The march of Yunyang is inseparable from the river, the steep river is the largest tributary of the Yunyang section of the Han River, this originating in the mountains of Daba Mountain, Hubei and Sichuan, the river communicates the south and north ends of Yunyang Mansion, covering seventy percent of the land of Yunyang Mansion. Chen Ming led his troops from Yunyang Fucheng to Zhushan and Zhuxi in the south, which was along the steep river.

Chen Ming did not send a large army to attack Yunxi County, and his first purpose after conquering Yunyang Mansion was Zhushan. The army set out from Yunyang Fucheng and went directly to Zhushan, and Yunxi sent only one division. The large army was huge, with five or six thousand men and horses, and among them, there were only a few thousand veterans of the Chen family's army. The rest were all recruited by him in Yun County.

These people are no different from the nature of the team under Chen Baoguang and others, as long as they are fed, not to mention cutting their braids and becoming a thief, they are cursed Qianlong by name in broad daylight, and they scold the ancestors of the Manchu royal family for all generations, and there is no problem at all.

Chen Ming only picked out a part of the middle that was in good health, holding a weapon left over from the Qing soldiers, or a very simple spear, but there was no armor, this was the Chen family's army. Five or six thousand people rushed along the steep river towards Zhushan.

But this road is really difficult to walk, very difficult to walk.

There are two sources in the southwest of the steep river, the west source is the positive source, which comes from the Daba Mountain at the junction of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Hubei provinces, and the Guandu River in the south originates from Shennongjia, Hubei, with an altitude of two or three thousand meters. The entire basin is covered with mountains. Xiyuan Daba Mountain winds to the east, Nanyuan Shennongjia towers into the sky, Putuo and Wudang embrace the northeast, and the terrain is high. The upper reaches are high mountains, and the lower reaches belong to medium and low mountains, which makes Chen Ming truly understand what it means to run a dead horse in Wangshan.

When the large army appeared from Yunyang Mansion City, if the morale could reach one hundred, and when the team reached the outside of Zhushan City, there would be at most sixty left. Many of the recruits were tired and scattered, if it weren't for a mouthful of food hanging them, Chen Ming felt that the recruits of four or five thousand people on the road would be able to run away.

At the same time, a huge 'propaganda work' was also launched throughout Yunyang Prefecture. The propaganda team is the pawn planted by those secret camps.

Yunyang Mansion can't get food, and winter is coming, what will happen if everyone wants to continue to nest in the mountains?

Go to Henan to eat a full meal, whether he rebels or not, anyway, he is dead, a full ghost is better than a hungry ghost.

What's more, it's impossible to say who will win and who will lose. Since the Chen Jiajun raised his army, he has defeated the strong with the weak again and again, but it is not weak by half a point......

My generation is oppressed by the government, life is better than death, so why are you afraid of death? Willing to dare to pull the emperor off the horse......

There is no national righteousness and the national righteousness in the propaganda one after another, and there is only one basic issue -- eating.

The hundreds of thousands of displaced shantytowns in Yunyang Mansion were all short of food and drink, and the Manchu court could not deal with them. This place is like a garbage dump for recycling, and the refugees are the garbage that cannot be easily disposed of. They themselves were outcasts by the Manchu court. And these people came to Yunyang Mansion to beg for food and beggars, and to a certain extent, they also gave up the Manchu Dynasty.

Now winter has arrived, and food is gone. Not to mention the refugees who were not seen by the Manchu government, even the ordinary people in the county town were also worried about food, this issue has really related to their survival.

Judging from the situation of the displaced people, do they have a good chance of following Chen Jiajun to survive? Or do you stay where you are and wait for the relief of the Manchu court, which has a good chance of survival? That seems like a very simple and simple question.

In Zhushan County, Chen Ming effortlessly killed the last bit of Qing army strength in Yunyang Mansion, and the last big man in Yunyang Mansion was sentenced to suicide by drinking medicine. If the two Wuchang Green Battalions who fled don't count.

Then to the west is Zhuxi, to the east is Fangshan and Baokang, and at the same time, Chen Ming can also develop to the southwest Daba Mountain, which is next to Nanshan. He still has about half a month to make waves in Yunyang, and after half a month, the people of Hunan will not be able to catch up with Hubei, and the soldiers of Yichang Town will already be able to enter northern Hubei. He didn't want the main road to the east to be blocked, so Chen Ming had to pull the team at least to Junzhou when the people of Yichang Town arrived in Xiangyang.

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A mountain col with no name at all, a flat land the size of thirty or forty acres, and three large shantytowns surrounded a small pool.

This is a treasure land in the mountains, the most fortunate thing is that there is a **** spring here, and the water flow is quite sufficient, enough for one or two hundred people in three shantytowns to eat, and as for the small fields they opened up in the mountains and mountainsides, it depends on the sky to eat.

I don't know where the cry came from first, but soon the sad cry spread throughout the gathering place.

Xiong Wenbing, who proposed to 'move' yesterday morning, was also in tears, and at the age of 43, he was an absolute long-lived old man in the shantytown. Twenty-five years ago, he followed his father and mother to this mountain col, in twenty-five years, he sent away his father and mother, ushered in his wife and children, this mountain col from the beginning of only a few chats, into now forty or fifty households, one or two hundred, this is not his memory of Poyang Lake's hometown, but what is the difference with his hometown?

If there is a little room for maneuver, Xiong Wenbing is absolutely unwilling to leave here.

He has lived in this col for twenty-five years, the carpentry, the paper mill, and the iron factory, Xiong Wenbing has not had an easy time in twenty-five years, except for winter, he has not rested. When he was injured a few times in the middle, relying on the neighboring helpers, Xiong Wenbing broke through the difficulties. He is old and sophisticated, he doesn't believe what those people say, Chen Jiajun will be so good, give everyone food and drink, and a house? Tricksters. Xiong Wenbing absolutely does not believe it.

But Xiong Wenbing, who didn't believe those people in western Henan at all, had to loudly advocate that everyone go to Henan and western Henan. Because he understands that Yunyang really has no food. All the grain in their mountain col was added to one piece, and the fine grain was only 100 catties, the coarse grain was less than 500 catties, and there were 1,000 catties of miscellaneous grains, and the per capita grain was not even 10 catties.

This food can last them for half a month, twenty days, or even longer. But will they be able to get food after that? Without food, no one in this place will survive this winter.

The Chen family's army's operation in Yunyang was unexpectedly smooth, and this success was not the shadow of the Chen family's military ambush first, but the continuous war in the Central Plains caused the Xiangyang grain market to collapse, so that countless Yunyang people and displaced people really felt the shortage of food and the difficulty of supply before Chen Ming led the troops to fight.

People cannot live without food, and without food means losing life, especially in the winter when everything is freezing and everything is withering.

Therefore, Chen Ming's propaganda used food to hook the most sensitive nerve in the hearts of countless people, and they successfully let thousands of displaced people and shantytowns out of the mountains and dense forests, and even let some Yunyang people merge into that flow of people.

Food, life. It's all for food, for survival......