A cavalryman with a red flag on his back arrived at a rapid pace, and at a distance the cavalry blew the conch horn, and when it reached the vicinity of the village entrance, the conch horn sounded again. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After hearing the sound of the trumpet, Niu Lu Zhangjing, who was in charge of the village and was fishing with the bannermen and the wrappers, rushed out, and the people stood at the entrance of the village respectfully.

This is a village dominated by the Han army, time is in a hurry, and no one is wearing armor, on the contrary, this group of people is in tattered clothes, and their expressions are withered, even if Niu Lu Zhangjing is a full man, it is not much better, he is also very thin.

Under the disastrous weather and climate raging in the winter of last year, there were only a few harvests in the Eight Banners Guanzhuang in various places, and each Niu Lu not only fed himself, but also handed over the grain and command items to the public school.

Even if it is the Jurchen Zhushen who are taken care of, the food they can get is very limited, most of them have to buy food with their own income, Nurhachi and the nobles of Zhuda Baile and the Eight Banners kept buying the grain and cloth sent by Zhang Han, and then sold it to their own subordinates at a high price, the quantity issued by the public was very limited, most of them were inclined to the Jurchen armored people, despite the continuous purchase of materials, the life of Zhushen under them was still very sad, and a large number of Han people did not survive this winter, A large number of Han people and Baoyi died of starvation, and more Han people chose to flee.

The cavalry who delivered the letter looked at this group of Han troops with contempt, and in the battle sequence of the Later Jin, the Han army was originally involved with the words "miscellaneous army and incompetence".

"The Great Khan has an order," the cavalry who gave the order was a vest, and he did not dare to delay his official business, so he announced loudly on the horse: "The Great Khan ordered the Great Belle to conquer Guangning, and each Niulu Han army sent troops to accompany him. ”

This Niu Lu Zhangjing, who was inlaid with a white flag, did not dare to slack off, and immediately turned over and rushed to the village where Niu Lu Ezhen was located to listen to the military order.

The crowd slowly dispersed, everyone had a mixed look of dissatisfaction and helplessness on their faces, but people didn't dare to speak out, there were some Jurchen bannermen in the crowd, some of them were armored people, and there were two tooth swingers, these dozen bannermen lived in Bentun with their families, which was a part of a large official village, and the rest of the people were Han soldiers or Han people.

At the beginning of the rise of Nurhaci, the Han army was originally composed of the Ming army that had served over the years, and a large number of Liaodong Ming troops surrendered with the generals in the process of Jurchen continuous victories, and they were incorporated into the black camp and became a combat-oriented military force, the Jurchens at that time did not stabilize the power in various parts of Liaodong, there was no large amount of land to be cultivated, and the Eight Banners were out for the people, and there was no way to distribute Zhuangtian land to the Han army, For the Han people, they were woven into each banner to become a coat, in addition to the coat distributed by the gongzhong, the bannerman himself could also capture the coat in the process of fighting, while the Han army was not a coat, except for the miscellaneous servants in the gongzhong, there was not much work to do.

By the second year of the Apocalypse, the situation has undergone a fundamental change, the Eight Banners in Liaodong and Liaozhong, all over Liaonan have a large number of tuntian, in addition to a small number of Eight Banners and cavalry, most of the Eight Banners soldiers still maintain the integration of soldiers and farmers, do not do wartime to be responsible for cultivating their own land, they are assigned to the Han villages, and the Han people together to cultivate and graze, at this time the Han army naturally has to allocate acres of land to start farming, at the same time they also bear a considerable burden of public servitude, and the Han army began to turn a large number of its coats, Independence is further weakened.

At this time, the Han army still retains the name of an independent battalion, and after a few years, Nuer Hachi completely canceled the Han army, the number of the Han army from sixty or seventy thousand in the early days of the Mandate of Heaven, to only a few thousand in the late Mandate of Heaven, Huang Taiji re-attached importance to the Han army after succeeding to the throne, and organized the Han army into two independent banners, but the formation of the combat effectiveness of the Han army is still Kong Youde Shang Kexi Geng Jingzhong Sanshun Wang led the Dongjiang army across the sea to serve, and so the Han army expanded from two banners to eight banners, after entering the customs and surrendered the Liaoxi Ming army formed a quite strong combat effectiveness, In the war to unify the south, the main force of the Eight Banners played a very limited role, and almost all the battles in the south were the surrender of the Han army or the merits of the Han Eight Banners.

Li Mingli walked slowly in the crowd, he had no interest in being ordered to participate in the war, but he did not resist, as a Han army, of course he would not have the heart to fight, but staying here to open up wasteland and farm, fish and hunt, and every day was very painful, which made people not have too much disgust to go into battle.

Originally, Li Mingli was in the Han military camp, and later did not go to the two yellow flags with Cao Zhenyan as a coat, but he was incorporated into the inlaid white flag, and now he has become a bannerman, but it seems that he has no status at all in the Han army who holds the banner and carries the flag, and is the same in the eyes of the Jurchen Zhushen.

Li Mingli's residence is three thatched houses, push open the door inside is the black ground, there is no furniture, only in the wall of the house to build a stove for sleeping, half of the room is stacked with firewood, with the bitter cold and heavy snow here in Liaodong, any items can be missing, once there is no heating items, and starvation, the end is very bad, it is very likely to freeze to death in the middle of the night.

The other corner is a simple stove, which is piled up with rammed earth, there are signs of smoke in the stove room, there is half-temperature multigrain porridge in the pot, there is a broken box next to the stove, but the lock is very good, and the copper lock of Huang Cancan is one stone and a half miscellaneous grains, which is two and a half miscellaneous grains that Li Mingli bought for ten taels of silver a year ago, and Cao Zhenyan helped him buy it.

At that time, the fine grain had exceeded the upper limit of eight taels and one stone, and began to rise sharply to ten taels and twelve taels and one stone, but fortunately, before the year and Yu rose to hundreds of carts of grain, which alleviated the urgent need of Liaoyang, and the price of grain fell down and recovered to the level of four taels and one stone, but it soared again after the year, which has nothing to do with Li Mingli, he can only eat miscellaneous grains, and the miscellaneous grains are eaten in the mouth very much, but with the wild vegetables dried in autumn, add a small handful of salt, and eat gruel like this every day, so that he can survive.

There will be no news for a while, Li Mingli opened the lid of the pot, put the multigrain vegetable porridge that was still warm in the rice, and ate it in small bites.

At this time, someone pushed open the wooden door, bringing in a gust of cold wind, Li Mingli twisted his body impatiently, and didn't care who it was.

"Brother Li......" is a girl, about sixteen years old, moderate in size, of course the body shape is very thin, which makes the girl's chin appear a little obvious, in fact, it is a very round goose egg face face, big eyes, and very fair skin.

Because Liaodong is a bitter cold place, women are generally taller than the girls in the Guannei, and their complexions are fairer.

"Well, the big girl is here." Li Mingli didn't get up, he looked at the sea bowl in front of him, there was only a little scrap in it, he had a rare look on his face, and said, "I'm done with the rice, do you want to make a bowl for you anymore?" ”

"Don't eat...... Brother Li, I just blew the trumpet to count the soldiers, and my father was panting and committing another ......"

"Oh, I'll take a look."

Li Mingli stood up and followed the girl to the west of the village.

Li Mingli is the account holder, because the house is small, his Bao Ding Lao Ding lives in the other two thatched huts ten steps away, in addition to Lao Ding, there is also Lao Ding's wife Ding Wang's family, the eldest girl and the second Ya, a family of four is from Jinzhou, southern Liaoning, when the big Beile Daishan and Li Yongfang swept southern Liaoning together, the Houjin soldiers slaughtered a large number of Han people, and a large number of Han people fled to the territory of Dongjiang Town, Lao Ding's family escaped the massacre, but did not successfully escape from the Houjin control area, a large number of captured Han people in addition to the Jurchen Zhushen of the Eight Banners as a coat, There are also a small number of people who have been given to the Han army to be promoted to the banner, which can be regarded as an encouragement, for the time being, the nobles of the high-level of the Houjin still want to absorb the Han army for their own use, and the madness up and down is five years after the apocalypse.

"Ding Xiucai, what's wrong?"

Li Mingli frowned and entered the house, and saw that the old man in his forties, skinny and skinny, lying in bed seemed to be unable to last long.

In this situation, Li Mingli has seen too much in the past six months, some people look quite sturdy and can't wake up at all, and there are not a few people like Lao Ding who are often sick and bedridden, and there are not a few who are still alive after half a year.

Lao Ding is not only Li Mingli's coat, he was once a talent in southern Liaoning, Liaodong is not prosperous, and it is rare to find a talent in Zhongxiu, he is a member of the scholars, with Li Mingli's identity as a son of the Shenyang Zhongwei Army, he used to be unable to talk to a person with Lao Ding's status no matter what, but now the other party has become his own coat, and he is hungry like skin and bones...... When Lao Ding's family was arrested half a year ago, although after more than ten days of ordeal on the road, Lao Ding was still wearing a raw costume, white and chubby, but now he is black and thin, with a skeleton-like body, Li Mingli doesn't know what to say when he looks at it.

"He's worried." Ding Wangshi said: "Seeing that he is going to go on the expedition, if he is hit, he must carry his own food, and his family is about to stop, so how can he bring food." ”

Lao Ding didn't squeak, and tears flowed down from his eyes.

Li Mingli felt a burst of irritability in his heart, this kind of emotion has often appeared recently, whenever he is so irritable, he wants to wield a knife to kill, and now he vaguely understands why the veterans in the Eight Banners are extremely brave after going into battle, and after the battle, they will kill at will, sometimes Li Mingli also feels that he can't hold back his inner desire to kill.

"Forget it," Li Mingli calmed down and said: "Lao Ding, it's difficult for you to walk like this, if you are hit by your share of food, I will give you out, I'm afraid that you won't be able to walk Liaoyang and die halfway, I see that you are hungry, and I will call the eldest girl to my house to get two buckets of food, I don't have much there, and I have to travel for you, you eat more in the past two days to replenish your body." ”