Dong Jishu watched the Eighteen Cavalry leave, and there was a commotion and panic below the city. Before it was his turn to breathe a sigh of relief, he heard the roar of the rebels below again, like a mountain roar and a tsunami.
These people have been suppressed for too long. They have been oppressed for too long. Wherever there is oppression, there is resistance.
Dong Jishu is a veteran, and he knows clearly what these people are thinking. Why do they want to rebel, because they have nothing to lose.
If they rebel, the situation will not be worse, but will get better. Dong Jishu has led the army for more than 40 years, and he has experienced countless rebellions, mutinies, and rebellions.
In his opinion, these people were both hateful and pitiful. He sympathized with the plight of these soldiers, but after these soldiers mutinied and harmed the people during robbery, he felt deep resentment.
Moreover, he knew clearly that once a soldier embarks on this path of no return, he will no longer be able to serve as a soldier with peace of mind.
Once you are a bandit, you will always be a bandit. If you are wild-minded, you will never go back. Even if you are recruited, it will still be a source of instability.
Once the situation changes, they can turn into rebels again at any time. Just like when people get divorced, they feel uncomfortable for the first time. As long as they get through this, it will be the same no matter how many times they get divorced in the future, and they will not take it seriously.
The same goes for these rebels. The real pain is the moment of rebellion. As long as they pass the threshold in their hearts, these people will raise the flag to rebel again in the future without any psychological burden.
Seeing the people below the city making noise again, he quickly shouted: "Get ready to defend the city immediately, they are going to attack the city." The rebels below the city surrounded them like a tide.
Carrying the wooden ladders they had made in the past two days, they rushed towards the city wall from all sides. Tongzhou must be built down.
Because this is their retreat, if they are defeated in the capital, they must retreat from here. If they fail to capture Tongzhou, they will go around and attack the capital. Once defeated, there is a risk of their retreat being cut off.
Huang Teng is far from these big-headed soldiers. He clearly knows that this rebellion will not last long. Although the Ming Dynasty is plagued by diseases, countless thorny problems cannot be solved.
But there is still no problem in dealing with these rebels. He has already arranged for his servants to guard Da'ankou. Once defeated, they will take the looted wealth and family documents and go out of Da'ankou to avoid the Ming Dynasty on the grassland.
Hunt.
At this time, he once again boosted his morale. He took his three thousand troops and stood on a small high ground, watching the rebels on all sides, climbing the city like ants.
He specializes in robbing officials, nobles and wealthy families. He clearly knows that there are rich people in Ji Town.
As long as you clip the stick, there is no silver that cannot be clipped out. At this time, on Tongzhou City, the soldiers from the camp and guard station were shooting arrows at the bottom of the city.
Throwing stones and logs. Things happened in a hurry, and Tongzhou did not have any materials such as rolling logs and stones to defend the city. Even if they did, they would have been embezzled by the officers.
He built himself a house or a pigsty. Dong Jishu had no choice but to demolish the warehouse in the city.
The bricks here are all city wall bricks. Each brick is a foot and a half long and weighs more than fifty kilograms. If you smash it from the city wall, it will definitely knock a bunch of people off the ladder.
Tongzhou is the end point of the Grand Canal, where merchants from the north and south gather. All supplies are available here. Dong Jishu didn't care what the background of these merchants was.
Direct requisition if necessary. As for whether there would be trouble in the future, he didn't care. If Tongzhou was lost, even if he didn't die, the emperor wouldn't be able to spare him.
Don't worry, let's look at what's in front of us. Jars were thrown down from the city wall one by one. The jar hit a rebel on the head and broke into pieces. The white powder inside immediately flew away in the strong wind.
Under the entire city wall, there was a vast expanse of white.
"No, cough, cough, this is lime. Close your eyes quickly and don't rub your eyes with your hands." A small flag shouted loudly.
He shouted a few times before lime entered his mouth. When the lime met the saliva, it reacted immediately and burned his mouth.
He immediately shut up and did not dare to shout. Then, someone threw several pots from above.
"ah!"
"My face!" There were screams in the city. When the lime met the water, the skin and flesh were burned directly. He didn't even have time to close his eyes, and his eyes were burned directly.
The strong wind blew away the white mist, and there was a wailing in the city. This wave of rebels was defeated, and more rebels came up from behind.
They carried ladders to avoid those people who had been turned white by lime. After the jars of lime were thrown on the top of the city, there were also long-handled iron ladles, and the hot dung was thrown down.
Suddenly there was another scream in the city. It was already summer. I was wearing thin clothes. The climate in the capital was already unbearably hot after the Dragon Boat Festival.
The boiling fecal juice is thrown down by long-handled wooden spoons or iron spoons, and it will directly burn you if it falls on you.
Moreover, mercury, arsenic, lime and other substances are added to the dung juice. Mix these substances together, boil them, and then sprinkle them with a long-handled spoon.
As long as it is splashed a little, it will directly burn the skin, and toxic mercury and arsenic will enter the human body.
Causes wounds to ulcerate. Lime is extremely corrosive to the skin, making the wound more difficult to treat.
Feces are particularly likely to cause infection in burns. Basically, soldiers who are soaked will die of infection within a period of time.
Soon, this round of attack was rained back with hot excrement juice. At this time, under the city wall, the rebels were burned by lime and scalded by the excrement juice. They were rolling and wailing one by one, and they died for a while.
No, it's very miserable.
"Let's prepare for the next wave. Put the umbrella on the discounted oil-paper umbrella, which is dripping with manure juice and lime, to block these dirty things." Huang Tengyuan ordered.
Soon, the third wave of rebels came up. This time, they also imitated the traitors. The soldiers were all wearing quilts or discounted oil-paper umbrellas.
He set up the ladder on the city wall again and climbed up. Dong Jishu took a look and felt very anxious.
These people are actually so tough. According to the Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers, they should have run away by now. How could they continue to attack the city with such heavy casualties?
What he didn't know was that it was not that the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty could not fight. The key was that the benefits of fighting would not fall on them.
If there is only effort and no reward, naturally no one will try their best. It will just be a fool's errand, so that's pretty much it.
Watching the dense crowd of rebels below, they rushed up again, and this time they all wore quilts on their heads and held oil-paper umbrellas to resist the hot excrement.
This time, the defenders on the city were suddenly shocked. How could they defend the city? There was no use for dung juice or lime.
Thick quilts can also resist three-eyed muskets and bows and arrows.