197 Arrest of the Chin
"Fuck, it's a bunch of rice buckets!"
When Fan Yaosi saw it, he couldn't help but scold.
Because the group of soldiers under his command had no choice but to get the more than 30 strangers who were suspected of being factory guards, and they were fighting near the city gate, which frightened all the people around them to run around.
In fact, how can the Zhangjiakou Fort defenders under him be an elite army!
A few years ago, there was a time, Lin Dan Khan, who was in the west of Jianyu's expedition to Har, entered the customs on the side of Xuanfu when he returned to the division, and everyone did not fight at all, and he was harmonious, and finally Jianyu was exempted from the Jin merchants and sent to Liaodong, and he left with grain and grass materials.
As soon as he turned around, the Xuanfu side also played the court and said that he had repelled the Liaodong Jianyu, at least he had defended the city, and he had made a great achievement!
Therefore, this defender, logically speaking, is actually just a thief to deal with. Thieves don't exist in this area. Even if they come, Zhangjiakou Fort not only has defenders, but also families from various families, how can the thieves be defeated.
Therefore, this defender has no external pressure, and its generals are all unenterprising, and in fact, they don't need to think about making war exploits, so they are naturally herding sheep and leading troops. One can imagine how strong the combat effectiveness of this army can be!
After Fan Yaosi scolded, he was afraid that the group would rush to the city gate, so he hurriedly shouted at the city: "Why are you stunned, why don't you go and help!" ”
When the soldiers guarding the city heard this, they hurriedly rushed to help.
However, no one expected that as soon as these soldiers left, they saw that those who had fled to the vicinity of the city gate just now suddenly showed their blades and began to rush the city gate.
Moreover, these people are all very strong, and they will not show mercy, as long as there are defenders in front of them, it will be solved with one sword. The blood spurted on them, and they didn't even blink an eye.
Fan Yaosi was dumbfounded when he saw this scene in the city, what is the situation? I just transferred the manpower at the city gate, and I encountered such a thing?
He was still thinking about it, when suddenly he saw that the people who had robbed the gate had already attacked the city. Many of them even took out their crossbows from their arms and began to shoot upwards.
"Whoosh"
"Ahh Fan Yaosi has long been targeted, and he is the focus of the crossbow. Although he dodged for a while, he still didn't dodge, and an arrow hit him in the eye, and he suddenly screamed, and the whole person fell backwards.
When the others saw it, the people who wanted to intercept it came back one after another and hurried to help Fan Yaosi, and some people wanted to escape from the city, damn, where did these come from, killing people without blinking!
At the head of the city, there was chaos.
The deadbolt was cut directly by these people with an axe, and the heavy door was pushed open with a "squeak" sound. The cavalry, who had been waiting outside the gate for a long time, immediately swarmed in.
Zhangjiakou Fort, just like this, should be combined inside and outside, and it is easy to take.
Hong Chengchou, who was riding on a war horse outside the city and had been watching all this coldly, was not surprised at all. Because all of this is actually planned in advance.
Those factory guards were actually deliberately exposed, so that the people of the Jin Merchants focused their attention on these factory guards, thus covering another group of selected elites in the army to lurk in.
If the defenders of Zhangjiakou Fort open the city gate, it will be nothing, once they try to resist, then the factory guards will attract attention again and let the elite of the army take the city gate in one fell swoop.
And all of this, in fact, in the final analysis, the reason why it can be successful is a surprise.
If there is a precaution, or if such a thing has already happened on the side of Zhangjiakou Fort, then this sneak attack on the city gate will definitely not be so easy to succeed. However, who would have thought about this time!
For example, Fan Yongdou didn't expect it at all.
At this time, he was still in his own house, and he was taking out a sum of silver from the treasury, which was a serious amount of silver, not a silver ticket from his Fan Ji Bank.
While supervising the housekeepers to carry the boxes of silver to the cart, he said to the account office next to him: "I have made it clear that the money that was given to the defenders will be divided among the families in return." ”
"Don't worry, sir, the accounts are clear."
Fan Yongdou nodded, turned his head to look east, frowned, and said, "Those who come are not good, and those who are good will not come!" ”
"The lord is relieved, there will be brave men under the heavy reward, and our Zhangjiakou Fort is very strong, and it is impossible for the outside to attack it." When the bookkeeper heard this, he smiled and said, "Even if the city is besieged, we are not afraid." ”
Fan Yongdou nodded when he heard this, there were countless grain and grass materials hoarded in the fort, and they could be used by all the prefectures, and the soldiers were sufficient. I don't believe it, how can the Ming army fight outside the city?
After holding on for a while, if the Ming army is still not exhausted, then it is estimated that the reinforcements on the grassland should also arrive. As for what to do afterwards, anyway, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, and it will be more to throw some silver at the court.
10,000 taels is not enough, 20,000 taels is not enough, 30,000 taels, I really don't believe it, in this year, there is still money to do things!
It's a big deal, and one more substitute for the dead is it!
He was thinking about it when he suddenly heard the direction of the east gate, as if there was a shout of killing.
Suddenly, Fan Yongdou was a little nervous in his heart, and immediately turned his head to look. The self-consolation just now seemed to have faded a lot, and an anxious look appeared on his face: "Quick, send someone to see, what happened?" If there is a fight, there will be insufficient manpower, so organize manpower as soon as possible! ”
"Yes, sir!" When the leader of his family heard this, he hurriedly agreed, and then hurriedly turned around and ran away.
With his hands behind his back, turning left and right, Fan Yongdou was still very uneasy in his heart. This kind of experience is still the first time for him.
Suddenly, he stopped and said, "Quick, prepare the sedan chair, go out and have a look!" ”
However, before he could go out, he heard the sound of horses' hooves rushing to the ground, and the rumbling sound was like thunder on the horizon.
The people here in Zhangjiakou Fort are no strangers to the sound of horses' hooves, and when they hear it, they know that it is caused by a large number of war horses running. On the defenders' side, there weren't many horses. That is to say......
Thinking of this conclusion, Fan Yongdou, who just wanted to get into the sedan chair, shook his body and almost didn't fall, he had always been calm, but at this time he stammered to the family next to him: "No...... It can't be a broken city, right? ”
Before he could reply, he saw a torrent of red rolling down the street. The heavily armed soldiers of the Ming army, while speeding along the street quickly and deeply, shouted: "The whole city is under martial law, and those who go to the street will be killed!" The whole city is under martial law, and those who go to the street will be killed! ”
On the city wall in the distance, the infantry of the Yongwei battalion had already rushed to the head of the city, and were quickly rushing towards the other city gates along the city wall.
In the beginning, they also met with a bit of resistance. But this little resistance can't turn up any waves at all, and it can't even stop them and make them stop.
The soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion faced these defenders, and they were truly invincible and devastating. Except for the first moment, all the defenders at the head of the city lost their swords and crouched in a corner trembling, as long as they didn't want to die, that's all.
From the east gate as the starting point, two torrents quickly extended from the city wall to other places, and the largest torrent extended along the main street at a faster speed, like a sudden burst of magma, which soon submerged the Zhangjiakou Fort.
The soldiers of the Ming army who attacked the city were not soft at all, after the cavalry in front shouted, the follow-up infantry followed, and if anyone dared to stand on the street, they were thousands of people talking with knives and guns.
In this city developed by smuggling, there are basically few people who are peaceful and self-serving! Hong Chengchou, as the governor of the three sides, has suppressed bandits in Shaanxi for so many years, and he knows it in his heart, and he has been ordered by holy order, just as he killed all the soldiers among the thieves at the beginning, and he is not relentless at all.
"Master, quick, come into the house, the cavalry is rushing over."
Fan Yongdou didn't need to be reminded by his family, he almost ran away from the sedan chair and ran towards the door of his house. His summoned family members also rushed to the house, for fear that when they were finished, the Ming army had already come, and the people were still outside, and they would be killed by this torrent of iron and blood.
After a family member ran into the gate of the house first, he turned around and saw the car parked at the gate of the house, and then he remembered that the silver that was going to reward the defenders of the city was still in the car.
"Master, master, what about all that silver?"
After Fan Yongdou ran into the mansion, he came back to his senses, and when he saw so much silver outside, he was very distressed, and hurriedly shouted: "Why are you still standing stupidly, why don't you go ahead quickly?" ”
Tens of thousands of taels of silver is not a small amount, and it would kill him to be thrown there like that!
However, tens of thousands of taels of silver are also not something that can be taken casually, even if they are pushed with a cart, they are very heavy. What's more, this gate has steps, and it must be carried first.
After Fan Yongdou gave the order, a few of these family members under him wanted to go out, but when they looked up, the torrent of iron and blood was already approaching, and the rolling majesty was like a mountain and a sea. "The whole city is under martial law, and those who go to the street will be killed! The whole city is under martial law, and those who go to the street will be killed! ”
Suddenly, all the family members who stretched out their feet shrank back, and no one dared to rush out.
Fan Yongdou was so angry that he wanted to kick people, but when he saw the cavalry army galloping past the gate of his house, he knew that he didn't dare to provoke this cavalry. So, he glanced at the cart of silver outside, and the expression on his face was really like a dead father.
Then, as soon as he turned around, he hurried to the house.
Similar to him, some of the other seven Jin merchants were on the street, but they didn't expect the Ming army outside the city to attack the city so quickly, and when they heard the martial law order, they were all so frightened that they hurriedly fled when they saw the torrent of iron and blood rolling in.
When these merchants and their guardians faced the elite army of the Ming Dynasty, they realized what fear was.
If there is a city wall for them to rely on, maybe they will have the courage to fight one or two. However, now that there is no city wall, in the face of thousands of cavalry and foot soldiers who are constantly driving into the city, I feel that they are murderous and murderous, and no one can give birth to the heart of resistance.
There were only a few stunned people who didn't know that the sky was high and the earth was thick, and they just happened to wake them up. It is useless to be strong in any kung fu, in front of the army, you can't even get close, you are either shot or stabbed to death by a spear, just like crushing an ant to death.
In Zhangjiakou Fort, as long as you don't want to die, or don't want to die for the time being, you can only hide in the house immediately.
In less than half an hour, the Son of Heaven army had already occupied this Zhangjiakou Fort.
At the head of the city, on the streets, there were all armed soldiers. Three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, a team of soldiers, and a team of knights, patrolling the streets and alleys.
Hong Chengchou was very satisfied with this, and when he entered the city, he didn't go to the general's mansion in the fort, but just went to the arrow tower at the head of the east gate and looked at the city condescendingly.
"Report, a large amount of grain and grass was found in a warehouse in the west of the city, and it is estimated that it will be at least 20,000 stones."
"Report, a large amount of grain was found in a warehouse in the south of the city, and it is estimated that it will be at least 100,000 stones."
"Report, a large amount of iron has been found in the east of the city, all of which are fine iron, and there are countless gunpowder!"
“……”
It didn't take long for soldiers from all over the city to gallop over and report to Hong Chengchou about the discoveries everywhere.
The military order he gave was to collect grain and grass materials as soon as he occupied Zhangjiakou Fort.
Listening to the warnings of the soldiers who kept rushing back, the prison soldiers standing next to Hong Chengchou, as well as the officers of Dongchang and Jinyiwei, were all very happy: What a big harvest!
But there was another situation that surprised them, because they were at the head of the city, and they saw smoke coming out of the north of the city, which seemed to be on fire.
Needless to say, it must have been intentional arson.
Hong Chengchou was quite calm and not in a hurry. Because he had anticipated this situation long before entering the city, and had made relevant arrangements.
There was no accident, the fire was quickly extinguished, and after a while, an officer from the hussar battalion came to announce: "Your Excellency, a group of thieves have just hid in a grain and grass warehouse and tried to set it on fire, and they have been killed by their subordinates. ”
This time, after the Son of Heaven entered the city, he was very decisive, and when there were bad signs, he didn't need to report for instructions at all, and he was killed directly. It is also because of this that the people in the city are caught off guard, even if someone wants to set fire to the chaos, it is not that they can set it on fire if they want to.
After a few moments, the officers who had been instructed in advance from all over the city had rushed back to report on the situation in their respective areas.
Hong Chengchou looked up at the sky and saw that the clouds in the west had been dyed red by the setting sun. It should be less than half an hour, and it will be dark.
He lowered his head, looked down at this Zhangjiakou Fort, and said coldly: "The generals will listen to the order!" ”
A large group of generals at all levels standing beside him immediately clenched their fists and waited: "The last general!" ”
"Get all the rats out of the official and arrest the culprit!" Hong Chengchou's voice was cold, and he ordered loudly.
When many generals heard this, they immediately responded loudly: "Obey!" ”