The reason why Yun Zhao said the massacre of the city was because he saw three bodies hanging on the water tanker through the telescope, and he also saw three bodies hanging on the city wall. There is a flag with a white lotus flower painted on it.
The lotus flower depicted on the flag is in full bloom. The three bodies rotate with the waterwheel. They are immersed in the water for a while, and are dragged out of the water by the waterwheel for a while and sent to a higher place. , the cycle continues.
What worries Yun Zhao most is that these three bodies seem to be motionless, as if they are dead.
Yun Yang also quickly discovered the three people. He waved his hand, and immediately a hundred cavalrymen rode down the high slope and headed straight for the water wheel.
People in Lantian County are very familiar with this thing. After a crossbar was inserted into the waterwheel's shaft, the waterwheel stopped. They rescued the three people from the waterwheel and placed them on the ground. save.
Yun Zhao finally felt relieved when he saw water being squeezed out of the mouths of the three people. This meant that these three people were not dead yet.
A cavalryman came to report: "It's our three cavalrymen, the tenth commander He Zhou, the tenth commander Hou Chengda, and the first-level cavalryman Liu Pei."
Yun Zhao looked at it. Yun Yang asked in confusion: "Under what circumstances would the cavalry under your command take the initiative to hand over their weapons and raise their hands to surrender?
Is it to rescue the hostages?"
Yun Yangyao He shook his head and said: "We will not surrender to the bandits, and we will not surrender to the bandits even if we die in battle. The life and death of the hostages has nothing to do with the soldiers."
"This is interesting. It is obvious that they have laid down their weapons."
Yun Zhao said coldly and rode down the slope.
Yun Yang was a little ashamed and hurried to the location of the waterwheel. It seemed that he was going to question the three guys who had abandoned their weapons and surrendered.
The city wall was full of people. Yun Zhao ignored them and rode his horse back and forth in front of the city gate. His heart was filled with anger and he was no longer willing to listen to those on the city wall. People are chattering endlessly.
To be honest, those people spoke in dialect and he couldn’t understand them.
Obviously, the power of the five hundred cavalry still put a lot of pressure on the people in this city.
Just when Yun Zhao couldn't bear it any longer and was about to order the city wall to be blown open, Yun Yang hurriedly ran over and said: "There are one hundred and twenty-one of us in the city, and we are all alive.
Liu Pei and the other two took the initiative to disarm and agreed to serve as hostages, allowing them to allow the remaining seventeen people to enter the city to protect our people."
"What happened in the city?"
< p>"The county magistrate said it was a civil unrest. They were dissatisfied with the misbehavior of the district chief sent by Lantian County. The common people surrounded them in the county government office for nine days.""Ruining? The common people? You Do you believe it?"
Yun Yang shook his head and said: "If you don't believe it, there may be one or two people, but it's not possible for a group of people!
The county magistrate said, please be alone. He went to the city to appease the people, otherwise something unbearable might happen. He also said that this was the best situation he could try his best to achieve. ”
Yun Zhao's horse finally stopped. He looked at the crowd of heads at the top of the city and said calmly: "All the people sent from Lantian County have received strict military training. Since they have been besieged by this group of people for nine days, , which shows that their fighting power is not weak.
It is very possible that they can persist for another day or two.
The two captains obviously want to strengthen the protective power there. , I just don’t know if their method is feasible.”
“It is feasible. Zhang Wuben, the magistrate of Qingshui County, said it personally when he came out of the city. Liu Pei and others escorted Zhang Wuben to see our people, and then Liu Pei followed Zhang Wuben out of the city. , informed the two captains of ten.
Except for the long swords, all the weapons of the three of them were given to our own people."
Yun Zhao showed a trace of his face. He said with a smile: "Order to attack the city!"
Yun Yang said: "Zhang Wuben said..."
"Attack the city!" Yun Zhao roared, even Yun Yang He shivered in fright at the roar.
Immediately said to the adjutant behind him: "Blast the city wall!"
As a crisp copper command sounded, the five hundred cavalrymen pulled out a pillow from their horse bags. Baggage, large and small, galloped towards the city wall.
The battle started. Yunxiao, Clouded Leopard, and Xu Wu stopped talking. They watched the cavalry surge down, causing the people on the city top to scream in surprise.
The moat outside Qingshui County is not wide, only about one foot, and the height of the city is only one and a half feet. Such a city can effectively defend against bandits, but unfortunately, it is not enough in front of Yun Zhao's army. Argument.
The cavalry lightly touched the city wall like a black tornado, pierced the pillow-sized gunpowder bag with a dagger and threw it at the base of the city wall, and then quickly retreated until the last cavalryman was about to light it. He threw his gunpowder bag on the pile of gunpowder bags, shouted and retreated quickly.
The people on the city wall seemed to know nothing about this scene. A thin middle-aged man stood at the top of the city waving his arms, hoping to have a good talk with Yun Zhao.
Unfortunately, Yun Zhao was still standing in the distance, looking coldly at the shouting people on the city wall.
There was a loud "boom", the ground shook, and Qingshui City's thin city wall immediately shattered by nearly five feet, and the people standing on this wall had disappeared.
Before the smoke cleared, two hundred cavalrymen rushed towards the gap again. Dozens of grenades were thrown into the gap in the city wall, and they all threw out their hooks and accurately hooked them on the city wall, and then He turned the horse's head and walked away. As the horse exerted its strength, pieces of stone were hooked by the hook and fell into the moat, which was not very deep.
At this moment, a group of masked men in various costumes rushed out of the woods on the left, waving swords and fearlessly rushing towards where Yun Zhao was.
When Clouded Leopard saw this, he shouted and led his troops to intercept the opponent head-on.
Yun Zhao looked around, got off his horse, sat on the folding stool that Xu Wu wanted to bring, and pointed at the folding stool that was still flying at the top of the city.The flag with the lotus embroidered on it said: "Do you know its origin?"
Xu Wuxiang looked at it for a moment and hesitated and said: "White Lotus Sect?"
Yun Zhao nodded and said: "Yes, it is the White Lotus Sect. In addition, do you know the origin of the name of the Ming Dynasty?"
"The sun and the moon shine together for the Ming Dynasty!"
< p>Yun Zhao shook his head and said: "It wasn't like this at first, but it was later said.A long time ago, the Red Scarf Army rebelled to overthrow the rule of the Meng Yuan Dynasty. Their leader was named Guo Zixing. Later, Guo Zixing After his death, Emperor Taizu was controlled by Liu Futong.
Liu Futong moved to the north and worked with Han Shantong to preach in the world in the name of Bailian Sect. For a time, Han Shantong was respected as the "King of Ming". p>
In the very beginning, during the reign of Emperor Shun of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yellow River flooded. The Mongolian and Yuan Dynasty conscripted 150,000 laborers to build the Yellow River embankment. Han Shantong and Liu Futong buried a one-eyed stone man with words carved on his back on the Yellow River embankment. .
After the stone man was dug out, the prophecy they had long spread that "one eye of the stone man can stir up rebellion in the Yellow River" was immediately fulfilled.
Then the vigorous rebellion began.
At this time, I, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, unfortunately was also a member of the "White Lotus Sect" which was later renamed the "Ming Sect".
< p>This is very inappropriate. If you want to create a country, you must strictly distinguish the divine right from the royal power. If possible, you must eliminate the divine right.You will know it just by looking at Europe now. , the people there are still fighting for the final struggle to overthrow the theocracy.
If Ming Dynasty unfortunately becomes a theocratic country, it will be a great disaster for the people of Ming Dynasty.
Fortunately. , our Emperor Taizu was a wise man.
After Han Shantong was killed by Meng Yuan, he used a trick to force Liu Futong, a fanatical follower of the White Lotus Sect, to death, and then ordered Liao Yongzhong to sink Han Shantong. His son, Han Lin'er, the "Little Ming King" who was supported by Liu Futong, then unified the heroes in the north.
Because most of the military generals believed in the 'Ming 1 Sect'. The variant of the White Lotus Religion was very detrimental to the pure army. At this time, Emperor Taizu began to eliminate those fanatic followers of the White Lotus Religion from the rebel army. This work continued after he became the emperor.
I didn’t expect that there would be such dirt under my rule in Lantian County. Now that I have seen it, I have to make great efforts to remove it.
Now, you understand why I wanted to massacre the city. "?"
Xu Wu thought for a long time before whispering: "Can we treat them differently?"
Yun Zhao sighed and said, "Meng Yuan has eaten enough." The Lotus Sect suffered a huge loss, so after I heard that the aristocratic families here were remnants of the Meng Yuan, I had no doubt that they would use the weapon of the White 1 Lotus Sect.
For more than two hundred years, a remnant of the Meng Yuan. You can stay in Qingshui City steadily and be worshiped by everyone. It won’t take a hundred years.The missionary work cannot achieve this goal.
Xu Wu thought, since you are thinking about the people and feel that we may kill the wrong person, then I will leave it to you to exterminate the remnants of Meng Yuan. Don't let me down. ”