Chapter 90 The expulsion of the people
"Chan Wen's son is treating me as Yang Hao."
Inside combat and defeated each one, Chen Wenming understood this truth, and Hong Chengchou had no reason to be in charge of his troops for many years.
However, due to the restrictions on the terrain, the Qing army would inevitably advance in multiple ways. In order to prevent the Ming army from defeating each other, Hong Chengchou ordered the Qing army to move slowly along the way, not to hurry up. As long as the Ming army's scattered forces in various places were expelled, it would not be better to engage in field battles with the main force of the Ming army.
After the Fujian soldiers who were heading to Jiangshan County were scared away by Chen Wen, in the next ten days, Chen Wen first moved to the Qing army that left Guangxin Mansion. After the Qing army retreated voluntarily, Chen Wen turned back to Jiangshan County to intercept the Fujian soldiers twice.
Three times, only the last time was the last time to catch up with a small army, while the main force of the Qing army fled without looking back, completely like a abandoned car to protect the coach.
In the situation, it seemed that the Ming army took the initiative. Once the Qing army showed the main force of the Ming army, it immediately turned around and did not dare to respond at all. However, after swallowing the small army of the Fujian Green Camp that time, Chen Wen did not dispatch again. Instead, he transferred the defenders of Jiangshan and Changshan counties back to Quzhou, and called on the people of the two counties to avoid it for a while.
From these clues, Hong Chengchou knew very well that Chen Wen had obviously seen his tricks, but there was no way to do this. Because every time he intercepted the whole route, the other Qing army would continue to advance and continue for a long time. The Ming army was afraid that they would be exhausted on the road without fighting. Moreover, the Qing army was not the only two encirclements of this time.
It would definitely not work if this continues. Hong Chengchou began to suppress bandits since the Chongzhen Dynasty and knew very well about the things in the army. No matter how elite the troops were, the continuous running was the thing that the soldiers hated and hated the most. Even if the morale issue was aside, it was completely impossible for the Ming army to run around like this. It was far better to shrink the front line and return to Quzhou with the strong city and the infantry that often fought in the field to regain the initiative, at least not as far as it is now.
However, Hong Chengchou did not fail to consider this. He had his own way to react to his control. He had ordered Li Benshen and Yang Minggao a long time ago. I think it should have begun at this moment.
On April 22, 2018, the seventh year of Yongli, after exploring the situation that the Ming army had covered some people who were willing to take refuge with them, he sent Yang Jie, the general of Jiujiang, Jiangxi to accept the county town. However, after Yang Jie took over the county town, the first thing he did was not to release the people's notice, but to plunder it and then bombard the people in the county town out of the city, and sent a large group of cavalry to drive the people to Changshan Port and transport them to the Ming army occupied area in Qujiang like sheep driving on the grassland.
Looking down from above, on the road from Changshan County to Quzhou, countless people are running east along Changshan Port with their families. From time to time, people will fall to the ground because of being exhausted or being tripped by stones and soil on the ground. Some of these fallen people will be helped up by their families or other kind-hearted people they don’t know, while others will fall to the ground, which will become stepping stones or stumbling blocks for later generations.
"How come God hasn't taken these beasts away from these killers!"
In the crowd, the sad and scolding of an old man resonated with everyone, but no one dared to let his children beg for him like that old man. They still wanted to live, after all, only by living can they have the opportunity to return to their hometown. As for the old man, he probably no longer wanted to leave his fate unknown, but planned to die here directly and on this land where he gave birth to and raised him.
Suddenly, a sharp arrow cut through the sky and penetrated it straight in front of the old man. The sudden change scared the women in the old man's family screamed. Even the old man's son, the big and thick man, was frightened by the arrow that was so close that he fell so hard.
"If you don't get out of here, you will die. It's just right that your family can get along with you."
With the words, several Qing army cavalry laughed wildly. Their accents were not as different as those of Zhejiang, and the people of Quzhou also sounded very different from those of merchants from Jiangxi. But the sharp arrows had already explained everything. The old man's son quickly took advantage of the old man's moment of being shocked by the arrow and quickly called his younger brothers and half-grown son to carry the old man again, and then the whole family ran away and walked towards the distance with the crowd.
"Captain Wang, isn't it all over to shoot the old man with one arrow? Why do you tell them so much?"
The speaker is a man with several scars on his face. The implication of this person is to simply kill the person to scare other people who flee. Of course, those who are familiar with each other know that this guy is a life-loving person. He killed all the men in this family and could just drag the big girls and wives to the side of the road to enjoy it.
"Scar, you should take care of your guys as soon as possible, so as not to cut off your stuff one day, and then I will regret it."
"Don't, it's amazing to cut off the scar. You can go to the palace to serve the emperor. When you are rich, don't forget how many of our brothers."
Amid the burst of laughter, the man named Wang Shoucai, who was called Wang Shoucai, breathed a sigh of relief and silently recited Amitabha in his heart.
These cavalry were from Shanxi. Some of the Shanxi soldiers recruited by Yang Jie when he was appointed as the deputy general of Shanxi, some of them were from Datong and some from Xuanhua. When Yang Jie was transferred to the south from Shanxi, they were transferred together. Later, after passing by Jin Shengheng, Wang Deren, anyway, the Qing army in Jiangxi was almost wiped out except for the Nanjiang River. After quelling the rebellion, they stayed with Yang Jie in Jiujiang, the northernmost part of Jiangxi.
The Jiujiang Green Camp has a total of more than 5,000 soldiers, and they are generally from Shanxi, with 3,000 people. They are all organized by the Shanxi Supervisor, and the other two thousand soldiers are recruited locally in Jiangxi. However, no matter where they come from, there are few people in this army who actually believe in Buddhism and Bodhisattva in their hearts, even if they have them, they will not say it, just like him at this moment.
He was afraid of being looked down upon and was also afraid of being distrustful. However, when he was a child, he was weak and sick, and was able to survive with the free treatment of the kind abbot master near the temple. Wang Shoucai believed that there must be Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in this world, otherwise how could he survive? However, in this world, he could only rely on killing people to make himself live, so that he and his family could eat and wear food and clothing. For this reason, whenever he dreamed at midnight, there was always a nightmare like hell entanglement, which really made him feel very distressed and almost crazy.
"Then kill less people. If you can let go, let go. Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. Bodhisattvas know everything. They will know that the head of the family is forced to helpless. Even if they go to hell, they will be those officials. It is not our turn."
The words of his wife, born in Jiangxi, made Wang Shoucai, the old man suddenly realize that from then on, he would not kill anyone who could not be killed, and he would let him go as much as possible if he could be spared. However, he has not seen this scene at the moment. Even if these people were able to escape to the occupied area of the Ming army, they would starve to death without relief. Even if there were relief, they might not be able to escape the next massacre alive when the Ming army was finished.
I didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of me.
The poor scholar who lived in the same alley before seemed to have said similar things before, but the more he thought so, the more uncomfortable Wang Shoucai felt.
"Forget it, I'd better take care of myself. People who weren't killed by me by myself shouldn't be counted on me. I think so much about it."
Chapter completed!