Chapter two hundred and eighty second official bandit family
Although the sky in the east has faintly revealed a bit of fish white, you still need to light a torch when walking.
The vanguard of the main force of the Ming army appeared on the official road twenty miles away from Yongping. If you look down from a nearby mountain peak, you will see a thick fire dragon advancing, and there are many fireflies scattered around the fire dragon.
Sun Chengzong finally reached an agreement with the generals on the deployment of troops. The main forward force was 5,000 white pole infantry, marching in a battle formation.
The fireflies within one mile of the Baigan Army were part of the cavalry sent by the general armies of various armies. They were widely spread out and searching forward.
These scattered cavalry can act as an early warning on the one hand, and on the other hand can also act as a buffer if there is an ambush by the rebels.
After that came the 10,000 Guan Ning cavalry. Once the forward encountered an attack, they could quickly bypass the white pole infantry that was resisting the enemy and attack the enemy.
Walking behind are the remaining Baigan Army and Guan Ning Cavalry, and finally the main force of the general troops.
The artillery battalion did not follow this time and was stationed in Luanzhou.
The first is night marching, the artillery is too heavy and very inconvenient; [
The second is that the Yongping Jianlu did not defend the city, so there was no need for artillery to attack the city.
Both the generals and the soldiers felt a little tired after driving in the middle of the night with a nervous spirit. It can be clearly seen that the search radius of the peripheral rangers is slowly getting smaller.
Sun Chengzong looked at the sky and asked about the distance from his personal guards to Yongping City. He called Zu Dashou who was following behind him and asked him to send out troops all night and rush to Yongping City first to detect the enemy's traces.
After a while, the order was passed on, and a dozen cavalrymen ran out from the central army's marching column, running forward quickly from the edge of the official road.
The rapid sound of horse hooves struck in the hearts of the marching soldiers, and they all turned their heads to look at the soldiers who had not stopped passing them and heading far ahead.
This Ye Bu Shui team belonged to Hu Hao. He and his brothers quickly passed the white-pole forward, then galloped to the middle of the official road and drove away.
While he was lying on the horse's back urging the horse to move faster, he shouted to the brothers around him: "Brothers, be careful, don't let Jianlu get tricked."
"Brother Hu, don't worry, it won't be bad." The other Ye Bu Shou replied one after another.
A journey of twenty miles does not take long for the cavalry.
Because the sky was getting brighter and brighter, when they ran halfway, they could see the road clearly. They threw away the torches and increased their speed.
They did not encounter any Jianlu along the way. After turning at the foot of a mountain, Yongping City appeared in front of them.
Hu Hao stretched out his left hand and asked the brothers to slow down.
They all looked at Yongping City and saw the smoke left by fires floating out from many places in the city, and occasionally the light of fire could be seen in a few places.
There was no Jianlu within their line of sight. Even closer, they could faintly see that the city gate was also open.
Hu Hao thought for a while, pointed to a brother next to him and said: "Wang Er, you stay here. If you don't see us in a quarter of an hour, come back quickly and report to the commander that there is a prisoner." [
After finishing speaking, without waiting for Wang Er's reaction, he grabbed the horse's belly and accelerated towards Yongping.
The others followed Hu Hao one after another without saying much, except for the one named Wang Er who stayed where he was.
When they were approaching Yongping City, Hu Hao waved his hand, and the Ye Buzui who followed him began to scatter in all directions, approaching the south gate closest to them in a fan shape.
The closer they got to the city gate, the more nervous Hu Hao and the others became, vigilantly watching the place where prisoners might appear under the city head.
When they were not far from the city gate, they stopped for another night without moving forward, waiting for the signal from the brothers in front.
Hu Hao drew his sword in his hand and rushed into the Yongping City Gate first.
As soon as he entered, the sight before him stunned him.
On both sides of the street, there were many corpses dressed as civilians. They had been stabbed in the front and back. Many people's clothes had been pulled away, and they had obviously been searched.
The doors of every house are open, and some doors have even fallen off their hinges and are hanging sideways.
In addition to the crackling sound of burning wood, there were also occasional cries. Jianlu had indeed massacred the city.
Hu Hao immediately ordered his brothers to spread out to look for anyone alive to ask about the situation, while he himself went straight to the top of the city and stood on a high place to look at the whole city.
There was not a single living person in his sight. Jianlu must have left not long ago, otherwise the surviving people would have appeared on the street.
Hu Hao immediately turned around and gestured towards the outside of the city. When he saw Wang Er in the distance, he turned around and ran towards the road to report the military situation.
Ye Bushou, who was not far outside the city, started to enter the city and came to meet them.
Hu Hao took out another whistle and blew it several times. The Ye Bu Sui who had just dispersed began to move closer to him.
After they got together, one night Ye Busuo took out a silver ingot from his arms, smiled at Hu Hao and said, "Brother Hu, look, I picked it up on the road."
When the others saw it, they all took out some gold and silver jewelry from their arms and showed them to Hu Hao. One of them even gave a portion of the jewelry to Hu Hao.
Hu Hao was not polite, grabbed them and put them in his arms, and then said to them: "If there are too many, they will be easy to detect. Just have a few. We are now divided into two, and we will search for traces of the Jianlu along the city head and meet in the north of the city."
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Yebushou had always been convinced by Hu Hao. Although they wanted to pick up some more gold and silver jewelry, they restrained their desire and followed Hu Hao's order, splitting up into two groups and heading to the north of the city to search.
I stayed there all night and looked at the backs of Hu Hao and the others, and then looked outside the city to see the direction of the army. After a little confusion, I ran down to the top of the city to pick up belongings again.
After a while, I vaguely heard the sound of hoofbeats of a large group of horses throughout the night, so I quickly returned to the city to investigate.
In the direction from which they came, a long cavalry army was coming quickly. It was obvious that they were the cavalry in the vanguard of the army, and they came first after hearing the news.
These rangers all saw the night at the top of the city and knew that the city was safe. Without saying hello, they rushed in from the city gate and dispersed.
Ye Buzuo watched from the city gate as these rangers began to dismount and broke into various houses. He cursed secretly: "I give up when I encounter an enemy. It's really quick to grab things. Bah."
The sound of louder horse hooves coming from outside the city interrupted his secret curse, and he looked back again.
It's his own army, Guan Ning's cavalry is here.
The cavalryman running at the front, with the word "he" in his name, did not enter the city, but bypassed the city and headed north.
The cavalry troops then poured into Yongping City and began to occupy the surrounding streets and the city head in an organized manner.
About a quarter of an hour later, the main cavalry force of other generals also arrived. They found that the nearest south gate was closed and quickly called the door.
The captain of the Ning Army shouted at the top of the city: "This place has been accepted by our Ning Army. If you want to enter the city, please go elsewhere."
After the cavalrymen under the city cursed their mothers, they stopped staying and went directly to other city gates.
After Yongping City was massacred by the Jianlu, it began to be looted by the army again. Even if they were regular Ming troops, they would not show mercy. Anyway, the crime would eventually be placed on the head of the Jianlu.
It was already broad daylight, and the infantry of the Ming Army finally appeared outside Yongping City. The well-disciplined Baigan Army opened the way forward in a fan shape.
They were not to defend against possible attacks, but to prevent the infantry of the generals in the rear from passing them and entering the city.
No matter how the several general soldiers asked for a fight in front of Sun Chengzong, he would not allow them and only allowed them to follow the Baigan Army.
Sun Chengzong looked gloomy all the way. When he arrived outside Yongping City, he asked Ma Xianglin to lead a thousand white pole troops to follow him into the city. Qin Liangyu led the rest of the white pole troops to supervise the various infantry troops waiting in formation outside the city.
The various cavalry troops who had entered the city were not fools. They had already sent sentries to watch outside the city. When they saw the "Sun" flag of the Chinese army arriving, they quickly went back to notify their own troops that they were coming.
Therefore, by the time Sun Chengzong led the white-pole army into the city, the cavalry troops who had entered the houses had already returned to the streets and were stationed at various street strategic points, pretending to perform basic security duties.
Although Sun Chengzong knew what these people had done before he entered the city, he could not blame everyone. As long as it did not happen in front of his eyes, he could only pretend that he did not know.
He knew that it was not surprising at all that the local Ming army did these things under such circumstances.
Therefore, he did not dare to bring other troops into the city, only the Baigan Army. Because the Baigan Army was different from the local Ming army. After all, the Baigan Army was a chieftain army. The lives of the soldiers, including the lives of their families, were determined by
The chieftain has the final say. Even if the soldiers want to rob it, they will not dare as long as the chieftain refuses to let it go.
Sun Chengzong came to the magistrate's yamen in the middle of Yongping City and found that the yamen had also been burned down by the rebels. He stood in the square in front and ordered the generals from all over the place to come and report the military situation.