Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 319
"The official of the imperial camp Liangtai also said that although their imperial camp no longer recruits soldiers, they have been marrying wives for the imperial soldiers." Zhao Fu said.

Zhao Gui asked, "What do you mean?"

"That's what it means. If there is a girl of the right age, the Imperial Camp Liangtai is willing to offer a gift to the Imperial Camp soldiers to marry wives. It is said that they have done this a long time ago, and have already married wives to tens of thousands of soldiers in the Imperial Camp."

Zhao Gui's eldest daughter is only nine years old, but Zhao Fu's children are older. His eldest daughter is eighteen, his second daughter is sixteen, and his third daughter is also thirteen.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, there were not many ceremonies, but in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the ceremonies gradually became higher. If you were not high, you could not marry a wife. In the late Ming Dynasty, because of Gao pingli, it gradually led to high dowry, and the dowry was even higher than that of pingli. high.

And often in the end, the dowry is brought to the bride.

In the early years, those who had daughters were laughing and playing, and having many sons was bitter. Later, those who had many daughters were worried to death, and even in many places, because they could not buy daughters to marry, they could not afford to accompany them, and some girls were too old to marry. .

Later, in many places, baby girls drowned as soon as they were born. Especially in the late Ming Dynasty, female baby drowning was very serious in many places, and most of them were unwilling to raise more baby girls, except for the reason of patriarchy In addition, the main reason is that in the customs of various places in the late Ming Dynasty, dowry was very important for girls.

The atmosphere is like this, if you don’t give a dowry, it’s hard to get married, if you don’t give a dowry, the husband’s family doesn’t want it, and the daughter doesn’t even want it.

Zhao Fu and Zhao Gui are in the same village, and they were considered small rich peasants in the past, but life has been difficult these years, and they cannot afford the dowry of their daughters, and the daughters are also delayed.

The boss is gone, and I have talked with several companies, just because when others ask how much dowry they can give, and they give too little, the other party is unwilling.

My daughter can't get married, and she always blames her family.

"This imperial camp has good conditions for the relatives to marry wives. They will help the soldiers pay the gift, and then buy the bride's dowry on their behalf. They also say that after they give the gift to the bride's family, they don't need to take it back."

"Furthermore, the soldiers of the Imperial Battalion are paid very high salaries. Auxiliary soldiers are paid three taels of silver a month, and soldiers are divided into three classes, ranging from three taels to four taels of five. There are also rewards and so on. They can even buy land at a low price. If this is married in the past, life will be easier."

Zhao Fu had already planned to marry all three daughters into the imperial camp. Such a daughter would have at least five taels of gift, which would be 15 taels, and he would not have to pay half a dowry. According to the customs of their hometown, if he found a well-matched family to marry Daughter, the ceremony also costs five to ten taels, and the dowry costs ten taels.

But in their hometown, it turned out that the long-term workers hired by his family only paid three taels of silver throughout the year, plus food and lodging, two sets of clothes, and some gifts and snacks during the New Year.

To marry a daughter, you have to be a long-term worker for four or five years.

"Is it possible to get married in this turmoil?" Zhao Gui asked.

"It's not about getting married here. I asked the officials of the Liangtai, and they said that the Liangtai of the imperial camp will be responsible for the unification first, and the girl will be picked up first, and then sent back to the rear. When the time comes, what about the imperial camp, the second-class soldier?" For those who perform well above, get married first, and then the two sides will have some kind of blind date, in short, it will be a marriage of hundreds or thousands of couples at a time."

"I think it's pretty good." Zhao Fu had just had a meal of porridge, but he had already considered the distance, "I think His Royal Highness King Lu is really good, and his soldiers are also good. Shandong can't stay here anymore. I don't know how to fight this battle. How long does it take, the famine will probably be difficult to ease, why not follow south."

"You and I can both read and write. It's not difficult to find a job in the past, but it's better than here? It's just that it's not easy to travel thousands of miles south. If my daughter marries into the imperial camp, then they will have to take care of me, the old man, right?"

Zhao Fu is very shrewd.

After Zhao Gui heard this, he also felt that the King of Lu was good, and he was able to think about the soldiers like this. No wonder these imperial soldiers had good military discipline, did not bully the people, and could serve porridge.

"Then I'll go south too. I've read books and can write and count. I'll go to Liangtai and ask if I can do something."

"Well, when the two of us go south together, we can help each other," Zhao Fu said.

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In Luqiao Town.

Zhang Mingbin, Zhu Shengli, Zhu Chenggong, Zhang Quan, Liu Mu, Shen Wenzhong and other officers of the Imperial Battalion were discussing matters.

"These fake tartars actually slaughtered Xia Town, we must avenge this revenge!" Zhang Mingbin slammed his fist on the table, "Kong Youde, that bastard traitor, has already withdrawn to Yanzhou, and Geng Zhongming has also withdrawn from Yutai to Jining, and now we are happy with this dog The traitors acted as vanguards and were heading south along the canal."

"It has been found out that there are 8000 people in Shang Kexi's army, including [-] cavalry and [-] chariot battalions. His strength is stronger than that of Kong Youde before him. His soldiers and horses are very elite, and his armor rate is extremely high. There are a lot of artillery, and the infantry is also equipped with bird guns."

"I want to vote for them. Last time Kong Youde ran too fast and had no chance to stop him. This time Shang Kexi is here. Let's kill this traitor first."

Shen Wenzhong is a civil official, but also a military supervisor. He looked at the map.

"It's still good to have a force of eight thousand, with elite troops and excellent weapons. We now only have about ten thousand soldiers and soldiers. A hard fight may not be an opponent. Besides, Tan Tai and others have ten thousand and eight banners not far behind."

"Mr. Shen, you are a civil servant. Wars are not what you said. As long as we find the right opportunity, we can win the battle quickly. It is gratifying to inflict heavy losses. I have even chosen the battlefield. It is here in Luqiao Town Fighting, this is the only way for Shang Kexi to go south."

"And this location is good, backed by Fushan and Baima River, west of Nanyang Lake, this terrain is very suitable for combat, we will fight them here!"

"I have already sent cavalry to demolish Yutai City, and Geng Zhongming took away all the money and food before leaving. Shang Kexi must pass through here..."

Shen Wenzhong hesitated a bit, "The task His Highness gave us is to fortify the walls and clear the field. If we want to fight, we should also lure the enemy to the city of Xuzhou to fight again."

"Mr. Shen, you are the supervisor of the army, and you are in charge of military law. You are not familiar with war command, so you should listen to us."

Shen Wenzhong asked the other leading generals, "Do you also think we can fight?"

Zhu Shengli and Zhu Chenggong both wanted to fight this battle. The tragedy of Xiazhen massacre was still in their minds.

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On the west bank of Nanshan Lake, Yutai City.

After Shang Kexi's vanguard cavalry arrived, they all cursed at the empty city and the dismantled city walls.

They cursed Kong Youde for being incompetent, Geng Zhongming for sabotage, and the Ming army for being courageous.

After scolding, he didn't want to stay in this dead city anymore.

"General, traces of the Ming army have been found in Luqiao Town on the other side of the lake."

The cavalry chief general Xu Erxian immediately decided to go to Luqiao Town with the cavalry and destroy the Ming army first.

"Go and tell General Ban at the back to let his battalion wait here for the king's chariot camp. I will go and take down Luqiao first."

Both Xu Erxian and Ban Zhifu were Shang Kexi's confidants when he was still in Dongjiang, and now Xu Erxian is leading the vanguard of four thousand cavalry.

This person is also experienced, and he doesn't want to wait in this empty city for a long time.

The distance between the two places is nearly a hundred miles.

Half a day is up.

Xu Erxian led four thousand riders to gallop along the road to Luqiao Town, and arrived outside Luqiao Town in the afternoon.

At this time, the Ming army in Luqiao Town didn't seem to have expected the Qing army to come so fast, and there were still so many cavalry, they behaved very flustered and abandoned the city.

Seeing this, Xu Erxian laughed loudly, regardless of the exhaustion of the whole army.

"Ming thief is nothing more than that, chase after me!"

The four thousand Han cavalry of the Qing army cheered up and urged their horses to chase after them again.

The Ming army who escaped from Luqiao Town also brought a lot of food, grass and other supplies, most of which were infantry. The Qing army who was chasing them was frightened and hurriedly abandoned the supplies, but they still couldn't run fast.

In the end, he had to cross the Baima River and flee to Fushan.

"Hahaha, there is no way out, do you still want to drill into the mountain?"

Xu Erxian laughed wildly, waved his troops and continued to chase.

The water in the Baima River was not deep at this time, not only horses could cross the river, but infantry could also cross the river directly.

The cavalry chased quickly, and they reached the river in a blink of an eye.

At this time, the Ming army who had crossed the river saw that the bite was tight, so some generals commanded soldiers to line up along the river, trying to block the cavalry from crossing the river.

"Stupid!" Xu Erxian scolded with a smile, and ordered the cavalry to forcibly cross the river and chase after him.

The Ming army on the other side fired arrows to stop them. The river slowed down the speed of the Qing army's cavalry, and some casualties were caused by bows and arrows, but not large.

The cavalry of the Qing army were well equipped. Their armor could protect them from many arrows, and they also had shields.

Cross the river with casualties.

After landing, they quickly gathered in formation.

The Ming army turned around and ran up the mountain.

"This is panic, chase, don't let them run away."

The remaining cavalry of the Qing army crossed the river and landed smoothly.

Facing Mt. Fu, Xu Erxian didn't care. Although cavalry attacking the mountain is very unfavorable, it also depends on who the opponent is. The Ming army saw that they were so frightened that they didn't even want a town like Luqiao Town, so they didn't understand at all. fight.

If they were really able to resist tenaciously, they would not have abandoned the city and went up the mountain. These people were in a panic, so the cavalry only had to catch up and attack, and there would be no resistance at all.

In order to be able to wipe out these Ming troops as soon as possible, Xu Erxian also deliberately divided the 4000 troops into four groups, each with [-] riders, and divided them into four groups and went up the mountain separately, so that these Ming troops must be quickly searched and captured.

When crossing the river earlier, they only lost dozens of riders.

On Fushan.

Hundreds of Ming soldiers who had been fleeing from Luqiao Town finally went up the mountain.

On the mountain, it is not easy.

Those hundreds of Ming troops were just bait. In order to lure Qingqi to attack the mountain, Zhang Mingbin, the commander-in-chief of this battle, even gave up the opportunity to defend Luqiao Town and Bandu to attack, just to lure Qingqi into the mountain.

On this mountain, the advantage of the Qing cavalry will be lost, and they will even be blocked by partitions, making it difficult to adjust quickly.

At this time, on the mountain, the cavalry of Jinwu Town, the infantry of Yongwei Town, the infantry of Warrior Town, and even the infantry of Zhu Chenggong's navy had already gone up the mountain.

Even a lot of cannons were moved up the mountain.

And Luqiao Town is not really empty.

Shen Wenzhong hid in the city with his auxiliary soldiers as surprise soldiers.

At the foot of the mountain, Qingqi rode four ways to attack the mountain and came roaring.

On the mountain, Zhang Mingbin just sneered.

Back then, he followed his elder brother Zhang Mingyang and also fought against the Tartars in Liaodong, and fought against the serious Eight Banners, so he was still afraid of these Han Banner cavalry.

"Look at how arrogant these Tartars are, they don't send scouts into the city to investigate, they don't go into the mountains to scout, they just rushed up like this, hehe, four thousand riders have galloped hundreds of miles from Nanyang, and the soldiers are exhausted , and now rushing into the mountain with all one's brains, isn't this courting death?"

Standing next to him, Zhu Chenggong was very excited. The majestic deputy commander of the navy led the sailors to stand on the mountain to set up defenses. This is unprecedented.

Who would have thought that the Ming army would set up an ambush here, who would have thought that there were so many Ming troops.

After all, in the eyes of Shang Kexi's generals, the Ming army can't fight at this time, and if they really can fight, they should stick to Luqiao Town, and no matter how bad they should be, they should ambush on the north bank of the Baima River. Abandoning towns and river banks, and retreating to the mountains.

There is no way to play this way.

"Are all the ministries ready?" Zhang Mingbin asked.

"Don't worry, we have set up a three-fold formation on the mountain, and set up three lines of defense against the mountain. Even if they can break through the first formation, there are still two formations and three formations behind them. On this mountain, after the Qingqi can't charge, it will be useless and can only be reduced to a lamb waiting to be slaughtered." Liu Mu said confidently, holding a big knife.

This is a battle of soldiers and horses in the four towns of the imperial camp. There are 2 people in total. Against [-] cavalry, they are still on the mountain. No one thinks they will lose.

"Come on, let them really experience the power of our imperial army!"

(End of this chapter)