Chapter 303: The army is demoralized, and Yangzhou is captured! (Part )

“Get out of my way!”

“You dare?!”

“This is too much, let me go!”

“…”

The soldiers from the garrison started fighting with the villagers from Daijiazui. After all, there were still hundreds of villagers from Daijiazui, and they were not at a disadvantage even after fighting with dozens of soldiers from the garrison.

The sudden change in the field stunned the surrounding peasant soldiers, who retreated quickly, leaving enough space for both sides.

Dai Qingniu originally thought that these honest villagers would not dare to resist them.

But he never expected that the villagers of Daijiazui would not only resist, but also resist with great force.

They seemed like a different person at this moment. They no longer appeared timid and cowardly, shrinking back. Instead, they attacked the guards with heavy punches, as if they were ready to fight to the death.

Soon, the villagers of Daijiazui gained the upper hand and beat all the garrison soldiers to the ground.

Dai Qingniu saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly pushed away the crowd behind him and fled.

Although the villagers of Daijiazui attacked with heavy force, they had no intention of taking anyone’s life.

After defeating the garrison soldiers who came to stop them, they thought about leaving here and going home to farm as soon as possible.

Before leaving, they waved and greeted the farmers from other villages.

“We are leaving. Why don’t you go home too? Maybe the imperial soldiers have already attacked your village and even divided up the land for you.”

“That’s right. Since the imperial soldiers are here to kill the landlords and it has nothing to do with us, then why are you still here? Are you here to be used as a gun by those landlords?”

“It’s really meaningless to stay here. Think about the fellow villagers who died before… Oh, what a pity, their deaths were meaningless.”

“They could have avoided death. They could have taken the land distributed by the court and lived a good life. In the end, they were cheated by the landlords and lost their lives. It was really unjust that they died…”

“…”

The villagers of Daijiazui walked outside while talking like this.

After hearing this, the surrounding peasant soldiers remained silent, but were thinking about the meaning of their words in their minds.

Suddenly, a familiar voice sounded abruptly.

“Master Gui, it’s them!”

“Not only did they try to escape from the battlefield, they also injured their fellow soldiers. Their crimes are truly heinous and unforgivable!”

Yangzhou Commander Gui Hui was sitting on his horse and walking slowly towards us.

Behind him followed thousands of regular garrison soldiers.

Standing beside him was Dai Qingniu who had returned. He pointed at the people in Daijiazui in the distance and spoke to Guihui.

It turned out that Dai Qingniu had escaped just now in order to inform Gui Hui, which led to Gui Hui personally bringing a large number of garrison soldiers to capture the villagers of Daijiazui.

The peasant soldiers around were shocked when they saw Gui Hui coming in person with thousands of garrison soldiers, and they took a few steps back in fear.

The peasant soldiers gave way to Guihui and his men for fear that they would be implicated.

When the villagers of Daijiazui saw so many people, they became even more frightened. They looked at each other in fear, their legs unconsciously began to weaken, and they slowly retreated towards Guihui and others.

Guihui looked at the people in Daijiazui in the distance, frowned, and his face was full of worry.

Beyond this, there is a hint of fear and anger.

These powerful people, even in the capital, knew exactly what had happened in the villages of Yangzhou during this period.

And it is precisely because they know it too clearly that they feel panic and fear.

They were scared, they were really scared.

Especially the slogan of killing landlords and dividing the land was so destructive.

Whenever they thought of these six words, their hearts trembled with fear.

Now, all the powerful people in Yangzhou city are in a state of panic and are in a state of restlessness.

And just during these two days, Guihui had already noticed that the peasant army outside Yangzhou City was secretly fleeing, which made the powerful people in Yangzhou City very worried.

However, this is the first time that the villagers of Daijiazui have run away so blatantly.

Guihui must strike hard and severely crack down on this behavior of deserting the battlefield.

Otherwise, more and more people will escape, and their team will become more difficult to lead.

Gui Hui did not hesitate too much and made up his mind to kill the chicken to scare the monkey.

He pointed at the group of villagers from Daijiazui and ordered sternly: “Anyone who deserts the battlefield will be executed according to the law!”

“Come here, behead them all and send their heads to the army. Let everyone know that escaping from the battlefield will only lead to death!”

“Yes, my lord!”

After Gui Hui gave the order, the thousands of soldiers behind him immediately rushed towards the people in Daijiazui, waving sharp weapons in their hands.

Dai Qingniu was shocked by Gui Hui’s inhumane order.

He also didn’t expect that Gui Hui was so cruel that he wanted to kill all the villagers in Daijiazui.

Originally, Dai Qingniu just wanted to teach them a lesson and maintain and consolidate his leadership position, but he didn’t expect that he would force them to death.

Dai Qingniu is from Daijiazui. If all these villagers die here, he will never be able to return to Daijiazui.

Dai Qingniu then said quickly, “Master Gui, I don’t think there is any need to start a war like this, right?”

“Now is the time when we need people, so we can just teach them a lesson, right?”

“Go away!”

Gui Hui kicked Dai Qingniu away and said coldly: “I am doing something, and it is not your turn as a lowly person to point fingers at me.”

“You can’t even handle a small matter. I’ll deal with you after I’ve dealt with them.”

The moment Dai Qingniu heard Gui Hui’s words, he fell to the ground and broke out in a cold sweat.

He stared at Guihui blankly, with disbelief in his eyes.

He never imagined that he would be so loyal to these landlords, gentry, and noble officials, and work so wholeheartedly and wholeheartedly for them.

But in the eyes of these powerful people, he is still just a pariah.

Even though he actually had some wealth and a piece of land of his own.

But in the eyes of these landlords and gentry who easily owned thousands or tens of thousands of acres of land, he was still just a pariah, no different from those who had no land.

What made Dai Qingniu even more frightened was Dai Xiaoer’s next words.

“Dai Qingniu, you bastard, the Dai family doesn’t want someone like you who is a traitor!”

“And you! You tricked us into coming here, and now we want to leave, but you won’t let us go and you want to kill us!”

“Now that I have my own land, why should I stay here and work for you? To help you fight against the imperial officials and soldiers?”

“The court’s officers and soldiers are good people, you are the ones who are pushing us to death!”

“If you don’t let us go back to farm and make a living, I will fight you!”

“…”

The people in Daijiazui were forced into a desperate situation by Guihui.

Happiness is right in front of them, and a new life is within reach, but some people don’t want it, and some people want to take away everything from them.

When there is no way to retreat, the people of the Ming Dynasty have never lacked the courage to turn the table over and fight to the death.

They had already demonstrated this once before when they were fighting the Xianzhen Camp army. Now, the people of Daijiazui were going to fight to the death again.

“Fellow villagers, let’s fight them!”

“Fight!”

A few hundred villagers from Daijiazui fighting desperately against thousands of garrison soldiers was undoubtedly like an egg hitting a rock.

But what if this number is tens of thousands?

Among the crowd of onlookers, some felt the same way as the villagers of Daijiazui.

Since in Yangzhou Prefecture, news has been heard that landlords have been killed and land has been distributed in every village.

Then the landlords in their village might also be killed by the imperial officials and soldiers.

Their families may also have received land from the court, waiting for them to return and farm.

But now, the villagers of Daijiazui want to leave, but Guihui and others won’t let them.

After that, if they want to leave, will Guihui not let them go?
Should they also be charged with deserting the battlefield and have people sent to kill them?
Thinking of this, the peasant soldiers around who also wanted to leave and go home could not help themselves.

“This is too much, it’s really too much!”

“You tricked us into coming here, and now you won’t let us go. Why? I just want to ask why?!”

“We want to go too, we want to go home too!”

“…”

The situation outside Yangzhou City gradually began to get out of control.

The others who had been hiding far away were deeply stimulated by Guihui’s words.

For their own interests, they began to take the initiative to attack Guihui’s garrison soldiers.

All of a sudden, thousands of garrison soldiers had to face tens of thousands of peasant soldiers.

The peasant soldiers swarmed up and threw anything they had in their hands at the garrison soldiers.

Hoes, sickles, hammers… fell down fiercely like raindrops.

Thousands of garrison soldiers were surrounded in the middle, attacked from both sides, and could only fight back with all their might. There were cries of pain from the crowd.

However, these garrison soldiers were not the invincible Xianzhen Camp, so casualties soon occurred.

Soon, blood was seen on the chaotic battlefield.

The red color began to spread, from dots to lines and then to surfaces. Large groups of garrison soldiers could no longer withstand the offensive of the peasant army and began to fall.

Of course, in this chaotic scene, some peasant soldiers chose to escape.

In such a chaotic scene, there were no guards to stop them from escaping.

The sudden uprising of the peasant army caught Guihui off guard.

Being on the edge of the chaotic battlefield, even he began to feel a little panicked.

Seeing that things were no longer under his control, he felt frightened and began to think of giving up.

“Withdraw! Quickly withdraw!”

After Gui Hui finished speaking, he swung the reins, first pushed away the people around him, and fled towards the direction of Yangzhou City.

After Gui Hui left, the remaining soldiers of the garrison followed closely behind, fleeing with Gui Hui in panic.

“Master Gui, please wait for me, wait for me!”

The defeat was like a landslide. Gui Hui ran away. Dai Qingniu also wanted to run away in a panic, but was seen by Dai Zhongwei.

“Want to run?! Where can you run to?!”

Dai Zhongwei stepped forward and grabbed Dai Qingniu. With the help of other Daijiazui villagers, he brought Dai Qingniu back to the crowd.

“Dad, what are we going to do with this bastard?!”

At this moment, almost everyone in Daijiazui was bruised and injured.

There were even several people who died in unclear circumstances in the melee just now.

The villagers of Daijiazui looked at Dai Qingniu with hatred in their eyes, and they almost wanted to eat Dai Qingniu alive.

Only at this moment did Dai Qingniu truly regret his decision.

“Uncle, you watched me grow up, and we are from the same village!”

“Zhongwei, we have been good brothers since childhood. I beg you, please let me go!”

“I was wrong, I really know I was wrong, I was too confused before, I’m sorry, I’m really sorry, I beg you, please let me go!”

Dai Xiaoer looked at Dai Qingniu coldly, then turned to look at the surrounding villagers: “What do you think we should do?”

“kill him!”

“kill him!”

“Yes, kill him!”

“…”

The villagers had the same idea and they all hoped to kill Dai Qingniu to vent their hatred.

“Okay, then kill him!”

Dai Xiaoer didn’t waste any time and made the final conclusion directly.

Dai Qingniu was so frightened that he became incontinent, his pants were stained with feces and urine, and gave off an unpleasant odor.

“Second Uncle, Zhongwei, fellow villagers, I was really wrong. I apologize. I’m sorry. Please give me another chance!”

“Give me another chance!”

Dai Qingniu’s tearful confession was met with only a cruel execution.

After getting the unified treatment result, the two young men in the village picked up the hoe without saying a word and smashed Dai Qingniu’s head hard!
With one blow, Dai Qingniu’s skull was smashed into pieces, a hole appeared on the top of his head, and red and white substances flowed out.

But that was not the end. They kept using the hoes in their hands and soon smashed Dai Qingniu’s head completely.

After killing Dai Qingniu, the villagers of Daijiazui bowed to the surrounding peasant soldiers to express their gratitude.

“Please lend a helping hand, fellow villagers. Without you, I’m afraid we won’t be able to leave here alive.”

The surrounding peasant soldiers also waved their hands: “This is also helping ourselves. We have just made up our minds. Whether our families get land or not, we will not stay here. We want to go home.”

“Yes, go home!”

After a glance at each other and a slight smile, everyone packed their bags, left Hangzhou, and embarked on their respective journeys back home.

When they left, it wasn’t just a few hundred or a few thousand people, but tens of thousands of people.

Outside the city of Yangzhou, the temporary encampment that was originally crowded with people now appeared empty.

The people of Yangzhou, who were deceived in various ways and came here, flocked to leave the city of Yangzhou.

There are only a few peasant soldiers left.

Most people were rich peasants like Dai Qingniu, who were extremely dissatisfied with the court’s move to distribute land because their families already had land.

In land relations, although rich peasants are also farmers, they do not stand on the side of the common people.

Instead, they were willing to become vassals of the big landlords, serving them at their beck and call, and often showed off their power and bully the weak in front of ordinary people.

Now that all the local landlords have died, it is naturally impossible for them to return to their hometown on their own initiative, and they can only continue to stay here.

(End of this chapter)