Anti-Qing: Starting from the Reincarnation of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 138 This soldier is worth it!
Around the Shaoguan battlefield, in order to ensure its absolute control over the battlefield situation, the Ming army deployed a large number of sentries to block and detect the battlefield.

Henry and others were more unlucky. Not long after they left the Qing army camp, they were spotted by Ming army sentries.

The sentries of the Ming army did not act rashly, but called more people, and then arrested Henry and others.

Regardless of the identities of Henry and his party, since they appeared on the battlefield, the Ming army could not turn a blind eye to them.

Facing the black muzzles all around, Henry and others were instantly confused.

"Put down your weapons, surrender without killing!"

A Ming sergeant aimed a gun at Henry's head, took a few steps forward, and shouted murderously.

Seeing this scene, Henry took a deep breath, and cold sweat began to break out on his forehead.

This...this is so special!

Are they a bit unlucky? They were beaten in the Qing army's camp, and then they fell into the hands of the Ming army...

Henry swallowed a mouthful of saliva, made a decision in his heart, turned his head, and said to the people around him in a husky voice.

"Hey guys, let's put down our weapons!"

"I don't want to be beaten into a sieve..."

While talking, the group of people put their weapons on the ground.

Immediately, the Ming army officers and soldiers swarmed forward, pushed Henry and others to the ground who had put down their weapons, and conducted body searches.

Henry was roughly pressed to the ground, his wounds were pulled, and he screamed in agony with his teeth bared.

But this did not make the Ming army officers and soldiers feel any pity for him!

Instead, he was kicked, and then got a loud shout.

"Be honest! If you continue to struggle, I will stab you to death with my bayonet!"

……

Ming army, Chinese army tent.

Zhu Jing'an was thinking about the Ming army's next battle plan.

There were a few candles burning in the big tent, and the light was pretty good.

Zhu Jing'an was at his desk writing military orders, preparing to issue them to all armies for execution.

Just, at this time.

There was a commotion outside, and Zhang Jin was outside asking for a meeting.

Zhu Jing'an raised his head, put down the brush in his hand, and spoke.

"come in!"

After the words fell, the curtain of the big tent was opened, and Zhang Jin walked in.

Zhu Jing'an asked.

"What's the reason for the late night noise?"

Zhang Jin bowed slightly and then spoke.

"Back to the Governor, our army's sentinels captured several foreigners of unknown origin outside the camp and have been escorted to the camp for interrogation."

"Please also ask the Governor for instructions!"

When Zhu Jing'an heard this, his expression was obviously a little stunned.

"Foreigners? Have you ever found out who they are?"

There were also some foreigners in the Ming army, such as artillery instructors like Old Pete, but since Zhang Jin said that their origins were unknown, it meant that they were not captured by mistake.

Zhang Jin nodded after hearing this.

"If we go back to the Governor, according to our army's interrogation, we know that those foreigners are envoys sent by Macau."

"I came to Shaoguan to discuss with the Qing army in Shaoguan to help the Qing government fight against the Ming Dynasty."

When Zhu Jing'an heard this, the expression on his face was a little ugly.

Sure enough, he did not do anything wrong by ordering people to strengthen the coastal defense forts in Humen and Shajiao in advance and rectifying the defense of Guangzhou.

If this were not the case, once the foreigners colluded with the Qing court and attacked the Ming Dynasty, things would be in trouble.

"What is the specific outcome of the discussion?"

Zhu Jing'an asked.

He wanted to know how the Manchus and the foreigners planned to deal with the Ming Dynasty, so that they could respond accordingly.

Zhang Jin said with a slightly complicated expression after hearing this.

"When I return to the Governor, it can be seen from the interrogation that the foreigners and the Manchu court have not reached an agreement."

"Not only did the imperial envoys of the Qing court refuse the help that the foreigners could provide, they also ordered those foreigners to be beaten out of the military camp."

When Zhu Jing'an heard this, he clicked his tongue with a strange expression.

Sure enough, I can only say that I am the Qing Dynasty who handled this matter!

Zhu Jing'an rubbed his eyebrows, thought for a while and then gave Zhang Jin instructions.

"Continue to torture and interrogate those foreigners, lest this be a strategic deception by the foreigners against our Ming Dynasty."

"Send people back to Guangzhou to ask Guangzhou to pay attention to coastal defense and prevent foreigners from attacking our country, Ming Dynasty."

"By the way, take care of those captured foreigners and don't kill them. When I, the Ming Dynasty, finish dealing with Fulong'an and return to Guangzhou to deal with the foreigners in the south, these foreigners will be a ready excuse."

"If we kill them, we'll have to find another reason, trouble!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Jin expressed that he understood, and then withdrew.

Zhu Jing'an moved his neck, and then ordered someone to hand over the military order written in his hand to his own soldiers for delivery.

On the top of the military order, there was a line of big characters written clearly.

[The Lianhuashan Artillery Battery is ordered to launch harassing bombardment of the Qing army’s camp tonight, so as not to allow the Qing army to have a rest. 】

……

It's night, and the night is dark!
Several lanterns were lit on the Ming army's artillery array at Lianhua Mountain, providing light for the Ming army's artillery array.

Liu Yu yawned, squinted his eyes slightly, and fell asleep against the earthen wall next to the gun emplacement.

Jiang Yong came over from a distance, kicked Liu Yu angrily, and said.

"It's the night watch, cheer up!"

"If you are touched by a Qing prisoner, you will lose your head, right?"

Jiang Yong was a prisoner of war captured by the Qing army when the Ming army crossed the Dongping Waterway during the Battle of Sanshui.

Because he was proficient in gunnery, he was treated well after being captured.

Instead of being used as cannon fodder in the forward camp, he was thrown into the Ming army's artillery unit to drill artillery.

And the same is true for Liu Yu.

The master and apprentice were assigned to a gun crew and continued to live together.

Liu Yu rubbed his sleepy eyes and said.

"That's not the case, Master. This Qing prisoner was beaten into a bear-like shape by my Ming Dynasty Master during the day. Is it possible that he still dares to sneak attack at night?"

Jiang Yong rolled his eyes at Liu Yu angrily and said.

"Even if the Qing captives didn't come for a sneak attack, wouldn't the supervising team come?"

"Is it possible that you kid is trying to atone for your sins by being incorporated into the forward battalion and used as cannon fodder after being caught slacking off at night?"

"Don't forget, most of the brothers who died on the battlefield today were from the forward battalion."

"If you think your life is tough, then just keep sleeping, I don't care about you!"

Jiang Yong was really angry at Liu Yu's temper.

So tired!
If they weren't from the same hometown and Liu Yu had an unmarried sister, Jiang Yong would really be too lazy to care about this kid.

When Liu Yu heard this, he scratched his head. Although he was still sleepy, he didn't dare to be lazy anymore.

He pinched his waist, forced himself to cheer up, and stood on duty at the gun position.

Seeing this, Jiang Yong nodded with satisfaction.He took out a piece of cake wrapped in oil paper from his arms. There were oily and fatty meat slices rolled into the cake, and he handed it to Liu Yu and said.

"You have dinner first, I'll help you with your shift for a while."

"When you finish eating, you will be refreshed."

Seeing this scene, Liu Yu smelled the scent of meat in the air, and the expression on his face was inevitably a little intoxicated.

"Smell, it's really fragrant."

"Master, why did you eat meat today?"

Liu Yu hasn't had dinner yet because he was assigned to be on duty today.

I don't know that Zhu Jing'an ordered to reward the entire army with enough meat tubes.

Jiang Yong shrugged and said.

"Isn't this a victory today? The governor ordered to reward the entire army. He spent money to buy a lot of pigs and sheep from nearby villages and towns, and killed them all for meat."

Liu Yu took the big cake and started to eat it, chewing and swallowing in big mouthfuls, making his mouth full of oil.

Enjoying the feeling of the oil exploding in his mouth, Liu Yu said with a sigh in his voice.

"It's better to be here in the Ming Dynasty. It's just a matter of dividing the land among us big soldiers and giving the wives to mothers, and the mothers can often eat meat."

"It's not like when I served as a soldier for the Manchu Tatars. Not to mention dividing the fields, even the military pay was withheld. The food was even worse. I ate gruel every day, and there was no trace of meat during the holidays..."

Jiang Yong and Liu Yu are high-tech arms such as gunners, and the Ming Dynasty also treats them very favorably.

Not only did he not have to be incorporated into the forward battalion to serve as cannon fodder, even when the fields were divided outside Guangzhou, Zhu Jing'an gave them to the newly joined gunners with a wave of his hand, even if they had not had time to perform meritorious service.

Used to win over the military!

Liu Yu now really feels that he made the right decision, and now he is living a comfortable life.

The family cultivates military merit fields issued by the imperial court, and he can still receive monthly salary from here. The quality of life of the family has been improved visibly.

At the very least, the family will never go hungry again!

It is not an exaggeration to say that the Grand Governor was kind to him.

As for what to do if the Manchus come back?
You're laughing so hard, do you think the cannon in his hand is just a decoration?

Wouldn't it be better if the Qing soldiers couldn't fight back?

Just when Liu Yu was eating big cakes and rolled meat, with an expression of enjoyment on his face, a commotion suddenly came from the distance.

Several messengers strode over and conveyed Zhu Jing'an's military order to the artillery position on Lianhua Mountain.

"The Commander-in-Chief has ordered that the Lianhuashan artillery position launch harassing shelling on the Qing army camp this evening in order to tire and disturb the enemy and not allow the Qing army to have a rest."

"No mistake!"

The messengers ran all the way and conveyed military orders to the many artillerymen.

I saw a series of responses from the artillery array on Lianhua Mountain.

……

Inside the Qing military camp!

Compared with the Ming army's momentum and excitement, the Qing army now looks gloomy and gloomy.

Today's daytime battle was a huge blow to the Qing army!

After losing consecutive battles, nearly [-] troops were lost, and the artillery position on Lianhua Mountain was also lost.

If Fulong'an had not collected the defeated troops and returned to camp, he immediately issued a reward to stabilize the morale of the army.

The Qing army is probably about to collapse!

Battle losses close to [-]% of the total strength can be regarded as a decisive blow to any army.

It was night, and the Qing army camp was completely dark.

The soldiers returned to their tents to sleep, with only a few bonfires providing light in the camp.

Ma Yuan huddled in a pile of broken straw, covering the three taels of broken silver in his arms, but felt a chill all over his body.

Turning it over, turning it over, Ma Yuan couldn't sleep no matter what.

As soon as he closed his eyes, the scene of mountains of corpses and seas of blood on the battlefield during the day would appear before his eyes.

Someone was hit by a cannonball, and his whole body was smashed to pieces.

Someone was shot into a sieve by the shotgun, and the blood couldn't stop.

Some people had their limbs cut off and became cripples...

Before that, Ma Yuan was just a farmer, working as a tenant farmer at home for the landlord.

Although life is hard, I can still survive.

Especially watching his several-year-old son grow up little by little, Ma Yuan's heart was full of hope.

Until some time ago, when the imperial court wanted to go south to quell the rebellion, he was forcibly promoted...

It's okay to suffer some hardships. What farmers like them don't fear the most is suffering.

However, going to the battlefield is really dangerous.

The lives of these civilians, who were driven in front of the formation by the imperial soldiers, were really lost in the blink of an eye.

Either die under the guns of the Ming army, or die under the butcher's knife of the supervising team.

Ma Yuan really can't see the future now.

Just as Ma Yuan kept turning over like a pancake, he suddenly felt that his head was being held down.

There was a burst of chaotic footsteps in my ears.

"Hurry up, move quickly, search his body and find out the money..."

Listening to the voice in his ears and feeling several hands groping his body, Ma Yuan shouted in horror.

"Stop searching, stop searching, I have no money, I really have no money..."

He was quite familiar with this voice. His name was Li Qing, nicknamed Green Eyed Tiger, and he was a well-known green-skinned gangster.

When he was in his hometown, he was the kind of bad guy who did all kinds of evil things, molesting good families, getting into fights, and extorting money.

After being coerced into joining the army, he even formed a clique in the army to bully honest people like Ma Yuan.

On weekdays, they just grab food and force Ma Yuan to work for them and work as a coolie for them.

Now, the superiors have issued a reward of silver, and these people have all started to think wrongly.

They began to come to grab money one by one in the middle of the night while it was dark.

Li Qing listened to Ma Yuan's shouting, raised his fist and punched Ma Yuan on the head.

"Stop talking nonsense. The boss just issued a reward today. How can you have no money? Where did your money go?"

"Honestly hand over the money. Grandpa, I won't embarrass you. If you don't hand over the money, I'll take care of your skin."

Ma Yuan was pushed to the ground and punched on the head. He screamed and struggled desperately.

However, he could not escape the suppression of several people, but he was also unable to search him.

When Li Qing saw this, he was angered and kicked Ma Yuan in the stomach.

"Damn it, what a shameless thing."

"You won't hand it over, right? If you don't let me beat you, you'll beat me to death!"

After hearing this, several of his younger brothers were not polite and began to punch and kick Ma Yuan.

Ma Yuan was beaten so much that he screamed, and there was a wound on his forehead, and blood gushed out from the wound.

His head and face were covered with blood, and he was extremely miserable.

When other people in a military tent saw this scene, most of them continued to pretend to sleep and did not dare to interfere.

I’m afraid I’ll get beaten too!
What's more, he began to carefully hide the money he carried deeper.

Finally, Ma Yuan was convinced and did not dare to struggle anymore. He obediently was robbed of the money in his arms by Li Qing and his party.

But he only dared to huddle in the straw, sobbing softly, and licking his wounds...

　next chapter at night
　　
　
(End of this chapter)