Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 143 Across Shaanxi
On the official road, the ground trampled by messy horseshoes trembled, and thousands of people were running and shouting. There has never been any animal population that can be as thrilling as human migration.

It's a pity that people's great group power is mostly used to kill each other, and this time is no exception. In front, hundreds of ragged peasant troops fled eastward while screaming in horror. , Behind, two thousand officers and soldiers were either riding horses or carrying knives, howling excitedly and chasing after them. The peasant army who was running a little slower was kicked to the ground by the horses' hoofs, and was immediately cut down and mowed. head off.

The peasant army is the most lowly, and the most tenacious is also the peasant army. Like leeks, one stubble will grow again, the wild fire will not burn out, and the spring breeze will regenerate. Countless peasants who are persecuted and cannot survive He took up crude weapons one after another, resisted the government with the greatest courage in his life, and then fell under the butcher's knife of the government army one after another.

Repeatedly.

It seems that today this small peasant army is going to follow in the footsteps of those uprising predecessors. Seeing that the Ming army is about to complete the siege, the excited Ming army generals did not notice that the nearby dry things are about to smoke In the forest, someone had been staring at them for a long time.

Compared with five months ago, the vicissitudes and maturity on the face have also increased. Seeing that the group of peasant soldiers used as bait were killed and injured by the officers and soldiers, more than half of them were killed or injured one after another, but Song Qingshu didn't even blink his eyelids, and he was still dead. Staring at the advancing officers and soldiers.

Perhaps in the past five months, I have seen too much life and death!
The officers and soldiers walked out of Shaanxi from Wuguan, and the troops left before their departure blocked Wuguan tightly. With the strength of Zhang Xianzhong and Song Qingshu, it was naturally impossible to break through. As a last resort, they pulled up the team and went from Shangnanbei to Shanbei.

As a result, as soon as he left the boundary of Shangnan County, he encountered a surprise attack by the army that night. The old and the weak were all in Song Qingshu's rear camp. Song Qingshu, who was not prepared, was really defeated. Thousands of people were scattered in the night. Zhang Xianzhong, who camped ahead, came to the rescue in time, and the cavalry of the Peasant Army broke through the ranks of the official army and repelled the Ming army in Shangzhou. However, when the number of people was lightened the next day, the ground was covered with corpses, blood was flowing, and Song Qingshu More than 6000 people brought out from Funiu Mountain died more than 2000.

This can be regarded as a lesson for Song Qingshu. No matter where he camps in the future, Song Qingshu will choose a safe place on the defensive side in advance, arrange a team, and counterattack at any time when the army comes.

Although the mobile army was pulled to King Qin, on the Guanzhong Plain, the official army still had an absolute advantage. After attacking Shangzhou for two days, they did not capture it, but lost hundreds of people. As a last resort, this team had to give up the strategic intention of going north from here to join the large team of Tianwang Jiayin, the leader of the peasant uprising army at that time, and joined another peasant army in Shanyang. Just to mention, tens of thousands of teams simply turned around and headed straight for Hanzhong.

In fact, Hanzhong is divided by the Qinling Mountains, and the Hanzhong Plain is still in the middle, forming a rather closed area. It used to belong to Bashu, but in order to break the closure of Bashu, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang insisted on planning Hanzhong to Shaanxi.

At this time, Hanzhong was considered a rare and good place in Shaanxi. The land here is fertile, rich businessmen gather here, and there are many high-ranking officials and dignitaries. The rich land allows farmers to support themselves. Hanzhong's well salt, Shu brocade, etc. were still important in Shaanxi at that time. With economic support, seeing such a large peasant army rushing to Shaanxi, Yang He, the governor of the three sides, hurriedly mobilized troops to deploy troops in the Qinling Mountains to intercept Zhang Xianzhong.

Who knew that going to Hanzhong was just a pretense for Song Qingshu. After playing hide-and-seek in Qinling for a few days, the army suddenly went north, broke through two defenseless county towns, robbed food, and then fled all the way north.

Passing through Wuzhangyuan where Zhuge Liang died, lost his way in Qishan Mountain for several days, and sometimes hungry schoolboys ate worms. In the end, this large team fled to Qingyang Mansion. From here, the peasant army in northern Shaanxi is the strongest. It's a big place, and there are small groups of peasant troops everywhere, and it's the government troops who are afraid of being attacked.

However, one of the reasons why northern Shaanxi is the place where the peasant army's uprising power is strongest is that it is poor. When it comes to Qingyang and Yan'an Prefecture, food has become a problem again.

For more than four consecutive years, the peasant uprising army in northern Shaanxi, a large number of farmers put down their hoes and picked up swords, and lived by eating big families. The environment in northern Shaanxi is inherently harsh, and there is no output on the loess high slopes. If the war is managed like this, production will almost stagnate. There, almost everyone who could be beaten was beaten.

Today, the only places that have food are Yansui Town, Yulin Town, Jingbianying, and other military formations along the Great Wall, and there are some rich people in big cities like Yan'an Mansion, Qingyang Mansion, and Kunzhou. There is also some food.

Song Qingshu, who was so hungry that he couldn't even eat potatoes, finally got angry and hit Yan'an Mansion!

However, this place is not very easy to fight. Since the Song Dynasty, Yan'an has been an important place where the imperial courts have controlled Shaanxi. Large-scale construction of the city, this Yan'an mansion has high walls and thick pools, and there are more than 2000 defenders. There are even rich local households who have gathered strong people to defend the city. not come down.

Song Qingshu himself had no intention of attacking by force at all. After surrounding the four gates of the city, he only fired a few shots before stopping the attack. He surrounded like this every day.

Yan'an Mansion is a big city, and it was an important stronghold for the Ming Dynasty to control the middle section of northern Shaanxi. At this time, Yansui Governor Zhang Mengjing led a large army northward to King Qin, and lost the unified command. He hurried over to Yan'an mansion.

The army in front of us is Ganquan County, Wild Boar Gorge, and the reinforcements gathered by the Luochuan government and army. It is led by a garrison surnamed Liu. The combined strength is more than 2000. The Peasant Army is located in the south of Yan'an Mansion to intercept the army. They were dispersed almost after the first battle, and now these Ming troops are chasing and killing the defeated peasant army.

However, this is exactly what Song Qingshu wants!
Seeing that the officers and soldiers in front of him have formed a long snake formation in the pursuit, and the defensive banner of Liu character has turned into the unique impact gully on the loess high slope, Song Qingshu couldn't help it. Full of joy, he pulled out his firecracker suddenly, and fired two shots into the air. In an instant, the peasant army who had been lying in ambush beside the official road for half a day finally rushed out like a flood that opened the gate.

"Kill! Kill the official dog!"

Fighting the intercepting peasant army from ten miles away, and then chasing after them, on this dry and hot Loess Plateau, this officer army has been running wildly for almost half an hour. On the top of the bare loess mountain, countless peasant soldiers carried large pieces of dry and hard loess and smashed it down the hillside. The officers and soldiers at the bottom of the mountain were thrown on their backs, their heads were bleeding, and the woods next to the official road were slightly wider. At this point, it seems that the main force of the peasant army came out, and the officers and soldiers who were caught off guard were suddenly disrupted.

The officers and soldiers were in chaos, but Song Qingshu was not. More than 200 musketeers rushed to the front. At this time, it didn't matter what three-stage shooting and two-point shooting. The Ming army, who was in a mess and wanted to swing their guns to form an array, immediately fell down a large area, and those behind directly collapsed to the front and rear of the team.

"Block the mountain pass, cut off the officers and soldiers!!!" Seeing that the Ming army was in disarray, Song Qingshu yelled again with all his strength behind him.

The peasant army on this road was not limited to Song Qingshu's battalion. Feng Shuangli led the army to follow and fight. Hearing Song Qingshu's yelling and waving a big flag, this man from northern Shaanxi led more than a hundred of his fellow villagers with big guns to block the narrow road. At the Huangtupo mountain pass, I also knew how terrible it would be to fail to respond at the end. Dozens of officer cavalry immediately turned around, whipped their horses buttocks, and roared to break through Feng Shuangli's interception.

A good Feng Shuangli shouted, facing the galloping cavalry, many calves of these peasant army spearmen trembled, and none of them retreated. The short sprint of more than 100 meters arrived in an instant, with a bang, The huge impact knocked out more than a dozen peasant soldiers in the front row. This is not like in the game, how far they can get up and continue to fight. The cavalry, which is almost equivalent to the impact force of a small truck, knocked away almost all infantry. Collapsed, spurting blood wildly from the mouth, and fell to the ground dead.

But with just such a collision, the speed that the cavalry relied on for survival was gone, and the blood was covered in blood from being poked by the red-tasseled gun. The cavalry of the team directly stabbed off the horse!Then, the sturdy peasant army at the back came up all of a sudden, and during the fight on the narrow mountain pass, the cavalry of the officers and soldiers fell down like dumplings.

On the other side, under the command of Song Qingshu, it was not all smooth sailing to hit the tail of the officer army. After all, the officer army had undergone military training. After the front team was cut off, the retreated rear team automatically set up a defense around a dozen supply carts Lie on the grain cart, the officers and soldiers on top fired guns, and the officers and soldiers hiding in the gaps in the cart stabbed randomly with red-tasseled guns. Such an up and down attack, even if Scarface led people up to break the formation, they were beaten back. The unlucky Scarface also took a shot, but fortunately it hit the iron plate embedded in the captured cotton armor.

Seeing that they failed to take down several times in a row, the Ming army guarding the chariot formation seemed to have passed the initial panic and became calm. Song Qingshu became more and more anxious, but at this moment, a loud and clear horse cry suddenly appeared in the official There was a sound from behind the army vehicles, and after looking around, Song Qingshu immediately scolded his mother angrily.

"Bitch, who told her to come!"

But in the distance, a sturdy bay red horse took the lead, carrying a woman in fiery red clothes, as if her whole body was dancing like a ball of flames, rushing into the army formation, followed by hundreds of cavalry Afterwards, the sharp saber greeted the officer with horsepower, and the officer who rushed immediately staggered.

Fearing that Hongniang Xing made a mistake, Song Qingshu, whose eyes were about to pop out, let out a tiger roar.

"kill!"

(End of this chapter)