12-73 Long smoke and sunset red shirts come

On the Jianghuai Plain, a large and strange convoy is marching, this convoy has Mongolian dwarf horses, there are mules and donkeys from the Central Plains, there are splendid royal chariots, there are extremely simple two-wheeled mule carts in the countryside, the members are even more strange, in addition to the fierce Mongolian soldiers, there are also a large number of men, women and children in Central Plains clothes, following the miserable march of the cart, the slightest slowness was whipped fiercely.

This is the Western Xia army that returned with a full load, this time the grass valley was full of bowls, not only robbed all the gold and silver treasures of Nanjing City, but also kidnapped a lot of meat tickets by the way, don't underestimate these unkempt travelers, which is not a royal noble, a dignitary.

Thousands of men, women and children who are accustomed to the life of brocade clothes and jade food walk with the army, which is bound to affect the degree of marching, and some generals suggested that these burdens be buried alive on the spot, so as to improve the degree and return to Western Xia as soon as possible, but they were vetoed by Anu on the spot, the use of these burdens is great, whether it is to set up a puppet regime, or to ask for ransom, it is of great use, the Han people in the Central Plains pay attention to benevolence and filial piety, parents, wives and children are in the hands of others, no matter what, no matter how much the price will be paid, they will have to go back, otherwise they will be criticized by the world, Anu grasps the psychology of the Han people. Otherwise, His Majesty Galdan would not be relieved to let her lead the troops to attack Nanjing alone.

The slow march is not terrible, don't look at the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty now, but the Ming Dynasty regime has collapsed, and it is difficult to form effective rule over the local government in the short term, and the Ming Dynasty army is all concentrated in Beijing and the border, and these military information are recorded in the archives of the Ministry of War, and they have all been seen by Anu, so they are not in a hurry.

The Ming army can fight to push the Red Shirt Army, but due to Liu Ziguang's exile, this army has existed in name only, and the remaining Yuan Chonghuan's Western Army has collapsed, leaving only tens of thousands of people trapped in Tongguan, Yuan Chengzhi is in charge of the Hebei Army, and he has to face the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty outside the Chahar Department of Northern Mongolia and Guan, and he can't free up his hand，

Therefore, the Western Xia army does not need to panic at all, just return according to the original way, the garrisons of the prefectures and counties along the way do not dare to stop at all, the Western Xia army does not go to crusade against them, thank God, can only watch the army cross, weeping, no wonder, this kind of royal collective humiliation of being captured can only be compared with the shame of Jingkang during the Song Dynasty, the shame of the Han people.

However, the treatment of the Zhu Ming royal family is stronger than that of the Zhao and Song royal families, at least the queen will not be wantonly humiliated by the Mongolian soldiers, which is inseparable from the fact that Anu herself is the queen of Western Xia, this strange woman was not Galdan's wife earlier, but his sister-in-law, after Geldan's brother was assassinated, Geldan resolutely gave up the position of the living Buddha and returned to the tribe from Tubo to avenge his brother, regain the power of Dzungaria, and established a deep relationship with his sister-in-law in the process of struggle, so he naturally married her. The Mongols did not pay attention to those customs etiquette, Anu himself was wise and brave, familiar with Han books, and became Galdan's most powerful assistant and strategist after marriage, the deputy marshal of the Western Xia army, the task of attacking Nanjing was extremely arduous, and it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Western Xia to do a good job, and it would be twice the result with half the effort to enter the Central Plains and dominate the world, so Galdan would send his queen to come in person.

The four-wheeled royal car is moving unhurriedly, Xu Yuanhui is holding a porcelain bowl and feeding medicine to the queen mother, the queen mother is bedridden after a stroke, her body is very weak, and now she is captured by the Tartar soldiers, and she is even more angry and her condition is aggravated, although the royal car is luxurious, but the road is really poor, and the bumps along the way are terrible, seeing that the queen mother has no breath in and out, Xu Yuanhui's tears can't stop flowing down, the queen mother still takes care of her daughter-in-law, if it weren't for the queen mother's illness, Zhu Youxiao would not dare to beat the queen into the cold palace, The mother and daughter were relatively speechless, and tears flowed.

The queen and the queen mother have carriages to sit in, that is Anu's care, others don't have this treatment, don't care if it's the princess of the golden branches and jade leaves or the elders of the three dynasties, hereditary princes, all have to walk honestly with their feet, poor these people used to go out to be chariots and horses, walking in their yards are supported by maids, the road that has not been walked in the first half of their lives has been made up for the past few days, and all the feet are burning, and they don't dare to fall half a step, because the leather whip of the tartar is waiting next to it, A little slack is a whip that will open your skin and flesh.

Walking is walking, the key is to help the cart, this cart is loaded with gold, silver and jewelry, the weight is not light, it is summer, from time to time there will be a little rainstorm, the road is muddy, the wheels are deeply trapped in it mules and horses can not do anything, so they have to use people to push, a group of fine skin and tender meat of the dignitaries and nobles like the mud legs they despise the most in the past, barefoot in the mud, rolling sleeves, holding trousers, shouting the number of carts, the Mongolian with big shoulders and round waists riding healthy horses not only do not help, but also on the side of the fingers, Whipping people with whips at every turn makes them feel an unforgettable shame.

The sun is sinking in the west, the sky is a touch of color, and it is time to rest at the tip, everyone stopped under the order of the Mongolian soldiers, untied the harness for the mules and horses, collected firewood to make a fire for cooking, there is a pond next to it, the people who walked in the sun for a day were hungry and thirsty, and they went to drink water, but this was not their turn until the Western Xia soldiers drank hard, and a huge pond was drunk by the soldiers and war horses were almost bottomed out, leaving only a puddle of dirty water in the sludge at the bottom of the pond, The former princes and nobles also had to bow their noble heads and drink water in the mud, and everyone looked at each other's haggard descriptions stained with mud, and all wept.

The food of the captives is very poor, it is simply horse feed, all kinds of coarse grains eaten by livestock are mixed together to make gruel, there is no salt and no oil, it is extremely unpalatable, even so, it is not enough, the Mongols are afraid that they will have the strength to flee when they are full, and they also deliberately want to humiliate these people, a large tin cylinder is full of this gruel, the captives are crowded in front of the carriage, full of anticipation to look at the Mongolian soldiers who are responsible for putting food, the Mongolian soldiers hold horse spoons and wait for people to kneel and kowtow to him, this is the reserved program before meals every day, It is also a strategy to deprive these people of their self-esteem, and the person receiving the meal must kowtow to thank him in order to reward him with a spoonful of gruel.

How can people who have died still have self-esteem at all, if they don't eat, they will have no strength, they can't walk if they don't have the strength, and they will be killed by the Mongols if they can't walk, so everyone chooses to give in without exception, of course, some old guys who boast of their hard bones did not kneel down to the Mongols, but they chose a more cowardly move, that is, let their wives and children come to receive food, and they hid aside to maintain ridiculous dignity.

Finally finished receiving the gruel, a bunch of people gathered around to eat the poor gruel, the Mongols had eaten and drunk enough at this time, one by one burping over, wolf-like eyes in the crowd to touch, looking for delicious prey, although the ladies and ladies wiped their faces with mud, and deliberately lowered their heads, but they were still picked out by the Mongols, and with a lewd smile they put them on their shoulders and walked towards the bushes next to them, the men could no longer sit still, and got up angrily and glared angrily, clenching their fists, It seems like he is about to breathe fire in his eyes.

But the Mongolian soldiers are not afraid, as long as they put their hands on the hilt of the waist knife, the courage that the men have just mustered will be discharged, and they sit down one by one in frustration, and the Mongolian soldiers laugh wildly: "The Han barbarians are all soft bones, and a huge country can't even find a real man, no wonder they are defeated under our hands." ”

Men are also royal nobles, hereditary princes, the elite of the Ming Dynasty, at this time was humiliated but speechless, the Ming Dynasty is not without men, not without hard bones, not to say, a year ago someone raised troops to break the Western Xia, and beat Geldan to the courtiers, but such a big hero was framed on the charge of rebellion, which made people ruined and forced into exile, and made the Ming Dynasty lose its barrier.

When Liu Ziguang was wronged, none of these people stood up for him to complain, and even some people applauded, and they all had a part in Wei Zhongxian's troubles and chaos.

I knew today, why bother at the beginning, it's too late to regret it now, the Ming Dynasty has died, from the queen mother to the emperor, and then to all the children of the clan, the officials of the six ministries and nine Qing have become prisoners of others, and the vast land is full of dragons and dragons, and it will be a mess, and the heroes will rise in all directions, chasing the Central Plains, and the bitter days of the people of Li have just begun, as for this group of people, the second emperor of Huiqin in the Song Dynasty and his clan are role models, and the strength of the Xixia people is even more powerful than the Jin people of the year, and they are all inevitably a tragic ending of sitting in a well and watching the sky, old and dying in a foreign land.

Everyone is a person who has read the book, know the allusion of Jingkang's shame, the most humiliating page of the Chinese nation is nothing more than this, I thought that the apocalypse was prosperous, and the four directions could come to worship all countries to come to the dynasty, how do I know that in the end, the shame of Jingkang, as the elite of the Ming Dynasty, as a dignified man, as a husband and father, in the face of the shame of the country, the shame of his wife and children, and his own shame, they are powerless, what despair and pathos this is.

Suddenly, a Mongolian soldier standing on the guard of the cart danced and shouted, and raised a fire gun to the sky, the Mongolian soldiers were alarmed, and they got on their horses to prepare for battle, and the prisoners looked in the direction facing the Mongolian soldiers, only to see a lonely figure standing on the hillside in the distance, a person, a horse, and a battle flag.

The bright red battle flag fluttered in the evening breeze, and a bright word on it stimulated everyone's visual nerves, and the knight on the horse wore a red shirt and the battle flag complemented each other, which looked so eye-catching under the sunset.