Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

When Wu Shigong got up early the next morning, he felt a very uncomfortable backache.However, he still got up stiffly, thinking about going back to Qianhusuo Fort immediately.

In fact, Wu Shigong is now in Guide City, and there is nothing wrong with him.Besides, after confiscating so much money, food and supplies, Wu Shigong's mood now is like a dragon who just snatched a lot of gold coins, thinking of going back to his cave and lying on the pile of gold coins to enjoy such joy Woolen cloth.

In addition, Wu Shigong was also a little worried.Although he has great trust in Xue Yongli's ability to handle affairs.However, after all, Xue Yongli only had 150 cavalrymen, so he couldn't take care of escorting so many supplies and guarding so many prisoners.

Moreover, although the location of the Holy Spirit Society's chaos camp is only one day away from Wu Shigong's Qianhusuo Fortress.But after all, the vast majority of the rioters were only dispersed by Wu Shigong and the others, and the direction in which these rioters fled was exactly the same as the direction in which Xue Yongli escorted supplies and prisoners.

In case these fleeing mobs gather to loot these supplies, Xue Yongli, who only has 150 cavalry, will always encounter great trouble.

Therefore, after Wu Shigong got up, he immediately gathered fifty guards around him, and prepared to leave for Qianhusuo Fortress.

After seeing Wu Shigong, they prepared their horses and were about to leave Guide City.Then Hou Xun's housekeeper hurriedly came forward to persuade him to stay.Of course the butler knew his master's hobbies, and he also got Hou Xun's order: After Wu Shigong had a rest today, he should bring Wu Shigong to Hou Xun's place.

But Wu Shigong replied to the butler, "Thank you, sir, for your kind hospitality. But I'm desperate to return home. I'm afraid that those fleeing rioters will threaten the county again. So, I want to go back as soon as possible. Here, I can only apologize to the boss. If I have a chance to come to Guidefu City in the future, I must kowtow to the boss to apologize."

The housekeeper listened to Wu Shigong's reason, it was for official business, and he couldn't force it anymore.He could only watch Wu Shigong and his party walk away helplessly.

After leaving Guide Mansion City, when passing by the camp of the rebels, Wu Shigong saw that the soldiers sent by Guide Mansion City had already cut off the heads of the rebels killed by Wu Shigong and the others in the camp.These soldiers also scooped up corpses floating on the river, trying not to let go of a single head.

Wu Shigong did not entangle with these soldiers either.However, on the next road, what Wu Shigong saw was nothing but desolation.The houses and farmland on both sides of the entire road seemed to have been gnawed by locust swarms.And on this road, it is completely deserted.

Wu Shigong was shocked to see it.He thought in his heart: "The rioters from the Holy Spirit Society have been making trouble around here for a few days, and this is what it looks like here. After that, after Li Zicheng's army rebelled, what will the world look like? How many next?"

Anyway, what hasn't happened yet, it's useless to express more emotions.Or face the matter in front of you first.Wu Shigong had no choice but to hurry up and rush to the fortress of Qianhusuo as soon as possible.

It went smoothly.At dusk, Wu Shigong and the others arrived at Qianhusuo Fortress.However, after passing through the small town, the open space under the hillside of Qianhusuo Fortress was crowded with densely packed rioters.

When those rioters saw people like Wu Shigong, they immediately moved out of the way to let Wu Shigong and the others pass.When passing through these rioters, Wu Shigong and the others held the handles of their weapons tightly with their hands, and they were so nervous that they sweated.After all, there are only fifty of them, and if these rioters go crazy, they won't be able to eat and walk around.

Fortunately, Wu Shigong and the others passed smoothly.Seeing Wu Shigong and the others coming back, the Qianhusuo Fortress immediately opened the gate and welcomed Wu Shigong and the others in.

As soon as he entered the gate, Wu Shigong bumped into Xue Yongli and asked with a smile, "What's going on? Why haven't the rioters dispersed below?"

Xue Yongli replied with a smile: "Give them some sweets, and they won't leave."

Then, Xue Yongli briefly introduced to Wu Shigong, the situation of Xue Yongli and the others escorting supplies and prisoners.

Xue Yongli's escort process was much smoother than expected.Xue Yongli is very experienced.He knew that with such a small number of people, he couldn't care less about so many vehicles and supplies.Therefore, Xue Yongli gathered all the grain-loading vehicles together and concentrated manpower to guard these vehicles.

When transporting these vehicles, although Xue Yongli lit torches at night in order to save time, these rioters were not allowed to stop.However, Xue Yongli still distributed food to these rioters so that they could eat enough to ensure their physical strength.

But in this way, although it is inevitable that some rioters escaped in the dark, and even secretly pushed away some vehicles with supplies.However, instead of fleeing, the vast majority of the rioters returned at dawn.

In this wilderness, there is nothing to eat at all. No matter how much other supplies are, no matter how valuable they are, if there is no food, they will still starve to death.Moreover, when the Holy Spirit met the rioters and killed them towards the city of Guide Mansion, they had already walked this road once.

And the food collected by Master Mou is only to ensure that the Holy Spirit will meet those backbones first.The food distributed to those coerced rioters could barely keep them from starving to death.

So on this road, even the edible bird frogs were basically eaten by those rioters.Therefore, at this time, the food in Xue Yongli's place is more attractive to the rioters than anything else.

Of course these rioters did not dare to rob these grains openly, because Wu Shigong and his men's ferocious appearance that day completely scared them out of their wits.They just came to plead with Xue Yongli's cavalry to capture them again.Just give them a bite to eat.

Of course, Xue Yongli would not be stingy to the point of refusing to spend such a little extra food.Because most of the rioters who were able to escape were young and strong.Xue Yongli still needs them to push and pull those wheelbarrows.

But what Xue Yongli never imagined was that when the camp exploded, some rioters who fled near Xue Yongli's convoy got the news.These rioters also had no food at this time, and they also came to surrender one after another.

Xue Yongli accepted all the rioters who surrendered. Anyway, there are many people and strength, as long as the food and supplies are transported to the fortress of Qianhusuo, and then the rioters are driven away.

In the early morning, Xue Yongli escorted the rebels and transported the supplies to Qianhusuo Fortress, Xue Yongli drove these rebels out of Qianhusuo Fortress, leaving them to fend for themselves.

However, these rioters refused to leave.Most of these rioters are from Runing Mansion and Kaifeng Mansion. If they want to go home, they have to walk for at least a day.And there is no food to eat along the way.So what if they can make it back to their hometown?There was also no food in their hometown.They still faced the fate of starving to death.

And just now, when these rioters transported supplies to the warehouse of the Qianhusuo Fortress, they saw that the Qianhusuo Fortress was full of grain. At this time, they are willing to let them work as cattle and horses in the Qianhusuo Fortress! .Therefore, these rioters gathered under the hill where the fortress of Qianhusuo was located and refused to leave.

To make matters worse: when the camp of the Holy Spirit's rioters exploded, some of the fleeing rioters passed through the county seat of County Magistrate Qi.At the beginning, the magistrate of Qi County was afraid that these rioters would do something, so from top to bottom it was like an enemy.

However, after a period of observation, it was found that these rioters who passed by were frightened.Zhou Xun was very daring that day. He ignored the dissuasion of Qi County Magistrate and Li Lu, and took the initiative to attack with a hundred soldiers.

Seeing Zhou Xun's soldiers approaching aggressively, the rioters were so tired and hungry that they didn't even have the strength to escape.After being stabbed by Zhou Xun to overthrow a few rioters, some other rioters also knelt down and surrendered.This time, Zhou Xun captured more than 100 rioters at once.

Zhou Xun was also a little cautious. At this time, he was unwilling to escort these captives back to the county seat of Qi County Magistrate, and gave the credit to Qi County Magistrate and Li Lu.Seeing that there is no danger on the road, and the county seat of the county magistrate Qi is not far from the fortress of Qianhusuo, Zhou Xun wanted to escort these captives back to the fortress of Qianhusuo.

But on the way Zhou Xun and the others escorted them, some prisoners who were already too hungry begged for some food from the escorting soldiers.These soldiers are all locals, and the captives are all locals. When they speak the local language, some soft-hearted soldiers throw the dry food they carry with them to the captives.

However, after such a move was made, the same situation as Xue Yongli's happened, and the number of prisoners gathered more and more.By the time they arrived at Qianhusuo Fortress, nearly [-] captives had gathered.

At this time, Xue Yongli had already driven the rioters he had escorted to the foot of the hill, and Zhou Xun also learned the real situation from the people sent to meet him from the fortress of Qianhusuo.So, Zhou Xun threw these captives into the mob that Xue Yongli had driven away, and went back to the county magistrate of Qi without hesitation.

The worse situation is yet to come, although these rioters dare not go up the hillside.However, their begging at the foot of the hill was very loud, and they all reached the ears of Wu Shigong's wives in the inner house of the fortress of Qianhusuo.

When it got to their ears, it happened to be lunch time, and the woman's heart was soft, so they ordered: "Before driving away these rioters, give them some porridge."

But once the porridge was served, these rioters refused to leave even more.What's even more troublesome is that those who got the news, the rioters who were hiding nearby all gathered towards Qianhusuo Fortress.Therefore, on the way back, Wu Shigong met: this kind of situation where he hardly encountered any rioters.These rioters are now basically gathered under the hillside of the Qianhusuo fortress.

After hearing Xue Yongli's introduction, Wu Shigong frowned, touched his chin and thought, "This is indeed a troublesome matter."