Chengcheng is a lifeless city, Chengcheng looks lifeless in the early morning, there are no pedestrians on the streets, there are no merchants who get up early to sell goods, and the quiet streets are as heavy as the night if they are not illuminated by the sun.

Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't like such a city, he prefers a thriving city, everything is advancing, when he single-handedly established the Ming Dynasty, the entire Ming Dynasty is sunny and upward, and every subject is actively working hard...... However, hundreds of years have passed, and the Ming Dynasty has become like this......

He sat by the west city gate, looking at the listless old soldiers at the city gate, hoping that Zheng Yanfu on Hutou Mountain could be killed as soon as possible, wake up this lifeless city, and let himself see what it looked like when it was frightened.

However, there has been no movement on Hutou Mountain, and the peasant uprising is not so simple. Zheng Yanfu had to gather the villagers first, and then make some impassioned speeches, inviting a few people who had been persecuted by the government to come out and say a few words. I also want to describe to the villagers how much silver and how much food they can get after robbing the county seat, and then explain that if they don't do this, they will starve to death......

It wasn't until noon that Zhu Yuanzhang finally heard a loud roar from the top of Hutou Mountain: "Kill!" ”

Then, there was a rush on the hillside, and hundreds of people huddled together and rushed down the hillside. At a glance, these people could be identified as nearby villagers, and they were dressed in burlap clothes, which were cut short to expose their arms and calves, which were clothes to be worn when going down to the fields. Their weapons were chaotic, some wielding iron ploughs, some wielding hoes, some carrying sickles, and some holding bamboo skewers for dung picking......

Their charge was very disorderly, and it was probably a bunch of people piled together, relying on the momentum of the crowd, running forward. Those who run fast will reach the front, and those who run slowly will fall behind, and a short hill will open up a long distance before and after. In the case of a battle with regular officers and soldiers, the gap between the front and back is enough to bring a fatal flaw, and it is only necessary to send a small group of cavalry from the flank to penetrate the front and rear where the front and rear meet, and these villagers can be split in half and then easily annihilated.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang smiled dumbly, what formation am I calculating against a bunch of villagers? If they were going to form a formation, it would be really weird.

At this time, the two old soldiers by the city gate had already seen the chaotic people rushing down from Hutou Mountain, and they looked at the villagers with blank eyes, not knowing what was happening. After a few breaths, the old guard at the door realized that someone had come to kill him......

The two old guards did not immediately close the city gate, nor did they even ring the bell to warn, but went directly into the dog edge on the side of the road and hid. There were no troops stationed in the county, and they knew that it would be useless to close the gates or knock on the walls to warn them, and that there was no benefit in angering the rebellious mob except to give up their lives.

Some friends who don't know about the ancient garrisons, or those who like to play strategy games, will mistakenly think that the ancient armies were stationed in the city...... In fact, this view is wrong. During the Ming Dynasty, the army was usually not stationed in the city, but in a military household more than ten or dozens of miles away from the city.

The places where these garrisons are called "forts", and the names they take are probably "anti-Japanese forts", "refusal forts", "Zhenqiang forts", and you can know what this fort is for at a glance. For example, the "anti-Japanese forts", in the Jiajing period, the most were built when the Japanese invaders were in turmoil along the south coast, and there were 59 of them along the coastline, and there are still "anti-Japanese forts" that have been completely preserved. There were also large areas of military fields next to the forts of these garrisons, which were used by military families to cultivate.

When there is a war, the civilian officials take the order to the fort to invite the army out and station in the city, and the army must not run to the city in peacetime.

In such a sudden event as the peasant uprising, the local garrison did not have time to react, and when the nearby fortress received the military order, the daylilies were cold. Therefore, when the experienced veteran saw the rebels coming, he didn't think about it, he hid first and then said, until the officers and soldiers reacted, all resistance was in vain.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw the villagers on the slope rushing closer and closer, Zheng Yanfu rushed to the front, waving a pig-killing knife in his hand, his expression looked very fanatical, and the villagers who followed him were also like him, their faces were flushed, and their excitement seemed to overflow.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who has rich experience in peasant uprisings, can see at a glance that this is the moment when the peasant uprising is the most powerful. They have nothing, they can't survive before they stand up to rebel, at this time their faces are full of thoughts of fighting for their lives, and no one can stop the farm tools in their hands......

The surging peasants rushed down the hillside and came to the city gate in a blink of an eye, the city gate was open, but Zheng Yanfu still kicked the open city gate heavily, and there was a loud "bump" on the ground, and he kicked the thick wooden gate with a loud bang, which made the ears of the people next to him buzz.

There were no pedestrians by the city gate, so there was no scene of pedestrians, birds and beasts scattering, but a few houses not far from the city gate quickly closed the door, and a pair of frightened eyes were revealed in the cracks of the windows, peeping at the chaos by the city gate.

"Kill Zhang Douyao!"

"Kill Zhang Douyao!"

"Kill the officer! Rebel! ”

"Open a position...... Payout! ”

After Zheng Yanfu kicked the city gate, his body did not stop, and he rushed towards the county yamen in the center of the city, and two or three hundred villagers followed closely.

Zhu Yuanzhang patted his ass and stood up, followed them from a distance, and also ran in the direction of the county yamen.

The closer you get to the center of the city, where the county yamen is located, the more pedestrians there are on the streets, and small traders and vendors begin to appear on both sides of the road. Seeing so many rioters rushing over, their eyes were red, these pedestrians were so frightened that they hurriedly ran away, and the small traders and vendors couldn't even take care of their stalls, so they hurriedly took refuge in the side streets.

A young master of a rich family was riding a horse in the middle of the road, more than 200 villagers rushed over while shouting, we had to the young master quickly slapped the horse and fled, but in a panic, knocked over a tofu stall on the side of the road, and even people and horses fell on the tofu together, and the sewage flowed all over the street.

There were originally four porters carrying a sedan chair on the street, the old lady in the sedan chair did not know which house, as soon as the chaotic people arrived, the four porters didn't want to think about it, they threw down the sedan chair and ran away, the old lady opened the sedan curtain and looked out, and suddenly shrank in fright, and almost didn't get angry.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang knew very well that these people would be fine, and in the early days of the peasant uprising, the rebels would never do some superfluous actions to chase and cut pedestrians on the street. They now have only one enemy in their minds, that is Zhang Douyao, only when they kill Zhang Douyao, open the county warehouse, and grab a large amount of money and food, their hatred will begin to shift, from the body of the government to the body of the rich family, and then the auxiliary will disperse and become a thug who kills people on sight.

Zheng Yanfu's team soon arrived at the county government square, there was no one on the square, the Shenming Pavilion and the Jingshan Pavilion stood alone on both sides of the square, and the side of the Pichang Temple was cold and quiet, miserable and miserable.

Several officials poked their heads inside the yamen, and one of them, who had a black mole on his face, was very bold, and actually leaned out half of his body and shouted: "Are you crazy? While there is no trouble yet, hurry up and disperse! ”

"Scattered? Hahaha! We're here to rebel,! ”

Zheng Yanfu roared loudly and rushed over bravely, and the pig-killing knife in his hand shone brightly. The official with a black mole on his face copied a water and fire stick, and also yelled: "**'s ......" while roaring, he smashed the water and fire stick fiercely.

Zheng Yanfu's body was short, he buried his head to avoid the water and fire stick, and stabbed the pig-killing knife in his hand fiercely, and blood splattered...... The official with a black mole was stabbed in his throat, and he couldn't even scream, and fell backwards.

"Murdered!"

"See blood!"

"Kill! Kill Zhang Douyao! ”

The first dead man in this rebellion appeared, and as soon as the rampant rebels saw the blood, they became even more excited and fanatical, and all the villagers were even more frantic than before, and hundreds of people shouted together and rushed into the yamen.

The rebel procession, which had not killed or injured a single passer-by in the street just now, suddenly became crazy and bloodthirsty, and a servant hid behind the door, and was actually forcibly dragged out from behind the door by a dozen villagers, hoes and plows smashed in a flurry, smashing the official into a blur of flesh and blood, and even the human form could not be seen.

Zhang Douyao's master was writing some documents in front of the hall, and was rushed over by a chaotic person and slashed on the shoulder with a firewood knife, blood flew everywhere, and half of his body was almost split, and he fell under the desk with a miserable howl.

The rebels began to run around the yamen, chasing and slashing the officials and clerks everywhere, killing them one by one without mercy. But everyone rushed to kill for a long time, but they didn't see Zhang Douyao.

"What about Zhang Douyao? Why not in the church? ”

"Didn't he come to the yamen today?"

"Grab a job and ask ......"

"Where is there any living? All the people of the yamen have been killed......"

Zheng Yanfu was in a hurry, if he didn't kill Zhang Douyao, wouldn't this rebellion become a farce? The righteous indignation of the villagers could not be vented.

At this moment, a figure wearing a hat suddenly appeared in front of Zheng Yanfu's eyes, the clothes on this person were obviously very clean, and he didn't look like a person in the chaos, but the strange thing was that he walked through the chaos and no one attacked him. This person put in front of Zheng Yanfu, lifted the hat, revealing a face that Zheng Yanfu remembered vividly, and said in a low voice: "Zhang Douyao didn't go to the court today, and he welcomed guests at home......