After the defeat of Tongzhou, the rebels who had gathered for profit immediately dispersed.
At this time, it is important to escape. Everyone knows that the situation is over, and the previous overwhelming momentum and invincibility are over. If you don't run at this time, you will really be killed if you are caught.
This Jizhen mutiny caused disaster to the gentry in more than a dozen prefectures and counties. Not only were their belongings looted, but many of them were beaten and killed. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were all recruited from the floating population. Who can farm if they have land?
Go be a soldier. These days, being a soldier is not a profession with a good reputation. It is not even easy to get a wife.
The reason why they became a floating population was because of the oppression and exploitation of the gentry in these places, which caused them to lose their land and even their relatives. They had a deep hatred for these gentry masters.
When the order was in chaos, they vented their inner anger to their heart's content.
Without the protection of order, these usually aloof men became lambs to be slaughtered.
But now, the situation has changed again, they have been defeated, and the old order is about to be restored. Those gentry who escaped will inevitably launch crazy revenge. Under the protection of the camp soldiers and guard soldiers, they come back, and they will naturally not
Let go of these rebel soldiers and people who take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble.
For a moment, there was a rumble and the air became tense. The emperor and the cabinet issued orders one after another to arrest the rebels. The civil servants in various places who had been frightened like quails were as scared as chicken blood.
They acted quickly and blocked the entrance and exit of the entire Shuntian Mansion. They were looking for deserters everywhere.
At this time, it was already the third day of the defeat of Tongzhou. A large group of rebels were fleeing toward the northeast.
This group of people is very large, with more than 7,000 rebels. Including their families, there are no less than 40,000 to 50,000 people. They support the old and the young, carry baggage, and drive the stolen donkey carts, horse-drawn carriages, and ox carts.
He ran quickly along the official road with the stolen property.
In a carriage sat a girl, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, leaning on a woman in her early thirties. She asked worriedly: "Mother, where are we running to?"
"Let's go out of the Great Wall. Not far ahead is Da'ankou. Your father's old troops are there. As long as you escape from the Great Wall, you will be safe."
"Mom, I'm so scared. Why are you rebelling? Aren't we doing well in Jizhou?"
"Alas! Your father has offended someone. Someone is interested in the fifteen hundred elite soldiers in your father's hands. Your father refuses to let them go. They are your father's lifeblood. Your father went to the Chief Soldier for help. The Chief Soldier
Your father wants you to be his concubine, but your father is reluctant to let you go. If the soldiers in Jizhou hadn't rebelled, we might have been ruined. Alas!"
The girl looked out the car window with confused eyes, wondering what would happen when she got to the grassland. She was very scared and leaned against her mother again.
Huang Tengyuan rode on the side of the carriage, frowning. He was afraid of another pursuit, so he kept urging him to go faster. There was someone who couldn't keep up, so he didn't care and just stayed behind.
He left a camp head at Da'ankou, with more than 380 people, just for the purpose of getting out of the camp in case of failure.
He saw the opportunity very early. On the high slope, as soon as he saw that the front was defeated, he immediately ran back to the camp with the three thousand soldiers and horses he had gathered during this period, and ran away with his family papers. The other rebel officers were not fools either.
Seeing him running away, he immediately took his family scrolls and gold and silver and followed him.
Everyone understands that Huang Tengyuan is the Dusi, and he is considered a big official here. This guy must have prepared a way out for himself. There are two passes on the Great Wall that are guarded by his people. Only by running with him can you find a way out.
The coexistence of the army and the soldiers is a unique military system of the Ming Dynasty. The army is the guard soldier, and the soldier is the camp soldier. These are two completely separate systems.
The military-affiliated garrison consists of small flags, general banners, hundreds of households, thousands of households, guard commanders, and capital commanders, all the way up to the governor's office of the Five Armies. The officers and officers of the guard station are hereditary, and only the governor's office and the governor's office of the five armies are not.
Hereditary, it is a floating official, selected and awarded by the officials of the health station and the military examination. The military battalion is composed of a commander, a captain, a sentry officer, a commander, a garrison, a general, a guerrilla, a staff general, a deputy commander, and a commander.
, directly under the Ministry of War. Soldiers are generally not hereditary, except for those who are transferred from the garrison army to the army.
The Dusi in the camp is not the Dusi in short for the Commander-in-Chief in the garrison system. It is the head of the military attache of a province. After Yang Fan won the Northwest War, the official position assigned by Chongzhen was the Dusi of Suiyuan Province.
The battalion soldier Dusi is younger than the guerrilla general and can be considered a mid-level officer.
Huang Tengyuan, the Dusi, only had 1,500 soldiers and horses under him. He was responsible for the defense of the two passes of Da'ankou and Qingshuikou, as well as the defense of more than 20 towns behind the passes. He was considered a frontier general and was responsible for guarding the front line of the Great Wall.
Zunhua and Jizhou are both on the edge of the Great Wall, and many soldiers and horses in these places are responsible for guarding the Great Wall.
As a result, the number of people in the fleeing team soon increased. They encountered deserters and stragglers who were making trouble along the way. When they heard the news of Tongzhou's defeat, they immediately made a wise choice. Those who had no way out joined in.
This team.
Huang Tengyuan knew that Uncle Dingyuan had swept the grassland clean. Now the Monan grassland was uninhabited for thousands of miles. The Ming army was mainly concentrated along the Liaohe River.
Many fortresses were built there to block the Jiannu in Liaodong.
Instead, the grassland has become a vacuum zone. Finding a place with abundant water and grass and settling there is also a way to survive.
They were most nervous last night when they were crossing the edge of Dingyuan Bo's territory.
They were afraid of being intercepted by Dingyuan Bo's private soldiers. They had been beaten to death by the Xinghe regiment on the battlefield. The defeated soldiers who came from Xianghe also told them in exaggerated words how terrible those regiment drills were.
As soon as they heard about Uncle Dingyuan's troops, they were frightened out of their wits.
Even though they were crossing a forest on the edge, they were still very scared.
In the southeast of a small river, there is a mound. On that mound stands a huge earth building made of concrete and stones. It is irregular in the shape of a gear. It looks very hideous and terrifying.
The height of the earth building is fully fifteen meters, and several towers on the wall are as high as twenty-five meters. It is rare to see such tall buildings similar to European castles in this era. There are also huge carbide lamps on those towers.
It was impossible for such a large team not to be discovered. But for some reason, no one came to attack them. Maybe it was because there were too many of them.
Huang Dengyuan and Tong Jianye urged everyone to pass quickly. They knew that there were artillery on Dingyuanbo's castle. They must not provoke them.
The team quickly entered the woods, lighting torches in the dark night.
"Ah! What is that," an old man exclaimed.
There was a dark shadow hanging from a branch in the distance.
"Ah! There are them here too. They are everywhere."
Huang Dengyuan and Tong Jianye immediately rode on horseback to take a look. They took a breath of air-conditioning. Under the light of the torches of the soldiers, the woods were filled with dead corpses of the rebels. It was summer, and the stench was astounding. Many of them were seriously rotten and even
