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Chapter 61 Yanjia Village Incident

After Luke Dehun's death, the other Qing army did not escape the pursuit of the villagers. Dozens of Qing army were actually killed by the villagers. Many people could not even distinguish the appearance of the corpses. Once the honest peasants became angry, their strength could even bury a dynasty. These tired Qing army thought that just killing a few people could scare everyone, but unexpectedly, they ended up ruining themselves. This was also the retribution for them to treat the people of the Ming Dynasty like pigs and dogs. ** Qianzai provides reading

The villagers were unable to be happy after killing all the Qing army. Previously, more than a dozen villagers had died at the hands of the Qing army. Later, when they chased the Qing army, only two people died and more than ten people were injured. For such a small mountain village, some people died of more than a dozen people, which was really unbearable. Many villagers who died of relatives burst into tears, and the entire mountain village was shrouded in tears.

Fortunately, except for the casualties, the Qing army had time to harm the village chief's family. Not only were cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks slaughtered, but the village chief's wife and daughter-in-law were raped by the Tartars. After many villagers beat Luke Dehun to death, they saw the village chief's wife and daughter-in-law lying on the ground almost naked, and hurriedly closed the door again, just searching for village chief Yan Chongnian, but the village chief and son disappeared.

So many people died in the village and so many Qing soldiers were killed. We must report to the officials to deal with it. However, the villagers are used to letting the village chief deal with the government. Seeing that they could not find the village chief, they had to give up.\\

It was not until dark that Yan Chongnian and Yan Erli and his son returned from the mountain. When they heard the shouts of killing below on the mountain, Yan Erli tried to rush down the mountain several times but was stopped by Yan Chongnian. Yan Chongnian was so cruel. The villagers were not opponents at all. Instead of resisting, it would be better to obey. Maybe the Qing soldiers would eat and drink enough, and they would leave after they had enough things. He even murmured and cursed the villagers several times. He actually wanted to resist, and these Qing soldiers would definitely take revenge. Maybe they would leave after slaughtering the village.

After the shouts of killing in the village ended, the village cried bitterly. Yan Chongnian thought that his guess was correct. Before he saw the Qing soldiers leaving the village, Yan Chongnian did not dare to go down the mountain. But his eyes ran out of the morning and didn't eat anything. He was cold and hungry. The village calmed down again. Yan Erli could no longer bear it and sneaked into the village. Yan Chongnian could not stop being hungry and had to follow behind quietly.

These two men thought the Qing soldiers were still in the village, and they just wanted to see if they could sneak into the village to get some food and clothing. However, they were shocked by a pile of corpses as soon as they arrived at the entrance of the village. Yan Chongnian thought it was the corpse of the villagers.\\\\\\\ While secretly being grateful, Yan Erli had already shouted: "Dad, that's the Tartars."

Yan Chongnian took a closer look. Isn't that? Although some of the corpses couldn't even tell the faces, they were wearing tucked clothes and braids behind their heads clearly showed that these people were the people who rushed into the village in the morning. Yan Chongnian counted, and there were more than 30 in total, almost all of them in the morning.

Both father and son were puzzled by whom they killed these Tartars. However, seeing that the Tartars were all dead, Yan Chongneng's courage grew stronger and took the lead in walking forward.

"The village chief is back, the village chief is back." When they came back, many villagers hurriedly greeted him, but there was a strange look on their faces.

There were basically white banners hanging at several houses at the door. At this time, there was still a vague crying sound from the room. Yan Erli was panicked and quickly asked a middle-aged man in his forties, "Uncle San, how is my family?"

"Oh, something happened to your family, hurry up and go back."

When they heard something happened at home, the two of them ignored the expressions of other villagers and hurriedly walked towards the home. As soon as they arrived at the door, they felt even more unfair. Although the villagers had already cleaned up, there were still traces of fighting everywhere. When they arrived in the yard, the smell of blood was even more thrust into the nose, leaving behind both people and pigs and sheep.

"Oh, my fat pig, my land is so beautiful." Yan Chongnian saw the ground pigs and sheep hanging in the yard at a glance. The villagers pounced on him. Even if these things were first harmed by the Tartars, they were placed in the yard and no one moved them.

Yan Erli cared more about his wife, ignored the half-cooked pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks in the yard, and walked straight to the hall, shouting, "Mom, peach blossom."

No one answered, the hall was brightly lit, Yan Chongnian's wife Jie and daughter-in-law Taohua sat on the side. Both of them were pale and expressionless. There was a circle of red rope around Taohua's neck. Next to it were some villagers' wives who were persuading each other that Taohua had committed suicide. If it weren't for the fact that the yard was full of people all day, Taohua would have passed away.

"What's going on?" Yan Erli shouted loudly.

A villager quickly pulled Yan Erli aside and told him about the life. When he heard that his wife and mother were raped by the same Tartar, Yan Erli's head was about to explode. He rushed to Yan Chongneng, who followed behind and shouted: "It's all you, it's all you. If you didn't see the Tartars not returning to the village to report and insisted on pulling me to escape into the mountains, how could such a thing happen? How could such a thing happen?"

"I...how did I know this would happen?\\/\" Looking at his son's face, Yan Chongnian couldn't help but panic.

Although the villagers were frustrated, they were not stupid people. When the village chief was in need of the village chief, they searched all over the village chief and his son, but they disappeared. Some children even said that they suddenly ran up the mountain in the morning, and then the Tartars entered the village. Now the words of the two undoubtedly confirmed what the children said was true.

If Yan Chongnian and his son were able to come back in time to organize the villagers to resist after appearing in Tartars, so many people would not die in the village, and his own family would not have been invaded by Tartars. So many local things have been born, and the facts have proved that these Tartars are at the end of their strength and have little combat power at all.

Originally, the villagers sympathized with Yan Chongnian's family, but many people secretly scolded in their hearts that they deserved it, but it was a pity for peach blossoms. The most beautiful daughter-in-law in the village who had just married was in such a disaster because of her weak man. She has not died yet. How can she stay in the village in the future? As for Jie, she usually relies on her village chief's wife and has always been fierce and domineering in the village, and no one feels sorry.\\\\

Seeing Yan Chongnian and his son coming back, the villagers in the courtyard also said goodbye one after another. Yan Erli recalled why the people in the village looked so strange, both sympathetic and seemingly full of contempt.

That night, the villagers heard the village chief’s family had a fierce quarrel. Early the next morning, the villagers never saw Yan Erli and his wife again. Later, they learned that Yan Erli had already left with his wife. Only Yan Chongnian still licked his face and stayed in the village, and sent someone to report to the county, claiming that he had brought the villagers to kill the Tartars who entered the village.

When he heard dozens of Tartars were beaten to death, the county immediately sent people to inspect. Someone found the seal of Qing generals from Lukede and confirmed that the seal was used by Gushan Ezhen, the Manchu red flag. Yanjia Village suddenly became famous. Not only did it report to Huai'an Prefecture, but it also went directly to Wang Fu's case.

Because they were attacked by the Ming army and fought in Matouzhuang, only thousands of Qing army people escaped. If these people wanted to escape from the Ming army controlled area, they had to walk at least four or five hundred miles. If there were horses and sufficient forage, it might only take a few days. However, because they were in the rain and did not rest in time, many of the horses of the people fell to death at most after running for more than a hundred miles. Even if they did not die, they could not ride. The Qing army defeated soldiers basically had to abandon their horses and walk. These people broke through the scattered areas, and from time to time, some were captured by villagers, but they could kill more than 30 people. Among them, there was a Qing general, which was unique in Yanjia Village.

Wang Fu highly praised the villagers' behavior of self-encircling and suppressing the defeated soldiers of the Qing Dynasty. Not only did he double the rewards, but he could also record military merits. If he was unwilling to join the army, he could get corresponding positions from the county.

According to the reward of ten taels of silver for an ordinary Qing soldier, the doubled was twenty taels. Yanjia Village killed thirty-two Tartars. In addition, there was a Tartar official, the reward of silver for Lukede alone was as high as 800 silver. Yanjia Village not only could get a reward of more than 1,000 taels of silver, but the leader could also go directly to the county to serve as the headmaster.

When the county's reward was completed, Yan Chongnian accepted it without hesitation, and the villagers were angry. Yan Chongnian ran away at the battle, not counting his own escape, but also wanted to take credit for his reward and take all his official positions as his own. After the county's troops left, the villagers tied up Yan Chongnian and killed dozens of Tartars. The villagers became brave and buried Yan Chongnian alive in front of the tombs of the villagers killed by the Tartars, as if they were apologized for those dead.

After receiving the news that Yan Chongnian was buried alive by the villagers, the county officials were stunned. Although Yan Chongnian was just a small person, he had just arrived at Tianting and the emperor even gave him a reward. After learning about the whole story, the county officials did not dare to be self-dedicated and quickly reported.

Seeing the whole story of the villagers in Yanjia Village killing the Tartars, Wang Fu couldn't help but shook his head and sighed, and wrote six words: "You can't live if you commit sins!"

According to the emperor's wishes, the court did not take back the reward silver, and all of them were used as pensions for the dead villagers. As for military merit, they were deprived of the punishment for the villagers to punish them without authorization, and Yanjia Village exposed it on his own.

After Yan Chongnian was buried alive, the Jie family was driven out of the village because they were too domineering in the past. As for the Yan family's land, property was taken back to the public ownership of the village. With the income from the public land, Yanjia Village not only established a private school, but also built a martial arts school. Since then, Yanjia Village has produced many talents, and every generation in later generations has become officials in the court.
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