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Chapter 14 Send the gentlemen on the road

The smell of gunpowder gradually spread, coupled with the panic shouts of the soldiers in the military and yamen outside, Xu Yaozu finally realized that this was not a thunder in the middle of winter, but someone attacked his team with weapons such as muskets and cannons!

At this time, the shouts of soldiers from the military preparation yamen were already in chaos. Some sounded farther and farther away, while others gradually turned into howlings.

Although Xu Yaozu was a little greedy and lustful, the position of Yanzhou reserve was obtained by his cheap brother-in-law, but Xu Yaozu still knew more about the basic common sense he should have.

The shouting turned into a howl was injured, and the sound of being farther and farther away was already running away.

The five hundred elite soldiers he brought with him have been dispersed!

After reaching this conclusion, Xu Yaozu had no time to think about it further. He first quickly took off his official uniform, then curled up and rushed out of the sedan chair, and then quickly rushed to the sedan chair where Hao Liangcai and Grandpa Hao were, and pulled out the sedan chair, who had been scared, from the sedan chair.

"What's going on with a horse!"

Xu Yaozu was both shocked and angry, grabbed Hao Liangcai's clothes on his back, let Hao Liangcai hold him in front of him, and cursed: "Didn't you say that there are only a group of mud legs in Ningyang County to rebel? What's going on with this tread mother? Where did they get the firearm!"

After scolding, Xu Yaozu whispered and threatened: "I will say that I am your sedan chair husband later! If I can escape, I can find a way to save you in the future. If you sell me, I will let my brother-in-law destroy you! Remember not!"

Hao Liangcai, who had been stunned by the blow, nodded wildly like a chicken pecking at rice: "Yes, yes! The official remembers it, remember!"

The explosions around slowly stopped.

Xu Yaozu held Hao Liangcai's arm, looked like he was helping Hao Tai Ye run away, and then looked down at the surroundings.

The place where the slums were buried was a long and narrow path. The mounds on both sides of the path were higher than the road surface of the path. The ability of the rebels to use this terrain to attack ambush means that there must be people who know the soldiers.

The road surface and the small pits that were blown up on both sides of the mounds were next to each other, which shows that the firearms used by the rebels are far less powerful than cannons, but they are stronger than muskets. This can be judged by the explosion just now.

As for the five hundred elite soldiers he brought... about 100 injured soldiers were lying on the ground wailing at this moment. They were injured by firearms. Some of the other soldiers had run away with only their backs, while others had just kneeled to the ground.

There is also Hao Liangcai, who is so arrogant. What kind of rebels did this guy provoke? Or did he have defected to the rebels? Otherwise, why would he not mention that the rebels had firearms?

If Hao Liangcai, the dog, defected to the rebels, can he still escape?

The more Xu Yaozu thought about it, the more frightened he became.

But while Xu Yaozu was secretly thinking about the time to escape, dozens of people stood up behind the small mounds on both sides, and the man walking in front was playing with something black and thick like a stick in his hand.

Zhu Xiaosong slowly walked to Hao Liangcai, handed the grenade in his right hand to his left hand, and slapped Hao Liangcai with a fierce slap in his right hand: "Master Hao, I have been waiting for you for a long time!"

Hao Liangcai was angry and afraid, and knelt down on the ground with a thud and shouted: "Good man, please spare me! Good man, please spare me!"

Zhu Xiaosong ignored Hao Liangcai, who was begging for mercy in a crazy manner, looked at Xu Yaozu with a playful look: "Who is this? Why are you so scared that you even took off your clothes? Is this planning to learn from Cao Aman's wisdom of abandoning his robe and breaking his beard?"

Xu Yaozu also knelt down on the ground with a thud, kowtowed for a few times before straightening up, and replied, "The hero is joking. The servant is the servant of the Grand Master Hao's family, so he dare not be called an adult."

Zhu Xiaosong signaled Zhu Erdan to go to the sedan behind and took out the official uniform that Xu Yaozu took off, held it in his hand and shook it: "Tsk tsk, look at this official uniform, it should be Yanzhou soldiers?"

Zhu Erdan also laughed and mocked: "A dignified general does not ride a horse, but sits in a sedan chair like a civil servant. He doesn't even arrange for a scout to detect a horse during the march. This master of military affairs is really big!"

Liu Erniu stared at his eyes and mocked: "Maybe the official of Master Bingbei bought it? Or maybe he got it through with his family's talents?"

Xu Yaozu was furious, but because of his life, he had to forcibly endure the anger and looked at Zhu Xiaosong and said, "What the hero said is that this is indeed the official uniform of the reserve master, but the Bingbei Master had already run away, and the villain's clothes were also taken off by the Bingbei Master."

Zhu Xiaosong was almost amused by Xu Yaozu - if he hadn't seen Xu Yaozu jumping out of the sedan chair behind the small mound, just looking at his current virtue of being greedy for life and fearing death, he would have been afraid...

Then Zhu Xiaosong would not believe Xu Yaozu's nonsense. After all, most of the soldiers in the Qing Dynasty were thin and thin. Even if there were strong ones, they were mostly in the green camp. For example, the soldiers in the military preparation yamen were basically impossible to have the corrupt generals as umbrella as Xu Yaozu and Master Xu.

Shaking his head slightly, Zhu Xiaosong said to Liu Erniu: "Take them down and ask questions. After asking clearly, remember to send two officials to the road together. The head of the army will take them back to the Yanzhou prefect."

Hao Liangcai and Xu Yaozu were shocked. After looking at each other, they kowtowed wildly together and begged for mercy: "Good man, please spare me! Good man, please spare me!"

Xu Yaozu even pointed at Hao Liangcai and scolded: "It's him! It's all him!"

"It was him who took the money to Yanzhou Prefecture, saying that there was a rebel in Ningyang County, and asked the slave to lead troops to quell the rebellion quickly. If the slave knew that he was a hero, he would not dare to come no matter what!"

Hao Liangcai was also furious and pointed at Xu Yaozu and said, "The mercy of the boss! Only the servant has important information!"

Zhu Xiaosong looked at Hao Liangcai's appearance and couldn't help laughing: "Tell me, what important information is there?"

Hao Liangcai breathed a sigh of relief, but his fingers were still pointing at Xu Yaozu: "This person is the younger brother of Shandong governor Fucha Mingxing. He has always liked to rely on the power of the governor as a blessing. The silver that the slaves have plundered over the years has almost been in his pocket. How can the hero lack the silver?"

Zhu Xiaosong shook his head and said, "This information is no big deal for us. Not to mention that he is just the brother-in-law of the Shandong governor. Even if he is Qian Shi Laogou's brother-in-law, no one can save you today."

After saying that, Zhu Xiaosong waved his hand and signaled Liu Erniu to take the two of them down for questioning.

Soon, Liu Erniu returned to Zhu Xiaosong: "The boss has already asked clearly."

"The dog official Hao Liangcai did not lie. The one he had was indeed Xu Yaozu, a soldier in Yanzhou, and was indeed the brother-in-law of Shandong governor Fucha Mingxing."

"According to what Xu Yaozu said, Hao Liangcai, the dog official, took gold, silver and jewelry to the Yanzhou prefect Wu Zude and Yanzhou soldiers to prepare Xu Yaozu, begging Xu Yaozu to lead troops to quell the rebellion."

"According to Hao Liangcai, the reason why these soldiers were holding the broken pole long and the big sword with a rolled blade was that Xu Yaozu, the dog official, wanted to take the opportunity to make a fortune in Ningyang County so as to sell their original equipment."

"Also, the number of soldiers in the Yanzhou military preparation yamen is indeed 1,000, but the actual amount is only the five hundred soldiers brought by Xu Yaozu."

"In addition, there are more than 300 yamen runners and more than 700 gangs. If Yanzhou inspectors are added, the number of troops they can use is about 2,000."

Zhu Xiaosong nodded, frowned and thought for a while, but ordered: "Go back to the mountain."

When Zhu Xiaosong met a person like Xu Yaozu who stretched out his hands in a coffin board, he was also very desperate.

Originally, they wanted to let Hao Liangcai and Xu Yaozu serve as the responsibility of captain of the transportation brigade, but the result was far beyond Zhu Xiaosong's expectations, so that this ambush only completed the task of ambushing officers and soldiers and Hao Liangcai, and the plan to seize muskets and other equipment was completely out of stock.

Without enough equipment, most of the grenades made in the mountain have been consumed. Now, when you go to Yanzhou City, you will have to face the encirclement of Yanzhou inspectors, three hundred yamen runners and seven hundred gangs, which is basically the same as seeking death.

What's even more fucking is that Yanzhou soldiers lost 500 soldiers. This matter is no longer something that the Yanzhou governor can suppress if he wants. Even if the Shandong governor wants to suppress it, it is not easy.

Unless He Zhongtang takes action personally, it is possible to hide it from the old dog in Shiquan.

This means that Yanzhou and the surrounding green camps will soon gather in Yanzhou and then encircle and suppress Yuhuang Mountain.

Moreover, with Xu Yaozu's deeds first, the new Green Camp soldiers would never be so careless anymore, and the difficulty of ambushing them was also exponentially increased.

In short, the plan to ambush Yanzhou soldiers this time was a loss to grandma's house. Only now, the best choice is to go back to the mountains to rest, take the opportunity to sweep a few more villages, win over more young and strong people, and prepare more grenades, and then smash Yanzhou Prefecture when the strength has been accumulated.

Especially Qufu County.

After finally raising troops to rebel against the Qing Dynasty, if he didn't smash the family in Qufu County, Zhu Xiaosong felt that he would never be able to do that tone in his life.

...

Wu Zude was spinning around the circle, wishing he could get Hao Liangcai's body back now and chop it into meat paste by knife.

Just because this dog-in-one thing didn't understand the matter in advance, the Yanzhou Military Preparation Office directly lost 500 soldiers. Even Xu Yaozu, the cheap brother-in-law of Shandong governor, the fourth-rank Yanyi Cao Jidao and the leader of the Yanzhou Military Preparation Office, was also beaten to the head.

Although Shandong governor Fucha Mingxing, most of the time, would not care whether a concubine's younger brother was dead or alive, Xu Yaozu was a fourth-rank official. He and Xu Yaozu sent troops privately, so the court could not fail to pursue this matter.

What's even more terrible is that the group of rebels on Yuhuang Mountain did not stop after killing Hao Liangcai and Xu Yaozu. Not only did they cause trouble in Ningyang County, but they even swept dozens of villages in Jiningzhou, so dozens of gentry in Jiningzhou were wiped out. After Liang Feng, the magistrate of Jiningzhou, found out that the group of rebels came from Yuhuang Mountain, he immediately wrote an impeachment memorial and even sent someone to notify Wu Zude.

Well, now Xu Yaozu is dead. Next, whether it is the Ming Gong in the court, the Ministry of War, or the Shandong governor Fucha Mingxing, they will only pour their anger on Wu Zude.

If you want to settle this matter, let alone the amount of money that Hao Liangcai sent was not enough, even if you don’t have to pay all the money that Wu Zude saved from the Qing magistrate in the past three years, it may not be possible.

Therefore, Wu Zude and Wu prefect Wu were just trying to deal with Hao Liangcai this time, and he picked up sesame seeds and lost watermelons. Maybe he had the risk of losing his head.

After walking back and forth in the room for countless circles, Wu Zude sat back on the chair and ordered the butler: "Take out all our savings over the years and prepare a few gifts for me, Master."
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