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197 The arrest of the criminals

"Damn it, it's all a bunch of people!"

When Fan Yaosi saw this, he couldn't help but curse.

Because the group of soldiers under his command had no choice but to do anything to those more than 30 strangers who were suspected to be factory guards, and they were fighting near the city gate, which scared everyone around them to run around.

In fact, how could the Zhangjiakou Fort defender under him be an elite army?

A few years ago, there was a time when Jianlu Lin Dankhan, who was expeditioning to Chahar, went to the pass from Xuanfu when he returned to his army. Everyone did not fight at all and were harmonious. In the end, Jianlu was exempted from Shanxi merchants and sent them to Liaodong, and he took his own food, grass and supplies and left.

When he turned around, the Xuanfu reported to the court that he had defeated the Jianlu of Liaodong and at least defended the city, he would make a great contribution!

Therefore, in theory, what this defender wants to deal with is actually a bandit. And the bandits do not exist in this area. Even if they come, Zhangjiakou Fort not only has defenders, but also servants from various families, how can a mere bandits be defeated?

Therefore, this defender has no external pressure, and its generals are not enterprising. In fact, they don’t need to think about making military achievements. Naturally, they are leading troops in a sheep-like manner. It can be imagined how strong the combat effectiveness of this army can be!

After Fan Yaosi cursed, he was afraid that the group of people would rush to the city gate, so he rushed to the city and shouted loudly: "Why are you standing there? Why don't you go and help!"

When the soldiers guarding the city heard this, they hurriedly searched the guy and rushed to help.

However, no one expected that as soon as these soldiers left, they saw the people who had just fled to the city gate suddenly showing their weapons and began to steal the city gate.

Moreover, these people were all very tough and were merciless. As long as there were defenders standing in front of them, they would be solved with one knife. The blood sprayed on them without even blinking at all.

When Fan Yaosi saw this scene on the top of the city, he was stunned. What is the situation? He just moved the manpower at the city gate and encountered such a thing?

He was still thinking, suddenly, he saw those who robbed the city gate attacking the top of the city. Many of them even took out crossbows from their arms and started shooting upwards.

"Swoosh swish swish"

"Ah!" Fan Yaosi had been targeted for a long time, and was the key object of the crossbow. Although he hid for a while, he still couldn't dodge. He shot his eyes with an arrow, and screamed and fell backwards.

When others saw that the people who wanted to intercept them came back one after another, they rushed to help Fan Yaosi. Some people wanted to escape from the city. Damn, where did these come from? Kill without blinking!

There was a mess on the city.

The door bolt was cut off directly by these people with an axe, and the heavy door was pushed open with a "creaking" sound. The cavalry, who had been waiting outside the door for a long time, immediately rushed in.

Zhangjiakou Fort, it is easy to win the inside and outside.

Hong Chengchou, who was riding on the war horse outside the city, was not surprised by this at all, because all of this was actually planned in advance.

Those factory guards were actually deliberately exposed, allowing the Shanxi merchants to focus their attention on these factory guards, thus covering up another group of elite troops selected from the army lurking in.

If the Zhangjiakou Fort defenders open the city gate, it would be nothing. Once they try to resist stubbornly, the factory guards will attract attention again and let the elite troops in the army seize the city gate in one fell swoop.

And all of this is ultimately a surprise.

If you are prepared, or if such a thing has happened in Zhangjiakou Fort, then this sneak attack on the city gate will definitely not be so easy to succeed. However, who would have thought of this incident!

For example, Fan Yongdou didn't expect it at all.

At this time, he was still in his own house and was withdrawing a sum of silver from the warehouse. This was a serious silver, not the silver notes of his Fanji Money House.

While supervising the servants to carry boxes of silver to the car, he said to the accountants on the side: "I remember all of them clearly. The money rewarded to the defenders will be shared by each company in the future."

"Don't worry, Master, the accounts are all clear."

Fan Yongdou nodded after hearing this, turned to look east, frowned and said, "Those who come are not kind, don't come!"

"Don't worry, Master, there must be a brave man under the heavy reward. Our Zhangjiakou Fort is very strong and it is impossible for outside to attack." After hearing this, the accountant smiled and said, "Even if we siege the city, we are not afraid."

Fan Yongdou nodded after hearing this. He happened to have stored countless food and supplies in the fort, and all the servants of each prefecture could use them and the troops were sufficient. I didn’t believe it. How could the Ming army fight outside the city?

After persisting for a while, if the Ming army is still not allowed to be used, the reinforcements on the grassland should have arrived too. As for what to do afterwards, the ship will naturally go straight to the bridgehead, so I can spend some money on the court.

Ten thousand taels are not enough, only twenty thousand taels are not enough. Twenty thousand taels are not enough, only thirty thousand taels are not enough. I really don’t believe it. In these days, there is still money to do things!

At worst, it’s just a scapegoat!

Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly heard the east gate, and there seemed to be a shout of killing.

Suddenly, Fan Yongdou felt a little nervous and immediately turned to look. The self-comfort just now seemed to have subsided a lot, and an anxious look appeared on his face: "Hurry up, send someone to see what happened? If the fight starts, if there is not enough manpower, organize the manpower as soon as possible!"

"Yes, lord!" After hearing this, his servant leader quickly agreed, then turned around and ran away.

With his hands behind his back, he turned left and right, Fan Yongdou was still very uneasy. This was the first time for him to experience such a thing.

Suddenly, he stopped and said, "Hurry up, prepare a sedan chair and go out and have a look!"

However, before he could go out, he heard the rushing sound of horse hooves, and the rumbling sound was like thunder in the sky, rolling in.

People at Zhangjiakou Fort are familiar with the sound of horse hooves. Just by hearing this, you will know that there are a lot of war horses running to cause movement. In fact, there are not many horses on the defenders. This means...

When he thought of this conclusion, Fan Yongdou, who was about to get into the sedan chair, shook his body and almost fell down. He, who had always been calm, stammered at this moment and said to the servants around him: "No... it's not that the city is broken, right?"

Before his servants could answer, they saw a red torrent rolling along the street. The fully armed Ming soldiers rushed to the depths along the streets, shouting: "The whole city is martial law, those who go on the streets will be killed! The whole city is martial law, and those who go on the streets will be killed! "

On the city wall in the distance, the infantry of the Yongwei camp rushed to the top of the city and was quickly rushing to other city gates along the city wall.

At the beginning, they encountered a little resistance. But this resistance could not make any waves at all, and they could not even stop them or stop them.

The soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion faced these defenders and were truly invincible and destroyed. Except for the first time, all the defenders on the city lost their weapons and squatted in a corner and shivered. As long as they didn't want to die, that's all.

From the east gate as the starting point, two torrents quickly extended from the city wall to other places, while the largest torrent ran along the main street at a faster speed, just like a sudden burst of magma, which soon flooded Zhangjiakou Fort.

The Ming army soldiers who attacked the city were not ruthless at all. After the cavalry in front shouted, the subsequent infantry followed. If anyone dared to stand on the street, they would talk thousands of swords and guns.

There are basically few people in this city developed through smuggling. As the governor of the three sides, Hong Chengchou has been suppressing bandits in Shaanxi for so many years, and he has been observing the imperial edict, just like he killed all the surrendered soldiers among the bandits, without any mercy.

"Master, hurry up, come into the mansion, the cavalry rushed over."

Fan Yongdou didn't need any servants to remind him, and he almost ran away from the sedan chair and ran into his home door. His gathered servants were also rushed to run into the home, for fear that the Ming army had already come over and the people were still outside, and they would be killed by this torrent of iron blood.

After a servant ran into the mansion first, he turned around and saw the car parked at the mansion. Then he remembered the money he had prepared to reward the defenders at the city. They were all in the car. They were just escaping for life, and no one remembered to push it. They were just with the sedan that they abandoned, and were still outside the mansion.

"Master, Master, what should I do if the money is?"

After Fan Yongdou ran into the mansion, he came to his senses. Seeing so much money outside, he felt very distressed and quickly shouted: "Why are you still standing stupidly? Why don't you push it in quickly?"

Tens of thousands of taels of silver are not a small amount, just throwing it there is simply a life of his life!

However, tens of thousands of taels of silver can not be taken casually. Even if you push it with a car, it is very heavy. What's more, this mansion has steps, so you have to carry it first.

After Fan Yongdou gave the order, a few of his servants wanted to go out, but when they looked up, the iron-blooded torrent was approaching, and the power rolling in was like a rush. "The whole city is martial law, those who go on the street will be killed! The whole city is martial law, and those who go on the street will be killed! "

Suddenly, all the servants who stretched out their feet shrank back, and no one dared to rush out.

Fan Yongdou was so angry that he wanted to kick someone, but when he saw the cavalry passing by the door of his house, he knew that his guards would not dare to provoke the cavalry. So he glanced at the cart of silver outside, and the expression on his face was really like a dead father and mother.

Then, he turned around and hurried into the mansion.

Like him, some of the other seven Shanxi merchants were on the streets. Unexpectedly, the Ming army outside the city attacked the city so quickly and heard the martial law order. When they saw the iron-blooded torrent rolling in, they were so scared that they ran away quickly.

These merchants and their guards faced the elite army of the Ming Dynasty, and realized what fear was.

If there were city walls for them to support them, they might have the courage to fight against one or two. However, now there is no city wall, facing thousands of cavalry and infantry driving into the city continuously, it feels that no one of their murderous auras can develop a sense of resistance.

There were only a few sluts who didn't know the sky and the earth, and they just woke them up. No matter how powerful the kung fu was, they could not even get close to each other in front of the army. They were either shot or stabbed to death by a spear, as easy as crushing an ant to death.

In Zhangjiakou Fort, as long as you don’t want to die, or if you don’t want to die for the time being, you can only hide in the house immediately.

In less than half an hour, the emperor's army had occupied the Zhangjiakou Fort.

On the top of the city and on the streets, there were fully armed soldiers. Three steps, one post, five steps, one whistle, one team of soldiers, and one team of knights patrolling the streets and alleys.

Hong Chengchou was very satisfied with this. After entering the city, he did not go to the governor's mansion in the fort. He just went to the arrow tower at the east gate and looked down at the city from a high place.

"Reported that a large amount of food and grass was found in a warehouse in the west of the city, and it is expected to be at least 20,000 stones."

"It was reported that a large amount of grain was found in a warehouse in the south of the city, and it was estimated that at least 100,000 stones."

"I reported that a large amount of iron was found in the east of the city, all of which were fine iron and countless gunpowder!"

“…”

Not much time has passed, soldiers from all over the city have rushed to report their discoveries to Hong Chengchou.

The military order he gave was to confiscate food and supplies as soon as he occupied Zhangjiakou Fort.

Listening to the reports of the soldiers who were rushing back, the officers of the East Factory and the Jinyiwei standing beside Hong Chengchou were all very happy: What a great harvest!

However, there was also a situation that surprised them because they were on the top of the city and saw smoke coming out from the north of the city, as if it was on fire.

Needless to say, it must have been intentional arson.

Hong Chengchou was quite calm and was not in a hurry. Because he had expected this situation long before entering the city and had made relevant arrangements.

No surprise, the fire there was soon extinguished. After waiting for a while, an officer from the Cavalry Camp came to report: "Governor, a group of thieves hid in a grain warehouse just now and tried to set fire, but they were killed by their subordinates."

This time, the emperor's army was very decisive after entering the city. Whenever there were signs of bad news, they didn't have to report to the authorities and directly killed them. This was why the people in the city caught off guard. Even if someone wanted to make a fire cause trouble, they could not set fire just by setting fire.

After a while, all the officers in the city who had received instructions in advance had rushed back to report the situation in their respective areas.

Hong Chengchou looked up at the sky and saw that the clouds in the west were already dyed red by the sunset. It should be dark in less than half an hour.

He lowered his head, looked down at the Zhangjiakou Fort, and shouted coldly: "All the generals obey the order!"

A large group of generals at all levels standing beside him immediately clasped their fists and waited for the order: "The last general is here!"

"Turn out all the rats to me and arrest the imperial criminals!" Hong Chengchou's voice was cold and he ordered loudly.

When many generals heard this, they immediately responded loudly: "Abide by the order!"
Chapter completed!
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