Five days later, Shang Yi led the army to Yishui County. At this time, news came that the Qing army sent troops from Hejian Prefecture with the passage and began to go south. They divided the troops into two groups. One group defeated Jinan Prefecture with the passage, and the other group
Linqing Prefecture, which was under the jurisdiction of Dongchang Prefecture, was captured.
Jinan Prefecture and Qingzhou Prefecture are adjacent to each other, and the distance between the capital Jinan City and Qingzhou City is less than three hundred miles. At the speed of the Qing Army's cavalry, it can be said that they will arrive in the blink of an eye.
Although Shang Yi knew that after capturing Jinan Prefecture, the Qing Army did not take advantage of the victory to attack Qingzhou. Instead, they marched all the way south and captured Yanzhou. Then they divided their forces into two groups. One group crossed the Yellow River and continued southward, while the other group turned eastward.
They attacked Laizhou, Dengzhou, Haizhou and other coastal areas of Shandong, but did not reach Qingzhou for the time being.
But Shang Yi did not dare to take it lightly, because the Qing army's five raids southward before officially entering the pass did not gather the entire army together, but dispersed it into more than ten groups, each with its own leader and its own, and attacked the Ming Dynasty separately.
various places. On the one hand, it was because the Ming army attacked the Qing army several times and had little effective resistance, which made the Qing army dare to boldly divide its troops. On the other hand, it was also because the Qing army wanted to expand the scope of the attack.
In order to plunder more people and wealth. Once they encountered the Ming army with strong resistance, they gathered several Qing armies near the place and attacked them together. In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen (1640)
), this is how Lu Xiangsheng was surrounded by a large group of Qing troops, outnumbered, and died in defeat.
Although the main force of the Qing army went south to attack Yanzhou Prefecture this time, who can guarantee that there will not be a partial division attacking Qingzhou Prefecture. Even if they do not attack Qingzhou City, they can still plunder Qingzhou Prefecture.
Therefore, Shang Yi did not dare to delay. He did not enter Yishui County and directly led the troops back to Qingshui Village. When the villagers of the several villages that formed the group learned that they had returned, they rushed to Qingshui Village to welcome the army.
Return.
As soon as the troops and horses approached Qingshui Village, the waiting villagers immediately gathered around, each looking for their relatives. After finding them, the family hugged each other, crying and laughing. Those who could not find them shouted loudly.
They were squeezing through the crowd while remembering the names of their relatives. When they couldn't find it, they gathered around the large trucks transporting the remains of the soldiers, and everyone listened in shock and fear as they heard what was going on in the cars.
People roll call.
The person whose name was called immediately burst into tears, while everyone else breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked nervously at the person who signed up in the car, fearing that they would hear the names of their relatives from his mouth. The whole thing
The scene suddenly became a mess.
At this time, Zhou Shiqi and two young men from Shang Yi's family, Liu Rui and Li Qing, also squeezed into the crowd, found Shang Yi, and after leaving him, briefly explained the situation in the nearby villages.
It turned out that after Shang Yi led the army to set off, Zhou Shiqi also immediately began to arrange the transfer of villagers according to Shang Yi's instructions before leaving. The first to evacuate were the villagers who planned to move to Qingzhou City to escape. At this time, the Qing army invaded Shandong
The news has spread. Many of the villagers were lucky enough to have escaped from the last Qin army's robbery. Many people's expressions changed after hearing this. In addition, Shang Yi is not here now.
That’s why people are panicking.
Many villagers also wanted Zhou Shiqi's arrangement, because people felt that hiding in a big city was safer than staying in the village. Therefore, after Zhou Shiqi's order, villagers in several villages immediately started to pack up their soft belongings.
Relocation began. In fact, many refugees had already fled to Qingzhou Prefecture at this time, but thanks to the protection of the auxiliary regiment soldiers, the villagers arrived in Qingzhou City very smoothly and settled at the location designated by the prefect Meng Honggong.
And Huang Dongling and Zhao Yinghao stayed in Qingzhou Mansion to maintain order.
After the relocation to Qingzhou Prefecture was completed, and although the reconstruction work of Muling Pass had not been completed at this time, there was no rush to wait. Therefore, Zhou Shiqi immediately began to transfer people to Muling Pass, and the Tang Dynasty who was stationed at Muling Pass
After the town learned about it, they also ordered to stop most of the ongoing construction projects in Mulingguan and instead built a large number of simple shacks to accommodate the arrival of villagers.
Therefore, when Shang Yi returned to Qingshui Village, some villagers had moved to Mulingguan. And those who are still in the village are basically the families of soldiers, and they are also making preparations for relocation.
After listening to Zhou Shiqi's story, Shang Yi immediately jumped on a big car and said loudly: "Folks, please be quiet, please be quiet. Listen to me."
After shouting a few times, the villagers and soldiers all became quiet. Shang Yi then said: "Folks, I know that after you are all reunited with your relatives, you still have a lot to say. There is also the war at that time.
To the families of the dead brothers, I know you must be feeling unhappy. But don’t worry, I will never ignore you, and all the pensions will remain the same. But now is not the time to talk about this, because the Tatars have invaded us again.
Our homes have now been captured by Jinan Prefecture, and we will soon attack Qingzhou Prefecture. Qingshui Village will definitely not be able to hold it, so we must move to Mulingguan as soon as possible, otherwise we will wait for the Tatars to come.
, everyone is in danger."
Only then did the villagers and soldiers realize that the danger was approaching, and they immediately caused a small discussion. Shang Yi paused for a moment, and after the discussion calmed down a little, he said: "So we can't rest at home now.
I reunited with my family and started preparing to collect my things immediately. We will set off early tomorrow morning and rush to Muling Pass immediately. Only when we reach Muling Pass will we be considered safe. And the soldiers, we will have to protect the villagers all the way tomorrow.
So if you want to be intimate with your wife and daughter-in-law tonight, just bear it a little longer! Otherwise, you won't have the energy to rush on tomorrow morning, and we won't wait for him."
The last sentence immediately caused a burst of laughter from the soldiers and villagers, because the soldiers were mostly young people with strong blood, and many of them had just been married for a few years, and the relationship between husband and wife was in full swing.
It’s almost half a month. Most couples have never been apart for such a long time. It’s the time to make firewood. Therefore, many people have the idea of making up for the losses of the past few days tonight. After listening to Shang Yi’s words,
Many young wives were waiting with their faces flushed with embarrassment, many soldiers were also joking with each other, and there was another commotion.
After the crowd's noise subsided again, Shang Yi said: "Okay, I've said all that needs to be said. You all can go home. But remember, we will all gather at Qingshui Village early tomorrow morning. Let's set off.
Rush to Mulinguan. If you want to be intimate, I will give you three days of leave after arriving at Mulinguan. You will stay in bed and no one will care about you."
Everyone burst into laughter again, and then they dispersed one after another.
Shang Yi went to pay homage to the families of the soldiers who died in the battle, and told them that they would transport the bodies of these soldiers to Mulingguan for unified burial, or hold a grand funeral for them. The sympathy of the family members continued every month in the future.
The supplies were kept as usual. At the same time, they were told to go home quickly to pack up and prepare to move tomorrow. These family members also thanked Shang Yi profusely, and then bid farewell to Shang Yi with tears, and went home to prepare.
Then Shang Yi asked Liu Rui and Li Qing to help carry his luggage, and then led the Xu brothers and sisters back to his home.
Because Ye Yaoyao knew that there were many people today and many villagers were waiting for their relatives, she did not go to the entrance of the village. She just asked Liu Rui and Li Qing to pick up Shang Yi at the village entrance. While she, Liu Ma, and Xiao Qiu , Yun'er and others stayed at home and prepared a table of meals, just waiting for him to come back.
Before he even entered, Liu Rui shouted at the door, "Little lady, the master is back."
At this time, Ye Yaoyao was busy in the kitchen. After hearing Liu Rui's shout, she immediately rushed out of the kitchen and said in surprise: "Is it brother who is back?"
Just when Shang Yi came in from the door, he also rushed forward a few steps, stretched out his hands, hugged Ye Yaoyao in his arms, turned around twice, and said: "Yaoyao, during these days, I'm afraid I'll let you down again."
Such an action is naturally a bit shocking in this era, but several people in Shang Yi's family are from ordinary farmers and are not so particular. Secondly, they are used to Shang Yi not deliberately avoiding other people at home and directly talking to him. Ye Yaoyao expressed her love for her with some intimate gestures, so she was not surprised. She acted as if she hadn't seen anything and just moved Shang Yi's luggage into the house and took it upstairs. But Liu's mother Xiaoqiu and Yun'er also didn't look sideways, just serving the cooked meals.
Only then did Ye Yaoyao see the two children standing outside the door. She could tell that they had come back with Shang Yi. She said, "Brother, did you bring them back?"
Only then did Shang Yi remember that he had forgotten the two of them, turned around and waved, saying: "Xu Li, Xu Yuan, come in quickly."
In fact, Xu Li and Xu Yuan have become more familiar with Shang Yi in the past few days, but they are still children after all. It is their first time to return to Shang Yi's house, and they see strangers in this house, so they instinctively A little fear arose. After hearing Shang Yi's greeting, although he also entered the house, he looked timid.
Shang Yi then briefly told Ye Yaoyao and the rest of the family about Xu Li and Xu Yuan's life experiences.
After hearing this, Ye Yaoyao couldn't help but feel a surge of pity. She walked over, held one in each hand, squatted in front of the two children, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, you will live with us from now on. Consider this your home."
In fact, Xu Li and Xu Yuan had heard Shang Yi talking about Ye Yaoyao along the way. And seeing that she was very beautiful, they couldn't help but feel a little close to her. After hearing Ye Yaoyao's words, Xu Yuan timidly said: " Are you Aunt Ye? We heard Uncle Shang talking about you."
Ye Yaoyao smiled brightly, touched her head and said: "By the way, you can call me aunt from now on!" Then he said: "Okay, let's eat now, and we will arrange accommodation for you two later. "