And in Huainan within eight hundred miles away. Although with the successive fall of Guangling, Shanyang, Zhongling and other places, it represents that the entire Huainan 13 prefectures have basically fallen under the control of the Taiping Army; but in the Gaoyou Lake area from the north of Guangling to the south of Shanyang, Sporadic and frequent battles still happen from time to time.
Because those leftovers of Yang Xingmin, Zhu Yanshou, Tian Wei, Lu Shizhou, An Renyi, Zhao Yan and others who fled from Guangling City still persevere among the many frozen waters and grasses in the Gaoyou Lake basin; and It also breached several local docks and market towns, killing all men and women, young and old.
Therefore, as long as you are walking among the withered grass, you may inadvertently encounter a few crushed soldiers corpses that have been frozen hard, covered with thin or thick snowflakes, and it is like taking roots and the world. Everything is merged into one.
Wrapped in a fleece coat and over-eared hat, Xu Wen, the new special adviser of the Anti-Rebellion Committee, who also wears a felt horse, is also slowly marching in this loaded team.
Traveling in the intermittent winter with heavy snow is not a particularly easy task. He stopped at least five places along the way; three of them were gathering points and management sites transformed from ordinary village dwellings. But he actually couldn't see a person who died frozen or hungry; even those old, young women and children with obviously weaker physique looked more than angry under the old clothes.
This could not help but surprise him secretly, at least for the brilliance of current epidemics and wars, but in the barren and declining population of Huainan; the Taiping Army’s inadvertent details of the supply and distribution of materials, How awesome is the follow-up maintenance and support capabilities? You know, Xu Wen once hosted a large army of food and grass raising and transporting behind the scenes, so how could he not know the difficulties and great setbacks in this
He saw this team of trucks, unloading piles of coal, rations, and grease from the carts and boats on the upper reaches of the river. Then he walked firmly along the snow-covered road and moved the villages it had passed along. The warehouses in the Zhuanghe stronghold were full. However, this is only the slightly larger one among the countless teams that are currently traveling through Huainan.
And these breaking waves along the river, and turned into a torrent of access to all directions, is also another proof of the powerful strength of the Taiping Army. Here is no longer the deterrence of knives, swords, halberds, bows, crossbows, and firearms, the unfavorable force of deterrence, but another kind of inexplicable power and profound heritage that can save the world and help the people and countless living people.
At least he can confirm one thing with this. After this harsh winter, whether it was Yang Xingyun, the benefactor that he followed in the past, or the tribesmen of the Huainan Festival in Guangling City, it was impossible to return to the situation that they were looking forward to in response to a hundred responses and the rural landscape. Because anyone who resisted and rejected the Taiping Army was either wiped out and hunted down before that, or fell under the rampant epidemic, and the rest couldn't survive the harshness of this winter at all.
Therefore, the only people who can survive in the spring next year are those who are generally grateful for and obey the orders and propositions of the Taiping Army, the so-called "Xintu Shunmin". In other words, Xu Wen himself is one of these Xintu Shun citizens who was lucky enough to get ahead. You know, before being dispatched, he had participated in several large-scale collective trials in his hometown of Luzhou, and various matters prepared before and after.
He also uncovered and investigated the accumulated crimes and many misconducts that have been hidden from the remaining rural forces one by one; it can be said that he has been denied the name of the local tyrant and the gentry; he Only then got a further appointment. Therefore, now he can only rely on the advantages of knowing the roots of the Yang family to help calm the Huainan area as soon as possible, and gain a foothold among the forces of the new dynasty represented by the Taiping Army.
And if possible, Xu Wen actually still has a little selfishness. That is to say, it is said that the Taiping Army accepted a large number of female family members of the old dynasty who had been sent from the north; and they were placed in some of the missionary departments of singing, dancing and performing arts. After he was able to gain a foothold in the future, he didn't even want to ask for the blood of one of the previous dynasties, and then slightly promote the house where he had sold salt and had been a robber.
He was thinking about being between the wrong and the wrong. Suddenly not far away, there was a large swaying and shaking popping sound in the withered reed covered with snowflakes; then amidst the harsh sound of ghost crying and wolf howling, many touches were rushed out one after another. The figure full of snowflakes came. They are like evil spirits that have emerged out of thin air, spraying white smoke without stopping, and pounced on the heavy team that stretched back and forth into a long snake.
Soon, the civilian husbands who were responsible for pulling and guiding the livestock suddenly broke up and fled straight along the two ends of the road; then the auxiliary pawns in the team were quickly rushed by these attackers. Spread out, and threw all of these fully loaded carts and horses to these sudden attackers. Then I saw these snow-covered attackers, eager to cut through the tarp covering the car, and grabbed the rice noodles and bean cakes and other things scattered in it with the ice and snow.
However, at the head of the team, Xu Wen, who happened to follow the retreating auxiliary pawns and avoiding the momentum of the attackers, showed a certain sadness and Min Ran expression on his face. How can things from the Taiping Army be so easy to grab? And these retired civilians and pawns were not as flustered and disorderly as they were reasonable; they quickly regrouped at both ends of the road, and even the weapons and crossbows in their hands did not lose much, just like What is looking forward to and waiting for.
The next moment, just as these assailants were dragging and trying to remove the objects on the wagon, or moved them to the pack animals that had been freed from the frame; suddenly in the distance, amidst the fine fragments of wind and snow, it sounded Some pitch-shifted horns and sharp whistles. Then, what came next in the wind and snow were not knives, guns and swords, but fireballs bursting into the attacker with arc-shaped smoke trails. .
Suddenly, these attackers were shaken up and down, and some people’s clothing and the pile of luggage on the car were lit one after another; there were more fireballs on both sides of the road. The location and figure of these attackers were immediately reflected brightly; just as they panicked and dropped what they were holding, they wanted to turn around and flee into the reeds, surrounded by both sides of the road and shot densely. The rain of lead has already enveloped them in a headless manner.
I saw these mottled-colored assailants outside, suddenly screaming and screaming in various stances and fell to the snow. The remaining survivors who are still indecisive, this is just like the beginning of a dream. Awakened, he crawled and crawled, and fled with all his strength into the reeds where the fire had not completely spread; however, before long, these figures escaped from the reeds one after another.
Because, along with the trampled messy reeds and withered grass, there were also Taiping pawns wearing iron scales and hoods who rushed out together. They were like chasing pigs, sheep and shepherds with their guns and knives, and drove these fleeing enemies back through a sieve, and finally turned into a large group of people entangled in the road. . . .
On the third day, the secret strongholds, including the many Nomura in the vast reed grass of Gaoyou Lake, were successively killed by Taiping soldiers according to their diagrams. They were destroyed one by one and then burned. They also gathered in Gaoyou City for a while. Captives of all colors came from all directions.
It’s just that in the place of Huainan in the past, always trying to maintain a basic and decent Shou Hao army, now like beggars wrapped in all kinds of fabrics that can be found; all of them have yellow skin and weak skin with basic armor. I can’t wear my clothes anymore; there are many gray and purple frostbite marks on the exposed head, face, hands, feet and other body parts, but I can only squat together like a quail, shivering:
This made Xu Wen, who was in charge of the inspection, couldn't help but have mixed feelings but didn't know what to say. At this time, the cavalry Yu Hou Chen Du'er, who was leading the team, reminded:
"Consultant Xu, it's time to start your business"
Afterwards, Zhang Hao, the commanding envoy of Zuo Ya with the Beatles as the head, and the Huainan Old Ministry, who had been identified and identified one by one among the prisoners, could not help but yell at Xu Wen:
"Xu Lao Si, you kill a thousand swords..."
"Xu Si, fucking dog, you can't die..."
"I am doing this for your own good,"
Facing these curses and insults, Xu Wen said indifferently:
"At least after you are recognized by me here, although you will not escape death from the Ming Dynasty, at least it will not involve too much of your family; perhaps you can still be handed down by blood."
"But if you allow Er et al to continue to harm the place, even if the Taiping Army can't chase your family, how can you easily spare Er et al. behind them? I'm afraid there will be more things that you can't bear. ."
"Dare the dog thief!!"
"Oath and unwilling to rest!!"
However, there is also a completely different tone in this cross-talking curse:
"I am willing to redeem myself. Please also look at the old righteousness in the past, and give the villain a chance to repay."
Xu Wen couldn't help but take a closer look, but it was Wang Jingren, a township party from Hefei, Luzhou, who was known as the brave and tough Yaqian riding general under Yang Xingmin's command.
"I am also willing to surrender... I also know the possible hiding place of An Renyi..."
After having this beginning, another Huainan shooting moon riding commander Ashina Yuelu hurriedly said:
He was originally a member of the Turkic tribe. He commanded a few Shatuo people and Huqi in the army. He first followed the Tianping Army Cao Quanzhu, and then transferred to Yang Xingmin's command. Compared with these bitter and enmity detailed tasks There is no such firm stand.
However, listening to this sentence, Xu Wen was moved in his heart. This An Renyi is a classic cavalry, and among the famous champions, he was once the top figure who was once known as the number one shot in Huainan.
—I am the dividing line —
In the far north, in the two parallel basins of Shangdang and Xiangguo in the southwest of Hedong Road. Snows fell on the messy corpses scattered on the left and right of the road. Among them, there were both men in felt clothes and leather hats and officers and soldiers in large jackets; but most of them were men, women and children exiled on the road; they were so accidentally in ragged clothes. After encountering a cold current, he remained hugged and frozen to death on the side of the road.
The Sha Tuo Army Yier was commander and envoy, who was heavily armored, sat on a bow, and rode a white horse. Now he has been changed to the Han name Li Keyi, and he claims to be Zhu Xie, the heir of the Li Tang clan and the lineage of King Cao. Yi Sheng was adopted as one of his adopted sons, and Sha Tuo Yong, who was renamed Li Cunxiao, General An Jingsi; also looking at the Chengde army camp, which became empty overnight, he couldn't help but said in confusion:
"Did Cheng Dejun retreat so relentlessly?" (End of this chapter)