Chapter 159 Chaos
After the city was defeated, Hou Xi, the commander of the army, rushed into the temple to find Zhang Ju, the prefect. When he learned that Zhang Ju had already fled from the west city gate with 400 old soldiers.
He no longer cared about his wife, children, and money in his treasury, so he immediately chased Zhang Ju and wanted to go with him. But suddenly a group of prisoners blocked Xicheng Street, looking for county officials with seals and ribbons, and stabbed them when they found them.
When the city was broken, the swordsmen and jailers who were originally responsible for guarding the prison temple were all defeated. Then these prisoners smashed the wooden shackles and escaped. Along the way, they cheered when they saw the Taishan bandits entering the city, and they all eagerly joined the army. . Many of these prisoners were kind-hearted, and many of them were sent to the prison temple by the commander of the army because they could not pay the money for their service. Then they were tortured by the filthy county officials. At this moment, they were filled with anger and vowed to punish those pigs. A dog's sword and pen are used to seek revenge.
As soon as Hou Xi, the commander of the army, was stopped by these people, he immediately turned his horse around and hid in a treasury on the street. This place was a money storehouse. Not long after Hou Xi hid in it, these prisoners broke down the door and broke in.
At this moment, Hou Xi had hanged himself on a beam in the treasury, but the angry prisoners carried him out to the street and cut the man's body into pieces on the street. Some of them were so jealous that they even ate him. of meat.
The county captain Li Xiang, who was guarding the city, originally guarded the east city tower. Later, when the east city gate was broken, he retreated to the county governor's mansion with the defeated army, hoping to continue resisting. Wang Zhang's troops, who had already rushed into the city, happened to be attacking the governor's mansion. They saw this man running towards him with his defeated troops. Looking at his seal and ribbon, he knew he was a general. He immediately surrounded him and killed him, and his head was also sent to him. Zhang Chong reported the merit.
When Zhang Ju's secretary Shi Bianwei was in the city, he came to Zhuge Gui and wanted to take him away with him. The prefect Zhang Ju has already loaded his carriage at the prefect's mansion and is about to flee from the west city gate. Bian Wei remembered Zhuge Gui and rushed over to take him with him.
But Zhuge Gui directly rejected Bian Wei's invitation. In addition to giving Bian Wei his copy of Zhang's signature and letting him escape on his own, he was still in the office and planned to be loyal.
Bian Wei jumped up and down anxiously, and was about to persuade him again when he heard the footsteps outside. Not daring to stay any longer, he climbed over the wall and ran towards Zhang Ju's motorcade, and then they ran away from the west city gate together.
The footsteps outside the office were indeed Taishan soldiers. This group of soldiers was affiliated with Jinquan. At this moment, under the leadership of their generals, they were searching the Junchen Temple. Anyone with soldiers would be knifed if they saw them.
In the end, Zhuge Gui held his sword and killed him, shouting as he ran:
"Don't try to kill my subordinates. I, the great Han Zhuge Jungong, are here."
When General Nashi saw the county official holding his troops, he immediately cut off the seal and ribbon to death. Over there, he heard the local guide shouting:
"Gao Tou, this is a good official."
Then General Nashi's sword stopped abruptly in front of Zhuge Gui's neck. If he had been a step too late, this good official would have been killed.
Zhuge Gui was also frightened, but then he was ashamed of his own fear. He raised his sword again to stab this general, but then the sword was knocked off by the opponent, and then he was tied up, and he heard what happened. Will say:
"I haven't tied up a good official yet? It just so happens that this good official is given to him. It is also a gift from us."
Zhuge Gui was kidnapped here, while other Cao officials from other government agencies either disguised themselves, hid in civilian houses, hanged themselves in their rooms, or were executed with soldiers. In short, there were more than a hundred officials in the Cao government, and none of them survived. one.
During this process, Zhang Chongjun's offensive continued. When Wang Zhang captured Shuya, Li Damu captured the west city, Dian Wei captured the south city, and Ding Sheng captured the east city. Zhang Chong ordered his troops to make rice outside the city. Every time a batch was prepared, it was delivered to the city, and then each department took turns to eat.
Thanks to the abundant and timely military food, the soldiers maintained a fierce offensive after being well fed. Finally, in the afternoon of this day, the entire city of Fenggao was occupied by the Taishan Army.
After capturing Fenggao, Zhang Chong ordered all troops outside the city to enter the city to suppress possible rebellion by powerful forces. The garrison points of each department are as follows:
Zhang Chong's headquarters was stationed in the county office, Guan Yu's headquarters was stationed in the county prime minister's office, the baggage camp was stationed in Sucang, and the Shengku Yousi was stationed in the Qiantang. In addition, Wang Zhang moved his troops to the arsenal, Li Damu stationed in the west city, and Dianwei stationed in the south city. Ding Sheng was stationed in the east city and Chen Huan was stationed in the north city.
After entering the city, Zhang Chong immediately issued an order to block the four civilians and not to kill the people in vain. At the same time, he ordered all ministries to restrain the troops and strictly guard their jurisdictions. The baggage team made rice again and sent it to the various ministries. After the soldiers had eaten enough, they rarely became faint and disturbed the people. After that, the first night in the city ended under the gaze of all the generals.
In the early morning of the second day after entering the city, Zhang Chong issued another order, signed by Shi Fan Chang from the Record Office, to stop killing in the city. Whenever the enemy is encountered, the ministries are not allowed to kill privately, but are handed over to the newly established Military Law Cao, who will be tried by the new Cao Chief Zhao Da. In addition, in order to prevent the evil party from setting fires, various ministries have taken great responsibility to jointly prevent fires with the residents of the house where they are located, and quickly set up a capable patrol team to deal a heavy blow to the evil party wandering in the city.
When a new order comes down, all ministries act accordingly. Since entering the city, no one has invaded any of the people's houses and they have all stayed on the long streets, even at night. However, the baggage train team has already sent firewood and grass to the various ministries for the night, which can keep out the cold night.
So when the people in the city woke up in the morning and saw these so-called thieves sleeping together on the streets, they would rather sleep on the grass than enter the houses of the people. Although they didn't say it, they already felt it in their hearts. This bandit is different.
The military discipline of the Taishan Army was not developed in a day. If discipline is to be deepened, the backbone must take the lead. At this point, the backbone military officials of various ministries support Qu Kui and respect the cause of the Taishan Army from the bottom of their hearts. They are generally the same as Zhang Chong. They all come from poor families, either from Shanliao or bankrupt farmers, and they can all accept Zhang Chong's military discipline from their hearts. Don't disturb the people, don't demolish houses, don't steal grain. The poor do not rob the poor.
As for the vast number of Taiping soldiers, they have the restraints of their respective military officials, which can prevent violations of discipline. And more importantly, because of the implementation of the holy treasury system, these soldiers have clothing, food, and food. It's all the same, everyone keeps warm, and there's no incentive to risk punishment to rob people.
Since ancient times, military discipline has been lax unless the generals intentionally indulged it, mostly because the army lacked food. Once a person becomes hungry, he is no longer a human being, but an animal. Animals have no reason or sense. This was also after entering the city, Zhang Chong issued two orders in a row, asking the baggage team to prepare meals to feed the entire army, in order to enforce military discipline.
Since Zhang Chong entered the city, he has repeatedly issued orders to enforce strict military discipline, which has indeed achieved great results. Not only did the four civilians quickly settle down, but later the baggage team recruited lonely people in the city to repair the battlements. After the first batch of civilians who signed up actually received money and food, the rest of the people eagerly joined the bill.
At this time, the people in the city, if not welcome, at least did not object to the Taishan Army entering the city.
Originally, the Chief of Military Law, Zhao Da, also suggested that in order to facilitate management and control, all the people in the city should be organized into a team, with five households having one team, and ten households having one team. If one family had something to do, the rest would sit together. This allows households to manage and supervise each other.
Zhang Chong thought for a while and still refused. They had just entered the city with Taishan soldiers. It was not appropriate to control the people too much and cause resentment. Moreover, there are currently insufficient civil servants on hand, so it is not practical to staff the entire city.
Zhang Chong looked at Zhao Da's attitude towards the people, and secretly thought that it was no wonder that Qin II died.
Zhang Chong knew in his heart that it was very simple to quickly stabilize the people, that is, if you did not interfere with their normal lives, they could continue to live their lives and not care who was in charge. Therefore, when Emperor Gaozu entered Guanzhong, he only made three agreements to stabilize the people's hearts.
But Zhang Chong does not intend to let the people be locked up and live their own lives. In his governing philosophy, a series of reforms will be carried out for the four people in the future. This is a toss for the common people, but this life is not a toss. It's not going well.
But there is no rush now. Before the foundation of mutual trust between the Taishan Army and the people has been completely established, don't do anything extra. The more you do, the more mistakes you make.
After arranging the people, Zhang rushed into the city and the second major thing he did was to replenish the holy treasury.
After Zhang Chong entered the city, he collected millions of dollars in money, 600,000 shi of grain, and 400 horses from Fenggao's treasury. In addition, he seized countless weapons, including 300 large armor collars and thousands of leather armors. After that, Fanjun The wealth of the officials' families was all confiscated, causing this number to double again.
Now that the city has settled down, Zhang Chong plans to punish the powerful. Zhang Chong has his own strategy for punishing people. First of all, it is natural to seize the money and food from the government treasury, but because the county officials are losers, there is nothing to say about confiscation of their property. But there are specific differences in the payment of powerful people.
It would be an extreme mistake to torture all powerful people. If no distinction is made between the powerful at the beginning of the uprising, then some of the power that can be fought for will be given back to the enemy when the strength is still very weak in the early stage, weakening oneself and strengthening the enemy.
So Zhang Chong gave the torture team three standards: those with a bad reputation, the richest, and those with someone in the family earning two thousand dan. In short, the above three categories are all Zhang Chong cannot win over, so they are naturally enemies.
Then the torture team, led by the powerful children of Hu's mother's family and four other families, went to each family to check according to these three criteria. Anyone who did not meet the above three standards would be given a yellow flag and a letter of "goodness" written on it. The word means that other teams should not disturb you.
But this "goodness" flag is not given in vain. Each family that receives this flag must pay a tribute of 100,000 yuan. This one hundred thousand does not have to be all money. It can also be offset by other gold, silver, millet, chickens, ducks, and large livestock. Then, those who had a bad reputation and those who were resentful among the poor households in Guizhou Province would be punished.
As for the poor and independent Guizhou Province in the city, the Taishan Army still set up recruiting flags in various urban areas. The strong ones joined the camps as soldiers, and the weak joined the old camps under the heavy supply camp and were responsible for winning food. Moreover, regardless of whether they were old or weak, their family members were recruited into the camp, and a separate camp was set up to be raised by the military.
One more thing, after the city was broken, the family members of the Fenggao soldiers who died in the battle outside the city, except for a few who committed suicide in fear, were all taken over by the Taishan army and raised as before.
Zhang Chong, the leader of the Ququ, said that although Fenggao camp is an enemy, they are all good men. The children of good men cannot be abused like pigs and dogs. They must be raised with kindness and tell their fathers how dead they are. of. Tell them that their fathers chose to charge and die for their lives.
What do you mean by the accumulation of roads in the battlefield? You know Xu Guo by focusing on your spirit and neglecting your life.
But do the ribbon-bearers know you? How sad!
(End of chapter)