The Datong Army and the remaining Yunnan soldiers took advantage of the chaos to enter through the city gate without attracting the attention of the defenders.
On the contrary, the fleeing people were so frightened that they turned around and hid in the streets when they saw the soldiers entering the city...
Zhao Mingzheng ordered a group of fifty people to be dispersed throughout the city. If they saw people burning, killing and looting, they would kill them on the spot without asking for their identity!
Zhao Mingzheng took fifty people with him, and Wang Feng also took fifty people, and went straight to the direction of the Mu family mansion.
Soon they found a group of soldiers holding torches and breaking down the door. The people who lived there must be wealthy people. They blocked the door with their slaves to prevent the soldiers from entering, and the soldiers got a ladder from nowhere.
Planning to climb over the wall.
"Kill them all!" Zhao Mingzheng ordered.
Wang Feng immediately drew his saber, led his soldiers, and rushed towards the soldiers in Sha Dingzhou.
His whole family was killed by Sha Dingzhou, and he was deeply grudged. Now was the time to take revenge.
When the local soldiers saw the army coming, they couldn't see clearly in the darkness and thought they were their own people. They immediately shouted in the local dialect: "Don't come and rob, this household belongs to us, you can find rich people elsewhere!"
When Wang Feng approached with a sword, the soldiers saw that something was wrong. Just when they were about to open their mouths to warn, a flash of the sword had already cut through them.
Wang Feng did not stop after killing, and rushed to the second soldier in a blink of an eye. The soldier raised his spear and wanted to stab him, but Wang Feng blocked it with a wrong step, pressed the blade of the knife down along the spear shaft, and cut off the enemy's thumb with one knife.
"ah……"
Just as the soldiers had time to scream, Wang Feng had already raised his knife and cut the enemy's throat quickly and accurately.
Nope, the battle is over.
The rest of the local soldiers were all eliminated by the Datong Army and were unable to resist the surprise attack.
When Zhao Mingzheng and Wang Feng led their troops to leave, the family still hadn't reacted. The master took the slaves and climbed to the top of the wall on a ladder. They quietly watched for a while before they were convinced that they were really safe.
"Father, a group of soldiers came and killed the chieftain soldiers. After killing the people, they left and I don't know where they went." The middle-aged man on the wall shouted to the old man inside the wall.
The old man bowed to the sky and clasped his palms together: "Amitabha, God bless you. My Ye family has done good deeds and accumulated virtues from generation to generation. It must be the yin virtue accumulated by our ancestors. It moved the Jade Emperor to send heavenly soldiers and heavenly gods to rescue us."
Such battles quickly took place throughout the city.
Thousands of chieftain soldiers, who lost their organization due to robbery, were basically in groups of more than ten people - too many people would be unsightly, and disputes would inevitably arise when dividing the spoils.
The Datong Army, a group of fifty people, encountered a group of several or more than a dozen Tusi soldiers. During the night raid, the casualties were negligible.
"The Han army has entered the city!"
Finally, some fish slipped through the net and ran very fast without being killed, shouting and running all the way to report the news.
It's easy to send troops out, but it's difficult to take them back, not to mention it's still at night.
This kind of warning call not only failed to make the chieftain soldiers gather to resist, but also caused the chieftain soldiers to flee before they encountered the enemy.
The chieftain soldiers along the way heard that the Han soldiers were entering the city, and they didn't ask where the Han soldiers were from. They carried large and small bags, all of which were stolen goods, and subconsciously fled towards the nearest city gate.
"Reinforcements are coming, son of the Han family, follow me to kill the thieves!"
A young man wearing a Confucian shirt and several domestic slaves came out, and many people with broken homes picked up sticks out of hatred and joined the pursuit.
After chasing him down two streets, hundreds of people gathered around the boy.
"Just ahead, don't let them escape!" a house slave shouted.
But a few chieftain soldiers were unwilling to throw away their belongings when they were chased by angry people.
He was so demanding money rather than his life that he was quickly caught up and beaten to death by the people with sticks.
"my money!"
"Don't rob it, it's my money!"
The people who had been working together just now suddenly became confused and rushed over to grab the property left behind by the chieftain soldiers after their death.
The young man angrily yelled: "If you don't continue to pursue the enemy, but instead fight among yourself here, are you worthy of your dead relatives? You are a good man, so come with me and kill the enemy... kill him!"
The young man ran for a while, and when he turned back, there were only two slaves left beside him.
Not to mention the common people, even several of his own slaves were there to grab money.
The young man was so angry that he stamped his feet, but he had no choice but to take two loyal slaves with him, and the three of them continued to chase the chieftain soldiers.
"What a young man, let me help you!" Another young man followed, about twenty years old.
The young man ran and said, "I am Yang Zhenxian, whose name is Rulin."
The young man said: "Chen Zuocai, whose courtesy name is Uncle Ji."
The boy was not named in history, and he probably died in the war.
The young man was somewhat famous, and he first joined Mu Tianbo and then Li Dingguo. After the demise of the small imperial court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Chen Zuocai still grew his hair and beard and lived in seclusion in the mountains. He would wear a bamboo hat and ride a donkey when going out to show that he was sworn in with the Qing Dynasty and would never step on the Qing Dynasty for the rest of his life.
soil of.
In his later years, Chen Zuocai carved a stone into a coffin and died without being buried in the land of the Qing Dynasty. Before his death, he left a couplet: "He will live as a minister and die as a ghost. If he is not buried in the clear earth, he will not be buried in the clear sky."
"Dangdang..."
"kill……"
"ah……"
In the streets ahead, the sound of fighting and killing could be heard.
Yang Zhenxian suddenly became excited, quickened his pace and ran, holding up the scribe's sword and shouting: "General, don't be anxious, I'm here to help you!"
Chen Zuocai also quickened his pace.
After a while of sprinting, I finally arrived at the battle site. This group of chieftain soldiers had been killed.
The Datong army turned around and left, ignoring the property on the ground.
Yang Zhenxian was very surprised and cupped his hands: "Everyone, please stay! You have saved countless people in Kunming, and it is even more difficult not to be deceived by money. Please pay my respects to Wansheng!"
An officer turned around and said, "If you, young man, are so determined, gather people and send all the unowned wealth in the city to the government tomorrow morning. The Datong Army is not greedy for this money, and will use it to relieve the people. It will cost a lot to deal with the aftermath."
silver."
"I will definitely deliver my belongings to you if I am late!" Yang Zhenxian bowed again.
Then, these Datong troops left, and they had to hunt down the chieftain soldiers everywhere.
Chen Zuocai looked at the soldiers going away and couldn't help but sigh: "There is wealth all over the place without taking any cents. To be able to train such a strong army, it is not a fluke that the Datong court has won the world."
"Yes," Yang Zhenxian also said with emotion, "Whether it is the Ming Dynasty official army or the chieftain's soldiers, military discipline is very strict if they can avoid looting. These soldiers in front of me don't even take the wealth that they don't own. This truly upright king's master
Yes! The soldiers are like this, and it can also be seen in the administration of the Datong court. I will go to serve the court tomorrow, uncle Ji, do you want to come with me?"
Chen Zuocai smiled and said, "Let's go together."
Yang Zhenxian said: "There are more than a dozen bags of goods here, and it's really difficult to move them away. Let's keep them until they are sent to the Datong Army tomorrow."
Chen Zuocai found a bulging sack, and he didn't know what it contained. He immediately sat down, using the sack as a backrest, and looked at the night sky and said to himself: "The Datong Army has captured Yunnan. This troubled time is finally over. I don't know where the emperor will be."
The imperial examination will be resumed."
Yang Zhenxian also sat down cross-legged: "We will go to Beijing together to take the exam."
"My home is in Menghua (Weishan)," Chen Zuocai said with a smile. "Whenever brother goes to Dali, come find me in Menghua and take you to Cangshan and Erhai."
…
Mu Mansion.
The Mu family has too much treasure. In addition to gold and silver, there are also Buddha capstones, amber and other treasures.
According to historical records, the Mu family's treasures were packed in boxes, and each box weighed a hundred kilograms. Fifty boxes were surrounded by wooden boards to form a warehouse, totaling more than 250 boxes. And these... are just
part of it.
The road in front of Mu's house was blocked by cars.
Hundreds of the most elite chieftain soldiers did not participate in the robbery in the city. They were responsible for guarding the treasures. There were also many captive civilian husbands and domestic slaves left behind by the Mu family, who were ordered to move the treasures out box by box.
"Mother, it's not good, the Han soldiers have entered the city!" Several remaining soldiers fled in panic.
Wan was counting the wooden boxes according to the order, and trembled when he heard this: "Where did the Han army come from? Is it the Datong army of the imperial court, or the Han army of Chu Xiong's rebellion?"
Those defeated soldiers shook their heads repeatedly: "I don't know."
"A bunch of losers!"
Wan cursed loudly and ordered: "Get the property out of the city quickly, and don't move the rest."
This woman was extremely greedy. The enemy troops had entered the city. Instead of running for her life, she actually wanted to take away the treasure in front of her.
The chieftain soldiers guarding the treasure were at a loss when faced with this order. They had been fighting with Sha Dingzhou all year round and knew what to do at this moment. Wouldn't they be seeking death if they continued to escort the treasure?
Wan said angrily: "Are you deaf? Get on the road quickly and rush out of the city during the chaos!"
Perhaps because of Wan's reputation, the chieftain soldiers did not dare to disobey the order and actually escorted the treasure out of the city slowly. It was difficult to go fast even if you wanted to, because the treasure was too heavy and could only be pulled slowly by horses or mules.
They only walked half a street when Zhao Mingzheng and Wang Feng led their troops to kill them.
"Protect the treasure, protect the treasure," Wan stood on a carriage and pointed at the Datong army in front of them and said, "Kill them and rush over!"
The chieftain soldiers looked at each other. They had already been frightened when they heard that the enemy troops were entering the city. Now that they were blocking the way forward, and there was a crazy woman who was giving blind orders, how could they dare to actually follow the order to kill them? They didn't even know how many enemies entered the city.
I don’t know, even if you kill the enemy in front of you, what should you do if you continue to escort the treasure and are surrounded?
"Run!"
A chieftain soldier muttered.
The sound was not loud, but the impact was not small. Immediately more than a dozen chieftain soldiers fled.
"Hurry and kill...stop, don't run!"
When Wan urged him again, he found that most of the soldiers had fled.
Some chieftain soldiers even broke open the wooden box, took out one or two pieces of gold and silver, put them in their arms and fled to the rear alley.
"kill!"
Zhao Mingzheng led the charge. Fifty Datong troops and fifty Yunnan remnants charged towards hundreds of elite chieftain soldiers.
As soon as the Datong army charged, the remaining chieftain soldiers also moved, and they all turned around and ran away. The coachmen, peasants, domestic slaves and others ran faster than rabbits, and Wan was the only one left standing there in an instant.
Wan's heart ached as if she was bleeding as she looked at the long motorcade filled with her treasures.
At this moment, she was not afraid of death, but was reluctant to part with those treasures.
Wan didn't even bother to look at the rushing Datong soldiers. She got out of the car and picked up a fallen Buddha's top stone, and reached out to touch it with great nostalgia.
"ah!"
The moment his fingers touched the Buddha's capstone, Wan was kicked over and pushed to the ground. The blood from his forehead dyed the Buddha's capstone red, and the golden Buddha's cap was covered in blood.
