Dominate the Country

ps: I can push the classified pictures tomorrow afternoon. Ten days of naked running, it's over. Should I cry or laugh? ? ?

The sky was bright. The fire in Changqiao Town was extinguished. On the left and right banks of the northern end of the long bridge that spanned the Beiru River, a row of long wooden poles were erected, on which hung the gentry clansmen of Changqiao Town who were pulled out of the crowd by the Chen family army. There were as many as seventeen in total.

The people from the east and south entrances gathered, probably thousands of people, and they were all heartbroken when they saw the Changqiao Town burned down. Some people's sons and husbands were taken away by the Chen family army as local militia. This was a complete separation of life and death.

The sound of wailing and crying resounded by the Beiru River.

There were nearly five hundred more captives in Chen Ming's team. Among them, there were about three hundred confirmed local militias, and the rest were suspects. And Chen Ming's appetite was very big, and he didn't even leave a suspect for Changqiao Town. To the marching Chen's army, they were two-legged mules and horses, using their labor without regret, paving the road, pushing carts, driving cars, and contributing their own strength to the transportation of the Chen's army.

As for whether anyone dared to do bad things deliberately, the 17 corpses on the Beiru River were enough to make them know what was going on. Moreover, the group of Shaolin monks headed by Master Jingkong, after signing a gentleman's agreement with Chen Ming to "not kill people indiscriminately", also actively tried to "mediate" the bilateral conflicts - don't kill yourself. The Chen's army is not a vegetarian!

The fire and defeat news in Changqiao Town reached the county town of Jia County in the morning, and the four gates of the entire county town were closed again. The magistrate of Jia County was like a cat or dog whose tail was stepped on. He was furious and asked people to report to the state capital immediately. Then he asked people to gather the young and strong in the city, and then shouted that he would see hundreds of civilians immediately. Anyone who dared to talk back would be slapped.

The county magistrate was frightened to the point of being a little neurotic.

Wang Jun, the magistrate of Ruzhou, was also stunned by the news. Just like the magistrate of Jia County, he also had great expectations for this attack. As long as he could win one battle, as long as he could win one battle, the burden on him would be much lighter. And the confidence of this battle seemed so sufficient. Just two days ago, Jia County was not enough to send the news of the internal strife of the Chen family army to the state capital. How come more than a thousand troops were defeated in a blink of an eye?

Wang Jun finally cheered up and read the report of the magistrate of Jia County carefully. Burning Changqiao Town? Well, then let's not say anything.

Fortunately, the Chen family army has turned south. No matter how much pressure Baofeng and Lushan are under, the state capital is at least temporarily safe. Moreover, the governor has ordered the deputy general of Nanyang Town to temporarily take over the post of the general, and the latter is already mobilizing troops.

Wang Jun soon received an emergency call from Baofeng and Lushan. He looked at the matter from a detached perspective - since he was destined to lose his position, why worry? Anyway, Wang Jun didn't think that the Chen family army would really launch a fierce attack on the county towns of Baofeng and Lushan at this time. As long as the county towns did not fall, no matter how hard the local areas were plundered by the Chen family army, Wang Jun, a state official with no future, was not responsible for much.

Chen Ming met up with the Chen family army headquarters in Liangwa Town in the north of Lushan, where he met Gao Yanming. The Gao family couldn't hold on any longer. Gao Pengqi watched the Chen family's troubles getting bigger and bigger. When the Chen family army broke out of Funiushan this time, he decisively jumped to the Chen family army. Of course, the second and third of his four sons and several other younger generations of the Gao family disappeared.

The Chen family is committing a heinous crime of exterminating the entire clan. The little support behind the Gao family can no longer protect their own safety. Gao Pengqi, who also does not want to die and does not want the Gao family to be destroyed, can only make the same choice as Chen Hui did.

It is the Li family. At this moment, they are no longer in Lushan or Ruzhou.

Old Li Xiucai has a keen sense of smell. When the news of Baoning's defeat came, he decisively abandoned most of his family business and took only floating wealth while the people in the county were in panic. The whole family quietly slipped out of Lushan County, and then no one knew the exact whereabouts of the Li family. Some said they went to Nanyang, and some said they went east.

Chen Ming did not know the exact news, but the disappearance of the Li family reduced a burden for him.

On the edge of Zhaoping Lake, Chen Ming met Chen Hui, and the first thing he did was to hand over a detailed list, which recorded the number of all the things he brought back very closely.

People, livestock, food, cloth, salt, sugar, herbs and carriages. Let's not talk about other things, just talk about people, 800 slaves and more than a hundred ruffians, and 500 captives, which can at least double the strength of Chen's army.

Chen's family has plenty of steel, so there is no need to worry about armor and weapons. It only takes time to prepare, and everyone can wear breastplates and take up swords and guns. Even the current weapons reserves of Chen's army can arm these 1,000 people.

Two thousand troops, this is already a powerful news that can shock Emperor Qianlong in Beijing. If these 2,000 people are all well-equipped armored soldiers, and there are powerful firearms troops, Chen Ming feels that it will be no problem for him to sweep the entire western Henan.

"Dad. What's there to worry about? As long as we take these slaves back to the mountains and train them seriously for a month or two, and feed them well, they will become a strong army in no time!"

"The imperial court sent a large army to encircle and suppress them?"

"Then fight. Can we stop the government from encircling and suppressing us just by being afraid?"

"If the road of the rebels ends, the throne in Beijing will belong to us." - Salute to the 'Ice and Snow Phoenix'!

"The troops of Nanyang Town are still on the way, and we still have time. With gold, silver, food, medicine, and cloth, can we not recruit people in the mountains? As long as these people have preliminary training and are equipped with iron armor and swords, they are simply not comparable to the green camp soldiers in Nanyang Town wearing uniforms."

"Next time we go out of the mountains, we can take Lushan and Baofeng in one fell swoop."

"Dad. Compared with the court, our biggest advantage now is the strength of our soldiers. We have enough iron materials, and the efficiency of water conservancy and animal-powered forging hammers is a hundred times that of traditional manual labor. We can produce weapons and armor far beyond the court's imagination in a short period of time, and with these weapons and armor, the green camp soldiers are simply not our opponents."

"The Eight Banners Soldiers of the Qing Dynasty have long been useless. Although the court They are much stronger than us, but it is not easy to get rid of us. "

"Once we conquer a place, we will clean up those who have stood up, such as the Xu family. These loyal gentry and wealthy families are all killed to warn the rest. Their floating wealth can be used as military funds, and their land can be used to reward soldiers. When our troops expand to 20,000, 30,000, or 50,000, where in the world can we not go?"

"Step by step, although I don't know how far we can go, but this is an opportunity. While the court has not looked at us, we should take the initiative. I don't want to be trapped in Funiu Mountain when I am old!"

"My son and grandson are both scolded as thieves."

Chen Ming's words are not very convincing, and he looks at his father with some worry. The current situation is another huge ideological change for Chen Hui. If he goes one step further, the Chen family will really embark on the road of rebellion; if he takes a step back, he will become a bandit again. Or a fierce bandit that the Henan government has in mind.

No matter how powerful the bandits are, they are just bandits. They cannot be compared with the army, especially with the anti-Qing army that Chen Ming hopes to see - the anti-Qing army that raises the banner of "expelling the Tartars and restoring China"!