Tan Xiao fought fiercely with the Western Army for several days, and as soon as he withdrew from the front line with a force of more than 1,000 people, he caught up with a large-scale riot in the whole state.

The mutiny and the people's mutiny, like wildfire, once ignited, soon spread to the inner and outer parts of the city.

Inside and outside the city, there are always tens of thousands of defeated soldiers and hungry people, who have been freezing and starving for the past few days, as if tens of thousands of outlaws have been forced into a corner.

Clashes, bloodshed, killings...... At the same time, most of the routs and hungry people just followed the coaxing at first, just wanting to fish in troubled waters and eat a bite of food, and when someone grabbed some food, gold and silver, and some people got blood on their hands, they became real rebels and mobs, killing people and setting fires, and doing all kinds of evil.

Fortunately, Tan Xiao happened to return to Jeonju at this time.

It happened suddenly, Tan Xiao didn't know why there was a riot in the whole state, but he saw a lot of all kinds of storms in the chaos, and almost without any hesitation, he led the team to kill it directly, and quickly dispersed the chaotic army and mob in the west of the city, and after steadily occupying the west gate, he sent scouts to investigate the movements of Emperor Longwu's camp.

In the land of Quanzhou, Emperor Longwu's camp was set up on the banks of the Li River in the northern suburbs of the city, but in a quarter of an hour, the scouts and horses fought back and forth...... Hearing that the camp was not impacted, Tan Xiao's face was slightly relaxed, leaving half of the soldiers and horses to guard the west gate, and bringing five hundred elite horsemen into the city to quell the chaos.

Cut the Gordian knot!

Entering two streets through the city gate, I was constantly confronted with a large number of routs and rebels. In front of the Chu army, which was like a flock of sheep, it was vulnerable, and when they saw the Chu army coming, they scattered and fled. didn't dare to come up and fight, and Tan Xiao didn't entangle with them. Led the troops to the county office.

In addition to the local officials such as the county commander of Quanzhou, there are also many civil and military officials of the imperial court stationed in the city, during these days, the dove occupies the magpie's nest, most of them are crowded in the county office, riots suddenly broke out in the city, the county government was hit by a ** one after another, and the guards were soon killed and wounded, and when it was in danger, the Chu army suddenly killed. Killed the hundreds of rebels surrounding in one fell swoop, saving everyone's lives.

At the beginning of the riot, a group of civil and military officials behaved quite calmly, and they were surrounded in the county government with nowhere to escape, so they organized all the military guards and government servants to resist tightly, and when those ghost-like rebels were killed and dispersed, they suddenly unloaded in one breath, all of them were weak and short of breath, and they went out to meet Tan Xiao. Agitated, or frightened, or almost collapsed to the ground, and the face was red or white. almost

Under the banner of the general of the Chu army, the cavalry of the brigade embraced the leading general Tan Xiao, and Tan Xiao rode his horse and stood. Ignoring the chaotic greetings, his gaze swept over the crowd. After seeing a familiar civil official, he asked in a series of loud questions: "Why is there chaos in the city?" Who is the leader of the rebels? Does Your Majesty have the will to quell the chaos......? ”

"This. Xia Guan also knew nothing. The civil official's name is Zhao Zhenfang, a counselor in the camp of Plug Yinxi, and the generals of the Chu army are all old acquaintances, after hearing Tan Xiao's inquiry, he bowed his hand and looked quite respectful: "We are sitting in the county government, and suddenly the sound of killing is everywhere, and the thieves are swarming, and they have been fighting desperately for most of the hour, and I don't know other news in the city." ”

Tan Xiao frowned: "Where is the military gate?" Where are Du Zhengming and Ma Jinzhong? ”

(Plug Zhengming, is the nephew of Plug Yinxi, the battalion officer of the Junzi Battalion - in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Plug Zhengming is an excellent general in the younger generation, when he died in Yongxing in 1648, he was just 24 years old, when "the daughter-in-law Fangqiao Shen, twenty years old, gave birth to a daughter only a little more than a month", Yongxing fell again in the sixth year of Shunzhi, and the Lu family committed suicide. ）

Ma Jinzhong is the number one general under the command of Du Yinxi, and his troops are all veterans of a hundred battles, which is better than the gentleman's battalion of Du Zhengming, if the two of them send troops to quell the chaos, they will soon be able to control the situation.

Although the number of rebels and hungry people is large, they are just a group of unorganized rabble, how can they be the opponents of the elite soldiers against the Qing Dynasty?

"Together with the rebels, Zhengming rushed to the north of the city on the order of You Gong, and camped by the river, General Ma has been fighting fiercely with the western thieves in the past few days, and he is not in the city." Zhao Zhenfang can be reused by Plug Yinxi, he has his own advantages, he is quite familiar with military affairs, he looked left and right and walked two steps, and said to Tan Xiao in a low voice: "Today's chaos is quite strange, although it was initially caused by the trivial matter of putting porridge, but it immediately caused a monstrous chaos in the whole city, and one after another, the officers and soldiers of all ministries can't suppress it, I'm afraid someone is behind it......"

When he said this, he lowered his voice again, almost leaned over Tan Xiao's body, and said: "The general doesn't know yet, Your Majesty has been in poor health for the past few days, lying sick in bed, and rumors have been spreading in the camp......

Tan Xiao nodded slightly, although his face was solemn, but there was no trace of surprise, obviously he had known the news for a long time, he opened his mouth and was about to say something, when an exclamation suddenly sounded behind Zhao Zhenfang, and a group of civil and military officials pointed in the direction of the north gate and shouted in panic.

"Fire! North Gate Fire! ”

"It's the direction of the camp!"

"No, it's the city gate, and the North Gate barracks!"

"What's going on?"

The north gate is close to the camp of Emperor Longwu, and there are heavy troops specially stationed, or they dare not leave their posts lightly and go out of the camp to quell the chaos, but there is no reason to be easily captured by the rebels...... Besides, there is no oil and water in the barracks, but what the rebellious soldiers and hungry people want is food, gold and silver property, and it is too late to avoid the hard bone of the barracks, so how can they attack desperately?

Before everyone could come back to their senses, a tsunami-like shout suddenly sounded in the city.

"Chu thieves hijacked and rebelled!"

"If the thief does not die, the country will be in trouble!"

"Kill the Chu thief, protect the emperor!"

The fire at the north gate was like an order, and in the blink of an eye, fires and lights were ignited in all other directions, and the smoke covered the sun, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

"Hmph, do you want to see you poor? Good! Let's make a break today! Tan Xiao's eyes became more and more indifferent, but there was a bloodthirsty excitement in his eyes, and he turned to his subordinates and shouted to the five hundred elite horsemen under him: "Guilin has fallen, Your Majesty is in trouble, and some crazy guys are raising troops and making trouble, sons and daughters, follow me to the riverside camp and protect the sky!" ”

"General Tan go slowly!"

Zhao Zhenfang was in a hurry, rushed up two steps and grabbed the reins of Tan Xiao's horse's head, and shouted: "All military horses have no will, it is strictly forbidden to enter within ten miles of the camp, the Chu army under the command of the general is already the target of the public now, if you rush to the riverside in a hurry, it is inevitable that you will be suspected of melon fields and Li Xia, and you will be in fire with other military leaders!" ”

"Is it not fire? Then merge! I'm here to save the driver, whoever dares to stop me is the thief who has hidden evil intentions, and he happened to be slashed with a knife! Tan Xiao turned his face to look at Zhao Zhenfang, and suddenly smiled: "Mr. Zhao, your gentleman's camp is also from Huguang, people scold us for making trouble in Chu, but the gentleman's camp is also included, and now there is chaos in the city, you had better go with me." (To be continued.) )