Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 395 Refugees
Liu Chengzu was out of breath, looking around while holding the white gun.

Looking at the corpses everywhere, he couldn't help but excitedly said to Zhang Dapeng, "Congratulations, my lord, wipe out all the culprits."

"It's just a group of local bandits, not worth mentioning." Zhao Dapeng sat on the ground panting, just now he acted swiftly, he took the lead in the charge and chopped down more than ten thieves, he felt exhausted when he stopped.

The group of disabled Sichuan residents who followed also contributed a lot just now, at least they made a lot of noise by yelling loudly, let alone stabbing and beating people from behind.

"Master Garrison is mighty!"

Everyone is very excited.

"Hurry up and clean up the battlefield, tigers and leopards should come smelling blood in a while." Marko reminded.

Yang Wei, however, still felt a little unsatisfied, and swung his knife excitedly, "If the tiger dares to come, we will clean it up together. Then we will peel off the tiger skin and present it to Long Live in the future. We can still have tiger soup tonight."

Everyone laughed, but they didn't dare to be careless. They all hurriedly started to clean the battlefield.

Ma Ke led everyone to chop off the heads of the yellow thieves and bring them back together to pile them up. Then they stripped off their clothes and put their weapons together.

Finally, throw those headless corpses into the stream.

They packed up a lot of knives, guns, bows and arrows. Although the equipment of these yellow thieves was relatively simple, they still won a pair of iron armor, a pair of leather armor, several iron helmets, shields, bows and arrows, knives, and spears.

They even found a lot of gold, silver and copper coins, some silk cloth rice noodles, and several tents.

The silver is scattered silver, and the gold is mostly accessories, mostly women's accessories, and they are relatively simple, so you can tell at a glance that they were snatched from the women of the common people.

The eight members of the family were rescued, and they were all trembling.

The gray-haired old man is the head of the family, wearing a long gown, they look like a gentleman's family, the old man came to pay his respects.

"Thank you for your help, I still don't know the name of Engong Gao?"

Zhang Xian, a one-armed old man, smiled and said, "These four are incredible, the saints from the east of Zhejiang Province are guards, and now they are officers of the newly built imperial camp in Sichuan and Shanxi. This is Zhang Shoubei, the commander of the first battalion. "

Zhang Dapeng was modest and asked the old man how he lost the hands of the yellow thieves.

The old man sighed.

Everyone sat by the fire, and while continuing to cook in the thief's pot, they began to chat about their respective situations.

The old man's surname is Zhou, and he is from Baoning Prefecture.

He was originally a scholar of the Ming Dynasty. Although he failed to pass the Juren examination, his family has a hundred acres of land, so he can be regarded as a small landlord. He also teaches students in a library, and his life is good. None of them are materials for studying, but one of the three brothers started a medicinal material business, the other two farmed at home, and they could also go hunting or something in their free time. Anyway, it was good.

But since Chongzhen six or seven years, the world has been in chaos.

The peasant army in Guanzhong entered Sichuan, plundered everywhere, and led the officers and soldiers into Sichuan. They were like bandits. Although most of the peasant army left, some stayed. They began to flee into northern Sichuan and eastern Sichuan, colluding with local bandits. Together, the various families of Shaking Yellow Thieves have been formed.

Since then, Zhou Xiucai and the others in northern Sichuan have had a difficult time. They were often robbed. At the beginning, the yellow thieves were not strong, and they were no different from ordinary bandits. To be strong is to start sneak attacking even towns.

The countryside is no longer able to stay, and everyone can only either flee to southern Sichuan, or hide in prefectures and counties, or the gentry unite to protect themselves.

But there are still many villages that were finally broken by these thieves.

But the officers and soldiers did not protect them, but exploited them to the bone. Today, this one will collect death-free silver, that one will collect bull tickets, and the day after tomorrow will collect small silver, and the day after tomorrow may have to collect some household tax. Anyway, all kinds of Ming At present, although these officers and soldiers do not directly kill people, everyone is also forced to lose any money and food.

The thieves are really coming, but they can't see the officers and soldiers coming to protect the people.

Zhou Xiucai's family has also gone through hardships in recent years. Earlier, they were kidnapped by yellow thieves and handed over money to redeem them. In the southern county of Baoning Prefecture, the old man Zhou is a scholar after all, and his son used to collect medicinal materials, so he found a bookkeeper to do it. One of the sons went to work as a clerk in the pharmacy, and the other two also found jobs as clerks. Can barely survive.

But the world will not let them go.

First, Zhang Xianzhong became king in Wuchang Jianguo, but Li Zicheng established his name in Xiangyang. Zhang Xianzhong did not want to be subordinate to Li Zicheng, and was afraid that he would be annexed by Li Zicheng like Luo Rucai, so he had to go against the river to enter Sichuan. When he first entered Sichuan, he fought Dashun Yongchang The title of the reign, the banner of Li Zicheng.

Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, while Li Zicheng made the Northern Expedition.

Li Zicheng's prestige and prestige were strong all the way, but the Chuanghuang was not satisfied with Zhang Xianzhong, and he was unwilling to let him occupy the middle of Shu, so he sent the former Ming Dynasty General Soldier, who was attached to him, and the newly named Huairenbo Ma Ke to escort the original Daming Li Yutian, the last governor of Liaodong, went to Sichuan to serve as the governor of Sichuan.

Li Zicheng's intention is obvious, that is to send troops to fight for Sichuan when Zhang Xianzhong has not taken all of Sichuan and his foothold is not stable, squeeze Zhang Xianzhong's living space, and force the Eight Great Kings to finally surrender to Dashun.

It's just that when Ma Ke and the others entered northern Sichuan, Li Zicheng had already defeated Shanhaiguan.

When the news reached Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong immediately sent his troops north to fight the Shun army.

Ma Ke entered Sichuan from Hanzhong, captured Baoning, and then fell to Tongchuan. Zhang Xianzhong proclaimed himself emperor in Chengdu, and personally led his troops north to defeat Ma Ke in Jinzhou, forcing the Shun army to retreat to Hanzhong.

The following year, Ma Ke and He Zhen led troops to Baocheng, attacked the Western Army in Guangyuan, and the Western Army slaughtered Guangyuan and left. Zhang Xianzhong then ordered Liu Jinxiao to slaughter Baoning.

He Zhen was defeated, and his subordinates, Yan Ziming and Zheng Tianlu, plundered Baoning wantonly and returned.

In the past two years, northern Sichuan has been constantly fighting, and it was already plundered by the yellow thieves. As a result, Ma Ke led his troops into Sichuan after he surrendered, and defeated the Ming army in northern Sichuan. It was broken by the Shun army.

And Zhang Xianzhong sent troops to the north again. The two sides fought from Baoning to Mianzhou, and fought several times.Zhang Xianzhong's Western Army was even more ruthless. Once they lost, they would not only plunder and retreat, but also massacre the people in northern Sichuan.

Without population, there is no way to produce and farm to support the army.

Zhou Xiucai's family, who had managed to settle in Nanfang County with great difficulty, also suffered a lot. There were more than a dozen members of their family, but they were also forced to flee because of the repeated raids by the bandits, and even several family members died.

Hiding in Tibet, there is no place to live.

Later, he fled into a deep mountain and joined a village built by a local Juren. Everyone farmed and hunted in the mountain, and trained in guarding and self-defense.

But An's life was not long, they were attacked one night by the yellow thieves, the thieves had already inserted spies into the village, set fire to create chaos, and opened the gate of the village, the village had been defended for more than a year, but it was still destroyed.

The remaining eight members of Old Man Zhou's family were captured.

As for the reason why they are here now, the gang of thieves who were killed just now are going to Baoning Mansion to assemble under orders, and their family is the 'food' they brought with them. If there is not enough food on the way, they will be killed to eat. Carry them like livestock for hunger.

After hearing this, Zhang Dapeng couldn't help but fell silent again. He didn't expect that the land of abundance in central Sichuan would reach such a level now.

The roar of the tiger sounded.

Zhang Dapeng raised his musket.

Facing the sound of tigers roaring in the dark is a gun.

With a loud bang, the tiger escaped.

"The gnocchi soup is ready, let's eat first."

The one-armed Zhang Xian shouted.

Smelling the aroma of noodle soup, everyone felt hungry.

So in the midst of this bloodshed, I quickly filled the soup and ate it.

After dinner.

I heard that Zhang Dapeng was going to Hanzhong, Zhou Xiucai also planned to go with him, and Zhang Xian and a group of disabled people wanted to go with him.

Zhou Xiucai was afraid that Zhang Dapeng would not take him with him, so he hurriedly said, "Although I am a scholar, I can not only write and count, but also I can also shoot arrows. My three sons are also very young and can shoot arrows. I bought several bows, give them to us, they can be used.”

Zhang Xian and others also expressed that they would not be a drag, and they are capable of fighting with knives and guns.

Liu Chengzu looked at these disabled people, old and weak, and didn't want to take them with him, but after Zhang Dapeng looked at them for a while, he sighed, "You can follow me to Hanzhong, but you must obey my orders , we have to act according to the army, let's make a simple formation first, five people to one team, two teams to one team, and four to a team. We have more than 20 people here, so let's organize it into two teams and four teams first."

Zhang Dapeng let Liu Chengzu, Yang Wei, and Ma Liang, like him, each lead a team, and the women formed another team.

The four teams are considered combat teams. After simple matching, two people hold shields, one holds knives, one holds bows, and one holds spears. Zhang Dapeng and the four of them are suitable for long-range shooting and close combat.

The two armors seized were distributed to Zhou Xiucai's two sons. They were not disabled, and they were relatively young and strong. Although they had been hungry for a while, they were still young after all. Arms are stronger.

After such a simple collocation, it looks decent.

A man with one arm like Zhang Xian holds a knife, a man with one eye and a blind man holds a shield, a man with both hands and feet, but with a missing nose and ears holds a spear, and Zhou Xiucai and his three sons all hold a bow.

Everyone reported their names and briefly talked about their origins, which can be regarded as a temporary fighting friendship.

"I, Zhang Dapeng, am from eastern Zhejiang. I used to be an orphan. I grew up eating hundreds of meals. I started doing odd jobs to make ends meet when I was a teenager. Later, I was lucky enough to meet Lord Long Live. I joined the army and followed the Northern Expedition. I also met a man in Jiaxing. Good woman, married and now has a baby, and bought a field cheaply in her hometown as a pro-military member of the imperial camp,
I am now a battalion officer of the Imperial Battalion Sichuan-Shanxi Battalion Infantry Army. My military position is a six-rank garrison. My monthly salary is 50 taels of silver. In addition, there are 150 taels of office expenses such as oil candles for the assistant secretary.

Your Majesty treats our officers and men very generously. He pays his soldiers generously, and he also pays high salaries to maintain integrity. Now in the eastern part of Zhejiang, the people have settled down again, the fields are busy, the officials govern the government and the people, the soldiers train and fight, the craftsmen work, and the merchants sell. The common people cultivate, and the four people enjoy their work,
I believe that Sichuan will get better in the future.

Everyone, follow me to Hanzhong now, and I will organize you into my battalion for the time being. Each person will receive one cent and two cents of silver per day, while women and old men will be rewarded monthly according to their husbands and eight cents per day. Some thieves were beheaded and captured, and they were still rewarded according to the military system. "

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