Traveler Major League

Chapter 162 Blocking News
He Huchen led his men Jingqi from Jiaodao Town, across the Jiezi River, around Fu County overnight, and lurked near Jiuxian Town, which is [-] miles away from Luochuan County. It is also the reason for the detour here.

It is difficult to travel at night, but fortunately there is a full moon, and the journey can be smooth by taking advantage of the moonlight.

"General, the front is Jiuxian Town, which has been taken over by thieves, there is no good person, they are all damned poor." Wang Xing, the guide accompanying the army, said, looking at the distant town full of hatred.

He was originally one of the big households in this town, owning half of the town's shop property, leading a rich and stable life, and his sons and daughters don't need to work as hard as the poor, they only need to enjoy life, and every disaster year You can also take the opportunity to buy real estate at a low price and take out usury loans. This kind of reciprocation makes life more and more prosperous.

But the people's army arrived here more than a month ago and began to divide the land, and his property was also divided among the poor in the town. Only he escaped from the firewood room where he was held on the eve of the trial, and the others except the children, The whole family was declared guilty and beheaded for public display.

People like Wang Xing are almost all over the army, some serve as guides for the army to encircle and suppress, and some throw away all their gold and silver and go to Liu Yingyu's army, only to fight back to their hometown for revenge, just like Qiao's second son. Those who have the courage to join the army will become the backbone of the army.

"I just ask the general to avenge the good people like me. There are food, grass, gold and silver in the town that can be used as military funds." Wang Xing got off his horse and knelt down and kowtowed. He didn't even think that there were gravels on the ground.

Seeing this, He Huchen got off his horse and helped him up, and comforted him: "Since I promised to avenge you before, I will definitely wipe out the rioters here. I will give you a team, and you can avenge yourself, but you still have to wait for Mr. Zhang Qian." Just do it once." This time, he came here lightly, and he only brought a day's worth of food and grass, and there would be no more than one day, so the Jiuxian Town here is where he planned to replenish supplies.

"Let's go deep into the hinterland of thieves and bandits. We must not let the rumors go. We must block the news and leave no one behind."

Hearing this, Wang Xing immediately burst into a smile, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said excitedly: "Thank you, sir." He kept talking, although he didn't understand what it meant to wait for Mr. Already predicting how to take revenge, and how the enemy should prostrate at his feet, begging for his life, Wang Xing looked at He Huchen's leaving back, got up from the ground tremblingly, and let out a burst of inexplicable but very strange words from his mouth. Weird laughter, as if possessed by a demon.

At this time, the sky had not yet dawned, and these hundreds of cavalry rushed into the town on horseback. The sound of horseshoes on the bluestone slabs was loud, which immediately woke up the townspeople.

"The army is here, the army is here, run away." Someone shouted, and suddenly the town was in chaos. Jizhongshengzhi got into baskets or rice vats, hiding in them and shivering, and a few militiamen with hammers or kitchen knives prepared to go up to fight with the officers and soldiers as soon as they arrived.

The officers and soldiers first took control of the gate of the town, killed the few militia guards, and sent cavalry to patrol the main road to prevent anyone from coming out. Then Zhang Zhicheng felt relieved, and sat on the horseback, recalling that Tu Zhi was as easy as a dog. This is the real battle. He squinted his eyes and said to the soldiers: "It will be bright, and you will run back and forth in the town, and you will ask each household to pay for money and food, and you will give them An Min Talisman. The one with the talisman is safe, and those without the talisman are traitors, and they will be killed without mercy."

The soldiers sang loudly, and several people sent orders to leave. Wang Xing asked with a puzzled look on his face: "My lord, just now General He promised to take revenge, why did you issue the Anmin Talisman?"

"This is a strategy, don't talk too much, I will give you an explanation later." Zhang Zhicheng was not annoyed, and looked at Wang Xing beside him and replied calmly.

Sure enough, after the officers and soldiers all over the town conveyed the news of the Anmin Talisman, the chaos in the town gradually subsided, and the resistance disappeared. When the sky was completely bright, the residents of the town began to take out money and food to wait for the officials in front of their respective gates. The sergeants came to collect them, and the officers and soldiers conscripted another group of carts from the town. Because the large animals were basically taken to the camp, they had to recruit some strong men to pull carts.

In front, the officers and soldiers counted the numbers, and asked the strong men to push with the team. Each person exchanged two hundred catties of grain.

"Sister, how can you fool around with just a few dozen catties of grain?" the man asked in question when he heard the shouts of officers and soldiers forming a team outside.

"It's reasonable to travel all over the world. What are we poor people afraid of? How can the Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers kill people indiscriminately? At most, they can only beat them up. It's easy to send out food in this disaster year, but our family will starve to death by then! Look at me. "

After waiting for a while, the food collection team arrived at the door.

"Master Jun, our family really doesn't have so much food. There are a lot of people in the family, please forgive us." The woman begged in front of the door with red eyes, holding a bag of several tens of catties of food and thinking. In exchange for peace with this top number, I never thought that if I repeated a few words, I would annoy the leader of the team. When I went up, I stabbed him. The woman fell to the ground without saying a word, only her lips moved slightly, as if Talking about being reasonable and traveling all over the world. . .

"Troubleshooter, go in and search." Mr. Gao picked up the blood-stained grain bag and threw it on the car behind him. With a wave of his hand, he sent a few soldiers into the house, and threatened again: "Will you give it? Let me ask, Kill someone if you don't give it."

Seeing the blood, the rest of the family stood there in fright without making a sound, so they hacked at one person and killed one person. The others immediately screamed and scattered, and the officers and soldiers forced them together again with knives and guns. At this time, these people exchanged glances one after another, and said, "There is food, there is food."

From the cellar in the corner of the courtyard, all the hidden grain inside was moved out, and the amount was far more than two hundred catties per person before giving up. Similarly, if there are insufficient numbers, one or two will be hacked to death, and then the others will be questioned.

In this way, after all the residents in the town had been interrogated for a round, the officers and soldiers returned and collected them again from the beginning. Some residents in the town asked: "Master Jun, didn't you just collect the money and food? We all have Anmin Look at it." He said, holding up a short wooden stick that was just distributed, with a knife mark on it.

"Don't talk nonsense, just now is Mr. Zhang Qian's soldier. What we received this time was Master Wang's compensation. Don't you have to pay for the property you divided? It's Mr. Wang Xing Wang in your town. Will you pay it? No You die!" The soldier threatened with a knife.

At this time, Wang Xing, who was following Zhang Zhicheng, suddenly understood that collecting money and food under the pretext of An Min was the most energy-saving, and it was much more convenient than robbing families.

After going back and forth like this for two or three times, some families who had no money and food would be hacked to death each time. Later, when most of the families had no money and food to pay, they all realized that this was a trick of the government and the army, but it was too late. Except for the forced conscripts and the young women for the use of the officers and soldiers, there were massacres everywhere, especially those who joined the militia, they were basically killed by all families, some fled out of the town, and were captured by rangers outside the town. Kill, in less than a day, the whole town has become a ghost.

(End of this chapter)