Chapter 128: Chaos
The arrival of artillery completely changed the situation.
The old man on the highest floor sighed. Behind him, the official knelt on the floor tremblingly. In front of him were silver tickets and account books, as well as a copy of top-secret information on the battle situation in Liaodong.
"Let me say what is good about you, greed for money is not terrible, but stupidity cannot be forgiven." The high priest said faintly.
"It's all a small one who is not strict under his control, and he has caused such a big disaster to the sect, Tianjin Wei's brothers have suffered countless deaths and injuries, and they can't atone for their sins with a hundred deaths."
"You wrap these things up, and then go down yourself and return them to the people,"
"High priest, we can't stop returning the things to others, it's better to ...... it."
"How about it"
"It's all burned, we can't get better, he lost confidential documents, and caused such a big thing, I'm afraid he will also be punished, and everyone will simply die together."
The high priest kicked the high official down, "Tie up, everyone prepares, shouting to return the culprit and things to them, and ask for negotiations." Take the opportunity to rush out, there are cannons over there, this tower can't hold it"
A man in black directly blocked the mouth of the big official with a rag, and carried it directly down the tower, and everyone gathered at the doors and windows on the second and first floors.
"Listen outside, your things were not stolen by our people, and we are asking for negotiations."
Li Jing smiled: "I really think I have chips in my hand, do I care about a few hundred taels of silver, or am I too lazy to make this account." Artillery preparation, directly onto the shot"
It was already dark, and torches were lit all around. Shine on the tower, like daylight.
"Don't fire, we sent the culprit and things over", a group of black-clothed people escorted the big officials over, and some people carried burdens, the Ming troops around did not fire, the artillery on Li Jing's side did not fire, and the thousand households on the opposite side did not give the order to fire, it seemed that they also had the idea of letting them come out automatically.
Seeing that these black-clothed people walked to the front of Li Jing's side and handed the things to Bai Yu, Bai Yu checked it and nodded to Li Jing behind him. Just when Li Jing was about to ask a few words to see where these people came from. The high priest let out a low roar and moved his hands. On the third floor, the second floor, and the first floor, everyone rushed out, or jumped down and rushed to the side of the guards, and after two hours of fighting, they clearly found that the guards who still had no firearms were easy to bully.
Li Jing immediately ordered to fire, and the black-clothed men in the front row immediately pulled out the Burmese iron soft knife from his belt, and instantly cut down the soldiers in the front row, and the soldiers in the back hesitated, and these black-clothed men had already killed the crowd in the front row. The officer in the back shouted "Lie down" The soldiers in the front row reflexively lay down, and the man in black was stunned and didn't know what these officers and soldiers in beautiful leather clothes were going to do.
Then a volley of guns pierced their bodies, and some people came down one after another, but the black-clothed leader lifted the big official forward, and all the lead bullets hit him, and the black-clothed man rolled on the ground one by one, and rolled in front of a group of musketeers again. There was chaos again in the front row.
Taking advantage of this moment's delay, the high priest, the master and others had already rushed into the opposite guards' positions, and there was a scuffle all of them, and these hundred people were all elites, far from being able to resist the three hundred guards. Li Jing saw that the two sides were mixed together, but he didn't dare to shoot. Seeing that, he broke out of the encirclement on the opposite side and broke out.
At this time, the man in black, although he killed four people and injured six people, he couldn't stop the shotgun of the short fire in his martial arts. After a roar, the dead can no longer die.
Li Jing knew that tonight was destined to be sleepless. There was chaos in the city. The guards outside the city had entered the city, and the gates were guarded by fifty Nanao town musketeers, as well as a three-pounder cannon. The sappers who arrived afterwards laid out barbed wire and sandbag breastwork. Don't even think a fly can fly out.
Originally, there were a large number of rebellious people in the city, and the guards had long been rotten, and their combat effectiveness was not much stronger than that of ordinary people. It all relied on Li Jing's Nanao town soldiers to maintain a balanced situation, relying on the sharpness of firearms, and constantly saving the scene, not being defeated, at this time the tower temple has been, there is no value in guarding, Li Jing put the command position in response to the requirements of the commander of the scene, moved into the command of the yamen, the commander of the Jing drove to Li Jing's personal soldiers to guard around only a sigh of relief, felt safe.
The city was completely disorganized, and the officers and soldiers basically fought with the mob in teams and small flags. The high priest and the guru hid in the shadows and commanded. Several storms of the gates were returned by platoon guns and three-pounder guns. The closest thing to success was blown back by a grenade.
In the middle of the night, the left guard and the right guard each arrived with a thousand men. The scales began to tilt in favor of the officers and soldiers. The mob began to crumble at the time of the arrival of the army en masse. The high priest and the others found a local congregation who was familiar with the environment, and after learning that they could enter the moat from the sewage ditch, they decisively abandoned the congregants in the city, climbed into the gutter with the only dozen or so black-clothed men, swam to the embankment outside the moat, and fled quickly before dawn.
The ongoing chaos did not end until early in the morning, and calm returned to the city.
Li Jing saw that Commander Jing seemed to have something to say. It seems a little embarrassing. Li Jing knew that the time had come to share the credit, but he was not interested in this kind of credit at all. If he was fighting in the field, he might still have a sense of accomplishment, and fighting against these ignorant people just made him feel funny.
Besides, Li Jing doesn't want to be in the limelight, it's best that no one pays attention to him, and let him slowly grow into a big tree.
"Needless to say, Li Jing and Nanao Town have never appeared here today, but after the rebellion has passed, I am grateful to have helped me find my lost property, and the rest of the things are all up to the adults to strategize, and they found that the bandits mixed in with the city were decisively suppressed. Victory. ”
"Zhengyi, what's so embarrassing, this ......" Commander Jing didn't expect Li Jing to be so generous, he just wanted to get rid of his guilt and completely get rid of this matter. Give him the full credit for that.
"Your Excellency doesn't have to be too humble, our army has suffered a lot of casualties today, and after dawn, the bullets will press the streets, and the situation will be cleaned up, so Zhengyi will not disturb your lordship, besides, the military department can't be delayed. That's the farewell."
Commander Jing didn't know what to say, and repeatedly said that in the future, on the ground in Tianjin, the Li family should not see anything else, and directly find his official Yunyun. Li Jing said a few words to him and left.
It was dawn all night after tossing, and Li Jing was tired. The four maids waited to freshen up and change their pajamas, and climbed into the hammock to sleep. This time there were more than a dozen casualties, and a lot of gunpowder and lead were wasted, it was really a disaster. Bad luck got home.