historical royal courier

Chapter 168

"Can you ensure the accuracy this time?"

"Okay, this time, the general will make sure that he can hit it accurately, and the general will personally supervise them behind with a knife."

Pulling out his own knife, the commander-in-chief of the Shenwei Battalion stood behind these artillerymen with a fierce expression, staring at them fiercely with his eyes.

As the saying goes, once a cannon fires, there is ten thousand taels of gold. These cannonballs were all bought by Lao Zhu at a high price, so Lao Zhu felt very sad every time a cannonball was wasted.

Seeing the performance of the chief soldier now, Lao Zhu nodded in satisfaction. This attitude is very good, scare them with a knife, and see if any of them dare not be serious, and actually waste my money. Are you tired of working?

"This time we're going to open the gate, you know, you have to blow open the gate of the opposite city with a cannonball. If you knock it wrong again, I will chop you off with my own hands today."

After giving a lesson to these artillery manipulators one by one, the chief soldier gave the order to start after they nodded to express their understanding.

"aim!"

"Aiming ready, the city gate is 400 meters ahead."

"preparation!"

"What about Yang Er, go and call him over to me."

"Yes, sir."

Yang Wenjie, who had already bathed and changed his clothes, was fully dressed and his beard was carefully groomed. He looked like a qualified parent officer in the whole city.

"Sir, did you call me?"

After a while, Yang Er came to the living room nervously. He had no choice but to think about it carefully. What he said just now was treason. Whether Yang Wenjie wanted to surrender or not, it didn't matter whether he was killed or not.

It was just that he had a feverish moment just now, but now Yang Er has calmed down, and of course he felt scared when facing Yang Wenjie.

"Well, I think the words you just said to me make some sense."

Yang Wenjie stood up and walked around Yang Er, and continued:
"You did a good job, this time you will go with me to meet Master Wang."

As soon as Yang Wenjie finished speaking, Yang Er's mood immediately changed from apprehension to excitement, and he hurriedly lay down on the ground to express his gratitude to Yang Wenjie.

"Thank you, master, thank you, the younger one will definitely not disappoint the master's love, the great kindness of the master, I will never forget it in this life, not only in this life, but also in the next life Repay the master."

"Well, get up, go and change your clothes, and stand behind me later as my follower."

"Well, let's go, little one."

Getting up from the ground, Yang Er followed the housekeeper who was already waiting outside the door to change clothes, while Yang Wenjie asked his maid to put on a good makeup for him, making him look haggard.

"Let's go, everyone follow me to greet Master Wang. The Zheng family is unkind and actually coerces the people to rebel. But the sky has eyes. Meteors fell from the sky and killed all the rebels of the Zheng family. Now, let us open our eyes At the city gate, there are baskets and pots of food, and the streets are lined with welcome the king’s arrival!”

Just like delivering an acceptance speech, Yang Wenjie gave an impassioned speech.

After Yang Wenjie had finished speaking, it was natural that No. [-] Gouto would come on stage next.

"Okay, what the Patriarch said is good, the Zheng family has controlled our rations during this period, making us unable to eat enough, not warm enough to wear clothes, and forcing us to defend the city. Damn the Zheng family!"

Seeing this strong man with a loud voice, everyone kept silent. It turns out that the president is so strong if he can't eat enough!
"Well, yes, now that Master Wang is here, we should open the city gates to welcome Master Wang."

"Yes, but for such a solemn matter, it is better to invite the parent officer, Mr. Yang, to come in person."

Number two, three and four are in place!

The three old men came out tremblingly with a cane and said to everyone with a smile.

"Since it is the invitation of the three elders, then this official will not be polite."

Walking to the side of the city gate, Yang Wenjie gave an order,
"Open the gates!"

After finishing speaking, Yang Wenjie vaguely heard a sound coming from outside the city gate,
"fire!"

"fire!"

boom. . .

There was a loud noise, and the huge recoil stirred up a cloud of dust again. When the smoke cleared, Lao Zhu was very satisfied when he saw the huge hole in the city wall ahead.

The effect was good. This shell not only blasted open the opposite city gate, but also knocked away a large piece of the city wall at the gate. Now, as long as the army moves in and destroys the rebels occupying the city, it will be fine.

"Let's go. There must be no more than a thousand defenders in this small city. I will give you an hour. I will fully accept this city, and then start to search for the family's wealth."

"Yes."

The artillerymen were not allowed to continue firing, and the cavalrymen were not allowed to charge forward. In this way, the Ming army slowly advanced forward with infantry, putting a little pressure on the opposing city guards.

A quarter of an hour later, Lao Zhu walked into the city to take a look, and found that the road was full of people, and each of them was holding food, welcoming Zhu Yuanzhang's army with a stiff smile.

"Wu Guangquan, get the hell out of here!"

After Wu Guangquan ran over with a puzzled look on his face, Lao Zhu immediately gave a loud mouth to the commander-in-chief of the army whom he had personally appointed.

"Who the hell told you to play this trick, you have been with me for so many years, don't you know that what I, old Zhu, hate the most in my life are corrupt officials who oppress the people? Are you out of your mind and using this to please me!"

Pointing to the people on both sides of the road, Zhu Yuanzhang taught Wu Guangquan a harsh lesson in full view.

Lao Zhu, who was born in a commoner, especially hated these corrupt officials, otherwise the laws against corrupt officials in the early Ming Dynasty would not have been so strict.

It sounds nice to say that the people are welcome to Master Wang, but this is just a matter of harming the interests of the people to save face for those in power. How can Lao Zhu not understand the deviousness in this.

Lao Zhu just didn't expect that his confidant who had been with him for so many years would actually do such stupid things.

"Your Majesty, it's unfair. I didn't do this. I was like this when I came in."

Knowing why he was beaten, Wu Guangquan immediately complained.

"You still dare to quibble, you are the person with the highest status here, without your consent, the people below dare to do such a thing, if it wasn't you who did it, could it be a ghost!"

Seeing that Lao Zhu wanted to continue beating himself, Wu Guangquan immediately hid behind him, and then pulled out three old men who were walking tremblingly from the crowd.

"Your Majesty, the last general was really wronged. If you don't believe me, you can ask them. They are the three elders in this area. They know who did it."

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang staring at him, the three old men immediately knelt on the ground one after another, and kowtowed to Zhu Yuanzhang for mercy.

"We all said, we all said that the county magistrate Yang Wenjie sent people to drive these people here, and Yang Wenjie also sent people to threaten us, saying that we should cooperate with him in a play. Master Wang, please forgive me. We The three of them didn't do anything outrageous, and they were forced to cheat Master Wang!"

Seeing the three little old men kowtow and cry, Lao Zhu didn't magnanimously ask them to stand up.

Poor people must have something to hate. If the three of them hadn't done bad things in normal times, they wouldn't have fallen to this point.

"What about Yang Wenjie?"

"Yang Wenjie, Yang Wenjie is at the feet of Master Wang."

"Underfoot?"

Lao Zhu moved away, looked at the lump of meat paste under his feet, and immediately threw a few pieces of earth and rocks to cover it up in disgust.

This guy actually died, so it seems that this matter was really done by a ghost, and this means that he only spent two shells to get a city?

Sure enough, the large cannon is different!

(End of this chapter)