Chapter 3: The Death of Lu Xiangsheng
But some of the people are still sensible people, they can see who is really fighting against Jiannu, some gentry can't look at it, and they raise some food to send to Lu Xiangsheng, but they didn't let the soldiers and horses led by Lu Xiangsheng completely run out of food, and collapsed because of the lack of food.
Lu Xiangsheng was in such a situation, wearing filial piety clothes, with thousands of Tianxiong soldiers under his command, all the way from the Beijing division to the Julu area, and Gao Qiqian At this time, he also led tens of thousands of Guanning troops to arrive in the Jize area, and the distance between the two armies was only less than fifty miles.
Lu Xiangsheng ushered in the last battle of his life here.
The cowardice of the Ming army was seen by the Jiannu soldiers soon after the Jiannu army entered the customs, they were actually very worried about forcing the Ming army to rush for a while, jumping over the wall with them, and they fought a decisive battle with them, but they went all the way south, attacking the city, and it was clear that the Ming army was not far from them, but many Ming troops watched them plunder from afar, but they did not come up to find their trouble.
At first, Dolgon was very confused, but soon he saw the reason, these Ming troops did not plan to fight to the death with their Jiannu army, above them, now they must be thinking about other things, this part of the Ming army, to put it bluntly, is ordered to carry out an armed parade, without the slightest courage to fight to the death with their Jiannu army, from top to bottom are afraid of the enemy like a tiger, this time the Jiannu soldiers will be more unscrupulous, so they dare to go south all the way, attack the territory of Guangping Mansion, and actually did not encounter a major war.
Only Lu Xiangsheng's officers and soldiers are obviously different from other Ming officers, and only Lu Xiangsheng, who left Beijing and went south, always hung behind the Jiannu army, and gave Jiannu a bit of hatred.
So Jiannu realized the difference between Lu Xiangsheng and other Ming officers and soldiers and officials, and only Lu Xiangsheng, a passer-by, wanted to really resist their Jiannu army.
Being so worried about Lu Xiangsheng, Jiannu also felt uncomfortable, followed by a Lu Dadao behind his back, and always wanted to pounce on them and bite them, on the way back, if he was blocked by Lu Dadao, then if there was a mistake, wouldn't it be a big trouble?
So Jiannu decided to completely solve Lu Xiangsheng, and the location was chosen in the area of Julu.
The rest of the matter is very clear to everyone, Jiannu mobilized more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, surrounded Lu Xiangsheng's department, Lu Xiangsheng sent people to find Gao Qiqian for help, Gao Qiqian refused to send reinforcements to rescue Lu Xiangsheng, and finally watched Lu Xiangsheng die in battle, martyrdom.
At this time, the soldier's heart is completely dispersed, and the official treats a patriotic and loyal minister like this, can the soldier still contribute to the death?
Therefore, after Jiannu eliminated Lu Xiangsheng's department, he immediately launched a fierce attack on the tens of thousands of Guanning troops led by Gao Qiqian and other officers and soldiers.
Gao Qiqian was afraid of Jiannu like a tiger wolf, and the soldiers led by him were even more unbearable, and he collapsed before fighting, and under the pursuit of the Jiannu army, he was defeated into an army, Gao Qiqian only led a small number of officers and soldiers to escort him, and fled from the battlefield, but tens of thousands of elites in the north of the Ming Dynasty were also completely buried by Gao Qiqian in this battle.
Chongzhen didn't know what happened to Lu Xiangsheng, Lu Xiangsheng and his friend Yang Tinglin played and impeached Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian many times, but they were all intercepted by Yang Sichang and others.
Yang Sichang even heard the news of Lu Xiangsheng's death in battle, he didn't dare to believe it, and sent people to check the battlefield, but the people sent found Lu Xiangsheng on the battlefield who was dressed in linen clothes and killed by several arrows and knives.
Because the news that Yang Sichang wanted most was not that Lu Xiangsheng was killed in a battle with the Jiannu army on the battlefield, but that what he wanted to hear was that Lu Xiangsheng was defeated and fled, so that he could put the blame for the defeat of the high submarine army on Lu Xiangsheng, and also covered up the appearance of their group of people who were afraid of war and avoided war.
So much so that Lu Xiangsheng died for dozens of days, and the imperial court did not send anyone to collect his body, but the local people heard the news and rushed to the battlefield to find Lu Xiangsheng's body.
These news were concealed by Yang Sichang and others, Chongzhen for dozens of days, did not know where Lu Xiangsheng was, until later it was really impossible to cover up, Yang Sichang had to inform Chongzhen of the news of Lu Xiangsheng's defeat and death, Chongzhen then sent someone to collect Lu Xiangsheng's body back, but because of Yang Sichang and others' obstruction and planting, Lu Xiangsheng did not receive any encouragement from Chongzhen after his death, nor did he give any compensation to his family.
And the Jiannu army entered the customs this time, in fact, they really didn't think about it, Tong Guò entered the customs this time, to seize the world, their purpose is still very simple, it is still to enter the customs and plunder, coerce the population out of the customs, and fundamentally continue to weaken the ruling ability of the Ming Dynasty in the north.
Therefore, after Lu Xiangsheng died in battle, and they defeated the Ming army led by Gao Qiqian, they immediately continued to plunder in the north, Yang Sichang miscalculated the route of the Jiannu army to the south, thinking that Jiannu went south to attack Shandong, and would take Dezhou to the south, thinking that Dezhou was the key to defending Shandong, and ordered Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong at the time, to gather Shandong soldiers and horses to gather in the area of Dezhou to prevent the Qing army from going south.
However, the slave chief Yue Tuo saw through the layout of the Ming army, and did not rush straight to Dezhou at all, but first entered the north and went straight to Shanxi, and after raiding and plundering, he turned around and went east again, bypassing Dezhou, bringing into Shandong from Linqing, crossing the Huitong River, and then directly inserting into the city of Jinan.
At this time, Jinan only had hundreds of township warriors plus a small number of Laizhou reinforcements, and could not hold Texas at all, and the Ming army would have no fighting spirit.
Zhu Youshu, the king of De, who was arranged to settle down in Jinan, and Zhu Ensheng, the general of Fengguo, were all taken away by the slave army, and the Jiannu army was massacred in Jinan when the city was broken, and the blood of the people in the city was killed, tens of thousands of people were killed, and the entire Jinan city was raided and plundered by the Jiannu army, and a large number of people were taken away by the Jiannu within a radius of dozens of miles inside and outside the city.
But the slave chief Yue Tuo also died of illness in Jinan City after breaking through Jinan City, which can be regarded as a kind of retribution!
So far, Jiannu has been full of money all the way, coupled with Yue Tuo's illness and death, the army has lost its commander all the way, and Jiannu is also afraid that it will go too deep into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.
So after Jiannu broke through Jinan in the first month, the slave army finally stopped the pace of continuing to go south, began to pack up the guys, drove a large number of plundered people, and embarked on the road back to Guanwai.
This time, which lasted for several months, the southward plunder, so that Jiannu was full of money, many Eight Banner soldiers, full of valuable things, and they robbed a large number of livestock, mules, horses, cattle, pigs and sheep and other things, but also plundered a large number of carts, loaded with all kinds of materials they captured.
Several Jiannu soldiers and generals, a total of 560,000 people were captured, and they drove these captured people, and also carried all kinds of captured goods for them, and began to set off to return to the Guanwai in a mighty way.
To say that Jiannu is not nervous at all, it is impossible, now they have captured too many people, these captured population is several times more than their troops, once they encounter a strong resistance from the Ming army, these captured raw mouths once riot, it is not easy to suppress, I am afraid they will not be able to block it at that time.
But human nature is undoubtedly sad, these captive Ming people, one by one docile like sheep, were driven to their unknown future by Jiannu, although they were reluctant, and did not give up their homeland, but they were afraid of the knives and guns in the hands of Jiannu, and few people thought of resisting.
And there are a lot of Jiannu cavalry, and they all know very well that even if they escape, they will soon be chased and killed by Jiannu's cavalry, so they are like this, like a flock of sheep, driven by Jiannu towards the outside of the pass.
Along the way, the minions would not give them anything good to eat, and every two days, as if they were alms, they would be thrown some nests that they couldn't tell what they were made of, even if it was rations for them.
It's just that these nests have become something that these captive slaves are fighting for, and at this time, the meanness of human nature is completely aroused.
Some of the strong and bold guys with black hands among the slaves, don't look at it and dare not go against Jiannu, but among the slaves, they began to show their strength.
Whenever the slaves were given something to eat, they would use force to control most of the food into their own hands, and then distribute it to some slaves who obeyed them like alms.
And the old and weak in the crowd will certainly not be able to snatch food by force, so along the way, some of the captured civilians will soon be starved to death, and even their corpses have become the objects of robbery, and some people in private cut the flesh of these corpses, secretly eat them, and even trade them.
Jiannu captured a large number of women, and these women would definitely not be able to fight for food for their lives by relying on their bodies, so these women, in order to have a bite to eat, could survive, had to sell their bodies.
Some of the bastards among the slaves, after they had snatched the food, they used the surplus to buy women, and when they camped, they could even live in makeshift shacks, and with just a black nest made of unknown things, they could get a yellow girl to sleep with them.
The despicability of human nature at this time has been thoroughly demonstrated, and the humanity of many people has been completely annihilated at this time, although it is sad, but this is the law of survival, the survival of the fittest, the survival of the strong, at this time is vividly embodied.
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