Chapter 169: The butcher's knife is raised, and the head is rolling

Zuo Menggeng's resistance in Changsha......

He didn't resist.

In fact, it is equivalent to suicide, the smooth water transportation network of the Xiangjiang River, so that the attacking Ming army alone carried more than 300 cannons, although the Shenwei invincible general cannon has reached the end of the barrel life, had to be transported back to Nanjing to be reforged, but the Hongyi cannon level heavy artillery still reached more than 40.

It would be naïve for Changsha City to want to defend it under the bombardment of more than 300 cannons.

Zuo Mengeng ran away from Hengyang very simply.

Then the Ming army continued to advance, he continued to run south, and when he ran to Chenzhou, he began to prepare for the real battle, after all, the water transportation here is not so smooth, which shows that this guy still has a bit of a brain, and he also knows that he has to lengthen the transportation line to minimize the firepower advantage of the rebel army. But it's a pity that when he was preparing to fight, Liu Zhaoji's troops went to Ganzhou and began to attack Meiling, and Zuo Mengeng, who was afraid of being attacked from front to back, had to run to Guangzhou as fast as possible.

His speed of reflexes saved him.

On the same day that he arrived in Shaoguan, Liu Zhaoji attacked Meiling, and then Zuo Mengeng and Wang Yuncheng, with the support of the Guangdong gentry, defended Shaoguan and continued to serve King Gui as the emperor to prepare for the seizure of Tiannan.

The rebel army stopped at Chenzhou and Nanxiong.

The battle line is too long, and the logistics are a little too much to support.

Of course, the main thing is that Yang Qing wants to fish, the strength of the two Guangxi toasts is very strong, and these guys have to solve it to the maximum extent, saying that Guangxi's annual income is only hundreds of thousands of stones, which is too much, and this situation is not only because of the vampire King Jingjiang, to a large extent, because these toasts have long been out of paying taxes. But if you use force in the future, one cottage after another, and force them to pay taxes, it will be very troublesome, it is better to take this opportunity to create pressure, and force Zuo Mengeng and King Jingjiang to pull these toasts together, let them send the young and strong to the battlefield, and then drain their blood on the battlefield, so that it will be much easier to change the land and return to the stream.

It has to be reinvented.

Yang Qing, who dared to do it with the fourth elder brother, would definitely not be able to lag behind him, but the fourth elder brother's land reform and return to the stream would be bloody, and the southwest toast at this time was much stronger than the era of the fourth elder brother in the original history.

They have to be bled in advance.

And it is definitely not possible to go to the mountains and forests to clear them, they must be led to the battlefield of the plains, this task must be completed by King Gui, let them first divide the two Guangzhou, in order to resist the army of the imperial court everywhere to help, and finally invite all these Tusi can invite out, and pull those messy ethnic young men to the frontal battlefield, and the rest is a cannon bombardment.

So we need to give them some time.

Yang Qing also had to train the army fighting in the southwest by the way.

This tactic is suitable for the plain battlefield, but between the mountains and mountains, it is not only difficult to walk in the vans, but also lacks the space to combine into a car city, and many battles have to be carried out in the woods, and the vans cannot enter at all, so it is necessary to train a special mountain warfare army.

That's what the tax police team looks like.

Full firearms, heavily armed with light artillery, preferably mountain people.

It's easy.

In exchange for the fertile land and militia on the plains, a large number of shantytowns were absorbed out of the mountains, and some of these people were in the mountainous areas at the junction of Hunan and Jiangxi, and there were often shanty people in this area in the late Ming Dynasty and even the early Tatar Qing Dynasty, and they didn't really like the mountains, but they couldn't own the land as a fugitive. After the war in Huguang, there is wasteland to be reclaimed, let them reclaim it, and there are not enough Huainan ones, and then set them up for the newly reclaimed wasteland for a few years without even collecting rent, and these people will be willing to go out of the mountain.

In these years, the days in the mountainous areas were very hard, and after the popularization of sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn, the mountainous areas could have a full meal.

And these are the best mountain infantry.

In the same way, they had nothing to do with the gentry, and even were extremely hostile to the gentry, and such mountain infantry with five or six corps was enough to sweep through the mountainous areas of the southwest and Guangzhou.

In fact, the toast there doesn't have much combat power.

Even during the Wanli period, these guys were also violently beaten by the Ming army, and their reliance was only on the high mountains and dense forests plus many infectious diseases, and if they really wanted to leave this environment, even the Ming army with spears and machetes also pressed them to fight.

Hunan's rebellion war came to an end for the time being, and this devastating battle didn't really fight any big war, it was basically just a pursuit, and the rebel army gained a special prisoner in this pursuit.

And King Min of Wugang was captured alive.

Because of his location, he was blocked in Wugang City before he could flee to Guangxi.

"Kill!"

Yang Qing said very simply.

Although the Min Wang family has a special descendant, he is still not ready to let it go, in fact, he has not killed a vassal king so far, after all, most of those before were framed by him, just copy other people's homes, and the destruction of meat is a bit too shameless.

But this one will do.

King Min joined the rebellion with his army.

Princess Kunxing beside him grabbed the holy decree without the slightest hesitation, and then stamped the fate ruling that gave the death of King Min and the Min clan to all the lords, and then took the second fate ruling, which was captured in Changsha by Li Qiande, the governor of Biyuan, who originally wanted to run back to his hometown Sichuan in Guizhou, but was caught by an officer on the way and sent to Zhang Mingzhen.

"Kill!"

Yang Qing said very simply.

Princess Kunxing immediately stamped it.

The third is Hou Sui's father and son, his father and son fled south with Zuo Mengeng, but because of Hou Fangyu's physical tiredness, they were left behind, and then they were captured by several local soldiers in Hunan and dedicated to Wang Zhiren, after all, these soldiers are in Hunan, and they will not like to flee south anyway, and it is right to catch a major member of the anti-party to ask for merit and reward.

Princess Kunxing looked at Yang Qing.

Yang Qing's pleading gaze appeared in front of her eyes, and then she recalled the feeling she felt when she was happy last night......

"Kill!"

He said unceremoniously.

Princess Kunxing stamped.

However, she was obviously a little tired when she grabbed the jade seal with one hand, she looked at Yang Qing, and then directly handed the jade seal to him, Yang Qing took it unceremoniously, and at the same time picked up her light body, sat on her seat, and put her on her lap, Princess Kunxing hesitated, stretched out her hand to wrap her arms around his waist with a slightly red face, put her face on his chest, and listened to the sound of his stamping behind him.

Yang Qing had a bunch of similar rulings in front of him.

These are all subordinate officials in various places.

Previously, the farthest east of the Guiwang control area was Linjiang, and the north also reached Changde, although the officials of Guizhou did not openly join, but basically they were all secretly connected, and those officials who did not raise troops to rebel in such a large range were all counted in the anti-party. Regardless of whether they are really involved or not, as long as there is no rebellion within this range, then all of them will be punished as anti-party, since they are against the party, they must be killed, and after killing this stubble, the Hunan officialdom will almost complete the purge, and those gentry who participate, these also have to be killed, not only to kill, but also to confiscate family property.

And then turn their tenants into militia as well.

After killing this stubble, the whole of Hunan was completely under control, and even some of the gentry who escaped this catastrophe no longer had the ability to resist under the watchful eyes of the emperors and militias all over the country.

Then there are two wides.

Hunan and Liangguang constituted an encirclement of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

This completes the layout.

In other words, Yang Qing really has to thank King Gui.

If there is no rebellion, he really can't find a suitable reason, now it's simple, the crime of rebellion is a must, beheading and copying the house, no matter who can't pick out the thorn, at most he said that he killed too much, at most said that there were a lot of unjust prisons in it, but no one dared to say that he shouldn't kill these people, if he rebelled and didn't kill or raid his home, is there still a reason for heaven?

"Isn't that going to kill a lot of people?"

Princess Kunxing raised her head, looked up at Yang Qing with her pretty face and said.

"That's why it's called cleaning."

Yang Qing stroked her hair and said.

"Cleanse with blood!"

He said.

Immediately after that, the jade seal in his hand continued to be sealed, and countless human heads fell to the ground with the sound of stamping in the charm of the two of them.

At this time in the north, Li Zicheng also killed people's heads.

Linqing.

"Kill, don't leave a single one!"

Li Zicheng looked at the local officials and gentry who surrendered again in front of him, and said with a murderous expression.

"King Chuang, you treated the gentry too harshly before, so the gentry only demoted the slaves, you return this time, you should show mercy to the people, if you wantonly kill, no one will dare to surrender in the future."

Gu Junen said cautiously.

"No, I used to kill less!"

Li Zicheng sneered.

"If I had killed all of this generation, I wouldn't have fallen short today, Kuanren? Can Kuanren get them in exchange for not being wall grass? Chongzhen treated them leniently enough and didn't even collect taxes from them, what was the result? What is the difference between when they open their doors to us and when they open their doors to welcome Dorgon? The bones of these dogs are soft, and they don't know how to be afraid if they don't kill them until they bleed. ”

He went on to say.

The waiting soldiers in front of them couldn't wait to raise their knives.

"King Chuang, don't be bewitched by Yang Qing anymore."

Li Yan said earnestly.

"He didn't have a good heart for giving you the book, the founding of all dynasties was a doctor of Yourongshi, uniting the gentry, even if Zhu Yuanzhang was the same, but Yang Qing taught you to do the opposite, just to make you and the gentry enemies. The slogan of free food in Juntian can be shouted, and the minister originally mentioned this slogan to coax the people to help you, but it can't really be practiced in the world. In the past dynasties, there was Juntian, and the Juntian in the Tang Dynasty was just too much wasteland after the population dropped sharply, so those wastelands and the powerful fields in Guanzhong were also allowed to be annexed.

There was only one ancient monarch who practiced the Juntian system, and that was Wang Mang, who usurped the Han Dynasty.

The result?

In the blink of an eye, he was killed and his clan was wiped out.

Then Yang Qing deliberately gave you such a book, just to let you go on Wang Mang's old path, that Dolgon's actions are the right principles of the world, at this time it is not too late to correct, if you continue to be enemies with the gentry, then from now on the north will regard you as an enemy. ”

He continued.

Li Zicheng waved his hand as if he was deaf.

The executioners in front of them fell one after another in a cry, and the heads of the officials and gentry fell to the ground.

Li Zicheng turned to leave.

"Then kill them all!"

He then turned his head and said to Li Yan, who had a distressed face.