Chapter 155: Incorporating Military Households (1)
Thousand households were wearing chain mail and pointed iron helmets. The servants were wearing leather armor, pointed iron helmets, and holding sharp steel knives and spears. The military households surrounding them were chopped over and stabbed to death in an instant.
The military household who took the lead and shouted for rebellion was named Zhang Jin. The family had long been gone, and the old father and wife all starved to death. Zhang Jin is still alive now and only has one purpose, which is to kill the officers who deducted military pay!
Zhang Jin glared at the Commander Command and a group of thousands of households with blood-red eyes. It was the people in front of him who deducted military pay for many years, but they have not paid it yet, which has caused the family to lose money. Now that they are facing a once-in-a-thousand-year natural disaster, these guys have hoarded mountains of food at home and are reluctant to even send a grain of rice to everyone, which has led to a large number of military households starving to death.
I heard that many military households in Shaanxi have fled. The imperial court punished the fugitives who were caught very severely. As long as they were caught, they were basically the word "death". The fugitive military households were already desperate. In addition to joining the refugee team and joining the bandits, they were all hungry on the roadside.
When people couldn't survive, they sacrificed everything. The military households holding simple weapons were killed in rows and piles of water surged up again. Finally, someone waved his hoe and smashed a servant's head.
A hole appeared in the defense line between the servants and the officers, like a dam missing, which collapsed in an instant. Groups of military households surrounded them, smashed with hoes, beaten with wooden sticks, chopped with rusty blunt knife, and spearheaded with spearheads that were no longer sharp. In less than a cup of tea, the commander of the guard, his servants, and the thousands of households under his command were beaten into meat paste by the angry military households.
The hungry military households opened the doors of the commander and the warehouses of thousands of households, with mountains of food piled up, as well as pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks raised at home, dried fish and dried meat, and a jar of wine in the warehouse, which made the hungry military households extremely angry.
It’s really: the rich people smell wine and meat, and the road is frozen to death.
The middle and senior officers in the garrison were almost killed, and the women in their family naturally became unlucky. The young and beautiful ladies and maids were all taken away by the military households, and even some old and ugly people were wanted. After all, many military households could not even afford to marry their wives. They were all very young and thought they were Diao Chan when they saw the sow.
The military households cooked with the stolen grains, and vegetables and meat were also divided.
"Make the porridge and make it thinner. You can't eat too much, otherwise you will be able to die of thirst!" Zhang Jin shouted and asked the military households who made fire and cooked to pay attention.
The military households who had been hungry for a long time had cooked porridge and had a good meal to fill their stomachs.
But after eating, they remembered that they had already killed the officials and rebelled. What should they do next? Still stayed in Yulin Guard? When the official army came to wipe out, these few people were destroyed. They fled to join the Shaanxi refugee team? I heard that the officers and soldiers killed the bandits in Shaanxi and killed the people.
Hearing the military households talking, Zhang Jin signaled everyone to calm down.
Everyone stopped making noise, Zhang Jin looked around and shouted: "Brothers, as long as you cross the Yellow River and go to Shanxi on the other side, Wang Jiayin's rebel army will be on the other side! Let's go to join the rebel army!"
"What kind of rebel army? Isn't it a thief?" said a military householder.
"Bandit?" Zhang Jin sneered, "We have already killed officials and rebelled. In the eyes of the court, what is the difference between us and the thief now? Wang Jiayin's rebel army is all ordinary people and military households who cannot survive. Wang Jiayin himself, like us, was originally a military household, and rebelled only after he could not survive! They were slandered by the court as thief! But now if we don't go to join the rebel army, what other way can we do?"
In the end, the military households decided to follow Zhang Jin to cross the river to Shanxi on the other side and join Wang Jiayin who was entrenched in the Hequ area.
As for how to cross the Yellow River, Zhang Jin had thought of a solution. After going to the riverside, he cut down trees and made a batch of rafts to cross the Yellow River.
The rebels were ready to escape. Three days later, the military households dragged their families and carried bottles and jars, and drove a large cart on the road to escape to Shanxi.
"Officers and soldiers! The officers and soldiers are here!" someone suddenly shouted.
A smog of smoke and dust rose in front of me, and the colorful Ming flag appeared in people's eyes. When the team approached, the military households found that the attack was actually cavalry! Judging from the scale, there were at least one thousand cavalrymen!
"Cabin! It's the cavalry coming!" Someone shouted in horror.
"Don't be messed up, form formation! Form formation! We can only defeat the officers and soldiers! Otherwise, our legs will not run away from the cavalry!" Zhang Jin shouted, trying to maintain order. He wondered: How could it be possible? Why did the officers and soldiers come so quickly? We killed officials in Yulin Guard and rebelled, and all the officers were killed. The court knew that the news was not so fast. Could it be that someone had leaked the news?
Many military households have wooden sticks sharpened at one end in their hands, which can be used as spears. Zhang Jin ordered a formation to use spear formations to deal with the invading official and cavalry.
Seeing that the military households formed a formation, Zhang Jin still felt uneasy. Although there were more than 6,000 fleeing military households, more than half of them were women, children, elderly and weak, and the young and strong were less than 3,000. Moreover, the weapons and equipment were extremely poor, and they were almost not armed. The opponents had more than 1,000 cavalry, and they knew they were elite cavalry, and each of them was covered in armor. If the opponent did not rush directly to the formation, but dismounted and shot arrows, I am afraid that a few rounds of arrows would be able to shoot the military households' formations.
As long as the formation collapses, the cavalry can easily chase and kill infantry.
The cavalry galloped to the front of the military formation fifty steps, but did not rush forward any further, but stopped moving forward. Only a whistle was heard, and the cavalry on the horses dismounted and took down bows, arrows, bird guns and three-eyed guns from their backs.
Zhang Jin watched helplessly as the officers and soldiers on the opposite side took out the arrows from the quiver and gently placed them on the bowstring. As long as the bowstring is pulled open, a rain of arrows can be shot; the bird gunman and the three-eyed gunman have both lit the fuse and aimed the black muzzle at him.
The cavalry that arrived was Li Guodong's elite cavalry, with a total of 1,200 people, of which 600 were veterans who entered the pass and fought fiercely with the Later Jin during the Jisi period, and the other 600 were new recruits adapted from He Xing's Minzhuang and the surrendered soldiers.
Seeing this posture, Zhang Jin knew that the military households at hand that were similar to farmers were no match for them, but he was unwilling to sit and wait for death. He just barely suppressed the formation and prepared to welcome the upcoming rain of arrows. At this time, Zhang Jin felt very regretful. Why didn't he make a batch of wooden signs when he set off?
Li Guodong did not order the gun to shoot arrows, but ordered several soldiers to come forward and shout to the military households opposite: "Dear Ming dynasty, you must think about it. There is no future for rebellion! Hong Chengchou and Cao Wenzhao are encircling the bandits. If you don't want to live, just go to Shanxi to join Wang Jiayin! Let's tell you the truth, Wang Jiayin is surrounded by officers and soldiers. He is already a grasshopper after autumn and can't jump for a few days! As long as you are lost and follow us, we guarantee you to live!"
"Don't listen to the evil words of the officials and confusing the public!" Zhang Jin shouted anxiously, "They just want to trick us into putting down our weapons so that we can kill our heads to seek credit!"
Chapter completed!