Zhou Zhenghao knelt on the execution ground, looking at the people who threw stones at him, and his heart was extremely bitter. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

I didn't expect that I would end up like this. The flat-headed people who were trampled under their feet and didn't look at themselves before seemed to have become masters one by one, cursing the kneeling gentry on the execution ground unscrupulously.

Zhou Zhenghao looked around and found that the famous gentry of Huai'an Mansion were all kneeling there. Prefect Yuan Minglu, Zhishi Lang Zhao Kefan, and Huang Yigong. The 11 households in Huai'an Mansion who donated money to support Qian Qianyi's landlords and civil officials all arrived.

Land property is the lifeblood of the gentry, and it is impossible to live a good life if you flee to other places without land. These gentry were reluctant to leave behind a large amount of land and property and flee, and now they have been wiped out by Li Zhi.

Li Zhi, a gentry who donated money to defend the city, did not let go, and he was also beheaded.

At this time, there were more than fifty people kneeling on the execution ground. These gentry, who were accustomed to being powerful, could not say a word in the laughter of the audience, and they all trembled with blank faces.

Looking at the lively crowd, more than a dozen farmers in Xujia Village crowded at the front of the crowd, just a dozen meters away from Zhou Zhenghao. That Xu boss seems to have distributed Zhou Zhenghao's five gold bars to other farmers, and now the five gold bars are held by the villagers of five Xujia villages. The villagers held the gold bars high, as if to laugh at Zhou Zhenghao's stupidity.

Zhou Zhenghao remembered the scene of bribing Boss Xu that night, and his face turned red with anger.

He suddenly moved a few steps to the side and said to a soldier next to him: "Master Bing, I want to report, I want to report Boss Xu of Xujia Village, he smuggled five gold bars that should have been copied by the Duke of Jinguo." And the gold bar was in his hand! ”

The soldier listened to Zhou Zhenghao's words and looked at the company commander Zhang Yu next to him.

Zhang Yu has been following Li Zhi these days, but he knows the situation. He snorted coldly and said, "You think too much about the dog lifting people, the gold bar was rewarded by the Duke of Jinguo to the villagers of Xujia Village!" ”

Zhou Zhenghao's face sank when he heard this, and he was deflated all of a sudden.

The soldier frowned and kicked Zhou Zhenghao in the chest, kicking him back where he had been kneeling.

The villagers of Xujia Village were extremely excited when they saw Zhou Zhenghao's embarrassed appearance. The villagers of Xujia Village knew that Jin Guogong was going to set up a court in Juntian, Huai'an, and knew that their good days in the future were coming. At this time, when I saw the enemy in the law, how could I not be excited?

As the sun rose in the middle of the sky, a soldier raised his rifle and fired a shot into the sky, announcing the beginning of the execution.

The division commander Zheng Kaicheng walked in front of the people, bowed to the people, and shouted:

"People, I am Zheng Kaicheng, the chief soldier under the command of the Duke of Jinguo!"

"Last summer, the Duke of Jin Guoguo made a northern expedition to Tatar for the country and the people, for the peace of the people of the Ming Dynasty. At such a critical moment, the gentry in Jiangnan actually prepared to build the Jiangbei Army and colluded with the Tatar Qing to stab the knife of the Duke of Jin from behind! If it weren't for the Shenwu of the Kingdom of Jin, the great cause of the Northern Expedition to Tatar and Qing would have almost fallen short! You say, should such a gentry be killed? ”

The people shouted, "Kill! ”

"Kill!"

"Kill these unscrupulous gentry."

Zheng Kaicheng nodded: "Torture!" ”

When Zhou Zhenghao heard Zheng Kaicheng's words, he was so frightened that he peed his pants all of a sudden. His body trembled like a threshing machine that hulled rice, and he couldn't control it at all.

Seeing Zhou Zhenghao's embarrassed appearance, the villagers of Xujia Village were even more excited, raising their arms and shouting to kill.

A GI aimed his rifle at Zhou Zhenghao's head and snapped the trigger.

The back of Zhou Zhenghao's head blossomed, and his body fell crooked on the execution table, unable to get up again.

Crackling gunshots rang out one after another, and the gentry who donated money to Qian Qianyi to form the Jiangbei Army were shot one by one and fell in a pool of blood.

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Ten miles north of Yangzhou City, 40,000 Tiger Ben soldiers and 30,000 ragged Yangzhou "Minzhuang" confronted each other.

Li Zhi looked at the people who were holding various weapons, and asked Xue Sanku, who was leading the cavalry of the Elective Division, "Zuo Liangyu and Wu Sangui's Jiangbei Army has fled again?" ”

Xue Sanku replied: "The scout returned, as soon as our army set off from Huai'an, Zuo and Wu fled in the wind. According to the scouts we arranged in the city of Yangzhou, the Jiangbei army had crossed the Yangtze River and fled to Jiangnan seven days ago, and it is said that they had fled to the city of Nanjing, the capital of Liu. ”

Li Laosi groaned and said: "Dongjia, Yangzhou is a big city in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Jiangbei Army will give up without firing a shot, which seems to be without the determination to fight a decisive battle with us!" ”

When everyone heard Li Laosi's words, they all surrendered their eyes to the direction of Nanjing. I don't know if the Jiangbei Army will stay in Nanjing, the capital, or continue to flee south and abandon Nanjing, exposing all the civilian officials and gentry who sponsored the Jiangbei Army to the Tiger Army.

Zheng Kaicheng said with a smile: "In any case, let's solve this Yangzhou Minzhuang first!" These Minzhuang seem to have learned the lesson of Huai'an Minzhuang, and instead of defending the city, they took the initiative to attack! ”

"The gentry in Yangzhou broke the jar and broke it, and they actually wanted to rely on the temporarily organized people's strength to crush our world's No. 1 tiger army."

Li Laosi held a telescope to observe the city wall of Yangzhou City in the distance, and said: "Owner, there are many gentry standing at the head of Yangzhou City looking at the direction of the wind. It is estimated that as soon as these people are defeated, the gentry in Yangzhou City will flee towards the wharf and cross the river to escape. ”

Li Zhi nodded and said, "You can't let these Yangzhou gentry escape, Xue Sanku!" You led 5,000 cavalry to the south first, blocked the south of Yangzhou City, and occupied Guazhou and several other ferries. ”

Xue Sanku clenched his fists and took the order, and then led the military area to block the retreat of the gentry.

Li Zhi asked, "Who will go up and defeat this people's strong?" ”

The generals under Li Zhi's command looked at those people and strong, and they all felt that this Yangzhou army was vulnerable, and they had no interest in asking for orders to meet the battle.

In the end, Li Zhi could only order the general and said, "Zhong Feng, you go up and defeat this Minzhuang." ”

Zhong Feng clenched his fists and took the 10,000 men of the trap division to meet the enemy.

30,000 Yangzhou Minzhuang saw the trapping division coming up, and attacked the trapping division under the leadership of the local general. Although the people did not have armor, they made many flags, and 30,000 people carried the flags.

But when they got four hundred meters away from the trap division, they received a fatal blow.

There were 4,000 marksmen in the trap division, and these marksmen aimed at 30,000 people and fired extremely accurate conical bullets.

The team in front of the 30,000 Minzhuang suddenly fell, and in the screams, the Minzhuang camp was like a slaughterhouse for killing pigs. I don't know how many people were shot, splashed blood mist and blood columns from the wound, and fell to the ground rolling and convulsing.

Thousands of people were killed at once, and the morale of the people of Yangzhou was shattered at once.

With the strong morale of the people of this temporary organization, it is completely impossible to bear such casualties. Hearing only a bang, Yangzhou Minzhuang lost all their fighting spirit and fled to both sides in a panic.

Not only are the soldiers on the run, but even the officers of the Yangzhou Local Guard Station who commanded the battle are also on the run. All the forces that were in charge of the battle no longer existed, and the more than 20,000 people who were still alive scattered in all directions.

Li Zhi looked at the vulnerable Minzhuang, and said to Zu Dashou: "Commander Zu, you rush over with four thousand cavalry and take advantage of the chaos to seize the city gate of Yangzhou!" ”