Chapter 223: The Wave of Displaced People
In Jiaozhou City, the mansion of Ding Bangyan in the former Ming Dynasty. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Now this mansion has become the residence of Shen Yuheng, the general of the Shun army.
Holding Ding Langzhong's beautiful concubine in his arms and lying on the soft carved bed, Shen Yuheng could not have imagined such a day before.
A few years ago, Shen Yuheng was a farmer in Henan Province, no, it should be said that he was a tenant who had lost his land. After a year of hard work, the harvested grain was not enough to eat for even half a year, and the remaining half a year had to rely on wild vegetables and bran to survive.
Fortunately, King Chuang came, and the poor brothers rebelled with the Chuang army with hoes.
Shen Yuheng took the lead in breaking into the gate of Squire Cheng's house who hired him to farm, and smashed Squire Cheng's head with a hoe.
The brothers robbed Squire Cheng's food, killed all his pigs and sheep, and then ate the first full meal in their lives amid the crying of the Cheng family's daughters.
Since then, Shen Yuheng ushered in the most proud days of his life, following the banner of the king, he turned to the Quartet, and in a few years, Shen Yuheng became a small leader.
King Chuang entered Beijing and sent a large number of officials to various places, and Shen Yuheng took his five hundred soldiers as the Chinese army of Wang Daocheng, the defense of Qingzhou, and came to Qingzhou with Wang Daocheng.
thought that he had become an official of the new dynasty, but since then, he has been proud of his ancestors. Who knew that not long after the good days, the news that King Chuang was defeated by the Qing soldiers and withdrew from Beijing came.
Then the gentry of Shandong rebelled like crazy, and in the blink of an eye, most of the territory was no longer owned by Dashun.
It's so easy to live a good life, and Shen Yuheng certainly doesn't want to lose it like this. He led his army to defeat Li Shiyuan, who rebelled in Qingzhou, and chased him to Jiaozhou.
Lying lazily on the bed, even though the sunlight had shone through the crack in the door in front of the bed, Shen Yuheng still didn't want to get up, and at this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door.
"The traitor Li Shiyuan has come down the mountain?" Shen Yuheng was stunned, where did he get the courage to dare to go down the mountain? I was worried that I couldn't completely wipe him out, but I didn't expect him to be sent to the door.
Could it be that he saw that the Ming army came to Jiaozhou Bay from nowhere, which increased Li Shiyuan's spirit. But the Ming army is powerful, can it still drive the ship to the city?
And if they dare to go ashore, they will definitely have no return with their more than 2,000 troops. For the combat effectiveness of his subordinate army, Shen Yuheng is very confident.
"There are a lot of Li thieves, more than 10,000 people!" The subordinates who came to report the news were pale and looked a little frightened.
"More than 10,000 people, where did he get so many troops?" Shen Yuheng was stunned, he knew the number of Li Shiyuan's defeated army, at best, there were more than 3,000 people, most of them were temporarily recruited homeless, and their combat effectiveness was vulnerable. But now there are more than 10,000 people here, could it be that he drove all the homeless people from Laoshan down?
"Hahaha," Shen Yuheng suddenly laughed: "Those homeless people can't walk the road of hunger, I'm afraid they will die half of them when they go to the city." Go, follow me out of town! ”
Shen Yuheng looked down on the combat effectiveness of Li Shiyuan's army very much, and was unwilling to wait, leaving 500 soldiers to defend the city, and took 2,000 people out of Jiaozhou City, and greeted Li Shiyuan's army. In his opinion, two thousand people were enough to defeat the enemy army.
A spy had already come to report that the Ming fleet parked in the bay had not moved, which allowed Shen Yuheng to meet the enemy with confidence.
A few miles away, the Wuyang army of wanderers was walking towards Jiaozhou City, they were walking very slowly, probably too hungry to walk.
Shen Yuheng commanded two thousand subordinates, pressing his steps and slowly pressing towards the other party. He didn't dare to excessively consume the physical strength of his subordinate soldiers.
Although the other party is composed of hungry homeless people, his subordinates only eat one dry and one thin every day.
The armies of the two sides slowly approached, one was an army of more than 10,000 displaced people, although they were large in number, but they were poorly equipped, and the displaced people had a mess of weapons in their hands, hoes, wooden forks, sticks, everything.
The other was only two thousand in number, far less than the other, but far better equipped than many, at least each with a spear in his hand. Among them, there were a hundred elite soldiers wearing cotton armor, each holding a ghost-headed broadsword with a cold light in their hands.
The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and Shen Yuheng can already see the other party's ragged clothes and sluggish expressions.
Looking at the other party's scattered and disorderly queue, looking at the other party's weak appearance, Shen Yuheng thought that as long as he charged, he could defeat this group of homeless people who couldn't walk.
Just as he was about to give the order, suddenly a person in the middle of the displaced army on the opposite side opened his mouth and shouted something. When Shen Yuheng was about to listen intently, he saw that the homeless people on the opposite side looked excited, and rushed towards him like crazy.
How so? Shen Yuheng was stunned, but at this time, he couldn't hesitate, he hurriedly ordered, and the whole army went up.
The distance between the two sides quickly approached, and Shen Yuheng, who was standing behind the command, looked at the battlefield calmly, watching the soldiers in front of him hand their weapons to each other.
In just one face, hundreds of people fell in pools of blood, but most of the fallen were homeless soldiers. Their rudimentary weapons are no match for the intruders.
As long as they hit again, they will flee in the wilderness, looking at the situation of the battle, Shen Yuheng can already guess the result.
However, the next moment, Shen Yuheng's eyes widened suddenly. Instead of fleeing, the outcasts on the opposite side rushed forward with greater courage and stabbed their spears into their bodies, and instead of falling down in pain, they howled and grabbed the barrels of their guns with both hands, and more homeless people rushed up next to them, smashing wooden sticks on the heads of their own gun-wielding soldiers.
Their own soldiers had already rushed into the array of the outcasts, and hundreds of homeless people fell in pools of blood. But instead of collapsing, the homeless people howled and rushed up, and one of the homeless people fell, and more homeless people rushed up, smashed them with wooden sticks, bit them with their teeth, and fought with the army like crazy.
How so? Shen Yuheng was dumbfounded. He completely forgot what it was like when he first joined the army, and the homeless people dared to fight with anyone for the sake of stuttering.
They have lost everything, what else will they fear? Death, no kidding, they are already hungry and can't walk in Laoshan, and now they have eaten a full meal and have some strength in their bodies. But there was only so much food, and there was no next meal, in order to survive, they could only defeat the enemy in front of them and rush to Jiaozhou City.
Only in the city can there be food, continue to stay in the mountains, and only death awaits them!
Tempted by the desire to live, the exile army broke out with a strong fighting force. One person is desperate, ten husbands are hard, let alone 10,000 people!
Shen Yuheng was horrified to find that in just a moment, his 2,000 people had been drowned in the tide of displaced people. (To be continued.) )