Chapter 7: Liberating the People
"Ahh Help, help, spare your life, please spare your life"
"Ah~ Help!"
"Spare your life, please spare your life"
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Liu Xia arranged the group's respective functions, and after eating a full meal, he quickly left the small courtyard and moved to other places. Now there are more people in the team of more than 100 people, and the goal is bigger, and Liu Xia is more careful in marching.
When Liu Xia and his party just walked out of the courtyard, suddenly there was a shout from the front, and everyone didn't have to think about it to think that it must be the Tartars bullying the people, so Liu Xia arranged for Zhang Yuan to take a team to investigate what was going on.
After Zhang Yuan received the order, he took ten people to follow him, turned a corner and came to the place where the crime occurred, Zhang Yuan secretly hid beside a pile of ruins, staring at the scene not far away.
Seeing that scene, Zhang Yuan couldn't help but clench his hands tightly angrily, the fingernails were almost sunk into the palms, and not far away was a bunch of Han soldiers, not Manchu Tartars, there were almost more than 50 of these Han soldiers, and they were also dressed in tatters and their weapons were damaged.
The fifty or so men surrounded about thirty civilians, and one of the leaders had a lewd smile on his face and put his hands on the body of a slightly more attractive woman escorted by two soldiers.
The woman's face was twisted with pain by the leader, although she struggled hard, but she couldn't help the two big men. The rest of the people were also angry under the threat of the soldiers, but they didn't dare to do anything about it, and could only watch the woman being insulted.
Zhang Yuan saw that it was not the Tartars who insulted the people, but the remnants of the soldiers, and his heart was full of anger, the Tartars insulted his compatriots like this, he was extremely angry, not to mention that his compatriots were doing things that hurt the heavens and reason while the city was broken, and this matter was absolutely unforgivable, and then Zhang Yuan sent a soldier to tell Liu Xia about the situation here, Zhang Yuan directly took the remaining nine people under his command, rushed out, and then roared angrily, "Stop!" ”
As soon as the remnants heard that someone had come to disturb them, and when they saw that it was not a Tartar, they immediately showed a vicious face, and the leader let go of the woman, and the appearance of his face made him look even more fierce, and strode in front of Zhang Yuan, and at the same time, more than fifty soldiers also surrounded him, and the leader stared at Zhang Yuan viciously, and shouted: "What are you doing, dare to take care of Lao Tzu's affairs, you are impatient, right, who are you?" Someone cut it down for me! ”
With that, the soldiers rushed towards Zhang Yuan and the others.
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"Report to the general, there are some chaotic troops in front, not Tartars, they all look like there are about fifty people, but if you look at it smallly, although there are many of them, they are all some rabble" The soldier truthfully reported the situation to Liu Xia.
Liu Xia knew that it was the Han people's rebellious army that took advantage of the chaos, and he was also very angry in his heart, at this moment, there was a sound of weapons fighting in the distance, and there was no need to think that it must be Zhang Yuan who fought with those thieves. Liu Xia hurriedly prepared the soldiers for battle, and advanced to that place as fast as possible, this Zhang Yuan did not bring many people, although according to the soldier, these more than fifty people are a group of rabble, but after all, there are many people, Zhang Yuan and the others may still suffer.
After a while, Liu Xia and the others arrived at this place, and at this time, Zhang Yuan was leading nine people to fight with the thief, several of whom had already been injured, and six of the other party had died. The remaining forty or so rebels surrounded Zhang Yuan and his party.
The leader of the rebels stood by and kept shouting at the soldiers, telling them to kill these people quickly. And there were still a few people around those people who were watching, so those people did not dare to take advantage of the chaos to escape.
As soon as Liu Xia arrived, he immediately ordered Liu Dazhuang to take his team of people to outflank the chaotic army immediately, and let Zhang Yuan's team of men and horses go to rescue the people. We are all rebellious troops, we have something to say, we have something to say, my brother values this girl, right, how about my brother send this girl to you to make friends? Saying that, the leader of the chaotic army mentioned the woman he had just played with, and at this time this woman had no strength to move, her hair was scattered, and her clothes were naked, so she was not miserable.
Women in this era have no status at all, not to mention that in troubled times, this woman's life is even more worthless, and Liu Xia has no heart to bring the concept of equality and equality between men and women in his era to this era, this era can't accept it at all, otherwise it is estimated that he has not been killed by the Tartars, and he will be scolded to death by the world's children and even civilian men.
Liu Xia didn't say anything to the thief leader, because at this time the battle was over, and there were still more than thirty of the rebellious army, all of whom had been captured, and those people had now been rescued. Only the thief was left in the whole scene, but now he was surrounded.
Liu Xia had only one person seriously wounded in his team, and five were lightly wounded. It can be said that it is a complete victory, mainly because these soldiers are miscellaneous soldiers, not only do they not have much good food to eat, but they also have no military salary.
The leader of the chaotic army saw that he was gone, so he knelt on the ground and cried and surrendered, of course, Liu Xia would never let him go, so he ordered the leader of the chaotic army to be killed, the leader of the chaotic army saw that he had no hope of living, so he picked up a knife and took the woman next to him as a hostage, and the rescued people over there hurriedly cried and shouted, begging the leader of the rebel army to release the woman, but where would the leader of the chaotic army be released at this time?
Liu Xia couldn't forcibly kill the leader of the chaotic army at this time, after all, there was still a hostage, just when Liu Xia was in trouble, the woman held the knife of the rebel army leader on his neck in one hand, and sent it to his neck, and the woman finally shouted miserably to a couple among the people: "The child is not filial" and then died.
The group of couples in the people suddenly fainted, Liu Xia didn't care about anything at this time, and immediately ordered the leader of the chaotic army to be killed, Liu Xia ordered the order, the archers who had been prepared immediately released the arrows, and the leader of the chaotic army did not shout anything, and was shot into a hedgehog and did not dare to fall.
Liu Xia led people to walk in front of those people, these people were trembling with fright, they no longer had the slightest trust in the government, and the officers and soldiers in this troubled era were not as good as bandits in their eyes, so they saw Liu Xia very scared in their hearts, and several timid people knelt on the ground with weak legs.
Liu Xia didn't expect that the image of this officer and soldier would be so bad, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, if the Ming Dynasty did not die, it would really be unreasonable, looking at such a simple people, Liu Xia was also a little unbearable, so he said: "Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you, now this Yangzhou city has been broken, the Tartars are killing in the city, you better leave the city quickly or hide" Liu Xia finished speaking to the people, these people looked at Liu Xia with open eyes and disbelief one by one, and didn't believe that Liu Xia would let them go, After all, there were still women among them, and those rebels took a fancy to more than a dozen women among them, so they arrested them.
But Liu Xia didn't mean to stay here at all, so he ignored the people and ordered the soldiers to leave quickly with those prisoners, and fight guerrillas, even if they fought a battle, they left quickly. It wasn't until Liu Xia and the others left that these people believed Liu Xia's words, and then gathered the body of the woman who died just now and dispersed. Only a few corpses of the rebels remained on the ground.
Liu Xia took the captives into a broken courtyard again, this courtyard was obviously ransacked by the Qing army Tartars, it was tossed and messy, and there was nothing valuable to eat, but the courtyard was not small, and they were not crowded in it at all.
"Bring those captives here," Liu Xia said.
Immediately Zhang Yuan received an order and escorted the more than 30 captives up, these captives are all yellow and thin, but this body is still here, if they are fed up, they will soon be strong men, Liu Xia looked at these people and said loudly: "I am Liu Xia, the general of this army, we are all Han, I don't care what you did before, everything is zero now, now General Ben gives you two choices, the first is to follow General Ben, there is food and drink will definitely not treat you badly, But there is also a great risk of death, and the second is a very high possibility of death when you leave here, and you may not eat well, you choose for yourself."
These captives, you look at me, I see you don't know what to say, all around here are Liu Xia's people, all of them are holding knives at them, they think at this time that if they choose to leave them, it will definitely be impossible to live, they are all soldiers naturally know the importance of the secrecy of the small army, so far Liu Xia and his party have not been discovered by the Qing army, if these soldiers are released, if they surrender to the Qing army, then the good days of Liu Xia and others are over.
Therefore, in the end, these soldiers chose to submit to Liu Xia, and Liu Xia also ordered the soldiers who managed the grain to give them a full meal, which aroused the gratitude of all the soldiers.
Liu Xia, Liu Dazhuang, Wang Shishi, and Zhang Yuan came to the house and began to discuss how to arrange these soldiers who had just surrendered. In the end, Zhang Yuan's lost people were made up, a few were put into the personal guards, and each squadron leader was equipped with a personal guard. The remaining twenty people formed a scout squadron, with a clever soldier named Yu Mingjun found by Liu Xia from among the veterans as the squadron leader.
After arranging these things, Liu Xia said to Zhang Yuan again......
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