Chapter 184, the army presses the border

Qin Chuan didn't kill Wang Youyi, but only let him go back to pass the word, so that Jiannu could stay in Qingshui River for a while longer.

He will betray Ming, but he will never reduce the gold, the reason why he did not directly refuse is that he wants Huang Taiji to be a pigeon, to see if the bald man has the courage to kill him.

In fact, if the original historical development is still followed, Huang Taiji will enter the customs from Xuanda in July next year, claiming to be an army of 90,000, including 60,000 Ahab, 30,000 armor people and bannermen.

After entering the customs, they went all the way south to plunder the north-central part of Shanxi and the northern part of Hebei, until they reached Laoxian, approached Xinzhou, and even broke through the Ningwu Pass, slaughtering the Ming army and defenders in the pass.

In his inscription, Zou Yu of the Ming Dynasty Military Department has a record about Jiannu after breaking through the security city: "The thieves entered the city, killing the old and weak, leaving the strong as envoys, the women who were lustful and plundered and adultered, and the naΓ―ve children were full of fire, etc., the ministers were sad and their teeth were broken, and the cruelty of the slaves and thieves was also like this!" ”

"By holy decree: the security guards are trapped, it is said that there is a fire at the head of the city, and the thieves will follow, there will be treacherous plots to deal with the situation, and find out, and punish the city guards everywhere, first clear the internal evils, and strive to put an end to the defects."

That is to say, after Jiannu entered the city, he killed all the old and weak, because the old and weak could not be used for labor, the young and strong were arrested for labor, and the women were first raped and then taken back to Liaodong, as for the children......

This is the most cruel and hateful place in Jiannu, throwing all the children in the city into the fire and burning them alive.

What is recorded in the second half is that the reason why Baoan City was breached was because there were traitors in the city who responded and set fire to the city, and Jiannu took advantage of the chaos to go to the city.

Moreover, Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen already knew that there were spies everywhere in Xuanda and Da, and he specially issued a holy decree to order people to strictly investigate the spies in each city.

In addition to devastationing the north-central part of Shanxi and the northern part of Hebei, Jiannu's entry into the customs this time also forced the Ming court to transfer Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Quanchang, and other generals who had originally surrounded the Liukou back to Shanxi for defense, resulting in Li Hongji, Zhang Bingzhong, and others, who were already cornered, being able to escape from the encirclement.

Now, there are still one year and four months before that entry, and during this time, it is enough for Qin Chuan to train a strong army.

At that time, he naturally would not sit idly by and watch Jiannu's atrocities.

What's more, Huang Taiji will definitely come to him for trouble.

……

On the ninth day of the first month of March, the upper Xuanyue.

It has been raining for four days, and there is still no sign of clearing.

Lou annoyed Mengjiazhuang, the cannon factory could not open the furnace because of the rain, Chen Zhan was leading a group of craftsmen to make clay molds, Luo Ba, who rarely left the gatehouse, suddenly appeared in the cannon factory, and changed his rigid face in the past, looking at Chen Zhan mysteriously.

Chen Zhan was a little surprised, today's Luo Ba seemed very abnormal, didn't something special happen?

"Mr. Chen, Mr. Huang, can you come to Zhuangmen?" Luo Ba smiled and groaned.

"May I ask what is the matter with Officer Luo?"

"You'll find out as soon as you come."

Chen Zhan and Huang Wendao, a former ambassador of the Ordnance Bureau next to him, looked at each other, and finally explained to the craftsmen, and then got up and went out with Luo Ba.

When they arrived at the doorway of Zhuangmen, they found that Li Xuejing, Yan Sanqi, Zhao Mancai and others had arrived, and more than a dozen various craftsmen from the side pass were also among them.

Li Xuejing and the others didn't know why, but when they saw Chen Zhan arrive, they looked at each other and didn't know why.

"Everyone, please be patient for a moment."

Luo Ba on the side was still playing tricks, looking into the distance with his negative hands.

Chen Zhan, Li Xuejing and others also followed his gaze, only to see that not far away, a team of mules and horses was trudging towards Mengjiazhuang in the light spring rain.

Chen Zhan asked suspiciously: "Officer Luo Ying, these people are ......?"

Luo Ba smiled but did not answer.

Not long after, those people gradually came to the front, and it seemed that there were quite a few people, four or five hundred people, men and women, and even old people and children, all dressed in robes and walking forward in the rain.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the big boss is afraid that your family will be persecuted by the Ming Court, and because the situation is urgent, I can only let your family come in the rain."

Chen Zhan shook violently, his eyes widened, and his hands and feet trembled slightly as he looked at the crowd in the rain and mist.

Li Xuejing and the others also trembled suddenly, and some even rushed into the rain.

Soon, Chen Zhan saw a woman who handed an oil-paper umbrella above the heads of several children, and he recognized it as his wife and children.

He didn't care about the rain, so he pulled his legs and rushed out.

Li Xuejing and the others also rushed out, shouting all kinds of names in their mouths.

Soon the cries of men, women and children rang out in the rain.

The Guan Emperor Army, who escorted these family members back, stationed their horses in the rain and looked enviously at these people who hugged each other and wept bitterly.

Most of these Guan Emperor soldiers had no families.

Luo Ba shouted: "Everyone, the village has prepared ginger soup, and let's go into the village to warm up." ”

Only then did Chen Zhan and the others protect their wives and children, and walked to the village while crying bitterly.

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The spring rain lasted longer than Qin Chuan expected, and it rained for five days, and it did not stop until March 10.

This was a good thing for Qin Chuan, the pace of the Ming army's march was delayed, and he also had enough time to establish order in Jingle City.

Under the intentional guidance of Luo Wentian's group of fox friends and dogs, many people in the city have gone out and walked around, and the businessmen who have not been arrested have also opened their doors to do business.

It's time for Qin Chuan to cut off some heads.

On March 11 of the sixth year of Chongzhen, 5,000 people in Jingle City gathered at the intersection of the vegetable market under the coercion of Emperor Guan's army.

A high platform has already been erected at the north end of the street, and a row of seats has been placed on it.

Qin Chuan and Chen Congzhi were on the horses, as well as the teachings of the county, and a few middle-aged masters in the city who had never done anything to hurt the heavens and reason, these people also sat on the high platform under the coercion of Emperor Guan's army.

After everyone arrived, Qin Chuan got up, slowly walked to the front of the high platform, cleared his throat, and shouted: "My name is Qin Chuan, from now on, Jingle County will be under my control." ”

"This is called Chen Congzhi, who was originally the master of Lord He of Zhixian County, and now he is your Lord Zhixian, and from now on, he will take care of you for me."

"Don't worry, although I kill people without blinking, I never kill innocents indiscriminately, I kill people who should be killed, and then, under the witness of your fellow villagers and elders, kill some people who should be killed."

"Come on, take people to commit Lu Donghu and the East Tiger Gang prisoners."

As soon as the words fell, I saw a Guan Emperor army suddenly turn out from behind the high platform, holding a bright big knife, and pressing a group of prisoners who were crying tears and snot to walk up to the high platform.

The people of Jingle present all recognized it, this group of people was Lu Donghu and the scoundrels he gathered, there were originally a total of one hundred and eight generals, and now about sixty people have been escorted to the high platform.

"Regarding the crimes of Lu Donghu and others, the villagers and elders present may know better than me that a few days ago, murder and looting on the street, rape of ** women, one capital crime."

"Kill!"

Qin Chuan also did something to throw the arrow, so he shouted, and the Guan Dijun on the high platform pressed Lu Donghu and others, who were crying and howling, on a big wooden barrel, and then raised the knife in his hand, threw the head under the stage, and caught the blood with the wooden barrel.

Seeing dozens of heads landing on the ground at the same time, the crowd gathered at the corner of the street suddenly let out bursts of exclamation, and the timid ones turned their heads one after another, trembling, and those with babies hurriedly covered their own babies' eyes.

"Next, there are some officials and gentry who bully men and women in the township, and do some things that hurt nature and reason."

Behind the high platform, a team of Guan Di troops turned out, pressing He Changbao, Wu Yongqian, Wu Qizheng, Mo Dekai and others to the high platform.

The vast majority of these people, too, wept bitterly.

The most calm is Wu Yongqian, this old guy still looked at Qin Chuan fiercely, and scolded fiercely: "Qin thief, as soon as you bring the imperial army to arrive, someone will kill you for the old man, punish your nine clans, calm down Lou Annoyance, and eradicate ......"

"Lost."

Qin Chuan slapped him in the face, and then said to Chen Congzhi and the few middle-aged households who were sitting behind: "Everyone, these people's crimes, you can read them." ”

With that, Qin Chuan walked back to sit down.

The row of red-clothed attendants standing in the back handed the charges that had already been prepared to Chen Congzhi and the others.

"Master Chen, come first."

Chen Congzhi wiped a handful of cold sweat, stood up with trembling hands, walked a few steps slowly, and then read out the charges on the charges in his hands.

After he finished reading, Qin Chuan said again: "Teach Deng, it's your turn." ”

A little old man with gray hair and beard stood up tremblingly, and took a few deep breaths before reading out the charges in his hand one by one.

……

Li Dingguo also came to Jingle, because Qin Chuan asked the first batch of students from the Jiangwutang to watch the battle with the army, observe and record the siege of Jingle, as well as the defense of the city after the Ming army pressed the border.

Now, Li Dingguo is standing in the distance with a group of students, looking at the scene on the stage.

Lord Qin said that the matter of killing the head in public could not be recorded, so no one at the scene took a small notebook to record it.

Li Dingguo had just turned fourteen years old, but he could already see that the surname Qin was holding a butcher's knife to intimidate the people of Jingle while gathering the hearts of the people.

The father-in-law did the same, killing corrupt officials and corrupt officials, but instead of killing those who burned, killed and looted, he took those people into his account.

The father-in-law also took out the grain to give porridge and won the hearts of the people, but he did far worse than the surname Qin.

At present, the surname Qin is more capable than his father-in-law.

He is both reasonable and unreasonable.

Whoever encounters such a person will only be obedient.

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On March 13 of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Qin Chuan received the military information sent back by Liao San's gun: the Ming army in Xuanda and Da had been officially opened on March 12, with a total of 14,000 people, including 10,000 Ming troops and 4,000 servants.