385. Lake Retribution (Please Monthly Pass, Red Ticket)
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Although they successfully besieged and killed the Wanwu Green Banner soldiers outside the city, the parting order had been issued, and the Jingzhou Eight Banners, who returned to the forcibly occupied house in the city, were soon surrounded by pain. The cries of women and children continued all night, and the oppressive atmosphere made the entire flag army in Jingmen on the verge of demoralization.
The cry of the banner man wafted in the air, and the people who had been taken from their houses and driven to the other side of the city to sleep in the open were very relieved to hear it, although they were forced to be overjoyed by the pressure of the government inside the city and the rumors of the massacre outside the city, but the sound of cursing in private showed no sign of stopping for a moment. Even some of the errand soldiers who were ordered to be suppressed were dissatisfied with the indiscriminate slashing of the soaps who delivered the food, so they turned a blind eye to the curses of the people.
When the sky was bright, the east gate of Jingmen Prefecture City opened, and thousands of banner troops poured out in a chaotic manner, along with the Mongolian horse team that had already packed up their felt bedding, and roared towards the north and northeast. However, due to the different horsepower and different imperial arts, there were quite a lot of banner troops behind from the beginning, among which the Jingzhou Eight Banners and the Xi'an Eight Banners, which were dominated by gunners, were the majority. By the time Nertu and Zhuduna, who had run for nearly 100 miles in one go, were called to stop and rest, there were less than 5,000 of the more than 6,000 banner troops left at the time of the evacuation of Jingmen. Although the 66 banner troops who had arrived when they were resting and eating dry food, some of the flag soldiers were still missing.
"Amma, Eniang and Ragu, are they really okay?" Similar conversations are not uncommon in the Eight Banners of the Jingzhou Garrison, panting and chewing dry food, either the son asks the father, or the brother asks the brother, or the subordinate asks the chief, or the neighbor asks the robe, and they have no more to slaughter the tyrants of the Green Camp at this moment, only the concern for relatives and friends.
"Maybe, no, it will be fine, don't the Han people always say that killing and surrendering is unlucky, you Ama and they are women and children, and the southerners shouldn't do anything to them." In order to talk about his son, and also to convince himself, the man couldn't help but increase his tone. "That's right, it will never be fine, and it's useless for Hai Reverse to take the old and weak women and children, he will definitely agree to our ransom!"
"That's right, that's fine." The young man believed it, but was it really the end of the story?
"What's going on? How did so many people die. "Zheng Jun's Tanma, who arrived at Jingmen City, suddenly appeared and entered the Shura Field, looking at the foul-smelling corpse covered by big-headed flies, even the veterans who were used to seeing the scene of fighting couldn't help but want to vomit." It should all be Green Banner soldiers, which division arrived first? ”
"Your Excellency!" One of the horsemen, who couldn't stand it, was vomiting when he suddenly saw something special, so he forced the leader to come over. "Look, my lord!" Two bodies almost connected to each other were displayed in front of everyone, one stabbed each other in the stomach with a knife, and the other bit the other's neck with his teeth, but the two deceased were dressed in the same clothes. "It's cannibalism."
"No, it should be the flag army killing the green battalion!" More details were scattered by the sentinels, more than half of the dead Green Flag soldiers had no weapons in their hands, many of them were attacked from behind, and the dead flag soldiers were all armed with swords and guns. "Hurry up and report to the brigade, the Tartars have gone crazy and killed all of their own people."
The area of 15,000 corpses scattered can be described as vast, and the Zheng Juntan horses who passed through this death zone finally breathed fresh air, and only then sighed slightly as if they had escaped death. Before they had time to rub the mosquito-repellent realgar powder on their bodies, Jingmen City, which appeared in front of them, suddenly opened.
What's going on? The Qing army also attacked? Just as Zheng Jun's horses were about to dodge, they saw a nine-rank junior official with a pinch embroidered on his chest walking out in fear. Is this an attempt to surrender? As soon as he thought of this, several Zheng Jun detective horses gathered over, and the leader of the team slapped his horse to meet him.
Seeing Zheng Jun swaggering closer, the junior official bowed to the other party calmly: "Jingzhou official Mu Baiqi greets the general!" ”
"General?" The team leader laughed, Zheng Fan's current system of generals is the highest-ranking military attache from the first rank, and the team leader is just the deputy lieutenant of Baoyi from the eighth rank, and there is a full thirteen orders difference during the period, even if the team leader can be promoted without a first rank, it is impossible to go up without twenty or thirty years, not to mention that there is still a moat between the third rank riding lieutenant and the second rank light car lieutenant. "Don't you dare, let's say, what do you want to do when you go out of the city alone?"
"The little official Bai Qi was ordered by Lord Zhen of Zhizhou to contact your army to discuss the matter of opening the city and annexing it."
"Kaesong will be annexed and retained?" The team leader laughed, and the war knife in his hand pointed directly at Bai Qi's nose. "I still want to bargain, how can it be so easy, honestly open the city or save his dog's life, if you don't obey, there is only a dead end!"
Looking at the sharp tip of the knife in front of him, Bai Qi almost didn't fall to the ground, fortunately, he was born in a splashy skin, and there was still a ruthlessness in his body, so he had the courage to respond: "What the general said is very true, but Lord Zhizhou is really unspeakable, and please listen to the little official first."
"There are thousands of banners in the city? Wounded soldiers holding the government hostage? And what do you say, if you don't save his life, you should die for the whole city? Zheng Kezang looked at the sub-commander who came to report quietly. Can the more than 10,000 green camp corpses outside the city figure out what's going on? ”
The division looked at the commander in front of him with reverence, and replied without changing a word: "Back to the king, according to the official of Bai Qi, when the Tartars retreated north, they were worried that the green camp would be a disaster due to the lack of military rations, so they were disposed of in advance. ”
"Lack of military rations? For the sake of the Jing Gate? Pre-disposal? Zheng Kezhang suddenly sneered. Speaking of which, I want to thank the Tartars. "Everyone on the side looked at each other, not knowing why Zheng Kezhang was angry, so they listened to Zheng Kezang." It is true that the green camp is a traitor lackey, but it is also a child of my Han people, and the Tartars slaughtered half of the children of my Han family like pigs and dogs, and they actually said that it was to protect the Li people. "In an instant, the Ten Days of Yangzhou, the Three Massacres in Jiading, and many massacres and literary prisons all came to Zheng Kezang's mind." The Tartars are a great evil to China, is Lone the stupid farmer? ”
The last sentence made everyone not know what to say, of course they didn't know the "Farmer and the Snake" in "Aesop's Fables", but they could hear a strong killing intent from Zheng Kezang's tone, so someone immediately stood up and came in and said: "Your Majesty, it is unlucky to kill and surrender, let alone women and children."
"Unconscious!" Zheng Kezang shouted angrily: "You go and look at the corpses outside Jingmen City, and then think about how many people Tartars have killed in China before talking." ”
"Your Majesty!" The person on the side was still waiting to be admonished, Zheng Kezhang waved his hand and signaled the other party not to speak.
"Jinan was killed, Datong, Shuozhou, Hunyuan were killed, Yangzhou was killed, Jiading was killed, Guangzhou was killed, Jiangxi was killed, Sichuan was killed, how could you have thought about any women and children when the captives were raging in China, at this time I was worried about my dependents, it was really ridiculous!" Zheng Kezhang glanced at everyone fiercely. "Do you want to leave orphaned tigers behind? Even if the sky is disgusted with it, what does it have to do with you alone. ”
"The king is angry!" Cui Ping fell to his knees in a hurry, and a group of people in the Privy Council under his leadership all knelt down. "The ministers didn't dare to intercede for the Tartars, but the ministers heard that in the past, the king had sent Tartars and attached captives to the green camp, and the gentry went to Qiongzhou and overseas to work, so why not follow suit now, so as not to tarnish the king's name."
"Lone's clear name, Lone has long been scolded as a usurper, what else does Lone have to clear his name." Zheng Kezhang said without enthusiasm. "If there is no martial mourning for the king of heaven, the Han people are also two-legged sheep, if they don't kill a hundred people, Hu Lu will still think that my Han people have no blood and bravery!" Speaking of which, Zheng Kezhang ordered. "The Will of the Lonely"
"The king can't!" There were already people on the side who grabbed their heads and knocked on the ground. "The slaughter of China by the North is the act of beasts, and the king is the future lord of China, so you must not follow suit!"
Zheng Kezhang squeezed word by word from between his teeth: "Benevolence and righteousness depend on who it is said to, Yi Yu is afraid of power but not virtue, and he should be alone to comfort the ministers of the world with benevolence and righteousness, and the other hand must not give up the butcher's knife to suppress my Chinese people!" ”
Zheng Kezhang looked angry at the Vajra Dharma, and bluffed the ministers present to knock again and again: "There is no need to be verified, the lonely mind has been decided, come to someone, and pass on the decree."
"King Xia's decree, you can escape from the death penalty of your dependents, and living crimes are inevitable!" The Zheng army, who had received Jingmen City, drove away a group of bannermen and wounded soldiers violently, and the bannermen who were once arrogant in the eyes of the people of Jingmen were driven away from the temporarily occupied houses one by one, and countless onlookers watched the changes in front of them in amazement, and then burst into cheers. "Come out, get out of here!"
Under the farewell of rotten vegetable leaves and lumps of soil, several banner men who were obviously for it asked the Zheng soldiers who were cold-eyebrowed: "Where are you taking us?" Didn't your king promise to be kind to me? ”
"Didn't you say that the capital crime can be avoided, and the living crime will flee south." The Zheng soldiers beat them with their weapons and drove them back into the ranks. "Who will clean up the sins you have done outside the city, will you ask the old men to clean up the tail for you?"
As soon as they heard that they were going out of the city to bury the corpses of the green battalion soldiers, a group of banner women, children and wounded soldiers immediately breathed a sigh of relief, although the smell was bad and the environment was disgusting, but it was not their own lives. So under this mentality, everyone followed the team silently, and after a while, they came to the scene of the killing.
According to Zheng Jun's orders, a group of bannermen dug a trench with the simplest tools, and then carried a corpse with a broken stomach and a discolored corpse into it, sprinkled with lime, and buried it. Because there were too many corpses, and the old and weak women and children were slow to do it, it took half a day to bury only one or two thousand corpses. The flag-bearers who finally stopped to catch their breath gnawed on Zheng Junlai's unpalatable bran dumplings, and then thought about the good days before, and burst into tears one by one
The flag-bearers, who had managed to soothe the children asleep in a foul-smelling environment, spent the most uneasy night in a vague way, and then were driven back to work early in the morning. These fifteen thousand corpses made these women and children work for three days, and when they were all buried, everyone actually showed a smile of relief.
But this smile was quickly dispelled by the new order: "What, still dig a hole, why!" ”
The answer to them was the spur of the head and face, and as a last resort, with a bad premonition and an empty and tired body, the wounded soldiers and their dependents continued to be busy until they completed the task assigned by Zheng Jun.
"Drive them all in." The moment of seeing the poor dagger came, and when he saw Zheng Jun's actions, no matter how dull he was, he understood that his end was coming, and he cried one by one, but under the coercion of Zheng Jun's force, how could these hungry and tired bannermen and wounded soldiers resist the results. "Go and call all the people who are hired in the city."
Looking at the people with shovels in their hands, several violent wounded soldiers of the banner army roared angrily: "I cao you eighteen generations of sea rebel ancestors, you must not die well"
Looking at the people of Jingmen who were even more frightened than the flag relatives in the pit, the second-class praise painting of the Privy Council, who presided over the live burial, chuckled: "How many Han people have you killed, this is retribution, come on, bury the soil!" ”
Under the threat of Zheng Jun's guns, the people of Jingmen slowly splashed the floating soil on the side of the pit, and many people cowered, burying them for a long time until the knees of the banner people.
Zheng Junzheng, who was watching from the side, was a little impatient, and suddenly heard someone among the people shouting: "Dad, I have avenged you!" ”
The sound instantly spread throughout the people, as if a spring thunder woke up everything, and the people suddenly remembered the painful days of humiliation and numbness under the Manchu regime, and suddenly became excited like chicken blood, yes, the end of the Tartars has come, what are we worried about? Now that he had figured it out, the pile of sand covered the past like raindrops
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