The city walls of Yimen Fort could not withstand the continuous bombardment of artillery.
The cannonballs directly destroyed the city wall.
Su Xiong saw that the wall of Yimen Fort collapsed, revealing a large hole two meters wide.
He will command the soldiers to attack Yimen Fort.
Su He directly stopped Su Xiong and said: "When the gentry is about to die, they will never give up resistance and will definitely struggle.
The firearms factory is manufacturing a batch of Crouching Tiger cannons, and I am going to send them to the platoon level.
You guys should see the power of Crouching Tiger Cannon and learn how to use Crouching Tiger Cannon."
Su He gave an order to Zhang Yuliang, asking him to send artillerymen with Tiger Crouching Cannons to provide fire support.
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Li Dazhuang, commander of the second platoon of the second regiment, took the main attack task.
"It's better to be a rebel with enough vigor and clear rewards and punishments. If you really give me the land you are promised, you can still get a wife.
Unlike the generals of the Ming Dynasty, who only know how to draw big cakes, and only promote close associates for meritorious service in wars." Li Dazhuang thought in his heart.
He has now joined the rebels and is extremely proactive.
"Platoon commander, the artillery is coming. The regiment commander asked us to attack."
Li Dazhuang saw two artillerymen coming over carrying a small cannon.
He didn't know the power of this cannon. He only heard that it could attack, and he was very excited. The time had come to perform a meritorious service.
"rush."
Li Dazhuang led his soldiers to attack from the gap in the Yimen Fort wall.
The servants resisted fiercely. When they saw the thieves in yellow rushing in, they immediately picked up their bows and crossbows to fight back.
"Throw a grenade."
Li Dazhuang ordered grenades to be thrown, but he found that the grenades were not effective.
Throw grenades and kill several servants, causing other servants to immediately retreat.
These servants were hiding more than a hundred meters away from them, and some were even hiding behind stone walls, using bows and crossbows to attack them from a distance.
It was impossible to rush up against the dense rain of arrows.
Li Dazhuang thought of the artillery sent down from above.
He immediately shouted: "Artillery, fire quickly."
When the artillery received the order, they opened the bracket that came with the Tiger Crouching Cannon.
He took out the gunpowder bag and stuffed it into the muzzle of the Crouching Tiger Cannon, and stuffed more than two hundred iron balls the size of grapes into the muzzle.
The artilleryman adjusted the direction of the muzzle and immediately lit the match.
The squatting tiger cannon roared, and more than two hundred iron balls flew towards the servants.
The iron ball can directly penetrate the armor of the servant.
The iron ball will bounce off the stone wall and can easily hit the servants hiding behind the stone wall.
Li Dazhuang saw his servants screaming in agony and only a few arrows flying towards him.
He immediately ordered an attack and took the lead in rushing into Yimen Fort.
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The eldest son of the Wang family saw thieves in yellow rushing into Yimen Fort.
The crossbowmen hiding behind the stone wall were almost completely wiped out. The servants he led were frightened by the miserable condition of these people and retreated continuously.
He immediately threatened: "Come up and hold them all together. Your family is in my hands. Whoever dares to retreat will kill his whole family."
The leading servant immediately put the knife on the neck of the eldest son of the Wang family.
"Brothers, we are surrounded by thieves in yellow, ah no, righteous men in yellow. We can't escape at all.
Now there is only the front line anyway. If you want to survive, you should stop resisting.
Mr. Wang and the others are all going to die, and we can’t be buried with them.”
The servant saw that the situation was not right and surrendered without hesitation.
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Su He came to the largest house in Yimenbao, which was Wang Jinshi's home.
They had eliminated all resistance in Yimen Fort. Most of the gentry and their families were captured, and a few were directly shot to death.
Most of the servants surrendered.
Su He is sorting out Su Jinshi's book collection in the study.
Before they wiped out other gentry families in the village, they only had a few copies of the Four Books and Five Classics.
These Confucian classics are the treasures of the gentry in the village, so that their sons can continue to be admitted as scholars and become gentry.
If you can pass the exam, you can enjoy tax-free treatment, annex villagers' land through various means, and become a big landowner.
The collection of books in Wang Jinshi's home is very diverse, including not only the Four Books and Five Classics.
There are even books such as "Han Feizi" and "The Classic of Tea" that have nothing to do with the imperial examination.
Su He also found three of the four famous books on the bookshelf, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", and "Journey to the West".
Su Que came in and reported: "Commander Su, Deputy Brigadier Su Xiong wants to see you for something."
"Let him in."
"The artillery is still powerful, allowing us to reduce a lot of casualties." Su Xionghui reported: "This time we attacked Yimen Fort, with a total of 168 casualties, including 26 deaths and 57 serious injuries.
The resistance of the gentry in Yimenbao was extremely tenacious. We all attacked, but they continued to resist relying on their houses.
We used grenades and tiger cannons to completely eliminate these gentry."
Su Xiong had some sadness on his face and said: "In this attack on Yimen Fort, many people died.
The number of people we can count is that 1,274 people died, including 368 children."
When Su He heard this number, he slammed the table and gritted his teeth and said, "These gentry are so abominable, they all deserve to die, I will never spare them."
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In the central open space of Yimen Fort, the Suhe River is undergoing a classic process.
Borrow grain, lend land, and judge the gentry.
But the order was changed, and he started to judge the gentry first.
He made the evil deeds of the gentry public and then executed them.
It directly breaks the inherent image in the villagers' perception that the gentry are extremely tall and no one dares to offend them.
All the gentry in Yimenbao were sentenced to death, but no execution was carried out.
Su He continued to pronounce the sentence: "All the male members of the gentry's family whose crimes are not worthy of death are sentenced to castration and will be executed now."
Su He summoned all the pig cutters near Yimen Fort to execute the men.
The pig cutters were all experienced, but they had never done anything to kill people before, causing these people to scream in agony.
Wang Jin was so angry that he vomited blood and roared: "Yellow robed thief, you are trying to make my family lose its heirs."
"Yes, in a normal war, your relatives of the defeated will still have a chance to survive.
If women and children are used to threaten us, all men will be castrated after defeat."
Many villagers in Yimenbao were watching the fun.
"I've seen it before, but this is the first time I've seen it."
"These people have all become eunuchs. This kind of punishment is really harsh."
Some gentry fainted from anger when they saw that their children and grandchildren had become eunuchs.
But they still could not escape the death penalty and were directly executed by musketeers.
After cleaning up the corpse, Su He stood on the raised platform.
"Folks, I am Commander Su Hesu, the thief in yellow as the gentry calls me.
When I come here, you have hope.
Now that the family is short of food, they can borrow a year's worth of food without interest, or they can borrow farmland.
Rich farmers who have their own land don’t have to worry, we only charge 10% of the grain tax every year.
Our policy is that each household is only allowed to own one hundred acres of land.
If it is a big family, you can split it up.
As long as the children reach adulthood, they can separate into an independent household.
Otherwise we can only forcefully purchase the extra land you have."
After Su He introduced the policy, he began to take charge of the land loan work.
The people here in Yimenbao saw their strength and were very enthusiastic about lending fields.
Other places can only wait until they capture the county seat, establish effective rule, and implement the land loan policy on a large scale.
Each household is limited to one hundred acres of land, which is the current peak of productivity.
It requires a large number of cattle and a lot of labor to complete the cultivation during the sowing season.
Normal people cannot plant so much land on their own, so they are just hanging carrots.
Only rich peasants can afford to own a hundred acres of land and hire people to farm it.
Suhe's land restriction policy was mainly aimed at disintegrating clans and eliminating personal dependence on tenant relationships.
Farmers will not be prohibited from selling their labor to improve their lives.
At the same time, it limits the large-scale concentration of land in the hands of landlords.
As long as most farmers have their own land, there will be no chaos in this country.
Land to the tiller has been the dream of Chinese farmers for thousands of years.
Whoever can realize this dream will be able to gain the support of farmers, who account for more than 98% of the total population.