Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 426
The heavy cannon carts pressed the road into two deep ruts, dragged by strong oxen in the front, and pushed by manpower in the back, and the red barbarian cannon weighing more than 5000 kilograms was pulled back, and a large number of people shouted Pushing up with the trumpet, Song Qingshu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the cannon sticking out like Tintin on the first bastion.

He has seen the virtue of selling teammates in the Ming army. This time he went north to Baoding Mansion for more than 100 kilometers. Song Qingshu didn't want to drag his luggage.Just two words, huh, huh.

However, there were too few cavalry in the living army, and the main output was artillery, and he had to bring sixty Hongyi cannons. Fortunately, the dead ghosts and slaves left him three usable ones.

Not to mention, Jurchen's cannon-casting skills are really average. The Qing army's cannon is three times heavier than the begging army's Hongyi cannon. The caliber is only a little bit larger, and you can still see a lot of trachoma on the cannon. The skin is rough and the meat is thick. Except for the two doors that were directly hit by the shells and have been cracked, the remaining three doors are still usable. They just extend to three mounds and bastions. The division is left behind, plus more than 2 militiamen who have received military training, it is estimated that it is foolproof.

Jiannu was taken away, and more than 3 people who were rescued were also placed here. Song Qingshu planned to take only seven divisions this time, each carrying half a month's canned dry food, plus [-] driving militiamen, and went into battle lightly. , if there is a fight, then fight along with it, if everyone else retreats, naturally I will not follow up foolishly.

As for Lu Xiangsheng, who died tragically in history, there is nothing to help him.

When the second cannon was installed and Song Qingshu felt a little more relaxed, there was a sudden burst of noise from the side of the avenue, and he saw countless people carrying luggage, driving animals, and families suddenly appearing on the avenue. For the victims, Song Qingshu couldn't help but feel his heart tense, and told his subordinates to move quickly, and he ran down quickly.

"Stop them and ask where the disaster victims are? Is it broken again!"

Amid Song Qingshu's roar, the officers and soldiers on duty immediately moved forward with bayonets in their hands. They were obviously afraid of the officers and soldiers. A large group of people were all stopped, but Song Qingshu was stunned by the question.

These guys are all residents of Gaoyang City and nearby.

"Lu Bingbu will soon have a decisive battle in Baoding Mansion. The nearby Jianlu have been wiped out. Why are you still fleeing?"

Really puzzled, Song Qingshu grabbed an old man in astonishment and questioned him, but the old man who asked had a bitter face.

"Back to the army, you always slaughtered the nearby Jianlu, so we have to run away. How many years have passed? When will the imperial army beat Jianlu? When is it not enough to watch Jianlu burn, kill and loot? , retreat by yourself, and then the soldiers have to come and harm us? This will wait until the soldiers can't bear it anymore and collapse, and the Jian captives come and don't want to massacre the city?"

"Mr. Jun, you are always the reincarnation of Marshal Qi. If you can clean up Jianlu, you will always show mercy and let us go!"

The old man Shanshan came, but Song Qingshu couldn't help being silent when he listened to it. This is his own land, and the common people have lost their sense of security before the war. What a shame for them as soldiers?

The incompetence of the army has already distrusted the people to such a degree. Although he did not classify himself as the same kind as the three frontier soldiers and the bandit suppression army, Song Qingshu's face was hot when he heard these words. After the Qing Tartars entered the customs and occupied the Central Plains so quickly, the common people's sense of belonging to the Ming Dynasty was gone, and their hearts were scattered. What else could they use to fight against foreign enemies?

"Get out the can!"

"Master?"

Hearing Song Qingshu's roar, the soldiers behind asked back in astonishment, but seeing Song Qingshu's flaming eyes, they ran back quickly. After a while, under the amazed gaze of the refugees who were stopped, more than ten carts of canned food were pushed out .

"Get some points for one person! It's not much, but it's enough for you to last for a while. If you can, go to Anqing as much as possible, and report to the prefect of Anqing the name of the Lianghuai commander. , how precious it is!"

Seeing Song Qingshu bowed down, the refugees all stared round in disbelief. After a long time, the old man who answered took a few cans from the car tremblingly, and bowed to Song Qingshu, Immediately, carrying the burden, he fled south in a hurry.

With a challenge, the refugees in the back finally let go, stretched out their hands to hug a few cans, and bowed to Song Qingshu, and then fled south. After pushing several carts of canned food out, until noon, these people finally completely disappeared.

"Master! The guns are ready."

I don't know when, Sun Chuanting also came out, and watched with Song Qingshu for a while, then gently reminded me that Gaoyang City had already been closed for several days and there was nothing wrong with it, Song Qingshu turned his head in confusion .

"Mr. Boya, tell me, can we turn this world around?"

Seeing Song Qingshu's expression for the first time, Sun Chuanting was taken aback, but he is one of the most ruthless people in the world, Sun Chuanting nodded emphatically without even hesitating.

"must be able to!"

His eyes gathered a sharp edge again, and Song Qingshu seemed to wake up all of a sudden. After nodding his head heavily, he looked back at the towering bastion, and pulled out his saber heavily.

"Blow the rallying call! Gather the army, let's go north!"

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It was originally planned to rest for one night and leave the next day, but in Song Qingshu's mind, the army moved forward by a day. Fortunately, a battle of annihilation has just been completed, and many people have witnessed the atrocities committed by Jianlu, and they are full of murderous intent , Carrying bayonets and pushing artillery carts, more than 7000 sergeants took a breath and meandered northward.

On this journey, Song Qingshu has seen what hell is.

Along the way, I passed four counties, each of which was covered with black smoke. In the midst of winter, the fires had not been extinguished for several days. The heads of each village were covered with hanged corpses. Daming, specially built a pile of human heads, each of which was purple from the cold, stacked together ferociously.

On the first day, no living people were found at all. On the second day, Tanma found some people along the way, but before they could catch up, the people scattered. Only then did he find some local commoners, and upon inquiring, the main force of the Ming army had already been dispatched to the direction of Julu.

The battle line extends westward from the capital, and the giant deer has already reached the central part of Hebei, far away from the capital, but Houjin's intention to consume the national power of the Ming Dynasty has been carried out to the fullest. Song Qingshu has never seen a few complete prefectures and counties during this journey. Even the Zhending Mansion was breached.

After another three days of marching southward, during the three months since the Qihuo army dispatched troops, it can be regarded as encountering a large team of the same Ming army.

The ones I met were old acquaintances, the frontier army of Xuanda in Shanxi, but Jiang Xiang, the deputy general of Datong that Song Qingshu knew, Qiu Ming, the general guard of Yanmen Pass, and Xu Dingguo, the general of Shanxi, were not here. Xu Dingguo fought the previous year. After losing the battle, they were knocked down. As for Jiang Xiang and Qiu Ming, both of them are powerful people behind the scenes. This is a hard thing to do with Jianlu. Naturally, they don't want to come to garrison Julu Guangzong County. , it was Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of Datong whom Song Qingshu had never seen before.

It's not that he has never dealt with the frontier army before, and Song Qingshu, who is poor in the frontier army, also knows it in his heart, but this Datong army has refreshed his senses. At any rate, the three frontier soldiers still have a ragged cotton jacket in winter, and they even have a ragged cotton jacket None, still wearing tattered single clothes, blowing cold wind, all clustered together.

It doesn't look like an army at all, the Datong soldiers from the Sanyi Regiment and the May [-]st Regiment are really dead. Even if the begging army arrives around them, they don't bother to look up, and they just try to put their hands on the edge of the fire. Come to think of it, even if the slave cavalry came to kill at this time, not many were willing to stand up and resist.

The entire camp was also dilapidated, with fences outside crumbling here and there, and most of the inside were not tents, but sheds randomly built by soldiers cutting down trees, similar to the ones used by Mr. Bei in Wilderness Survival, not even a patrol army, Occasionally, when the fire was about to burn out, one or two small soldiers would be reluctantly kicked up by the leader to find firewood. The former army stopped by the camp, looking at the scene inside, Song Qingshu couldn't help shaking his head.

Want to fight side by side with such an army?

Fortunately, at this time, a mid-air yell came from inside.

"Where did the soldiers and horses arrive at the defense area of ​​my Datong General Army without announcing?"

It looked really familiar, a dozen big-armed, round-waisted sergeants walked out swaggeringly, all of them were wearing the kind of outer iron plate produced by Daixian Sewing Factory, and the inner pressed strong cotton The piece of foam cotton armor, the waist knife on the waist also looks quite new, completely different from the rusty waist knife and spear in the soldier's hand.

This is probably a personal soldier. Wang Pu was born in the Jingying camp, but his family is a big landlord in Datong. Even though he was disappointed, Song Qingshu gave Xiaobao a wink, and the latter immediately ran out with his horse between his legs, and rushed directly to the fence of the Datong Army, shouting at the top of his voice.

"Governor Lufeng led troops from the Huaihe River and Huaihe River to help here, and I would like to invite the commander-in-chief of Datong to go out and see you!"

Nominally, the real commander-in-chief of this army is Ma Shiying, but even his standard battalion doesn't listen to him very much. Song Qingshu is the only one who really keeps his word, but Song Qingshu still wants to give Ma Shiying face when he is away. Wherever he went, he had to fight under his banner first. When he heard about the Huaihuai soldiers and horses, the dozen or so soldiers who came out immediately turned their faces straight, lowered their heads and murmured, and the three of them ran back immediately, and the rest of them directly sent to the camp. The door was opened, and Song Qingshu's personal soldiers were welcomed in.

After a while, a "can" wearing armor came out with a smile on his face. This person was called "can" and he was not at all subdued. He had a square face, a square body, thick arms and short legs, and his face was still in the winter. It's all oil, so it's not afraid of drying out, so far away, the guy waved his hand and shouted with a smile on his face.

"Oh, Mr. Song is here, why don't you send someone to say, Mr. Song's demeanor, Mr. Wang has been friends with him for a long time. Oh, he is worthy of being the God of Wealth in Shanxi. Looking at the clothes worn by his own soldiers, it is better than The members of Wang’s family must have a lot of energy!”

Seeing the canned food coming towards him, Song Qingshu couldn't help the corners of his mouth twitching a few times, who the hell has been friends with you for a long time, I love your sister so much, it's almost as good as your brother-in-law.

(End of this chapter)