Chapter 554: Cangzhou Prefecture that was emptied

The second tax supervisor in Cangzhou was chopped into a pool of meat without any suspense. However, Cangzhou Prefecture did not know the news until ten days later, because even the 900 cavalry survivors were chased by the White Lotus Sect outside for so many days, they were finally able to return to the city.

The tax bureau and so many officers and soldiers died, the Cangzhou prefect could only sigh in secret that he was unlucky, and then he had to send it to the top of the peak with urgent documents to inform the news.

This incident was actually very frightening. There were riots near the capital that could annihilate 900 cavalry. More than 50,000 new recruits were trained, and the soldiers guarding the capital were nowhere to be seen. Instead, the riots were so rampant. The helpless letter from the prefect of Cangzhou was delivered one after another, and the officialdom in Northern Zhili was shocked. After receiving the official document, the Tongzhou Bingbei Road immediately dispatched 3,000 troops to Cangzhou.

Northern Zhili is an important town to guard the capital. It is different from other provinces. The military camps in his territory are much denser. The reinforcements of Tongzhou military preparation roads were just at the beginning, and there would be a steady stream of troops coming. There were two garrisons within the jurisdiction of Cangzhou Prefecture.

However, most of the soldiers and horses of Cangzhou Prefecture are military households of generations. To put it bluntly, they are more proficient in farming than in wars. Cangzhou Prefecture has never expected them, otherwise the first tax supervisor would not directly allocate a cavalry team in Tongzhou to give themselves courage. However, at this time, as long as there is a little hope, Cangzhou Prefecture quickly issued a document and sent envoys to the Cangzhou garrison for help. On weekdays, Cangzhou garrison often had to deal with government offices at all levels of Cangzhou prefecture and county for food and land.

The eyes of local officials are all growing in the sky, and they never pay attention to these useless military households. Now the situation is critical and they have to ask for help. This attitude has changed drastically. Not only do they have to send back all the difficulties and deduct them in the past, but they also made various promises, hoping that Cangzhou Military and Health Defense City will be placed in the following counties, so they will not care about it.

The bandit suppression soldiers in Tongzhou arrived at Cangzhou Prefecture ten days after receiving the official documents. This was already very efficient. Now the powerful camp soldiers trained by Emperor Jiajing are 50,000 to 60,000,000, and they look down on the four directions like a giant. The officials in Northern Zhili feel under great pressure, so they all become quite diligent in official duties and dare not slacken.

The officer with three thousand soldiers in Tongzhou was a garrison. Tongzhou was an important town for the transportation of the canal. The grain and various materials for the transportation of the canal had to be sorted and transported in Tongzhou. Therefore, the quality and quantity of soldiers there were not comparable to other prefectures and counties in the south of Zhili. This time, the three thousand soldiers were all war soldiers, which means they all paid military salaries instead of farming. The leader was the garrison of the Xiaying of Tongzhou and rushed to Cangzhou Prefecture.

When the guard arrived at Cangzhou Prefecture, he felt a lot of anger in his stomach. Originally, the army had to carry out food and grass along the way, but this time the supply was not going smoothly. It often took a long time to get some things out of the local area. However, the reason was also clear that the local area's warehouses were almost scraped by the tax supervisors, and they were continuously input to the powerful camp near Baoding.

"You new army has never fought in a battle, but you are so favored. We are raised by our stepmothers!" Not only this guard, but many generals and schools below think so. They have complained about all the practice of giving priority to the new army. The guard thought that after coming to Cangzhou, he would have to rest and recuperate, otherwise he would have treated himself and his brothers badly.

From the beginning of entering the city gate of the city, the guards were very dissatisfied, because they were said to be rampant outside the city and could wipe out nine hundred cavalry. However, you, Cangzhou Prefecture, can't be so careless. The city gates opened in broad daylight. What's even more foul is that there were not even soldiers guarding the gate. Could it be that they could have empty plans with people outside the city? There were not even soldiers on the top of the city? I really don't know how to die in Cangzhou Prefecture.

If it were placed in the north for years, the door was so wide and open, it would have been rushing into the Mongolian Tartars. Then the whole city would be captured and killed. However, these lessons that need to be taught will not be explained before the government office. The Cangzhou government office was already smashed to pieces, and even the two stone lions at the door were pushed to the ground.

At this time, the guards coming from Tongzhou felt something was wrong. When the three thousand soldiers entered the city, they had not had time to disturb the people. Why did the people on the street run away when they saw the army? According to the previous concept, although the army disturbed the people, there were such disasters from bandits, and the people should welcome the army.

The door of the government office is not much different from the situation in Cangzhou City Gate. The door is in a mess and there is no one to guard it.

The garrisons coming from Tongzhou did not dare to do anything. They asked their soldiers to set up defenses in the city, and then arranged a few personal soldiers to find people in the yamen. Without any trouble, they called the people out, but saw that the prefect and the local officials were all bruised and swollen.

The prefect was still timid, but although his attitude was weak, he insisted on verifying the identities of these reinforcements from Tongzhou, which made the guard quite angry. He thought that I was here to rescue him, and it was not even enough for many years. You still had to check the official documents here, and you really didn't know what it was.

However, what happened next made the guard even more stunned. After the prefect confirmed that it was correct, he suddenly knelt down and hugged the guard's thigh, cried in tears:

"You are finally here, I am suffering!"

After asking carefully, I realized that the matter was strange, or it was incredible. After the remaining soldiers of the nine hundred cavalry ran back to the city to report the news, the prefect of Cangzhou was almost scared and fell off the chair. The first reaction was to close the city gate and send an envoy to the nearby guard to report the news.

The soldiers of the Cangzhou guards came quickly. In the second half of the night, they were stationed at the city gate and said they wanted to enter the city to cooperate in defense. In ancient times, for safety at night, the city would definitely not open the door without extremely critical matters. This was also to prevent bandits and refugees outside the city from taking the opportunity to enter the city.

The magistrate of Cangzhou thought that he was calling his troops, and the situation was critical at the moment, so he didn't care about so many things. He walked up to the city and asked the people under the city to use fire to reflect their officers. The city wall was not high, but he could see the faces of the city holding torches.

Several Qianhu in the garrison and the Cangzhou Prefecture Office had many dealings with each other and were familiar with each other. When they saw that they were indeed soldiers from the court, they were not wary and began to instruct the soldiers guarding the city gate to open the door.

Those who entered the city were soldiers from the garrison, wearing tattered suits and holding weapons in their hands. Only when they saw these people was relieved. They said that more than a thousand soldiers had come. Unexpectedly, after these soldiers entered the city, the guards on the city wall heard someone shouting under the city:

"Don't let them into the city, these people are fake!"

There was no time to be shocked. The soldiers who entered the city turned around and closed the door. The officers outside the city shouted in anger:

"Those people are all riots who believe in Bailian, regardless of the laws of the court..."

Before everyone could react, the people who entered the city beat the soldiers guarding the city, the yamen runners and others. The soldiers were holding swords and guns and punching them, which was already very polite. It seemed that they were unwilling to kill people.

No killing, but looting is inevitable. Cangzhou's granaries and arsenal were all washed away, and some wealthy families in the city were swept away like locusts. These soldiers who believed in the White Lotus Sect were very professional, and did not use swords and guns, but just looted property. Because of the wealth above, the court was not stingy with the arms and weapons allocated in various places, and was very generous in spending money.

However, this good thing is cheap for the White Lotus Sect, which is probably the only private soldiers and servants of the cotton gentry. The weapons can't be made in a short while. Although the people outside the city have training, the will and courage to fight, the weapons are too poor. When besieging cavalry outside the manor, many people are holding wooden sticks and hatchets. Only the horse team and the core Minzhuang have weapons. These weapons are obtained through bribery and other channels from the eunuchs guarding the warehouse, and the number is limited.

Cangzhou is a great mansion, and the weapons in the arsenal are quite considerable. All of them were equipped to the hands of the rioters. Moreover, the gold, silver and food that the tax supervisor had plundered for many days before they could escort them to the capital, and they were all moved clean by the rioters who entered the city.

The title of rioters may not be accurate. At least these soldiers have emptied the treasury and beat the yamen runners. Apart from that, they did not kill anyone. This job is much better than the tax supervision department. The civilians who do not kill people and have no property have no intention of resisting and escaping, just closed the door and ignored it.

After a day and night of robbery, these soldiers left. The people from the Cangzhou garrison outside the city had long dispersed, and they did not dare to stay under the city for too much. The reason was very simple. The large number of loud horses were already waiting for the reception at the city gate.

The Cangzhou Prefectural Prefecture looked at the rioters who left slowly outside the city, and felt like she was crying but not crying. The family's fortune for many years was so empty.

It is precisely because of this that the scene of reinforcements from Tongzhou entering the city...
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