Chapter XXVI: Repression
It doesn't matter which dynasty or generation, but in case of disaster, there will be people who fish in troubled waters and take advantage of the chaos to make a fortune. Hooligans, such people do many oppressive and good things on weekdays, and they will not let go of the opportunity to rob and rob in the face of this kind of chaos in the city.
Whether it is the Ming army or the Qing army, it is not a matter in the eyes of these people, as long as the city is still in chaos, they will continue to grab it until the situation in the city is completely settled. At that time, they will grab enough, just find a place where no one is around, and wait for the rumors to pass before coming out. At that time, Luo Ding's surname is Ming, they are the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they are still in the Qing Dynasty, that is, the Shun people of the Qing Dynasty, as long as they don't rebel, which one can do anything with them!
Bitter Lord?
Do you know which one is robbing!
Besides, these people are also very smart, they still understand the truth that rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest, so they will never rob acquaintances, nor do they rob neighbors, they all live on the same street, look down and don't look up, they don't look good when they grab it, and they are easy to be accused afterwards, and the new government likes to buy people's hearts with their heads the most.
Therefore, for the sake of safety, these people mostly choose to rob in other places, such as the south of the city to run to the north to rob, the north to the west, the west to the east, while the people are panicked to start fast and ruthless, when they dare to resist, the things to be robbed are valuable, and it is inevitable that human life will be touched. In these years, can you get rich if you are not ruthless?
Because Song Xianggong pretended to be the name of Luo Dingzhizhou of the Yongli Imperial Court, and borrowed the tiger power of Li Dingguo, the king of Xining in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the "Ming army" entered the city, it became a fact, so under his half-order and half-threat, the Lizheng and big households in the original Dongcheng area could only come out to help Song Xianggong appease the people's hearts in order to avoid being liquidated by the Ming army. With the assistance of these people, Song Xianggong organized a number of young people to extinguish the fire and save themselves, so that the situation in Dongcheng was much better than in other places.
The situation in Dongcheng is stable, which makes those scoundrels who want to take advantage of the fire to rob have no advantage to occupy, their heads turn fast, this land can't be grabbed, then go elsewhere, the left and right days are not yet dawn, and the Ming army has just entered the city to take care of them, if it is too late, there will be no chance, it is difficult to wait for the next time the Qing army comes over and then make a move!
Luo Ding under the fire became a paradise for looters, and the Qing army that escaped saw that they could not escape for the time being, so they simply took off their clothes and joined the robbery team, and they also frantically harmed the people with the idea of not robbing and not robbing. Soon, the chaos created by these people was even worse than the fire, and many people escaped the engulfment of the fire, but did not escape their poisonous hands, and the sound of crying and begging for mercy was everywhere, and the people were panicked
The state has national laws and rules, and he opened Luoding City with his head, but he didn't snatch it down and asked others to do it first, Ge Wuyi and the bandits were so angry one by one, where are they willing!
According to the rules, those who take advantage of the chaos to rob are also half of their peers, and they act as usual, and the bandits will also leave a bone for these people to gnaw when they eat meat, but now their own family has become the biggest head of the robbery, as a person in the official government, how can this kind of thug who rob while the fire is burning!
Repression, it must be severely suppressed! Otherwise, where is the prestige of the government, and how can our brothers make a fortune in the name of the government! They have robbed them of all this good thing, and the brothers have what to drink and eat!
"Brothers, don't be soft, cut as I do, and after you cut off, give me your head on the string, I want to see if the head of those rabbit cubs is hard, or if our brother's knife is fast!"
At first, Ge Wu was not so murderous, and was only about to tie up those bastards, but when he saw that several members of a family were killed, and the gold and silver in the house were gone, he immediately turned red-eyed, and when he shouted, he poured his anger on the few unlucky eggs he had just caught, and all of them were pressed to the ground and their heads were cut off!
Ge Wu's killing ring can't be contained as soon as it is opened, and the men under his command are all used to killing people, which is much stronger than the gang of scoundrels who are halfway out of the house, plus there is the aura of "Daming Wangshi" (the old thief), those ruffians. Where are their opponents!
Besides, Ge Wu's gang came in a group, but the gang of robbers acted separately, comparing the two and the low, even if the number of people was obviously much more than Ge Wu's, but no one could stop them, and no one dared to stop them.
From the south of the city to the north of the city, and then back to the west of the city, and finally went straight to the east of the city, Ge Wuyi and his party cut down no less than 40 scoundrels who took advantage of the fire to rob, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers were also killed under the knife.
People are killed, their heads are carried with wooden poles, and they are really suppressed all the way, and they are threatened all the way. Fortunately, although Ge Wu and they looked fierce and vicious, what they did was what the people liked to see, so they were praised by the people, and they were all good.
Along the way, many bitter masters also joined Ge Wu and their team, and there were also many bloody young people who followed behind to help, and later, the number of people in the team was more than ten times that of the beginning, and under the overwhelming number of people, those who took advantage of the fire and robbed one by one withdrew their hands, and no one dared to use their own heads to test whether the knife of this gang of fierce gods was fast enough.
On the Dongcheng side, Song Xianggong was responsible for pacifying the people, and Zhou Shixiang organized Qingzhuang to put out the fire in the name of the subordinates of the Ming Luoding general. Soon, with the concerted efforts of everyone, the fire in Dongcheng was successfully contained.
Listening to the people who fled from the city, there were a lot of Qing soldiers robbing over there, so Zhou Shijie took Ge Liu and others to lead dozens of brave young men to suppress it.
These young men are all ordinary people in the city, if someone hadn't come forward to organize it, and the Qing army was defeated again, they wouldn't have the courage to help deal with the Qing army.
There are dozens of young men to help, although they are only strong in the back, and it is Zhou Shixiang and Ge Liu who really do it, but they are already invincible opponents for the Qing army who are already frightened birds and just want to take advantage of the chaos to grab something.
There were almost no casualties, and dozens of robbers in the city were served in one pot, and many people were frightened and fled after seeing the "Ming army" coming, and they were all tied up by Ge Liu and them one by one. Only two Qing soldiers dared to resist with swords, or two brothers, and the result was that they were both cut to the ground.
After tying up the people, Ge Wuyi's gang killed them mightily, and found that Ge Wu and the gang of robbers strung their heads on wooden poles, Zhou Shixiang was first surprised, and then thought it was true: In troubled times, you have to use heavy codes, and nothing can scare people more than human heads!
In order to deter and warn the Qing soldiers and thugs who were still hiding in the city, Zhou Shitai immediately ordered that all the thugs who were caught participating in the robbery be taken over, and then all beheaded in front of the onlookers.
As soon as the gang heard that the Ming army was going to behead them, they were so frightened that they cried and shouted for mercy one by one, and the feces and urine flowed together, but Zhou Shixiang was unmoved, and sympathy was definitely not used on these robbers and murderers!
Ge Wu was even more able to kill, where could he spare them, with a shout, the crowd rose up, and the two pressed one, and the heads of the people who "poof" fell to the ground one by one.
"There is no forgiveness for taking advantage of the chaos to rob and robber!"
"Those who resist the Ming army will be killed!"
"There is no forgiveness for those who secretly hide the Qing soldiers!"
The bloody head was accompanied by three orders to kill without mercy, which made Luoding City quickly settle down.
Without the interference of the looters, Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong mobilized the people together, and after more than an hour of hard work, after revealing the white of the fish belly in the east, the fire in Luoding was finally completely extinguished.
The fire was extinguished, the sky was bright, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the people involved in the firefighting were so tired that they were sitting or lying on the ground, and Song Xianggong was also so tired that his voice was so hoarse that he was almost speechless.
Zhou Shixiang climbed up the city gate from the city road, stood at the head of the city and looked down, and found that half of the houses in the city were destroyed in the fire, and white smoke rose from the ruins everywhere.
There are still a lot of things to do, and now is not the time to breathe, Zhou Shixiang instructed those who were willing to cooperate with Li Zheng and big households to take people to the city to collect the corpses, and at the same time asked Ge Wu and them to organize Qingzhuang to search the captured Qing army along the streets, so that none of them escaped to report the news.