Chapter 373: Slaughtering Jiangnan
However, when things were developing little by little in the general direction that Li Mao had originally envisioned, Guo Ziyi, who had been attacking Lin'an City for a long time, made a little chaos at this critical point in time.
Because after this kid tried all kinds of ways to break the city to no avail, on the other hand, he saw that the deadline given by Xiao Tiancheng before was about to arrive, so he actually stood under Lin'an City with a hot brain, and ordered the three armies to read out aloud what to attach to the imperial court.
The first order is that the people in the city must take the initiative to surrender within three days, and they are not allowed to help the rebels defend the city, and those who violate the city will be killed ...... the day they break the city, and the second is to inform everyone in Lin'an City that their army will bring 100 Shenwu cannons to bombard the city indiscriminately...... I hope that the people in the city will hide in advance, and this last one is also the cause of this small chaos, it is actually Guo Ziyi who advocated that the defenders of Lin'an City surrender to the imperial court, and then turned over and looted those rich households and clans in eastern Zhejiang in the city.
So after such a grandiose bandit-like surrender letter was read out loud by Guo Ziyi under Lin'an City several times, the entire Lin'an City suddenly became lively like an exploding oil pot, and the first hundred thousand defenders and the second main army temporarily formed after urging Mingyuan to have friction first.
You must know that the hundreds of thousands of people who were organized after that were either the children of the family, or the descendants of the wealthy families in eastern Zhejiang, even if they were a little worse, they were all the descendants of domestic slaves who had been raised by the wealthy families in eastern Zhejiang for generations, so these people were quite thorough in safeguarding their own interests.
And for such a result, it seems that Guo Ziyi wants to achieve, so when he just arrived on the third day, our little Comrade Guo did what he said and got a few Shenwu cannons that were originally trapped in the mud, of course, how he transported it, at this time, I am afraid that only Xiao Tiancheng, who was still confronting Qingfeng, knew.
However, after the Shenwu cannon was installed in place under the city gate of Lin'an City, the powerful deterrent power was really not comparable to Guo Ziyi's previous few words, first of all, more than a hundred clan representatives did not know how they quietly evaded the eyes of Mingyuan, and then rushed out of the city and ran to Guo Ziyi's big tent to surrender, and then there were civil and military generals in the city. There is one counted, anyway, before the cannon started, they rushed to work first with the unlucky sixth of the Cui family, who was like urging Qingfeng, to urge Mingyuan to do it first.
But this Urging Mingyuan really seems to be the same as getting the true inheritance of Urging Qingfeng, no matter how those people with a softer backbone persuade or plead, he didn't listen to a word, and even when Guo Ziyi poked the Shenwu cannon to the city gate, he also took the initiative to lead the ordinary people of the Cui family to the city to supervise the battle.
So the little guy Mingyuan can be regarded as begging for benevolence, and under the attack of more than a dozen Shenwu cannons, even people and the whole family were coaxed into scum...... And after he died, the urging family was the first group of people to open the city gate and welcome Guo Ziyi in.
But if the matter ends happily like this, there will be no little trouble that Li Mao will have a headache as mentioned earlier, after all, Guo Ziyi is a person who does what he says, after he took the entire Lin'an City with a large army, he actually really fulfilled the so-called three orders before, first ordered the surrendered troops to carry out the most tragic bloodbath on thousands of clans of Lin'an, of course, these people also include those who took the initiative to surrender to the Wenchen military generals in the Jiangnan New Deal...... Then there were the house slaves raised by those clans, and he also captured one by one, and slashed and killed more than 50,000 people in just ten days.
There was even a time when the entire Qiantang River was clogged with mountains of corpses...... And when this matter reached the ears of Li Heng, who was still traveling halfway, he fainted on the spot and fell under the horse, and Xuan Qingfeng, who was bent on guarding Fuyang, was heartbroken and spit out several mouthfuls of blood after learning that thousands of people in his family had gone up to seventy or eighty Taizu, and down to Guo Ziyi's babbling little nephew, who had not been convicted of rebellion.
And Li Mao, who was far away in Chang'an, was also instantly shocked and a little overwhelmed after seeing such a letter sent by Xiao Tiancheng, he didn't expect that a little Guo Ziyi would be so bold to carry out a bloodbath in the entire Jiangnan, and the speed of action was so fast, as if his purpose was to prevent anyone from coming out to stop him.
"Lao Gao, Lao Yu, why are you two looking at me like this? You don't think that Guo Ziyi did this because he obeyed my arrangement! Let me tell you that although he was introduced to Xiao Tiancheng by me, the slaughter of the large and small clans in Jiangnan and those courtiers who followed Li Heng is definitely not what I meant! ”
Li Mao said as he got up from the dragon chair and walked towards the outside of the imperial study, because he knew that at this moment, not only the two eunuchs in front of him, Gao Lishi and Yu Chaoen, suspected that Guo Ziyi's behavior was appointed by him, the emperor, but even those officials and people outside the imperial city may also be convinced in their hearts that the culprit of this sweeping Jiangnan was he, Li Mao, was unintentional.
"Damn, tell me whether he Guo Ziyi was kicked in the brain by a donkey, or whether he was born with an ambitious leopard gall! After he did this, wasn't he afraid that I would settle accounts with him? By the way, Lao Gao, how many people did he kill in Lin'an City! ”
"According to the statistics of the news sent by Jiangnan Province in the past two days, plus the number submitted by Guo Ziyi himself, the difference between the two is almost eighty-nine thousand, but some other domestic slaves cannot be calculated, so the final number of people estimated by the household department is set at 100,000!"
"The number of people in Lin'an City is only more than 700,000, and he Guo Ziyi killed 100,000 people as soon as he made a move, amazing, really powerful! Have the branches of the family that moved south also been swept away by him? "It's all cleaned up, let the old slave say it, although this Guo Ziyi is a little reckless, but this time it is also a good thing to say with bad intentions, the news from the black guard says that the people in Lin'an City are living and working in peace and contentment, and there is no chaos at all!" And all this is thanks to Guo Ziyi's thunderous means! ”