In the first year of Hongguang, the war of the three families of the Ming and Qing dynasties in Jiangbei was like a kaleidoscope in the hands of children, complicated and varied, making people happy and encouraging for a while, and it was like falling into hell for a while.

The Shun army led by Ma Harrier, Wang Fuchen and Dugu Hanjiang on the Lushan and Baofeng lines gave the Qing army forwards who intended to return to the flanks of the Shun army and cut off the communication between Luoyang and Nanyang on the Shun army, so that Cao Zhenyan and Cao Beile, who commanded the Qing army on this road, had to lead his killer troops - 18,000 spearmen to the front line day and night to hold down the position for Bolo and Suke Saha and others.

After a while, both sides of Shunqing suffered extremely heavy casualties. Relying on the topography, the Shun army put light artillery that was conducive to mountain warfare, and the cannonballs and shotguns poured into the array of the Qing army's spearmen without money. And the high-quality firearms seized from Sun Chuanting and from the Beijing City armor depot also rained down on the Qing army. It caused great casualties to the Qing army.

However, the Qing army's guns were also extremely lethal, with a long range and good accuracy. Under the harsh military discipline of the Qing army, the spear-carrying soldiers relied on the fallen corpses of their comrades, successfully put the spear-carrying guns, and then fired heavy projectiles at the Shun soldiers dozens of paces away. The long-range and lethal carrying gun is as powerful as a small cannon in the dense ranks of the Shun army's firearms. The projectiles slammed into the crowd, sending flesh and blood flying.

Faced with the huge number of casualties, the generals on both sides scratched their heads and asked for reinforcements one after another, and the reason was also surprisingly consistent: "The thieves are fierce and stubborn, and our army is not strong enough to support us, if there is no new force to support it, I am afraid that something will happen." ”

As a result, according to the early plan of Emperor Li Zicheng of Yongchang, the Dashun Imperial Court sent elite troops to western Henan, and even Li Zicheng himself led the imperial camp to the army. On the side of the Qing army, the regent Dolgon sent his brother and brother, Prince Ying Azig and Prince Yu Duoduo, to lead his troops to support Cao Zhenyan. The difference is that Azig crossed the Dashun military area from the direction of northern Shaanxi, Yulin and Yan'an, and invisibly captured the hometown of the Shun army, northern Shaanxi, and put the spiritual home of the generals of the Dashun army in the hands of the Qing army. Duoduo attacked from east to west, approaching the area of Lingbao and Tongguan, threatening the security of the eastern flank of the Dashun army. forced Li Zicheng to transfer the high power department that had just been withdrawn from northern Shaanxi to Tongguan to hold on.

In addition to military pressure, Dorgon sacrificed another magic weapon. The so-called "people's hearts" and "people's will". At the suggestion of Hong Chengchou and Fan Wencheng, Dolgon announced to the world in the name of Emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, declaring: "This dynasty is to hang the people and fight crimes, and come to avenge the son of tomorrow." After entering the customs, respect the heavens and the law, all systems illuminate the story of the country. "Abolish the bad government of the traitors and ministers of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and restore the old system of the Divine Sect." "The officials and gentry in various places, before the arrival of the soldiers of this dynasty, all have the responsibility of organizing and killing the thieves and maintaining local law and order. After the thieves are pacified, the court will not hesitate to reward officials and knights according to their merits. ”

Several successive decrees were issued, which made the officials and gentry everywhere rejoice, thinking that the Qing Dynasty was the real Shuntian, and the Shunzhi Emperor was the true son of the world! Even the Confucian family in Qufu and the Meng family in Zou County proudly held their braids and said to their confidants: "With a mere three thousand troubles, you can exchange it for the respect and dignity of the imperial court, and it is worth it!" ”

So, what do these wills mean? In fact, the front is all clichés, all empty words. Only the last few sentences are the most important and most important to the officials and gentry. Abolish the official gentry in the later period of Chongzhen, abolish the implementation of the preferential exemption rules in the Jiajing period, and re-implement the preferential exemption rules in the Wanli period. We scholars can accept the contributions of poor mud feet and poles without paying food or taxes again! The court has such grace, so we naturally have to repay it with peach and plum with Qiong Yao. Since the regent ordered us to recruit volunteers to maintain local law and order and exterminate the thieves when the imperial army was unable to catch it for a while, then what are we waiting for? The husband was born in troubled times, and it is the time to make contributions!

For a time, in Zhili, Gyeonggi, Shandong, and Shanxi, the officials and gentry came out one after another to organize all kinds of armed forces, collectively known as regimental training. to help the Qing army fight against the Shun and Ming armies. Among them, the largest and most ferocious in combat effectiveness is the Liulin Regiment organized by the Zeng brothers in Shandong.

In Shandong, although Zhang Xiaohu and Fan Xiaozeng suppressed the Dengzhou gentry rebellion with a thunderous force, the so-called mantis arm is difficult to stop the general trend, and the consequences of the Dengzhou rebellion are gradually highlighted. More and more prefectures, prefectures, prefectures, and counties raised their banners to rebel, or took refuge in Zhanglinghu or directly to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the whole of Shandong quickly fell into a bloody storm.

Although the people who raised the banner and rebelled, although they all claimed to be the children of the Holy Sect and shouted that the world had suffered for a long time and that they wanted to save the country and the people, what they did was either killing people and setting fires, or plundering the good people. Of course, doing all this requires capital, and the capital is all kinds of regimental training, although the names are varied, but there are some common characteristics, they are all composed of people who are extremely anti-New Deal, most of them use the purchased weapons from Nanzhong, and even the combat mode, they also try to imitate the Nanyue Army, although most of them are painted tiger cats, but it is indeed much more effective than the previous Ming army.

Among them, the armed forces of the four major families of Confucius, Mencius and Zengxun are the most famous, especially led by Zeng Chuansheng, who is the most vicious and arrogant. Zeng Chuansheng claimed to be a descendant of the Zeng family, and during Li Huayu's reign, he actively sent his children to the army as soldiers, learned a lot of real skills, and at the same time participated in trade, earned a lot of money and purchased a lot of weapons through private channels, so after his rebellion, he easily defeated the local watchman team and seized the county seat. Because of this merit, Abatai applied for him to appoint him as the training envoy of the Gaoyuan Regiment, and authorized him to tax and train troops in the jurisdiction. With Abatai's support, Zeng Chuansheng naturally had no fear, so one after another human tragedy befell the land that once buried the tyrannical Qin.

The regimental training led by the three brothers Zeng Chuansheng, Zeng Chuanzhai and Zeng Chuanchun has been famous for killing people like mowing grass and cutting off heads like shaving heads wherever they have been.

The small dog followed the big dog barking, and the four big families headed by Confucius and Meng took the lead, and the large and small landlords from all over Shandong came out of the cage one after another, organizing the peasants to "settle old accounts" and "pay off old debts". In fact, the various systems since Li Huayu took charge of Shandong were completely overthrown, and the peasants and tenants were required to pay rent and profit in accordance with the rules of the year. "Not only do you have to pay the original clearly, but you also have to pay to Lao Tzu for the profits that have been rolling over the years!"

The person who said this was the land in the area of Boshan in Zichuan, Shandong Province, who advocated the holy hoof.

In the early morning, when the sun had just emerged and a few wisps of cooking smoke had just emerged from the chimneys of every house, a team of wolf-like regimental exercises rushed into Xiejiazhuang, Gaoyuan County, and they smashed the door from house to house, forcing everyone to come out of the house and concentrate on the threshing floor at the east end of Zhuangzi.

In the cold wind, the old and weak and the women shivered, and they did not know whether they were cold or frightened. Just when the people were panicking, the group moved a Taishi chair in front of everyone, and then, a fat man walked to the chair with square steps, and then sat down. Then, the fat man smiled and said, "Folks, I'm back again." ”

When the villagers saw it, their faces suddenly changed, Zhang Shenghu was too familiar to them, it was a nightmare that they had lasted for more than 20 years a few years ago. Zhang Shenghu is a local landowner, and he has always been clever and robberous. What big buckets are in and out of small buckets are pediatrics in him, and all kinds of miscellaneous means of worship are full of tricks and tricks, squeezing tenants. There is also the so-called government ** Feng Zhi Poor, so that the men and women of every household come to work for him. The men are okay to say, at most, they eat pig and dog food, do cow and horse work, and then they will occasionally be accidentally whipped by the housekeepers to urge you. However, those young women, whether they are the yellow flower girl who has not left the cabinet or the daughter-in-law who has just given birth, as long as they are named by the Zhang family, it will be a catastrophe. The yellow flower girl basically did not be able to go out of the door of Zhang's house, and occasionally, she was also built out of the door panel, and her face was covered with a straw mat.

In this regard, Zhang Shenghu and his ilk said very proudly that this is the first night right of our gentry. (For this, many of their descendants threw the black cauldron on the Mongols.) Let's not say whether the Mongols had such a large population that could be dispersed to each village to implement such a system, but historical records during the Republic of China recorded that in the 30s, in northern Jiangsu and the Huai River area, there were still such first-night rights system remaining. This is probably the essence of traditional Chinese culture under the Republic of China system. I wonder if those gentlemen who say that the essence of Chinese culture is in Taiwan are willing to implement such cultural traditions? Send your daughter-in-law and girlfriend to the old man's house. It seems that these people are not from big families. ）

However, since Li Huayu, the Marquis of Linqing, governed Shandong, there have been people who have continuously reported him for crimes, and Li Huayu ordered the team to investigate immediately, but accidentally leaked the news, and he fled. However, he has not been seen again for several years, so the villagers have gradually become accustomed to his absence, and even take it for granted. But unexpectedly, he actually came back.

As if he felt that the attitude of the villagers was not enthusiastic enough, Zhang Shenghu was a little dissatisfied and frowned at the same broom as Zeng Chuansheng, stared at the same triangular eyes as Zeng Chuansheng, and then said: "In the past few years, you have followed the traitor Li Huayu, which can be said to have done all the bad things, but for the sake of the villagers, I don't care about you." Most... ”

Zhang Shenghu paused for a moment and said: "At most, you go over to take mine, add some interest and send it back, eat me, add some interest and spit it back to me, in this way, we will write it off." ”

Then he looked at a burly middle-aged man viciously, and as soon as he made a look, several vicious group practitioners immediately came up and pulled him out of the crowd and pulled him in front of Zhang Shenghu. Zhang Shenghu looked at this man, sneered and said: "Xie San, I heard that you have been very happy in the past few years, reported me, the government gave you a silver dollar, you opened a blacksmith shop with the silver dollar, and married a daughter-in-law, should I congratulate you?" ”

Xie San raised his neck and looked at Zhang Shenghu and said, "The surname is Zhang, you are a wild seed raised by a big girl, what qualifications do you have to be arrogant with me?" Although Hou Ye is dead, I am also the village chief of Xiejiazhuang appointed by Hou Ye! I was born a person from the government, and I died as a ghost of the government, and the only thing I hated was that I didn't bring you, a bastard, to justice, and sent you to a mass grave like Wu Xingzhen's envoy, and buried you alive as a big girl. ”

Xie San's words were angry, and they all looked at Zhang Shenghu, waiting for his order. However, Zhang Shenghu didn't seem to be angry, he patted Xie San's shoulder with a smile and said, "Well said, well said." Then, without any twist, he ordered: "Tie Xie San to a tree, don't hurt him." After a while, he will pull his wife out, and the brothers will have a good time. ”

A few group members cheered, and then went to the crowd to pull out a few young women, ready to carry out *** activities on the threshing floor. The other dozen or so were two stone mills from the mill.

"Didn't you keep saying you wanted to lighten the load? Good! Today, sir, I'll give you a good lightening! With Zhang Shenghu's loud call, five or six group practitioners pulled out two old men from the crowd, both of whom were old men from the Xie family.

"Don't you want to be light? Good! Let's take a good look at it today! Several members tied the stone mill to the old man's back with a rope, and the heavy stone mill immediately pressed the old man to the ground.

"You didn't want to lighten the burden and make your body light, but now it's light, fast! Come on! The group members shouted and cursed, and the sticks and guns in their hands rained down on the old man, and in the blink of an eye, the two old men were beaten to the point that their heads were broken and bleeding and dying.

"Zhang Shenghu, you are raised by a big girl, you can't die well!" There is a way that 70 does not beat and 80 does not scold, let alone such a cruel and inhumane act of abuse and killing? ! Xie San, who was tied to the tree, struggled to let out angry scolding, and the villagers couldn't stand it anymore, so they spontaneously formed a human wall and blocked the group in front of them. Seeing that the villagers resisted, Zhang Shenghu immediately pulled out his handcuff, aimed the gun at the villagers, and shouted viciously: "Diao Min, don't be embarrassed, I am now the official of the Qing Dynasty, and disobeying me is a rebellion!" ”

At this moment, I don't know when, on a big tree on the edge of the threshing floor, a person went up, and this person suddenly shouted: "Zhang Shenghu, your grandfather and I are just going to make you a group of dog tartars, can you bite Lao Tzu's ball?" ”

Zhang Shenghu hurriedly looked towards the big tree, but he found that there seemed to be a feathered arrow flying, but it was too late to dodge. So fast, it was the last thought of his life.

Seeing that Zhang Shenghu was dead, Tuan Ding immediately opened his bow and arrows to retaliate, but he didn't notice that more than a dozen feather arrows were also flying towards them, and in an instant, more than a dozen people fell five or six, and the rest did not live long, they were besieged by the villagers and the people who had shot arrows before, fists, toes, teeth, sticks, and even the two stone mills were lifted by several young men, and smashed on the bodies of the two Tuanding, and the red and white flowed all over the ground, and the scene was extremely bloody for a while.

However, Xie San didn't feel the slightest blood, he just rushed to the person who shot Zhang Shenghu excitedly, and said excitedly: "Brother Xie Qian, you are here, how are the brothers of the watch team?" Xie Qian sighed and said, "Don't mention it, that bastard suddenly rebelled and killed many of our good brothers." I felt that the wind was wrong, so I pulled my brothers out of the city in advance, so I escaped. However, in the past few days, I have been looking around, but I have gathered many brothers, and although there are only one hundred and eighty people, I have received great news. ”

"Good news? What other good news can there be in these years? Xie San shook his head helplessly. Unless the Hou Ye returned to our Shandong to take charge of the house. That's the good news! ”

"That's the good news for me!" Xie Qian approached Xie San with a mysterious face, and lowered his voice, but he could make the people around him hear it clearly.

"The Tartars spread rumors that Hou Ye is dead, but in fact, it's all bullshit! Hou Ye was just injured, and now he is recuperating in the south! ”

"Oh! Oh my God! That's great news! Blessed by the ancestral gods! Several villagers wept with joy and began to kneel on the ground and pray to the heavens.

"To tell you the truth, tell the villagers, we just received the order of the Hou Ye to kill the Tartars!" Xie Qian took the opportunity to strike while the iron was hot. "The person sent by the Hou Ye said that as long as we can fight to the beach, food, military salaries, knives and guns, and this," Xie Qian took out an oiled paper bag from his arms and shook it in front of everyone's eyes, "Everyone who has made meritorious contributions to killing Tartars will have an official and a half-job!" The confession will also be sent by sea! ”

This was said by Xie Qian in a very inflammatory way, which immediately made the young adults in the village have flames in their eyes and let the old people see hope. But, to put it bluntly, this trick is just a trick that my Chinese have been playing rotten for thousands of years, starting with Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising in Daze Township. "I deceive and claim to be Gongzi Fusu and Xiang Yan, sing for the world, and it is advisable to respond more." When will Ying Zheng's eldest son be able to hook up with Xiang Yan, the general of Chu State? However, it is only with the help of appeal. This is just like the third prince of Zhu, who has plagued the Qing Dynasty for more than 100 years, from the Shunzhi period to the Qianlong period of Kangxi, there are constantly people who raise things under the banner of the third prince of Zhu. Now, Xie Qian is also using the same tricks, and the routines are surprisingly consistent.

Li Huayu, like Gongzi Fusu, is the eldest son of a powerful regime, and they are both leading troops to do errands. Moreover, they all have good reputations, and they all belong to the kind of people who have a good image in the hearts of the people and should not die.

"Folks! Follow me into Zichuan City and kill that traitor Sun Zhiqi! ”

Under Xie Qian's call, everyone's emotions were instantly ignited. Killing into Zichuan City, killing the dog traitor Sun Zhiqi who took the lead in telling the Tartar Emperor to ask us all to shave our hair and be easy to obey, this proposal has received the greatest support. People shouted and poured out from Xiejiazhuang, and people continued to merge along the way, killing in the direction of Zichuan County.