After the Wenkui rebels captured Anfu County, they did not implement brutal | policies such as massacres, but the situation was not much better. They did not do many bad things at first, but soon everyone discovered that there were no government arrests here, and even more
No one punishes their crimes; but those who have the power of life and death can call each other brothers and show kindness. One after another, some people rape women, rob homes, and gradually murders and arson occur occasionally, but most of the criminals are fine;
There were already many pirates, green forest heroes and the like in the army. Finally, they were inspired to do whatever they wanted, and crimes of rape, plunder and robbery began everywhere in the city and countryside.
In Anfu County, which had already been occupied, armed resistance broke out again. The rebels did not dare to leave the city when there were few people, and they were easily attacked by mobs outside.
After the military gained private wealth, the leaders of each department formed a small circle and sent people to guard their property day and night to prevent it from being stolen by their colleagues. As for training at the school grounds, there were chronically insufficient attendance.
Prince Wenkui originally planned to increase his strength after occupying Anfu County, and then march into Ji'an Prefecture. However, the current situation is not good, and he really does not have the strength to attack the big city. Seeing that food and grass are increasingly consumed, and unable to receive food from the countryside, many people
Their view was to continue attacking another county... After all, the success in attacking Anfu County gave them a taste of the sweetness. County towns generally do not have regular troops and their force is weak.
Unexpectedly, before they were ready to attack, news came that the Ming army from Ji'an Prefecture was dispatched and marched north along the Lu River to quell the rebellion.
At this time, the military and political situation of the Chief Secretary of Jiangxi Province was already very decadent and sluggish. However, due to the inertia and rules of the bureaucratic system, various yamen were still operating. When local rebellions broke out, it was only a basic approach for the governor to order the yamen to mobilize troops to quell the rebellion. Now the whole of Jiangxi is
It is difficult to organize a large army to fight, but it is very simple to mobilize hundreds of people from military households in a government.
It is estimated that the Ming army coming from Ji'an Prefecture only has seven or eight hundred people at most. The rebels were panicked when they heard the news, but Prince Wenkui decided to fight and defeat this army.
...A few days later, the Ming army dug trenches and spread thorns outside the city to build a simple camp, waiting for the trackers to pull boats from the Gan River to the Lu River to carry the siege equipment. Although this Ming army was called an official army, it was actually an army.
A very poor army. At this time, most of the military households in the government were unwilling to go to war, and their morale was low. The military households who were pulled out to suppress the rebellion were all serfs who were extremely poor and had no choice.
It’s just that the armor and weapons are not in good condition. The soldiers in the guard station provide their own clothes and other items. Some people in the Ming army don’t even have decent clothes. Their clothes are ragged and look like beggars. They all look miserable. I guess in
In their eyes, ordinary homesteaders are from wealthy families.
The commander's name is Liu Shuhan, he is also an honest man with a bad luck. He was able to become a military attache only because he was a hereditary general. In fact, he did very poorly in the officialdom, otherwise he would not have gotten this job.
His talents were also extremely limited. When he gave sermons to the soldiers in the camp to boost morale, his words were too simple. He only shouted loudly: "The prefect king said that after winning the battle, each person will receive one hundred kilograms of rice and fifty treasure notes when he returns home."
Ingots (the Ming Dynasty treasure notes are basically useless at this time). Maybe the wealthy people in Ji'an Prefecture will also pay for the folks to get some wine and meat to reward the army. Then we will go back and have a big meal!"
After hearing this, all the troops were very happy. One hundred kilograms of rice was not worth even one tael of silver, but it was much better than giving nothing and asking the military households to pay for the food.
Early the next morning, the Ming army discovered that the rebels had come out of the city, probably to fight outside the city. So the commander Liu Shuhan hurriedly ordered all the ministries to set up camp to fight against the enemy. A group of serfs and military households were farming all year round, but at least every year
During the two meetings, special personnel from the provincial capital department came down to organize training. Everyone still understood the basic marching formations, and the organization also had basic order.
In the conventional Ming army formation, light troops with bows and crossbows were in front, followed by heavy infantry with spears, swords, and shields. As for the horse soldiers... this kind of army only had generals and messengers with horses.
After the two armies faced each other, all the serfs looked at each other in shock when they saw the other's situation. They wished they could stop fighting and run away, but they were afraid of the general's violent military tactics, so they had no choice but to stand there.
In front of the rebel formation, a group of French cavalry guns were spread out in a row. The brand-new barrels glowed with a heavy metallic luster. This lineup was quite luxurious. As for the Ming army at the local guard post, it was rare to see artillery.
, it’s rare even in government offices, it’s only something found in important towns like Nanchang... That’s all. Look at the firearms in the hands of those rebel soldiers. They are also new. Only the Shenji Battalion in the capital has such high-end firearms and equipment.
So fast, almost everyone has one hand.
Liu Shuhan couldn't help but ask the staff next to him: "Are these people the troops sent by King Xiang from Huguang? I'm going to put my life on hold today."
Who in the officialdom doesn't know about that mess in Huguang? The imperial army lost at least hundreds of thousands of troops in Huguang. Not long ago, there were rumors that even the Shenji Battalion was destroyed. The staff frowned for a long time, not daring to make a conclusion. Liu Shuhan scolded
One sentence: "Fuck! I'm in bad luck."
The staff hurriedly made a gesture, and when Liu Shuhan listened, he whispered softly: "If King Xiang is going to attack Jiangxi, why doesn't the general withdraw his troops first, and then send an emissary to talk to him? It is not necessarily a bad thing to join him now."
"Isn't this good?" Liu Shuhan said in astonishment, "Besides, the people in the government office have made it clear that the rebels in this county are a group of bandits who gathered on the mountain before. We haven't figured out the situation yet, so what?
You have to obey the orders from the top."
At this moment, there was a sudden "bang" of a cannon. Liu Shuhan and others were startled and looked around hurriedly. Many soldiers were looking up at the sky. There was no movement in the entire camp. They didn't know where the cannonballs were flying.
Went.
"This artillery..." Before Liu Shuhan could finish his words, suddenly "boom, boom, boom" sounded again, and many cannons were fired in succession. Finally, he saw a cannonball fall on the ground in front of him. The French cannonball was relatively small and bounced a few times.
They rolled around on the ground, and some flew to other places. Suddenly, a cannonball hit a soldier's head in the middle, and the plasma on his head exploded, like a watermelon being smashed.
It was as if it had exploded, blood spattered all over the people around, and there was a panic in the crowd. Before the shell stopped, it hit another person. The person screamed in pain and cried to the sky, as if he had been hurt.
The injury did not kill him.
The Franchise cavalry gun is a mother-and-son musket design, with extremely limited range and power. However, it is a rear-loading cannon and has rotating "child muskets". The advantage is that it fires very fast. The other side fired off its cannons one after another, and then began
Exchange gun.
Unexpectedly, a moment later, there was another loud "boom", and some people on the opposite side screamed in agony. Did it explode? It turned out that the gunner of one of the cannons forgot the steps and immediately changed his gear after firing.
The gunpowder was full of gunpowder. Unfortunately, the remnants of sparks inside ignited the gunpowder. The breech exploded before it was fixed. It directly recoiled and injured the nearby troops. After one gun exploded, all the artillerymen were killed.
They were all frightened and hurriedly ran away from the artillery fire.
No matter how stupid the commander of the Ming army was, he still felt that his opponent was not a powerful character after seeing this scene with his own eyes.
Commander Liu decided to test the attack, and immediately ordered the front army to advance. After approaching, he used bows and arrows to shoot at the base of the position. Unexpectedly, a few arrows immediately triggered a "crackling" response, and the muskets on the opposite side fired one after another. The two armies were separated from each other.
After more than a hundred steps, the matchlocks fired randomly and hit nothing, and the lead pellets flying back and forth had long since disappeared. However, the sound was spectacular. There was smoke billowing in front of the crowd, and the explosion scared several horses to neigh and jump.
.
"Kill, kill!" Suddenly a shout came from the smoke. Many people faintly rushed over.
Commander Liu hurriedly ordered the release of arrows. The crossbowmen in front fired flatly, and the archers behind fired arrows, raining arrows from the sky. The rebels who rushed over had no armor at all, and the arrows fell directly into the flesh of the people, causing them to scream in agony.
Unexpectedly, the charge was repelled by a round of arrows.
The light soldiers of the Ming army immediately advanced dozens of steps, and then shot several more arrows within the range. Soon the rebels on the opposite side dispersed and ran towards the city gate. Firearms were thrown everywhere. Commander Liu was overjoyed.
, immediately ordered a pursuit and attack. The light soldiers of the Ming army put away their bows and crossbows, and rushed forward with short weapons. The heavy infantrymen with long weapons followed closely behind.
A large group of people followed them and rushed directly to the city gate. Nothing could stop the Ming army's front, so they stormed through the gate and rushed into the city. Seeing this, Commander Liu couldn't help but pacing and said: "I had known this, why would I still be looking for you?"
What kind of baggage is the tracker pulling?!"
A group of fierce-looking rebels in the city saw the officers and soldiers coming like a flood, and their own people were scattered. How could they dare to go up and fight those ragged officers and soldiers? They immediately turned around and ran away.
The officers and soldiers fought to the cross street, but did not encounter any decent resistance on the road. Some civilians suddenly appeared on the street, and they ran out desperately in the chaos. Some of the civilians shouted: "Kill the bandits, destroy them."
Their clan is to be damned!" Someone else shouted: "Go to Xianqian Street quickly, the thieves' barracks are there, they must go back to move the treasure..."
Wen Kui followed the defeated troops and fled in. Seeing that his troops were scattered and out of control, he knew that the situation was suddenly over, so he wanted to escape from the city. Fortunately, there were many servants and cronies around him, and Song He, a civil servant, also did not leave.
With Buqi following him, he took the rest and rushed to the north gate.
Unexpectedly, when he arrived in Beicheng, he met a gentry landowner who was blocking the place with his relatives, friends and servants holding sticks and hatchets. A big man beside Wen Kui didn't answer, but greeted the group and rushed forward with weapons. This gang
It was useless for the gangsters to fight against the organized government troops, but they had great advantages against the same civilian armed forces. They were more ferocious than ordinary people. After a short fight, they dispersed the gang. Wen Kui and others took the opportunity to ride out of the city.
outside.
Suddenly, two cavalrymen came up from behind. The people around Wen Kui breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that they were not officers and soldiers. Song He asked them: "Which unit are you from?"
One of them replied: "The villain is one of Ding Baotou's men, and Ding Baotou is dead." Song He looked back at the other person on horseback: "I think I have seen you before..."
The other person immediately pointed to the person next to him and said: "The younger one is a craftsman. I didn't recognize him. When I met him on the street, he asked the younger one to come over here."
The crowd didn't care much, so they fled out of the city together.