The Song Dynasty on the Sand Table

Chapter 306 Compensation Required for Disturbing the Peace?
As soon as the sound of gunfire rang out in the city, Gong Erniangzi frowned: "There's fighting inside."

Yue Wenxuan: "It seems we've been ambushed. Street fighting is a test for a newly formed army."

Gong Erniangzi frowned and began to consider who to send in as reinforcements.

Street fighting is a complex matter, and cannons and muskets are not very effective in it. It is really an art to decide who to send.

Just then, someone stepped forward from behind, clasped his hands in a salute, and said, "This humble general requests to fight."

Yue Wenxuan and Gong Erniangzi turned around and saw that it was Sui Yi, the leader of the Yan'an soldiers.

Gong Er Niangzi exclaimed, "You're a good candidate! Alright, approved, go quickly."

Sui Yi was overjoyed, a little excited. After serving as an auxiliary soldier for several months, he could finally become a regular soldier and fight real battles. Hehehe, I don't understand firearms, but I know exactly how to chop people up with a knife in the streets.

He quickly called to the Yan'an soldiers to disembark and enter the city.

The thousand soldiers from Yan'an were all overjoyed.

These people are truly fearless in battle and undaunted by death.

Back then, on the northwestern border, they dared to charge against Western Xia troops who outnumbered them tenfold.

If they hadn't been so unhappy working for the Jin and puppet Qi states, they wouldn't have been so easily defeated and captured by the Northern Song army last time.

Now that he has returned to the embrace of the Song Dynasty, he is in high spirits. With a strange roar, he grabbed his knife and charged into the city.

Where is the fighting taking place?

"You can tell just by listening to the voice!"

"This way, run this way."

"Slow down!" Sui Yi said, "Are you idiots? Running towards the loudest place will only lead you straight into the center of the battlefield. What's the point? Since the gunfire and shouts are still loud, it means General Qi is still holding on. Let's go around... around to the side and rear of the battlefield."

The soldiers in Yan'an were overjoyed: "The general is brilliant!"

The group stopped shouting, shut their mouths, and quietly made their way through the streets and alleys. Instead of running directly towards the place where the musket fire was loudest, they circled around to the side and rear of the city wall, running along the edge of the wall to flank the area of ​​the battle.

This copy was indeed copied from the right place.

When they had circled around halfway and were running through a crooked alley, they saw Chen Meng's backside.

Sui Yi: "Brothers, the time has come to make great contributions. We are newcomers and need to make some achievements in order to gain a foothold in this new place and be promoted to high positions. Today is the beginning."

It turns out that when he told Li Bao that winning was all that mattered, he was actually talking like Ah Q. Who the hell doesn't want to make contributions and get promoted? As long as there's an opportunity, you have to seize it.

Yan'an soldiers: "Awoooooo!"

A group of people charged menacingly at Chen Meng's backside.

Chen Meng was commanding his bandit troops to besiege the Song army. He felt pretty good about himself. Although he didn't quite understand what the enemy's firearms were like, the firearms in the streets and alleys weren't that scary. The bullets were mostly blocked by the houses. His soldiers weren't scared and he felt that he had a great advantage.

Suddenly I heard someone shouting behind me. I turned around and saw, holy crap, Song soldiers were charging out from behind me.

He gritted his teeth and steeled his resolve: "Don't be afraid, the Song soldiers are all cowards, not as strong as us. Let's kill them."

As Chen Meng shouted, he turned around and led a group of his core brothers to fight against the Yan'an soldiers.

But as soon as they started fighting, they sensed something was wrong.

What the hell are these Song soldiers? They're completely different from the Song soldiers I've encountered before. They're incredibly fierce, charging at me like they don't care about their lives.

When two armies fight, momentum is very important.

When the rebel soldiers saw that the Song soldiers were weak, they charged fiercely. But when they saw that the Song soldiers were strong, the defeated soldiers became the weaker side. The front ranks were hesitant to fight, and the rear ranks could not see what was happening in front, only that their front ranks were retreating. Then, as soon as the two armies clashed in the alley, the front ranks immediately fell.

The person in the back seat panicked and shouted in terror, "What happened?"

"Holy crap, these soldiers are fierce! What kind of Song soldiers are these?"

Sui Yi laughed heartily: "Great Song Yan'an Border Army! Let me show you the might of the border army."

Chen Meng roared in anger: "Take this!"

He found Sui Yi in the chaos and slashed at him with his sword.

But the latter was not afraid at all, and swung his sword back, and the two instantly engaged in battle.

A chaotic battle broke out in the alley, and in no time, the bandits were all lying on the ground.

Chen Meng was no match for Sui Yi either; within fifteen moves, Sui Yi slashed him to the ground.

Qi Chongwen, who was originally surrounded by bandits, has now regained his footing and, in coordination with the Yan'an troops, the two sides engaged in a chaotic battle with the bandits in the middle.

Half an hour later, cheers rang out from the Song soldiers in Siyang City: "The city has been captured! The city has been captured!"

The chaotic city of Siyang has finally quieted down.

The people all hid inside their houses, trembling with fear.

They were also secretly cursing their bad luck... the city had changed hands yet again.

For the common people, the change of city ownership is not a good thing.

Because every time ownership changes hands, it means they have to "pay money again".

When the Jin army comes, they will rob them once, demanding money; if they cannot pay, they will be killed.

Even if the bandits come, we'll rob them once. They have to pay money; if they can't, we'll kill them.

When the Song army came, they would also rob them once, but the reason would be relatively mild, called "collecting taxes." If they couldn't pay the taxes, they would be beaten and scolded, and after that, they might still be killed.

For them, it doesn't matter if it's the Song army, the Jin army, or the rebel army. Once any of these armies has occupied a city, it's best not to let it change hands. As long as the master doesn't change, it won't be robbed again for a while.

Therefore, now that the Northern Song army has captured the city, the people feel more bitterness than anything else.

Many people who still had some money at home quietly prepared their valuables, intending to give them away when the Northern Song army came knocking on their doors, hoping for peace.

The family was penniless and had nothing, so they dressed up their son and daughter and cleaned them up, intending to give them away as payment.

A sense of despondency permeated the entire city of Siyang.

As Gong Erniangzi was reviewing the post-war report sent by Qi Chongwen, Li Bao slipped in from outside and whispered, "Prime Minister Gong, the atmosphere in the city isn't good. The people are all afraid of us. The Manichaean priests are also taking this opportunity to incite them, preaching about equalizing wealth..."

Gong Erniangzi remained calm: "Don't worry, you're just bored, aren't you? Take your men and go to the woods outside the city to move grain. Give all this grain to the people in the city for free, saying that our army disturbed the people when attacking the city, and this grain is compensation for the disturbance."

Li Bao looked completely bewildered: "Huh? I have to pay compensation for disturbing the peace?"

Gong Er Niangzi laughed: "Originally, we weren't going to issue it, but really... cough... Young Master Yue said that if we deliberately issue this kind of unprecedented compensation, the people will immediately be won over."

Li Bao wiped his sweat: "Where would we get so much rations? Enough to distribute to tens of thousands of people in the entire city? Even if we gave each person a pound, we couldn't afford it."

Gong Er Niangzi: "Don't worry about where the grain comes from, just go and carry it."

(End of this chapter)