Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

384. The Huguang Massacre

Due to being dragged down by the family members of the Eight Banners stationed in Jingzhou, Naertu and others who fled from Jingzhou City only ran to Jingmen for three whole days. [New] Just as they were still breathing, bad news from the north and the south came one after another along with the defeated army.what to do?There are vast mountains to the west, and the torrential Han River to the east. Although the enemies from the north and the south have stopped, this must be temporary. Once they have cleared out the broken troops scattered in the countryside, if they come back again, they will be defeated by more than 7000 banner troops alone. , more than 4000 Mongolian cavalry, and the [-] defeated troops who fled to Jingmen City one after another, can they resist it?

If you can't resist, shouldn't you find a way out early? Naertu, who doesn't want to die, therefore asked the people around him hopefully: "My lords, what should I do now?"

Ananda slowly reported back: "If you go back to the prince, if you can give up the family members of the Jingzhou garrison, there may be a chance to retreat north."

"My lord, what do you mean by that?" Barhu jumped up. "I want to force the Eight Banners of Jingzhou to mess up first!"

Ananda looked at Balhu with red eyes: "My wife and children are gone, and I can marry again when I go back to Beijing, but if I can't even keep myself, what about the future?"

"Bastard, I knew you were evil." Barhu raised his fist and rushed forward, and the two immediately wrestled. "Bastard," Barhu cursed while exerting force on his hand. "Back to Beijing, I will kill your whole family to see if it hurts you!"

"Stop!" Naertu yelled loudly, and the people around him also persuaded the fight, and finally separated the two guys who looked like fighting cocks. "It's really unreasonable. What time is it, you two are still fighting, come, give me, pull me aside."

Although Naertu was a bit stern, but the situation was indeed not optimistic. For this reason, Balin chimed in and said, "Master Ba, don't blame Mr. A. I just asked Jingmen Zhizhou before I came. There are only less than a thousand stones in the city." Even if the whole city is plundered, it can only feed the big guys for ten days at most."

Therefore, when fleeing from the Jingzhou city, they were in a hurry, and the food they carried was limited. The family members stationed in the Eight Banners in Jingzhou even brought everything, but less food, so once the food was exhausted, there was no need to fight this battle. [ ]

"I think Mr. A means that since we have reached an agreement with Haini to replace people, it is not a bad thing to let the old and the young stay, at least they will not starve to death with us." Balhu's expression was aroused by Balin's words. A little loose, seeing a door, Balin continued. "And let go of the old and weak, we may be able to rush out while the north and south are not overwhelmed."

Ba Lin's voice fell to the ground, and before Balhu could speak, Tong Gui who was beside him suddenly interjected: "Master Ba, how can you guarantee that Haini will definitely resettle the family members of the Eight Banners of Jingzhou? Besides, if we send food It’s all taken away, and it’s not enough to eat for a few days, how can it be so easy to protrude.”

Seeing that Balhu's eyes were about to widen again, Zhu Duna immediately followed Balin's words and said: "How can those greens go with us? They should all stay in Jingmen, so that we can save a lot of food. As for letting Haini entertain the flag family, we may leave a letter saying that we will definitely redeem it in the future. Although this is not a solution, it is better than starving to death together!"

"Leave all the green battalions?" Tong Gui's eyelids twitched. "I'm afraid that if the sea is not here, the green battalion soldiers will attack the city in disorder."

"Then kill all the Green Banner soldiers." Barhu said viciously. "If you think about it, the dead won't make trouble."

Kill all the green banner soldiers?All the Manchurian clans present were shocked.It's not that they can't afford to do this, but that the project is huge, and it's inevitable that they will suffer heavy losses when the other party dies.

Seeing the people around him looking at him like a devil, Balhu licked his lips indifferently: "We have many people and few horses, how can we escape if we don't snatch some from the Green Camp!"

There is obviously some truth to this statement, and Ba Lin, who is basically a rifleman and gunner, clapped his hands and agreed: "I don't think there are so many horses in the Green Camp, so I just took advantage of the attack to lose some manpower."

Balin's words are even more sinister, but people don't want to kill the world for themselves. When they are in a desperate situation, even dogs and horses will be killed to satisfy their hunger, not to mention the lackeys of the Han people.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Zhu Duna thought for a while and said: "All the towns and associations are the humerus of the emperor, it is better not to damage it too much, or send someone to call them into the city in the name of military affairs Alright, as for what to do, after the green battalion is settled, how the Manchurian soldiers will withdraw north has to be decided one by one.”

As the sky gradually darkened, the gates of Jingmen City slowly opened, and dozens of carts carrying wooden barrels filled with dried rice and hot soup staggered into the temporary gathering point of the green camp outside the city. [ ] The green battalion soldiers, who were already hungry, clustered around the dining car, and were yelled at by a group of emboldened guards.Since all the officials above the guerrilla level were called into the city for military discussions, there were only a few thousand left to maintain discipline. Someone sent it to eat.

"There's not even a speck of oil!" The green battalion soldier who took half a bowl of dry rice and a bowl of hot soup cursed. "I don't give much food."

"It's enough to eat, what's the point of nagging!" the arrogant Zhoucheng Zaoli beat the rice bucket with a rice spoon and scolded. "If you don't want to eat, get out of here, there are a lot of people waiting behind!"

"Bastard, I fight Hai Ni to death, you don't even give me a full meal, I will fight you hard!"

The scolding of the green battalion soldiers frightened Zaoli. They only knew that they were bullying the common people. They were all terrified in the face of the murderous soldiers. Someone shouted out of fear: "What do you want to do? Come, someone will steal the food!"

As soon as they heard about grabbing food, the green battalion soldiers who hadn't had their turn squeezed in desperately. For a while, like a storm, surrounding several barrels of rice, the green battalion soldiers from all towns and battalions, who were not in charge of each other, began to fight. , the thousands present at the scene couldn't stop it at all, even if individual commanders and guards came forward, they couldn't restrain other ministries that were not their own battalion heads, and the whole scene seemed extremely chaotic.

At this moment of extreme chaos, more than [-] Mongolian soldiers and horses were dispatched from the interior of Jingmen City one after another, each holding a sword and bow, showing their killing intent.After the green battalion was quietly surrounded, Barhu, who commanded the army, gave an order, and the bows and arrows of the Mongolian soldiers and the blunderbusses of the Eight Banners soldiers fired a volley, which immediately kicked off the prelude to the massacre.

"What's going on?" The Green Battalion soldiers fighting in the inner circle were stunned when they heard the sound of gunfire. "Is it Zheng Jun calling?"

The answer was quickly put before the dumbfounded Green Banner soldiers: "It's the Eight Banner Army, ah! The Tartars are going to kill us!"

The Green Battalion soldiers, who were a little confused in their thinking, subconsciously hid in the east, but there were vicious banner soldiers and Mongolian soldiers everywhere, and the thousands who went up to negotiate and the guards of the capital were mercilessly killed. The green battalion soldiers who couldn't escape had no choice but to fight back at this moment.But the opponent came prepared with sharp weapons, but the green flag soldiers had no organization because they didn't bring any guys to eat before, and the commander was either tricked or killed.Therefore, despite the desperate efforts that caused some bloodshed on the opponent, they were eventually wiped out one by one by the bloodthirsty Eight Banners soldiers and Mongolian soldiers in the fight.

Seeing many unarmed Green Banner soldiers being killed one by one by the alien masters holding torches, the prefect of Jingmen who stood at the head of Jingmen city and the general soldiers, deputy generals, generals, and guerrillas who were called out earlier all turned pale. Trembling in both hands.

Tong Gui, who was standing there with a smile on his face, justified indiscriminately: "Nowadays, the military rations are insufficient. Instead of letting them go to Haini after the rations are exhausted, it is better to kill them all now, and maybe it will be beneficial to stick to them for a long time."

Of course, the key is the prefect of Jingzhou, so after the generals of the green battalion were taken down, Tong Gui walked up to him and patted him, but the result was that the master Jinshi fell to his knees on the spot in fright. Seeing this scene, Tong Gui felt even more in his heart It was Dading: "Lord Zhen, don't panic, the prince asked me to explain something to my lord, and my lord must finish it."

As soon as he heard that he didn't want his own life, Zhen Zhizhou hurriedly replied: "Yes, yes, yes, as long as the prince told me, I will try my best to do it, no, no, I will definitely do it!"

"That's good!" Tong Gui lowered his voice. "Tomorrow morning, our army will go north to rescue Xiangfan, but the old and weak cannot take it away, so I will leave it to Mr. Zhen to take care of it. If Haini comes to attack the city, does Zhen Zhizhou know what to do?"

Going north to rescue Xiangfan, this is a lie. If you really want to solve Xiangfan, how can you kill tens of thousands of soldiers and horses on your side first? Take the lie as the truth and say: "The lower official understands that the lower official must stick to Jingmen to repay the country's kindness."

"Okay, I am worthy of the important task of the emperor, but the prince doesn't want you to stick to it, just"

Zhen Zhizhou trembled all over: "Tong, Master Tong, this, this is treason, the family of Xiaguan is still in the north, I really dare not"

"How can this be treason?" Tong Gui patted Zhen Zhizhou on the shoulder again. "It's just to protect the whole nation, but he was forced to bow down to serve the enemy." Tong Gui made a characterization of Zhen Zhizhou's future actions. "As long as this matter is done well, your family members will be my family members stationed in the Eight Banners in Jingzhou, and you will be safe." Seeing Zhen Zhizhou's dilemma, Tong Gui's face darkened. "Why, you don't agree." Tong Gui made a gesture of reaching out to touch the knife. "That"

"Yes, yes, I understand." Zhen Zhizhou was horrified. He knew that in addition to the Zhizhou, there were also the prefects in the city. Kneel down. "The lower officials must follow the wishes of the prince and Du Tong."

"That's good, that's good!" Tong Gui said with a half-smile. "By the way, I will leave some wounded and guards here. If anyone dares to defy others or just sacrifice to the city, Mr. Zhen, you can call them to suppress them!"

"Yes, yes!" Zhen Zhizhou responded tremblingly, Tong Gui turned around and wanted to leave in satisfaction, suddenly Zhen Zhizhou didn't know where the courage came from, and grabbed Tong Gui's official clothes at once. "Master Tong, you have taken away all the food, what will the next officials provide to support the flag family!"

"That's true," Tong Gui touched his chin and looked at Zhen Zhizhou with a sneer. "In this way, Master Zhizhou will point out which one is a big family in the city, and I will send Eight Banners soldiers to help you borrow food."

"No!" Zhen Zhizhou shook his head anxiously. "Although the big family doesn't dare to protest, once the banner army goes north, I don't know how many people the prince will leave in Jingmen to take care of it, in case the big family gathers a crowd to retaliate"

"Then let's kill all of Jingmen's city first, just like outside the city."

"So, how will Hai Ni be willing to protect the Jingzhou banner family?"

"It makes sense," Tong Gui nodded and thought about it. "More than 4000 flag dependents, a total of [-] or [-] shi a day, I will ask the prince to leave you a hundred shi, enough to last until the sea reverse comes."

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