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Chapter 276 I would rather die in battle than be a prisoner! (three more)

Zhu Yousong was never merciful to the traitors. It may be that he watched too many anti-Japanese war movies before time travel, and hated the traitors deeply. After time travel, he has both rational thinking and realistic experience of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the imperial court in the late Ming Dynasty was corrupt, the Tartars were even more troublesome.Let’s not talk about how they killed and enslaved the Han people. Look at the unequal treaties in Chinese history that cede land, pay compensation, lose power and humiliate the country. Which one was not a product of the Qing court?

From the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to its complete demise, in the 300 years of the country, the emperor guarded the country, the king died in the country, there was never an alliance under the city, there was never a woman in exchange for peace, there was never a cession of land, compensation, or tribute Records, whether it was the defeat of Yingzong in the battle of Wayaobao in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Yingzong's capture, or the hanging of Emperor Chongzhen Meishan in the late Ming Dynasty, and the short-lived emperors of the Southern Ming Dynasty, these can be called the darkest and most difficult in the Ming Dynasty. years, but there has never been a humiliation agreement.

Looking at the more than 200 years of Manchu rule, since the reign of Kangxi and Qianlong, various treaties have been signed that forfeit power and humiliate the country. First, the Treaty of Nerchinsk, agreeing to assign the land of Nerchinsk to the east of Lake Baikal to Russia, so that the Kangxi The emperor was ashamed.During the Yongzheng period, a large area of ​​Kuye Island, where Suwu shepherds sheep, was given to Tsarist Russia.In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the unequal treaties were even more explosive. In just over 100 years, the land left by the ancestors almost wiped out the wild boars outside the pass.

For comparison, as the last emperor of the last dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen also left behind the rhetoric of "I will remove my crown, cover my face with hair, and split my corpse with thieves, so as not to hurt any one of the people" before he hanged himself. He said personally that he doesn't care how many troops Japan has stationed in the Northeast, how many mines it mines, and how it governs. What he cares about is restoration, as long as Japan can recognize his throne. Jewels, and the other is no better than dirt!

Therefore, it is not to blame that Zhu Yousong was prejudiced against the Manchu Tartars, nor that Zhu Yousong wanted to obliterate the progressive role of the Manchu Dynasty in ending the warlord separatist regime in the late Ming Dynasty, and establishing a unified historical dynasty. The crimes committed are too numerous to list.

The Tartars are hateful, but the Han people surrendered to the Tartars and helped the tyrants to abuse them. It is even more hateful to help the Tartars massacre and enslave the Han people. Now that these traitors are desperate and want to surrender, of course Zhu Yousong will not pity them, so he passed down such a decree , not allowed to surrender, all killed.

Of course, Zhu Yousong is not worried that someone will complain that he abused the captives, because these people cannot be called captives in the strict sense, because they are traitors first, and then captives. At most, they can only be regarded as captives of traitors. A traitor to the country has nothing to do with the abuse of captives.

Moreover, he is still lenient to the captives, such as Zu Keyong, Luo Dai, Daoxing, etc. Zuo Liangyu's old troops came to surrender before they surrendered to the Tartars and became traitors. Zhu Yousong still exempted them from all crimes , regarded them as Daming's good sons.

But Zhu Yousong will not watch these traitors and captives being killed here, because he is still concerned about the battlefield on the right, where there are only [-] soldiers, which is as weak as He Xuanjiao's left battlefield, so he has to go to support He Zhaoxiong. Support people.

Zhu Yousong and Liu Zhaoji still commanded the imperial cavalry to charge forward, and ordered the 1 horses who had just landed to deal with the traitors and captives to follow up as a backup team.

On the battlefield on the right is 3000 troops led by He Zhaoxiong to stop Zuo Menggeng's [-] army. Hard kung fu, although it is not as exaggerated as the iron cloth shirt with golden bell cover in the film and television novels, which is invulnerable to swords and guns, but the fact that people call it iron arm means that his fist and kick skills are not ordinary.

In addition, he has occupied the mountain as king for many years, and he has dealt with the officers and soldiers in Huai'an a lot, and he has very experienced experience in commanding troops.

Therefore, his 3000 troops against Zuo Menggeng's [-] army were in a better situation than He Xuanjiao on the left battlefield. This may be called Jiang Shilao's spicy.At the beginning, he lured the enemy to go deep with the strategy of suspicious soldiers, and he did hit Zuo Menggeng's front head-on.

But after all, there is too much disparity between the widows and the number of people. What's more important is that Zuo Menggeng knows their details. Zhu Yousong only came up with 1 horses, while the Qing army had nearly 20 people. Under the circumstances that the geographical environment is not too complicated, there should be no suspense about the outcome.

Therefore, after the two sides fought for an hour, Zuo Menggeng followed his own style of play, and after paying thousands of casualties in the front, he commanded four or five armies to trap the 3000 men and horses of He Zhaoxiong, who had exposed his strength, and quickly reversed the situation. war situation.

Up to now, He Zhaoxiong has only tried his best to break through. He led his troops to charge left and right with ghost swords, and then occupied a small hillside as a base. them.

Because He Zhaoxiong knew that occupying a favorable position and guarding against death was more conducive to preserving strength than charging to break through.

The purpose of the old man's doing this was obviously to delay the time, because he knew that it would not be easy for him to bring the 3000 men under his command to kill the encirclement.Of the remaining more than 3000 people, many of them are wounded, and the number of even minor wounded who can fight is less than 1000, 300.

But in other words, even if He Zhaoxiong can kill him at this time, he can't do it, because if his troops are defeated, the right side of His Majesty's imperial camp will inevitably open wide. The Qing army is fighting fiercely. If the right side is attacked, it will be dangerous. If it is not done well, it will fall short and lose everything.

As long as his banner does not fall, if he can hold Zuo Menggeng's men here so that they cannot get away, His Majesty's right wing will not be attacked, and if it can be delayed for a while, even if they all die in battle, they will not be able to escape.

Practice has proved that He Zhaoxiong is wise, and this trick is very useful.If he blindly led the crowd to fight to the death like He Xuanjiao, his entire army would have been wiped out by now.

He transformed the charge and breakthrough into defending the favorable terrain of Xiaoqiupo, which was equivalent to turning offense into defense, and turning passivity into initiative. This dragged on for more than an hour and repelled three sieges by the Qing army.They had been fighting since the morning, and it was already sunset.

But this is already the limit. There are too many Qing troops. Now He Zhaoxiong has less than 200 combat soldiers. During the fierce battle, He Zhaoxiong got an arrow in his left calf. A simple hemostatic bandage was done, but there was a hole in one calf out of thin air, which is unbearable for most people, not to mention that the old man is still a little old, if he hadn't worked hard, he would have collapsed.

But even though he didn't fall, the old man was limping a little.Now there are corpses everywhere up and down the hill, most of them are from the Qing army, and some from the Ming army are dotted among them.Blood stained the mountains and vegetation, and broken knives and broken flags were everywhere.

Under the setting sun, He Zhaoxiong and the others were covered in blood, their faces mixed with sweat and blood, similar to opening a grocery store, and their battle robes and armor were in disarray, but their eyes were still determined.

At this time, Zuo Menggeng commanded the Qing army to launch the fourth siege to Xiaoqiupo where He Zhaoxiong was. Hundred soldiers: "Brothers, the time has come to be loyal to His Majesty. I would rather die in battle than be a prisoner!"

200 people followed and shouted: "I would rather die in battle than be taken prisoner!" The voice echoed through the sky.

Their voices hadn't dispersed, and the Qing army's team started to boil...

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　PS: The third update has been delivered, thank you book friends for your calm support of monthly tickets and recommendation tickets, it’s the weekend again, I wish you a happy weekend, don’t forget to support Xiaocao more, thank you.

　　
　
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