On November 23, the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Zhending Fucheng.
Lu Xiangsheng arrived at Zhending on the 20th. At this time, the Qing army had left and was replaced by the Xuanda army. The two sides were still in a state of disengagement. A small group of cavalry came to the camp gate. The soldiers guarding the camp gate were listless and did not check and register.
Meaning, the leader glanced at it and saw that he recognized it, waved his hand and let them go out. The other sentries huddled in the tent without even raising their heads.
one time.
Qin Jiuze was walking at the end. When he passed by the camp gate, he looked up and saw two human heads hanging on the beam, which were already covered with frost. The group of people didn't even look at it, and went straight out of the camp gate and onto the official road to the south.
There were other cavalrymen walking on the mountain, all of them looked listless. Most of the cavalrymen did not speak to each other and walked alone with their heads down. Some horses
Standing still, the rider cursed and kicked.
Qin Jiuze looked out and saw that the fields on both sides of the official road were full of discarded household items, and corpses could be seen everywhere. Crows of crows flew down, wild dogs that gnawed on the corpses barked and rushed away, and the crows flew away with a loud roar.
Walk.
Everyone dismounted, and after walking five or six miles south, General Bai, who was leading the team, pulled the horse's head down the official road, passed through a dilapidated market town, and walked two or three miles away from the main road.
Qin Jiuze looked up and saw figures on horseback walking nearby. Judging from the clothing, they were officers and soldiers. The sentry horses sent by various ministries did not go where they should go.
There is a walled house ahead. The entrance is quite grand, and it looks like a large family. The wall is intact, only the gate is broken, and the house is filled with smoke.
Mr. Bai pointed at the house, and the two riders jumped on their horses and ran around the house. When they returned to the gate, they nodded to Mr. Bai, who took the lead and walked towards the gate.
Qin Jiuze put his hand on the handle of the knife to prevent the blade from shaking back and forth. He led the horse with his left hand and followed him through the gate.
There were several officers and soldiers in the first entrance, cutting open a door leaf. They ignored Qin Jiuze and others. Mr. Bai walked around inside and continued to enter the second entrance. A woman came from a house on the west side.
There was a shrill cry, but Mr. Bai didn't look at it. He went straight to the door of Sanjin. Mr. Bai took a look and waved his hand to lead everyone.
Went in. There were other officers and soldiers inside the third entrance. The horses were tied to the pillars on the west side. Most of them were wearing cotton armor. I don’t know if they were servants of that battalion. When they saw the newcomers, they looked around carefully and saw Qin Jiuze and others.
People have no intention of provoking,
They ignored each other and didn't even ask which camp they were from.
A fire was burning in the open space, with billowing white smoke billowing into the sky. The officers and soldiers continued to smash a bed frame, and the fallen pieces of wood were thrown into the fire, causing sparks to fly everywhere.
An iron pot was placed directly on the firewood, with water boiling in it, and there were remaining ice cubes on the water.
Several servants were squatting next to the iron pot. There were three heads on the ground. The heads were full of hair, and they did not belong to Tatars at first glance. An officer and soldier was holding a razor and was shaving the head of one of them.
Qin Jiuze walked around the courtyard. There were blood stains and livestock excrement everywhere in the courtyard. Qing cavalry must have been briefly stationed here before. There were still several corpses piled in the corner outside the main house. All their clothes had been stripped off and there were knots on them.
Full
Frost, I can't even tell whether she is a boy or a girl.
President Bai stopped at the east wing of the third entrance, and everyone tied their horses to the pillars. Qin Jiuze did not look at the officers and soldiers, and searched for a while in the courtyard. After making sure that he could not find any fodder, he returned
He came to the captain's side and said, "The smoke is too conspicuous. The side door is small. It will be slow to take the horse out. We need someone on the roof."
Watch."
The captain said to one of his men, "Go to the rooftop and watch."
The man tilted his head and said, "It's very cold when the wind blows." The captain stared at him with fierce eyes. The cavalryman took two steps back in fear, and finally reluctantly climbed up the wall and climbed along the wall to the roof.
The captain threw a dirty blanket up from below, and the cavalryman caught it and wrapped it
, just lying on the ridge of the roof.
There was no movement in the three east wing rooms. Qin Jiuze opened a door and saw two pairs of feet hanging in the air. The skin was already black. Mr. Bai fanned them twice with his hand and turned around to go to the next room.
A group of people each looked for wood and went to the side room to light a fire. After a while, the temperature in the room began to rise.
Qin Jiuze leaned against the door frame, took out his bow and leaned it against the wall. The arrows were placed directly on the ground, and several arrow tails were within reach.
Among the officers and soldiers on the opposite side, some were looking at the horses tied to the pillars, and then secretly looked into the side room. Qin Jiuze's eyes were calm, but he always met those malicious glances.
After a while, the two sides judged that the other did not want to conflict, and gradually became accustomed to each other's presence, and no longer tested each other with their eyes. Qin Jiuze also relaxed a little, and a voice came from the room behind him. Mr. Bai said in a deep voice, "
Today we were sent on an errand to capture the deer sentry. Unexpectedly, Dou couldn't run that far, so he rested here until dark and returned to camp.
We arrived at the outskirts of Huolu City, but no Tatars were seen." A group of people responded, and no one thought this was inappropriate. They sent the Huolu sentry to go back and forth on the same day, which was a huge waste of horsepower, especially now that not only are there a shortage of beans, but also several
After thousands of Tartars passed by, not even a grain of fodder was left, and the horses had no physical strength.
If you don't take supplements properly, you will soon become thin and thin.
The mount is the basis for the cavalry to save their lives. Without supplies, no one wants to lose horsepower. There was a snapping sound in the yard, Qin Jiuze's eyes turned slowly, and the officer and soldier beside the iron pot grabbed a dripping cloth shoe and used the other hand to
Holding a head, the remaining hair of the head was spread out on the ground.
Ding raised his cloth shoe and slapped his hair vigorously, making it wet. Fine and dense water droplets flew everywhere. Qin Jiuze's wrinkled face was unruffled. These officers and soldiers wanted to eliminate the traces of bundling on his hair, because
Jian slaves do not know how to tie their hair, and there are no horizontal lines on their hair. If they want to pretend to be Jian slaves, patting and removing traces of hair is the first step.
Step one. One of the servants had almost finished filming. He used a few branches to set up a shelf, tied the hair of the head on it, and threw it into the pot with a thud. This was to make the head bigger and bigger for inspection.
No one vetoes the first-level merit
in accordance with.
Qin Jiuze squatted down along the edge of the door and sat on the threshold of the wing, his bow resting on his knees, listening to the people inside continue to talk.
"Mr. Xu, I heard that the Tatars reported by Yingtou went to Shanxi. Should we follow them back to Shanxi?"
The captain's voice asked, "Who reported it?"
"It was reported from Mr. Wang's town." Someone snorted, "The army has passed by with a large trail. Although it is covered with snow, if you sweep it away and look closely, you can see that the horse dung on the official road is heading south.
Yes, the people captured by the Tatars died along the way, and they followed those corpses to the south.
Just go west, does he think everyone is blind?"
The captain said in a cold voice, "Don't mention those who are running outside. If you say that the Tatars have gone south, the superior officer will send you to find out. If you find out, go and fight the Tatars. Then you can fight on your own."
Kill them."
The man stopped talking, and the captain continued, "Remember, everyone who asked told me they hadn't seen him."
It was quiet for a moment, Qin Jiuze frowned, the knife-like wrinkles between his eyebrows deepened, and buried his head.
After a while, Mr. Xu Bai's voice said, "Let's go find some more firewood. After a while, someone else comes back and there is no firewood. How can we survive this day?"
At this time, there was a cry outside, Qin Jiuze raised his head, and the cry entered the courtyard from the side door.
Qin Jiuze got up and went outside the corridor. He saw two people dressed as ordinary people being escorted by several servants. As soon as they entered the courtyard, they knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately.
"Caught two more."
The officers and soldiers who had just had their heads shaved shouted in joy, stood up and came to one of the common people, grabbed his hair, and looked at the man's head sideways, wondering if he was trying to estimate whether it was easy to fake. The man saw what was boiling in the pot.
The head was already terrified, and the whole body was shaking like chaff. He stammered and shouted, "Bing... Bing Ye, please forgive me. I fled into the mountains to hide from the Tatars. I shouldn't have come back to disturb the Bing Ye's purity. Please spare my life, Bing Ye."
, I will go back to the mountains immediately, Master Bing, woo..." In the yard in front of me, the burning wood made a crisp sound, thick smoke billowed up, and the servant was still desperately beating his hair with the soles of his shoes, water droplets
Flying everywhere, the two captured people screamed at the top of their lungs, begging for those
The officers and soldiers spared their lives, but the teammates on the roof huddled together, but they still did not forget to look down to watch the excitement.
Snowflakes fell on his eyebrows and piled up a thin layer. Qin Jiuze looked at the scene in front of him with dull eyes and exhaled a little white breath, "It's not easy for people to live."
…
On November 25, all business doors in Luqiao Town, Jining Prefecture were closed.
At the intersection outside the town, a row of six artillery pieces had their guns uncoated. The muzzles of the guns were facing the official road. The gunners were holding cotton bags of medicine in their arms. The sticks were at their feet, ready to start loading at any time.
More than a hundred armored infantry were on standby behind the artillery. Everyone was looking at the official road. Pang Yu also held up a telescopic telescope to observe. There was a huge flow of people on the official road ahead. A group of officers and soldiers without a flag were marching, but they were not going north.
Instead, I walked in the direction of Xuzhou in a hurry. I brought a lot of things with me, some of which
There were women on the cavalry's horses.
Chen Rulie said from the side, "Shandong Commander-in-Chief Ni Chong is retreating to Xuzhou."
Zhuang Chaozheng said in a calm tone, "Jiannu is in the north, why are they going south."
"They said that the Ministry of War did not transfer them to King Qin, so they could not violate military orders. They also asked us which officers and soldiers we were."
Tu Sili, who praised the studio, turned his head and looked at Chen Rulie, "How did Mr. Chen Qian answer him?"
"I told them that we were guest soldiers who were suppressing bandits in Fengdu's jurisdiction. We were not going to Qinwang. We were Ziweixing's plunderers in Xuzhou. We accidentally pursued them across the border."
Wu Dacai was beside Pang Yu. He didn't have a telescope. He squinted forward for a moment and then said to Pang Yu, "General, this Ni Chong must have been convinced before he turned around and ran south. Jianu may have arrived in Linqing."
Several gunners around heard it and turned their heads to take a peek.
In recent days, the atmosphere near Jining has also become tense. All the shops in the towns along the way have been closed, and the population has fled to the city or the countryside. If the goal of establishing slaves is Linqing, it may not stop in Linqing. Pang Yu is coming
Qing is only a few days away. Not only can we not go to Dezhou, but we can't go to Linqing either. We hardly dare to take a step forward. It seems inappropriate to go back. The soldiers will have doubts in their hearts. For now, they can only stay in Luqiao.
But today Ni Chong caused such a scene and turned around and fled, which will definitely affect the morale of the Anqing camp.
Pang Yu asked Chen Rulie, "What's the new news on the road? Have the rangers discovered the whereabouts of Jiannu in Linqing?" "The rangers haven't replied yet, but Ni Chong, whom I met in the lower post, said it in a praise painting, saying that the Tatars
They besieged Xianxian County and were about to go to Linqing, but people who came later said that Jiannu had gone to Shandong, and there was Tangma who was going south. He was on the way.
I heard rumors that the Jian slaves would leave from Shanxi after attacking Linqing."
"Shanxi? After fighting Linqing, leave from Shanxi..."
Pang Yu squatted on the ground, and several people gathered in a circle to look at the rough map. Their information was very vague, and they had no idea where Jiannu was or what his target was. If the Qing army attacked Linqing first, they would move from east to west.
Sweeping across, and then exiting from Shanxi, it is indeed a route that Pang Yu has never thought of before, because after entering Shanxi, there are endless mountains, the road is closed and difficult to navigate, and it is a long snake.
If the Qing army is blocked, it will be difficult to exert the Qing army's combat power. The Qing army itself has tens of thousands of people, with a large number of additional carriages, and it will also carry the plundered population on the return trip. The queue will be very large, and normal people will not choose this
route, but the soldiers are cunning and will indeed be surprised. Pang Yu is also
I dare not say that the Qing army would not go like that. Pang Ding, who was listening, turned to look at a few people and said to Pang Yu, "Sir, I think Jiannu has just started to rob it. There are too many places to rob. Maybe Jiannu
I don’t even know where I’m going to rob, so I just go there unprepared.
They make random guesses, and if something goes wrong, they will run into them. It is better to wait here until the Jiannu retreat. If they want to retreat out of the border, they must go north. As long as there is only one direction, it will be easier to guess."
Pang Yu nodded approvingly, "This is the safest way." They discussed for a while, but still couldn't figure it out. They could only decide to wait in Luqiao for another day, while Chen Rulie and others returned to their respective camps, and Pang Yu and others dispersed.
, covered his face with his hands and cursed in a low voice, "Where on earth are your fucking slave slaves? Who can give me accurate information?"