Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Soldiers Retreat Like a Break
Dongcheng Lieutenant Chen Zhi was taken away, and before half of the incense burned out, he and his subordinates all withdrew from the open space in front of the door. He also felt that he didn't have the face to say anything nice to Lin Lian, so he retreated. The ridge road was tightly blocked by Dongcheng Lieutenant's soldiers and horses, and Chen Zhi didn't have the heart to reorganize the queue, and he didn't even order a retreat, so he rode a tall horse through the green seedling field and headed south, and of course his subordinates also swarmed away. There were those on horseback, those on foot, and the procession was scattered and scattered in a mess. Those ordinary soldiers were also at a loss, and the people behind blocked the view of the poplar forest and didn't know what was happening in front of them, and when they saw the chief fleeing south from the field, they were afraid that the attack would fail and the people inside would be killed, so they rushed to the south in a swarm. The panic spread very quickly, and the people around him ran wildly, and they would only abandon their troops and abandon their armor......
Lin was so funny, angry and hateful when he saw it in the fence, this is the case with the greedy ministers and the country, how can the scene of the troubled times be so clear in front of him? For those who are slightly ambitious, seeing the soldiers in front of them with such weak combat power, the three-point ambition probably breeds a very ambitious one. Ge Fu, Wu Yanqing, Zhao Shuhan, Ge Siyu and even Zhao Qinmin also shook their heads and sighed as they looked at the scene in the field in front of them.
At this time, the horn whistle bell rang again, and everyone felt strange, the men and horses of the Soldiers and Horses Division had withdrawn, why did the alarm whistle bell ring again?
Surrounded by a high wall on the outside, you have to go up to the corner tower, either around the north and south gates, or borrow a ladder to go up. Zhou Pu walked to the corner tower, waved his hand to put the rope ladder down, he climbed up like an ape, watched the enemy situation in the corner tower more than four feet high, and climbed down after a while, and reported to Lin Bin: "Those hundreds of scoundrels who came with the soldiers and horses of the Dongcheng Captain, only when Chen Zhi wanted to storm the main gate, they went around to the side of the poplar forest, broke the fence from the southwest corner and the middle of the west wall, and dozens of people poured in......" Zhou Pu squatted down and painted the broken fence to Lin Tie them, these scoundrels also have smart people, the broken fence point, It's all behind the enclosed house. The men and horses of the Dongcheng Lieutenant retreated like a rout, but the view was blocked by the poplar forest, and these scoundrels did not notice the abnormality of the main gate at all.
"Okay, the whistle bell rings, close the door and catch the dog!" Of course, Lin Jian was not polite to the fat meat sent to the door, and summoned Cao Ziang and other leaders of the homeless recruitment workers to discuss how to send people to intercept them from the front and seal them from the back, and drive them all to the courtyard of the surrounding house on the west side with only a high outer wall, so as to catch as many scoundrels as possible.
"Broken hand or broken leg?" Zhou Pu, Cao Ziang and others asked.
"Am I so cruel?" Lin Jian asked with a smile, and said, "Catch the rabbit alive for ransom silver!" ”
Zhao Qinmin was still really bold and reckless in his heart, but he couldn't say anything if he thought about it, these scoundrels broke through the fence, and they themselves threw themselves into the net, if Lin Lian didn't catch them and extort money from their families, it wouldn't be Lin Lian.
Zhao Shuhan, Ge Siyu, Ge Fu, Wu Yanqing and others were speechless when they heard Lin Jian say so bluntly, and Lin Jian asked the guards to escort them to the grass hall to wait, so as to avoid a rabbit slipping through the net and accidentally injuring them.
Lin Jian and Zhou Pu borrowed a rope ladder to climb the corner tower to watch this rabbit catching show.
Here, the sentry bell Changming, Cao Ziang and others led the homeless recruiters with bamboo guns out of the gate of the fence, and the soldiers and horses of the Dongcheng Lieutenant who began to flee thought that the men and horses here were chasing and killing, and they wished that their parents would give birth to four legs. Chen Zhi and his retinue at the forefront were surrounded by the rebels, and they completely lost the ability to dispatch, command, and judge, listening to the long ringing of the whistle bell, and finally even they thought that the bold Lin Lian led the homeless people to kill from behind, and quickly fled to the official road of Donghua Gate.
"In the scene, in the scene," Lin Jian watched the men and horses of Dongcheng Lieutenant abandon their weapons and armor in the field and fled, leaning over and shouting to Lin Jingzhong under the corner tower, "You pick dozens of people and go to the south field to pick up the weapons, armor and scattered horses - the windfall is current, and if you don't take it, you will be punished by God!" ”
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Chen Zhi escaped more than ten miles in a rage, he did not hesitate to horsepower, whipped and galloped wildly in the field, eleven or twelve miles, he fell off the horse three times, a good horse also ran half dead, he was a little calm to find a high place to check the situation, only to find that except for the soldiers and horses of Dongcheng Captain galloping in the field, there was no chasing enemy behind him. Chen Zhi was frustrated, but he was also afraid that he would make things so bad, so he went back to the city in a mess to scold Wang Xueshan, so he gathered the rebels on the official road of Donghua Gate.
The soldiers are brave and have no fighting spirit, and when they flee in a rage, they only feel that the armor on their bodies and the weapons in their hands are tiring, and seven or eight out of ten of the chaotic soldiers who have collected them will throw away their bows and arrows and armor as soon as possible. The cavalry was not good at horsemanship, and the field was not smoother than the road, and the two hundred cavalry did not fall off the horse, and when they fell off the horse, the horse was frightened away, and they had no time to chase it, so they simply spread their feet and fled for their lives.
Chen Zhi sent people to pick up and discard the armor and horses scattered in the field, and his subordinates were frightened, so they kicked and scolded Chen Zhi and sent 100 people out. The men soon returned, empty-handed. Chen Zhi asked and learned that hundreds of people were sent out in the fence to pick up the armor and horses, and they begged for it, but they didn't give it, so they had to come back to tell it.
Chen Zhi was so angry that he stomped his feet and scolded: "You are soldiers, soldiers and bandits, you are afraid of these fart people!" ”
These rebels all looked at Chen Zhi and asked him to take the lead in begging for weapons. Chen Zhi hesitated for a long time, thinking that with Lin Lian's temper, he was afraid that he would not return the weapons and horses to him in vain, and he didn't have the courage to force Lin Jian at this time, but if he lost so many weapons and horses, Wang Xueshan would naturally not spare him.
Chen Zhi was so worried that he was about to cry, so many weapons, armor and horses were lost, if he wanted to hide from the world, he had to pay for it himself, and he might be able to barely cope with it. Otherwise, if the excessive chaos just now is exposed again, he is worried about whether his life can be saved. The civil affairs and military affairs of Jiangning Mansion are not under the jurisdiction of the county department, but Jiangdong has the right to supervise Jiangning Mansion according to the inspection department, Chen Zhi feels that if Wang Xueshan is angry and does not protect him, it is really difficult to say that his life can be saved in the hands of Gu Wuchen. Since Chen Zhi became the captain of the East Side, he has not done less things such as corruption, bribery, and extortion, buying a house to support his little wife and honoring his superiors, and the money has not been spent, and the furniture he has accumulated is far from enough to compensate more than 400 soldiers and 170 war horses.
However, Wang Xueshan wants to make the two battalions of Dongcheng Lieutenant a model for the government army of Jiangdong County and even the southeast counties, the strength of the combat power is difficult to inspect, but the armor equipment is willing to spend the capital, which is comparable to the elite equipment under the Jiangning garrison general's mansion. The more than 170 horses were all war horses produced in the northwest, and when I first asked for them, I thought that these horses were too strong; This batch of war horses alone is worth tens of thousands of taels of silver.
Chen Zhi was so angry that he beat and scolded these soldiers under him, hating them for bullying the people and tyrannizing the market like a vicious tiger, but at this time, he was so embarrassed and angry. Those veteran soldiers were silent and scolded, knowing that the commander was aggrieved, but if they wanted to go to the estuary to ask for soldiers and horses, they all wanted Chen Zhi to take the lead, they didn't have the courage.
At this time, there were only a dozen scoundrels who escaped the net and fled back to the official road of Donghua Gate, and when they saw Chen Zhi's men and horses gathered on the official road, they cried as if they saw their father's mother: "General Chen, Lord Chen, help, Dongyang raised his son to kill, Dongyang Butcher killed, hundreds of us people, all of them were killed in the fence, just a few of us were fast, escaped, General Chen, Lord Chen, you want to avenge our grievances......"
The hairs on Chen Zhi's back exploded in fright, and he remembered that there were five or six hundred market scoundrels in Jiangning City who had followed their team to watch the excitement today, and he had completely forgotten about them just now.
When Chen Zhi saw such a few people who had just escaped, he thought to himself, these gangsters were bigger than his people, and he was busy asking one person what was going on. After asking, I learned that these market scoundrels looked at the south gate of the fence wall for the Dongcheng Captain's men and horses to occupy, and they blocked the back and couldn't see the excitement, so some people suggested that after going around to the side of the poplar forest, the fence wall was broken from the west side of the fence to make a surprise attack and outflank, who would have thought that the Dongcheng Captain's men and horses would be evacuated in the blink of an eye, and they would become a rout and fleeing rebel in the process of retreating? But their view was blocked by the poplar forest and the surrounding house, and they broke through the fence and rushed in, blocking the front, and outflanking the back road for Lin Lian, only a few people saw that the opportunity was wrong and escaped.
How did they know Lin Lian's thoughts, only when Lin Lian was ruthless and killed.
I heard that five or six hundred market scoundrels were slaughtered by Lin Jian and his people, but Chen Zhi seemed to grasp a life-saving straw, and walked towards Donghua Gate with more than a dozen market scoundrels and his subordinates who had escaped. Lin Jian broke people's hands and feet on the street, it can be said that he was arrogant and domineering, so cruel that he slaughtered hundreds of scoundrels, what is the difference between it and rebellion? Even if these scoundrels break the fence, they must not be slaughtered like this.
In this way, Chen Zhi thought to himself that even if he had to bear the scolding of being defeated and fleeing, it would be better than going bankrupt to compensate so many soldiers and horses.
Chen Zhiyan ordered his subordinates to be vigilant and guard against Lin Tie's attack on the city, and informed the military attache in charge of the Jiangning garrison in Donghua Gate to arrange this side properly, and temporarily placed most of the chaotic soldiers near Donghua Gate.
Wang Xueshan is trying his best to make up for the loopholes and tricks that Zhao Qinmin's defection to Gu Wuchen may bring him, and the others have been in the inner house behind the mansion, and the chief staff Ma Weihan has already left for Yanjing before noon, bringing gold, silver and jewelry to lobby the ministers of the central government in case someone helps Wang Xueshan speak after Gu Wuchen arrives in Yanjing.
Wang Xueshan listened to Chen Zhi's report, and he didn't believe that Lin Lian was so bold as to dare to massacre hundreds of civilians, so he first took a carriage to Donghuamen to check the truth. The hundreds of Dongcheng lieutenants and soldiers brought back by Chen Zhi all lost their armor and abandoned their armor, and dozens of them fell and broke their heads and bled when they fled, which was really worse than the defeated deserters, and these soldiers were also afraid of taking responsibility, so they naturally returned to Wang Xueshan according to Chen Zhi's instructions. Besides, more than a dozen scoundrels in the market complained with blood and tears, and Lin Jian talked about the butcher and the murderous demon king, and followed five or six hundred scoundrels before dozens of people fled back, and Wang Xueshan couldn't believe it. Wang Xueshan is also willing to believe in the boldness of Lin Tie to slaughter civilians in his heart, so that Gu Wuchen can be deeply involved in it, and once Gu Wuchen is dismissed and investigated, the crisis faced by Wang Xueshan will naturally be solved.
"Go find Qin Chengbo!" Wang Xueshan stood on the gate tower of Donghua Gate, looked at the official road extending into the distance as the twilight deepened, and said categorically.
The massacre of hundreds of civilians is like a rebellion, the incident happened in Jiangning, Liujing, which is no longer within the disposal of the Jiangning Mansion, and needs to be disposed of by the Jiangning Military Department, the head of the southeast, and the Jiangning garrison general Qin Chengbo.