In the Qing Dynasty, apart from being bullied, what other good things could the Han people do?
If you are beaten by a bannerman, you cannot complain, let alone resist, and you cannot show anger. Otherwise, if you are beaten to death by them, your death will be in vain. The most they can do is pay a small amount of money and receive a painless punishment.
If the beaten Han dare to fight back, what awaits is not only death but also the destruction of the family.
Therefore, Qiu Yun believed that if he was a banner man, he could shout to those Han people: I am a banner man. This is the honorable thing.
I don’t know if it was Li Laojiu’s words. Qiu Yun found that the soldiers passing by did not do any harm to them or even say a harsh word.
They all smiled and told them to stay here and don't move. It would be fine.
People continued to surrender on the battlefield, and some were even cavalry.
Li Shiyao looked at the scene on the battlefield and wished he could rush over and kill the Qing soldiers who surrendered one by one, so as not to lose the face of the Qing court.
"General, get out of here quickly! Otherwise, it will be difficult to escape if the broken troops attack here..."
"Yes, General. Keep the green hills here, so you don't have to worry about running out of firewood. We still have more than 20,000 soldiers and horses. After we rush out, we can organize people to fight again..."
………
At this time, Li Shiyao's staff and staff kept urging him to flee the battlefield.
Seeing that his side's situation was over on the battlefield, Li Shiyao felt extremely unwilling to do so. But the matter has come to this, and the situation of the war is no longer within his control.
"They are right, there are more than 20,000 soldiers outside. If we keep the green hills, we won't be afraid of running out of firewood." Li Shiyao thought about this and no longer hesitated.
"Okay, everyone, follow me and move out." Li Shiyao turned his horse's head and shouted to the people around him
"yes…"
After hearing the words, everyone responded and got on their horses and followed Li Shiyao out.
………
A gust of mountain wind blew in, bringing the smell of gunpowder and gunpowder smoke from the distant battlefield.
Yang Yingju and Sitku looked at the battlefield in the distance under a big pine tree on the mountainside with stunned expressions on their faces.
The outcome of this war was completely beyond their imagination and did not proceed according to their planned script.
Everything happened so suddenly, it was over before it even started.
I originally thought that even if I couldn't defeat them, I could at least hold them back and wait for the soldiers outside to surround them and wipe them out.
But
"What's going on? Is this rebel so strong? General Xi, did our previous connivance breed a tiger for the Holy One?" Yang Yingju now regretted his previous agreement with Zhang Rui.
Sitku on the side heard that Yang Yingju was so shocked by the outcome of the war that he couldn't speak at all, so he quickly corrected him loudly and said:
"What did Governor Yang say? We have never condoned this rebel. We have been encircling and suppressing him, but we failed because we underestimated him before. Now General Li mobilized 8,000 troops and was defeated by him. Our It is normal for a few troops to be defeated.”
After hearing Sitku's words, Yang Yingju also came back to his senses. I knew what I just said was inappropriate. I felt grateful to Sitku in my heart, and quickly agreed with Sitku's statement.
"Yes, Xi Dutong is right. It's not that we don't work hard to encircle and suppress him, but that the enemy is really strong. The current situation of General Li just proves this. It seems that to encircle and suppress this Zhang Rui, we need more warriors from the Qing Dynasty. .”
"Well, that's exactly it. How could we do anything detrimental to the Emperor as we have been favored by the Emperor? Whenever General Li needs our services, we will do our best to help him." Sitku He said impassionedly.
In fact, Sitku didn't know why he said this. Logically speaking, no one present would dare to go out and talk nonsense. But as he has always been accustomed to being an official, he still feels that it is safer to say a few more words like this. Otherwise, if the guys around you are not strict with their mouths and spread random remarks, you will feel uncomfortable.
"What Xi Dutong said makes sense, I don't think so." Yang Yingju was very satisfied with Xi Teku's performance at this time. At the same time, he said to Sitku with a sad expression on his face:
"Xi Dutong, the war is going on like this. It's useless to wait here for us to come. Why don't we leave first and then join General Li and his troops?"
"Governor Yang's words make sense, and I think so too. Instead of being anxious here, it's better to go find General Li who rushed out and then make plans." Sitku had no other objections to Yang Yingju's words.
Although it is still far away from the battlefield. But as the battle on the battlefield ends, Zhang Rui's men will definitely come here.
If I and others are still here stupidly, I might be captured again. After the last experience, Sitku didn't want to do it again.
Therefore, as soon as Yang Yingju said he wanted to leave, Sitku had ten thousand wishes in his heart. Anyway, he was going to Xinjiang to take office. If he couldn't do it, he would just leave with some stain on him.
If Sitku was still captured this time, wouldn't all this be a big disadvantage for him.
"Okay, let's go then!" Yang Yingju replied, and then he took a few soldiers around him and Li Kaifu, who was not far away to protect him, and a few others and Sitku walked down the mountain along the return road.
At this time, the members of the scout team who had followed Zhang Rui's instructions to go around the battlefield were walking around at the foot of the mountain behind the battlefield.
Zhang Rui never questioned his thoughts about the men who defeated Li Shiyao. That's why he asked the scout team to go around the back of the battlefield in teams early to facilitate the capture of prisoners.
"Report to the captain, there is a group of people over there who look like officials." Zeng Xiang, a member of the special scout team of the bandit suppression team, saluted their captain Li Dali and said.
"Haha, good thing, it seems we are going to catch a big fish again." Li Dali heard this and immediately laughed and said: "Brothers, follow me to catch the big fish."
"Yes, Captain..."
The whole team answered in unison, and then started running following Li Dali's footsteps.
"Mr. Governor, we are being watched by the enemy. I will lead people to stop them now. You run away quickly." Li Kaifu felt that something was wrong and quickly said to Yang Yingju
"What's going on? Isn't this place far away from the battlefield? Why did Zhang Rui's people arrive here so quickly?" Yang Yingju asked in panic after hearing what Li Kaifu said.
Like Sitku, he was also afraid of becoming Zhang Rui's prisoner again. And it would be really unfair to become Zhang Rui's prisoner this time.
"Thank you, General Li. When you come back, I will guarantee that you will be promoted to a higher rank." Yang Yingju said gratefully.
