Chapter 258: Retaking the Acropolis
"Bastard, come back quickly, don't pick it up!" Cao Youyi pulled out his sword and shouted hoarsely, but no one was willing to listen to his words.
The guards were the poorest people in the world, and they only had some money and money to pay them when they were training and going on expeditions, and most of the time they could not get a little money from the guards. The land they divided was the source of their military salaries, clothing and food, and they could support millions of usable soldiers without spending a penny or grain on the imperial court, which was the original intention of Emperor Taizu to set up the guard.
However, hundreds of years have passed, and the land that should be shared by the military households of the ordinary guard station has long been occupied and divided by the officers, and they can only live by serving as tenants for the officers, and their lives are worse than those of ordinary peasant households, and they are the poorest people in the world. Not only that, but they were also deprived of the right to do other things, tied to the land of the guard, and their ancestors became slaves to the officers.
For these military households, there are only a handful of days when they can eat their stomachs all year round, and many people have never seen ingots of silver in their lives, and now countless yellow copper coins are rolling on the streets in front of them, countless silver ingots are in front of their eyes, and the huge wealth that they have never seen in their lives is within reach, which makes them how can they still hold back.
Grab it, as long as you can pick up a silver ingot, it is enough for the family to live comfortably for a year, rob it, with the silver, you can ask the Zhao family girl for marriage, and you can get a wife.
"Shit, this is what I saw first!" A rebel punched his accomplice in the face, knocked him to the ground, and reached out to grab the silver ingot, which was ten taels in size, and he could not earn so much after two years of working in the field, but although his accomplice was beaten with blood all over his face, he clung to the silver ingot and did not let go.
In front of Cao Youyi, his three thousand soldiers were in chaos, scrambling to rush to the silver on the ground.
Just as the rebels were scrambling for money, the gate of the Governor's Division quietly opened, and hundreds of soldiers of the Xishan Army poured out of the gate, holding swords and guns one by one.
"Bang bang bang!" The sound of firecrackers rang out incessantly, and a hundred and ten rebels who were fighting for money fell in pools of blood. The fire was followed by a round of locust-like crossbow arrows that shot into the rebels.
The tide is over! Cao Youyi sighed, turned his horse's head, knocked his soldiers away, and headed towards the city gate. Behind him, countless screams rang out one after another.
Yang Zhengping rushed to the front with an iron spear in his hand, the spear edge flickered, and the three rebel terriers were shot in a pool of blood, and behind him, more than two hundred pikemen rushed towards the chaotic rebel queue with their spears.
Relying on the advantage of numbers, the rebels of the guard post were able to surround the Xishan army in the yamen, but the scramble for silver made them lose the array, making them fight for themselves, and many people even lost their weapons, and there was no chance to fight back in front of the Xishan army that came to attack.
In just one round of killing, three or four hundred rebels were killed, and the rest turned around and fled in tears. Yang Zhengping followed behind with his men.
The combat power of these guards is not much stronger than that of ordinary people, and when they have the advantage, they can still flee in the event of defeat, which is also a common feature of most Ming Dynasty troops. And now, the main general Cao Youyi has fled, and these ordinary soldiers dare not resist. More than 3,000 people ran on the street crying and screaming, and they fled in embarrassment after being killed by 500 soldiers of the Xishan Army.
The Tianjin Acropolis is only a small city two miles square, and the governor's yamen is located in the middle of the city, with only two main streets leading to four gates. Yang Zhengping immediately ordered Chen Mo, Li Yi, and Xiao Bing to lead a hundred people to chase the rebels' buttocks and kill them at the four gates, and he wanted to recapture the city gate and control the Tianjin Wei in his own hands.
Although the number of people is still more than five times that of the Xishan army, no one dares to stop and resist, listening to the screams of the accomplices behind them, one by one they only know how to run desperately, along the street, to the city gate.
This rebellion was because Hou Zhi, the envoy sent by Dashun to persuade him to surrender, was dissatisfied with Yang Zhengping's delay and refusal to lead his troops out of Tianjin, and in order to flatter the new dynasty, the original Yuzong persuaded the Wei commander to make Cao Youyi and Lou Guangxian rebel together, and secretly mobilized more than 5,000 guards near Tianjin, and took advantage of the early opening of the city gate in the morning to enter the city and capture the four gates.
Then Cao Youyi led 3,000 soldiers to attack the governor's yamen, and the remaining 2,000 people plundered outside the city under the leadership of Lou Guangxian.
Tianjin Wei is very prosperous, but the prosperous place is not the Acropolis, but the city outside the Acropolis, because the military function of the Acropolis, and does not allow the army to accidentally civilian merchants to live, so the mansions of the merchants are located on both sides of the canal outside the city.
Since there was a rebellion, of course, we had to take advantage of the situation to make a fortune, although there was a silver treasury and grain depot in the city, but there were hundreds of merchants' shops outside the city, although Yuan Yuzong tried his best to control the army, so as to behave well in front of the messenger of Dashun, but for these poor and crazy military households, how could they let go of this opportunity to loot in a bright light?
The soldiers rushed into the merchants' houses in groups of three or five, dozens of groups, and the cries and shouts resounded on both sides of the canal.
On the third floor of Jiuhe Building, the largest restaurant outside the city, Hou Zhi, the messenger of Dashun, stood in front of the window, looking at the noise outside the window, with a sarcastic smile on his face.
"My lord, these Qiu Ba are all poor and crazy, and the lower officials will go down to restrain them!" Bingbei Daoyuan Yuzong's face was covered with cold sweat, and he said to Hou Zhi.
"It doesn't matter, according to my Dashun's policy of recovering stolen goods and helping salaries, these businessmen also belong to the ranks of the raids. However, the confiscated property should be handed over to the Dashun treasury to raise soldiers. Hou Zhi said lightly, just some businessmen, in the years of the Dashun Army's campaign, such things have happened countless times, and he took the opportunity to make a fortune, and it was not in vain that he made such a trip.
"Yes, yes, I will go down and give an order, ordering them to hand over the looted money, summarize it, and give it to your lords." Yuan Yuzong said in understanding.
"Do a good job, when I go back and speak well in front of Your Majesty, maybe this position of Tianjin Governor will be yours!" Hou Zhi patted Yuan Yuzong's shoulder and said encouragingly.
"Thank you, sir!" Yuan Yuzong suddenly became excited.
Yuan Yuzong got out of the restaurant and immediately ordered someone to call the commander Lou Guangxian, and asked him to order his subordinates to hand over most of the confiscated property.
At this moment, I suddenly heard a great chaos in the direction of the Acropolis, and when I looked in horror, I saw countless guards crying and shouting and escaping from the city gate, one by one losing their armor and being embarrassed.
How so? Didn't you surround the remaining hundreds of Xishan troops in the governor's yamen? Yuan Yuzong looked at Cao Youyi, the commander who had fled, in shock, and his heart was full of frustration.