With such a people-friendly team to protect the territory and the people, the lives of the nearby people have been much more stable, and they have come to them to ask for help whenever there is a trouble, and they have also responded to their requests and presided over justice, so they have won the love of the local people.

After a long time, as the momentum became bigger and bigger, and the reputation became better and better, people gradually had a tendency to deify them, and the people usually described them as gods and generals who could fly the eaves and walk the wall, and called this team "Chitose Army" with both affection and awe.

And Chu Fang herself was portrayed by the people as an omnipotent goddess, and everyone respectfully called her "Fang Fang Chitose".

The fame is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more people who come to defect, and the strength of this "thousand-year-old army" is also getting stronger and stronger, with a total number of more than 1,000 people, and its prestige has been spread far to the area of Xuefeng Mountain in Xiangxi.

The reason why the combat effectiveness of this rebel army is so strong, in addition to Fangfang's strategy of using troops, her command has recently recruited a lot of "fugitives" from the north, these people have a common enmity with the Manchurians, so they are particularly fierce when they kill the Tartars, among them, the three commanders who are known as the "three protectors" are particularly outstanding, one of them is "not muddy" Yuan Zuocai, the second is "over the sky" Zhang Meng, and the third is "a dragon" Zuo Wenzhao.

These three cattle are all from the North Zhili Hejian Mansion and Cangzhou Mansion area of the "fugitive", those two local folk since ancient times have a martial arts style, has always been a martial arts master, so they have a good martial arts since childhood.

With the joining of these outlaws, the "Chitose Army" killed the Qing army after several confrontations, lost their armor and lost their soldiers, and had to retreat in the city all day long, easily unwilling to enter the mountains again to fight them.

Ladies and gentlemen, here I would like to explain to you what a "fugitive" is and why a "fugitive" has such a deep hatred for the Manchurians.

If we want to make it clear about "fugitives", we must first give a general explanation of the origin of the words "Manchu Qing" and "children of the Eight Banners".

Manchurian Jurchens, in the early Ming Dynasty, according to geographical location, were divided into three major divisions: Jianzhou Jurchen, Haixi Jurchen and Savage Jurchen, and later Jianzhou Jurchen rose under the leadership of Aixinjue Luo Nurhachi, annexed other Jurchens one by one, and divided the Manchu army under his command into eight banners according to the color of the military flag, and later, the Manchus called themselves the children of the Eight Banners, referred to as the banner people.

In these eight banners, each commander of the banner is called Gushan Ezhen (Ezhen: Mongolian: the meaning of the master), each flag is composed of five Jiala, the leader of each Jiala is called Jiala Ezhen, there are five or more than five Niu Lu under it, every 300 people are a Niu Lu, and its leader is called Niu Lu Ezhen, so each flag generally has more than 7,500 people, and the total number of children of the Eight Banners is about 60,000 people.

Subsequently, after gradually annexing the Mongol tribes and seizing a large area of land in eastern Liaodong, the "Eight Banners of Mongolia" and the "Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty" were added, with a total force of 200,000.

At the beginning, Nurhachi stipulated that these children of the Eight Banners could only serve in the military for the rest of their lives to help him fight the country, and were not allowed to engage in any other industry, and this policy ensured soldiers during the war period of the Manchu Dynasty's brutal expansion, which played a considerable role.

However, after the Qing court sat on the throne, due to the ignorance and arrogance of the people who sat on the dragon chair, they still retained this policy for a long time, so that the children of the Eight Banners in the late Qing Dynasty not only did not know how to fight, but also did not have basic survival skills.

In the forty-fourth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1616), Nurhachi established the Dajin State in Hetuala (now Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County, Liaoning), which was known as Houjin in history. Two years later, Nurhachi issued the "Seven Hatreds" to raise troops, swore to attack Ming, captured Shenyang and moved the capital here, and until Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, and changed the name of the country to "Daqing", Shenyang was renamed Shengjing, and then Shunzhi entered the customs, and the capital was set in Beijing, and since then the Manchurian people have sat on the dragon chair for three hundred years.

This is the origin of the word "Manchu".

At the beginning of the entry of the Manchu Eight Banners into the Central Plains, the two decrees with the greatest public anger were "shaving hair and making it easy to wear" and "enclosure policy".

Everyone knows that the image of the ugly money rattail that once represented the shame of the Chinese nation as the sick man of Dongye in the future, let's talk about the "enclosure policy" and the "fugitive law".

The Jianzhou Jurchens among the Manchus were the most descendant of Nurhachi, who were originally a nomadic people, because the population was too small, and they were not allowed to engage in agricultural and animal husbandry production.

These minions, the first were some criminals who were punished as slaves, as well as the Mongols, Koreans, and Uygurs captured in previous battles, and later captured a large number of Ming soldiers and Han people in the previous battles.

In the eyes of the arrogant Manchu aristocrats, these people are not good at fighting, but they can work, and most of them are young and strong men, so they are deeply loved by the Manchu masters.

After entering the customs and setting the capital, in order to reward the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and make them truly become the masters of the country, the regent Dolgon specially ordered the Manchurian Banner people to stake land in the areas of Gyeonggi and Beizhili to reward their merits, not only took away the homes of a large number of Han people, but also appropriated the Han people in the enclosed land as slaves, which was known as the "enclosure policy" in history.

These slaves are different from ordinary slaves, they do not have a trace of political freedom and property freedom, and even have no freedom of life, and their status is only equal to property, so there was a large number of slaves fleeing the "fugitive" incident, the Qing court in order to stop the local hiding of fugitives, then formulated a strict law of fugitives, in addition to catching the fugitives are often executed, if someone dares to hide such fugitives, it is to add to the crime, if it is not good, the whole family will be connected, and the head will fall a large piece.

It is conceivable how the Manchurians did not regard the Han people as human beings when they first entered the customs.

The reason is not that these minions are the lifeblood of those Manchurian masters, and the masters are counting on these slaves to cultivate and produce for them, if they all escape, who will feed the masters?

At the beginning, Dolgon said to the Han officials who had been advised by Shangshu: "The people who have always been harvested from bloody wars for farming and horse grazing have fled to the Japanese people, and they have not been given one out of ten. If the law is strict, the Han people will suffer, but if the law is not strict, then the nest will be unscrupulous, and the more people will escape, who will I drive in Manchuria? What is the need for health? Are the Manchurians bitter? ”

Under such heavy pressure, the local government will no longer dare to neglect the fugitive, but where there are fugitives in the territory, they will all be arrested and repatriated to the north, for which hundreds of thousands of people who harbored fugitives have been arrested.

Not only were a large number of ordinary people killed, but even those Han officials who worked for the Manchus were not spared, Geng Zhongming, who was the king of Jingnan, was on the way to the south, because his subordinates were secretly hiding fugitives and thought that he would inevitably commit capital crimes, so he committed suicide in Jiangxi in fear of crime.

(End of chapter)