Chapter 13: The Heroes

In this way, the military training of the ten guards and the sanitation and cleaning of the whole battalion have become the main work of Yang Xin, a small banner of 100 households, to the military camp.

Fortunately, this request is not excessive, it does not require much physical effort, although these homeless people are casual, but they are not lazy, especially the hard-working women comrades, who have no complaints about cleaning every day, but enjoy it.

From the initial cleaning, it has developed to no one is allowed to drink raw water, and then although the clothes are tattered, they must be cleaned, and they must wash their hair and take a bath.

Yang Xin sent people to build two temporary toilets, prohibiting open defecation, the original toilet of the house is simply not enough for so many people, saying that it is a temporary toilet, that is, digging two deep pits in the back garden, and then putting wooden planks on top, surrounded by weeds and branches.

These are the hardships of these homeless people, because they don't have enough clothes, and when they wash them, they can only hide naked in the room and not go out until the clothes are dry.

In this way, they remained in this compound as if they had been forgotten.

The streets outside are not very peaceful, the burning and looting are still continuing, all the shops are closed, in addition to the Dashun army and the displaced people they are coercing, that is, some local displaced people are active, the doors of ordinary people are closed, hiding in their homes and shivering, and the big families are even more silent, for fear that when the Dashun army will rush in to burn and kill and loot.

Therefore, no one dared to go out in the barracks, Yang Xin just sent two soldiers to patrol the streets near the barracks every day to check the situation on the streets, and he didn't dare to go far, just from the street to the end of the street.

In this way, after five days, Yang Xin couldn't help but be a little worried, because he and the princess's rations were not enough.

These homeless people are accustomed to starvation, more than ten catties of grain, which in their usual times, must be eaten for a month, but Yang Xin and the others are not, they can not save like the homeless, there is no vegetable, the staple food naturally eats more, at least one or two catties of sorghum rice per person every day to cook, at this time the ration is less than half left, and can not go out to buy, can't help but worry secretly.

On the sixth day, the burning, killing and looting of the capital finally stopped. On this morning, Yang Xin was walking with his guards, and the soldiers guarding the door rushed over.

"General, there is a large group of Dashun troops coming over the street, come and take a look."

Yang Xin looked at the yellow dog with a flustered face, and said calmly: "What are you panicking about?" We are also the Great Shun Army! ”

Since entering this courtyard that day, I have witnessed the arrogance and cruelty of those Dashun troops, these homeless people who originally worshiped King Chuang infinitely, but they are afraid of the ordinary Dashun army from the bottom of their hearts, and the panicked face of the yellow dog guarding the door is enough to prove it.

Yang Xin came to the door calmly with his guards, and the other soldier guarding the door was already so frightened that he hid in the courtyard, but he didn't dare to close the door, because they were also Dashun Army, and it didn't seem right to see the friendly army closing the door.

It's just that a group of people crowded at the door and looked out, all silent, as if the attitude of the first time I saw the rebels rushing forward to cheer.

Yang Xin drank back from the melon-eating crowd at the door, and walked out of the gate with a spear, followed by Daniel Zhang and other guards with wooden sticks.

On the street, there was a surge of people, led by a group of cavalry, all triumphant, bright, talking and laughing from time to time, and the whole street was filled with troops, slowly coming to the east.

Seeing Yang Xin and the others at the door, they had already reached the Dashun military flag planted on the wall of the courtyard, these soldiers disdained it and chatted while marching.

The cavalry in front were obviously some elite soldiers, as far as their fierce eyes, strong physique, and those equipment could also be seen, almost all of the cavalry were wearing armor, carrying sabers at their waists, some holding bows and arrows, some holding riding spears, and heavy weapons such as meteor hammers, maces, and battle axes.

There are as many as four or five thousand cavalry in sight, and the leading general is wearing mountain armor and is majestic, but Yang Xin has never seen it, and he doesn't know who it is. This group of cavalry walked for a long time and did not finish the courtyard where Yang Xin was.

Behind is a large group of infantry, the equipment is obviously much worse, but most of the front row are also wearing cotton armor, leather armor and the like, the whole team of knife and axe hands, sword and shield soldiers, musketeers, spears such as forests, swords like mountains, bright from the courtyard gate of the street walked, it is estimated that there are tens of thousands of infantry, all of them are elite veterans, look at their expressions, the momentum can also be seen, one by one full of murderous energy, obviously with the new recruits who have not killed anyone.

The infantry had been walking for a long time and had not finished walking.

After the infantry, there was also a team of artillerymen, pulling all kinds of tiger squat guns, large and small, Furlong machine guns, and even several red-coated cannons, with a number of two or three thousand people.

After that, there were countless wagons, mule carts, one after the other, loaded with grain, cloth, all kinds of utensils, and boxes, and each cart was followed by more than a dozen soldiers, each with swords and guns, and more than a dozen young men, apparently helping to transport the baggage.

The carriage is endless, and there seems to be no end to it.

Yang Xin has been watching for three hours, the carriage has not finished, I really can't help it, looking at a young man in front of him with a smile on his face and talking a lot, he hurriedly stepped forward and asked: "Brother, we are also the recruits of the Great Shun Army, General Li Yan's Beida Battalion, where are you going?" ”

The young man smiled, "You are the Beida Battalion, the equipment is so poor, no wonder everyone says that the Beida Battalion is not even as good as breeding, we have made a fortune this time, so naturally we want to go back." ”

"Go back? Where are you going? ”

Yang Xin was very puzzled, he thought that this elite army was going to Shanhaiguan to fight the Manchus.

"Naturally, I'm going back to my hometown in Shaanxi!"

The young man said proudly.

At this time, they had already walked through the courtyard gate, and Yang Xin didn't dare to catch up and ask, for fear of arousing suspicion, so he had to give up.

Yang Xin didn't even eat lunch, he stood at the door and watched the march of the Dashun army, and in the afternoon, he only heard the crying that shook the sky, and a large group of young women were tied up and driven forward, sobbing all the way to hide their faces, stumbling and following the team, there were a large number of soldiers beside them with bright steel knives to drive away, at least two or three thousand people.

Finally, there are countless ordinary homeless people, and there are also a lot of mule carts, ox carts and the like that carry the carry, and there are also a lot of carriages, but after the carriage, there are generally soldiers in the squad to escort them, and I think it is the family members of those generals.

These people are beaming with joy, bringing the old and supporting the young, almost everyone has a big burden on their backs, and the car is even more tired and full of things, tents, iron pots are all placed on the car, endless, at least 60,000 people.

In addition to the old people and children, almost everyone in these breeders has weapons, but some hoes, nail rakes, bamboo spears, wood knives, and even kitchen knives, and many people have long knives and crossbows, and even women are no exception, all of them are holding rudimentary weapons.

However, although these weapons are simple, they are much better than Yang Xin and them, and the wooden sticks are not as good as the hoes.

At the end of the procession, there was a large group of light cavalry, none of them wearing armor, but everyone had swords, guns, bows and crossbows, and they were dressed in red, as if a red cloud was drifting in.

This cavalry is more numerous than the heavy cavalry in front, I'm afraid there are no less than 10,000 people!