Daming kill

Chapter 203 Chapter [-]
At dawn on April 16, [-]th year of Chongzhen, the organized and large-scale resistance of the peasant army in Qizhou City finally stopped completely, and groups of dejected prisoners began to be escorted to the riverside outside the west city.

The streets and alleys are full of soldiers searching houses in groups and horses whizzing by.

Countless pairs of eyes hiding in the house peered out through the crack of the door in horror.

Standing on the urn of Chengming Gate (the west gate in the middle), Xu Wenqi looked very complicated while looking at the row of ships by the river and the tens of thousands of male and female captives being escorted out.

"Are you really Zuo Liangyu's subordinates? You really only have 3000 people?" Xu Wenqi asked Zhao Dongdong, who had been with him all the time, uncertainly.

Although there are many women crying all over the city, and although various violent incidents are still being staged in some lane houses, Xu Wenqi can already be sure that all the sorrows come from the families of the peasant soldiers who lost their loved ones, and all the conflicts that are still happening They all originated from the peasant army who resisted arrest and hid.

The officers and soldiers who invaded the city did not kill or plunder civilians at all, nor did they randomly destroy houses and plunder everywhere, and even did not violently stop the grief of the peasant army's family members who lost their loved ones.

All the armed forces of the officers and troops entering the city are only aimed at the enemy and hostile actions from beginning to end.

This completely overturned the well-informed Xu Wenqi's stereotyped impression of the army, especially since it was Zuo Liangyu's army.

How could this be true!
What is even more frightening is that [-] beats [-], and then [-] is still attacking the city!

Although the [-] elite peasant army left behind in Qizhou is very small, most of them are newly recruited soldiers and ordinary people, and a high proportion are old and weak, but this is still an extremely remarkable achievement.

"Small ones don't dare to cheat to participate in politics." Zhao Dongdong's answer was very careful.

But actually Xu Wenqi didn't need Zhao Dongdong's answer.

Xu Wenqi neither went to look for Li Ping as soon as Li Ping's army entered the city, nor did he go to see Li Ping as soon as the fighting basically stopped. Instead, he insisted on fighting on the front line and walking around.

He had seen a lot and determined a lot.

And Li Ping was not in a hurry to find him, but sent more people to protect him.

Xu Wenqi had actually heard of the name Li Ping. Those officials, gentry, and merchants who escaped from Wuchang City and even Chengtian Mansion and stayed with Li Ping's army until they separated near Qizhou brought Xu Wenqi a lot of information about Li Ping. flat legend.

Although Xu Wenqi was surprised at the time, he didn't take it too seriously, thinking that it should be more exaggerated words and rumors.

But looking at it now, those are probably true!
In addition to being shocked, his heart was shocked.

This kind of shock even far exceeds the shock of knowing that the Peasant Army has mastered the secret of his intended uprising and is about to take action against him.

Xu Wenqi didn't feel much fear that he was almost about to die. He had already put life and death aside.

The questioning of several captured senior generals of the Peasant Army allowed Zhao Dongdong to confirm his guess at the time, and also let Xu Wenqi know the precariousness of this battle and the strength of this official army.

Suddenly, Xu Wenqi finally wanted to see Li Ping, and then he quickly walked down the clarification door.

At this time, Li Ping was standing on the Xiongwu Gate, overlooking the entire Qizhou City, overlooking the most critical and intense battlefield of this battle.

His heart was full of fear.

More than 100 backbones led by Ma Lan were drawn from the whole army and the squad leader as the main body suffered heavy casualties here. Nearly half of them were killed in battle, and everyone else was injured.

Such a large price completely exceeded everyone's expectations.

No one would have thought that Xu Wenqi's affairs would be leaked so much.

Although the combat effectiveness of the so-called elite peasant army that secretly surrounded Xu Wenqi's prison and responded quickly to the Xiongwu Gate was also not worth mentioning, but they still have the will to fight.

They almost took back the Xiongwu Gate by virtue of their superiority in numbers and equipment, and almost made Li Ping's military adventure come to an end.

Li Ping was afraid of nothing but fear.

In his mind, he had already defined this battle as a military adventure, a battle that needed to be taken seriously.

He didn't know whether he had won or lost this battle.

The backbone is the foundation of an army, and it takes time to cultivate the backbone, and his heart aches.

When Li Ping was thinking a lot, several knights ran from the west wall, and the leader was Ma Yong.

Li Ping's face was full of surprise.

The war had just ended, so Ma Yong should have presided over it by the Qingmen River, where the captives gathered. This was a division of labor.

Unless there is something big, Ma Yong should not change the arrangement without authorization.

But now Ma Yong has not only left his post, but is also galloping on the city wall. I don't know what happened?

But Xu Wenqi's safety has been confirmed and is very safe, and most of the peasant army in Qizhou were miraculously wiped out in the city like pigs. It is impossible for the rest to cause any more storms, and what else can make Ma Yong so anxious.

Li Ping was completely unable to guess for a while.

And how did Ma Yong know that Li Ping was at Xiongwumen at this time?
As for whether Ma Yong was going around the city wall to check the defense in case Zhang Xianzhong of Huangzhou counterattacked, Li Ping didn't even think about it, that's not what Ma Yong should be doing now.

Seeing Li Ping, Ma Yong also seemed very surprised.

His expression was very strange, and his face became flushed. He didn't come to look for Li Ping.

After hastily jumping off his horse and hastily stating that he had made strict arrangements for the captives who were still gathering by the river, Ma Yong confessed in a low voice embarrassedly: "I want to see Malan, I heard that he was injured, not seriously. .”

Li Ping suddenly realized.

There was no trace of anger in his heart, nor any dissatisfaction. He didn't like cold-blooded people.

He smiled and said to Nunuzui under the city: "Malan is over there. Although he was stabbed several times and bled a lot, the wounds are not deep, nor do they hurt vital parts. They are all skin wounds. I suggest you Don't look at him now, it may disturb him, his current pain should be more of a faux pas."

Ma Yong looked in the direction of Li Ping's mouth in a daze, and found Ma Lan easily.

In a corner of the city, a slender female nurse was treating the wound of Malan, who was grinning uncharacteristically, and the living people around him kept a large distance from them, as if they were deliberately avoiding them.

Ma Lan and the female nurse seem to have been communicating, and it seems that this state has been going on for a long time.

The female nurse, Ma Yong, knew who it was without having to guess. His face turned even redder, and the knights behind him couldn't help laughing.

There are very few people who don't like gossip.

The embarrassed Ma Yong muffled his voice and said bitterly: "This shameful bastard, I have to teach him a lesson."

Li Ping stopped Ma Yong, who was about to rush down the city, and said with a nonchalant smile, "Old Ma, you should be confused when you should be."

……

When Li Ping was overlooking Qizhou from the Xiongwu Gate, Zhao Jin and Shi Ming were standing side by side on a section of the city wall in Huangmei County, panting and looking at their city.

The coalition forces of the two of them also captured Huangmei County at Liming.

Unlike Li Ping's clean body and unsheathed sword, Zhao Jin and Shi Ming's bodies were covered with blood stains. Although their swords had already been put away, blood still flowed from the tip of the sheath hanging to the ground from time to time. Drops of dark red blood.

In this battle, although they achieved a surprise attack, the enemy who had been prepared for a long time still caused them heavy casualties.

The battle was extremely fierce!
Even Zhao Jin and Shi Ming couldn't tell how many of their own people they hacked and killed with their own hands.

However, they don't care.

Looking at the city that belonged to them, both of them laughed.

……

Also at dawn on this day, Zhang Xianzhong in Huangzhou gathered his cavalry and began to attack Macheng, which was [-] or [-] miles away.

Macheng is located on the southeastern edge of the Dabie Mountains, about 120 miles northeast of Huangpi County. In the Ming Dynasty, there were 132 Jinshi and 482 Juren in one county.

Of course, a large number of dignitaries have also been derived from this.

Coupled with the harsh and barren natural conditions, Macheng became a very famous place to raise a large number of slaves in the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Baoxin, a local chronicler in the Qing Dynasty, once said: "The slaves of Chu scholar-bureaucrats are the most prosperous in the world, especially in Macheng. Mei, Liu, Tian, ​​Li, Qiangzong You surnamed no less than three to 4000 children.".

As a result, the people in the Macheng area also had great resentment because of this.

Its various Taoist organizations secretly formed by low-level villagers and slaves spread all over the territory, and in addition to being close to the mountainous area, folk gatherings and riots continue all year round.

In recent months, as the peasant army marched forward and plundered the entire northern part of Huguang, the servants and low-level laborers in Macheng became excited again.

The largest Liren Society in its territory, led by Limin Ming Chengzu, and the Zhidao Society, led by servant Hong Louxian, were ready to wait for an opportunity to launch a rebellion, and recommended a man named Tang Zhi to go to Qianshan, Anhui to seek Zhang Xianzhong's support.

But they did not wait for Zhang Xianzhong's arrival to launch an attack and occupy the county seat first, and they have occupied it for half a month.

The dignitaries and tyrants in the vast countryside outside Macheng County immediately united and gathered tens of thousands of private soldiers to surround the county town, but they failed repeatedly.

It was not easy for Liren and Zhidao who started the incident.

Especially the Lirenhui, most of its core backbone and strength are the large number of soldiers recruited and trained by the late nephew Mei Zhihuan, the former governor of Gansu Province, at his home in the countryside of Macheng to guard against bandits.

Its members include strong and brave local people, hundreds of Jiangxi gunners recruited, and as many as hundreds of deep-mountain crossbowmen who kill tigers and medicines.

After the highly prestigious Mei Zhihuan died in 1641, this force with extremely complex sources and difficult to control quickly lost control due to the lack of a strong leader, and was quickly affected by the surrounding civil uprisings. Straight roads will collude together.

In the end, they led the civil unrest in Macheng together.

Zhang Xianzhong in Huangzhou has now received the rescue news from the troubled people in Macheng (from the upper edge of the city) to the rescue news. He now decided to go to support Macheng immediately.

At this time, the fastest group of thousands of peasants who escaped from Qizhou had just arrived at the east bank of the Xishui River, fifty miles downstream of Huangzhou, and were worrying about how to cross the river.

(End of this chapter)