Burial Ming

Chapter 196 Burning Yang City

When he learned that Xing Tianjun suddenly besieged Yangcheng County, Wang Jinsong and other officials in the city were almost scared on the spot. Originally, he thought that the future would go on like this. Xing Tianjun had no intention of occupying Yangcheng County. They ate here and waited for death, but they didn't think of it. Now Xing Tianjun suddenly came to surround Yangcheng County and make a posture to attack Yangcheng County.

In this way, Wang Jinsong and others are not afraid. You should know that there are basically no soldiers in the county to block the Xingtian Army for them. There are only a hundred old soldiers left, who follow them to eat and wait for death. If you want to block the attack of the Xingtian Army with such a little manpower, then It's just a dream.

So Wang Jinsong immediately took his officials to run to the gate building and lay on the gate building to watch. Looking out, these people almost fainted. They saw thousands of soldiers and horses gathered outside the city, staring at the gate.

A Xingtian Army general rode his horse to the bottom of the gate tower and shouted to a group of Yangcheng officials on the gate tower: "The people in the city have heard it clearly. Our general said that you are limited to surrender within a ray of incense. Otherwise, we will start to attack the city. At that time, we will attack the city and we will kill you later. No chickens and dogs! Our general also said that if you know the current affairs, you can open the city and surrender as soon as possible, and we can make sure that we don't kill you! Get you out of here safely!"

After listening to this, Wang Jinsong wailed to the sky, looked at the officials under him, shook his head and said nothing, just waved his hand.

No one else said much. Now the matter is clear. They can't stop Xing Tianjun from attacking the city at all. If they don't open the city and surrender, they all know what will happen to them. They also know the style of Xing Tianjun. They also know that it's the word is the same. If they want to live, Only the opening of the city is to surrender, so they know better than anyone what to go.

So before the incense was burned, the three gates of Yangcheng County were slowly opened. Wang Jinsong and his men personally carried the official seal, account book and other things out of the gate and met Xiao Tianjian outside the city.

Looking at the Yangcheng officials who were shaking like sift, face like dead ashes and embarrassed, Xiao Tianjian sneered. Since he came here, these people have been treated badly by him. Although they got some bribes at first, their life in the past six months can be said to be worse than death. Now as an official, he They still have to come out to offer, so they didn't make it difficult for them. They said to Wang Jinsong, "It seems that you are still people who know the current affairs! We have a word first. Now that you have surrendered, I, Xiao, will not eat my promise and get fat. You can take your family and leave! I will give you a warrant, and no one will stop you along the way! You can go! But remember that don't take the people's ointment you searched here with you. In that case, I can't guarantee the safety of you and your family!"

Wang Jinsong and other Yangcheng officials looked like dead ashes. After handing over the seal, they went back to their homes with their families and were expelled from Yangcheng County.

And the Xingtian army immediately entered the county, took over the county government and various warehouses, copied the homes of the rich and officials who escaped from the city, and counted all the weapons in the armory. After registration, they were distributed to the township soldiers. The team armed part of the rural soldiers who entered the city with the Xingtian Army.

Although Yangcheng County has been besieged by the Xingtian Army for half a year, the foundation here has not suffered any damage. As a long-term banditry county, the number of hoarded weapons here is still quite considerable, not to mention those knives, guns and sticks, all kinds of artillery alone, there are more than 20 guns in Yangcheng County, but it is a legacy. Unfortunately, some of these cannons are already old guys, far less than those currently used by Xing Tianjun. They can basically be called earthen cannons. There are even two iron cannons cast in the Yongle period. It has been almost 200 years. It is said that they are almost cultural relics. Now they are still in the warehouse. Checking the parts equipped with it, the gun rod has everything, so Xing Tianjun moved out of the warehouse and arranged people to wipe and polish it, ready to be put into use.

Luo Li followed Xiao Tianjian and said to him, "General, why did those damn officials let them go? For such a bastard, it's better to give them a knife! It's too cheap to let them go like this!"

While looking at the list of confiscated materials sent by his men, Xiao Tianjian said, "It's easy to kill them, but it's not in our interests for us!" In the future, we will capture more and more state capitals and counties. If we slaughter all the officials in the city every time we capture a county, it will be happy, but it will be taken as a warning from other state government officials. Even if they live for themselves, they will definitely resist to the end! So this kind of killing or not killing is not important to us. The important thing is that we should get the most benefits at the least cost!"

Luo Li thought it was the same, so he didn't say anything more. Then he asked Xiao Tianjian what to do in Yangcheng County. Xiao Tianjian stood up and walked out of the county government, looked at the wall of Yangcheng County, and smiled, "What else can I do?" Take it down! ......”

"Ah? Demolished? Don't we want this county?" After listening to this, Luo Li was a little dumbfounded and didn't believe his ears, so he asked Xiao Tianjian.

"Yes, demolish the county seat of Yangcheng for me! You can think about it. Yangcheng County is surrounded by flat land. If we want to defend this county, we need to mobilize at least thousands of people to defend the city. How many soldiers do we have? How can they all be put here? What's more, the officers and soldiers are sufficient to come this time. Once the county is surrounded, we will become the turtle in the urn! So we can't let the officers and soldiers get what they want, and we must not defend this county!

And once the officers and soldiers come, they can station in the county and grind with us, and they can use this as a base to suppress us! How can we let them live comfortably on such a cold day? Since they are here, you can't make them too comfortable! Don't take pity on this county. We burn it now. When we can build it again one day, we can't take pity on this small county!" Xiao Tianjian explained to Luo Li with a slightly treacherous smile.

After listening to this, Luo Li suddenly realized, and immediately smiled treacherously and shouted, "The last general understands, general, don't worry, we will demolish this Yangcheng County! Hey hey!"

Thousands of villagers began to work under the command of Luo Li. The limited residents in the city were all driven out of the county, and all kinds of stolen materials were loaded and transported back to Lianhuazhai. The engineering battalion dug several holes under the city wall, stored a lot of gunpowder, and then all The people withdrew from the county. Before leaving, they lit fire everywhere in the county and ignited the whole Yangcheng County. When everyone left the county, they could only hear explosions everywhere on the city wall. In an instant, the good Yangcheng County collapsed in the sound of an explosion. The fire in the city was even more scorching and kept burning. It took three days before it gradually went out. A few miles away, you can even feel the heat from the fire in Yangcheng County. Now, not to mention living, it is estimated that after the fire in Yangcheng County, there will not even be a mouse in it.