Chapter 557: The Clan Alliance
"Those who dare to resist will be killed on the spot, and they will be killed!"
Under the strong deterrence, the rebel forces quickly melted and weakened like snowflakes under the scorching sun, and people continued to leave their positions and disperse. Flying bears and horsemen advance along the streets, cutting down the rebellious men and horses one by one.
A large group of people poured into the streets and alleys that controlled Xianyu City, and the sounds of fighting were heard from all over the city, and Gao Tansheng and Gao Kaidao's henchmen were still making their final struggles.
"Bang"
The gate of the sturdy granary was detonated together by dozens of explosive powder packs piled under the door of the Liaodong Army. The iron-clad gate was not broken, but a large hole had been broken in the wall next to the door, and one after another poison gas powder packets were thrown into the granary, and then a group of soldiers carried a huge log and expanded the hole into a large mouth in three or two strokes.
Squad after team of Liaodong sergeants rushed into it, crossbow arrows flying sideways and poison gas bombs flying.
"General, the rebels have been subdued! Wait for the fall. ”
The brothers Li Chengli and Li Chengzhi stood outside and did not enter the granary.
"Have you caught Gao Tanzhi and Gao Kaidao?"
"Back to the general, Gao Tansheng caught it, but Gao Kaidao seems to have secretly changed his clothes and ran away as early as the siege of the city."
When Li Chengzhi heard that there was actually a thief leader, he was angry, and the six thousand elite soldiers of the two battalions of flying bears and flying cavalry actually let the bandit leader run away, and this will be spread out in the future, and it will not make the other brothers laugh to death.
"Immediately send a group of people to chase me, if you can't catch up, you won't come back today." The lieutenant didn't say anything. Hurriedly turned around and left.
"General, how can Gao Tansheng control himself?" Another lieutenant said.
Li Chengli was also in a bad mood because he had walked away from a chaotic army, and said with a blushing face, "Verify your body." Then he and all the rebellious monks were taken to the north of the city, and then all the people in the city were notified. The evil monk was publicly judged, and then immediately beheaded on the spot to show his obedience, and then Gao Tansheng's first-class fast horse was sent to the capital. ”
The forty-year-old lieutenant was killed when he heard this. Taken aback. He whispered, "General, these are all monks, if you kill them all, I'm afraid that it will cause good discussions." After all, they are all disciples of Buddhism, and it will not be good if the court blames them in the future. ”
"Don't kill? Are you still waiting for them to make another mess and set up a Buddha kingdom again? This Xianyu rebellion has already injured hundreds of people. and even lost countless belongings. It doesn't matter if they are monks or Taoist priests, as long as they dare to oppose the imperial court, they will cause trouble in the place. Then all of them should be damned. The order went down, and all the evil monks were beheaded. And outside the city, the heads of these cult monks were used to build a small temple to warn future generations. ”
On the campus of Chengbei University, a few days ago, it was still a grand event of Buddhism, and there was no meeting, but now, nearly 10,000 monks and nuns were all gathered here and knelt on the ground. Rows of cavalrymen carried horizontal swords and acted as executioners.
After cutting one batch, bring another batch. The blood had already stained the entire school field with red snow, and from a distance, the entire school field glowed with a dark red light.
All the monks in Xianyu City, whether they were masters or novices, or nuns, did not flow a single one.
However, for the rebellious people brought by Gao Kaidao, Li Chengli only ordered the old bandits and leaders among them to be beheaded one by one. And those ordinary homeless minions were all pressed into a string with ropes and sent to Weizhou, the bitter cold of the current imperial court, that is, the original Murwei grassland. All these people will be sent to Weizhou for the length of time they have been in the rebel army. The shortest is five years old, and the longest may not be able to come back for the rest of their lives.
When they were escorted away, many homeless people breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts. After watching the beheading of 10,000 people on the school ground, they were already terrified in their hearts. Although joining the peasant army in these years was not voluntary, they did not want to live this kind of life with their heads in their hands. Although going to Weizhou is equivalent to exile, it is better than dying in the chaos. In the minds of many people, going to Weizhou for a few years of labor and then coming back may not be a good opportunity to start over. …,
In the eleventh year of the Great Cause, this is a month that is destined to be unusual, and it is also destined to be a month that will go down in history in the future.
In the last month of the last year of the Great Cause year, the families of Hebei and Shandong Huaibei rebelled one after another. The powerful families opened the granary of their homes, and also opened the underground secret room of their homes, and took out the armor, weapons, and weapons that had been stored over the years, and even took one war horse after another from various farms. The people, the slaves, and the householders who farmed for them were all given weapons and armed.
The powerful family and the powerful people from all over the world, the landlords have united, and gradually converged into a force. There are thousands of small people, and more than 10,000 large people.
Even as soon as they raised their troops, the heroes of the family couldn't wait to establish themselves as kings. King Yan, King Qi, King Zhao, King Wei, King Lu, as if during the Warring States Period, countries sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, one after another.
The heads of those families who called the king and the king, looking at the large number of people who gradually gathered, were excited to forget what the classic etiquette system was, and they all thought that they would be like the Chen Dynasty in Jiangnan, once subverting Hebei and Shandong, and their families would divide up.
On the top of the Lujiabao City Tower in Fanyang, Lu Che, who had established himself as the King of Yan, looked at the barracks of the righteous army that had gathered more and more around the Lujia Castle and had completely surrounded the Lujia Castle, and the whole person seemed to be twenty years younger.
"Lu Jun, how many rebels have arrived?"
Lu Che's eldest son, Lu Jun, hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Father, our three clans of the Lu clan in Hebei have all arrived, and there are 100,000 people in total, and there are also many local tyrants and landlords who have also rushed to listen to the order. Today, there are nearly 200,000 horses gathered outside. ”
"Good, good!"
Lu Che said hello a few times, and a red light flashed on his face, "With this army, why not be afraid of Chen Pojun." He commanded that he should go down and bring wine and meat to the camp for the sake of the brothers. Tomorrow, the fourth watch will make dinner, and the fifth watch will set off, and we will go straight to Zhuojun City. ”
The children of the Lu family on the side all praised one after another, "The king is really courageous, he is not moved by one county and one county, and he goes straight to Chen Pojun's lair." As long as you take the county town of Zhuo, it will be better than ten hundred county seats. ”
Lu Che stroked the white beard and said, "Wang Ben attacked Zhuo County, how can it be a mere yellow and white thing?" Zhuo County has always been the center of Hebei, and now it has been changed to Beijing. At present, Chen Kefu's army is all outside, as long as we take Beijing, we will be able to control the little emperor by the way. When that time comes, seize the capital of the world, and coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, although there are many families in Hebei, no matter which one he is, he will not be allowed to listen to my orders at that time? ”
"Wonderful, it's really wonderful, the king is clever." A flattery made Lu Che a little fluttering. Originally, he didn't dare to go to Beijing, but when the army started, he immediately sent a team of cavalry to run to the outside of Beijing not far to test, and it was as he expected. High in the city of Beijing, facing hundreds of horsemen who went to provoke, they did not send half a force of troops and horses. As soon as the soldiers and horses came back, he immediately decided in his heart that this Beijing city must be empty of soldiers and horses, so Chen Kefu did not dare to send troops to fight easily.
Thinking like this, his heart couldn't help but flutter with thoughts. starve to death the small, and support the bold. Now that he has gathered 200,000 people, if he really captures Beijing in one fell swoop, and then controls the Sui Dynasty with the food and wealth in the city, then he will definitely command the world. Even if possible, he can wipe out Chen Po's army in one fell swoop, completely leaving the Liaodong army leaderless, and there will be no worries from now on.
That night, the head of the Lu family was very generous, took out a large amount of wine and meat from the Lu family castle, sent it to the military camp, and vigorously rewarded these soldiers who were about to seize Beijing City for them.
Bonfires, wine, barbecues.
Although the sky was still snowing, it could not stop the indulgence of these powerful coalition forces. Everyone drank a lot of wine and ate a lot of meat, so happy. Everyone threatened to be the first to rush to the head of Beijing and the first to cut off Chen Pojun's head. …,
It was as if the city of Beijing was just a small farm in their eyes in the countryside. The Liaodong army in Beijing City, in their eyes, may be the same as those mud-legged farmers.
Everyone knows that most of Chen Pojun's subordinates are from Hebei and Shandong, but these Hebei and Shandong people who are now in high positions are not from their families. On the contrary, they used to be mud legs, and even the current scholars and generals in the imperial court, and even few of them are on the table in their eyes. Why do these mud-legged people who used to be under their feet dare to climb on their heads, and dare to buy the land they have saved for generations, and to borrow the food they have worked so hard to hoard?
If I endure it any longer, I'm afraid that it won't be long before Chen Pojun and his mud-legged men will come to pick up their houses and dig their ancestral graves.
It's tolerable, it's unbearable.
Through the drunkenness, one by one, the children of the clan and the landlords and powerful people were there viciously cursing Chen Kefu, cursing the Beijing court, and cursing all those who dared to touch their interests.
It wasn't until the second watch that these allied troops of the world clan who had been making trouble all night gradually returned to their tents drunk, and they were drunk in that sleep one by one.
The noisy night gradually quieted down, and the flakes of goose feathers and snow were sprinkled one after another, gradually covering and burying the messy camp, and even the piles of bonfires and the torches in the camp were gradually extinguished by snowflakes.
The tent camp, which had been continuous and disorderly for more than 20 miles, gradually fell silent, leaving only the soldiers who creaked past from time to time in the snow, holding spears on duty in their arms, and cursing bad luck, and were still sent to guard such a snowy night.
The snow was falling heavier and heavier, and the night was getting quieter and quieter, and even the footsteps of the guards on duty were getting longer and longer, until finally it was no longer heard, leaving only the silent night, silently falling snowflakes, completely covering up everything last night. (To be continued)