The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 64 Wang Zhaolin

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

The sound of drums slowly sounded from the walls of Chunhua City, and it spread throughout the entire city in an instant.

But all the people who were outside the house turned their gazes to the position where the war drums sounded in the East City, and without exception, they all saw the three beams of smoke flying in the wind.

Everyone understands what this means.

The soldiers have already received the general order, and the rising smoke of the beacon means that the enemy has arrived.

And Wang Zhaolin also dispatched yamen servants early to inform the people in the city.

"Ugh——"

Echoing the sound of war drums is the continuous sound of horns in Chunhua City.

In the city of Chunhua, the three camps of the Ming army were all in full bloom.

In the camp of the Ming army, the sound of the drums of the gathering of soldiers resounded loudly, and the generals at all levels walked quickly towards their respective troops.

The camp of the young guards was the most chaotic, but in the past few days, they had enough to eat, and at least they learned something under the guidance of the army stick.

Luo Guizhong and other officers of the guard army saw the bandits when they were in Xi'an, knew the situation, and immediately led their servants to maintain order.

These guards were already terrified of their superiors, and they were all trembling when they saw the officers coming with swords and guns, so how dare they continue to mess around.

A group of officers of the guards and hundreds of famous scholars maintained order. Although the guards in the camp were a little chaotic, they still gathered together.

"Don't run around, don't run around!"

Wang Zhaolin supported the black gauze hat on his head with one hand and the jade belt around his waist with the other. He stood on a low platform in a blue official robe, shouting loudly.

It was almost noon at this time, and porridge stalls were set up early near the county government, and everyone was waiting to receive porridge and rice in order.

But the sudden sound of drums in Dongcheng caused commotion among the crowd.

Somebody yelled "The rogues are calling", and the crowd fell into panic for an instant.

Some people want to run back home, some want to escape outside the city, and some want to take advantage of the chaos to eat porridge.

For a time the whole street was in chaos.

It's the scariest thing when most people lose their minds.

The crowd squeezed and shoved each other, and the sound of crying and wailing made everyone panic and aggravated the crowd's disturbance.

Wang Zhaolin looked anxious and kept stomping and shouting, but it had little effect.

The surrounding area of ​​the porridge shed was already in chaos. The several cauldrons that had been set up were overturned on the ground during the scramble, and the white rice porridge fell to the ground in an instant.

Some people were scalded by the hot rice porridge and couldn't help crying, but more people used their hands or bowls to hold and grab the rice porridge that fell on the ground.

However, they had just lowered their bodies when the crowd behind them rushed over and knocked them to the ground.

Two yamen servants armed with water and fire sticks stood beside Wang Zhaolin, fearing that he would also be hit by crowds.

A group of yamen servants who were originally maintaining order in the periphery were terrified when they saw the chaotic crowd, and they lingered and did not dare to go forward.

Wang Zhaolin saw a woman holding a child submerged in the crowd, his eyes turned red instantly, he roared and waved his hands, he jumped off the low platform and squeezed into the crowd. among the crowd.

The two yamen servants were all startled. They had been guarding against the crowds outside, but they didn't expect the magistrate himself to get into the crowd.

"Protect the Grand Master! Protect the Grand Master!"

The faces of the two yamen servants were pale, and they were so frightened that their three souls were shaking, and their seven souls were lingering.

If Wang Zhaolin made a mistake, how could they survive.

The two yamen servants held water and fire sticks and didn't care about other things anymore. They beat them indiscriminately, trying to separate the crowd, but it backfired and caused even bigger riots.

A group of yamen servants on the outside also saw Wang Zhaolin jumping into the crowd all of a sudden, no one dared to stand on the outside, they all walked forward and tried their best to separate the crowd.

But the crowds are turbulent, thousands of people are crowded together, the place is narrow, and there is no way to separate them for a while.

Seeing that the crowd was about to completely lose control, but at this moment, the servants standing outside suddenly felt that the street they were standing on seemed to be trembling.

Immediately, a roar as loud as a river rolled from behind.

Several yamen servants turned their heads subconsciously, and then the water and fire sticks in their hands froze in mid-air.

A large number of cavalry came from the streets in the north, their armor clattered, their arms covered from the cold, and a murderous aura swept across their faces!

"boom!!!"

The violent sound of the three-eyed gun resounded suddenly, overwhelming all human voices.

At this moment, the crowd that had been constantly surging all fell silent, and the eyes of all those who could still move were looking towards the streets in the north.

Wherever you see it, it is bright red, and countless banners are hunting and moving in the wind.

Chen Wang put down the torch in his hand, and the gunpowder smoke rose slowly, and the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke poured into his nostrils in an instant.

"Pushing, shuffling, crowded people..."

Chen Wang threw the three-eyed blunderbuss that had already been fired in his hand to the guards at the side, glanced coldly at the stagnant crowd, and shouted in a cold voice.

"die!"

Chen Wang didn't really want to kill people. In this situation, he had to quickly subdue everyone with power.

This is not the first time I have encountered this situation in my memory, when the army was defeated like a mountain, it was [-] times more terrifying than the current situation.

"disperse the crowd!"

Chen Wang raised his horsewhip and gave orders to the dumbfounded yamen servants.

All the yamen servants came to their senses, although Chen Wang was not their superior, but now their magistrate was still in the crowd, and they all stepped forward wherever they dared to neglect the slightest bit.

The commotion of the crowd was suppressed at this time, and they were easily separated. No one was not afraid of the officers and soldiers holding knives and guns.

Chen Wang was commanding the generals above the city wall, but he saw commotion near the county government office, so he immediately led the troops over.

The beacon is just a warning, it will take some time for the rogues to reach Chunhua, and the situation above the city wall is not critical.

He just glanced around, but he didn't see Wang Zhaolin.

Chen Wang remembered that Wang Zhaolin always presided over the porridge in person in case there would be too much trouble, so he asked a small official wearing an official scarf.

"Isn't the person from Wangzhi County here?"

The little official's face was pale, it was fine if Chen Wang didn't ask, but when he asked, he let out a howl.

"My lord... My lord is trapped in the crowd!"

Chen Wang frowned. If the magistrate of a county died while he was in charge of Chunhua's defense, no matter what the reason was, he would have to bear certain responsibilities.

The crowd gradually dispersed, and more and more injured people were found, and some even died due to the stampede.

There was nothing serious about Wang Zhaolin. The time he squeezed into the crowd was very short, and he was quite obese, so the crowding didn't hurt him.

When they were discovered by everyone, Wang Zhaolin was standing beside a wall, with a woman holding a baby behind her.

The black gauze cap on his head has fallen somewhere, the official robe on his body is also covered with dust, and the jade belt around his waist has disappeared.

　Both Wang Zhaolin and Zhizhou of Binzhou were two kinds of officials that really existed in the Ming Dynasty.

　　In the Ming Dynasty, there were many officials who sent exiled people into the city. As a result, they were mixed with the internal support of the rebel army, and the city was broken.
　　Although the Ming Dynasty gave people the impression that the late officials were corrupt and the officialdom was dim, there were still not a few people who did not join forces.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)