Chapter 012
Although Ma Zhongying claimed to be the orthodox Ming Dynasty to resist the Qing court, the Ming Dynasty at this time was not as good as the Zhou Dynasty surrounded by the Qing court in Kunming. Therefore, the Ma family army was not just rebelling rather than resisting the Qing Dynasty.
Since it was a rebellion, someone must be used as the basis. The Baisha people were so enthusiastic about the Ming Dynasty, so Ma Zhongying naturally happily brought the Baisha people into Longshan.
"Well……!"
The mayor Zhang Laoshi, who is organizing townsmen to trap animals for the Ma family army, was confused. Heaven and earth are in a conscience. We really just want to send you out of the country. We didn't want to join you Ming soldiers, but he didn't dare to say anything against him. The sword of the Ming general in front of him is still blood red.
Unlike the Central Plains, Yunnan is not the gentry class that controls the local area, but the chieftains who defend themselves in various places or local tribesmen. These people have a strong sense of rural concepts. When they heard that the Ming army was going to take them away, the townsmen looked up at Zhang Laoshi.
"What, you don't want to? Do you want to be traitors?"
Ma Zhongying's tone began to get colder, everything was fake, and the townspeople were so enthusiastic that they regarded us as plague gods, but even if you regarded us as plague gods, we would bring you all into Longshan.
The Ma family army was too weak, with only 800 soldiers and 300 surrendered soldiers. In order to cope with the Qing army's encirclement and suppression, it was necessary to expand its strength as soon as possible. How to quickly expand its strength? It was effective in imitating Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to force the people into the army.
Baisha Town is not big. The previous battle in Wumeng Mountain had already scared away merchants from all over the country. Now there are only four or five hundred villagers in the town. It is not difficult to force them into the mountain with 300 soldiers. Moreover, Longshan is only seven or eight miles away from Baisha Town. As long as you move quickly, you can all enter the mountain before dawn.
"Uncle Ba, stay here to help my second brother. I will leave this place to you. My father and the others will go to rest."
If you have a specialty in your profession, you must naturally have someone who is proficient in business to manage it. Baske has followed Ma Bao for many years and is also a big bandit with years of experience. With his coordination, you will be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort.
"Okay...Fifth Young Master, don't worry!"
Baske turned his head and looked at Ma Bao. Seeing that Ma Bao was unquestionable, he immediately bowed to take Ma Zhongying's general order.
Ma Bao knew what Ma Zhongying said to bring the people of Baisha into the mountains to fight against the Qing Dynasty. In fact, it was the same method of expanding the army by Li Zicheng, the King of Rebellion, and it was a means to fill all the people into the army and strengthen his own strength.
Otherwise, the Qing army would not take this little bit of troops from the Ma family army seriously at all. But once the number of people reaches a few thousand, it would be a large-scale armed force in the eyes of the Qing army. After all, they did not know how many real combat soldiers there were within the Ma family army.
There were two thousand armed forces. If they attacked some small county towns, the defenders in the city would never dare to go out of the city to fight, because just looking at the number of people would scare them to death, so they could only watch the large number of thieves looting villages and towns outside the city.
The reason why King Chuang succeeded back then was that he relied on this method of encouraging the people to join the army. Ma Bao, who was a bandit, used such despicable means to strengthen his son and did not reject him. After all, the Great Zhou was almost over, and the Ming Dynasty was almost over. As long as he could continue to fight against the Qing Dynasty, who would care about what means he used?
Ma Zhongying and Ma Bao had to rest in order to sneak attack Sanger camp early tomorrow morning, but Baske and Ma Zhongxing had to force themselves to start gathering the people in the city.
Of course, the name is called "closing", but in fact it is to force it with a knife, grab the bloody long sword in your hand, and there are sharp blades that dare to object, and the most important thing here is the newly attached Green Camp soldiers.
They had already cut their braids and shouted at the people in the town under the supervision of the Ma family army, as if they wanted to vent all the resentment in their hearts on the people.
In addition to force by force, Baske, a big bandit, used his talent as a bandit back then. He found several Eight Immortals tables. When the soldiers took more than 500 people from the town to the center of the town, they jumped onto the table and held a torch to shout at the people of Baisha Town.
"Do you want to have a meal every time?"
It is easy to eat every meal, but in this era when Yi Ding and the Three Feudals of the Ming and Qing Dynasties broke out, it was undoubtedly a very luxurious thing for ordinary people.
"Which one of us doesn't want such a good thing!"
The people who were driven over were immediately in an uproar, and under the illumination of torches, their expressions were turbulent.
"I know you think, not only you think, but I also think, but the damn Tatars and Wu Sangui of Zhou did not. For their kingly tyrants, they not only recruited us men to join the army, but also robbed all our food, money and women, so we have no food to eat. Do you think you are willing to be exploited by them like this?"
"this……!"
The people dare not speak anymore. The general's meaning was too clear, and he was bewitching them to rebel.
"Why are you afraid? I thought that all the men in Yunnan were heroes and heroes, but they were all cowards. You are just watching the Manchus steal all your money and women?"
It is better to provoke the generals than to ask for the generals. Baske, a veteran veteran general, learned the methods of bewitching people by Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and others. In order to win people's hearts, he even regarded the old master Wu Sangui as a negative example.
"You are a coward. Fuck your uncle. Who doesn't have the courage to fight with the Manchus? When Lord Sun was in Yunnan, my uncle was his commander. I will follow you up the mountain."
All righteous people are dog-slaughtering people. Those who are timid are passionate. Zhang honestly is afraid of things, but his son Zhang Shaoqian is not afraid of things. What is the point of fear for Manchus? Everyone carries one head on two shoulders. Could it be that if a rat tail is left, he will become a general?
The folk customs in Yunnan are already fierce, and one of them took the lead. Suddenly, five or six young people clamored among the crowd. In just a short while, almost all the men in Baisha Town shouted.
Zhang Zhen watched his son take the lead in joining the Ming army, and his face turned red with anxiety, but now people's hearts were already aroused, so how could he stop him?
Based on the principle of struggling while the iron is hot, and taking the people to Longshan immediately before they can get over the enthusiasm of the people.
There were more than 500 people, including about 200 young and strong, and the rest were old, weak, women and children. Baske immediately organized all the young and strong into the army and asked them to escort the people and their families to Longshan.
Because Baisha Town is guarding the important capital, the people are relatively wealthy, but the family's belongings are just like that, iron pots, rice, farm tools, and some poultry and livestock. All that is left is changing clothes and saving money.
Chapter completed!