The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 357 A Chicken
Anyway, the final outcome of the Battle of Changshan was that Zhang Chun was captured. At the same time, more than [-] generals of the Ming army were captured, and nearly [-] soldiers of the Ming army were captured.

After this war, the Jin army lost more than [-] soldiers, which was far greater than history, and the result of annihilating more than [-] Ming troops was also slightly higher than history.

Wu Xiang and Song Wei ran to Jinzhou with all their might, while the cavalry of the Houjin Army deployed on the periphery chased and intercepted them for a long time.

Seeing that they were three miles below the city of Jinzhou, Wu Xiang and Song Wei's few hundred cavalry were surrounded by the Hou Jin army. The servant rushed up.

The young man Sanguizi is skilled in bow and horse and is a strong general. The loyalty and combat effectiveness of the armored servants he follows are no less than that of the regular army of Jiannu. Eighty percent of the Houjin army who surrounded Wuxiang were Tartars. They fought from dawn to noon. Physical strength and horsepower are worrying.

The physical strength and horsepower of the 81 warriors below Wu Sangui were at their best at this time. Instead of resisting the feathered arrows, just move forward while waving the saber.

During the scuffle, some Tartar cut off Wu Sangui's nose bone with a knife. Although Wu Sangui was injured and his face was covered with blood, he still shouted that he was invincible in the battle and rescued Wu Xiang, Song Wei and two or three hundred cavalrymen.

Qiu Hejia, who was watching the battle at the top of the city, was full of praise for Wu Sangui, and immediately wrote a memorial to report the battle at Changshan, a large section of which described Wu Sangui's battle to save his father.

In this era of poor communication and low efficiency of intelligence delivery, if the information that the [-] reinforcements led by Zhang Chun were wiped out could be fed back in time, I am afraid that Daming would be spared a disaster.

Because the Wuqiao mutiny had too many chances, Kong Youde, who was grateful to Sun Yuanhua, could not rebel against Daming if he was not in a desperate situation.

Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, did not get the information that the [-] Ming troops who aided Liao were lost. He still urged Kong Youde, who had failed to cross the sea, to lead the cavalry to aid Liao.

When Kong Youde, who procrastinated as much as possible, led the troops slowly on the road, there was no need for this group of troops to assist Liao, because they were only less than a thousand cavalry, so why would this little group of troops do?To die?
No one cared about Kong Youde and the life and death of the less than a thousand riders. They didn't get any supplies along the way. During this period of time, the cold air was moving southward, and the weather was extremely cold. Freezing rain fell within a few days of departure, followed by snowflakes , Less than a thousand riders rode in the snow, everyone was filled with righteous indignation.

This army has long lost a trace of morale, only full of resentment. They not only have to endure hunger and cold, but also endure the cold eyes and sarcastic remarks of Shandong soldiers and civilians.

When Kong Youde was stationed in Wuqiao, there was no possibility of selling horses to buy food to fill his stomach. All the merchants here united to strike the market. They clamored for the Liao soldiers to go back to Liaodong and stop harming Shandong people.

These words of "harming Shandong people" became a proverb. Of course, the first batch of Shandong people who spoke like this were wiped out without exception.

In this world, only the army bullies the common people. How can there be an army that is so bullied by the common people that they can't live happily? Besides, nine out of ten cavalrymen of Kong Youde's tribe have been on the battlefield, and many of them fought bloody battles with Jiannu.

The tragedy began to unfold. A soldier of Kong Youde’s department stole a chicken, killed it and ate the meat. He didn’t know that the chicken was not an ordinary chicken.

The sanctimonious Donglin Party represents the interests of the bureaucratic and landlord class. How noble is the master?In their eyes, ordinary people and low-level soldiers are not human beings.

Wang Xiangchun is Baitiao in Tianshang Xinglang in Donglin Dianjianglu, and his family's servants also think they are superior to others.

Even the little servant of the Donglin Party leader was so bullish that he dared to find General Kong Youde's camp for a chicken, and pointed at Kong Youde's nose and asked him what this general did for food?How do you control your subordinates?Why did the Wang family suffer a huge loss from losing a chicken?
Kong Youde was forced to have no choice but to punish the soldier who stole the chicken to eat, and to walk around the camp according to the unspoken rules of the army.

This kind of criminal law is relatively barbaric, that is, a feathered arrow is pierced through the cheek of the punished soldier, so that the arrow passes through the mouth and comes out from the other side, and the whole arrow is across the face.

Such punishment of the soldiers did not have a deterrent effect, on the contrary, it aroused most of the soldiers' hatred of the rich.

Is it necessary for a chicken to be like this?It was so deceiving, many servants of the royal family who watched Dongjiang soldiers coldly and pretended to be majestic remembered their appearance, and when they left the camp triumphantly, they were followed by a few Dongjiang soldiers from a distance.

At night, dozens of soldiers who didn't want to live and chicken-eating soldiers with holes on the left and right sides of their faces sneaked into the Wang family's house in Wuqiao. Dozens of Liao soldiers chopped up the servant who was too bullying and killed his family members. Cut them all, turn the women all over...

The next day, Wang Xiangchun's son learned that something serious had happened. The eight members of two families in a house in Wuqiao were all murdered by Kong Youde's soldiers. Grandfather can do it.

Dozens of soldiers participated in the crime, and it was not so easy for Kong Youde to compromise with the Wang family. At this time, the soldiers in the camp were talking about the massacre that happened at night, and everyone applauded.

They heard that the Wang family had sent a message to force the general Kong Youde to hand over the murderer, they immediately gathered in front of the Xingyuan camp and shouted in solidarity with those soldiers who committed heinous crimes.

Kong Youde was in a desperate situation. If he wanted to explain to the Wang family, he had to send at least eight soldiers who participated in the evil deeds to resist his orders, because eight of the Wang family's servants died. Judging from the current situation, even if he issued an order to arrest the soldiers who committed the crime, he would have to to execute.

But if he can't satisfy the Wang family, he will be impeached and looted, leading to a massacre. Although such things have happened frequently in the past few years, they basically have no real evidence, and no scholar-officials insist on them.

Kong Youde was really unlucky, he obviously didn't send troops to plunder, but his subordinates did rob and wiped out all the suffering masters. According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, it would not be too much to cut off Kong Youde's head.

The soldiers took the opportunity to make trouble for a reason, because they were all unwilling to rescue Zu Dashou's Liao Town troops.

In Dongjiang soldiers' subconscious mind, Liaozhen should go to work with Jiannu to eat and drink spicy food with the big head of Liao's salary. Dongjiang soldiers are all born by their stepmothers. If they don't have enough food and clothing, why should they travel thousands of miles to Liaodong to die?

It's all right now, something happened, everyone, don't leave, as long as you can make trouble.

Dozens of soldiers who committed crimes were protected by hundreds of comrades-in-arms, and all Liao soldiers were united like never before. As a result, Kong Youde did not dare to use force, and temporarily gave up sending his servants to arrest people in the camp.

(End of this chapter)