The people in Jizhou City were miserable. A month ago, the rebels besieged the city. The officials opened the city and surrendered. Then the rebels entered the city and tortured the gentry. They restrained and rarely disturbed the ordinary people. The rebels immediately established a puppet government and moved north. The city was indeed peaceful for a few days.
Unexpectedly, half a month ago, another bandit army entered the city and harassed them continuously... Suddenly I heard that today there were officers and soldiers besieging the city to regain Jizhou. It made people panic. They closed their houses and did not dare to go to the streets. At noon, they heard the sound of killing, and the people went to their own places.
Burn incense at home and pray to Buddha for blessings...
But what is the blessing? To protect the officers and soldiers from coming in or not? Only then did the common people realize that it was so embarrassing. In this age where officials and thieves are not distinguished, no one is safe when entering the city.
The killing sound did not last long, and disappeared within a short time of burning incense. Some brave people went out to spy around and said that the rebels had surrendered and the officers and soldiers were about to enter the city.
The people were in panic and hid their belongings and women one after another. The officers and soldiers were as ruthless as thieves and none of them had any good intentions. Jizhou City was bound to have another round of chaos.
However, what they were most worried about did not happen. They did not see the officers and soldiers breaking down the doors and looting. Instead, they patrolled the streets and alleys, urging the absconding thieves to surrender, otherwise they would be hunted down and shot to death. They also told the people: the officers and soldiers only hunted down the fugitives and would not disturb the people.
If you find thieves hiding, you can report it immediately. If you find officers and soldiers harassing you, you can also report it. Reporting will reward you...
It must be because the sun has come out from the west! The people of Jizhou could not accept that there were such officers and soldiers for a while. The brave ones took the lead to go out and stroll around the streets and then widely announced that the officers and soldiers had indeed not harassed them. The people were relieved and gradually walked out.
Home door.
Huang Degong and Gao Jie each led 3,000 men and horses to the north to snipe and kill the bandit reinforcements. The rest rested outside the city to guard the surrender. Only Huang Degong's subordinate general Weng Zhiqi led 2,000 men to enter the city to calm the people and hunt for the escapees.
After Chang Yu led his second battalion into the city, he handed over the surrendered court officials to Hu Ling, and then went up to the city. Tu Yuan led the Black Tiger Battalion to accompany him, and the heavy armored cavalry from the Gongzi Battalion entered the city and took to the streets to intimidate Xiao Xiao.
Responsible for supervising military discipline.
Chang Yu was walking up the city slowly towards the north city while inspecting the city. He saw Weng Zhiqi commanding the arrest of escaped thieves to appease the people. The heavy armored cavalry from the Gongzi Camp patrolled the streets, attracting people to watch.
The dust was flying a few miles north of the city, and the two armies were fighting fiercely. Chang Yu stopped to watch the battle with a telescope. He saw Huang Degong's troops facing Gao Jie's flank attack.
Looking down towards the city.
The Drum Tower in the city has always been a gathering place for the people. At this time, it is even more crowded. The inside and outside are filled with water. The few surrendered officials are trying to appease the people, saying that the officers and soldiers have begun to regain the lost territory. The thieves who cause trouble to the people are against the laws of heaven and must be punished by God...
I and others have endured the humiliation and endured the heavy burden for today... What I said was full of emotion and sincerity, as if it was really what happened.
Most of the people watching were silently cursing the shamelessness of these dog officials. This group of shameless wallflowers really talked about people and ghosts, but they managed to live in a prosperous and prosperous life.
No wonder the imperial court is declining day by day with people like this.
Unexpectedly, something strange happened in the venue at this moment. An official who had been talking endlessly just now was kicked to the ground in the blink of an eye, causing the onlookers to scream in surprise.
"You are an official, but you are disloyal to your Majesty and have turned your back on thieves and aided Zhou. Now you have the nerve to speak so shamelessly," Hu Ling scolded sternly.
"Sir, please have mercy." Several officials knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, but one of them actually peed.
"Cut it down!" Hu Ling shouted angrily.
The onlookers couldn't help but let out a cry. Some of the officials fainted from fright. However, they could not escape death. They were all chopped down by the Gongzi camp on the spot. The people were shocked and ran around telling each other.
The east gate of Jizhou City is close to Jizhou Lake. Although the lake is not plentiful due to drought for many years, it is still vast and boundless as far as the eye can see. It is refreshing and refreshing. Chang Yu stopped to watch it and forgot himself for a moment.
Zhai Fengqi was taken to the city and knelt down before Chang Yu to beg for mercy. He guessed the identity of this person but was confused. He was young but had a strong aura, and it was obvious that tens of thousands of people were obeying his orders. Who was this person?
Chang Yu sneered and looked at Zhai Fengqi who was lying on the ground: "Tell me what I want to hear, and I will spare your life for the things I have never heard before."
Zhai Fengqi was shocked, kowtowed to the ground and cried in mourning: ""Sir, didn't you say before that you would surrender and wait around me..." Just as he was saying this, he suddenly felt a cold feeling on his neck, but it was Chen Ruxin who put a steel knife on his neck: "Supervisor
Just say whatever the Lord tells you to say; if you say any more nonsense, you won’t have the chance to say it.”
Zhai Fengqi was stunned: "I said, I said..."
He didn't know what Chang Yu wanted to hear or hadn't heard, so he had to tell everything he knew. Starting from when Liu Fangliang was welcomed into Guangping Mansion by Zhang Ruxing, he was appointed as a defense envoy, and then received a military order to let him
Go to Northeast Jizhou to establish a defense line and keep an eye on the officers and soldiers...
Chang Yu did hear some unexpected things that he didn't know about. For example, Jizhou originally mobilized a total of five to six thousand troops, but later sent its best troops north to Hejian Prefecture to establish a defense line in Jingzhou.
"I heard that King Chuang... No, no, it's a trespasser. The trespassers were worried about the officers and soldiers going north, so they sent elite soldiers to Hejian Mansion..." Zhai Fengqi's words made Chang Yu frown, and he concluded that he was wrong.
!
Li Zicheng's army of more than 100,000 men held numerous camps of refugees for 300 miles, which meant that there were bandits and cannon fodder everywhere from Baoding Mansion to Zhending Mansion. Jizhou's few bandits were only located in a remote location close to the provincial border.
There were absolutely thieves everywhere, so Li Zicheng was not too worried about the officers and soldiers crossing westward. Even if the officers and soldiers captured Jizhou, they would not dare to go west again because there were too many troops there.
What worried him most was that the officers and soldiers would go directly north across Hejian Prefecture to Baoding for reinforcements, so he transferred the best of the thousands of bandit troops that had been hastily assembled to Jingzhou.
Chang Yu suddenly thought of how he could have only a few hundred people when he passed through Hejian Prefecture and Li Zicheng's position to prevent reinforcements from advancing northward. He also thought of the scene when he passed by Jingzhou and took a deep breath in his heart. It turned out that
Most of Fucheng's troops have also been transferred to the Jingzhou front line!
That tiny city probably had tens of thousands of troops at this time, including many elites. Liu Zeqing was in trouble this time. He thought he was picking a soft persimmon, but who would have thought he was picking a hedgehog!
Chang Yu smiled bitterly, fearing that Liu Zeqing was covering his wound and scolding the little eunuch for cheating his simple trust.
"Sir, that's all I know!" Zhai Fengqi was so speechless that he finally had nothing to say: "Let me find a way to work for you..."
Chang Yu nodded slightly, turned and looked north, saw thousands of people and horses running towards him, raised his hand and pointed at Zhai Fengqi: "Do you know why that group of people came?"
Zhai Fengqi looked around and couldn't see clearly, so he shook his head.
Chang Yu chuckled: "When you surrendered, a group of thousands of reinforcements came from the north, and they were very aggressive. The governor's subordinates couldn't see their bad behavior, so they went to teach them a lesson. They must have returned home happily now."
Ah! Zhai Fengqi stood there dumbfounded, with mixed emotions in his heart and a pale face. Suddenly he felt something strange on his neck. He lowered his head and saw that a rope was tied around him. He knew something was wrong. He opened his mouth to call out, but was immediately heard.
He was kicked down the city, struggled for a moment and then was hanged!