Chapter 554: The Vacated Cangzhou Mansion

The second tax supervisor in Cangzhou was chopped into a puddle of meat without any suspense, but Cangzhou Mansion didn't know the news until ten days later, because even a few survivors of the 900 cavalry were chased outside by the White Lotus Sect for so many days, and they were finally able to return to Fucheng.

The tax supervisor and so many officers and soldiers died, and the Cangzhou prefect could only sigh that he was unlucky, and then he had to send it to Shangfeng with an urgent official document to report the news.

This matter is actually very frightening, there are actually rebellious soldiers who can annihilate 900 cavalry near the Beijing Division, more than 50,000 new soldiers have been trained, and the soldiers and horses of the Gong Guarding Beijing Division, how come they are all gone, but let the chaotic people run rampant. The helpless letter of the Cangzhou prefect was delivered one level at a time, and the officialdom of Beizhili was shaken at one level, and after receiving this official document, Tongzhou Bingbeidao immediately dispatched 3,000 soldiers and horses to Cangzhou.

Beizhili is the important town of Gongwei Jingshi, he is different from other provinces, his internal guards, the density of military camps is much larger, the reinforcements of Tongzhou Soldier Road are just the beginning, there will be a steady stream of soldiers and horses to come, within the jurisdiction of Cangzhou Mansion, there are two guards.

However, most of the soldiers and horses in Cangzhou Mansion are generations of military households, to put it bluntly, farming is much more proficient in the army than fighting, Cangzhou Mansion has always not counted on them, otherwise the first tax supervisor will not directly transfer horses in Tongzhou to give himself courage, but at this time, as long as there is a little hope to make use of it, Cangzhou Mansion hurriedly issued an official document and sent a messenger to Cangzhou's guard to ask for help.

The eyes of the magistrates are all in the sky, and they never pay attention to these useless military households, and now the situation is critical, and there are requests for others, this attitude can change greatly, not only to send back those who were difficult to detain in the past, but also to make all kinds of promises, hoping that the Cangzhou Wei Association will defend the capital city and place it in the following counties, then it will not be taken care of.

The bandit soldiers and horses of Tongzhou arrived at Cangzhou Mansion ten days after receiving the official document, which is already very efficient, and now the mighty battalion soldiers trained by Emperor Jiajing are fifty or sixty thousand, as if they are a behemoth looking down on all directions, and the officials of Beizhili are feeling under great pressure, so they have become quite diligent in official duties and dare not slack off.

The officer with 3,000 soldiers and horses in Tongzhou is a garrison, Tongzhou is an important town of Caoyun, and the grain and various materials of Caoyun must be sorted and transported by land in Tongzhou, so the quality and quantity of soldiers there are not comparable to other prefectures and counties in the south of Beizhili, this time the 3,000 soldiers are all soldiers, that is, they are all eating military salaries rather than farming, and the team is led by the garrison of the lower camp in Tongzhou, and rushed all the way to Cangzhou Mansion.

When the garrison arrived at Cangzhou Mansion, he held a stomach full of gas, originally the army marched, and also needed to supply grain and grass to various prefectures and counties along the way, but this time the supply was not smooth, often entangled for a long time, and the local government only came up with something, but the reason is also to understand that the local treasury was almost scraped by the tax supervisors, and a steady stream of input was given to the mighty camp near Baoding.

"You new army haven't fought a battle, but you're so favored, we're raised by our stepmother!" Not only this garrison, but many of the generals below thought so, and complained about all the priority of the new army, and this garrison thought that after coming to Cangzhou, he would have to take a good rest, otherwise he would really treat himself and his brothers.

From the beginning of entering the city gate of the city, this garrison was very dissatisfied, because it was said that bandits were rampant outside the city, and it was also a large group of bandits who could annihilate nine hundred cavalry, but you Cangzhou Mansion could not be so careless, the city gate was wide open in broad daylight, and what was even more bastard was that there was not even a soldier guarding the gate, could it be that the people outside the city could not make a plan to empty the city, and there was not even a soldier on the head of the city, this Cangzhou Mansion really didn't know how to die.

If the door was so wide open in the north in those years, it would have been broken in by the Mongol Tartars, and the whole city would have been captured and killed by then. However, these words to be said and taught a lesson, but before they arrived at the government, they could not say anything. The Cangzhou Mansion has been smashed to pieces, and even the two stone lions at the door have been pushed to the ground.

At this time, the garrison from Tongzhou felt that something was wrong, when their three thousand soldiers entered the city, they had not had time to disturb the people, how could the people on the street, regardless of the old and young, run when they saw the army, according to the previous concept, although the army disturbed the people, but there was such a scourge of bandits, and the people should welcome the army.

The gate of the government is much different from the situation of the Cangzhou city gate, the door can't help but be a mess, and there is no one to guard it.

The garrison from Tongzhou didn't dare to make any moves, so they let their soldiers set up defenses in the city, and then arranged for a few personal soldiers to go to the yamen to find people, and without much effort, they called people out, but they saw a group of local officials in the prefect's office, all with blue noses and swollen faces.

The prefect was still cowering, but although his attitude was weak, he insisted on verifying the identity of these Tongzhou reinforcements, which made the garrison quite annoyed, thinking that Lao Tzu was here to rescue, and it would not be a long time, and you still have to check the official documents here, I really don't know what to do.

But what happened next made the garrison even more dumbfounded, and after the prefect confirmed that it was correct, he suddenly knelt down and hugged the guard's thigh, and cried with tears:

"You're finally here, this house is bitter!"

After careful inquiry, I knew that the matter was strange, or unbelievable, after the remnants of the nine hundred cavalry ran back to the city to report the news, the prefect of Cangzhou was almost frightened and fell off the chair, and the first reaction was to close the city gate, and then send a messenger to the nearby guard post to report the news.

Cangzhou's guards came quickly, in the second half of the night, stationed at the city gate, said to enter the city to assist in defense, the ancient city at night for safety, there is no extreme danger of things will not open the door, this is also to prevent bandits and displaced people outside the city from taking the opportunity to enter the city.

The prefect of Cangzhou thought that he had called soldiers and horses, and the current situation was critical, and he couldn't take care of so many things, so he personally walked up to the city and asked the people under the city to use the fire to reflect their officers, the city wall was not high, but you could see the faces of people holding torches under the city.

Several Qianhu of the guard and the Yamen of the Cangzhou prefect have had a lot of dealings, and they are also familiar with each other, and when they saw that they were indeed soldiers and horses of the imperial court, they were not wary in their hearts, and began to order the soldiers guarding the city gate to open the door.

The people who entered the city were all soldiers from the guards, wearing tattered uniforms, holding weapons in their hands, and they were relieved to see these people, saying that more than a thousand soldiers had come, but they did not expect that after these soldiers entered the city, the guards on the city wall heard someone shouting under the city:

"Don't let them into the city, these people are fake!"

Before they could even be frightened, the soldiers who had entered the city had already turned around and closed the door, and the officers outside the city shouted angrily:

"Those people are all rebels who believe in the White Lotus, ignoring the law of the court and the king......"

The people who entered the city took advantage of the fact that everyone had not yet reacted, and beat up the soldiers who were defending the city, as well as the officials and the like, these soldiers were holding knives and guns in their hands, punching and kicking, which was already a very polite practice, and it seemed that they were not willing to kill.

Don't kill people, but looting is inevitable, Cangzhou's granaries and armories have been looted, and some large families in the city have also been swept away by locusts crossing the border, these soldiers who believe in the White Lotus Sect are very professional, and they don't use knives and guns in vain, just loot property. Because of the abundant finances above, the imperial court was not stingy with the armaments and weapons allocated by various places, and it was very generous in spending money.

However, these good things are cheap for the White Lotus Sect, presumably it is also for those private soldiers and family members of the cotton gentry to make a bargain, weapons can not be created in a while, although those people outside the city have training, they also have the will and courage to fight, but the weapons are too bad. The siege of cavalry outside the manor, many of them were armed with sticks and firewood knives and the like, and only the horses and the most core Minzhuang had weapons, which were obtained through bribery and other means from the eunuchs who guarded the warehouse, and the number was limited.

Cangzhou is a big mansion, and the stock of weapons in the arsenal is quite considerable, all of which are equipped in the hands of the rebels, and the gold, silver and grain looted by the tax inspector for many days have not had time to be escorted to Beijing, and they have all been moved clean by the rebels who have entered the city.

The name of the rebels may not be accurate, at least these soldiers emptied the treasury and beat the officials, but in addition, they did not kill a single person, this work is much better than that of the tax supervisor, and the ordinary people who do not kill people and have no property have no intention of resisting and escaping, just close the door and ignore it.

After a day and a night of looting, these soldiers marched away, and the people of the Cangzhou guard outside the city had already dispersed, and they did not dare to stay in the city for a long time, the reason was very simple, a large number of ringing horses were already waiting at the city gate to answer.

The prefect of Cangzhou looked at the chaotic people who left unhurriedly outside the city, and he really felt like crying without tears.

It is precisely because of this that there is a scene of Tongzhou's reinforcements entering the city......