Chapter 258: Burning the Company Camp
Jinyiwei quickly whipped his horse, rushed out of the encirclement of the rebels, and marched towards Guiyang. Having lost the cumbersome captives, the Jinyi guard was much faster. Before two o'clock in the afternoon, they had already rushed to the city of Guiyang.
Outside the city of Guiyang were all rolling tents, probably where the 200,000 rebels were stationed. Seeing the camp tents, Zhu Youcheng's heart settled down a lot, because if Guiyang City was broken, these camp tents would have been demolished long ago, and the camp tents were not demolished, which proved that Guiyang City was still in the hands of the Ming army.
The city of Guiyang was safe and sound, but the villages and towns that were not protected by the city wall suffered damage. Along the way, Zhu Youcheng did not see a single intact village, the villages and towns marked on the map have disappeared, leaving only ruins and broken walls, rubble everywhere, and from time to time you can find maggot-crawling hands or feet from the rubble, which are the corpses of people killed by the rebels. The whole village was slaughtered, and there was no one to collect the corpses, so the corpses of the people could only be beaten by the wind and rain, and the insects ate and the rats bites.
Zhu Youcheng saw the dense camp tents, and his heart was on fire, it was these rebellious Yi people who turned Guizhou, which has beautiful mountains and rivers, into poor mountains and bad waters; It is these rebellious blacksters who have turned pure and simple babies into murderous and brutal villains.
Zhu Youcheng pointed to the camp tent and ordered: "Wu Huping, you take a thousand people and clear the camp tent in the east of the city; Chen Guoqi, you take a thousand men and clear the camp tents in the south; Jiang Ting, you take a thousand men and clear the camp tents in the west of the city; Chu Liang, you take a thousand men to clean up the camp tents in the north of the city; Feng Dingbang, you take a thousand people to protect the convoy. Remember, if we don't leave a living mouth, we will avenge the people who died in Guizhou! β
The generals were ordered to go, and Zhu Youcheng carried a spear, followed Chen Guoqi, and went straight to the camp in the south of the city.
The rebels' tents were fairly well arranged, with neatly arranged tents and crisscrossed roads. Outside the tent, there are fences, antlers, and horses.
In case of a raid. These fortifications can cause the attacking troops to suffer a great loss.
Zhu Youcheng nodded secretly, there are really capable people in the rebels. Looking at this tent, without a little military knowledge, it is impossible to arrange such a beautiful tent. He once went to Cangzhou to quell the rebellion, and found that the camps of those chaotic people were in disarray, and if they encountered a surprise attack, they had no power to fight back. Compare the two. It's a world of difference. It seems that the war is really a textbook for military strategists, and the Yiren rebelled in the second year of the Apocalypse, and at first they were just a bunch of chaotic people, and they slowly became more and more powerful, and now the military formation is also in shape.
Although the tent was neatly arranged, it was empty inside, and there was no human figure in sight. Behind the tent, smoke and dust billowed from the tent. It seems that there are thousands of troops hidden.
Because Zhu Youcheng was here, Chen Guoqi didn't dare to command directly, so he asked: "My lord, what should I do next?" β
"Move away and rush in. The smoke and dust behind is just a bluff, if there are really so many people hiding behind, why can't they hear the sound at the camp gate? And there are no guards at the gate of the camp, so it is clear that the heart is weak. β
Four soldiers jumped off their horses. Move the rejection horse to a distant place. The brocade guards whistled and rushed in.
The camp was quiet. Not a single one. If it weren't for Zhu Youcheng knowing that the rebels had gone to Longliwei, he would have thought that he had fallen into a trap.
Rushing to the back of the camp, they found more than 500 rebels sweeping the floor with large brooms made of bamboo. These sweepers are also really strange, taking brooms and scratching around on the ground, except for the smoke and dust that fills the sky, they do not sweep away even a single piece of garbage.
Zhu Youcheng pulled out his underwear. Cover your mouth and nose.
Chen Guoqi asked, "Lord Zhu, do you need to hide your identity to kill these rebels?" β
Zhu Youcheng's mouth and nose were covered by underwear, and his voice was a little muffled: "Where, this sky is full of dust, and it is easy to get pneumoconiosis if you inhale it into your lungs." β
Chen Guoqi shouted: "Jinyiwei listens. Pull out your underwear, cover your mouth and nose, and kill the enemy! β
Zhu Youchengjun's face flushed, and when he saw the smoke and dust in the sky, the first thing he thought of was himself, and he really didn't have the consciousness of a general. His current decision is to decide the life and death of the more than 40,000 brocade guards under his command, and he can't be so selfish in the future.
After Chen Guoqi's order was issued, no matter whether the soldiers understood the reason or not, they all pulled out their underwear from the collar and covered their mouths and noses.
When the sweeping rebels saw the brocade guards coming, they threw away the broom in fright, turned around and ran. According to the arrangement of An Bangyan's military adviser Surtai before leaving, there were people standing guard in front of the barracks, but this group of cowards was afraid of death, so they all hid behind to create smoke and dust, so that the enemy thought that there were thousands of troops and horses hidden in the barracks. They inadvertently set up an empty city plan to intimidate the defenders of Guiyang City, but they did not frighten the Jinyi guards.
Although those rebels fled, they did not move quickly, where could they escape the iron hooves of the Jinyi Guard, they were chased by the Jinyi Guard, some were shot to death, some were trampled to death by horses, and none of them could escape under the Jinyi Guard.
When Jinyiwei jumped off his horse and cut off the heads of the rebels, Zhu Youcheng realized that this group of rebels were all gray-haired old men, no wonder the speed was so slow.
"To be old and not die is to be a thief, and to be so old and learn to build slaves and rebel, you deserve to die." Chen Guoqi rarely dropped his schoolbag.
Zhu Youcheng ignored him, carrying a spear dripping with blood, and his heart was excited-his gun finally opened this time and slaughtered a rebel.
After cutting off the heads of the rebels, the soldiers habitually tucked their heads around their waists.
After finishing cleaning up, Chen Guoqi asked, "My lord, what should I do with these tents?" β
"If a fire is burned, will it be left for the rebels?" Zhu Youcheng said casually.
Suddenly, he remembered something and added a few words, "The rebels rushed to Longliwei in the starry night, and they didn't bring much grain and grass, so much grain and grass must be piled up in the barracks, and it is a pity to burn them and move them away." The rebels ransacked the surrounding countryside and must have amassed considerable wealth to move away. Also, the rebels are used to robbing women, moving-uh, no, rescue. By the way, we are afraid that some fish will sneak up on us behind the tent, so when you enter the door, do not open the curtain with your hands and pick it with a gun, but anyone who has misdeeds, no matter who it is, will kill him with one shot. β
Chen Guoqi passed on Zhu Youcheng's order. The soldiers of the brocade guard immediately jumped off their horses and began to search for valuable things in the rebel tents.
Zhu Youcheng saw that the soldiers began to clean up the battlefield, and he expected that there should be no more accidents, so he led Feng Dingbang's thousands of households and convoys to the gate of Guiyang City.
The defenders of Guiyang City had long since discovered the movement in the rebel camp, but they were worried that this was a ploy to lure the enemy, so they did not dare to act rashly.
When they saw a group of soldiers in golden helmets and armor, galloping towards Guiyang City. Heightened vigilance, but did not release arrows. Because the armor of the people who came was the same as the armor of the brocade guards stationed in the city, it could be reinforcements. The thieves besieged Guiyang City, and Guiyang City's contact with the outside world was cut off, and they did not receive the "Di Bao" supplement, and they did not know the news that Zhu Youcheng led troops to rescue.
Feng Dingbang took the lead. Ran to the city gate, raised his head and shouted to the city wall: "Daming Jinyi Guard Commander Tongzhi, Daming Longtuge University Scholar, Daming Hanlin Academy Bachelor, Daming School of Administration, Daming Military Academy Master Zhu Youcheng Zhu arrives, hurry up and open the city gate to welcome!" β
The people on the city wall were taken aback, so many big people came to Guiyang, it was really a blessing to meet them.
When they were discussing, Cao Huazhang, who was on duty on the city wall, said with a smile: "There are not so many people, these positions are all one person, that is, our Lord Zhu Youcheng Zhu." β
The people on the city walls were shocked again. Zhu Youcheng is really the darling of the sky, he wears many hats, both civil and military, and he is absolutely unprecedented in Daming.
Cao Huazhang poked his head out and asked, "Which brother downstairs called the door for Lord Zhu?" β
"Lao Cao, I'm Feng Dingbang."
Cao Huazhang jumped three feet high with joy, laughed and said, "Open the door, open the door." Open the door quickly, it's really Lord Zhu who is here! β
The brocade guards on the city wall suddenly stood as straight as javelins. Master Zhu came, and they had hope again.
Cao Huazhang was about to go downstairs to greet him, but suddenly remembered that he seemed to have forgotten an important thing - he did not send someone to inform King Xin. He hurriedly called a personal soldier and told him to run to King Xin as soon as possible, and tell King SΓΉ that Lord Zhu was here.
Zhu Youcheng entered the city gate. The soldiers defending the city were ordered to go out and carry grain and grass in the enemy camp.
When the soldiers heard this, they were overjoyed, Guiyang City was besieged by the rebels for more than 20 days, and there was not much grain in the city, and there was grain and grass for the rebels. I am not afraid to wear it down with the enemy.
The soldiers, led by the officer, rushed to the enemy's tent and carried back bags of grain and grass. Wu Huping, Chen Guoqi and other Jinyi Wei generals were impatient to do this kind of unskilled hard work, they hid the gold, silver and jewelry looted from the rebel camp tent, and led the women rescued from the barracks into the city to meet Zhu Youcheng.
In less than an hour, the grain and grass in the rebel camp were emptied.
Then they set fire to the rebel camp. The fire took advantage of the wind, and the fire burned bigger and stronger, and the burning barracks illuminated the evening sky brightly.
Zhu Youcheng looked at the enemy company camp that was on fire, and lost his mind all of a sudden, forgetting the purpose of his rush to Guiyang, and only came back to his senses for a long time, and asked: "Cao Huazhang, why didn't you see King Xin?" β
Cao Huazhang said hesitantly: "Lord Zhu, as soon as you come, I will inform the prince of Xin." It's strange to say, when you didn't come, he talked about you every day. But when you came, he got angry and said he didn't want to see you. β
Zhu Youcheng knew that it was probably because he secretly led troops to rescue Juehua Island, and King Xin was making trouble with him. Alas, this is the sin of the slave builder again.
If Nuer Ha Qi heard Zhu Youcheng's heart, he would probably shout aggrievedly: "Don't put any on my head, okay?" It is obvious that you are worried that King Xin will be hurt by us, so you deliberately sent him to Jiangnan. If you don't come, I'm still free to be my Heavenly Destiny Khan, and you don't have to mess with your little brother, how good ......"
Thinking of King Xin's stubborn temper, Zhu Youcheng felt a little numb on his scalp, what way should he think of to divert King Xin's attention?
Suddenly, a crisp voice came from the crowd: "Brother Cheng, are you here?" β
It turned out that King Xin waited for Zhu Youcheng on the left and didn't come to Zhu Youcheng on the right, he didn't know what happened to his Cheng brother, and he couldn't care about getting angry, so he went out to meet Zhu Youcheng.
Zhu Youcheng looked at it, there was a heroic young man with red lips and white teeth, who was not King Xin?
Zhu Youcheng's heart was relieved, King Xin is fine, he is fine!
Zhu Youcheng was about to jump off the horse to meet King Xin, when suddenly his eyes were dark and he fell from the horse. (To be continued......)
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