Chapter 293: Accidental Riot
Tingzhou, rich in real estate, Zhongliao Gold Field in the south, Longmen Yinkeng in the north, Juxi Iron in the east, and Bakou Silver in the west. After all kinds of gold and silver minerals are refined into gold and silver ingots, they need to be transported to the bank, inspected and stored in the warehouse, and sent to Beijing after a fixed time.
Among them, this Bakou Bank is located in the depths of the Wuyi Mountains, and there is also a large-scale silver and copper associated mine here, which is also the reason why Bakou Bank is located here. Otherwise, who would like to set up a bank business in a ghost place deep in the mountains and old forests and inaccessible to people.
There are naturally miners in mines, and these miners who are either recruited or lured or are themselves criminals are called "miners". Since ancient times, most of the miners are fierce and brave people, and because of the need for unity and cooperation in the mining process, they are quite organized and disciplined. In later generations, Qi Jiguang had a unique eye, saw the value of these miners, recruited them into an army, and repeatedly defeated the Japanese invaders, which was the Qi family army that shocked the world in the future. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Kong Youde, one of the so-called "Sanshun Kings" who caused trouble in Shandong and brought heavy losses to the Ming Dynasty, was also a miner.
The ferocity and restlessness of the miners are the nature, and the more troubled the times, the more active they are, this group is like a double-edged sword, good at using it can hurt the enemy, and if it is not used well, it will hurt.
The Song and Yuan dynasties fought for many years, and the good family had already been requisitioned, and ninety percent of the miners who pulled out the silver business were criminals, and there was no shortage of extremely vicious people, so they naturally would not be willing to knock stones to death in this ghost place for the rest of their lives.
At this time, the Song, Yuan, and Western Fujian wars were in full swing, and the capitals and counties of Fujian and Jiangxi were exhausted, which gave the miners an opportunity to take advantage of. So under the leadership of Wu Shibiao, the leader of the miners, the miners of Bakou Yinwu rioted.
The miners were ferocious, and they were calculated intentionally, and the guards of the silver affairs were already few, and they were caught off guard, and they were immediately killed and wounded. Looking at the thousands of crazy thugs besieging the walled city, the terrified defenders only held out for half a day before they had to open the door and surrender.
Just as Wu Shibiao and other miners frantically smashed open the silver treasury with the ecstasy of turning over as masters and making a windfall, preparing to loot on a large scale, they were so good that they could not die, and Boyan's army arrived.
What kind of army is the Hebi Red Army? Even if all the horses are lost, even if they are exhausted from trekking through mountains and rivers, even if they are hungry and their combat strength is weakened, it is not something that more than a thousand rioting miners can resist.
The Hebi Red Army fled all the way, their eyes were already red, and the killing intent was boiling, they did not dare to turn back and release this killing intent to the pursuers, but vented it on this riotous miner who hit the tip of the knife. After a slaughter, rivers of blood flowed from the mouth, and corpses were everywhere. Except for a few people who were able to escape by burrowing into the mines or wandering through the mountains and forests, ninety percent of the rioters were killed, and few prisoners were left.
Boyan Lema looked at the mountains of corpses, and then looked up at the gradually darkening sky, his face was very ugly.
The instigators on the side were also so depressed that they pulled their beards, these damn miners, when was the riot bad, they were born at this juncture! There is such a thing outside the festival, and after such a delay, the Dragon Sparrow Army is afraid that it will chase closer.
Since giving up crossing the river and turning to Wuyi, Boyan and Instigation have never thought that they could hide from the Dragon Bird Army for too long, after all, thousands of people marched, how could they not leave a large number of traces? Among other things, the thousands of horses that were abandoned alone were enough to expose their whereabouts.
Therefore, this escape is to exchange time for space, and under the guidance of Wu Jiming, the head snake, he crossed Wuyi Mountain as quickly as possible, fled to Ruijin, and then transferred to Ganzhou from there. As long as there are no obstacles along the way, with the advantage of being one step ahead, it will not be easy for the Dragon Bird Army to catch up.
However, I didn't expect that there would be a riot of miners. If he could, Boyan didn't want to pay attention to it at all, even if he could be easily killed, but because of the delay in his trip, he didn't want to do it. It's just that this pulling out of the silver business is the only way, and you can't get around it, and you can't do it, so you can't treat it as if you haven't seen it, right? As a result, this suppression was delayed, and it was delayed for a whole day, for fear that the pursuers were even closer......
"Pass the order, except for the sentry, the whole army will rest, prepare for the fourth watch tomorrow, and set off on the fifth watch." He groaned for a moment and added, "Each person is only allowed to bring two days' rations, and no more is allowed." ”
The herald was about to leave, but he heard Boyan say, "Slow." ”
Bo Yan said with a cold expression: "The treasury silver is sealed, no one is allowed to move, and those who violate the order will be killed!" ”
The herald's heart trembled, and he said yes, and he left.
The hundred slaves standing behind the instigation capital looked stupid: "So much gold and silver, just leave it to the Song people, it's really unwilling." ”
The instigator looked back and stared at him sternly: "Do you still want to retreat with all this wealth?" ”
"We can't take it away, at least we can't leave it to the Song people." Baijianu looked at the caves in the mountains not far away, and his eyes flashed fiercely, "Let's throw the gold and silver into the holes and let the Song people find them!" ”
Hearing this, his heart moved, and he glanced at Boyan, who bowed slightly.
Instigated all nodded and said: "Okay, you go to supervise this matter, let those captured miners do it, our warriors must recuperate, and they can't toss their strength for these wealth." ”
"Understood."
When the riots were suppressed before, the Mongol soldiers such as Baijianu could not all kill these troublesome thugs, even if the miners laid down their arms and surrendered, they still cut them with a knife. In the end, more than a dozen live mouths were left for the need to lead the way. And now that they want to throw all the treasury silver into the mine, the hundred minions found that they had killed too hard before, and they hated less when they used it.
There are fewer people, but the hundred slaves are also ruthless, even if they exhaust all these southern barbarians to death, they must be completed.
As a result, this night became the eternal nightmare of the dozen or so miners who were lucky to survive.
From the silver storage place to the nearest abandoned mine cave, there must be more than ten miles of mountain roads, the night is dark and the road is bumpy, one person and one board car, dragging gold and silver weighing up to three or four hundred catties, seven or eight times back and forth, several miners are tired and vomiting blood, and there are those who have broken their feet, and there is even one person who is tired and falls down and is pressed under the silver cart, and when he is dug out, he sees that he is not alive......
Wu Shibiao slowly put down the weak hand of the righteous brother, closed his eyelids for him, and stared with red eyes at the Mongols who kept whipping and urging not far away, he had never hated a group of people so much, he gritted his teeth with hatred.
Wu Shibiao, who is the leader of the riot, is also one of the unfortunate survivors, originally thought that he might be able to survive by leading the way, but he didn't expect to be tortured like this, and the brothers were all grinded to death.
"These Tartars are demons! More evil than the wicked people I have seen in the rivers and lakes for most of my life! Wu Shibiao gritted his teeth and whispered to a blue-skinned young man beside him, "Little Five, there are only two of us left with the eight dragons in southern Fujian, the second, the third, the fourth, the sixth, the seventh, and the eighth died really miserably." Seize the opportunity along the way, we have to stab the Tartars, collect some interest for the brothers, and preferably stab the Tartar leader! He said with his chin a little towards the hundred slaves.
Xiao Wu wiped the sweat on his face, and said weakly: "Big brother, I'm ...... I'm afraid I won't be able to......"
Wu Shibiao was in a hurry and held Xiao Wu: "Hold on, it's almost dawn, it's just dawn." ”
At this time, Baijianu strode over, stared at Xiao Wu with a cold face, looked at his shaky appearance, and slowly drew his knife.
Wu Shibiao panicked, and hurriedly protected Xiao Wu's body, constantly fighting: "Official, official, slow down, he ...... He can still do ......."
Baijianu stared at Wu Shibiao with good eyes, and his facial muscles twitched, and he didn't want to waste his tongue with these gophers at all, so the scimitar was unsheathed and raised high.
"Ahh......h
Boom Boom!
Suddenly there were several roars from the side of Bakou Village, which shook the valley and broke the dawn.
The scimitar in the hand of the hundred slaves shook, scraped the ground from the top of Wu Shibiao's head, and was shocked: "Dragon Bird Army!" The Dragons are catching up! ”