[241] Man dies for money

"Kill!"

Outside Pengze City, the shouting and killing sounded, two teams of people and horses collided together in the suburbs outside the city, each with the sword in his hand to swing at his former companions, the corpses can be seen everywhere inside and outside the city, the residents of the small Pengze County who survived from the last left army were afraid to close their doors, praying that the rebel army would not break in

This tear-up has lasted for half the night, last night, Li Guoying secretly planted an ambush in the mourning hall of Zuo Liangyu of the county government, and wanted to kill these people when Jin Shengheng and others worshiped Zuo Liangyu, but Jin Shengheng and others also had the same thoughts, and secretly brought a large number of personal soldiers behind them.

Li Guoying thought he had a plan, Jin Shengheng and others were just about to worship, Li Guoying immediately ambushed the soldiers, Jin Shengheng and others were frightened, and fled under the desperate protection of the pro-soldiers, just when Li Guoying ordered people to block the gate, Jin Shengheng and others were lying outside The pro-soldiers launched at the same time, broke the county government gate, and joined Jin Shengheng and others, Li Guoying's plan suddenly came to naught.

Seeing Li Guoying's preemptive strike, Jin Shengheng and others were naturally not polite, and immediately commanded their own troops to counterattack, the strength of the two sides was not much different in the city, so they each went to the city to transfer troops, the strength of the two sides was equal, and the bloody battle passed in the middle of the night, except for the corpses everywhere in the city, no one could help anyone.

As soon as the sky dawned, both sides were desperately trying to enter Pengze City again. Whoever enters the city first, whoever can hold Zuo Mengeng in his hand first, who can occupy the upper hand, to this point, no one on either side has room to retreat, so they can only die. There are two sides of the men and horses in the two military camps, and the tearing and killing barracks in the city can also be faintly heard, but there is no exact news, and the generals are restraining their soldiers and horses not to move, otherwise once the camp roars in the dark night, the consequences are unimaginable, as soon as the day dawns, everyone receives the general order from their own general soldiers, and immediately understands the beginning and end of the matter, both sides are scrambling to rush to Pengze County, and I don't know who started first on the road, and before entering the city, the two sides are tearing up and killing outside the city.

The tearing on the way spread to the barracks, and soon, the barracks also fought in a ping-pong manner, the city, the road, and the barracks were divided into three battlefields, and the two sides wore the same military uniforms and held the same weapons, fighting fiercely together.

When the scouts sent by Li Dingguo came to the vicinity of the left camp, everyone reined in their horses and looked at the left army camp in front of them in a mess.

"My lord, what should I do!" A scout asks the little flag

"What to do? Let's go back and report to Master Li quickly. Xiao Qi almost shouted, hundreds of thousands of people were killed together, if his people were involved, he would soon not even be left with scum, not to mention that he didn't know which side to help, so naturally the farther away the better.

"Order~drive!" Several scouts immediately hurried back to the camp of the Ming army

When Li Dingguo heard the news of the infighting in the left army, he did not dare to slack off at all, and immediately reported it to Song Youliang. Song Youliang laughed and said, "Kill, kill, the more you kill, the better, it's better to die cleanly." ”

Li Dingguo was stunned

Song Youliang said with a smile: "For Zuo Liangyu to leave this team with no military discipline and low combat effectiveness, the national government has no interest, if these people are recruited, they will only consume food and salary, but if they are dismissed, they will harm the place, it is better to kill each other cleanly." ”

Li Dingguo was deeply impressed by Song Youliang's evaluation of the Left Army, and the corruption of the Left Army's military discipline was famous all over the world, but it would be an exaggeration to say that they had no combat effectiveness

Song Youliang watched from the wall, showing his attitude of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight. At this time, Zuo Mengeng sat on a Taishi chair in the county yamen, his eyes were bloodshot, whether it was Li Guoying or Jin Shengheng and others, they still had a trace of respect for Zuo Mengeng for the time being, although the fight was for Zuo Mengeng, but no soldier dared to come in and do anything to Zuo Mengeng

"Young marshal, let's go quickly, otherwise it will be too late." Huang Shu tiptoed over the wall to Zuo Mengeng's side, last night's tearing together, Huang Shu found a place to hide, since the sky was bright, the tearing sound was getting farther and farther away from the county government, Huang Shu dared to sneak out, he saw Zuo Mengeng staying in the chair at a glance.

"Go, where to go." Zuo Mengeng raised his blank eyes and asked.

Huang Shu said bitterly: "Of course it's Emperor Touhongde, young marshal, don't hesitate any longer, now the young marshal immediately sent a messenger to Song Youliang to show his mind, and asked them to send troops to exterminate the thief Li Guoying." In this way, the young marshal, you can still keep Jin Shengheng's soldiers and horses, so that you can speak confidently in the future. If you want to wait for Jin Shengheng and Li Guoying to fight for both loses, then what else do you use as capital? ? ”

Under the fear, Zuo Mengeng didn't want to stand up and run for his life with Huang Shu.

Zuo Liangyu has collected countless properties over the years, although most of them are used to raise the army, but he has also accumulated a lot, not to mention that before the army set out from Wuchang, the entire Wuchang City was almost empty, and the same is true for various towns along the way.

It was impossible for Zuo Mengeng to take all this wealth away, so he had no choice but to give up, looted tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver in the house, filled thirteen carriages, avoided tearing up the city, and slowly moved out of the city.

Along the way, although Zuo Mengeng and his entourage encountered a few chaotic soldiers, but seeing that it was the young marshal who personally led the team, these rebels did not dare to intercept, and let Zuo Mengeng and his party leave, but when they were about to leave the city, there was a sudden change, due to the hurry of packing, there was a carriage on the box was not tied tightly, but the carriage was in the way of a stone when it was moving, it was this obstacle, several boxes tumbled down from the carriage, and the gold and silver in the boxes were sprinkled all over the ground, shining dazzlingly in the sun.

"Gold, it's gold."

A group of soldiers in the distance happened to see this scene, and in an instant, the eyes of this group of soldiers were full of gold, and they rushed towards the direction of the carriage. If Zuo Mengeng could make a decision immediately and give up these boxes of gold and silver, he might be able to get away in time, but Zuo Mengeng didn't have the courage of his father Zuo Liangyu, so he ordered his soldiers to stop.

"Quick, move the box back." Zuo Mengeng shouted on horseback. Most of the thirteen carriages were filled with gold, and only a small part of the silver, and Zuo Mengeng was reluctant to give up a little gold.

These hundreds of pro-soldiers are Zuo Liangyu's last family foundation left by Zuo Mengeng, usually fed with silver, although they know that the carriage is full of gold and silver, and there has been greed in their brains, but Zuo Liangyu has just died, they still remember Zuo Liangyu's favor, and suppressed all kinds of greed, but now that they see Huang Chengcheng's gold in front of them, the greed in their hearts can no longer be suppressed, and someone directly stuffs the gold on the ground into their arms.

Zuo Mengeng saw it clearly on the horse, he was furious, it was his gold, and if he voted for Song Youliang in the future, I am afraid that he will never have the opportunity to rob it as easily as before, these gold are his lifeblood, he rode his horse and ran over, and whipped it in the face of the soldier who stuffed the gold into his arms with a horsewhip: "Bastard thing, cheap embryo, put down the gold quickly." This is mine~~"

The pro-soldiers who were whipped saw that it was the young marshal, and they didn't dare to fight back for a while, but they had to obediently put down the gold, their faces were full of anger, but after such a delay, the team of rebels just now had already come, although they recognized Zuo Menggeng's banner, but they had already been dazzled by the gold, and rushed directly to the stopped carriage.

"Stop, don't come." Several of Zuo Mengeng's personal soldiers hurriedly drew their swords to stop each other.

In the face of the bright sword, the team of soldiers refused to flinch at all, and also drew their swords to confront each other, their eyes spraying the light of greed.

"What are you doing, don't you retreat quickly." Zuo Mengeng looked at the chaotic soldiers who surrounded him, his heart was burning with anger, and at the same time mixed with fear. If it was normal, Zuo Menggeng's shouting would of course be useful, but at the moment, this group of soldiers didn't even glance at Zuo Menggeng's direction, and their eyes were full of golden light.

Huang Shu was glad that he was about to escape from the city, but he didn't expect such a thing to happen, although he was greedy by nature, he knew that running for his life was the most important thing at the moment, seeing that Zuo Mengeng only cared about asking people to pack up the gold, he was so anxious that he was going around in the carriage, and asked Zuo Mengeng to quickly order the carriage to escape, and shouted desperately, "Young marshal, money and foreign things, money and foreign things~~~"

It's a pity that he is a little far away from Zuo Mengeng, and the surrounding situation is chaotic, his shouts can't reach Zuo Mengeng's ears at all, Huang Shu has the heart to take the first step, and the driving people are Zuo Mengeng's personal soldiers, and he can't command at all.

"Rob it." I don't know who shouted first, the rebels who were still facing each other just now brandished their swords and killed the carriage guarded by their own soldiers, they had long been used to it, even the king of heaven was in front of him, and the strong greed was enough to make them crazy

Gold and iron clashed, the sound of weapons intermingling sounded, from time to time someone screamed and fell, if it was normal, as the commander-in-chief's own soldiers, it would not be a problem for one person to deal with four or five ordinary soldiers, but in the face of the crazy killing intent in the eyes of this group of chaotic soldiers, those pro-soldiers not only did not have the upper hand, but retreated step by step.

Bang dang

With a few loud noises, the rebels had already killed the soldiers in front of a carriage, kicked the box out of the carriage, and the box opened widely, and the gold and silver suddenly rolled and scattered all over the ground

"Silver~A lot of silver~~" A young soldier put down the sword in his hand, desperately picked up the gold and silver on the ground and stuffed it into his arms, but before he could stuff a few gold bars, he suddenly let out a miserable scream in his mouth, and his body rushed forward, a terrible wound appeared on his back, blood gushed out of the wound, his legs and feet twitched several times before he died, and the gold and silver in his arms were sprinkled all over the ground.

An old soldier smiled fiercely, the tip of his knife was still dripping with a little blood, and pushed the corpse away, the old soldier bent down, quickly picked up the gold and silver on the ground with one hand, and looked around vigilantly with his eyes.

Bang dang

There was another loud bang, this time a carriage overturned directly, and countless gold rolled out of the box, and the soldiers guarding the carriage looked at each other for a while, as if waking up from a dream, no longer helping the carriage, but directly turned around and pounced on the box beside him, opened the box, and desperately stuffed the gold into his arms

"Grab it~~ Whoever grabs it is whoever's!"

In a panic, Zuo Mengeng didn't know who pulled him off the horse, he threw it to the ground, and his internal organs hurt as if he had been pulled hard

"You guys~~" He just wanted to get up from the ground, countless people's feet stepped on him, and rushed in the direction of the carriage, Zuo Mengeng was like a drowning person, just wanted to struggle and was stepped on again, and after a while, Zuo Menggeng's mouth and nose were bloody, and he couldn't move anymore.

No one paid attention to Zuo Mengeng, who was trampled underfoot, more and more rebels who got the news rushed over, their eyes were all fixed on the more than ten carriages full of gold and silver, and some officers were also involved, so that the battle became more and more intense, and the small county town of Pengze was suddenly flooded with corpses and blood