After crossing the Jiao Lai River, we passed through Fengtai, Baisha, Guocun and other villages and towns, but no human beings were seen. The sentry sent out reported that there were basically no human beings. If it weren't for the few people who took refuge in the disaster, Jinzhou would be full of people.
I just thought I had entered the human zone.
Everything is like a wasteland, with burned-out houses, broken beams and charred wood, and corpses in the rubble. All signs indicate that even if the army successfully recaptures Pingdu, this place will never be able to regain its former vitality within ten years.
The troops attacking Pingdu were the wolf cavalry and the infantry battalion. The left and right infantry battalions were left behind along with their baggage. The mountain road was difficult to navigate. In some places, carriages could not pass at all, so they could only be dismantled and carried by manpower. The boxes were transported from Shahe Chen sometimes.
The acquired possessions were packed into dozens of large boxes, each of which was extremely heavy. If there were not many places to use the money in the future, Dayong would have wanted to throw them all away. Occasionally thinking about it, it is still worth mentioning the hundred-dollar bills in later generations.
It's comfortable, at least, and it's not too heavy to carry.
After passing through the mountains and forests for several days, the horseshoes of the war horses were damaged a lot, and there were no craftsmen accompanying the army. In the end, they could only leave the war horses with damaged horseshoes to the supply camp. The heavy armor of the wolf cavalry was also left behind to participate in the attack on Pingdu.
The soldiers set out lightly. It was all just for speed, and because Jinzhou didn't take the rebels in Pingdu City seriously at all. If they had to use heavy armor to deal with them, it would really make people laugh.
When we finally saw the plain, it was already three poles high in the sun, and we could see the Jiaolai River in the distance. The river was glowing white under the sunlight, making the eyes of Jinzhou, which had been wandering through the ravines for days, brighten up. I had been in the mountains for a long time.
, everyone will feel comfortable when they suddenly see the scene of a vast plain.[
The undefended Pingdu County town was successfully captured without losing a single soldier. Cao Bianjiao led more than 30 cavalry from the horizon and headed straight for the city gate. The rebels at the city gate actually thought that
The rebels came from Laizhou and did not take any precautions at all. They did not even think of closing the city gate. This cannot be blamed on them. Who made the Jinzhou Army and the Dongjiang Liao Army wear clothes that were almost yyng? Chen Youyou from Shahe that day
They can't tell the difference, let alone people like them.
With a red cherry felt hat on their head, the wolf cavalry marched forward bravely.
When the wolf cavalry rushed to the city gate, still waving their swords, the rebels realized that they were not their own troops, but official troops!
"The officers and soldiers are coming, the officers and soldiers are coming!"
To Cao Bianjiao's surprise, he had thought that the rebels in the city would resist at least. After all, there were thousands of people in the city, and they were all bloodthirsty thugs. This was evident from the tragic conditions in the villages and towns he saw along the way.
The probability of hundreds of desperadoes emerging from thousands of people is quite high. As long as the defenders have some courage, organized resistance will always occur. Although there is no doubt that the county will be captured in the end, some troops may be lost.
There are only 300 Wolf Cavalry men left. Each of these 300 men is an elite soldier, a warrior who can be used in a bloody battle at any time. Therefore, Xiao Cao, the leader of the Wolf Cavalry, will feel heartbroken every time one person is lost.
one cent.
With his army alone outside, Fa was effectively replenished, and there were too few troops in the pass that could be used as cavalry supplements. Cao Bianjiao, who was thinking of having a grand cavalry contest with the Donglu in the future, naturally did not want his men to suffer any more casualties, so he also
Pointing at these elites to form a powerful cavalry belonging to the Ming Dynasty in the future. But this is not to preserve strength. The general Cao Bianjiao will never do bad things because of his selfish thoughts. When it is time to fight, he must fight, and when he deserves to die, he must die.
In the current situation, there is no need to fight for anything, and there is no need to worry about any casualties among the subordinates, because from a glance, the rebels at the city gate have already abandoned the city gate and fled into the city in chaos.
The sounds of ghosts and wolves echoing through the city, accompanied by the sound of horse hooves entering the city, everything seemed like a farce.
The rest of the Wolf Cavalry rushed in immediately, and Shi Dayong also led his own barracks into the city in time.
There was no plan, just "Let go and kill".
With the shouts of the rebels at the city gate, the rebels in the city knew that the government troops had entered the city. At this time, they finally made people see what it was that everyone was united in thinking, not to resist the people who entered the city.
Instead, the officers and soldiers ran swarm to the east gate with the large and small bags they had snatched. The bags were full of stolen gold and silver. They looked like they were working together to escape. They were afraid that they would rush into Pingdu City in the first place.
It must have looked like this when I was there.
Dayong did not expect that the rebels in the city were really so vulnerable. It would be an understatement to say that they were just a ragtag group of people. They were just a pile of mud. Fortunately, he had ordered several aerial ladders to be launched earlier in preparation for a hard attack when a surprise attack failed.
Now it's better, the rebels were defeated before they were touched, and they saved themselves a lot of trouble.
"Kill, let go of your hands and feet and kill!"
A tiger has entered a flock of sheep. The Jinzhou army, which had been holding back for several days in the mountains and forests, came down like a tiger and started chopping and slashing in the city. The streets were full of chopped down corpses. At first, the Jinzhou army set off firecrackers in the camp.
When the time is not as fast as slashing with a knife, all the swords are dancing together in an instant.
There is no way to tell who is a soldier or a civilian at this time, so we can only kill with ease. Fortunately, there are no good people in the city, and most of the ones who are left have become attached to thieves, so it would be easy to kill them.
good.
In less than half an hour, the Jinzhou Army effectively controlled the entire city. After ordering Xiao Cao to lead people to hunt down the traitors who escaped from the east gate, Dayong, led by Guo Yi, went to the county government where the traitor general Jiang Maoran was taken from the well in the backyard.
It was found that together with him were two young women in their eighteenth year.
It was Guo Cheng's soldiers who rushed into the county government office. After cutting down more than a dozen thieves, they searched everywhere to find the thieves and the general. However, after questioning several thieves, they all said they didn't know the general was there.
Which. Finally, several soldiers in the backyard suddenly heard shouts coming from the well, and then they found Jiang Maoran hiding in the well.[
Jiang Maoran was betrayed by the two women he kidnapped. In fact, they were not betrayed. These two girls had a grudge against him for killing their father and mother. In the past, they took advantage of his lustful power. Now that the army is here, how can we not take revenge?
!As long as you don’t bite him to death in the well, how can you expect them to hide with you?
Seeing the so-called rebel Guardsman Pingdu tied up, Shi Dayong felt angry for no reason. This Guardsman Gui'er was actually a staff general, so he was on the same level as himself.
I had to sacrifice my life to become a general, but this guy was so good that he became a general by hacking and killing the people.
The wolf cavalry who were chasing the deserters returned one after another. Everyone's horses had large and small bags hanging on them, and they were bloody. It looked like they had gained a lot.
Da Yongyi collected the harvest from his subordinates, but he could not give it all to them. He ordered Xiao Cao to temporarily store the spoils and distribute them uniformly after the second left and right infantry battalions and the baggage battalion entered the city. Of course, the Wolf Cavalry Army and the Cavalry Battalion
The allocation should be higher than the importance. In this way, the morale of the infantry who have not participated in the war will not be dampened, and the meritorious soldiers will not feel short-changed.
Then a military order was issued, ordering an immediate search for food in the city, in every corner. The army was almost out of food, and they had to find food, even if they only found what they needed for one day.
Compared to killing horses for food, Dayong prefers to eat humans. There are so many corpses all over the city that there is really no food to be found, so it would be a good idea to use the waste.
Song Qing and Li Dashan led the second and left infantry battalions and Qi Sanbao's supply battalion also arrived one after another an hour later.
Cleaning up the city, counting the loot, arranging defenses, and taking custody of the prisoners (unable to hold back too many rebels in the city, Jinzhou still captured nearly a thousand prisoners, who were uniformly guarded by the guards in the east city), everything was going on in an orderly manner.
After patrolling the city, Dayong returned to the county government office and found that the thief Jiang Maoran was still tied there. He wanted to know more about the situation in Laizhou and Dengzhou from him, but Jiang Maoran didn't know anything about it after asking. He even knew what he knew. Not as much as Shi Dayong, probably because Li Jiucheng did not regard Kong Youde as a confidant and did not reveal too much about the rebels' whereabouts to him.
Dayong was not in the mood to keep Jiang Maoran, so he asked people to drag him out and chop him up. At this time, Guo Yi came over to report that several women's bodies were found in the backyard, and the death conditions were very cruel. After asking the two women, they found out that those women The thieves snatched them from the countryside and gave them to Jiang Maoran for his pleasure. After they got tired of playing with them, they strangled them to death. Before Jiang Maoran became a policeman in Dengzhou, he was a liar. He had done many autopsies over time and had a special interest in corpses, especially the corpses of young women. His special hobby actually caused people to store these corpses in a room in the backyard, and take off all their clothes. Every day in the middle of the night, he would go to that room to sit alone for a while.
Just sit there for a while, sitting in front of several female corpses, doing nothing, not humiliating the corpses, just sitting there for a while. No one knows the reason why he did this. Dayong analyzed it, I'm afraid it's this The causes of psychological illness in people.
After kicking Jiang Maoran in disgust, Dayong waved his hand and asked someone to pull him out and cook him.
Cooked, cooked, the soldiers heard it right, the general wanted them to drag the thief out and cook him.
The soldiers obeyed the general's orders without any hesitation. They actually set up a fire outside, found a large pot from the county government kitchen, brought a bucket of water, and started boiling it.
After the thief was washed and put into the big pot, a group of soldiers gathered around the pot, staring at the pot intently. Several times some people wanted to lift the pot to see how the thief was cooked inside, but But no one dared to lift it.
The fire had been cooking for half an hour, and the aroma of meat could be smelled throughout the courtyard, but the soldiers still felt nauseous when they thought of people cooking in the pot.
Li Dashan was attracted by the smell. Seeing so many people watching, he thought there was meat cooking in the pot. He couldn't help but salivate. He pushed away the soldiers and said, "Why did the general secretly cook the meat?" , Dashan, I haven’t tasted meat in a while, and the bird has already faded out of my mouth. Don’t say anything, let me grab a piece first and beat it as a gift!” He reached out to lift the lid, and a burst of hot air accompanied by the fragrance hit his nostrils. , made him greedy for a while. He looked around, and after just one glance, he jumped back as if he had seen a ghost, "Oh my god, human flesh!"