"When I died, I was buried on the Plum Blossom Ridge. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" - Shi Kefa.

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Outside the Guangchu gate in the north of Yangzhou city, there is a pile of soil into a mound, and the mound is planted with plums, so it is called Meihualing.

After "10 days in Yangzhou", the bones in the city were piled up, and more than 600,000 people died. The body of the cabinet supervisor Shi Kefa was dismembered by the Qing soldiers, which was difficult to identify and his whereabouts were unknown. A year later, his righteous son Stilwell summoned the soul with a robe and buried him on the ridge, which was called "the tomb of the Skobebe".

Fifteen years have passed, and in the direction of the north of the Shikobu tomb on the Plum Blossom Ridge, in the night, the bonfire raised by the Mongolian Tatar camp illuminates most of the night sky transparently. On the Plum Blossom Ridge, it was pitch black.

There were nearly 30,000 Mongolian soldiers in the Mongolian Tatar battalion under the ridge, except for more than 6,000 Mongolian and eight banners, all of whom had just been transferred from outside the mouth. The so-called Outer Mongolia refers to the Mongolian tribes that are not affiliated with the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and are divided into two tribes, Inner and Outer Mongolia. The Inner Mongolian soldiers in the large camp were Horqin, Ao Han, Karaqin, Wuzhumuqin and other Mongolian troops called the 24 banners of Inner Mongolia by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, with about 12,000 people. The remaining more than 10,000 people are Outer Mongolian tribal soldiers, and their origins are very complex, with dozens of tribes of all sizes. More than 2,000 people came, and only a hundred people came to the small ones. Inside Manchuria, these Mongol soldiers were also called the Mongol army outside the mouth.

Like the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, the Outer Domains of Mongolia are also divided by flags, and each flag is placed with one person in Zasak, as the head of the Manchu Eight Banners is in charge of a banner decree; There are two to four assistant Taiji to assist Zazak in handling flag affairs. Under it, there is one person in charge of the flag Zhangjing, two deputy Zhangjing, as well as the staff leader, the assistant leader, the Xiao riding school, etc., depending on the number of households.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty used Manchu to control the Mongolian and Han armies, and the Mongolian and Han to control the green battalions, and the upper and lower hierarchies were strict, and the same was true of the outer Mongolians. The setting of the large camp, the Mongolian Eight Banners are in the center, and then the Inner Mongolia is in the outer circle, and the outermost is the Outer Mongolian soldiers. In terms of military food supply, the Mongolian Eight Banners and Inner Mongolian soldiers had Yangzhou City to supply food, while the Outer Mongolian soldiers gave half of it, and they had to solve the rest by themselves. The so-called solution is nothing more than the abduction of the local Han people.

In the past, this was strictly forbidden by the Manchus, after all, they had already entered the Central Plains and needed to consider the interests of long-term rule, so in addition to the slaughter of the city needed for war, the general march, especially when the army was marching and camping in the ruling area, basically would not do this kind of looting, because the local government had prepared the money and food needed by the army early, and there was no need to rob it at all. However, now, the emperor in Yangzhou City acquiesced, and even connived at the fact that the Mongolian soldiers of the foreign domain were robbers under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, firstly, because some of the money and grain prepared by the household could not be received, and secondly, the emperor wanted to use this to provoke these Outer Mongolian soldiers to sell their lives.

The Outer Mongolian soldiers were very dilapidated, and they lacked almost everything except war horses, as can be seen from the camps they set up. The camps of the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Inner Mongolian soldiers were decent, but they were very chaotic, so they set up Mongolian soldiers on the ground at random, and made some wooden fences on the periphery, and there was nothing else, not even a vigilant sentry was sent. Perhaps these Outer Mongolian soldiers thought that they were in the north of Yangzhou and the enemy was in the south.

It was already very late at night, but the camp of these Outer Mongolian soldiers was still full of people and lively. The camp was full of Mongol soldiers with knives, driving their looted cattle and trading with Han Chinese and people from other tribes tied with ropes. However, during the day, the beautiful young women they snatched were all selected by the Mongolian military banner and those Taiji in Inner Mongolia, and the rest were ordinary women. But those Mongolian soldiers and Inner Mongolian soldiers didn't know that the Outer Mongolian soldiers were privately laughing at them for not knowing the goods, what was good about those thin and petite women, only women with wide hands and feet could give birth to them, breed the population for the tribe, and withstand their tossing. Those women who look sick are useless, and the desert wind and sand blow for a few days, I am afraid that they will die. Take it back, waste food, it's not happy to get it, crying and crying is not enough, only a fool wants it.

Around the tent, there are bonfires, rows of women with drooping heads and whispering sit numbly on the ground, and from time to time Mongols come to pick them up with sticks, and they don't look at their faces, but only beat them on their chests and buttocks, and even rudely put their big hands into their clothes to knead their unspeakable parts. Some would open their palms and look at them, and then they would argue with the robbers who had robbed them in words they didn't understand.

Sometimes, a sheep can be exchanged for a woman, and sometimes, it can't. In the camp, like the bazaar, unlike the bazaars in other places, the goods here are Han Chinese and their property. The Mongols were very good at drinking, and the Qing army did not give them wine, so they robbed it themselves. Once they have snatched the wine, they gather there in groups of three or five to drink bitterly, and when they are drunk, they press the women they have snatched under them, and regardless of whether there are people around, they rudely tear the women's clothes and use the filth that has not been washed for many years to infringe on their booty. They don't know how to pity the jade, they only make the woman feel heart-rending pain in that savage action. However, no one cared, no one stopped, and some were just deafening laughter. Outside the gate, thousands of corpses of men and women were piled up haphazardly, cold and frozen, these were the fate of the rebels.

The Mongol soldiers, who had drunk and played with women, did not rest, they fought there, scolded there, and hugged each other there. There is no royal law here, there is only animal nature. The Han people are the most despicable objects here, they (they) are not human, and the only value of existence is to work for the robbers, so that the robbers can vent their beasts. Sex then gives birth to the offspring of the robbers, so that the robbers continue from generation to generation.

On the day of the establishment of the camp at Meihualing, the Mongolian soldiers drove the people within a few tens of miles to the left, regardless of men, women, and children, to dig trenches and carry the soil. The trees on the left and right have been cut down, and the houses have been demolished, just to take the lintel of the beams, and the big Ke Chang dry fence for the edge of the ditch. They also dug up the graves of the Han people, dissected the coffins one by one, and discarded the bones at will, just to be able to get these coffin plates. The bodies of those who died and were buried not long ago were beheaded, and some of the young women who fell ill and died were even degraded. The slightest resistance from their families, even if it was just a little ugly, would be immediately dragged into the grave and buried alive.

For the thousands of Han people who were forcibly recruited, the Mongol soldiers gave them only a scoop of water every day, and dozens of them ate a bucket of food that was worse than pig food. In the morning, he had to go to work before dawn, and he worked until late at night before he was released, and seven or eight out of ten people died of exhaustion every day. The women who were a little more beautiful were divided into their own flags, and the campers were in the same camp day and night. Every day, the hemorrhagic women were dragged outside the camp and thrown on the cold dirt before they died, becoming "zombies".

The military camp of the Outer Mongolian soldiers is the hell of the Han people, and the camp of the Inner Mongolian soldiers is not much better, and the only military discipline is the Mongolian military flag in the center. Bonfires burned in piles, and from time to time patrolling Mongol soldiers walked by. They don't need to go out to rob, they have special military rations, and if the generals come to the temperament, they will go to the camp of the Inner Mongolian soldiers to pick people, and if they have fun afterwards, they will stay to reward the women to eat, and take them away in the future, and if they are not happy, they will be beaten or killed, or thrown to their subordinates for sexual pleasure. Compared with the wild Outer Mongolian barracks, the Mongolian military banner is more or less clothed in a "kind" coat, or rather, they have a little civilization.

Outside the camp, although the Outer Mongolian soldiers did not send sentry sentry, the Inner Mongolian army and the Mongolian army flag put sentry agents, and when they came back from duty, they saw the drunk Outer Mongolian soldiers messing around, and they all laughed from ear to ear, and none of them stopped them. They rode their horses slowly through the military camp of the Outer Mongolian soldiers, smiling wantonly and watching the naked Han women being pressed under them and wailing. Occasionally, they would stop to point fingers at the poor women with their horsewhips. Along the way, the Outer Mongolians were very respectful to these Mongolian military flags and the Inner Mongolian sentinels, and when they walked away, their eyes were full of envy. They didn't know that these Mongolian military banners that they envied were even more unbearable than them when they saw the Manchurian soldiers.

After several sentinels passed through the camp of the Outer Mongolian soldiers, they had not yet entered the camp of the Inner Mongolian soldiers, but they heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from the direction of Yangzhou in the south. The sound of the hurried horse's hooves spread far away in the night, even if there was a murmur in the camp of the Outer Mongolian soldiers, the sentries of the Mongolian army still heard the sound of the hurried horses' hooves.

The sentries glanced at each other, and each of them looked confused, and they quickly turned their horses around and rushed out. Along the way, several Outer Mongolian soldiers who were still drunk and crazy were knocked down and trampled over, but they could only scream there, and no one dared to drink and scold the Mongolian soldiers for being blind. When a small Taiji in Outer Mongolia heard the movement, he stacked the Han girl under him aside, and rushed out quickly, and when he saw a group of Manchurian soldiers rushing over outside the camp, he was so frightened that he immediately shouted that his subordinates should hurry up and open the camp door and let the Manchurian soldiers in.

As soon as the camp gate was opened, dozens of Manchurian soldiers galloped in, and the general in front of him stopped at a place where there was still a horse's head away from Nataiji.

The sentries who rushed over recognized that it was Lang Tan, the first-class guard beside the emperor, and they wanted to turn over and dismount, but Lang Tan asked them, "Where is the prince!" The emperor has a will! ”

"The prince is in the camp, please come with us!"

As soon as they heard that the holy decree was coming, the sentry spies hurriedly turned their horses and led Lang Tan to find their prince, Wu Keshan, the elder brother of the current Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty and the prince of Horqin.

It's so late, what will the emperor have for Wu Keshan?

When Lang Tan and the others rushed all the way into the camp of the Inner Mongolian soldiers, the tribes of Outer Mongolia and the Zasali of the banners of Inner Mongolia were all reported, and they were puzzled one by one while putting on their clothes and hurrying towards Wu Keshan's Horqin camp.

(To be continued.) )