Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

The south gate was finally opened with the unremitting efforts of the soldiers entering the city.The Ming army at the door rushed in under the leadership of Jiang Cheng.Seeing that the Ming army entered the city again, Chen Zhongzhi didn't talk to Huang Qi and them any more, and took his own soldiers, and immediately went down to join Jiang Cheng's troops to hunt down the rebels who fled to Shuicheng.

And the battle in Beicheng became more and more fierce.Finally, a few soldiers of the Liaodong Army killed the city wall.Seeing this situation, some young military attaches in the Liaodong Army, such as Wu Sangui and Zu Kuan, also personally led the army to attack the city.

The small stream opened by the Ming army on the north wall immediately turned into a big gap.Li Yingyuan's rebels found out that Kong Youde and the others were fleeing to Shuicheng, so they didn't want to fight at all, and took a moment to run down the city wall and flee to Shuicheng.

Li Yingyuan also turned around and started to run away.At this time, there were only three or five soldiers around him.Li Yingyuan didn't dare to look back at all, he hurriedly ran from the stairs to the city wall, for fear that he would be entangled by the Liaodong army who attacked the city wall.

Li Yingyuan only heard screams from behind him. Those voices were very familiar, and they were all his own soldiers who had been with him day and night.So Li Yingyuan's footsteps became faster. When there were still two or three steps left to go down the city wall, suddenly, Li Yingyuan heard a gust of wind behind him, and then he felt a sharp pain in his right shoulder, so Li Yingyuan immediately lost his balance and fell on the ground. on the ground.

Li Yingyuan struggled to turn over, and was immediately pressed to the ground by a group of Liaodong Army soldiers.During the struggle, Li Yingyuan's helmet fell off, and his long hair fell loose, making him look extremely embarrassed.

A soldier of the Eastern Liao Army grabbed Li Yingyuan's hair, and together with several other Eastern Liao Army soldiers who grabbed Li Yingyuan's hands, they lifted Li Yingyuan up from the ground and brought him to a military officer of the Eastern Liao Army.

Li Yingyuan felt that the bone in his right shoulder must have been smashed, and he grinned from the pain.And he also knew the military attache of the Liaodong Army in front of him. It was Li Yingyuan's father, Li Jiucheng's Zu Kuan, who shot dead Li Yingyuan's father with an arrow.

You can't lose if you lose.Li Yingyuan stiffened his neck and yelled at Zu Kuan: "You son of a bitch, if you have the guts, give me a good time!"

Zu Kuan raised his leg and kicked Li Yingyuan's stomach.Then he stepped forward and patted Li Yingyuan on the right cheek and said: "I killed your father first, and now I have caught you, a bastard. Don't worry, I will not kill you now. I will send you to the capital and have a look at Caishikou Your elegant demeanor! Hahahaha! Take it away!"

Amidst Li Yingyuan's series of angry curses, a group of Liaodong Army soldiers rushed up and tied him up and took him down.Zu Kuan immediately ordered: "I'm going to hurry up, those Shandong dogs have already taken our lead, now we have to catch Kong Thief and Geng Thief together, don't lose face to our Guan Ning iron cavalry."

But no matter how fast the Liaodong Army moved.It was also faster than the coalition forces of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing who had been in the city for a long time.Chen Zhongzhi and Jiang Cheng's movements were quite fast. They intercepted most of the rebels who hadn't retreated into Shuicheng and the rebels who escaped from the northern city wall.

Seeing that the situation was not good, a large number of rebels surrendered to the Ming army of Chen Zhongzhi and Jiang Cheng.They did not dare to surrender to the Liaodong Army.At that time in Liaodong, the conflict between these rebels from Dongjiang Town and the Liaodong Army was too deep.

What made Chen Zhongzhi and Jiang Cheng even more excited.Before the rebels had time to move into Shuicheng, several cargo warehouses fell into their hands.In addition, there was an unexpected spoil. In a square area composed of dozens of private houses, nearly [-] young women in ragged clothes were found imprisoned and left behind by the rebels.

But at this time, the Liaodong Army also came, and Qiu Lei's troops also entered the city.When seeing these captives and goods, the three Ming armies immediately seemed to be red-eyed.It's time to start snatching prisoners and goods.

The speed of the three follow-up reinforcements from the Ming army is so fast!Everyone is a Scud, everyone is Wu Erlang.If Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian hadn't rushed into Dengzhou City in time, maybe the three Ming armies would have clashed on the spot under the eyes of the rebels.

After all.This is also because Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing ate too much alone, they didn't leave a mouthful of soup for the other Ming soldiers.It wasn't until Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian ordered the warehouse to be kept and distributed by them that the three Ming armies resentfully stopped their hostility.

But when the Ming army confronted each other, the chaotic rebel army also took advantage of this time to organize.By the time the Ming army was organized again, the rebels had long been waiting on the top of Shuicheng.But this time, Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing, the two "leaking experts", have already been blacklisted by all civil and military officials of the Ming army, so they were all excluded from the ranks of the Ming army who attacked Shuicheng this time.

Although Wu Shigong also entered the city, he and the Runing Army did not go to the confrontation place to dazzle at all.Anyway, Wu Shigong absolutely trusted Liu Zeqing, how could a person who was so fat and fat enough to play tricks with Sheng Yangong be a softie at this time?

Wu Shigong first asked the Runing Army to snatch the Western artillery erected on the wall of the West City.Sadly, the Western artillery sold to Sun Yuanhua by the Portuguese at that time were all ship guns and fortress guns.The power is enough, but it is difficult to move at all, and it is impossible to turn the muzzle of the cannon and bombard the water city.

And after Qiu Lei's Ming army went up to the west city wall, they didn't let the Runing army move around.So in the end, Wu Shigong concentrated all his manpower and horsepower, carried four six-pound artillery pieces and dragged them back to Nancheng.

However, the smaller caliber artillery has a lot to gain.A total of 27 artillery pieces of about one pound were seized.It can also be seen how thorough and crazy Sun Yuanhua's firearms reform was at that time!

The rest are the tools and gunpowder shells needed for artillery. Wu Shigong doesn't care if they are useful or not, anyway, he put these things in one pot.And there are more firecrackers and dropped weapons.And most of these were snatched by the Runing Army.This advanced city is indeed a big advantage!

While the soldiers of the Runing Army were busy, Wu Shigong himself was not idle either.He was comforting Huang Qifa and Song Bazong.

"You don't have to worry. Since you have trusted me, I will protect you. Think about it yourself. If you are willing to stay with me, then I will arrange for you. If you don't want to, This officer will also send you to the Governor and the Superintendent, and let the two adults reward you."

After discussing for a while, Huang Qifa took some 230 soldiers under his command to seek refuge with Wu Shigong.Song Bazong led more than 500 rebels anyway, and decided to surrender to Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian.

In fact, this choice is not difficult to make, it must be who the official is going to rely on!It goes without saying that the official positions of Zhu Dadian, Gao Qiqian and Wu Shigong, a small capital, are so far apart.

And Huang Qifa also hesitated for a long time before deciding to join Wu Shigong.The reason why he finally turned to Wu Shigong was mainly because in the last negotiation, Wu Shigong's superb performance shocked Huang Qifa's soul too much.To put it in a modern saying that is often used: what Huang Qifa likes is not Wu Shigong's official position, but Wu Shigong himself.

Wu Shigong didn't break his promise, he sent people to send Song and the general manager away first, and then began to arrange for Huang Qifa.

"I guarantee the safety of your personal life. I guarantee the safety of your private property. If you still want to serve as soldiers, you can come to my Runing Army. However, the requirements of my Runing Army are very high. Only those who pass the examination can get the full salary.”

"You can also inquire about it. I have never been in arrears with the military salary of the Runing Army, and it has been paid in full. But it is not easy to be a soldier of this officer. You have to observe discipline and endure hardships. Anyway, if you are willing to serve as soldiers , you can try it for three months first, and then make a decision at that time, I guarantee that you can come and go freely."

"If you don't want to be a soldier, you can get 20 taels of silver to find your own way out. You can also go to Runing with me without money, and each of you can rent [-] mu of land from me. As long as I work for one day, the land rent is fixed. Turn over [-]%. Anyway, you can choose yourself."

"As for you military officers, to be honest, I'm just a capital officer, and it's impossible to arrange too high an official position for you. Let's say you, Mr. Huang Qian, will have at most one official position at that time."

Wu Shigong looked at Huang Qifa's ugly face, and then said: "It sounds like this official's conditions are very harsh. But it's good to follow this official. I never do things that break promises. It should be yours. Yours. As for the treatment, the total military salary of the generals of the Runing Army is far more than the military salary of the Ming Army. Of course, there is no such thing as extra money in our Runing Army. How to choose, anyway President Huang Qian will figure it out."

After finishing speaking, Wu Shigong left.He left Yu Ji by Huang Qifa's side, preparing for Huang Qifa's question in case.In Wu Shigong's view, if Huang Qifa and these rebels can stay anyway, that's fine, but if they can't, then it doesn't matter.To be honest, Wu Shigong still felt that his conditions were too superior.

Of course Huang Qifa felt dissatisfied with this condition.But he can't help it, now it's impossible to surrender to Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian at random.So Huang Qifa had no choice but to board Wu Shigong's boat.

Wu Shigong gave these rebels enough time to discuss. It was not until that night that the rebels came to a conclusion. Only [-] or so people were willing to stay.And all they have to leave is money. They are used to living on the tip of the knife, and it is impossible to become a farmer again.

Wu Shigong sent these unwilling rebels to the camp of the Henan Army anyway, and then simply organized the remaining people into a company.

Huang Qifa definitely didn't want to become a commoner like this, so he temporarily served as the company commander of this company and was awarded the general title.Wu Shigong didn't get the consent of Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian, so he just arranged for Huang Qifa's rebels anyway.

Wu Shigong was busy collecting, while Liu Zeqing was busy counting the seized property.Not counting the gold and silver jewelry that had fallen into the hands of the captive rebels, it was impossible for Liu Zeqing to hand over all the goods in the warehouse to Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian.In addition, there are armor, firecrackers and weapons.The only regret is that when the rebels fled in a hurry, they rode away all the horses. The coalition forces of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing did not capture a single horse this time. (To be continued..)