Chapter 465
As the sun sets, the sea water has already started to rise.
The armed fight involving hundreds of thousands of people was a sudden sight, and at first glance, there were many people on both sides, but most of the people behind didn't know what happened before.
Especially although the last group of people on the gentry were from their fortress, Li Ying and others were not so stupid that they told more than 100,000 of their plans. Most people thought they were here to escape famine, and they didn't even have any tools in their hands and did not prepare for participating in the armed battle.
And where is the guards around Li Ying and others the opponent of the guards around Li Chengqian?
So from the beginning of the battle, one side chases the other side and fights.
Moreover, the people who are chasing the fields on the south bank of Haihe River are getting closer and closer. After all, it is natural for Chinese people to be kind and generous when they see people pitiful, but they also have the bloody nature of fighting to the end when facing robbers.
Li Chengqian was riding on the war horse and was protected by a group of guards in the East Palace and was chasing Li Ying and others. Li Chengqian decided to let all these people die among the rioters today, and then directly questioned the gentry.
Li Ying and others walked into the Jedi without running far. The sea was on the east, the river was on the north, and the tens of thousands of pursuers were behind.
Li Ying had no choice but to run towards the river where they hid the boat, which direction was the same as the ship transporting the food.
As soon as they ran in that direction, the poor people behind immediately chased after them like crazy. How could they snatch the food of their lives by the bad guys?
Seeing this, Li Chengqian smiled and held his horse's head and shouted: "Transfer the Orphan King's order, don't chase after the people behind."
"Your Highness, they really go to rob the grain ship!"
Duan Shaolong had no war horse and could only run behind Li Chengqian. Li Chengqian stopped the war horse and ran to Li Chengqian and loudly reminded Li Chengqian.
Hu Xiaotian, who was running next to him, hurriedly pulled him and whispered: "The grain ship is still in the river. They can't grab the grain ship, but they will separate from the people."
Duan Shaolong said anxiously: "When they separate from the people, the people can't catch them." Then he ran forward.
Hu Xiaotian hurriedly grabbed him and said loudly: "I'm talking about the people brought by Li Ying and others. What kind of people do you think they are?"
Duan Shaolong said anxiously: "Aren't everyone who comes with Li Ying all bad people?"
"Those more than 10,000 people were deceived by Li Ying and others. How could His Royal Highness treat them as rebellious with Li Ying and others?
If you don’t believe me, look.” Hu Xiaotian pulled Duan Shaolong to look at the baojia who were restraining the poor.
"Aren't that still fighting?" Duan Shaolong turned around and looked forward again.
Sure enough, they were fighting against the poor people in front of them.
Li Chengqian was riding on the tall horse, and naturally saw this scene. He ordered the guards beside him: "Take a hundred cavalry around him and separate the people who were fighting the poor from the people who were squatting down from the back."
"Abide by the order!" A guard hurriedly took the cavalry out.
The situation is clear now. Only more than 1,000 guards from the more than 10,000 people brought by Li Ying are loyal to them. Only a very small number of brave and fierce people will participate in the battle with the poor on the south bank of the Haihe River.
When the others saw that the sea was in the east and the river was in the north, they were so scared that they squatted on the ground and did not dare to move.
As soon as the cavalry of the Eastern Palace went around, they immediately separated those who participated in the rebellion from those who did not.
Thousands of people surrounded hundreds of people, and the battle quickly decided the outcome.
There were hundreds of people around Li Ying, Cui Jun and Zhang Zhao who had already run to the Haihe River, hurriedly looking for the wooden boat they left by the Haihe River.
Li Ying, who got on the wooden boat, gritted her teeth and arranged: "We will grab a grain boat later, escape overseas first, and wait for an opportunity to come back later."
As he said that, he asked someone to fuck the wooden boat and head towards a large boat.
The ships that transported Li Chengqian food were built by Li Chengqian on the Dafu ship that Li Ke went to sea. Not only was the huge hull, there was also a stone catapult that could be debugged far and near. The stone catapult could be thrown stones and gunpowder packs.
What to throw is in accordance with the mood of the commander...
This was the first time I came to transport grain from Dengzhou. Li Yifu and Su Dingfang personally took the boat. On the boat, they saw an armed fight on the south bank of the Haihe River. However, Li Chengqian was wearing a thick hemp short coat today, and they were far from recognizing it.
But seeing Li Ying and others rushing towards him in a small wooden boat, Su Dingfang immediately ordered to throw a stone. He didn't know who the other party was, so he did not throw a gunpowder bag directly.
Amid the sound of "bangbang", Li Ying and several of his small boats were shot one after another. The wooden boat was smashed by dozens of kilograms of stones, and the boat's owners were also smashed to death and injured, and they all fought in the river.
Seeing that these people were no longer threatening, Li Yifu said to Su Dingfang: "We have been wasting time at sea. There is chaos here. Send some gunpowder to shock me."
Su Dingfang saw that there were still some people fighting on the shore, nodded and ordered: "Try to vote in places where there are no people and places where there are fewer people."
The messengers behind them went to pass the order upon hearing this. Suddenly, a "rumbling" gunpowder explosion came from the south bank of Haihe River. Some unlucky guys were blown away and their limbs flew into the sky.
Even the people in Chang'an City were rarely seen in the scene of gunpowder explosion. Moreover, the people here thought that God was furious when they saw the thunder and fire.
They all kowtowed on the ground, begging God to calm down.
Seeing that the chaos here subsided, Li Chengqian ordered: "Liu Kui, go to the ship to upload the orphan king's order, and order them to send a few ships to the west to help Fang Yi to rescue the siege."
"Sister obeys the order."
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Five miles west of the coastal river, two people were confronting each other.
On one side is Wang Fangyi led more than a thousand East Palace guards, and on the other side are nearly 100,000 poor people led by Cui Wenlan.
However, although Cui Wenlan has a large number of people, it is not their main force this time. Their purpose is to drag down some of the East Palace guards, even Li Chengqian.
After all, there are many people here, and they thought Li Chengqian would bring people here in person.
Then Li Ying and the other three could carry out damage to the east. Unexpectedly, when Li Chengqian went to the east, Hu Xiaotian from Qinghe also recognized Cui Jun and Zhang Zhao on the spot, and beat their plans all up.
Of course, Cui Wenlan didn't know at this time that Li Ying and the others had rebelled a few miles away and had been put down. If he knew, he would definitely surrender immediately.
However, at this time, Wang Fangyi was very anxious. Li Chengqian released a signal flare and showed that the situation was very critical, but he did not let these people ignore it.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince has an order to go to Youzhou as soon as possible, and the Youzhou Governor's Office will help you, and you must not make trouble here."
Wang Fangyi shouted loudly with a serious expression.
"June, we are powerless to leave, let us stay."
"Yes, why can they stay with the court's relief, but we can't stay?"
"What kind of relief is Youzhou Governor's Office? If Youzhou Governor's Office can help us, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will come here to clear the land?"
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No matter what Wang Fangyi said, these people just refused to leave, which made Wang Fangyi angry.
"Arrow ready!"
Wang Fangyi was really worried about Li Chengqian's safety. In Wang Fangyi's opinion, the sky fell and the safety of Li Chengqian was not as important as Li Chengqian's safety.
Of course, Wang Fangyi's move was just trying to scare these people away. Unexpectedly, a hundred bows and arrows heard the bow and arrows aimed at these people, but these people still stood still.
After a while, when Wang Fangyi was about to be severely punished and ordered an arrow to be fired, he saw the front rows of people opposite him kneeling down at him.
In this way, Wang Fangyi had no choice. Now even the soldiers under the archer may not obey the order.
Just when Wang Fangyi had no choice but to deal with these people, he saw several large ships coming from the east.
Wang Fangyi is by Li Chengqian every day. Although he has never seen such a large ship, he can still guess that these ships are ships that deliver food here.
At the same time, Cui Wenlan, who was standing in the crowd, also saw these big ships. He also guessed that these ships were ships that delivered things here, so he whispered a few words.
After a while, there was a riot in the crowd behind him, and someone shouted in the crowd.
"Look at how many big ships send food but let us go to Youzhou, why are they so cruel to us?"
"It's just that the people here have food and drink, and they still have land, but we have to go to the Youzhou Governor's Office to work as a coolie, which is really unfair."
"It's better for us to steal their food..."
It was also because of the drought of the people in Hebei Province. In addition, they begged for a long time but Wang Fangyi agreed to stay. Some people actually ran towards the Haihe River after hearing these fanning words.
When Su Dingfang and Li Yifu on the boat saw Liu Kui, they heard Liu Kui complain for Li Chengqian. Because there was no food here, Li Chengqian came here in person, ate, live and work with the people, and were soaked in their hands.
He was also embarrassed by the gentry and the unruly people. He had been in danger just now. If something happened...
It was heard that Su Dingfang and Li Yi's mansion were both cold and relish. If something happened to Li Chengqian here, they would be the number one sinner.
With Li Chengqian's current status and prestige in the Tang Dynasty, they could not be an exaggeration to die.
Thinking of this, I feel that it was too soft and light when I took action. I should throw more gunpowder bags to kill all the rioters.
Just at this moment, a group of people were running towards the grain ship in a fierce manner. With the eyes of Su Dingfang and Li Yifu, it was obvious that these people were not good.
"Prepare to wait for him to throw the gunpowder bag directly." Su Dingfang ordered calmly.
When Wang Fangyi saw that the person behind him actually dared to transport the food ship, he was furious and gritted his teeth and ordered: "Shoot the arrow."
Upon hearing this, the archer raised the bow slightly higher and shot arrows at the person standing behind him.
"Swish..."
After a rain of arrows, all the people standing in front of Cui Wenlan were shot down. Cui Wenlan was so scared that his face was pale and was about to squeeze back when he saw Wang Fangyi pulling Chen's big bow all over his hand, and then a feather arrow flew over.
Although Wang Fangyi didn't know who Cui Wenlan was, he had already seen that Cui Wenlan was the mastermind after confrontation for a long time.
Seeing that they had bad intentions, they naturally shot him to death first.
Sure enough, Cui Wenlan fell to the ground by an arrow, and the several guards around him were in chaos.
Seeing this, Wang Fangyi knew that this place was not a problem and was about to lead the crowd to the river to fight back the people rob the food.
But the grain transport ship had stopped, and a gunpowder bag was placed on the stone-cat rack next to the ship, and was about to shoot.
He knows the gunpowder king Fang Yi very well. After all, the gunpowder around Li Chengqian is handed over to him for use.
"Boom..."
An explosion sounded again on the edge of the Haihe River. This time was different from the time six miles away. At that time, Su Dingfang did not want to hurt anyone, so the death and injury were limited.
Now that Su Dingfang saw these people who almost injured Li Chengqian, he hated him for being itchy and ordered gunpowder to be thrown into places with many people.
Each pack of gunpowder exploded and the black smoke and fireworks flew into the sky with some broken limbs and broken arms.
Nearly 100,000 untrained farmers have never seen gunpowder. When they see the power of gunpowder, they cannot have any thought of resisting.
Chapter completed!