling the valuable things inside, they lit a fire. For a moment, the Imperial Mausoleum and Longxing Temple were filled with smoke, and the fire was blazing, which was clearly visible ten miles away.
According to convention, the thief rushed into the government office, opened the prison, and released the prisoners imprisoned in the prison.
So the royal family Sin detained in Zhongdu were released, and the Fengyang prefect Yan Rongxuan was reported by one of the prisoners on the spot.
Knowing that this was the governor of Fengyang, the bandits took Yan Rongxuan to the lobby of the government office.
The sweeping king made a yellow robe and put it on his body. Seeing Yan Rongxuan, who was trembling like a sieve, the sweeping king looked left and right, and suddenly laughed wildly: "This is the prefect, hehe, hehe! Haha~"
Then he pointed to Yan Rongxuan and shouted: "You are above and above, have you ever thought about the end of today?"
Yan Rongxuan was at least the prefect, and under the influence of the backbone of the literati, he shouted with a stern voice: "Don't be rampant. When the imperial army arrives, you will be killed all of you, so that you will die without a complete body."
The sweeping king was furious and ordered to his left and right: "Call me."
The left and right thieves took out the big stick in the lobby and slapped Yan Rongxuan hard. Seeing this, the sweeping king hurriedly stopped, "Test him slowly, don't let this turtle die too quickly."
So, Yan Rongxuan was pressed to the ground, and greeted his butt one by one with a big stick, making Yan Rongxuan scream.
While admiring Yan Rongxuan's miserable situation, the King of Sweeping the floor took out a banner embroidered with the 'Auspicious Dragon Emperor' and looked at Yan Rongxuan with a sneer, "When I break the dragon vein, the world will be my hands."
If he becomes an emperor, he will take all the beautiful girls in the world, earn all the beauties, and return home in glory, show off in front of those who know him, and then kill all those who have had a festive relationship with him... Thinking of the wonderful thing, a smile appeared on the corner of the sweeping king's mouth.
Just when the Sweeping King was in the day after YY became the emperor, he suddenly remembered a 'boom' sound of cannons, and a gun sound like fried beans.
The sweeping king shuddered and asked left and right: "Where did the cannon sound come from?"
The thief in the hall stopped his movements and looked around in a daze. The sweeping king raised his hand and listened to the sounds outside intently.
There was a loud "boom..." sound, and the sound was not far away. It was mixed with a shout of "kneeling on the ground and not killing".
At this moment, a thief ran into the government office in panic. Seeing the sweeping king, he shouted: "The king is not good, the government army is here."
"What! The official army from Nanjing?" The sweeping king shuddered again and asked slightly panic: "How many people are there?"
"It seems that there are two or three thousand people, and they don't look like they are from Nanjing."
"Only two or three thousand people, you're so furious!" The sweeping king couldn't help but be furious, "We have an army of 200,000, and even if each person can drown them with just one mouthful of spit."
As he said that, the sweeping king pulled out his waist knife and rushed out directly. As soon as he left the government office, he immediately saw a messy thief, who was beaten to run around like a headless fly.
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When the bandits entered Fengyang, Zhao Yan happened to have arrived. He was originally expected to arrive a day ago, but because of the light rain for two days and the snow on the road melted, the road was muddy and the maneuvering speed of the baggage battalion became very slow.
In desperation, Zhao Yan had to let the soldiers go first and rushed all the way. He finally arrived in Fengyang on the 15th day of the 15th day.
When he found that the bandits attacked Fengyang, Zhao Yan did not attack immediately, but asked the cavalry battalion to detour the south and then launched an attack from the east.
The 200,000 thieves rushed into Fengyang. When they found Zhao Yan's men, it was time to launch an attack. The artillery first launched the attack.
The howitzers fired grenades at the dense crowd, and the debris of the grenade flew everywhere, sweeping down a large area of unprepared thieves.
Each battalion was equipped with 150 howitzers, and two gunners drove one. More than 100 grenades were shot down, and the dense thieves fell into a pool of blood like harvesting wheat.
The thieves who reacted prevented a counterattack. Thousands of people who were held captive rushed towards the Second Battalion under the coercion of the thieves behind.
As a result, a large area of howitzers behind were blown down, and then swept down a row by musketeers in front. They could no longer hold on, no matter how the thieves behind them were restrained, it would be useless.
"Oh my god! Run!" Most of the thieves were ordinary people who only know how to farm, without training and without military law. They had already fled in all directions before they rushed to the front of the formation, like headless flies. Even the backbone of the thieves were frightened by the shells flying from the sky, and regardless of the constraints, the people who were brought in, turned to join the scattered queue.
"Kneel on the ground and don't kill!" A long voice sounded. When the shouting was heard, all the soldiers in the camp shouted in unison, "Kneel on the ground and don't kill", and then chased the thieves who were dispersed.
There was almost no difficulty, so Zhao Yan led his men into Zhongdu. Everything he saw was a thief, and the musketeers retreated directly.
"Kill!" Zhao Yan pulled out his long sword and led it, and all the soldiers of the camp moved forward in neat steps.
After all, the square formation was dull and could not launch a tide-like offensive. Zhao Yan was not advancing quickly. But as he advanced, the artillery behind him fired a shot and pulled the artillery forward, and then continued to attack.
Many people who have just been brought in have never seen such a fierce official army. The backbone of the bandits worked hard to organize the cannon fodder to step forward.
The real strength of the thief is those backbone, and the people who are brought in are cannon fodder, both men, women, old and weak. You can find them again when the cannon fodder is gone, but it is not easy to cultivate a backbone.
But often, as soon as the cannon fodder was organized to counterattack, they would immediately flee by the cannons behind them.
"The government army is here! Run!" The dispersed thieves, men, women, old and weak, kept shouting in the dispersed state. The news spread all over the place. When the thieves who heard the news saw that the thieves were in a bad light, they immediately ran away in the direction of the people's escape.
When the sweeper king rushed out of the government office with his backbone personnel, he immediately saw the "army" who was chased away like ducks. Facing the thousands of officials who came to fight, he had no courage to get close to each other.
Everyone is afraid of death, and they will surely die if they rush up. There is no military law constraint or pension, and there is no slogan of equalizing the land to provide them with faith. How can they rush forward and die? Most of these thieves are ordinary people who are trapped. They usually fight with the wind and get some food. Once the official army is very brave, they will be defeated directly.
The army of 200,000 people was beaten to pieces by thousands of officials. As soon as he saw the bandits below defeated, the King of Sweeping the floor felt a surge of blood.
"Where is King Taiping? Where did he die?" The King of Sweeping immediately thought of the King of Taiping, who is no less powerful than him. The most important thing is that King Taiping has more than three thousand elite cavalry under his command.
"King, it's not good, King Taiping is..."
With a "boom~!", a grenade pulling the light hit the side of the sweeping king.
"ah!"
The sweeping king only felt a gust of wind blowing on his face, and screams rang out directly from his side. When he tilted his head, he saw that the backbone standing beside him and the backbone who had just spoken to him had already fallen to the ground.
A coldness arose in his heart, making the sweeping king's body a little stiff. If the shot just now was closer... Thinking of this, the sweeping king shook all over, frightened in cold sweat, and hurriedly rode on his horse and fled to the west.
But strangely, the official army suddenly stopped for some reason and did not continue to pursue.
It turned out that after Zhao Yan entered Zhongdu, he found an open space with three or four thousand horses bolted. Thousands of thieves were pulling their pants and hurriedly wanted to get on the horse and run away. Zhao Yan seemed to see a pile of gold coins and directly surrounded him...
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