Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 12

In March, Duoduo was ordered by Dorgon to march south. At the same time, Zuo Liangyu also went eastward along the river under the name of "Qing Emperor's Side". For this reason, the Hongguang regime urgently dispatched four towns in Jiangbei to meet the Zuo army.As a result, the Jianghuai defense line was empty, and the Qing army was able to go all the way south, entering Xuzhou, going down to Haozhou, Kesizhou, and surrounded Yangzhou on April 80.After seven days of siege, the city was broken, and the Tartars massacred the city for ten days, with more than [-] corpses lying in the city.On May [-]th, the Tartars fell into Nanjing, and the Hongguang regime was destroyed.Two days later, Li Zicheng died in Jiugongshan, Hubei.In mid-June, at the suggestion of Hanchen Sun Zhixie, Dorgon once again promulgated the order to shave the hair and the order to change clothes.At this point, there was an uproar in the universe, and the people were excited. The Han people who had originally surrendered turned back one after another, and they did not hesitate to die in order to keep their ancestors' clothes.

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When earth-shaking changes took place in the outside world, Qiu Tianxing still stayed in the tiger ditch and worked hard to train the militia, laying a solid foundation for himself little by little.

"Head up, chest out, belly in! Stand up straight for me!"

Holding a branch in his hand, Qiu Tianxing yelled at the militiamen.At this time, he had the feeling of an instructor in the military training in his previous life.Once someone is not standing upright, tap him lightly on the bent part.

After a while, Qiu Tianxing continued to shout.

"Okay, it's a quarter of an hour, take a break!"

At this time, something went wrong.Someone stretched out his left foot, someone stretched out his right foot, and the scene was chaotic.

Seeing this scene, Qiu Tianxing felt a headache, how many times he had taught him, but these militiamen just couldn't learn it.He could only repeat again: "When resting, you should stretch your left foot, the toe should extend about two-thirds of the whole foot, your legs should be straight, your upper body should be straight, and your body weight should be on your right foot. How many times have you said this?" Why don't you understand?"

Seeing that the militiamen were still in a daze, Qiu Tianxing felt helpless.Military training is really not an easy task!Especially since [-]% of these people are illiterate.

At this time, a flash of light suddenly flashed across Qiu Tianxing's mind, and he thought of a movie he had seen in his previous life.The movie is about the training of recruits by the army during the Republic of China, because most of the recruits were illiterate and couldn't tell left from right.The officer asked the recruits to take off their left shoes, so that the barefoot without shoes is the left foot, and the one with shoes is the right foot.In this way, soon the recruits will distinguish between left and right.Qiu Tianxing felt that this method was very good, so he decided to try it.

So, Qiu Tianxing took a branch and beat them on their left legs one by one, asking them to take off the shoe on the leg he had beaten.In this way, the barefoot is the left foot, and the shoe is the right foot.

Sure enough, the militiamen made rapid progress all of a sudden, and after a few days after the end of the training that day, they were able to distinguish between left and right.But the militiamen's "superior speed" made Qiu Tianxing sigh for a long time, training soldiers is really not easy!For a whole week, just practice around.It's terrible to have no knowledge, and you can't even tell the left from the right.

After exterminating a small group of Tartars last time, Qiu Tianxing not only harvested some weapons and seven intact horses, but also received more than sixty taels of silver.Although dozens of taels seemed like a lot, if the militia were paid, one tael per person would be gone.Therefore, Qiu Tianxing is not going to pay the militiamen anymore.Not only did he not pay, he was going to not even pay rations.Because Qiu Tianxing was too poor at this time, and now he only has a small place to stay, and he still relies on going to Zhang's hometown for food, where can he get rich food?

Therefore, Qiu Tianxing decided to train them only by relying on the determination of the militiamen to defend their homeland.If you want to send troops in the future, then after the battle is over, give them a share of the capture!
Just because the militiamen were not given rations, the training of the militiamen should not be too heavy.After all, they have to do farm work every day, and there is not much food at home to supplement their nutrition.

Therefore, Qiu Tianxing made a plan for the militiamen to train for two hours a day.In the morning is Chenshi (7:9-15:17) training, and the initial stage is mainly training queues and walking.In the afternoon, there is Shen time ([-]:[-]-[-]:[-]) training, mainly teaching cultural lessons.Qiu Tianxing appreciates one sentence, that is, a cultured team is a strong team.

Just like this day by day training, neither the Tartars nor the bandits came to trouble Qiu Tianxing and them.In a blink of an eye, three months have passed.Now, it is already May.

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The sun was rising high, Qiu Tianxing looked at the sun, then looked at the sundial on the platform, and found that it was almost time, so he ended the training this morning. After he dismissed the militiamen and went back, he himself Go in the direction of home.

Along the way, many people who met head-on greeted him one after another.Qiu Tianxing also nodded in response one by one, or joked a few words, or just laughed it off.After walking a few hundred meters, they arrived at Qiu Tianxing's house.His house is a thatched cottage, the walls are made of mud, and the roof is covered with piles of thatch.Although simple, it can prevent wind, rain and sun.It's just that the only regret is that it cannot be fireproof.

After pushing open a wooden door, Qiu Tianxing came into the house.There are no windows in the house, so it is dark, and the only source of light can only be through the door opening.So, after entering the house, Qiu Tianxing moved a simple table to the door.Then I sat down, picked up a homemade quill, wrote and drew on a piece of paper.

The paper and ink are all provided by Mr. Zhang, because his family has a grandson who is studying, so he has some pens, inks, papers and inkstones in reserve.When he heard that Qiu Tianxing was a scholar, he took out a copy for Qiu Tianxing to use, and Qiu Tianxing accepted it with great joy.It's just that Qiu Tianxing didn't use a brush, although he had practiced brush calligraphy in elementary school in his previous life, and the characters he wrote were quite good.Instead, Qiu Tianxing made many quill pens and used them to write.

In this regard, Qiu Tianxing thought so.Because the militiamen were illiterate at this time, it would take too much time to teach them how to use a brush, and it would be too inconvenient to use a brush in the military.But the quill pen is different, it is not only quick to use, but also easy to use in the battlefield, if the scout encounters the enemy situation, it will be faster to write information.

After using the quill pen, Qiu Tianxing felt that simplified Chinese characters should be promoted.One of the great advantages of promoting simplified characters is that they are quick to learn, and it is also easy to write.If the illiterate people under my command had learned simplified characters, they would have learned thousands of characters in less than a year.Then there is no problem for them to basically read the battle plan and write the battle summary.

Therefore, in the past three months, Qiu Tianxing compiled simplified and traditional Chinese dictionaries whenever he was free, and a set of Four Books and Five Classics was piled up on the left side of his desk.At this time, Qiu Tianxing buried his head and began to "translate".In addition to planning to finish writing this simplified and traditional dictionary, Qiu Tianxing also wants to write mathematics textbooks, physics textbooks and chemistry textbooks.Of course, Qiu Tianxing has already returned most of the content to the teacher, and what he memorized is only the most elementary, and there is no guarantee that there are mistakes in it.

Time passed little by little, and soon it was noon, and it was time for lunch.So, after tidying up the papers on the table, he started to go to Zhang's hometown.During this period of time, he sent food to Zhang's hometown.Fortunately, Zhang's hometown is not far away, just a few dozen steps away.

(End of this chapter)