Chapter 93: Gyeongju Riot (5)

Bai Liyi shouted at the guards on the left: "Quickly take Da Lang to the backyard." At the same time, he quickly moved closer to Baili Wuji, and led the living Zhuang Ding to retreat, and there was a corpse in the front yard, both rebels and Zhuang Ding. At this time, the rebels were unable to chase anymore, and actually watched everyone retreat into the backyard in the village, and the two sides began to temporarily confront each other to recuperate.

The sky began to get dark.

The rebels outside the village all entered the front yard, and the wall gate of the back yard was naturally not as strong as the front yard, and it seemed that it could be broken with one attack.

After resting for half an hour, the two lieutenants in the front yard stood up and prepared to attack again.

Baili Wuji has already woken up and is organizing the living Zhuang Ding to prepare to resist.

At this time, the explosion of a grenade sounded in the early hours of the morning over Wanxian.

The rebels in the front yard began to be frightened, firearms are the symbol of the Black Flag Army, I have never eaten pork and I have always seen pigs run, the rebels are all remnants of the soldiers, deserters and private soldiers of some bureaucrats and tyrants who did not have time to deal with them when they captured the four states, so they naturally knew the origin of the explosion, and they were all stunned for a while.

At this time, Baili Wuji shouted in the backyard: "The Black Flag Army has attacked, our reinforcements have arrived, and the soldiers outside are listening. ”

"Boom, boom, boom......" The continuous explosion echoed the hoarse cheers of Baili Wuji.

It seemed so majestic and so intimidating, the rebel soldiers began to waver, and the two rebel captains noticed that something was wrong, and hurriedly reprimanded the whole army for attacking, but there were few responders, and Baili Wuji decided to add another fire, and he shouted loudly: "Listen to the soldiers outside, if the rebel officer is obsessed, he orders the attacker, kill, whoever kills him, he will succeed the military post." ”

There was silence outside the village, and the eyes of hundreds of soldiers looked at the two captains, and that look was like seeing a fat wolf eye, green .......

The two rebel captains trembled all over, they knew the horror of the bombing of the camp, and they did not dare to open their mouths to order an attack. There was a stalemate in the front and back yards, the scene was quite weird, and no one knew what would happen next.

All the rebel soldiers were looking forward to it, hoping that the two captains would give the order to attack, so that the lucky one of them would be able to cut off the captain's head and ask for credit from Baili Wuji.

The pressure in the hearts of the two captains at this time had exceeded the limit of their patience, and they were stared at by hundreds of fierce soldiers, as if they were Tang monk meat, one of them really couldn't bear it, and roared, wanting to turn around and escape from the village, but was misunderstood by hundreds of rebels as issuing an attack order, so hundreds of knives were cut down, and together with another captain next to him, he was cut into meat sauce.

At this time, the vanguard of the Black Flag Army had already appeared outside the village.

In an instant, the rebels began to stir, and at this time, when something went wrong, chaos began. Baili Wuji didn't want to let Guo Zhuang Zhuangding have any more casualties, so he shouted: "The soldiers in the outer courtyard threw away the weapons in their hands, all squatted down, and saved your lives." Whoever stands, beheaded. ”

The guarantee from the Gyeongju Economic Envoy, who else in this Gyeongju land is more convincing.

Baili Wuji's shouting at this time obviously had a good effect, and the rebels began to be quiet, one, two...... Until all the weapons were thrown away and squatted, the vanguard of the Black Flag Army had already begun to tentatively begin to enter the courtyard.

The Black Flag Army arrived early, thanks to the fact that Xu Shiming got a report from the guards of the government who stayed behind, and got in touch with Yun Yang in time, and Yun Yang immediately led the Black Flag Army of Yidu to Wanxian.

The people sent by Guo Shouwang were quite clever, and when they met the Black Flag Army on the road, they came forward to report, and Yun Yang learned that Huang Wentong rebelled under the careful questioning of Wanxian County, so he sent two people to escort him to deliver a letter to Xu Shiming, and he led the Black Flag Army to Wanxian County to march quickly.

After Huang Wentong rendezvoused with He Xianyou and Zhang Zhenqi, he wanted to lead the army out of the city to join Shu, but because he got a secret report, he thought that he could catch Baili Wuji and force Qingzhou Mansion to surrender, so he temporarily changed his plan and stayed in the city to wait for Baili Wuji to be captured alive.

Unexpectedly, it became a turtle in an urn.

Two days later, Baili Wuji ordered Huang Wentong, He Xianyou, and Zhang Zhenqi to gather in the three counties of Wan, Kui, and Kai to rebel and behead.

Except for the rebels who were pardoned in the outer courtyard of the Guo family, the rest of the rebels who participated in the riot were beheaded.

All the rebels who had been pardoned in the outer courtyard of the Guo family were disbanded and civilized.

Guo Sheng secretly collaborated with the rebels and should have been beheaded, but Guo Zhuang was exempted from capital punishment and sentenced to life imprisonment for his meritorious service in quelling the rebellion.

Guo Zhuang made great contributions in the counterinsurgency, rewarded 1,000 taels of silver, and allocated another 1,000 taels of silver to compensate the families of the martyrs in Zhuangzhong.

Baili Wuji also hesitated, whether he had to kill them all. If it is in the peaceful world, it will be fine, but in the troubled times, Wuji has no time and no energy to educate these rebels, although there may be people who are co-engulfed in the rebels, but it is certain that most of them are ill-intentioned, and Wuji has no way to identify them.

Baili Wuji personally tried the case of Guo Qi and Liu Wenkui's armed fight, and the verdict was pronounced after the trial. Guo Qi organized a fight, but because Liu Wenkui robbed his wife, the circumstances were excusable, and Guo Zhuang made great contributions in the counterinsurgency, so he was extrajudicial and sentenced to three years in prison. It is illegal for Ding to marry someone in violation of the law during the period of mourning, and he will not be held accountable for being the master of suffering. Zheng Fengshou broke the contract and caused a fight, and was sentenced to five years in prison.

The campaign lasted for nearly three months, involving 371 officials, big and small, more than half of the total number of Gyeongju officials, 211 were convicted and sentenced to hard labor, 136 were sentenced to execution, and the rest were also punished by imprisonment, demotion, and fines.

Baili Wuji knows that among the one hundred and thirty-six people who were beheaded, there must be those who have been wronged, and the number will not be too small, or at least their crimes do not deserve death.

However, there are always victims in the government, and in order to prevent the appearance of foreign countries and factional friends in the Gyeongju officialdom, and in order to complete the accumulation of strength as soon as possible, Baili Wuji can only use the power of thunder to kill chickens and set an example to deter them. Among these people who were killed, part of them were suspected of secretly communicating with the Shu Kingdom, and some of them had a large number of private soldiers.

Baili Wuji believes that as long as you want to investigate, there are few officials who are clean behind their backs, and there are too few clean officials, especially in such a turbulent era, and such corrupt officials should be immediately killed.

Correspondingly, the Gyeongju government issued a decree that no one should keep more than 20 private soldiers. From the date of promulgation of this decree, anyone who violates it shall be punished as the crime of conspiracy.

All the former Shu officials under the jurisdiction of Gyeongju who were intimidated by the powerful military force, and since then no one in the Gyeongju officialdom and the local tyrants dared to raise private soldiers, because they knew that the Black Flag Army of Gyeongju was strictly monitoring them, the former Shu officials.

Since then, the Gyeongju officialdom has been purged.