Chapter 82: Murder (Third Shift, Asking for a Monthly Pass)

As a veteran of the army, Dasu, from the moment he arrived in Suqian, he fully demonstrated the qualities that a veteran should have. After he ordered the establishment of a camp, tens of thousands of Qing troops immediately took action, of course, they did not build the camp by themselves, but used Pizhou and the people who plundered along the way to build a large camp, and they forced the people caught along the way, about two miles away from the city gate, with their backs to Suqian City to start building a military camp.

Those people at least theoretically belong to the Qing Dynasty people, they never dreamed that the army of the imperial court would arrest people indiscriminately, did not deliberately avoid in advance, in Pizhou City, although in order to inspire the army, Dasu ordered the slaughter of the city, but there was no slaughter on this road, the people in the villages along the way, but they were only forced by the Qing army with knives, often the whole family, all of them were arrested, and then they were tied to the rope and escorted to the city, because of the large number, so it was only half a day's work, and several camps were built.

For the Qing army, these people are the coolies in the camp, building camps, cutting wood, lighting fires and cooking, all the coolies are done by these people. Even at night, when those Qing soldiers were served to their heart's content, they would pull the robbed women into the tent and wantonly bully and humiliate.

The next day, the Qing army, which had rested for a day and a night, had completely recovered its strength. In the camp of the Qing army, there were bursts of horns, and in the sound of the horns, tens of thousands of Qing troops left the camp one after another and formed a phalanx in front of the camp.

Among these camps, there are not only elite soldiers who wear armor and distinguish the Eight Banners by color, but also green battalion soldiers without armor, and the number of green battalion soldiers is the majority. Cavalry, bird commanders, and armored soldiers, compared with the loyal and righteous army with only armored heavy infantry and firearms, these Qing troops wearing eight-colored cotton armor are undoubtedly more complete.

"After this battle, no matter what, we must prepare the artillery horses!"

Zhu Mingzhong, who was wearing a black iron armor like a riot suit, looked at the artillerymen who were pulled into the battlefield by mules, and muttered to himself, but more often, his eyes were fixed on the cavalry located behind the Qing army's main formation, and he had always been most worried about these cavalry.

However, the cavalry of the Qing army did not take the initiative to try to attack when the loyal and righteous army was arrayed, because both sides were Qing troops, and what kind of price would be attached to using cavalry to storm the camp, after all, this formation was based on the camp at the beginning. Then he used his own formation to guard the rear formation, and so on. Under such circumstances, the Qing army naturally would not risk attacking the main position of the fully equipped loyal army with cavalry.

"This Zhu thief, it seems that there is indeed a bit of a doorway!"

Seeing the all-in-one formation, Dasu, who knew that it was impossible to use cavalry to attack again, immediately nodded and said.

"Drumming!"

In the deafening sound of heavy drums, the Qing army's main formation began to move, the Qing army standing in formation slowly moved forward, they moved not fast, but not slow, when the infantry moved, the cavalry wandered on its two wings, protecting its two wings.

This is the first time Zhu Mingzhong participated in a large-scale battle in the 17th century, which is different from the messy he imagined, and everyone seems to be using a phalanx, rather than a swarm of swarms in film and television dramas.

One mile, two miles......

Although the Qing army was not moving fast, it was still moving forward. Even if he wanted to be a few miles apart, Zhu Mingzhong could feel an invisible pressure, when he was looking at the Qing army, he would look at the artillery located between the phalanxes, how far was the range of the 6-pound gun?

It's almost two miles, but that's just the maximum range of a solid bullet. If you want to give full play to the power of solid bullets, you should fire about one mile, if you are a shotgun, you should fire about 100 zhang, and as for flowering grenades, well, they are about the same as solid bullets...... As long as the Qing army comes into range

And at this time, the Qing army suddenly stopped two miles away, what happened? In confusion, the drumming in the Qing army's main formation stopped, and the Qing army also stopped.

"Marshal, what do you see behind the Qing army?"

The sharp-eyed Li Wenbai pointed to the rear of the Qing army and said strangely.

This will Zhu Mingzhong pay attention to the rear of the Qing army's main formation, thousands of cavalry seem to be driving something, Zhu Mingzhong hurriedly picked up the telescope and looked, although only two, three or four telescopes did not see very clearly, but still let him see what the cavalry was holding.

It's the people!

Thousands of people!

What are they going to do?

"Let's do it!!"

With Dasu's order, Laita and the others, who were originally in the rear of the main formation, immediately drove the tens of thousands of people who swept along the way forward.

More than 1,000 cavalry drove those people, restrained them and let them go forward from the two flanks of the Qing army's main formation, let them gather in front of the Qing army's formation, and then drive them forward, and the Qing army's cavalry roamed on the two wings of the people, if anyone tried to escape, indiscriminately, the Qing army on horseback would immediately draw a bow and shoot them.

"What are they going to do?"

Zhu Mingzhong kept holding a telescope to observe the movements of the Qing army. Seeing that those Qing cavalry suddenly drove out, tens of thousands of ordinary people were escorted over, stunned, and asked loudly.

"Don't know?"

Not to mention other people, it is Zhang Jinsheng, a veteran who has been in the army for a long time, who will also be confused by the actions of the Qing army, and he doesn't know what the Qing army has in mind.

"They ......"

Before the words could be spoken, Zhu Mingzhong's eyes instantly widened.

"It's not good, these Qing soldiers want to kill people......"

There was a burst of drums in the Qing army's main formation, but this time the Qing army did not move, in the rapid drumming, those people who were driven between the two armies were at a loss, and the Qing cavalry behind them suddenly raised the knife in their hands, and cut the people around them in two with a knife!

"If you want to live, run forward......"

The Qing army on horseback, while slashing and killing, drove the people, and those who were driven and killed were all desperately running forward under the instinct of survival. But those Qing troops were still slashing and driving the people.

"Ah......h

Zhu Mingzhong, who was holding the telescope, could be said to see it clearly, his body trembled suddenly, and at this moment, he only felt a chill in his bones.

Killed!

Although the history books recorded the atrocities of the Qing army's unspeakable massacre, although the Pizhou massacre was in front of him, he had never witnessed it, only heard about it, and now, the massacre happened in front of his eyes.

The Qing army is right in front of his eyes, constantly slaughtering unarmed people, what are they going to do!

Why kill!

Why kill these people?