Chapter 469: Luring the Snake Out of the Hole with Iron Blood

The Han people came in droves from the land of southern and eastern Liaoning, and risked their lives to come to the area of Yanchuan and Dingzhou.

The emptiness of the Tartars in these places was only relative, and even those Manchurian veterans were trained warriors, and they were not comparable to these Han people, who suffered a lot along the way, and some lost their lives, and came to the Han people's place in order to leave the territory under the jurisdiction of the Tartars.

But when you come here, how can you still be treated like this, every Han person who is imprisoned in the manor has a lot of grievances in their hearts, and they are even more angry and scolded.

But the soldiers never reasoned with you, and under the coercion of those soldiers in armor and armed with sharp blades, no matter how reluctant, they would be locked up in them.

Nearly seven days after the beginning passed, thousands of people were enclosed in the manor, but fortunately, there was still some food accumulated in the Korean area, and a large number of Korean people helped, which was able to maintain the supply of these defectors to the Han Chinese.

Thousands of people were shouting in the manor, and there was always a loud noise to go out, shouting at the soldiers who were guarding:

"You must know that we will be guarded like a prisoner of sin when we come to you, and we might as well be a coated servant for the Tartars, and it is better to be angry here. ”

There are also some old people who hurriedly came over to persuade each other, saying that they have come to other people's places, can they go back again, or stay in peace, the officers and soldiers sent by the court will definitely not circle everyone for a lifetime, there is food and drink, isn't it just sulking, this day is not better than being in the Tartars, and they don't treat you as a human being.

But after about ten days, there were more and more people. But there was still no intention of releasing the people, and some people took the hard-earned money to bribe the soldiers who guarded the manor, asking when they could release the people, and the soldiers accepted the money unceremoniously, and told the truth, "It is said that it will be guarded for a long, long time......

It was about the fifteenth day after the beginning of the population collection, and the Han people were all encircled and lost their temper, anyway, they were in charge of food, or they were asked to build houses and shacks in the manor. Waiting for the later people to move in, so that a piece of meat will not be lost on the body, that is, it will be stable.

Everyone's minds were settled, and the neighboring townsmen gathered together in a heap, chatting and gossiping, and predicting what arrangements would be made here in the future.

It was late that night, and the sky was cloudy and dark. The whole manor was quiet, and some people came out of the various shacks where Han people were housed, and these people came out in twos and threes with short knives or daggers in their hands, and the manor land occupied quite a large area. When these people come out, others think that they are getting up late or doing something else, and no one cares.

After a brief meeting, the men began to disperse in a hurry, and there was only a wooden fence around the manor, which was simply fenced off with wooden planks. , there is a shallow ditch outside, which can't stop people at all.

During the daytime, when the Han people were lying on the fence and looking around, they could see where the barracks were, where the armory was, and where the generals were meeting. The people who came out of the night at the various estates soon gathered into several teams.

Led by a few leaders, they rushed towards the generals' strongholds, armories, and barracks, and could see that these Han people were very agile, and the ranks were quite well organized, assembling and dispatching at night, which could not have been done without a certain amount of training and discipline.

They had a good grasp of the timing, and at this time of the night, there happened to be a gap in the patrol officers in this direction. Take advantage of this gap to run out. Almost no one found out.

Seeing that he was about to enter the area of the army, he could suddenly hear the sound of dangdang gongs sounding everywhere. The men were all frightened, and first saw a dozen torches coming around.

"Maybe it's the night guards, kill them first, and then go everywhere to get the point. “

In these nocturnal processions, someone gave a cold order.

Then the flickering and dim torches around them suddenly made a downward movement, and then whirred and whirred, and the area occupied by these night walkers suddenly became as bright as day.

More than a dozen large braziers were lit, and the location of these braziers was completely enclosing the area, extremely bright, and the "Han people" who attacked at night were all stunned in the local area, and they were quite safe to hide in the dark, but suddenly the surroundings became bright, and these people became a little panicked.

What made them even more frightened were the soldiers standing behind the brazier, whose armor and blades reflected the light of the fire, which was even more terrifying.

After the "Hermes-Epitek" who attacked at night panicked, they suddenly reacted, and one person shouted loudly:

"I waited for the family to abandon our children to join the general, but the general regarded us as slaves and prisoners, this really makes me feel cold, do you want to kill the killer today, slaughtering us people who are committed to the homeland?"

Wang Hai, dressed in armor, stood behind the soldiers, looked at these people surrounded in the middle with disgust, and ordered the soldiers on the side:

"Send a message to them, report that you are sent by that banner, and who is under the control, you can die a happy death!!"

After listening attentively, the soldiers on the side strode out with axes and guns, and shouted Wang Hai's order loudly, as if to match his words, a drummer struck three times sharply on his step drum, and the soldiers of the Korean garrison around him all flattened their spears and took a step forward.

This is really murderous, almost all the people who were surrounded in the center were trembling, there were only about 200 people in total, but there were no less than 1,000 soldiers and horses around them, not to mention looking at the other party's armor and weapons, as well as the military discipline of this army, plus the rumors of the attack and defense of Seoul, no one had any luck thoughts.

What's more, the other party's spear and halberd, and he was only locked up in the manor after being searched and inspected, and it is already good to be able to hide a short knife and dagger, and this gap indicates that there is no way out.

These people are gritting their teeth very tightly, and the other party's words have left no way for themselves to live, if they kneel down and surrender at this time, I am afraid that they will be killed directly by their companions.

Wang Hai didn't leave them much time either. After counting five by himself, he said to the drummer and trumpeter beside him:

"Attack, leave no one!"

The order was issued, and the soldiers strode up on all sides, and the "Night Raider Hanmin" who was surrounded in front of the other party's long weapons did not know what to do, and a few people in the middle had some means, and shouted there:

"Push the outer ring out. Let's stand up to these people and rush to these dogs, and their spears won't be able to wield!! ”

After shouting these words, the "night attackers" standing in the outermost area had no time to panic, and they were directly pushed out by their companions, and directly knocked down the spear, and were stabbed in the heart, and something hung on the spear. If you can't pull it out, it will definitely be offset or deformed.

Take advantage of this opportunity to fight through the gap between the spear shaft and the spear shaft, and fight in close combat. You can get to inflict damage on spearmen.

When the Manchu sword and shield fighters fought with the Ming army, this method was often used in hand-to-hand combat, but many times the role of the corpse now is achieved with a shield. often bullied the body, and then the Ming official army will collapse on all fronts.

The fact that these "night attackers" were able to form a team at night and march towards the set goal in an orderly manner shows that their quality is quite high, and when they are surrounded by superior forces, they suddenly make such a reaction, which is already the so-called goblin level, especially in the direction of Wang Hai.

The man threw his companion down on his spear. When pushing, the force is no longer right, but diagonally exerted, hitting the sharp spear, the spear deviated directly to the side, taking advantage of this opportunity, this "night attack Hermes-epitek" rushed to the front of the cat, and the short knife in his hand slashed down on the spear shaft on the other side.

"Dang" sound. Sparks splash. The short knife was on the tip of the spear, which was nearly a foot long. It is to avoid being chopped off by this slashing weapon in close combat.

Cutting the tip of the spear, he has already rushed between the two spears, this is already a safe place, chopping constantly, this person does not hesitate at all, rushes forward with force, kills the spearman, the spear behind the spearman has not been flattened, as long as he is bullied, he can kill a bloody path with a short knife.

If you can rush into the darkness, this night, it must be difficult to catch yourself, and if you can't achieve the set goal, you have to run out to survive.

This person just took three steps forward, suddenly heard a "whew" sound falling from the top of his head, in a hurry to dodge, he could only be one side of the head, the axe and gun slashed head-on, he was only sideways, the axe of the axe slashed his neck, and by this momentum to chop, directly cut off his small half of the body.

Blood sprayed wildly, such an injury, it was too late to scream, the owner of the axe and gun was Wang Hai, after retracting the axe and gun, Wang Hai scolded in a low voice:

"Hardcore traitor!!"

The dozen or so braziers around this side are all fueled by firewood, the flames have been burning fiercely, the light is very bright, rushing towards the surroundings, trying to enclose the people, either stabbed by spears and stabbed, or chopped to death by axes and guns, there is no luck, just after this wave of impact began, dozens of people have died, and the encirclement has been reduced.

The screams of the companions and the gushing blood made the "night attack Hanmin" in the circle who had not yet taken action frightened their courage, they had never seen such a Ming army.

The spears over there were all drawn from the corpses, and they were flattened again, and the drums sounded rhythmically, and there was no chance of winning such a scene.

"The villain was held hostage to the Tartar by the dog Kong Youde back then, and he has always been a ...... to his homeland."

Immediately, there was the timid man who couldn't stand it, knelt down and begged for mercy, crying and begging for mercy there, but before he finished speaking, he was hacked to death by his companion behind him, and then the tough one was stabbed to death by a spear, and the remaining hundred or so people were forced to shrink into a ball in the middle, and the middle wanted to move but couldn't move.

The spears and axes were still silently approaching forward, there was no slow mercy, that is, assassination and chopping, more and more people knelt down and begged for mercy, most of them were the subordinates of the Han army banner and the king of Sanshun, Xushun Gong, after kneeling, the killing of the Korean garrison army did not slow down.

There were a dozen people left in the inner circle, and these people looked out with hideous faces, and they were either using their companions or acting vigorously. Most of the attacks were avoided in this small space, and some people yelled viciously outside:

"These Han dogs are all bad breeds, and they want to use these to scare us Jurchen men, and they have the wrong idea. ”

This Chinese dialect is also shouted in a correct tone, whether it is a Han person who is covered by the flag, or a Jurchen Tartar who is proficient in Chinese does not matter to Wang Hai at all, he doesn't want to stay any of them anyway, and he heard the people inside say so passionately. Wang Hai turned his head to the soldiers on the periphery and ordered:

"Come, pour it on these tartars, and burn them!"

Fang Cai was still vicious, and the Han people who seemed to be in the center of the night attack heard Wang Hai's shouting, and they all knew it, and the faces of several people standing outside already showed a look of fear.

Outside there were spears and axes and spears, and it was impossible for them to rush if they wanted to, but by the reflection of the firelight. I could see the people in the outer circle approaching with fire oil, and the people were getting more and more anxious, and one person pounced on the spear with a short knife, wanting to ask for a quick death, but he didn't expect that the few people in front of him put away the spear. But the axe and gun fell, hitting him right in the weak part of the knee, causing him to lie on the ground and roll in wailing.

These Ming troops are so ruthless, and those in the past still know how to surrender and close. Why is it so decisive now, the Tartar who shouted loudly also rushed forward, but when he took two steps, he threw away the short knife in his hand, knelt on the ground suddenly, and kowtowed again and again and cried:

"Uncles spare their lives, uncles spare their lives, villains are willing to make meritorious contributions. There are more than a dozen people hidden in the manor, and the villain is willing to recognize them and beg the uncle to spare his life!! ”

Hearing him say this, the Tartars who were still standing there all scolded, and Wang Hai, who was standing behind the soldiers, pulled a smile at the corner of his mouth and said:

"This man is useful, stay and not kill, smashed the shoulder. Drag it out. ”

Pick up the axe and smash it down. Ignoring the man's screams of pain, he directly hooked the barb with an axe gun. Directly dragged this person out, the soldiers with fire oil and torches had already come over, Wang Hai waved his hand, and the people around the inner circle dodged a gap and directly poured the fire oil in their hands.

Doused with fire oil, smelling the somewhat pungent smell, no matter how hard the Tartars in the inner circle were, they panicked, and then saw the torches being thrown over, and everyone collapsed.

Those Han people in the manor didn't sleep well this night, and the fighting outside was still easy to say, but this heart-rending scream was too frightening, such a voice only remembered that when the Tartar army arrived in their hometown and began to burn and loot, they only saw it, why there was such a movement tonight, could it be that the Tartars came again.

In this season, the days outside the gate are particularly long, and the sun comes out early, but when the sun just comes out, the Han people who have been panicking all night become even more afraid. They saw heavily armed officers and soldiers come in and take a few people, and each time they came in, they were followed by a Han Min with their shoulders down, what the hell was going on, no one could say, but everyone was afraid.

The Han army, which called itself the Korean garrison, had not given any definite words except to enclose the Han people, but this time the clerk-like man came to the shacks of various dwellings, asked where he lived, and asked who had come with him.

In the afternoon, someone informed everyone who lived in a certain place in a certain village that they were invited to go to a certain place, and when they walked into the manor, they found that the Han people who had come to join were all divided according to the same village, and those who had no place to go, or who were in a remote place, were all enclosed together.

What makes people feel frightened is that near the fence of the manor, there are hundreds of newly erected wooden poles, on which are hung bloody heads, and the common people have seen such a posture, they are all trembling, and they dare not make a sound, waiting for the arrangements of these North Korean garrisons.

Heavily armed soldiers descended in groups, allowing people who had gathered together in the same place to identify whether there were strangers they had not seen before. He also stated that if it is found that there is concealment and failure to report, it will inevitably be punished severely in the future, how big can a village be, how can everyone get along day and night, how can they not recognize it.

There are no strangers among the Han people in some villages and settlements, but there are also those unfamiliar faces, and some people have to resist after being recognized, but they are unarmed, and they are the opponents of heavily armed soldiers, and they are knocked over in a few strokes. It was dragged out like a dead dog.

Through identification and screening, more than 50 more people were arrested, and after being arrested, some people refused to give in in with righteousness and awe, but some people looked at their heads hanging on wooden poles, knelt down crying bitterly and begged for mercy, and then pointed out their companions......

As it approached dark, what happened made Hermes-Epitek even more terrified. Those who were arrested were judged to be spies mixed in by the Manchus, and said that the Ming Dynasty was poisoned by the Tartars, and the Han people in the Manchu land were treated as livestock.

Please do it yourself, and use these beasts and Tartars, although you use a word please. But those North Korean garrisons have an attitude that you can't refuse.

Pity some of these good people don't even dare to kill chickens and ducks, let alone kill people, but under coercion, they still come up with swords or something, but they are afraid to be afraid. But when he got closer, he remembered that he had been taken captive from his hometown to this thousands of miles away, and remembered that after he came to this pass, he was treated as a livestock. The suffering suffered over the years naturally led to resentment.

By the time thousands of people had passed, the spies who had been caught had turned into pulp, and every Hermes-Epitek was splattered with blood.

After the killing was over, not only the expressions of the Han people present were distorted, but even the North Korean garrison troops from Shandong who were surrounded around them were also relieved.

Wang Hai, the commander of the North Korean garrison, still had a gloomy face, and the lone army went deep into the enemy country, and it was really not easy at all. The dangers are high. Originally, Wang Hai didn't care too much about these things, according to his ideas, he marched and fought by himself, and he fought completely according to the drill code, how could he be exploited by others.

The reason why such precautions were made was because of Li Meng's instructions before leaving, in addition to daily exercises, Li Meng's daily affairs. There's another important thing. It is to listen to those veterans and veterans tell about the past battles and battles on the battlefield. Impressions of their enemies.

Among these veterans, there were officers and soldiers who participated in the Pingbailian rebellion in Shandong and Henan, and there were also border soldiers who fought against the Mongol Tatars in Xuanfu in Jizhen, but in Shandong, the veterans of Liaozhen who lived in Dengzhou and Laizhou were the ones who talked to Li Meng the most.

Liao Town is under the jurisdiction of Shandong in the administrative division of Daming Land, many soldiers in Liao Town are from Shandong, and many households in Liao Town also migrated from Shandong.

With the defeat of the Jurchen by the Ming Dynasty, many defeated soldiers crossed to Hainan and took root in Shandong.

The most important event that these soldiers have experienced in their lives is probably the battle with the Tartars, Li Meng inquired in detail, and there are special records, and there are special documents to compare each other's oral accounts, and the official archives of the Ming Dynasty, to verify the battle examples that these veterans said.

Looking at the various failures of the Ming Dynasty in Liaozhen, it will make people feel that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was simply pervasive, and many cities fell because of the internal and external collusion between thieves and Tartars, and many army defeats were due to the sudden killing of generals and the complete collapse of the dragons without a leader.

Mixed in, do not need any too clever camouflage or skills, long outside the border to fight, every Ming officer and soldier every day is to spend life and death with the Tartars, in such a state of mind, naturally will be those who come to defect to the Han people, and anyway, the Han army flag has a kind of subconscious trust.

It is this kind of subconscious trust that has led to all kinds of hidden dangers, of course, the Manchu Tartars know that if they come to take refuge, they will not get the trust of the Ming army at all, so it is better to use the trustworthy as a meticulous and lurker, and then make internal difficulties, so that the plan succeeds.

In this situation outside the Guan, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was an absolute superiority and won victories, while the situation of the Ming Dynasty was difficult and abnormal, losing step by step, and many treacherous villains forgot their ancestors and nations, and were loyal to the Tartars.

This method has been used for so many years, and it has been successful for so many years, and it is natural that Wang Hai, a lone army with a small number of people and deep into the enemy territory, will naturally not be used.

Although Duoduo retreated in a hurry, and the emptiness in southern and eastern Liaoning, there were still more than 300 people mixed in in this hurry, but fortunately, they were prepared in advance, and some of these Han people had noodles and vegetables, and their bodies were rickety, but there were also some strong and strong people. Such flaws are all too obvious.

The national righteousness is not convincing to many people, and even the weak-willed people have no inspiration, and in the face of life and death and wealth and power, they will give up.

Even the Han people who came to defect today are only because of the brutal expropriation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the past six months, and the harsh policies have forced these newly relocated Han people to be unable to survive, if it were not for the defeat of Hejian Province. There was no Shandong army to advance into Korea, and there was no sudden strength of the Jiaozhou battalion.

If the situation around the Manchu Tatars is not so tense and embarrassing, they can give these Han people a slightly relaxed environment to live and produce, and these Han people who come to defect and keep saying that they are committed to the Ming Dynasty will also be comfortable to be the Shunmin of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

It sounds a bit vicious, as if the world is full of naked practical interests, but this is the real situation that has always happened in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. This is the world.

According to the current situation, the Korean garrison had achieved the predetermined goal, forcing the Manchu forces back from the whole of Korea to Liaodi, and establishing a defensive line in Yancheon and Kaesong, where the terrain was difficult, to directly threaten the hinterland of the Manchu Tatars.

Look at the finish. and successfully cleared out the local spies that had mixed in, and began to recruit the Han people of Liao, the first step to consolidate the Korean garrison camp, but Wang Hai was not happy at all. I just feel that the surroundings are more dangerous, and I have to be more cautious every step.

"My lord, when there was chaos in the camp yesterday night, three groups of cavalry approached our defensive line at night, but they were discovered by the secret sentry, and the artillery fired two shots at the road, and a scream was heard. ”

While listening to the report, Wang Hai supported his chin with his hand. Looking at the wooden poles erected over there with human heads, he said in a deep voice:

"I knew about this last night, what was the result of going to investigate?"

The general who had just reported to him was a little ashamed of his debts, and continued to explain:

"It was dark last night, and there was such a big mess in the camp, that the brothers of the guards did not dare to go out out out for the sake of caution, and they sent people over at dawn this morning, where the shells landed. Blood stains can be seen. But there were no people or horses, and the Tartars must have been cleaned up. “

"See the footprints and hoof prints?"

"I've seen it all. It is estimated that there are at least two thousand horsemen...... Seeing that the hoof prints were very blurry, I wondered if it was wrapped in cotton cloth or leather or something. ”

After hearing this result, Wang Hai didn't say anything, they thought that there must be spies and spies among these Han people who came to defect, but they didn't expect that there would be such a collusion inside and outside, and they were a little imprudent in their actions, and the situation that was finally established on the Korean border was about to collapse completely.

After the spies who were found out were beheaded, people from Shandong began to read aloud the rules of Tuntian Grange with these Han people.

Although these rules were severe, it was presumably much stronger for the Manchus to be serfs in the past year, some people read them, some people began to distribute farm tools and other goods according to the results of the registered land, and promised that the tuntian households who performed in the second year could receive large livestock such as ploughing cattle, which was regarded as a favor.

The killing is already a mental breakdown, many people are still together in the past ten days, scolding a few words of Manchu Tatars, complaining about the hard work of being oppressed, who would have thought that the situation suddenly changed overnight, and many people around them were pulled out, and their heads were cut off directly in front of them, and they even had to do it themselves to see the blood, and these Han people who came over were doubting whether they had done something wrong this time when they came to come and defect in a dangerous way.

You can hear the various policies of the Tuntian Grange being recited, and a large number of farm implements were immediately brought in and distributed, as well as promises of cattle for the next year.

Maybe the gap between the front and back is too big, and these conditions are indeed rich, and the ordinary people who are still afraid are grateful all of a sudden.

Wang Hai, who was on the side, looked at the gratitude of these ordinary people, and finally relaxed a little in his heart, with the experience of the Jiaozhou battalion, as long as the Tuntian Grange was established somewhere, it would basically stabilize here, and I hope that this North Korea will be the same.

After this Liwei, it will be easier for the follow-up Hermes-Epitek to come to defect, as long as there are the previous people who come to vouch for him, he will be more easily accepted, if there is no confirmation from the villagers, then the identity of this person is obviously suspicious, and it is a matter of course.

But after this time, the number of Han people who came to the country suddenly decreased from hundreds or hundreds of people a day to less than 100 people, after all, from Liaozhen to North Korea, there are so many roads and checkpoints on the land road, as long as troops are sent to intercept and strictly investigate, how can these ordinary people rush through the checkpoints.

The number of Han people in the Yanchuan and Dingju areas was still slowly increasing, because some bold sailors began to go to the coastal areas of southern and eastern Liaodong to pick up those Han people who had fled, and for each boatload of people sent there, the Korean garrison would give corresponding rewards.

That's all for later......

From Korea to Liaodong, there is only one road suitable for the operation of the army, that is, the official road from Yiju to Dingliao Left Guard Phoenix, if all are light cavalry or light foot soldiers, you can also march through other small roads or mountain roads, but in the end, it is also necessary to determine the Liao Left Guard Phoenix City.

The original setting of these guards and cities has his reasons, and they are all geographically important, and the main force of the army led by Duoduo is placed here.

On the one hand, it can target the Ming army on the Korean side at any time, and on the other hand, it can also go to Liaoyang and Shenyang from Dingliao Zuowei Phoenix City to Liaoyang and Shenyang at any time through the main road.

For the Tatar lords in Shengjing, the threat posed by the thousands of Ming troops in Korea was far less great than the tens of thousands of Mongol cavalry in the steppe, and Duoduo's troops could return to the aid of Shenyang Shengjing and Liaoyang at any time.

However, Duoduo and Aobai have a great headache with Yanchuan and Dingzhou, where the defense line is equipped with cannons, and the terrain is narrow, if you want to break through, I am afraid it will not be much easier than under Seoul, where to put it, after all, it is a scourge.

After the cavalry led by Atamu, the commander of the Zhenghongqi Tunwei in Guangning, Liaozhong, entered the grassland, they did not intercept the cavalry of the Tumut Department who came over to show off their might at the predetermined position, but saw a large convoy with the banner of the Tumut Ministry.

Is it a convoy of supplies?