Ming Dynasty: A mere unruly commoner is rebelling against the heaven?

Chapter 171 The defenders of Xuanfu rebelled!
Soon, under the organization of Yang Kui, Yang Tong's 20,000 personal troops first arrived at the parade ground to receive their reward.

These 20,000 people are Yang Tong's personal troops, not private troops.

It was the Ming Dynasty court, not Yang Tong, that provided money and food to support them.

Yang Tong did not have so much money and food to support a full-time professional elite force of 20,000 people.

However, this army had followed Yang Tong for a long time, and Yang Tong valued them very much and never delayed or withheld their money and food.

This alone has made many ordinary soldiers in border towns envious.

Moreover, half of the silver that Yang Tong earned from smuggling in the border town was distributed to these personal troops.

These personal soldiers were very grateful to Yang Tong and each of them was extremely loyal to him.

Even when collecting the reward this time, Yang Tong let these personal soldiers collect it first.

On the parade ground of the Xuanfu military camp, under the chairmanship of Liu Jin, thirty censors distributed reward silver to the soldiers of Xuanfu.

Every soldier who wanted to receive the reward silver had to report his name first, and only after the Censor-in-Chief found the corresponding name in the fish scale book could he receive one or two taels of silver.

The disadvantage of doing this is that it is not very efficient, but the advantages are also obvious.

That is, after being screened by the East Factory and the Censorate, it is clear at a glance how many soldiers there are in Xuanfu, and the number will definitely not be wrong.

If the Eastern Depot and the Censorate continue their investigation like this, the leaders of the border generals in Xuanfu will be in danger of losing their heads!

Yang Kui stood in the king's tent, secretly looking at the huge crowds of people in the parade ground, feeling anxious and angry.

"How can it be justified to reward the border troops like this?!"

"Your Majesty, you're really not going to come up with the idea of ​​having the Censor-in-Chief come to the border town to distribute money? This is truly unprecedented!"

Zhou Hongyi's expression was equally grim, but he couldn't help but remind him, "Commander Yang, this has actually been done before."

"In the 14th year of the Zhengtong reign, Emperor Yingzong sent the Censor-in-Chief to Xuanfu to reward each frontier soldier with one tael of silver and to have each soldier come up in person to claim the reward."

"At that time, the commander-in-chief of Xuanfu was still Lord Yang Hong."

"At this moment, just as at that moment..."

"Alright! Is now the time to talk about this?!"

Yang Kui shouted impatiently: "It's already this time, and you're still finding fault with what I said. Is this important?!"

“The question now is, what do we do about this?”

"What should I do? Dad!"

Yang Kui turned around and looked at Yang Tong who was sitting behind him, feeling extremely anxious.

Yang Tong's face turned blue and black, and he stared at the ground, obviously lost in thought.

His thoughts were interrupted by Yang Kui, but it also made him formally make up his mind.

"We will do the same thing as our uncle, the Duke of Ying, did back then!"

Yang Tong's face was fierce: "Tonight, send people to the post station to kill all these eunuchs and censors from the East Factory!"

"Specially send people to guard the city gate facing the inner side. If we cannot kill them with one strike, they will definitely try to flee back to the capital after escaping from the post station and report the incident to the emperor."

"Send 10,000 people to guard the city gates. Don't let any of them escape!"

"Yes! Dad!"

Hearing Yang Tong's order, Yang Kui also showed a fierce look, with a hint of cruelty in his eyes.

Yang Tong then continued to give orders and make arrangements for the backup plan.

"At the same time, send people to inform Datong, Liaodong, and Suzhouwei to report to the capital tomorrow. The enemy army is simultaneously attacking the four major border towns on a large scale!"

"As for which grassland tribe he belongs to..."

Yang Tong frowned and thought, and suddenly remembered that some time ago, Yang Kui said that the Wala tribe, which had disappeared for many years, entered the pass from Suzhou Guard.

They were ordered by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to go to the capital to pay tribute.

When he thought of this, a crazy idea suddenly came to Yang Tong's mind.

"Just say that the Wala tribe is attacking all around!"

"what?!"

Hearing this, Yang Kui was stunned and his mind went blank.

"No, Dad, this doesn't make sense!"

"The Wala have disappeared from the grassland for many years. Why would they invade the border?"

"If we want to invade the border, it should be the Tatars, right?"

"How about we change it to Tatar?"

"You are even more brainless!" Yang Tong looked at Yang Kui, feeling very disappointed: "The little prince of Tatar led an army of 100,000 last year, but they were all wiped out by the Ming army at Tumubao inside the pass."

"The Tatars are now badly weakened. Huoshai's men ran away when they saw the Ming army. Even when they want to do business with us, they require us to use caravans to deliver goods 80 miles outside the city."

"It is even more impossible for the Tatars to invade our border."

"Yes, Dad is right! I was reckless!" Yang Kui quickly admitted his mistake.

Yang Tong reacted and shouted, "I told you to address me by my position when you are at work, why are you still calling me dad?!"

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief!"

Yang Kui quickly changed his words, and Yang Tong's expression calmed down a little.

"Send 5,000 soldiers with my royal banner to Datong. At the same time, contact Datong Lieutenant General Guo Pan and ask him to cooperate with us immediately to lure and kill Datong General Liu Ning!"

"The fire in Datong didn't start last time, so I won't let him ruin my plan this time!"

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief!"

Yang Tong waved his hand, and Yang Kui immediately took the order and left to arrange Yang Tong's orders.

Afterwards, Yang Kui stayed in the parade ground, and from time to time, he would glance at Liu Jin, who was organizing the distribution of silver in the parade ground, with a sinister look.

Liu Jin always felt a chill on his back and had a bad premonition.

When it was dusk, Liu Jin stopped distributing silver for the day and would continue distributing silver after sunrise tomorrow.

In the whole afternoon, Liu Jin only distributed more than 13,000 taels of silver.

It would take at least four or five days to complete the inventory of the soldiers in Xuanfu.

Liu Jin sealed the silver, and after dinner, he felt more and more uneasy, even to the point of feeling inexplicably frightened.

So he called over several guards from the Eastern Depot and gave them instructions.

"I always feel a little uneasy, and I'm afraid something bad will happen." "Don't sleep too hard at night, arrange a few people to keep watch."

"Seeing that the situation is not right, let's retreat quickly!"

"Yes, Mr. Factory Supervisor!"

Only after the Dongchang guard received the order did Liu Jin return to his room in the post station and go to sleep.

But that night, he couldn't sleep well.

While he was drowsy, he was suddenly awakened by someone.

"Master Factory Supervisor, the Xuanfu soldiers are coming, please leave the post station with me!"

"what?!"

Liu Jin was horrified, and then he heard the sounds of fighting all around the post station, as well as the metallic sounds of weapons colliding.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry, run!"

Liu Jin shouted hurriedly, without even putting on his clothes, and fled out of the post station with the East Factory's men.

Outside the post station, a thousand Dongchang soldiers resisted thousands of Xuanfu officials and soldiers, but they were still not at a disadvantage.

He even protected the thirty censors well and did not let them come into harm's way.

Outside the crowd, Yang Kui's face showed surprise, his brows were tightly frowned, and he looked angry and anxious.

He brought three thousand elite soldiers with him tonight, and originally thought that it was more than enough to deal with these one thousand Dongchang thugs.

You know, these three thousand elite soldiers are already the elite troops of Xuanfu.

But he never expected that the strength of these one thousand Dongchang men would be so strong.

They actually managed to withstand the attack of three thousand personal soldiers and did not lose the upper hand at all.

Yang Kui wanted to mobilize more troops, but he had already arranged more than 10,000 personal troops under the city wall facing the interior.

Other ordinary soldiers in Xuanfu might not have the courage to attack the imperial envoy.

Yang Kui had no choice but to decide on a quick victory.

"Everyone listen up, attack together!"

"Kill one person and you'll be rewarded ten taels of silver!"

"kill!"

Under the reward, there must be a brave man.

Stimulated by the silver, these personal soldiers roared in anger and once again attacked the Dongchang guards fearlessly.

Liu Jin had never seen such a chaotic battle before. He was so frightened that he was stunned for a few seconds before he reacted.

"Quick! Go get the horses and run to the city gate!"

"We must return alive and report this to His Majesty!"

"The Xuanfu defenders have rebelled!"

"Yes, Mr. Factory Supervisor!"

The Eastern Depot soldiers obeyed the order and immediately went to the post station to fetch war horses. They took Liu Jin and the censors and charged towards the city wall.

But the closer they got to the city wall on the inner side of the pass, the more enemies they faced, and their progress became slower and slower.

From the brisk steps at the beginning to the difficult steps now.

What’s even more terrifying is that there is a steady stream of Yang Tong’s personal troops rushing towards the city wall in front.

And those who came were all cavalry!

Liu Jin knew that he would definitely not be able to pass through the city wall in front of him and return to the interior tonight.

So Liu Jin gritted his teeth and issued an order that went against common sense.

"Turn around! Let's go out from the city wall near the outside of the pass and run to the grassland first!"

"Yes! Sir, the factory supervisor!"

The Dongchang guards suddenly made a U-turn and rushed directly towards the city wall behind them.

Seeing that everyone from the East Factory suddenly changed direction, Yang Kui was stunned at first, then he glared and roared with a knife in hand.

"Stop them!"

"Don't let them get away!"

"Stop! Don't run!"

"..."

Yang Kui deployed most of his troops to the city wall near the pass.

There were not many defenders on the city wall near the outside of the pass, and they were not Yang Tong's personal troops, but just ordinary Xuanfu soldiers.

The defenders were already confused and frightened by the sudden sounds of fighting in the city.

At this moment, he suddenly saw thousands of Dongchang men coming at him from behind with knives in hand, and he immediately lost his composure.

After a fierce battle, the Dongchang soldiers quickly seized control of the city gate from the Xuanfu defenders.

He then opened the city gate and fled to the grassland with Liu Jin and the censors.

They left in such a hurry that they didn't take even one tael of the 300,000 taels of silver with them, leaving them all in Xuanfu.

"hateful!"

"I actually let them run away!"

After Yang Kui and his personal army ran to the city wall, they could only see the figures of the Dongchang guards fleeing through the city gate.

"All the generals, mount your horses and follow me in pursuit!"

Yang Kui wanted to give chase, but was stopped by Yang Tong.

"Alright! Close the gate!"

"Lord Commander-in-Chief!"

When Yang Kui and the others saw Yang Tong, they immediately dismounted and stood still.

Yang Tong held a tael of silver in his hand and said calmly: "As long as they don't run to the interior of the country, let them go."

(End of this chapter)