Chapter 131 Meng Yuanyu's generosity

The reason why Yun Zhao said the words of slaughtering the city was because he saw three bodies hanging on the waterwheel from the telescope, and he also saw a flag painted with a white lotus flower on the head of the city.

The lotus flower depicted on the flag is blooming, and these three bodies will be immersed in the water with the rotation of the waterwheel, and then they will be dragged out of the water by the waterwheel and carried to a high place, and the cycle is endless.

What worries Yun Zhao the most is that these three bodies don't seem to move, as if they are dead.

Yun Yang also quickly spotted the three people, waved his hand, and immediately a hundred cavalry rode down the high slope and went straight to the waterwheel.

The people of Lantian County are very familiar with this thing, after a horizontal log was stuffed into the shaft of the waterwheel, the waterwheel stopped, and they rescued the three people from the waterwheel and put them on the ground to rescue.

Yun Zhao saw that the three people were constantly squeezing water out of their mouths, and finally put their minds at ease, which showed that the three people were not dead.

A cavalryman came running to report: "It's our three cavalrymen, the ten-division commander He Zhou, the ten-division commander Hou Chengda, and the first-class cavalry Liu Pei."

Yun Zhao looked at Yun Yang and said puzzledly: "Under what circumstances, the cavalry under your command will take the initiative to hand over their weapons and raise their hands to surrender?"

To rescue the hostages? ”

Yun Yang shook his head and said: "We don't surrender to the thieves, we don't surrender to the thieves if we die in battle, and the life or death of the hostages has nothing to do with the soldiers." ”

"That's interesting, obviously they've laid down their weapons."

Yun Zhao said coldly, and then rode down the high slope.

Yun Yang was a little ashamed, and hurriedly ran to the location of the waterwheel, apparently to question the three guys who abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

The city wall was full of people, Yun Zhao ignored them, and walked around in front of the city gate on horseback, his heart was already filled with anger, and he was no longer willing to listen to the chatter of those people on the city head.

To tell the truth, those people spoke the vernacular, and he didn't understand it.

Obviously, the might of the five hundred cavalry still put a lot of pressure on the people in this city.

Just when Yun Zhao couldn't bear it anymore and was about to give the order to blow up the city wall, Yun Yang hurriedly ran over and said, "There are one hundred and twenty-one of us in the city, all of whom are alive.

Liu Pei and the three took the initiative to disarm, willing to be held hostage, and asked them to allow the remaining seventeen people to enter the city to protect our people. ”

"What's going on in town?"

"The county order said that it was a civil rebellion, and they were dissatisfied with the nonsense of the lieutenant sent by Lantian County, and the people surrounded them in the county government for nine days."

"Nonsense? Fish and meat people? Do you believe it? ”

Yun Yang shook his head again and again: "Don't believe it, one, two may have, a group of people?" Not possible!

The county order said that the county zun should go into the city alone to appease the people, otherwise I am afraid that something unbearable will happen, and said that this is the best situation he has tried his best to achieve. ”

Yun Zhao's war horse finally stopped, he looked at the black head of the city and said lightly: "The people sent by Lantian County have all received strict military training, since they have been besieged by this group of people for nine days, it means that their combat effectiveness is not weak.

It's quite possible to hold out for another day or two.

The two ten-captains obviously wanted to strengthen the guardian force there, but they didn't know if their method was feasible. ”

"It is feasible, it was Zhang Wuben who ordered Qingshui County to go out of the city in person, Liu Pei and others escorted Zhang Wuben to see our people, and then Liu Pei followed Zhang Wuben out of the city and informed the two ten commanders.

All three of them had their weapons, except for long knives, given to our own men. ”

Yun Zhao said with a smile on his face: "Give the order to attack the city!" ”

Yun Yang said: "Zhang Wuben said ......"

"Siege!" Yun Zhao roared angrily, and even Yun Yang was so frightened by this roar that he shuddered.

Then he said to the adjutant behind him: "Blow up the city wall!" ”

With a crisp brass trumpet sounded, five hundred cavalrymen pulled out a pillow-sized bag from their horse bags and galloped towards the city wall.

The battle began, Yunxiao, Clouded Leopard, and Xu Wu stopped talking, and watched the cavalry surging down, causing the people in the city to scream again and again.

The moat outside Qingshui County is not wide, it is only about one zhang, and the height of the city is only one and a half zhang, such a city can effectively defend against bandits, but unfortunately, in front of Yun Zhao's army, it is not enough at all.

The cavalrymen touched the wall like a black tornado, pierced the pillow-sized powder bag with a dagger and threw it under the wall, and then quickly retreated, until the last cavalryman dropped the lit powder bag on the large pile of gunpowder bags, and then retreated with a roar.

The people on the city wall didn't seem to know anything about this scene, and a thin middle-aged man stood at the head of the city and kept waving his arms, hoping to have a good talk with Yun Zhao.

It's a pity that Yun Zhao is still standing in the distance and coldly looking at the people who are shouting on the city wall.

There was a loud "boom", the ground shook, and I saw that the thin city wall of Qingshui City was immediately shattered by nearly five zhang, and the people standing on this section of the city wall had disappeared.

Before the smoke dissipated, the two hundred cavalry had already pounced on the gap again, dozens of grenades were thrown into the gap in the city wall, and they threw out the hooks in their hands, accurately hooked on the city wall, and then turned the horse's head and left, with the strength of the war horse, the stones were hooked down by the hook and fell into the moat that was not too deep.

At this moment, a group of masked men dressed in different clothes rushed out of the woods on the left, brandishing their swords and fearlessly rushing towards where Yun Zhao was.

Seeing this, the clouded leopard shouted, and led his headquarters to intercept the opponent head-on.

Yun Zhao looked left and right, simply got off the war horse, sat on the folding stool that Xu Wu wanted to bring, pointed to the flag embroidered with lotus flowers that was still fluttering at the head of the city, and said, "Do you know its origin?" ”

Xu Wuxiang looked at it for a moment and said hesitantly: "White 1 Lotus Sect? ”

Yun Zhao nodded and said, "That's right, it's the White 1 Lotus Sect, besides, do you know the origin of the name of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"The sun and the moon shine together for the Ming Dynasty!"

Yun Zhao shook his head and said, "It wasn't like this at first, and then there was this statement."

A long time ago, the Red Turban Army rebelled to overthrow the rule of Meng Yuan, and their leader was called Guo Zixing, and later after Guo Zixing died, my Emperor Taizu was controlled by Liu Futong.

Liu Futong moved to the north, and together with Han Shantong, he preached in the world in the name of the White 1 Lotus Sect, and for a time Han Shantong was respected as the "Ming King".

At the beginning, during the period of Emperor Yuan Shun, the Yellow River flooded, and the Mengyuan court levied 150,000 laborers to build the Yellow River embankment.

After this stone man was dug up, it immediately fulfilled the proverb that they had spread long ago, "The stone man has one eye, and provokes the Yellow River to rebel in the world".

Then the great cause of the vigorous rebellion began.

At this time, my Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty was unfortunately also a member of the "White 1 Lotus Sect" and later renamed the "Ming Sect".

This is very inappropriate, because in order to create a state, it is necessary to make a strict distinction between divine power and royal power, and if possible, it is necessary to eliminate divine power.

If you look at Europe today, people there are still fighting a last-ditch struggle to overthrow theocracy.

If the Ming Dynasty unfortunately becomes a theocratic country, it will be a catastrophe for the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Fortunately, our Emperor Taizu can be called wise.

After Han Shantong was killed by Meng Yuan, he used a trick to force Liu Futong, a fanatic believer of the White Lotus Sect, to death, and then ordered Liao Yongzhong to sink Han Shantong's son, that is, the "Little Ming King" Han Lin'er who was supported by Liu Futong.

Then he unified the northern powers.

Because most of the generals in the army believed in the 'Ming 1 Sect', that is, the variant of the White 1 Lotus Sect, which was very unfavorable to the pure army, at this time, my Emperor Taizu began to cut off those fanatical followers of the White 1 Lotus Sect in the rebel army, and this work continued until he became the emperor.

I didn't expect that under the rule of my Lantian County, there would be such dirt, and since I saw it, I had to make great efforts to remove it.

Now, do you understand why I slaughtered the city? ”

Xu Wu thought about it for a long time before he whispered, "Can you treat it differently?" ”

Yun Zhao sighed and said, "Meng Yuan has suffered enough of the big loss of the White 1 Lotus Sect, so after I heard that the family clan here is the remnant of Meng Yuan, I don't doubt at all that they will use the weapon of the White 1 Lotus Sect."

For more than two hundred years, a remnant of Meng Yuan can stay in Qingshui City safely, and let everyone worship, without a hundred years of preaching, it will not be able to achieve this goal.

Xu Wu thought, since you are thinking about the people and think that we may kill the wrong person, then, I will leave the matter of exterminating the remnants of Meng Yuan to you, don't let me down. ”