Can you live forever

Chapter 275 Rise and fall are suffering, innocent and ignorant

"Ming army! The Ming army is out of the city!"

"It's cavalry!"

"Run! Run!!"

The rebels who were attacking the city outside Fukou County in the northern part of Shenglong Mansion suddenly found an army coming from the south. The banner of the big bright sun, the moon, the stars and the three stars was fluttering, the sound of horseshoes was trampling, and the background color of the fiery red military uniform, It is so dazzling.

The three thousand rebels who besieged Fukou County didn't even have the slightest will to fight the enemy, so they fled in a panic.

The 300 cavalry of this division directly smashed the enemy's formation, repeatedly charging and killing, leaving more than a thousand corpses before they were willing to give up, and the rebels fled back to the forest in disarray.

This is not a single incident, but a common phenomenon after Gao Xunyi went to war.

Although Annan didn't have many horses, he still had thousands of war horses. After the cavalrymen of the [-] Battalion selected the best horses as supplements, they distributed them to the troops guarding Annan. The rest of the prefectures only had two to three hundred war horses. , but Shenglong Mansion has [-] war horses.

More than half of Gao Xunyi's subordinates who stayed behind could ride horses.

As for whether they are qualified cavalry, that doesn't matter. If you have horses to maneuver, you can dismount and form a formation to shoot with blunderbuss.

Gao Xunyi's cavalry came out everywhere, and the rebels who came out of the mountain suffered a head-on blow.

In just one day, 8000 people were lost.

At this moment, the tortoise that was probing was shrunk. However, Gao Xunyi could only do this. His troops were too small to march towards the mountains and forests to regain Xuanhua.

Regarding Gao Xunyi's bravery, the rebels in Xuanhua did not panic at all.

Li Pi has already taken the main force to Qinghua Mansion, and when Qinghua Mansion is captured, Thang Long Mansion will be a turtle in an urn, with only more than 2000 Ming troops.
The rebels did not panic, and Gao Xunyi was not happy either.

On the way back to the city leading his men, he looked at the scorched villages and the unburied corpses lying on the side of the road, and his heart was extremely heavy. What was even more heavy was those villages that had not been slaughtered. Not only did they not welcome them, Instead, his eyes were full of hatred.

People really can't control that much.

They don't know who is right and who is wrong, they only know that they have fought, and they are the ones who died the most...

"You give back my mother!"

A piece of mud suddenly hit Gao Xunyi's face. The guards next to him became alert and immediately drew their swords. They saw a man dragging a little girl and kept kowtowing, speaking Annan's dialect, which he couldn't understand, but he could feel it. panic.

"General?"

The soldiers asked how to deal with it, Gao Xunyi shook his head and said, "Let's go."

Gao Xunyi hadn't read any books, but at this moment he suddenly understood the meaning of the phrase "prosperity, the people suffer; death, the people suffer." They are doing good things, but the enemy is resisting, both sides are fighting each other, and it is the people who hurt the most.

Gao Xunyi understood why he didn't directly join Daming Juntian.

Their army defeated Annan, and there would be such a fierce and cruel confrontation. What if it was Daming?How many people have to die...

……

Li Weining also encountered the problems that Gao Xunyi encountered. His militia battalion began to have deserters. After capturing the Thang Long Mansion, Li Weining formed a militia battalion of [-] people.

They were obviously very active before, and the enthusiasm of the minyongers was high, and the training was also very hard.

But when the war is together.

Within a day, thousands of people fled. When he was patrolling, Zheng Wei, who was in charge of the militia battalion, also looked ugly. He didn't expect there to be so many deserters.

After being silent for a while, Li Weining patted Zheng Wei on the shoulder, and he summoned all the militiamen.

Someone dragged another cart of silver over.

"If you don't want to serve as a soldier to defend your hometown and protect the fruits of the average farmland, if you want to go back and be a slave to the masters, if you beg the masters to spare your life, you can resign from me in a fair and honest manner."

"For those who go home now, everyone will be paid five taels of silver as a severance pay."

"Sign up, get the money, get out."

After finishing speaking, Li Weining directly stepped down from the platform, walked outside the gate, looked at the wilderness and didn't know what he was thinking, Zheng Wei walked up to him and said: "Your Majesty..."

"I'm not the emperor anymore, Ruan Gan has abolished my throne, why are you calling me His Majesty?"

Zheng Wei smiled wryly and said, "My lord."

Only then did Li Weining nod his head. After being the puppet emperor for so many years, Zheng Wei was the only one who cared.

Zheng Wei sighed, and said: "My lord, I know that you want to mobilize the people and rely on their power to change the world, but now I understand that these people are not reliable at all, they are cowardly and incompetent, without the protection of the Ming army, they are not gentlemen at all. opponent."

"Obviously they have divided the fields into their hands, but they are unwilling to fight. Instead, they want to kneel down and beg for mercy."

"This……"

"Young master, are you telling the national teacher that their strategy is not good enough? Ask Daming to send more reinforcements?"

Li Weining said: "There are no more soldiers to send. The Shenji Battalion and the [-] Battalion are almost in full swing. There are no more than [-] direct descendants left in the capital. The Fifth Army Battalion is responsible for the guards of the capital, and has always been the most infiltrated. I don't know the composition. , Sending troops indiscriminately will only add to the chaos."

"Jiajing is also difficult. If Yu Dayou hadn't been in Liaodong, Nanjing would have attacked the capital long ago."

"This battle is up to us."

"As for the strategy of the national teacher is wrong, I can't see it, just wait, those returning home groups will break the illusions of the people, the past days, there is no going back."

"It must be divided between you and me..."

"Go and see how many people are left."

After waiting for half an hour before going back, there were about 3000 people left in the barracks. Li Weining was stunned for a moment, and a smile from his heart floated up. He then restrained his smile and asked, "Why are you still staying?"

The audience was silent for a while, and a militiaman in his 40s with gray temples came out and said, "I am the only one left in my family. Obviously, the landlord will not give me the land. Your Majesty will give it to you. I will do it with you."

"is it?"

Although it wasn't the answer he wanted, Li Weining didn't mind, he asked someone to reward him with two taels of silver, and continued to ask: "Is there anyone else?"

A young soldier stood up and said: "Master Qi killed my sister, he ran away, I want revenge."

"Okay, reward him!"

This time, five taels of silver were given, and more and more soldiers spoke out their reasons, and almost everyone was rewarded. After the real money was distributed, Li Weining said: "I know you are in great pain, those who left, Just because it's less painful."

"Is this what they should be? No, it's just their luck."

"The persecution of the landlords and lords, no more falls on them."

"Look, this kind of temporary luck will soon be broken. Only when they are really in pain will they understand what they gave up."

"And you are lucky, you don't have to regret it, and you don't have to hurt your heart."

"Grade the swords and guns in your hands tightly. I, Li Weining, will not say anything else. From today until the end of the war, each of you will receive a military salary of three cents and three cents a day, ten taels of silver a month!"

The militiamen suddenly opened their eyes wide, full of fighting spirit.

And Li Weining understood a sentence at this moment, the people are the most innocent since ancient times, and the people are the most ignorant since ancient times.If you want to get help from the people, you can't just use your heart, you have to let them see real money...

(End of this chapter)