Chapter 83: Yangzhou Rises
After leaving the original site of Shenlong Island and returning to the mainland, Luo Hou asked Mao Dongzhu to take her family to find a hidden place to live in seclusion, straighten the crooked Jianning again, and wait for the world to be peaceful before coming out, and then let them leave.
Then he rented a big boat again and went straight down to Yangzhou by water alone.
Yangzhou port.
As far as the eye can see, all of them are densely packed with dock workers running bare-shouldered, wearing short coats and coolie clothes.
Hundreds of large and small ships are constantly flowing, loading and unloading in the port, busy and busy, and there is not a single idle person or an empty ship in sight.
White, black, yellow, brown, almost all races can be found here.
It's really bustling, and it deserves to be one of the largest harbor cities in the world.
The land of fireworks really lives up to its name.
Luo Hou walked all the way forward in the dense crowd.
Against the backdrop of all kinds of skin tones, strange costumes, and all kinds of foreigners, his short head and modern clothes are not conspicuous at all.
It's just another Fanbang businessman who doesn't know where he came from.
No one cares about him at all.
Although the capital has undergone great changes, due to the speed of transportation and information transmission in ancient times, and the complete collapse of the Qing ruling system, it is estimated that it will be at least a month or two before the news of this matter will be spread by merchants who have arrived here one after another.
During this time, no matter where Luo Hou went, no one would ever know his identity.
As long as he doesn't continue......
But Luo Hou just wanted to copy Jingshi's actions.
He looked at the inner city of Yangzhou and thought silently.
There are far fewer bannermen here than Jingshi.
Including the coated slaves, there are only tens of thousands of people.
However, the number of officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners is quite large.
It seems that the people here have not forgotten the ten days of Yangzhou.
Luo Hou looked around and walked into the inner city empty-handed, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners guarding the gate of the inner city did not check this somewhat strange person.
This person was empty-handed, didn't bring anything, and looked around curiously as he walked, and all the people who saw his identity knew it in their hearts: another hillbilly who had never seen the prosperity of Yangzhou.
They certainly have a right to despise anyone.
At this time, Yangzhou is in its third boom period, wealth and capital are highly concentrated, and it is the most concentrated capital region in China and even East Asia, the largest financial center, and its prosperity is like New York and Shanghai in the modern earth world.
Every day, there are more than 1,000 merchants from all over the world.
People who come to Yangzhou are crazy about the prosperity and wealth here, and there are countless people who are drunk and dreaming of death in this city.
It's just that these inner city gate guards are destined to regret their thoughts at the moment.
After entering the inner city, Luo Hou walked to a crowded street, lined with restaurants, teahouses and green buildings.
The people who came and went were basically the horse-faced Tunguska savages, extremely arrogant, as if they were superior to anyone around them.
Luo Hou shook his head, although Yangzhou is prosperous now, the capital collection has exploded, compared with the grand occasion of the Ming Dynasty, it is far inferior.
Yangzhou in the Ming Dynasty is a place where talents gather, with a large number of talents and skilled people from all walks of life, it is a prosperous metropolis with a population of more than one million in Chinese history, and it is a thousand-year-old historical and cultural city in Chinese history since the Sui and Tang dynasties.
But all this disappeared in Yangzhou in ten days.
The Ming officers and soldiers who laid down their arms, the peaceful residents of Yangzhou and all the non-combatants were slaughtered frantically, and in just ten days, more than 800,000 people died tragically, and Yangzhou City was reduced to a ruin, and since then it has been in a state of collapse, even in modern times, Yangzhou City is only a small and medium-sized city.
Luo Hou silently let out the spiritual perception, five hundred meters, one thousand meters, two thousand meters.
Since the last time he broke through the limit, Luo Hou's spiritual perception had reached the level of enveloping a radius of two thousand meters.
Seven or eight streets in front and behind were completely enveloped, including a small number of bannerman settlements.
People who are shrouded in spiritual perception only feel a malice falling from the sky, wrapping themselves apart, and their actions become difficult, and the air around them seems to turn into water, and then no matter what they are doing, they all disappear from the spot.
A large area was empty in an instant.
Everyone who saw it was in an uproar, and people remembered the Yangzhou Massacre that was not far away, and the prosperous order was broken in an instant.
Dense footsteps sounded from inside the Yangzhou military camp.
The heavy soldiers of the Eight Banners stationed here quickly assembled in the sound of the order, and the red-clothed cannons were withdrawn by dozens of Qing soldiers, and the generals of the Eight Banners unhurriedly commanded their artillery team to shoot at the street of Luohou, and after a few rounds of shooting, a large number of green battalion horse infantry swarmed up like a tide.
Through the cover of the fire of the red-clothed cannon, he rushed all the way towards Luo Hou.
Even with Luo Hou's current physical strength, he doesn't dare to take the live bullets fired by this red-clothed cannon now, once he is hit on his body, he will definitely be seriously injured.
However, the shell did not fly fast, and he could clearly see the parabola, and then quickly and calmly dodged it.
It's just that the speed of collection is inevitably affected by this.
Already some of the Green Battalion horse infantry had rushed all the way to the edge of the street.
At such a close distance, although Luo Hou's spirit would be affected by his own rapid movement, it would be effortless to catch these rushing infantry.
One by one, the palms roared away, and the green battalion horse infantry was caught and flew upside down into the sky, and then disappeared into the air with a scream.
Seeing such a scene and hearing such a scream, the morale of the Eight Banners Army was instantly hit hard.
But the generals of the Eight Banners gave a death order to kill this demon who appeared in Yangzhou at all costs.
The first thing that happened in Shengjing has spread to the world, and it is natural to know that there is a demon who is causing trouble.
One after another, the soldiers had to rush up, and every time one soldier disappeared from the air, the other came up to make up for it.
Soon, more and more Qing soldiers disappeared, and when the Qing soldiers behind rushed over, they had already begun to subconsciously slow down.
These Qing soldiers who slowed down were immediately spotted by the military cao in the rear, and then a round of arrows fired, and they were full of arrows and turned into hedgehogs.
Dada......
The sound of dense and neat horse hooves came from far and near, and thousands of cavalry of the Eight Banners shouted and charged in the direction of this street.
The rapid speed and the huge mass that formed into one completely affected the absorption capacity of the space.
Seeing these Eight Banner cavalry getting closer and closer, closer and closer, the hideous faces could be seen clearly.
Luo Hou took a deep breath, turned his body sideways, grabbed his hands on the pillar of the restaurant next to him, shouted, picked it up and pumped it out, and the thick pillar was pulled out of the ground.
Luo Hou picked up the column, his body began to rotate in circles, and his hands continued to exert force, and after more than a dozen circles, he threw out the thick column with centrifugal acceleration towards the Eight Banners cavalry who rushed over.
The one or two dozen cavalrymen who rushed to the front were suddenly given a whizzing pillar and flew upside down, and the moment they were hit, they were already covered in broken bones and unrecognizable, and their bodies had softened into a puddle of mud when they landed.
The thick pillars were still flying, and those who were hit were all crushed, and together with the horses under them, they were crushed into unrecognizable shapes.
It wasn't until sixty or seventy people were killed that the pillar, which had made a great achievement, finally stopped.
By this time the charging cavalry was completely out of order.
The cavalry behind could not see the situation in front of them, and blindly rushed forward, unable to stop the horses' feet at all, and those in front were killed by the horses, and those who were frightened and lowered their speed excessively were knocked off the horses by the ones behind, and then trampled to death by the galloping horses' hooves.
Hahaha, stop!
Luo Hou's eyes lit up, and he was extremely happy to see the charging Eight Banners cavalry holding on to the reins and stopping, and then dense transparent palms floated around these cavalrymen, and then grabbed them all in the air and disappeared.
All that was left was a large pile of horses of all colors that were in a daze searching for their master.
I didn't expect this huge weapon to be so useful on the battlefield.
Luo Hou immediately picked up another pillar, jerked hard, ran forward, avoided the restaurant that collapsed, and ran all the way, after several long-distance jumps in a row, the others had already come to the Qing artillery camp not far away.
Ignoring the generals of the Eight Banners who began to panic, Luo Hou concocted the same method, and after turning in a circle at high speed on the spot, he threw the column at the artillery camp.
......"Bang
The huge pillars that roared away swept the entire artillery battalion, and the Qing artillerymen did not snort before they were knocked into bloody mud and pasted on the deformed barrels, completely dyeing these barrels red.
Luo Hou continued to jump a few times, and the person had already landed in the Eight Banners barracks.
The nearby Qing soldiers immediately panicked, scrambled to jump onto the wooden battery, climbed onto the roof of the nearest house, and fled.
Then, this panic also spread throughout the Eight Banners army, and countless Eight Banners officers and soldiers threw off their armor and hurriedly looked for hiding places in the private houses in the city.
But Luo Hou's spiritual perception field is so broad, there is no interference from artillery bombardment, there is no high-speed charge of cavalry, as soon as the perception is unfolded, a large area of the Eight Banners soldiers is cleared.
In less than twenty minutes, the Qing soldiers assembled here had been arrested.
Then, Luo Hou began to calmly go to the banner people settlement, and used his unfolded spiritual perception to brush these Tunguska savages who picked up spears and spears and prepared to resist one by one.
In the space, dense light and rain fell from the sky and merged into the earth, with no end in sight.
The thickness and area of the shade soil that has not been developed for a long time are rapidly expanding.
An invisible depth gradually emerged from the earth.
Half an hour later, Luo Hou's figure appeared at the south gate of Yangzhou City, with a stunned face, he remembered Shi Kefa, the general of the Ming Dynasty who led the Yangzhou army and people to resist the Qing soldiers who were killed: "This life is over, and the next life will last." Long live the eternal years, do not sell righteousness; Nine days and eight watches, forever strong heroic soul. Heroes hate, tears are full of towels, and three households can die one day. ”
After reading this poem, before the people around him could react, his figure had completely disappeared from Yangzhou City.
Half an hour later, after the Tiandi Hui Aoki split the rudder, the people from the Yangzhou stronghold of Muwangfu, and the people of Yangzhou found that all the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners of Yangzhou had been killed, and the people of the Inner City Banner disappeared, and an inexplicable atmosphere began to brew in the whole city.
Half a day later, I don't know who started it first, and a revenge against the remnants of the banner people broke out in Yangzhou City in an instant.
Since the Qing Dynasty emperors and generals like slaughter so much, they will slaughter and slaughter, and the people of Yangzhou who still remember it frantically raised their knives......