Seeing that the enemy was in disarray, the imperial troops launched an attack on the rebels.
When the rebels saw the imperial soldiers and horses rushing down from the heights with murderous intent, they were so frightened that they peeed and ran away with their heads in their hands, wishing that their parents would give him two more legs.
Not all rebels were cowards, there were a few who dared to be tough, but their number was too small, and most of them fled back when they saw the murderous court soldiers.
However, these brave rebels were reluctantly held hostage by cowards and had to flee back.
While they had to flee, they wanted to curse their mothers countless times. When they tried to stop, they were either pushed or stepped on by other rebels.
"I'll go! Do you think my feet are stones? How dare you crush them with force!"
"Don't push me, you cowards, you know how to run away when you encounter an enemy. What's the use of you? You're all fucking losers!"
"Ouch! Who stepped on my toes!"
Jumping in pain!
It's terrible!
My toes were so cold that they developed chilblains. They were itchy and painful after walking such a long way outside, and being stepped on like this made me want to kill myself in pain!
Even if your facial features are wrinkled together in pain, you still have to jump and run forward with the flow of people. Because if you don't run and get pushed down, they will trample you to death or hurt you.
What's even worse is the sound of muskets and the swishing of arrows coming from behind. If you don't run away, you might even lose your life.
"Brother, save me!"
"Help, I was shot in the leg!"
"Ahhh! Don't step on me!" The snow was stained with blood!
The imperial soldiers and horses were in hot pursuit, and the firearms battalion and the archery battalion took turns shooting. The people running at the back of the rebel team fell down in rows, so frightened that the rebels running in front wished they had Scuds.
But sometimes mistakes would be made in panic. Some people would speed up and accidentally fall into the snow. Before they could get up and continue running away, the court soldiers and horses chasing after them would kill them on the spot.
Ding Dazhuang saw dozens of people running into the dense forest with few people, and he led his team to chase them immediately.
Now that even Feng Tu and Sha Yuliang have become deputy generals, he is unwilling to be just a vanguard officer two ranks lower than them.
Taking advantage of this battle, I vowed to make more meritorious deeds than the two of them, and I must work hard to catch up with them.
The rebels, who had been hungry for a long time, were still not as strong as the imperial troops even though they had grabbed food and had two full meals.
Ding Dazhuang kept an eye on these dozens of people. The most important thing was that these dozens of people were protecting one of them who was escaping. He thought that this person must be a thief.
Sure enough, after they shot some of the rebels and captured the last few, after interrogation, Ding Dazhuang found out that the person being protected was actually a general in the rebel army, a relatively high-ranking thief.
Headed.
Ding Dazhuang kicked him: "Oh, you are so crazy. You went to plunder the people's wealth and the last bit of life-saving food from the people. You even dispatched the thieves to the capital. Do you still want to be embarrassed?"
The leader of the thief was not only captured alive, but also humiliated by these officers and soldiers. He turned his head to the other side autistically, neither looking, listening nor speaking, in order to protest his dissatisfaction.
Of course, his resistance didn't matter to Ding Dazhuang.
What to do with these prisoners must be taken back and left to the masters to decide.
Sha Yuliang saw Ding Dazhuang escorting several prisoners from a distance. When they came closer, he asked: "Officer Ding Xianfeng, are these people your prisoners? Do you know their identities?"
Because he saw that the clothes of one of them were different from those of the other rebels, he thought he was a small leader.
Ding Dazhuang pushed the thief's head forward, pointed at him and said: "The little leader among the rebels, who is joining the army?"
Sha Yuliang looked at the prisoners in different clothes in surprise, "Oh! This is not a small leader, he is a core figure in the rebels! Officer Ding Xianfeng, how did you catch him?"
Ding Dazhuang narrowed his eyes because of the beauty in his heart. Hearing the question, he said with a naive smile: "I just saw them choosing another way to escape. I thought I couldn't let them escape, so I called my brothers to chase them. But it was unexpected.
He turned out to be a member of the rebel army. Being able to catch him this time was an unexpected bonus!"
Sha Yuliang clicked his tongue in his heart. This luck is really enviable. He has never captured an enemy general alive for many years in the army, but this Ding Dazhuang has unintentionally completed the task that he has not completed. Do you think you can help others?
envious?
Sha Yuliang asked people to escort the prisoners away, and then said to Ding Dazhuang: "I will report this credit to you. I will take the brothers to continue cleaning the battlefield to see if there are any traitors left behind."
Ding Dazhuang chuckled and said, "Thank you, General Sha. If Master promotes me to an official position, I will treat you to a drink and a tour of the Flower House."
Sha Yuliang's originally smiling face turned dark instantly, "Ding Xianfeng, pay attention to your usual behavior. You must know that the master hates men who look for flowers when they have nothing to do. Be careful if she finds out and wipes out your achievements this time.
Got it!"
"ah!"
Ding Dazhuang was startled, "General Sha, who have you heard say that the master hates men the most? How come I haven't heard anyone say this?"
He even suspected that Sha Yuliang was jealous of his meritorious service and made up lies just to tease him.
Sha Yuliang rolled her eyes at him: "Who else should I listen to? The master is a woman. What women hate most is that men are half-hearted and romantic!"
Ding Dazhuang was really shocked. He felt that what Sha Yuliang said made sense. He tried to recall his usual behavior and found that there seemed to be nothing that made his master angry.
He breathed a sigh of relief: "I was just joking with you, don't take it seriously, just pretend I didn't say this today."
At the same time, I also kept in mind that I would not be so confused next time.
Compared to serving under the master, a woman is nothing!
The battlefield was cleaned, and the soldiers did not even spare the enemy's corpses, but searched their pockets. Of course, whoever found the items got the final say, so everyone was very enthusiastic about cleaning the battlefield.
A rough calculation of the grain that the rebels gathered back this time was about a few hundred tons. Although this grain is not much, it can alleviate the famine of the people in the county.
As Sha Yuliang returned with people and food, other intercepting teams also returned to the city one after another.
Even though there was not much food in the famine year, the rebels were still capable. They were able to plunder so much food in just a few days. They were considered great!
If you can follow the right path, you will definitely be a capable official.
Two days later, notices were posted at the entrance of the county government office, the entrance to the market, and the gate of the city, asking all the people in the city to receive relief grains at the gate of the county government starting tomorrow. The grain was calculated based on the population, five kilograms for adults and three kilograms for children.
As for how long people can eat this food, it all depends on their personal abilities. Some people manage their families well. Each adult has five kilograms of food, and it is possible for her to eat it for a month. If a woman does not know how to run a house, she will not be able to handle this small amount of food.
Maybe it can be finished in a few days.
"Tell me, what's on the notice?"
The sign was crowded with skinny people, most of whom were illiterate, and only a few were literate.
The illiterate ones urged the literate ones to stop hanging their book bags and quickly read the meaning on the notice to them.
"Don't worry, everyone, let me take a look first!"
"Can't you read it out while you're reading it? Read it again first. Isn't this a delay?" someone urged.
The literate person rolled his eyes inwardly. The teachers in the school also took notes before teaching. What's more, he was a layman. Although he was literate, he still needed a rigorous attitude in doing things.
"Okay, okay, everyone, stop arguing and listen to me!"
At this moment, the surrounding area became quiet. Everyone pricked up their ears to hear what the notice said?
When the government posts notices, don’t ask the officer who posted the notice why he didn’t read it again?
Unfortunately, the government official who came to post the notice this time was illiterate.
"The meaning of the notice can be summarized in two points. One is that the rebel prisoners will be executed at Caishikou tomorrow at noon. The second is that after the execution, everyone can queue up at the Yamen Gate to receive food. Each adult can receive five kilograms, and children can receive three kilograms.
catty!"
At first everyone was shocked when they heard that prisoners were beheaded in the wet market, but when they heard the next sentence, everyone became excited!
There is food!
"How could the government be so generous this time and distribute food directly to everyone? Do you know who led the troops to put down the rebellion in Yuzhou this time?"
"I don't know." Someone shook his head.
"If I know who is leading the army, I will burn two sticks of incense for him at home every Lunar New Year. I hope he will be invincible on the battlefield!"
"What you said is nice. Do you have money to buy incense?"
This is a sharp and realistic question. As soon as these words came out, the people who were excited just now slowly calmed down.
Someone who couldn't wait said, "Hey, stop arguing. There have been a lot of people in the past two days, and there must be more people collecting food. I'd better go home and prepare first, especially the bags containing food."
"You're right. I'll ask the head of my family to line up early tomorrow. I can't be late to get food if I have it."
After getting the exact news, the crowd dispersed instantly.
It's too cold outside. Instead of freezing here, it's better to go home and sleep on the heated kang to keep warm.
The next day, before noon, many people came out on the street. Some of them were carrying baskets, some were carrying baskets, and some were carrying food bags. Their destination was the same, which was to go to the Yamen Gate.
Receive relief food.
"Maodan, are you ready?"
"Grandma Chun, I'm ready."
As soon as he finished speaking, Mao Dan ran out of the house with a sack in his hand.
"Come and give it to me." Aunt Chun put the sack in his hand into her backpack.
"I can take a bag from Grandma Chun." Maodan's eyes flashed with helplessness, and at the same time he was grateful in his heart. Without the help of Grandma Chun and Shitou, his body might have become rigor mortis long ago.
Shitou walked over and held his hand, comforting him: "That bag of yours doesn't weigh much. Putting it in my mother's basket won't make her tired. Don't be polite here. It's a big deal that we hurry up and line up to get the food."
Aunt Chun smiled and said: "Shitou is right, we'd better hurry up and get the food."
Mao Dan felt that what they said was reasonable and did not insist anymore. The three of them couldn't help but speed up their pace.
Xia Jing was dressed plainly today and walked out of the back gate of the county government office in a low-key manner with Li Chengmu and her bodyguards.
When you turned out of the alley at the back door, you saw a long queue at the Yamen entrance.
Some people in the team caught her attention. She pointed to a few people who were obviously from well-off families and asked, "Who are those people?"
Looking at their clothes, they don’t look like poor people, but more like people from well-off families. But will people from well-off families come to line up to receive food?
This is really unreasonable!
Ye Fei took a look over there and said with some uncertainty: "It should be a wealthy household in the county. Maybe the family has no food."
Xia Jing stood at a street corner and said to Ye Fei: "Go and ask the Yamen servant to ask which family they are from?"
Ye Fei took the order and left.
Li Chengmu raised the corners of his lips slightly, "Mother, don't you believe that these people are running out of food and ammunition?"
Xia Jing nodded without hesitation: "Yes, logically speaking, wealthy households like them are smart. In times of disaster, the family has some food reserves, so they will not compete with the common people for food."
After listening to her words, Li Chengmu suddenly looked at those people with something wrong, "Mother, then should I send someone to drive them back?"
Xia Jing waved her hand: "No, let them wait in line for now."
Ye Fei came back quickly, "Master and the government officials told me that these people are from several big families in the county. Their families are basically engaged in business. They used to have a lot of wealth, but after the disaster, their wealth was almost dispersed in three years."
Otherwise, several families would not come here to queue up to receive relief food just to save their face.
These are the original words of the Yamen servant.
Of course, there are only a few government officials in the county government now, and they are still the original team that Xia Jing and the others recruited after they entered the city.
It's just that they are the only ones left in the original team, and the others either die or join the rebel army.
After listening to Ye Fei's words, Li Chengmu felt a little pity when he looked at those people, but in his heart he still didn't believe that the rich people were really poor enough to receive relief grains.
Xia Jing said nothing, but led them around the county town.
It was still early to distribute relief grains. We had to cut off the heads of the thieves at noon before we started distributing grains. We treated it as a celebration of this great victory for the whole city.
Aunt Chun, Shitou and Maodan noticed Xia Jing and her group. Because there were too many people in line, otherwise they would really want to get in front of Xia Jing and express their gratitude again.
"Maodan, she was the one who agreed to let me pack an extra bowl of porridge and go back to rescue you. It was also she who ordered the officers and soldiers to help bury your body." Shitou looked into the distance with an excited expression. He saw his benefactor again.
Mao Dan nodded and said firmly: "Well, I will repay her."
Aunt Chun ruffled Maodan's hair happily and joked: "Since you want to repay her, you have to remember her face, otherwise when you grow up and want to repay her, you won't be able to find anyone."
"Don't worry, Grandma Chun, I'm not an ungrateful person!"
"Hey, you said this kid can also draw pictures!"
Aunt Chun really admires this boy. He is not only very smart, but also very well-behaved and sensible. He is really loved and pitied.
Xia Jing, who was already far away from the county government, was unaware of the conversation between Aunt Chun, her grandparents, and her grandson. She was observing her surroundings while walking around.
"Mother, where are we going?"
Ye Fei also reminded: "Master, further ahead is the residential area. There are no shops and nothing to visit."
Xia Jing nodded: "I know, I just want to see what the standard residential areas of these wealthy businessmen and officials are like?"
The corner of Ye Fei's mouth twitched. Looking at Xia Jing's expression, he felt that she was looking for trouble!
Could it be that the master has a conflict with someone in this area?
Walking to a house, Xia Jing pointed to the plaque: "Is this the Wu family?"
Ye Fei looked through the household registration book and found that it was indeed the Wu family's house.
The house occupies a very large area, and many people would definitely object to randomly setting aside some houses to house soldiers.
They objected to luxury because they themselves did not own it; others objected because they were afraid that the imperial court would touch their gains.
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