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

Chapter 879
April [-], Changping City.

Changping City is 24 miles away from Juyongguan City, and it is mainly used to guard the Jingling and Juyongguan.Changping was originally a county. In the first year of Jingtai, Yong'an City was built in eight miles east of the city, and a new city was built in the south of Yong'an City soon after. It was ten miles and [-] steps in total.

During the Zhengde period, the government office was upgraded to a prefecture in Changping, Yong'an City. There were general soldiers, deputy general soldiers, military guards, eunuchs guarding the mausoleum, etc., which became the important fence between Juyongguan and Jingling.

After the bandits fell into the capital, Liu Zeqing and others attacked Changping Prefecture from the west, and all the troops surrendered, but Li Shoufeng, the general soldier, scolded the bandits for being unyielding.

However, the officials and generals who surrendered and eagerly cheered the army to enter the city did not look forward to their good days. Soon after, the recovery of stolen goods and salaries began. Like the capital, Changping City fell into a bloody storm, crying and regretting.

Moreover, because Li Zicheng discovered that the act of chasing stolen goods and paying wages had caused extremely adverse effects, he ordered it to stop on the [-]th of April. The detained bureaucrats would be released regardless of whether they had recovered the stolen goods.

But in fact, it only basically stopped in the capital, and the activity of chasing stolen goods and subsidizing wages was still vigorously carried out in the cities near the capital and under the rule of the Shun army.

It is easy to ask God to send God away, but it is not an easy task to shut down and take back the hidden evil desires in human nature.

In particular, who are Liu Zeqing and Qiu Lei, the guards of Changping City?

One is vicious and vicious, he will retaliate, even eats people's brains and livers raw, and only knows how to flee for his life in war, causing incomparable harm to the people.

One is a vulgar and domineering martial artist, he is on the same level as Zuo Liangyu and others, all he knows is plagiarism, for money, he even ambushes and robs his own subordinates.

With these two people here, one can imagine what kind of life the soldiers and civilians in Changping City are living now. Everyone has infinite regrets. They should not surrender the bandits back then, but should follow the general soldier Li Shoufeng to fight to the end.

But there is no medicine for regret in this world. Apart from crying, everyone can only hope that the Jingbian army will arrive soon, and the general Zhenglu will come to save them from the fire and water.

Of course, the officers and generals of the former Ming Dynasty and the people of the former Ming Dynasty would rather die than live. For Liu Zeqing, Qiu Lei and others, these days were extremely happy, and they felt light and light, as if they were in heaven.

"If you get rich, get rich, this important place in the capital city is really rich. Any inconspicuous little rich man can sometimes even scrape one or two hundred thousand taels of silver. There are many wealthy households and a large population in Changping. If you add it up, you can search How much? Even if part of it was handed over to Liu Zongmin’s Biju Town Fusi, the big head was still hidden. From the main generals Liu Zeqing and Qiu Lei down, these Shandong soldiers who rebelled all made a lot of money. Wang, it really is a wise decision."

In addition to money, there is also the temptation of beautiful women. In the past, Qiuba and his wife could not get a woman in their 40s and [-]s. Now I hug one on the left and one on the right. Even rich girls and official ladies can get their hands on them.Some of them have strong tastes and even pick wives. How dare your man stop?Damn, I cut off your head with one knife.

They are ecstatic, and they only hope that this happy life will last forever.

As far as Liu Zeqing and Qiu Lei are concerned, they are not without conflicts. Qiu Lei became famous earlier and served as the commander in chief for a longer time than Liu Zeqing.But Liu Zeqing's strange peak protrudes, and he guards the rich land of Linqing. This is a well-known important place for water transportation, and the oil and water are unimaginably rich.

So Liu Zeqing's troops quickly surpassed Qiu Lei's. The two had a total of [-] soldiers and [-] soldiers, of which Liu Zeqing accounted for [-].

There is a lot of dirt in the two people's world, but now the overall situation is the most important thing, and the search is the most important thing, so after careful negotiation, the two of them divided the land boundary, divided the work into pieces, and did not interfere with each other, but they got along quite happily.

Liu Zeqing was fond of voice tricks, and he kept more than a hundred beautiful prostitutes as early as in Linqing. He went north with the army, but of course beauties could not be brought along.But it doesn't matter, after arriving in Changping, he robbed a lot of women from good families, pampered by beautiful prostitutes, and made a lot of noise day and night.

In fact, as early as when Changping was conquered, Liu Zeqing and Qiu Lei also joined forces to attack Juyongguan, but they didn't even break through Nankou Pass, let alone Juyongguan City.

Now he spends his days drinking and drinking, drunk and dreaming, and even throws everything around him out of the sky.

Juyongguan, and even everyone in Xuanfu Town, have long been out of their memory, only some sentries were left near Nankouguan earlier.

Today, after eating a sumptuous breakfast, Liu Zeqing was about to gather all kinds of actors to start his day of drunkenness and dreams again, but a sentry horse who stumbled into the house suddenly awakened his dream.

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"Kill the thief!"

The sound of hooves was like thunder, and five thousand cavalrymen rushed in like a tide, and twenty thousand horseshoes hit the ground like thunder rolling in the sky.The earth was shaking violently, and the dust all over the sky was like a wild sandstorm, overwhelming the sky and covering the sky.

Seeing the thunder of horseshoes stamping on the ground approaching, all the knights in red and gold-rimmed livery were covered by the golden red tide. Their uniforms were all decorated with patterns of the sun, the moon and waves, and there were poles of gold rims of the sun, the moon and the waves. banner.

With an unstoppable momentum, they rushed straight into the sparse and flustered army formation of their own side, and smashed the army formation of their own side into pieces in an instant.

"Failed?"

Liu Zeqing lost his mind, his face was pale, and he lost like this?

Early in the morning, when the sentinels who rushed into the mansion in a panic reported the news of the Jingbian Army's attack, Liu Zeqing woke up from all his dreams. He hurriedly went to the top of the city to wait and see, and sure enough, he saw a horse team running towards Changping City, with smoke billowing from behind. , It seems that there is still a large group of people.

Liu Zeqing was also considered an experienced soldier, so he was surprised to see at a glance that there were as many as three or four thousand cavalry coming from behind.

It was just heard before, but after staying in Changping for nearly a month, he knew more about Xuanfu Town, and knew that Wang Doujing's frontier army had a lot of soldiers and horses there, and they were quite strong, as can be seen from his failure to attack Nankou Pass.

At this time, the Jingbian army's elite generals surprised him even more. There are three or four thousand cavalry on this side alone!
You must know that three or four thousand cavalry is not an easy task. He, Liu Zeqing, has worked hard for many years, but only two thousand cavalry.Relying on these cavalry, he ran amok in Shandong, and even recruited King Chuang.But the enemy in front of them has three or four thousand cavalry, and I don't know if there are any behind. Sure enough, the Jingbian army should not be underestimated.

However, although Liu Zeqing was shocked, he was not chaotic. Although the enemy was fierce, he had more soldiers and horses, and Changping was already regarded as his territory, so how could he allow others to get involved?
He urgently discussed with Qiu Lei, the two had the same mind, this city that controls the capital and the main road to the west cannot fall into the hands of others, especially since we have few enemies, how can there be no reason not to fight?

The two immediately recruited soldiers and horses, except for a small number of defenders, all of them were pulled out of the city to fight, so as to show the invading Jingbian army a little bit of color.

However, the two men's subordinates were already disorganized, and they had been chasing stolen goods for nearly a month, and they had no military discipline and fighting spirit. This swearing and procrastinating army was dragged outside the city.They were one mile away from the west gate, and the formation had not yet been set up. The artillery at the top of the city was not ready yet, and the cavalry on the opposite side had already launched an attack.

Then Liu Zeqing and Qiu Lei saw in horror that there were more cavalry on the opposite side, and the cavalry gathered from the rear of the two sides might not be less than [-] cavalry.

They are all more skilled in equestrianism. Judging from their performance on horses, I am afraid that each of them will not be less than the combat effectiveness of their servants.

Sure enough, under their brave attack, the soldiers and horses spread forward like a tide, and the sergeants already in front fired a burst of firearms from a distance, shot a few arrows indiscriminately, and then collapsed.

They howled earth-shatteringly, and were cut into countless messy small pieces under the sweep of the cavalry, and were plowed down piece by piece like weeds, and then howling, desperately rushed towards the Chinese army.They were trampled to the ground by horseshoes from time to time, turning into bloody lumps of flesh.

"That's how you lost?"

Liu Zeqing's face was ashen, pale as paper, everything in front of him was like the deepest nightmare.

Last night, he was having fun until late at night with the beautiful woman he robbed, and today's breakfast was peaceful, but in the blink of an eye, his dream was shattered?

"Master, let's go!"

"Marshal, the thieves are powerful, let's quickly enter the city, and then report to the capital."

The relatives beside him hurriedly advised him that they had no heart to fight, and the rout soldiers in the front line had been driven over like a tide, and they would soon approach their central army. Go, there is no way to return to heaven.

Liu Zeqing was still thinking about struggling again, whether he would fight against Qiu Lei leading his servants, but suddenly he looked in horror, and saw another iron stream appearing on the right wing, which was as elite as the Jingbian army in the front, full of the kind of servants riding strength.

They wore the same red and gold-rimmed livery, and their number was probably as many as two to three thousand. They rode finely to form a vast iron wave, and charged into the right flank fiercely, smashing their own formation into a mess.

Liu Zeqing suddenly knew that these elite cavalry of the Jingbian army must be hiding near Beishan, and after breaking through the frontal attack, they dealt a heavy blow to their own side.

Liu Zeqing was trembling with chills all over his body. These Jingbian troops have such a big plan, and I am afraid there is still something to do.

Sure enough, just as he thought this way, a sharp whistling sound came from the city, and a rocket shot from the city into the sky, exploded in mid-air, and a series of bright fireworks flashed, slowly merged into two large golden characters: "Wan Sheng!" !"

The explosion of the thunder made Liu Zeqing tremble all over his body. He looked with horror, and saw that following the order, thick smoke billowed in the city suddenly, and then there was a shout of killing, which became louder and louder, and finally the whole city was shouting : "Kill the thief!"

The shouts brought together the voices of countless people, men and women, old and young, it seemed that the people in the entire Changping City were shouting to kill.

Liu Zeqing and others turned around in a daze, what happened?

But at this time a horse galloped in and shouted to Liu Zeqing in panic: "Commander, it's not good, the north gate was opened, the Jingbian army rushed into the city, there are two or three thousand horses."

Before Liu Zeqing could react, another rider rushed over: "Commander, the east gate has been opened."

"Marshal, the south gate was opened, and countless people rushed out of the city."

"Commander, countless people came to Ximen, and the brothers left behind in the city were killed one by one by them!"

Not only Liu Zeqing, everyone around him trembled, why?
They remembered that when they entered Changping City, the four city gates were opened like this, and now they are opened like this?

The chaos in the army formation had spread to the central army. The cavalry of the Jingbian army charged forward, slashed and killed, and screamed and fled.At the same time, Liu Zeqing saw that there were people pouring out from every gate.There are men and women, old and young, all wielding hoes and sticks in their hands.

Even many women hold kitchen knives and use pot lids as shields.

They shouted hoarsely: "Kill the thief!"

These weak people in the past are like crazy tigers at this moment, and they rush forward without fear.But in front of them, some left behind soldiers and horses staggered and fled, and then they were flooded by the raindrops of hoes and sticks, and they uttered unspeakable pleading and crying, but it had no effect at all.

In particular, many women jumped on them crazily. They screamed and bit off the flesh of these people piece by piece, like zombies crossing the border.

Liu Zeqing was in a daze of fear, why?
Things happened so fast and too suddenly that he didn't have time to think about it, as if he was fine yesterday.

He couldn't help being coerced by his subordinates and fled desperately to the direction of the capital. In the confusion, he was still thinking: "My soldiers and horses just dispersed like this? I have worked so hard to search for gold and silver treasures for almost a month, and that's it." Gone? The beauties I plundered so hard are gone like this?"

He thought: "By the way, the newly snatched beauties haven't been enjoyed yet."

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"The Jingbian army is really strong, how long will those rogues last?"

"They are not the Jingbian army, which is much stronger than this. Those are not the bandit headquarters, but the Nanman army that surrendered."

The whispering voice of the foreign race was at the edge of a mountain forest in Beishan, where more than a dozen people dressed as Ming people were carefully lurking.But judging from their violent eyes, black and red skin, small eyes and big round faces, two mustaches, and two temples that are too bright, it can be seen that they are not the people of the Central Plains.

At this time, it was Fende Pashikutonggar who spoke, and it was Niuluzhangjing Suoer Henuo who corrected him, and beside him were Gebush's virtuous soldiers Hun Dashan, Zaisamu, Ebei and others. He is the most elite sentry cavalry of Gebush Xianying in the Qing Dynasty.

A few days earlier than the army, they sent out to spy everywhere, and at this time they even sent out to the edge of Changping.

And Sol Henuo was originally a man with a red flag in Manchuria. Because of a series of military exploits, he promoted Ge Bush's sage Niulu Zhangjing. In history, he was also quite strategic. Break one battalion, and everything will collapse."

Abatai followed him and sent generals to attack Xue Dizhong's camp. Xue Dizhong was defeated and all the reinforcements were defeated.

At this time, he looked down the mountain and saw the battle between the two sides, and soon the bandits were defeated. A serious look flashed in his eyes. The [-] cavalry under the control of the Jingbian army should not be underestimated. With the strength of Zhongjia Ding Jingqi, it is no wonder that Liu Zei was defeated.

What surprised him in particular was that the Jingbian army's ability to handle spying and other matters was under the watchful eyes of the thieves, instigating the whole city to rebel, and in a blink of an eye, the inside and outside cooperated, and the city of the thieves was lost.

He carefully watched the battle at the bottom of the mountain, and after correcting Tong Ga'er next to him, he suddenly fixed his eyes and said, "Those are the Jingbian Army!"

All the slaves saw a sea of ​​flags coming from a distance, and among the flags were layers of cavalry, their formation was well-organized, and they seemed to be galloping.But even in Mercedes-Benz, they still maintain a strict formation, with a strong military spirit, and they come dazzlingly.

What's more, their soldiers and horses seemed to spread to the horizon, and there was no idea how many there were before and after. Tong Gar and others were all pale.

Sol and Nuo looked around cautiously, and said solemnly: "The Jingbian army is indeed dispatched, and the news must be sent back immediately."

There were a lot of horses gathered in the woods, all of them had bits on their mouths, and their hooves were wrapped in fine cloth, so that they could make no sound when they were running.

Sol and Nuo and others got on their horses quietly and left the woods quietly, just like the most skilled hunters, and they were very cautious and professional in their actions.Both the enemy and the enemy fighting in the plain below the mountain, no one noticed their existence.

"Master Cat, those Tartars seem to have returned to spread the news."

What Sol and Nuo and the others didn't know was that in a forest on a mountain a few miles away from them, a group of people were quietly spying on them.

They all held binoculars wrapped in gray cloth, wore gray felt hats, and wore gray clothes.The leader is an ordinary-looking man who looks like a shrinking old farmer, and a thin middle-aged man beside him is Yu Mao'er and Qian Hai.

A few years later, Yu Mao'er has become the backbone of the Jianshao Battalion, and at this time, he has the title of general officer, and Qian Hai beside him also has the title of team officer.

Their armor was also slightly changed, replaced by a whole body of gray clothes, but the inside was full of fine chain armor.

This is an upgraded version of the chain mail, not to mention the same lightness, but with better protection.

They used binoculars to spy on Sol and Nuo and the others from a few miles away. Sol and Nuo thought they were careful, but in fact his every move fell into the eyes of Yu Maoer and the others.

Seeing them get on their horses and go away quietly, Yu Mao'er ordered: "Don't disturb them, just follow them far behind."

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Outside Changping City, Liu Zeqing and Qiu Lei's subordinates were all over the mountains and plains. They could not go back to Changping City, so they ran desperately towards the capital.They all ran desperately, only hating their parents for losing two legs.

The elite cavalry in red gold-edged livery kept roaring and chasing after them. Except for these death-threatening elite cavalry, these rout soldiers were horrified to find that wherever they passed, villagers from every village and village greeted them. All are wielding hoes and sticks.

That kind of crazy momentum will never stop until they are smashed into pieces.

And less than a month ago, on their way to Changping, almost all the people were eating pots of rice.

In less than a month, the situation of people's hearts has become like this.

Afterwards, there were soldiers chasing them, and civilians stopped and shouted to kill them all along the way. Liu Zeqing and Qiu Lei had fewer and fewer people around them. In the end, they completely gave up on the infantry, and only hoped that the cavalry and cavalry in the battalion could escape with their lives.

However, there were too many chasing soldiers, at least six or seven thousand cavalry were biting them tightly, and the two cavalry was only three thousand, and they didn't know how much they had lost in the previous chaos.

Slowly, they even gave up on ordinary horsemen, and only hoped that the servants could escape with their lives.

Seeing the Jingbian army cavalry chasing after him closely, Liu Zeqing was filled with despair. Even if he could escape with his life, after he arrived in the capital, there would be less than a hundred of his cavalry troops under his command. What is it in Dashun?

Why is this happening?

Liu Zeqing has not yet understood what happened.

He had a feeling that he was still in a dream.

(End of this chapter)