Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 667
After all, the rebel army is not a regular army. Even if it is a regular official army, the military discipline of the Ming Dynasty is mostly very poor at this time.

Linyi was captured by the rebels, and a bloodbath was unavoidable. The green battalion soldiers in the city were wiped out, the young and strong who helped in the battle were also slaughtered, and even many people in the city were killed.

When Xie Qian entered the city, the soldiers had already started to clean up, but what caught his eyes was still bloodstains all over the ground and piles of corpses. He just walked to the magistrate's yamen step by step.

Zhao Shuxiang, who was traveling with him, frowned slightly. He had reminded Xie Qian to pay attention to military discipline, otherwise it would be difficult to achieve major events, but Xie Qian had his own ideas. He has become a bandit now, so why is he calling for military discipline instead of relying on killing and looting? Robbery, how to maintain a team of several 10 people.

However, looking at the corpses all over the city, Xie Qian felt a little bit blaming. It would be good to keep some young men from killing them as pioneers to supplement the army in the future. It is indeed a bit inappropriate to kill them all now.

When he came to the government office, Xie Qian called all the generals to meet.

"Marshal, all the enemy troops in the city were given heads, and Yi Yonggui was also killed by someone." Ding Keze's armor was stained with blood, and he reported loudly when he entered the lobby.

A group of generals followed him into the room, and one of them clasped his fists and reported, "Commander, the city's weapons, food and grass have been sealed up, and there is no specific number yet."

Xie Qian listened, nodded, and ordered: "Let the brothers have a full meal first, and then gather all the mules and horses in the city. If you can take away the food and ordnance in the city, take them away, and burn them if you can't take them away." .”

"Obey!" Several generals clasped their fists together.

Ding Keze suddenly asked: "Marshal, how long shall we stay?"

Xie Qian glanced at Zhao Shuxiang, who hurriedly said, "Marshal, the sooner you leave, the better!"

Xie Qian nodded after listening, without hesitation, "Just listen to the advice of the military adviser, and we will leave tomorrow."

The rebel army only rested for one night, and started to pack their bags the next day. All the people in Linyi City were driven out of the city.

After the main force left, Ding Keze led more than a thousand soldiers and started lighting fires around with torches. The corpses piled up in yesterday's battle were also burned, and thick smoke billowed into the sky.

Thirty miles away from Linyi City, a group of yellow-armored cavalry was galloping along the road. Suddenly, the leading general reined in the reins, and the entire cavalry team also stopped, looking extremely elite.

The war horse and the people on it all gasped, and a Jia Lazhangjing stepped forward on his horse and asked, "Gu Shan, what's the matter?"

He Luohui's war horses were spinning, he pulled the reins, stabilized the horses, then pointed the whip to the south, and asked in a huff, "Is that direction Linyi?"

Jia Lazhangjing heard the words, straightened his helmet with one hand, looked up, and saw the smoke and dust billowing from the south, his face was startled, "This is it?"

He Luohui sighed slightly, "We are late."

Jia Lazhangjing asked again: "Gu Shan, shall we continue to chase, or wait for Governor Ma's troops to arrive?"

He Luohui looked at the smoke and dust, pondered for a while, waved his horsewhip, and said loudly: "Chasing, I should not have gone far."

On the northern plains, the cavalry is fearless. Although Heluohui has only 30 cavalry, he dares to challenge [-] Gaoyuan thieves.

It was extremely lucky for Xie Qian to make the decision to leave immediately. If he was a day late, he would be blocked in the city by the Heluo Society.

Since the change of Hauge, Oboi, Sonny and other ministers of the Two Yellow Banners followed Hauge to Guanzhong with some people. Dorgon was appointed to supervise the battle, just to train the team and unite the hearts of the people.

Three thousand yellow armored cavalry galloped all the way to the outside of Linyi County. There were still lights flickering in the city, but Xie Qian's team had been gone for a long time.

He Luohui left the brigade and rushed forward with light cavalry. He originally wanted to get supplies in Linyi, but now it is impossible. Xie Qian not only burned the city clean, but also all the villages outside the city were burned. burnt.

At this time, if you want to get supplies, you have to wait for Ma Guanghui behind, or go to a further village to collect food, but He Luo will choose to continue chasing while there is still some food and grass.

The yellow-armored cavalry followed the marks left by the rebels and chased after them. One day later, they caught up with the rebels. After Xie Qian reported, he immediately went forward with mules, horses and food, leaving a large number of people behind him. The Heluo Society didn't care about it, and rushed to kill, blood flowing like a river.

Huangjia Baqi dispersed the refugees and chased them for more than 40 miles. The Heluo Society had to stop. There was no supplies. Even if people could endure hunger, war horses could not.

At this time, Xie Qian, who had escaped from the pursuit of the Qing soldiers, had more than 30 people running away to only a little over [-] people, but his main force was not lost. The troops broke through several counties and will soon be replenished.

One hundred thousand Gaoyuan thieves, except for Fucheng, which can resist a little, other small and large counties can basically break through with one attack.

The rebel army quickly captured Tancheng, took a rest here, and then went south again, burning everything along the way. In order to increase the difficulty of the Qing army's pursuit, the rebel army began to divide into three groups after breaking through Xinyi.

The three-way rebel army immediately abandoned the city after they took down the city, leaving all kinds of altars and pots, and engaged in mobile warfare. Although the Eight Banners soldiers were good at mobile warfare, the Qing troops in the Huaihe River and Huaihe River were weakly deployed, and the Qing court placed here all green infantry, and the rebels came and went without a trace. The Qing army who came to crusade was dragged exhausted.

Ma Guanghui, who followed behind, led more than 3 green battalions, how depressing and depressing it was. The place where the Gaoyuan thieves passed was in ruins. Flow thief.

Ma Guanghui made no achievements. He was basically waiting for the food and grass. In the cycle of being unable to catch up with the food and grass, He Luohui won a few battles, but also broke his leg.

Within a few months, the Manchu Qing suffered heavy losses, and three or four soldiers died. Suqian, Haizhou, Shuyang, Xiangshui, and Guannan were successively attacked by rebels, and Huaibei was turned into a ball of mud. Xie Qian Known as the "Tiger of the Two Huaihe Rivers".

With the destruction of the place by the rebel army, there were hundreds of thousands of refugees in Huaibei. In order to survive, these refugees also began to attack cities and loot food, and gradually formed a chain reaction, gradually spreading to Huainan and Henan.

Dorgon, who was far away in Beijing, received the report and understood Chongzhen's difficulties. He had no choice but to reprimand Ma Guanghui and remove him from the post of governor of the three provinces. And lost the eight banners of Mongolia to form a bandit suppressing army, marched to Lianghuai in a mighty way, took over the command power, and came to wipe out the Xie Qian group.

　Thank you Qin Songwang for the two hundred book coins, thank you for the legend of the hungry wolf, and thank you for the reward of 130, and thank you for the monthly pass, it seems that there are more than 500.

　　
　
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