"Do one thing for me. I promise that after the city is broken, you, the people of Tingzhou, will not be held accountable for your crimes of being thieves." Li Yuncong called the unlucky envoy over and said.
"General, please give me your orders, and all the villains will obey your orders!" the envoy said in surprise. In fact, at this time, he had already concluded that Tingzhou must fall. Based on Master De's strange behavior of waving the Four Books Annotation, it would be impossible for the city not to fall.
God's sake, there is no one who doesn't cause trouble after the city is destroyed these days, especially since I heard that these people in the Japanese country like to wash the city. He has been worried about this problem for a while.
"Actually, it's nothing, it's just a trivial matter!" Li Yuncong smiled and hugged his shoulders and whispered. The envoy was surprised at first, then nodded vigorously, and then returned to Tingzhou City.
"What? Are they willing to surrender?" Happiness came so suddenly that Mr. De jumped up from his wicker chair.
"That's it. My lord, it turns out that the enemy general has long wanted to abandon the darkness and turn to the light. This time he received your advice, which was like a revelation. In addition, he also read poetry and books. Although he was coerced by Yang Ni, he still knew how to obey and rebel.
According to what he said, those who were Yang Ni's followers wanted nothing more than money. In the previous battle to conquer Japan, they had already gained a lot. Even ordinary soldiers received a thousand taels of silver. They were more or less satisfied and were just thinking about a chance to escape.
The traitors return home to enjoy their happiness, and most of their families live in Zhengan. How can they dare to go home as a traitor to the party? If you can guarantee that the court will not pursue them for the crime of rebellion, I will all be willing to follow you south to Fuzhou to capture Yang Ni."
The messenger said with a smile.
"Haha, that's it. I will tell everyone when I go back. I swear here that if the court pursues me again in the future, I will die to thank you!" Dezhi said with a solemn face. He really feels like pie in the sky now. If
These traitors directly said that they would surrender. He didn't believe it, but with the explanation behind it, it was completely reasonable. Damn, everyone has a thousand taels of silver, who would be willing to live like this with his head in his pants?
The work on the belt. To be honest, with the current market prices, one thousand taels of silver is enough to buy a medium-sized official.
Of course he didn't know that those people had to pay for their children studying abroad and the land of Australia. Compared with a thousand taels of silver, that was the real attraction. Otherwise, Governor Yang would not be worried about the desire of those veterans to fight.
As for the local recruits in Taiwan, Fujian, and Zhejiang, they were subjected to anti-Manchu education every day during this period. Coupled with the inducement of high salaries, and the rapid changes in their hometowns, they were so confused that they no longer knew what the imperial court was.
In order to show the validity of his oath, Mr. De personally wrote a letter of guarantee, not only pressed the Shangguan seal but also his own fingerprint. After the completion, he handed it over to the envoy amidst the surrounding people singing praises. Even he himself felt a little elated when talking about it.
What is it called to teach more than 10,000 bandits to repent because of their righteousness? In this world...
He really couldn't think of any famous general in history who had such achievements. In fact, Master De was not very knowledgeable. The main reason why he liked to read literature was because he got his Jinshi through the back door, so he had an inferiority complex in this regard.
In short, he sent the envoy out of the city with the joy of being promoted to an official position and leaving his name in history. Soon the envoy came back and told him that the thieves would get his guarantee and burst into tears with gratitude. He was ready to enter the city and surrender to him.
"Haha, I should go out to greet you." Dezhi said with a smile, and now the last doubt was gone.
"The thief general said that you have a noble status, so if you go out to welcome them, you will kill them. Furthermore, tens of thousands of people will inevitably have discord. If there is one of them who harbors evil intentions and harms you, he will die without redemption, so he will be killed."
He will lead his men to the city first to pay homage to the Lord, and then slowly deal with the men. In addition, he also prepared a batch of gifts for the Lord, as a thank you to the Lord for working for him, and there will be more after the event is completed," the messenger said.
"In that case, I won't be polite. Come here, we have prepared a banquet in the state government office. I want to have a good drink with a group of righteous men! Dezhi laughed so hard that he almost lost his sight. This is either a pie or a pie.
If a gold cake hits someone on the head, why are you so lucky? He doesn't know that if a gold cake falls on the head, someone will be killed.
After a while, I saw a dozen men on horseback coming out of the enemy army. There was also a carriage in the middle. It should be a box carriage requisitioned from somewhere. Judging from the situation, it contained a lot of things. These people
First he dismounted and rushed to the city and bowed, then remounted and drove the carriage towards the city gate. Dezhi quickly asked someone to lower the drawbridge and open the city gate, and then he saw these people waving to each other as they crossed the drawbridge.
Du Si, who was in charge of welcoming people at the city gate, saw people walking across the drawbridge. The carriage was in the front, and the people on horseback were half on the drawbridge and half in front of the city gate. The leader, who looked like an officer, even raised his hand to him.
! Du Si hurriedly handed over his hand, but at this moment he suddenly saw the driver on the carriage turn over and jump off, casually cutting off the rope on the shaft, and then before he could understand what was going on, he was like a frightened rabbit.
He jumped in front of the leader's horse, took his hand and jumped on the horse. At this time, the riders behind him also turned their horses around at the same time, and another one jumped out of the carriage and jumped on the back of another rider.
The riders flew across the suspension bridge and ran as fast as they could into the distance as if there was a fire burning behind them.
"Huh?" That Du Si was stunned. What is going on?
The people around him were also dumbfounded. They all looked at each other inexplicably. Suddenly, a soldier's face suddenly turned pale. Without saying anything, he put aside all the burdens on his body without hesitation and ran towards the city as fast as possible.
Come on, Dusi hasn't figured it out yet.
Of course, Mr. De on the city wall didn't understand either. He was wondering what was wrong with these people, why they all ran away after entering the door. At this moment, he suddenly felt something under his feet, as if something was arching, and he subconsciously
As soon as he lowered his head, there was a loud bang at the same time, and there was no sound in his ears anymore. Then he felt his body flying up, and it was as if the entire city wall was smashed in front of him. The next moment, De
The adults don't know anything anymore.
"Your city wall is very strong. We only used ten times the amount when we bombed the city of Beijing." Li Yuncong looked at the Tingzhou city wall that was blown away by 300 kilograms of antimony, and said seriously to the envoy beside him.
The other party was already so frightened that he didn't know how to answer him.
"Blow the charge, attack, artillery fire and machine guns suppress the defenders on both sides!" Li Yuncong ignored him, pulled out his saber and pointed forward, and the impatient soldiers immediately rushed towards the huge gap that was blown up like a tide.
At the same time, the sound of artillery and machine gun fire also sounded.
At this time, none of the defenders on the city wall dared to resist. They saw a flash of fire at the city gate, and then a section of the city wall that they thought was indestructible was at least thirty steps long, and in an instant it turned into countless fragments and was sprayed on.
In the sky, the huge impact of the explosion even blew up the soldiers who were close. Even if they were farther away, there was no sound in their ears. Then the fragments of the city wall and human bodies shot out of the sky like cannonballs.
When it came down, even the moat was almost filled. Many people were almost scared out of their wits at this time. Among the ragtag group of green battalions and caterpillars, who had the courage to fight? When the shells exploded on the city wall,
They immediately screamed and ran down the city wall in a swarm. The locals took off their clothes as quickly as possible and went home, while the rebels from other places ran directly out of the city.
Li Yuncong's first division team and the first brigade, which totaled more than 11,000 people, rushed into Tingzhou City almost unimpeded. As for the street fighting in the city, there was no one to guard the city walls.
, no one dares to engage in street fighting. The people in the city don’t care about your court or the rebels! Besides, Dezhi here has long been plundering to maintain his more than 10,000 rebels, which has made the people resentful. Now someone beats them instead of beating the fallen dog.
That's good, but Tingzhou, which Cixi had placed high hopes on, fell like this.
Soldiers in green military uniforms swept through the entire city like green torrents. Everywhere they passed, the defenders who had no time to escape dropped their weapons and knelt aside. Fortunately, these soldiers obeyed the rules and did not breach the city at all.
routine activities, which actually made the people in the city breathe a sigh of relief.
"Hey, are all the food and wine ready? Lord De is so considerate." Li Yuncong from the Tingzhou Prefecture Yamen said with a smile as he looked at the table of food and wine set up. Next to him, shivering and kneeling, Dezhi's new concubine and his wife were kneeling tremblingly.
As a slave, Master De is not stupid, so he will not bring his family to take office. In order to meet his needs, Jiangxi Governor Deshou gave him a concubine. It is said that she is a famous prostitute in Nanchang, and now she is advantageous to Li Yuncong.
Of course, the battle could not be considered over at this time, because some of Dezhi's troops seeking Yang Feng fled westward, probably to Jiangxi, where they drank and ate meat under the service of Lord De's concubine. Li Yuncong asked Yang Feng
I sent a telegram to ask for instructions on what to do. After all, Jiangxi is not the territory of the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang. If we cross the border, the impact will be bad. But if we let those guys go without crossing the border, there is no guarantee that they will not cause trouble again in the future.
"You said Dezhi provided guns and cannons here?" he asked the flirtatious concubine next to him. The young and handsome him was completely different from the bad old man Dezhi. This little hoof was almost reaching his arms now.
It can't come out.
"Not only are there guns and cannons, but Han Dusi is also here with a battalion of training troops to help?" The concubine rubbed against him like a lustful cat and panted slightly. She didn't know what these words would do to him.
What a trouble her former master caused.
"If you add these to the Governor in the telegram, aren't you committing suicide?" Li Yuncong twisted her butt and turned to his messenger.