The sun is gradually rising from the east, the sky is getting brighter, and the fighting in Zhuxi City has reached the final moment that determines the outcome. With the support of Bai Wang and Li Shuangxi, the main force of the camp broke into Zhuxi County smoothly.
Liu Zongmin was riding the extremely thin war horse at the moment, holding a spear in his hand, charging and killing wantonly.
The officers and soldiers were scattered, and it was difficult to organize any effective resistance under the sudden attack on the camp. Only in a place close to the county government, the county magistrate Li Kongxiao and the Zuozhen envoy Dong Yuan reluctantly gathered dozens of Qin soldiers and formed a formation.
Resistance. Seeing that the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable, more and more soldiers who broke into the camp rushed into Zhuxi County. Li Kongxiao was already in a state of distress. He carried a long sword and slashed two or three officers and soldiers, but he could not stop the tide.
, an increasingly violent trend of defeat.
"You guys are so majestic and dignified. Now it's time to put you to use. How can you be as useless as pigs and dogs?"
Li Kongxiao was pushed to the ground by several fleeing soldiers, and his official hat was thrown to the ground. He no longer had the dignity of a county magistrate, his hair was disheveled, and he was roaring like a madman.
Dong Yuan, the envoy in Zuo Liangyu's army, couldn't stand it anymore. Seeing that the overall situation was irreversible, he grabbed two Qin soldiers who had not yet fled and persuaded them: "The bandits are powerful.
, If you don’t leave now, I’m afraid I won’t be able to leave. I still have a hundred thousand troops stationed in Baituguan in Zuozhen. If you two can protect me to Baituguan, I will do a good job for you in front of the general and the governor’s cabinet.
One hit!"
The two Qin army officers looked at each other, hesitated slightly, and then looked at the magistrate Li Kongxiao. After hearing what Dong Yuan said, Li Kongxiao remembered that Zuo Liangyu's army was at Baituguan. Although it was not as large as the so-called 100,000 troops,
There are definitely thousands or even tens of thousands of soldiers. If we can borrow Zuozhen's soldiers, it won't be easy to eliminate this group of thieves?
"Okay, okay! Mr. Dong, Mr. Dong, let's go together, let's go together!" Li Kongxiao grabbed Dong Yuan's sleeve with one hand, and in a hurry, he used too much force and even tore off a section of Dong Yuan's sleeve.
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Seeing that Li Kongxiao wanted to escape with him, Dong Yuan looked hesitant. The bandits had gradually taken control of the situation in the city. It was not easy to break out. Moreover, Li Kongxiao was the lord of a county, so the bandits must be the focus of pursuit and elimination.
If he ran away with the county magistrate, wouldn't he be seeking his own death and deliberately attracting thieves to pursue him?
"The magistrate of the county is a Bailihou, and he has the responsibility to defend the territory. The bandits are surrounding him. It is the time when sir is using force to defend the territory. How can he abandon the city wall and go to Baituguan with me?" Dong Yuan considered his own wealth and life, so he immediately
He retorted that no matter what, Li Kongxiao had to stay in Zhuxi County to buy time for himself to escape alone, "Sir, you only need to guard the city for a few hours, and the students can invite tens of thousands of soldiers from Zuozhen from Baituguan. By then, the heavenly soldiers will arrive."
, Rogue thieves are nothing more than clowns jumping up and down, sir, if you keep your land well, even the ministers will be credited with it!"
Li Kongxiao opened his eyes wide. According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, those herdsmen who lost their cities were guilty of a capital crime and would be executed in the autumn. However, in recent years, rogue bandits from the East had ravaged the world. Traveling to and from the Central Plains was like entering their own homes. Herdsmen who lost their cities every year.
I don’t know how many people there are. If the imperial court really wants to kill them one by one according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, will there still be officials in the world who can serve as kings and herdsmen? Now that the imperial court has relaxed its rules and regulations, he has lost the county seat. As long as he can rely on the soldiers of Zuozhen
After regaining it, he would go to Yang Sichang of the Governor's Pavilion to run some operations. He might even be promoted to a higher position.
"Mr. Dong, the thieves are surrounding me like water and fire. I can't resist it for half an hour now. How can I wait for the left army to come here! Needless to say, everyone will quickly pick up Mr. Dong and we will work together."
Go to Baituguan and ask for reinforcements from Zuozhen soldiers!"
Several Qin Army officers saw Li Kongxiao and Dong Yuan arguing endlessly, and they all looked at each other, not knowing what to do. Li Kongxiao on the other hand grabbed Dong Yuan's clothes harder, and Dong Yuan pushed back first, and found that
After he really couldn't get rid of Li Kongxiao, he simply punched Li Kongxiao in the face. He was a general in Liaoyang. After the Tong family defected to Donglu, the imperial court liquidated the Tong family members. Dong Yuan was able to escape and went south to join the Zuozhen army.
, concealed his name, and made a comeback. How could the lower limit of his character be compared to that of Li Kongxiao, the magistrate of the county?
The poor county magistrate was punched in the face by Dong Yuan, and he was completely stunned. He had studied hard for many years before being promoted to an official. He was dedicated to fame, and after enduring the official career, he finally managed to get through it. How had he ever suffered like this?
Waiting for the pain? Dong Yuan punched even tears out of his eyes.
Fortunately, at this time, Li Guo, who was leading the soldiers who broke into the camp to occupy important areas in the city, saw a group of officers and soldiers gathered by Li Kongxiao and Dong Yuan over there. He also saw the color of the magistrate's uniform Li Kongxiao was wearing. He was surprised.
He found out that this man was the leader of the Ming army officers and soldiers in the city. So he drew his bow and arrow, aiming at Li Kongxiao. He heard the Qin army officers shout in surprise, and the arrow in Li Guo's hand suddenly flew out, without waiting for Li Kongxiao.
After struggling for a moment, he was shot directly in the forehead, killing him, which put an end to the ugly dispute between Li Kongxiao and Dong Yuan.
"What are you looking at! The county magistrate came to defend the territory, wore strong armor, fought with thieves personally, wore more than ten wounds, and finally died a hero for the emperor and the Ming Dynasty! If you don't follow me to Baituguan quickly, are you still stunned?
What are you wearing!"
Li Guo's arrow successfully broke the deadlock, allowing Dong Yuan to gain leadership over the last few dozen officers and soldiers. As if heartbroken, he yelled at the Ming army to hold him, and while they were breaking into the camp, they divided up and occupied the city.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, they gathered together in a group and rushed out from the small gate on the side of the county town.
At this time, the extremely brave Liu Zongmin had already killed all the other Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers who had formed their own formations to resist. Several holes were torn in his green blouse, revealing a worn cloth armor underneath.
There was a lot of blood on his beard and beard. Liu Zongmin jumped off his lean horse, walked to Li Guo, patted him on the shoulder, and asked: "By the way, I think this group of officers and soldiers want to run away. Wait a minute."
I'm going to charge and kill them for a while, and I'll leave them completely alone."
"Brother Jiexuan, it's no need." Li Guo frowned again. He seemed to have this expression of bitterness and hatred, "Don't chase the poor enemy. We should follow the old master's instructions and clean up the food in the city as soon as possible without delay."
Too much time."
Li Guo stretched out his hand again and caught a raindrop dripping from the sky. "The sky has changed. I'm afraid heavy rain is coming. If it rains heavily, it will be very difficult for us to march in the mountains."
After Liu Zongmin felt the rain dripping from the sky, his expression became unhappy. He said in a low voice: "It's really God's unkindness. We still have to avoid that Zuo Rabbit. We really don't have much time."
General Zuo, who is now bearing the seal of the general who defeated the thieves and is the president's aid to suppress the various armies, was originally one of the leaders of the Donglin Party and a handyman in front of Hou Xun, the Minister of Household Affairs. He is actually a role similar to that of a **. Therefore.
During the break-in, there were naturally many people who jokingly called Mr. Zuo the Rabbit Lord.
"Anyway, let's go to the county warehouse to search for rice first. There are hundreds of people in the old camp, and they have been without food for several days. If we continue to be hungry, I don't think we can get out of Shangluo Mountain." Li Guo and Liu Zongmin discussed the next step of breaking into the camp.
According to the action plan, each team has been calmly arranged. The city gates, temples, county offices, wealthy houses, county warehouses, and school grounds were all taken over by the soldiers who broke into the camp. When the people in the county gradually realized that Zhuxi City had been
When the bandits captured the city, Li Guo had already controlled the order of the city.
Since Chuangying was defeated by Zuo Guangxian's Ming army halfway across the Han River, his vitality was severely damaged. After taking refuge in the Shangluo Mountains, he had to scrimp on food and clothing and use mountain vegetables and wild grass as food. Most of them were women, children, old and weak.
In the old camp of the soldiers and their families, it is even more difficult to guarantee a day's meal to barely make a living.
Among the bandits, the soldiers and their family members accompanying the army are often divided into two camps. The camp where the family members are concentrated is called the old camp, and the camp where the elite troops are relatively concentrated is called the old camp. This is also to prevent
The soldiers and their families lived together in the same camp, which led to a lack of discipline. As a result, some Ming court literati heard from hearsay and confused the old soldiers with the old camp, mistakenly thinking that the old camp was the most elite group of bandits, which made a big joke.
In the history of Li Chonger's later generations, the famous hero Zheng Chenggong, whose surname was the country, did not know how to set up a separate military system of the old camp. At the critical moment of the attack on Nanjing in the 16th year of Shunzhi, Zheng Chenggong sent his family and soldiers to
Mixed together in the first battalion, the military discipline was loose and the people had no fighting spirit. As a result, 500 soldiers from the Green Battalion led by Liang Huafeng, the commander-in-chief of the Suzhou Navy, counterattacked, and the entire line collapsed and was defeated. The lessons learned over the past ten years, Zheng Zheng
Once the elite of the Ming Dynasty were lost, the last hope of resisting the Qing Dynasty in the mainland also disappeared.
Zheng Chenggong began to besiege Nanjing on July 7th in the 16th year of Shunzhi. On the 15th day of mid-July, Liang Huafeng led a group of Qing troops to successfully enter Nanjing to aid. On the 22nd, the Qing army's green camp began to counterattack. Zheng Jun
Immediately, the whole line collapsed. After only fifteen days of siege, Zheng's army's military discipline was weakened to an incredible degree. During the battle, letting the soldiers and their families live together would really cause extremely fatal damage to the organization of the army.
Ma Long, the general of Zheng Chenggong's army in Qianzhen, originally belonged to the Lu faction. After the defeat at the gate of Nanjing, he was dissatisfied with Zheng Chenggong's arrangements and led more than a hundred of his troops to surrender to the Qing army. The equipment he carried included red clothes.
There were thirteen cannons, forty-five bronze cannons, and dozens of armors all over the body. It can be imagined how strong the main force of Zheng's army was. However, it was an unexpected mistake that the army and civilians were not divided into camps under Nanjing City.
It can be seen that the practice of setting up a separate old camp to accommodate family members is actually a particularly important practical experience summed up by the peasant army in the long-term adversity and weak mobile operations. If Zheng Chenggong had been surrounded by one or two farmers from Chuangying and Xiying
How could he make such a fatal mistake under the gates of Nanjing without the guidance of military generals?
This time they took great risks in breaking into the camp. They first sent Li Shuangxi and Bai Wang to take advantage of the gathering of civilians in Zhuxi County to infiltrate into the city. Then they cooperated with the outside to seize the city gate. They captured Zhuxi under the nose of the Zuozhen army not far away.
Xi. It is because the family members of the old camp who were placed in the mountains of Shangluo are really hungry to the point of being unsustainable. If they sit back and watch all the family members of the old camp starve to death, it will be difficult to maintain the morale of the last strong soldiers in the camp.
, the whole army collapsed and disintegrated, but it happened overnight.
Fortunately, Li Chonger and Bai Youcai set fire to the City God's Temple, successfully attracting the attention of a large number of officers and soldiers, and the plan for the main force to break into the camp to seize the city gate was implemented very smoothly. In the end, although Zuozhen envoy Dong Yuan led dozens of officers and soldiers to break through and escape to Baitu
After all, the county seat was successfully captured by the camp, and Li Guo raced against time to deploy troops to search for food in the city. Although Li Kongxiao cried frantically in front of Zuo Zhen, he always said that Zhuxi County was at the end of its rope and could not produce a single grain.
However, after Li Guo's search, he found nearly a thousand bundles of rice, wheat, beans, grass and other military supplies in the county warehouses and government offices alone.
It seems that Li Kongxiao still left a lot of room for himself, and in the homes of some wealthy families in the county, Liu Zongmin was too lazy to talk nonsense to these stingy people who just sat back and watched the county people starve to death, but also closed their homes and lived their own peaceful lives.
He took out more than a dozen clamps and served them with torture, and then asked the wealthy people to reveal the location of their grain storage cellars.
Even though the famine was so serious in Zhuxi County, there were more than a dozen cases of fathers and sons eating each other every day. But in the same county, separated by a high wall, the wealthy families often hid food in their homes.
With tens or hundreds of kilo of grain, Liu Zongmin even found some cured meat and wine in the cellars of several large households. It was really eye-opening.