Chapter 595: People's Heart

When the 40,000 horses led by the general army of Liaozhen began to retreat, they were also very vigilant against the pursuit of the Huazhou army, and when the army was defeated and retreated, they were afraid that the other party would take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and the military spirit of the retreating troops was a little sluggish.

With so many men and horses, if they collapse, countless people will die just by trampling on each other, and most of the military forces of Liaozhen are concentrated here, if they are defeated by the other party in one fell swoop, it will probably be a disaster, and the entire Shenyang Liaoyang has no military strength that can hold the city.

Then all Liaozhen is going to fall into the hands of the other party, maybe it is pitiful, Li Gufeng, who personally led his own soldiers, found that the Huazhou army did not immediately pursue, as if it was involved by Qiu Feng and others who were decisive and assaulted, looking at Qiu Feng's tactics, many people in the Liao army were scolding.

In the whole Liao Town, there are many relatives and old relationships between the soldiers, seeing their relatives die under the knife of their own family, everyone is furious, eager to cramp and peel Qiu Feng, which is also the reason why Qiu Feng surrendered very easily, he led the Ming army to do military operations very successfully, but he completely cut off his back road, even if he won the battle with the Huazhou army, he returned to Liao Town will not have any good fruit to eat.

This kind of person belongs to the kind of talent who is good at making things and not being good at being a person, you must know that in China for 5,000 years, you don't know how to be a man, and if you are a genius, you will end up dismally.

This Qiu Feng showed a rare shrewdness at this point, knowing that surrendering Huazhou was not his current way of life, so he simply defected, and according to the situation of Fang Cai, the decisive impact of the horse team he led had already opened a hole in the seemingly indestructible Huazhou military formation, if the general army of Liaozhen led the army to cover up at that time, it was really unknown whether the victory or defeat would be known.

But when the general army of Liaozhen asked Qiu Feng to go out of the battle, it was already decided to let Qiu Feng attract the enemy and buy time for his own formation to escape, even if he made progress there, and he was busy retreating here, who would pay attention to the opportunity over there, this kind of escape and abandonment of his own behavior made Qiu Feng naturally hate deeply, if Jiang Feng did not surrender, he would die in the battle.

The behavior of the officers in Liaozhen is tantamount to pushing him to death, whether it is for his own way back or to retaliate for this, Qiu Feng has no other way to go except to surrender.

Since the fifth year of Jiajing, the emperor's power has been repeatedly deprived by the ministers and interest groups, the world's industry and commerce are prosperous, the maritime trade is developed, and the chaos caused by natural disasters and man-made disasters is continuous, this kind of thing is to subvert the traditional concepts and views in people's hearts, such as the loyal monarch, the scholars in the court and the bureaucrats in various places, these people should be moral models, the example of the people of the world, but they take the initiative to resist the emperor, so the Son of Heaven and the scholars rule the world together, in the fifth year of Jiajing to the twenty-second year of Jiajing, Repeatedly, it has become a scholar who rules the world.

In the history without Jiang Feng crossing, after Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, he encountered all kinds of difficulties for civil servants, such as the Great Rite Case, the court service case, all kinds of rights and wrongs, at that time, the people of the world felt that the emperor was not so supreme, but later Jiajing relied on his own wrist to completely concentrate power in his own hands, and the world was settled.

However, in this era, Emperor Jiajing almost every once in a while, he would encounter challenges to his power, the local financial resources were getting bigger and bigger, the gentry were getting more and more powerful, and the centrifugal tendency was getting stronger and stronger.

Huazhou also has some advantages, it is the authentic Chinese Han nationality, of course, these people are the past residents of Shandong and Hebei, and there will be no other ethnic groups.

Whether it is the generals and soldiers of the Ming army, or the local gentry and the people, they are not so resistant to them, the Huazhou army is not a peasant rebel army, every place must be free of grain, such a rebel army is often in the early stage of the chaos of the people, every place, coerced the common people as an army, attacking the big families, these landlords and squires encountered the peasant uprising, are gathered to protect themselves, the formation of militia and the rebel army to fight to the death.

Often the rebel army is difficult to move an inch in the countryside, unable to obtain provisions, day and night all the time and the militia Zhuang Ding fighting, because the interests of the two sides are completely opposite, you live or I die, you die I live, there is no possibility of reconciliation, see a lot of the rebels after the uprising, the momentum is amazing, the local poor have followed, the government sent troops to recruit and suppress is often defeated, but the next end is often after a period of time, the momentum gradually weakens, and then when the officers and soldiers fight, Both combat strength and courage are very weak.

One of the most important reasons for such changes is that a lot of energy and personnel have been expended in the local militia groups.

The rebellion of the cotton gentry in the three northern provinces was in full swing at the beginning, and the officers and soldiers could not suppress it, so the momentum was so fierce, and there was also the momentum of the new rebellion of the White Lotus Sect, but the power of the cotton gentry was all joined in it, but it was a great increase in strength, and it was a great increase in power, and the destructive nature of the White Lotus Sect was exposed later.

After the cotton gentry and the local forces withdrew and turned to their enemies, the so-called rebellion of the cotton gentry of the White Lotus Sect began to become difficult. Slowly, it was suppressed.

Huazhou looks like a peasant uprising or a cult rebellion above, and you can't tell the difference if you look closely, if you want to say that Jiang Feng is a rebel and stealing overseas, you can also treat it as a large group of pirates, or an armed group of displaced people, of course, the real situation is not the case.

First of all, Huazhou is a Han regime, when the foreign invasion, the scene of national resistance will not happen, and Huazhou is actually the economic center of the entire Ming Dynasty, Sanjiang Commercial Bank and Huazhou Qian Zhuang almost controlled the Ming Dynasty's forty percent of the trade and financial business, the merchants' profits of the trade channel was firmly controlled by Huazhou, and vigorously participated in it.

It can be said that the cotton of the three northern provinces and the products of many factories in the south of the Yangtze River are sold to various countries in East Asia and Europe through the channels of Huazhou, and to go deeper, they are actually a community of interests, and there is no such contradiction between life and death, if Huazhou does not exist, the merchants along the coast have to risk piracy, and most of the goods are not sold or purchased.

The so-called industrial and commercial prosperity will not exist, the whole will be destroyed, Jiang Feng has these few in his hands, and naturally he will not worry about the problem of people's desire. What Huazhou wants to do is to instill such an impression, so that in the eyes of all the people in the world, the war between Daming and Huazhou looks like two forces fighting for the world, rather than a mob rebellion, so that many things can be smooth and easy.

From a certain direction, Huazhou's purpose has actually been achieved, and Li Gufeng, the chief soldier of Liaozhen, is already preparing to explain to the imperial court that Huazhou has been a conspiracy for many years, and it is suspected that Jianwen was accumulating strength overseas and colluding with Tatar soldiers and horses to prepare to subvert the world.

The bigger the matter, the better, because the stronger the enemy, the smaller the responsibility for their defeat, the Ming army brigade cautiously retreated forty miles, there was always no chasing soldiers behind, the movement of the army, dozens of miles a day is already the limit, forty miles away, the general soldiers of Liaozhen felt that there should be no problem, the soldiers after the daytime battle, lost nearly two-fifths of the soldiers and horses, the soldiers retreated forty miles in a row, and they have not collapsed until now, they are already tired and abnormal, and they must rest, Otherwise, I'm afraid it's really going to disperse.

The general army of Liaozhen must keep these soldiers and horses, because the posture of the Huazhou army will definitely not only take the land before and after Tielingwei, Liaoyang and Shenyang must have enough strength to defend, and the soldiers cannot be scattered. Li Gufeng, the chief soldier of Liaozhen, breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and hurriedly arranged it, saying that he would rest for a few hours to recover his strength before continuing to hurry.

The soldiers really couldn't walk, and after hearing this order, although they were in a defeated army and were in a low mood, some people cheered in a low voice.

After resting for half an hour, I suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and a horse team of about 3,000 people suddenly whistled, looking at the uniforms and banners, it was the cavalry of Huazhou.

The Ming army that had just rested was in a commotion, and Li Gufeng, the chief soldier of Liaozhen, could no longer care about the demeanor of a general, and scolded loudly there:

"Those who act recklessly, those who make loud noises, and those who panic!"

The generals around the general army are all desperately following, and when they heard the order of their own commander, they all scattered out one after another, and now they can't find any means to stabilize the situation except cutting off their heads.

After stabilizing the situation, he saw that the horse team of the Huazhou Army was only 3,000 people, and they were all light horses, which was considered relaxation, and what else could these 3,000 people do.

The soldiers in the outer circle, under the supervision of the officer, lined up and guarded, which was nothing more than a combination of spears and bows and arrows, and the other side was light cavalry, which could not be used compared to that kind of infantry formation.

After the three thousand cavalry approached the large array of the Liao Zhen soldiers, the distance was about 100 steps, and the hundreds of cavalry in front lined up, and they took down the fire guns they were carrying one after another, and the Ming soldiers knew that the other party was going to load, and this gap was their chance to do it, so they rushed out with a shout.

However, this time, the muskets of the Huazhou cavalry did not seem to have been loaded, and they directly pulled the trigger on the horse, and a more sharp sound of breaking the air sounded...... Fusilier muskets