Chapter 107 The Bloodiest Day (1)

Speaking of insight into the general trend of the world, Li Si naturally had an absolute innate advantage, but there was another person who was comparable to Li Si, the loyal Bo of the Ming Dynasty.

This person who can see the rise and fall of all forces in the world is Xu Dingguo, the general of Suizhou, the Ming Dynasty.

When Li Chuang's army swept across Henan, many civil and military officials were in panic and fled in a row.

Xu Dingguo really had the vision of seeing a leaf fall and knowing the autumn of the world. From that time on, it was already obvious that the country of the Ming Dynasty was shaking. At that time, the forces in various places were in chaos, and attacking each other often happened. Even some villages and towns also broke up and protected themselves. Xu Dingguo, who had always been ambitious, saw that an unprecedented chaos had arrived. He devoted himself to strengthening his strength and even spent all his money to recruit soldiers and horses, and finally grew stronger and became one of the few large teams in Guide Prefecture in a short period of time.

Before Li Chuang invaded Beijing, Xu Dingguo also received an edict from Emperor Chongzhen to order the soldiers and horses of the world to serve the king. After being rewarded with the title of Emperor Chongzhen, he still remained silent and focused on growing.

Later, Chongzhen died in his country, and Li Zicheng, who was once glorious, was attacked by the Manchus. After King Fu became emperor, the small court's actions made Xu Dingguo look down on him. He only wanted to become a hero in troubled times, and never thought about truly being loyal to anyone.

However, Guide was on the verge of the power of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the Hongguang Dynasty inherited the title of righteousness of the Ming Dynasty, so Xu Dingguo had to temporarily commit himself under the roof of the small court.

As the Manchus turned to the southeast, Xu Dingguo had already seen that the Southern Ming Dynasty would be replaced by the Qing Dynasty.

At this time, Xu Dingguo had already begun to contact the Qing Dynasty and arranged two retreats for himself, which was a very common phenomenon among the generals at that time.

Preserving one's own strength is the only way to protect oneself in troubled times.

After entering Henan, Duoduo may go south through the Jianghuai River, or directly to Huguang...

But at this time, Hong Niangzi led the Bailian rioters to attack the Qing army in Henan, captured Mengzhou, Jiyuan and other places and continued to develop southeastward.

The huge results achieved by Hongniangzi directly attracted Duoduo's army. After the Qing army defeated Hongniangzi twice in succession, its main force was approaching the Jianghuai area.

At this time, Xu Dingguo had already made up his mind to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

As for luring and killing the Southern Ming general Gao Jie, there were many accidental components. Driven by various inevitable and accidental factors, Hong Niangzi's resistance to the Qing Dynasty became the fuse for Xu Dingguo to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and Gao Jie's head was Xu Dingguo's surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

It was precisely because of Xu Dingguo's surrender that Duoduo easily opened the first lock of the Jianghuai defense line.

In the eyes of Xu Dingguo, ancestors, reputations, countries, nations, etc., all of them are simply deceitful things. Compared with their strength, these things are simply not worth mentioning.

The general of Suizhou of the Ming Dynasty transformed himself into a general of the Han army's white flag. His identity has changed, but his strength is still there. As for the master behind him... a person like Xu Dingguo never thinks of his Duoduo's slave. As long as he has enough strength, Xu Dingguo doesn't mind rebelling against the Qing Dynasty again.

The 29th day of the first lunar month.

The day when the Empress Sending Son is in the Forbidden City.

In the chaotic world, life is like mustard, and even a wild dog is not much different. No one can guarantee that he can live until the next dawn.

The more in such a chaotic world, the more intense the incense of ghosts and gods.

The court was unreliable and the army was unreliable. Everyone placed their hopes on the gods.

It is said that gods like the Son-Sending Goddess only care about children, cigarettes and other things, but the people don’t pay much attention to these things. Anyway, Son-Sending Goddess is also a god. If it is God, you must bless mortals.

If there is no latter, he would like to worship the Empress of the Son; if there is a weak and sick person, he would like to be healthy and healthy, he would also like to worship the Empress of the Son; if there is a business person, he would like to be an official, and if there is something to ask for, he would like to worship the Empress of the Son, he would like to worship the Empress of the Son. Many people simply hope to seek peace in the troubled times, and also came with a lot of incense and candles.

In a chaotic world, he was doing a life of fighting in front of the battle, and he was inevitably empty in his heart. Although Xu Dingguo did not believe in the power of ghosts and gods, he still burned incense and worshiped the gods with the idea that he would rather believe in him than be without him.

There is also a Buddhist temple in the mansion, and the wives and children at home often burn incense and worship Buddha to pray for peace in the family. But today is the day for the Empress to send her children to the mortal world. The common people who are not full of food know to gather some incense and candles to show their sincerity. Xu Dingguo's wife insisted on coming to the temple to worship and donate some incense money.

Xu Dingguo's two sons had been sent to the Qing army as a charity. It would be better to worship the gods and Buddhas, just treat it as asking for peace for the two sons.

The couple and a nine-year-old young girl came to worship the gods under the escort of a group of personal soldiers.

These personal soldiers were all confidants of Xu Dingguo, and were mostly brave and desperate people.

Perhaps he thought he had done too many things wrong and believed that he was a hero in troubled times. He cared about his own security and protection very much. Whenever he went out, he would have to bring dozens of confidant soldiers.

This time I came to burn incense is no exception.

The official sign opened the way, and the personal soldiers were driving the people outside the temple to the sides to make a spacious road.

Xu Dingguo rode a horse, and the woman and the lady rode in the same sedan chair, and drove over slowly under the crowd of personal soldiers.

The crowds were forcibly driven away by personal soldiers, becoming more and more chaotic and chaotic, and they were crowded into personal bumps.

"Ant people."

Xu Dingguo thought so in his heart.

If you cannot hold a war in a chaotic world, you will always be fish and meat under the knife and robbery.

Among the ants, a half-year-old child squeezed out like a fish and came skillfully from the armpits of his personal soldiers.

This child is about 12 or 3 years old, with a big head and a small body, and looks like a typical refugee. He carried a shabby willow basket, wore a wide and overly wide cotton jacket, and a red mark with fire and blood embedded on his arms.

In the whole of Henan, there are at least one million such beggars. In the small town of Suizhou, dozens of such beggars will freeze to death every day.

"Little Ant Min..." Xu Dingguo is also a long-standing person, and suddenly woke up: "Left and right, stop the little beggar."

Where can ordinary beggars be so bold? How dare they cross three personal soldiers in succession? Where can ordinary beggars wear such neat cotton jackets?

Especially the red cloth on the arms, it smells strange no matter how you look at it.

Although his confidant soldiers did not understand what to intercept the beggar, they still faithfully carried out Xu Dingguo's orders. As soon as they turned around, the beggar who was as smooth as a loach had already made three or five steps. They suddenly took out a piece of black object from the willow basket and threw it over.

With a loud "boom", the whole earth seemed to be trembling slightly, and a stream of black smoke rose into the air.

Because the distance was too close, several confidant soldiers were temporarily lost to hearing.

Because the incident was too sudden, I had not yet reacted to what had happened for a long time, so I instinctively turned back to Xu Dingguo.

Xu Dingguo was shouting something immediately, but he couldn't hear the sound. He only saw a few personal soldiers behind him who had fallen to the ground and were rolling in a pool of blood...

The crowd of incense burners was stunned by the huge explosion, and their minds were blank, and they didn't even have time to escape.
Chapter completed!