Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 308 Challenge from Heaven

Dabie Mountain is really a weak spot under the imperial court's rule. The new county has been lost for almost half a year. The county magistrate Chai Jin didn't report it, and the Xinyang government didn't respond. Huo, maybe Song Qingshu is still making a fortune in such a quiet and muffled voice.

While the Fifth Gezuo Battalion brought manpower, it also caused trouble.

At the beginning of February in the eighth year of Chongzhen, as the south of the Huaihe River line in the Qinling Mountains, the warm air from the south has been felt here early. The thick ice and snow in the mountains melted away at a speed visible to the naked eye. The snow moistened the mountains and fields, which seemed to indicate that Looking forward to the good harvest that will be achieved this year.

After being conquered for two months to half a year, the mountain people in the Twelve Villages in Xin County and Huoshan County have begun to get used to the rule of the beggar army.

It is actually not easy to manage such a group of guys well. The living materials in the mountains are poor, and every spring they compete for water sources, and every autumn they grab food. It is precisely because of this kind of hatred that some cottages took the initiative to seek refuge after the Qihuo army broke through other cottages, and some after being conquered, they took the lead in attacking more actively than the Qihuo army. One of the reasons why the living army marched so fast in the rugged Dabie Mountains.

But in the hands, these hatreds have become troubles. The spring plowing has not yet started, and the villagers who are used to beating every year have started a new year and a new atmosphere. From Huaniao Mountain to the edge of Huo Mountain in Niuyaoling In order to compete for water sources, there were no less than ten fights with weapons, and no less than 200 mountain people were killed in the fights. If you can't go up, the population of an area the size of a small province is only a few hundred thousand. If you keep fighting like this, it will be even more difficult to develop.

Dealing with the blood feud in the mountains every day, Sun Chuanting also got angry and burst into flames. He is really the person in history who suppressed Shaanxi with iron and blood methods and squeezed tens of thousands of troops from the teeth of the landlords of the family. Very soon, anyone who catches a weapon fight, no matter how famous the village elder in the village or a well-known mountain warrior, will be beheaded. More than 200 people were killed by the weapon fight, and he beheaded more than 200 more .

This Sun Chuanting sings black faces, while Song Qingshu sings red faces. Around these cottages, pig farms, bedding farms, tea farms, and fruit farms that are going to be listed this year have opened more than ten consecutively. Every Song Qingshu personally went to cut the ribbon, It has attracted a large number of poor mountain people to come in to work, with a salary of several hundred copper coins a month and three meals, which has solved the jobs of thousands of people, and the water and land freed up are enough for the remaining mountain people to cultivate. , For the first time, there was a surplus of land resources in the Dabie Mountains.

With such a policy of one carrot and one big stick, more than [-] Yinghuoshan people were governed submissively.

Xinxian County Government.

The most marshal's mansion, a new renovation started here in the beginning of spring. After all, the original county government office is really shabby. Even if Song Qingshu doesn't talk about ostentation, the big Shanxi merchants who came to the mountains saw it and lost the money of the begging army. Face, in less than ten days, it will be the picking season of Yuqian tea. In the first half of the year, Jiaduobao private tea has become famous. It is estimated that it will not be long before the merchants who come to buy tea will be like mosquitoes in summer. As much, you have to prepare in advance.

There are good carpenters in this mountain, and there are also a few master bricklayers who are said to be the Huizhou government who built Huizhou merchants' Huizhou houses. With the replenishment of the fifth Gezuo battalion, the beggar army has more than 200 people. Down there smashing wood and burning cement, and staying in the small building in the back garden, Song Qingshu's head was buzzing from the noise.

But this time is a period of hard work, even he, the CEO of the begging group, has to endure it, and the current situation is gratifying enough. Qizhai in Huoshan County has basically been conquered by him, and he will turn around and eat Yingshan County. Historically, the main areas of Gezuo 48th Battalion and Qihuang [-]th Village are almost in the bag. At that time, the begging army can also advance and retreat with certainty. Go north, you can go to Lu'an, threaten Hefei, and go south or south. It can enter the territory of Anqing and directly reach the Taihu Lake area, especially to the south. As long as the front line of Taihu Lake is opened up, Huizhou, which is located in the lower reaches, is almost at your fingertips.

By binding the two most influential business gangs in the late Ming Dynasty together through the ticket number, the begging army will flourish, struggling to toss the bourgeoisie of the Ming Dynasty, and when the time comes on the chaotic stage of the late Ming Dynasty, Song Qingshu also has enough space for him to dance, and perhaps there is a glimmer of hope for China to catch up with the crucial step that China has begun to lag behind the West.

But when Song Qingshu looked at the map full of longing, the already chaotic county government suddenly became even more chaotic, and a group of soldiers rushed into the courtyard.

Outside Xinxian County, in order to attract business travelers from all over the world, even if it was dangerous, Song Qingshu ordered people to open a small road. At this time, this small road was full of congestion, and people were wearing civilian clothes everywhere, with their heads wrapped around their heads. The turbans, the listless peasant army carrying or dragging big knives and spears, many of them still have scars and random bandages on their bodies.

With their heads drooping, the defeated soldiers all over the mountains and plains were dejected and wobbled for an hour or two before returning to the empty camp.

Not only is the soldier lacking energy, but this will be the same. Old Hui's white beard was burned off, Zuojin King He Jin slumped, and one arm was obviously damaged. It is a trace of blackening.

If it wasn't for the pressure in his heart, Song Qingshu probably would have laughed out loud when he saw these five guys in a mess.

"I've seen the handsome man!"

After a stumble, the five of them calmed down again. Zuo Jin Wang He Jin, who was dragged very hard last time, took the lead and lowered his head to Song Qingshu, holding back his twitching corners of his mouth. Waving hands.

"Several leaders, please, what's the matter, making it so embarrassing?"

"Don't mention it, his mother's Guan Ning iron cavalry!" As soon as he said this, He Jin turned his head full of bad luck and spat out bloody saliva.

At the beginning of this trip, the [-]th Battalion of Ge Zuo fought quite smoothly. After all, the old Hui'er Army and the Shuya Battalion of Ge Liyan were among the rebels. There were only a few hundred defenders in Shanxian County, and they were taken in one go.

Originally, this trip was intended to follow Song Qingshu's back to pick up bargains, who knew that Song Qingshu didn't bother to move when he got there, so Ge ​​Zuo, who couldn't hold back, came out to do activities on his own, and cooperated with others all the year round. This battle also gave them confidence. They did not return to Xin County with their belongings. Along the edge of the Dabie Mountains, the Fifth Gezuo Battalion went straight to Guangzhou.

This time, their good luck ran out.

As a prefectural city, Gwangju was originally strong, but it has been in chaos recently. In addition, spring has just started, and before the reclamation time, a large number of guards have assembled in the Henan border area, and there are as many as three or four thousand defenders in Gwangju.

Along the way, they attacked two more counties, and the 200th Battalion of Gezuo, who was upbeat, attacked directly. As soon as the battle started, they were beaten to shame by the cannons in Gwangju City, and [-] people died. Hit the stone that was not thrown up and opened his head, and he managed to save his life, but also injured his arm.

He vowed to abandon Song Qingshu and come out to plunder the prefectures and counties by himself. After suffering such a big loss, Ge Zuo was also a proud person. He stayed in the city of Guangzhou for more than two days, and got a few from the nearby guards and county towns. The earth cannons were blasted against the cannons of the government and army, and the fierce siege battle began again.

This time, they are fighting for themselves. The five battalions and those who are not hiding, have exhausted all their strength and took turns to fight. After all, the soldiers of the guards are already rotten. I couldn't bear it any longer, and Lao Hui, who had burned his beard with the incendiary bombs on the top of the city, saw that he was going to fight the city himself. Who knew that at this moment, a wave of wolf smoke came from the northwest.

Similar to history, the Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang's army in Dongying couldn't bear it at all. The Guanning Army who came to support near Daming Mansion, Tianjin training and a battle in Beijing Camp were beaten bloody, especially Daming Mansion Lu Xiangsheng, a soldier in charge, recruited from his hometown in Shandong, formed a Tianxiong army of hundreds of people. Under the leadership of a scholar wielding a broadsword, he wedged himself into the peasant army without hesitation. Going south without being disheartened is also heading towards Song Qingshu's target Huizhou.

In addition to him, Cao Cao, [-] people, Taiping King, and Sweeping King's team could not stand in Henan.

Ge Zuo was also unlucky, what to do, he had to arrogantly plunder the state capital on the edge of the encirclement, a dozen or so lasted three or four days, Zu Dabi, who didn't want to deal with them at first, was so angry that he rushed a hundred miles from behind and slammed With a double-team, Ge Zuo's fifth battalion, which had already been at the end of its siege, collapsed directly.

The moisture of the rebel army was really high. When they followed Song Qingshu to the south, there were 6 people in a mighty force. After this encounter, they immediately shrank to [-] to [-], and they were less than [-].

"Marshal, please help your brothers to avenge! If this Guangzhou City cannot be taken down, how will I, King Zuojin, gain a foothold in the Jianghu in the future!"

I really don't know who was the one who was sitting on the same level and begging to be handsome, with his arms slumped, and Zuo Jin Wang He Jin looked sad, clasped his fists and yelled aggrievedly.

But in the beginning, Gwangju, Luocheng and other small outlying counties with no strategic value were not in Song Qingshu's plan, not to mention that he was in trouble now, Song Qingshu shook his head directly.

"Everyone, it's not that I, Song, don't talk about loyalty in the world. It's just that the beggar army has caused trouble recently. Just yesterday, our large team marching towards Yingshan County was defeated by the army. Sun Daqi, the cloudy inspector, went to heaven Wait for the troops of the eighteen villages to come to me in a mighty way!"

"If you don't solve Tiantangzhai, the begging army will have no way to get out!"

(End of this chapter)