Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Eight Women and Children Fighting with the King's Teacher
The atrocities committed by the Qing army's southern expedition were so cruel and horrific that Cizhou and Dai Ming were just their forerunners. After entering Shandong, they faced strong resistance from the Shandong army and civilians.
Facing the powerful resistance of the Dashun Army, they were completely aroused.
Under Dorgon's direct order, Qing soldiers gradually adopted various excessive and brutal methods to destroy Shandong prefectures and counties.
As a result, the refugees fled everywhere, which not only made it more difficult for the Qing army to recruit civilian husbands, but also made the Manchus' reputation for cruelty spread throughout the world along with the refugees' flight.
Some refugees did not even dare to stay in Xuzhou City and continued to flee south. Some of them were squires with fame and social status. These people managed to escape from the Qing cavalry by relying on the counterattack of Gu Kecheng and other cavalry.
After being chased, he unexpectedly had a whim and fled into the area controlled by the Nanming army.
From Xuzhou to the south, except for the Bozhou area, the southeast direction basically belongs to the area controlled by the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Southern Ming Dynasty.
With the support of Jiangnan's wealth, Nanming's Northern Expeditionary Army looked glamorous at least on the surface. The generals were all well-oiled, the soldiers looked well-armed, and the number of battleships was countless.
The channel of the Grand Canal has been completely filled with boats from the Nanming Navy.
Clouds and sails were everywhere, stretching straight into the sky. The huge warships seemed to be even more majestic than the navy of the Dashun Army.
However, not all the ships carried soldiers and weapons. Many soldiers had long heard about the stable situation and prosperous commerce in the area controlled by the Dashun Army, so they all brought in-demand goods from the south of the Yangtze River in preparation for the arrival of the Northern Expeditionary Army.
Once Xuzhou was near, he started doing business with the soldiers and civilians in Dashun-controlled areas, earning a lot of money to spend.
Ma Shiying could not restrain the armies of these various factions. Even though he had many ambitions and strategies to rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty, he was helpless in the face of these arrogant and powerful generals.
Now Ma Shiying has shouldered the responsibility and status of Shi Kefa in history, and has also suffered the pressure and humiliation that Shi Kefa suffered, and there is nothing he can do about it.
I can only sit back and watch as the stone suddenly falls from the top of the mountain, and the situation becomes completely uncontrollable.
The progress of the Northern Expedition by the arrogant and powerful generals was extremely slow. Except for Huang Degong and Zheng Hongkui who showed some moral integrity, the other armies were basically looting places everywhere in the name of the Northern Expedition.
Gao Qian, a clever opportunist who sits on the fence, is the most skillful. Among all the armies, his men and horses carry the most goods, so that most of the water transport ships transporting grain are seized by Gao Zhen to carry various goods in the south of the Yangtze River, which also caused Liu Liangzuo's anger.
Dissatisfaction comes.
After the squires of Xuzhou fled into the Nanming-controlled area, they saw this scene:
They could not see the clear sky, nor could they see the Wang Shi who revitalized the Ming Dynasty. All they saw were the warlord troops who were more cruel and barbaric than Zuo Liangyu.
Incompetent, corrupt, disturbing the people, looting, burning, killing and looting, all kinds of behaviors, except that the mobility is not as good as that of the Qing army, in the eyes of most Shandong gentry, it seems that the difference is just the difference between tigers and wild wolves.
Hua Xia was a student in Ningbo, and as an official of the Ministry of War, he followed the Northern Expedition to the south of Xuzhou. He was an old acquaintance with several gentry who had just escaped from Xuzhou City. After contact between the two parties, they exchanged information about Dashun and Nanming areas.
After the political situation, everyone was shocked.
One side was shocked by how the thief Chuang Ni could be so wise, and the other side was shocked by how the Nanming King Master could be so corrupt and incompetent.
The fleet of the Nanming army has already set off from Suqian, and is already quite close to Xuzhou. The newly thawed water of the Grand Canal and the Yellow River collided with the huge ships, and the sound of the waves seemed to be a warning to loyal people like Hua Xia.
People uttered silent ridicule and sarcasm.
"My Ming Dynasty actually went so far as to join forces with the Tatars to suppress the people?"
Those idle and lazy soldiers on the big ships were still spreading rumors about the vulnerability of the Dashun Army and the invincibility of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. It seemed that as soon as the Nanming Navy arrived in Xuzhou, they could successfully defeat the Qing army without any fighting.
It's as easy as taking over the entire Shandong.
Hua Xia was not in the mood to listen to these optimistic remarks that had made him feel inspiring a few days ago. After hearing the descriptions of the Jiahe War by the fleeing gentry, he was shocked and suddenly felt the intrigue between the generals of the Southern Ming Dynasty.
, this is so ridiculous.
After a while, many fleeing squires became afraid of the extortion and looting by Nanming officers and soldiers. Faced with the dilemma of having a wolf in front of them and a tiger behind them, they had new thoughts and wanted to escape back to the big country.
In the area controlled by the Shun Army.
After all, no matter how dangerous the situation seems to be for the Dashun Army under the attack of the Northern Qing and Southern Ming Dynasties, in the area controlled by the Dashun Army, the worst is to promote a stable, fair, reasonable, and relatively clear political order.
Unless they are extremely vicious local tyrants and evil gentry who have too many blood debts to the local people, ordinary gentry promotion is nothing more than giving Gu Jinglue and others a little more money, and there will not be much loss.
Even with the reform of the farmland system, it is said that many landowners can now obtain about 30% of their land interest income. Under the industrial and commercial policy of public-private partnership, after converting these land interest bonds into shares, I heard that those who have done this have very low incomes.
Low.
The fleeing gentry had not stayed in the Nanming area for a full day before they made up their mind to flee back to the area controlled by the Shun army. This also induced loyal Ming scholars like Hua Xia to have other ideas. Following this group of fleeing gentry,
A magical thing happened. For various reasons, there were estimated to be hundreds of loyal scholars who were dissatisfied with the corrupt status quo of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the reactionary policy of uniting the captives and suppressing the invaders. They also followed the refugees to the Shun Army.
control area.
There are groups of refugees everywhere along the way. After approaching Xuzhou, you can occasionally see some cavalry from the compliant army.
Hua Xia listened to the words of his old acquaintance, the Shandong gentry, and took the initiative to show off his armor. He said that he had done military work in the Nanming Army, and was taken directly to the direction of Xuzhou City by a small team of Shunjun cavalry.
The war is now tense. According to the orders of Li Laiheng and Gu Kecheng, there is no need for the Dashun Army to allocate a large number of troops for special surveillance and targeting of the Nanming Army.
However, we can take advantage of the generous treatment of ordinary soldiers of the Dashun Army to attract the soldiers of the Nanming Army to defect to the Dashun Army and densely cover the lack of troops in the Xuzhou garrison.
After all, in addition to not being able to plunder and kill wantonly, the Dashun Army was actually far better than the Ming Army in terms of living and food treatment.
As for the leniency policy of the Ming army, the Dashun army has been implementing it in Henan and Hubei for a long time. As long as they don't hold weapons in their hands, the Dashun army treats any Ming army soldiers with leniency, and everyone can treat them generously.
If you return to your hometown to farm, you can also immediately join the banner of King Jin.
The closer he got to Xuzhou City, the more secretly surprised Hua Xia felt.
When he was in Jiangbei, he had already seen some of the refugees - those refugees were forced to wander because of the ravages of the Jiangbei warlords.
In the Chinese impression, refugees are locusts, a group of thieves who only know how to destroy but not build.
But the closer you get to Xuzhou City, even though it is the critical moment for the Dashun Army to fully mobilize for a decisive battle with the Donglu. To the south of Xuzhou City, Huaxia can still see many well-organized caravans and small markets.
The markets and markets along the Grand Canal had been passed by China a few years ago when the Ming Dynasty was relatively peaceful. In his impression, these places were usually crowded and noisy, but now they were quiet and silent.
An ancient ruin. In fact, it was not that there were no people. There were still many people, and the crowds were huge. They were all refugees like "locusts" in his impression.
These refugees lined up in an orderly manner, accepting the arrangements of a few Dashun Army soldiers and being organized. No one made any noise or spoke loudly, and no one jumped in line. The scene was so quiet that China felt as if it was peaceful.
In the prosperous times, there would not be such a peaceful scene.
On the road, Huaxia occasionally encountered some Shun troops who were surveying the military situation and patrolling the rear. These fully armed cavalry soldiers strictly followed the military orders of Jin King Li Laiheng and often asked loudly:
"Which division and unit are you from? What are you doing here?"
The Huaxia capital, like the gentry who fled back to Xuzhou, said: "We fled from Jiangbei and Huaishang to avoid the Ming army's front."
Those simple warriors remained silent, and no one ever made trouble. Occasionally they encountered some refugees fleeing south in groups on the road. These refugees often shouted at the cavalry: "Make way! Make way!"
They staggered out of the way every time. They were used to seeing how vicious the undisciplined Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers were since the Ming Dynasty, and they suddenly saw such an army.
Huaxia suddenly felt doubtful about the worldview he had formed over many years:
Is this a thief? Is this a thief that is more terrifying than locusts and floods?
Isn't this what the ancient books say: "Women and children compete with the king's teachers!"