scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 399 The Importance of the Kitchen Knife Real Name System

The Fatty Army’s Northern Expedition really doesn’t have much to introduce. The main opponent of the Fatty Army’s north line is Gao Dejie. There is only a regular Qing army stationed in Suqian with a number of about 3000 people. It is basically composed of defeated Qing troops on the Huai’an battlefield. Composition, low morale and lack of food and pay, stationed in Suqian is not so much to prevent the fat army from going north, but rather to monitor the movement of the fat army's northern line from a distance, so that when the fat army launches the northern expedition, the news can be sent to Beijing as soon as possible.The fat army led by Gao Dejie had just crossed the Yellow River, and this Qing army had already abandoned the city and fled under the leadership of Nomqi, the capital of the Qing army, and ran to Xuzhou City in one breath, guarding behind closed doors, and was still in Suqian before leaving There was a big grab in town.

Gao Dejie's other opponents were even worse. The prefectures and counties were basically defended by Xiangyong and a small number of green battalions. Usually there are only two choices to be made, one is to open the city and surrender, the other is to abandon the city and flee. There is no one city or one place that slightly hinders the Fatty Army from going north. Too many people blocked the road and slowed down the progress of the fat army.

Less than ten days after crossing the Yellow River, the nine counties of Xuzhou and Haizhou were all included in the territory of the Fatty Army. The only battle took place under Xuzhou City. Qi's deputy, Lin Ke, had already beheaded the hard-core traitor Wang Mingde, the magistrate of Xuzhou who refused to surrender, opened the city gate of Xuzhou, and led the officials and soldiers in the city to surrender to the fat man's army.As for the coach of the Qing army Nuomuqi, because he accidentally took the surname of Niu Colu, who was sure to kill the fat army, he fled back to Shandong from the canal with gold and silver.

Immediately afterwards, Fatty's army divided into two groups. Gao Qi led a partial division from Shuyang to Yizhou north, and Gao Dejie personally led the main force to Yanzhou to attack the two important towns of Yanzhou and Jining. For the first time, the soldiers entered Shandong.The situation of the Qing army in Shandong is even more miserable. The main force has been completely exhausted in the previous battles. The regular army of the Qing army in Shandong is less than 1. The situation of lack of pay and food is even worse than that of the Qing army in Xuzhou. Seriously, the morale is even lower. It is already extremely difficult to deal with the successive civil uprisings and the plethora of bandits, let alone stop the fat man's army from going north. Duan Yingju, the admiral of Shandong, is hiding in Jinan City and refuses to come out. The three prefectures of Yizhou, Yanzhou and Jining who were guarding all surrendered. The only trouble for the Fatty Army was that there were too many surrendered troops, and they almost ate up the rations carried by the forward troops of the Fatty Army.

It was also at this time that Gao Dejie finally understood why Fatty Lu predicted that going north too soon would drag down the logistics of the Fatty Army. In the two prefectural cities of Yizhou and Yanzhou that voluntarily surrendered, the food in the treasury combined was less than Five thousand shi, and the local officials have not received a penny of salary or a meter of Lumi for more than two years and almost three years. They live entirely on the fire consumption levied during taxation, begging around the fat army camp every day There are tens of thousands of hungry refugees. Originally, I wanted to recruit 4 civilians to dredge the canal, and I only gave them two meals a day and an ultra-low wage of ten copper coins. As a result, [-] people came all at once, and many of them were They ran from the area controlled by Mite Qing, and almost robbed the granary on the construction site.Gao Dejie couldn't laugh or cry, so he had no choice but to expand the number of recruits. He also listened to the suggestion of Zhang Bingzhi, the civilian deputy, and borrowed food from the local gentry with the guarantee of military pay.

Another Northern Expeditionary Army of the Fatty Army, Han Daren's team, had a little easier logistics. Anhui is a grain-producing area, and the folks have a little grain storage, so Han Daren's army will not increase the burden on logistics in order to buy people's hearts. The few remaining Qing troops in Anhui did not have the courage to fight to the death with the Fatty Army. Governor Jin Fu steadfastly guarded Anqing City, the largest granary in Anhui, and did not dare to stand out. After being completely killed by the Fatty Army, the nearby Lu'an Prefecture took the initiative to send a surrender form to ask for surrender, but was unexpectedly rejected by Han Daren——If Lu'an is taken again, the Fatty Army will immediately border on the Wu Army Well, the famously selfish Han Daren naturally wouldn't do such a stupid thing.

Immediately afterwards, Han Daren's army continued to go northward to Fengyang Mansion, two hundred miles away from Fengyang Mansion City, Fengyang Prefect Zhang Qinwen had already voluntarily surrendered, and also withheld a batch of autumn grain that should have been taken to the capital for Fatty The army, in exchange for Han Daren Huyan Dayue, immediately expressed that he would ask Fatty Lu for Zhang Qinwen's reward, and then the surrounding Sizhou and Yingzhou also took the initiative to surrender, even Lin Sui, the prefect of Xiayi County, Guide Prefecture, which belonged to Henan, just now Hearing that the Fatty Army was dispatching troops to the northwest, he also sent his son hurriedly from hundreds of miles away to join the Fatty Army's ranks to surrender, donated his household registration register and accepted the jurisdiction of the Fatty Army, and the Fatty Army's claws finally reached Henan.

Basically, it can be said that the two Northern Expeditions of the Fatty Army are not so much the Northern Expedition, but the Northern Expansion is more accurate. The battles were basically not fought, and the time was completely wasted on marching and taking over the surrendered prefectures and counties. On the tenth day of the first lunar month of the first year of Honghua in the Great Zhou Dynasty and the first year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, when the Fat Army's Han Daren team entered Henan, the only decent opponent of the Fat Army's Northern Expedition was the army led by Tong Guogang and Fei Yanggu. The Qing Baoyi Army finally appeared within the scouting range of the Fatty Army's scouts, and entered Guide City on the same day, temporarily blocking Han Daren's northbound footsteps.

The marching speed of the Baoyi Army was about the same as the time Fatty Lu estimated when they arrived in Guide. Cai Luyi's army, who had risen in a hurry, could not stop the pace of Tong Guogang and Fei Yanggu. The Baoyi army broke through the city, and Cai Lu's father and son, who failed to break through, were killed together with Cai Lu's nephew. Then the Baoyi army also moved to Xuzhou according to the order of the old witch of Xiaozhuang, and prepared to guard against the most dangerous Xuzhou, where food and grass were barely sufficient. Fatty Army's Northern Expedition. As soon as they crossed the Yellow River and arrived in Kaifeng, they received news of the two Northern Expeditions of the Fatty Army. Gao Dejie and Han Daren's team blocked one from the north and one from the south.

When they entered Guide City, they found that they were flanked by the fast-advancing fat army from north to south. Tong Guogang and Fei Yanggu were already annoyed enough, and what made them even more angry was that when they rushed into Guide City to take over the city defense, they were shocked to find that Guide The magistrate Zhang Sui had already cut off his braids and sealed the treasury, and prepared the letter of surrender and household registration roster to surrender to the fat man's army.Under the rage, the Baoyi Army, which is notoriously corrupt in military discipline, naturally chopped Zhang Sui's family into meat sauce, and executed all the Guide officials and servants who had taken the initiative to cut their braids. Where exactly has it advanced.

It’s better not to reconnaissance, and finally figured out the surrounding situation. Tong Guogang and Fei Yanggu were frightened into a cold sweat. The Fat Man Gao Dejie’s team, which was advancing from Jining to the southwest, had already passed Jinxiang and headed towards Guide. The Shan County in the northeast came to kill, and the four counties in the south of Caozhou had already surrendered to the Fatty Army; and the Han Daren Department of the Fatty Army also entered Xiayi County on the tenth day of the first lunar month. But the situation is obvious, the cunning and insidious Han Daren must have discovered that the Packed Army has settled in Guide City, worried that the army will be exhausted and difficult to fight, so he let the army rest in Xiayi City for a night, and then may attack Guide at any time.

"Grandpa Tong, the Guide Mansion cannot be stationed permanently, we have to withdraw immediately!" Fei Yanggu made a decisive decision, and immediately suggested to Tong Guogang to retreat, and reminded: "The [-] troops in our hands can be said to be the largest army in the Qing Dynasty. The last elite must not be left here, only by bringing this army back can our Qing Dynasty have the last hope, the last seed."

"Where are you going to withdraw?" Tong Guogang asked back after thinking about it for less than three seconds.

"Withdraw back to Kaifeng first, and then retreat northward from Weihui Mansion (now Jixian County)." Fei Yanggu replied: "Judging from the strength of Wugou's troops, Wugou's northern expedition does not seem to be well-prepared. Chase too far."

"Retreat immediately." Tong Guogang also made a decisive decision, "Take away everything that can be taken away in Guide City, and burn everything that can't be taken away, including the civilian houses of the people. Don't leave any scum to Wugou!"

When the order was delivered, the Packed Army, which is famous for burning, killing, prostitution, and plundering, immediately became excited like chicken blood, and rushed into the civilian houses in Guide City in groups, with the screams of men and women. The sound, as well as the sound of rummaging through boxes and shattering pots and altars, soon came from the houses of the people. There were even many soldiers of the Packed Army who took the time to bully the beautiful civilian women, and more Packed Army soldiers set fire to the city everywhere. Soon, flames rose everywhere in Guide City, and thick smoke rose into the sky.

Tong Guogang and Fei Yanggu did not miscalculate the criticality of the situation, but they seriously underestimated the advancing speed of the Fat Man Army and their determination to annihilate the Packed Army in Guide. The scouts of the Yi Army will return to the city at [-]:[-], bringing the movement of Han Daren's army before [-]:[-]. Tong Guogang and Fei Yanggu decided to abandon the city and retreat. At three o'clock, the whole city was looted and the retreat was arranged. As a result, at the beginning of noon, the main force of the [-] fat army led by Han Daren had already rushed to the outskirts of Guide. The speed was so fast that it almost caught up with the scout horseshoe of the coated army. !
Tong Guogang and Fei Yanggu were shocked by the news and urgently ordered the Baoyi Army to abandon the looting and go out of the city to assemble, but the action was still one step too late. More than 3 Baoyi Army had just left the city with large and small bags of looted property and arrived at Tong Guogang. Gathering at the north gate designated by Fei Yanggu, Han Daren's army had already arrived within five miles. Tong Guogang and Fei Yanggu had no choice but to order the whole army to line up to fight. Beat Han Daren away and retreat calmly.

The current report is the fastest. When the Packed Army is in a hurry to form a battle, Han Daren has already started the pre-war mobilization in the Fat Army. Guys, have you seen that? The army full of dogs in front is the notorious Packed Army in the army full of dogs! This army of dogs has a habit of looting wherever they go, from Beijing to Chahar, They also robbed Tongguan from Chahar, and then robbed Guide from Tongguan, and robbed gold and silver as high as mountains, did you see that the carriages they brought were full of gold, silver and jewels!"

"Brothers! Those gold and silver are the blood and sweat of our Han people, what should we do if they are snatched by the dogs?" Han Daren asked furiously.

"Take it back!" The fat man's army officers and soldiers scrambled to raise their arms and shouted.

"That's right, grab it back!" Han Daren yelled, "Take back all the gold, silver and jewels of our Han people from the hands of the Man Gou! After defeating the Man Gou, half of the gold, silver and jewels we snatched back will be handed over to the Great Zhou Dynasty Court." , half of it will be divided equally by you, and this general will not take a cent!"

Although Han Daren, who has always been known for his selfishness, yelled that he wouldn’t even believe in ghosts if he didn’t get a penny, but the fat army soldiers whose upper beams were not upright and the lower beams were crooked, and whose eyes were red from being burnt by gold, silver and jewelry, still shouted like thunder, their morale was greatly boosted, “Get back! Grab it back! Grab it back!"

"Front arrow array! The whole army charges!" Han Daren didn't even bother to line up, and directly ordered the whole army to charge, and the well-trained fat soldiers quickly adjusted during the charge. It is an arrow, and the two wings spread out in the shape of an arrow. The large infantry lined up behind, charging at full speed with red eyes.

Marching in a hurry for more than 30 miles without even breathing, the fat man's tactics were naturally very risky, but Han Daren knew it himself, so he couldn't do it because Han Daren's team was different from Gao Dejie's team. There are only more than 3000 cavalry in total, which is less than half of the Packed Army. It is difficult to catch up with the Packed Army in the pursuit battle and gather together to wipe them out. The best way is to rush up and mix with the Packed Army , so that the Coating Army could not retreat smoothly, and bought time for Gao Dejie's reinforcements.Even if Gao Dejie's reinforcements can't arrive in time, they can use the scuffle to eliminate as many soldiers as possible from the Packed Army and complete part of the tasks assigned by Fatty Lu - by the way, Gao Dejie, who is incompatible with his characters, can be ashamed.

Fortunately, Han Daren's team is different from Li Tianzhi's Southern Expedition team. Li Tianzhi's team has relatively little actual combat experience. Except for a small number of elite veterans of the fat army, most of the soldiers can bully Geng Jingzhong's army, while Han Daren's team is He is a master of hundreds of battles who has been trained on the Western Front of the Fat Army who has seen and seen all the year round. He has rich experience and strong combat effectiveness. In addition, Han Daren's morale was ingeniously boosted. After the rapid march, he immediately charged. , and also killed the Baoyi Army by surprise——Tong Guogang and Fei Yanggu never expected that the Fatty Army would march in a hurry without resting, and immediately launched a charge.

Amidst the thundering shouts of killing, the Fatty Army took Han Daren's elite cavalry as arrows, like a sharp arrow off the string, galloping and charging with red eyes, directly plunging into the unsteady pack On the front of the clothes army, they advanced fiercely and viciously. The shouts and the collision of knives and guns made the ground tremble slightly.The same experienced Packed Army also quickly recovered, fought back fiercely from the front, outflanked the two wings, and besieged Han Daren's army with their superior strength, and fought hand-to-hand with the Fatty Army with swords and guns.

This is a fierce and tough battle of almost equal strength, without the flying of Miyoshi rockets, and the roar of artillery firing at each other - because these things are still in the fat man's rear, and there are no intrigues and ingenuity The tactical command, the dazzling interspersed and detours, not even a reserve team, some are just head-on, blood and corpses are good, the competition is whose sword is faster, whose fist is the hardest, and whose Whoever has the strongest will and collapses first is the loser.

In the melee, countless soldiers from both sides fought each other, everyone was crazy, everyone in the formation of knives and guns fought independently, the shadows of swords and swords flashed like waves, and amidst the screams, some people had their arms and heads chopped off. The blood spattered half the sky high, and the beheaded person was chopped off immediately, and the severed head and limbs fell to the ground, kicked and rolled around by the soldiers in the melee, and within a quarter of an hour, the blood splattered the people outside Guide North Gate. The land was dyed dark red, and the casualties of soldiers on both sides quickly exceeded the four-digit mark.

The hard-core traitor Zhou Peigong and the famous mite general Fei Yanggu jointly trained the Coated Army. The combat effectiveness in the field is no less than that of the Fat Army's first-line army. The fight was completely evenly divided, the ratio of casualties was almost always stable at one to one, and relying on the superiority of the troops, they gradually surrounded the fat army in a semicircle, slashing and killing around the fat army, smashing with knives, guns, fists, and rolling. It is not uncommon to see people who bite their throats, fingers and eyes together, and hug each other to perish together. It is not uncommon on the battlefield. The fat army gradually gathers into a regiment, struggling to contend with the superior strength of the coated army in a circular formation. The battle situation is gradually stalemate, but the strength and physical strength The coated army, which is both dominant, has a slight advantage.

Although they have a small advantage on the battlefield, Tong Guogang and Fei Yanggu still don't feel relaxed at all, because judging from the distance, if Gao Dejie's team, which is mostly cavalry, is marching normally, it should not arrive in Guide until after dark today. battlefield, but if the rapid march regardless of the horsepower, Gao Dejie's team may arrive at the Guide Battlefield at any time before sunset today, reversing the situation of the entire Guide Battlefield. No news of the arrival of the Packed Army in Guide was received, otherwise the possibility of not launching an urgent march is very slim.

Even if there is no hidden danger of Fatty Army reinforcements, Tong Guogang and Fei Yanggu would not dare to fight Han Daren so hard, because the Qing court now has only the last elite soldier left, the Baoyi Army, and if one dies, one will be lost. Even if the Baoyi army wins, it will be a disastrous victory, which will hurt their muscles and bones. What else will Tong Guogang and Fei Yanggu get to help Beijing?What else do the pursuers who arrive at Gaodejie take?
At the same time, it was impossible to retreat at this time. The battlefield was in a state of stalemate, and the coated army retreated before the battle.In desperation, Fei Yanggu had no choice but to ask Tong Guogang's consent to assemble a cavalry force of about [-] Qing cavalry around the periphery of the battlefield, detour to the rear of the fat man's army and charge, in vain attempting to use the cavalry to disperse the fat man's army in a surprise attack. Set up the victory.

Although Fei Yanggu's calculations are good, it is a pity that the infantry-based Fatty Army has always paid attention to the confrontation training between infantry and cavalry. Under the command, the formation was changed, and layers of carbine spears were set up in neat formations. As soon as Fei Yanggu's cavalry broke through the first layer, they were stopped by the second layer, losing their charge momentum. Going up, Wu Wu penetrated into the gap between the Qing cavalry, biting the Qing cavalry, preventing the Qing cavalry from retreating and regrouping, and charging again.

Evil is rewarded with evil. When the two armies were in a stalemate, riots suddenly broke out in Guide City. Countless Han people spontaneously organized and rushed out of the city. , and some simply held stones and kitchen knives—so Houqing demanded the real name registration of kitchen knives, red-eyed and shouting all kinds of slogans, rushing to the rear of the Packed Army, avenging themselves and helping the Fat Army to kill the enemy, bearing the brunt The only one was Tong Guogang who was hiding in the outer plundering battle. Although Tong Guogang's soldiers tried their best to resist, but the number of people was too large, the troops surrounding Tong Guogang just smashed and smashed randomly, forcing the Packed Army to divide their troops to rescue, and the Fat Army's morale was greatly boosted. , the slashing and killing in the melee was even more violent, gradually turning the situation around.

"Great Zhou!" When the fierce battle ended in the middle of the afternoon, there was a new cry of killing and thunderous hoofbeats. Tong Guogang, who was trapped in the middle of the battlefield by the people, hurriedly looked back. What made him frightened was that the official road to the north Above, the fat army cavalry of the brigade has appeared in the field of vision, and the tide is rushing towards the battlefield of Guide.

"The reinforcements are here!" Seeing the arrival of the reinforcements, the fat man's army cheered loudly and their morale was overwhelming, but everyone in the coated army was terrified. Killing, slashing and killing after catching the Baoyi army, chasing the Baoyi army's ass and stabbing the chrysanthemum.

After a while, when Gao Dejie, the Fat Man Army with 1 cavalry, rushed into the battlefield, there was no suspense about the victory of the Guide Battlefield. Run quickly, and the greedy ones rushed to the carriage full of belongings, drove the carriage to escape or grabbed some packages to escape, and many soldiers of the Packed Army simply dropped their weapons and surrendered, shouting, "Master Zhou, I am Han people, I am a bannerman of the Han army, you don’t kill Han people to surrender, and you don’t rob our things, this is what your Lord Lu personally stipulated.”

"Surrender is not allowed!" Although two or three miles away, the two generals of the Fat Man Army, Gao Dejie and Han Daren, issued exactly the same order in unison, "This team full of dogs is all beasts among beasts." , the beast of beasts! Not subject to surrender! Catch and kill!"

The order was conveyed, and the earth-shattering new slogan sounded in the fat man's army - kill the beast!The people of Guide, who had just been ravaged by the Packed Army for less than a day, also shouted together with the soldiers of the Fatty Army. They charged and killed more fiercely than the regular soldiers with red eyes. The army massacre was even worse. The angry people smashed them with hoes, sticks and stones, bit them with their teeth and tore them with their hands, and chopped them with kitchen knives. That's why Houqing required the real name system for kitchen knives, leaving behind a pile of dirty flesh and blood that could not be identified as an animal.

During the chaotic battle, Fei Yanggu, the famous general of the Qing Dynasty, tried to organize the army to break through, but when he shouted for orders, the plate armor on his body and the lightning rod on his head deeply betrayed his "noble" background, not only the cavalrymen of the winning team The fresh army concentrated their strength to kill him, and Han Daren, who had already killed his face covered in blood, also led his own soldiers to kill him. The soldiers of the Yiliju and Yilisan soldiers did not dare to resist at all, and left Fei Yang behind. Gu scattered and fled for his life, Fei Yanggu soon had only a dozen of his own soldiers left, and was soon overwhelmed by dozens of times the fat cavalry, and had no chance to escape from the siege.

Fei Yanggu was actually very lucky. The most unlucky one was Tong Guogang, the coach of the Baoyi Army. The ancestor of the founder who erected the stele just arrived in Guide yesterday. Countless Guide people kept in mind that this would lead to the collapse of the Packed Army. The Guide people's rebel army beat the dogs in the water. Tong Guogang, who was riding on a horse with a handsome flag beside him, naturally became the target of the angry Guide people. The soldiers were heavily surrounded by tens of thousands of Guide civilians, with no way to go to heaven or go to earth.

In order to survive, Tong Guogang broke through in the direction of the Fatty Army several times, intending to rush in front of the Fatty Army and surrender to save his life, but every time he was blocked by the people of Guide, and the soldiers around him were pulled off their horses one by one and torn to pieces. In the end, Gao Dejie's general Hu Guoliang took the initiative to charge forward with a team of cavalry, and the people of Guide gave way, so Tong Guogang was able to rush to the fat army and kneel down to surrender—he was surrounded by tens of thousands of people with red eyes and rage. In desperation, Tong Guogang also completely forgot the four-kill order of the Fatty Army.

Tong Guogang was not lucky enough to die under the sword of Fatty Army. As soon as he was captured by Fatty Army, countless people rushed to Fatty Army, crying and complaining about Tong Guogang and Bao Yijun's numerous crimes in Guide City, and begging Hu Guoliang to hand over Tong Guogang to them Disposal, Hu Guoliang, who was furious because his cousin Hu Guozhu was detained by Guo Zhuangtu, did not disappoint the expectations of the people. He first asked the soldiers of the fat army to break Tong Guogang's hands and feet, and then threw them to the people. The result was natural, countless After the torture, Tong Guogang couldn't even find any bones.

Of course, because of this decision, after the war, Hu Guoliang was also scolded bloody by Gao Dejie and Han Daren, "Idiot! Why don't you leave Tong Guogang's dog bones and burn them into ashes, and then burn them into toilets to make money ?Do you know how many Han people and Mongolian tribes have been harmed by this Mangou over the past few years? Do you know that someone has offered 1 taels of silver to buy one of the toilets burnt from the ashes of Emperor Mangou! You idiot! spendthrift!"

"Kill the beast!" The hunting battle is still going on, not only the people in Guide City, but also the people outside Guide City have joined the team chasing and killing the Packed Army, holding various weapons, roaring and rushing towards the army. Every single Packed Army soldier, every single Packed Army soldier who was caught, was beaten to death, buried alive in Ling Chi, and chopped into meat sauce with a kitchen knife!

Therefore, it is indeed necessary to implement the real-name system for kitchen knives.

(End of this chapter)