Soon after Li Dingguo left, another unit set off from the Governor's Mansion to strengthen the defense of the North Gate. Wild Sand Literature Network

After arranging these two things, Wednesday Wei said to Major Huang: "I'll go back and rest now, except for the news of the reinforcements from outside the city entering the city, you can handle everything else by yourself."

From now on, rebel generals or gentry who sent people to contact them would be left to wait and ignore them. and send men before the reinforcements enter the city, find them a house to wait; When reinforcements have entered the city, let them wait in the compound of the governor's palace; As for those who come after dawn, let them wait in the square..."

After the two teams were sent separately, the strength of the garrison suddenly dropped to about 300 men, which was barely a quarter of the number of surrendered rebels. As the military commander who defended the governor's mansion and the weapons depot, Major Huang was still extremely nervous.

However, looking at Shangguan Wednesday's posture of being determined, it calmed him down a lot. And the development of events after that also made this Major Huang more and more at ease.

Compared with the defeat on the side of the Governor's Mansion, on the side of the Governor's Yamen, which was personally led by Jiang Jiu, the rebellious army was obviously much smoother.

Although the governor's yamen had already received a notification from the governor's office, for reasons of secrecy, Wednesday did not send someone to inform the governor's yamen until the afternoon of the mutiny, which made the governor's yamen's preparations somewhat insufficient.

As an old yamen that has existed for a long time, although there were military considerations when the governor's yamen was built in the early days, it has fallen into disrepair and rebuilt for more than 100 years, and the current governor's yamen has lost most of its functions as a military base in the city.

The only things that can play some defensive role are the high walls and complex architectural layouts inside and outside the yamen. Although Jiang Hao was very familiar with the layout of the governor's yamen, he was reluctant to use the most elite family members on his side to attack the defenders of the governor's yamen guarding behind the high wall, and at the moment these family members were the only people who could make him trust.

However, the ordinary soldiers of the garrison who were driven by him to attack the governor's yamen were slow to open up the situation, so they wasted a lot of time. First, these ordinary soldiers were already untrained, although the defenders of the governor's yamen only relied on a few high walls, which also caused them a great obstacle.

Secondly, they originally came to ask the court for justice, but when they arrived in front of the governor's yamen, it turned into a rebellion, and this contrast is too great. Jiang Hao obviously didn't do any psychological construction for these subordinates, so the morale of these soldiers was low, and most of them didn't contribute to work, just watching the development of the situation.

Because of this, the standard battalion, which was not much different from the garrison in terms of combat strength, was able to hold out until the arrival of reinforcements from the Governor's Mansion with a weak enemy.

And when Jiang Lin and Yang Zhenwei, who were defeated, brought the unfavorable news of attacking the Governor's Mansion, Jiang Xuan, who didn't want to retain his strength at this moment, found that the matter was irreparable. When the news of the failure of the attack on the Governor's Mansion spread by the fleeing rebels, his subordinates immediately became chaotic, and many of them quietly dropped their weapons and disappeared into the darkness.

This wasn't the only piece of bad news Jiang Hao heard tonight, and soon his subordinates who had sent to urge reinforcements from outside the city to come to support him also fled. Reported to him: "... General Wu and General He not only did not obey the military orders of the marshal, but also arrested Lord Jiang Youguang, and the little one had to escape quickly, otherwise there would be no one to report to the marshal..."

After the generals surrounding Jiang Hao heard the bad news, someone soon lost control and said: "Uncle Cousin, we can't fight anymore, let's get out of the city quickly."

The Governor's Mansion and the Governor's Yamen were not defeated, and the two traitors, Wu and He, blocked the West Gate and the South Gate. There is no news from the north gate and the east gate, it seems that someone has already leaked the news, if the officials and troops outside the north gate rush into the city, everyone will really be caught in the urn..."

Hearing this, some people were immediately dissatisfied, "Flee from the city? Without Datong City as a garrison, where can we flee to? Are you going to fight the cavalry in the wilderness? ”

"Yes, yes, General Liu is right. And even if we can escape from the city, what will the families of the soldiers in the city do, and will they just be left to the imperial court? Even if we can make up our minds, the soldiers probably won't follow us..."

Hearing the gossip of these cronies and generals, Jiang Jiu, whose face was blue and white, finally couldn't help but shout angrily: "What's the noise, Lao Tzu is not dead yet, and it is not your turn to call the shots now." ”

Although Jiang Hao temporarily suppressed the fragmentation of his subordinates, he also did not come up with a way out of the current predicament. At this moment, he began to regret it, he knew that he would go against the court.

With his family, even if he handed over the gold and silver that exceeded the regulations, he still did not lose his status as a rich party. It's good now, just because I don't want to take advantage of the court, but I have turned myself into a traitor and rebel against the party.

At the moment, don't talk about family property, even your own life is difficult to save. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but complain in his heart about the imperial court, why did the imperial court be so indulgent to these border soldiers in the past, but now it has become so tough, so the attitude has changed before and after, isn't it digging a pit for these people?

Just when Jiang Jiu's mind was a mess, Li Dingguo's reinforcements finally arrived, and the already unstable chaotic army was broken up by Li Dingguo's department with just one charge, and many people simply bypassed the neighborhood where Jiang Jiu was located and fled directly from the small alley.

Street fighting in the city is the most disadvantageous in this regard, because the obstruction of various buildings makes it difficult for the commander to observe the situation of the entire battlefield and control the movement of various troops.

For example, when the besieging side has the upper hand, it often breaks away from the battlefield and rushes into the houses to plunder. Similarly, when the defenders are at a disadvantage, they often drop their weapons and flee, because the guards are unable to keep an eye on these subordinates because of the blockage of buildings.

Therefore, in the wars of the feudal dynasty era, there are basically no examples of street fighting. Because the soldiers of this era were basically forcibly conscripted, and the treatment in peacetime was not good, as long as there was a chance of a line, they would leave the team and flee.

It was only with the rise of nationalism in modern times and the improvement of military logistics that desertion gradually ceased to be the primary problem of the army, and street fighting in the city gradually became a choice for commanders.

And the most powerful in street battles are, of course, artillery and muskets. Due to the constraints of the terrain, teams with cold weapons tend to form dense formations, which makes them the best targets for artillery and muskets.

Although the reinforcements led by Li Dingguo only had a company or more of men, in such a street battle, they almost fought the power of a battalion. The rebel army was soon blinded by the firepower of Li Dingguo's department, and they subconsciously thought that the field army outside the city had entered the city, so they naturally refused to continue to follow Jiang Jiu to death.

When Jiang Hao received the news that the soldiers had fled everywhere, he was powerless. As a last resort, he could only prepare to flee out of the city with the hundreds of people he could still master in the end.

By this time, he couldn't take care of other people's families. He secretly ordered Jiang Lin to go to the General Military Mansion to pick up his son, and then went to the south gate to ask the defenders to let them out of the city and flee for their lives. And he himself took Yang Zhenwei and other subordinates to storm the east gate to create an opportunity for Jiang Lin and others to escape.

Jiang Jiu is also a dead horse as a live horse doctor at this time, after all, as the leader of the rebels, he doesn't expect the court to pardon him. Even if he surrenders now, it would be nice to be able to leave the whole corpse for himself, so he has to fight no matter what.

It's just that although he is awake at the moment and wants to give it a go, his subordinates don't think so. They had previously forced Jiang Hao to come out and make a mutiny, that is, they felt that the possibility of failure was very small, and even if the mutiny failed, the court would at most dispose of Jiang Jiu, the leader, and for them, the generals who led the troops, most of the court was mainly to pacify.

Now that the mutiny had clearly failed, they didn't know where to run even if they fled the city. To the south is Wutai Mountain and Luliang Mountain, to the west is the Yellow River and Luliang Mountain, to the north is the Fengzhen Military Fortress, and to the east is the important town of Xuanfu.

Without the fortress of Datong as a base, this area is a cage, unless they abandon all their subordinates and run into the mountains with a few cronies, then what can they do in the future?

Yang Zhenwei and other rebellious generals, who could not see hope, finally attacked Jiang Jiu when he commanded the troops to attack the east gate, tied them up, and killed the last dozen or so family members on Jiang Jiu's side.

In the face of the betrayal of Yang Zhenwei and others, Jiang Hao didn't even make any resistance, but he had a sense of relaxation that everything was over. In fact, Yang Zhenwei preferred to execute Jiang Jiu directly, after all, he also had a lot of ideas in the mutiny.

However, others blocked him, and these people felt that a living Jiang Huang was easier to obtain the court's pardon than a dead Jiang Huang, after all, they were not Yang Zhenwei, and they did not do their best to give advice to Jiang Huang.

Jiang Youguang, who went to persuade the generals outside the city, was more miserable, and when these generals were anyway, they directly cut him down, and only one head that refused to look at him was handed over to Zhou Wei.

From Jiang Huang's mutiny to Cao Bianjiao's leading troops into the city to quell the rebellion, the duration of this mutiny did not exceed 12 hours. In other words, when the next day dawned, the tranquility of Datong City was restored.

Although many civilians' homes were still looted by the rebels, and several neighborhoods were set on fire to several buildings, in general, the losses suffered by Datong City in this mutiny were almost negligible.

When Amin received the news and rushed to Datong, there were almost no traces of the mutiny left in the city. This made Amin quite disappointed, after all, he still hoped to use such a peaceful affairs to establish his prestige.

Of course, although Amin failed to reap the merits of quelling the rebellion, in the process of purging the local tyrants after the war, he took advantage of this to promote many officials close to him, and he can be regarded as gaining a foothold in the Fengda Governor's Palace.