Chapter 1114 Riverside
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Most of the followers were not armoured, and only a few were wearing mail.
Everyone looked relaxed. This time, they were following the famous Four Beile, targeting the small shareholder Dongjiang soldiers who sneaked over. The large Dongjiang soldiers would not be afraid. Two thousand Jurchen soldiers could defeat tens of thousands of Dongjiang soldiers. The opponent who could kill had no power to fight back. Moreover, those who followed Four Beile were all elite soldiers.
The long conch horn sounded from afar, and Li Mingli and others quickly gathered at the entrance of the village.
Baijia Zhuang Dataran glanced at Li Mingli coldly. He didn't like this Han man because this Han man Kong Wu was powerful and had a combat power no less than a vest. Judging from the long scars on his face and scars on his body, this man had experienced fierce battlefield fighting and had escape experience that ordinary soldiers did not have. This man was a terrible warrior, but unfortunately he was not a Jurchen.
Talan once suggested that Niu Luezhen kick this person out of the account opening person, demoted to a flag slave or as a coater for any household, but Tabai refused to agree. There was no problem with Li Mingli in previous investigations. Tabai said that he could not find a reason, even if Talan was his brother, Talan knew that it was just that the Li surnamed often bribed Tabai.
He also didn't like Cao Zhenyan. This young Han man always had a kind smile on his face. Talan was so tired of seeing him. He wanted to cut off the head of the young Han man with his own hands, wipe the blood clean, and see if there was an extremely hateful smile on his face. Because of the identity of Baoyi, the fourteenth prince's confidant Baoyi when he passed by, Lian Tabai and others nodded to the man. Talan pretended not to see that as a Jurchen armor soldier, he did not need to please Baoyi.
When the flag flag came, everyone saw a fat middle-aged man wearing iron armor in the middle of the guards, looking around and riding a horse. He was riding a tall green horse, but under Huang Taiji's fat figure, the horse felt much smaller.
"Subtata has met the Four Baylors."
Tabai knelt down in Jurchen to pay homage. The surroundings were filled with people who were kneeling, some used Jianzhou Jurchen, some used Mongolian, and some used a small number of people in Chinese. Several account holders have not been able to use Manchu dialect proficiently. In such occasions, they are afraid that they will be wrong, so it is better to pay homage in Chinese.
"Get up." Huang Taiji raised his hand with a whip and said happily: "Everyone follows me, be careful and cautious, obey the orders when encountering battles, and move forward bravely and not retreat."
"Yes, slaves and others dare not violate their master's orders."
Tabai and others stood up and were arranged into the array by Huang Taiji's escorts. Dozens of people rode horses and integrated into the team.
The knights were walking on the river bank. The river water was quite turbulent, and you could see small whirlpools in the river. This was the rising season. In addition, according to people in the upper reaches, a mountain torrent broke out a few days ago. Although it did not rain, it may be that the water accumulated too much. The water on the mountain was mainly snow-filled water in winter, which slowly flowed and gathered into a stream, and then vented it in the form of a mountain torrent, which eventually caused the river torrent to surge.
Of course, the river water is not as cold as winter and spring. You can still go down the river to enjoy it at noon, but the river water is still cold in the morning and evening. The main reason is that the mountain floods are relatively cold.
A group of flag slaves were washing clothes by the river. When they saw this group of cavalry coming, they quickly knelt down and dared not look up.
Several guards rode their horses and walked along the edge of the dam. As long as these flag slaves dared to look up, they would immediately rush over and kill all the people.
Li Mingli was a little nervous because Erya liked to go to the river to wash clothes. The river flowed heavily, and because there were few residents, no one threw the dirt into the river. The river water was quite clean, and washing clothes on the bluestone by the river was much more comfortable and quicker than washing by the well.
He glanced hard for a few times, and saw that the kneeling was covered with Baoyi and there was no Erya's figure, so he felt relieved.
But Li Mingli immediately blamed himself in his heart, and he felt that he was too selfish.
With a contradictory mind, Li Mingli looked at the people moving forward.
It is obvious that Huang Taiji's escorts have higher qualities. The cavalry lined up in a column of three people, scattering whistle and horses and scattering from afar. The escorts and Huang Taiji were protected in the middle. The cavalry in Mingjia looked around with a vigilant look, and at any time they could sense the movements of humans, birds and beasts in the surrounding Guanzhuang and the wilderness.
Even Huang Taiji himself is quite outstanding, and no one doubts Huang Taiji's combat effectiveness.
Among many rumors, the Four Beile was the most brave in the war. In the most critical battle of Sarhu, Du Song's troops refused to defend with a vehicle array and firearms. The firearms were deafening. Many Eight Banners soldiers were shocked by the firearms and could not break the formation for a while, so they suffered heavy casualties. Huang Taiji led the elite Zhengbai Banners and jumped into the formation and were invincible. The Du Song formation was broken because of this. Destroying Du Song's troops was the most important battle in the battle of Sarhu. If Du Song wins, he won more than half of them. Huang Taiji was highly praised for this. Later, in the Battle of Hunhe, Huang Taiji commanded the Eight Banners and also made great achievements.
He has a tall and majestic image, beautiful and strong armor on his body, and a gentle smile on his face. His face is square, not like his body, especially from his lips to his chin, which makes people feel that this is a person who is quite confident and self-proclaimed and is not easily influenced by others.
In fact, this is true. Huang Taiji often has his own opinions, and most of them can make people know that he is correct, even in the trade with Hutchison.
In fact, the middle and lower classes and Han people of the Jurchens certainly supported buying more supplies and food. Only the middle and senior officials felt that their interests were violated and persuaded Lao Khan to cut off most of the trade. Even Han people like Li Mingli, who had a different ambition, had respect for the Donglu Beile in front of him. This is a great man, no matter which party he belongs to.
As for Dorgon's team behind him, it would be looser. The Inlaid White Banner might not be convinced by Lao Khan's arrangement. Du Du was about to take away his Niu Lu and those who were loyal to him. Now the people above and below the Inlaid White Banner were a little fluctuating, and the people sent out were not strong players that Du Du was used to. The team was a little scattered, mainly because Dorgon did not have any decent people to use.
Compared with Huang Taiji, who had a gentle and solemn expression, Dorgon's expression was much more relaxed, as if he was going out for a pleasant outing.
The team walked along the river. Some places had river embankments, which were very comfortable to walk. Some areas had river embankments and the road was also very narrow. People had to get off the horse and lead the horse. In many places, there were directly wastelands. There were several destroyed houses standing alone in the wilderness, making people know that there were also people in the past.
On the right side is the river with rays and lights. There are also many abandoned villages on the other side of the river. There were originally more than 100,000 people living here, and there were nearly 100,000 residents in Kuandian alone. In a place full of deep mountains and dense forests, the Ming army built forts, and the people lived on the forts, established villages and reclaimed land, hunted and fished. Decades of rest and recuperation made this place a place with no difference from the mainland. As a result, it was now everywhere, and together with the original Kuandian Horse Market, it was buried in the dust of the war.
Huang Taiji didn't have much emotion in his eyes. Originally, all this was caused by them, but he also felt quite sad. On the way, he saw where the bones accumulated many times. It was obvious that these were the remains that were washed down in several months. It should be the corpses of Wugu Han people killed from winter to spring. No one restrained them. Later, the murderers were unwilling to do it even if they were buried in the grass. The throwing of the corpse river was accused of causing plague. Later, they simply rushed to the wilderness and were eaten by wild animals and birds. After a few months, they turned into a pile of white bones.
Such piles of corpses made Huang Taiji feel uncomfortable, of course, not because he was compassionate, but because he felt extremely wasteful. Human resources, the most precious thing, were wasted in vain.
After Huang Taiji ruled, the Han people were woven in large numbers, and they went from being a banner to becoming a banner of the Han army flag. Then they first drew one of the five Dings, and later they were changed to one of the four Dings, preparing to fight for the horse bow and arrow to fight for the Jurchens.
After the Han army flag entered the pass, it gradually became the same as the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia. It was trusted by the Qing Dynasty and could even intermarry with the royal family. Kangxi's mother was a Han army flag member, so from then on, the blood relationship between the Manchu and Han royal family was mixed with Manchu and Han, but that was only bloodline. After being comforted and sorted out by Huang Taiji, the Han army flag members completely regarded themselves as bannermen. After all, after the war and endless massacre, a monarch who treated them equally could make them live and gain fame and fortune.
"Isn't that Fan Xiucai?"
Li Mingli was shocked when he saw Fan Wencheng at first sight, and couldn't help but speak out, then he woke up and hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to show any strangeness again.
Next to Huang Taiji was a tall and burly young man, also wearing cotton armor and holding a tiger-toothed gun. While answering Huang Taiji calmly, he looked around with a proud look.
Fan Wencheng's identity was only Baoyi. He took the initiative to surrender with his tribe members in the 47th year of Wanli. Like many unsuccessful literati, Fan Wencheng keenly realized that the invasion of the Later Jin Dynasty was a rare opportunity. In order to change his own destiny, he took the initiative to surrender and made suggestions for the superiors of the Later Jin Dynasty.
Chapter completed!