Chapter 39: Abandonment of Plans

Blowing the bull's horn was a call to gather and prepare for the march, and the more than 1,000 people from the six villages of the Chinese army carried their various weapons in their hands, and they had already lined up in formation, but they were all sitting in the darkness before dawn. Hearing the sound of the horn, everyone stood up. When Zhang Luo led the guards to appear in front of everyone, the black pressed people were squeezed together again.

"Line up! Line up! Zhang Luo shouted.

His subordinates also shouted, and the crowd was chaotic for a while, and finally slowly took on the appearance of the twelve.

"Ladies and gentlemen! You have waited for so long, and finally waited for this day, and the gate of Jijia Town is about to open to us now. Your enemy is in town, and now, follow me!" After speaking, Zhang slightly pressed the ring knife on his waist, carried the spear along the road at the gate of Jijia Town, and walked towards the thick gate of Jijia Town.

In the shouts of the sergeants of the troops, more than 1,000 villagers took their weapons and went out one after another, and the long queue was like a mottled dragon, as if under the light of the morning sun, they were heading towards the gate of Jijia Town without hesitation.

After only walking two miles, he saw smoke rising from the gate of Jijia Town, and Zhang Luo understood that it was a signal that he should do it. After another moment, the door with the large brass nails shook for a moment, and then slowly opened inside. Soon, more than a dozen Taiping Dao soldiers holding the agreed yellow flag rushed out, and they held the yellow flag high and shook it desperately.

This is a signal that has been drilled many times, and this is a signal to urge the large army to hurry forward.

Zhang Luo turned around and shouted, "The door is open to us!" Everyone, rush! ”

After shouting, Zhang Luo didn't care about the people behind him, he quickened his pace and ran forward. After ten days of preparation, training, and planning, a battle with a high probability of heavy casualties was finally completed at this time with the least cost. He knew it was true, but he couldn't believe it himself. When the battle broke away from Zhang Luo's direct command, he still couldn't really put his mind at ease without stepping into the gate of Jijia Town, seeing the attacking troops with his own eyes and hearing their reports with his own ears.

Maybe it's because he has too many ideas, maybe it's because Zhang Luo hasn't slept for two days and one night, he just feels that his strength seems to have been drained a lot, and he can't run fast. However, behind him, the shouts gradually rang out, first there were various voices, and finally they all converged into one word: "Kill!" ”

The footsteps of the self-farming villagers were getting closer and closer to Zhang Luo, and the guards could only pull Zhang Luo aside from the middle of the road. Turning his head, he saw that the formation of the villagers was completely invisible, and the whole team became a chaotic long column, everyone in the team was angry, they just shouted the word "kill", took their weapons, and rushed towards the gate of Jijia Town.

If it weren't for the fact that the guards were clever enough to pull Zhang Luo down to the side of the road and protect him, he was afraid that this boiling torrent of revenge would knock Zhang Luo to the ground first.

With a red scarf around his neck and a yellow cloth strip wrapped around his head, this team of villagers, like a flood and a dragon, crossed Zhang Luo and his party, which had led the team, and rushed towards the gate of Jijia Town.

Two hours later, corpses could be seen everywhere in the streets of Jijia Town, and after more than 1,000 yeoman farmers joined, the battle soon entered the final stage. With the Ji family compound and ancestral hall in the town as the core, the Ji family town is engaged in the final battle. With the experience of attacking two small manor villages, the villagers moved wheat straw and firewood to surround the two buildings without Zhang Luo's command.

There are many wooden structures in the ancestral hall, and the fire is together, and the villagers will throw the improvised torches into it like raindrops, and it doesn't take long for the ancestral hall to rise. Hiding inside, the stubbornly resisting private soldiers of the Ji family town rushed out with smoke and fire.

The villagers manipulated the super spears that had been used in the slaughter of the small manor villages, and the bamboo poles more than three feet long were tied to the head with an iron tip more than a foot long, and such spears were dispatched again, stabbing the escaped guys into flames from a distance. Some of the fastest runners were lucky enough to escape the flames and spears, and then they were unlucky enough to clash with the denser array of villagers, and quickly lost their lives under the onslaught of various weapons.

Zhang Luo didn't want to participate in these killings, so he quickly scattered his troops again. The focus is on the pharmacy and grain depot in Jijia Town. The remaining elite troops are ready to enter the Ji family's compound and grab it.

The villagers quickly lifted the bolt on the gate of Jijia Town, and used thick wooden beams to make hitting wood, and more than 20 people carried it, shouting and hitting the main gate of Ji's house. And the back door of the Ji family was lit with a huge fire, trying to burn the back door of the Ji family with fire.

Under the attack of the two phases, in less than an hour, the front door and the back door were breached almost simultaneously. First, more than a dozen overexcited self-farming villagers rushed into the front door, and a moment later they were killed by the private soldiers of the Ji family in the courtyard. Taking advantage of the fact that the Ji family's private soldiers were excitedly killing the homesteaders, Zhang Luo's troops rushed in.

Once the last gap is opened, the rest of the work is much simpler. The destruction of any force is the same, after the last armed personnel are dealt with, it is the process of "torturing the traitorous party and searching the palace". looted the easily searchable treasures, and then tortured them to reveal the hidden treasures.

Zhang Luo gained a lot, and the gold, silver, and copper coins were searched for a total of nearly 100,000 taels. In addition, thousands of catties of sulfur, saltpeter and other materials were found in the pharmacy. As for the title deed, Zhang Luo was not interested. In such a troubled world, these things need to be done. Compared with these house deeds, Zhang Luo felt that a bunch of pen and ink and three or four hundred catties of paper were more valuable.

Zhang Luo naturally couldn't take all the grain, he only asked the troops to move out more than 10,000 catties of grain, and handed over the rest to the villagers for disposal. The damage to the Ji family's compound was not serious, but after the Ji family was handed over to the villagers, they were all beheaded by the villagers in the courtyard. Because there were too many people killed and the smell of blood was extremely pungent, Zhang Luo could only hold a meeting with Wu Lu and the clan elders of the six villages to find a shop that had not been destroyed.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this time I broke Jijia Town, I'm afraid that the government will definitely come to find trouble for everyone. I received an order from General Taiping Daorengong to lead my troops to the north to follow the brigade, and I will leave in a few days. I think you'd better come along with me. Zhang Luo said straight to the point.

The elders of the various villages had recovered from their excitement, and after listening to Zhang Luo's words, they all looked embarrassed, unwilling to answer his words directly.

Zhang Luo can also understand the thoughts of these people. Broke Jijia Town, solved the two small manor villages attached to Jijia Town, and the situation of self-cultivated farmers here is already covering the sky. In these days, Zhang Luo also learned that there are more than a dozen small villages composed of yeoman farmers nearby. At a time when the power of yeoman farmers is turning from weak to strong, it is easy to think of an option to squeeze out the power of nearby manor villages as much as possible and establish the right of yeoman farmers to control the local area.

In fact, it is not only the patriarchs of these villages, but also tried to break away from the Taiping Road and establish a local separatist regime in a certain place under the class contradiction that Zhang Luo saw with his own eyes in the late Han Dynasty, and used it as a base to continuously expand to the surrounding areas? But after seeing with his own eyes the vendetta between the landlords and yeoman farmers in Pingyuan County, Zhang Luo had already given up such a plan.

Although the Yellow Turban Army is recorded in the history books as having great destructive power, this is because the oppression is extremely severe! At this time, it was still an agrarian society, land was an extremely important means of production, Pingyuan County was located in the North China Plain, which belonged to the most fierce land annexation, the more fierce the annexation, the greater the hatred, the more undying.

In this vendetta, Zhang Luo can only choose one side, and he can only choose the oppressed side. If he was based in Pingyuan County and had a vendetta, Zhang Luo would only be able to face the vast sea of powerful landlords, not to mention overthrowing the Han Dynasty, his own survival would be in a precarious situation, not to mention that a spark could start a prairie fire. The second is that Pingyuan County is located at the intersection of places, extending in all directions, and there is no advantage of long-term defense.