"The grass people meet the Admiral!"

In Sanatun, north of Long Beach, two sturdy men, one tall and one short, were about to bow down and worship, but they were held up by Zheng Chenggong, "Two strong men don't need to be polite. You have made great contributions in attacking Katuozhai and Damengtun in one day, but I want to thank you on behalf of the imperial court. ”

Zheng Chenggong originally thought that Liaodong was a nest of prisoners, and going deep into the hinterland of Liaodong would be a bitter battle, but he didn't expect that this battle would be very easy.

Sanatun is located on the official road to Shenyang in the north, and belongs to the camp guarded by heavy soldiers, with more than 400 flag soldiers, equipped with guns and cannons.

The day before yesterday, Liu Guoxuan led his troops to attack the village, just rushed a round, and saw the enemy village fires everywhere, and there was a great chaos in the tunzhong, he took advantage of the situation to concentrate firepower to break through the south gate, and took the village in only one hour.

It turned out that there were only more than 1,000 serious people in the tunli, and the adult men were the 400 banner soldiers. When the Ming army attacked the village, the Han slaves in the tun were immediately left unattended, and two bold ones set fire to it, wanting to take the opportunity to escape from the devil's cave, but they helped Liu Guoxuan a lot.

Later, the Han people in Tunzhong learned that it was actually attacked by the Ming army, and they were all very excited. Many of these people were captured by the Ming army when they entered the customs a few years ago, and the two arsonists were even former officers, but one of them was originally under Li Zicheng.

They then volunteered to take people to attack two nearby villages and rescue Han slaves. At first, Zheng Chenggong did not agree, but the two people each took hundreds of people out of the village overnight, and returned at noon the next day, saying that they had broken through the two villages, and the team behind them had nearly 2,000 people.

The tall man was originally a member of a hundred households in Yizhouwei, named Zhao Gongwei, and it has been seven or eight years since he was arrested in Sanatun. He smiled and arched his hand: "The grass people don't dare to take credit, there are only thousands of slaves nearby, but they deceive more than 10,000 Han people as slaves." The grass people only shouted in Bokatuozhai 'The Ming army is coming', and immediately hundreds of clothed Aha picked up flat farm tools to attack Jiannu with me! ”

The short Shen Zizhen also agreed: "It's the same situation on the grass people's side. As soon as the grass people led the people to the west of Tun, someone from the east came and said that the house of Jiannu Niu Lu Zhangjing had been leveled. ”

After Jianlu occupied Liaodong, in order to facilitate the enslavement of the Han people, he promulgated the "Regulations on Supervision and Arrest", the core of which was the law of shaving hair, changing clothes, enclosing land, surrendering, and fleeing.

In the last three articles, the land enclosure law means that the Manchu magnates can stake their land and occupy the land of the Han people as their own, while the Han people on the original land are unconditionally driven out of their homes.

The Confiscation Law pretends to be benevolent and righteous, stipulating that if the Han people are homeless, they can voluntarily attach themselves to the Manchus, but in fact they have become slaves. This seems to be to take care of the Han people who have no place to live, but in fact, combined with the land enclosure law, the Han people who have lost their land can only "voluntarily" become slaves of Jianyu in order not to starve to death.

The last fugitive rule was that no slave was allowed to escape. Escape once with a tattoo on the right cheek, and a hundred lashes will return to the owner. The left cheek was tattooed twice, and the whip was returned to the owner one hundred. Three times he was immediately put to death. In addition, those who dared to take in fugitive slaves were confiscated or exiled.

With these three "sharp weapons", Jianyu could "mass-produce" Han slaves as he pleased, and ensure that they could not escape.

At that time, in Liaodong, there were seven or eight Han or Korean slaves in the Manchu families whose living standards were still acceptable, and even if they were ordinary Manchu farmers, two or three slaves were not much. Therefore, in any village, the number of Han people is several times that of the Manchus.

Many people in later generations had a misunderstanding, saying that the Manchus themselves often called themselves slaves, and they also treated the Han people equally.

In fact, this is all caused by the unfamiliarity with the Manchu language. The Manchu with high status will have the Manchu with low status as the coat, which translates to the meaning of "family people", which can be regarded as a kind of paternalism. Although these coats call themselves slaves, their status is actually quite high, especially the coats of the royal clansmen, and they can even reach the level of generals.

The Han slaves are mostly "Baoyi Ahha", although they all start with Baoyi, but the meaning is "slave", which is far from the situation where the people are full of Baoyi and the master is a "family".

In real life, Bao Yi can even take care of the accounts for the master, while Bao Yi Aha can only do the hard work of plowing the land and grazing. Of course, there are also many Han people who surrendered earlier to make coatings, but that is only a minority after all.

Zhao Gongwei said again: "Even if the grass people only have hoes and other things in their hands, if you give me some knives, bows, firearms, etc., I will gather the people of the Ming Dynasty along the way, and it will not be difficult to hit Shenyang." ”

Zheng Chenggong thought for a while, nodded and said, "I have weapons here that can be distributed to you, but the Liaodong thieves are powerful after all, so they can't go to danger easily." ”

A lot of weapons were seized in Zhigu before, and two small cannons were even captured in the first battle of Sanatun the day before yesterday, and these things were also luggage, so it was better to give them to Zhao Gongwei and Shen Zizhen.

In fact, Zheng Chenggong also knew that even though the number of Han slaves was extremely large, many people had lived in Liaodong for a long time, and there were not many people who were willing to play with Jianlu. However, only some weapons were invested, and if one or two resistance forces could be formed in the old nest of the captives, it would be very beneficial to fight against the great cause of the captives.

"Weapons?!" Zhao Gongwei said excitedly, "If there is a guy who takes advantage of it, the grass people will definitely be able to disturb the Jiannu chickens and dogs!" ”

Zheng Chenggong asked again: "I don't know what Zhao Yishi plans to do in the future?" ”

"The grass people heard that the Mongols were building a rebellion recently, so I thought about tossing around in Liaodong first, and then trying to take everyone west to Monan."

Zheng Chenggong nodded slightly, "It's okay to go to Monan, but it's a lot of risk to pass through Horqin." If you really want to resist the captives, you can go east to find the Koreans in a crisis.

"Even if they dare not stand in the way of the captives, they will be able to divide some food and grass, or show you a way out. Later, I will have the weapons fetched for you, and you will have to rely on yourselves. ”

Zhao Gongwei and Shen Zizhen glanced at each other, bowed down and said, "Thank you, Lord Admiral!" ”

The next day, a scout reported to Zheng Chenggong, saying that about 2,500 soldiers and horses from Shenyang and Fushun were heading south, and it was estimated that they would arrive in the vicinity of Long Beach as soon as early tomorrow morning.

Zheng Chenggong knew that the Shenyang garrison was the elite of Jianqing, and the losses of the naval infantry army in the previous battle of Zhigu were not small, so he did not plan to fight this enemy army, and immediately said to Shi Lang: "Order, immediately pull out the camp and go south." ”

He also instructed Zhao Gongwei and Shen Zizhen, "You go east or west, only attack small villages, don't move to build important towns, and the captives will not chase you." ”

"Grass people, remember!"

At noon on the same day, the Daming sailors returned to the boat, turned into the Taizi River along the Sancha River, and went straight to Liaoyang.

Two other rebel armies composed of Han Chinese slaves swept up the grain of Jianyu village and headed for Horqin and North Korea. There were more than 1,000 people in each of their teams, but their equipment was almost the same as that of the Eight Banners Han Army.