The two brothers Jiang Yu and Jiang Xuan used to be the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief of Daming respectively.
In previous battles, they had very few soldiers left. When Li Zicheng reached Datong, Jiang Guan immediately surrendered, even if he surrendered, he was almost killed by Li Zicheng.
Li Zicheng forcibly disbanded Jiang Guan's troops, and sent his confidants to garrison Datong City.
Before the Man Qing came to kill him, Jiang Tuan had already betrayed Li Zicheng in essence, and just took advantage of the situation to take refuge with the Man Qing.
After that, the old servants were recruited again, and the cavalry of the two brothers added up to only more than 300 cavalry.
Brothers Jiang Yu and Jiang Xuan crossed the river and went down the river. Their more than 300 riders were organized into a cavalry team and were responsible for plundering the area from Mengjiazhuang to Xincai.
"Brother, something is wrong!"
After running for several miles, Jiang Xuan chased after Jiang Tuan: "The weeds in the wheat field have almost grown to the depth of the wheat seedlings, and no farmer has taken care of them for at least half a month. Besides, the houses are all empty during this journey. The people have no idea where to hide."
"It's normal to avoid disasters," Jiang Guan said.
Jiang Xuan asked, "Should those empty houses be burned?"
Jiang Yu didn't answer, but asked, "Do you think the Tartars can win?"
Jiang Xuan was terrified, and lowered his voice and said: "Brother, don't talk nonsense, the Qing Dynasty is the Qing Dynasty, where did the Tartars come from?"
"I can't take it any longer," Jiang Yu gritted his teeth, "You and I were both born in Datong and grew up in Datong. After the Tartars took over Datong, did they burn, kill and loot? The people in Shanxi have been suffering from drought for many years, so there is nothing wrong with them." Food, this ration was also taken away by the Tartars!"
Jiang Xuan stopped pretending, and said calmly: "Brother, don't you want your family?"
"When a man is alive, he doesn't care about so many things." Jiang Yu said.
Jiang Xuan let out a breath of foul air: "Then I will make a fuss with my brother, and we will join the Datong Army. Our Jiang family lives in Datong, Shanxi, and the country name in the south is Datong. Doesn't it coincide with God's will?"
The ghost's coincidence with God's will is just for profit.
? They wanted to rebel against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there was indeed an element of disgust and an element of national righteousness. But what really made them make a decision was being robbed of military power by another traitor!
That traitor was named Wu Weihua, and his elder brother was Uncle Daming Gongshun.
As soon as I heard this title, I knew it must be a foreign race, and the ancestors of the Wu family were Mongolians who surrendered to Ming Dynasty.
Wu Weihua's elder brother was tortured to death by Li Zicheng. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, he immediately went out of the city and knelt down to greet him. He took the initiative to invite Ying, ran to Shanxi and Shaanxi to surrender, and then presented his daughter to Azig.
Recently, she even made up her mind to marry her niece to Chang Nai as a concubine.
Chang Nai is Gang Lin's younger brother, and Gang Lin is Dorgon's confidant.
Wu Weihua's operation was quickly made a Marquis by the Qing Dynasty. During their garrison in Shanxi, they snatched away the troops of the Jiang brothers. Jiang Guan and Jiang Xuan now only have more than 300 family members in their hands.
What's more, Wu Weihua also robbed the Jiang family's property, which was the military land occupied by Jiang's ancestors!
Shanxi is deserted and uninhabited everywhere, why do we still have to grab fields?
Because the fields of the Jiang family are all good fields, and there are canals for irrigation.
Surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the mess was worse than in Daming, didn't this traitor do it for nothing?
Anti-fucking!
"Brother, there is cooking smoke over there!" Jiang Xuan shouted.
The two brothers galloped past with their cavalry, but it was the mansion of a big family before the field was divided.
The original owner committed many crimes and was suppressed by the peasant association. The mansion was used as the village's office space and also served as the village's school.
There are trenches dug around the perimeter of the mansion, and there are still guards on the perimeter.
"The Master said: A gentleman is in the world, there is nothing suitable, there is nothing, and righteousness is compared"
The sound of reading aloud came from inside the courtyard wall, and more and more people were on the wall.
Some of these people held wooden spears and bamboo spears, some held hoes and shoulder poles, and glared at the cavalry brought by the Jiang brothers without fear.
"The Master said: Is it possible to make a country with courtesy? What is there? Can't be a country with courtesy, how about courtesy? The Master said: Don't worry about having no position, worry about standing. If you don't worry about not knowing yourself, ask for what you can know"
Jiang Guan listened attentively to the sound of reading, and suddenly laughed: "It's been two months since I came here from Shanxi, and this is the first time I heard children reading." He turned his head and asked his younger brother, "Do you have the heart to set fire to this house?"
"Let's go." Jiang Xuan sighed.
Their families are in Shanxi, but each sent a son to Beijing.
The family may not be extinct, but after betraying the Qing Dynasty, the son in Beijing will definitely be gone.
Riding his horse and galloping for a while, Jiang Xuan said, "It's just a guest, but you have to bring aWhen it collapsed, he abandoned the city and fled with his family. He can't escape, he can only defend the city with his little soldiers, and he will never be able to defend the city wall if it collapses.
Hearing the sound of the rumbling cannon, Jia Hanfu was frightened. He already regretted surrendering to Manqing.
500 dragoons were sent out to scout the horses, leaving 2,000 dragoons and 400 Ding cavalry from Jiang Yan. He had been waiting in the north of the city for a long time, and when he saw Jia Hanfu fleeing with his troops, Cao Bianjiao immediately led his cavalry to rush over.
Jia Han thought about it again, sighed, reined in his horse and gave the order: "Everyone has surrendered, you can't escape."
A few dragoons went over, tied up Jia Hanfu, and dragged him in front of Cao Bianjiao in disgrace.
"Brother Jia, I haven't seen you for many years." Cao Bianjiao said with a smile.
Jia Hanfu had no choice but to say: "The captured people will be killed or cut to pieces, so please do as you please."
They are all acquaintances, so there is no need to be polite.
The sixth division and the seventh division took down Linying and continued to advance, going straight to Xihua County where Zu Dashou was stationed.
There were a lot of enemy troops there. In addition to surrendered soldiers and generals, there were also local bandits in Henan. There were tens of thousands of people in this mess.
Finding out that the Datong Army had dozens of artillery pieces, Zu Dashou felt that the county could not hold on. Simply call Wu Sangui back, wait for the Datong army to pass, and then go out of the city to fight.
If you don't fight, you have to retreat, and retreat to Xuzhou, where the city walls can withstand artillery.
Otherwise, the morale of the army will plummet if tens of thousands of people live in small towns and are bombarded by artillery for a few days.