Chapter 12 The Qing soldiers accompanied him
Early the next morning, as soon as the morning light appeared on the horizon, people in Liu Liangzuo's camp shouted and neighed, countless people were busy, and all the generals were busy with their belongings. Those who are well-off carry large wooden boxes to their own ox carts and wagons, and tie them firmly with ropes; The next soldier also got a cart and tied a cart with a cart of household belongings, and there were a lot of jars and jars; However, most of the poor soldiers did not have the conditions to buy a cart or a cart, so they had to put a few important things on their backs and wrap them around their waists.
I don't know when I will see you again, the war is endless, and the beloved may not return.
Like life and death, the camp was full of lamentation and sadness, and the soldiers and their families hugged each other and cried bitterly, complained to each other, and told them to say goodbye. Everyone knows in their hearts that this time they are nominally moving their families to a stable and wealthy place, but in fact, they are taking them as hostages, as long as Liu Liangzuo dares to have two hearts, then these tens of thousands of family members will be the first to land, so that even if Liu Liangzuo dares to rebel, the following generals will not agree.
Liu Liangzuo stood in front of the Chinese military tent, surrounded by a group of deputy generals, his face was pale, and he didn't say a word. His family had already arranged it yesterday, and they were put on three comfortable carriages with soft cushions inside, and the family was also packed and loaded, carried by more than ten carriages, and solidly guarded by a team of heavily armed personal soldiers. The generals behind him were like this, so they watched coldly at this time.
"My lord, if we knew this, we should have taken away the important things at home earlier, so that we wouldn't be in a hurry today." A close general leaned in and whispered to him.
Liu Liangzuo glared at his cronies and said coldly: "What's the use of talking about this now?" What did you do earlier? ”
The cronies looked at the chaotic family team, and said painfully: "It's a pity that my five-room concubine room has only been accepted into the door for less than a month. ”
Liu Liangzuo's eyelids jumped, and his face became more and more gloomy, this can be said to his heart, he doesn't care much about what others do, but his family is also in the team, and there are hundreds of thousands of taels of white silver, carefully wrapped in a wooden box, loaded on a cart, just north to Xuzhou, how can he rest assured? That place in Xuzhou is not his territory, and when others deceive his family and rob him of gold and silver, he will also be out of reach and complain to the Manchurian nobles? Don't be funny, maybe it's the Manchurians who will do it.
But what can be done? 10,000 reluctantly have to send the whole family over, otherwise even if they surrender, the Qing army's big sword will fall on their heads, not to mention property, even their lives will not be saved.
He beckoned and called the leader of the pro-soldiers who was guarding his carriage over, this is an old soldier who has followed him for many years, and he has no loyalty to say that he will die, so he dares to call him to serve as a guard.
The leader trotted over, Liu Liangzuo hugged his shoulder, his old face was sour, and he was about to say a few touching words to encourage him, but he heard someone shouting in the distance: "Lord Ezhen Tuhai has arrived!" ”
Liu Liangzuo was taken aback, it should be Duoduo's herald. Hurriedly sent back the leader of the pro-soldiers around him, and with the robe on his body, he ran towards the gate with the generals behind him.
I didn't take a few steps under my feet, I heard the sound of horses' hooves at the gate, a team of cavalry galloped along the loess horse road, and in the blink of an eye, the leading knight pulled the reins, and the crotch of the divine horse neighed, the front feet were in the air, the hind legs were grounded, and the people and horses stopped in place, and the horse's tail was swept away, raising a stream of loess.
Liu Liangzuo happened to be standing in the loess, choked so much that he could barely breathe, and finally reached out to sweep away the dust, but when he looked up, he saw a big man with a money rat tail on the back of the horse, wearing a helmet and armor, looking down at him proudly.
Liu Liangzuo was covered in loess, standing in front of the horse like a terracotta warrior, and an indescribable anger immediately rushed to his brain from his heart, and his black face was red with anger, he recognized this Qing army general Tuhai, it was a Niu Lu under Zhengbai, what is Niu Lu? The small leader of only 300 people, converted into the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, is not even comparable to a thousand generals, and now he dares to be so rude to his own general army of tens of thousands!
"Prince Yu's military order!" Tu Hai looked at Liu Liangzuo playfully, no matter what his face was, anyway, he was separated by a layer of soil, and he couldn't see it clearly, so he just shouted.
Liu Liangzuo's hands and feet trembled, it was almost difficult to control himself, the green tendons on his forehead were bursting, his head was lowered for a long time and he didn't react, and the cronies behind him saw that the momentum was not right, so he hurriedly stepped forward and reminded in a low voice: "My lord, it's time to take the order." ”
This whisper made Liu Liangzuo wake up from his anger, gritted his teeth, bowed down and said, "The last general will take the order!" ”
"Order Liu Liangzuo's department to be the forward battalion, immediately pull out the camp and go south, and rush to camp thirty miles outside Danyang City before sunset tonight! Ordered Tuhai to lead the troops of the baggage battalion for his family, and lead the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to escort the baggage battalion to Xuzhou! Tuhai rode on his horse and didn't move, and shouted condescendingly, conveying Dodor's orders.
Liu Liangzuo's teeth were about to be crushed, but he didn't even dare to move his fingers, but he still bowed down and said, "The last general will obey the order!" ”
After Tu Hai finished the order, he had no intention of leaving, sat on the horse and looked left and right, frowned and said: "Lord Liu, these noisy people are the family and the heavy camp?" ”
Liu Liangzuo is also an old man who has been in the eunuch field for a long time, although he has been humiliated, he will draw a knife to cut people if he changes someone, this time he will kung fu, his psychological state has actually turned around, he forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and when he looked up, he was already full of spring breeze, and looked at Tu Haidao with a smile: "Exactly, Lord Tu, because this army has been fighting and marching, and has been taking care of his family and family, and he has a lot of belongings. ”
Tu Hai listened, but he glanced at the left and right flag soldiers, and laughed loudly, laughing so much that Liu Liangzuo and the others looked at each other, and they didn't know why.
Pointing to Liu Liangzuo and the others, Tu Hai smiled left and right: "No wonder the Southern Barbarian Army has many generals, but it is like rotten mud and rotten meat, so you can't help fighting, you see, the march and war still bring family members and so many cages, is this an army or a refugee?" Hahaha! ”
The Manchu cavalry on the left and right laughed together, and the laughter was rough, and the people around the gate could hear it clearly.
Li Tingyu and Wang Huan with five hundred subordinates, dozens of ox carts and more than a hundred carts, were standing not far from the gate at this moment, seeing this scene clearly, and naturally heard Tu Hai's words mocking Liu Liangzuo.
The military general standing behind Liu Liangzuo was so ashamed that his ears were red, and he wanted to dig a crack in the ground to get in, but he didn't dare to show the slightest dissatisfaction, and he had to smile and make promises. But here Li Tingyu and the others were expressionless, looking at it from a distance with cold eyes, more than 500 people were like a silent forest, without the slightest fluctuation.
Wang Huan couldn't listen to it anymore, and frowned: "This Jianzhou Tartar is too deceitful!" ”
Li Yan stood beside him, heard it with his ears, and said indifferently: "Ignore what he does, not about us." ”
"Huh?" Wang Huan was stunned: "Didn't he say Nanban?" ”。
In this era, the Nanban in the population of Jianzhou included all the Han people south of the Yellow River, and to put it mildly, it refers to all the Han people in Shanhaiguan, and even some ethnic minorities were included, which was a broad pronoun.
"Of course it's not about us, we don't have any family members with us, and it's not mud." Li Yan explained: "So what should he do? ”
There was a sense of arrogance in his tone, and he could hear that Li Yan subconsciously clearly distinguished his team from the ordinary Ming army, and the mud and rotten flesh had nothing to do with him.
Wang Huan keenly heard the meaning of Li Yan's words, and felt relieved again, and even very happy: he has come to this step, and he is still so arrogant, how can this soldier be trained to penetrate this wolf nature into the bone marrow of the soldier. Qin Liangyu's SC should be almost occupied by Zhang Xianzhong at this time, if there are more such soldiers and control it by himself, I'm afraid SC will be a different situation.
Thinking in his heart, his ears heard Tu Hai give a loud order at the gate: "Within one hour, when the sun rises in the treetops, the brigade must set off, and those who violate the order will be killed!" ”
He rode around on his horse, and without waiting for Liu Liangzuo to speak, he pointed at a group of personal soldiers guarding more than a dozen carriages with his horsewhip, and asked, "What are those soldiers doing?" ”
Liu Liangzuo raised his eyes and hurriedly replied: "That's the general's own soldiers, and the guards are the general's family." ”
Tu Hai squinted his eyes and stared at Liu Liangzuo unhappily and said, "Pro-soldiers? Prince Yu didn't say that there were still soldiers in the baggage camp. ”
"This ...... That would have gone to explain to the prince immediately. Liu Liangzuo hesitated.
"No need!" Tuhai waved his horse whip and said with a straight face: "Lord Liu can't trust the general, thinking that my sons and daughters can't protect the adults' families?" ”
"No, no, how can you not believe it!" Liu Liangzuo shook his hands together and hurriedly said, "It's just ......."
Tuhai waved his whip again, interrupting Liu Liangzuo's words: "It's good if it's not!" Lord Liu immediately withdrew this team of soldiers, the military situation is like fire, the military order is like a mountain, the general is waiting outside the gate, if there is no one who does not go out after an hour, there will be no mercy! ”
After that, he rode his horse and whipped away, ran away like thunder, and led a group of cavalry straight out of the gate, raising a burst of dust, and once again submerged Liu Liangzuo in the loess.
A group of lieutenant generals hurriedly rushed up, brushing off the dust on Liu Liangzuo's body with all hands and feet, and his nephew Liu Zehong came up, while carefully wiping the ashes off Liu Liangzuo's face with a silk scarf, and asked: "Uncle, Tuhai asked us to withdraw our own soldiers, what should we do?" To withdraw or not to withdraw? ”
Liu Liangzuo's eyes were blood-red, his teeth were clenched, he stared at the direction of Tu Haichi for a long time, spit out a breath of turbid air in his mouth, his shoulders collapsed, and he said weakly: "What else?" Withdraw! All withdrawn! ”
Liu Zehong wanted to say something when he heard the voice, opened his mouth, and saw Liu Liangzuo's face of eating feces, so he didn't dare to say anything, and went to remove the pro-soldier team.
Li Tingyu and the others were waiting outside the gate, and when they saw Tuhai leading the troops over, they hurriedly bowed their heads and stood respectfully by the roadside.
Tu Hai glanced at it as he passed by, and saw that it was a group of unarmed soldiers driving the cart and pushing the cart, snorting contemptuously from his nostrils, and saying in his mouth: "It's just a people." He ran to the shade of a tree, where five hundred soldiers with white flags were waiting in line, and Tuhai dismounted to arrange the march.
Wang Huan stood in the team, looking from a distance, only to see the Eight Banners neatly lined up, the military appearance was neat, the spears were like a forest, the flags were like a wall, everyone was wearing iron armor and cotton armor, a leather helmet on the head, and a bronze mirror on the chest was shining.
This is the first time Wang Huan has observed the Eight Banners Army at close range, and his previous understanding of the combat power of the Manchu Qing Dynasty has stayed in the history books, and the words in the book are vague, and it is not at all intuitive observation with the naked eye. Now that he is a few feet away, he can see it clearly, which makes Wang Huan's heart lift another stone.
"Looking at this military discipline, it is more than one level higher than the ordinary Ming army, no wonder the Qing army went down to the south of the Yangtze River and captured Nanjing in just half a year. When the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Southern Ming Dynasty faced the 100,000 Qing army, they were defeated like idiots, and the wild wolves chased the flock. Wang Huan's heart throbbed, but he turned around and looked at the white pole soldiers around him, and did not squint at the Eight Banners soldiers who were close to him, and there was no fear and panic on everyone's faces, the team was quiet and orderly, faintly comparable to the Eight Banners Army formation, and the stones in his heart were put down a lot.
"You have wolves, I have lions, I want to see whose teeth are stronger!" The corners of the little monk's mouth twitched, and he smiled.