"Uncle Cheng, where are we going?"

Chenjia Village is a small mountain village in the mountainous area of Yanmen Pass, peaceful and serene in the past, the village to the county, first to walk more than 20 miles of rugged mountain road, but also to pass through a military fort, two passes, and then take the official road 13 or 4 miles, to Fanzhi County. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Similarly, if this road goes north, there can be a small road for people to pass through the Yanmen Pass, if it is placed in the past, this kind of small mountain village of less than 100 households, except for collecting taxes, no outsiders are willing to come.

When the beggar army captured Fanzhi, some of the officers and soldiers rushed here to escape, but they couldn't stand the surrounding Chenjia Village and Wangjia Village, hundreds of men, women and children came out together, and they were forced to retreat, and then, Guo Sheng's subordinates first stationed here.

After a few months of running-in, the people of Chenjiacun and Wangjiazhai are obviously aware that this official army is different from the previous official army, that is, they do not enter the village to disturb the people, and they look much stronger than those Ming troops, and they will insist on setting off for drills every morning, anyway, the peace in the village has been completely disrupted.

In previous years, this small village by the mountains relied on the management of a few acres of dry land, and went out to hunt in their spare time to make a living, and the days of tax resistance have been throughout their lives, but after the beggar army was stationed, not only did not collect taxes, but also was willing to help them.

Over time, everyone became accustomed to it, and this trail could bypass Yanmen Pass, so the two beggar soldiers have also been stationed here, and in ordinary times, they also help the villagers train young and strong, and distribute weapons.

After Guo Sheng and Zheng Renbao changed their guards, the soldiers also withdrew, but at the same time, a county sent a Xu official, saying that it was to mediate neighborhood disputes and buy animal skins, and every month a caravan would come in to buy the animal skins and excess meat hunted by the villagers, and then exchange them for some food and daily necessities.

Everyone has been looking forward to such a day for a long time, and they don't want to realize it under the rule of the begging army, so their impression of the court has changed a lot, and they thought that such a happy day would continue to live, but since the day before yesterday, the county sent three officials to ask them to either go to Yanmen Pass or return to Fanzhi, anyway, the meaning of the words is that it is not safe here.

"Where are you going? How do I know, follow the county lord to go together. ”

The man known as Uncle Cheng is in his forties this year, and he used to be a good hunter in the village, but now his physical strength is unbearable, so let's say this time, the official has set up a sign in the village, and every family who is willing to fight will be given a settlement fee of three taels of silver on the spot, and priority will be given to the family members in the county seat.

He also wanted to go, but he was brushed off in the first round, the reason was that he was old, although he was experienced, he was afraid that he would not be able to keep up with the speed of the troops, but he did not waste his talent.

"It's so decent, why do you want to leave all of a sudden."

As the saying goes, it is difficult to leave the homeland, if it weren't for the fact that the beggar army had some prestige among the people in the village, they would not have left this time, but they couldn't stand the migration of the household registration to give each family a tael of silver!

"County lieutenant, did you say that the top has nothing to do after eating, and it is good to move your mountain people out, isn't this a poor toss? That's it, it cost more than two hundred taels of silver, and with this money, it is better to recruit a few more brothers into battle. ”

The two officials who stayed behind pointed at the original site of Chenjia Village and said something, listening to their words, it seems that one of them is the official of the overall situation of the abbot of the county?

Chen Bonian glared at him angrily, and pointed to the path that zigzagged to the foot of the mountain, "You don't understand this, if you plan it properly, here, at least you can pass an army of 1,000 people, and then these people, won't they suffer in vain?" ”

He looked at the young men who gathered together, standing together with spears and hunting bows, and sighed, "These people come out of the poor mountains and bad waters, these people, in the past, we couldn't gather them together, but now, the lord has ordered to take this opportunity to move them all down the mountain, so that it is convenient to manage, isn't it?" ”

This is a method that dozens of pro-people officials of Shanxi's pro-people yamen came up with together, because in the past, the begging military rule occupied areas that were easy to rule, such as county towns and plains, and for the residents in the mountains, they rarely took care of it, because there were not enough manpower, and everything was based on army building.

In ancient times, the strength of a regime or a region was measured by population, and without people, there would be no labor, no army, and no taxes.

People in the mountains, the cost of management is too great, if it weren't for the fact that this kind of village happened to be stuck on the trail of the Inner Great Wall, the beggar army would not have sent people to manage it.

People are like this, if you only earn one or two taels of silver, and you ask him to collect 30% of the tax, it is very likely that the mountain people gathered together will be armed to resist the tax, but if they move to the county seat or the plain area to live, distribute the land, earn an extra 12 taels of silver every year, and then ask them to collect 30% of the tax, there will be no problem.

And the current situation is that there is a lot of land in the begging military area, but there are few people, after a long period of war and natural and man-made disasters, many people can't hold on at the beginning, otherwise they won't be able to form a huge team of displaced people, how much land in Shaanxi under Li Jing's rule has been wasted, so far there is no clear figure, but the lack of people is certain.

"Chenjia Village, the villagers of Wangjiazhai, I am Chen Bonian, the county lieutenant in the county, from today onwards, you are no longer a citizen, but a soldier, and you have to be a soldier a little bit like a soldier.

After knowing that this kind of soldier is not a generational military household, these villagers have long been happy in their hearts, the family gives three taels of silver, how much prey does this have to be hunted, how many skins can be sold to earn it, and I heard that they can receive one or two silver every month, and everyone's life will be much better in the future.

So one by one happily picked up the belongings and followed Chen Bonian to Fanzhi County.

This scene happened in various places in Daizhou at the same time, because Li Jing and the generals of various military towns, after planning and discussing together, they came to the conclusion that the Houjin Tartars and the Mongol Tartars entered the Kou this time in order to plunder the population and money and grain, and Xuanfu and Datong Town were stationed in the west and north of the continuous fortress.

Since it was a robbery, it would not be hard to do it, so after entering the Kou from Wanquanwei, the route of their march should be from the south of the border between Datong Town and Beizhili, so as to avoid the strong passes and cities of the imperial court.

And Li Jing, who knew what kind of virtue the group of merchants outside the mouth was, concluded that the Tartars must have come for him in the end, without him, because he had money and food, and in history, the Tartars were good at using spies, whenever the thieves and the Ming official army entered a large-scale decisive battle, or when the thieves were in a desperate situation,

The Tartars always have to fight a battle outside the pass, or enter the Kou, forcing the Ming army to turn back, so the Tartars will not sit idly by and watch themselves grow infinitely, this battle is destined to be fought.

For this reason, Li Jing deliberately ordered all the troops to end their respective campaigns before the end of April, temporarily maintaining the current battle line, and then the main forces moved north, and after receiving the news of the Tatars' entry into the army, the various units of the beggar army had arrived at or approached the target area.

In addition to the third town as the general reserve, the remaining four towns have gathered in Daizhou and Yingzhou, Shanyin, Mayi and other places, not only that, Li Jing also arranged two killing moves, ready to deal with the Tartar soldiers and horses going south.

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"Father Khan, the Ming people are cunning, at this time, they sent someone to contact us, there must be fraud, as far as I can see, it is better not to see, directly according to the rules of our grassland, cut off the ears and send them back!"

On a pasture near the Yellow River in the Hetao, cattle and sheep are everywhere, and Mongolian tents are endless, this is the temporary residence of Lin Dan Khan, who led his troops to flee westward, although this time, he is no longer fleeing in a hurry, but on the way to escape, he still lost more than 5,000 tribes, because these people are not the same heart as him.

When he finally arrived at a safe place, he counted and counted the tribes with less than 10,000 households on the left and right wings, plus the headquarters of the Han Department, and the tribes of Hetao, he had an army of 40,000 or 50,000 people at this time, and restored his previous momentum, but he didn't dare to cross the Yellow River to start a war with Huangtaiji.

At this time, the messenger of the Ming army in the south suddenly found him, and reported through the people below that this messenger of the Ming army represented Li Jing, the general of the Han court in the south, who came to meet him to send troops to attack Huang Taiji, and Lin Dan Khan, who could not make up his mind, so he summoned his subordinates to the big tent to discuss.

After hearing this, his son Abnai shook his head decisively, in his opinion, the Nanren are all untrustworthy, besides, they can beat the Jurchens?

"Brother, you can't say that, at least the Nanren also sent us life-saving food last winter, otherwise Father Khan would not be able to command so many tribes to return to Hetao this time."

After hearing this, Ezhe disagreed, and after refuting his younger brother, he looked at the Mongolian nobles Tashhai, Huluk, Badaxi and others in the big tent, and said in a deep voice, "As the descendants of the Golden Family, we were born to rule the entire desert, and the Jurchens showed off their strength and invaded our pastures, and sooner or later, we will have to fight a decisive battle with them, so it is best to be able to attack the Jurchens with the help of the strength of the Han people in the south." ”

He turned to Lin Dan Khan and said, "Father Khan, do you think that with our strength alone, we can defeat Huang Taiji?" ”

Lin Dan Khan's old face turned red, recalling that day he led 10,000 iron cavalry from Chahar to attack Horqin, but as a result, the Jurchen 2,000 cavalry came to the west, and he didn't dare to fight, so he shook his head, "Do you think we can defeat him by uniting with the Han people?" (To be continued.) )