"That's it. I've decided to send troops and horses to various places immediately." .”
"yes."
Zhao Wu stood up and responded.
Xing Chaoxi looked at the other two people and said, "Everyone go back and prepare quickly. Every quarter of an hour of delay will cause the people of Lushun to suffer from the slaves and thieves."
"My subordinates resign."
Ma Liu and Qin Xiaozhan also stood up from their seats, saluted Xing Chaoxi together with Zhao Wu, and turned to leave the office.
Jinzhou Guard has six thousand-household offices under its jurisdiction, and each thousand-household office has nine hundred-household offices, for a total of fifty-four hundred-household offices.
However, Jinzhou Acropolis fell into the hands of slave thieves, and in the Lushun area west of Nanguan, where the Ming army was stationed, there were a total of thirty-six hundred households and one inn.
Dongjiang Town did not add more 100-household offices in Lushun, but the number of people in each 100-household office increased a lot, most of whom were Liao people who escaped from the areas ruled by slaves.
This also resulted in a large number of Liao people living in Lushun, and the court was worried that so many Liao people entering the customs would lead to local instability. Therefore, many Liao people with no way out could only live in Lushun or on various islands.
"A little late!"
A group of tiger-character flag soldiers hurriedly arrived at a place where hundreds of households were located.
What awaited them was indeed a dilapidated scene. As soon as a person approached, he could immediately feel the heat wave on his face. There were still sparks in the house that had been burned by the fire.
Many thatched roofs were burned away by the fire, leaving only dilapidated adobe walls and a scorched lake blackened by the fire.
"Check to see if anyone is still alive!" Qiao Lin, the squadron leader of the soldiers, told his soldiers, and he walked into the disaster-stricken 100 households.
A small group of soldiers was left to guard a squat cannon at the entrance of the village of Baihusuo, while all the other soldiers dispersed into Baihusuo.
One after another, burnt or unburnt bodies were brought out.
There were men and women, old and young, the youngest was an infant, tightly held in the arms of a woman's corpse, not only a mother and son, but also a mother and daughter who died together.
"These damn slaves." A soldier looked at the miserable situation in front of him and punched an adobe wall next to him.
Squadron leader Qiao Lin glanced at the other party and said: "If you are angry, look for the slave thieves to vent. Here, it can only be incompetent rage. Everyone rests here for a quarter of an hour and rushes to the nearest hundred households here in a quarter of an hour." "
"We're leaving, what should we do with the bodies of our fellow villagers?" The soldier who beat the wall with his fist looked at the squadron leader Qiao Lin.
Qiao Lin looked at the corpses placed at the entrance of the village, and said in a sad tone: "If we rush to the next hundred households earlier, we might be able to save more people, and the corpses of these fellow villagers are temporarily put away." Here, wait until the slave thieves are dealt with, then come back to bury them."
A quarter of an hour passed quickly, and Qiao Lin's squadron was on the road again, rushing to another hundred households.
His squadron did not carry a small Franco machine gun, so there was no need for animals to pull the cannon. The Tiger Crouching Cannon weighed only a few dozen kilograms, so one person could carry it on his back, while the other person carried the cannon and ammunition.
Carrying dozens of kilograms of stuff for dozens of miles is definitely unbearable for most people, but the nearest hundred households are only a dozen miles away, so even carrying dozens of kilograms of stuff on your back will not be too tiring.
At least the battle won't be delayed because of being too tired.
Moreover, there are many soldiers who only carry fire blunderbuss and muskets, so they can help the gunners to share some of the burden on the way.
In order to eliminate this invading slave cavalry in Lushun, Xing Chaoxi mobilized a military battalion and used almost all the available Tiger Crouching Cannons.
So many soldiers covered almost every household.
The only purpose of doing this is to beat the slaves so much that they will not dare to come to Lushun again.
"Squadron leader, there are cavalry coming in our direction." A soldier at the back of the team quickly ran to Qiao Lin at the front of the team to report.
After hearing this, Qiao Lin's expression changed, and he hurriedly leaned down and put his face to the ground.
Through the vibrations coming from the ground, you can feel the sound of the galloping horses more clearly.
"How far is it from the nearest 100-household residence?" Qiao Lin asked the person next to him as soon as he got up from the ground.
The opponent was a gunner in the Ming army.
Because the number of gunners on the Tiger Flag was insufficient, some Ming army gunners were arranged to join the troops going to each hundred households.
Basically, a squadron of soldiers will have two to three gunners brought from the Ming army.
The gunner in question looked around in a panic and said: "The nearest hundred households residence is still more than two miles to three miles away from us, why don't we run!"
After hearing the news that a large group of cavalry was coming, the Ming army gunner panicked.
The soldiers and horses of the Tiger Flag were all from Lushun by boat. He knew that he did not bring any horses, and all the mules and horses were captured from the Ming army in Lushun.
I haven't heard that the Tiger Character Banner brought cavalry. Even if there were war horses, they would use a lot of them.
The only group of cavalry that could roam around in Lushun was the slave cavalry team that invaded Lushun.
If they encounter slave cavalry in such a remote place with no village or shop, and without any defensive measures to rely on, a group of infantry and artillerymen will only be massacred if they encounter the cavalry.
After understanding this, he hoped that the Tiger Flag official leading the team could quickly escape to the Baihusuo in front.
There are private houses and courtyard walls in a hundred households, and you can deal with slaves and cavalry. It is better than being in such a wasteland.
"It's too far, we can't make it." Qiao Lin gave up the other party's idea of escaping to the nearest Baihu Station.
For the cavalry, the two or three miles would arrive in a blink of an eye, but for their team, it would take some time to arrive. Soon the team would also have many squatting cannons and firecrackers.
"My lord, there are so many of us. We just need to disperse and fire before the slave cavalry can catch up. Maybe some people will survive. If we continue to stay, I'm afraid everyone will not be able to escape." The Ming army is here. The gunner eagerly persuaded Qiao Lin.
In his opinion, staying would be foolish.
It's not that he's afraid of death, it's that he feels there's no need to throw everyone's lives here in vain.
"Set up your formation immediately to meet the enemy." Qiao Lin ignored the opponent and directly ordered to meet the enemy.
The soldiers of the Tiger Flag have long been familiar with formations.
Groups of soldiers began to enter combat positions, and all twelve tiger squatting cannons were brought out and displayed.
The artillerymen began to load the Tiger Crouching Cannon with powder and crushed iron sand.
"I've never seen such a life-threatening officer like you!" The Ming army gunner mumbled and returned to the Tiger Crouching Cannon that he and another gunner were in charge of.
