Chapter 15: Into the Abyss
"Wang Lao Qian was slandered and colluded with thieves, this is to scrape everyone's skin. conscripting husbands and women to go to the northern battlefield forced everyone to die. For three consecutive years of drought, the government did not open warehouses to help grain and relieve the victims, but instead disregarded the lives of the people, plundered grain and accumulated wealth, and increased taxes by 50% in five years, and the government was determined to force us to death! Instead of starving to death, let's do something with me, kill the dog officer, level the city, and open a warehouse to eat food! Ensure that every family has food to eat, and everyone is rich! ”
"Kill the dog! Open a warehouse to help grain! There's something for everyone! ”
The townspeople of Shangyun Town have long been looking forward to the relief of the empire, and in previous years, the harvest was good, and the granaries in Pingcheng County were piled high, and the grain was overflowing. After three years of drought, the warehouse should have been opened a long time ago to help grain, but it has not been delayed so far.
The townspeople had long been disgruntled and resentful, and when they heard that they were going to level the city and open the granary, their eyes turned red one by one, and they immediately shouted, wave after wave.
"Kill the dog! Open a granary"
"Rebellion!"
The honest, loyal and cowardly peasants were also incited by this fanatical atmosphere, threw straw hats and turbans on their heads, and raised their arms and shouted.
In this crazy roar, the soldiers of the county battalion who were surrounded by the crowd turned pale and trembled. A moment ago, they were left to be weak and deceitful, but in the blink of an eye, they became crazy beasts.
The rapid change makes people feel unreal, is this still the original mud legs?
The officers and soldiers of the county battalion looked at the townspeople who surrounded them in horror, these mud-legged people really dared to rebel, did they forget the majesty and iron-blooded suppression of the empire for three hundred years. At that time, the rebel army was not killed by the Imperial army, and the blood was flowing, and the heads were rolling, and some villages and towns disappeared from the map of the Empire.
Catchy brandished his weapon, trying to block the approaching red-eyed people, but honestly backed away with his legs. After all, some county battalion defense officers and soldiers have been trained, have killed people, and their hearts are cross-minded, and under the persecution of death, they know that they will not be able to die well.
They all drew their weapons to meet them, and they still had a bit of luck in their hearts, after killing a few people, to see if they could break through, quickly report the situation to the county order, and gather the township soldiers as soon as possible to suppress the rebels.
Although the townspeople are outnumbered, but with their bare hands, there is no threat, in this critical period, Yang Qi of course can not let the intentions of the officers and soldiers succeed, holding a long knife, rushing forward, slashing and chopping, without a trace of superfluous movements, cleanly killed the two leading county defense officers.
When the other catchers and officers saw this scene, some of them cried and knelt on the ground begging for mercy, and the townspeople had lost their minds in a frenzy, and rushed forward with a roar, instantly drowning out the catchers who begged for mercy, and then never stood up. Some smart people picked up the knife that caught the fast and fell away, and with their blood and bravery, they fought fearlessly with the officers and soldiers.
The situation was out of control, and no one could stop it, completely falling into Yang Qi's expectations.
Secretly remember the townspeople who rushed up and killed the officers and soldiers to arrest them, these are the real core of the rebellion, they are stained with the blood of the government, the empire has never shown mercy to the murderers and rebels, they are all rebels alone, and the whole family sits together. They have no way back, and they will resolutely rebel against him.
It is important to know that one of the important conditions for the peasants to overthrow the empire was the widespread insurrection and uprising in the empire almost at the same time, and the important condition for the insurrection was that the locust-like exiles were flowing around, so that the original ruling institutions were overwhelmed and their forces were dispersed, until they were wiped out and the government institutions were paralyzed, and only under such circumstances could a large-scale uprising be launched.
However, Yang Qi knew very well that it was not the end of the empire, and when he broke through Pingcheng County, it would attract the attention of the empire, and if he was lucky, the prefecture and county institutions would not report to the imperial court center in order to keep their official positions, so that he would have enough time to train an iron-blooded army.
In this way, with a well-trained army, coupled with his excellent commander, he predicted the historical trend of the empire, and then conquered Ansan County, with the power of one county, great things can be accomplished. Even if the center of the imperial court reacted, it couldn't help him, and it was a big deal that he led his troops to escape from Ansan County and attack another military fortress as planned, once the fortress was captured..... This is the last option.
The center of the imperial court discovered this large-scale rebellion, and as soon as the armoured imperial army arrived, the rebel army would flee in all directions, and the army would be crushed. At that time, it will be too late to regret, so if you want to succeed, you must drive these people to a dead end, and you can't give them the slightest chance to regret it.
Yang Qi originally had a detailed opportunity, and now the timing is almost the same, it's time to push everyone into the abyss.
The head of the Wang family and the elders of the Qian family watched with a desperate look at the townspeople beating and killing the officials and soldiers, which was clearly a big crime of rebelling and killing officials and exterminating the three clans. When the imperial army arrived, for the sake of the majesty of the empire, the whole town had to be killed.
The eyes of the two of them looking at Yang Qi were full of jealousy, fear, and even resentment. Now it's done