Chapter 64: Riots in the City

Tens of thousands of people who were rescued in Liangxiang City flocked to the city gate to greet them when they learned that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince personally led a large army to drive away the Tartars and was about to enter the city.

The people who were looking through the city gate finally saw a large group of men and horses coming through the city gate, including cavalry, infantry, and dozens of glowing artillery.

In the eyes of these people, this army was completely different from other officers and soldiers, although many of them were stained with blood, and some even had seriously damaged armor, their ranks were neat and orderly, and they were strutting high and refreshed.

Surrounded by many generals in Zhu Cihong's Yongwei battalion, he rode a snow-white war horse, wearing golden armor, which glowed with dazzling cool colors in the sunlight.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived!"

Seeing the crown prince under the red dragon of the Ming Dynasty, all the people knelt down on both sides of the road and bowed and worshipped.

At this time, the people finally affirmed that the army of the imperial court defeated the Qing army and recovered Liangxiang City.

When Zhu Cihong came over, the cheers of the people converged: "Your Highness Chitose, Your Highness Chitose!" ”

Zhu Cihong smiled, rode on the horse and waved to the people again and again, sighing infinitely in his heart, this may be the feeling of protecting the family and defending the country.

Accompanying the Yongwei battalion into the city were more than a dozen carts, all of which contained the heads of the Qing army, and behind the vehicles, there was a group of Qing prisoners with their heads pulled.

Zhu Cihong originally planned to leave no one alive, but later, at the suggestion of Sun Yingyuan, he left some prisoners in Beijing to offer prisoners to cheer up the people of Beijing.

The people in Liangxiang City have all suffered from the Qing soldiers, and when they saw the Qing soldiers with money and rat tails, they didn't fight anywhere, they picked up stones and dirt one after another, and threw them at the heads of the Qing soldiers.

Only the Qing soldiers dodged left and right, and some held their heads, if it weren't for the soldiers of the Yongwei battalion on both sides to stop them, they were afraid that they would be killed by the angry people.

Amid the enthusiastic cheers of the people, Zhu Cihong and the Yongwei battalion squeezed out of the crowd for nearly half an hour and arrived at the Liangxiang County Ya.

The weather in July was extremely hot, Zhu Cihong immediately went in as soon as he arrived at the county office, people were sleepy, he didn't want to care about anything, he just wanted to rest for a while.

Just as Zhu Cihong was half-lying on the Taishi chair, eating fruit to relieve the heat, a major event happened in Liangxiang City not long after.

When Long Xiang did not accept the night to appease the people, because there were too few people to maintain, just when Yang Qili was troubled, one of the captured people in Liangxiang City found Yang Qili with more than 100 officers and soldiers, saying that they could help manage the people.

Yang Qili saw that there were also many officials among them, who were officers and soldiers who maintained local law and order, so he asked the general to take them to help pacify the people.

However, when this group of officers and soldiers took over the security of Liangxiang, the situation immediately changed.

This group of officers and soldiers had little ability to fight, but they pretended to be uncles in one set, and they did do some pacifying work at the beginning, mainly in helping to serve porridge when they were giving porridge.

During this period, many officers and soldiers gave themselves two more bowls by the way, and one officer and soldier drank six bowls of porridge in one go, and he rolled his eyes directly when he was propped up.

As soon as the crown prince entered the city, most of the people who did not collect at night were scattered to inquire for information, and these officers and soldiers became bold and first searched for the property left by the Qing army.

Soon they were saddened to find that the place where the belongings were stored was tightly guarded by the Crown Prince's soldiers, and of course these officers and soldiers did not dare to clash with the fierce soldiers of the Brave Guard, so they set their sights on the common people.

Of the nearly 100,000 people rescued in Liangxiang City, half were locals, and half were taken by Qing soldiers from nearby towns, ready to be pulled back to Guanwai as laborers.

Some of the people in the city went to greet the crown prince, and more of them were looking for their relatives.

The main streets of Liangxiang City are mixed with men and women, and some women who don't show up on weekdays have also come out to look for their relatives, and their anxious faces look pitiful.

Seeing this, some officers and soldiers had bad intentions, and under the pretext of searching, they pulled and pulled some women, took the opportunity to rub oil, and took away those who had property on them.

Some of the women's family members were angry, they had recently had enough of the abuse of the Qing army, and they had to be oppressed by the officers and soldiers just after they were free, and many people couldn't bear it anymore, and the two sides immediately clashed.

The officers and soldiers began to shout at the people, pushing and shoving, but soon they started fighting. The actions of the officers and soldiers aroused the anger of the surrounding people, and many people came to help.

At first, a few officers and soldiers who were engaged in things were beaten by a group of people, and they hurriedly went to find someone to help, and the people also asked people from the same township for help, and as a result, the two sides gathered more and more, and a team battle of hundreds of people began.

A large number of ruffians in groups of three or five, taking advantage of the turmoil to loot property in the city, insulting women in broad daylight, in a short period of time there was chaos in the city of Liangxiang, and all over the place was full of screams and cries.

After the incident became serious, it first reached the ears of Yang Qili, who was about to go out of the city to investigate, he was shocked, and hurriedly rushed to the scene of the conflict with his subordinates at night, and sent someone to inform the Yongwei battalion.

At this time, the officers and soldiers and the people were already fighting each other, and it was not something that they could pull apart after dozens of nights.

Yang Qili raised the firearm and shot into the sky, but it was useless, many people had no concept of the firecracker, except for some people who were pulled away by the night, hundreds of other people were still fighting.

That gunshot alarmed the nearby Yongwei battalion, and not long after, Huang Degong arrived at the scene with hundreds of Yongwei battalions.

Hundreds of soldiers of the Brave Guard Battalion trotted all the way with neat steps, and the sound of iron armor colliding was sonorous and louder, which immediately attracted the attention of both sides of the fight.

Huang Degong shouted: "Fuck me stop!" ”

His sound exploded like thunder, and many people couldn't help but stop, looking at this hundreds of soldiers with horizontal eyebrows and murderous spirits behind them, the people were even more worried about whether these sergeants would help the officers and soldiers deal with them.

The people and the officers and soldiers fought fiercely, and dozens of people had been beaten down on the ground, although Huang Degong led the Yongwei battalion to stop most of them, but there were still some people who were red-eyed, scuffled together, and did not let go.

"Smack! Syllable! Smack......"

At Huang Degong's behest, a platoon of musketeers fired into the sky, and the loud roar immediately woke up some of the people who were scuffling together.

Seeing the rows of black holes of guns pointed at them, they blushed and stared at each other, and they all let go of their hands and got up to the side.

The soldiers of this army are fierce and vicious, their bodies are covered with bloodstains, and they are coldly pointing at everyone with fire guns, like Shura coming out of hell, which makes people's hearts furious.