Chongzhen Undergraduates

"How long can it last?" Zheng Wei was brought back to reality by his subordinate's voice. He was just recalling some things in Feicheng last year.For example, that Deng Zhirong, that brigade commander.

"It can last until dark."

"Can you feign surrender?" Zheng Wei smiled miserably. In fact, they have already used this method.

"No, the first false surrender failed. Crazy Hong didn't accept our surrender at all. All the people who left the city were beheaded."

Regarding Hong Chengchou, Zheng Wei really didn't understand why this man who had read poetry and books and was a scholar of the Ming Dynasty was so vicious to the people of the Ming Dynasty.

As night fell, the Jin soldiers stopped attacking, not because they could not see clearly in the dark, but because some people tended to escape in the twilight when it was dark.

In the lobby of the Feicheng yamen, all the officials were crowded here, and everyone looked at Zheng Wei in unison.Outside the yamen, countless people helped the old and the young, standing silently on the street.

"We can't live anymore. If you have any last words, please say."

Zheng Wei seemed very calm, he only announced this lightly, the news.The officials didn't even look left and right. At this time, everyone had nothing to look up to.

"Since there is nothing to say, then it is settled."

Zheng Wei picked up his long sword and walked quickly to the gate of the yamen.Seeing the people standing at the door, Zheng Wei stopped, then slowly stepped out of the threshold, stood still, slowly bent his knees, and finally knelt down suddenly, facing the people in front of him, one after another, knotting He knocked his head firmly.

The people were eerily quiet, as if they didn't even make a sound when their clothes rubbed against each other.Everyone in the crowd stood still without shaking.

Night, very dark very dark.

The gate of Feicheng opened gently, like a gust of wind gently blowing open a window that was not closed.

The black crowd rushed out of the city quickly. The leader held a three-foot long sword, followed by a group of officials wearing official hats and government officials.

Behind the officials are the yamen servants, and closely followed by the yamen servants are the young and strong in the city.When the young men leave the city, there will be a group of women. None of them have any needles or threads today. What they have in their hands are scissors or kitchen knives at home.

The old men walked at the end. Although they walked slowly, no one was left behind.After the old men left the city, the city was full of old ladies with small feet and children who were not as tall as a wheel.

In front of Jin's barracks in front of the front, flames were everywhere, only the sound of various firearms could be heard, but not many shouts of killing could be heard.

Going to die is something that takes courage.

Zheng Wei lay on his back on the ground, which had lost its original color.The smell also changed between breaths. Zheng Wei remembered that the breath in the past should have a smell of grass, or mixed with the smell of cow dung, and there should be a sweet floral fragrance in the air.

However, the air here is fishy, ​​and the nose is fishy.The earth is red, blood is red, and the sky is also red. The sky and the earth seem to be covered with a huge red silk cloth.

Where's my arm?Zheng Wei wanted to support himself to stand up, but he didn't feel his hands.So he wanted to bend his leg, but only one leg was bent smoothly.

He couldn't stand up and could only barely turn sideways.But he found that his eyelids seemed to be disobedient, always sinking.

Zheng Wei tried his best to turn his head, and wiped the thick plasma from his eyes with dirt.Because it wasn't his eyelids, it was blood from his head.

Finally, I can see clearly.Zheng Wei saw the surroundings, there were no young people around, and a few old men who were walking slowly were still moving forward bravely.

A group of Tartar soldiers were smiling and pointing at them, as if they were doing something stupid.

Zheng Wei felt that he couldn't turn his head anymore, but in fact he still wanted to turn his head to take another look.

Chapter 2 and Four: Confucian Mansion's Attitude

"From Tai'an Governor Zheng below, there are only 120 children under the age of six in the city. A total of 840 people rushed out of the city that night, and none of them survived. Fifty old women committed suicide on the city wall."

"Withdraw!" Li Yan could not stand still, and said a word weakly.

Lu Zhongjun all withdrew from Tai'an and Laiwu, and advanced towards the Yimeng Mountains.On the morning of leaving the city, all the people in the city climbed to the top of the city and sent them away with tears.

Li Yan has no way to solve this kind of inhuman violence. If he continues to stick to Tai'an, I am afraid that the people in the whole Luzhong will be massacred by the Tazi soldiers.

Since the purpose is to preserve strength, they can only move to remote mountainous areas and hide in sparsely populated places.

"Brother, can we not go to the mountains? The mountain roads are exhausting. How about we go to the outer plains?" Li Nian beat Houjin's officials happily on the plains. He lived a happy life and couldn't understand Li Yan's behavior.

"Can you outrun the Tartar cavalry on the plain?"

"No."

The so-called ability of the Central Plains people to ride a horse can only be said to be able to climb up to the back of a horse, and then walk for a while.At this level, not everyone in the Lu Zhongjun can do it.

Anyone who is stronger, who can walk more than ten to twenty miles without falling off the horse, is considered a rider.Such riders, about 2 or [-] can be gathered in the Luzhong Army.

A real cavalryman must be able to eat and sleep with the horse for a long time.The horse is the brother of the rider, and the cavalry and the horse are one.Don't think that if you have a war horse, you have cavalry.

An unfamiliar horse is assigned to a new rider, and the establishment of a familiar relationship between the two takes several months.

Zhu Youjian got a batch of war horses and some soldiers in the capital, but he didn't dare to use them as cavalry at all.He can only use the war horse as a draft horse.

"I asked you to go to Jiaodong before because the Tartars were weak in those places. We can take the opportunity to attract the attention of the capital and get some food supplies along the way. How powerful do you really think you are?"

Li Yan gave his younger brother a white look, and continued: "I persuaded Zheng Wei to give up defending Feicheng, but this guy doesn't want to leave Feicheng. You know, Feicheng was created by him, and it is everything to him."

"Leaving Tai'an, can we go to Yanzhou to settle first? Anyway, it's on the way."

"Alright, the commander-in-chief has repeatedly told us to go around Qufu. Lu Zhongjun is also Ming's army, and the descendants of saints should not be unreasonable."

Li Yan is also a child. As a child who read sage books since childhood, his fascination for Yan Shenggong comes from the bottom of his heart. Every step he takes to Qufu, he has a pilgrimage mentality.

From Tai'an to Qufu is a straight official road, only 150 miles.

However, when the forward of the Luzhong Army had only traveled a hundred miles and had just reached the border of Qufu, it was blocked by someone.

"Report! Commander, the striker is blocked by the people of the Confucian Mansion, so don't let him pass."

"Huh? Why?" Li Nian became angry when he heard it. After all, the Kong family is also Yan Shenggong who has been canonized by the emperor. How could it block the retreat of the Ming army?

"They said that no swordsmen are allowed to enter the territory of saints." The communication was very helpless. Li Yan had already explained that he should be polite to the Kong family and not force it.

"Fart saint's land, is the whole of Qufu a saint's land?" Li Nian was dissatisfied. If it was said that the Confucian family was a saint's land, it would be understandable; saying that the whole Qufu was a saint's land would be too rampant.

"How many people came from the other party? Did you use violence?" Li Yan thought for a while, thinking that his subordinates had done something inappropriate.

"How dare we do anything, they are carrying the tablet of the saint, and it is lying in the middle of the road." The messenger was very aggrieved.

"It's clear that you hate us, brother."

Li Yan's face was dark. He really didn't expect the Kong family to treat them like this.

"Detour!" Li Yan issued a helpless military order.

......

The Hou Jin army started from Changqing and opened up a [-]-mile-wide no-man's land along the way, extending all the way to Feicheng, and finally stopped.

Hong Chengchou took over Tai'an City smoothly, and none of the people in the city resisted, and handed over all the institutions of the Lu Zhongjun without moving.