Win the Ding 1617

The relationship between Chinese people can be summed up by the four irons in life.That is, "have been in the same window together, carried guns together, shared stolen goods together, and lived together." These four together basically summarize all social relationships in Chinese society throughout the ages except for blood clans.Classmates, comrades, fellow criminals, fellow boots.

However, if in a less embarrassing scene, you meet old brothers who once carried guns together, smashed kilns together, and shared the spoils together, this scale will be rather awkward.

This is what I felt when I first talked with Shi Lang, the battalion officer who was one of the four newly formed cavalry battalions.He was the nephew of Tan Qirui, the vice general of the Shenji Battalion.After Tan Qirui fought several battles in Shandong and Jinan, he was actually promoted and made a fortune.Originally an ordinary soldier of the Shenji Battalion, he had also become a general manager with great achievements, and his pockets were bulging with silver dollars and rice tickets.

After Beijing was conquered by Li Zicheng, he followed his uncle to the south.First, he fought a few battles with the Marshal Li Huayu in Shandong, and later he was transported by sea to Shanghai for medical treatment because of injuries.After recovering from the injury, he planned to return to Shandong to join the team, but Li Huayu was already killed.So, he and a hundred officers and soldiers from Shandong were assigned to the guard brigade and became Li Shouhan's personal soldiers.

In the Battle of Jiujiang, Zuo Liangyu's main force was defeated.A large number of mules, horses and war horses were seized.Shi Lang informed Li Shouhan, he transferred manpower from the army, selected elites, and set up four cavalry battalions.And when he talked about the beginning, it was because of his cavalry combat experience that he was promoted to the right battalion officer of the cavalry. He managed more than 400 cavalry, more than 200 auxiliary personnel such as grooms, veterinarians, horse blacksmiths, and saddlemakers. , more than 1000 mules.

All the way down from the Jiujiang River, Tan Chuduan trained the hundreds of men under his command, riding, tactics, discipline, marching, etc., all had to be taught.Moreover, the cavalry battalion also has an important task, which is to serve as scouts and sentries for the march of the army.In front of the marching sequence of the army, a certain distance from the left and right, conduct sentry detection to prevent enemy raids, ambushes, harassment, etc.

On this day, as the forward scout of the whole army, he led his troops along the main road towards Tonggu and Xiushui. The rangers in front sent out three groups, each group was about ten miles apart, and the left and right wings They also released two batches each, and opened up a patrol network covering tens of miles.

"In this area, there are high mountains and dense forests, and it is located at the junction of Jiangxi, Hunan, and Hubei provinces. It is also very close to Ji'an, Nanchang, and Changsha. We must be 12 points high to guard against someone Bad for our army!"

The march stretched for nearly a hundred miles, with more than [-] horses, including [-] to [-] captives from Zuo Liangyu's army, and refugees who joined the army to retreat south along the way.What is even more enviable is that Shi Lang is responsible for escorting a large number of luggage, grain, mules and horses going south.These personnel, materials, and belongings, not to mention the mountain king roaring in the mountains, but also the chasing Qing army and the remnants of Zuo Liangyu's army who fled to Jiangxi, are all extremely jealous.

Each batch of ten cavalrymen, twenty war horses, and seventy elite cavalrymen, carrying binoculars, fireworks, and letter cannons, urged their mounts away, and a gust of wind blew up in the mountains and forests, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"My eyes are always twitching today, and I'm always flustered. I'm afraid something will happen." Tan Chuduan and his deputy, Shen Chong, the leader of the cavalry battalion, said in a low voice.

"It doesn't matter. As the saying goes, the left eye jumps for money, and the right eye jumps for disaster. If both eyes jump together, is it a sign of extreme prosperity? Maybe, today, we will fight a small thief who doesn't open his eyes, and it's okay to make a small fortune." That's right." Shen Chong and Tan Chuduan laughed and rode forward together.

However, it seemed to confirm the crow's mouth of Tan Chuduan. After a while, from behind the distant mountains and forests, a rocket shot up into the sky, marking that there were police officers on the road ahead!

"Outpost, assemble! Set off to meet the outpost cavalry!"

"Communications team! Immediately report to Xuanfu Envoy! Tell the forward to give an early warning, and ask his brigade to enter Xiushui County as soon as possible, and report the details later!"

"On the left and right wings, send two more teams of rangers to see if there is an ambush in the forest on the left and right!"

"The rest of the teams, each sentry, slowly move forward with the officer, ready to meet the enemy!"

A series of orders were issued, Tan Chuduan handled this emergency very safely.

In a blink of an eye, the cavalry under his command had each followed his order and rode away.The remaining 200 cavalry and more than [-] auxiliary personnel who can ride horses are each waiting for his command on horseback.

"Boys! Follow me, forward!"

Five or six hundred horses blew up a gust of wind on the mountain path between Tonggu Xiushui.Thousands of horseshoes splashed the red soil to the side of the road.

At the turning point of the mountain road in the distance, there was a sudden burst of shouting, and as Tan Chuduan's horse team galloped, the shouting became closer and louder.

"It's better not to have an accident!" During this period of time, since the retreat from Jiujiang, although no major battles have been fought, small battles, and the former Ming army who surrendered to the Qing army, the regiment training in various places for self-protection, and the swords of Xiaoju mountains and forests Small frictions and small contacts with customers occur almost every day.These things, like mosquitoes and flies, really annoyed Shi Lang and the officers and soldiers of the Nanyue Army!

"It doesn't seem to be shouting for killing, but just shouting. There shouldn't be a fight!" Shen Chong and Tan Chuduan rode together on the bridle, analyzing the shouts coming from afar with keen ears, and explained to Tan Chuduan in his mouth with.

As if to confirm his analysis, at the turn of the mountain road not far away, there appeared the second batch of cavalry sent by Tan Chuduan just now to meet the ranger scouts.

"Master battalion officer! There is no enemy army in front! Our sentry cavalry encountered another group of troops! They saw our flag and said they are our friendly army!"

What?Here are our allies?From Tan Chuduan and Shen Chong to the cavalrymen and grooms and veterinarians in the cavalry battalion, they couldn't believe their ears.We are in the north of Jiangxi and the south of Jiangxi, but we are the only army of the Southern Guangdong Army. How can there be friendly troops?

"Could it be those local officials in southern Jiangxi under the command of the lord? I still have a little loyalty and conscience in my heart, and I haven't forgotten who has paid them for so many years. At this critical moment, can the lord share some of it?"

"Even if the local officers and soldiers are loyal, the equipment and combat effectiveness of these officers and soldiers are not flattering. Moreover, there are serious vacancies and shortages. Most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled. At most, they can act as guides for us after they come. Help us open the way, prepare some food and grass to support vegetables and so on. Don’t expect other great uses.”

The two exchanged a few words briefly on the horseback, and the horses trotted in small steps, and the distance was shortened a lot.At the turn of the mountain road in the distance, dozens of war horses also appeared galloping.

Behind these dozens of war horses, shouts erupted like mountains and tsunami, but Tan Chuduan, Shen Chong and others could hear it very clearly. It was not shouts of killing, but cheers from the bottom of their hearts. Voice.Emotions are contagious. Although he didn't see the situation in the distance, the cheers quickly infected his cavalry. These cavalry also waved their flags, knives and guns and cheered loudly.

In this atmosphere, the two battalion officers had no choice but to temporarily put aside their doubts about this friendly army, their doubts about their personnel, equipment, and combat effectiveness, and urged their horses to go forward. "As long as they are not our enemies, they are our allies!"

However, when the two groups of people marched to the point where each other could see the flag clearly, Tan Chuduan was so startled that he almost fell off his horse.Among the oncoming cavalry, a large flag was fluttering impressively, and the word "Shun" flashed in the wind in the moonlight of the flag.

"My mother! Why are you brothers from the Dashun Army!" Tan Chuduan cried out a series of bitterness in his heart.Although when he was in Shandong, Tan Chuduan, as Young Master Li's subordinate, got along well with Luohu, Wanglong and Longhuying, and made quite a few friends in these two families.However, at that time, the Dragon and Tiger Camp was still under the banner of local righteousness and bravery, but now, the Dashun Army is the sworn enemy of the Ming court. Who let them break into Beijing and send Emperor Chongzhen to Meishan.Although it is said that the Dashun Army was only the one who kicked the stool under Chongzhen's feet, it was the bureaucratic gentry who really sent him to Meishan to find the Crooked Neck Tree.However, after all, the hat of rebellion and regicide is on the head of the Dashun Army, they are the enemies of the Southern Guangdong Army currently under the banner of the Ming Dynasty.

"What should I do!" Although Tan Chuduan is a mid-level and lower-level officer, he is well aware of the filth between the Southern Guangdong Army and the Ming bureaucracy, as a child of a family from the Shenji Camp. . "I didn't expect such a bad thing to happen to me!" He couldn't help lamenting in his heart, lamenting whether the urine he put in when he set off this morning was not in the right place, which annoyed the land of the mountain gods here or something, so he put Such a huge disaster was thrown on his head?

Thoughts were spinning in my heart, and the war horse under my crotch was also galloping like flying.In a few breaths, Tan Chuduan was able to clearly see the facial features of the person opposite him.

"Are you Tan Brothers on the opposite side?" In the horse team on the opposite side, a loud and clear northern Shaanxi accent came from afar.

"Is it He Laowu?" Hearing this man's voice, Tan Chuduan was also refreshed. "You donkey!" He couldn't help cursing a curse word he learned from them.

"It's you, me!" He Laowu laughed, and put a whip on the horse's back, rushed to Tan Chuduan's horse first, stood up on the horse's back, and stretched out his right hand to Tan Chuduan .This set of tactics was used by Longhuying when they got along with Sanqianying and Shenjiying.At the moment, Tan Chuduan also stretched out his right hand to meet He Lao Wu's hand.The two palms met in the air, and there was a crisp "pop!"

The Nanyue Army and the Dashun Army met in this high five.

He Laowu is from Mizhi, northern Shaanxi, and was born in the He family.In the peasant army and the Ming army in the late Ming Dynasty, this family could be said to have produced a large number of talents and bright stars.In the Fifth Battalion of Huige, there are Ge Liyan He Yilong and Zuo Jin He Jin, and He Jinlong and others in Li Zicheng's army. Among the Ming army, the most famous He lunatic He Renlong was born in He family.

It was precisely because of this background that He Lao Wu had a place in the Dragon and Tiger Camp led by Luo Hu, Wang Long and the other two.At the beginning of his peace talks, they were all small leaders like Shichang in their respective camps.The two completely different armies fought side by side because of Li Huayu, a commander who did not follow the routine.Agitated the situation on the land of Qilu, and killed Abatai and other officials and gentry from all walks of life.

It was during this period that these two guys got acquainted with each other and became friends.And Tan Chuduan has given full play to the characteristics of the sociable children of the Beijing camp, and there are several sworn brothers in the Longhu camp.And He Laowu is one of them.

The disciples of the Beijing camp and the Dragon and Tiger Camp fought together, which can be regarded as Li Huayu's brilliant move. He combined the two battalions that were originally incompatible with each other, and as a result, the fighting power of nuclear fission erupted.The Dragon and Tiger Camp can fight, fight, run, and endure hunger and cold.As for the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp of the Shenji Battalion of the Three Thousand Battalion, they have excellent equipment and will not spare firepower.When these two families combine, they learn from each other's strengths and make up for each other's weaknesses. Big and small polders and stockades on the land of Qilu will suffer great misfortune.

The cavalry of the [-] Battalion were in charge of guarding the periphery and cutting off the communication between Weizi Village and the outside world. The artillery team of the Shenji Battalion was responsible for destroying the walls of the village, while the infantry of the Longhu Battalion were responsible for pouring into the village and seizing the village. .After the stockade is broken, the two villages will be distributed according to the ratio of four to six.

The top and bottom of the Dragon and Tiger Camp, the backbones all have years of experience in smashing kilns and looting. No matter how well you build the darkroom of the warehouse and cellar where the gold and silver are stored, it is just a manifestation of personal wisdom.In the eyes of these peasant army officers and soldiers who have experienced the baptism of various forms of hiding valuables from south to north and from north to south, it is nothing more than a piece of cake.

After finding the secret room of the warehouse where valuables are stored, it was time for the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp to show their faces.These people have lived in the capital for several generations, and they are used to all kinds of gold, silver, fine jewelry, jade, antiques, calligraphy and paintings. After evaluating the value by their hands, they will not let the accompanying Longshengxing merchants take the opportunity to bargain and take advantage of everyone.Moreover, these guys have extremely vicious eyes. Even if the officers and soldiers of the Peasant Army have scanned the place several times, they can still find more valuable things from a pile of inconspicuous items.

In this regard, even Wang Long, who has rich experience in plundering, couldn't help sighing: "In this world, even a thief must study and be educated! Those who don't study can only be small thieves, and those who have read , is the big thief!" An inconspicuous bronze ware full of rust, and a set of seemingly ordinary porcelain, in the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp, they are all top-grade items that are more precious than gold, silver and jewelry.Anyone who tries to get away with it will be powerless in front of this strange combination.

When dividing the spoils, it even more embodies the wise saying of Mr. Ma that "existence determines consciousness".The officers and soldiers of Longhu Camp who were born in Chuangying and Caoying can be described as not picky eaters.From food and clothing, mules, horses, knives and guns, to the young men in the artillery and equipment village, gold, silver and jewelry, there is almost nothing they don't want.Apart from those houses and clumsy furniture, in their eyes, there are too many good things that can be used in a village.In the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the Sanqian Battalion and the Shenji Battalion, apart from the portable jewelry and jade, antique calligraphy and paintings, everything else can be given to the brothers of the Longhu Battalion.Of course, the rice tickets exchanged for the spoils from the Longshengxing merchants must be made clear by everyone's accounts.

The two guys who smashed the kiln together, shared the stolen goods seized after the kiln smashing together, er, the booty, and the guys who left footprints in Jinan Prefecture, Linqingzhou restaurant, and Huajie Liuxiang together met again.Although a little awkward, but also very affectionate.

"Old Wu, thank you for your hard work!" At first, I wanted to say that you are safe and sound, but looking at the large and small arrow hole scars on He Lao Wu's armor and shirt, and the weathered look on his face, he still used this common saying at the beginning of the conversation. Swallowing it back, he uttered such a sentence from his heart.Back then they fought together in various parts of Qilu, and they used to stay awake for several days. They just chased on horseback, took a nap on horseback when they were sleepy, and ate a piece of dry food when they were hungry.But it's not like He Lao Wu now, with a haggard face and a thin face.It can be seen that during this period of time, Shunjun's life is not easy.

"Don't talk nonsense! Take out the food, tea, and tobacco from your horse's mattress cover! Don't let me smash your kiln by myself!"

As a battalion soldier who once served in the Southern Guangdong Army, He Laowu naturally knew that in the backpacks of every Southern Guangdong Army soldier, or in the rider's horse mattress cover, there was a lot of emergency supplies, or March rations.From dry food and meat, salt and spices, a small amount of liquor and tea, and even a certain amount of tobacco as a supply.The purpose is to be able to eat when the march is too late to cook hot meals.

"Let the side horses go for twenty li!"

"Immediately report the situation here to the Xuanfu envoy! Say that Qianfeng Tan Chuduan met an old soldier who was also under the son of Shandong Prince when he was in the Beijing camp!"

While setting up the security, he ordered people to report the situation here to Shi Lang who had already driven into Xiushui County.When talking about the initial experience, Shi Lang is very clear.Therefore, in order to prevent embarrassment and trouble caused by leaking secrets, he only mentioned the old people who were also under the eldest son Li Huayu when he was in Beijing camp.That being said, Shi Lang understood what kind of troops he had encountered as soon as he heard it.

"You guys go back right away, and quickly report to Lord Gao and Lord Luo that we met Mr. Li's brother-in-law General Shi Lang's troops in Xiushui County!" Report the situation here to the senior officers of the Dashun Army and ask them to make a decision.

Sitting on the ground, looking at He Lao Wu who was devoting himself to hard work, he felt like he was full of words and didn't know where to start when talking about Chuduan.Suddenly, he discovered a detail.

On the helmets of the hundreds of people under He Lao Wu's command, a white cloth strip was tied to the red tassels on the Kui Ding.On the handle of the knife, there is also a circle of white cloth wrapped around it.This is clearly a sign of mourning!

"Could it be that some important person was killed in the camp?"