Chapter 58: Rob the treasury
The disadvantage of the extremely slow loading of muskets was exposed in close combat. The warriors of the Huai Army used a big knife to reap the lives of the Fujian Army under the leadership of Lu Si.
The Fujian army was not resistant to the severe cold of Huaiyang. At the low temperature, soldiers' fingers were frozen stiffly and their loading speed was slower than usual. As a result, facing the Huai army who was slashing with swords close to each other, the fire guns in the hands of the Fujian army were not as good as fire sticks.
Many Fujian soldiers were frightened and ran away as soon as they threw their muskets.
While Lu Si took his men to swing his sword to disperse the Fujian army behind the city gate, he asked someone to move the stones blocked behind the city gate. Around the city guards were everywhere, and the soldiers who fled to various parts of the city were everywhere.
"Subsequent, down!"
The young and strong men who were temporarily recruited by the government to help guard the city did not even dare to run away. They were so scared that they knelt on the ground and shouted loudly like those yamen runners of the canal.
Lu Si had no time to pay attention to the surrendered defenders. At this time, the excitement of breaking the city made his face full of a strange shape. The scene of an official leaping down the city just now moved him.
The defenders who had lost the support of the city wall and lost their command began to collapse without surprise. They ran around shouting and no one stopped the Huai Army warriors who were opening the city gate.
The Fujian army was running, the canal soldiers were running, the yamen run, the young and strong were running, the servants sent by wealthy families to listen to the news were also running, and the people who were worried about peace were running all over the streets...
Facing those thieves who hold big swords and chop people up, everyone loses the courage to resist.
The little official in the Caoyun Yamen who wanted to escape before the rebels siege the city, witnessed his boss, Jin Tui, leaping in despair after leaping, his mind was blank, and he murmured only two words - "It's over."
After more than two hundred years of peace, Huai'an, the important canal town that flourished Huaiyang, was finally over.
This Huaiyang Mansion, which only built four enemy platforms during the Wanli period, is about to face a great disaster that has not been seen in a century.
"Don't chase, open the city gate!"
After Lu Si swung his knife to cut down a yamen runner who was in a panic and refused to kneel down to surrender, he stopped the Huai Army subordinates who were going to pursue the rest of the people.
In the city gate, Cheng Lin and twenty or thirty people were desperately moving the stones out. After the pile of stones loosened, Guangyuan couldn't wait to put down the door bolt.
But the door bolt was extremely heavy. Guangyuan couldn't hold it with his strength, and he cursed in a hurry: "Damn it, it's so heavy!"
Seeing this, Xia Dajun and others rushed forward to help. As everyone shouted in unison, the door bolt was finally lifted down. Then, with the "squeaking" sound, the city gate weighing thousands of pounds was slowly pushed to both sides, revealing the ancient Huaiyang City that was faintly visible in the night and fire inside.
"The city is broken, everyone, come into the city quickly!"
Looking at the open city gate and the government troops who were fighting them endlessly, the rebels outside were stunned. They looked at each other in a daze, but no one moved.
All this came too suddenly and it didn't feel like it was true!
Lu Si rushed over with a knife and shouted at the rebels who were standing stupidly: "We are the Huai Army, not the official army. The city has been broken, hurry up!"
"The city has been broken, enter the city quickly!"
A whistleman under Zhang Tianbao, who was supervising the battle, reacted first, and pushed the idiot-like river craftsman in front of him, swung his knife towards the city gate.
When leaping over the Huai Army, the whistle always shouted: "Brothers, you are so good!"
"The city is broken, the city is broken, everyone is coming into the city quickly!
The rest of the rebels also woke up, and the crowd burst into cheers.
One, two, three, countless young and strong river workers rushed into the city under the eyes of the Huai Army warriors.
Thousands of rebels rushed into Huai'an City from the city gate. From above, they looked like a long river pouring into a huge gate, and suddenly turned into countless streams, flowing towards every corner of Huai'an City.
"Who are you!"
When Zhang Tianbao heard that the city gate had opened, he rushed over to catch a horse. He stopped at the city gate and looked at the Huai Army who were wearing the same clothes as them on both sides, but had a newly red cloth tied to his arms.
"We are the Huai Army!" Guangyuan looked at the horse Zhang Tianbao rode enviously.
"Huai Army?"
Zhang Tianbao was stunned. He didn't know which army he was from, but he waved his hand without thinking too much, "Okay, the Huai Army is good, I will ask the general for your Huai Army!"
This is the direct acquisition of the Huai Army and other people.
"no,"
Guangyuan wanted to refute, but Lu Si pulled him.
"You Huai Army has made great contributions to breaking the city. You don't have to do your best now. Let's rest here. I will send someone to find you after dawn!"
Zhang Tianbao was eager to lead people to seize the vassal treasury of the Cao Transportation Yamen, so he could not stay at the city gate for too long. If the young and strong people in the river workers were fascinated by the money and flocked to grab the vassal treasury, things would be very troublesome. He nodded to Lu Si, who was obviously the leader of the Huai Army, and rode into the city.
Without the protection of the city wall, Huaian City is just a stripped-down girl, and anyone can get on!
"Bare Huai'an City!"
Zhang Tianbao's ferocious shouts came from afar. Under the stimulation of breaking the city, the rebels rushing into the city were shouting wildly, and the entire Huai'an City was instantly shrouded in haze.
"Brother Lu, they want to wash the city!" Cheng Lin looked at Lu Si with some anxiety.
"Master, what is the city washing?" Guangyuan obviously didn't know what the city washing meant.
"Don't worry about them, wait for our people to come!"
Lu Si knew what it meant to clear the city, but he couldn't stop it now because his Huai army had not yet entered the city.
Everyone sat in the city gate to rest. Because they were too tired, the screams from the city could not be taken a longer look at them.
The monk Xu even took a nap and gradually snores.
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The cheers from the direction of Xicheng shocked the Fujian army, who were fighting against the rebels in Liancheng.
"Sir, the west city is broken, the thieves have entered the city and cannot be defended!"
Zheng Tai's subordinates fought to the death to resist the rebels who climbed up the city wall. The rebels were extremely powerful and were not afraid of their muskets at all. Some even rolled on the ground with swords, so that their muskets could not hit the other side at all.
Zheng Tai knew that the situation was over, so he said, "Go to the Ministry of Security to leave the city!"
When the rebels siege the city was in danger, the advisor Jin Peng had already suggested that the Ministry and the Court move to Liancheng. When Zheng Tai came over, the Ministry and the Court heard the movement on the city wall and moved to the old city.
At this critical moment, he could even think of protecting the evacuation of the Ministry of Roads and the Ministry of Roads. Zheng Tai was also able to be regarded as loyal to his duties.
After discovering that the Fujian soldiers were evacuated in a hurry, Li Shiyuan did not chase them, but quickly took people down the city and rushed to the Caoyuanyi in the city.
In his eyes, no matter how many Fujian soldiers killed, they are not as important as the vassal treasury!
In the West City, Fengzi Camp was the first to arrive. Looking at the warriors slumped on the ground in the city gate, and more than 30 corpses placed at the door, many people in Fengzi Camp had their noses sore.
"Can you still move!"
Lu Si used a knife to support himself and looked at his subordinates, "If you can move, go and grab the vassal treasury with me!"
Chapter completed!