Chapter 18: The Rebellion Is Unstoppable

(The second update, ask for a red ticket)

Where did the more than ten Qingzhou soldiers who crossed the line think that the Jiangdong Left Army would kill if they said they would kill, dozens of sharp arrows were shot over, and they had nowhere to hide, and even if they wore armor at a distance of fifty paces, they could not form an effective protection against the foot bow, and only three or five people were lucky not to be hit by the arrows, and they stood there stupidly, not knowing whether to advance or retreat.

The arrow died immediately, more than a dozen arrow soldiers hid and wailed - this group of soldiers instigated the most violent four leaders also took arrows to Ao Canghai to shoot, two people with wounded hands and feet and used to crawl back, afraid that there would be another random arrow shooting, one person lay on the ground motionless, seeing that he could not live, one person was hit by an arrow in the chest, his hand covered the arrow wound, sat on the ground and scolded, asking the soldiers to rush up and kill the Jiangdong Left Army to avenge him.

However, in the face of the strict formation of the Jiangdong Left Army and the cold arrows poking out of the gap between the high shields, this large group of Qingzhou soldiers did not have the courage to advance again, but they were also blocked in the street and refused to retreat easily......

"This gang of rebels is very unprepared, or they are deceived by rumors and act in a hurry to prevent our troops from entering the city," Ao Canghai handed the bow to the guards and held it, and retreated to the back to talk to Lin Lian, "They are hesitating at this time, and they are losing ground, and it is not a big problem, do you directly send someone to defeat them?" ”

"There's no need," Lin Jian shook his head, "Since they don't want me to go into the city, then I'll find a place here to rest for a while, and the Shandong County Division will come forward to take care of the chaos, so you can't ask me to wipe their butts for them." ”

Lin Jian said to Du Juefu and other local officials in Shouguang: "Please send officials to walk the alleys and inform the people in the city to close their doors and avoid the disturbance of the rebels......

Du Juefu did not expect that Liu Yefei, Chen Debiao and others all agreed to Lin Tie entering the city to discuss the aftermath of the Changyi mutiny, but the generals below the Qingzhou Army were in chaos for no reason to drive Lin Tie and the Jiangdong Left Army out of the city. At this time, although it can still deter the immediate chaos, almost half of the street is blocked, and there are thousands of Qingzhou soldiers who refuse to retreat.

Du Juefu only felt that his head had risen by two sizes, knowing that once these soldiers lost control, it would form a big chaos, he didn't dare to take half a step away from Lin Lian, after all, he still felt that it was safe to stay by Lin Lian's side, and listened to Lin Lian's orders, so that the officials went through the alleys to inform the people in the city to close the door, in case the Qingzhou army caused a big riot.

Lin Jian looked at the situation in front of him, and also felt a headache, he bowed his head and gave in, if the officials of Shandong County were worried about being admonished by the soldiers, they could completely refuse him to enter the city, even if they negotiated through the city wall, or let people spread the word among them, it was much better than driving the rebels to block them from entering the city. Looking at these soldiers crowded on the streets, there is no anecdote, and it doesn't look like they are driven behind it. If it were not artificially instigated, but spontaneous riots and mutinies, it would have been even worse, and once the situation deteriorated and expanded, it would have been difficult to control.

There are too few troops brought into the city by Lin Tie, and there are no reinforcements outside the city, so it is easy to defeat the gang of rebels in front of him, but if the more than 4,000 Qingzhou troops in the entire Shouguang City are bombed and mutinied, the problem will be troublesome.

Lin Jian was not worried that the big mutiny would be bad for them.

The situation in front of him shows that Liu Yefei's control over the Qingzhou Army is very poor, he has only cared about recruiting troops and routs for more than a month, and only caring about exerting favors to envelop his own forces, but he has not rectified them, and the military attaches and generals are all cottage leaders, leaders of the rout, and the soldiers are also under their own command, which is very chaotic.

If the Qingzhou Army is separated from a small group and a small force, they may still have some combat effectiveness, after all, the military attachés and generals have some cronies who can be called, but there is a lack of sufficient trust between these military attachés and generals, and it may be that a battalion of Qingzhou Army descendants and collateral departments will be divided into more than a dozen factions. At this time, the Qingzhou Army was, to put it bluntly, a rabble forcibly entangled together, and had not yet truly formed a perfect Qingzhou Army system.

Such a Qingzhou army may be slightly stronger than the Liukou, but for the Jiangdong Left Army, it is not much of a threat.

Entering Shouguang City with Lin is the elite of the first battalion, and it is not afraid of being impacted by the rabble, and it is even easy to defeat these rabble.

The Qingzhou Army was originally formed by recruiting defeated pawns and bandits, and in a short period of time, it was defeated for the second time, and the destructive power of the defeated pawns who fell into despair and madness to the place is unimaginable.

Even if these Qingzhou troops had to be forcibly suppressed, they would have to transfer more troops to be sure to bring the situation under control.

Tang Haoxin is also in Shouguang City, since these Qingzhou soldiers are so aimed at the Jiangdong Left Army that entered the city, maybe Tang Haoxin will also be impacted, Lin Jian asked Ma Chao: "Where is Tang Gong at this time, is there a shortcut to take Tang Gong out......

Ma Chao touched his nose and said: "Tang Gong is in the post house in the east of the city, so it is inconvenient to take it for the time being, but with the support of more than 60 soldiers you sent, it should be fine to guard the post house from the impact of the rebels......

Ma Chao knew in his heart why the situation in front of him had occurred, and the rumors of liquidating the rebel generals and demoted generals in the Qingzhou army were spread by him. During the day, he also used Tang Haoxin's name to forcefully demand that Chen Debiao, the governor of Shandong, and the Shouguang County Ya severely crack down on the behavior of the Qingzhou soldiers in violating military discipline and harassing the people in Shouguang City, so that the Qingzhou army felt the oppression of being liquidated.

Ma Chao originally thought that the rumors could not have an immediate effect, and neither he nor Tang Haoxin expected that Lin Lian's behavior of killing the rebel generals in Yangxin would cause much panic in the hearts of those rebel generals and generals in the Qingzhou army.

The generals of the Qingzhou Army were unable to know the sense of urgency of the Gyeonggi grain shortage and the grain crisis, nor could they understand that the split between Tang Gu and Zhang Yue, the core figures of the Chu Party, was involved behind the confrontation between Lin Tie and the Shandong County Division.

At first, even a few officers who were drunk in the tavern heard that the Jiangdong Left Army was entering the city, and they were enthusiastic, thinking that with the Qingzhou Army being numerous in Shouguang, they would return to the barracks and pull out more than 100 of their men to Beicheng to prevent the Jiangdong Left Army from entering the city. During the day, many soldiers who did not abide by military discipline and harassed the people ate dozens of sticks from the governor's mansion and the county government, and they were holding back hatred in their hearts; There are even three-person wheels/women in big houses in the city who are arrested and questioned for their crimes, and their accomplices also hold grudges and have the intention of causing trouble, lest the world will not be chaotic. In a drum, the distance from South Street to North Street was less than three or five hundred steps, and thousands of people gathered, forming an uncontrollable situation in front of them......

The contagion and spread of panic in the hearts of the people is extremely rapid, especially the Qingzhou Army has not yet formed a perfect system, and once the riots are formed, it is very difficult to be controlled, and the rebellion of the rebels is not the only one that has happened in history. At present, Lin Jian is only using force to temporarily suppress the situation near the North City Gate to prevent it from continuing to deteriorate, and now it depends on whether Liu Yefei has the ability and courage to suppress these rioting Qingzhou troops.

Of course, Lin Jian didn't completely count on Liu Yefei, and secretly sent scouts to contact Zhou Pu and Zhou Pu. Zhou Pu led the cavalry camp to rest in Yangshanzhai thirty miles away, and rushed over the most quickly; Zhou Tong led the third battalion soldiers to leave the mouth of the Yanghe River in the morning and march along the east bank of the Yanghe River to Yangshanzhai, which should be on the west side of Shouguang at this time, and can also be transferred in time to suppress the mutiny.

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Shouguang City is not big, and when the Jiangdong Left Army fired arrows to warn, the piercing sharp sound naturally reached the ears of Liu Yefei, Chen Debiao, Ge Zufang and others who were waiting in the county office, and they only woke up from a dream at this time that they realized that there was chaos outside.

Liu Yefei didn't know the situation at first, so he asked people to go out to find out, and they waited for news in the courtyard in front of the county office. A lieutenant of the Qingzhou Army, Zhenwei, fled back with half of his body covered in blood and an arrow stuck in his shoulder, and reported to Liu Yefei that the Jiangdong Left Army had killed people indiscriminately when it entered the city, and also said that he would arrest Liu Yefei and other Shandong county officials for questioning.

Liu Yefei frowned, unusually angry, and scolded at the sky: "The mother surnamed Lin is Wang Basheng, he ate leopard gall, he really dared to rebel in Qingzhou, Lao Tzu didn't beat him to the point that his mother didn't know, Lao Tzu wouldn't be surnamed Liu ......" didn't think about it, he had to send an order to transfer troops to Beicheng to participate in the battle, and beat the Jiangdong Left Army out of the city.

"Wait!" Chen Debiao was able to serve as the governor of Shandong, in addition to his previous tenure in the Ministry of War, he also actually served as a military supervisor in the border army for several years with the title of military preparation, and had actual experience in leading troops, so he was not so easy to coax, and gave the left and right guards a look, and several people on the left and right rushed up to detain the lieutenant Zhenwei, Chen Debiao's eyes were round, he took out half of his saber, pressed it against his neck, and asked: "What is the matter with the arrow wound on your body?" Do you really think that we are blind, how can it be possible to kill people when the Jiangdong Left Army has just entered the city and blinked? If you want to say half a sentence, be careful that your life is not guaranteed! ”

This lieutenant Zhenwei had twenty or thirty cronies guarding outside the gate of the county government, watching the head be detained, regardless of 3721, he rushed in to rob people.

In the courtyard of the county government, Chen Debiao, Liu Yefei, and Ge Zufang all had a lot of guards, and there were two or three hundred people gathered together, but they didn't watch out for the rebels suddenly rushing in, Ge Zufang was the first to flee into the lobby in a panic, Chen Debiao was also startled, and gave the deputy lieutenant Zhenwei the opportunity to break free, and seven or eight guards guarded in front of the steps, and hugged him to protect him, only one person went to chase the lieutenant Zhenwei, and only had time to cut a knife on his arm, and before he had time to make up another knife, the rebels rushed in.

That lieutenant Zhenwei was originally the one who took the lead in making trouble outside the northern city to prevent the Jiangdong Left Army from entering the city, but he was hit by an arrow, and he didn't dare to rush forward again, so he shrank his head to the back, and he was unwilling to think about it. Really said that things have come to this point, if you don't make a big fuss, you will make a lot of trouble, and there will definitely be no good fruit for him to eat. He has been mixed all these years and knows a truth, if you don't have the strength, the government will naturally arrest you, suppress you, and use you as a scapegoat, military merit, and political achievements; You have to have strength, you have soldiers and pawns in your hands, no matter how many evil things you usually do, the government will only recruit you and stick to you with a hot face.

As soon as this person struggled away, he jumped to the gate and shouted: "Damn, the Admiral's Mansion is going to liquidate the Qingzhou Army, Lao Tzu was almost poisoned by the dog/mother Chen Debiao, and the brothers have no way to live!" Robbed Shouguang City, everyone continued to go back to the mountains to be bandits, drink old wine, Japanese girls, happy and happy, a hundred times stronger than his mother being angry here! ”

At this time, Chen Debiao knew that the Qingzhou army had mutinied, and he hurriedly commanded the left and right guards to kill more than 20 rebels in the courtyard, closed the gate of the county government, and sent people to find ladders to climb the wall. They had spent too much time in the county government studying how to deal with Lin Tie's entry into the city, completely ignoring the internal dynamics of the Qingzhou Army in the city.

"How is it good, how is this good?" Ge Zufang was completely like a headless fly, trembling and only worried about his own life, "Quickly send an order to let Lin Jian lead the troops into the town to suppress the mutiny!" ”

"Panic what!" Liu Yefei also completely lost patience with the timid and fearful Ge Zufang, and stopped Ge Zufang's mindless shouting with a reprimanding tone, he said, "These eight lambs, I usually treat them well, and I won't turn against me for no reason." How can you know that it's not the swineherd who is deliberately making trouble? Let him suppress the mutiny, be careful to suppress you and me first. ”

In fact, if Liu Yefei had enough courage to go out at the risk of being held hostage, it would still be possible to contain the riot, after all, he had also tried his best to win over some generals during this time, as long as he could have a useful army and horses for him to use, and he could gain the trust of some generals, the situation might be controlled.

But Liu Yefei completely vented his grievances on Lin Lian's head, and he didn't have the courage to go out to control the rebellious soldiers, thinking of the consequences caused by this, Liu Yefei, who was usually quite assertive, was completely confused.

It is an indisputable fact that the Qingzhou Army, which has only been a month after recruiting and defeating soldiers and bandits on a large scale, is extremely chaotic and unstable, and it is difficult for Liu Yefei to exercise effective control. Regardless of whether Lin Tie is making trouble behind his back, in the chaos of the Qingzhou Army in Shouguang, Liu Yefei will lose the capital to fight with Tang Haoxin and Lin Tie, Chen Debiao naturally knows that he should be on that side at this time, and he will not provoke Liu Yefei at this time, the most important thing at the moment is to suppress the mutiny of the Qingzhou Army.

Chen Debiao used the excuse of arranging the defense of the county government compound to avoid rushing in for the rebels, walked to a corner that Liu Yefei couldn't see, brought in a quick cronie, gave him the admiral's letter talisman, and instructed: "You go to the north of the city, hand over my letter talisman to Lin Lian, the commander of the Jiangdong Left Army, and ask him to do things cheaply to suppress the mutiny of the Qingzhou Army!" ”

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In the post house in the east of the city, Tang Haoxin borrowed a ladder to climb the wall, looked at the chaos in the city, didn't say a word, went down the wall, and only let the guards sent by Lin Tie to protect him guard the courtyard tightly, and ignore the rights and wrongs outside.

Since Lin Jian has taken control of the North City Gate Building, the situation will not deteriorate to any place, and he will not take the safety of Shouguang Town to heart.

Tang Haoxin returned to the house, and suddenly had the idea of writing big characters, and said to the little guy who had been with him for five or six years: "Take the inkstone and ink out, I can write a good character today......" and couldn't help muttering proudly, "It's good if it's messy, it's good if it's messy, and it's possible to cut through the mess quickly if it's messy." ”