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1080, Battle of Tongzhou 1

Zhou Yuji's army of 14,000 men marched straight to Tongzhou City along the official road beside the Tonghui River in billowing smoke.

At this time, the large warehouses in Tongzhou had been emptied. When the rebels arrived and found that not even a grain of rice was left, they set fire to the large warehouses.

Looking from a distance, thick smoke penetrated the sky and could be seen even in the capital.

Zuo Liangyu, Hu Dawei, and Meng Ruhu fled into Tongzhou City in panic with the remaining 800 troops. They couldn't stop them. This time, there were 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers in the camp and guard station who rebelled. This time they

After plundering the surrounding counties and towns, they all rushed towards Tongzhou.

Because a large amount of materials transported by the Grand Canal are stored here.

After plundering everything around them, a large number of rebels poured into Dingyuan Bo's territory eastward. As a result, they were attacked head-on by nearly 100,000 militiamen. They were beaten to a pulp.

They had no idea that the militia composed of Dingyuan Bo's slaves was better equipped and trained than them.

The rebels came in groups of hundreds to harvest wheat, and the militiamen also fought them out in groups of hundreds. Because these harvests were owned by the family, and the Yang Mansion did not collect land rent, so whatever grain they harvested was their own.

Apart from the money spent on seeds, guano, pesticides, and agricultural machinery, they have no other expenses.

Grabbing wheat is equivalent to grabbing rice from their bowls. For a while, everyone rushed to be the first.

Fortunately, Xiao Niangpi didn't intend to intervene in the rebellion and just kicked them out.

Many rebels who were killed were hung by the militia on ropes from trees on the border to deter other rebels who were ready to come in and rob.

During this period, the rebels who came to the east gradually disappeared. Because several county towns were opened in the west, the official army was completely defeated. They shrank significantly and retreated westward. Now they have huddled in Tongzhou and dare not come out.

After hearing the news, rebels from all over the country gathered towards Tongzhou. If Tongzhou is opened, it will open the door to the Gyeonggi region. There are manors of dignitaries and more wealth.

At this time, more than 40,000 people had gathered near Tongzhou. After the rebels in Xianghe County were defeated, they fled in all directions. In order to escape arrest from various places, they also came to Tongzhou.

Dong Jishu stood on the city wall, holding on to the crenels, and looked nervously at the densely packed rebels in the wilderness outside the city. These people had gone crazy. They no longer looked like soldiers from the Ming Dynasty. They were no different from bandits at this time.

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These ten days of bloody massacres have also inspired animal nature. Once military discipline is corrupted, there will be no bottom line at all. It is said that doing good is like ascending, and doing evil is like falling.

Dong Jishu had received the emperor's order, and he still had to focus on recruiting these people. After all, these people were wiped out, and Jizhen was empty. There were no soldiers left.

But at this time, he looked at the rebel soldiers below who had plundered many women and carried large and small bags of property. He shook his head heavily. These rebel soldiers had become ambitious and could not go back.

They are no longer soldiers, they are just bandits. They can only kill them. Otherwise, sooner or later there will be a thunderstorm.

Even if these rebels are temporarily appeased, they will still be in great danger if there is any trouble. Even if we guard against them, we will waste our few troops.

Then, he smiled bitterly and shook his head. These things are not what he should consider. He should first think about how to defend Tongzhou. If Tongzhou falls, none of them will be able to escape, and Your Majesty will have to kill them.

There are still more than 2,500 battalions in the city. Most of them are remnants who have been defeated several times and have low morale. Only a thousand people under his command have not yet engaged with the rebels, and their morale is still good. In addition, His Majesty has transferred

There were more than 6,000 soldiers in the two guards.

The guardsmen were in ragged clothes and looked like beggars. But at least they could act like a person. Dong Jishu first gave them new mandarin duck jackets, opened the granary, and let them eat before talking.

Although the number of more than 8,000 troops is not large, the defense can still last for a period of time.

Dong Jishu was observing the enemy's situation. At this time, a group of cavalry appeared on the horizon and galloped towards here.

Dong Jishu immediately discovered these cavalry. They were coming from the direction of the capital. They should be some scouts.

Chu Zhentang took the lead and quickly rushed to the front of the camp where these rebels gathered. A total of eighteen riders seemed to be in a deserted place, then turned their horses and climbed up the small slope next to them. He observed from a high position.

He is the captain of the scout squadron of the regiment training, with the rank of deputy battalion commander. He is one of the first batch of veterans recruited by Yang Fan. From the rocky beach to the recent battle of Moxian County, he has experienced almost all battles.

If the position of scout was not so important, Yang Fan would have put him out as the leader.

Seeing the cavalry coming, the rebel army became a little commotion. Soon some cavalry rushed over.

Chu Zhentang immediately turned his horse and left without fighting with them. Now that he had made a clear observation, he was ready to go back. Their mission was to conduct reconnaissance, and there was no need to fight with them.

Seeing a dozen reconnaissance cavalry running away, they gathered fifty-six people and immediately chased them.

The attire of these people was very strange. Dark green and straight German military uniforms, black leather boots, and black hooded cloaks. They looked very energetic and did not look like those sloppy soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

These chasing cavalrymen almost turned red-eyed just by seeing their horses. Good horses were very expensive in the Ming Dynasty. They were almost the same as sports cars in later generations.

These horses were incomparably tall and muscular, which made these cavalrymen uncontrollably greedy. Immediately afterwards, more than a hundred cavalrymen rushed out.

During this period of time, they had looted so many good things that they were already drifting away. It seemed that no one in the land of Gyeonggi could stop them. Now that they saw the good horses, they naturally thought that they should belong to them.

One hundred fifty or sixty cavalrymen pursued them closely. They fired arrows and shouted while chasing.

Wang Xinmai of the Hundred Households looked back at the pursuing rebels and said: "The camp, these rubbish, slapped on the nose and face, it's not over yet."

After a dozen people ran up a hillside, they stopped and turned around to look at the chasing soldiers who were chasing them, shouting and yelling.

"These flies are very annoying. If we hit them for a while, we will be quieter." Chu Zhentang said. "Get ready with rifles. After shooting two shots, we rush down. After getting close to 30 meters, we shoot with blunderbuss and then use sabers."

Hedge, break through their formation and then fight back. No one should dare to pursue them."

The rebels were a little surprised when they saw that the cavalry on the opposite side actually stopped running.

After all, they only have 18 people, while their own side has more than 150 people. No matter what, they will not fight with their own side. This is asking for death. They have good horses, so they can run freely.

However, no matter what they thought, it was no longer important. These rebel cavalry immediately rushed towards them.

Tan Ji Zhong was the leader of this group of rebels. He was originally from a hundred households. After rebelling, he led his cavalry to loot everywhere and robbed a lot of money. Soon some stragglers came to join them. Now we have this

scale.

When he rushed to a distance of about 100 meters, he could clearly see the eighteen riders on the opposite side raising the bird blunderbuss in uniform movements. Although he could not see clearly from a distance, he knew that it was the bird blunderbuss.


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