Blood from Daming

Chapter 124 New Year's Eve
Xue Wu was a little sad after hearing Xue Yun's words: "Young master, if you don't send troops to help this time, our thousand soldiers will be in danger of being wiped out. The officials of the court will either sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight or fall into trouble. I didn't expect that the second master will be killed at a critical moment. Abandoning us is really chilling, young master, I will do whatever you say, isn’t it rebellion, I Xue Wugan is a barefoot person who is not afraid of wearing shoes.”

Xue Yun: "Fifth brother, it's not that serious now, but you and your second uncle have to make a good team, remember that power comes out of the sword, and don't leave the team easily at any time. If you need to leave, you and your second uncle can only be friends." Go alone, don't believe the lies of court officials."

Xue Wu: "Master, what will happen if the Xue family is convicted or dismissed, and my second uncle and I are arrested."

Xue Yun: "Naturally, I resisted and pulled the troops out. You can join me or go guerrilla in Henan and Huguang areas. This is one of the reasons why I vigorously develop cavalry for you."

Xue Wu: "Could it be that the young master already has objections."

Xue Yun: "Five Brothers have immediate worries without long-term considerations. Some things need to be planned out. Nowadays, the emperor is stupid, and the civil servants are trying their best to suppress the military generals. In order to protect themselves, the military personnel can only support the soldiers and separate themselves. This is also the inevitable destination of the military officials."

Xue Wu: "Young Master, since you have turned against the imperial court, it is better to take down the city of Beijing, and the Young Master will be the emperor."

Xue Yun: "Fifth brother, we still have to see who the destiny belongs to. If the court is strong, we can kill officials and rebel. It's not like the folks often say 'killing people and setting fire to the golden belt'. If the destiny is there, my fifth brother is also a member of the new dynasty." Words are king side by side."

Xue Wu: "Second uncle has a lot of resentment towards the imperial court. I'll go and find out his tone. The young master is really clever and quietly arranged the situation."

Xue Yun: "Xue Wu is really flattering me. My brother, I will tell you the truth. My original intention is to train elite soldiers for the imperial court, to fight against Jurchen and Mongols, and to carry forward the Xue family. Unfortunately, the emperor is stupid and the officials are corrupt. , Loyal ministers go to the country, and treacherous ministers are in power, but I am not a foolish and loyal minister like Yue Wumu, who allows civil servants to play with him, hey, I only recently found out that my biological mother was from the White Lotus Sect."

Xue Wu: "If the court of the White Lotus Sect is implicated, not only the young master is in trouble, but the entire Xue residence may be a disaster."

Xue Yun: "So I have laid an ambush in Datong, and even if the court knows my identity, it will not be able to do anything to me."

Xue Wu: "Young Master, how much controllable troops do you have now?"

Xue Yun: "The Ten Thousand Army of Datong is still very sure. Sixth brother, Li Xiaoyong, and Wang Erwa are buddies. Yang Zhenlei and Lu Yaojin are not a big problem. The soldiers of Datong and I have a friendship of life and death. In addition, your sister-in-law Ha Rizhula holds [-] Mongolian cavalry, and I have a good relationship with Chahar Lindan Khan, which can be used." Xue Yun encouraged Xue Wu to brainwash him.

Xue Wu was overjoyed: "The young master can accomplish such a great thing, but the young master's mother is a member of the White Lotus Sect, so why did the young master attack the White Lotus Sect so cruelly?"

Xue Yun: "The White Lotus Sect is mixed with dragons and snakes, and there are many factions. What's more, Ma Dashan took the initiative to provoke us. We are not on the same side as the White Lotus Sect."

Xue Yun and Xue Wu continued to discuss in private for a long time, and finally Xue Yun told Xue Wu that he would come as soon as possible to join the team escorted by Xu Zhifu to escort the Bailian sect criminals, and that he was going to interrogate Ma Dashan at night in Xuezhuang. Xue Wu didn't understand that Ma Dashan was being interrogated After so long, there is no necessary information. Could it be that Ma Dashan will speak out by himself in Xuezhuang, and Xue Wu himself is not easy to ask.

Xue Yun led Lu Yaojin, Zuo Ming, Wang Erwa and other [-] cavalry to Zhangjia Village in Dezhou, and finally arrived late on the fourth year of Tianqi's New Year's Eve.After Zhang Wangcai fled back to Zhangjia Village, he immediately hid in his fort. Fearing that Xue's army would come to retaliate, he immediately ordered his subordinates to strengthen defenses and strengthen the fort.

Zhang Wangcai was nervous for several days but did not find Xue Jiaming's army appearing in Dezhou. He guessed that Xue's army might not have entered Shandong, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.Zhang Wangcai regretted listening to Ma Dashan's words of killing embryos, and plunged himself into a dangerous vortex. The officers and soldiers have seen many of them for so many years and have never been afraid. The cost of being a thieves was gone.

No matter how depressed Zhang Wangcai is, he still has to live this year. The New Year’s Eve reunion dinner still needs to be eaten, and he must eat well and play well. Only the fathers and villagers in the family village enjoy it, and they have been busy until soon after the occasion is closed and everyone disperses.

Xue Yun's cavalry was still more than ten miles away from Zhangjiacun, and Xue Yun and other dozens of people had been staying five miles away from Zhangjiacun. Zhangjiacun is a large village with a population of thousands, and it is very good to have a wall It is very difficult for ordinary bandits and robbers to capture such a village. Zhang Wangcai even built a taller and stronger inner fort in the village. If Xue Yun wants to attack Zhang Wangcai, he must first knock down the wall of the Zhang family village. When Zhang Wangcai was alarmed, he approached the inner castle.

It was about three o'clock that the noise in Zhangjia Village stopped, and all the lights of each house were extinguished. It seemed that the people of Daming hadn't had the habit of making noise all night, and it was almost four o'clock.

Xue Yun called Lu Yaojin, Zuo Ming, Wang Erwa, and dozens of mid-level officers to the front of him: "This attack on Zhangjiacun will be a surprise attack at first. If it turns into a formal encirclement and suppression of the White Lotus Sect bandits, we will unleash the Ming army flag to frighten the villagers of Zhangjiacun. , now the primary goal is to destroy the White Lotus Sect, destroy all enemies who dare to resist, and in principle, those who do not resist will be captured first, but the inner fort of Zhangjia Village is not in it."

Lu Yaojin appointed a team of about 50 pro-army people to go to Zhangjiacun. Lu Yaojin led the brigade of pro-military troops to follow Xue Yun and asked, "How many Yaojin explosive packs are there?"

Lu Yaojin: "Originally there were forty medicine packs, but more than a dozen were used in the bunker of Majiaji Ma Dashan in Dongchang, and now there are only more than 20 medicine packs."

Xue Yun: "These explosive packs are used at critical moments to break through the gates of the inner fort. It is not very convenient to enter the stockade to bow and arrow. Pay attention to the power of the fire system."

Lu Yaojin nodded and led the team to Zhangjiacun. Xue Yun turned his head and said to Zuo Ming and Wang Erwa, "Let's go. Let's start fighting and everyone will follow."

Zuo Ming and Wang Erwa agreed in unison that there would be 300 people behind the reserve team, leaving 100 people to take care of the horses, and there were only more than 200 people who followed Xue Yun and the soldiers.Xue Yun's pro-army successfully entered the gate of Zhangjiacun's fort, and the vanguard went straight into Zhang Wangcai's inner fort.

When Xue Yun stepped onto the gate of the Zhaibao in Zhangjiacun, he asked the soldiers guarding the gate: "How did the gate of the Zhaibao be opened without being discovered by the enemy?"

The soldier guarding the gate: "General, it is said that when the forward arrived at the gate of the fort, the gate of the fort just opened, and everyone immediately controlled the few people who opened the gate. Those few people were late watching the big show in the neighboring village and stayed overnight at relatives' homes in Zhangjia Village. Yes, I begged my relatives to find someone to open the door and leave the village early today in a hurry to go back before dawn, and our officers and soldiers took advantage of it.” Xue Yun secretly sighed that no matter how good the system is, it must be implemented by responsible people, otherwise everything It is all empty talk, and I should learn from it myself.

When the first screams from Zhangjia Village sounded, Xue Yun had already arrived at the center of the street in Zhangjia Village. At this time, gongs of different sizes sounded in Zhangjia Village, followed by bells in the inner fort, melodious and melodious. The alarm bell could be heard twenty or thirty miles away, and the whole Zhangjia Village suddenly became noisy. It seemed that the people in Zhangjia Village started to take action.

"The imperial court tried thousands of households in the army, the son of heaven was the deputy commander of the army, and he was actually awarded the rank of deputy general of Dingguo General, and the military officer of the second rank acted as the commander in chief. Hey, now the whole village is under martial law to stay at home, and anyone who goes out without permission will be treated as a bandit and killed." Hundreds of Ming soldiers shouted together.

The houses in the entire Zhangjia Village were shaken by the shouts of the Ming army. When some villagers who rushed out saw officers and soldiers wearing Ming army uniforms, most of them began to hesitate and retreat. shooting.There was a loud "boom" from the inner fort of Zhangjiacun, followed by a burst of "bang", "bang" and "bang" gunshots, "destroy the White Lotus Sect", "Da Ming, Wan Sheng", "kill", "the door is broken" "Run!" The yelling in front of the gate of the inner fort in Zhangjia Village was loud.

In charge of controlling the entire Zhangjia Village are Zuo Ming's two hundred soldiers from the Beijing Battalion. They kept killing the young and strong villagers who tried to resist the Ming army's occupation of Zhangjia Village.

Xue Yun rode to the inner fort on horseback, and the sounds of fighting and screaming in the same way became less and less. Everyone knew that after the officers and soldiers captured the White Lotus Sect, most people put aside their support for Zhang Wangcai and hid at home.

Xue Yun, surrounded by Wang Erwa's dozens of people, came down to the gate of the inner castle. The gate of the inner castle had been blown away, and sawdust and thick smoke were scattered everywhere. There were only about twenty soldiers of the Ming army. Standing there, the inner castle is full of killing sounds, women, children and children crying, and the sound of spraying fire, wailing, and screaming.

Xue Yun and his group walked into the streets and alleys of the inner castle, and there were corpses everywhere, and half of them were women.Many people are already incomplete. Most of the dead women, children, and old people were killed by a knife, but most of them still have kitchen knives, wooden sticks and even feces in their hands. , missing arms, no thighs, or being beaten to bloody blood by the fire department, Lu Yaojin ran over panting: "Master, the inner fort is almost cleaned up, and the buddies who committed Zhang Wangcai, the first criminal, retreated into the inner courtyard. People took a step too late to grab the gate, and now Zhang Wangcai’s best friends are desperately resisting and threatening to set fire to themselves, and they want to see the top general of the army, so I have no choice but to order the attack to stop and ask you for instructions.”

(End of this chapter)