When the sound of musketry stopped, there was silence all around, and even the wind seemed to have stopped.
Killing someone, or being killed, is not something that is difficult to accept in the hearts of people on and under the city wall. In fact, everyone inside and outside the city wall at this moment has such a consciousness.
However, from the sound of the muskets to the time they stopped, it only took one stick of incense. However, during this time, the number of people who died under the muskets was greater than the number of people who died under the city wall in the past two days.
Get up and get more.
This is no longer a battle, but a unilateral massacre, and this kind of massacre is cold and extremely efficient. From the top of the city to a hundred steps below the city, there are corpses everywhere, but there is almost no injured person to be seen.
, and this area has become a place of death, and anyone in it has no other choice but to die.
For the first time, the refugees retreated. Although their attack was unsystematic and simply cost people's lives, in the face of such killings, the human nature of fearing death finally prevailed.
In addition to other situations, I was lucky enough not to die under the gunpoint. At this moment, the only thought in my mind is to stay away from here, the further away, the better, the faster the better!
The firewood on the top of the city was lit again, and the cauldron was refilled. However, it was obvious that the refugees would not have the courage to come up at this time. They took this opportunity to burn the corpses piled under the city.
An urgent matter.
If the refugees dare to continue next time, then after the corpses are burned, they will have to prepare to kill so many people or even several times that many people before they can pile the corpses and loess down the city.
A house under the city less than two hundred meters away from the city wall is where Jiang Wan's camp is located. Feng Wanli and Xu Caining are commanding on top of the city. It is no longer the focus of his attention. If the firearms camp, which is the trump card, has taken action, how can he stop it?
If the refugees cannot be contained, then what Nanhaiwei should consider is not how to hold on to Yan'an Prefecture, but how to break out of the heavy siege of the refugees.
What he focused on was the tall and handsome man in front of him.
Because of his order, Li Zicheng and his gang were tied up and brought directly to him. He finally met this legendary figure.
However, the other person seemed to be a few years older than him.
"Untie him and give him a chair!" Jiang Wan waved her hand. Mei Xiaofei beside him hesitated and untied Li Zicheng.
"He went through all the trouble to get in front of me, not just to kill me!" Jiang Wan smiled and shook her head: "He doesn't know me!"
"But the general seems to know the origin of my brother Li!" Bu Zhanmu said with a humble smile on his face: "As soon as the general heard that I was from Yinchuanyi and my name was Li Zicheng, he thought I was lying. With this kind of vision,
I really admire you so much!"
"Hahaha!" Jiang Wan smiled, what did he say? Could it be that he knew the life of King Li Chuang well from the history books of later generations? But he is only in his twenties now, let alone his name.
If you become a king, you will be nothing more than a fugitive from the government!
"Many of my men are from Jinyiwei!" He said calmly: "Now that we have come to Shaanxi, we have to inquire about big and small things out of habit. The case of two consecutive injuries in Mizhi County,
It’s not a small case anymore!”
Li Zicheng looked at the court official in front of him with some horror. It was an accident that he was escorted in and untied, and it was another accident that he was given a chair to sit on. This was not the treatment that officers, soldiers and generals would give an ordinary refugee.
But at this moment, he heard that the leader of the officers and soldiers understood everything about him clearly. For some reason, he felt that the hairs on the back of his neck stood up.
"Tell us about the refugees outside the city!" Jiang Wan looked at Li Zicheng: "Where did these refugees gather from, who is in charge, how many people do they have, and how much food do they have? If they continue to surround Yan'an Prefecture, what can they do?
How long can you hold on..."
"The person in charge is called Wang Er, and he has less than two hundred cronies among them. They are all extremely vicious or desperate people he recruited..." Li Zicheng cleared his mind and said slowly: "People like me
, is naturally one of his targets, after all, there are more than a dozen brothers who followed me from Mizhi County!"
"When I first joined, there were already thousands of these refugees. Wang Er led these refugees to plunder villages and towns one by one, killing big households, grabbing food, and then burning the villages and towns to the ground. The people who could barely survive in the first place
, there is almost no second way to survive except following them!"
He continued: "And among these people, after plundering several villages and towns, those who were lucky enough to survive and dared to kill people were recruited by him into his own people, distributed weapons and food to these people, and drove these people to work for him
Work hard!"
"Approximately how many bandits did he gather like this!?"
Jiang Wan asked: "If you had not defected to the officers and soldiers this time, and if you had not died, you would have ended up with the same result as these bandits!"
"There are four to five hundred people, but what he can rest assured is his own confidants!" Li Zicheng said: "The only ones with real fighting power outside the city are these less than a thousand people. The rest of the people are all coerced.
innocent people!"
Jiang Wan pondered for a moment. This was not much different from what he estimated. The only difference was that when he heard Li Zicheng's name, he thought that the leader of the refugees outside the city was Li Zicheng. Unexpectedly, Li Zicheng at the moment was not at all
Just a guy who didn't even join the gang.
At this time, he was still thinking about defecting to the officers and soldiers. It seems that if the Li Zicheng in history really had no choice, he probably would not be determined to gather a crowd to rebel!
"Bu Zhanni has already told you about your business!" Jiang Wan raised his head.
Li Zicheng's heart skipped a beat. He knew that the time had come to decide his fate. What the leader of the officers and soldiers in front of him would say next would determine his life.
"This guard is a high-ranking guard in the Beijing camp, and I have come to Shaanxi to quell the chaos!" Jiang Wan said slowly: "I wanted you to contact me in advance, but you defected before the battle, and brought important information about the bandits. I should be commended..."
He paused and said, "I have decided to exempt him from his previous sins, reward him with a hundred taels of silver, and promote him to a hundred households in Nanhai Guard!"
Li Zicheng stared at Jiang Wan in front of him, as if he was a little stunned, as if he couldn't believe it. He reached out and pinched him hard on his lower back. A burst of pain passed through him.
Then he suddenly woke up.
"Kow thanks, kowtow thanks!" Bu Zhanni said in a low voice through gritted teeth.
"Thank you for the promotion, sir!" He woke up from a dream and knelt down on one knee.
"You don't need to thank me. Now is the time to hire people. The official position and the commander can afford you, but you also have the ability to deserve it. If you don't want other people in the guard to look down on you, you can show your ability and give it to me."
Everyone look at it!”
Jiang Wan waved his hand: "The people you bring will belong to your hundred households. During the war, you can recruit soldiers inside and outside the city to replenish your troops. Now, take your people to get weapons and armor, and then come back and wait for orders!"