Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 384
I don't know if Wei Shuzhen can listen to her own words, the Confucian ethics she firmly believes in requires her to die for the whole festival.

But the vast majority of literati who promoted these ethics were extremely shameless. When Li Zicheng came, Beijing civil officials rushed to post posts hoping to be reused. When the Manchus came, they were like this again. Came, and they still do.

As a man, he can't uphold his character, can't keep women, and instead asks them to make sacrifices, this is a literati.

Yang Chao couldn't help but think of other peoples. Genghis Khan had just gotten married when his wife was snatched away by the enemy. It took Genghis Khan and his allies nine months to snatch his wife out. At that time, the wife was already pregnant, and it was self-evident who the child was, but Genghis Khan didn't say anything, he didn't treat his son differently in his life, and he didn't vent by humiliating his wife, but never mentioned it.

It's not the woman's fault that a woman is taken away, it's the man's shame, and if it's a man's, he has to take it back, and it's not his honor if he gets it back, it's just a shame.

Yang Chao didn't think the nomads' wives were snatched back after being robbed of their moral concerns. It was just the bottom line for a man. If he did it, he should not be proud of it, but if he couldn't, he should feel ashamed.

Going out directly from the gate of the Governor's Mansion, sure enough, all the Tartars in the Governor's Mansion have been evacuated.

There are no Tartars on the street outside, but if you can see a neat army, after meeting, it is easy to confirm that they are all your soldiers. Obviously, these soldiers have already entered the west city from the east city.

It's a pity that they didn't fight much in the west of the old city, because most of the Qing troops were looting in the east.

Except for the guards guarding Duoduo and the guards at the city gate, everyone else was plundering frantically, for fear that if they were slow to move, they would be preempted by others.

Yang Chao led his troops to Tongsi Gate without encountering any resistance, even at the gate of the city, because it was already occupied by Wang Pu. Obviously, Wang Pu's attack on the Governor's Yamen was much smoother than Yang Chao's attack on the Governor's Mansion. He came to the city gate earlier, but Yang Chao didn't see Wang Pu himself.

"Where's Wang Pu?"

Ask a general manager who Wang Pu left behind.

The general said: "Master Wang has killed back again, he said he is going to meet the brothers in the east of the city!"

Yang Chao was immediately displeased: "Nonsense!"

This time he must take Wang Pu's sword. The military order is to fight from east to west, and then leave the city from the west, so you can't love to fight.

But Wang Pu was the first to come out to destroy Yang Chao's plan, and the influence was too bad.

After waiting for an hour, Wang Pu did not come back, but others came one after another.

"Fortunately, my lord did not disgrace his life, all the Tartars will be killed!"

Even Xie Fei came back.

"Have you seen Dodo?"

Yang Chao asked immediately.

Xie Fei shook his head: "I've never seen them before. They are all generals. It seems that there are no generals."

He had pursued the last of the dozen or twenty guards to escape through the windows.

Yang Chao sighed, and learned from the woman on Duoduo's bed that as soon as Duoduo heard the sound outside, he fled from the window without hesitation, taking only a few people with him. As for the guards who stayed behind, basically It can be confirmed that they are giving Duduo a final decision.

Therefore, those people Xie Fei chased were not with Duoduo at all.

It is really a pity that the great merit is so close, but it is so helpless to escape.

"I can't wait any longer. That kid is probably going crazy. It seems that he doesn't want to come back."

Now it was an opportunity, the Tartars might not be able to rectify it until now, so Wang Pu sometimes rallied to defeat the widows, he probably didn't want this opportunity to kill the enemy, and now he didn't know where he went.

But Wang Pu can't be left alone, this guy brought a thousand elites to the East City, and he lost too much.

"Zhao Kang, you take 3000 soldiers to the Great East Gate, and I will take [-] people to the Little East Gate, and the others will guard here. Before I come back, I must not lose the city gate!"

At this time, the whole army had returned to their positions, and only Wang Pu was away. Yang Chao decided to snatch the East and West Gates in his hands, thus leaving a passage for Wang Pu to retreat to the old city safely.

Move quickly and dispatch troops to set off.

Yang Chao took Xiaodongmen very easily, because there was no defender here at all.

Here, I could finally hear the fighting in the east of the city. To Yang Chao's surprise, there were more than a dozen places of fighting, almost all over the east of the city, and one after another, one side just calmed down, and the other side broke out again. .

Yang Chao couldn't help being annoyed: "How many teams did Wang Pu divide into?"

He only brought a thousand or so people with him. Judging by the scale of the chaos in the city, there might be around twenty teams.

After waiting for another half an hour, the city was still in chaos, and Yang Chao felt that something was wrong.

"Xie Fei, bring 100 people in and look for it. If you find Wang Pu, come back immediately. If you can't find Wang Pu, grab me two tongues and come back. Remember to come back within half an hour no matter what!"

After waiting for another half an hour, it turned out that Wang Pu did not come back, but Xie Fei came back on time with two surrendered soldiers.

"Forgive me, my lord. The little one went over the limit. It's the little one's mistake. But that's what my lord ordered, so it's not bad for the little one."

"What the hell?"

Xiao Bing is very honest and kowtows to beg for mercy when they meet each other, but he calls Yang Chao nonsense.

"Didn't your lord arrest the little ones and question them?"

The soldier was also a little foolish.

"What happened to Xie Fei?"

Ask Xie Fei first, Xie Fei is also very puzzled, he met these soldiers under an excuse, but at that time two groups of twenty or so people were fighting each other, Xie Fei strangled the two groups of people at the same time, at first he was very nervous Be careful, he didn't dare to act rashly, he observed carefully for a long time before taking action, because at first he thought that one of the soldiers was Wang Pu's subordinates.

After finally finding out that the two groups of people were not Wang Pu's subordinates, although he felt weird, he was not polite and took them all down.

After asking Xie Fei, Yang Chao roughly guessed the situation, but he even lied to the little soldiers: "Why do you loot indiscriminately, dare not obey Prince Yu's military order, what crime should you deserve!"

Yang Chao did take the opportunity to pretend to be a soldier of Duoduo, and questioned this surrendered soldier. This surrendered soldier was obviously a newly attached soldier, and he didn't recognize several Eight Banners soldiers. It was impossible to distinguish Yang Chao's attire in the dark. Everyone is in armor, no matter how you look at it, they are all elites.

Therefore, Xiaobing didn't have any doubts, but kept trying to defend himself.

Tell Yang Chao that at the beginning they also robbed strictly according to the divided areas, but other troops always went overboard, and their adults felt that they were at a disadvantage, so they sent them to rob other places secretly.

Yang Chao knows the habits of the Qing army. When entering the city to loot, they always divide the area and cannot cross the border without authorization. The best territory must be allocated to the Manchu Eight Banners, followed by the Mongolian Eight Banners, and the last is the Han Eight Banners. The next time is the surrender.

Obviously, the regular army of the Manchu Qing would strictly follow this method to plunder, which is the most efficient way, but Duoduo received too many surrendered troops in Jianghuai. During the siege, they were frightened by killing, but with the money moving their hearts, they must have left the military law of the Qing Dynasty behind.

As for whether Duoduo will settle accounts after the autumn and take the opportunity to suppress a group of surrendered soldiers after the looting is over, then I don't know.

Xiao Bing also said that after everyone crossed the boundary at first, they just yelled and cursed, or went to Duoduo to file a lawsuit.

But since yesterday, it has become chaotic, because the lawsuit is too troublesome, and Doduo can't settle it for a while. Temporary deregulation.

As a result, the situation of crossing the border has become more and more serious today, and many small military officers have organized robbery to other places.

Especially tonight, many soldiers were suddenly attacked and killed in their own territory, so everyone took revenge and complained, and took up knives to seek revenge. They were fighting with a team that crossed the border under the leadership of the general. The team claimed that the person who killed them was coming to take revenge, but the Xiaobing team completely believed that the other party was an excuse to cross the border to rob.

After hearing this situation, Yang Chao did not expect it at all. Of course, before tonight, there was a lot of friction among the various troops in the Qing army, especially the surrendered troops, but everyone has not lost their minds and has not developed to the point of fighting each other. .

However, Yang Chao led troops to fight from east to west, making many people think that the enemy killed them, so they simply drew out their knives and went to revenge.

This means that the military discipline of the army robbed by the Qing army in the city at this time is gone, and what is exaggerated is that they don't even know that the Ming army led by Yang Chao has entered the city.

Maybe they took it for granted that they didn't think that the Ming army had the guts to attack, and besides, they didn't hear the sound of cannons or the sound of siege, and maybe even the outposts of the captive soldiers didn't find any enemy troops approaching Yangzhou during the day, so they didn't think at all. There will be battles at night, so the team of dead people thinks that other teams killed them.

Yang Chao's thoughts began to diverge involuntarily. Ordinary soldiers don't know the situation, and surrendered soldiers don't know the situation, so what about Duoduo, does Duoduo know or not.

"Xie Fei, do you think Doduo would think who was attacking him just now?"

Xie Fei also felt that something was wrong, and said puzzledly: "Sir, you mean that Doduo didn't know that we attacked him."

Yang Chao nodded: "If he didn't know it was us, would he think who did it?"

Xie Fei immediately replied: "He would think it was a mutiny! He thought it was a rebellion!"

Yang Chao nodded and continued to ask: "If Duoduo decides it was a mutiny, what will he do after he escapes?"

Xie Fei said: "It should be to rectify the troops and horses, and then put down the rebellion."

Yang Chao nodded: "What kind of soldiers and horses will he use to counter the rebellion?"

Xie Fei said: "Probably it will be the elite of the Eight Banners of his headquarters."

Yang Chao asked again: "Will Duoduo use Zhang Tianfu and Liu Liangzuo's surrendered troops? Do you dare to use them?"

Xie Fei hesitated: "I probably dare not."

Yang Chao smiled and didn't ask. Xie Fei's heart was already boiling. If Duoduo didn't trust surrendering troops at this time and dared not use surrendering troops, the only troops he could mobilize in the city were thirty thousand and eight banner elites. These elites began to suppress the surrendered soldiers who were looting and fighting, and stabilized the situation in the city.

But Xie Fei really couldn't figure out what to do on his own side. The complexity of the situation made it difficult for him to see through it for a while.

In fact, no one can see through.

At this time, Wang Pu led the team back.

Seeing Yang Chao, he yelled loudly: "My lord, the Tartars are in chaos, let's take advantage of the chaos and kill again, from here to the east gate, and then go out from the east!"

Yang Chao couldn't help but glared at Wang Pu, and at the same time denied his suggestion.

He snorted coldly and said, "Do you only kill once?"

(End of this chapter)