Qingjiangpu.

The Chu army expelled the people in the city in a brutal way, and from afternoon to midnight, there were constant cries everywhere, the streets and alleys were in shambles, and the whole city fell into a huge riot.

Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to draft, the livelihood of every household in Qingjiang Pu is related to the Grand Canal, year after year to support the Cao Yun to the north, the Ming and Qing dynasties alternated, the importance of the Grand Canal has not changed, with the Manchu Qing Dynasty from the robber to the master, with the Eight Banners soldiers turned into professional soldiers who receive "iron crops", Cao Yun has become more prosperous...... Recently, the Chu army launched the Northern Expedition, which has reached the vicinity of Shanyang, but the people of Qingjiangpu feel that it has nothing to do with them, no matter who sits in the world, they are inseparable from the transportation of the Grand Canal, even if the Ming army enters the city, it is a big deal to close the door and hide for a few days, let the Ming and Qing armies go desperately, and when the battle is over, the sun still rises from the east, and the mountains set in the west, and the Cao Yun has to continue, and the rhythm of life in Qingjiangpu will not change.

Different from the simple agrarian society in other places, the composition of the people in Qingjiangpu is very complex, tens of thousands of boatwrights, Cao Ding and boatmen constitute their own ecological system, many people have joined the Cao Gang of the nature of the underworld * society, and there is a fierce struggle between the government and the government, there is also collusion of interests, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they all feel that the Cao Gang is very difficult, mainly based on exploitation, and will not tear their faces with them...... What I didn't expect was that the Chu army did not play cards according to the rules like a stunned head, and was determined to erase Qingjiangpu on the map, and drove everyone out of the city rudely, almost leaving no chickens and dogs, and some people secretly hid at home, but the Chu soldiers broke into the door and forced them to leave with bright knives, and if they resisted a little, they would be punched and kicked and even white-sedged. After several carpet searches, the city was set on fire at dawn.

It wasn't dawn yet. Half of the sky was dyed red, and the bustling Qingjiangpu was in flames. Thousands of people were stunned, the old people wept, women and children let out suppressed cries, but the soldiers of the Chu army kept shouting and scolding like fierce gods, urging, and driving the people to the southeast...... Wang Jincai's descendants came from Li Chuang's peasant army, most of them were ordinary people who couldn't survive, and during the Chongzhen period, natural disasters and man-made disasters in the north continued, and they had seen countless tragic situations in the world. Compared to those years of catastrophe when they were eaten and starved for thousands of miles, compared to those bloody wars with blood and millions of corpses, Qingjiangpu This idea is really pediatric, and in the face of the crying people, these Chu soldiers put on an impatient stinky face.

Wang Jincai burned Qingjiangpu. Coerced more than 100,000 people to return to the south, and sent two brigades to set up a guard in the direction of Wujiadun and Shanyang, and mobilized back and forth on the official road with a small number of cavalry and infantry, putting on a posture of preparing to continue the attack. The fire in Qingjiangpu could be seen dozens of miles away, and the Qing army suddenly received the news of the loss of Qingjiangpu and saw that the Chu army was so active. Knowing that it might be a suspicious soldier, he did not dare to take the risk to buy time for the slow people. By the time the Qing army came back to its senses, it had already missed the best opportunity to intercept it.

After the capture of Qingjiangpu. The Chu army then occupied the shipyard and wharf, seized a large number of ships, and some of the people and materials were diverted by waterway, and the boats went up the Yellow River at the Qingjiangpu wharf, and turned southwest in Wutou Town into the Hongze Lake, which is close to Yangzhou Prefecture, and was under the control of the Chu army...... Don't take Hongze Lake and take the Grand Canal? Don't be kidding, Shanyang, Wujiadun and other places are still under the control of the Qing army, and the waterway of the Grand Canal is so narrow, the Qing army closed the sluice, and the fleet had nowhere to run, and it was completely sending sheep into the tiger's mouth.

All kinds of seized materials piled up, carried on the ship by Cao Ding, what can be taken away as much as possible, what can not be taken away is also a fire burned, Wang Jincai paid the most attention to the three places of Changyingcang, shipyard and wharf, and when he left in the afternoon of the next day, he personally went to inspect it again, and confirmed that all the buildings and facilities were burned down before leaving with confidence.

In addition, the Chu army also destroyed several sluices and dikes on the Grand Canal, but they were all south of Qingjiangpu, and the place connecting the Yellow River to the north did not move, and Wang Jincai took all the population away, just to destroy the Manchu transportation, so as not to destroy the Yellow River embankment in a frenzy.

"Open this dam, Shanyang and Yancheng will be flooded, we will capture Shanyang without blood, and we can also destroy the 10,000 acres of salt fields in Huaizuo. Wang Jincai pointed at the embankment of the Yellow River with a horsewhip, and said with a regretful face: "It's a pity, the credit is not small, and the sin is not small, if Lao Tzu picks up this embankment, at least hundreds of thousands of people will be drowned, and I won't say anything about infamy for thousands of years, Wang Junmen may cut off my head." ”

"It's not a small commotion this time." A staff officer surnamed Sun reminded: "Not counting the Tartar soldiers and the green battalion soldiers, Qingjiangpu has died almost 2,000 people since yesterday afternoon, and more than 100,000 people have returned to the south, and it is inevitable that there will be losses on the road. ”

"Afraid of what?" Wang Jincai pursed his lips: "Those boatmen, Cao Ding and river workers who transported grain for the Tartars, all of them are traitors, what's the big deal with the death of 2,000 people?" Lao Tzu took them to Jiangnan Huahua World to enjoy happiness, he was not lucky to die on the road, at least he didn't have to be a traitor anymore, Lao Tzu still did good deeds to surpass them......"

The reinforcements of the Qing army are coming from Fengyang and Hefei, with more than 100,000 people, and the speed of the march must be very slow, so Wang Jincai walked in a very hurry, and did not reason with those people at all.

Wang Jincai divided half of his troops and escorted these people to retreat south, and the other half was in front of Shanyang and Wujiadun, while Ti Zhaorong used part of the cavalry to delay the reinforcements of the Qing army, and part of the cavalry harassed Shanyang and Wujiadun back and forth, forcing the main force of the Qing army not to dare to go out of the city lightly. After more than 10 days of arduous trekking, tens of thousands of people were left behind, scattered and died, and the other brigades walked 250 miles south in one go, entered Gaoyou County, which was controlled by the Chu army, and met the Third Army of the Northern Expedition, which came to meet them.

Jiao Lian had just crossed the river with the Third Army of the Northern Expedition, and he came quickly after receiving the news, and after the two armies met, the Second Army and these people were finally safe, and Wang Jin breathed a sigh of relief, and the heart that had been hanging for many days was finally put back in his stomach.

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That,I'm sorry.,I've been in trouble lately.,I'm in a hurry.,The update of the past few days is unstable.,This situation may last for two days.,Try to make up the arrears before the end of the month.。

Once again, I sincerely apologize! (To be continued......)