Jiang Hao and Jiang Xuan brothers used to be the chief soldier and deputy chief soldier of the Ming Dynasty.

In all the battles, they had very few soldiers left. Li Zicheng killed Datong, Jiang Hao surrendered immediately, and even if he surrendered, he was almost killed by Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng forcibly disbanded Jiang Jiu's troops and sent his henchmen to garrison Datong City.

Before the Manchu Qing Dynasty came, Jiang Hao had actually betrayed Li Zicheng and happened to take refuge in the Manchu Dynasty.

After that, the old family members were re-recruited, and the combined cavalry of the brothers was only more than 300 horsemen.

Jiang Hao and Jiang Xuan brothers crossed the river to the south, and their more than 300 horsemen were organized into a cavalry team, responsible for plundering the area from Mengjiazhuang to Xincai.

"Brother, something is wrong!"

After galloping for several miles, Jiang Xuan chased after Jiang Xuan: "The weeds in the wheat field have almost grown to the depth of wheat seedlings, and there is no farmer to take care of them for at least half a month." And along the way, the houses are all empty, and the people here have long been ignorant of where to hide. ”

"It's normal to avoid calamity." Jiang Hao said.

Jiang Xuan asked, "Do you want to burn down those empty houses?" ”

Jiang Hao didn't answer, but asked, "Do you think the Tartars can win?" ”

Jiang Xuan was frightened, lowered his voice and said, "Brother, don't talk nonsense, the Qing Dynasty is the Qing Dynasty, where did the Tartar come from?" ”

"Lao Tzu can't bear it anymore," Jiang Hao gritted his teeth and said, "You and my brothers were both born and raised in Datong, and after the Tartars occupied Datong, what did they not do to burn, kill and loot?" The people of Shanxi have been in drought for many years, and there is no food, and this ration has also been taken away by the Tartars! ”

Jiang Xuan didn't pretend anymore, and said in a calm tone: "Brother doesn't want a family?" ”

"The eldest husband is alive, and he can't care about so much." Jiang Hao said.

Jiang Xuan spat out a breath of turbidity: "Then I'll accompany my brother to make a scene, and let's go to the Datong Army." Our Jiang family lives in Datong, Shanxi, and the name of the country in the south is Datong, isn't it secretly in line with the will of heaven? ”

The ghost's secret is in line with the will of heaven, and it is only for profit.

They wanted to rebel against the Manchus, and there was indeed an element of disgust, and there was indeed an element of national righteousness. But what really made them decide was that they were robbed of their military power by another traitor!

That traitor's name is Wu Weihua, and his brother is Daming Gongshunbo.

As soon as I heard this title, I knew that it must be a foreign race, and the ancestors of the Wu family were Mongolians who returned to the Ming Dynasty.

Wu Weihua's brother was tortured and beaten to death by Li Zicheng, and after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the goods immediately went out of the city to kneel to greet them. He took the initiative to ask for help, went to Shanxi and Shaanxi to surrender, and then offered the woman to Azig.

Recently, he even made up his mind to marry his niece to Chang Nai as a concubine.

Chang Nai is Ganglin's younger brother, and Ganglin is Dolgon's henchman.

Wu Weihua's operation was quickly made marquis by the Manchu Qing Dynasty. During the period of garrisoning Shanxi, he snatched the troops of the Jiang brothers, and Jiang Xuan and Jiang Xuan now only have more than 300 families in their hands.

Moreover, Wu Weihua also robbed the Jiang family's land, which was the military land invaded by the Jiang family's ancestors!

Shanxi is deserted and uninhabited, why do you still want to grab fields?

Because the Jiang family's fields are all good fields, there are canals to irrigate.

surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the mix was worse than in Daming, didn't this traitor do it in vain?

Anti-fucking!

"Brother, there's cooking smoke over there!" Jiang Xuan shouted.

The brothers galloped over with their cavalry, but it was the large mansion before the field was divided.

The original owner had done a lot of evil and had been suppressed by the peasant association, and the mansion was used as an office space in the village and a school in the village.

Outside the walls of the mansion, trenches were dug, and there were people guarding the walls.

"Zi said: A gentleman is also in the world, there is no suitability, there is no Mo, and righteousness is ...... than it"

The sound of reading aloud was heard inside the courtyard wall, and there were more and more people on the wall.

These people, some of them were armed with wooden guns and bamboo guns, and some were holding hoes and flat poles, and they looked at the cavalry brought by the Jiang brothers without fear.

Zi said: Can you take courtesy as a country? Why? You can't be a country with comity, so what is courtesy? Zi said: If you don't suffer from no position, you will stand if you suffer. Don't suffer from self-knowledge, and seek to be knowable......"

Jiang Hao listened to the sound of reading, and suddenly laughed: "It's been two months since I came here from Shanxi, and it's the first time I've heard a child reading. He turned to his brother and asked, "Can you bear to set this house on fire?" ”

"Let's go." Jiang Xuan sighed.

Their families are in Shanxi, but each sent a son to Beijing.

The family may not die, but after the betrayal of the Manchus, the son of Beijing will definitely be gone.

Riding a horse and galloping for a while, Jiang Xuan said: "It's a guest, but you have to bring some light gifts." Let's descend Li Zicheng first, then surrender the Manchu Tartars, and now come to Emperor Zhao. If you don't bring a small gift, won't you be laughed at? ”

"Well said, etiquette is complete." Jiang Hao said with a smile.

The brothers immediately turned around and ran towards the range of friendly robbery. Behind them, wolf smoke rises, a warning signal from the villagers.

In the afternoon of the same day, the two bumped into Liu Fangming's troops from afar.

The people of this village also lived in a few large villages, and Liu Fangming's cavalry did not attack, but set fire to the vacant houses all the way.

Moreover, he deliberately trampled on the wheat fields and destroyed the crops under Zhao Han's rule.

"General Liu!" Jiang Hao shouted from a long distance.

Liu Fangming rode over to meet and asked with a smile, "Why are you two here?" ”

Jiang Hao said: "Tanma met the puppet fire cavalry, and I hurriedly brought the troops over. ”

Liu Fangming hurriedly stretched out his neck to look and asked, "Didn't you catch up?" ”

"Nope." Jiang Hao rode over.

Liu Fangming said: "Otherwise, if we work together, it will be easier to do things with more people." ”

"That's exactly what I mean." Jiang Hao said with a smile.

The distance between the two was getting closer and closer, and Jiang Hao suddenly accelerated, drawing his knife and slashing towards Liu Fangming.

Liu Fangming couldn't dodge, subconsciously raised his arm to block, and was cut off half of his right hand on the spot. Jiang Xuan also killed him and cut him off the horse with a knife.

In history, he suppressed the Ningxia Uprising many times, successively served as the general of Dingxi in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the governor of Sichuan, the general soldier of the right road in Jiangnan, and the traitor who defeated Zheng Chenggong in Chongming, and died in such a daze.

"Kill!"

The cavalry of the Jiang family charged over, and Liu Fangming's horseback was caught off guard, and all the horses in the rear fled.

Jiang Jiu shouted while rushing to kill: "Throw away your weapons, surrender and don't kill!" ”

A quarter of an hour later, Jiang Hao ignored the rout soldiers who had fled far away, and said to the cavalry who had surrendered: "Your lord is dead, what is the future of going back?" Don't be a dog for Tartar again, go with me to vote for Emperor Zhao! ”

Those who are willing to surrender naturally want to live.

The Jiang brothers carried Liu Fangming's head, with nearly 400 cavalry, and more than 20 war horses, and galloped all the way towards Shangcai County.

Halfway through, they ran into Cao Bianjiao, who was leading the dragoons to chase down the invading enemy.

"Dismount the whole army and throw away your weapons!"

Jiang Hao automatically disarmed, then carried Liu Fangming's head and ran over to surrender single-handedly.

Cao Bianjiao smiled: "Hey, it turned out to be Brother Jiang." ”

Jiang Jiu threw his head out: "Liu Fangming's head, prepare a little thin courtesy, please Brother Cao smile." ”

"Well," Cao Bianjiao asked, "how many cavalry are there that are coming to disturb you?" ”

Jiang Hao said in detail: "Three or four thousand, all of them are the family members of the Ming Dynasty. The troops of Kaifeng Mansion are gathering in Xihua County, Zu Dashou is the main general of the city guard, and Wu Sangui is the deputy general. The cavalry who came out to plunder and harass this time was led by Wu Sangui. As for the main force of the Tartar chieftain Dorgon, it has gone east, and I don't know which way it went. ”

This is important military intelligence, Cao Bianjiao sent someone to Xin Cai to report the news, and Xin Cai will send military information to Zhao Han. He said to Jiang Jiu again: "Lead the soldiers and follow me!" ”

The Jiang brothers followed Cao Bianjiao and went straight to Shangcai.

After the dragoons gathered here, they ignored the enemy cavalry entering the country and treated Wu Sangui as a ball of air. After a short rest, they went straight to Yuncheng to meet Jiang Dashan, the division of the Sixth Division.

"Dolgon is going east with a large army, and he must fight a great battle with His Majesty," Cao Bianjiao said, "Our army should take the opportunity to attack, and not be confused by the enemy cavalry that is harassing the place!" ”

Jiang Dashan hesitated: "What if this is Dolgon luring us to send troops?" ”

Cao Bianjiao thought for a while and said, "It's also possible." ”

Jiang Dashan said: "Just in case, we have to join forces with the Seventh Division." ”

Huang Shun's Seventh Division, starting from Yexian, had already captured Xiangcheng. After receiving Zhao Han's military order, he has been stationed in Xiangcheng and no longer advances.

Cao Bianjiao took the Jiang brothers who surrendered to Cheng, and sent out cavalry to investigate everywhere, and determined that there was no Manchu army within a radius of dozens of miles. Jiang Dashan made an appointment with Huang Shun at this time, one west and one south, and at the same time marched towards Linying County.

Without any fancy work, two regular divisions and fifty artillery pieces bombarded Linying County.

The city wall here is far worse than Jining and Shangqiu.

In just half a day, the city wall was bombarded by artillery, and more than 10,000 synchronized soldiers rushed in through the gap.

The defender was Jia Hanfu, the old department of Sun Chuanting, and before the city wall collapsed, he abandoned the city with his family and fled. If you don't escape, you can't do it, his little soldiers can only defend the city, and the city wall will definitely not be able to defend it.

Listening to the rumbling cannons, Jia Hanfu was terrified, he had already regretted surrendering to the Manchus.

Five hundred dragoons were scattered out to explore the horses, leaving two thousand dragoons, and Jiang Jiu's four hundred Jiading cavalry. had been waiting in the north of the city for a long time, and when he saw Jia Hanfu fleeing with his troops, Cao Bianjiao immediately led the cavalry to rush over.

Jahan thought about it, sighed, and ordered: "It's all down, and you can't run away." ”

Several dragoons went over, tied up Jia Hanfu, and dragged him to Cao Bianjiao.

"Brother Jia, I haven't seen you for many years." Cao Bianjiao said with a smile.

Jia Hanfu said helplessly: "If you want to kill or chop the captive, listen to it." ”

They are all acquaintances, so there is no need to be polite.

The Sixth Division and the Seventh Division took Linying and continued to march, going straight to Xihua County, where Zu Dashou was stationed.

There are a lot of enemy troops there, in addition to surrendering troops and generals, there are also local thieves in Henan, and there are tens of thousands of people in Wuqi.

Knowing that the Datong army had dozens of artillery, Zu Dashou felt that the county seat could not be defended. simply summoned Wu Sangui back, waited for the Datong army to pass, and then went out of the city to fight.

If you don't fight, you have to retreat to Xuzhou (Xuchang), where the city walls can withstand artillery.

Otherwise, tens of thousands of people will be nested in small county towns and shelled by artillery for a few days, and the morale of the army will plummet.