The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty.

Chapter 179: Rebellious troops and bandits! What a human tragedy!
Qingzhou Prefecture.

It’s not far from Dengzhou Prefecture.

There are six prefectures under the jurisdiction of Ming Shandong, and there is only Laizhou Prefecture between Dengzhou Prefecture and Qingzhou Prefecture.

After Tang Hao led 5,000 elite troops to leave Dengzhou Prefecture, he rushed to Qingzhou Prefecture non-stop, day and night.

"Master Marquis, all along the way, those guards turned a blind eye and listened but didn't hear."

Tang Mu urged the horse forward, his face full of dissatisfaction.

According to common sense, Tang Hao was the Marquis of Zhongshan in the Ming Dynasty, and he was the imperial minister who led the troops out of Beijing this time. Moreover, His Majesty the Emperor also gave him the power to "act expediently" and "control local troops and horses."

No matter what, the officers and generals of these local guards should at least come to see them. This is the most basic respect.

But they crossed from Dengzhou Prefecture all the way across Laizhou Prefecture, and were about to reach Qingzhou Prefecture, but these damn dogs didn't even show their faces!
To put it bluntly, they didn't take Tang Hao seriously at all!
Tang Hao may not care about this, but subordinates like Tang Mu and Chang Kuohai cannot care about it!

The Lord humiliates his ministers to death, there is no such thing as bullying!
Tang Hao waved his hand indifferently and chuckled: "Let them go!"

This place has entered the boundary of Qingzhou Prefecture, and is only a few hundred miles away from Juzhou, where the rebellion took place.

To be honest, Tang Hao was not so murderous at first. He just wanted to raid Beiwa Dusi, find out those bastards who colluded with the Japanese pirates to provide goods for profit, and kill them all, as a warning to those bastards. Restless gentry.

More often, they just shoot rabbits in the grass, suppressing bandits in name, and more often they directly launch troops to loot. The common people dare to be angry but dare not speak out. Some even more crazy officers and soldiers kill ordinary people in order to receive awards for meritorious service, and falsely report that they have contributed to suppressing bandits. That is to say, "killing good people and claiming merit". Anyway, the court didn't know whether these people were good people or bandits. If they took the heads with a knife, they could exchange them for money.

Seeing this, everyone hurriedly rode their horses to follow, and then stood on a high slope and looked up.

However, he did not expect that these guys would be so cunning and unscrupulous!

Tang Hao's eyes were deep and his murderous intent was overwhelming.

The guard officer did not show up, but along the way, Tang Hao and the others still passed by many guard posts and replenished some food and supplies.

Soldiers come like grates. These officers and soldiers come to suppress bandits and suppress rebellion. In fact, they do more harm than bandits and robbers. The first is to legally allocate the reward fees. There is no way, the people cannot avoid it even if they want to, and they can only be forced to pay these exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

"The guard station military system is to integrate troops into the farm. Three parts of the guard station along the border are used to defend the city, and seven points are used for farming. In the interior, two parts are used to defend the city, and eight points are used for farming. Emperor Taizu Gao's idea was good, but he forgot that any good quality If the system lacks supervision, it will be out of shape and run counter to its original intention.”

In the past, children in rural areas often had a kind of parasite hidden in their hair - lice, which suck people's blood and spread diseases. They couldn't be combed out with a comb. They could only be combed out with a grate. After combing them out, they could kill them one by one. .

"The health center has been rotten for a long time, it can even be said to be completely rotten!"

In the final analysis, this rebellion was planned and launched by those people in order to force him, Tang Hao, to come to quell the rebellion and stop pursuing the matter of Beiwa Dusi. In a sense, it started because of him, Tang Hao.

"When I put down the rebellion, I will naturally find them to deal with them one by one!"

Therefore, they naturally saw the miserable situation of the guardsmen.

It is also a tool for combing hair. The teeth are denser than a comb, and it can comb out things in the hair that cannot be combed out with a comb.

Therefore, Tang Hao now had no choice but to put down this rebellion as quickly as possible to prevent it from affecting more innocent people.

During the White Lotus Rebellion, it was naturally the local people who suffered. They were either bullied and plundered by the rebels, or they were killed by the officers and soldiers dispatched by the court to put down the rebellion!
The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were famous for killing good people and claiming merit.

"They thought that there was a hero standing behind them, so they dared to be so confident!"

This is a true portrayal of the common people, and it is also the real reason why Tang Hao rushed to quell the rebellion.

Seeing a situation in the village ahead, Tang Hao immediately ordered: "Let's go! See what's going on!"

At this moment, everyone suddenly saw bursts of smoke rising in front of them.

"Yidao, write down these words and send them back to His Majesty."

The people went bankrupt and even sold their children and daughters, but they couldn't pay the tax. It was like having their heads shaved!

As soon as he finished speaking, Tang Hao suddenly clamped his horse's belly and ran out first.

"Actually, have you noticed that these guardsmen are so thin that they are almost out of shape? How can they go into battle to kill the enemy?"

In the distance, you can vaguely see the flickering figures of people in the village, which is extremely noisy. From such a distance, you can vaguely hear the sound of chickens crowing and dogs barking, as well as bursts of piercing screams.

That is when the high-ranking officials come and impose excessive taxes and taxes.

"Comb" refers to the comb used to comb hair.

Bandits and robbers rob things, just like combing their hair. They go back and forth and rummage through it several times. The valuable things will definitely not be left, and the worthless things will not be left at all. After the common people are robbed, they can barely survive, and generally they will not be crazy. Killing people is just robbing property, and their lives can be saved.

What? No house or land? There must be a wife and children. If you sell it, you have to pay taxes.

These remarks involved Emperor Taizu Gao, so naturally they did not dare to speak out, so they just listened.

"Shaving" refers to a razor.

"Grate" is the grate used to comb hair.

As the saying goes, bandits come like a comb, soldiers come like a grate, and officials come like a shave!

"They say they are sergeants, but they are actually no different from farmers plowing the fields."

I saw a small village about three miles ahead, and the thick smoke was coming from the village.

Can't afford to pay taxes? That's easy, sell the house and the land.

Zuo Yidao: "..."

Neither Tang Mu nor Zuo Yidao dared to speak, but chose to remain silent.

Tang Mu sighed and said: "I don't even have any armor, swords or guns on me. I just sit there with such a numb expression. Those who didn't know would have thought it was a scarecrow!"

"Officers have inherited the inheritance from generation to generation. Most of the army's farmland has been occupied by officers. The lower-level sergeants have also been soldiers for generations. As a result, they have been reduced to hard labor forced by these officers, cultivating the fields for them, but they have not received half of the income. As time goes by, the army's fields are becoming more and more The army is getting poorer and poorer, and even the officers and soldiers have no land to farm, and the soldiers can't even eat, so how can they go to war to protect their families and the country? "

"Master Hou, it seems like bandits are attacking that village!"

Zuo Yidao looked forward intently and immediately turned his head and said to Tang Hao.

This rebellion happened not long ago, why did Qingzhou become such a mess?

Tang Hao tightened the riding whip in his hand, and murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

OK!

It’s really good!
In broad daylight, gangsters were allowed to attack villages and towns and massacre people!
The inspection departments of the health centers all watched helplessly and remained indifferent!

Even a fool would want to know it. It must have been that beast Bian Xiong who gave the order to prohibit the Inspection Department of the Guard Station from sending troops and allowed these rebels to loot and kill everywhere in order to make the matter worse and force him, Tang Hao, to lead his troops. Put down the rebellion!
Bian Xiong, Bian Xiong, if I don’t kill you, I swear I won’t be a human being!

"What are you still doing?"

"Rescue!"

As soon as the voice fell, Tang Hao galloped forward.

Seeing this situation, everyone no longer hesitated and urged their horses to rush after Tang Hao.

The closer we get to the village, the clearer the screams in the village are!
There were countless people, men, women, old and young, wailing and calling for help, which was listened to for a while.

A few hundred meters away, many bandits could be seen clearly. They were waving sticks and crude spears with ferocious expressions, and they were beating and killing the villagers. The more miserable the villagers screamed, the more wildly they laughed.

The costumes of the gangsters were very messy, but everyone wrapped a red and white cloth strip on their head as a symbol of identifying each other.

With the red and white flag as their nickname, there is no doubt that they are the White Lotus rebels.

The weapons in their hands were also in a mess, not even a decent sword.

A villager rushed out of the street to call for help, but was caught up by the gangsters from behind and stabbed to death on the spot with a crude spear with an iron head attached to a wooden pole!
There was also a frantic bandit who stood on the earth wall at the edge of the village, holding up a snatched infant baby high, laughing maniacally as he tried to throw it down.

The baby's cry resounded throughout the audience. The baby's mother rushed over like crazy to save her child, but was knocked to the ground with a punch by a gangster, and then dragged her feet towards the earth wall. Want to do something by force.

The gangster was about to throw the baby to death on the spot. At that moment, a sharp arrow shot out and penetrated directly into his big dog mouth, piercing it with unparalleled force. His whole head, and then nailed him to the earth wall behind him alive!

This sudden change prevented the bandit from even uttering a scream. He could only watch a small number of cavalry approaching quickly in the distance before his vision was completely darkened.

"There are...officials...military!"

Unfortunately, his entire throat to the back of his head was pierced, and blood spurted out. He couldn't scream at all. He could only let out a reluctant whimper before he died, trying to remind his accomplices.

Tang Hao succeeded with one blow and quickly rushed forward on his horse. The moment the baby was about to fall to the ground, he grabbed the child in his hand.

The baby's shrill cries echoed throughout the audience. After confirming that he was not seriously injured, Tang Hao finally breathed a sigh of relief and showed a kind smile to the little guy.

Then, the little guy cried even harder...

Because of the rapid approach of the large army, some bandits soon noticed it.

"not good!"

"The officers and soldiers are coming!"

"Run away! The army is coming to kill you!"

The reason why they shouted that there were government troops was because they were sure that these people were definitely government troops.

It was because there were very few horses among the rebels, or almost none.

Especially what these people ride are all tall horses, which are excellent war horses that can be sold for sky-high prices anywhere!

Among the large and small bandit dens nearby, including the main force of the White Lotus Sect rebels in Juzhou, there are hardly more than a dozen serious war horses!
Even the common people's own horses or mules were mostly requisitioned by the government and used to transport grain and supplies to Jiubian Military Town.

War horses were a rare thing in the Ming Dynasty. They have always been rare and worth thousands of gold!
As a result, these people in front of me were riding uniform war horses. What were they if they weren't officers and soldiers?
Tang Hao hugged the little guy, with a murderous intent flashing in his eyes.

"Kill these bastards for me!"

"Leave no one behind!"

Tang Mu quickly commanded the battle, and the five thousand elite soldiers were directly divided into three armies. The left and right flanking armies bypassed the villages and towns to form an encirclement. Chang Kuohai led the main force of the Chinese army to rush into the villages and towns, and put these red-headed soldiers into the villages and towns. The white-turbaned bastards were so frightened that they were killed.

In just one encounter, a leader of the rebel army was chopped in half by Chang Kuohai's sword. This ferocious and terrifying scene scared the whole village into silence, and then a burst of noise broke out.

Some of the bandits turned around and ran away, shouting, while the villagers shouted for help in hope, mixed with the heartbreaking sound of cracking bones and the most miserable screams.

In front of the elite troops of the Ming Dynasty, these bandits were like scarecrows, their lives being harvested wantonly, just like they had slaughtered innocent people before, without any resistance at all.

Tang Hao also rode his horse and came behind the earth wall and saw the baby's mother. Her lower body was in a mess, and there was blood spilling from her neck. Her originally dull eyes were filled with despair.

But when she saw Tang Hao saving one of her children, a bright light suddenly burst out from her eyes.

She struggled to say something, but because her neck was scratched, she couldn't say a complete sentence.

Tang Hao hurriedly got off his horse and put the child in her arms. The woman looked down at the child with difficulty, and then tried her best to push the child towards Tang Hao.

"Save...him...please...big..."

Before the last word "human" was uttered, the woman lost her life, and her pale eyes were staring at Tang Hao.

Tang Hao took a deep breath and tremblingly stretched out his hand to smooth her eyes.

"I promise you I will take good care of this child."

As soon as he finished speaking, Tang Hao handed the child to the bodyguard behind him, then rode his horse and rushed into the bandit formation.

As the war horse leaped high and smashed into the crowd, Tang Hao swung the war spear in his hand wildly, knocking the bandit in front of him to the ground like a poisonous dragon, and then smashed the skull of a bandit with another spear. Blood mixed with white liquid spurted out!

Before these gangsters could react, another one was pierced by a spear and picked up directly, and was lifted into the air by Tang Hao. This gangster was not completely dead yet, and he could still let out a shrill and desperate wail in mid-air!
However, when he saw Tang Hao's blood-red eyes, he was so horrified that he couldn't even make a sound.

"Knife!"

The soldier behind him handed over the sword.

Tang Hao took the knife and chopped it off with his backhand. The gangster's head fell to the ground, and blood gushed out like a waterfall.

Under the unyielding gaze of this gangster, Tang Hao had already raised his knife and chopped off the head of another gangster!

In this way, the bandits are just bullies. When have you ever seen such terrifying Ming soldiers, they either ran away like crazy or knelt down to beg for mercy.

They couldn't understand why these officers and soldiers were so cruel.

But they forgot that the methods they used to deal with the people just now were even more cruel than they were now, but they were all thrown out of the window!
Except for a few stubborn ones who were still waving crude weapons to stop them, almost 90% of the bandits began to run for their lives, and were actually killed outright!
They didn't have the courage to resist. Although they had just killed someone, it was just for the sake of catharsis and to show their fearlessness!
In fact, they were just ordinary people at the beginning. They lived a peaceful and happy life although they were not rich. However, because of various excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes imposed by the government, they could not pay the taxes, and the government would forcibly take away their fields. How can the people survive without their fields?
So they refused to sell their land, so they had to sell their sons and daughters. But last year they sold their daughters and paid taxes and rent. What should they do this year?
Those officials and poor men don't care whether ordinary people can pay taxes. They only think about how to squeeze more money out of these lowly and unruly people.

Therefore, they were forced into desperation. Suddenly they heard that the White Lotus Sect in Juzhou was rebelling. They also started to rebel without stopping, hoping to follow the gods and Buddhas of the White Lotus Sect to overthrow this stupid society. The world!

Even if they become bandits, they are even more timid than those ordinary people.

Because only when they really want to kill someone, will they truly feel the despair that goes deep into their bones!

They also want to live, but the world does not allow them to live, so they have no choice but to rebel, and they have no choice but to kill!
Only by killing can the humble fear in the heart be suppressed!
Therefore, they try to numb their guilty conscience and guilt like thieves in killing and then abandon it!

They didn't dare to attack the guard city, so they had no choice but to bully these kind people.

Ever since, the killings began, from one village to another. They were surprised to find that all the officers and soldiers of the Guard Inspection Department chose to stand by and let them loot and kill wantonly, so their courage gradually grew. stand up!
As long as they don't actively provoke these officers and soldiers, the officers and soldiers will not beat them, and they can continue to rob and kill in these villages and towns!
This was supposed to be a feat of people fighting against injustice, but under the use of thoughtful people, it turned into a tragedy of people killing people!
In this world, there has never been a person who was born to rebel!
If they can live peacefully, who would want to live such a life of licking blood from the edge of a knife?

It's a pity that they deserve to die!
However, in the face of their begging for mercy, no one in the soldiers was merciful, and the swords would still be dropped fiercely, sending these bastards back to the west.

Gradually, the gangsters fell into a pool of blood one by one. Most of the corpses were separated, with broken limbs and arms. There was almost no complete corpse in sight.

Tang Hao chopped off the head of the last bandit, and the murderous intention in his heart finally subsided.

He looked around and then fixed his gaze on an old man.

"May I ask my husband, where is the inspection department of the nearby health center?"

The old man may have been frightened by Tang Hao's power, so he hesitated for a long time and couldn't explain clearly.

Upon seeing this, Tang Hao smiled and comforted him, then turned to look at Tang Mu and Zuo Yidao.

"You two lead two thousand troops each, and capture all the officers, generals and assistants of the nearby guard inspection department for me!"

"In addition, the word has spread to the entire Qingzhou Prefecture, and all the inspection departments of the guards will immediately send troops to encircle and suppress the rebels and bandits. If there is another village or town near them that is massacred by the rebels and bandits, I, the Marquis of Zhongshan, Tang Hao, will massacre his entire patrol department of the guards. , No chickens or dogs left!”

(End of this chapter)