Chapter 58. The best laugh is the last laugh
The Ming Dynasty has the lowest social status, the most oppressed is the soldiers, the fields of the guard are occupied by the officers, the times are soldiers, the migration of the imperial examination is not allowed, the thin land even bears more than half of the country's taxes, even if it is a border soldier, it is the norm to owe more than half a year's military salary, and the most bitter is not the military household, which is the truest portrayal of this era.
However, the mutiny of the Ming Dynasty is not a joke, it is precisely because of the cheap life, the hungry soldiers are ruthless, that is the general soldiers dare to fight to the death, far away, a while ago before Yuan Chonghuan took office, Ningyuan broke out a large-scale mutiny, in order to ask for arrears, this has just withstood the iron and blood city of more than 100,000 troops of Nurha Chihuang Taiji, the soldiers rushed into the shogunate like a tide, captured the chief soldier Zhu Mei alive, and the governor Bi Zisu, hung up the two court officials and tortured them.
Zhu Mei was beaten to death by hungry soldiers, Bi Zisu was humiliated, and finally committed suicide, although the mutiny was finally coerced and deceived by Yuan Chonghuan to the town, but the loss of two civil and military ministers at once, the power of this mutiny can be seen.
Tonight, the Iron Mountain was also boiling, I don't know how many town soldiers were agitated, and thousands of people rushed and shouted like a black tide that devoured everything, and killed the general Yamen.
Opened the bow without looking back and turning the arrow, listening to the hustle and bustle outside, this Tian Tao also showed a fierce face, slapped the table and roared again.
"General, it is only right to be a soldier and eat food! The brothers have just fought a bloody battle with Jiannu, and you have been without a grain of military rations for two days, how can you let the brothers live? ”
"General, aren't you afraid of the soldiers being chilled by doing this?"
Teeth squeezed out the gloomy words, and this He Baobao also stood up violently through the noise of the sword soldiers outside, humming gloomily.
It seems that they are really drunk, and the two of them are going to make trouble with a few thousand presidents, but lying on the table, in the contempt of several guys, Mao Jue took a while to get up, still looking confused, shaking his head with a smile.
"Two days without food? Is there a real shortage of food for the Tian guerrillas? How does Ben remember that in Xitun Mountain, there are 10,000 stones of grain and grass buried, and there are also thousands of Xifeng Mountain, and there seems to be one behind the Moon Valley, where else is there? ”
foaming at the mouth, Mao Jue pulled his fingers, calculating in a daze, Tian Chou who heard this, He Baobao's face turned blue in an instant.
Mao Jue didn't break it around, he even reported the locations where they hid their food one by one, and even reported them to some extent, these guys are entrenched in a lot of land like vampires, encircle the population, and fill their pockets, in fact, no one is poor!
Listening to Mao Jue pulling his fingers and counting them, he drank Su Changmei's old face full of fat on the table, and inadvertently evoked a treacherous smile.
"What the general said, the last general is not clear at all, but the last general puts the ugly words here, there is no food, the last general can't control the tigers and wolves under his command, and the hungry soldiers will make a fuss, I really want to offend the general, and the last general can't help it!"
More and more fierce, his mouth trembled, this Tian Tao was like a dog about to bite, roaring fiercely through the louder and louder noise.
It's a pity that these threats are really like drunken people who didn't understand these threats to Mao Jue, flicked his sleeves and sat back in his chair, leaning over and pouring the last bit of wine in the wine jug, while humming indistinctly.
"Tiger wolf? The pigs and sheep are still about the same, a few generals can rest assured, who dares to blow up the thorns, Lao Tzu will help you clean him up, come, continue to drink!"
The green tendons on the door of his head burst out, snorting, Tian Tao also sat back, and He Mantou next to him still looked gloating, stood up and leaned aside, but on the head of Zhao Cheng, a white-faced scholar, there were suddenly a lot more beads of sweat, this guy with a belly of flowers and intestines subconsciously looked outside, Wen Meng, the first henchman under Mao Jue, has not seen a trace since the opening of the banquet, Liu Chong, who was still seen just now, and the huge sea didn't know where he had gone at this time. However, Shen Rong was still sitting with a smile on his face, not only him, but several generals and soldiers all shrunk their hands in their sleeves.
I've heard of it before, General Mao Shen has a kind of firearm that fires continuously, and everyone doesn't pay attention to firearms, so it's a strange anecdote, but everyone didn't wear armor when they went to the banquet today.
also participated in this forced mutiny, but now looking at the sneering Tian Tao He Bun, and then looking at the drunk, still pouring his own general Mao Jue, Zhao Cheng's heart is like fifteen buckets of water, seven up and eight down.
A few people together have more than 4,000 troops, this general is less than 2,000, and the previous standard battalion is still notoriously useless, why is he so confident?
Mao Jue's confidence still comes from the battle of Yuegu, he has seen how rotten the soldiers under his command are, and the soldiers are still like this, it is self-evident how rotten these guys are.
At this time, the mutinous rebels also rushed to less than 200 meters away from the general's yamen, but just when a group of guys were marching forward, under the red lantern, the same row of black shadows suddenly stood out, and at the same time, on the streets on both sides, two cannon booms exploded violently, and the tiger's chaotic soldiers suddenly retracted their footsteps and suddenly stopped.
At the front of the line, a knife was held high forward, and Wen Meng was wrapped in cotton armor and roared loudly like an iron tower.
"Gather the crowd to riot and storm the yamen, you and the others will fail to rebel, retreat quickly, and be responsible for the handling of military law!"
"Don't listen to them, he is more than a hundred people, and he is still holding a burning stick, and the brothers go up, overturn them, rob the military salary, and beat the donkey ball and the general out of the iron mountain!"
The rat-bearded man's ugly roar echoed through the crowd, not only him, but I don't know how many bewitching voices sounded together, and these rebels rushed forward in a swarm of shouts.
Seeing this scene, Wen Meng's snake eyes were as if they were about to condense, and he swung his knife violently without human feelings.
"Kill!"
The narrow streets, the volleys of the pass, even the heavy armor of Jiannu's cavalry can penetrate them, not to mention these lightly armored or even unarmored rebels, the first one, two, and three rows of rebels are as if they were smashed with fists, white smoke flashed, and the rebels flew backwards in disbelief, and the sharp bullets even pierced the front row, the first two rows, and shot into the body of the third row.
All at once it fell a layer.
"Change! Lift! Put!"
In a matter of seconds, the second round of heavy punches hit the chaotic mutinous team again, this time more people fell, and the wounded soldiers who did not die screamed and tried to squeeze into the crowd, and the already dense and crowded team was even more chaotic.
"Change! Lift! Put!"
Wen Meng's third shout directly made the rebellious team stagnate, seeing that the mutinous team covered in blood trampled on each other and squeezed like a red worm bait, the disdain on Wen Meng's face had reached the extreme, but at this time, the mutinous team still did not retreat, so he immediately made a battle order that the Ming army had never seen.
"Get on the bayonet!"
The last encounter with Jiannu made Mao Jue think about why in the Battle of the Pyramids, Napoleon was able to fight more than his own Mamluk cavalry and fled, but the Ming army, which was equipped with so many firearms, was killed by Jiannu's iron cavalry every time to collapse.
After all, there is no guy in his hand, and he is panicked, and the musketeers are really about to weaken when it comes to hand-to-hand combat, and it is conceivable that they will flee. Half a month after the end of this battle, Mao Jue first snatched bayonets for his own musket team.
A typical early bayonet, with three sharp edges and no blades, about fifty centimeters, was directly attached to the muzzle with a hoop of a few centimeters, and in Wen Meng's shout, the three rows of musketeers instantly turned into spearmen with spears.
Behind is the supervising team, those who retreat are beheaded, and they have to bear the charge of a traitor in the township, without any compensation, the pro-military battalion that has lost five heads in the face of the same Ming army, burst out with one hundred and twenty points of courage, Xueliang's bayonet stabbed into the human body cruelly, melee hand-to-hand combat, and the Ming army from all walks of life collapsed as a matter of course!
I don't care about what food or salary anymore, I abandoned my robe, and the chaotic mutineers cried and fled backwards, everyone hated my parents for not giving me an extra pair of legs, and the unknown mutineers behind them were still squeezing forward, at this juncture, Liu Chong's cavalry came out of the right alley and crashed into the left flank of the mutant army.
This time, there were no more stupid people rushing up, the big guys were all running backwards with one heart, how did more than 3,000 mutant soldiers come, and how did they retreat like a tide, and this time they were killed by soldiers in their early 150s behind their butts, and a corpse stabbed to death with bayonets lay down on both sides of the street.
To add insult to injury, the general standard battalion, which had just been beaten by the rebels, also reacted at this time, and the training made by Mao Jue a few days ago worked hard, and in all directions, more and more soldiers from Phi Island also joined the war group.
Especially the former Shang Kexi's personal soldiers are fierce, this guy is simply a human-shaped meat grinder, a two-handed knife wielding more than eighty pounds like a windmill, where it passes, the head and arms fly together, blood is splashed like tomato juice, and the last bit of courage to resist the army also collapsed in this strangulation in all directions.
Not even having the courage to escape, the hordes of mutants simply knelt on the ground like sheep, kowtowing and begging for mercy.
The chaos lasted for more than twenty minutes or so, and no one was nervously watching, when the door of the main hall of the yamen was suddenly pushed open, with a bloody body, Wen Meng carried a string of human heads like grapes and strode in with meteors, holding the human head and kneeling in front of the table, gloomy and proud.
"The last general has poor public security supervision, and there is Xiao Xiao in the city, and the last general will behead him, and he is here to ask for guilt!"
"Hehe, Ben will say, don't worry, let's continue drinking!"
Poured another glass of rice wine, Mao Jue once again drunkenly raised the wine glass, but looking at his playful eyes, where was a little drunk?
The shouting of killing became farther and farther away, subsided, his face was as white as paper, Tian Tao sat on the chair, his hands trembling uncontrollably, and He Baobao on the side simply sat directly on the ground......