Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 396
It's really called God and Li Yan, and he and Song Qingshu made a big joke together. This Li Yan tried his best to make Yinghuo Mountain turn upside down, but his biggest reliance on the other end, Li Zicheng, Defeated!

Song Qingshu didn't believe that Li Zicheng was killed like this in Xiong Wencan's official document, but it was true that he suffered an unprecedented defeat. He fought from Sichuan to Huguang with a murderous spirit, and happened to be in Xing'an near the Hanshui River. Caught in the encirclement of the North and South encirclement and suppression army.

Behind him are Hong Chengchou's powerful generals He Renlong, Zuo Guangxian, Cao Bianjiao, Wang Hong, and in front of him is the number one general under Xiong Tingbi's command Zuo Liangyu, and the Sichuan soldiers who came out from Sichuan and the Sichuan governor Fu Zonglong, there are six Wan Guanjun.

Last year in Gansu, he was driven to the Gobi Desert to suffer from famine. Li Zicheng's elite backbone was already damaged by more than half. He was strong on the outside and doing nothing on the inside, not to mention being attacked halfway through. In a bloody day, all Li Zicheng's troops dispersed, and he led a few hundred people into the vast mountains between Shaanxi, lakes, and Sichuan in embarrassment.

Since the ninth year of Chongzhen, when the emperor's mausoleum was being dug, the once-prominent invading army across the prefectures and counties seemed to have vanished.

Hong Chengchou soon arrived at the Central Plains and dispatched troops along the Yangtze River. Xiong Wencan's army continued to wrap around Xunyang, encircling Zhang Xianzhong, Chuangshatian, and Guotianxing to the narrow boundaries of Macheng, Xiangyang, and Chengtianfu. The plan to spread the net in four corners and ten sides worked, and all the main peasant armies were wrapped in this encirclement net.

The ten-year unresolved situation seems to be completely resolved within a few days, and the world will once again return to the iron bucket of Ming Dynasty.

Now Li Yan escaped from Yinghuo Mountain with more than 4000 defeated soldiers, but in front of him was Hong Chengchou's nearly [-] Shaanxi, surrounded by soldiers from all walks of life in Shanxi and Henan, which was a complete dead end.

If the news had come five days earlier, or even three days earlier, it would have been a fatal psychological blow to the various rebels who conspired to rebel and joined Li Zicheng, and perhaps there would have been no such internal strife. Unfortunately, there is no such thing in history!
Xiong Wencan wrote to Song Qingshu, nominally to send him out of Xin County to cooperate with the attack on Zhang Xianzhong and other thirteen families, but in fact it was a kind of showing off and intimidating. After all, Song Qingshu's two Huai generals belonged to the southern soldiers, and the soldiers from all walks of life joined forces. Even Liangyu obeyed the order to send troops, but he took the chicken feather of Ma Shiying, governor of Lufeng, as an arrow, and refused to send troops, which cut Xiong Wencan's face.

"Big guy!"

He got the news from the courier one step earlier, saw Song Qingshu wearing a breastplate, but was fascinated by the documents he read, Sun Chuanting couldn't help but reminded him softly, and immediately the E soldier was also urging him in Cantonese, deliberately hiding Behind that E soldier, Sun Chuanting shook his head heavily.

If the imperial court wiped out the Peasant Army, the next step is to clean up surrendering leaders like Song Qingshu, and now the people in the begging army are still in shock, so I can't help but rush into the muddy water, anyway, Li Yan and Xing Hongniang are already on the road to death Go, why take risks for them?
Unexpectedly, after looking down for a few times, Song Qingshu immediately pushed back the official document.

"Our army will leave Xinxian County immediately, and cooperate with Governor Hong to wipe out the rebels!"

Being able to be a soldier's messenger, Nanjing mandarin can still be understood. Not only Sun Chuanting's face changed slightly when Song Qingshu said this, even the arrogant forehead soldier's face became ugly. This is another slap in the face Xiong Wencan slapped him across the face.

On the surface, the begging army is a southern soldier, and it is hard to send troops to support it, but it is Hong Chengchou who is looking for northern soldiers. It is obvious that his prestige is not enough to deter the local generals. Nearby, the combat effectiveness of the southern soldiers is not as good as that of the northern soldiers. Xiong Wencan only has about 6 people in his hands, and it is difficult to maintain a trapped situation.

After all, there are more than [-] horses in the Thirteen Family.

If Song Qingshu led his troops to respond and had a mobile force, Xiong Wencan might have given the great credit to him, but Song Qingshu turned around and headed north. Even if it was still the begging army that defeated the peasant army, the credit would still be Hong Chengchou.

There is no need to pretend in Cantonese, Hu Guangbing under Xiong Wencan shouted with a distorted face: "Song Zongbing, you have to think about it!"

"Ben Shuai is naturally deliberate, come and see off the guests!"

Two soldiers came in from outside the door, and made a very blunt invitation. Holding the official document, E Bing went out with a livid face, and immediately Sun Chuanting clasped fists at Song Qingshu anxiously.

"Marshal, just use Hong Chengchou's hand to kill Li Yan, why bother?"

"Mr. Boya's worries are nothing more than the death of the cunning rabbit and the lack of success. In fact, it is unnecessary. The imperial court can't spare us to deal with us. Besides, there are some things that the commander-in-chief has to solve by himself!"

Seeing Song Qingshu staring quietly out of the window of the General's Mansion, Sun Chuanting immediately said nothing, but just clasped his fists with a gloomy expression.

He is a former court official, the reason why he is willing to be a martial artist is that Song Qingshu's performance is so amazing, he seems to be like a prophet, he always seems to have a foresight, leading the army of beggars to break through the historical gap time and time again, Growing stronger again and again, Confucianism believed in the destiny, and Sun Chuanting secretly regarded Song Qingshu as the man of destiny.

I hope that this time Song Qingshu is still out of foresight, instead of being dazzled by anger and hatred.

On March [-], the beggar army, which had not moved since entering the Dabie Mountains a few years ago, finally turned around and marched north for the first time.

But at this time, there are already some things are different, and the troops killed from Shaanxi are either dead or thrown into the rebel formation. The second, third, and fifth divisions dispatched this time are mostly Lianghuai children recruited in Lianghuai up.

Song Qingshu's cavalry suffered heavy losses this time. Jiangnan did not produce horses in the first place, and all military horses had to be transported from Dai County. Now the number of cavalry in the begging army is less than [-], and there are only three battalions of cavalry dispatched this time. Around Qianwu, the three divisions acted extra cautiously, guarding the supply team of the brigade, and slowly approaching Xinyang.

After staying in the rich land of Southern Zhili for a few years, Song Qingshu almost forgot the ruins and dangers in the north. As soon as he came out of the Dabie Mountains, the clean asphalt roads disappeared immediately, and the government roads were rammed with loess. It has been in disrepair for a long time, and there are holes and eyes on the road. Even if it has not entered the rainy season, carts will fall into the pit from time to time, forcing the conscripted auxiliary militia to form a brigade to level the pit with soil, which has seriously affected marching speed.

To be honest, looking at the dog-to-toe situation between the official army and the peasant army before dispatching troops, even Song Qingshu, who came later, felt that the peasant uprising was over. There are still a few villages here and there, scattered fields, but now let alone the villages, even the dirt ridges are dry enough to kick up dust all over the sky, obviously it has been deserted for a long time.

The northern caravan that originally went to Xinyang also changed to Nanyang, and went to Anqing along the Yangtze River to trade. Looking at the barrenness of this road, Song Qingshu seemed to understand the reason.

The scouts of the begging army kept biting the tail of Li Yan's rebels, walked along the main road for more than a day, until evening, near Xinyang Mansion, they found a village, but this village was actually a fire that burned half the sky red , The cries of women and children, the old and the weak can be heard from far away.

Looking at the corpses of several women whose heads had been beheaded on the side of the road, Sun Chuanting, who was forced to follow the army, couldn't help raising his brows, and looked at the burning village in the distance in puzzlement and said doubtfully.

"There shouldn't be any thieves around Xinyang, right? Could it be Li Yan, in just a few days, Dai Yishi has fallen to this point?"

Sun Chuanting is in charge of military law, and he is extremely disgusted with this kind of massacre of villages and people.

Also in front of the legion, Song Qingshu put down the binoculars indifferently.

"What's the use of guessing, send someone to take a look, then you'll understand, Zhuzi! Grab a few tongues, and wipe the rest!"

"I will understand at the end!"

Li Tiezhu's Second Begging Division was a vanguard army. With a command, Li Tiezhu quickly ran back to the marching army formation with his horse. After a while of cheering, a large group of cavalry smacked the horse's buttocks and killed them.

The mission went much faster than expected. The forward infantry had just walked to the side of the village with their guns on their shoulders. The battle was over. More than 50 corpses were lying on the ground with black blood, and five tongues were thrown on the ground. Song Qingshu was at Sun Chuanting's feet, looking at these people in tattered clothes, Sun Chuanting's poker face was even colder.

Those who massacred the villagers were all wearing military uniforms of the officers and soldiers.

"You guys in the army, do you know that I am under the command of Commander Qin Binghe Renlong, you dared to sneak attack on me, you know how to let me go quickly, and pay a hundred and eighty taels of silver, otherwise, you will not be able to afford it Walk!"

Needless to say, there is really no way for a person to seek death. Before Sun Chuanting could ask, the guy who was pressed down below shook his sloppy beard and began to curse.

Sun Chuanting immediately lost interest in questioning. This arrogant attitude has already explained everything. Even if they are so vicious towards senior military officers like them, why would they care about the laws of the country?
Song Qingshu's questioning method was really that of a businessman, throwing a shiny silver coin in front of the sloppy bearded officer's leg, Song Qingshu asked arrogantly.

"Did you see a group of cavalry coming out from the direction of Xin County?"

Looking at the silver, the scruffy officer's eyes were straightened, and he immediately replied in a hurry: "Yes, yes, last night, I followed Mr. He Qian to garrison in Xinyang Huangtu, and suddenly a large group of cavalry rushed out to disperse my team. Now, look at the direction they are going, they are going to Biyang."

Hearing the gruff words of the scruffy bearded man, Song Qingshu couldn't help sighing again, and immediately waved his hands like chasing flies.

"Drag on, kill them all!"

"Damn, you cheated me, you're going to die a damn hell, He Shuai will definitely avenge me, just wait..."

Unexpectedly, Song Qingshu turned his face when he said that he would turn his face, and the scruffy bearded man cursed unbelievably, but before he could swear a few more words, there was a few puff puff puff chits, and then there was another ugly grunge sound, probably dragging them down The soldiers who entered the grass hated their bad mouths, and deliberately stabbed their bayonets into their lungs to make them feel uncomfortable even if they died.

But looking at this village that has been massacred in sevens and eights, the naked female corpses, the babies who were smashed to death, and the beheaded old man, even if they were chopped up, it would not be an exaggeration.

Seeing the raging fire, Song Qingshu suddenly turned his head and asked Sun Chuanting.

"Mr. Boya, do you think the court can really suppress the civil uprising this time?"

The shadow of raging fire swayed on the rigid poker face, and Sun Chuanting remained silent.

(End of this chapter)