Chapter 34: The North City Riot

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At the first watch, Yang Yuanqing has not rested, he is in Hanjiacang outside the north city of Luoyang at this time, leading the army to patrol near Hanjiacang, he officially took over the left and right guards of the East Palace in the afternoon, everything is going well, the six Eagle Yang Lang generals under the jurisdiction of the six military palaces of the left and right guards of the East Palace have already told him that they will obey his military orders, and the six thousand soldiers will obey his control.

Since Yang Guang's northern patrol took away the vast majority of the troops stationed in Beijing, there are only more than 50,000 troops guarding the capital at present, of which 10,000 guard the major city gates, and the other 20,000 guard the palace and Xiyuan, while the security of Luoyang and the guarding of some official offices distributed in various squares are in charge of the 20,000 troops under the East Palace.

Since the outbreak of the Fengdu incident, the 20,000 troops of the East Palace, which have been stationed in the military camp outside the city, have never stopped, and they have taken turns to garrison various strategic places.

Although Yang Guang's intention to Yang Yuanqing was to control the situation in the capital, he had just arrived today, and the first step was to master the left and right guards, and it was too late to consider the overall situation.

Hanjiacang is also the Taicang granary of the Great Sui Dynasty, is the grain reserve of the whole capital, is a city wall three zhang high, the area is about one square large, there are more than 300 granaries, there are 400 grain cellars, can store nearly 6 million stones of grain, there are 4 million stones of grain and 1 million stones of salt at present.

Han Jiacang usually has a thousand soldiers to guard, the city is high, unless it is a large-scale army attack, otherwise a thousand soldiers are enough to defend, due to the impact of the Fengdu incident, the king of Qi is afraid that something will happen to Han Jiacang, and thousands of soldiers are added.

Yang Yuanqing completely disagreed with this deployment of troops of King Qi, he rode a horse and stood on a low hill, stared at Luoyang City for a moment, and then turned around and smiled at Han Shi'e, an eagle general behind him: "General Han, after being a famous general, what do you think of King Qi's troop deployment?" ”

Han Shi'e is the son of Han Baohu, and the person he hates most in his life is He Ruobi, He Ruobi was killed because of Yang Yuanqing, Han Shi'e was grateful, so he respected Yang Yuanqing a lot.

Hearing Yang Yuanqing ask him, Han Shi'e shook his head and smiled disdainfully: "King Qi's soldiers can be said to put the cart before the horse, specializing in the icing on the cake, but he doesn't do it when sending charcoal in the snow, this includes the strong city of Jiacang, and it is enough to have a thousand soldiers in itself, can those homeless people still make ladders and attack the city?" But what's the point of arranging six thousand of us here for defense? ”

Yang Yuanqing also nodded, "It can be said that the heroes see the same thing, I also think so, the six thousand sons should be stationed in the city, distributed in the lifang, patrol and inspect, can prevent the gathering of homeless people, the city is empty now, the homeless people are easy to gather into thieves, I am afraid it will affect the ordinary people, especially the official mansions are in Beijing, once the impact of the homeless people, the consequences are unimaginable, I can't wait for tomorrow, I decided to enter the city tonight!" ”

Han Shi'e had already had the intention of entering the city, and since Yang Yuanqing had made a decision, he was a little worried while rejoicing in his heart, and hesitated: "General Squire, maybe General Feng and General Zhao will oppose it!" ”

"Why?" Yang Yuanqing sensed that there was something in Han Shi'e's words.

"Why don't they agree?"

Han Shi'e quickly glanced at both sides, and said in a low voice: "These two people are the henchmen of the King of Qi placed on the left and right guards, if the general obeys the deployment of the King of Qi, they will have no problem, but if they violate the deployment of the King of Qi, I am afraid they will not obey the general's orders so much." ”

Yang Yuanqing sneered, "You might as well, try it again!" ”

Yang Yuanqing immediately instructed his subordinates: "Go and find the other five Lang generals for me!" ”

After a while, the other five Eagle Yang Lang generals all rushed over when they heard the news, and the five of them bowed down one after another, "See the general of the waiter!" ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled slightly, "I have decided to immediately move the army back to the city to set up defenses, ask the five generals to gather the army, and we will set off immediately." ”

The other three bowed down together and turned to go, while Ying Yanglang exchanged glances between Feng Zixun and Zhao Sui, and Feng Zixun hesitated and asked, "May I ask Yang Shirate, is this what His Royal Highness King Qi meant?" ”

"Nope! This is my command. ”

Feng Zixun and Zhao Sui's faces changed at the same time, and they took a step back and said: "Luoyang's deployment is uniformly deployed by His Royal Highness the King of Qi, without the consent of His Royal Highness the King of Qi, how dare Yang Shishu change the deployment without authorization?" ”

Yang Yuanqing's face was gloomy, and he said coldly: "Do you dare to disobey my military orders?" ”

The two of them pressed the hilt of the knife, and Feng Zi said solemnly: "Within the deployment range of His Royal Highness the King of Qi, we obey the military order led by Yang Shi, but if Yang Shilu changes the deployment of the King of Qi without authorization, I will not obey the order!" ”

Yang Yuanqing's hand had already reached into the horse bag and held Shang Fang's Tianzi sword, and at this moment, a frightened shout came from afar, "Yang Shishu, something is wrong!" ”

Yang Yuanqing's hand temporarily let go of Shang Fang's Tianzi sword, only to see a cavalry rushing over, panting and saying: "Yang Shirate, there is a great chaos in Beishi, there are more than 100,000 homeless people robbing Chang Ping, and the three hundred brothers who are Chang Ping are basically killed by them!" ”

Yang Yuanqing was taken aback, and couldn't help but say angrily: "Isn't Chang Ping's position guarded by the two thousand soldiers who are waiting for the right guard?" How come there are only 300 people? ”

"General Hui, Youyu Houwei was temporarily transferred to Fengdu in the afternoon, His Royal Highness King Qi, there are too many shops in Fengdu, there can be no accidents."

Yang Yuanqing sneered secretly, a good Fengdu can't have an accident, transfer away the right Yu waiter, often close the position but do not increase the guards, this is clearly for the homeless to rob, it is estimated that the news that the homeless people got was secretly provided by the King of Qi, and the King of Qi was giving himself a dismount.

Yang Yuanqing glanced at Feng Zixun and Zhao Sui, and said coldly: "Since there is an accident in Beishi, I want to go to save Beishi immediately, two generals, will you go?" ”

Feng Zixun and Zhao Sui glanced at each other, but still shook their heads resolutely, "Without King Qi's order, you can't leave Hanjiacang without permission!" ”

Yang Yuanqing was furious, he pulled out a horizontal knife, and slashed at Feng Zixun, the speed was as fast as lightning, Feng Zixun was caught off guard, screamed, and was slashed to death by Yang Yuanqing, Zhao Sui was taken aback, turned around and ran, but was thrown to the ground by Han Shi'e next to him, Han Shi'e was tall and strong, held him down with one hand, pulled out a dagger and stabbed him in the chest.

The two Ying Yanglang generals were killed one after another, and Yang Yuanqing shouted loudly: "Feng Zixun and Zhao Sui committed the following crimes, disobeyed the military order, and have now been beheaded, pass on my order, and the deputy Lang will take over the army, and immediately follow me to Beishi to quell the chaos!" ”

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The rush of rice in the North City is getting more and more intense, originally it was thirty or forty thousand displaced people rushing into the North City, but as the door of Chang Ping was opened, more than 100,000 Shi Huang Cheng Cheng Cheng appeared in front of the displaced people, they suddenly went crazy, desperate to rush into the granary, soon, more and more displaced people rushed to hear the news, an hour later, more than 100,000 displaced people have rushed into the North City.

The situation began to get out of control, and the homeless people who could not rush into the granaries became angry, and smashed open the doors of the shops in droves, looting the remaining items inside, robbing everything of value, and killing some of the men or shopkeepers who stayed in the shops, and throwing their bodies into the streets.

An unprecedented looting began to sweep through the North City, at this time, the two thousand Zuo Yu Hou Wei soldiers stationed in the Guozi Jian were the first to arrive, control the gate of the North City, and did not allow the displaced people who grabbed the food to escape, tens of thousands of displaced people wanted to rush out of the North City, but the Zuo Yu Hou Wei soldiers were desperately defending, and there was a fierce bloody conflict between the two sides, the screams of the killed continued, the blood flowed like a river, and the gate of the North City was full of corpses.

2,000 soldiers with shields and long knives in their hands, lined up in three rows, withstood tens of thousands of displaced people who swarmed outward, the shouts of the displaced people shook the sky, some of them were old people and children, they were wrapped and rolled outward, and the thousands of young men in the front used wooden sticks to fight with the soldiers, because the number of displaced people was too large, the soldiers gradually retreated, and some could not withstand it.

A Gong Cao rushed to Zuo Yu Hou to lead the general Zhou Zhong and reported urgently: "General! The brothers can't resist it. ”

Zhou Zhong was so anxious that he was sweating profusely and shouted: "I will resist it, and I will not let go of the rebels!" ”

Once these mobs rush out of the northern city, the wave of robbery will surely sweep the capital, and the mansions of the major court officials and important ministers will be the first to be attacked, and the consequences will be unimaginable, and the saint will definitely hold him accountable.

Zhou Zhong pulled out his knife, roared, and was about to rush in, at this moment, there was a large number of hurried footsteps behind him, Zhou Zhong turned around, only to see a hundred steps away, dense soldiers rushing towards this side, he recognized it as the soldiers of the left and right guards, his heart was overjoyed, and he roared: "Brothers, our reinforcements have arrived, give me a stand!" ”

Yang Yuanqing rode a horse and galloped, he waved his sword, and shouted to his subordinates: "Block the north gate, don't let the homeless people come out, and those who resist will be killed!" ”

The 6,000 soldiers of the left and right guards joined the defense in front of the gate, and the critical situation immediately changed, and the soldiers were like a rainbow, surrounding more than 100 homeless people who had just broken out of the encirclement, hacking them to death with random knives, and blocking the gap that was broken through, and slowly pushing back the homeless people who were about to rush out of the north city.

At this time, the number of officers and soldiers had reached 8,000, all of them were fully armoured, holding swords, extremely fierce, and the displaced people began to be afraid, and slowly began to retreat, retreating dozens of steps away, holding torches and sticks to confront the Sui army.

Zhou Zhong breathed a long sigh of relief, and stepped forward to express his gratitude to Yang Yuanqing, Zhou Zhong's father was Zhou Luohu of Shangzhu State, the nineteenth year of the emperor's reign, as a pioneer to conquer the Turks, was Yang Su's old subordinate, so Zhou Zhong was also very polite to Yang Yuanqing.

"General Yang, if I hadn't arrived in time today, I would have committed a big crime!"

Yang Yuanqing bowed to him and said: "General Zhou is not polite, this is my business, but from now on, please General Zhou obey my command and stop paying attention to the deployment of King Qi." ”

Then, Yang Yuanqing took out the Shang Fang Tianzi Sword and raised it high, Zhou Zhong was stunned at first, and when he saw that Yang Yuanqing was actually the Shang Fang Tianzi Sword in his hand, he was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt down on one knee, "Absolutely obey General Yang's orders!" ”

"General Zhou, please get up, we are all serving Your Majesty, so we don't need to salute like this."

Zhou Zhong stood up, his attitude became extremely respectful, and asked Yang Yuanqing for instructions: "General Yang, what should we do with the chaotic people in Beishi?" ”

Yang Yuanqing thought for a while and asked, "I don't know what the situation is in the various squares south of Luoshui?" ”

"The displaced people south of Luoshui are still relatively quiet, there has been no such large-scale grain grabbing, I have sent 300 people to guard the three bridges, and the news is not allowed to leak over, so far, there is no news from the defenders, and there is no big problem in the south of Ming."

There are more than 300,000 displaced people who have poured into the capital, and nearly half of them have rushed into the northern city to grab grain.

Thinking of this, Yang Yuanqing said: "First stabilize the displaced people in Beishi, don't allow them to leave Beishi, let them stay in Beishi, I estimate that they have a leader, you can negotiate with their leader first, you can't just use tough means, you must use both soft and hard." ”

Zhou Zhong nodded, "The lowly position understands, the lowly position will put the captured exiles back and let their leaders negotiate." ”

He was just about to leave, but Yang Yuanqing stopped him again, "General Zhou, it's still the same thing." ”

Zhou Zhong stopped and said, "Please give the general's orders!" ”

"Trouble General Zhou to send someone to invite the other generals who lead the guards, and tell them that I am here to preside over the overall situation of the capital on the order of the saint, and the sword of the Son of Heaven is given by the saint!"

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