Orville Clayton

good way to go

After the fall of Tianjing, Li Xiucheng, the king of Zhong, led the young king to escape from the capital of Nanjing, passing by Dongshan and walking towards the direction of Hu Shu. The peasants around Dongshan were afraid of being chased by the Qing soldiers, so they pushed out more than thirty young men to block the road at Dongshan. There was a man named Huang Jinhai, who said to them, "How can we stop the Qing soldiers by our thirty or so men? Let's make some straw men and put them on both sides of the Dongshan Road. Everyone listened and said yes. More than thirty people went to the villages around Dongshan and arranged for each family to tie three straw men and give them to Golden Sea. The Golden Sea also asked people to Taiping army left clothes, wrapped in the straw man. In the evening, a straw man with three steps and a flag with five steps were put up on both sides of the road. Some fake barracks were also set up, which was quite a good way to go.