"Father, my family has fought for the Ming Dynasty for generations. Do you really want to help the Qing Dynasty become the enemy of the Ming Dynasty?"
Peng Chaozhu's eldest son, fourteen-year-old Peng Dingwen asked his father.
Looking at his son's brave yet childish face, Peng Chaozhu seemed to see his former self.
"Son! Haven't my family shed enough blood for the Ming Dynasty? In the Battle of Hunhe, how many family members died for the country? But apart from a few posthumous official positions, what did they get? Now that the Qing Dynasty has occupied most of the country, sooner or later the world will be Their academician Hong begged the regent, "We don't have to shave our heads to change our clothes. Surrendering to the Qing Dynasty does not mean we have failed our ancestors."
"But, father, I heard that Chen Youlong, the pioneer of the Ming army, was nicknamed the 'Five Hell Kings'. He was extremely cruel and liked to skin people alive. My son is afraid that he will destroy our village!"
Peng Chaozhu sneered and said: "Why, Ding'er is afraid? I, a Bijika, am the Queen of the White Tiger. You usually claim that you can subdue a tiger with your strength, so is Chen Youlong more powerful than a tiger?"
Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers. The word "fear" annoyed the fourteen-year-old Peng Ding. Nothing can stimulate a warrior more than this word.
The Bijika people grew up in the mountains and forests, and became an adult warrior at the age of fourteen. As the eldest son of the chieftain, Peng Ding was even more amazing in martial arts, and was able to hunt alone at the age of eleven.
"Father, my son is willing to go to Wuzhai Division to fight against Chen Youlong."
Peng Chaozhu was very pleased to see his son's heroic appearance. These are the descendants of the Peng family.
"Ding'er, if you lead a thousand men and horses to Wuzhaisi, you will fake defeat and lead the Ming army to Caoziping. For my father, you will lead five thousand men to set up an ambush at Caoziping, and you will be able to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop."
Baojing chieftain uses "flag" as the unit to manage the native people. There are sixteen flags: tiger, leopard, wide, wisdom, strategy, courage, power, drive, Biao, victory, closeness, benefit, flying, good, first and town. .Can mobilize up to 6,000 local soldiers. Peng Chaozhu is ready to mobilize the entire clan's troops to fight.
Peng Ding brought the tiger, leopard, and Guang banner soldiers to Wuzhaisi.
"Soldiers, follow me and charge!"
Ming guerrilla Nie Ming led his troops to charge up the mountain.
With a shield on his left and a sword on his right, he moved and jumped, as nimble as a spirit fox. A stone as big as a millstone hit him head-on, and he rolled to the side and easily avoided it.
"Whoosh!"
Peng Ding and Nie Ming shot an arrow.
What a Nie Ming, listen to the sound and identify the position, an iron bridge, a cold arrow passes by.
Peng Ding secretly lamented that it was a pity and issued a military order to retreat.
The Baojing native soldiers disappeared without a trace along the trail behind the mountain.
"Hahaha!"
Nie Ming laughed loudly. These local soldiers were simply vulnerable to our Wugang army.
Peng Ding fled, Nie Ming chased him, Chen Youlong took Sun Hua with him, and Zhang Dasheng cut off the rear.
Qiliang Cave, Miao Valley, Feishui Valley??
One after another, the mountain strongholds fell into the hands of the Ming army.
Chen Youlong was very proud: "These two Peng are famous in western Hunan. I didn't expect them to be beaten so easily. It's not satisfying!"
Sun Hua complimented repeatedly: "How dare Er Peng offend his elder brother Hu Wei?"
Zhang Dasheng also joked: "Brother, those two men were afraid that you would skin them, so they ran very fast. If you don't catch up, hurry up, or you won't be able to catch up."
Chen Youlong laughed loudly: "Tell the brothers to chase faster and catch Peng Chaozhu. I will be rewarded heavily!"
In the blink of an eye, they chased them to the bottom of a slope in Caoziping. The mountain road was rugged and the Ming army could not maintain their formation. They were in twos and threes, with men and horses exhausted.
Peng Chaozhu ordered his subordinates to blow the clarion call for attack.
"Woo!"
The loud horn sound resounded throughout the valley.
Baojing native soldiers came out from the hillside, at the foot of the mountain, and from all directions to kill.
Although the Bijika people are small in number, they are very fierce and have been recharging their strength. Although Chen Youlong's tribe is also an elite division, they are not familiar with the geography, and they were very tired after chasing for a long time.
When the battle started, Chen Youlong couldn't resist, so he had to retreat while fighting.
Nie Ming's troops were at the front, and he could only break up the rear during the retreat.
Peng Ding shot another arrow, which penetrated into Nie Ming's right shoulder with a "porphy" sound.
After Nie Ming endured the pain, he covered the main force and retreated to Yuanzhou Yanmen.
Under normal circumstances, this small arrow wound would not kill Nie Ming. All of the Wugang Army are tough men.
However, the arrows of the Bijika people are poisonous, and the arrows of Lao Peng's family are tempered with the venom of poisonous snakes in the mountains, which are extremely poisonous.
After Nie Ming returned to camp, he felt dizzy and breathless for a moment.
"Naruko-chan!"
Chen Youlong was heartbroken and burst into tears. Nie Ming, Sun Hua, and Zhang Dasheng were all his brothers, so how could there be no reason not to feel pain?
Yan Zungao's army rushed to Yanmen.
As soon as I arrived at Yanmen, I saw a lean man with a dark face, his upper body naked and tied with wattle sticks, kneeling at the gate of the camp.
If you look closely, it turns out to be Chen Youlong.
"Mr. Chen, what are you doing?"
"The general is incompetent and has violated the military order. Please ask the commander to behead the general to order the three armies."
Yan Zungao sighed: "I don't blame the general for this battle, it's my commander who underestimated the enemy."
Swing your sword and cut off a strand of hair, "Let this hair suffer the punishment on behalf of the general."
Chen Youlong was grateful and ashamed at the same time, and vowed to show off in the next battle.
Things in the world are always unpredictable. The Ming army just suffered a disaster and encountered another good news.
Peng Yingchu, chieftain of Liangjiangkou, has arrived.
The Liangjiangkou Chief Division was originally part of the Xuanwei Division of Baojing Prefecture. It was truly connected by blood, and two characters of "Peng" could not be written in one stroke. It is a pity that they split more than a hundred years ago and fought for hundreds of years, and they became enemies.
This is also a common problem in large families. If the family is large, the property will be large, and the descendants will have great conflicts. If the family is small, the property will be small, and the children will live in harmony until they grow old.
Peng Yingchu was overjoyed after receiving the letter from Governor Gao Doushu.
"Well, Peng Chaozhu, you usually bully the Peng family in Baojing and bully the Peng family in our two rivers. Today, I just used the imperial court to destroy you."
Peng Yingchu brought two thousand subordinates, not many soldiers, but they were familiar with the geography of Baojing Prefecture.
"Commander, there is a path behind this mountain, and you can make a sneak attack from here."
"Commander, there are many caves here. You can send people to search. Be careful of enemies setting up ambushes."
"Commander, there is water here."
"Commander??"
With Peng Yingchu as the leading party, the Ming army was already much larger than the Baojing native soldiers. Soon, they took the initiative in the war. They were so powerful that they defeated Wuzhaisi, Caozipingsi, Huayuan and other places, approaching.
Baojingzhou City.
Peng Chaozhu hurriedly sent condolences to Yongshun envoy Peng Hongpeng, Qingchen Chang general Xu Yong, Youyang chieftain Ran Tianlin, and Sangzhi chieftain asked Ding for help.
Although the Ran family of Youyang and the Peng family of Baojing are related by marriage, brothers Ran Tianlin and Ran Tianyu had witnessed the power of the imperial court during Chen Bangyan's campaign against the puppet Chu king Zhu Rongfan. Not only did they refuse to send troops, but they persuaded Peng Chaozhu to surrender to the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible to avoid
Get into trouble.
Xu Yong had few soldiers and was huddled in Chenzhou City, not daring to rescue him.
Peng Hongpeng, the envoy to comfort Yongshun, contacted his in-laws, and Xiang Ding, the envoy to comfort Sang Zhi, prepared to rescue Baojing Prefecture.
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Wearing a blue robe and a Confucian shirt, with long hair tied up, and a beautiful face, the Xuanfu envoy Tian Peilin, who is full of elegance, is painting a picture.
Under the spring breeze behind the pen, a picture of a beautiful woman appears vividly on the paper.
The Ganbansheren (local official in charge of writing and reception) came to report: "Envoy Xuanfu and Gaofutai have brought a letter from Governor Wen."
"Letter from Duke Wen?"
Tian Peilin was overjoyed and immediately went out to welcome him. After thinking about it, he realized that it was inappropriate. Today is my five-day bathing break. It would be rude to entertain guests without bathing.
Take a bath first and see the messenger again.
Among the chieftains in western Hunan, the Rongmei Tian family and the Youyang Ran family were both from scholarly families. The Rongmei Tian family was especially famous. The Tian family had regulations that prohibited those who had not entered school from being appointed chieftains. Successive chieftains were both chieftains and great poets.
Especially Tian Xuan, Tian Peilin’s father, is the most famous.
Influenced by his father, Tian Peilin is proficient in Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. He firmly believes in the Taoist teaching of "one bath every three days and one bath every five days."
The ancients' bathing and bathing were not the same thing. Wash: sprinkle your feet; bath: sprinkle your hands. Mu: brush your hair; bath: sprinkle your body.
"One bath every three days, one bath every five days." Doesn't poet Tian Da wash his body only once every five days?
Exactly.
It's not that he doesn't pay attention to hygiene, but that he pays attention to health.
"Thousands of colds are easy to get rid of, but one dampness is difficult to get rid of." The "Huangdi Neijing" says: The spleen is the main organ that manages the acquired health of the body ("The spleen is the foundation of acquired nature"); but it is most afraid of water ("The spleen is evil of dampness")
, moisture will damage the operation of other systems of the body; "Spleen belongs to five", bathing cannot be done every day, "one bath every five days" is the most appropriate interval.
Today happens to be the fifth round, so it would be rude to meet guests without washing up.
The servant sprinkled Angelica dahurica, peach bark, cypress leaves, Lingling, and green wood incense in the incense bucket.
Tian Peilin took off his clothes and went into the bath. While washing, he recited a poem: "The bathing orchid soup is full of fragrance, and the beautiful clothes are like a young woman. The soul is curled up and left, and the death is far away."
After bathing, come to see the messenger.
"Your Majesty has come a long way to work hard, where is Duke Wen's letter?"
The messenger takes out the letter.
Tian Peilin opened the letter and found two poems inside.
One of the poems was written by his father Tian Xuan before his death, "When the deceased bids farewell to his late master, he hugs his nose to increase the bitterness. Determined to stay in the Jin Dynasty for a lifetime, he would rather forget the fifth generation of Korea. It is easy to move towards the new group, and he is nostalgic for the old and resists the difficulties. No matter what, there are many disciples.
Not dismissed from office."
My father was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and his poems are full of nostalgia for the Ming Dynasty. Seeing the decline of the Ming Dynasty, his old man fell ill and passed away.
The second poem was written by his third brother Tian Ganlin, "The autumn water is miserable, the river bridge is long and we are saying goodbye. Slowly follow the steps of the red elephant, and chant the poem of the white horse. The sound of the country's subjugation is the same, but the road to homelessness is twice as different."
When Wen Anzhi knew his father's loyalty, he went to Rongmei in person and wrote a preface to his father's "Collection of Xiubitang Poems". He was very grateful. When Wen Anzhi left Rongmei, he asked his third brother to write this poem "Sending Mr. Wen Tie'an to Go"
Shizhou》Send off.
Scenes from the past!
Tian Peilin controlled the tears in his eyes and asked in a deep voice: "What does Gao Futai entrust you to do with the letter from Duke Wen?"
"The imperial court is attacking the Peng family of Baojing, and is afraid that the Peng family and Sangzhi of Yongshun will rescue Baojing, and wants to ask the Duke to lead troops to harass Yongshun and Sangzhi so that they cannot save each other."
Tian Peilin said seriously: "The imperial court has orders, and I dare not resign. Please report back to Duke Gao, and Rongmei will send troops immediately."
After sending the envoy off, Tian Peilin called his younger brothers Tian Jilin, Tian Ganlin, and Tian Sulin, as well as Shuijin chieftain Tang Zhenbang, Shinan chieftain Qin Maocong, and Dongxiang chieftain Qin Shengwu. These three chieftains all obeyed Rongmei's orders. They sent 10,000 troops to attack Yongshun respectively.
Chieftain Peng Hongpeng, chieftain Sangzhi Xiangding.
Peng Hongpeng heard from Xiang Ding that Tian Peilin's troops had arrived and had no time to rescue Peng Chaozhu. He led more than ten thousand troops to confront Tian Peilin.
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Without reinforcements, Peng Chaozhu could no longer support him.
Baojingzhou, the city was destroyed.
"Light the fire!"
Peng Chaozhu ordered his servants.
"Master", the old housekeeper burst into tears and couldn't bear to light a fire.
Peng Chaozhu said angrily: "Are you going to let me suffer the humiliation of being captured?"
He grabbed the torch and lit the pyre.
The Peng family's mansion was saved and burned into a sea of fire.
In the fire, a voice shouted hoarsely.
"Ancestors, please forgive me for being such an unfilial descendant! The 600-year-old foundation of the Baojing Peng family has been completely destroyed in my hands!"
Peng Ding wielded his two axes and fought back from the city, hoping to save his father and break out. Unexpectedly, the house was already in flames.
"Father!"
With a mournful cry, they rushed towards the Ming army. The axes were radiating, and heads fell to the ground.
"Bang", there was a gunshot, and there was a big hole in Peng Ding's chest, his eyes widened, and he fell down in disbelief.
"I will kill this thief."
A Ming army general said to the governor behind him.
Zhenfu nodded and wrote down the general's name and military exploits.
After the reform of the military system, Zhu Hengjia strictly prohibited beheading to record military merits, and instead had military disciplinary officers such as Zhenfu record military merits. This effectively prevented the occurrence of arbitrary beheadings during combat, which would affect the combat situation.
Chen Youlong rushed into Baojingzhou City. When he heard that Peng Chaozhu had set himself on fire, he cursed: "The old thief harmed my sworn brother. I wanted to skin you for revenge, but I didn't expect you to die so quickly. I have taken advantage of you, an old thief."
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After capturing the city of Baojing Prefecture, Yan Zungao discovered a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry and grain in the Peng Mansion's warehouse, enough to cover the expenses of an army of 100,000 for four or five months.
These toasts are so rich!
After looking at the map for a while, Yan Zungao decided to go all out and attack Yongshun and Sangzhi.
He summoned the generals to discuss.
"Generals, the main forces of Peng Hongpeng and Xiang Ding are restrained by Tian Peilin, and the rear is empty. Do you dare to fight again?"
"The last general will obey the commander's orders."
Seeing that the generals were highly motivated to fight, Yan Zungao was overjoyed. He had far more soldiers and horses than the enemy, so he decided to divide his troops to attack various places.
Li Chixin's troops captured Nanweizhou and Lajadong; Chen Youlong's troops captured Maichuhuang Cave and Shicheng Cave; Liu Wenxiu's troops captured Tianjia Cave and Lvchi Cave; Gao Bizheng captured Shangxi Prefecture; Ma Jinzhong defeated Bai
Cliff Cave.
Of the three states and six holes in the Yongshun Xuanwei Division, only Peng Hongpeng’s home base of Shi Rongzhou remained unconquered.
When Peng Hongpeng heard that the Ming army had entered Yongshun, he stopped entangled with Tian Peilin and led his army back to Shi Rongzhou.
Yan Zungao surrounded Shi Yuzhou heavily and ordered Yang Fuchen to divide 10,000 troops to attack Sangzhi.
Chieftain Sangzhi Xiang Dingzheng fought with Tian Jilin and Tian Ganlin. Unexpectedly, the Ming army came from behind. He only had four thousand soldiers and horses, so how could he survive the two-pronged attack? He was defeated and his head was chopped off by Yang Fuchen.
In Shi Rongzhou, the gloomy atmosphere is heavy.
When a disaster approached, Yongshun Xuanwei envoy Peng Hongpeng convened the tribesmen for discussion.
"Alas! The Peng family of Yongshun has been loyal to the Ming Dynasty for generations. Unexpectedly, I turned out to be a rebel. Now there are only five thousand soldiers and horses in the city, but there are a hundred thousand Ming troops outside the city. Shi Rongzhou, a small city, cannot stop the large army.
You can take my head and surrender to the Ming army, and you can still leave some blood for the Peng family."
"Father, my son is willing to live and die with his father!"
The second son Peng Zhaoxiang burst into tears.
"Idiot, what's the use of dying? You must live well."
Peng Hongpeng burst into tears.
The eldest son Peng Zhaoheng said: "Father, why don't you dedicate the city to preserve the clan?"
Peng Hongpeng sighed: "Now, even if Xianshi Rongcheng surrenders, I'm afraid it's too late."
Peng Zhaoheng said: "The city I mentioned is not the city of Shirong, but the city of Chenzhou."
This chapter has been completed!