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  Chapter 421 419 [Slightly prepare a small gift] (add more for the penguin boss)

  Brothers Jiang Yu and Jiang Xuan used to be the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty respectively.

  In previous battles, they had very few soldiers left. When Li Zicheng reached Datong, Jiang Guan immediately surrendered, even if he surrendered, he was almost killed by Li Zicheng.

  Li Zicheng forcibly disbanded Jiang Guan's troops, and sent his confidants to garrison Datong City.

  Before the Man Qing came to kill him, Jiang Guan had already betrayed Li Zicheng in essence, and just took advantage of the situation to take refuge with the Man Qing.

  Afterwards, the old servants were recruited again, and the cavalry of the two brothers added up to only more than 300 cavalry.

  Brothers Jiang Yu and Jiang Xuan crossed the river and went down the river. They had more than 300 riders and were organized into a cavalry team to plunder the area from Mengjiazhuang to Xincai.

   "Brother, something is wrong!"

After running for several miles, Jiang Xuan chased after Jiang Tuan: "The weeds in the wheat field have almost grown to the depth of the wheat seedlings, and no farmer has taken care of them for at least half a month. Besides, the houses are all empty during this journey. The people have no idea where to hide."

   "It's normal to avoid disasters." Jiang Guan said.

  Jiang Xuan asked, "Should those empty houses be burned?"

  Jiang Yu didn't answer, but asked, "Do you think the Tartars can win?"

  Jiang Xuan was frightened, and lowered his voice and said: "Brother, don't talk nonsense, the Qing Dynasty is the Qing Dynasty, where did the Tartars come from?"

"I can't take it any longer," Jiang Yu gritted his teeth, "You and I were both born in Datong and grew up in Datong. After the Tartars took over Datong, did they burn, kill and loot? The people in Shanxi have been suffering from drought for many years, so there is nothing wrong with them." Food, this ration was also taken away by the Tartars!"

  Jiang Xuan stopped pretending, and said calmly: "Brother, don't you want your family?"

   "When a man is alive, he doesn't care about so many things." Jiang Guan said.

  Jiang Xuan let out a breath of foul air: "Then I will make a fuss with my elder brother, and we will join the Datong Army. Our Jiang family lives in Datong, Shanxi, and the name of the country in the south is Datong. Isn't it in line with God's will?"

  The ghost's coincidence with God's will is just for profit.

  They wanted to rebel against the Manchu Qing, and there was indeed an element of disgust and an element of national righteousness. But what really made them make a decision was being robbed of military power by another traitor!

   That traitor is named Wu Weihua, and his elder brother is Uncle Da Ming Gongshun.

  As soon as I heard this title, I knew that it must be a foreign race, and the ancestors of the Wu family were Mongolians who surrendered to Ming Dynasty.

  Wu Weihua's elder brother was tortured to death by Li Zicheng. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, this guy immediately went out of the city to greet him. He took the initiative to invite Ying, ran to Shanxi and Shaanxi to surrender, and then presented his daughter to Azig.

  Recently, she even made up her mind to marry her niece to Chang Nai as a concubine.

  Chang Nai is Gang Lin's younger brother, and Gang Lin is Dorgon's confidant.

  Wu Weihua's operation was quickly made a Marquis by the Qing Dynasty. During their garrison in Shanxi, they snatched away the troops of the Jiang brothers. Jiang Guan and Jiang Xuan now only have more than 300 family members in their hands.

   Moreover, Wu Weihua also robbed the Jiang family's property, which was the military field occupied by the ancestors of the Jiang family!

  Shanxi is desolate and uninhabited, why do you want to rob the land?

  Because the Jiang family’s fields are all good fields, and there are canals for irrigation.

   Surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the mess was worse than in Daming, didn’t this traitor do it for nothing?

   Anti-fucking!

   "Brother, there is cooking smoke over there!" Jiang Xuan shouted.

  The two brothers galloped past with their cavalry, but it was the mansion of a large family before the land was divided.

  The original owner committed many crimes and was suppressed by the peasant association. The mansion was used as the village's office space and also as the village's school.

  Ditches were dug around the walls of the mansion, and there were still guards on the walls.

   "Zi said: A gentleman is in the world, there is nothing suitable, there is nothing, and righteousness is comparable..."

  The sound of reading aloud came from inside the courtyard wall, and more and more people lived on the wall.

  These common people, some with wooden spears and bamboo spears, some with hoes and shoulder poles, glared at the cavalry brought by the Jiang brothers without fear.

   "The Master said: Is it possible to make a country with courtesy? What is there? Can't make a country with courtesy, such as courtesy?"

  Jiang Guan listened carefully to the sound of reading, and suddenly laughed: "It's been two months since I came from Shanxi, and this is the first time I heard children reading." He turned his head and asked his younger brother, "Do you have the heart to set fire to this house?"

   "Let's go." Jiang Xuan sighed.

  Their families are in Shanxi, but each sent a son to Beijing.

  The family may not be extinct, but after betraying the Qing Dynasty, the son in Beijing will definitely be gone.

After galloping his horse for a while, Jiang Xuan said, "Even if you are a guest, you should bring some small gifts. Let's surrender Li Zicheng first, then the Manchu Tartars, and now the Emperor Zhao. If you don't bring a small gift, don't you want Being laughed at?"

   "Well said, the etiquette is complete." Jiang Guan laughed.

  The two brothers immediately turned around and ran towards the friendly army's robbery range. Behind them, smoke rose, which was a warning signal from the villagers.

  That afternoon, the two ran into Liu Fangming's troops in the distance.

  The people in this village also lived in several large houses. Liu Fangming's cavalry did not attack, but set fire to the vacant houses along the way.

   Moreover, deliberately trampled on the wheat fields, destroying the crops under Zhao Han's rule.

   "General Liu!" Jiang Tuan shouted from a long distance away.

  Liu Fang rode his horse over to join him, and asked with a smile, "Why are you two here?"

  Jiang Yu said: "Tan Ma met the puppet gun cavalry, and I immediately led the troops over."

   Liu Fangming quickly stretched his neck to look around, and asked, "Did you catch up?"

   "No." Jiang Guan rode over.

  Liu Fangming said: "If we work together, it will be easier to do things with more people."

   "That's exactly what I mean." Jiang Guan said with a smile.

  The distance between the two was getting closer and closer, Jiang Guan suddenly accelerated, drew his sword and slashed towards Liu Fangming.

   Liu Fangming couldn't dodge enough, subconsciously raised his arm to block, and was cut off half of his right hand on the spot. Jiang Xuan also came to kill him, and chopped him off his horse with a single blow.

  In history, the great traitor who suppressed the Ningxia uprising many times, served as the general of Dingxi in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the admiral of Sichuan, the commander of the Jiangnan Right Army, and defeated Zheng Chenggong in Chongming, just died in such a daze.

"kill!"

  Jiang's cavalry charged forward, killing Liu Fangming's cavalry by surprise, and all the cavalry in the rear fled on horseback.

  Jiang Guan rushed to kill and shouted: "Drop your weapon, surrender and don't kill!"

A quarter of an hour later, Jiang Guan ignored the defeated soldiers who had fled far away, and said to the cavalry who surrendered: "Your general is dead, what future is there for you to go back? Don't be a dog for the Tartars anymore, come with me and vote for Zhao. emperor!"

   Those who are willing to surrender naturally want to survive.

  Brothers of the Jiang family held Liu Fangming's head, led nearly 400 cavalry, and more than 20 horses, and rushed all the way towards Shangcai County.

  On the way, they encountered Cao Bianjiao, who was leading the dragoons to hunt down the invading enemy.

   "The whole army dismounts and throws away their weapons!"

  Jiang Guan disarmed automatically, and then ran over to surrender Liu Fangming's head single-handedly.

  Cao Bianjiao laughed and said, "Hey, it's Brother Jiang."

  Jiang Yu threw his head out: "Liu Fangming's head, please prepare a little courtesy, please accept it with a smile, Brother Cao."

   "It's easy to say," Cao Bianjiao asked, "How many cavalry are there?"

Jiang Yu said in detail: "Three or four thousand are all servants of the frontier generals of the Ming Dynasty. The troops of the Kaifeng Mansion are gathering in Xihua County. Zu Dashou is the guard general and Wu Sangui is the deputy general. It was Wu Sangui who led the team. As for the main force of the Tatar Chief Dorgon, they have already gone east, and I don't know where they went."

   This is important military information. Cao Bianjiao sent someone to report to Xincai, and Xincai would send military information to Zhao Han. Then he said to Jiang Guan, "Lead your soldiers and follow me!"

  The Jiang family brothers followed Cao Bianjiao and went straight to Shangcai.

  After the dragoons gathered here, they ignored the incoming enemy cavalry and treated Wu Sangui like a cloud of air. After a short rest, they went straight to Yancheng to meet the division of the Sixth Division, Changjiang Dashan.

   "Dorgon is going east with his army, and he must fight His Majesty," Cao Bianjiao said, "Our army should take the opportunity to attack, and don't be confused by the enemy cavalry who are harassing the place!"

  Jiang Dashan hesitated: "What if Dorgon is luring us to send troops?"

  Cao Bianjiao thought for a while and said, "It's also possible."

  Jiang Dashan said: "Just in case, we have to join forces with the Seventh Division."

  Huang Shun's Seventh Division, starting from Ye County, had already captured Xiangcheng. After receiving Zhao Han's military order, he stayed in Xiangcheng and stopped advancing.

  Cao Bianjiao took the surrendered Jiang brothers and sent out cavalry to scout around, making sure that there were no Manchu troops in a radius of dozens of miles. Only then did Jiang Dashan make an appointment with Huang Shun, one west and one south, and head towards Linying County at the same time.

   Don't do any fancy work, two regular divisions, 50 artillery pieces, opened fire on Linying County.

  The city walls here are far worse than Jining and Shangqiu.

  In just half a day, the city wall was bombarded by artillery, and more than 10,000 soldiers rushed in through the gap.

  The guard was Sun Chuanting's former subordinate, Jia Hanfu. Before the city wall collapsed, he abandoned the city and fled with his family members. He can't escape, he can only defend the city with his little soldiers, and he will never be able to defend the city wall if it collapses.

  Listening to the sound of the rumbling cannon, Jia Hanfu was frightened. He already regretted surrendering to the Qing Dynasty.

  Five hundred dragoons were sent out to scout the horses, leaving 2,000 dragoons, and Jiang Yu's 400 Jiading cavalry. He had been waiting in the north of the city for a long time, and when he saw Jia Hanfu fleeing with his troops, Cao Bianjiao immediately led his cavalry to rush over.

  Jahan thought about it again, sighed, reined in his horse and ordered: "Everyone has surrendered, you can't escape."

  Several dragoons went over, **** Jia Hanfu, and dragged him to Cao Bianjiao in disgrace.

   "Brother Jia, I haven't seen you for many years." Cao Bianjiao smiled.

  Jia Hanfu said helplessly: "The captives, if they want to kill or cut them up, they will do as they please."

   They are all acquaintances, so there is no need to be polite.

  The Sixth Division and the Seventh Division took down Linying and continued to advance, going straight to Xihua County where Zu Dashou was stationed.

  There are a lot of enemy troops there. In addition to the surrendered soldiers and generals, there are also local bandits in Henan, tens of thousands of people.

   Finding out that the Datong Army had dozens of artillery pieces, Zu Dashou felt that the county could not hold on. Simply call Wu Sangui back, wait for the Datong army to pass, and then go out of the city to fight.

   If you don’t fight, you have to retreat, and retreat to Xuzhou (Xuchang), where the city walls can withstand artillery.

   Otherwise, tens of thousands of people will live in a small county town and be bombarded by artillery for a few days, and the morale of the army will plummet.

  (end of this chapter)