A small part of Bailuyuan on the eastern outskirts of Xi'an Prefecture is under the jurisdiction of Chang'an County, and most of it is the territory of Lantian County.
Since the rise of the Qin State, this has been the Guanzhong area. It is a choke point to prevent the Guandong from attacking Chang'an. Its geographical location is extremely important.
On Bailuyuan, Jingyu Valley, with a drop of nearly 200 meters, is a small natural reservoir.
Over the years, due to drought, farmers in Bailuyuan have launched a bloody struggle for water at the bottom of the Jingyu Valley.
In the capital city, the Eight Banners disciples fought in groups, only dozens or hundreds of people at most.
In Bailuyuan, there were at least several thousand farmers fighting for water.
Even though they are just low-level people, when they grab water, they are much more cruel than bandits.
There is no way, the water at the bottom of the ditch is very limited.
If the clan surnamed Bai gets more water, the land of the clan surnamed Lu will have less water and no harvest. And vice versa.
After so many years of fighting, the two clans, Bai and Lu, have hundreds of lives to pay each other. To be honest, the hatred between each other has become so strong that it cannot be resolved.
Yuzhu knew how powerful it was to grab water, so he gathered three thousand new troops without hesitation.
To be honest, there were too few officers and soldiers to suppress them at all. This is because once the people trying to grab water become red-blooded, even the officers and soldiers would dare to kill them.
The wages of avarice is death.
Yuzhu remembered very clearly that in a certain village in Guangdong Province, thousands of people in the village were engaged in white goods. These people were so rampant that more than a dozen criminal police officers with their gangsters did not dare to enter the village easily.
Later, the superiors got angry and mobilized thousands of soldiers, then rushed in and completely eradicated the white goods village.
Yuzhu's current mentality is actually roughly the same.
Only when the army and the army have an overwhelming advantage, can the mob, which is red-eyed with murder, listen obediently to Yuzhu's reasoning.
For this dispatch, Yuzhu mobilized more than 1,000 Eight Banners vests and 3,000 New Army soldiers, totaling more than 4,000 troops.
After the army left the east gate of Xi'an, they marched towards Bailuyuan in a mighty manner.
According to Yuzhu's instructions, the horse armors of the Eight Banners soldiers were divided into three groups with more than 300 people in groups. Taking advantage of the speed of the horses, they covered them from the east, south and north.
However, the Eight Banners soldiers could only monitor closely, but were not allowed to initiate an attack.
Yuzhu himself led 3,000 New Army soldiers and pressed forward fiercely from the west of Bailuyuan.
The folk customs in the Shaanxi-Gansu region are extremely tough, with swordsmen and bandits everywhere.
Between strangers, if they don't deal with each other for just two words, the knife will be used.
Back then, Duke Zuo Wenxiang led the troops to quell the rebellion in the northwest. It was really a killing process with heads rolling and ghosts crying and wolves howling.
Because of this, even after the Qing Dynasty fell, the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains were still in the hands of the Han warlords Yang Zengxin and Sheng Shicai.
Zuo Gong is eternal!
Regarding things in the northwest, if Yuzhu comes without a knife, no one will listen to his greeting.
When Yuzhu arrived at Bailuyuan, he jumped on his horse and climbed high to observe the situation on the plain with a monocular telescope.
Who would have thought that the miserable scene of a dozen strong men bullying a dozen women suddenly came into Yuzhu's eyes.
Alas, it actually makes sense to rather be a peace dog than a random person...
In times of peace, even if corrupt officials are arrogant and tyrannical, ordinary people can always find a way to keep their bellies covered. As for several generations of people wearing the same pair of trousers with patches on top of each other, there is no way.
When there is civil unrest or military chaos, the most unlucky people are the ordinary people.
When the Changmao uprising occurred in Guangxi, there were only a few thousand people.
When the Changmao Current reached Hunan and Hubei, its army suddenly expanded to 500,000 people.
To put it bluntly, Changmao used the same vicious trick that Huang Chao had used before. Wherever Changmao passed along the way, he robbed all the food in people's homes.
The common people had only two choices, either to starve to death or to serve as cannon fodder for the siege of the city.
The most despicable thing about Changmao is that when attacking a city, he is always a cannon fodder who has joined the army and is forced to rush forward to pile heads, while the old Changmao people in Guangxi hide behind to recharge their batteries.
When the frail cannon fodder is almost dead. The survivors are all elites who have killed and seen blood. The Qingyao guarding the city is exhausted, and the old Changmao people from Guangxi rush out again to pick off the victorious ones.
fruit.
Changmao's uprising caused countless grassroots people throughout the Jiangnan region. Their wives and children were separated, their families were destroyed, and corpses were scattered all over the fields.
What is ridiculous is that the so-called "Celestial Land Acquisition System" has never been implemented. Instead, thousands of kings granted the title of Hong Xiuquan all want to build palaces, enjoy beautiful women, and collect gold and silver treasures.
"Niutai, go and catch all those bitches and stab them to death with bayonets!" Yuzhu was really angry.
We are all Han Chinese of the same race.
Just to grab water*, to actually do this to the wives and daughters of your compatriots, this is worse than animals!
"Hey." After Niu Tai took the order, he rode a horse and led a group of new army soldiers, and rushed towards the barbarians who were committing violence.
How could the merry mob expect that officers and soldiers would suddenly arrive?
Except for one naked guy who cleverly ran back, the other dozen rapists were all caught.
"Drive!" Niu Tai galloped forward, quickly caught up with the man with the bare buttocks, and slashed him down fiercely with his knife.
"Ah..." The man only had time to scream, and his head was missing.
Blood arrows spurted out from the broken neck, splashing Niu Tai's face.
Niu Tai wiped the blood on his face, his rough black face revealed a cruel and bloodthirsty look.
The swords of Sauron's warriors are never allowed to be sheathed without seeing blood.
"It's not good, it's not good, the army is coming, the army is coming."
At this time, someone discovered the figures of the New Army soldiers and rushed back to report the news.
If it were in the past, the common people would never dare to make enemies of the government troops.
However, it was different today. The people with the surname Bai and the surname Lu were already furious and refused to give in to each other.
Because as long as you can't get water, your land will definitely be harvested.
When the harvest is cut off from the fields, how can my wife and son survive?
As a result, the warriors hesitated for a moment and were surrounded by Yuzhu's soldiers and horses.
Yuzhu on horseback, with the new army armed to the teeth, was already less than a hundred feet away from the huge crowd of people fighting.
However, among the huge crowd of people participating in the armed fight, no one came out to pay attention to him...