Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Wu Jinzhong, who was gnashing his teeth and wanting to eat alive, was watching the Yutai Temple in the distance from the barracks at the foot of Guifeng Mountain. Behind the mountain that he could not see, 200 Qing soldiers were heading up the mountain under the cover of the night under the guidance of the young monk of Yutai Temple. Sneak away.

Buddhas are all Hu people, so what if there is one more Hu people emperor in the world?

In the letter to Wu Jinzhong, the old monk Qilin, who comforted me with this reason, not only scolded those black-clothed thieves who occupied the dove's nest, but also raised his head between the lines, hoping that the master of the Qing Dynasty would rescue the monks from troubled waters. His words, the sincerity of their words, really made those who saw them feel close to each other. In the end, the old monk Qilin showed his greatest goodwill to the Qing soldiers - he pointed out an unknown trail in the back mountain to the Qing soldiers, and wished the Qing soldiers success in suppressing the thieves in one fell swoop.

After receiving the letter, Wu Jinzhong was overjoyed. Previously, only because the thieves occupied the favorable terrain on the mountain and could not make a strong attack, they had to take a siege. Although this strategy was effective, it took too long. At the beginning of the year, Li Dingguo's army had already retreated, but there were also many remnants of the Ming army who had no time to retreat and many bandits hiding in the mountains near Xinhui. What he brought to Guifeng Mountain this time was half of Xinhui's defenders. After staying for a long time, I was afraid that things would change easily in Xinhui.

After all, after Xinhui cleared the siege, the two princes of Pingnan and Jingnan successively transferred the flag soldiers in the city back to defend Guangzhou, leaving only a small number of flag soldiers and a green battalion stationed in Xinhui. Right now, the Xinhui garrison number is less than 3,000, and now Wu Jinzhong has brought half of them to Guifeng Mountain, and the garrison in the city is even less. The army is a big problem.

Ming army remnants and bandits have always been another threat to the defense of Xinhui City. Although compared with Li Dingguo's army of tens of thousands of people, the former's number is pitifully small and the threat is much smaller. Xinhui City is basically not attacked by these people. It is possible to break through, but their existence is a headache after all.

Over the past few months, Wu Jinzhong has sent troops out of the city several times to attack the bandits and the remnants of the Ming army in the nearby mountains. Even this Guifeng Mountain has also sent troops twice, but each time they just entered the mountain, those bandits either hid in the mountains far away, or they hid in pieces, and few dared to compete with the Qing soldiers. . Some remnants of the Ming army were moving along the Xijiang and Tanjiang rivers, and the newly built Guangzhou Navy had no way to deal with them. The river was so long, who knew where these remnants were hiding. Even if they knew, when the navy came over, these remnants would have already run away. It can be said that there are no people in the area for hundreds of miles above the shore, and there are no traces of these remnants of the soldiers who are not there to inform the Qing army.

Fortunately, Wu Jinzhong's purpose of sending troops out of the city to suppress the bandits was not to protect the country and the people, and the Guangzhou side did not ask him to clear the area, so he didn't need to explain anything to the above. They are farther away from Xinhui, it would be better if they could capture some. As for where the bandits are hiding, where are they hiding? Wu Zongbing doesn't care at all. In his opinion, these people are simply things that can't be on the table, and now the official army just doesn't care about them. If you really want to kill them, it's as easy as pinching the ants.

The significance of Xinhui City to the Qing army in Guangdong and the significance of the people of Xinhui to the Qing army in Guangdong cannot be compared at all. Xio said that there are no ordinary people in Xinhui at present. Even if there are ordinary people, the Qing army will not pay attention to them. Suffered from bandits. As long as Xinhui City is in the hands of the Qing army, Wu Jinzhong can sleep soundly. What does the life and death of the people have to do with him? Does the people in this city still eat less?

This time, if it wasn't for the Taiping Army's rear battalion suddenly coming to Xinhui territory. And the number is more than the Xinhui defenders and the surviving civilians, posing the greatest threat to Xinhui City since the withdrawal of Li Dingguo's army. He personally led his troops out of the city to attack.

When the spies came to report the news, Wu Jinzhong still did not believe that such a large number of soldiers and horses appeared in Xinhui, because there was no relevant military information from Zhaoqing, Luoding, and Leizhou in front of them. Where did such a group of soldiers fly from? here! When he personally led people to inspect the rear, he was sure that the crowd in front of him was black and could not see the head.

At first, Wu Jinzhong thought that it was Li Dingguo's soldiers and horses that came over again, and was so frightened that he almost sent an urgent report to Guangzhou for help. Later, he found out that this was just a bandit and rogue under the banner of the Ming army. They are old and weak, women and children, and there are probably not even a thousand soldiers capable of fighting within.

With more people and fewer soldiers, Wu Zongbing naturally breathed a sigh of relief. This team under the banner of the Ming Army naturally became the fat sheep in Wu Zongbing's eyes. As for why this team came from Xinxing, and how to avoid it Zhaoqing Qing army came here, what is the purpose of coming, Wu Zongbing didn't care, he only knew that he must not let this team run away from his eyes, let alone cause them to cause any trouble to Xinxingcheng.

King Pingnan had just recommended himself to the court to be the governor of Guangdong. At this juncture, Wu Jinzhong did not dare to make any mistakes. Although there was a recommendation from King Pingnan, the Governor of Guangdong, Li Suitai, was not satisfied with King Pingnan's recommendation, and he was not satisfied with his recommendation. This non-banner was very prejudiced and believed that the Guangdong admiral should be appointed by the banner, not by a former general who had been a thief. In order to show that he was not targeting the two domains of Ping and Jing, Li Shutai even brought out Li Chengdong's lesson, and repeatedly emphasized that the Guangdong Admiral must not be a descended general who was born as a thief, even if it is not a banner man, it should also be taken by those who are well-known The green battalion generals who were born in the army take office, so this is the safest policy.

Wu Jinzhong, who heard the wind, was naturally very annoyed: Li Chengdong, that rebel can compare with me! I am loyal to Daqing! I am loyal to Daqing!

Annoyed to be annoyed, but Wu Jinzhong had nothing to do with this royal governor. Fortunately, King Pingnan and King Jingnan were both dissatisfied with Li Suitai, and King Jingnan even agreed to recommend him Wu Jinzhong as the governor of Guangdong together with King Hepingnan, so Wu Jinzhong was also Don't worry that Lee Sol-tae will ruin his future. There are two princes jointly recommending him. If the court can't take him seriously, Wu Jinzhong will always sell the two princes for a face.

Before the imperial decree of being promoted to the governor of Guangdong came, Wu Jinzhong had to quickly deal with the tens of thousands of teams that appeared in the Xinhui territory, lest the governor's yamen take advantage of this and make his future more uncertain. However, he did not expect this team to be so difficult to fight. Even under the heavy siege, they still rushed into the mountains to occupy the favorable terrain near Yutai Temple, causing many casualties to the Qing army. In desperation, Wu Jinzhong could only take a siege, trying to use time to solve the battle. As a result, when he was dozing off, someone sent Chen's head. The trail pointed out by the monk Qilin made Wu Jinzhong see that it was not necessary to waste any more time, but to do it in one fell swoop. Possibility to kill thieves.

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It was late at night, and Wu Jinzhong was still standing in front of the tent in armor. Behind him, all the officers and personal soldiers were all dressed and looked at the mountain with a calm expression.

No one fell asleep in the military camps. The Han army flags, the armor of the green camp soldiers, and the weapons to wipe their weapons were all prepared just to wait for the signal on the mountain.

In order to confuse the Taiping army on the mountain, Wu Jinzhong has ordered the entire battalion to be strictly forbidden to make noise, and even to prohibit anyone from walking around. Except for the soldiers on routine patrols, the rest of the soldiers stayed in the tents to hide the signs that the whole army was preparing for an attack. .

The Qing army's illusion was very successful. The Taiping army on the mountain did not find anything wrong in the Qing camp. Except for the guarded soldiers, most of them had fallen asleep. The Qing army did not attack for several days in a row, which made everyone in the camp relax a little, thinking that the Qing army would not launch an attack tonight.

Yutai Temple said that it was not big or small, but thousands of people poured in at once, and the temple was obviously crowded. On weekdays, the guest rooms for pilgrims are filled with women and children. The elderly live in various Buddhist temples. In addition to the more than 100 monks in the temple, the Daxiong Hall is home to three or four hundred old and weak, and it is better during the day. When sleeping at night, people are next to each other, head to foot. The smell in the hall made people want to vomit. The old monk Qilin couldn't stand the smell, but he could only endure it, hoping that the Qing soldiers would quickly kill them up the mountain to send all these **** bandits and troublemakers to hell.

The corpses of the campers killed by the Qing army a few days ago are all at the foot of the mountain, and they will all be buried by the Qing army, otherwise there will be diseases under the scorching sun. The Qing army is also a human being, and together with the epidemic, they will also be infected, so whether they want to or not, they have to collect the corpses.

When retreating to Yutai Temple, Zhao Sihai led his men to **** back some of the injured campers, but the corpses could not be robbed. When defending against the Qing army's attack on the mountain, hundreds of men were killed and injured. Those who died were carried and buried, but those who didn't died suffered serious crimes and were used to temporarily house the wounded. There was a wailing in the Temple of Heavenly Kings. Anyone who heard the wailing of the wounded would not be heartbroken. Can't wait for reinforcements to arrive.

Zhao Sihai once wanted to put all the wounded to death, lest they shake the hearts of the army, but Song Xianggong absolutely disagreed, he said that we are in a desperate situation, and the whole camp knows the situation, UU read www.uukanshu.com They are all held together in a group, saving 1/10,000 hope and the death of the Qing army. If you put the wounded to death, what would they think? How did Zhou Qianhu promise them that day! If we really want to do it, I am afraid that we will die without the Qing army attacking.

Thinking of Zhou Shi's promise to the sergeants and the old and weak that "we will be treated if we are injured, and buried if we die", Zhao Sihai dispelled this crazy idea. Zhao Sihai has been sticking to the front line for several days. This will make his eyes red, but he doesn't dare to relax for a while. Others can go to sleep, but he can't, because he knows that he is not only a soldier and a soldier at the moment. The support of the security guards and the Ku army is also the support of those old and weak women and children. If he can't support it, everyone can't support it.

Up to now, the rear camp can firmly occupy Yutai Temple, not because of the bravery of the battalion soldiers, but because of the unity of everyone, and because of their unwillingness to die. If this mood is not there, there will be no one on this mountain.

Alas, I don't know where Qianhu-sama is going?

Zhao Sihai, who was really tired, took off the knife gently and put it on his lap, and closed his eyes against a stone tablet. He was really tired.

At the foot of the mountain, there is still a black hole, and the bonfires in the Qing army camp can be seen far away. (To be continued..)