Chapter 84: Qingyuan City Tragedy

Early the next morning, the meeting was held again. This time there was a quick result, in order to facilitate the withdrawal of the army in the future, he ordered to roll Lei Ren on the spot to be responsible for transferring the old and young with the army to Qingyuan County. The army made a false impression of a feint attack on Taiyuan Mansion and confronted the officers and soldiers to buy time for the family to withdraw to Qingyuan.

Even so, there is not much time left for Wang Jiayin and others.

Because one day later, the border armies of Datong Mansion and Xuanfu will be assembled, and the officers and soldiers will definitely launch a counterattack at that time. With your own combat strength, it is really difficult to block the counterattack of the border army.

Wang Jiayin and Wu Yangui ordered all their departments to prepare and make a decisive battle with officers and soldiers near Taiyuan Mansion, and at this time, Hou Shilu and Man Gui also officially joined forces.

Man Gui looked at the map on the table and said in a rough voice: "At present, I have received news that the chaotic party has launched a new round of attack on Taiyuan Mansion, and the attack is very strong. ”

Hou Shilu pinched his chin and thought about it, then turned his head and asked, "What is the movement in the direction of Qingyuan and Wenshui?" ”

"There hasn't been any movement yet, Lao Hou, do you have any other ideas?"

"Well, General Man, do you think that after we defeated Gao Yingxiang's department, the chaotic party still dared to think about Taiyuan Mansion? Even if they succeed in taking Taiyuan City, what can they do? When the time comes, our army will besiege the city in all directions, and they can only be trapped in the lonely city. ”

"So, I think this group of thieves wants to make a false shot and are going to escape!"

Man Gui couldn't help but look up and laugh, rolled his eyes and said, "Escape? Lao Hou, it's not that I look down on those people, they drag their families with their families, old and young, even if they let them escape for two days, we can catch up with them. Escape, hey, I'm still afraid that they won't escape! ”

It's not that Man Gui is too arrogant, but that's the case.

If the thieves flee, they will be chased and killed by the officers and soldiers. If you don't run away, you can't say it. Hou Shilu still insisted on his judgment, but he couldn't figure out what the thieves would do.

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Because they didn't know the next plan of the thieves, Man Gui and Hou Shilu didn't discuss any results, so they could only slowly advance to the south of Taiyuan Mansion according to the predetermined plan.

Tiemo, who had nothing to do, accompanied Hei Yunlong and Li Jiasheng to lie under a big willow tree to enjoy the coolness, chatting about the situation in Taiyuan Mansion with or without a match.

"Lao Li, do you have any ideas for today's discussion?"

Li Jiasheng turned his head sideways, gouged out his ears, and said disapprehantly: "What can you think?" Anyway, it's not about to fight yet. What's the matter, what is Brother Yunlong's opinion? ”

Heiyunlong's eyelids rolled and said in distress: "Of course Lao Tzu knows that he is going to fight, what I asked is how to fight." Come on, it's useless to ask you, hey, Brother Tie, tell me what you think. ”

Tie Mo scratched his belly and said with a smile: "Little brother doesn't have any ideas, but Mr. Hou is right about one thing, this group of thieves obviously wants to run away." The younger brother is just strange, they know that they can't escape quickly with their families, why do they still do this? ”

"However, these don't seem to have anything to do with us, as long as we go south with cavalry, Chen Bing Taigu County, and choke the throat of the thieves going south, it will be enough for the thieves to drink a pot!"

At this time, Li Jiasheng suddenly became interested, turned over and said hurriedly: "Brother Xian, do you mean that you will have something to do for your brother immediately?" ”

"Eight or nine is not far from ten, it is estimated that there will be an order soon."

Sure enough, not long after the three of them chatted, Hou Shilu personally gave an order. He ordered Li Jiasheng's troops to immediately rush to Taigu County as quickly as possible, and at the same time, Tiemo and Heiyunlong's Chen soldiers were in Xugou to prevent the thieves from fleeing to the southeast under the defeat.

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Qingyuan County, located in the southwest of Taiyuan City, is a small city with a population of less than 10,000 people.

At first, this small city was not cared about, there was no big deal here, and there were no properties, and Wang Jiayin's department was not interested in this place at all. However, before this day, a righteous army came to Qingyuan City.

Ling Man, the magistrate of Qingyuan County, led the officials and the people to resist desperately, but the Qingyuan city wall was short and broken, and in less than half an hour, the thieves attacked the city.

The thieves entered the city, Qingyuan was suddenly in flames, and the county magistrate Ling Man was shot dead at the gate of the county government, and his family members were also slaughtered. Maybe it was because of the long-term repression, or maybe it was because of the successive defeats, and the thieves burned and looted after entering the city, especially those women, all of whom suffered.

On this day, Qingyuan City became a hell, filled with the cries of women and the angry scolding of the people, but they were greeted by all kinds of bestiality and the brutal killing of the "righteous army".

When evening came, Qingyuan City regained its tranquility, and the ten rooms in the city were almost completely slaughtered, and the property was also looted.

The city gates were opened, and many men, women, and children began to slowly enter Qingyuan City, and these people were the families of countless soldiers.

Lei Ren stood at the head of the city, looking at the endless crowd, and a trace of complexity crept up between his eyebrows.

Ruthless and inhumane, he never thought that one day, these traits would become the reason for his reuse.

Night, soon to come. Among the county offices, it has long been occupied by the rebels. An old man woke up halfway through his sleep when he was bitten by a mosquito, scratched the red envelope on his leg, got up and went to the yard.

Yawning and estimating the next hour, it will be ugly at best.

I fetched some water by the well and washed my face, and the whole person was much more energetic. The old man was just about to go back to take care of his grandson when he heard a strange noise.

Turning his head to look around, he saw several figures moving slowly at the base of the west wall. The old man immediately became alert, and he dared to shout, "Who's there?" ”

At this time, an exclamation came from the other side, "It's not good, it's been discovered, hurry, act according to plan." ”

The men rushed over, and in the moonlight, they finally saw their clothes clearly. Black armor steel knife, foot cloth boots.

The old man's eyes were straight, and he turned around and ran inside, shouting loudly as he ran: "Wake up, the officers and soldiers are coming...... The officers and soldiers have been killed...."

The old man shouted twice, and then he was cut to the ground by a steel knife, and he was silent in an instant.

Soon, there were bursts of miserable wails in the county office, the houses were on fire, the south wind was blowing, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger. It didn't take long for wails to resound throughout Qingyuan City, and the fire spread, burning the small city to rubble and ashes.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, many people were killed, but many more were consumed by fire in their dreams. When they tried to escape, they found that there was fire all around, and there were killing knives and guns everywhere.

A fire, a killing, from the ugly time to the beginning of the day. In the face of the relentless slaughter, more than 40,000 people, children and women were powerless to resist.

By daybreak, less than a thousand had fled outside the city, and the rest were buried in the desolate town.

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On the sixth day of the eighth month of the first year of Chongzhen, the officers and soldiers took advantage of the night to sneak attack Qingyuan City, committing atrocities of killing good people and killing more than 40,000 men, women and children.