Chapter 90: The Expulsion of the People

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Fighting on the inside line and breaking through each other, this truth is clear to Chen Wenming, and Hong Chengchou has been in charge of the army for many years, so naturally there is no reason that he does not understand.

However, the Qing army's encirclement and suppression, due to the restrictions of the terrain, will inevitably be divided into multiple roads and march, in order to prevent the Ming army from breaking through, Hong Chengchou will order all the Qing troops to ride all the way upstream, slowly, not more than in a hurry, as long as the scattered forces of the Ming army in various places can be expelled, not than with the main force of the Ming army for a field battle.

After the Fujian soldiers who went to Jiangshan County were frightened back by Chen Wen, in the next ten days, Chen Wen first maneuvered to the Qing army that set out from Guangxin Mansion, and after the Qing army retreated on that way, Chen Wen turned back to Jiangshan County to intercept and kill the Fujian soldiers for the second time.

Three times before and after, only the last time caught up with a small army, and the main force of the Qing army fled without looking back, completely abandoning the car to protect the commander.

The situation seemed to be that the Ming army still took the initiative, and once the Qing army found the traces of the main force of the Ming army, they immediately turned around and returned, not daring to respond to the battle at all. However, after swallowing up the small army of the Fujian Green Battalion that time, Chen Wen did not go out again, but transferred the defenders of Jiangshan and Changshan counties back to Quzhou, and called on the people of the two counties to take shelter for a while.

From these clues, Hong Chengchou knew very well that Chen Wen had obviously seen his tricks, but there was nothing he could do about it. Because every time he went to intercept and kill one road, the Qing army on the other road would continue to advance and develop for a long time, and the Ming army was afraid that it would be exhausted to death on the road without fighting. Moreover, the Qing army did not encircle and suppress these two ways this time.

It will definitely not work if it goes on like this, Hong Chengchou has suppressed Liukou since the Chongzhen Dynasty, and he knows a lot about things in the army. No matter how elite the troops, compared to the field battle, the constant rush is the thing that the soldiers hate and hate the most, even if the problem of morale is put aside, the Ming army is not a way at all, it is far better to shrink the battle line, return to Quzhou to regain the initiative with the strong city and the infantry who often fight in the field, at least not as it is now.

However, Hong Chengchou did not fail to take into account this, everything is still under his control, and he also has his own way to react to Chen Wen, and he has already ordered Li Benshen and Yang Minggao, the two marshals, a long time ago, thinking that it should have started at this moment.

On April 22, the seventh year of Yongli, after finding out that the Ming army had evacuated the county seat under the cover of some of the people who were willing to take refuge in Quzhou with them, they sent Yang Jie, the general soldier of Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, to take over the county seat. However, after Yang Jie took over the county seat, the first thing he did was not to issue a notice to the people, but to plunder the people of the county town and blast the people out of the city, and sent a large brigade of cavalry to drive those people to Changshan Port and merge into the Ming army-occupied area of Qujiang like a sheep on the grassland.

Looking down from above, on the road from Changshan County to Quzhou, countless people are dragging their families and fleeing eastward along Changshan Port. From time to time, there will always be people who fall to the ground because they lose their strength or are tripped by stones and dirt on the ground, and some of these people who fall will be lifted up by their family members or other well-wishers they don't know, and some will just fall to the ground, but become a stepping stone or stumbling block for those who come after.

"This group of people who kill a thousand knives, why doesn't God accept these beasts!"

In the crowd, the sad scolding of an old man resonated with everyone, but no one dared to stand up despite the begging of his children like the old man. They still want to live, after all, only by living can they have a chance to return to their homeland. As for the old man, he probably didn't want to leave his fate to the unknown anymore, but planned to die directly here, in this land where he was born and raised.

Suddenly, a sharp arrow pierced the sky and stuck in front of the old man in a daze. The sudden change frightened the ladies of the old man's family into screaming, and even the old man's son, the five big and three thick man, was frightened by this close arrow and fell a lot.

"If you don't hurry up, you'll all die, just so your family can be a companion."

Along with the words, several cavalrymen of the Qing army laughed insolently. Their accent is not as good as that of Zhejiang, and the accent of these Quzhou people is very different from that of those merchants from Jiangxi. But the sharp arrow had already said everything, and the old man's son hurriedly took advantage of the moment when the old man was stunned by the threat of this arrow, and hurriedly beckoned his younger brothers and half-grown son to carry the old man again, and then the family fled with the crowd and walked into the distance.

"Captain Wang, isn't it over shooting that old man to death with one arrow, why do you tell them so much?"

The man who spoke was a man with several scars on his face, and the implication of this man's words was to simply kill the person in order to scare and frighten the other fleeing people. Of course, those who are familiar with each other also know that this guy is a lustful master, and he slaughtered all the men in this family, just so that he can drag those big girls and little daughters-in-law to the side of the road to enjoy them.

"Scar, you'd better take care of your guy as soon as possible, so that you don't have to cut off your thing one day, and then you will regret it."

"Don't, it's great to cut off the scar, you can go to the palace to serve the emperor, and when the time comes, you will be rich, don't forget a few of our brothers."

In the midst of the laughter, the man whose real name was Wang Shoucai, who was called the head of the Wang team, breathed a sigh of relief and silently recited Amitabha Buddha in his heart.

These cavalrymen are all from Shanxi, and some of the Shanxi soldiers recruited by Yang Jie when he was the deputy general of Shanxi Governor Biao were from Datong and some were from Xuanhua. When Yang Jie was transferred to the south from Shanxi, they were transferred together, and later after Jin Shengheng and Wang Deren, the Qing army in Jiangxi was almost swept away except for the southern Jiangxi, and after the rebellion, they stayed in Jiujiang, the northernmost part of Jiangxi, with Yang Jie.

The Jiujiang Green Battalion has a total of more than 5,000 soldiers, and there are 3,000 people from Shanxi, which is a whole Shanxi governor's establishment, while the other 2,000 soldiers are recruited locally in Jiangxi. But no matter where it comes from, there are few guys in this army like Wang Shoucai who actually believe in Buddha and Bodhisattva in their hearts, and even if they do, they won't say it, just like him at this moment.

I am afraid of being looked down upon, and I am afraid of being distrusted. However, when he was a child, he was frail and sickly, and Wang Shoucai, who survived by the free treatment of the kind abbot master in the nearby temple, believed that there must be Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in this world, otherwise how would he survive. However, in this world, he can only rely on killing people to keep himself alive, to feed himself and his family. For this reason, whenever he dreams back at midnight, there is always a kind of hellish nightmare haunting him, which really makes him feel very distressed in his heart, and he almost wants to go crazy.

"Then kill fewer people, let go of those who can let go, save people's lives is better than create a seventh-level floating slaughter, the Bodhisattva knows everything, they will know that those who are in charge are forced to be helpless, even if they go to hell, those who are officials will not be our turn."

The words of his wife, who was born in Jiangxi, made Wang Shoucai, the old Xi'er, suddenly realize that from then on, he would not kill if he could not kill, and he would let go as much as possible if he could let go, but at the moment, he was not unseen in this scene - even if these people could escape to the occupied areas of the Ming army, they would be starved to death without relief, and even if there was relief, they might not be able to escape the next massacre alive when the Ming army was finished.

I don't kill Beren, but Beren dies because of me.

The poor Xiucai who used to live in the same alley seemed to have said something similar before, but the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable Wang Shoucai's heart became.

"Forget it, it's better to take care of yourself, people are not killed by my own hands, so they shouldn't be counted on my head, what do you want to do."

Thinking of this, Wang Shoucai drew his bow and set up an arrow, aiming at the dirt not far from the Confucian who was obviously not far away from the Confucian who was obviously unable to run, and shot it with an arrow...... (To be continued.) )