Chapter 5: Recovering the Remnants of the Army (I)

Liu Xia got up early in the morning and ordered everyone in the team to take some food made yesterday, and then set off in line. They didn't finish the food yesterday, because there was a lot of it, so they couldn't take it, and finally Liu Xia gave all the food to the Han people they saved, and asked them to find a place to hide.

"General, where are we going now? General, we all want to kill the Tartars," Liu Dazhuang asked Liu Xia. At this time, everyone had a full meal and slept well, they were all in good spirits, and they felt that they couldn't exhaust their strength, and they all wanted to fight with the Tartar immediately, and now they were staring at Liu Xia one by one, looking forward to the battle.

Liu Xia also thought that the morale was high at this time and it was very suitable for fighting, so he agreed to go to war, kill the Tartars, and exterminate the Hu people. Now the city of Yangzhou is broken, there is chaos everywhere, they don't know how to go, so now they are also running around, where there is a sound, where there is a sound, there must be Tartars to do evil.

Soon they came to an intersection, which was an intersection, and they were on the road west of the intersection, and at this intersection they could not see the situation on the south side of the road and the situation on the north side of the road, because there were houses in the way. Liu Xia immediately ordered to stop advancing, first of all, to investigate the situation on this road.

"Da Zhuang, go and see the situation ahead," Liu Xia said.

"Yes," Liu Dazhuang replied respectfully. After speaking, Liu Dazhuang stepped forward, lay on the wall, secretly looked in the north-south direction, and then hurriedly walked towards Liu Xia.

Liu Xia saw that Liu Dazhuang was so excited, so he hurriedly asked, "What's the situation with Dazhuang?" What's going on there? ”

Liu Dazhuang replied: "General, the last general saw from there that there were two Tartars coming on horseback in the south, and the last general saw that these Tartars who entered the city basically came on foot, and there were few on horseback, and the last general thought that this must not be simple, and he might be able to find important information."

When Liu Xia heard this, he thought that Liu Dazhuang was right, so he ordered the archers to prepare, and sent another agile person to watch the Tartar on horseback, and when the Tartar cavalry came quickly, he waved to the archer, and the archer directly fired ten thousand arrows. After the arrangement, Liu Xia began to wait for the arrival of the Tartars, at this time the whole street was unusually quiet, and everyone's mood was very nervous.

Slowly Liu Xia heard the sound of the hooves of the horse that the Tartar was riding, Liu Xia and the soldiers realized that the Tartar was coming, the nineteen archers were tense, and the remaining swordsmen were also nervously looking at the intersection, just waiting for not to be shot and then giving them a stab.

For a moment, the soldier who looked at the Tartar waved his hand to the archer, and the archer realized that the Tartar was coming, so he immediately shot an arrow, just at this time the two Tartars ran over, and the result can be imagined, both Tartars were shot down, but they did not die immediately, the bow and arrow did not hit the vital point, then Liu Dazhuang led the remaining sword soldiers to immediately go up and hack the Tartar who still had breath to death, when shooting the arrow, one of the horses was also heavy with several arrows, and it was no longer possible, and a horse on the other side survived intact.

A soldier hurriedly brought the living horse over, although it was not a peerless horse, but it was not bad, it was the mount of the Tartar cavalry. In addition, Liu Dazhuang found a piece of paper from the two dead Tartars, and then immediately handed it to Liu Xia.

Liu Xia took the paper, opened it quickly, and read the content on it, his brows immediately furrowed, and his eyes were very angry, because the paper read: "Immediately remove all the remnants of the Southern Ming Dynasty in the city" This is to kill everyone in Yangzhou City, even if Liu Xia knew the tragic situation of Yangzhou for ten days before, but after seeing this order, he was still angry. Immediately, Liu Xia handed the paper to Liu Dazhuang, and then everyone gathered around to look at it.

Then came the angry scene of the soldiers, threatening to kill all the Tartars. Liu Xia ordered the body of the tartar to be hidden in a dilapidated yard, and threw the dead horse into it, although the horse meat was good, but now there was no time to eat it, so he had to throw it away.

In the end, Liu Xia did not ride the horse, but said to everyone: "I treat everyone like brothers, you are not riding a horse now, how can I ride alone?" Brothers have to share the weal and woe, don't talk about it, we use this horse to carry things."

Liu Xia's words moved all the soldiers and soldiers, after all, how many generals in this era regard soldiers as brothers, and even if there are, most of them are just words, and few have actual actions. When soldiers are hoping to meet a good general, a general who treats his soldiers well is difficult to meet, so these soldiers heard Liu Xia's words and became more loyal.

Liu Xia put the gold, silver, and jewelry found on the Tartar into a bag, put it on the horse, and let the war horse carry it, and then ordered a soldier to lead the horse, optimistic about the assets of the future start, and began to transfer.

The Tartars ran to the city to rob, rob, all with the team fighting, robbing, robbing, natural forces dispersed, this Yangzhou is a big city, so that the Tartar team and the team are far away, each team has its own robbery, robbery range, which also gives Liu Xia a loophole, Liu Xia wants to make good use of this loophole to get the greatest benefit.

After walking for a while, Liu Xia stopped his march again, because Liu Xia found out again that he heard the sound of a quarrel in a dilapidated courtyard next to him, and the sound should be the remnants of the Ming army. Liu Xia couldn't help but be happy in his heart, he finally met the army of the Ming Dynasty, and he might be able to reorganize it.

These walls have long been damaged, not very good, there are many gaps, Liu Xia finally saw the situation inside through the gaps, and saw that there were nearly a hundred soldiers inside, and these soldiers were half surrounded in a semicircle.

And the clothes of these soldiers are even worse than them, one by one does not have much spirit, and the weapons are not much good, and very few of them are discarded when they escape, only a dozen people's weapons are not bad, in the middle of these soldiers are two people dressed as generals, both are in their thirties, one looks slightly handsome, has a beard, is strong, holds a large knife, looks very powerful.

The other, on the other hand, had a big belly, walked with some difficulty, with small eyes, and a flushed face, probably arguing with the young general, who had a sword decorated with jewels, gold and silver, and a sword decorated with jewels and gold and silver hanging from his waist.

Although Liu Xia didn't know what they were doing, judging from the expressions of these two people, these two people must have had a contradiction, Liu Xia felt that he couldn't be too reckless at this time, and he needed to think about how to get in, and then recover these people.

Liu Dazhuang also came over, looked inside with his eyes, and then said to Liu Xia with a slight smile: "General, I know that person, and the general should be able to recover these soldiers."

Liu Xia looked at Liu Dazhuang so happy, so he hurriedly asked, "Which one?" How did you meet? ”

Liu Dazhuang said: "General, the one who looks very strong, the one with a big knife in his hand, he is one of the soldiers led by the old general to rescue Yangzhou City, although the last general does not have much friendship with him, but he is very familiar." On the same day, Yangzhou City was broken, Shi Daren was defeated and captured, the old general had no choice but to retreat into the city, leading the remnants of the army to fight in the streets of the Qing army, although it lasted for a while, it was finally defeated by the Qing army, and the old general was also ...... Therefore...... However, many soldiers were scattered by the Qing army at that time, and this soldier may have been dispersed by the Qing army at that time and then came to this place."

Hearing Liu Dazhuang say this, Liu Xia also felt that it was more likely to be recovered this time, if these soldiers could also be recovered, then his subordinates could increase by more than 100 people, and he would not have to be so timid to kill the Tartars himself.

"Everyone prepare, let's go in," Liu Xia said to the soldiers.

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The two generals in the courtyard were arguing fiercely, the soldier with a big knife and a strong dress was called Zhang Yuan, a loyal and righteous man, who was a garrison under Liu Zhaoji at that time, and was a five-rank official.

The other big-bellied soldier who looked very corrupt was called Lin Jie, who was also a general under Liu Zhaoji at that time, and he was a capital secretary, an official rank older than that Zhang Yuan, and he was Zhang Yuan's boss, but the two were not direct subordinates.

At this time, the two were arguing with each other over whether to throw themselves into the Qing army, that Lin Jie was Liu Zhaoji's chief soldier in Gaoyou, and he was the capital secretary, not Liu Zhaoji's old subordinate, Liu Zhaoji was in charge before, although Lin Jie had some minor problems, but there was no major disaster, Liu Zhaoji was very strict in governing the army, so he had no chance to do anything bad.

But now Liu Zhaoji is dead, the Ming army is defeated, and the senior commanders are also dead, and the captured ones are captured. This guy was originally greedy for life and afraid of death, but now that no one cares about him, he is naturally acting nonsense, doing whatever he wants, Lin Jie wants to live, and now he is thinking about surrendering.

But Lin Jie didn't expect that his subordinates still didn't listen to him, and he said that he wanted to surrender with the Qing army, this Zhang Yuan immediately objected, so the two argued, most of this team were Zhang Yuan's subordinates, and Lin Jie's subordinates were only a dozen or so, and the others were scattered in the fight, and now he can't help Zhang Yuan.

Lin Jie knew that Zhang Yuan was an upright person, so even if the Ming army was defeated now, Zhang Yuan still didn't dare to kill himself, after all, he was his commander, and Zhang Yuan would not do it, Lin Jie was right about Zhang Yuan's heart, so when he still had more than a dozen people, he was still so arrogant, he didn't worry about his life.

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