Chapter 356 Small Cleaning

Boom boom boom——

Dozens of soldiers leaned against the city wall. They did not rush into the village immediately, but threw a few grenades into it first. After the explosion, they rushed in with thick smoke.

There were indeed nearly a hundred village soldiers holding swords and swords guarding the city gate hole to prevent the soldiers of the Royal Third Division from using tree stumps to knock open the city gate and rush in, but the soldiers of the Royal Third Division disdained to use tree stumps to knock the door open, and directly used more than 30 bundles of grenades to blow up the door.

There were six grenades in a bundle of grenades, and there were hundreds of grenades in more than 30 bundles. The power of the cluster explosion can be imagined. The city gate hole was shaken down. Not to mention how many lives of the village soldiers were harvested by the shrapnel shooting everywhere, the sound waves generated by the explosion alone shook away nearly a hundred village soldiers guarding behind the village gate, either dead or injured, and the corpses and wounded soldiers were lying all over the city gate hole.

As hundreds of soldiers rushed into the village, the frightened village soldiers surrendered, and those who dared to resist were shot to death.

Some of the guards who were once desperate criminals hid indoors and resisted stubbornly, relying on their martial arts skills. The soldiers of the Royal Third Division did not want to risk being killed, so they threw grenades into the house, killing and injuring the people inside.

Experience is learned in actual combat.

There were also a few bodyguards who relied on their excellent light skills to jump onto the roof and try to escape, but they were named one by one by the snipers standing on the village wall, occupying the commanding heights of the village.

"Shoot them for me."

Gao Jie entered the village surrounded by the guard company, asked the soldiers to identify the leader, tied him up, and took him aside, and then ordered all the surrendered village soldiers to be shot.

Although these village soldiers were just following orders, they caused nearly 100 casualties to the troops, which made him lose face. He vented all his anger on these unlucky village soldiers.

The sound of gunfire soon rang out, and more than 300 surrendered village soldiers were all shot dead. The remaining important prisoners were escorted back to the city and their property was seized.

Such arrest operations were carried out simultaneously in Mi County, Ju County, and Jing County under the jurisdiction of the capital. Eleven aristocratic families were wiped out on the same day.

In the capital, teams of fierce Jinyiwei, with the assistance of the Beijing Camp, searched homes and arrested people according to the list. The movement was very loud, and the whole city was shocked. The people who did not know the truth were inevitably nervous.

Before the Jinyiwei carried out the arrest operation, several wealthy businessmen and powerful people on the arrest list received secret reports from insiders and hurriedly packed up their valuables and ran away.

However, the city gates had been closed long ago, and the streets were full of soldiers with live ammunition setting up checkpoints for inspection. Those who forced their way through the checkpoints would be killed without mercy.

Several wealthy merchants who fled in a hurry were captured on the way, and even those who secretly informed the enemy were captured on the way back. They were all low-level officers of the Beijing Camp.

The 100,000 Beijing troops, known as the most elite troops of the Ming Dynasty, were actually scum. The generals who held military power not only ate empty salaries and drank the blood of the soldiers, but were also infiltrated and bribed by various forces and became the running dogs of some people.

In fact, even if the Beijing Army was not infiltrated and bribed by various forces, the annual military expenditure of 100,000 scum would be a huge expense. Instead of throwing the tight military expenditure into the water, it would be better to cut them all and use the limited military expenditure on the new army.

Zhu Youjian had the idea of ​​cutting 100,000 Beijing troops long ago, but the conditions were not ripe, and he was worried that some people would use them to rebel and cause chaos in the capital, so he had been forbearing.

Now, the conditions are ripe, and by arresting some wealthy merchants who participated in the rebellion, he dug a pit for some people. As a result, many people jumped into the pit.

However, in Zhu Youjian's eyes, it was just a small purge. The Ming Dynasty was too seriously ill and needed a major operation to cut off a lot of rotten flesh before it could be cured.

This time, the movement was very loud and it was difficult to hide from some people. In order to prevent those people from jumping off the wall, the Royal Guards led by Chang Buzhou were all transferred to the palace to strengthen the guard. The two regiments of the Royal First Division, which had completed the change of equipment and equipped with the most advanced DM2 rifles, were moved to the vicinity of the palace to wait for orders.

Xu Yu led the remaining troops to set up checkpoints at all the main roads in the city. Any unidentified person would be arrested. If he could not prove his identity, he would be handed over to the Jinyiwei for interrogation.

In just two days, the Jinyiwei's prison was overcrowded and had to borrow the barracks of the Royal First Division to detain prisoners.

All the Jinyiwei's interrogation experts were busy as dogs, and even Rong Mo, who was also an interrogation expert, was seconded to help interrogate the prisoners.

Regardless of whether these arrested prisoners confessed or not, their fate was the same: beheading in public. The only difference was whether they lived a more comfortable life before death, or continued to suffer torture and excruciating pain.