Chongzhen Undergraduates

Because Ma Shiying was hidden in the snow by Zhu Youjian, he hid in the small place of Suzhou to avoid disaster. On the surface, he was supervising the Xuzhou Army, but in fact he was helping Zhu Youjian to repair the defense in Suzhou.

"You're so arrogant, you really think I'm not a man? Go out of the city and charge me." Ma Shiying was furious looking outside the city, how could he bully people like this.

Ma Shiying actually rushed out with the defenders himself, his anger had already made him lose his mind.

The people walked very slowly, and the Ming army was about to catch up. At this time, Jin soldiers shot a rain of arrows, and the Ming army fell down by a dozen.

"Hurry up, we're about to catch up with them, everyone hold on for a while." Ma Shiying was out of breath, as if he had already seen the faces of those people.

Another rain of arrows came, and the Ming army fell seven or eight more.There were fifty steps left, and Ma Shiying counted the distance silently.

Suddenly, the Hou Jin soldiers on horseback turned their arrows, and after a shower of arrows, the group of civilians who were not wearing any armor fell to the ground in unison.

The Hou Jin soldiers mobilized their war horses, and abruptly hacked and killed the few remaining civilians.A half-grown child desperately tried to escape, but was still caught up by the Tartars.

"Hahaha, yo yo yo." Far away, came the cheers of Tartars.Ma Shiying knelt on the ground in pain, there was no living commoner in front of his eyes.

Aside from the so-called fights, who can remain indifferent when seeing a group of people who were alive just now die innocently before their eyes? That is a beast.

This is what Hou Jin did. They are not human beings, and they don’t treat others as human beings.

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At the same time, Zuo Menggeng and Hou Fangyu, who were hiding in the Dabie Mountains, were gnawing sweet potatoes in their hands.

"Damn it, what kind of broken place is this? You can't even find any rice." Zuo Menggeng was very dissatisfied with his current life, but he was used to eating rice in Wuchang.

"Young Marshal, hold on for a few more days. The person we sent out to inquire about the news will be back soon. When the time comes to connect with Houjin, don't talk about eating rice, you just eat money. There will be plenty of money."

Hou Fangyu is actually fed up with eating sweet potatoes every day, but there are not many good things in this mountain.It's nothing more than being able to hunt a little bit to improve it.In order to eat meat, several soldiers were killed by tigers.

"A few days ago, I heard that Hong Chengchou was arresting people everywhere. How many have we arrested around here?" Zuo Menggeng thought that he had too few soldiers in his hands now, so if he wanted to invest money, he had to get something out, and he was in the Dabie Mountains. In a few months, it is also known as a team of 20.

In fact, just like before, they are all coerced people.In order to find food, they searched the Dabie Mountains for several months.Of course, these people, apart from robbing the common people, would not engage in production.

Every family that has been robbed will become a member of Zuo Menggeng's army, and will eventually be led to rob more people.The speed of this geometric growth on the left is terrifying.

"Report! General Jin has already contacted Master Hong of Hou Jin, and they have sent someone to wait for us at the exit of the mountain."

"Oh! Finally, I don't need to eat this pig food." Zuo Menggeng slammed the sweet potato on the ground, and stretched his neck happily.

Hou Fangyu looked at the sweet potato in his hand, swallowed it anyway, and then thought about his future plans.

More than ten days later, in Hong Chengchou's governor's office, Hou Fangyu tidied up neatly and officially met Hong Chengchou for the first time.

"Are you Hou Fangyu?" Hong Chengchou looked at the so-called "junjie" in front of him, and felt disapproving. He came from a poor background and looked down on these dudes in his heart. He felt that Hou Fangyu's praise was a bit exaggerated.

"This is Hou Fangyu." Hou Fangyu quickly replied, no matter how pretentious a young man is, he would not dare to be presumptuous for an old goblin like Hong Chengchou who has already become famous.

"I heard that you are called the fourth son of the Ming Dynasty. I think you have some skills?" Hong Chengchou didn't care what the fourth son was. In his eyes, there was only one person who was really the best in the world, and that was him, Crazy Hong.

"I don't dare. I just want to serve you once or twice in front of the governor." Seeing that Hong Chengchou didn't seem to be interested in him, Hou Fangyu was anxious. He planned to put his future on Hong Chengchou.

"Then you should settle all of you and let the old man see your abilities." Hong Chengchou still decided to give Hou Fangyu a chance.

As a result, the two most strategic traitors in the world stick together like-minded.

Chapter 2 Eighteen: The Originator of Tunnel Warfare

Marching and fighting in the dog days is a hard job.Especially for Liaodong people, they are a little uncomfortable. The double armor they are most used to wearing has become a burden in this weather.

Although the elm forest was shady and cool, the stretches of woods hindered the marching formation, making it impossible for the army to spread out.

Of course the most elite troops of the Dajin Kingdom are fighting against the officers and soldiers of the Ming army, so naturally they will not be sent here to suppress the bandits.That's right, Dorgon defined the people in Yuyuan as "bandits".

Meilezhang Jinglai was the general who led the army to suppress the bandits in Caozhou. The local garrisons in the surrounding prefectures and counties gathered in Caozhou. (Mile Zhangjing is equivalent to the deputy capital.)

Looking at the soldiers on the ground who didn't want to get up, Lai was furious. He felt that these Han people were just lazy. If they were soldiers of the Eight Banners, they would never sit on the ground during the march.

The Eight Banners soldiers of this era, as long as they are on the march, even if they urinate, they have to stand up.

"Bastards, who told you to sit down?" Lai An kept waving the whip in his hand, beating the soldiers in the woods one by one.

"General, the weather is too hot, let's take a break." A low-ranking officer hurriedly argued.

"No rest is allowed. The whole army will start immediately and rest after capturing the village in front." Lai An was not allowed. According to the military order of the Eight Banners, now is definitely not the time to rest.

But Lai Nu obviously overestimated the military quality of these soldiers, and his subordinates began to play tricks: "Then let's take off the armor, I really can't walk in this thing."

The Dajin Kingdom is rich in animal power, but it is not rich enough to equip all the troops stationed in these places with horses. These soldiers still use their feet to march.Only those field troops are eligible to be equipped with horses.

Lai Nu looked up to see that the sky was getting closer, and the weather was extremely hot. If he didn't want to camp in the woods tonight, he could only speed up his march.

"Okay! You can take off your armor, but march quickly."

"Okay!" Upon hearing this, the soldiers jumped up one by one, and quickly took off their armor.As for whether it is fast or not, it is not up to their own feet to decide.

The elm forest is very large, but the villages in the elm forest are very small, and they are scattered in the middle of the forest like stars.

The army led by Lai An came all the way from Caozhou, and encountered no resistance at all. In some villages, there were only old Confucian women and children who stayed behind.Lai An was still very surprised: Where is the agreed bandit?

As dusk approached, I finally saw a larger village.

"My lord, why don't we camp here tonight?" Yi Yonggui, the chief soldier of Linqing, suggested.

"It's better to send someone to investigate first." Lai An was cautious. This was also the experience of the Eight Banners army, a habit developed from fighting the Ming army for many years.

"There is no one in the village. I have sent people to search in advance. Probably the bandits saw that my army was powerful and fled in advance." Yi Yonggui felt that Lai An was too careful. He felt that he had experience in fighting these rogues. Just run away when you see officers and soldiers you can't beat, and you can't even catch them.

"Then we have to put Yebushu away two miles away." Lai gave Yi Yonggui an annoyed look, he really didn't understand how this man became the chief soldier.

It was dark, and the village was noisy and brightly lit. Soldiers who had been on the road all day huddled together to gamble.

"Why don't they sleep?" Lai An wondered, isn't this lazy work very tiring during the day?

"Aren't you listening, my lord?" Yi Yonggui looked at Lai Fan with a smile.

"What are you listening to?" Lai An was very surprised. What are you listening to in the middle of the night? Is there an enemy attack?

There were bursts of humming around, and it was indeed a bit noisy.Surrounded all around like a thousand troops.

"There are mosquitoes everywhere, how can I sleep. Hahaha!" Yi Yonggui laughed, he thought this tartar was too funny, he had never suffered from mosquitoes.

"Then what time do you usually go to bed?"

"In this season, we usually go to bed after midnight, when the weather is cooler and there are not many mosquitoes."

"Okay! After midnight, you must sleep." Lai An compromised again.