The thousands of floating corpses floating upstream of the Zi River were not done by Gao Jie who led his troops to burn and kill them in Huailai, Yanqing, Yizhou and other places in western Beijing, but by his general Hu Maozhen.

Hu Maozhen was the vanguard of the Sixth Town entering Beizhi. His troops were about 4,000 people, with 1,600 horses, more than 4,000 mules and donkeys, more than 1,500 cavalry in armor, and the rest had no armored soldiers.

The Hu army moved ahead of Xian County, Jingzhou, Jiaohe, Fucheng and other places, and loudly beat Xu Fazu, deputy general of the Qing Green Camp, and captured and killed the governor of Qing Dynasty, appointed by Hong Chengchou, the governor of Qing Dynasty. Later, he rushed straight into Jizhou, creating the illusion of the Shandong Huai Army's large-scale invasion of the north. He successfully mobilized the Green Camp soldiers who were pieced together by Hong Chengchou, the Grand Secretary of the Southern Qing Dynasty, who was stationed in Cangzhou, and advanced westward. He was defeated by Hu Maozhen in Xian County.

After that, the main force of the Sixth Town went north, and Hu Maozhen continued to carry out the task of luring the enemy, dividing the enemy, and blocking the enemy. He forced the wealthy slaves to join the army along the way, and then collected thousands of rebel bandits, with the force reaching tens of thousands. Hu led his troops to the vicinity of Baiyangdian, with the original intention of attacking Baoding westward, thereby blocking the Qing army that could rescue in Shanxi, Henan, Zhending and other directions.

Gao Jin, who had been waiting for the Qing army's intelligence in Beizhi, also showed that the information given to Hu Maozhen also showed that Baoding City was empty. The original number of troops in the Baoding Green Camp was more than 4,600, all of which were surrendered by the former Ming Dynasty, but 3,000 people followed Duoduo south to Henan and westward to Shaanxi. There were only more than a thousand old, weak and remnants in the city.

The governor of Baoding appointed by the Qing court was Yu Qinglian, a former leader of the Zhenghuang Banner of the Han army.

The chief of Manchus in the early years, Hong Tai ordered the Ministry of Rites to test in Manchuria. The Han people who are familiar with literary meanings were juren. Yu Qinglian and Henan Governor Luo Xiujin took the exam with all the students, and both won. Now one is the governor of Baoding and the other is the governor of Henan. It is a rare two governors and important ministers from the Liaodong Han army.

Luo Xiujin was as famous as his official position, but he was very honest in his official position, but he was not in military service. Therefore, Gao Jin believed that as long as Hu Maozhen led his troops westward to Baoding, he could easily capture the city and kill Yu Qinglian.

However, man's calculations are not as good as God's calculations. Just when Hu Maozhen led his army to Baoding, Duoduo, the King of Henan of the Qing Dynasty, led his army to return east to Baoding in time.

Because the Qing army was the main force, with a large number of people and more than 20,000 cavalry, Hu Maozhen did not dare to fight with him, and was forced to lead his troops to retreat to Xiongxian in northeastern Baoding. As a result, as soon as he arrived in Xiongxian, he was caught up by more than 5,000 Mongolian cavalry led by Andali, Gushan, Gushan, Zhengbai Banner, and surrounded in Xiongxian.

Duoduo originally wanted to wipe out the Shun army that fled to Xiong County first, but because the capital was urgently sending the Shun army into the capital, Duoduo, who knew that Beijing was extremely empty, was afraid that Beijing would be in trouble and did not dare to let the army stay in Xiong County. He had to order Ming Andali to lead his troops to continue besieging Xiong County, and he led the rest of his troops to the capital urgently.

Xiongxian is a small city. There is not much food reserved in the city, and being surrounded by Xiongxian has no meaning in the overall situation. It is difficult to break through after being surrounded for a long time. Therefore, Hu Maozhen broke through after being surrounded for four days, and finally broke into Xiongxian at the cost of losing more than 2,000 people. During the retreat, most of the slaves forced by Hu's troops ran away, and many bandits and righteous soldiers fell behind. After gathering, they scored less than 5,000 troops. After that, they invaded along the Baigou River to Rongcheng and Dingxian.

Although Andali of the Ming Dynasty was the leader of the Eight Banners of the Mongolian Banners, he was a veteran Manchu general and led his troops into the pass many times. Seeing that the besieged thieves dared to break out under his nose, he was furious and led his troops to chase him to death.

After being chased by Andali Ming for two days, Hu Maozhen also developed a temperament and ordered his troops to set up an ambush at a certain wild burial site in Rongcheng, and suddenly rushed out when the pursuit army came.

In this battle, Hu Maozhen personally led the flag-plaque soldiers to rush forward, fighting with the Mongolian army's Zhengbai Banner on the Baigou River until the Queen of Heaven. After the war, the Hu army killed more than 900 enemies, and lost nearly a thousand of them.

This loss made Hu Maozhen feel very distressed, because the fallen soldiers were all his old soldiers who had been with him for many years.

Because it was dark, both sides stopped their troops. At night, Hu Maozhen ordered the remaining troops of his troops to set off and leave. This time, Hu Maozhen did not run north, but instead ran to the south that the Qing army could not imagine, that is, toward Baoding Prefecture City.

It probably means killing a shot.

After dawn, Andale realized that the thief in front of him had run away again and was running south. He was panicked and thought that the bandits were taking advantage of the emptiness of Baoding to seize the city, so he quickly led their troops to Baoding City. When he arrived at the city, he found no trace of the bandits. Only then did he realize that the bandits had shaken him again.

Hu Maozhen, who had less than 3,000 people left, had no intention of attacking Baoding, but instead "swept" the place outside Baoning Prefecture and destroyed the Qing court's rule in Baoding Prefecture to the greatest extent.

Within a month, Hu Maozhen led his troops to plunder Ansu, Mancheng, Wanxian, Tangxian and other counties south of Baoning. They did not care about the military and civilians along the way, and they would kill them when they saw people. Even the innocent people in the countryside were killed by the Hu tribe, because these people served the Tartars and sent people to provide food.

The governor of Baoding, Yu Qinglian, saw that his jurisdiction was destroyed by the "bandits" and was exhausted, begging Ming Andali to annihilate the bandits no matter what.

When Andali of the Ming Dynasty knew that he would let the bandits move in Baoding Prefecture again, there would be no one except the city. What would be the use of a city in time and space? So he led his army to continue tracking the Hu army.

Hu Maozhen knew that he was defeated by Andali of the Ming Dynasty, and crossed the river from Henghekou in Tang County to the Fuping and Quyang areas of Zhending.

Perfectly implemented the guerrilla strategy of "taking control of the enemy by taking action" given to them by the Great Governor of the Huai Army.

Because he didn't know that the governor Lu Wenzong was leading tens of thousands of soldiers in the Dashun West Route Army to fight eastward, Hu Maozhen, who also lost contact with the main force of the Sixth Town, wanted to crack down on the Qing army mobilization ability mentioned by the governor as much as possible, after breaking through Quyang County, he killed hundreds of surrendered soldiers in the city and more than 10,000 residents. The bodies were pulled to Zihe to throw them away to shock the downstream counties. As a result, for several days, the bodies of victims continued to flow downstream.

The Hu tribe's indiscriminate killing caused tens of thousands of people in Baoding and Zhending to die, but it also seriously hit the Qing army's rule in Baoding and Zhending. The Ming Anda Li Ministry, which followed closely behind, was forced to return to Baoding because of the burning, killing and looting of the Hu tribe along the way, had no way to raise grain from the local area.

The Hu army's indiscriminate killing also led to a dramatic transformation of the main force of the Shun Army's expedition. Shi Mi, the prefect of Zhending, did not know who was slaughtering the city in Quyang and Fuping. In addition, the three prefectures in Henan surrendered to the Shun Army, so he led the entire city to open the city and surrender.

When welcoming the Dashun Jianguo’s King of Chuang into the city, Shi Mi knelt in front of the young King of Chuang, asking him to send troops to suppress the countless Hu thieves in Zhending’s territory.

Of course, Lu Si would not kill Hu Maozhen, because when he decided to send the Sixth Town north, he was destined to die in Beizhi and Jingjin.

The generals of the sixth town are all murderers.

In Lu Si's previous life, millions of lives died under the swords of these people.

The cruelty of war sometimes does not change by human will.

Hu Maozhen rushed from Quyang to Cihe on August 3 to meet with the main force. When he saw tens of thousands of troops crossing the river, Hu Maozhen's excited subordinates said: "Big things can be decided, big things can be decided!"

Lu Si also attached great importance to Hu Maozhen and ordered him to be the admiral of Baoding and to cooperate with the First Army to seize Baoding. Hu Maozhen also asked him to cross the river with him. On the boat, there were Luo Xiujin, the former governor of Henan of Qing Dynasty who surrendered by Yu Weihui, and Liu Fangming, general of Huaiqing.
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