Huachanggou, the former Ming and Anhui Guogong Liu Tichun Ministry jurisdiction.

Because there is a river running through this place, and the surrounding terrain is relatively flat compared to the rest of the area, it has become one of the few cultivation places of Liu Tichun's department, and at one time there were as many as tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians operating here.

In order to deal with the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army on all sides, Liu Tichun had to recruit a large number of people from various strongholds, so that most of the men in Huachanggou were withdrawn, and the Ming army living here with their families and nearby people was only more than 3,000 people.

It's a pity that four days ago, the Huachanggou that had been owned by the Ming Army for more than ten years was cleared.

The reason is that Han Dewang, the garrison of the Ming army stationed here, is the general of the general Tian Heng.

And Tian Heng is one of the initiators of the Lao Mugang Rebellion.

The other is to hang the seal of the general army Wanhe.

After Tian Heng launched a rebellion with Wanhe, he immediately ordered someone to notify Han Dewang of Huachanggou.

Han Dewang, who was also desperate about the situation, responded to Tian Heng without thinking about it, killed several officers who were unwilling to betray Liu Tichun, and then immediately sent people to the nearest Qing army to his defense area, Bao Zhaobu, the general soldier of Hebei Town, under the command of Wang Yizheng, the governor of Shaanxi, to surrender.

Although Wang Yizheng and Bao Zhao are both generals of the Green Battalion, they are both from the Han military banner like Dong Xueli, the governor of Huguang, that is, they are not Han people.

However, what is different from Dong Xueli is that Wang and Bao are both from Liaodong!

At present, about half of the commanders, commanders, adjutant generals and other powerful official positions in the Green Battalion are from Liaodong.

The reason is that within a few years after the Qing army entered the customs, those Ming Dynasty generals raised troops against the Qing Dynasty in various places, and once the north and south of the river were full of banners shouting for the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, which almost collapsed the Qing court.

Among them, the representative figures are Li Chengdong, Jin Shengheng, Jiang Hao, etc.

Due to the impact of this incident, the Qing court became wary of the Han generals in the green camp, and then most of the Han army banner generals served as the commanders and commanders of the real power in various places.

Among them, Liao people are mostly used.

It was for this reason that Wang Yizheng and Bao Zhao were able to hold important positions in the green camp.

One was promoted from adjutant general to admiral, and the other was promoted to chief soldier by Du Si.

As early as a few days ago, Bao Zhao had actually received a notice from Wang Yizheng, the governor of Shaanxi, that Liu Tichun's subordinates intended to capture Liu Tichun and surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, after receiving the letter of surrender from Han Dewang, the garrison of Huachanggou Ming, Bao Zhao immediately sent 500 battalions led by Li Juqing, the commander of Qian, to receive it.

In this way, together with the more than 900 soldiers under Han Dewang who shaved their hair and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the total number of Qing troops in Huachanggou was about 1,500 people.

Li Juqing's task was either to reinforce Lao Mugang and cooperate with Tian Heng, Wan and them to eliminate Liu Tichun, or to hold Huachanggou and divide the Ming army under Liu Tichun into two, so that it could not echo the east and west.

Due to the new fall, Han Dewang did not dare to be the master of Huachanggou anymore, and Li Juqing was in charge of the defense matter.

As a result, the day after the arrival of the green camp, Li Juqing asked Han Dewang's men to leave the headquarters of Huachanggou and deploy defenses in the outlying strongholds.

Obviously, he was afraid that Han Dewang would rebel and stab him.

In this regard, although Han Dewang had a stomach-filled opinion, considering whether he could gain a foothold in the Qing army in the future depends on today's performance, so he could only obediently take people to leave the headquarters and garrison on the periphery.

He set up his command post in Mashiwan, which is more than 10 miles away from his headquarters, and also set up sub-bases in Shiwan, Houjiawan, and Shuichuzi around Mashiwan.

The number of defenders varied from dozens to hundreds.

The one who guards Houjiawan is a general who is also surnamed Hou, whose name is Sanjiang.

In the past few days, Hou Sanjiang's task is to lead his subordinates to collect food for the green battalion soldiers in his headquarters, in addition to guarding Houjiawan.

A sudden heavy snowfall blocked the grain road of the Qing army that had to advance into Wushan, and it was impossible to send food and grass or anything.

In addition to raising food on the spot, the Qing army had no other way.

In this way, it is not only the Ming army that has surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but also the people in the Huachanggou area.

You must know that Houjiawan is a small village, and there are only two or three hundred people in total, and the rations they eat on weekdays are not enough, and where is the surplus food for the Qing army.

Robbing is the only thing Hou Sanjiang can do.

The Ming army, which used to get along with the people very well and even won the support of the people, became a wolf-like Qing army in the blink of an eye, which really made the people dumbfounded and scared their souls.

The soldiers must have had a psychological burden when they first robbed it, and many soldiers couldn't do it, but they couldn't stand the general whip of Hou and whipped people in pain, so they had no choice but to grit their teeth and do the evil things that they were ashamed of.

In the afternoon of that day, Hou Sanjiang took people out to "look for food" as usual.

The place to find food is a little far away from the stronghold, about seven or eight miles of mountain roads, and it takes half a day to go back and forth.

There's no way, who let the people near the village can't scavenge oil and water!

A few days ago, a Qing army passed near Houjiawan, and Hou Sanjiang took the initiative to send people to contact this Qing army in order to prevent misunderstanding, knowing that they were Qing troops from Yuan'an City in the southeast, and the leader seemed to be a deputy general.

The rank of deputy general is several levels higher than that of Li Qian, whose boss Han Dewang is as bad as his grandson, and it is definitely not a character like Hou Sanjiang who can see or even speak.

Fortunately, Deputy General Niu did not go to Huachanggou, but took people to Dachang in the west, which made Hou Sanjiang breathe a sigh of relief.

To tell the truth, in the current situation of freezing weather and heavy snow covering the mountains, another Qing army of thousands of people will be stationed in Gouzi, afraid that these troops will not even be able to eat.

While walking the icy road, a team came in front of me at the bend in front of me.

This made Hou Sanjiang and his soldiers nervous, and they only relaxed when they saw that the green flag was flying on the opposite side.

Originally, he was going to stay where he was and wait, but he soon found that there were a large number of green battalion soldiers coming from the opposite side, at least three or four hundred people, so it was concluded that the leader of the team must be more than a thousand generals.

Although he is the president, his identity is a new person, and he has to do everything with his tail between his legs!

Thinking of this, Hou Sanjiang hurriedly led several subordinate officers and ran forward.

While running, they let people wave the green flag that the Qing army had just issued to them in the air.

Don't get me wrong, what you mean.

The green battalion soldiers who came over in front also discovered Hou Sanjiang's existence, but they did not stop there, but continued to move forward.

Swaggering, it looks unstoppable.

After the two groups of people gathered together, without waiting for Hou Sanjiang to step forward to report his identity, he found at a glance that the general on the opposite side was riding what seemed to be the seat of Deputy General Niu who had just passed by in his defense area not long ago.

This horse, he is familiar with.

At that time, I still imagined that one day he would be able to ride such a tall and mighty war horse and gallop between heaven and earth.

That is, how does the person on the horse not look like the bull lieutenant?

When he was puzzled, he saw the general who looked like a lieutenant on the horse and pointed at him with a horsewhip: "What part are you from?" ”