356. The end of the Left Wing Army

The south gate of the town is at the intersection of Zhongshan Middle Road and Xinmen Street in the later generations, and the Chongyang Gate of Zicheng is roughly at the mouth of Huaxiang Lane on Zhongshan Middle Road.

The two were less than a mile apart, and as soon as Uncle Xie Fang's convoy was attacked, it was discovered by the Dongwei stationed at Chongyang Gate.

It's just that it took some time to assemble the team, and the city gates had to be reopened, so it was inevitable that there would be some delays.

According to common sense, this period of time is enough for the rebel party to complete the plan and take Uncle Xie Fang into custody.

With Uncle Xie Fang's important bargaining chip, even if he can't control the entire Quanzhou City, he has a great chance to force Dejimen to give up his defense, open the city gate, and welcome pirates and bandits into the city.

Fortunately, Qian Long coped well and survived this critical moment.

The imminent arrival of reinforcements from the Eastern Guard made Jin Yong, the deputy general of the Left Wing Army, who was the leader of the rebel party, realize that the operation had failed, but the city gate that could be used as a back road was blocked again, and he couldn't help but despair.

At this time, less than half of the more than 60 left-wing troops who mutinied with him were left, and the other 100 or so were basically the former left-wing generals who had been dismissed due to the reorganization of the army, and they had also suffered 20 or 30 casualties just now.

There are about a hundred people in total, and they are all in a panic at this time, and they are about to fall into disintegration and collapse.

Jin Yong saw that his men were all looking at the alleys on both sides of the street, obviously preparing to flee in all directions, but he knew that such an escape would not help.

So he shouted, "Brothers, stay in Luocheng, even if you can escape for a while, you will eventually be caught in the urn, our only way to survive is to recapture the doorway, not only can we catch Uncle Xie Fang, but also open the city gate, listen to me, they are only a dozen or twenty people, instead of fleeing in the wilderness, it is better to fight against the water!" ”

Under Jin Yong's analysis and persuasion, these subordinates mustered up the last courage and began to form a dense formation, hysterically launching a decisive attack towards the doorway.

At the entrance of the door, Yuan Sui, who was wearing a shield, saw the rebels rushing madly, and he was immediately very nervous, and he didn't dare to rely on a layer of shields to resist this wave of attacks.

"Don't panic, don't panic, we still have a backhand."

Qian Long's voice was calm and calm, and although his round face was full of blood, he didn't look fierce, and even had a little joy.

He didn't pretend to be calm, but he did have a trump card, that is, the grenades carried by each class.

This grenade is not the kind of later generations that will be thrown away, but needs to be lit with an open flame, and the incident happened suddenly before, and the situation was too urgent, so it was too late to use it.

At this moment, Qian Long and the others had already taken out the fire fold to blow the open flame, and then unscrewed the wax-sealed safety cap on the long-handled grenade, revealing the lead.

The lead wire is painted with blue and red equidistant segments, and the length can be cut according to the needs to control the detonation time, although there is an error, it has little impact.

Seeing that the rebels had reached five or six feet away, Qian Long ordered, "Light the fire, throw... Light the fire again, throw! ”

Each of them brought two, a total of twenty-two smoke-emitting grenades, and in an instant smashed into the rebel array.

Immediately, some unlucky people were smashed on the head by a pound of grenades, causing some chaos, but most people didn't realize that the catastrophe was coming.

However, Jin Yongwang saw the flying thing dragging the smoke, and immediately guessed that it was a firearm, and the soul of the dead was furious.

But who made him choose the center of the array that he thought was safe, and it was crowded with people, even if he wanted to run, he couldn't move, and he had to be pushed and pushed to continue moving forward.

Perhaps the only thing he could be thankful for was that he didn't have to be tormented by fear for too long, and the calculated length of the lead had burned to the end, detonating four taels of gunpowder in the body of the projectile.

Eleven flames descended at about the same time, with a fierce roar, harvesting the flesh and blood fiercely, followed by another round of explosions, harvesting again.

The lower half of Jin Yong's body was blown to pieces, and he couldn't die for a while, perhaps because a simple death was not enough to pay for his sins.

Half of the other 100 or so people were blown down, and the rest immediately collapsed, panicking and trying to escape, only to be in a mess like headless flies.

At this time, the shield wall at the entrance of the door cracked a passage, and Qian Long rushed out with Ban like a fat whirlwind, "Surrender and don't kill!" Stay on the ground and don't die! ……”

When Zhao Shijian, the commander of the third battalion of the Second Regiment, led his troops to the front, he only saw corpses strewn across the streets, bleeding and drifting, more than a dozen seriously injured rebels wailing and struggling among them, and dozens of others lying on their stomachs in front of Qian Long.

"Hurry up, it's still a step too late......"

Zhao Shijian thumped his hands and paused and looked at Qian Long with a wry smile, "Qian Xiaopang, if you don't talk about martial arts, can't you leave us some credit?" ”

Qian Long shrugged, "It's no wonder I'm ...... By the way, there are more than ten or twenty runaways, you hurry up and arrest them, by the way, clean up the battlefield, and take the prisoners of war back, this rebel leader will not mend the knife, just let him die of pain......"

Zhao Shijian, who was helpless, had no choice but to allocate troops to hunt down the remnants of the rebels, and personally led people to replenish the seriously injured rebels before summoning the Xiang army to clean up the messy streets.

After a while, Zhao Jujing, who was the grandfather of Zhao Heyun, the head of the Zhinan Foreign Sect and the Governor of the Lifting City, arrived with the other officials who had learned the news.

At this time, Uncle Xie Fang was at the head of the city, looking at the corpses of more than a hundred left-wing officers and soldiers who had been poisoned to death in the city gate tower with a pale face.

After standing for a long time, he gritted his teeth and said, "Order, all captured traitors will be severely interrogated, and those who cannot be recruited will be executed immediately!" These traitors can be brutalized along with their comrades, they are simply mad, they are not as good as beasts, and they are not worthy of living in this world at all! ”

Regarding Uncle Xie Fang's order, which was not in line with Confucian benevolence at all, the other officials did not object.

Zhao Jujing sighed, "I didn't expect the original left-wing army to degenerate to this point, and I was really ashamed to have a lot of complaints about Xie Xiang's reorganization of the army." ”

For more than 100 years, the Left Wing Army and the local forces in Quanzhou have almost been integrated, and the clans living in Quanzhou City are naturally deeply involved with them, so Uncle Xie Fang's army is not smooth and complete.

Then Quanzhou sentenced Han Pu and said in a deep voice, "Although I don't know if there are other people in the army involved in the rebellion, if the old man of the left-wing army is still allowed to stay in the army, it will be difficult to eliminate the hidden danger......

Uncle Xie Fang obviously thought of this as well, but a small half of the remaining more than 1,000 left wing troops in the city were old men, and the consequences of doing it at this time were unpredictable.

Seeing that Uncle Xie Fang seemed to be hesitant, Qian Long couldn't help but say, "When you break it, you will continue to suffer from it." ”

When Uncle Xie heard this, he glanced at the stacked corpses in the building again, and then made a decision, asking Zhao Shijian to take the Eastern Guard troops and accompany Han Pu to the defense areas of the Left Wing Army to carry out the cleaning task.

It took another half an hour to make other arrangements, and Uncle Xie Fang took people to Dejimen again.

On the way, Qian Long muttered inexplicably, "The left-wing army in Fuzhou attacked His Highness in chaos, and there are also a bunch of chaotic parties here in Quanzhou. ”

After Uncle Xie heard this, he actually thought it was very reasonable, "That's right, this left-wing army really shouldn't be kept anymore, and the old man will play to the court later, remove the number, and reorganize the first army." ”

Originally, in history, the Left Wing Army became Pu Shougeng's butcher's knife, and five months before Emperor Jingyan arrived in Quanzhou, he attacked Ruian (Wenzhou), which was defended by Chen Yizhong.

Therefore, some people say that Pu Shougeng was angry and opposed the Song Dynasty because Zhang Shijie robbed his ship, which is actually untenable, and he has long been anti-voluntary.

Then Wen Tianxiang planned to organize a defense in Ruian, which was also destroyed by the Left Wing Army.

Then, after Zhang Shijie arrived in Quanzhou with Emperor Jingyan in November of that year, the clans and scholars of the Song Dynasty in the city wanted to welcome the emperor into Quanzhou City, but it caused a massacre by Pu Shougeng.

The Left Wing Army was the main executor of the massacre, killing more than 10,000 clansmen, scholars, Huai soldiers and other people loyal to the Song Dynasty, of which more than 3,000 were clans alone.

Later, the Left Wing Army attacked the Song army in Wenling, forcing Emperor Jingyan to retreat to Chaozhou, not counting, continuing to pursue and kill, successively conquering Haiyang, Jieyang, and Chaoyang in Guangdong, and driving the exiled court to the sea.

This left-wing army has made great contributions to the destruction of the Song Dynasty.

During the Yuan Dynasty, the Left Wing Army was renamed the 'Left Auxiliary Wing New Brush Earth Army Wanhu' and continued to defend Quanzhou.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when the Yisi Baxi Army, which was mainly composed of Persians, set off a rebellion that stretched for most of Fujian and lasted for ten years, the left-wing army not only failed to fulfill its responsibility to maintain the locality, but instead collectively attached itself to the magnates of the Yisi Baxi Army and the descendants of Pu Shougeng, slaughtering countless Han people, and finally causing Quanzhou's vitality to be greatly damaged and collapsed.

After Ming Taizu ruled the world, the remnants of the Pu family were severely punished, but the left aile's new brush army benefited from its own 'fine tradition', and it was attached early, and it was actually transferred to Shandong to garrison and subordinate to Weihaiwei.

This is really a good person who does not live long, and the scourge will last for thousands of years......

Now that he was casually mentioned by Qian Long, he ended his criminal history early, which can be regarded as a great pleasure.

On this side, after the defenders on the Deji Gate heard the big movement from the south gate of the town, the upper and lower people were all worried, and it was not until Uncle Xie Fang arrived that the military heart settled down a little.

After arriving at the city, Qianlong hurriedly took out his binoculars and looked at the ships moored in Nanguan Port.

Soon his expression became solemn, "Xie Xiang, it is indeed the ship of the naval battalion, and it is basically there, this is definitely not a defeat and capture, it must be that the naval battalion has also rebelled!" ”

Then, remorse and guilt filled Qian Long's heart, "It's all my fault, I should pay attention to it when I see it off, now, if we don't get supplies, we will definitely be in trouble, and these thieves will use the military funds on the ship to deal with us." ”

In addition to supplies such as food and winter clothing, the main military resources are a large number of weapons.

Not to mention swords and guns, there are also 300 sets of iron armor, 6 bed crossbows, 200 bows, 500 individual crossbows, more than 30,000 arrows, etc., which are enough to pose a great threat to the defenders of the city.

Uncle Xie Fang naturally knew this, but he still patted Qian Long on the shoulder, "At that time, we hadn't received a letter from His Royal Highness, and we didn't pay attention to the prevention of hidden dangers within the Left Wing Army, after all, there are still many people in the navy who are loyal to the imperial court, if you want to talk about responsibility, it is mainly on me, you don't have to blame yourself for neglecting a plausible clue." ”

Then Uncle Xie Fang looked at the pirates gathered on the dock and sighed, "The top priority is how to hold Quanzhou City!" ”