Chapter 13: Fighting Thieves in the Middle Capital
Revolution is a grand festival for the masses of the people.
That's right, the revolution can divide the property of the rich, sleep with the mother-in-law of the rich, and fully release the destruction, which is even cooler than the New Year!
As soon as the thieves entered the central capital, they began to plunder the rich in all directions. Most of the small bands of thieves are mainly concerned about the wealth of the rich and the white and tender mothers-in-law.
However, the two most powerful thieves, the King of Sweeping and the King of Taiping, not only sent men and horses to rob the rich, but also went straight to Longxing Temple and the Imperial Mausoleum Palace.
After rolling up the valuable things inside, he lit a fire. For a time, the imperial tomb and Longxing Temple were full of smoke, and the fire was raging, which was clearly visible ten miles away.
As is customary, the thieves stormed the palace and opened the prison to release the prisoners who were held in the prison.
So all the royal crimes detained in Zhongdu were released, and Yan Rongxuan, the prefect of Fengyang, was reported by one of the prisoners on the spot.
Knowing that this was the Fengyang Prefect, the thieves brought Yan Rongxuan to the lobby of the mansion.
The sweeping king didn't know when he actually made a yellow robe on his body, and when he saw his face trembling like a chaff sieve, the sweeping king looked left and right, and suddenly laughed wildly: "This is the prefect, hehe, hehe!" Haha~"
Then he pointed at Yan Rongxuan and shouted: "You are high in peace, have you ever thought that there will be an end today?" ”
Yan Rongxuan was a prefect, and under the backbone of the literati, he shouted fiercely: "The thief is rampant, and when the imperial army arrives, he will be killed, and you will die without a corpse." ”
The sweeping king was furious and ordered to the left and right: "Hit me." ”
The left and right thieves took out the big sticks in the lobby and slammed Yan Rongxuan's head and face, and the sweeping king hurriedly stopped when he saw this, "Fight slowly, don't let this king die too quickly." ”
So, Yan Rongxuan was pressed to the ground, and the big stick beckoned to his ass one by one, beating Yan Rongxuan to the ground.
While admiring Yan Rongxuan's tragic situation, the sweeping king took out the pennant embroidered with 'Gu Yuan True Dragon Emperor' and looked at it for a while, and sneered at Yan Rongxuan: "When I break the dragon vein, the world will be in my hands." ”
If he becomes the emperor, he will collect all the beauties in the world, include all the beauties in **, and return to his hometown in beautiful clothes, show off in front of those who know him, and then kill all the people who have had a holiday with him...... Thinking of the wonder, a smile appeared on the corner of the sweeping king's mouth.
Just when the sweeping king was in the day after he became the emperor, suddenly there was a 'boom boom' cannon sound outside, and there was a sound like fried beans.
The sweeping king was excited, and asked left and right, "Where did the cannon sound?" ”
The thieves in the hall suddenly stopped what they were doing, and looked around in a daze, and the sweeping king raised his hand and listened intently to the sound outside.
There was a loud bang of "boom......, and the sound was not far away. It was also mixed with the shouting of 'kneel and don't kill'.
At this moment, a thief ran into the palace in a panic, saw the sweeping king, and shouted: "The king is not good, the official army is here." ”
"What! Officers and soldiers from Nanjing? The sweeping king was excited again, and asked a little panicked, "How many people?" ”
"It seems that there are two or three thousand people, and it doesn't look like it's from Nanjing."
"It's only two or three thousand people, you guys are panicking!" The Sweeping King couldn't help but be furious, "We have an army of 200,000 people, and each of us can drown them with a mouthful of spit." ”
As he spoke, the sweeping king took out his waist knife and rushed out directly with people, and as soon as he got out of the mansion, he immediately saw the rogue who was in a mess, like a headless fly.
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When the thieves entered Fengyang, Zhao Yan happened to have arrived, and he was expected to arrive a day ago, but because of two days of light rain and the snow on the road, the road was muddy and the marching speed of the baggage battalion became very slow.
In desperation, Zhao Yan had no choice but to let the soldiers go first, hurried all the way, and finally arrived in Fengyang on the morning of the fifteenth.
After discovering that the thieves had invaded Fengyang, Zhao Yan did not attack immediately, but asked the cavalry battalion to detour to the south to encircle it first, and then attack from the east.
The 200,000 horses of the thieves all rushed into Fengyang, and when Zhao Yan's men and horses were discovered, it was already time to attack, and the first to attack was the artillery.
The howitzer fired grenades at the dense crowd, and the fragments of the grenades flew in all directions, sweeping down a large area of unprepared rogues.
Each battalion was armed with one hundred and fifty howitzers, one of which was manned by two gunners. More than a hundred grenades were fired, and the dense thieves fell in a pool of blood like wheat harvesting.
The thieves who reacted prevented a counterattack, and thousands of coerced civilians rushed towards the second battalion under the coercion of the backbone of the thieves behind.
As a result, a large part was blown down by the howitzers in the back, and a row was swept down by the musketeers in front, and immediately it could not hold on, no matter how the thieves in the back restrained it, it was useless.
"Mom! Run! "Most of the thieves are ordinary people who can only farm, untrained and undisciplined by military law. Before they could reach the front of the battle, they had already scattered and fled, straining around like headless flies. Even the backbone of the thieves were so frightened by the cannonballs flying from the sky that their legs trembled, and they turned their heads to join the routing queue without restraining the people who had been coerced by them.
"Kneel and don't kill!" An elongated voice sounded, and when the shout was heard, the soldiers of the whole battalion shouted in unison, "Kneel on the ground and don't kill," and then chased after the scattered thieves.
There was almost no difficulty, Zhao Yan led people into the central capital, and all he saw were thieves, and the musketeers retreated directly.
"Kill!" Zhao Yan drew his long knife and drew it, and the soldiers of the whole battalion walked forward with neat steps.
After all, the phalanx was dull and could not launch a tidal attack, and the speed at which Zhao Yan advanced was not fast. But as the advance progressed, the artillery behind pulled the artillery forward with a single shot, and then continued to fight.
Many of the people who had just arrived had never seen such fierce officers and soldiers. The backbone of the thieves worked hard to organize those cannon fodder to come forward.
The real strength of the thieves is those backbones, and the common people who are coerced are cannon fodder, both men and women, old and weak. When the cannon fodder is gone, you can find it again, but it is not easy to cultivate a backbone.
But often just after organizing cannon fodder to counterattack, they were blown up by the artillery behind them, and they immediately scattered and fled.
"The officers and soldiers are here! Run! The thieves who were scattered kept shouting in the rout, and the news spread all over the capital in an instant, and those thieves who heard the news saw that the limelight was not right, and immediately ran away in the direction of the people's escape.
When the sweeping king rushed out of the palace with the backbone personnel, he immediately saw the 'army' that was fleeing like ducks, and he didn't have the courage to approach in the face of the thousands of killings of the officers and soldiers.
Everyone is afraid of death, rushing forward will definitely die, there is no military law to bind the thieves and no pension, there is no slogan to divide the acres to provide them with faith, where are they willing to rush forward to die. Most of these thieves are ordinary people who have been coerced, and it is good to fight smoothly and get some rations, but once the officers and soldiers show great bravery, they will be directly defeated.
The army of 200,000 people was defeated by thousands of officers and soldiers, and as soon as he saw the thieves below defeated, the sweeping king felt a surge of blood.
"What about the Taiping King? Where did he die? The sweeping king immediately thought of the Taiping King, whose strength was not much weaker than him, and the most important thing was that the Taiping King had more than 3,000 elite horsemen under him.
"Oh no, the King of Taiping was ......"
"Boom~!" With a bang, a grenade dragging the bright light hit the side of the sweeping king.
"Ahh
The sweeping king only felt a gust of wind blowing on his face, and the screams sounded directly from his side, and when he tilted his head to look, he saw several backbones standing beside him, as well as the backbone who was talking to him just now, had fallen to the ground.
A cold burst came out of his heart, making the body of the sweeping king stiffen a little, if the shot just now was closer...... Thinking of this, the sweeping king trembled, was frightened into a cold sweat, hurriedly mounted his horse, and fled towards the west.
However, the strange thing is that for some reason the officers and soldiers suddenly stopped and did not continue the pursuit.
It turned out that after Zhao Yan entered the central capital, he found an open space with three or four thousand horses bolted, and thousands of thieves were pulling their trousers, hurriedly trying to get on the horse and run......
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The second update!
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