There are soldiers from Gansu in Yangzhou City, at this time the army in the city is chaotic, there are all over the country, Gansu, Sichuan, Guizhou, all because of the chaos in the world and retreated to the south of the Yangtze River, this complex state, so that Yang Chao wants to rectify can not be rectified, but it is better to come to Haizhou when he is happy, and the organization of the people is more useful than this variety of troops.

The rebels all over the country, who didn't even understand the language, these soldiers were all in the city, Shi Kefa arranged for them to live in private houses, and there were conflicts between the masters and the soldiers every day, they were stolen money, they were robbed, they were beaten, and so on, and even their wives and daughters were molested.

These Yang Chao can only endure it, but this kind of direct rebellion, then it will definitely not be able to bear it, and he must be heavy-handed and suppressed, and he must not dare to be careless, otherwise other armies will follow suit, I am afraid that Shi Kefa's authority will be gone, and the commander has no authority, how can he command 100,000 troops.

Shi Kefa shook his head and sighed very dejectedly: "If you attack and kill, I am afraid that it will cause internal changes!" ”

At this time, these people were still in the city, and they were not even in a hurry to get out of the city.

But Yang Chao was resolute, and immediately called many men: "Gather the whole army, charge in armor, and be sure to annihilate the anti-thieves in the shortest possible time!" Without the slightest delay! ”

Many men took the order.

Yang Chao must be suppressed, and it must be fast, if he can't suppress the morale of the army in the natural city, Shi Kefa can no longer command the army, if it is slow, I am afraid that it will make the other armies panic, thinking that the city is in chaos.

Shi Kefa didn't even stop Yang Chao, but just let out a long sigh.

"Lord Shi, please show the Anmin notice immediately. And told all armies that Li Qifeng and Gao Qifeng had made a rebellion and had been killed, and that all armies should be strictly guarded against trust, and there must be no mistakes! ”

It is not only necessary to put down the insurgency quickly. It is also necessary to immediately tell the other armies about the situation, so that they know what is happening and there will be no chaos. And take the opportunity to deter some of these people.

Shi Kefa just sighed, as if he had become numb to the disobedience to military law. acquiesced to Yang Chao's attitude regardless of him, and asked the bookstore to write notices.

In fact, at this time, Yang Chao still insisted on doing things through Shi Kefa, and he was already much stronger than other warlords.

Of course, Yang Chao has his own considerations, because Shi Kefa is the supervisor, and with his banner, he can justifiably order the whole army, and Yang Chao did not overstep his bounds and tried his best to maintain Shi Kefa's authority. Let the army in the city have a nominal sole commander.

If Yang Chao overstepped his authority, he would give other armies a bad example, and if they followed suit, they would not have to fight.

Therefore, Yang Chao still has to set an example, even if he has actually given up letting Shi Kefa command, he still needs to give orders through him.

"Yang Chao, when will your reinforcements arrive?"

Shi Kefa asked.

Yang Chao shook his head: "Ten days at most, four or five days at least!" ”

Shi Kefa said again: "Can you send an urgent report so that he can come to help?" ”

Yang Chao shook his head: "It's too late, the military order is the most taboo to change the order at night." ”

The waterway from Yangzhou to Taiping is thousands of miles. At this time, Jianghuai was in chaos, and the fast horse was impassable, so he took the waterway to pass. It may not be possible to arrive in ten days.

And even if it arrives, Yang Chao doesn't want to give this order, he has agreed with Wang Pu that he can develop in Yangzhou in ten days, if he suddenly changes the order, there will be more variables, anyway, he only needs to hold on for a maximum of ten days, and when his 100,000 army arrives, he will not have to be afraid of the Qing army.

But hold on for ten days. Shi Kefa has no confidence at all, and there is bad news every day these days. so that he could not sleep at night and could not eat at sun. The hard work is almost dry.

Even the notice issued to the people was full of negativity, telling the people: He will take responsibility for defending the city and will not affect the people!

Half an hour later, many men came back to their lives, and they pleaded guilty.

"Please punish your lordship, the last general is incompetent and has failed to completely annihilate the traitor!"

Yang Chao couldn't help frowning, many of the soldiers led by the man were all elite soldiers in a hundred battles, and their own personal soldiers were dispatched together, and the elite of more than 1,000 people dealt with 4,000 pairs of rebels, and the elite failed to be wiped out?

"Tell me more!"

Yang Chao ordered.

Many men have only finished in detail.

It turned out that after Li Qifeng led his troops to leave the governor's palace, he did not rush out of the city, but plundered along the streets, and colluded with the Sichuan army Hu Shangyou and Han Shangliang, a total of tens of thousands of people went out of the city to surrender together.

Many men had just defeated Li Qifeng's troops, but they found that there was a Sichuan army behind them, and it was another chaotic battle, blood-stained streets, and they failed to completely annihilate the other party, allowing at least more than 5,000 people to seize the door!

"How about our army's battle losses?"

After listening to the battle situation, Yang Chao also knew that many men failed to complete the task because of sudden accidents, which was understandable.

Many men replied: "More than 10 people were killed in the battle, and 30 were wounded. ”

Yang Chao nodded: "Can there be captured?" ”

Many men said: "Kill Li Qifeng, capture the eunuch Gao Qifeng, the Sichuan general Hu Shangyou, and more than 1,000 Gan soldiers and Sichuan soldiers." ”

Yang Chao nodded and said, "Okay!" Ordered the head to be loaded into a cart and pushed up the city wall to parade along the city. ”

Then Yang Chao said to Shi Kefa: "Lord Shi, please invite all the generals to come and behead the rebels!" ”

Shi Kefa's brain was congested, and his thinking couldn't keep up at all, so he wondered: "Who to kill?" But Gao Qifeng and others? ”

Yang Chao's tone was cold: "Kill Gao Qifeng, Hu Shangyou, and thousands of rebels!" ”

Shi Kefa's eyes suddenly widened: "Kill a thousand people!" ”

He didn't expect Yang Chao to be so ruthless, and he would kill thousands of captives.

He suddenly hesitated: "The killing is too heavy, I am afraid it will hurt the heavens and peace." ”

Yang Chao's patience had reached the limit, and he shouted: "Master Shi! At the moment of the great enemy, how can she be so kind to a woman. If you don't kill the rebels and deter others, how can you defend the city? Please make a quick decision! ”

Shi Kefa still hesitated: "Can you take them into custody first?" ”

Yang Chao said: "It must be cut immediately!" ”

Shi Kefa sighed: "Then so be it." ”

After speaking, he waved his hand and asked his men to go down to the city wall to give orders, and called on the general soldiers at all levels to come and watch the execution.

Hulala came nearly 100 people at once, all of them were general soldiers!

At this time, the military system in the city was very chaotic, and some of them only had one or two hundred people, and they were also chief military officers.

The reason is that after the fall of Beijing, the Jiangbei region was almost out of control, and to be honest, the civil and political ability of the Jiangnan was worse than that of the civil officials in the north who came to surrender to Dashun and the Qing army who came to surrender to the Manchus, because all the officials who served in Nanjing were either squeezed out of Nanjing after the failure of the political struggle, or those who were old and had nowhere to settle down.

A very simple reason, Shi Kefa, the secretary of the Nanjing military department before the fall of Beijing, is definitely not as good as the military secretary in Beijing in terms of ability, otherwise he should go to Beijing instead of staying in Nanjing.

Such a group of civil servants, coupled with the matter of King Fu Jianguo and Zhu Cihong's accession to the throne, in the two power changes, they only thought about fighting for power and profit, and they didn't care about rectifying their defenses at all, of course, even if they did, they didn't have any military ability.

Shi Kefa invited himself to Jiangbei to supervise the teacher, but his level is obviously not as good as Ma Shiying.

The civilian officials' indifference and abandonment of the military have kept the Jiangbei military in the hands of the four towns for more than a year, so they have appointed a large number of officers, and even the situation of selling officials, the imperial court does not care about it, and it cannot manage it, so there is a situation of a large number of general soldiers, sometimes there are several general soldiers in one place.

One by one, the general soldiers came to the square in front of the City God's Temple, where a temporary court was set up, the executioners were in place, and the soldiers knelt on the ground and trembled, without the slightest arrogance when they killed people, set fire to and looted the people.

"Ladies and gentlemen! This is Gao Qifeng, Li Qifeng, Hu Shangyou and other rebels, these thieves don't think about sharing the worries of the saints, and they actually plot to kidnap the Shi Inspector and sacrifice the thieves to be rewarded! Master Shi has an order, kill the rebels, and use the military law, please be a witness! ”

Yang Chao didn't say much, nothing compares to the shock of bloodshed, to make these soldiers who are frightened by the Tartars obedient, you have to be more ferocious than the Tartars, and make him more afraid.

The general soldiers looked at thousands of people kneeling on the ground, this kind of scene was shocking for no reason, but they had some doubts in their hearts, even if it came to this matter, they were a little unconvinced, Shi Kefa dared to order the killing of thousands of people!

Many people couldn't help but peek at Yang Chao, secretly suspecting in their hearts that this was probably not Shi Kefa's order, but Yang Chao's idea of killing stars, and looked at Shi Kefa again, only to see Shi Kefa sitting behind the law field, motionless, closing his eyes and recuperating, which strengthened the thoughts in their hearts.

"Execution!"

Yang Chao gave an order, and the executioner fiercely commanded the butcher knife, and nearly a thousand heads fell to the ground immediately, and there were more than 200 that were not cut down, because the executioners were too raw and not professionals.

In fact, these executioners are all part-time, they are all soldiers under Yang Chao, and the knives used are not the ghost head knives used by the executioners to cut off their heads, or their ordinary waist knives, and the waist knives are much lighter than the ghost head knives, so they can't even cut some guys with hard necks at once.

But these people did not hesitate to slash a second time, and then the head hit the ground. In fact, the first knife can guarantee to hack these people to death, although they are not decapitated, but the blood has begun to gush, the blood pressure after the rupture of the carotid artery will spurt the blood several feet away, and there is a squeaky sound, one person and two people are not conspicuous, but the sound of hundreds of people splashing blood makes people feel creepy, as if the iron chain of the impermanent lock is shaking.

More than 1,000 people died like this, and the faces of the chief soldiers who watched the punishment couldn't help but change, although they had the rank of chief soldier, but few of these people had really seen blood, and even fewer had killed people, and even most of them were killed for the first time, and as a result, dozens of people began to vomit on the spot.

However, the rest of Gao Jie's general soldiers didn't care, Li Chengdong was even more smiling, and he seemed to enjoy watching it, and Li Benshen also had a cold face.

At this time, there were still two people standing in the field, they had special treatment, but they were sleepy, guarded by two executioners, and were not executed with the soldiers, these two people were naturally the leaders of the rebellion, Li Qifeng's eunuch Gao Qifeng, and Hu Shangyou, the chief soldier of the Sichuan army. (To be continued)