No wonder Pang Gang changed his mind. Anyone who has ever led a soldier knows that there are two things that a general fears most. One is defeat, and the other is a mutiny. There is no pop-up window qi
The so-called mutiny generally refers to an army mutiny. A certain army, due to political or other reasons, suddenly turns its guns and does not obey the original commander's command, but instead runs towards a new goal or leader.
To follow the new leader's command is to "mutiny".
Therefore, in the eyes of many generals, mutiny is more terrifying than defeat. That's why Pang Gang's face suddenly changed when he heard the word mutiny.
Pang Gang stood up suddenly, snatched the three hundred miles from the soldier's hand and looked at it quickly. After a while, Ruolan who was standing aside asked: "Husband, what did the higher ups say?"
Pang Gang took a long breath after reading this urgent document and said: "I'm sorry from Laizhou. The last chapter was written as Dengzhou. The three hundred miles urgent document was jointly sent by the commanding officer Wei Jiang and the prefect of Dengzhou Shu Feisong.
They claimed that nearly a thousand soldiers in Laizhou City began to mutiny in the city yesterday. Wei Jiang took his servants to suppress it, but they were beaten back instead. Wei Jiang saw that the situation was serious and did not dare to neglect, so he paid three hundred
Riga hurriedly sent troops to Qingzhou to ask for help."
Ruolan couldn't help but turn pale and said: "They asked my husband for help, doesn't it mean it's dangerous? My husband, you'd better not go."
No matter how much Ruolan has an identity in business, at this moment he is just a wife who is worried about her husband. When encountering this kind of thing, she will naturally worry about her husband's safety like a young woman.
Seeing Ruolan's worried look, Pang Gang patted his little hand and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, my husband is going with his troops. Your husband and I dare to fight, and we are still afraid of their group of rebels."
After comforting his wife, Pang Gang immediately said to the soldiers: "You immediately inform Bin Baihu and Qi Baihu, and ask them to immediately lead the 500 Lingshan Guard cavalry to Qingzhou to wait for dispatch! And you immediately tell Wang Fu Qianhu and Qi Baihu
Deputy Hao Qianhu ordered them to immediately assemble a thousand elite cavalry, fully armed and on standby in the military camp!"
"yes!"
As a series of orders were issued, the soldiers followed the orders and left. At this time, Pang Gang and Ruolan also walked out of the room, and saw the commanding officer's Yamen being thrown into confusion by Pang Gang's continuous orders. Kong Ruolan's
My heart was hanging again.
She asked with a sad face: "Ms. sir, can't you just go?"
Pang Gang looked at his worried wife, caressed her face lovingly, and said with a smile: "Of course not, your husband and I are the general in charge of the defense of the three states, General Dingyuan, how can I ignore the rebellion of the officers and soldiers? This is
This matter is within the scope of the husband's responsibilities. If he ignores it and is included in the previous book, it will be a crime of dereliction of duty.
In this way, until dusk, all 1,500 cavalrymen had been summoned, and they hurried towards Laizhou under the leadership of Pang Gang.
While Pang Gang was rushing to Laizhou, the Laizhou commander and magistrate Wei Jiangzheng and two hundred servants huddled in the commander's magistrate's office to resist the attack by the rebel soldiers.
Standing next to Wei Jiang was a short, fat official wearing a fourth-grade vermilion official robe, which was in sharp contrast to the tall and thin Wei Jiang. He was Shu Feisong, the prefect of Laizhou.
"Quickly, everyone climb up the wall. If those rebels dare to get close, they will be shot to death with random arrows!!" Wei Jiang directed his servants to climb up the high wall one after another with long bows and muskets.
Looking at Wei Jiang who was rushing forward, Shu Feisong, who was hesitant to speak, asked tremblingly: "Wei Daru, do you think we can hold on until General Dingyuan's reinforcements arrive? Time has passed now."
Wei Jiang sighed and shook his head, "I don't know. If calculated according to normal time, they should arrive tomorrow evening. Otherwise, with more than two hundred servants, I don't know if they can persist."
"How can this be good!" Shu Feisong was so frightened that his hands and feet were weak, he grabbed Wei Jiang and shouted in a tearful voice: "Wei Da comes in, how can this be good? What if those rebels attack?"
Wouldn't it be difficult for me to save my life if I come in? Wei Daru, you must save me."
Wei Jiang looked at the prefect of Yizhou who had tears and runny nose, and felt a sense of disgust in his heart. This was because the prefect had no responsibility at all. It was not pleasant at all to always buckle the strings when distributing food and salary.
This time it was better. Jingran had not been paid for three months. Now it was better, and the soldiers finally started to riot.
As for Governor Shu, he was well-informed. As soon as he heard about the mutiny, he immediately ran to his yamen with his family and asked for asylum. This fat pig felt confident when he asked for asylum. But he never thought about it, as usual.
If he could take one less concubine and allocate a little more money to himself, how could this happen today?
Wei Jiang impatiently pulled his sleeves, got rid of his greasy hands and said impatiently: "I will try my best. As long as General Dingyuan can arrive before the time tomorrow, I guess there will be no problem. If
If you can't arrive before the scheduled time, you will have to resign yourself to your fate.
After saying that, Wei Jiang impatiently walked to the escalator behind the high wall in front, preparing to go up the wall to check the enemy's situation. When Shu Feisong saw Wei Jiang climbing up the high wall and looked at his fat body, he gritted his teeth and was about to follow.
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At this time, a servant's voice came from the high wall near the front, "Come in, the rebels are coming, everyone, hurry up and shoot arrows."
As soon as the servant finished speaking, a scream was heard. A servant was hit in the chest by an arrow from the front. He screamed and fell from the high wall to the flat ground in the yard. He was beaten twice on the ground.
After rolling, he stopped moving and looked like he was going to die.
Seeing such a scene, Shu Feisong no longer dared to go up the wall. Strength surged out of his body from nowhere, and he ran towards the inner courtyard at a speed that did not match his body shape without looking back.
It gradually became brighter. The rebels surrounded the commander and attacked the prefecture all night. However, under the desperate guard of more than two hundred servants led by Wei Jiang, they made no progress. Instead, they were all exhausted and trapped.
Hundreds of corpses were left behind. When the sun was about to break, more than 800 tired and hungry rebels, led by a deputy chief and several hundred chiefs, roared and started in Laizhou City.
Burning, killing, looting, and soon, panicked cries and screams rang out in Laizhou City.
At this moment, Pang Gang led more than a thousand sergeants to arrive at a place more than ten miles away from Laizhou City overnight. Pang Gang, who was riding a horse, frowned at this time. Although Laizhou also belonged to his defense area,
But he has never inspected Laizhou since he became the commander. It's not that Pang Gang is unwilling, but Pang Gang knows the virtues of those Qiu Ba these days. If Shangguan comes, they will definitely cry and clamor for food.
They want pay, and they will definitely make a fuss more violent than the last.
The saying "babies who cry are fed by milk" was not invented by later generations. Our ancestors had already understood the essence of this saying hundreds of years ago, so Pang just planned to live a life for a while.
After I had some money in my hands, I went to Dengzhou and Laizhou for inspection. By then I would be stronger, but I never thought that I was not ready yet. News came from Laizhou about the Laizhou mutiny and the pay riot.
Pang Gang was so anxious after hearing the news that he dispatched more than 1,500 sergeants and mounted their horses and headed straight for Laizhou.
Laizhou is more than two hundred miles away from Qingzhou. Under Pang Gang's urging, the sergeants on war horses rushed outside Laizhou City overnight.
Qi Wuming, who had been traveling all night with Pang Gang, was dressed in rough clothes and asked: "General, we have been traveling all night. If we continue, even if the brothers can bear it, these war horses cannot bear it."
Let the brothers take a breath and take a break to feed the war horses."
Pang Gang shook his head, "Qi Baihu, it's not that I'm ruthless, but that I'm not waiting for you at this moment. The officers and soldiers in Laizhou mutiny to raise wages. If the suppression is not done well, those officers and soldiers can easily become rebels. You are also an old soldier, and those from Qiu Ba
It’s not like you don’t know about virtue, I don’t need to tell you what consequences it will turn into!”
Qi Wuming was speechless. He was also a veteran. He was very clear about the virtues of his fellow officers and soldiers. Most of them were composed of some brave and ruthless gangsters and soldiers. It was not so much their officers and soldiers.
It is better to say that they are bandits. They wear the uniforms of officers and soldiers, but what they do is the activities of bandits. It is better to have officers and military discipline to suppress them. Once there is a riot or unrest, what will these unruly soldiers become like?
I can even think of it.
Pang Gang looked at the seemingly endless team behind him. He was quite satisfied with the fact that he was able to decisively purchase more than a thousand war horses from Zu Dashou and Wang Pu last time. Without these war horses, those with poor mobility would
It is absolutely impossible for the infantry to reach Laizhou without a day or two. It seems that improving the mobility of the troops is really important.
At this time, Pang Gang, who was walking at the front of the team, could already see the city tower faintly exposed in the morning sun. Pang Gang couldn't help but urge his horse, which was almost foaming at the mouth, to trot forward.
After a while, Pang Gang, who felt that the horse's power was getting worse and worse, dismounted and ordered loudly, "Leave two hundred men to look after the horses. The rest will immediately walk into the city with me. All the men will have their guns loaded.
Anyone who plunders property will be killed! Anyone who rapes women and children will be killed! Anyone who sets fire to a house will be killed! Anyone who keeps trying to dissuade someone will be killed!"
"Hiss!" Upon hearing Pang Gang's order, Qi Wuming and others couldn't help being startled. It seemed that their general Dingyuan was going to start a killing spree today.
Following Pang Gang's order, the sergeants behind them dismounted one after another, untied their reins to let the horses that were already too tired to walk take a rest, and then handed them over to the care of the remaining sergeants. The remaining more than 1,300 people followed.
Pang Gang lined up neatly and rushed into the city where there were faint screams and loud shouts from time to time.