Chapter 556 You are unkind, I am unjust!

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He Shouxin is in full swing to deploy troops, but the Tartars in the city have already begun to move.

Although the strategy of inviting large households to the whole net did not work, the expulsion of the old and young women and children began in the evening.

About two hours ago, at the hour of the hour, the green camps guarding the city began to collect and gather the people from house to house.

According to Shangguan's prior instructions, at first, they gathered Ding Zhuang alone to one side, while the women, children, old and weak were gathered together in one place and driven near the city gates in the east and south respectively.

This task was carried out mainly by the guest army, mainly the Zhejiang army, but the expulsion of the people from the city was only an excuse for them to take advantage of the opportunity to plunder, so that order soon became chaotic.

At the beginning, they also separated Ding Zhuanglai, gradually, because everyone was interested in taking the opportunity to plunder, they soon lost patience, and completely ignored these "little things", they simply did not care about men, women and children, all the ordinary people were driven to the gates of the city on both sides, and the men were afraid to take care of their belongings because they were worried about the safety of their wives and parents, and they were forced to go out together in the crowd.

The crying on the street shook the sky, and there were people who took advantage of the opportunity to kill people in order to rob property, and many people brought soft ones with them, and they were all intercepted and searched by the rebels.

Because there are more and more people, some green battalion soldiers feel troublesome, so they stick their double knives in the street, and ask the people passing by to "offer treasures", and those who refuse to take out their belongings will be stabbed on the street, and when they meet a good-looking young woman, they will drag them to the back and openly J.

After the staff learned that Admiral Ma had already left the city, they immediately scattered, and a group of servants and scribes who were left behind in the government office plundered and searched for their own life.

At this moment, the gate of the government office was opened, and many rebels and city fox society rats openly entered and exited, looting the few remaining goods......

There are also some blocks that are still in order, and the streets are crossed by street gates at both ends, guarded by strong men and some soldiers, and no one is allowed to pass.

These soldiers and strong men openly disobeyed orders, whether you were an official or a soldier, as long as you approached the street gate, it would immediately attract a flurry of arrows, and the bloody heads of people poked indiscriminately on the street gate to warn all strangers who tried to approach.

There were about 3,000 soldiers in the city, most of whom were locals, and even many of them had their homes in Yangzhou.

Since the beginning of the war, Ma Jinbao, who knew that there was no chance of victory, confiscated all the warships of the Cao Barracks and used them to concentrate on transporting grain, so the Cao Barracks suddenly became nominal, and most of the people were driven as infantry miscellaneous servants.

In the city of Yangzhou, Ma Jinbao really relied on, in addition to his own supervision battalion, that is, the four or five thousand guest troops who fled back from Zhejiang, especially the Zhejiang soldiers whose military discipline has always been bad, were the most important, and the local Cao soldiers were regarded as "useless people", not to mention the meagre treatment, and were often sent to do hard miscellaneous labor such as digging trenches and building fortifications.

Therefore, the contradiction between the host and the guest between the defenders of Yangzhou has always been very intense, and the fire and incident between the local soldiers and the guest army have occurred from time to time, and the two sides can be called the same fire.

This expulsion of the old and weak from the city directly affected their families, and instantly detonated the already tense emotions of the two sides, and the two sides continued to clash in various parts of the city.

This kind of confrontation of the local garrison was fully used by the big households, and became the main force of the big households in Yangzhou to plan "anyway".

Relying on these garrisons, many places in the city can barely maintain order, and the people in these neighborhoods have not been evicted for the time being......

At this moment, Meng Tietou walked on the street with dozens of family soldiers, the knife was unsheathed, the gun was bulleted, and no one dared to make noise along the way.

Seeing the chaos in the city, his heart ached faintly, but at this moment he was helpless, the officialdom in the city had collapsed, and there was no one to suppress the rebels.

It is heard that the Jiangdu county magistrate has committed suicide by hanging himself from the lobby in despair, the whereabouts of the Yangzhou prefect are unknown, and many mansions, temples and palaces have been looted by the rebel mob.

Meng Tietou's face was pale and gray, and he led people all the way to the city gate silently......

During the day in the Admiral's Palace, when his mood calmed down a little, the gloomy one-eyed dragon finally showed him Admiral's "warrant", and at this point, he finally determined that Admiral Ma had slipped away alone, which was a true thing.

However, Ma Jinbao naturally would not admit that he fled first in a cowardly fight.

At the critical moment, he even abandoned his own standard pro-military camp, and only took dozens of relatives to sneak away with his family, if it leaked out, it would be a felony of murder.

This treacherous and cunning Admiral actually claimed to be going to Yizhen to meet Lord Hong's reinforcements, so he deliberately left a secret order and ordered Cui Duyan to carry out the final plan to burn the city and break out.

According to his warrant, the plan was a two-step process.

The first step, starting tonight, is to drive the whole city, old and young, women and children out of the city from the east and south gates in three great fanfares, so as to attract the attention of the thieves, and it is better to hold them back.

In the second step, starting at midnight tomorrow evening, the various divisions will set fire to the city in the western, southern, and eastern districts in turn, and then the whole army will break through from the north gate and retreat westward by land......

In this regard, Meng Tie was full of slander.

It turned out that Admiral Ma, who has always kept saying that he wants to be loyal to the country and is a cherisher in his own eyes, turned out to be such an unkind and unjust, greedy for life and afraid of death!

However, what made Meng Tietou even more dissatisfied was that Cui Duyan, who was a fox and a fake tiger and held chicken feathers as an arrow, actually engaged in fake public and private affairs at this critical moment.

Obviously, he has 3,000 elite commanders, but he is afraid of the heavy, and almost all the most dangerous ignition tasks are handed over to others.

Among them, his superintendent battalion was the first to move in the west city, and the first to retreat to the north gate after setting fire, the east city was handed over to the Zhejiang army, and the south city, which was the last to move, was in charge of him Meng Tietou.

Meng Tietou was resentful of this, and immediately erupted angrily: "Damn, don't you want Lao Tzu to wait for death?!" ”

You must know that he is just a general, and it has only been less than a day since he was ordered to guard the south gate, although the green battalion soldiers under the half-dead You Heizi seem to be temporarily suppressed, but he knows very well that the fire is together, and when it comes to a critical moment, this group of unruly people can't be suppressed at all.

In fact, at that time, except for the remaining more than 100 firearms under Wang Jijun, he almost had no command of any men.

What made Meng Tietou extremely resentful was that in this way, Cui Duyan also arranged for himself to make the last move, clearly taking the opportunity to suppress him, and let him wipe his ass after he broke off!

He knew that Mo said that he was powerless to control the entire Nancheng, even if he could get caught by fire, according to Cui Duyan's cowardice, he couldn't expect him to wait for him to meet.

Maybe by the time I arrived at the north gate out of breath, the birdman had already run away without a trace!

"Grandma's, this is clearly forcing people to death!"

Along the way, Meng Tietou scolded all the way and calculated all the way.

Right now, looking at the chaotic appearance in the city, Meng Tietou was even more worried.

Look at the situation, if you continue like this, you won't be able to survive tomorrow night, and the city will definitely be a mess, and this bird mission is a dead end at all!

It seems that there is no other way to plan for the lives of himself and his subordinates than to get out of the city as soon as possible!

"Admiral Ma, if you are unkind first, don't blame Lao Tzu for being unjust......"