Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 426 Corruption is fun for a while, the whole family crematorium
Honest people generally don't get angry easily. Once they get angry, they are as terrifying as a volcano erupting.

Most of these officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are honest people - if they were not honest, they would have turned against their mother. Generation after generation, they endured the exploitation of the country and the generals, endured the contemptuous eyes of the common people, and survived cautiously and with difficulty. Never dare to make mistakes.But now they are really angry. The city wall you built is like crumbs. You usually treat us like dogs, but now you trick us into guarding a city wall that can fall down with just one kick. It is really deceiving!More and more officers and soldiers in the garrison had distorted faces, brandishing swords and spears, roaring and hissing, rushing forward with murderous intent, fighting with the servants who usually bullied them, defending the city?Guard your uncle, if I quit, I will rebel too!

The magistrate looked at all this in a daze, beat his chest and stamped his feet, burst into tears, looked up to the sky and sighed: "I hate that I shouldn't be greedy for the project money, I regret it!"

Is it too late to regret now?
Amid overwhelming cheers, the rebels swarmed in through the huge gap opened by the cannon, like a tide.The officers and soldiers guarding this area were either fighting with their colleagues who were trying to resist to the end, or they were so frightened by the horrific scene just now that they completely forgot to resist, and the rebels easily rushed into the city.Then, the south gate was also opened by angry officers and soldiers, and the rebels rushed in. In less than half an hour, all four gates of Xiangyang were captured. The efficiency was so high that it was really jaw-dropping.The magistrate of Xiangyang originally tried to make a last-ditch effort, but when he saw that all the city gates were opened, he was completely desperate and lamented: "It's really God who has defeated me!" He returned to the government office with his few confidants and packed up his belongings. Trying to hide and escape this disaster.At this time, Xiangyang City also fell into extreme chaos. The defeated soldiers retreated into the inner city, shouting "defeated, defeated", killing people and setting fires everywhere. The fed-up people also picked up their weapons and started fighting with them. There was blood everywhere. , with thick smoke and fire rising everywhere, this famous city seemed to have turned into a hell on earth.

Qin Mai led a group of Miao soldiers into the city, looked at the inner city filled with fireworks, frowned and shouted: "Order all the leaders to restrain the troops. Without my order, you are not allowed to enter the inner city. Anyone who violates the order will be killed!"

No one dared to disobey his orders.In the past month of battles, the rebel generals had learned from him and Wang Rui's iron-blooded methods more than once. Many rebel generals broke through the city and rushed into the inner city to kill and loot. As a result, they all were caught and beheaded, leaving bloody The lesson tells everyone that when the "King of Qin" gives an order, everyone had better listen carefully and then execute it without any discount. This way everyone will cooperate happily, otherwise someone will have their head moved.Fortunately, after capturing the city, Wang Rui and Qin Mai never pocketed the spoils, and they were distributed fairly. The rebels were happy to obey their orders. After receiving the order not to enter the inner city, they sighed with regret and turned around. The remaining enemies were eliminated.

Qin Mai did not allow the rebels to enter the inner city, not because he did not want to capture the inner city, but because he was afraid that the rebels would take advantage of the chaos to kill and loot.He was ordered to go to Huguang and raise troops to rebel. His purpose was to kill corrupt officials and local tyrants and evil gentry, not to massacre the common people!After restraining the rebels, he led a thousand fierce Miao soldiers into the chaotic inner city and stormed Prince Xiang's Mansion.

Prince Xiang's mansion is now in chaos like a stabbed ant's nest. There are servants who are holding a package and trying to escape in spite of the threat of death. I'm too lazy to do this little work, and I simply smashed open the treasury of the palace to plunder wantonly to take the opportunity to get a ticket, or threw myself on a certain princess to have sex for the last time.As for King Xiang and his descendants, they were already scared out of their wits, crying in their arms, as pitiful as they could be.

The chaos was breaking out when Qin Mai led his men to kill them.A second guy who probably got a big reward rushed out with [-] or [-] palace guards, pointed at Qin Mai and yelled: "Bold rebel, dare to break into the palace and commit murder, aren't you afraid of being wiped out of the nine clans!? Put it down quickly!" Weapons will spare your life, otherwise..."

Qin Mai shouted: "Fire the arrow!"

Hundreds of Miao soldiers fired their rifles at the same time, and hundreds of crossbow arrows turned into cold stars and shot out, directly nailing the man to the gate of the palace, just like the door god attached to it. As for the twenty or thirty people The palace guards were all turned into hedgehogs.An extremely shrill scream came from the palace: "The dragon guard is dead! The dragon guard is dead!" Suddenly, the cry was loud and the chaos reached its extreme.Qin Mai led the Miao soldiers and rushed in. When he saw anyone with a knife or gun in his hand trying to resist, he chopped him down with his sword. When he saw the poor creature scurrying back and forth like a headless fly, he kicked him over and roared: "If you don't want to die, squat down." Don't move, I don't care about your fate!" When a Miao soldier saw those flowery maids, his eyes turned green and he rushed towards him, but Qin Mai chopped off his head with an axe: "Fuck, We are rebels, not bandits. If you don't want to die, remember this!" After seeing the fate of a few unlucky guys with spermatozoa, all the Miao soldiers shuddered and became honest.

Soon, Prince Xiang's mansion was occupied, and amidst the curses of the Miao soldiers, King Xiang and his dozens of sons were dragged out of the secret room one by one from under the bed.These sons and grandsons of dragons are wearing gorgeous silk costumes and ornaments made of gold and jade. They are very luxurious, but now their bodies are covered with dust, and their crotches are all wet. Qin Mai and Xiang Wangfei also rushed over, hugged his legs and cried: "King Qin, spare your life, King Qin, spare your life! Xiao Wang is willing to donate all his property, and if King Qin likes Xiao Wang's wives and concubines, he can just take them with him." Let's go, just beg King Qin to spare Xiao Wang's life!"

Qin Mai looked at the crying fat pig with disdain and asked coldly: "Are you still a man?" King Xiang raised his head in shock and saw an ax flashing and his fat head spinning. He walked out with a look of astonishment on his face.Qin Mai kicked the headless corpse away and pointed at the group of feudal princes Sun, who had collapsed on the ground in fear: "Don't leave any one behind!" He hesitated when his eyes glanced at the baby in a woman's arms. , added: "Forget about those who are still in their infancy, leave them alive."

The Miao soldiers rushed forward with a roar and started killing. The palace of the feudal prince suddenly flowed with blood. Whether they were kneeling on the ground and kowtowing like pounding garlic or running around screaming, they all had their heads chopped off with one knife. Only three babies in King Xiang's line who were still nursing survived.

While killing King Xiang, Qin Mai did not let go of the officials and gentry. After taking control of Prince Xiang's palace, he led the Miao soldiers to sweep all the way to the magistrate's mansion. He easily captured the magistrate hiding in the dry well with a fierce attack. The adults were dragged out, and what was dragged out of the dry well was a total of 60 taels of silver... The entire dry well was transformed into a treasury by this grandson. It was really creative.He was responsible for all the officials in Xiangyang City, including retired imperial officials.When one guy was caught, he still struggled desperately and screamed: "Why should I be arrested? I have nothing but the wind on my sleeves and my family is bare. Why should I be arrested?"

Qin Mai sneered and laughed: "You have a breeze with your sleeves, but your family is surrounded by walls? It sounds so nice. If you can insist on saying that you have a breeze with your sleeves in the face of a stick, I will obey you! Take it with you!"

Those Miao soldiers giggled strangely, and put all these guys into prison.At this point, the riots in Xiangyang City finally stopped. Qin Mai ordered two best-disciplined troops to enter the inner city to extinguish the fire set by the rebellious soldiers separately. It's a big bag of hair, very bold.The common people were very grateful for the good yellow rice. They all said that after being hungry for more than half a year, they could finally eat a few full meals.

But those guys locked in the prison will not have any good feelings for the rebels. Not only do they not have any good feelings, but they also hate them to the bone.After the rebel army stabilized the hearts of the people, they began to free up their hands to deal with them.Whips, sticks, irons, fingernails... These tortures, which they have used countless times, are now being used on them one by one, making them unable to survive or die. The prison has become the most terrifying place in Xiangyang City. Every night late at night, you can hear the shrill screams coming from inside, which makes people feel creepy.Under torture, they had to tell the places where they buried their gold and silver treasures one by one, not asking for ransom, just asking for less suffering.

Xiangyang City was captured, and Fancheng, which was just across the river from Xiangyang, could not escape. It was surrounded by rebel regiments, and the 120 heavy artillery bombarded the city wall with a few shots. None of the officials and gentry in Fancheng escaped what Wang Guanshen experienced. Those who are usually kind and generous will be rewarded. I handed over all my property and hung it on the top of a tree...

On March 25, the sixth year of Chongzhen, the rebel army completely took control of Xiangfan, exterminated the whole family of King Xiang, and executed more than 250 officials and gentry who had great resentment among the people. They almost uprooted the power of the lords and gentry in this area, and confiscated a large amount of food. It amounted to one million dan, and many of them were old grain that had been stored for several years and was a bit moldy. The amount of silver confiscated was as much as 60 million taels. In the house of the prefect of Xiangyang alone, [-] taels of silver were found. The news came out , the people were in an uproar, and the court was even more shocked by it!

After Chongzhen learned the bad news, he was furious and smashed several things in succession (all worthless).Now rogue bandits are spreading to the Central Plains, and a large-scale rebellion has occurred in Huguang, the imperial palace's large granary. He is considering whether it is time for Yang Menglong to go south to quell the rebellion.The civil servant group, which has always been firmly opposed to the Heluo New Army going south to Huguang, and is afraid that the Heluo New Army will take this opportunity to grow and develop, has also begun to consider whether it is time to relax its suppression of Yang Menglong and deal with those hateful rebels first.No matter how unruly Yang Menglong was, he had never killed so many officials and gentry, but those rebels killed without blinking an eye...

(End of this chapter)