Chapter 448: Wai San Que One
This harvest even Luo Cheng was amazed.
"Damn, these thieves really have some skills, more than a dozen thieves have actually coerced so many people and robbed so much money, grain and livestock, it's really damn good." The fourth child, who was still thinking that Luo Cheng was meddling and came to Hebei, couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard so many seizures.
I knew that there were a lot of seizures this time, but I didn't expect so many.
Hundreds of thousands of livestock of all kinds were captured, and more than 100,000 prisoners were captured.
"It's not unusual, these dozen or so bandits are now the biggest bandits from all walks of life in Hebei and Henan, in recent years, how many counties and counties have they looted, which gang of bandits has not broken through three or five counties, and even some have broken through the county seats, how many treasury they have looted. Not to mention that they ran rampant all the way, and the countryside they passed through was even more looted, just like locusts crossing the border, they had no base, and they didn't produce, and they grabbed wherever they went, and the looting proceeds were also carried with the army, so we basically copied all their income in the past few years, of course, a lot. ”
Luo Cheng had expected it, but he still didn't expect it to be so much.
The number of people captured in the camp of more than a dozen thieves alone is quite staggering, and a large county does not have more than 10,000 households, and it may not have a population of 100,000. And now they have wiped out all the thieves' camps and arrested more than 100,000 people.
"So many people, all of them are going to be enslaved?"
"For the time being, this is the only way, it is impossible to let them go back to their hometown." Luo Chengdao.
It's not that Luo Cheng is ruthless, the thief will not end well, not to mention that the emperor just ordered before to let the counties and counties arrest the evaders and thieves, and even the deserters will be executed on the spot, and the end of the thieves' chaos can be imagined.
As an ambassador of Henan's comfort, he reduced these captured thieves to slaves, in fact, he was already using his privileges to protect them.
"Wait until they can plant the land for a few years, and then perhaps we can get a pardon for them, and let them be spared for the people."
In the entire Douzi Gang, there are bandits from all walks of life, large and small, and only Dou Jiande, who is left, was not swept away by Luo Cheng because he became the leading party.
Luo Cheng asked Wang Ziming to arrange for them to start pumping the spoils and captives back to Qi County, Henan, and then he called Dou Jiande.
"Since you don't want to return to the team, and you don't want to be an official, then you can do it yourself."
Dou Jiande thanked Luo Cheng.
"Thank you, Sir."
led the way for Luo Cheng and betrayed the rebels, but at least he was able to save his own family, and Luo Cheng also gave him some food, which was regarded as a reward for him.
Arrange everything.
Luo Cheng gathered three thousand light horsemen.
"The task of escorting supplies and captives will be handed over to the foot soldiers, and our task is to go to the plain county town to catch the remaining bandits and set off!"
Three thousand horsemen turned back to the west.
"Why let go of that Dou Jiande, he is also a thief after all, if people know that you let him go, it will be troublesome to impeach you at that time."
Luo Cheng smiled.
"Although Dou Jiande is a thief, he knows that Ben Shuai came to suppress the bandits, and he deliberately returned to the right place, and led the way for Ben Shuai, but he is a meritorious man. Although he was unwilling to receive a reward afterwards, it could not erase his merits. As for what will happen to Dou Jiande in the future, no one can predict, at least, now, he is obedient anyway. ”
"In this way, there really is no flaw."
"I don't know what happened to the plain county?" The fourth asked again.
Plains County, Ander City.
Anti-thieves from all walks of life besieged the county and gathered 100,000 troops, claiming to be 500,000 people.
100,000 bandits, just looking at that number, is indeed amazing enough.
The county town is full of bandits on all sides, and the heads of Wuyangyang are not visible, and each bandit occupies a section of the city wall.
Although the Taishou of Pingyuan County, the county Cheng, and the Du Wei gathered the soldiers and horses in the city to defend the city, but the order of the Second Expedition to the East had been issued, and Pingyuan County had just dispatched a large number of government soldiers to Zhuo County to assemble, and the guards in the county were weak at this time.
Although the bandits are all rabble, when the number of people reaches a certain number, quantitative changes can also cause qualitative changes.
The thieves attacked the city on all sides, day and night.
The siege lasted three days and three nights, and the defenders were exhausted.
Although they tried to defend it, in the end, when the thief army led by Du Yanbing and Wang Yan besieged Dongcheng, they secretly dug tunnels. The tunnel was dug for three days, dug more than a dozen, they dug under the city wall, first erected a pillar to support, and after digging a large section, then took firewood into the pit and set fire to the pile, the pillar burned off, and suddenly the city wall above had no support, so it rumbled and collapsed a big gap.
Jun Cheng personally led his troops to defend this gap.
But as soon as this side was defended, after a while, the other side rumbled down again.
In this way, six sections of the city wall collapsed in one day, and the officers and soldiers finally could no longer hold it.
The bandits swarmed into the county.
The cheers of the bandits resounded on all sides of the plain county town, and finally another county town was laid, although many thieves from all walks of life raised troops for several years, but it was not easy to break through a county town in peacetime, let alone break through the county seat.
The Pingyuan County has never been breached before, and because of the canal on one side and the Yellow River on the other, Pingyuan County is still very rich.
All kinds of thieves, but no matter who broke through the city wall, seeing that the city was broken, people from all walks of life were scrambling to enter the city, anyway, whoever entered the city first would have a chance to grab good things.
Whoever grabs it first is whoever's own, this is the practice of thieves from all walks of life.
Not far apart.
Luo Cheng listened to Zhang Liang's report.
"The plain county town was breached so quickly, it's only been three days, it seems that we are still one step late. I thought they would be able to hold out a little longer, but we would sweep the thieves' lair first, and then gather them under the city, but it seems that it is still a step too late. ”
"Boss, the thieves are scrambling to enter the city, and it's a mess."
"Well, Ben Shuai also saw it, give the order, the whole army assault, kill!"
All kinds of thieves were rushing into the city, looting everywhere, and even fighting in order to grab things, at this time, Luo Cheng suddenly led 3,000 cavalry to kill from behind.
The horse's hooves are like thunder.
Flags fluttering.
Facing nearly 100,000 bandits from all walks of life, the 3,000 cavalry led by Luo Cheng did not have the slightest fear. In their eyes, it was not 100,000 soldiers and horses at all, but just 100,000 rabble.
Such a rabble, let alone 100,000, even if it comes a little more, it is just a food delivery.
The sudden killing of the officers and cavalry frightened the bandits.
Some people ran to dodge, and some people shouted to intercept, but at this time, most of the thieves and bandits were rushing into the city to fight for things, and they were already in chaos.
The light cavalry rushes and kills, and the bow shoots and swims away.
Luo Cheng's light cavalry did not rush into the city, but just walked around the county town and shot around, one after another thieves fell, and the bandits quickly collapsed.
"Surround the three queyi, let go of the side, and let them escape."
Luo Cheng led the cavalry to charge and kill, and gave an order.
After letting go of a gap, sure enough, the chaotic bandits thought of anything else, and when they saw that there was a vacancy there, they rushed to run there, and the bandits, who had no heart to resist, collapsed in an instant, and no one resisted, and they fled one after another.