The reloaded gunner ignited the artillery again, and a row of shells flew over with the whistling sound of breaking through the air. However, this time the hit rate dropped a lot. Most of the shells fell into the water, and water columns soared into the sky. Only two shells hit the boat, killing and injuring seven or eight scholars.

"The castrated dog killed by heaven! The soldiers killed the people!" Zhang Fengxiang burst into tears and shouted loudly.

The matter is not over yet. The boatmen and scholars who blocked the road on the river have scattered, and the people on the shore have not yet dispersed. Perhaps they think that if they blocked the river, blocked the emperor's dragon boat, they would be killed without any responsibility. But do the officers and soldiers and the Jinyiwei dare to kill the "innocent people" on the shore?

The result disappointed them, and Li Guodong, the executioner who dared to massacre gentry and scholars, really ordered to take action.

"The Emperor of Ming Dynasty visited Jiangnan. The Ming cavalry cleared the official roads, and the idle people scattered!" The three thousand cavalry shouted, slowly walked out of the formation, walked towards the crowds of densely blocked river embankments, and began to slowly accelerate.

"The officers and soldiers rushed over! Let's run!" Some scholars were so scared that they wet their pants when the Ming army naval warships fired. Now they saw the cavalry rushing towards them, their faces were pale, and they ran away in fear. Some people even ran away their shoes.

"Don't run! The officers and soldiers dare not trample on us!" Chen Mingxia, who was mixed in the crowd, shouted at the top of her lungs.

More than a dozen scholars who were "not afraid of death" around Chen Mingxia also opened their voices and shouted: "Don't leave, I have righteousness in my heart, which can stop millions of soldiers!"

"The heaven and earth have righteousness, and they are mixed and manifold..." Dozens of scholars who are not afraid of death sing the song of righteousness.

"Alpaca! Still a song of righteousness? I really think that if you have righteousness in your heart, you can stop millions of soldiers? Just these scholars, when Jiannu put his knife on their necks, they surrendered faster than the other! Jiannu came and his hair was shaved. How could he stop millions of soldiers?" Li Guodong cursed.

"Bear these treacherous ministers to death! They encouraged the emperor to give up on the northern land!" someone shouted at the cavalry rushing over.

Countless stones were covered with the sky and smashed towards the cavalry. Some shipmen who were instigated to make trouble picked up their own simple bows and arrows and shot arrows at the cavalry that rushed. Among the archers, there were even some standard military bows and arrows of the Ming army! In fact, some canal transport soldiers were mixed in among the riot mobs. The bows in their hands were the five-power small bows equipped by the Ming army. But these archers had almost no training, and the arrows they shot were soft and weak. The ones in the Huai Army rushed to the front were iron armored heavy cavalry.

The projectiles were mixed with arrows and shot into the heavy cavalry crowd, and were all bounced away by the thick armor on the cavalry.

Looking at the rolling dust raised by the war horses and listening to the roar of the horse's hooves hit the ground, the armored cavalry gradually magnified in their eyes. These scholars and the people who were bewitched by them began to feel scared. The crowd was festering, and the scholars and boatmen pushed and ran down the river embankment.

It was too late, and the war horse in front rushed into the crowd. With the help of the war horse's momentum, the horse lance strung the people in front into a string of human candied haws. The horse lance had a strong elasticity. When it rebounded, the dead body was picked up and flew several feet away. Then the war horse hit the crowd and trampled on the people. The person who was hit flew out, and the intestines that were trampled under the feet of the war horse were rotten and trampled into meat paste.

On the river bank, there were trampled bodies and seriously injured people who fell to the ground.

The Ming army infantry followed and fired at the scattered crowds. The sound of guns continued, and the bullets plunged into the crowd like rain. The overwhelming arrows woven into an airtight net, covering the heads of the troubled crowd.

Screams came one after another, and countless people fell down. However, not many ship workers were actually killed. The real ship workers saw that the situation was not good, so they had already run away. Those who were left were scholars with no power. As the saying goes, "There is nothing to do with nothing, and the scholars are not right. They can't beat them, and they can't run away. In front of the Huai Army, there are local chickens that can be slaughtered by others.

Fortunately, the Huai Army soldiers did not let go of their hands and feet and killed the crowd, but drove them away, and the next thing was left to the Jinyiwei.

The Jinyiwei's cavalry, the lieutenant, and the strong men rushed out one after another. Seeing ordinary boatmen and peasants, they just pulled out embroidered swords to scare them and disperse them. When they saw people wearing scholars' clothes and scholars, the Juren immediately kicked over to the ground and tied them up with ropes. The gentry, salt merchants, grain merchants and the like in silk clothes, did not let go of any of them, and they kicked over to the ground with one kick. Two Jinyiwei served one, tied it up like rice dumplings.

"Cathog dog! The castrated dog is killed by heaven! I am so despicable!" Zhang Fengxiang burst into tears, and his hands were both crying and scolding.

He kicked Zhang Fengxiang with one big foot, kicked him in the mouth and chewed the mud. Then two strong Jinyiwei pressed him down, put a hemp rope on his head, and tied him up.

"We must catch Chen Mingxia! This thief is one of the masterminds!" Zhang Shuheng shouted to the Jinyiwei.

What is Chen Mingxia? In the 16th year of Chongzhen, he was reinstated as a famous scholar. He was appointed as a compilation of the Hanlin Academy and served as a minister of the two departments of the Household Military. In real history, he first surrendered to Dashun. After the Qing army entered the pass, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. It can be said that he experienced the three dynasties of the Ming, Shun and Qing dynasties.

However, after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, such a person did not end well. Later, he was impeached by Ning Wan, with the words "I once said to my ministers: "I will keep my hair and wear clothes and the world will be peaceful." He was imprisoned and hanged, and his son was sent to Ningguta.

However, when Chen Mingxia was surrounded by the Shun Army in the capital, she also tried to organize 100,000 young and powerful Shandong to go to Beijing to serve the king, but later left it alone. After the Qing court implemented the hair shaving order, Chen Mingxia was also very dissatisfied with the hair shaving order, so he complained to Ning Wan.

Overall, Li Guodong had no favoritism for these three ministers. What's more, the Jinyiwei also found out this time that among the masterminds who prevented Chongzhen from going south, except Zhang Fengxiang, it was Chen Mingxia.

After the Jinyiwei was ordered, he went around to look for Chen Mingxia.

"Zhang Dusi, I didn't find Chen Mingxia, I'm afraid I'm trampled into a paste?"

"Zhang Dusi, the humble officials have been searching for a long time, but they still haven't found Chen Mingxia."

The riots in the Linqing Canal have been quelled, and scholars, gentry and wealthy businessmen were all arrested, and the Jinyiwei could not find Chen Mingxia.

"I have to see people alive, and I have to see corpses when I die. I have not seen people or bodies, so I must have run away!" Li Guodong said hatefully.

Chen Mingxia did run away. After escaping from Shandong, Chen Mingxia went to Dashun. Later, like in real history, after the Qing army entered the pass, he turned to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

"Cathound! You are shameless castrated dog!" Zhang Fengxiang, who was tied up tightly, was still cursing, "Encouraging the foolish lord to use a butcher knife to fight public opinion! You are the foolish lord and the foolish lord have no good end!"

"Public opinion?" Li Guodong sneered, stretched out his big hand, and lifted Zhang Fengxiang up, "Let's go and see what public opinion is!"

The Jinyiwei pulled Zhang Fengxiang and arrived at the canal to the north. He saw that the river bank was full of dense people.

"You can't go back to the capital today!"

"Long live our lives, we will starve to death when we stay in the north."

"Your Majesty, there are many thieves in the capital, you can't go and die in vain."

The common people knelt on the ground and tried hard to stop Chongzhen from returning to the capital. After all, they didn't know that the so-called Chongzhen was still in the capital, but Li Guodong just asked Chongzhen to act.

After all, if Chongzhen was restored to the capital of the capital, these ordinary people would not be able to go south. When they returned to the north, their only fate would be to wait to starve to death. Therefore, they were unwilling to see Chongzhen return to the capital of the capital, and they hoped to go to a prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River. Only when they went there would they have a chance to survive.
Chapter completed!