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After running for several miles, Jiang Xuan chased after Jiang Tuan: "The weeds in the wheat field have almost grown to the depth of the wheat seedlings, and no farmer has taken care of them for at least half a month. Besides, the houses are all empty during this journey. The people have no idea where to hide."

"It's normal to avoid disasters," Jiang Guan said.

Jiang Xuan asked, "Should those empty houses be burned?"

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

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

"I can't take it any longer," Jiang Yu gritted his teeth, "You and I were both born in Datong and grew up in Datong. After the Tartars took over Datong, did they burn, kill and loot? The people in Shanxi have been suffering from drought for many years, so there is nothing wrong with them." Food, this ration was also taken away by the Tartars!"

Jiang Xuan stopped pretending, and said calmly, "Brother, don't you want your family?"

"When a man is alive, he doesn't care about so many things." Jiang Guan said.

Jiang Xuan let out a sigh of relief: "Then I'll make a fuss with my brother, and we'll join the Datong Army. Our Jiang family lives in Datong, Shanxi, and the name of the country in the south is Datong. Doesn't it coincide with God's will?"

The ghost's coincidence with God's will is just for profit.

They wanted to rebel against the Manchu Qing, and there was indeed an element of disgust and an element of national righteousness.But what really made them make a decision was being robbed of military power by another traitor!

That traitor is Wu Weihua, and his elder brother is Uncle Da Ming Gongshun.

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

Wu Weihua's elder brother was tortured and beaten to death by Li Zicheng. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, he immediately went out of the city to greet him.He took the initiative to invite Ying, ran to Shanxi and Shaanxi to surrender, and then presented his daughter to Azig.

Recently, she even made up her mind to marry her niece to Chang Nai as a concubine.

Chang Nai is Gang Lin's younger brother, and Gang Lin is Dorgon's confidant.

Wu Weihua's operation was quickly made a Marquis by the Qing Dynasty.During their garrison in Shanxi, they snatched away the troops of the Jiang family brothers. Now Jiang Guan and Jiang Xuan only have more than 300 servants left in their hands.

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

Shanxi is desolate and uninhabited, why do you want to rob the land?

Because the Jiang family's fields are all good fields, and there are canals for irrigation.

Surrendering to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the mess was worse than in Daming, didn't this traitor do it for nothing?

Damn it!

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

The two brothers galloped past with their cavalry, but it was the mansion of a big family before the land was divided.

The original owner committed many crimes and was suppressed by the peasant association. The mansion was used as the village's office space and also served as the village's school.

Ditches were dug around the perimeter of the mansion, and there were still guards on the perimeter.

"The Master said: A gentleman is in the world, there is nothing suitable for him, there is nothing wrong with him, righteousness is comparable to..."

The sound of reading aloud came from inside the courtyard wall, and more and more people were on the wall.

Some of these common people were holding wooden spears and bamboo spears, some were holding hoes and shoulder poles, and they glared at the cavalry brought by the Jiang brothers without fear.

"The Master said: Is it possible to make a country with courtesy? What is there? Can't make a country with courtesy, such as courtesy? The Master said: Don't worry about having no position, but worry about standing. Don't worry about not knowing yourself. Ask for what you can know..."

Jiang Guan listened attentively to the sound of reading, and suddenly laughed, "It's been two months since I came here from Shanxi, and this is the first time I've heard children reading." He turned his head and asked his younger brother, "Do you have the heart to set fire to this house?"

"Let's go." Jiang Xuan sighed.

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

The family members may not die, but after betraying the Qing Dynasty, the son in Beijing is definitely gone.

After galloping his horse for a while, Jiang Xuan said, "It's just a guest, so we need to bring some small gifts. Let's surrender Li Zicheng first, then the Manchu Tartars, and now Emperor Zhao. If you don't bring a small gift, don't you want Being laughed at?"

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

The brothers immediately turned around and ran towards the range of the friendly army's robbery.Behind them, smoke rose, which was a warning signal from the villagers.

That afternoon, the two ran into Liu Fangming's troops in the distance.

The people in this village also lived in several Dazhais. Liu Fangming's cavalry did not attack, but set fire to the vacant houses along the way.

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

"General Liu!" Jiang Yu shouted from a long distance away.

Liu Fang rode his horse over to join him, and asked with a smile, "Why are you two here?"

Jiang Tuan said: "Tan Ma met the puppet gun cavalry, and I immediately led the troops over."

Liu Fangming quickly stretched his neck to look around, and asked, "Didn't you catch up?"

"No." Jiang Guan rode over.

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

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

The distance between the two was getting closer, Jiang Yu suddenly accelerated, drew his sword and slashed towards Liu Fangming.

Liu Fangming couldn't dodge in time, subconsciously raised his arm to block, half of his right hand was cut off on the spot.Jiang Xuan also came to kill him, and chopped him off his horse with a single blow.

In history, the big traitor who suppressed the Ningxia uprising many times, served as the general of Dingxi in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the admiral of Sichuan, the commander of the Jiangnan Right Army, and defeated Zheng Chenggong in Chongming, died in such a daze.

"kill!"

The Jiang family's cavalry charged forward, killing Liu Fangming's cavalry by surprise, and all the cavalry in the rear fled.

While rushing to kill, Jiang Yu shouted: "Drop your weapon, surrender and don't kill!"

A quarter of an hour later, Jiang Guan ignored the defeated soldiers who had fled far away, and said to the cavalry who surrendered: "Your general is dead, what future is there for you to go back? Don't be a dog for the Tartars anymore, come with me and vote for Zhao. emperor!"

Those who are willing to surrender naturally want to survive.

Holding the head of Liu Fangming, the Jiang family brothers led nearly 20 cavalrymen and more than [-] war horses, and galloped all the way towards Shangcai County.

On the way, they encountered Cao Bianjiao, who was leading the dragoons to hunt down the invading enemy.

"The whole army dismounts and throws away their weapons!"

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

Cao Bianjiao laughed and said, "Hey, it's Brother Jiang."

Jiang Guan threw his head out: "Liu Fangming's head, please prepare a little courtesy, please accept it with a smile, Brother Cao."

"It's easy to say," Cao Bianjiao asked, "How many cavalry are there to harass?"

Jiang Yu said in detail: "Three or four thousand are all family members who descended from the Ming Dynasty. The troops of Kaifeng Mansion are gathering in Xihua County. Zu Dashou is the city guard and Wu Sangui is the deputy. It was Wu Sangui who led the team. As for the main force of the Tatar Chief Dorgon, they have already gone east, and I don't know where they went."

This is important military information. Cao Bianjiao sent someone to report to Xincai, and Xincai would send military information to Zhao Han.Then he said to Jiang Guan, "Lead your soldiers and follow me!"

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

After the dragoons assembled here, they ignored the incoming enemy cavalry and treated Wu Sangui like a cloud of air.After a short rest, they went straight to Yancheng to meet the division of the Sixth Division, Changjiang Dashan.

"Dorgon is leading the army to the east, and he must fight a big battle with His Majesty," Cao Bianjiao said, "Our army should take the opportunity to attack, and don't be confused by the enemy cavalry who are harassing the place!"

Jiang Dashan hesitated: "What if Dorgon is 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 Ye County, had already captured Xiangcheng.After receiving Zhao Han's military order, he stayed in Xiangcheng and stopped advancing.

Cao Bianjiao took the surrendered Jiang family brothers and sent out cavalry to scout around, making sure that there were no Manchu troops in a radius of tens of miles.Only then did Jiang Dashan make an appointment with Huang Shun, one west and one south, and head towards Linying County at the same time.

Without doing any fancy work, two regular divisions and fifty artillery pieces fired at Linying County.

The city walls here are far worse than Jining and Shangqiu.

In just half a day, the city wall was bombarded by artillery, and more than 1 soldiers rushed in through the gap.

The guard was Sun Chuanting's former subordinate, Jia Hanfu, who fled with his family members before the city wall collapsed.He can't escape, he can only defend the city with his little soldiers, and he will never be able to defend the city wall if it collapses.

Hearing the rumble of the cannon, Jia Hanfu was terrified, he already regretted surrendering to Manqing.

Five hundred dragoons were sent out to scout the horses, leaving [-] dragoons and Jiang Guan's [-] Ding cavalry.He 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 his cavalry to rush over.

Jia Han thought about it again, sighed, reined in his horse and ordered: "Everyone has surrendered, you can't escape."

A few dragoons went over, tied up Jia Hanfu, and dragged him in front of Cao Bianjiao in disgrace.

"Brother Jia, long time no see." Cao Bianjiao said with a smile.

Jia Hanfu had no choice but to say: "The captives, if they want to be killed or sliced, it's up to you."

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

The Sixth and Seventh Divisions took down Linying and continued to advance, going straight to Xihua County where Zu Dashou was stationed.

There are a lot of enemy troops there, in addition to surrendered soldiers and generals, there are also local bandits in Henan, tens of thousands of people.

After finding out that the Datong Army had dozens of cannons, Zu Dashou felt that the county could not hold on.Simply call Wu Sangui back, wait for the Datong army to pass, and then go out of the city to fight.

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

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

Chapter 420 [Chase Chase Chase]

Dorgon's order to Zu Dashou was to do everything possible to hold back the Datong Army in the middle battlefield and prevent the Datong Army from rushing to help Shangqiu.

Therefore, either Xihua County will be stuck, or Fugou County will be stuck.

Compared with hundreds of years later, the rivers in Henan in the Ming Dynasty changed greatly, mainly caused by the diversion of the Yellow River.Blocking the two counties of Xihua and Fugou, the sixth and seventh divisions of the Datong Army could not march quickly along the river, but could only walk slowly by land, and had to cross the river several times on the way.

Zu Dashou couldn't retreat, at most he could retreat to Fugou, if he retreated to Xuzhou, he would be disobeying the military order.

A personal soldier came to report: "Dutong, Yuan Shizhong has led troops to Fugou, but he doesn't want to continue to join the army."

Although Zu Dashou did not confer any title, he was appointed as the commander of the Zhenghuang Banner Han Army.In other words, the Zhenghuang Banner Han Army is under his control, and it is one of the highest military positions in the Eight Banners of the Han Army.

Zu Dashou frowned and said, "This person might turn against him!"

Wu Sangui said: "He is a native bandit in Henan, and he was enshrined as Marquis of Shunyi by the Qing Dynasty. What else can he turn against? Can Emperor Zhao of Nanjing enshrine him as Marquis?"

"Oh, who can say for sure?" Zu Dashou shook his head and sighed.

In history, there are many stories about Yuan Shizhong.For example, Li Zicheng married his adopted daughter to him, but Yuan Shizhong abducted Li Zicheng's daughter.Some historical materials also record that Yuan Shizhong's troops did not kill civilians, but rescued them, and they were called "Buddhist Soldiers".He even defeated the small group of the Eight Banners Army who entered the customs and plundered, killed 50 Tartars, and refused to accept the goods from the Tartars.

It is also said that Li Zicheng was afraid of Yuan Shizhong, first he squeezed out, then flanked, and finally killed Yuan Shizhong and merged his tribe.

In fact, it's not that exciting. Yuan Shizhong's troops are indeed in good military discipline.It once expanded to tens of thousands of people, but suffered successive defeats and was helped by Li Zicheng.Therefore, Yuan Shizhong obeyed Li Zicheng's orders, but maintained his independence, and used Li Zicheng's prestige to develop his power.

The imperial court sent people to appease, and Li Zicheng also sent people to appease.

Yuan Shizhong chose the court and killed Li Zicheng's envoy.Li Zicheng was furious, and led his troops to kill Yuan Shizhong!

Before Yuan Shizhong was ordered to guard against the Seventh Division, when the Seventh Division of the Datong Army moved, he was recruited by Zu Dashou to join forces.As a result, when this guy walked to Fugou County, he suddenly stopped moving, and even recruited refugees as soldiers along the way. By this time, the number of soldiers had expanded to more than [-].

Once Yuan Shizhong chose to defect, it would be tantamount to blocking Zu Dashou's retreat.

Zu Dashou was frightened and disturbed, so he sent a scholar named Gong Yijie to Fugou County to appease Yuan Shizhong.

After seeing Yuan Shizhong, Gong Yijie asked, "Why did Lord Hou stop fighting?"

Yuan Shizhong explained: "The soldiers in the army are often sick and plagued. If they go to Xihua County to join forces with the ancestral capital, the soldiers of the ancestral capital may also be infected with the plague."

Gong Yijie said: "The enemy's army is about to arrive, and it's time to use troops. A little plague is nothing to worry about. Please lead the troops there immediately."

"Alas, many of my subordinates are infected with the epidemic." Yuan Shizhong sighed.

Gong Yijie tried hard to persuade: "Master Hou, the North-South War is the time to serve the country. Lord Hou stops the army, and he will be held accountable after the war. This is the worst policy. Does Lord Hou think that the puppet soldiers won my victory?" Qing Eight Banners?"

"Hey, that's hard to say." Yuan Shizhong suddenly laughed.

Gong Yijie said in horror: "Why did Lord Hou say such a thing?"

Yuan Shizhong didn't explain, and said with a sneer, "I wanted to continue to wait and see, but you reminded me. Since the Tartars must be pursuing me, why not do the opposite now and prevent Dorgon from coming back alive? Someone is here!"

"Here!" A few soldiers came in.

Yuan Shizhong said: "Behead this man and send him to the Datong Army. Just say that I have raised troops against the Qing Dynasty, occupied Fugou, and cut off Zu Dashou's retreat!"

"Master Hou, think twice... Lord Hou, think twice..." Gong Yijie yelled and was dragged out.

Yuan Shizhong was born in a family of small landlords. He also read books when he was a child. He is strong and strong, and has practiced some martial arts since he was a child.

In Henan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, even small landlords would not be able to survive if they encountered corrupt officials.