"General, the scouts sent out captured a hundred-man squad of Geng Zhongming's troops!"

Tie Lihan, the commander of the pro-military camp, reported loudly before he approached his side, waking up Chige, who was sitting in the cave and meditating, and also interrupted his train of thought, so his face was not good-looking: "This kind of thing is also worth making a fuss about, I see that the more you live, the more you go back." Have you been interrogated, how is the enemy situation in Xinyang City?"

"It was precisely because of an urgent message during the interrogation that the last general hurried over to tell the general to make a decision. ”

Chige frowned: "Don't be wordy, now the time is pressing, hurry up and report it according to the truth!"

Only then did Tie Lihan walk up to Chige and bow down and say: "Geng Zhongming committed suicide in fear of sin, his son Geng Jimao is not righteous, except for the 15,000 people who can control himself, he can't suppress the other 40,000 troops at all, so the surroundings of Xinyang City are already in chaos. ”

"What are you talking about?" Chige was dumbfounded: "Not long ago, Li Zicheng's Chinese army camp was defeated, and Geng Zhongming made great contributions to the Manchu Tartars. For no reason, how could he commit suicide in fear of sin? Could it be that Geng Zhongming found out that we were lurking and deliberately deceived us to death? This kind of thing was done by Zhou Yu back then, and it is not surprising. ”

Tie Lihan shook his head: "Tong Guò interrogated more than 100 people separately, and judging from the confession, this matter should be true, because our scouts also found that the enemy on the opposite side had abnormal movements. The general Sahur had already rounded to the east of Xinyang City, and the same news came. ”

While he was thinking hard about how to deal with the enemy, he "heard the news of the enemy's main suicide in a very timely manner", which was really incredible.

Chige never believed that pies would fall from the sky, and it just fell into his mouth, so he didn't dare to take it lightly: "Tie Lihan, bring in the captured centurion, and I will interrogate him personally." ”

In Lei Gongzhai, Chige and Chang Delin left 5,000 cavalry in accordance with the orders of Xiong Chu and Miao Sanguan, plus the previously formed Suizhou infantry battalion to garrison Suizhou City, and Wanying and Wanqing served as the main generals, with a total strength of 10,000 troops.

After Chang Delin led 15,000 cavalry to leave Suizhou City, he rushed eastward to the mountainous area north of Yingshan County with great fanfare along the way, and formed a line with Ma Jinzhong's 10,000-strong battalion.

Chige personally led the shooting battalion from the northeast of Lei Gongzhai to Xinyang City, and ordered Sahur to lead 2,400 cavalry to bypass the south gate of Xinyang City and block the enemy's route to the east.

At present, Chige is leading a guerrilla team of more than 2,400 people in the Shooting Battalion, hiding in the Screwtop Tiger Cave, which is 30 miles away from the west gate of Xinyang City, waiting for an opportunity.

His mission this time is very clear, that is, to use the deterrent power generated by Chang Delin and Ma Jinzhong's combined forces to attract the attention of all the enemies, and then raid the enemy's rear road to create chaos, and create conditions for Li Zicheng and Mrs. Gao to find Li Zicheng and Mrs. Gao in the Huoying Mountains.

The original plan was that after Chang Delin arrived in Yingshan County, he would take advantage of the advantages of his cavalry troops to carry out mobile defense, and at the appropriate time, directly from the south of Weixie Xinyang City, let Ma Jinzhong lead a elite force of 5,000 people into the Huoying Mountains to find Li Zicheng and Mrs. Gao.

This matter of finding someone is not simple, not everyone can do it, and certain conditions need to be met.

Li Zicheng was originally suspicious, and now that he is defeated, it is even more impossible to trust outsiders.

If there is no one who makes Li Zicheng and Mrs. Gao trust, even if they find it, it will be useless, because they can't get their trust.

Chige and Chang Delin are the core figures of Xiong Chu's "Great Ming Kingdom", and they can't win the trust of Li Zicheng, a suspicious general of the defeated army, even if they find it, they can't take it out of the mountain.

Ma Guangyi of Xiaochang County is the old department of Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying, and he is also suspected of taking advantage of the fire to rob, so he is not the best candidate.

Ma Jinzhong and Niu Youyong belong to Liu Zongmin's vanguard, and they are the old subordinates of Li Zicheng and Mrs. Gao, and they don't need to explain too much and waste time after the two sides meet.

Chige was originally not interested in finding Li Zicheng and Mrs. Gao, but in fact, Chang Delin was not interested either.

But when Chige learned that Xiong Chu and Miao Sanguan wanted to incorporate Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others, he finally knew the importance of finding someone this time.

Chige stood at the height of the overall situation and thought for a while, and soon he was able to draw inferences, and he also knew that finding Li Zicheng was secondary, and finding Mrs. Gao was the most important thing.

Because of this, before breaking up with Chang Delin, Chige whispered something to make Chang Delin nod his head:

"Delin, in this way, this matter is not a child's play, and you must be cautious. You must know that the core part of Li Zicheng's Dashun Army is the original team of King Gao Yingxiang. Mrs. Gao is the daughter of Gao Yingxiang, who originally had the status of a young marshal and had a great say in the army. ”

Gao Yigong is Gao Yingxiang's nephew and a member of Gao Yingxiang's old department, which is very representative. It can be seen from this that as long as Mrs. Gao is found, Gao Yingxiang's old department will come uninvited. ”

"After finding Mrs. Gao, you must be courteous, after all, she has been the queen for a few days, and she is also a brave and resourceful female general, so you must not slack off. As for Li Zicheng? Hehe, it's better to never find it, remember?"

After thinking about the importance of finding people, Chige had a clearer understanding of Xiong Chu and Miao Sanguan's deep-seated intention of letting the Shooting Battalion have less than 5,000 people and venture deep into Geng Zhongming's hinterland to create chaos.

Although he hadn't figured out what was going on in Jiangnan, and he didn't know why the armies in Jiangbei were quietly moving south, Chige didn't dwell on what he didn't understand, but tried his best to plan how to create a bigger mess for Geng Zhongming.

It took Chige five nights to appear here, and at the critical moment when he was worried that he could not attack the 40,000 enemies in front of him, he did not expect that the team sent out to reconnoiter the enemy's situation captured a hundred-man team in just two days, and got a strange news that needed to be interrogated and implemented by himself.

After a second interrogation, Chige finally believed that Geng Zhongming might really commit suicide in fear of crime, which was a long story.

Because the Manchu Tartars are now in charge of Dolgon, the little emperor Shunzhi is just an ignorant yellow-mouthed child.

There is indeed a major incident in Xinyang City, and this matter may not be a capital crime in the Eight Banners of the Tartars. But Geng Zhongming is not an authentic Manchu Tartar, just a retainer who has forgotten his ancestors, a traitor dog.

It turned out that after the Manchu Tatars entered the customs, the cruel slavery system in Jianzhou was still continued, and all the Han captives who were captured became slaves who could be distributed at will.

Henan is the hinterland of the Central Plains, where slaves have disappeared for hundreds of years, and most people have forgotten the term and identity.

But with the iron hooves of the Manchu Qing Dynasty stepping on the land of the Central Plains, after the generals and nobles at all levels ran their horses, human history suddenly regressed by hundreds of years.

The captured Ming officials, the Dashun army, and the local people found themselves overnight becoming slaves with no land, no houses, no freedom, and were slaughtered.

Only when we lose our freedom can we understand the preciousness of being free and easy, and when we lose our wealth, we know that the past was not easy to come by.

From commoners to slaves, this is a cruel reality that all Han people in the Central Plains cannot accept.

Another unacceptable fact is the "shaving of hair" that violates human ethics.

The parents of the body hair and skin, "shaving hair" is the great unfilial piety of forgetting the classics.

Where there is oppression, there is resistance.

Those who had force rebelled, and were captured by more than 90,000 Dashun troops concentrated around Xuchang, and rioted when they could not bear it.

Those who were unable fled in large numbers, and the Han people, who were divided into Manchu Tatar slaves, began to flee in large numbers.

"Fugitive" refers to a person who has fled, which is a new word invented by the Manchu Tatars.

The Manchu Tatars stipulated: If the slave escaped, the master had the responsibility and obligation to recover it, otherwise the master would be held responsible, and the case would be severed.

The main force of Li Zicheng's Dashun army collapsed, more than 200,000 people were divided, and more than 100,000 people were captured. Then the prisoners of war rioted, and tens of thousands of people fled with them, so more than 100,000 "fugitives" appeared.

The arrest of "fugitives" became the first priority, and Geng Zhongming's subordinates bore the brunt of the rebellion, because the rebellion was happening around them.

If those "fugitives" are not recaptured, the occupied territory will never be stable, and it will even turn into a greater storm of rebellion.

Geng Zhongming was forced to have no choice but to give up chasing and killing the remnants of Li Zicheng's Dashun army, and instead mounted out to "chase and escape".

Chen Shaozong is Geng Zhongming's rear army Melle Zhangjing (deputy general). Although this guy followed Geng Zhongming to join the Manchu Tartars, he was unwilling to be lonely.

At present, the world is in turmoil, and it is when Yuan Xiong rises up, Chen Shaozong's heart and eyes begin to work, but there is no appropriate time, so he can only be anxious.

In the first battle of Xinyang, Geng Zhongming broke Li Zicheng and captured Liu Zongmin, Song Xiance and other core figures.

Chen Shaozong, as the deputy general of the rear army, can only be responsible for sheltering prisoners of war, looting the people to raise grain and grass, and has never had the opportunity to make contributions on the front line, and the boss is unhappy.

How can I do my best to strengthen my strength and become a heart problem for Chen Shaozong.

The opportunity has finally arrived.

More than 20 high-ranking generals such as Liu Zongmin and Song Xiance were transferred to Luoyang and handed over to Azig, which is a credit to the world.

As the elder brother of the regent Dolgon, Azig did not dare to take it lightly, and immediately sent a personal army to Xinyang to assist Geng Zhongming in dealing with more than 100,000 prisoners of war, so as to stabilize the overall situation of the Central Plains.

Keep your hair without your head, and keep your head without your hair.

As soon as this order of Azig's personal soldiers came out, the northern suburbs of Xinyang City suddenly turned into a ghost domain, and in less than three days, more than 13,000 people were beheaded.

The bloody massacre did not achieve its intended purpose, and the prisoner of war camps finally broke out in a big riot, and then all turned into "fugitives".

Chen Shaozong was bold and bold, relying on his status as a deputy general of the rear army and taking advantage of his proximity to the water, in the process of arresting the "fugitives," he went so far as to pretend to be public and private, and secretly selected 3,000 strong "fugitives" to hide and prepare to train them into his own descendants.

There are no impermeable walls.

Chen Shaozong's act of hiding "fugitives" was finally told by his subordinates, and then it was revealed to the world.

Commanding generals to recruit troops privately, which is a big taboo in any dynasty, not to mention that the Eight Banners of the Han Army are just a dog in the eyes of the Manchu Tartars.

The generals under his command secretly hid "escapees", which was originally a crime of homicide.

Chen Shaozong actually wanted to train these "fugitives" into his front team, which was a big crime for the Nine Clans.

Although Chen Shaozong did this, Geng Zhongming was worried that the brutal Dolgon suspected that he had two hearts, because Shangzhizi took the crime of "not being strict with the emperor", and then pulled out his sword and killed himself.

Chige personally interrogated the captured centurion, but he was still a little unsure in his heart: "Is this really the case?"

"General, the little ones will never dare to talk nonsense!" The centurion swore to the sky: "If you say half a lie, you will let me die with ten thousand arrows piercing my heart!" After Chen Shaozong was caught, his 2,000 personal soldiers all fled, and the little ones came out to search for the rebels under Chen Shaozong. ”

Chige was noncommittal, but asked very casually: "Are you searching for the rebels, are you wandering around aimlessly, or do you have any specific clues?"

The centurion hurriedly nodded: "Of course there are some clues, those rebels should be near Crouching Tiger Village!"

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