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Part One: Penghu Storm Chapter 394: Bloody Village

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    Just when the Huben Guards launched a massive attack on the Satsuma Domain, the Ming Dynasty once again encountered a huge crisis.

    At this time, the man who led the Ming army to resist the Qing invasion was Lu Xiangsheng, the Minister of War Zuo, the Governor of Xuanzhou, Daming, and Shanxi Military Affairs!

    The Manchu Qing Dynasty once tried to invade the Central Plains from Xuan and Da dynasties, but seeing Lu Xiangsheng's tight defense, the Qing army gave up.  On August 23, Huang Taiji appointed Prince Rui Dorgon as the ordered general to command the left-wing army, and Beileyuetuo was appointed as the general of Yangwu to control the right-wing army. Beiledudu and others complemented him, and the two armies marched to the Ming Dynasty.  On September 22, Yue Tuo came from Qiangzi Ridge on the north side of Miyun, destroyed the Great Wall, broke through the border wall, and killed Wu Aheng, the governor of Jiliao in the Ming Dynasty.  Dorgon destroyed the border wall at Qingshan Pass on September 28 and entered, and the two armies met in Tongzhou, a suburb of Beijing.  Chongzhen was horrified and ordered martial law in the capital. He proclaimed Governor Lu Xiang to be promoted to superintendent of the world's troops, and awarded Shang Fangjian for the third time.

    At that time, Chongzhen was already willing to negotiate peace and asked Chen Xinjia, the Minister of War, to contact the Manchus in private.  Yang Sichang, a bachelor, and Gao Qiqian, the chief eunuch of the army, guessed that Chongzhen intended to negotiate peace, and tried to obstruct Lu Xiangsheng in many ways. Lu Xiang was promoted to governor of the world's troops. Unfortunately, he could not mobilize other people's troops at all. He set several plans.  None of the strategies for using troops can be realized.

    Yang Sichang also persuaded Chongzhen to divide the reinforcements into two. Lu Xiangsheng commanded 20,000 Xuan soldiers, and tens of thousands of Guan Ning cavalry troops were all under the command of eunuch Gao Qiqian.  Lu Xiangsheng marched from Zhuozhou to Baoding and ordered his generals to attack in different directions. They fought with the main force of the Qing army in Qingdu and won a small victory.

    At that time, Yang Tinglin, the editor, wrote in a letter: "With Nan Zhong included, Li Gang had no merit; latent good deeds were carried out, but Zongze died with hatred. If the state is like a human being, it is not a blessing to be granted a frontier." It can be regarded as a sharp irony of Yang Sichang.  As a result, the eunuch Gao Qiqian who supported Yang Sichang was furious and handed over Lu Xiangsheng's 20,000 Xuanda army to Chen Xinjia's command.  Lu Xiangsheng was only given five thousand old, weak and disabled soldiers.  Zhang Qiping, the governor of Baoding, still refused to pay him.

    Julu¡¯s Jiazhuang became Lu Xiangsheng¡¯s final defense against the Manchu invaders

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    Five thousand old and weak soldiers faced tens of thousands of elite Manchu Tatars!  Lu Xiangsheng knew that he had never failed in his life.  However, this time he was going to lose.

    But he is fearless. For him, he can fight and die for the Ming Dynasty.  It is also his greatest happiness

    The only good thing is that Yang Sichang didn't help him, Gao Qiqian didn't help him, and Chen Xinjia didn't help him But it didn't matter, there were still those five thousand old and weak soldiers who were willing to fight to the death for him, and Jiazhuang  So many people are willing to fight to the death for him!

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Since you are going to die sooner or later, then die vigorously¡­ Life is the minister of the Ming Dynasty; death.  It is the soul of Ming Dynasty!

    Life and death, he will always be with the court that he has served for most of his life!

    Opposite is Yue Tuo, the puppet general of the Qing Dynasty.  This person Lu Xiangsheng is really familiar.

    His father was Prince Lilie Daishan.  His mother is the Li Jia family of Fujin Province.  In the sixth year of Pseudo Destiny, Nurhachi led his army to attack Fengji Fort.  When he was about to regroup, he suddenly received a spy report.  Hundreds of Ming troops were found nearby.  Yue Tuo then launched a surprise attack on the Ming army with his comrade Tai Jide Ge Lei and defeated the Ming army.  After that, Nurhachi conquered Shenyang, and the Qing army rose up and pursued them to Baitapu.  After Yue Tuo inquired, he rushed to Baitapu and chased the Ming army for forty miles, annihilating more than 3,000 Ming troops.

    Soon after, something happened.  Kharkazarut Beileang'an captured the Qing envoy and sent him to Yehe, but the envoy was killed.  So in the eighth year of Pseudo Destiny, Yue Tuo and Taiji Abatai sent troops to attack Ang An and killed Ang An and his son.

    This Ang Anbeile was also stupid enough. Since he dared to capture Hou Jin¡¯s envoy, he should have expected Hou Jin¡¯s revenge, but he was killed by Yue Tuo with one blow, leaving no intact body.

    In August of the 11th year of Pseudo Destiny, Nurhachi died of illness, and Hou Jin faced the problem of who would succeed the Khan.  At that time, the four Baylors all held heavy troops and were evenly matched.  A careless move may destroy Hou Jin's century-old foundation. At this time, Yue Tuo considered the overall situation and persuaded his father together with his third brother Saharin to support the fourth Beile Huang Taiji's accession to the throne, quickly solving the power succession issue at that time.  If Yue Tuo was selfish, he could support his father.  At that time, although Daishan's reputation was damaged and he even lost the title of "prince" due to his unclear relationship with the former concubine Fucha and his belief in the concubine's slander and his intention to kill his second son Shuotuo, he was still the second son of Taizu and the eldest son.  Even if he is dead and has a large number of troops, the fight for position is not without a chance of winning.

    As the eldest son of Daishan, Yue Tuo is likely to become the prince after Daishan ascends the throne. However, like his father, Yue Tuo considers the overall situation and supports Huang Taiji.  Therefore, during the Huang Taiji period, Daishan and his son had always been deeply trusted. Even if they made mistakes, the two red flags held by them were not taken away or weakened, and their favor grew.

    In October of the same year, he followed his father Daishan to attack Zalut, killed his minister Orzhaitu, captured his tribe, and was named Baylor for his military merits.  In the first year of Pseudo Tiancong, togetherTogether with Bel'Amin and Jirharang, he attacked North Korea.  After the Jin army crossed the Yalu River, they successively captured the three cities of Yizhou, Dingzhou and Hanshan.  Afterwards, he crossed the Jiashan River, captured Anju, and stationed himself in Pyongyang. The Pyongyang garrison abandoned the city and fled.  Later Jin drove straight into Zhonghe and forced the Korean King Li Zhu to surrender.

    In the first month of the sixth year of Puppet Tiancong's reign, Yue Tuo reported to Huang Taiji: "In the past few years, when Liaodong, Guangning and other cities were conquered, all the Han people who refused to surrender were killed. Later, the Han people in Luanzhou and Yongping were massacred, so the Han people were very afraid.  Yes, there are very few people who surrender. Now that we have captured the Daling River, we are taking this opportunity to let the Han people in the world know that we do not just use force to conquer and massacre, but will also treat and appease the people who surrender.  I believe that with such a gentle policy, the number of Han people who come to submit will be greatly increased. First of all, we should protect the families of the returnees and not punish them as slaves at will. Then the government will provide them with money and food to help them live and work in peace and contentment.  Hou Jin, let us Hou Jin occupy the land of the Han people and still return their property. They will definitely accept our rule with sincerity. We should order Zhubeile to leave one village and recruit two Han men and women and one cow for each cow.  Tun, people are given to the second village. Each Niulu is still compensated at the official price. However, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have been guarding the border for many years, and they are afraid that we will treat them well.  Come and submit to us. We should treat the surrendered soldiers well and not let them be displaced. Then the people will be attached and the great cause of reunification will be accomplished."

    Huang Taiji was very satisfied with Yue Tuo's performance.  Yue Tuo's political vision was fully demonstrated in this incident.  And this policy also became the national policy of the Qing Dynasty in the future

    And now, this Yue Tuo is here, just outside Jiazhuang!

    Lu Xiangsheng knew it very well.  With the power he currently has, he is no match for Yue Tuo.  But if you can win, you have to fight; if you can¡¯t, you still have to fight!

    All the brothers and the people of Jiazhuang had gathered. They looked at Lu Xiangsheng silently, waiting silently for him to issue the final order.

    Outside, there are 50,000 elite Manchu troops!

    The soldiers and civilians looked at Lu Xiangsheng silently, and no one spoke

    "Brothers, let us die together!" Lu Xiangsheng's voice rang in everyone's ears: "Yue Wumu said that civil servants do not love money. Military generals are not afraid of death, and the world will be peaceful. But now our Ming Dynasty happens to be  The civil servants all over the world are afraid of death. The princes sitting in the palace reading documents and approving notes all have their mouths three feet long, and they are slandering us who are bleeding and sweating on the battlefield. They wish we were all dead.  That"

    At this time, Lu Xiangsheng had nothing to worry about anymore. He said everything in his heart: "I have been loyal to our Ming Dynasty for most of my life. I have no regrets. Only the beautiful scenery of my hometown in Jiangnan reminds me of  I will feel nostalgicBrothers, we can't go back to our hometown, so let's leave our bones here"

    The sound of "dong dong" war drums could be heard outside. Lu Xiangsheng slowly pulled out the knife from his waist: "Kill the thief!"

    "Kill the thief! Kill the thief!! Kill the thief!!!"

    Such a cry is shocking!

    The Qing army's attack began.  Looking out from Jiazhuang, we can see that they are all densely packed with enemies.

    The arrow shot out as usual.

    The Ming army had no reservations. Their arrows were scarce, but they still shot out densely They were about to die here, what else could they hide?

    The charging Qing troops fell to the arrows one after another, but there were too many of them.  After killing a group, another group will rush up, and it seems that no matter how hard you kill them, you can't kill them all

    Lu Xiangsheng was riding on the horse, watching all this silently He was not afraid, not afraid of anything Death is just another form of relief

    "Commander, the arrows have been exhausted!"

    When this voice reached Lu Xiangsheng¡¯s ears, he smiled faintly, then raised the knife in his hand and yelled with all his strength:

    "Kill the thief!"

    Five thousand Ming troops rushed out

    They were strangled with the Qing troops who rushed up. Although they only numbered five thousand, and although their weapons and guns were weak, they were fearless!

    Life is the people of Ming Dynasty; death is the soul of Ming Dynasty!

    Life and death are with Daming

    Yue Tuo has never seen such a brave Ming army.  He had heard before that there were only two people in the Ming army who were most capable of fighting, one was Wu Sangui, but the emperor was raising troops to attack Liaodong to prevent the Liaodong army from dividing its troops for rescue.  The other person is Ding Yunyi, but he is far away in Taiwan.

    ? ?Apart from these two people, who else can stop the Qing Dynasty's cavalry?

    But he soon learned Wu Sangui and Ding Yunyi were not the only ones in Ming Dynasty!

    There were only five thousand people on the opposite side. They were all old, weak and remnant soldiers, but they behaved so bravely and fearlessly.

    They continued to rush forward one after another, rushing up one after another, and dying one after another

    What kind of army is this?

    What Yue Tuo will never forget is the man named Lu Xiangsheng!

    Among the thousands of troops, Lu Xiangsheng ran back and forth, just like Ding Yunyi back then, no one could stop him!  Lu Xiangsheng, an outstanding general who repeatedly defeated the Qing soldiers and made the Qing soldiers look forward to the land of Xuanda, began the most tragic battle in his life!

    Lu Xiang held up a broadsword, carried a bow and arrow, shot those who were far away, and cut down those who were close. He clashed with the Manchu army, and his loud shouts shook the heaven and the earth, and could not stop being heard.  In less than half an hour, Lu Xiang raised his sword and shot arrows, killing three Qing generals and riding seventeen. He was so brave that the Qing soldiers could not get even closer to him.

    Yue Tuo was furious when he saw this, and personally led hundreds of people to surround him. At the critical moment, Lu Xiangsheng's troops rushed to Lei Shisheng on Pegasus, and fired several arrows in succession. The arrows were everywhere, and all the Qing soldiers fell off their horses.  Yue Tuo's tribe was in chaos for a while. Seeing this, Lu Xiangsheng cheered up and shouted louder and clearer in everyone's ears: "Kill the thief! Kill the thief!! Kill the thief!!!"

    When the sound was heard, several arrows suddenly hit him.  Lu Xiangsheng's voice paused immediately, and his body stopped stiffly and straightly Then, several more arrows flew down on him

    Lu Xiangsheng knew that he was dying, and the knife in his hand fell to the ground with a "ding-dang" sound He was shaky, looked at the Qing troops swarming up, and laughed miserably: "Your Majesty, I, Lu Xiangsheng, tried my best, but you can no longer protect our Ming Dynasty."  ¡±

    Then he fell heavily from his horse, his eyes wide open, staring blankly, as if he was resenting something, but around him, there were corpses of Qing soldiers There were so many enemies.  Companionship is worth it

    Until now, the Qing soldiers could not believe that this brave general had died like this. They slowly surrounded him from all sides until they reached Lu Xiangsheng's body, and then they had the courage to stab Lu Xiangsheng's body with their weapons.

    "Don't hurt my lord!" Suddenly someone shouted and jumped on Lu Xiangsheng's body.  This person was Yang Lukai, the shepherd under Lu Xiangsheng. When he saw that the commander-in-chief was dead, he was afraid that the Qing soldiers would mutilate his body. He couldn't think of anything else, so he stood up and protected the commander-in-chief's body with only his own flesh and blood.  

    The Qing soldiers were angry and shot him with bows and arrows. Yang Lukai refused to get up. He could only hold Lu Xiangsheng tightly with both hands and let the arrows fall on him.  The Qing soldiers shot twenty-four arrows until Yang Lukai died, and the Qing soldiers could not separate the two

    There were fewer and fewer Ming troops on the battlefield, but Yue Tuo showed no joy at all.  In a small place like Jiazhuang, facing five thousand old and weak soldiers of the Ming army, how could the next battle continue even though he had paid such a heavy price?

    The originally full confidence has suffered the most serious setback at this time!  ^-^^-^
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