Chapter 31: The End of Three Hundred Years of Stubborn Disease

The Qinghuagang is quite high, and this large mansion built on the side of the stream in the middle of the mountain is also rarely strong. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Perhaps this is the reason why this place was not affected when the displaced people attacked or even when the Qing army attacked.

In the past, it was a rock-solid place.

Now, it's time to test whether it's still strong.

Seeing that countless officers and soldiers were pouring in from the north, and the city was also a fully armed and neatly draped supervision battalion to fight, Wang Hengjia and the three of them were like losing their souls, and they shouted everywhere, gathering their cronies and family members under their hands.

Compared with the rest of the ministries and armies, which have undergone earth-shaking changes, the Weisuo Army still retains the style of three years ago: private soldiers.

As the most basic army of the empire, the guards have long lost their combat effectiveness, and even the officers of the guards, such as the commanders, no longer count on the military households under them who are more familiar with farm work than fighting. In the same way, in order to maintain the majesty and power of officers, they do not rely on military law, but accumulate private wealth to recruit pro-military generals.

This is just like the local tyrants recruiting Zhuang Ding to protect the courtyard to suppress the Zhuang households and defend the family property.

It's just that, compared to the ordinary Zhuang Ding Nursing Hospital, the three of them are all legitimate court officers, who can hold strong armor, prepare firearms, and use hard crossbows. Later, when Zhu Cihong was quelling the rebellion of the peasant army in Shandong, he changed the armament step by step, and also let Tianjin Wei, a relatively wealthy place, get hundreds of muskets.

The three of them gathered together, shouting the names of the people under their hands, bringing together the generals of the various departments, and a total of more than 600 people were crowded in this small courtyard, or more accurately, on this small fortress on the blue and white hills.

At the same time, the rebels at the foot of the mountain near the city of Tianjin were still ignorant.

The rebels near the city wall thought that the city had reopened its doors, and planned to drive the people who had gathered outside the city to continue to drive them down.

But soon, they were reprimanded by the officials and soldiers.

The rebels laughed and didn't care.

"Boom......" A roar sounded.

The officers and soldiers fired the first shot, and the rebels who took the lead fell in response.

Panic spread.

All kinds of cries of fear resounded,

Looking down from the hill of Qinghuagang, the city is in a mess.

The houses outside the city, except for those occupied by a few rebel leaders and people behind the scenes, have been destroyed, and they can only be simple shacks as far as the eye can see. It is these endless slum-like existences that tens of thousands of rebels live in the snails.

This slum is like a poisonous sore on the earth, and when viewed from a high place, it is densely packed like a sore, filled with all kinds of gray and black shacks, which are extremely depressing.

Now, amid the gunfire in the city, countless people suddenly appeared in the fragile shacks. The black-pressed people re-emerged from the shack with their heads as messy as chicken coops.

Then, a panicked cry sounded, and they each looked for their own rebel leaders, but they didn't know that at this moment, the cronies of the commanders of these guards had already gathered on the top of the mountain of Qinghuagang with their fighting pro-soldiers.

The rebels who could not find their leader were like headless flies, and their huts were crowded with almost no roads. Soon, under the advance of the camp of the superintendent in the city, the rebels close to Tianjin were forced to retreat. As soon as they retreated, they could only retreat towards the shack. The people in the shack began to run into the wilderness under the fear of infection.

On the flat land, there are military households running around.

It's just that, after all, roads are scarce. Crowded shacks are built at will, and there will be no standardized architectural design, and roads are reserved. So there was the first one to push the shack to the road and run wildly. With the first, there is the second, and immediately after, all the way up to the thousandth. Countless people have followed suit. In this way, under the presence of the superintendent battalion in the city, the abscess-like shacks of the rebels outside the city were the first to be destroyed in the hands of the rebels themselves.

The first shackles that surrounded the city of Tianjin collapsed in this way.

On the blue and white gang, looking at this scene, Wang Hengjia and the three of them were dripping blood: "This is the hard work of the past few months!" ”

They soon lost their feelings.

To the north, the boundless army of officers and troops formed a line and launched an attack in the most extravagant way.

On the Qinghuagang, Wang Hengjia and the three shouted Wang Liqiao: "Go and stop the official army!" ”

Wang Liqiao was nervously dispatching his men to organize the defense. In addition to hundreds of pro-soldier generals with slightly stronger combat effectiveness, there is also a huge number of people on the Qinghuagang.

Those were the victims of the disaster that King Liqiao had not yet driven away these days.

"Drive all the people captured from the Silent Sea to the foot of the mountain! Go! Kong Xujin's eyes were hideous, and he thought of a way.

Soon, a cry rang out.

Thousands of women and children who were not driven out of the city were some old and weak women and children, who were used as shields at the moment, and suddenly felt their own end, and began to cry one after another. They didn't even have the strength to escape.

Facing the bitter cold of thousands of soldiers, Qi Shan, who led the team, had a gloomy face.

Around him, countless soldiers looked at him with puzzled eyes.

"A group of cowards actually used the people as shields, can they block it for a while, for a lifetime? Such a crime is to be executed by Ling Chi! Qi Shan roared, his face full of disbelief: "These rebels were still the officers and soldiers of my Daming Guard before!" ”

But Qi Shan obviously underestimated the lower limit of these rebels.

"Listen to the officers and soldiers on the other side! If you dare to come again, step on their corpses! When the time comes, you will be a brutal army, a tyrannical army! Wang Hengjia roared loudly, and more than a dozen strong men with loud voices shouted in unison. The function of the human flesh megaphone is not small, and the sound spreads thousands of miles.

The officers and soldiers stopped, and all eyes focused on Qi Shan.

Qi Shan also stared at the countless old and weak women and children at the foot of the mountain, his brows furrowed. He was the regimental commander at the moment, no more than ordinary officers, and he had already heard a lot of secrets, and knew that this time the rebels were actually the local gentry who were making noise. This time, if they ignore the refugees and forcibly rush to kill, even if the chaos is quelled at that time, it is inevitable that some officials and gentry will take the opportunity to attack afterwards. When the time comes, the reputation of Qishan alone will be small, and the reputation of the officials and soldiers will be greatly damaged.

His eyes kept looking at the battlefield, and suddenly, Qi Shan put down his glasses, picked them up again, and looked at them carefully, only to find that a group of strangely dressed troops quietly appeared in the battlefield at some point. They had changed their attire, dressed in tattered clothes, and in the depths of winter, they wore hats on their bodies, stared at the snow above their heads, and walked on the ground, but if they didn't look closely, they couldn't tell whether there were people in action.

"It's Xi Bin!" Recognizing the person, Qi Shan suddenly thought of what Xi Bin said that day.

He exhaled deeply, Qi Shan pinched the time, and randomly shouted: "Attack!" ”

"A soldier is a soldier who takes obedience to orders as his duty." Qi Shan said quietly.

Immediately, thousands of officers and soldiers descended the mountain like fierce tigers and rushed towards the Qinghuagang.

Halfway up the mountain, Wang Liqiao watched this scene in a daze. On his side, countless small leaders of the chaotic soldiers smelled eagerly: "The officers and soldiers have been killed, what should I do?" ”

"Did they ignore the lives of the thousands?"

"Do you want to kill someone? Those officers and soldiers come over, and we will kill a team? Stop them! ”

"What to do? General Wang, what should I do? ”

……

Wang Liqiao exhaled slowly, and his gaze fell on the officers and soldiers. This army is obviously well-trained, and it is still not discouraged in its actions in the cold winter months, and it is forbidden to stop, and to move if it wants to stop. Such an army, no matter how poorly equipped it is, no matter how inferior the battle situation is, can still achieve victory. This is the obvious embryo of a strong army. What made Wang Liqiao's eyes even more complicated was that they were well-equipped and obviously had sufficient logistics. Thousands of miles away, although the face is tired, but there is no scene of cold and hunger.

Such a strong army, they even have it.

And these rebellious soldiers once hoped to become like this.

It's just that...... They have embarked on a different path, destined to be no return.

Now, such a powerful army has been killed, Wang Liqiao searched his mind, but still couldn't think of a way.

"The bullshit teachers of benevolence and righteousness, the bullshit loyal monarchs and patriots, they don't care about the lives of those people at all!" Wang Hengjia's face was full of resentment: "Wang Liqiao, you take someone to kill it!" Stop them! Kill them! ”

"Wang Hengjia! At this time, this is not the time to put gas! Kong Xujin trembled, and still had a little bit of sanity: "Hard resistance, can you really fight?" I have to keep someone to save my life! I don't believe it...... Fuxian, didn't you say that today's favorite thing is to cherish feathers? Then let's see if it's true! Take a gamble and shout! Let the officers and soldiers stop, as long as they promise not to hold us accountable. We will release the people, dare to come over again, and kill one person further! ”

"Kill, kill, kill!" Kong Xujin roared, hysterical.

Wang Liqiao trembled, wanting to answer the order and lead the way. It's just that when his eyes fell on Wen Fuxian, who had not spoken on the side, he suddenly saw Wen Fuxian trembling all over.

"Here we are...... They're coming...... They're coming......" Wen Fuxian trembled slightly, pointing to the wall behind him.

"What's coming?" Wang Hengjia was also trembling slightly when Wen Fuxian said this. He glared at Wen Fuxian, wanting to scold angrily.

But soon, he was struck by lightning and trembled.

All of them turned their eyes to the north wall.

There, there is a cliff. It's just that in such a place, at this moment, more than 100 people suddenly appeared like a god soldier and climbed the wall.

"Surround them!" Wang Liqiao was anxious.

Seeing this, hundreds of guards and soldiers who were crowded on the Qinghuagang Villa rushed forward with a roar.

The leading officers and soldiers shook their heads slightly and sprinkled the snow rubbing on top of their heads, revealing their resolute facial features, which was Xi Bin. Xi Bin looked at these chaotic soldiers, bared his teeth, and said with a smile: "Brothers, it was this gang of miscellaneous people who just threatened us with our villagers. Now, what do we do? ”

"Kill, kill, kill!"

Countless roars rang out.

Xi Bin nodded and threw a palm thunder from his arms.

Immediately, small black dots rose and fell into the crowd.

Boom and boom resounded.

On the blue and white granes, countless black smoke rose up. Immediately, just like a raptor entering a fish pond, countless chaotic soldiers were killed and scattered like chopping melons and vegetables, and after they entered the battle, they had no power to resist at all.

At this moment, a louder shout of killing sounded at the foot of the mountain.

When the thousands of old and weak women and children saw this, someone suddenly shouted wittily: "The officers and soldiers have come to save us, run!" ”

Thousands of old and weak people scattered violently, but those rebellious soldiers saw this, but they couldn't gather at all.

Because, their leader was already trapped in Xi Bin's assault team at this moment, and no matter how they rushed and killed, they couldn't resist it.

At the same time, without the people at the foot of the mountain to cover them, the soldiers of the Jinwu Regiment were unobstructed, and surrounded the fortress on the Qinghuagang in one fell swoop.

A quarter of an hour later, Xi Bin met Wang Liqiao. Behind him, Wang Hengjia, Wen Fuxian, and Kong Xujin were tied up to death.

Wang Liqiao stood on the high platform and watched as countless soldiers broke through layer after layer of defense and had already surrounded the last layer of courtyard wall. He turned around and looked at the three guards who were tied up, and said, "Elder Gao treats me with the grace of recreation, so I will do my best to do anything about the rebellion. Now that the army is defeated, there is nothing to do, and I have nothing to worry about. What you did, I helped to abuse you, and I was uneasy, so I was tied to the officers and soldiers. As for me...... I will repay the elder with this body! ”

With that, Wang Liqiao took a three-eyed gun and shot at the temple.

Wang Hengjia and the three of them roared and watched in despair as Xi Bin kicked open the door.

……

Outside Tianjin, countless shacks were destroyed. The three commanders of the Tianjin Weidu were captured, and tens of thousands of rebellious soldiers squatted on the ground under the attack from both sides and chose to surrender.

A noisy mutiny ended.

Gao Eryan, Liang Qingbiao, and Wang Zhuoru were escorted into Beijing, and Tianjin finally returned to peace.

Similarly, at the door of the Tianjin Governor's Yamen, a decree was issued the next day with lightning speed that could be said to have caused the whole of Tianjin to tremble in the past.

But today, it is not alarming, and it can't set off a little wave.

Hou Baosen, the governor of Tianjin, also began to implement the Cabinet Order No. 1 and Cabinet Order No. 2 issued by the previous cabinet, and promulgated specific implementation rules to begin to collect taxes on the acres of land of the gentry in Tianjin. Of course, it is collected in the form of treasure money.

Originally, this must have been something that could cause an uproar among countless people.

But after experiencing the matter of Golyan's conspiracy to instigate a mutiny, no one mentioned it again. Gao Eryan, a later official, was not far from the Tanhualang Yin Jian, who was the official of the Qing Dynasty, and everyone understood it.

Under the implementation of the different local governments, the Tianjin gentry began to pay taxes vigorously and actively. For many people, a little bit of treasure money that doesn't need money actually doesn't bleed much. Of course, there were many more gentry who had to go to the exchange offices of the Imperial Central Bank, the black markets, and the Hengxin Bank. And this is to come up with real money.

As a result, the once worthless treasure began to circulate slowly but firmly. Feeling the disguised salary increase, the enthusiasm of officials in various places to collect taxes has become even higher.

Kyoshi, Taiye Pond, Showa Hall.

Zhu Cihong held the stove in his hand, letting the slowly burning white charcoal inside exude warmth and dispel the chill of deep winter. Outside, a pleasant sound of abacus sounded softly.

He knew that a stubborn disease that lasted for three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty would come to an end. (To be continued.) )