Chapter Seventy-Three: The Beggar Army

"Good!"

Chen Yan looked at Zhou Lide and nodded, signaling that he had agreed to his allegiance.

"Mr. Zhou, you can be a staff officer by my side for the time being."

"Little old man obeys."

Zhou Lide bowed.

"My lord, we are all willing to serve under the conversion of my lord!"

Hermes-Epitek in the many salt farms spoke one after another.

"We only ask the Lord to lead us to attack Western Xia, not anything else, we want revenge!"

"Please do it!"

"Please do it!"

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The Hermes-Epitek in the salt works pleaded.

Chen Yan frowned slightly, obviously he didn't want them, they were just ordinary people, compared to ordinary people, they were thinner.

Let them join the Sweeping Army that has completed the whole training, Chen Yan feels that not only can not make the Sweeping Army stronger, but will drag the Sweeping Army's hind legs.

But he couldn't refuse, for him at this moment, any bit of manpower is very precious, and he doesn't want to waste it.

Coupled with the need to win people's hearts, Chen Yan can't refuse!

After pondering for a moment, Chen Yan decided to issue weapons and armor to these Han people, but instead of grouping them with the Dang Capture Army, he chose to let them form a separate army.

At most, a part of the officers of the Swinging Army are assigned to manage the team.

If you are willing to follow the captive army to attack Western Xia, then follow, if you are not willing to Chen Yan and do not force it, give them a dry food and silver money, and let them go home.

"My lord, our home has been destroyed by the Tangut people, and we have no home for a long time."

"My lord, we don't go, we follow you, follow you and you can take revenge!"

"That's right, my lord, we want to kill the Tangut people to take revenge!"

Chen Yan bowed slightly, and agreed to their request.

The army soon moved again, this time targeting the saltworks of Western Xia.

Two days later, the Dang Capture Army broke through the Black Treasure Lake Salt Field!

The combat power that these saltworks Hanmin burst out made Chen Yan feel surprised.

In this battle, they charged fearlessly, even if there were no heavy cavalry to charge, they scattered the enemy's formation.

In the fight with the Tangut people, these people were extremely crazy, and even if they were injured, they had no intention of retreating.

If you have a broken arm, then pounce on the enemy and bite it with your teeth!

If you have a broken leg, then you will die with the enemy!

The intestines flow out of the body, and you can continue to fight when you stuff it back!

This kind of madness that is not afraid of death is not even comparable to the elite of the Swinging Army!

Although the number of enemies they killed is not as good as that of the Dang Captive Army, their combat effectiveness is definitely not bad, and they are not afraid of death when they fight, although they have not undergone the slightest training, but they are still a strong army.

Because they dare to fight, at least in the same amount, those so-called elites of the Great Song Dynasty will definitely not be the opponents of these people.

Breaking through the Heibao Lake Salt Field, the number of this army, which was named the Begging Army by Chen Yan, skyrocketed to nearly 10,000 people.

That's right, it's the beggar army, the beggar army under the martial king Ran Min during the Wuhu Rebellion.

Throughout all the dynasties in Chinese history, basically the demise of a dynasty was due to the mediocrity of the last emperor.

And among these dynasties that perished because of the emperor, there is a dynasty that is the eternal pain of our Han people, and this dynasty is the period of the two Jin Dynasty.

In the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the power of the country was very weak, and the surrounding forces of foreign tribes were eyeing each other, and they had long coveted the Central Plains.

But at the time of the life and death of this nation, the Central Plains Dynasty broke out because of the struggle for power.

After the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the national strength of the Western Jin Dynasty was greatly weakened, and the Han people lost more than half of their population, and their national strength was exhausted.

Foreign invasion, domestic powerlessness, the darkest era in Chinese history, but also the darkest era in the history of the Han people has arrived-Wuhu Chaohua!

The five major Hu tribes, the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Qian, Qiang, and Di, all went south to launch an invasion of China, and all the areas north of the Yangtze River in the Central Plains fell.

The Han Chinese were exposed to the sharp knives of the Hu people.

During this period, the Hu people wreaked havoc in the Central Plains, killing men when they saw them, plundering women when they saw them, raping/prostituting and plundering, slaughtering the people, and doing all kinds of evil.

Under their blades, many helpless people were slaughtered on a large scale.

There was even such a cruel thing as cannibalism, and the Hu army called the Han people two-legged sheep, and in the case of lack of food, they would kill the Han people at any time and eat meat.

During this period of time, the Han nationality was almost wiped out and was cut off in the long river of history.

Fortunately, at this time there was a group of people who stood up, and they were not the official army, nor the ranks of civil organizations.

They are the "beggar army"!

In 304 A.D., a great famine broke out in Bingzhou, and in order to avoid rebellion in order to convert to the prefecture, ordinary people were able to live.

At that time, Sima Teng, the assassin of Bingzhou, directly moved more than 20,000 families in Bingzhou to Shandong to look for food.

Faced with the situation of Hu people everywhere, this group of people had to fight if they wanted to survive, so they organized into a beggar army to deal with the Hu people together.

Don't fight for hegemony for ambition, just to live in the world!

Hence the name "begging"!

And the leader of this army is the "King of Martial Mourning" Ran Min.

Ran Min led this army to constantly fight against the Hu people, defeated the enemy again and again, killed the Hu people by millions, and fought the blood of the Han people in the Central Plains.

It has become the support of all Han people north of the Yangtze River, and almost all hope is focused on him.

In 350 A.D., Ran Min was called the emperor, and the country name was Great Wei, which was known as Ran Wei in history.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Ran Min issued the "Killing Hu Order" and once again beheaded hundreds of thousands of Hu people, and most of these hundreds of thousands were Xiongnu and Qiang, shocking the Central Plains.

Ran Min's fame was unprecedented, the Hu people gritted their teeth at him, and the Han people also ushered in a short period of glory in the Central Plains, and the Hu people did not dare to invade on a large scale.

Emperor Ran Min the Great, the king of Wumourning, preserved the blood of the Han people and saved the Han people from destruction, and was the hero of the entire Han nation.

But the glory was short-lived, two years later, Ran Min the Great was killed by the former Yan Emperor Murong Jun, Ran Wei's glory turned the page, and the Central Plains was once again occupied by the Hu people.

And even though Ran Min has died, the heart of the Central Plains against the Hu people has never changed, and in the following years, the voices of the Central Plains against the Hu people have continued.

Even when the Hu people wanted to march to further invade the Eastern Jin Dynasty, riots broke out in the Central Plains, which finally stopped Murong Jun's footsteps in invading the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Although the begging army did not drive the Hu people out of the Central Plains because they were outnumbered in history, the glory of the beggar army represents the bloody nature and indomitable spirit of the Han people.

It is not boastful that if there was no beggar army and no Emperor Ran Min at the beginning, the current Han people may also be a minority, or the Chinese civilization will lead to a period of interruption.

Chen Yan named them the Beggar Army, just hoping that they would kill Hu like the Beggar Army that messed with China! Avenge!

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