Chapter 120 Zong Weifeng Passes the Buck
ps: I will change the title of the book in the afternoon. I hope that after changing the title to "Dominate the Country", the collection situation will get better. This is my "burn the boats and sink the boats". If I don't succeed, I can only die. I hope everything will go as I wish.
Friends who like the title of "Qiu Chang", please understand, I can't do anything about it. It was too hard to collect before!
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Outside Wuyang County.
Xing'an Town, Baitai Town, Zaolin Town, Baohe Township, Anzhai Township, Mengzhai Township..., big flags fluttered in the wind, and behind the big flags were surging heads. The big and strong or courageous martial arts guards and gentry stood under the big flag, "commenting" on Wuyang County guarded by Huang Anyingtou, looking like they were pointing fingers at the country.
[From the middle and late Ming Dynasty to most of the Qing Dynasty, the township became a regional unit between geographical concepts and administrative divisions. Historical articles cannot be completely separated from history, nor can they be thoroughly studied. Just look at it this way. 】
Behind them, gongs and drums were roaring, firecrackers were blasting, and red flags were waving. It was really a sea of people.
The Qing troops that entered Wuyang County half a month ago were not many in number, and only six or seven hundred people were included in the militia, but they inspired the entire Wuyang County. In just a few days, militias and rural braves who "defended their hometowns" were established one after another, and the number of people was rapidly expanding. Today, the number of people has reached an unprecedented number of two thousand.
Because the gentry and wealthy families in Wuyang County have all felt the "pain". The cruel means used by the Chen family army after entering Wuyang made the gentry and wealthy families tremble with fear, and they could not help but feel grief for the rabbit's death. These gentry and wealthy families are truly sympathetic to their own kind. They feel the same way, and they feel that they are the pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered. In the Qing Dynasty, they were the medium for the government to communicate with the grassroots people. They were a special class recognized and accepted by the Qing government. The strong contrast between the two made the energy of these gentry and wealthy families at this moment particularly intense, and the enthusiasm was unexpected by the Qing soldiers.
The person who led the team into Wuyang County was no one else, but an old acquaintance of the Chen family army, Zong Weifeng of Lu's Camp.
This guy's ability to fight was very low, but his ability to escape was extraordinary. Baoning, Wu Shixiong, and the huge Nanyang Town were all destroyed in successive defeats, but Lu's Camp was able to escape every time. It's not that Lu's Camp had no losses at all, but compared with other camps in Nanyang Town, Lu's Camp could still maintain a frame. This is very valuable.
When Ford dispatched the troops of Guide Town, he also grabbed the Lu's Camp that retreated to Xuzhou. But Ford looked down on the remnant soldiers of Nanyang Town who had been defeated repeatedly, and gave Zong Weifeng three or four hundred militias to let him attack Wuyang as a detachment, intending to dispatch or influence Chen's army.
As a result, Lu's Camp was doing well in Wuyang County, while Ford's main army collapsed.
When Ford represented the retreat from Shahe to Xihua, he had long forgotten about Lu's Camp, a detachment. Perhaps he did not forget Lu's Camp, but when he saw Chen's army sending troops back to Wuyang County, Lu's Camp was regarded as a discarded child and a scapegoat.
As an extremely experienced and talented "escape general", Zong Weifeng never relaxed his surveillance on the main battlefield of Yancheng. Because he knew that the victory or defeat there was directly related to the survival of Lu's Camp.
When the defeated Qing soldiers retreated to Shahe, Zong Weifeng was not nervous, because at that time Chen's army still did not split up to repair themselves, but then Chen's army really split up. Zong Weifeng felt like a dog in his heart.
I swept through the towns of Wuyang, while Chen's army was fighting the main force of the Qing army of Fode; I led the militia to surround Wuyang County, while Chen's army was still fighting the main force of the Qing army of Fode; then I reached into Ye County, threatening your logistics supply line, while Chen's army was still fighting the main force of the Qing army of Fode; now Fode has only led his troops to retreat to the east of Shahe, and it has not really collapsed, so why did Chen Mingzhen suddenly remember himself?
When Zong Weifeng sent people to watch the main battlefield, he cleverly blocked the sight of the gentry of Wuyang. The gentry of Wuyang County also believed in their "court" too much, thinking that since the Qing soldiers had the strength to send the Lu's Camp to Wuyang County, they must have the upper hand in the main battlefield of Yancheng, otherwise they would be stupid enough to take the initiative to divide their troops?
It is because of this misleading that Chen Ming has led his troops to raid Zhoujiakou, and the militia organized by the high-spirited Wuyang gentry continues to besiege Wuyang County. Of course, Zong Weifeng has already led the Lu's Battalion to the north under the guise of attacking Ye County. As for whether he really led the Lu's Battalion to attack Ye County, or slipped through Ye County and continued to the north, did Zong Weifeng need to report to the gentry in Wuyang County?
The Chen family army did not have many troops returning to Wuyang, one battalion and two teams, with a total of 600 people. And there were 2,000 militia outside Wuyang County alone. The Lu's Battalion plus the accompanying 300 or 400 militias were five times the strength of the Chen family army. But Zong Weifeng still ran away, instead of choosing to lead the Wuyang County militia to fight a fierce battle with the Chen family army.
The previous defeats had made Zong Weifeng "deify" the Chen family army. If he led a small army of 3,000 Green Camp regulars, with cannons and enough firearms, to deal with the 600 Chen family troops in Lulong, Zong Weifeng would fight. But he led only a group of rabble, a group of civilians who could not understand flags and orders, a group of farmers who were not well equipped with swords and guns, and many of them were holding sticks. Zong Weifeng would have to lead his team to stay in Wuyang County if he saw a ghost.
Yancheng had been defeated, and the main force retreated to Chenzhou Prefecture. If Wuyang County was defeated, Lu's camp would not be able to escape the pursuit of Chen's army even if they ran to Fangcheng, so they should go to Xuzhou from Chenzhou.
Zong Weifeng used a beautiful escape trick and left a group of Wuyang militia outside the county as scapegoats.
On this day, Lu's camp had already arrived in Xiang County. Zong Weifeng suddenly felt a wave of irritation in his mind, as if something had happened. He didn't know that when he led his troops to Xiang County, Lu Long and 600 Chen's troops also arrived outside Wuyang County.
"Why did the Chen family thieves come back? Where are the officers and soldiers in Yancheng?"
"They have all come to the county town, how come there is no news at all?"
"Didn't Lord Zong say that the officers and soldiers are in a good situation and will deal with all the Chen family thieves?"
"Bastard officer. Zong Weifeng is a liar. The Chen family thieves have a well-organized team and high morale. How can they look like they have lost the battle? They have clearly won the battle..."
An Shouren, a big landlord in Anzhai Township, looked at the militia army that was defeated and fled in panic, and felt extremely painful. But when he was so angry that he spit out blood, he cursed Zong Weifeng: "Zong Weifeng, dog officer, dog officer. My An family's century-old foundation was destroyed because of this dog officer."
And Lin Zhensheng from Baitai Town also looked like he regretted not being able to turn back time. The Lin family jumped out to "rebel" and rebel against the Chen family army. Now that the Chen family army has come back, how can the Lin family still be good?
At this moment, Zong Weifeng's image was tarnished to the extreme in Lin Zhensheng's eyes. "No wonder he led his troops to Ye County the day before yesterday. It turned out that he knew about the changes in Yancheng. He didn't miss a word and asked us to stay under the county city. He wanted us to die." "If any of my Lin family's children escape this disaster, they must avenge the thief surnamed Zong." If Zong Weifeng knew how many times he was cursed by the scapegoats under Wuyang County, he would not be restless because of the waves of irritation in his heart. He deceived the gentry of the entire Wuyang County. He died without illness despite being criticized by thousands of people. He was lucky that he didn't fall to the ground!