Chapter 45: The Heaven Breaker
In the fourteenth year of Wuxing, this year's Daming was not easy.
In the Chongzhen year of the original time and space, Zhu Youzhen was forced to face frequent and unprecedented natural disasters and extreme weather, which even became one of the fuses for the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and now, the person who undertook all this has become Emperor Wuxing.
The direct impact of this terrible natural disaster is the large number of displaced people and the disorder of society.
A few years ago, relying on the abundant treasury and rising national strength, the Ming Dynasty was able to rescue and rebuild the affected areas in a timely manner, and was able to quickly stabilize the common people and suppress small-scale rebellions.
Therefore, even though natural disasters were constant at that time, the people were still able to survive in it.
By now, however, the treasury is no longer able to support it.
After Yan Chenhao's death, the court was completely purged, the second assistant of the cabinet Huang Kezhang resigned, and Zhou Yanru ascended to the position of first assistant, and the second assistant was Ni Wenhuan, who was directly promoted from the household department, and Qian Longxi was forced to bow to the bottom.
The level of governance of these people is far from the level of their party struggle, and there is no improvement in national politics.
And, like Zhang Juzheng, with the death of this figure who can suppress the corrupt officials in the world, many officials suddenly exposed their true nature, and even intensified their efforts, and there is a tendency to get back what they failed to catch in the past few years.
There were more and more uprisings in the country, and the people who were affected by the disaster, the migrant workers who controlled the water, and the people who were suffering from labor flocked to the northwest.
At this time, this former Guanzhong land has long ceased to be prosperous, it is the hardest hit area of the disaster, and there are officials who do evil, and finally the largest uprising broke out.
A peasant named Wang Er took on the role of Fang Guozhen, and took the lead in killing officials and rebelling in Chengcheng in the twelfth year of Wuxing, which opened the prelude to the uprising.
After that, Wang Ziyong, Wang Jiayin, Chaotianwang and others successively raised troops, and soon merged into one under the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army, and pushed Wang Er as the leader of the alliance, which was the thirty-sixth battalion.
The total strength of the 36th battalion reached as much as 100,000, under the leadership of Wang Er, from Shaanxi to Jin, Lianke Xiangning, Shilou, Jishan and other cities, between the ten months, almost all of the southern Jin was lost, the prestige of the righteous army was greatly boosted, and the people who could not survive in the world also followed after seeing this scene.
By the time of the fifteenth year of Wuxing, from the northwest to the Central Plains, the ground was full of smoke.
Order is breaking down at an accelerated pace.
Compared with other regions, Jiangnan is much more stable.
There is only one rebel army here.
The Heavenbreaker.
As the first and only big guy in Jiangnan, his every move has attracted the attention of Jiangnan.
And the more than 1,000 people under his command defeated the southern soldiers several times in a row and were invincible.
After all, they also have no military training, and a group of outlaws who have nothing must have more combat effectiveness than the southern soldiers who have not fought for a long time, and they have the upper hand in the rookies pecking each other.
However, in the field, they may be able to defeat the Ming army, but when it is their turn to siege warfare, they will be numb. After all, the Heaven Breaker had no actual combat experience, and he directly landed in the city with ants, but as a result, he lost hundreds of people in a few rounds, and he couldn't climb the city at all.
There was no way to plunder the big city, so the only way to plunder the towns and villages that were not protected by the city walls was to loot, and after some looting, the King of Heaven and his subordinates each made a fortune.
I didn't expect this money to come so quickly! As the wave went down, the Sky Breaker's eyes turned red.
So he ransacked all the way north, during which the team also continued to expand, and his troops had expanded to more than 5,000 people in several prefectures and counties, and the momentum was so great that no one dared to do it.
By this time, they had come to the vicinity of the family's ruling area, and with a clear goal, they came straight to them.
After all, the wealth of this land of mansions, the King of Heaven has heard of it from time to time, and now he naturally comes with a wave of the psychology of getting rich, and even he has planned that if it is prosperous enough, he will take this as the foundation, and then try to conquer Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and dominate the world.
Yan Ling immediately ordered to gather the clan soldiers and face the battle head-on, this is also the first battle since the formation of the two thousand clan soldiers, Yan Ling also just intends to let them see blood, this branch of the Kou is a good training object.
The first field battle broke out between the two sides south of Shaoxing Province.
The clan soldiers lined up in a formation of "lining up to shoot", while the Liukou had no formation, and after an order from the King of Heaven, they spread their feet and rushed towards the clan soldiers.
More than 5,000 people rushed in unison, still very powerful, they shouted indiscriminately, brandished the broken knives and guns in their hands, but really shocked the recruits.
The soldiers had never seen this battle, although they were well-trained, but after all, it was the first time to go to the battlefield, and suddenly many of them had trembling slightly with their hands holding muskets, and sweat continued to flow.
The two thousand household officers were transferred from the Luzon army, and they participated in the campaign to conquer the southern continent in their early years, and had rich combat experience.
"Don't panic, the enemy is just a rabble, don't worry!"
"No one is allowed to shoot in advance, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!"
Getting closer, there were already scattered bows and arrows firing, apparently the equipment sent to them by the defeated Ming army, but the accuracy was not very good, and they were flying around.
A few of them also shot into the formation, but they couldn't penetrate the armor of the clan soldiers, and they couldn't help but relax a little when they saw this.
Seeing that it was close enough distance, the long knife in the hand of the Qianhu official suddenly swung down, and shouted:
"Put!"
A neat roar sounded, and the battlefield was suddenly filled with a burst of gunsmoke, and the thousands of figures at the front of the vast flow of people suddenly froze, and then suddenly fell to the ground.
The sound of the gunfire frightened the rogues, and the blood made them tremble.
There were thousands of people lost at once, and you must know that in the original siege battle, their casualties were only a few hundred! Thousands of people died in just one breath?
What a killing machine this is!
In just one round, this notorious rogue collapsed directly and fled in all directions.
The clan soldiers on the other side were even a little incredulous.
This, this is a win?
At this time, the Qianhu official had already issued an order to chase and kill.
The combat strength of the two sides was not proportional at all, so the battle ended quickly, and the Heaven Breaker escaped by chance, but his troops were already completely wiped out.
A total of more than 1,200 enemies were killed, more than 3,000 were captured, and the clan soldiers were almost unwounded, which was undoubtedly a great victory.
After some screening, among the more than 3,000 people, there were more than 300 Lao Kou, all of whom were unrepentant, and Yan Ling directly ordered them to be killed.
The rest were sent to the mines to work as coolies, and they didn't know how many families had been ruined, even if they were new owners, they deserved it.
The head of the dead rogues was cut off.
A total of fifteen hundred levels.
(End of chapter)