When Wang Ping heard Yuan Kuoyu's words, he immediately didn't say anything, even if he killed Xu Mingchen, once Kunming's troops made a rebellion, he would be the one who died.

Compared to being killed by himself, it doesn't matter if he is a famous minister or Li Dingguo, it is better to have his own life. Yuan Kuoyu saw that everyone understood what he meant, and immediately said: "From now on, the army must be loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and always be on guard against any changes. ”

Just when Yuan Kuoyu and others were discussing, the other armies were already ready, and Doni immediately asked Luo Keduo to lead the remaining more than 15,000 Manchurian troops with five flags, including yellow flags, white flags, red flags, blue flags, and blue flags, to set off immediately and return to Guizhou. Then let Belle Dulan Tonghan Eight Banners then return to Guizhou as well.

Originally, there were only 10,000 Manchurian Eight Banners that Doni brought to Yungui, but later Shunzhi saw that the Qing army's attack on Yungui was smooth, so he asked Zhuo Luo to bring another 20,000 Manchurian Eight Banners into Yungui to support. Thinking that he could destroy the Yongli Imperial Court in one fell swoop, and then pacify Yungui. The war did develop as Shunzhi thought, if it weren't for Zhu Youdong leading people to cut off the back road of the Qing soldiers.

Due to the urgency of the military situation, Doni asked all the armies not to delay for a moment, and to rush back to Guizhou to seize Guiyang as quickly as possible. But Doni didn't say a word, and none of the troops preparing to return to Guiyang raised the question.

So after the army left Kunming, they plundered the people's property all the way to cover the military. Later, because the Qing army had robbed grain in Yunnan before, now the army is all relying on grabbing grain to satisfy its stomach.

Yunnan was originally a barren province, and it could withstand such a robbery, and the Qing army saw that the food stolen was not enough for the military. It was brutal and inhumane to directly arrest the nearby people to satisfy their hunger, and when the Han Eight Banners passed by, they were already uninhabited, and the people of the Han Army Banner had to slaughter the people in the county towns and big cities passing by.

Along the way, the Qing army passed everywhere, and no people and animals were left. Seeing this, the people who were a little farther away from the official road hid in the mountains early.

The day after the Han Army's army left, Wu Sangui's Guan Ning Army also came to Kunming under the leadership of Wu Sangui's son-in-law Xia Guoxiang, accompanied by generals Wu Guogui, Hu Guozhu, and Wang Pingfan. These people are also Wu Sangui's henchmen, and of course they are not afraid of Doni's attack to surrender and disintegrate Wu Sangui's army.

Doni didn't say much when he saw it, and immediately asked Xia Guoxiang to return to Guizhou with Guan Ningjun. When Xia Guoxiang asked about the military situation, Doni only said that he would return to Guizhou to assist Luo Keduo, the king of Pingjun. It was inconvenient for Xia Guoxiang to ask more, so he had to set off with 20,000 Guan Ning troops and return to Guizhou.

But as soon as he got out of Kunming, he found that something was wrong, Hu Guozhu came over and said: "Prime Minister, this situation is not right, why is there no one when you leave Kunming?" ”

Xia Guoxiang also found out and said: "Now is not the time to speak, let's hurry first, and wait until we go a little further." Hu Guozhu also understood, and immediately returned to the army and asked the army to speed up.

Of course, in the evening, Xia Guoxiang arrived at Songming Prefecture with Guan Ningjun, and what caught his eye was desolation. Occasionally, wild dogs foraged for food in the city, and Xia Guoxiang was about to send someone to check on the situation.

Hu Guozhu and Wang Pingfan of the former army had already come over, and Hu Guozhu said: "No, this situation is definitely not right, there is no one in the entire Songming Prefecture, all of them have been killed." And a lot of people were eaten cleanly, as if it was artificial. ”

Although Wu Sangui's army also killed countless people in the Central Plains, it slaughtered the city dozens of times. However, the city that was already under the rule of the Qing Dynasty was still not slaughtered innocently.

Xia Guoxiang said: "Have you looked for everything?" Who did it, it was really a non-stay. "Xia Guoxiang was a little awkward when he said this, although he often threatened to leave no one when he was attacking the city, but it was not easy to really leave a single one.

Hu Guozhu and Wang Pingfan both shook their heads, indicating that they had not found anyone. Xia Guoxiang said: "This is troublesome, we originally wanted to ask Zhizhou to prepare some food for us, but now we have to run out of food." ”

Wu Guogui, who was from the rear army, also came over and said: "How can this city be cleaner than my face, fuck, there is no one." ”

Xia Guoxiang said: "No matter, let the soldiers go out to hunt some wild things first, and the others will go to the city to search, I don't believe that there is no living person in the entire Songming Prefecture." ”

Hu Guozhu and others had no choice but to set off to find food, while Xia Guoxiang went directly to Zhizhou Yamen. With the search of Guan Ningjun, although the people still did not find it, some of the food hidden by the people was found at that time.

Seeing this, Xia Guoxiang ordered everyone to use these to deal with it first. Although the man has solved it, the horse cannot be left alone. In addition, it is now the end of winter, and there is not much food to find in the wild.

Seeing that there was really no way, Wu Guogui thought of a way to find some straw in the people's homes to solve the problem of horses.

The next day, Xia Guoxiang didn't dare to delay any longer, for fear that the situation in front would still be the same, so he immediately let the army just beat the horses and gallop. Along the way, I saw horses and soldiers of the Eight Banners who had fallen on the side of the road, and some horses that had not died were still screaming on the side of the road.

In order to prevent what happened last night, Xia Guoxiang had these horses killed and took horse meat to hurry. When I arrived at Xundian Mansion in the afternoon, I ran into the Han Army Banner that was slaughtering the city in Xundian Mansion.

Xia Guoxiang hurriedly went to meet Du Lan, who led the army, and learned from Du Lan that now the food all the way was looted by the Manchurian Eight Banners in front of him, and the people of the Han Army Banner had no choice but to kill the people to satisfy their hunger.

Looking at the Han army banner army that was frantically slaughtering the people in the city, although Xia Guoxiang was used to seeing life and death, he still felt a bad chill.

The city is now a purgatory on earth, and countless people have been taken to the middle of the city to be slaughtered. Although there were people who resisted, in the face of well-trained troops, their resistance did not stir up any waves.

Some people in the city saw Xia Guoxiang and others and wanted to come to them for help, but where could Xia Guoxiang and others come to their rescue? In the end, Xia Guoxiang said to Duran: "Baylor, if we kill all the people of Yunnan, who will reclaim the fields at that time." If the emperor knows at that time that it was Baylor who slaughtered the people of Yunnan, resulting in Yunnan not being able to garrison and defend, I am afraid that Baylor will also bear a lot of responsibility. ”

When Duran heard this, he said, "What? These Han dogs can't be killed? Do you want to buy people's hearts for Wu Sangui? Let me tell you, even if the imperial court has issued an order now, let him Wu Sangui garrison Yungui and guard Yunnan. But so what, he's just a dog of our Manchurians. ”

Xia Guoxiang is Wu Sangui's son-in-law and a general. When Xia Guo saw Du Lan's insult to Wu Sangui, he immediately became a little angry. Seeing this, Duran said, "What? You want to make a move on me? Seeing this, the guards around Duran surrounded Xia Guoxiang one after another.

Xia Guoxiang gasped and stared at Duran with his eyes. It took a long time before he said: "Although Baylor is the master, King Pingxi is also the prince rewarded by the court, and the title is still above Baylor, I hope Baylor will respect the prince." If you still have something to do, you won't be accompanied. After saying that, he turned around and left.

Xia Guoxiang took 20,000 Guan Ning troops, and Duran's guards didn't dare to do anything to Xia Guoxiang, so they had to let Xia Guoxiang leave. Du Lan waited for Xia Guoxiang to walk away before he said angrily: "What's wrong with Wu Sangui? He's just a dog of our Manchurians, and Lao Tzu doesn't respect him, so what else can he do? ”

After scolding Xia Guoxiang, he scolded his guards again: "Are you all wood? Your master is angry, and you don't move, what's the use of asking you slaves? None of Duran's guards dared to squeak, and they all buried their heads and let Duran scold.

After Du Lan finished scolding, he said to the Han army in the city: "Pass the order to go down and kill all the Han dogs in the city, I see what he Wu Sangui dares to do to me." ”

With Du Lan's order, a large-scale killing began in the city, and not only the Han people, but also a large number of Yi and Miao people were also killed.

After Xia Guoxiang returned to the Guanning Army, his face was still gloomy. Hu Guozhu saw it and said, "Yo, what's the matter, I went to see Duran and that's it?" ”

General Xia Guoxiang said about the situation he saw in Xundian Prefecture, and said: "Such a wanton killing, when my father-in-law guards Yunnan, there will be no people, and I will not know how many people will die at that time." ”

Hu Guozhu said: "What can be done now? The people's grain has long been looted by the bastards of the Han Army Banner, and now the army that has returned to Guizhou is close to 50,000, and these 50,000 people have not had a single grain when they come out. Besides, they are Manchurians, and we can't control them. ”

Wu Guogui on the side also said: "Prime Minister, don't think about it so much now, if you have a conflict with the Manchurians now, it will be difficult for the prince to deal with it then." Let's bear with it first, and besides, after the Manchurians entered the customs, there were still fewer people killed? ”

Xia Guoxiang said: "Before, it was to fight the world, but now it is different, to govern the world, what is there to govern without the people?" Even if you don't consider these, after the prince guards Yunnan, can't he ask the people to pay taxes and grain to feed the army? ”

Wang Pingfan said: "I think what General Xia said is right, as far as the Manchurians' attitude towards our prince is concerned, I am afraid that they are always on guard against the prince, and this attack on Yuanjiang is obviously to consume the prince's troops." If there are no people in Yunnan at that time, then what will the prince guard in Yunnan? ”

After Wang Pingfan said this, Wu Guogui and Hu Guozhu suddenly groaned. Xia Guoxiang said: "These are still early, we now think that these are a little unfounded, the imperial court let the prince guard Yunnan, our army can no longer kill indiscriminately, you will tell the people in the army to collect horse meat as much as possible, and less to harass the people." ”

Hu Guozhu and the others immediately agreed, and then they each went to their own army to instruct them. Xia Guoxiang suddenly remembered Du Lan's words again, and said in his heart: "Yes, no matter how hard my father-in-law works, he is always just a slave in the hearts of the Manchurians, but now my father-in-law has no way out." I heard that this time he was stared at by Zhuo Luo to go to Myanmar, preparing to capture and kill Yongli, if his father-in-law killed Yongli, then there would really be no way out. ”

No matter what Xia Guoxiang thought, he had to rush to Guizhou with the Han army banner led by Du Lan the next day. As usual, the Han army banner will go up and slaughter as long as it finds that there are people. With yesterday's events, Xia Guoxiang stopped talking.

Duran seemed to have some intention of demonstrating with the Xia Guoxiang, and deliberately put the killed people on the road, so that Guan Ningjun, who was walking behind, could see it clearly, and then laughed wildly all the way, and continued to look for the next village in front with the Han army flag.

In this way, not only Xia Guoxiang has an opinion on Du Lan, but even Hu Guozhu and Wu Guogui, who persuaded Xia Guoxiang before, can't get used to Du Lan, but because of his identity, no one dares to say it.

Originally, after the Qing army entered Yunnan, they burned, killed, looted, and did all kinds of evil. As early as April, Hong Chengchou, who was still the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, reported to the Qing court.

At that time, Hong Chengchou didn't dare to say that it was done by the Qing army, but just said:

"In addition to the Tufu, the Yunnan Prefecture in the east, Lin'an, Qujing, Chengjiang, Xundian and Chuxiong, Wu'an, Yao'an, Dali, and Yongchang in the west were all under fire, and no one was plundered. If food, clothing, property, and livestock are robbed, it goes without saying; In addition, the men and women were all taken captive, resulting in the separation of military and civilian parents, brothers, husbands and wives, and children, which was unspeakably miserable.

The old, weak, and crippled were arrested, hanged, tortured, burned, extorted from the grain and silver in the cellar, the premises were turned over, and the houses were burned and demolished, so that people had no clothes, no complete skin, no whole mouth, and no one could complain. Seeing that the grain and rice in the provincial capital are increased to more than one or three dollars per bucket according to the new official warehouse bucket in Hunan, and the price per stone is more than 13 taels; If there is about two stones of the new warehouse bucket according to the old big bucket in Yunnan, the price is twenty-six taels, and there is still nowhere to buy.

The army and civilians are hungry, and there is no day of death. It is even more tragic in the Yongchang area, where the dead and tortured are piled up on the roads, and there are no people for hundreds of miles around. really made Jia Sheng unable to cry bitterly, and Zheng Tu couldn't paint it all. I don't know why the people of Yunnan are so extreme. ”

Hong Chengchou's recital did not cause any big turmoil in the Qing court, and Shunzhi simply ordered a few reprimands to Doni and asked him to restrain the Qing army from messing around.

This is also one of the reasons why Doni does not want to see Hong Chengchou now. Doni didn't take this matter to heart, and the Qing army was still the same in Yunnan. In addition, the Qing army has been short of food and grass recently, and the situation of the Qing army coming out to grab food has become more and more serious.

After this army, the official road from Kunming to Guizhou is already rare. Xia Guoxiang and others followed behind the Han military banner, collecting horse meat along the way, and the people were solved, but the horses had lost weight along the way. Seeing that he was about to go to Qujing Mansion, he thought that he would finally be able to make people have a full meal.

But when I entered Qujing Mansion, I found that the situation was wrong. It's not that Qujing was also slaughtered, but that the Manchurian Eight Banners that set off in front of them didn't leave at all, and they were waiting in Qujing.