After the defeat of Tongzhou, the rebels who had gathered for profit suddenly dispersed.
At this time, it is important to escape. Everyone knows that the situation is over, and the previous overwhelming momentum and invincibility are over. If you don't run at this time, you will really be chopped down if you are caught.
This Jizhen mutiny caused disaster to the gentry in more than a dozen prefectures and counties. Not only were their belongings looted, but many of them were beaten and killed. The Ming Dynasty's battalions were all recruited from the floating population. Who will serve as a soldier if they have fields to farm? These days, being a soldier is not a job with a good reputation, and it is not even easy to get a wife.
The reason why they became a floating population was because of the oppression and exploitation by the gentry in these places. They lost their land and even their relatives. They harbored a deep-seated hatred for these gentry gentlemen.
When the order was in chaos, they vented their inner anger to their heart's content.
Without the protection of order, these usually aloof men became lambs to be slaughtered.
But now, things have changed again, they have lost, and the old order is about to be restored. Those gentry who escaped were bound to take crazy revenge. Under the protection of the camp and guard soldiers, they came back. Naturally, they would not let go of these rebel soldiers and the mob who took the opportunity to cause trouble.
For a moment, there was a roar of wind, and the air became tense instantly. The emperor and the cabinet issued orders one after another to arrest the rebels. The civil servants in various places who had been scared like quails became frightened again as if they had been given blood.
They acted quickly and blocked the entrance and exit of the entire Shuntian Mansion. They are all looking for deserters everywhere.
At this time, it was already the third day of Tongzhou's defeat. A large group of rebels is fleeing northeast.
There are many people in this group, more than 7,000 rebels. Including their families, there are no less than 40,000 to 50,000 people. They supported the old and young, carried their baggage, and drove the stolen donkey carts, horse-drawn carriages, and ox-drawn carts. Pulling the stolen property and running quickly along the official road.
In a carriage sat Nvjuan, a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, leaning on a woman in her early thirties. He asked with some worry: "Mom, where are we running to?"
"Let's go out of the Great Wall. Not far ahead is Da'ankou. Your father's old troops are there. As long as you escape from the Great Wall, you will be safe."
"Mom, I'm so scared. Why are you rebelling? Aren't we doing well in Jizhou?"
"Alas! Your father has offended someone. Someone has taken a fancy to the fifteen hundred elite soldiers in your father's hands. Your father refused to let them go. They are your father's lifeblood. Your father went to the Chief Soldier for help. The Chief Soldier Your father wants you to be his concubine, but your father can't bear to let you go. If the soldiers in Jizhou hadn't rebelled, we might have been ruined. Alas!"
The girl looked out the car window with confusion, wondering what would happen when she got to the grassland. She was very scared and leaned against her mother again.
Huang Tengyuan rode on the side of the carriage, frowning. He was afraid that the soldiers would pursue him again, so he kept urging him to go faster. If there is someone who can't keep up, I don't care and just stay behind.
He left a camp head in Da'ankou with more than 380 people. It's just for exiting when you fail.
He saw the opportunity very early. On the high slope, as soon as he saw that the front was defeated, he immediately ran back to the camp with the three thousand soldiers and horses gathered during this period, and ran away with his family papers. The other rebellious officers were not fools. When they saw him running away, they immediately followed him with their family papers and gold and silver.
Everyone understands that Huang Tengyuan is the Dusi, and he is considered a big official here. This guy must have prepared a way out for himself. There are two passes on the Great Wall that are guarded by his people. Run with him to find a way out.
The coexistence of armies and soldiers was a unique military system of the Ming Dynasty. The army is the garrison soldier. Soldiers are camp soldiers. These are two completely separate systems.
The military-affiliated guard posts are governed by small banners, general banners, hundreds of households, thousands of households, guard commanders, and capital commanders, all the way up to the Five Army Governor's Mansion. The military officers and officers of the Wei Station are hereditary. Only the governors and governors of the Fifth Army are not hereditary. They are floating officials and are selected by the officials of the Wei Station and the military examination. The military battalion is composed of a commander, captain, sentry, commander, garrison, commander, guerrilla, staff general, deputy commander, and commander, and is directly under the Ministry of War. Soldiers are generally not hereditary, with the exception of those recruited by the guards.
The Dusi in the camp is not the abbreviation of Dusi in the garrison system.
manage. That one is the head of the military attache of a province. After Yang Fan won the Northwest War, the official position assigned to him by Chongzhen was the provincial capital of Suiyuan. The battalion soldier Dusi is younger than the guerrilla general and can be considered a mid-level officer.
Huang Tengyuan, the Dusi, only had 1,500 soldiers and horses under his command, and he was responsible for the defense of the two passes of Da'ankou and Qingshuikou, as well as the defense of more than 20 towns behind the passes. Considered a side general. Responsible for guarding the front line of the Great Wall.
Zunhua and Jizhou are both on the edge of the Great Wall, and many soldiers and horses in these places are responsible for guarding the Great Wall.
As a result, the number of people in this fleeing team soon increased. They encountered deserters and stragglers who were making trouble along the way. When they heard the news of Tongzhou's defeat from here, they immediately made a wise choice. Those who had no retreat joined the ranks.
Huang Tengyuan knew that Uncle Dingyuan had already cleared the grassland. Nowadays, the Monan grassland is uninhabited for thousands of miles. The Ming army was mainly concentrated along the Liaohe River.
Many forts were built there to block the Jiannu in Liaodong.
Instead, the grassland became a vacuum zone. Finding a place with abundant water and grass and settling down is also a viable option.
They were the most nervous last night when they were crossing the edge of Dingyuan Bo's territory.
They were afraid of being intercepted by Dingyuan Bo's private soldiers. They were beaten to death by the Xinghe Group on the battlefield. The defeated soldiers who came from Xianghe also told them how terrible those regiment trainings were.
As soon as they heard about Uncle Dingyuan's soldiers, they were frightened out of their wits.
Even though they were crossing a wooded area on the edge, they were still very scared.
In the southeast of a small river, there is a mound, and on that mound stands a huge earth building made of concrete and stones. The shape is irregular gear shape. It looked very ferocious and terrifying.
The height of the earth building is fully fifteen meters, and several towers on the wall are as high as twenty-five meters. It is rare to see such tall buildings similar to European castles in this era. There were also huge carbide lamps shooting from those towers.
It was impossible for such a large team to remain undetected. I don't know why, but no one came to attack them. Maybe it's because there are so many of them.
Huang Dengyuan and Tong Jianye urged everyone to pass quickly. They knew that Dingyuanbo's castle had artillery. Don't mess with it.
The team quickly entered the woods, lighting torches in the dark night.
"Ah! What is that," an old man exclaimed.
There was a dark shadow hanging from a branch in the distance.
"Ah! There are them here too. They are everywhere."
Huang Dengyuan and Tong Jianye immediately rode on horseback to see. They both gasped. Under the light of the torches of the soldiers, the woods were filled with dead corpses of rebels. It's summer now, and the stench is overwhelming. Many of them are severely rotten and have been eaten by crows, which looks extremely scary.
