"Although you and the whole township of Yonghua are guilty, you are the leader in the siege of the county. Isn't this true?"
The other three Tianchang Gongs immediately agreed: "Sir, it's true! It was Baimangzhai who incited us to attack the county!"
Tian Changgong of Baimangzhai couldn't argue, he just kept shouting injustice and kowtowing like garlic. Whether it was the Ming Dynasty or the Song Dynasty, there were always "officers and soldiers". Since ancient times, it was common for officers and soldiers to "fu Yao", killing people, setting fires, massacring villages and destroying villages.
Things. They all saw the power of the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty last night. They were about to go to Yonghua Township to "Fu Yao", which would be a catastrophe that would destroy the family and exterminate the clan. The Tianzhang Gong knew the power of it, so he couldn't help it.
Don’t keep crying out for injustice.
Huang Chao himself had no intention of taking advantage of the Yonghua Yao people to establish authority: the Yonghua Yao people had been registered as households for many years and had frequent contacts with the local Han people, so they were a target that could be won over - to quell local wars, winning over some local people could play a role.
A huge help.
However, the scale of the Yao people's riot this time was so large that even the Yonghua Yao people who usually "keep themselves safe" participated. This shows how chaotic the situation is and how agitated people are. It is important to prevent these Yao people from "knowing fear"
You can't make them obey your orders.
"Not to mention your collusion with the Badai Yao rebellious party, the crimes committed by your Baimang Village would have been enough to slaughter your entire village." Huang Chao said solemnly.
"Sir, please forgive me! Xiaozhai is really not the leader! There are people who seduce Ba Paiyao in every village! ... They all have..." Tian Zhanggong shouted at the top of his lungs, "I am willing to report you!"
"He's talking nonsense!" "You have to speak louder than your conscience!" "Won't your conscience hurt when you say that?!"
Huang Chao raised his hand to signal them to stop arguing. He glanced at the four Tianzhang Gongs and said: "I know very well who has colluded and who has not. You will go down in a while and write your own defense. Write well.
If you understand and write clearly, you will take credit for your fault! If you are vague and careless, don't blame me for being ruthless."
"The little one is illiterate..."
"You said, I will arrange for someone to write it." Huang Chao said, "One more thing, you immediately send people back to the village. Anyone who robbed things or kidnapped people will give you three days to send them all back to the county.
Come on. If you don’t return it when it’s due, I’ll have to send someone to pick it up.”
Several Tian Changgong had sad faces and could only say "yes".
"But we still have to buy salt. There is no salt at all in the village..." Pan Tianshun said with a sad face.
"You can only eat salt if you have a brain." Huang Chao said coldly.
The four Heavenly Lords couldn't help trembling after hearing this. When Huang Chao saw this, he smiled with his teeth and said: "Do as I say, listen to my words, and I will ensure that you have salt to eat."
The four Tian Chang Gongs knew what else Huang Chao would ask for, so they waited silently for Huang Chao to speak again.
"You can go back tomorrow morning, and I can let your people go, but the morning after tomorrow, I want to see your young men outside Lianzhou City: all of them, between eighteen and forty, are armed and come to the county to listen to me.
Order."
The Tiangongs glanced at each other. The conditions were not harsh, but there was something strange about them. They had been dealing with the government and doing business with merchants for many years, and they had long developed the habit of being suspicious. Is this move going to
All their young men were lured and killed? I heard that the government had done this kind of thing in the past.
Huang Chao saw them hesitating and hesitating one by one, with confused expressions on their faces. He couldn't understand it at first, so he thought, why is this so rare? He asked:
"What other difficulties do you have?"
"This, this..." Pan Tianshun was in a dilemma. Telling the truth wouldn't make the Song Dynasty official furious. Not to mention whether the other party was setting up a frame-up, but as soon as he said this, he had to push them all out.
Beheading is not allowed.
Peng Shouchen had been living here for a long time and had experience in dealing with the Yao people. Seeing this, he already understood something about it, so he whispered a few words to Huang Chao. Huang Chao laughed when he heard it, shook his head and said:
"If I had killed them all last night, I would have spared your lives until now. Are you really going to do these tricks?" Huang Chao expressed disdain.
The four Tianchang Gongs knew that what Huang Chao said was true, but they could not make a decision immediately. They discussed with each other, and Pan Tianshun put forward a condition on behalf of the four of them: "We must have a hostage."
"hostage?"
Huang Chao suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed. He laughed so hard that everyone on the top and bottom were confused. After a while, he stopped his smile and said seriously: "You all open your eyes and take a look! The heavenly soldiers of the Song Dynasty Yuan Yuan are here. If I want you
There are a few strong heads in the village. In a battle last night, I could have slaughtered all of you. Today I will kill all the chickens and dogs in each village - why bother to do this? You all should understand better: I am thinking
I have been living with you for many years, and you are all good and peaceful people. This time, I was instigated by Ba Paiyao to besiege the county town. Many people died. I feel pity for you, just waiting for a way out! It's life!
Whether it's death, it's all within your reach!"
These words made several Tian Changgong turn pale. Pan Tianshun glanced at the others and did not dare to speak anymore.
Huang Chao took care of the release of all the captured Yao people, and provided simple treatment to the wounded. As for the corpses of the dead in the battle, their heads were not cut off, and the villagers were told to collect them themselves if they were willing, and those who had no one to take back would be left there.
They were buried and all the captured weapons were returned to them - the weapons of the Yao people were worse than those of the worst troops. They didn't even have many iron weapons, and many of them were bamboo spears.
Starting from the next day, the Yao people from Sizhai came one after another under the leadership of Tian Changgong, and not only brought back the stolen property, but also brought back more than 500 men, women, and children from Yangshan County and surrounding areas who had been kidnapped.
Huang Chao looked at the belongings they handed back and found that they were really shabby. The Han people in Yangshan couldn't be said to be very wealthy, and naturally they didn't have much soft goods. He saw that what they sent back was not only the bulky furniture from ordinary citizens' homes.
, as well as various farm tools. As for cloth, food and clothing, they are the best trophies in their eyes.
"This is really the poor robbing the poor." Huang Chao looked at the Yao people who came to hand over the things and the local people who came to claim the items, and secretly sympathized with him. It seems that if we want to have long-term peace and stability here, we have to let everyone live a life of food and clothing.
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The things returned were miscellaneous and piled up in front of the county government office. Except for large items such as furniture, most of the items could not be clearly identified. Wang Chuyi followed Huang Chao's instructions to register and distribute them to the people.
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The robbed items were not registered, so it was naturally impossible to check whether all the Yao people in Yonghua had returned them honestly. However, Huang Chao turned a blind eye. The Sizhai Tiangong said that all the stolen items had been returned, but
Some of the salt has been used and cannot be returned...
"I won't pursue the issue of salt. I've heard that it's difficult and expensive for you to eat salt," Huang Chao said.
"Thank you sir!"
"Where's Ding Zhuang?"
"They are all here. Wait for the master to check outside the south gate."
Outside the south gate, the men and women of the Yao people from the Four Villages have already gathered. Because he only wants men between eighteen and forty, and in addition to the fifty or sixty men and women of the Yao people from the four villages who were killed and injured in the ambush, so
There were only more than a hundred people who came. According to his prior instructions, they all carried bamboo spears and crossbows.
He looked at Ding Zhuang's complexion and thought it was pretty good. Anyway, the people in this time and space all had dark complexions and malnourished faces. But their clothes were a little tattered, and some people were wearing clothes that were obviously stolen.
Huang Chao asked these young men to wear blue armbands and form the Yangshan temporary squadron of the National Army. One of the squadrons stayed in Yangshan and the National Army was responsible for "military training", while the other two squadrons were ordered to follow the large army.
Go to Lianzhou.
Huang Chao stayed in Yangshan for a day and took care of some urgent matters in Yangshan. Early on the morning of June 1, he led his troops to take the small steamer that had been reinforced from Guangzhou and went north along the Lianjiang River. He came with the small steamer for reinforcements.
There are also two small gunboats, six 12-pound mountain grenades and their gunners, and 12 artillery cadets.
At noon, the fleet arrived in Lianzhou. Huang Chao was originally from Lianzhou in northern Guangdong. This was the first time he returned to his hometown in eight years. Looking at his hometown in 1635, Huang Chao was speechless for a moment. That year
He and his wife Huang Susu chose to time travel because their families did not agree with their marriage. Now he has returned to his hometown, but his parents are in another time and space. Huang Chao couldn't help but sigh, whether he was too naive back then, and whether he should have gone back to his hometown.
How about convincing both parents?
Huang Chao couldn't think too much. He didn't even see the beautiful scenery of the Huangchuan Three Gorges on the way there. He had a lot of problems to solve. The troops landed on the west side of Lianzhou City, on the other side of Longjinmen Pier, and saw Lianzhou besieged.
The eight rows of the city are sparsely populated, with only fifty or sixty people outside each city gate, and they are generally older. Huang Chao made a rough estimate that there are a total of ten gates in the old city and the new city of Lianzhou City, except for the south gate of the old city.
Connecting the old and new cities, the remaining nine gates all lead to the outside of the city. There are currently about 500 people surrounding Lianzhou City. The rest are either hiding somewhere or scattering to plunder the surrounding villages.
But this is not risky. Most of the villages in Lianzhou area have built walls, and each village has a strong guard. It is impossible to attack a village without dispatching five or six hundred people at a time. If more people are dispatched, the defenders in Lianzhou City
If the army seizes the opportunity, it will break through.
Information before departure showed that there were more than a thousand people in the Eight Pai Yao siege. According to Pan Tianshun, Huang Chao estimated that there were about 2,500 to 3,000 young men in the Eighth Platoon and twenty-four charges. The siege company
There are probably more than 1,000 Badai Yao in the city, between 1,500 and 2,000. Therefore, a large part of the Badai Yao's troops have not been discovered, and there are still a large number of strong men left behind.
Now, Huang Chao only had 400 men at his full strength. He left one National Army squadron in Yangshan and one squadron in Yonghua Township. Only one brigade and the Li Miao Company followed Huang Chao to Lianzhou. Huang Chao was unable to attack.
, he chose to control the various ferries on the west bank of Lianjiang River and block the retreat route of Bapai Yao returning to the west. Now it depends on whether Yang Zeng can occupy Luming Pass in time.
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