Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 186 Coming Out of the Mountain ([-])

On the second day, Qiu Tianxing attacked Huoshan in four directions.Under the leadership of the battalion commanders, more than 5 regiments poured out of the villages like a trickle, gathered into a large force and headed to Huoshan County together.

When the Tartars in Huoshan County saw the Tuan Ding coming from all directions like a wave, they were already surrounded.

Passing 5 people is boundless, and passing [-] will give the besieged the feeling of being in the crowd.At this moment, the tens of thousands of troops brought fear to the Tartars in the city, as if they were a flat boat heaving in the crowd, and they might capsize and die at any time.The small Huoshan County will definitely not be able to withstand the siege of [-] people.

In order to defend the first battalion of Chen Chen's troops entrenched in Fengyang Mansion of Yingzhou Prefecture, Liangjiang Governor's Mansion sent tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to deploy a line of defense along the area from Chuzhou to Luzhou Prefecture.Although the Tartars in Lu'an Prefecture also have some troops to defend, the main force is in the state capital of Lu'an Prefecture, and there are only a few hundred soldiers in Huoshan County.

The city gate was closed tightly, and the magistrate of Huoshan stood at the top of the city and watched the attacking bandit army.I kept sighing in my heart that the bandits had been entrenched in Yingzhou Mansion and Fengyang Mansion over the past year, and they were getting stronger day by day.The Governor-General conscripted and sent out the army, but failed to destroy it repeatedly. On the contrary, this group of bandits is more likely to enter Jiangning. It seems that the group of bandits has really become a trend.

The county magistrate of Huoshan used to be a Juren of the former Ming Dynasty. He suffered greatly from the turmoil in the late Ming Dynasty.

"Perhaps the imperial court is not the destiny, I am afraid it is another former Ming Dynasty." Huoshan magistrate muttered to himself.At this moment, Huoshan magistrate's loyalty to the Tartars was shaken.

At this moment, he watched tens of thousands of bandits line up to attack the city, felt the murderous aura rushing towards him, and a certain idea in his heart became more firm.

In the end, the magistrate of Huoshan chose to open the door and surrender.

As a result, Huoshan County was taken by Qiu Tianxing, to be precise, it was taken by the power of the current security team in this place.

Sun Tzu said that the first is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and the second is to attack the city.The Tartars use this very powerfully.As early as in Liaodong, the Tartars boasted that "Jurchens are not full of ten thousand, and they are invincible".This statement even imperceptibly weakened the combat power of the frontline soldiers in Liaodong in the former Ming Dynasty, and they all suffered from phobias.The large army that met the Tartars didn't even dare to fight, didn't even have the courage to fight to the death, then turned around and fled, showing their backs to the Tartars, and fell down on the way back.

After the Tatars entered the customs, the effect was even more powerful, and it was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.Countless cities fell without a fight, and countless generals and soldiers defected to the Tartars as soon as they were lost. Then they turned around and beat their original comrades to pieces as if they had been spayed with chicken blood.Moreover, the Tartars would massacre the city from time to time, weakening the determination of the rebels behind.

Pressing people with potential will never be disadvantageous.Regardless of the Northern Expedition of the Ming Army 300 years ago, within a year, hundreds of thousands of Mongolian and Yuan troops in Jiangbei were forced to flee to Mobei, and they did not dare to fight the Ming Army.In the past, one year later, Li Dingguo, the two famous kings, wanted to cede the seven provinces to make peace with the remnants of the Tartars in horror.Or nearly 300 years later, the headmaster's troops went to the Northern Expedition in a single place, and after a series of victories, they nominally controlled the whole of China in just over a year.All these prove that the highest state of war is to force people with force and force the enemy to surrender.On this land, thanks to the efforts of the First Battalion, the security regiment has achieved this.

It's just that the security group's reputation in this land is not very good. For the landlord and gentry class, they mainly adopt the policy of eating big households.So after learning that the magistrate wanted to surrender, the landlords and wealthy households in the city were terrified, but at this time the outside of the city was already surrounded by bandits, and they couldn't escape even if they wanted to.As a result, these people who were afraid of the security group changed into servants' clothes and fled to other courtyards to hide.For a while, the streets were chaotic.

Compared to some people's feeling like a doomsday version, others are elated.Because of the news from the north, as long as the city is conquered by the security group, the people in the city will benefit to some extent, especially those who join the security group will also have a material subsidy. That's the field.

Amidst the uneasiness in the hearts of the people in the city, the members of the security team entered the city.

Because Huoshan County is not big, Qiu Tianxing only sent one battalion into Huoshan County.As soon as they entered the city, the various squadrons of this battalion quickly dispersed and took control of various important places in the city.This move shocked some people even more.

Because of the magistrate's surrender, Qiu Tianxing avoided the loss of attacking the county, and of course he also lost the opportunity to hone his troops.In general, however, surrender is better than resistance.So in dealing with Huoshan County Magistrate, Qiu Tianxing still decided not to kill him.

In the past, every time the security regiment broke through a city, most of the Tartar officials in the city were killed, imprisoned and reformed.On the one hand, this was done because of the urgent need for primitive capital, and the accumulation of primitive capital is bound to be bloody. On the other hand, the reputation of the security regiment is not very good. Tartar officials thought it was a bandit, so naturally few people took refuge in it.Now that the security regiment has grown stronger, there are also many Tartar officials who want to rely on the security regiment, but Qiu Tianxing has already felt that it is important to maintain the internal purity of the army. Instead of conquering the world by himself, let those idiots sit in the world and let them steal the fruits of the security regiment .

Therefore, although the magistrate of Huoshan County expressed the idea of ​​joining the security team, Qiu Tianxing still refused.Then the county magistrate, county magistrate, county lieutenant, etc. were all demoted to civilians, and the family property was retained.

This is also a signal to the outside world, as long as you don't resist the security group, you will save your life, and even your family property.And if they resist the attack of the security regiment, in addition to confiscating all their property, the resisters will have to behead the whole family and undergo labor reform, and may end up exhausted in the reform.

Now the security group is no longer the unknown small force that it was at the beginning. With the efforts of the first, second, fourth and sixth battalions, the security group has already won a great reputation in the world.Naturally, some behaviors must be well-organized and not reckless.

At the beginning, when the security team was still weak, they chose the policy of ransacking their homes, and even branded them traitors in order to show justice, and then ransacked their homes.This led to many resistances and suffered many losses, but in the end won the capital of the rebellion.

Now the security team can't do that.The place that Qiu Tianxing wants to go out this time is Nanjing, which is the Jiangning Mansion at this time, and then take over the Zhenjiang Mansion, Changzhou Mansion and Suzhou Mansion in the east.It is the most affluent place in the world, and it is also the place where the landlords and gentry have the greatest power. In the previous Ming Dynasty, Changzhou Mansion had the Donglin Party that influenced the world.In order to control this piece of land, the Tartars not only used the weapon of slaughtering the city, but also the gun.The four successive dynasties of Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong not only broke the arrogance of the literati, but also made the gentry class in this land a fat that was cut off from generation to generation.

Today, the revolution has just begun, and the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River have not yet been involved, so their power is still very strong at this time.If the Security Corps Headquarters takes control of Jiangnan, and rashly implements the land policy, it will cause a strong backlash from this force, which is not in line with the policy of "uniting all forces that can be united against the Tartars" proposed by Qiu Tianxing.But if they don't move, it will be difficult for the headquarters to grow rapidly, and it will lack a new look in the eyes of outsiders.The new dynasty is actually a process in which old interest groups are broken up and new interest groups are re-established.Without nourishment from the corpses of these gentry and landlords in Jiangnan Province, it would be difficult for the security group, a new interest group, to grow.

"How good would it be if these landlords and gentry rebelled one after another after I took control of Jiangnan Province?"

Just as Qiu Tianxing was thinking of a good strategy, intelligence from the north came over.Qiu Tianxing opened it and took a look, then stood up screaming.

"What? The Yellow River burst its embankment?"

(End of this chapter)