204. Dark clouds gather in the city (4)
Wang Baozong took a sip of hot water, and his frozen body began to feel a little warmer.
He looked around, and there were about twenty people who were captured and anyway, led by a teenager, around a cauldron. The aroma of rice emitted from the pot made him breathe deeply, although the wall was cold and windy, but Wang Baozong felt that his heart was hot.
Originally, he just stiffly followed the thief, but now it was different, and now he felt that he had a head.
Running is ...... Kill the thief!
As soon as he thought that he could kill thieves in the city, Wang Baozong felt warm in his heart. He closed his eyes, prayed silently to the heavenly spirits of his relatives who had been killed, and in a few moments he heard the young man with them shouting, "The meal is ready, ready to eat...... Pickles and rice, when you are full, you have the strength to kill thieves! ”
Wang Baozong followed everyone to eat, like them, a small team of twenty-five people, each team had a guard from the Xiliu Courtyard as the leader, and there were more than forty teams in the whole city, including both the rogues who came over anyway like Wang Baozong, and the people in the city.
Each person was given a wooden bowl and bamboo chopsticks, which were their cutlery. Although there are no vegetables, the pickles are salty enough, and they are still very delicious, and Wang Baozong looked down from the city while eating.
He wondered why the other three gates of Wuwei City were all open except for the West Gate, and it stands to reason that the city gate should be closed at this time and wait for the rogues to approach.
Not only was the hole opened, but people were also allowed to enter, and refugees from the four townships, some of whom were dragging their families, and some of whom were alone, poured in one after another. Wang Baozong just looked stunned at first, but it didn't take long for him to realize that something was wrong: the thieves broke the city, and they were accustomed to doing fine work, and these people who entered the city of Wuwei were hundreds or thousands, and there were more and more, and there were no thieves in it?
As soon as he thought of this, he timidly stretched out his hand, which was the rule he had just learned: "Captain! ”
Every twenty-five of them were organized into a shed, and the boy from the Hosoyanagi Courtyard was the head of the shed.
"What?" The boy with them asked.
"Among those who have gone into the city...... Will there be a diligent? Wang Baozong pointed to the crowd pouring in from under the city.
The young man tilted his head to look at Wang Baozong, his face changed slightly, and then trotted to a shack on the city wall, and pulled another young man to say a few words. The young man hurriedly walked over, and he looked at Wang Baozong: "Do you recognize the subordinates of the thief?" ”
"No, it's just, it's just a thief attacking the city, they are used to annihilating the fine, their annihilation is habitual, as soon as they enter the city, they will wander in the streets and alleys, just waiting for the signal, they will suddenly start to attack!"
"Very good, very good, your name is Wang Baozong, right?" The young man grinned, and his gaze suddenly became extremely sharp: "My name is Ye Wuya, you remember, if there is anything, report my name." What you say, I will tell us petty officials, so that we can defend the city. ”
Ye Wuya nodded approvingly to him again, and then turned to leave.
Wang Baozong's restless heart calmed down, and he returned to the cauldron of his team.
Ye Wuya did not report the matter to Yu Guozhen, because what Wang Baozong was worried about was originally in Yu Guozhen's plan.
Some people also passed the same concern to Shi Kefa, Shi Kefa hurriedly called Zhang Pu to discuss, Zhang Pu listened and said: "Yu Jimin must have an arrangement, and the thief's plan will not succeed!" ”
After those refugees entered the city, they were introduced into the city by the soldiers to practice martial arts, at first everyone still wanted to argue, but saw that the officers and soldiers introduced were all extremely vicious, and they were all honest. Immediately after that, the city let them speak on their own, and if there were relatives and acquaintances in the city, they reported the names of relatives and acquaintances, and then sent someone to find and recognize them. In this way, the number of people gradually decreased, and finally there were only about 600 people left.
The more than 600 people looked at each other, and then they could distinguish the accent, and all those who did not have a local accent were tied up, and a few people tried to resist, but the result was naturally chopped to death, and the first achievement was also hung up for public display.
Immediately followed by the division of the interrogation, Gao Erzhu's shrill laughter and the screams of the execution, not long after, one by one, the heads were cut off, more than 400 pieces, and then it was temporarily stopped.
And the remaining more than 100 people, although they were not tried, they were all wiped out, but the city also refused to contain them, and directly drove them out of the city.
Shi Kefa has been paying attention to how Yu Guozhen dealt with it, and when he heard that he had cut down more than 400 people, he couldn't help but feel stunned, but Zhang Pu comforted: "The thieves killed thousands in Chao' County, and the towns that were destroyed before were all chickens and dogs...... Besides, if Yu Jimin has such skills, no matter how much he loves the people like a son, I am afraid that the court will not worry about the thieves, but Yu Jimin. ”
Shi Kefa was silent.
At that moment, the sound of the alarm gong sounded, and it did not come from one door, but from all four. The heart-rending police gong made Shi Kefa instantly forget the thief who was killed, he panicked and walked out of the yamen, and when he heard that the thieves at the east gate were powerful, he rushed directly to the east gate.
On the twenty-first day of the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the thieves went to the outside of the city.
It was Zhang Kewang who led the team, and there were still two miles away from the city, so he looked at the first achievements hanging on the city, which were all meticulous works sent by him. These first achievements seemed to be Yu Guozhen's ridicule of him in the city, which made his heart boil with anger.
However, thinking of his father-in-law's expectations of him, Zhang Kewang still held back.
"Major General, this is Wuwei City!"
"I saw it, I don't need you to be verbose!" Zhang Kewang was a little irritable, he suppressed the tyranny in his heart, now is not the time to attack.
When he breaks the city and captures Yu Guozhen, who has repeatedly broken his father and his big things, he will be tortured for a long time, so that his life is better than death!
"Come, take the dog officer up, and persuade him to surrender." He said coldly.
After a while, an official was escorted over, but it was the captured head of Chao' County Zhao, and when Yu Guozhen restored Chao' County, he was kidnapped by thieves, so he was not freed.
The thieves kicked and beat him, pushed him under the county seat, and stopped about forty feet away from the moat. Nest' county order Yan Jue also went to the wall, looking at it from afar, it was Zhao in charge, and suddenly the rabbit died and the fox was sad, and he remembered that his family members were all killed or did not know whether they were alive or dead, and tears fell like rain.
"Shout and shout!" The escorted rogues beat Zhao's chief with a gun.
Chief Zhao fell to his knees, glanced back at the thieves, and then shouted: "Senator Shi, the rogue is tyrannical, all of them are beasts, I'd rather die than surrender......"
The shouting stopped abruptly, and the thief behind him slashed his head.
The thief was still angry, picked up the head of Zhao's principal, and shouted at the city: "Shi Kefa's head is here, hahahaha!" ”
The thieves are so vicious, everyone in the city is depressed, although Shi Kefa is not afraid, he can't help but feel sad for Zhao.
Yu Guozhen also came to the city here, and when he saw this, he smiled coldly and said to Ye Wuya: "Wuya, it's your turn." ”
Ye Wuya was the most scathing, smiled forward, beckoned, and immediately someone handed over a long bamboo pole, and there was a vertical banner hanging on the long bamboo pole, and now I can't see what the words are. Ye Wuya asked Zhang Jinjia's head to be taken and hung on a long bamboo pole, and then shook it at the head of the city, and the vertical banner hung down directly, revealing a row of words on it.
"Offering thieves, Zhang Jinjia has been waiting for you for a long time!"
Nine big characters, floating in the cold wind at the head of the city, each word is as big as a fight, not only under the city, but also in the city people can see it from afar, and immediately cheered together. The defenders in the city, who were originally a little depressed, also immediately remembered that Yu Guozhen, who had killed Zhang Jinjia, the second king of the thief canal, was in the city!
"Damn it!" Zhang Kewang under the city saw this scene, and immediately became angry, and most of his subordinates were Zhang Jinjia's old department, and when he saw the first achievement of the late master, he looked even more panicked. Zhang Kewang gritted his teeth, he originally wanted to hit the morale of the defenders in the city, but it backfired!
At this thought, his lips rolled slightly, and then ordered: "Bring it up!" ”
The people in the city were cheering again and again, and their morale was revived, and seeing the formation of thieves under the city dispersed, Zhang Pu smiled and said to Shi Kefa: "Brother Dao, this kind of thing is indeed only ...... by Yu Jimin."
At this, his gaze suddenly became glazed.
Not only him, but Shi Kefa and all the people in the city became glazed.
For when the thieves had dispersed on both sides, all the women who were driven out from behind were naked women and women!
In the midst of the howling and crying, these women and women, beaten by swords and beatings, were driven towards the city step by step!
Shi Kefa was so angry that his whole body trembled, he slapped the wall battlements heavily, and shouted: "The woman is innocent, the woman is innocent!" ”
What was the purpose of driving these frail women naked to the city walls in such cold weather, apart from demoralizing the city's people?
And suddenly one of the people who came to the aid of the city came to his aid, and suddenly he cried and cried, and jumped down from the wall, which was only two feet high, and before he died, he limped and rushed towards the woman, and then he came near, and an arrow came from one of the thieves, and killed him. Among the women, an old woman also ran out, hugged his fallen body, and cried and cursed, and was stabbed down by a thief behind him. The thief was not willing to give up, but he cut the old woman's belly, cut off her son's head, and stuffed it, and laughed wildly.
Yu Guozhen was also so angry on the city wall that his whole body trembled.
He knew that the rogues who had been deliberately exalted and revered as peasant revolts for some reason in later generations had done extremely murderous acts in the early days, but it was one thing to know and another to witness!
The thief was triumphant, and drove the women forward, and the women approached the moat, and the drawbridge over the moat had long been lifted, and the women were naked, trembling and weeping in the cold wind by the river, and the thief, without the slightest compassion, drove her into the moat!
Not only do the thieves have to use these women to humiliate the defenders, but they also have to fill the trenches with their corpses!
"Wuwei sick cat, aren't you crazy, if there is a kind, why don't you come out to rescue these women, but only dare to shrink in the city as a turtle?" The thief began to scream and curse.
"Shi Kefa, haven't you always boasted that you are loyal to the king and love the people, and several women can't protect you, what else do you love?"
The successive insults scolded Yu Guozhen and Shi Kefa as if they were pigs and dogs, and there were also scolding in the city, but seeing the desolate appearance of the hundreds of women, where could the people in the city scold the city?
"Listen to the people in the city, you only need to hand over Shi Kefa and Yu Guozhen, and we won't attack the city!" Immediately afterward, a new shout from the rogue made the city tremble.
Yu Guozhen pursed his mouth tightly.
(To be continued)