Chapter 229: Capture the Thief and Capture the King
"Do it."
Zhu Gui waved his hand, but this time he still didn't give Jiao Rui a chance to finish his words. The five personal guards around him rushed out like tigers.
This time Zhu Gui also equipped them with pistols, and coupled with their strong martial arts skills, they quickly suppressed the rebels one-sidedly.
At first Jiao Rui wanted to laugh at Zhu Gui for not knowing his own abilities, but he soon stopped laughing.
There were obviously dozens of people on his side, giving him an absolute numerical advantage, but they were suppressed and beaten by the opponent's five people, and soon only half of them were left.
Faced with this situation, Jiao Rui's first thought was not to mobilize troops from outside the door, but to run directly outside.
"Come here, come quickly, there are enemies inside, hurry up and eliminate them."
Jiao Rui shouted as he ran.
The fight quickly erupted from the living room to the yard.
There were more rebels in the courtyard, close to two hundred people.
But Zhu Gui's personal guards showed no fear and rushed into the crowd without any hesitation.
At first, these rebels were a little surprised, thinking that the other party had something wrong with their brains.
But they soon discovered that they were the ones with the brain problem.
These people are so fierce. Almost every one of them faces the siege of seven or eight people at the same time, but half of them can be knocked down in an instant.
On Zhu Gui's side, after rescuing Princess Jin, the Crown Prince and others, he also came outside the living room.
When the crown prince Zhu Jixi saw the situation outside, he couldn't help but clapped his hands: "Okay, Uncle Wang's men are really powerful, and those rebels are simply vulnerable."
"Ahem." Although Princess Xie of Jin on the side was also surprised by this, she still reminded Zhu Jixi to be careful what he said. After all, these rebels were the subordinates of his father, Prince Jin. Doesn't this mean that Prince Jin is inferior to his father?
King?
Zhu Gui didn't take it seriously and took out his pistol.
It will still take a lot of time for the five personal guards to deal with the hundreds of people in the courtyard. As Jiao Rui said, although the gate of the courtyard collapsed, it cannot stop the rebels outside the courtyard for too long, so now
The most important thing is to control the situation first and capture Jiao Rui alive.
When Xu Miaoqing saw Zhu Gui taking action, she took out her guns again.
The two men joined the battle, making the already one-sided situation instantly more obvious.
Jiao Rui lost his calmness and composure and started to climb the wall. However, he was shot in the calf by Xu Miaoqing and fell to the corner. At this time, he was shouting for help outside the yard.
"There are enemies in the yard, come in quickly and save me."
Seeing this, Gongsun Ming walked over and struck Jiao Rui on the neck, knocking him unconscious.
Soon, most of the rebels in the yard were cleared.
After almost a stick of incense, the courtyard wall was finally pushed by the rebels.
But when they saw what was happening in the yard, they were all dumbfounded.
All the more than two hundred rebels here died, and even Jiao Rui was captured by the enemy.
Zhu Gui signaled his guards to wake up Jiao Rui, who had been tied up by Wu Huada.
The guard patted Jiao Rui's face with his hand, and the latter quickly woke up.
But as soon as he woke up, he started screaming. It turned out that his calf was still bleeding.
When Zhu Gui saw this, in order to prevent Jiao Rui from bleeding to death, he could only exchange it for a roll of bandages and let his guards bandage Jiao Rui randomly.
Jiao Rui grimaced in pain, his face was covered in cold sweat, and his eyes when looking at Zhu Gui were full of fear.
"General Jiao, do you have anything to say at this moment?" Zhu Gui asked.
"Succeed as king or lose as bandit. Since Jiao has fallen into the hands of the prince, it is up to you whether to kill him or to chop him into pieces."
Jiao Rui lowered his head and said very forcefully.
This actually surprised Zhu Gui.
"However, Jiao had one more wish before he died. He hoped that the prince could fulfill it. The reason why these brothers were willing to follow Jiao was that they really couldn't live anymore. They had no choice but to hope that the prince could give them a way to survive."
Jiao Rui raised his head and looked at Zhu Gui, saying expectantly.
"Your Majesty," Gongsun Ming reminded from the side with a worried look on his face.
Rebellion in the Ming Dynasty was a serious crime against the nine tribes. If Zhu Gui was really soft-hearted and refused to punish these rebels, he would probably be impeached if the court found out. Gongsun Ming really didn't want Zhu Gui to take risks for this.
Zhu Gui did not go to see Gongsun Ming, but said to Jiao Rui: "If General Jiao is willing to cooperate with me and let the rebels in the city surrender, I can consider it, but there is one thing I must make clear.
This does not include soldiers who have already broken the law."
When Jiao Rui heard this, he immediately lay on the ground and said, "Thank you for your magnanimity, Your Majesty. Jiao is willing to fully cooperate with Your Majesty."
Jiao Rui really didn't expect Zhu Gui to be willing to take this risk. Even if the other party just wanted to use him, he would be willing to do so.
Ever since, the next thing has become easy.
With Jiao Rui's cooperation, more than a dozen rebels from Qianhu were summoned to Prince Jin's Mansion, and then controlled by Zhu Gui's personal guards.
At the same time, the crisis at Zuixian Tower was also resolved, but three of the fifteen personal guards who were delaying Zhu Gui's time there died, which made Zhu Gui extremely distressed.
Fortunately, Liao Qinghai and County Sheriff Zhang were both safe and sound.
Immediately afterwards, with the cooperation of Jiao Rui, the eight gates of Taiyuan City were also opened at the same time. The thousand troops brought by Zhu Gui and the ten thousand Jin King's escort troops who did not participate in the mutiny successfully entered the city. All the rebels
They were all brought under control.
The general of the escort army, a deputy general named Chen Zuo, and Qianhu, Zhu Gui's army, came to the Jin Palace to meet Zhu Gui and reported on the situation in the city.
Many families in the city were purged by the rebels, and the number of casualties in the city reached tens of thousands.
This made Zhu Gui frown. He still underestimated the destructive power of these rebels. When Jiao Rui, who was tied aside, heard this, his face became paler.
Zhu Gui called Liao Qinghai over and asked him and Chen Zuo to take people to check the damage in the city, and at the same time thoroughly investigate the rebel soldiers who committed crimes in the city, and make sure to give justice to all the victims.
Liao Qinghai and Chen Zuo took the order together.
At this time, Jiao Rui immediately knelt down and grabbed the ground with his head: "Your Majesty, you promised the guilty minister."
Zhu Gui said with a cold face: "You seem to be mistaken. The king only promised to forgive those innocent soldiers who were coerced into this mutiny. For those soldiers who committed crimes, they must answer for their actions.
Pay the price."
Jiao Rui's body tilted, his face was full of pain but he had nothing to say.
Zhu Gui asked Qianhu and Gongsunming to take two people to check the losses of the three major families.
This sudden mutiny disrupted Zhu Gui's plan. At the same time, he did not forget that the real culprits of this incident, namely the bandits, had not yet been caught.