Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 72 Killing Chickens

The mighty general cannon that He Jinchao seized from the Fan Family Manor was just a decoration because the gunner was killed.

Regarding this unstable copper cannon, He Jinzhao had no intention of experimenting with it himself.

Professional things have to be done by professional people.

He Jinzhao recruited craftsmen in the city, but it's a pity that he can't make a living by relying on craftsmanship now, not everyone has the skills of He Jinzhao's brother-in-law.

Unexpectedly, during this attack on Hong Chengchou, a group of officers and soldiers who voluntarily followed them took captives, and even took out a few technical talents who could handle cannons.

"It's really good news."

He Jinzhao glanced at the officers and soldiers who were slowly piling up dirt outside the city.

Since Hong Chengchou doesn't plan to withdraw yet, wait for you to pile up slowly, and then I will give you a shot.

"By the way, tell my brother-in-law later to get more explosive bags."

Although He Jinzhao didn't know how to get the kind of fuse explosives that could explode when the fuse was pulled, it was still no problem to ignite the fuse.

Soil-based explosives were used even during the Anti-Japanese War and the Liberation Period, so it is no problem for He Jinzhao to use soil-based explosives to make explosive bags.

As for why the explosives should be tied tighter, like a quilt, when someone asked, He Jinzhao didn't bother to explain, just do it.

The even more powerful TNT, He Jinzhao had never done it before, at most he knew about nitroglycerin, but this thing is too dangerous, so let's forget about the transportation conditions.

He Jinzhao thought that earthen explosives were safer. He really wanted to find some good craftsmen, but he hadn't found out yet that most of those craftsmen were working in the guards for a living.

So if you want craftsmen, you have to snatch them from the officers and soldiers!
After the confrontation in the early morning, Hong Chengchou became more cautious.

He no longer took the risk of going to inspect the city defense of Ganquan County openly and aboveboard as before.

Especially knowing that the traitor has an explosive weapon in his hand, which is very scary.

The mounds of dirt are just for show, so that the soldiers under their command will not have nothing to do and always worry about what they will eat for the next meal.

When people have something to do, they don't think about it.

But the problem is, after yesterday, Madman He "strangled" the internal rebels, and the rebel He Jinzhao took away a lot of robes.

After daybreak, the people who surrendered to He Jinchao ate porridge on the city wall openly, and they just paid back what they had, a big piece of meat for each of them.

Such actions are really damaging to the morale of the officers and soldiers!

Some officers and soldiers began to regret it.

He regretted why he chose to run away when he heard He Jinzhao's name.

Instead of putting it on the spot, love it.

Now those rotten robes are full, and they don't have to work!

In such a contrast, these officers and soldiers who did not choose to surrender to He Jinzhao were envious.

Regret not taking the opportunity!

They were thinking in their hearts, when King He could come out, they had to surrender first, otherwise they would have no chance.

The weather was getting hotter and hotter, but unfortunately, the surrounding trees were almost cut down, and the remaining leaves had long since withered, so there was no shade for them to hide from.

I ate meat porridge in the morning, but I still couldn't stand doing physical work.

Many soldiers in the guards were hot and tired, almost suffering from heat stroke, so they could only soak in the water to relieve the heat.

As for the tents, they were destroyed a lot in the early morning, and the servants were not enough. How could it be their turn to be cannon fodder?
Food and grass were burned, and everyone was worried about starvation.

Even though Hong Chengchou came forward to assure everyone that food would arrive, the problem was that no one saw the food, so no one felt at ease.

The letter Hong Chengchou sent to the governors of the three sides set off early in the morning.

Nothing else, just want money, food and people.

Now the Shaanxi rebels are strangling more and more, which has already caused Yang He a headache.

After Yang He received Hong Chengchou's letter, he let out a long sigh.

This day is over!
Since he took office, the famine in various parts of Shaanxi has been extremely serious, and hundreds of thousands of starving people without clothes and food have joined the rebel army.

The military encirclement and suppression he deployed had little effect.

I thought Hong Chengchou could get it out and put down the rebellion quickly.

Thanks to the ostrich policy of Shaanxi officials last year, there are more and more rebels.

Yang He advocated the combination of appeasement and suppression, killing some chickens, so that more people will give up their identity as rebels.

It's a pity that the officers and soldiers were exhausted, and the rebel army continued to increase. Now Hong Chengchou was also defeated for a while, although he only injured more than [-] people.

Yang He really felt that relying on military encirclement and suppression alone was not the means to deal with the Shaanxi uprising army.

"He Jinchao!"

Yang He took two steps. He had an impression. He remembered that he personally wrote a letter to recruit him, and sent He Huchen's son to deliver the letter, but He Huchen's son did not come back.

Regarding this matter, Yang He also felt quite uncomfortable.

Now it was this He Jinchao who waited for work with ease and defeated Hong Chengchou once again.

But if the rebels defeated the official army and went to recruit him, they would definitely look down on the court.

"My lord, I guess it was Hong Chengchou who failed to persuade him to surrender, and because He Jinzhao was the one who asked him to surrender by name, and the son of He Huchen, the general of Ningxia, was taken as a hostage.

With hands tied, He Jinzhao won for a while. "

Liu Guangsheng, governor of Shaanxi, put down the letter in his hand: "Your Excellency, you can follow Hong Chengchou's request and ask him to bring He Jinzhao's head to see him. If he is not a good or bad person, he should end up like this.

In the future, if the adults make a move to surrender, they must think about it with the example of He Jinzhao. "

Liu Guangsheng directly excused Hong Chengchou, he was worried about those generals, only Hong Chengchou was a civil servant and one of us.

He successfully diverted the conflict. Since He Jinzhao doesn't give face to the governors of the three sides, let's kill the chicken and let the other monkeys see what happens.

Yang He squeezed his beard and nodded, since He Jinzhao didn't know the grace of God, then he should be killed.

Regarding how to place the uprising army, there are great differences between the Shaanxi government and the army on whether to suppress or appease.

But now it's getting worse, so let's drag it back.

"Mobilize elite troops to reinforce Hong Chengchou."

Yang He finally made up his mind, and when Hong Chengchou chased and killed Wang Jiayin and others, he was not idle.

Regardless of whether the imperial court's disaster relief food arrives or not, in short, he has to raise food and grass to wipe out the rioters in Shaanxi, or else he will be caught and falsely accused in front of His Majesty, and he can't afford to walk around.

In particular, the officials under him adopted an ostrich policy towards the rebel army, saying that after the drought was no longer there, they would go back to farming.

So there is no need to exterminate it.

But under Yang He's order, they didn't have the courage to suppress bandits, but they did have the courage to make a fortune in the name of suppressing bandits, and they had a lot of courage.

Of course, Yang He's orders had to be executed before they could collect money from below.

As for reselling the collected grain to local big households later, that would be another price.

If Daming didn't have this group of insects, how could the officers and soldiers suppressing the bandits still be hungry?
Hong Chengchou represented the imperial court, and He Jinzhao couldn't match the logistics force.

(End of this chapter)