Chapter 631: The Fall of the Ming Dynasty (6)
In the city of Chengdu, Zhang Xianzhong and Wang Zhaolin and other civil and military officers had cold hands and feet, and their hearts were dripping blood.
That's it?
100,000 troops reimbursed in one afternoon?
Fucking hammer that!
Looking at Zhang Xianzhong, who was constantly pounding the wall and roaring, Wang Zhaolin swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty and said with a bitter face:
"King, the matter is urgent, the officers and soldiers are too fierce, should we consider the matter of retreating?"
"Retreat, where the hell are you going!"
Zhang Xianzhong grabbed Wang Zhaolin's collar and looked at him viciously and said:
"If it weren't for your cowardice saying that conquering Sichuan was enough to build a country and become the emperor, I would still be living a good life in Huguang, you say, what can I do now?"
Wang Zhaolin wanted to take a step back with a look of fear, "Or, let's call the emperor first and then leave?" ”
"Call your old lady an emperor, everyone is burning their butts, how can there be this kung fu."
Zhang Xianzhong looked unwilling, "Fight again tomorrow, if it doesn't work, let's take the treasures of the Shu Mansion and Chengdu to the south and go back to Huguang." ”
"Yes", Li Dingguo and the others looked at each other and clenched their fists in response.
At night, the city of Chengdu was not calm again, and groups of soldiers of the Great Western Army broke into the search from house to house like hungry wolves, and looted almost all the gold and silver treasures.
Many wealthy gentry in Chengdu were killed, and the brutality of the Great Western Army was once again highlighted.
On 12 May, the officers and men of the Daxi Army, which had been reorganized again, flinched and drove out of the east gate of Chengdu.
This time, Yu Yongkai and the others did not launch an attack first, and waited until the more than 200,000 people of the Great Western Army finished arraying outside the city, and then the army under Yu Yongkai faded forward.
Outside Chengdu, the roaring sound of artillery and gunfire rang out again.
On the battlefield, Tang Zhong and other colleagues, constantly repeating the mechanical action of raising the gun, shooting, loading, and raising the gun, the soldiers of the Great Western Army in front of him rushed forward like moths to the fire, but in the end they continued to fall like moths beside the flames.
There were only two or three chances, and the Great Western Army almost rushed to the front of the large army, but the grenadiers behind Tang Zhong and the others immediately stepped forward and threw the grenade in their hands.
After a puff of gunpowder, Tang Zhong and the others shot calmly again.
By the afternoon, the Great Western Army could no longer bear the huge casualties.
In a big war of 200,000 or 300,000 people, if you look at the previous experience of the Great Western Army, tens of thousands of people will die, but now?
The original army of more than 300,000 people in the Great Western Army is getting thinner and thinner at the moment, and the front of the battlefield is full of dense corpses of the soldiers of the Great Western Army, which is like a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood to intimidate the ordinary soldiers of the Great Western Army.
Seeing that there was almost no place to put their feet on the battlefield, the officers and men of the Onishi Army, who were urging forward again, all shouted bitterly and threw down their weapons and fled to the south.
This move immediately caused a series of reactions from the Great Western Army, and the remaining troops of more than 100,000 people fled to the south as if they had received some order.
At this time, Li Dingguo and others couldn't control the treasures in the city, so they fled outside the city together with Zhang Xianzhong.
"My treasure, my beauty!"
Zhang Xianzhong was put on a horse, and he kept looking back with a sad face, while constantly beating Li Dingguo and others who were carrying a sedan chair.
However, all this was in vain, and the Great Western Army was still inevitably defeated.
Outside Chengdu, Yu Yongkai and others have already begun to cheer.
"Hooray"
"Hooray"
After a while, Yu Yongkai excitedly pointed the horsewhip in his hand to Chengdu.
"The whole army is there, enter the city quickly, be sure to seize all the treasury, and seize all the goods of the thief."
"Whoa"
As soon as Yu Yongkai finished speaking, he immediately added with a serious face, "All Qu political and political officials and military judges strictly enforce the law, and if they find that they have hidden private property, they will be dealt with by military law!" ”
"Whoa!"
More than 2,000 light cavalry in Liu's army entered the city first, and directly controlled the whole city at the moment when the Great Western Army retreated.
Tang Zhong entered the city with the army, because of the exploits of shooting and killing Bai Wenxuan, the former military governor of the Great Western Army, he has been promoted to the commander of Quanqu at this time, with 120 men under his command.
Only then did they turn from Dongdajie to the south of the city, and Tang Zhong and the others saw a group of gangster-looking people rushing out of a house, still carrying a bag of grain in their hands.
Although the Great Western Army robbed the gold and silver treasures of the whole city, they still looked down on other things of ordinary people, and these became the targets of these gangsters.
"Queue, shoot!"
Almost at the same time as he discovered this gang of gangsters, Tang Zhong decisively ordered.
Dozens of people in the front row immediately raised their guns, and after a few "bang" and "bang" sounds, these dozen thugs fell to the ground and died on the street.
The sound of gunfire in the streets frightened the people in the houses on both sides, and every house closed its doors and windows and looked out carefully.
Tang Zhong immediately led people forward to take down the food from their corpses, and directly waved his hand to signal that the family that had been robbed on the opposite side of the door was set up.
"Fellow, this grain is yours, take it back, but lock the door."
The family was a family of four, a weak man with a woman, a son, a daughter and two children.
The family was still trembling at home and secretly wiping their tears, but they were suddenly forcibly taken out by Liu Jiajun's people, and now when they saw Tang Zhong handing over the food with a pleasant face, a big man cried directly.
"Master Jun, you are really the master of the blue sky!"
Tang Zhong motioned for others to help him up, and at the same time stood up and looked at the surrounding houses with closed doors and windows, there were many people inside, obviously peeking into the street behind the doors and windows.
"Listen to the folks in Chengdu, we are under the command of Liu Gelao, the deputy assistant of the imperial court and the assistant minister of the superintendent, Chengdu has been recovered by us, you don't have to worry, our army is strictly disciplined, and will never harass the people of Chengdu.
After saying this, Tang Zhong left two teams of men and horses to guard this street, and he took the other people to search the next street.
It was under this arrangement that the whole of Chengdu quickly stabilized.
Before the people of Chengdu could react, they found that the streets in front of their homes were patrolled by officers and soldiers wearing big red and fat jackets.
These soldiers were kind, and when they saw that the neighbors would sometimes help or say hello, it didn't take a few hours for the people of Chengdu to finally feel at ease.
In the palace of the King of Shu, Yu Yongkai and the others were already laughing from ear to ear.
In front of a few people, the wealth of the whole city that Zhang Xianzhong had looted had been concentrated here.
Zhang Jingliang ran over from the other end of the square with an excited face, "The person in the account room roughly clicked, there are at least 40 million taels of gold, silver and jewelry, and we have made a fortune this time." ”
"These are all to be handed in, so that the brothers will keep an eye on them, and those who dare to reach out will not be forgiven", Yu Yongkai said while laughing.
He also sighed a little in his heart, if it weren't for the second brother, he would have swallowed all such a big piece of fat with a trick of driving away the tiger and devouring the wolf.
The Shu Wangfu is known as the richest clan in the world, and his wealth plus the wealth of the people of Chengdu looted by Zhang Xianzhong and others is enough to support his military expenses for two or three years.
Zhang Jingliang reluctantly removed his eyes from a box of gold, looked at Yu Yongkai and said, "What to do with those Tianshu documents of the palace?" Many people reacted, saying that Zhang Xianzhong robbed them of their property, how to deal with this?"
"Where are there any palace properties, these are all from our Liu family, as for the people in the city, these goods cannot be distinguished, and all of them will not be returned, so they are all snatched by Zhang Xianzhong. In addition, send people to open warehouses in the city to release grain, and be sure not to let the city cause chaos. ”
"Whoa"
The people of Chengdu soon discovered that porridge sheds had been set up around the Shu Wangfu and near more than a dozen main streets to provide free food for the people in the city.
At this moment, all the voices about Yu Yongkai and others' private treasures were covered, and the people of Chengdu fell into a busy struggle to survive again.
As for Zhang Xianzhong, under the desperate cover of Li Dingguo and others, the group was able to escape smoothly.
With the presence of the Chinese army and a group of old brothers, the remaining 100,000 horses of the Great Western Army were gathered again, and finally some vitality was retained.
Looking at the disgraced army without tears, Zhang Xianzhong was furious.
However, in the face of a killing god like Yongkai, Zhang Xianzhong was helpless even if he was angry in his heart, so he had to attack south again after reorganizing his troops and horses, and successfully captured Meizhou and reorganized his team.
Strange to say, after expelling Zhang Xianzhong from the scope of Chengdu Prefecture, Yu Yongkai's army had no other action except for sending 30,000 soldiers and horses to guard Xinjin County to block Zhang Xianzhong.
On the contrary, on the side of Jiading Prefecture, Yang Zhan, the original general under Yang Sichang, and others united with local forces to pull up an army of tens of thousands and began to attack Meizhou.
However, although the Great Western Army faced Yongkai like a chicken, but the Ming army was not far behind, after a big battle, not only Jiading Prefecture was snatched down by Zhang Xianzhong, Yang Zhan and other people's troops were also disabled, and had to retreat to Dongchuan Mansion.