Chapter Fifty-Eight: Defeat
Han Shantong looked at the crowd who were aroused by his emotions, and he couldn't help but show a smile in his eyes, but he didn't show this emotion, but shouted to the men beside him with righteous words: "Come here, make sacrifices, sacrifice to the gods, announce the heavens and the earth, and then rebel against the army." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
When the men below heard Han Shantong's words, they took out the black ox and white horse that had been prepared a long time ago, and then slaughtered the two sacrifices in front of everyone.
The slaughter of the two sacrifices undoubtedly pushed the atmosphere to the climax, but just as everyone was shouting wildly, no one noticed that a big man beside Han Shantong had quietly left at this time, and no one would have thought that the officers and soldiers who suppressed them were less than five miles away from them.
Just five miles away from Bailuzhuang, the county lieutenant Yue Tao was leading 500 officers and soldiers to rush to the direction of Bailuzhuang, because just this morning the county Yin received an exact report that today in Bailuzhuang, the leader of the White Lotus Sect, Han Shantong, would gather a crowd to make a rebellion, so the county Yin He County Zhongdalu Huachi ordered him to urgently lead all the officers and soldiers in the county to suppress the rebellion.
As soon as Yue Tao received the order, he assembled all the officers and soldiers in the county as soon as possible, and then rushed to the direction of Bailuzhuang with the officers and soldiers in the county non-stop.
Because Yue Tao understands that the people are in turmoil, they must be strangled in the bud at the first time, only let those mud legs see the power of the court, they don't dare to make trouble, otherwise it will be more and more troublesome, and he, Yue Tao, as a county lieutenant, already has the responsibility of maintaining law and order in the county and preventing the people from making chaos, and now it is already his Yue Tao's dereliction of duty to make the people in chaos, so he must personally suppress the people who are in rebellion.
As for whether he can succeed in quelling the rebellion, he Yue Tao is not worried at all, a group of mud-legged people who have no money, food and weapons, even if they are in chaos, they can go there in chaos, like this rebellion He Yue Tao doesn't know how many times he has suppressed it, dealing with this group of mud-legged people, often as long as the officers and soldiers arrive, kill a few more people, this group of mud-legged people will immediately collapse.
As for Han Shantong, the leader of the White Lotus Sect who set off a rebellion, Yue Tao also knows this guy, this person does have some ability to demagogue, but Yue Tao doesn't take him seriously at all in leading troops to fight, a demagogic cult leader, he has never seen the battlefield, and it's not a joke to let him fight.
But Yue Tao did not relax because of this, after all, how powerful the White Lotus Sect is, Yue Tao does not know, if it were not for the leakage of traitors in the White Lotus Sect this time, Yue Tao would definitely not doubt the ability of the White Lotus Sect to attack the county seat, after all, there are only dozens of officers and soldiers under his command who dare to kill people, if the White Lotus Sect is really allowed to hit the county seat, I don't know how many ordinary people will open the city gate and release the White Lotus Sect into the city.
Thinking of that scene, Yue Tao couldn't help but shudder, so Yue Tao turned around and shouted, "Everyone hurry up and be sure to rush to Bailuzhuang within two quarters of an hour." ā
And when Yue Tao led the officers and soldiers to hurry over, Han Shantong of Bailuzhuang had just begun to issue a proclamation, and after the proclamation was released, he played "Three thousand tigers, straight to the land of Youyan; Long Fei Ninety-Five, reopened the battle flag of the Great Song Dynasty", and then began the appointment of official positions, first Han Shantong established himself as the king of the Great Song Dynasty, and then canonized a large group of generals and officials.
Not to mention the waste of a lot of precious time, the courage that the people of the uprising had so hard to inspire was slowly eroded in one kind of ritual or another.
It really makes people have to sigh that "there is a specialization in the art industry", and it is purely a joke to let Han Shantong lead the soldiers.
If Han Shantong took advantage of the highest courage of the people to attack the county seat, then even if he encountered the officers and soldiers who came to quell the chaos, the people would probably be able to fight with the officers and soldiers, and even the rebellious people could win by virtue of their numerical advantage, but now the people at the bottom still have so much courage?
So in this way, the White Lotus Sect wasted this incomparably precious half an hour, and when they began to take the oath to raise the army, Yue Tao had already led the officers and soldiers to arrive.
Han Shantong looked at the officers and soldiers who suddenly appeared, and was completely stupid, this is completely different from the script he imagined, shouldn't these officers and soldiers stay in the county town stupidly and wait for him to lead the troops to fight over, how could they suddenly appear here.
But Han Shantong was stupid, the officers and soldiers on the opposite side were not stupid, I saw the county lieutenant Yue Tao riding his horse to the front of the battle surrounded by his own soldiers, pulling out the waist knife on his body, pointing at Han Shantong on the high platform and shouting: "The White Lotus Cult, gathering people to make chaos, under the order of the imperial court, arrest the thieves, and those who are guilty of obstruction will be killed!" ā
At this time, a hundred household officials beside Yue Tao also drew a knife and shouted: "Kill the thief!" ā
Then he rushed out with more than a dozen officers and soldiers around him, and the rest of the officers and soldiers saw that hundreds of officials were like this, and they also shouted: "Kill the thief!" ā
Then hundreds of officers and soldiers rushed into the "thieves" who were at a loss with their weapons.
Han Shantong on the high platform also reacted violently when he saw the officers and soldiers rushing over with weapons, but he reacted, and he did not think about leading the rebel people below to resist, but ran away wholeheartedly.
Yes, just run away. He Han Shantong said that Po Datian is just a cult leader, people like him are born with a sense of fear of the government, and besides, he is a person who has never even been on the battlefield, how can he know how to fight, after discovering that the uprising was leaked, there was only one thought left in his always shrewd mind, that is, "escape". "Stay in the green mountains without worrying about no firewood", his own survival is the key, and the life and death of the group of mud-legged people at the bottom have a penny to do with him.
Thinking of this, Han Shantong greeted more than a dozen cronies around him, and began to flee for his life after getting off the high platform.
And his escape, the last bit of courage in the hearts of the group of rebel people completely dissipated, looking at the group of officers and soldiers rushing over like wolves, the fear of the government buried deep in the bones of the rebel people once again occupied all their reason, especially when some of them were cut to the ground by the officers and soldiers, the screams of pain and the exclamations of the officers and soldiers to kill made the fear in their hearts infinitely magnified.
You know, fear is contagious, so when the first rebel screamed and fled for their lives, like an avalanche, more and more rebels joined the deserters.
And when the rebels in the back saw that the people in front of them began to flee, they also joined the ranks of the deserters.
As the saying goes, "people are scared to death", when the poison of fear began to spread among the crowd, it was no longer able to resist, and in order to flee for their lives, there were even large-scale pushes and stampedes within the people, and the cries of those who were trampled made other people want to escape more and more.
Even the number of people who were pushed and trampled to death by the people of the uprising themselves was several times more than the number of people killed by officers and soldiers.
As for resisting, it would be more realistic to expect a sow to go up a tree by counting on a group of bare-handed and frightened ordinary people to resist those heavily armed officers and soldiers.
As a result, in just a quarter of an hour from the discovery of the appearance of the officers and soldiers, thousands of rebellious civilians were completely dispersed.
But the rebellious people are not without combat power at all, such as Liu Futong, the hundreds of backbones of the White Lotus Sect with steel knives gathered next to him, but "one general is incapable of exhausting the three armies", because of Han Shantong's escape and the rout of the rebellious people, where do these backbones of the White Lotus Sect still have the courage to fight the enemy.
One by one, they were looking left and right, only thinking about where it was safest to flee for their lives, and seeing this, Liu Futong also understood that the general trend had gone.
So Liu Futong scolded Han Shantong fiercely in the direction of Han Shantong's escape, "Lack of erection and conspiracy", and then took the backbone of the White Lotus Sect and the high-level White Lotus Sect like Du Zundao around him, and took advantage of the chaos to leave the battlefield.
As for Han Shantong, after the rout of the uprising, under the protection of more than a dozen personal guards, he only knew that he ran away in the opposite direction of the officers and soldiers, and even his wife and children who stayed in Bailu Village couldn't take care of it, but there was no way, this thing was dressed in the dress of the sect leader and riding a horse, it was too conspicuous, and the fool knew that this was a big fish, how could he let him escape.
In particular, the hundred-household officer who rushed out first among the officers and soldiers took dozens of people to bite him behind his buttocks, seeing if the posture was going to capture him alive.
But fortunately, Han Shantong ran early and fast, and after sacrificing the seven or eight guards and horses around him, he finally got rid of the pursuers behind him.
Han Shantong and his group of five people, after running desperately for two hours, finally couldn't run, and when they saw a dense forest in front of them, the five of them planned to rest in the dense forest first.
I have to say that these guards around Han Shantong are loyal, and even at this time, they still regard Han Shantong as their master, and they don't have the slightest idea of betrayal.
And just as Han Shantong was resting in the forest eating dry food, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves outside the dense forest, and there was also a shout of "Sect Master, Sect Master".
When one of the guards heard this voice, his face was happy, and he said to Han Shantong: "Sect Master, it seems that it is Hall Master Liu and them." ā
When Han Shantong heard this, he couldn't help but smile on his face, and he smiled and said to the guard: "Han Wu, you go outside to see if it is the Liu Hall Master, if it is, bring the Liu Hall Master and them over to see me." ā
The man named Han Wu, hearing this, agreed, held the knife, and quietly touched the side of the avenue.