A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 286 Isn't Wang Dou's soldiers dead?

The team was marching on the dry yellow land, and countless footsteps and horseshoes stepped on the road, stirring up dust all over the sky.There are more than 1 Xuanda troops, half of which are cavalry. In addition, there are nearly a thousand chariots and horses, carrying artillery, food, supplies, etc., which seem to be endless.

Looking back, Wang Dou saw that the army was full of red seas. The cavalry of Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei were all wearing red armor. of red.Yebushou gallops back and forth from time to time, relaying the enemy situation and road conditions ahead at any time, guiding the army on the correct marching route.

"At the military gate, the Juma River is in front of us. After crossing the river, we are only forty miles away from Zhuozhou. In the afternoon, our army will be able to reach outside the slave camp."

In this expedition, Yang Guozhu personally ordered his 1000 generals to be the front army, and led 6000 cavalry to go first.For the rest, he led 3000 cavalry from the Zhengbing Battalion in Xuanfu Town, plus [-] from Wang Dou's Shunxiang Army as the Chinese Army, with a large number of vehicles and luggage accompanying the Chinese Army.In the end, Hu Dawei, Xu Yue'e, and Yang Guodong, the general manager of the Supervising Biaoying Battalion, served as the rear army with [-] people.

The three armies were less than half a mile apart. At noon, Xuan Da's army had already passed Laishui County, approaching Juma River from the north, and was about to set foot on the land of Zhuozhou.

When the army passed through the city of Laishui County, the guards on the city were startled and terrified, but they were relieved to see that the flags outside the city were from the Ming army.Yang Guozhu and the others didn't bother to pay attention, and walked past the city directly.

Looking at the cloud-like army horses behind him, Yang Guozhu's heart was full of pride. Hearing what Wang Dou said, he smiled and said, "Yes, after crossing the Juma River, our army can reach the slave camp today."

He said: "However, when the army has crossed the river, our army's whereabouts are clearer, and the slaves and thieves have taken precautions. Our army needs to be cautious on the road of dozens of miles."

After Xuan Da's army went out, the momentum was loud and no longer concealed. One after another, they encountered some sentries of the Qing army who were holding the red flag in Laishui.

They were immediately besieged by Xuan Dajun Ye Bushou who were scattered around the army.Most of these sentinels were captured.Perhaps some fish slipped through the net, but the Qing soldiers in Zhuozhou could only know that a large force of Ming troops was coming towards them, and the specific situation was not so easy to figure out.

Wang Doudao: "After the former military sentry rode across the Juma River, they fought more and more with the slave sentinel, and there were even Nuba Yala soldiers among them. It seems that the slave thief has awakened."

Many of the cavalry in the former army were Yang Guozhu's servants, and one of them did not take them in at night.At the request of Yang Guozhu, Wang Doujun also dispatched a team of Yebushou to assist the former army scouts, and the army has captured several Zhenghongqi scouts one after another.

Yang Guozhu's tone was full of heroism: "It's late, they are too late."

He and Wang Dou looked at each other and laughed, and Yang Guozhu sent an order: "The army hastened its pace. After crossing the Juma River, our army will rest for a while, and then the whole army will go straight to Zhuozhou."

The army marched like a tide, looking at the vast sea of ​​flags, boundless soldiers and horses, Wang Dou was also full of pride, he looked up to the sky and exhaled, and shouted loudly from the bottom of his heart: "Since the Battle of Julu, I, Wang Dou, have returned! ,came back……"

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Zhuozhou.

On the west bank of the Liuli River, along the four sides of the local Gaocunbao, there are densely packed Eight Banners Manchuria Zhenghong Banner Qing army camps.

All the banners flying on the camp tents were pure red flags, and there were flaming dragons with their teeth and claws on them.From time to time, some fast horses of the Qing army with black helmets and red tassels and red cotton armor rushed out of the camp, or groups of ragged Ming women were forced into various parts of the camp for the Qing soldiers who camped inside to vent their beasts. want.

Down the main camp of the Zhenghong Banner of the Qing Army, along the lower reaches of the Liuli River, there are dense dilapidated shacks.The shacks are spread all over the surrounding area for more than ten miles, like a city built on the ground.The Qing army captured all parts of Jinan, and the people and wealth they looted were concentrated in Zhuozhou and Tongzhou, with Zhuozhou being the most.

There are 10,000+ captives, hundreds of thousands of grains and rice, hundreds of thousands of cattle, horses, pigs and sheep, as well as countless gold, silver, treasures and satin.There are more than a dozen village forts in the surrounding area, which are full of livestock wealth captured by Qing soldiers.The people who were escorted all slept in the wild.

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, with severe cold weather and lack of food and clothing, countless people froze to death and starved to death.It is an extravagant hope to find a dilapidated shack where you can live, and even the people living in the shack are all haggard, with despair in their eyes.The future is unknown, they just live in numbness.

Tens of thousands of captive people gathered in one place, and dug several deep trenches around their camp. Outside the trenches, some Qing soldiers set up tents and patrolled the surrounding area from time to time.These people are extremely tyrannical, and they enter the gathering places to commit violence at every turn. It is common for them to abuse, insult, beat and scold them.

Anyone who dared to escape would be tortured to death after being captured.

Many people couldn't bear it, so they committed suicide one by one.

There are corpses and garbage everywhere, but no one cleans them up.

In addition to the tyrannical abuse and humiliation of the Eight Banners, the soldiers who accompanied the army also made the captive people hate their teeth.

Those handymen were all Aha slaves from the Eight Banners, or tribesmen from the Northeast, or Mongols, Koreans, Hans, etc.They are the people from all over the country captured by the Eight Banners in the early batches. They are also used as cannon fodder for feeding horses and making weapons, filling Haogou and other cannon fodder.

But these people have no mercy for the captive people. They follow behind those bannermen and pretend to be tigers. They are as brutal and brutal as those Manchurians from the Eight Banners, especially those Koreans are even more cruel. They speak difficult Korean dialect. drink.

There are also some handymen who speak Chinese, and the exiles call them Ertarzi.In fact, there is no difference between these handymen's outfits and those of the Eight Banners. They are all dressed in full uniforms and have money rattails on their heads.

After Huang Taiji proclaimed himself emperor in the ninth year of Chongzhen, he issued an imperial edict to strictly order the people in the territory to wear full hair and clothes, otherwise the whole family would be executed.From that year onwards, in the territory of the Qing Dynasty, there were no more Hanfu and Hanfu, and everyone dressed in the same way as the Manchurians.

Most of the Qing troops who guarded the common people were Zhenghong flag unarmored flag men. Needless to say, these people were cruel, and the miscellaneous servants who accompanied the army were also hated.

Not far from the Qing army camp in Gaocunbao, there is a place called Zhongdaitun. There are more than [-] captives from all over the place gathered here. Like other gathering places, this place is full of shacks built indiscriminately.Garbage and dead bodies were everywhere, and there was a disgusting stench in the air.Countless captives lay in various huts, seemingly waiting to die in despair.There are also many people with numb expressions, walking around the gathering point like walking dead, and when they fall to the ground, they can't get up again.

And in this place, there was a commotion just now.Just now, a Zhenghongqiqiding led more than [-] Mongolians and Korean Aha slaves, broke into several shacks, and dragged away the women of several families. Those families wanted to beg for dissuasion, but were immediately They were beaten with sticks and swords until they were bleeding profusely, and one person was even hacked to death on the spot with his head decapitated.

The smell of blood was still spreading in the cold air. Hearing the desperate and desolate cries from the surroundings, Wu Daben punched the ground below him bitterly. He had been close to each other for many days. He knew most of the shacks. Most of them are from the area of ​​Zhending Prefecture.One of the women who was robbed was more familiar to him. Just last night, for a thick black steamed bun, the woman exchanged her chastity for this food item.

The daily distribution of food by the Tartars outside was scarce, and in order to survive, all kinds of crimes were also spread in the camps of the captive people.Wu Daben was a sturdy man in his thirties, with full cheeks and beard, with a fierce appearance and a good fist.Secretly, he also has another identity, the General Banner of Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty, guarding a certain place in Zhending Mansion. After the Qing army captured that city, he was also taken into captivity with the army.With his own skills, he can grab more food in the camp.

For this morsel of food, many people around him surrounded him, hoping to seek his protection.But Wu Daben was helpless in the situation just now.If he had a weapon in his hand, he might be able to escape under the siege of those Ahas.But they couldn't escape the pursuit of those Tartar sentry cavalry outside, and many people have proved this with their lives.

In Wu Daben's life, he has had many women, but only the woman named Ningzhi last night occupies an important position in his mind. Although the two of them were just a transaction last night, Wu Daben can't forget her in his heart.Watching Ning Zhi being dragged away by a group of Er Tartars, Wu Daben only hated himself for being helpless, he was extremely angry, he was stuffy in his heart, but he didn't know how to vent it.

He punched the ground a few times, stood up bitterly, and stared blankly at a man beside him.

The man looked quietly across the ditch.The weather was extremely cold, and a gust of cold wind seemed to pierce into the bones. Wu Daben couldn't help shivering all over. He wrapped his sheepskin coat tightly and stomped his feet a few times to keep warm.On the other hand, the man remained motionless in the severe cold weather. The cold wind had already blown his face blue and purple, but he acted as if nothing had happened.

Following the man's gaze, three miles away from the ditch is the camp of the Qing army. The man has been looking there for a long time. Wu Daben doesn't know what to see about him, isn't it like this every day?
Wu Daben rubbed his hands that were bruised and swollen from the cold. His hands and feet had already become numb and stiff, as if he couldn't feel the existence of his hands and feet.He looked around on the ground for a while, and there were not even leaves and dead branches around, so it was extravagant to want to light a fire to keep warm.

Coupled with the depression of Ningzhi being robbed just now, Wu Daben finally couldn't help it, he subconsciously glanced around, and said to the man: "Liu Baihu, this is not the way to go, I will find a way to escape. If this continues, the subordinates are afraid that the two of us will either freeze to death or starve to death, or be beaten to death by those two Tartars, what a loser..."

The man he called Liu Baihu finally turned around and cast a gloomy glance at Wu Daben.The man was wearing a padded robe, in his 30s, with an ordinary face, which can be described as ordinary.It's just a pair of slightly sinister eyes that make people feel that maybe this person is not as irritating as his appearance.

Seeing the man turn around, Wu Daben subconsciously put on a respectful expression. As the man's subordinate, he knew his style too well. Ren Jinyiwei has hundreds of households, and the blood of many people is stained on his hands.

The two of them were taken captive this time, and the Qing soldiers didn't know their identities. After entering this gathering point, the man kept observing the surrounding movement, like this every day, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Liu Baihu glanced at Wu Daben, and then turned back. After a long time, he said, "Fukui, do you feel that Dongnu Camp is very different today?"

His accent is similar to that of Wu Daben, both from the Hebei area. When he speaks, there is a cold taste in the plain.

After saying this, he said thoughtfully again: "Perhaps, the time for me to escape is coming soon."

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Indeed, at this time, the Eight Banners, Manchuria, and the Red Banner camp were in a state of panic and turmoil, and there were constant scouts coming and going, one by one sending back the news that the Xuan army was approaching Zhuozhou.

In Gaocunbao, the original mansion of Lichang was planted with a gold-woven dragon banner entrusted by Zhenghongqi Gushan Ezhenyue, as his place of residence.After the Battle of Julu, Yue Tuo suddenly contracted a serious illness and was unable to fight with the army anymore. Therefore, in the arrangement he negotiated with Dorgon, his deputy Du Du led the right-wing army that invaded the bandits, and accompanied Dorgon. He attacked Shandong, while Yue Tuo stayed in Zhuozhou and other places to guard the captive population and wealth.

After staying in Zhuozhou for many days, Yue Tuo became more and more ill, and most of the internal affairs of the banner were handled by his two sons, but today was really critical, and his two sons could not make decisions, so Yue Tuo had to get out of the sickbed and struggle to deal with military affairs .

At this time, he was leaning on the brocade couch in the hall, wrapped in a thick fur coat, holding a cup of hot tea, coughing, and listening to Banya La Ying Jia La Zhang Jing Buyan Figure's crying report.

In the hall, his two sons, Zhenghongqi Baya Latuzhangjing Luo Luohong, Jialazhangjing Luo Luohuan, and several Jialazhangjing and Niuluzhangjing who stayed in Zhuozhou also gathered together, just like Yuetuo Everyone also listened attentively to Buyantu's story.

"The slaves lost more than [-] warriors from the Ba Yala camp. It can be confirmed that the Ming army who came to Zhuozhou was the Xuan army of the Ming Dynasty who fled after the Julu War. They came very suddenly. They had been silent before. The sound suddenly appeared in Zhuozhou, as if it had been lurking in Laishui and Yizhou..."

"They came too fast, so after their army entered Zhuozhou, the sentry cavalry in the banner woke up. It is estimated that they are less than forty miles away from the camp. What's more frightening is that Xuan's army has a large number of troops, with half and half infantry. It will be less than 1 people. And they have a strong army, and their army is extremely strong, and their combat power will not be inferior to that of Julu."

"Look at the banners they are playing. Among them are Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei, and Wang Dou's battalions..."

Buyantu's voice was trembling: "The servant carefully sent out the King's Doubu. His soldiers and horses accounted for half of Xuan's army. There should be... no less than 6000 people."

There was only a choking sound, but it was Yue Tuo who accidentally knocked the teacup in his hand to the ground, and then he coughed violently.Everyone in the hall was startled, Luo Luohong, Yuetuo's eldest son, took a step forward and shouted: "Ama, Ama, are you alright?"

His second son Luo Luohuan also rushed forward.

Yue Tuo said in a deep voice, "I'm fine."

He waved his hand, and immediately several handymen quickly stepped forward, gently sweeping away the debris on the ground.Everyone in the hall stared blankly at their work. Although there was a fire in the room, there was a lingering cold smell.Everyone's heart was cold, and they looked at each other, and they all saw that the other's face was extremely ugly.

Yue Tuo also sat in a daze, and after a long time, he said, "Where did Wang Dou get so many soldiers? After the Great Deer War, all his soldiers should have died. He only had 3000 guerrillas in the Ming Dynasty. , why did 6000 people come out again..."

(End of this chapter)