Chapter Eighty-Nine: Military Households Are Suffering

At this moment, Li Jing stood on the pass in high spirits, and ordered the soldiers who were busy working below, "This is a good chain mail, it is a waste to wear it for such a person, peel it all off, and take it away!" ”

After saying this, he inspected directly along the city wall of the pass, and saw that there was a general cannon about twenty paces away, weighing hundreds of pounds and about three feet long, and seeing that the artillery on the city wall was no less than 100 artillery pieces in the north-south direction, and he had relatives in his heart, and he was afraid that he would not be able to go down if he had ten times the strength of the city. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Ningwu Pass, worthy of being the head of the three passes in the Great Wall, if it were not for the Ningwu Wei stationed here who was negligent in guarding and going out of the city to fight with himself, I am afraid it would not be so easy for the whole army to be wiped out, there was a Ming generation, several times to build, especially in the Wanli years, paved with green bricks, the whole pass was stationed with 5,600 sergeants, and there were 300 cannons.

The circumference of the whole pass is 3.5 kilometers, the wall is 12 meters high, Linhui River, there are heavy soldiers guarding it, 12 years later, the last Shanxi general soldier of the Ming Dynasty Zhou Yuji was defeated and retreated from Daizhou to here, and Li Chuang's army fought hard for several days, with the danger of the pass, killed and injured tens of thousands of peasant troops, and finally failed, which shows the majesty of the pass.

Since the fight this morning, chasing and killing the officers and soldiers all the way here, the commander of the guard station wanted to rely on the pass to refuse to resist stubbornly, and did not want to be in the pass, leaving all the old and weak, and did not even have time to close the gate, so he directly asked Li Jing's twenty or thirty cavalry to chase and kill them, and it only took a moment to kill the military households at the door.

In this way, the pass changed hands, and the military households that saw it behind silently dropped all kinds of weapons in their hands and surrendered directly, still roaring by those generals, but they refused to get up and resist.

When Li Jing brought people up to take the heads of the commanders and the generals under his command, those military households also didn't say a word, and looked at them coldly, as if all this had nothing to do with them.

When I entered the pass, I saw that in the pass, thatched wooden houses could be seen everywhere, and one or two frightened faces popped out of the house from time to time when I heard the movement.

In this way, Li Jing had to dismount, ordered the left and right to pack up the horses and equipment discarded by the generals, and not to hurt a single soldier......

I don't know how long it took, I saw Li Mao go up to the city wall, with an excited face, "Lord, in this battle, more than 200 officers and soldiers were killed, and more than 4,600 people were captured. ”

"How can there be so many people?" Li Jing couldn't mention the nature at all, and asked casually.

Li Mao didn't know why, looking at Li Jing's indifferent eyes, and then looking at the military households who were imprisoned together under the wall, looking at their miserable appearance, he understood a little, and his voice was no longer as excited as just now, "There are many people in the pass, so there are more people." ”

Li Jing didn't answer his words, but just seemed to ask himself, "Tell me, should they live like this all their lives, making cattle and horses for people?" ”

Li Mao didn't think that he would ask this, and was speechless for a moment, "Lord, this." ”

"That's it, that's it." Li Jing sighed, it was really the current situation that made him speechless, looking at these military families who lacked food and clothing, and were so hungry that they couldn't figure themselves, how miserable they were.

After getting off the wall like this, and walking in front of the crowd, those military households, each staring at him with numb eyes, anyway, they don't want to live like this, whether they are dead or alive, let God arrange it.

"Raise your head!" Li Jing struggled to pull a soldier up, and when he saw that his head was weak, a nameless fire rose in his heart, "Look at your current appearance, do you have the backbone of a soldier?!" ”

If his subordinates had such an attitude in the future, Li Jing would have been furious, and a soldier should have the backbone of a soldier, and would rather die standing than live on his knees!

Who knew that the soldier just squinted at him, lowered his head again, and was silent, what kind of eyes was that look.

Li Jing only felt that his heart had been hit hard, his eyes were empty and godless, and he had no love, could this be the army of the imperial court?! The elite soldiers who guarded the Ningwu Pass, the head of the three passes of the Inner Great Wall?!!!

They sat on the ground, protecting their wives and children, their skin tanned, licking their shriveled lips from time to time, their faces full of horror, but no one spoke, and there was a dead silence......

Li Jing thinks back to the history books he read in his previous life, and whenever he talks about the records of the late Ming Dynasty, there is always a sentence about the life of military households, born at the wrong time, born without love, and many escapes, yes, the salaries of the imperial court and the military tuns in the garrison have nothing to do with them.

The peasants of this era can still struggle, and when they enter the military household, they will have no hope in their lives, and the hard-cultivated fields are all the generals', and almost all the grain harvested is owned by the military generals, and each person is only given one stone of grain per month.

Military households, military households, their own army, feed the whole family, no soil and no land, do more than dogs, get up earlier than chickens, tired and tired, every year they owe a sum of money and food to the generals, there is no hope for life, such days, how can people not despair!

I don't know how long it took for Li Jing to slowly come back to his senses, and he ordered the guards beside him, "Bury the pot to make food, let these people have a full meal, and they are making plans." ”

He roared from the bottom of his heart, "From today onwards, I will feed you!" Feed you and feed your family! With a bite of food, you will never let your family go hungry! ”

When the originally numb crowd heard this, they immediately became in a commotion, and they all looked up at Li Jing in shock when they heard this, but they didn't know whether it was true or not.

"What you say is true?" A neighboring military household struggled to get up, for this, he didn't believe it from the bottom of his heart, over the years, who has seen them as people, but in addition to despair in his heart, it is inevitable that he wants to be liberated, anyway, no matter how bad it is, how bad can it be?!

"Sit down, wait until the meal is ready, and then ask me if I'm telling the truth!" Li Jing knew that for this group of military households, it was empty talk to say that it would break the sky, and it was not as impactful as a hot meal in front of them.

When the military households were looking forward to it, Li Jing came to the granary of the pass, looked at the neat grain and grass placed inside, and suddenly became even more angry. ”

When the little flag heard this, he said with a bitter face, "My lord, these are taxes to be handed over to the imperial court, and we don't dare to move." ”

When Li Jing saw that Xiaoqi was eating white and fat, he was so fat that he didn't know where he was, "Haha!" I saw Li Jing laugh a long time, "The court can eat it, the generals can eat it, and you can also eat it as a fat ghost, why can't the military households who work hard can't eat it?" Come on! Pull the shameless people out and cut them in public! ”

When the little flag cried and struggled and was forcibly pulled out, Li Jing looked back at the warehouse full of grain and grass, and his heart was furious, "Come on, carry this grain out!" ”……