"What are you shouting outside? You still want to sleep!"

Gan Ermao, who was awakened, just stretched out his head out of the door in a cotton jacket, and was frozen by the cold wind outside. But his head was poked out again in an instant, and his eyes were filled with horror.

In sight, dozens of wooden sheds were rising with flames, making a sound of burning wood with "thunderbolts and thunderbolts". The two sides of the canal, which were originally pitch black, were illuminated brightly, and even the fog on the canal was shining with red light.

Under the whistling north wind, one river wooden shed after another was ignited by the fire.

The first thing to burn was the straw covered on it. The falling Mars made the sleeping river workers cry. When they thumped and jumped up, they found that there was a fire around them.

"There is a fire, run, run!"

The river workers who realized that they didn't even have time to put their pants on, rushed out of the shed, and some even kicked the burning wooden boards and rushed out.

"Click" some wooden sheds that had lost their pillars collapsed. As flames splashed everywhere, some slow-moving river workers were hit by the shed. Fortunately, they were burned, and the unlucky one was burned to death inside.

The fire was burning from north to south. In addition to the wooden sheds where the river workers lived, there were also haystacks transported by the government from other places, which were also called fires.

It’s okay if the wooden shed is on fire, but there is fire but no smoke. The haystack is amazing. It’s so cold outside. When the fire gets hot, thick smoke suddenly pops up, and the surrounding river workers can’t even open their eyes.

"Put the fire quickly, put out the fire quickly!"

The escaped river gang instinctively wanted to find tools to put out the fire, but before they could get the tools to put out the fire, countless people rushed over from all over, and wrapped them away without any mental preparation.

Without any struggle, it was like a little water dropping into the river.

There are so many people.

When countless people crowded into one place and desperately went in one direction, the power was so great that no individual could stop him wherever he passed.

The wooden sheds without fire were pushed and collapsed one after another by the crowd, and countless crowds ran to the direction they thought they were safe.

It was not only the fire that prompted all this, but also the officers and soldiers who had already been red-eyed.

"Run, run quickly, the officers and soldiers have killed people, the officers and soldiers have killed people!"

"Everyone run east, run east!"

“…”

The river workers who were wrapped in the crowd and ran together without figuring out the situation, didn't know what happened, but the screams coming from everywhere and the screams of the officers and soldiers clamoring for killing people made them instinctively run out with the crowd.

This is completely human instinct and completely unconscious behavior.

The riots spread like viruses, and the fire was also swallowing everything in front of us like a poisonous snake. In just one incense stick, the entire southern section of the Qingjiangpu Canal completely became a disorderly and extremely terrifying existence.

The sound of life-saving, wailing, crying, resistance and the screams of women were intertwined, making the local villagers who heard the movement on the other side of the shore who climbed up the embankment and wanted to see something happened.

All this happened so quickly that Lu Si was a little stunned. It was not until he smelled the smell of smoke in his nose that he realized, grabbed Guangyuan and shouted at everyone: "Go away!"

...........

"Damn, what's going on? Who asked you to set the fire and who asked you to kill!"

Wu Gao, the canal general, was also shocked by the screams by the canal in his sleep. When he arrived, the situation could no longer be curbed - the construction sites by the canal had become a sea of ​​fire, and his soldiers were killing people frantically.

"Say it!"

Wu Gaoyi whipped the face of the head Ge Guotai who was on duty that night. There was a blood mark on the latter's face. When the cold wind blew, it was really painful.

Ge Guotai did not dare to cover his face, nor even showed a painful expression, so he could only bite the bullet and said, "Sir, we are not blamed on this matter, it is Hegong who rebelled!"

"Nothing nonsense, how could the river engineer rebel!"

Wu Gao was so angry that he raised his hand and wanted to whip Ge Guotai again. The land of Huaiyang has been in peace for a long time, and the people are content with their own care and can only endure food and clothing. They are full and want to rebel!

Ge Guotai was afraid that the deputy general's whip was thrown off, so he quickly pointed at the soldiers beside him and said, "Sir, the river engineer is really against him. If you don't believe me, please ask them!"

"That's right, the river engineer has rebelled. The young man heard them rebelling with his own ears!"

"It was the first move by the river workers. They attacked our people and set fire everywhere!"

"I heard the leader say that I would enter Huaian Prefecture and capture the Governor alive!"

“…”

The soldiers talked about their experiences, and I don’t know if they really saw it or listened. There was even a guy who swears to the sky that he heard a river engineer singing the nursery rhymes of Li Chuang’s gang of thieves!

Hegong really is wrong?!

Wu Gao was not sure about this, so he pushed Ge Guotai in front of him and ran towards the embankment.

Under the fire in the sky, there were indeed many river workers fighting with his soldiers in the place where they could see. From time to time, they heard people shouting something to fight against the government army.

In the invisible place, the shouts of the river workers were even more ups and downs. Although they couldn't hear clearly, they thought they were mostly cursing the official army.

how so?

Wu Gao did not doubt that the river engineer was really against him. As far as he saw, it was no longer important whether the river engineer would rebel against him or not. What is important is why the river engineer should rebel against him!

Is it true that the little soldier said just now that a thief sneaked to Huai'an?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

Suddenly, Wu Gao was shocked and turned around to ask Ge Guotai who was following him: "Where are the Fujian soldiers!"

"I won't know at the end."

Ge Guotai stopped a few steps away from Wu Gao. He was really scared by the whip of the gang general.

"waste!"

Wu Gao whipped the poplar tree beside him with an angry whip, "It's that bastard Zheng Zhibao who is hurting me!"

"Zheng Zhibao?"

Ge Guotai was stunned. Why did the Hegong Rebellion have something to do with the Fujian soldiers?

.........

It makes sense for Wu Gao to think so.

As the governor of the grain transport, the Biaoying, the governor of Huaiyang, was also the direct descendant of Zheng Zhibao's troops, who were always wary of the Jinshengheng troops from Wuchang, or rejected them.

Just as Jin Shengheng rejected Liu Zeqing in the north, Zheng Zhibao also did not want Huai Yang to fall into Jin Shengheng's hands.

Then, after learning that Jin Shengheng wanted to wrap up tens of thousands of migrant workers, Zheng Zhibao must destroy it.

Otherwise, if Jin Shengheng gets these tens of thousands of river workers, what else can Zheng Zhibao compete with Jin Shengheng?

Wu Gaoyue thought that the more he was. Zheng Zhibao was inciting the river engineer to rebel behind his back. In the first place, he could use the river engineer to kill him, and even if he couldn't do it, he would seriously damage Wu Gao's troops' vitality;

Secondly, it can use this to show the incompetence of Jin Shengheng's ministry to the Lu Department, and even say that it was because Wu Gao's tribe wanted to force Lafuzi to lead the Hegong to rebel.

In short, the chaos of the river engineering in Zheng Zhibao is beneficial but not harmful.

And he, Zheng Zhibao, might have led his troops to lurk nearby, and waited for the Hebei Engineering to be in chaos before he could come to him from the back and give him a knife. Anyway, he could push him to the Hebei Engineering foreman afterwards.

There is no evidence of death, and the elite troops of Wu Gao's army are missing. Could it be that Jin Shengheng, who is far away in Sizhou, dares to say anything?

"Sir, what should I do now?"

Looking at the chaos in front of him, Ge Guotai was also panicked. Although those river workers were just helping farmers who only know how to farm, there were tens of thousands of river workers in the entire canal, and they were only 4,000!

"What are you doing while standing there!"

Wu Gao looked at Ge Guotai with a gloomy face, "Send the order, the troops of each battalion blocked all the roads in Qingjiangpu. We must not let the river workers such as Huaiyang gather together, nor can we let them rush to the city!"

"Yes, I will send an order here... but what should I do here?" Ge Guotai refers to this section of the river engineer in Yancheng County who was in chaos with their soldiers.

Wu Gao said without thinking, "Kill them all, no one is left!"

"Kill them all?"

Ge Guotai was shocked, "Sir, there are tens of thousands of people here."

"If you don't kill them all, the entire canal will follow! Is it easy to solve tens of thousands of people, or tens of thousands of people!"

Wu Gao was also decisive. If he should break, he would break, and he would have no kindness as a woman.

"good!"

Since the General of the Governor has decided what else is there to say to Ge Guotai, his subordinate. At that time, he sent people to various battalions to pass orders, while personally taking people to suppress the rebellious river workers.

Ge Guotai was confident that he could kill all these unarmed river workers. When he brought more than 300 soldiers from his subordinates to the construction site, he saw thick smoke everywhere in front of him and could not see anyone at all.

Just as I was hesitating whether to wait for the smoke to dissipate before rushing in, or when I went in to suppress it now, I heard the sound of a gong in the thick smoke.

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang!"
Chapter completed!