Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 56

This time the De'an Mansion dispatched [-] troops, and the commander of the army was a general from the Green Battalion named Song Jilin.Among the ten thousand soldiers, there are one thousand soldiers in the Green Battalion, three thousand guards, and the remaining six thousand are newly recruited village warriors.The army of [-], called [-], headed straight to Yingshan.

In Song Jilin's impression, the security team was nothing more than a bandit who took over the mountain and ruled the mountain. He had a small number of [-], and if he gathered tens of thousands of people, he would dare to claim [-] soldiers.This kind of bandits will naturally be wiped out as soon as their own army arrives, and it doesn't matter if they come a few more.So he hurriedly marched alone without waiting for the Hanyang Mansion to coordinate the dispatch of troops.

Song Jilin was an officer who surrendered in the Ming Dynasty, but now he has surrendered to his new master, and he has not been promoted for several years. This disappointed Song Jilin who was very eager for fame and fortune.But he didn't dare to turn against it, because he had seen the strength of the Manchu soldiers before, so he could only bury this small resentment deeply in his heart.

Now, the opportunity has come.There was a bandit in the territory of De'an Mansion, and the De'an Mansion failed to extinguish this bandit after several consecutive battles.Later, it was really impossible, and the prefect of De'an asked for help from the governor's yamen, so Song Jilin led a thousand soldiers to the De'an mansion to lead the suppression of bandits.

Song Jilin was just a casual general in the bidding process, but now he is in command of an army of [-], he couldn't help feeling proud.He wants to lead this large army to wipe out bandits and make meritorious deeds so that he can be appreciated by the imperial court and bestowed with a future.

It's just that the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.If the security regiment was really so easy to wipe out, then the prefect of De'an Prefecture would not beg the Governor's Office to get him as a support soldier.

After coming out of Fucheng, I walked northward for more than a hundred miles and entered the range of Yingshan County.Song Jilin originally planned to approach the city in three days and fall into the city in seven days.It's just that when he arrived at the border of Yingshan County on the second day of his dispatch, he was attacked by surprise.

Time went back to the time when Song Jilin had just bid farewell to the prefect of De'an Prefecture and the army had left the prefecture.Chenxiang Town, Yingshan County, more than a hundred miles away, has armed all the young and strong under the organization of the local peasant association.Everyone holds a weapon in their hands. The strong men hold a spear with the hair up and down, while the weaker ones can only hold their own farm tools.Even the children's group of the Youth League was eager to try it. They wanted to go up with their homemade slingshots, but after being beaten up by their own father, they went home honestly.

"Comrades, this time the enemy has sent tens of thousands of troops, and they are going straight to the regiment headquarters of our security regiment. We are ordered to slow down the enemy's speed and drag down their morale. Now I order..." Zhu Ergou, the president of the peasant association, said Talking endlessly on the stage.

Hearing his morale-boosting words, the people below also responded eagerly, vowing to fight the enemy to the end.Just looking closely at their eager faces, you will find that their eyes are full of uneasy emotions.

In the past few years, this land has been full of too many wars.It's just that in the past they were all in a position of passively accepting war.Whoever comes wins, just like whoever pays food and taxes.Taking the initiative to attack the enemy like they do now is something that they never dared to think about before.

Some people secretly hated Dao in their hearts.These years are really difficult, not only paying food and taxes, but also having to sell their lives at critical moments.It's just that in front of the cadres of the peasant association, these people dare not show it at all.They don't want to be beaten as a traitor, and then their family will be fought to death. Such a scene of betrayal is too tragic, they might as well die directly on the battlefield.

After the mobilization meeting was over, the chairman of the peasant association gave everyone a half-day off and asked everyone to go back and say goodbye and arrange funeral arrangements.Then in the afternoon, he took more than 300 people and set off southward.

When these old men from Chenxiang Town left, the whole town cheered with gongs and drums, as if these old men were all going to make meritorious deeds.But when the gentlemen left and could no longer see their backs, the women ran back home and cried under the quilt.They really didn't dare to cry in front of the cadres of the peasant association, for fear of being accused of shaking the morale of the army and destroying the fighting spirit.The men are going to war now!My ancestors were farmers for eighteen lifetimes, but why did they become soldiers all of a sudden?
Just when the women were heartbroken and wept bitterly, their men were also very depressed.The oldest team was over 50, and the youngest was only [-]. The team seemed extremely dull, and the speed gradually slowed down.

At this time, You Xia, the preacher of the peasant association, took the lead and led everyone to sing the group song of the security group.

"Forward forward forward!
Our ranks to the sun,

Stepping on the land of the motherland,
Carrying the hope of the nation,
We are an invincible force,

We are children of the people,

We are the people's arm,

never fear,

never give in,

fought bravely,

Until the Tartars are wiped out,

The flag of China is flying high! "

After singing twice in a row, the momentum recovered slightly.At this time, the preacher You Xia hurriedly took advantage of the hot iron's encouragement and said.

"Comrades, the Tartars are coming. They will take our fields, take our food, rape our wives, rape our daughters. Turn our sons into their minions, Turn into pigs' tails, turn our heads into their monuments, and stain their tops with our blood. Will you agree to such a brutal thing?"

"No promise!"

"Yeah, no one agrees, let alone this thing happened to me! But, what right do you have to refuse? If you don't agree, won't the butcher's knives come over?" You Xia paused, Then he continued.

"Only if you take the spears in your hands and the sickles in your hands. Cut off the heads of those Tartars who want to slave you, so that they will grant your request. The dead Tartars are the best Tartars!"

With this encouragement, the morale of the old and young men in Chenxiang Town was restored.Everyone finally realized that even if they honestly hid at home, they could not escape the cruelty of the Tartars.The fields at home, the food in the rice tank, and his wife and daughter will all be lost.Even a small hair on the head will be cut off again by the brutal Tartars.If there is no hair on this head, it will be so cold in winter!Two years ago, when the shaved and easy-to-obtain order came down, all the people in Chenxiang Town shaved without saying a word.Although he escaped a bloody disaster, the feeling of his scalp being so cold in winter is really uncomfortable.

Now, the security team has come, the peasant association has been established, and their hair has slowly grown back.This time, when the Tartars came to fight, even if they were willing to shave their hair and change clothes again, I am afraid that the Tartars would not let them go easily. Their fields, food, wives and children would all become the spoils of war for the Tartars.This is why they are willing to attack the Tartar army according to the arrangement of the peasant association.

After walking for more than ten miles, a group of people came to the official road leading to Yingshan from De'an Mansion. Zhu Ergou, the chairman of the peasant association, gave an order, and the people with hoes began to dig desperately.People without hoes took the sacks they carried and moved the packed soil to a distance and poured it down.So, after half a day, it got dark.They destroyed the official roads that were several miles long.There are potholes several feet deep and one or two feet long everywhere, densely packed to make the official road look like a pockmark.

After a night's rest, the big guys were about to build a few more miles of land. At this time, the people who were stationed more than ten miles away to detect the wind came back quickly.Out of breath, he told everyone that the Tartars were coming.

(End of this chapter)