Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 286
Those Tartar generals were made into human skin scarecrows by peeling day lilies, hanging on the flagpole in front of the Chenghuang Temple, swaying in the wind.

Li Guo sent soldiers to take thousands of captives to the school grounds, and then asked them to identify each other. As long as they were Jiannu Tartars, they would be stabbed to death immediately, without giving them a chance to surrender.

As for the remaining soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, Li Guo treated them differently. Those who had committed many crimes and devoted themselves to the Tartars would be stabbed to death no matter how much he begged for mercy.

After some killings, the school grounds were filled with heads and blood.

Li Guo looked at the surviving Han Eight Banners soldiers, and asked coldly, "What do you say?"

"General Li, please forgive me, please forgive me..." These people knelt down and kowtowed like garlic.

"Bitch!" Ren Qi scolded.

Li Guo said in a deep voice: "As Han people, you help the Tartars to bully your compatriots, it's really abominable, it's embarrassing to your ancestors. This general thinks that God has the virtue of good life, and you will be lenient. "

"But the death penalty is inevitable, but the living crime cannot be escaped. Come on, cut their braids, tattoo their faces, divide them into several teams and tie them into strings with ropes, and send them to Guizhou and Jiangxi to mine. Remember, as long as you change your mind from now on, you will always There is a way for you to survive!"

These captives are people who are greedy for life and afraid of death. They were lucky enough to save their lives.

Li Guo gathered the people in the city together again, and said: "This general will leave Shanyang County tonight. After our army withdraws, the Tartars may make a comeback..."

The people suddenly cried: "General, don't go, we don't want to be bullied by the Tartars anymore!"

Li Guo waved his hand, motioning for the people to be quiet, and said: "This general has his own arrangements. If you want to leave Shanyang County and go south, you should go back and pack your things and leave in an hour; if you don't want to leave, this general will not force you." .”

The common people hesitated, after all, they had a family and business in Shanyang County, although they didn't want to be a Manchu citizen, but it would be embarrassing to abandon their homes all at once.

Ren Qidao: "I know what you think. It's nothing more than worrying about being displaced after going to the south, homeless, jobless, food and clothing, right? I can tell you clearly that all industries are booming in the south. You can go to work as miners, as well as Weavers, or go to reclaim wasteland, if you are ambitious, you can go to reclaim islands! There is no shortage of jobs in the south to support people, what is lacking is people, and there are opportunities to make a fortune everywhere, it depends on whether you are willing or not."

What he said made the people's hearts flutter.

In fact, Shanyang County is not far from the south. The people have heard about the development of the south in the past few years. They don't know anything else. They still know that the people in the south have at least solved the problem of food and clothing.

After some whispering and whispering, someone first shouted: "I am willing to go to the South, as long as there are no ugly braids on the back of my head, even if I leave my hometown, it will be worth it!"

Immediately, many people expressed their opinions one after another. After they cut their braids in front of the Ming army, they immediately went home to pack their luggage.

Years of wars, disasters, and plagues caused the population to decline. Shanyang County had only a few thousand people. In the end, more than 3000 people voluntarily went south.Li Guo asked them to walk with the team escorting the prisoners and left overnight.

After finishing these things, Li Guo ordered the army to rest for four hours.In the early hours of the morning, the army marched eastward from Shanyang County, advancing furiously, and arrived at the foot of Shangluo Mountain before the end of the day.

Looking at Shangluo Mountain, Li Guo's eyes were moist, and he said with great emotion: "In the 11th year of Chongzhen, the peasant army was defeated by Sun Chuanting, and Li Zicheng led the remnants to escape into Shangluo Mountain. At that time, there were only 17 people left, like a dog that lost its family. I revisited the old place today, but it was a different scene, which I could never imagine in my dreams!"

Ren Qi asked: "General Li, do you prefer to fight with Li Zicheng, or with Your Majesty?"

Li Guo was silent for a while and then said with a smile: "How should I put it? Anyway, after following Your Majesty, I have never lost a battle again!"

Ren Qi laughed out loud, Li Guo had already galloped away, commanding the soldiers to cross Shangluo Mountain.

After crossing Shangluo Mountain and crossing the Danshui River, we arrived at Danfeng County.There were only [-] defenders in the city, and the Ming army took it without much effort.

Li Guo repeated what he did in Shanyang County, set up a stage to sing operas, entertained the gentry, killed all the slave soldiers, publicized the new policy of the Ming Dynasty, and then led the people in the city to go south to attack Shangnan County.

In just a few days, the Ming army tossed and moved in the southeast corner of Shaanxi, conquering several counties one after another, but did not send troops to guard them. They just killed Jiannu and emigrated southward, and achieved brilliant results.

Ren Qi grinned from ear to ear: "I mean General Li, this style of play is very similar to the guerrilla tactics I adopted in Yimeng Mountain. In His Majesty's words, it's so exciting to pretend to be forced and run away!"

"Speaking of pretending to be aggressive, I don't accept anyone but General Qi Dazhuang. I think he really scared me when he pretended to be Guan Gong." Li Guo couldn't help laughing.

After laughing, he said solemnly: "Your Majesty said, don't care about the gains and losses of the city, just move the people from the north to the south, and we will win."

Ren Qi nodded and said: "Your Majesty should think long-term. In such troubled times, there is strength in numbers. We have people, leaving the Tatars with empty cities and wastelands. They can only drink from the northwest wind."

Li Guo cupped his hands and said, "My lord, please send the people from Danfeng and Shangnan to the south, I have to kill the carbine. Before General Li Dingguo left Hanzhong, I brought the army back from the southern Shanxi area." Toss, consume the enemy's vital strength as much as possible."

"Okay, there will be a period later!" Ren Qi raised his right hand, turned his horse's head and said, "Shunhou, I don't think we need to continue to observe. Duke Xingguo has implemented His Majesty's combat policy very well, and victory in the Western Front is just around the corner. Let's go back to Nanjing."

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In Xi'an City, Wu Sangui was so angry that he watched the battle reports that kept coming in.

Shanyang County, Danfeng County, Shangnan County and other places fell one after another, and he strictly ordered He Zhen to go to recover the lost land.Unexpectedly, Li Guo shot back the carbine again, beheading countless Qing soldiers, He Zhen retreated to the capital city of Shangzhou, and did not dare to attack rashly again.

What's even more exasperating is that Li Guo's army came and went without a trace, captured a city, took away the people and abandoned the city.However, the Qing soldiers regained the lost ground in reputation, but the gains outweighed the losses, and they had to divide their troops to guard.

In this way, Li Guo was always able to fight the Qing soldiers with an absolutely superior force, but the Qing soldiers were tired of coping and were passively beaten.

Wu Sangui figured it out, all of this was done on purpose by Li Guo, he changed his strategy, and ordered: "Concentrate troops to defend Shangzhou Prefecture and Xi'an City, and leave the small counties alone. Wait until Prince Zheng's reinforcements arrive, and then do it again." Calculate."

It happened that at this time, an incident occurred in the capital city of Shangzhou.One wave after another, Wu Sangui was so anxious that he even wanted to die.

(End of this chapter)