Chapter 429: Clearing the Wilderness

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As for the people's hearts, I just want to say one thing: whoever kills more people and can scare the people into not daring to resist will win the hearts of the people. The Manchus used the lives of 140 million (historically proven) Han Chinese to tell us this fact, an ironclad fact. If people's hearts are clear, they will not die. Justice is only within the range of cannons, and the will of the people is determined only by butcher knives.

Because of your quarrels and strong protests, you have made a blunt turn on the bones, in fact, since the fall of Longwu in the Southern Ming Dynasty, the people's hearts have long been out of sight. Sometimes more loyal ministers may not represent the people's hearts, and compared with the few loyal ministers in the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty officials and gentry who came out of the "I Qing Dynasty" are gone to the sea, and the generals and officials of the Ming Dynasty who pacified the Southern Ming Dynasty for the Qing Dynasty are all the generals and officials of the former Ming Dynasty.

Cavalry Brigade C Battalion A Team 100 Shi Dazhi is a person from Changping in the north of Zhili, when the Jin army entered the customs in the second year of Chongzhen, he and his younger brother Shi Dayong and his parents were taken captive by Jiannu and returned to the Han army banner, when he was only six years old. Thirteen years later, the Qing army poured the country into Songshan, and 19-year-old Shi Dazhi and his younger brother Shi Dayong, who was one year younger, followed the Qing army to fight Songshan together.

The so-called assistant war Aha is to put it bluntly, it is its coat, on weekdays for the Manchurian master in the banner to farm, and in wartime, he follows the master into battle, mainly responsible for helping the master keep the armor and ordnance, take care of the war horses, in case there is not enough manpower, they will also go into battle together to kill the enemy. Therefore, the Eight Banners internally called these Han people as helping to fight Aha.

The Battle of Songshan ended with a crushing defeat of the 130,000 army led by the Ming Governor Hong Chengchou, and in this battle, Shi Dazhi lost his younger brother Shi Dayong. More than a year later. The Qing regent Dolgon decided to enter the customs, and Shi Dazhi was transferred to the command of Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun.

After Geng Zhongming entered the customs, he first led his troops to fight against Li Zicheng's peasant army, and later went south with Duoduo, the prince of Rui. In the battle with the Ming general Yang Guodong, Shi Dazhi performed well and was promoted by Geng Zhongming to the strength of Niu Luli, a low-level military attache imitating the Manchurian Eight Banners.

Shi Dazhi, who had become stronger, was given a mount to walk, and he had been an infantryman before. I can't ride a horse, and after I got a mount, I followed the veterans in the banner to learn cavalry. This person seems to have been born to be a dry cavalryman, and as soon as the horse is used. After practicing for less than half a month, he was able to maintain balance on his horse, and he did not fall off his horse when he charged, and then he followed King Jingnan and the Ming army after a few tough battles. He's a cavalryman. has also made a lot of achievements, plus he is the old foundation of the Han army, so he was transferred to Geng Zhongming's side to be Goshha.

After Geng Zhongming committed suicide for fugitive, the officers under the Jingnan Domain ran a lot, but Shi Dazhi has been following the young master Geng Jimao, and when Geng Jimao finally attacked the knighthood, he also guarded the clouds and saw the sun and the moon, and was promoted to the assistant leader by Geng Jimao. Regarded as cronies.

Shi Dazhi became a family after Geng Jimao went to Guangzhou, and the woman was the daughter of an officer in Qili. The appearance is average, but it is better than being virtuous. Dazhi ate food and paid in the army, she took care of housework at home, and generously tolerated the two Han female concubines that Dazhi robbed. As soon as the acquaintances of the clan mentioned Dazhi, the daughter-in-law picked the big finger, and they all exaggerated that Dazhi had a good mother-in-law.

Dazhi also likes this daughter-in-law in his heart, because he has worked hard for Geng Jimao over the years, and has robbed a lot of Nanbanzi's goods, Dazhi's family is very wealthy. In the second year of marriage, his daughter-in-law gave birth to a big fat son, which made Shi Dazhile bad, and despite his wife's opposition, he passed the eldest son to the name of his dead brother, which was regarded as renewing the incense for his younger brother Dayong. I thought that I would follow Geng Jimao to work for the Manchurians all my life, but I never thought that one day I would be able to be a Han Chinese.

When the Taiping Army was reorganized, Shi Dazhi was the only one under the Jingnan Domain who led troops in the Taiping Army. There were three general banners under his command, one under the Pingnan Domain, one from Manchuria, and one from the Green Battalion. In other words, most of the officers and soldiers under Shi Dazhi were surrendered, but all of these surrendered soldiers and generals had families controlled by the Taiping army, and many of them were stained with Manchurian blood.

For example, the Manchurian general banner is now more Taiping than the old Taiping Army, the old Taiping Army generally called those Han army and the green battalion as a clear demon, called the Manchurian people Tartar, he is good, the Manchurian people and the green battalion, the Han army are all called the Qing Demon, a few days ago and a group of officers in the army who believe in the Luo religion together, all day long, the gods chatter, as soon as the mention of the big handsome, his eyes shine, admiration is very great.

Shi Dazhi led the cavalry was two days ago from Chaozhou City to Fengshun to get food, because the main force of the Taiping army arrived, Chaozhou general Wu Liuqi did not dare to fight, hurriedly retreated from Lufeng, as a result, the Taiping army clenched, two battles in a row Wu Liuqi suffered defeat, and finally had to take the remnants of the turtle into Chaozhou City.

Zhou Shixiang ordered the first town to besiege Chaozhou City without fighting, and the second town and artillery battalion were stationed in Puning, and ordered the cavalry brigade to separate the garrison as a unit to operate in the countryside within a hundred miles near Chaozhou City, and gave them the order to break the fortress that had formed a fortress to defend itself and work for the Qing army, and robbed all the people and grain in the village to Puning. People moved to Guangzhou, and grain was hoarded all over the place. In short, Zhou Shixiang's order to the cavalry brigade was to destroy and loot, the purpose of which was to make Jidu's army unable to obtain any money and grain supplies from Chaozhou after arriving in Chaozhou, and could only rely on grain and grass transferred from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It was a long and dangerous logistical supply route.

Behind such an order is bound to be a merciless slaughter. However, Zhou Shi was at ease with this order, and the folk customs in the Chaoshan area were very strong, but it was a pity that after the Qing army carried out a massacre in Chaozhou, the remaining people used the word fierce on their compatriots. They formed a village to protect themselves, but it was not the Qing army that resisted, but the Ming army. Most of the fortresses were built by local clan forces, absorbing a large number of strong bandits into it, accepting the command of the Qing army, providing money and food supply for the Qing army in Chaozhou, and becoming the main helper of the Qing army in Chaozhou.

Among the thousands of soldiers and horses led by Wu Liuqi to attack Huizhou, there were more than 3,000 regiments from these fortresses. They created countless bloody cases of slaughtering villages and towns in Huizhou, and helped Wu Liuqi's troops loot goods, which can be described as full of crimes.

Zhou Shixiang had no intention of capturing Chaozhou now, and he chose the battlefield to fight with the Jidu army in Huizhou, so the best choice for Chaozhou was to turn it into a red land. Not to mention the hundreds of miles of Chidi, at least the villages near Chaozhou City and along the official road from Nan'an in Fujian to Guangdong must be emptied, and not a single grain of rice grain will fall into the hands of the Jidu army.

Jianbi Qingye may be the best portrayal of Zhou Shixiang's policy in Chaozhou, this Jianbi Qingye is not the initiative of Chaozhou people, but passively accepts.

Shi Dazhi carried out this order that allowed robbery, killing and burning, and he caught a leader of the village in Fengshun who led more than 100 villagers out to attack them, this person was called Lu Xingkang, and when he was dragged in front of Shi Dazhi, he was so frightened that he peed his pants. Without waiting for Dazhi to ask, Lu Xingkang shouted that as long as the Taiping army spared his life, he would be willing to take the Taiping army to seize his stockade, and the people, wealth, money, and food in it would belong to the Taiping army, as long as the Taiping army could spare his life.

Lu Xingkang had no heart and lungs, greedy for life and afraid of death, he was only bent on survival, and he sold all the people in his village. When Shi Dazhi heard that there was such a good thing, of course he was moved, but he was a little suspicious, afraid that Lu Xingkang would deceive, in case there was a Qing army stationed in his stockade, it would be difficult to attack with only the more than 200 cavalry under him.

Seeing that the other party didn't believe it, Lu Xingkang hurriedly swore and pointed to the sky: "Don't worry, the village is full of small subordinates, and there is no need for the military master to bother at all, as long as the military master and the little one go for a trip!" The small one is the leader of this stockade, and they all listen to me, as long as I give an order, the people in the stockade will open the city gate and let the soldiers in. ”

Before Lu Xingkang's words fell, Shi Dazhi's Manchurian General Banner Nalu suddenly waved his long knife, and the cold tip of the knife stuck to Lu Xingkang's neck, and shouted: "How do we know if you are deceiving us?" If there is an ambush in your village, won't we be ruined by going here! ”

Looking at the bloody tip of the knife glowing with a cold chill, Lu Xingkang's body trembled, his upper and lower teeth trembled a little, and he hurriedly said, "Small... The little one only wants to live, and he will never dare to deceive the heroes of the Taiping Army! In addition to the small people left in the village, there are no Wu Liuqi's soldiers, and the soldiers can rest assured. If the little one deceives the military master, the military master can kill the small one with one sword. ”

"Humph!"

Nalu put away the long knife, glared at Lu Xingkang angrily, and said in a Chinese dialect that had just learned and was still a little sandwiched: "I don't dare to deceive, otherwise I will cut your neck with a knife!" ”

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