The south gate of the town was at the intersection of Zhongshan Middle Road and Xinmen Street in later generations, and the Chongyang Gate of Zicheng was roughly at the entrance of Huaxiang Lane on Zhongshan Middle Road.
The two were less than a mile apart. As soon as Uncle Xie Fang's convoy was attacked, he was discovered by the Dongwei stationed at Chongyang Gate.
It just took some time to assemble the team, and the city gate had to be reopened, so there was inevitably a delay.
According to common sense, this period of time is enough for the rebels to complete their plan and kidnap Uncle Xie Fang.
With Uncle Xie Fang's important bargaining chip, even if he cannot control the entire Quanzhou City, he still has a great chance of forcing Deji Gate to give up its defenses, open the city gates, and welcome pirates and bandits into the city.
Fortunately, Qian Long responded well and survived this critical moment.
The reinforcements from the East Guard were about to arrive, making the left-wing army deputy general Jin Yong, the leader of the rebel party, realize that the operation had failed, but the city gate that could be used as a retreat was blocked again, and he couldn't help but feel despair.
As for the more than 60 left-wing troops who mutinied with him, less than half are left at this time. The other 100 or so people are basically former left-wing army generals who were dismissed due to the entire army. There were also 20 or 30 casualties just now. .
This adds up to about a hundred people, and they are all in panic at this time, and are about to fall into disintegration.
Jin Yong saw his men looking at the alleys on both sides of the street with flickering eyes, obviously ready to flee, but he knew that such escape would be of no use.
So he shouted, "Brothers, if you stay in Luo City, even if you can escape for a while, you will eventually be caught in the urn. Our only way to survive is to recapture the doorway. Not only can we capture Uncle Xie Fang, but we can also open the city gate. Listen to me. There are only a dozen or twenty of them, so instead of running away, we might as well fight with our backs against the enemy!"
After Jin Yong's analysis and persuasion, these men mustered up their last courage and began to form a dense formation, hysterically launching a desperate attack on the door.
At the entrance of the door, Yuan Sui, who was carrying a shield, saw the rebels rushing in like crazy, and was immediately very nervous. He did not dare to hope that he could withstand the attack with a shield.
"Don't panic, don't panic, we still have backup plans."
Qian Long's voice was calm and calm, and although his round face was covered in blood, he didn't look vicious, and even looked a little happy.
He is not pretending to be calm, but he does have an ace up his sleeve, which is the grenade that every Ban Zhi carries.
This grenade is not the kind that will be thrown away after being pulled, but needs to be ignited by an open flame. The incident happened suddenly and the situation was too urgent, so there was no time to use it.
At this moment, Qian Long and the others had taken out the fire sticks and blew out the open flame, then unscrewed the wax-sealed safety cap on the long-handled grenade to expose the lead.
The lead wires are painted in equidistant sections with blue and red colors. The length can be cut as needed to control the detonation time. Although there is an error, it has little impact.
Seeing that the rebels were already five or six feet away, Qian Long ordered, "Light the fire and throw it...light it again and throw it!"
Each person brought two grenades, and a total of twenty-two smoking grenades smashed into the rebel array in an instant.
Immediately, some unlucky people were hit with a pound of grenade and their heads were badly bruised, causing some chaos, but most people did not realize that the disaster was coming.
However, Jin Yong saw the flying thing dragging smoke, and immediately guessed that it was a firearm, and the souls of the dead were emitted.
But who made him choose the center of the array, which he thought was safe? There were so many people around him that he couldn't move even if he wanted to run, and they had to be pushed to keep moving forward.
Perhaps the only thing he could be thankful for was that he didn't have to be tortured by fear for too long. The calculated length of the fuse had burned to the end, detonating four or two layers of gunpowder in the projectile.
Eleven flames arrived at almost the same time with a fierce roar, ruthlessly harvesting flesh and blood, followed by another round of continuous explosions, harvesting again.
Jin Yong's lower body was blown to pieces, and he could not die for a while, perhaps because a simple death was not enough to pay for his sins.
Less than half of the other hundred or so people were blown down, and the remaining people immediately collapsed and tried to escape in a panic, but ended up in a mess like headless flies.
At this time, a passage opened in the shield wall at the door, and Qian Long rushed out with Ban Zhi like a fat whirlwind, "Surrender without killing! Lie on the ground to avoid death!..."
When Zhao Shijian, commander of the third battalion of the Unity 2nd Regiment, led his troops to the area, he saw only corpses littering the streets with blood flowing around them. A dozen seriously injured rebels were wailing and struggling among them, and dozens more were in Qianlong. He lay prone on the ground in front of him.
"Hurry up, hurry up, it's still a step too late..."
Zhao Shijian beat his hands and feet and looked at Qian Long with a wry smile, "Young fat Qian, if you don't practice martial arts, can't you leave some credit for us?"
Qian Long shrugged, "You can't blame me... By the way, there are more than ten or twenty people who escaped. You guys hurry up and catch them. Clean up the battlefield and escort the prisoners back. Don't kill this rebel leader. Just kill him." Let him hurt until he dies..."
Helpless, Zhao Shijian had no choice but to allocate troops to hunt down the remaining rebels, and personally led people to patch up the seriously injured rebels before calling in the Xiang army to clean up the messy streets.
After a while, Zhao Jujing, who was Zhinanwai Zongzheng and promoted the city's shipping department, Zhao Heyun's grandfather, arrived together with other officials who had learned the news.
At this time, Uncle Xie Fang was at the top of the city, looking with a livid face at the corpses of more than a hundred poisoned left-wing officers and soldiers in the city gate tower.
After standing there for a long time, he gritted his teeth and said, "Send an order to interrogate all the captured rebels severely, and those who cannot be recruited will be executed immediately! These rebels can actually kill even their robes. They are simply crazy and worse than animals. You don’t deserve to live in this world at all!”
None of the other officials objected to Xie Fangshu's order, which was not in line with Confucian benevolence at all.
Zhao Jujing sighed, "I didn't expect that the original left-wing army would degenerate to this point. I was really ashamed that I criticized Prime Minister Xie for reorganizing the army."
After more than a hundred years, the left-wing army has almost integrated with the local forces in Quanzhou. Naturally, the clans living in Quanzhou City have deep connections with them, so Uncle Xie Fang's army reorganization was not smooth or complete.
Then Quanzhou General Judge Han Pu said in a deep voice, "Although we don't know if other members of the army are involved in the rebellion, if the old left-wing army members are still allowed to stay in the army, the hidden dangers will be difficult to eliminate..."
Uncle Xie Fang had obviously thought of this, but less than half of the more than a thousand left-wing troops in the city were old people. If they took action at this time, the consequences would be unpredictable.
Seeing that Uncle Xie Fang seemed to be hesitant, Qian Long couldn't help but say, "It's time to continue to suffer the consequences."
After hearing this, Uncle Xie Fang took another look at the piles of corpses in the building, and then made a decision to ask Zhao Shijian to take the Eastern Guard troops and accompany Han Pu to the left wing army defense areas to perform cleaning tasks. The soldiers did not move for the time being, but All officials and assistants must be 'isolated for review'.
It took half an hour to make other arrangements before Uncle Xie Fang led the people to Deji Gate again.
On the way, Qian Long muttered inexplicably, "The Fuzhou left-wing army rebelled and attacked His Highness. There are also a lot of rogue gangs here in Quanzhou. It seems that this old left-wing army has become rebellious. It's better not to use this designation in the future. It's bad luck." "
After Uncle Xie Fang heard this, he actually thought it made sense, "Yes, this left-wing army really shouldn't be kept any longer. I will report it to the court later to change the designation and reorganize the army."
Historically, the left-wing army became Pu Shougeng's butcher's knife. Five months before Emperor Jing Yan arrived in Quanzhou, he attacked Ruian (Wenzhou) defended by Chen Yizhong.
Therefore, some people say that Pu Shougeng rebelled against the Song Dynasty because Zhang Shijie sent troops to rob his cargo. This is actually untenable.
Then Wen Tianxiang planned to organize a defense in Ruian, but it was also destroyed by the left-wing army.
After Zhang Shijie and Emperor Jing Yan arrived in Quanzhou in November of that year, the city's clan and the scholar-bureaucrats loyal to the Song Dynasty wanted to welcome the emperor into Quanzhou City, but this triggered a massacre by Pu Shougeng.
The left-wing army was the main executor of the massacre. They killed more than 10,000 clan members, scholar-bureaucrats, Huai soldiers and other people loyal to the Song Dynasty. Among them, there were more than 3,000 clan members alone. Even the old, weak, women and children were not spared. They were 'prepared with extreme cruelty' .
Later, the left-wing army attacked the Song army in Wenling, forcing Emperor Jingyan to retreat to Chaozhou. They continued to pursue and conquer Haiyang, Jieyang, and Chaoyang in Guangdong, driving the exiled court completely to the sea.
This left-wing army made a great contribution to the destruction of the Song Dynasty.
During the Yuan Dynasty, the left wing army was renamed "Left Aileron Newly Recruited Tujun Ten Thousand Households" and continued to guard Quanzhou.
However, dogs cannot change their habit of eating shit. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when the Yisibaxi Army, mainly composed of Persians, launched a ten-year rebellion that spread over more than half of Fujian, the left-wing army not only failed to protect the local area Instead, they collectively attached themselves to the elites of the Yisi Basi Army and the descendants of Pu Shougeng, massacring countless Han people, which ultimately caused Quanzhou's vitality to be severely damaged and unable to recover.
After Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty unified the world, he condemned the remnants of the Pu family to humble status and severely punished them. However, thanks to their own "excellent tradition", the newly-minted Turkish Army Ten Thousand Households on the left wing joined early and were actually transferred to Shandong to garrison. Yu Weihaiwei.
It's true that good people don't live long, and disasters last for thousands of years...
Now that Qian Long mentioned it casually, his criminal history has been brought to an end early, which can be regarded as a great satisfaction.
On this side, after the defenders at Deji Gate heard the big noise coming from the Zhennan Gate, everyone on the top and bottom became worried. It was not until Uncle Xie Fang arrived that the soldiers calmed down a little.
After arriving at the city head, Qian Long quickly took out his binoculars and looked at the ships moored in Nanguan Port.
Soon his expression became solemn, "Xie Xiang, it is indeed the ship of the Shuijun camp, and most of them are there. This is definitely not a defeat and capture, it must be a rebellion from the Shuijun camp!"
Then, regret and guilt filled Qian Long's heart, "It's all my fault. You should have paid attention to it if you noticed something was wrong when seeing you off. Now, Liuqiu will definitely be in trouble if they don't get supplies, and these thieves will also take advantage of the people on the ship." Military resources are used against us.”
In addition to supplies such as food and winter clothes, the military supplies mainly include a large number of weapons.
Not to mention swords and guns, there are also 300 sets of armor, six crossbows, 200 bows, 500 individual crossbows, more than 30,000 arrows, etc., which are enough to pose a great threat to the soldiers defending the city.
Uncle Xie Fang was naturally aware of this, but he still patted Qian Long on the shoulder, "At that time, we had not received your highness's letter, and we did not pay attention to the prevention of hidden dangers within the left-wing army. After all, there were many people in the navy who were hostile to the imperial court. As a loyal person, when it comes to responsibility, it mainly lies with me. You don’t have to blame yourself for overlooking a specious clue."
Then Uncle Xie Fang looked at the densely packed pirates gathered on the dock and sighed, "The top priority is how to defend Quanzhou City!"
