There is no such thing as the Kangxi and Qianlong eras

Chapter 114 Under Changde City
In the city of Changde, the fighting between the Green Camp of the Qing army was almost over. In the end, the Green Camp loyal to the Qing Dynasty was still defeated by the Green Camp that wanted to surrender.

They are all soldiers in the Green Camp, and no one is nobler than anyone else.

On weekdays, you help the brothers collect wages and take care of them to eat, so the brothers naturally treat you as an adult. But now, for the sake of your own family's wealth, you want to take everyone to risk their lives. I'm sorry, brothers also have families to support.

Moreover, they were not rebelling against their master, but were joining the light instead of the dark, responding to the Han army's call to restore China and expel the barbarians. This was truly "loyalty"!

That’s right, whether they were loyal to the Qing Dynasty or wanted to surrender to the Han army, both sides considered themselves to be “loyal and good”.

With so many "loyal and good" people gathered together, it's no wonder that Changde City couldn't be defended!
Seeing that their side had fewer and fewer people, many of their soldiers took advantage of the chaos and fled in the dark. The Han army outside the city dealt with the fleeing Manchu soldiers and followed the main army to block the city and the roads.

The morale of these "loyal and good" people of the Qing Dynasty finally collapsed and they began to flee in large numbers.

There is no escape, no escape at all!
The shouts of Han soldiers could be heard from the city gates on all sides, and the city walls were also controlled by Han soldiers in sections.

"Kill the Qing dogs! Kill the Tartars!"

However, many Green Camp and Brave Camp soldiers who had just cut off their braids, including civilian laborers doing logistics, also raised the banner of the Han Army.

There were not many Green Camp members who fled with their pigtails, but there were quite a few, at least two or three hundred people.

These two or three hundred Green Camp deserters became moving Tartar heads in the eyes of the Qing soldiers and civilians who defected.

"I... I am Han Chinese, not a Tartar!" A Qing soldier from the Green Camp was so exhausted from running that he simply knelt on the ground, raised his hands and shouted that he wanted to surrender.

Dozens of civilians rushed up and hacked him to death without saying a word. They cut off his head and held it up on a flagpole that they had found from somewhere.

However, no Qing soldier chose to lie on the ground and pretend to be dead, because it was impossible to pretend at all. Many civilians were holding knives. They could not compete with the Green Camp and the Brave Camp who had defected, so they simply held torches and tried their luck on the city wall, looting the corpses one by one for property and heads.

Anyone seen wearing uniforms and armor would be stripped naked, leaving not even underwear, and then their heads would be chopped off.

A Qing soldier pretending to be dead was stripped naked by the civilians with his eyes closed. When he opened his eyes slightly, he saw a shining knife swinging down at him. He was so scared that he kicked the civilian and ran away.

He hadn't taken two steps before he couldn't see anything in the dark, and he missed a step and crashed into the city wall and fell down.

With such a carpet-style search, the Qing soldiers on the city wall were quickly cleared out, except for a few who were quick-witted and quickly cut off their braids in the dark of night, pretending that they were also Qing soldiers who had defected, and thus managed to escape.

Torches were lit everywhere on the city walls, and a flagpole was inserted diagonally next to the torches, with a string of gourds hanging on it. When you looked closer, you found that they were human heads tied with braids at the back of the head.

However, the Qing soldiers who fled in the city were also unable to escape.

Because the city was surrounded by the Han army, they could not escape and could only find a place to hide in the city.

It was late at night and there was so much chaos outside that every household wanted to block their doors. Who would dare to open the door?
Besides, can you hide yourself?

They are all brothers from the Green Camp. How could they not know where they are hiding while others have to go to great lengths to find them?

……

In the dark night, all the Manchu soldiers outside the city were driven together. Their horses and weapons had been confiscated, and they were surrounded by crossbows, spears, and wolf-whips.

If the Han soldiers had not tied them together and stripped off their cotton armor, they would probably have thought that the Han soldiers were going to regret it later.

"Report! The count is complete, a total of 478 people."

"Only 478 people, that's not enough!"

Bai Nan pinched his chin and suddenly glanced at Fuzhina and Defu next to him.

"You two Tartars, get in too!"

Hearing Bai Nan calling them Tartars so bluntly, Fu Zhina and De Fu frowned subconsciously, then relaxed their brows, and could only follow him obediently into the pile of captured Manchu soldiers.

"Haha, that's enough people now."

Bai Nan finally smiled. Just as Fu Zhina and Defu were confused, his next words shocked them: "Then... draw one out of ten!"

"Ten...one out of ten?"

Fushina and Defu were incredulous at first, and then their faces were filled with indignation.

They were not indignant about the Han soldiers' one-in-ten lottery, but they were actually required to participate in the one-in-ten lottery. How could this be possible?

Fu Zhina couldn't help but say, "Commander Bai, are the Han army also going to break their promise?"

Bai Nan laughed, "You're not keeping your word? Haha, if you don't give us a one-in-ten chance, are you really confident that these Manchu soldiers won't expose you after they return with you? This commander is doing this for your own good! How can I not appreciate it?"

Is this really for their own good? If it's really for their own good, why do you let them participate in the one in ten draw?

Fuzhina and Defu wanted to say more, but Bai Nan didn't give them a chance. He interrupted them rudely with a wave of his hand, "Why? Are you dissatisfied because you were given an extra bonus for every ten draws? Alas, this is to allow you to share the hardships with your soldiers. If you don't share the hardships together, how can you help each other and overcome difficulties together in the future? You are all deceiving the court together?"

These words were pure nonsense, but they immediately calmed down the restless Manchu soldiers.

Humans are selfish animals. They are not worried about scarcity but about inequality!

If they are only allowed to draw one out of ten, they will definitely feel fear and dissatisfaction, and may even fight to the death with the Han soldiers.

Well, they really fought tooth and nail, because it was definitely useless. Without weapons, they only had cotton armor on their bodies, and the Han soldiers with spears and wolf-whips could just stab them. But now, even Fu Zhina, De Fu and the others had to draw one out of ten, and they still rushed into the prisoners. With Han soldiers supervising the one-out-ten draw, it instantly became much more balanced.

Even if there are still Manchu soldiers who are dissatisfied, then let them not submit.

If you draw one out of ten, you still have a 90% chance of survival.

If you don't succeed in getting one out of ten, you will be sent to the King of Hell with one arrow from a crossbow. You won't even be able to be buried after death. Your head will be cut off, your body will be burned into ashes, and then scattered into the Yuan River to feed the fish.

Fu Zhina had to accept his fate. He had no choice but to accept it. There were crossbows pointing at his head, and if he moved a little, they would be shot.

He pretended to be calm and drew lots with nine Manchu soldiers. He took a deep breath and drew one in an instant.

There is no mark, it’s a live signature!

next second.

Fu Zhi collapsed to the ground, not looking like a brave general at all. He felt as if his whole body was soaked, as if he had lived another life.

He lived another life, but the Manchu soldier who drew the death lottery was not so lucky. He also fell to the ground on the spot, and then two Han soldiers came forward and pinned him to the ground.

"Snapped!"

A short knife was thrown to Fushina.

The other eight Manchu soldiers also had their daggers thrown to them by one of them.

The person who drew the death lottery had his hands and feet tied and his mouth blocked to prevent him from screaming too loudly.

"Let's do it!" Bai Nan said calmly.

Without any clear orders, Fu Zhina and the eight Manchu soldiers knew what they had to do.

Everyone's face turned grim, and they rushed forward with daggers in hand, pinning the unfortunate Manchu soldier to the ground and stabbing him with their daggers through his cotton armor.

“Woo~woo~woo~!”

Because they were all using short knives and stabbing too wildly, and they were also protected by cotton armor, they struggled for quite a while before finally stopping.

After this batch of ten is finished, the next batch will begin.

It took more than 400 people and only 1 in 10 people were selected. It took more than an hour to finally get everything done.

Defu, the Manchu deputy commander who chopped off Xingzhao and surrendered with Xingzhao's head, did not survive. He was so unlucky that when it was his turn to draw the lottery, it happened to be his death lot.

The guy was so scared that he peed his pants on the spot. He really peed his pants, and he knelt on the ground begging for mercy.

Bai Nan didn't say anything. The other nine Manchu soldiers went up and pinned Defu down. They asked the Han soldiers for short knives and stabbed Defu to death.

After that, Defu's head was cut off.

More than 400 Manchu soldiers were withdrawn, leaving only more than 300 people. These people were temporarily assigned to Commander Fu Zhina, and they also helped to replenish the cotton armor and military equipment.

Although he had an army again, Fu Zhina was not happy at all.

Not only did he have the upper hand in the hands of the Han army, but he had also witnessed the Han soldiers' powerful combat capabilities twice.

Even if he were given another chance and asked to go back a few months to fight again, it is hard to say whether he could win.

If you can't win, you can't win. No matter how many strategies you have, they will be useless!

The Han army did not release these Manchu soldiers immediately, but reorganized them and gave them the designation of "Manchu Slave Army".

This number was sent by Nie Yu himself via telegram, because he heard that Nurhaci was a slave of Li Chengliang and was given the name Hachi, so he was also called Nurhaci.

We don’t know whether it is true or not, but the Han army can publicize it and make it true.

……

The Han army moved its main camp to Changde Prefecture, and after several days, He Shunan's troops also rushed to Changde to gather.

The strength of the Han army in Changde City increased from 8,000 to over 10,000. Including the civilians, brave camps and green camps who surrendered earlier, the total strength has exceeded 20,000.

"Our current military strength, plus those surrendered soldiers and civilians, is estimated to be more than 20,000 people, close to 30,000 troops." Xu Sanlang said while looking at the map on the table.

He Shunan shook his head. "Those civilians and surrendered soldiers aren't fit for battle. We can capture the city's ruffians, but it's tough to get them to fight us. The only ones capable of fighting are the less than 10,000 regular troops under the command of you and me. But I brought three cannons this time, and two hundred musketeers given by the general."

Bai Nan calculated: "Three cannons, plus our five cannons, that's eight cannons, which is enough to put up a fight. The Qing dogs in Changde were too hasty to escape, so we didn't have time to resort to desperate measures. We still have a lot of food and military supplies left, so we don't need to send supplies from Lizhou."

"How's the general doing?" asked Xu Sanlang.

He Shunan smiled and said, "The general has taken Changsha. He should have gone south and taken Hengzhou by now, right?"

(End of this chapter)