Han’s Son is Not a Slave: Chapter 157 minions

Xinhui is very close to the city of Guangzhou, and the straight-line distance is only a few dozen miles. If cavalry is used, they can arrive in one day. When Li Dingguo's army besieged Xinhui last year, the Manchu and Han Eight Banner soldiers from Beijing were led by the Jingnan general Zhu Mala. After the leader arrived in Guangzhou, he rested for three days and then went to Xinhui, and his cavalry arrived in one day. This time, the Han army inlaid blue flag soldiers led by Ban Zhifu have 4oo cavalry, and all of them are experienced men, and half of them are the gratifying minions of the King of Pingnan. These coated minions are Shang Kexi’s former Dongjiang tribe, and some of them even fought with Mao Wenlong and Houjin. Although thirty years have passed, many of them are all white, but still Fighting on a war horse is not without fierceness. What's more, three generations of ancestors and grandchildren are in the army.

Xinhui was in an emergency, and saving soldiers was like putting out a fire. In the past, Ban Zhifu must have led the cavalry to Xinhui without saying a word, but now he is not in a hurry, nor worried. Before leaving the city, King Pingnan explained the information of Xinhui clearly. , there is only one Nanming miscellaneous brand on the left and right, and no siege equipment is carried. Xinhui is such a strong city that Li Dingguo's tens of thousands of troops can't take it. How can the Taiping army help him?

There is a saying in the art of warfare: to besiege a city, you need ten times as many soldiers. If you don't have ten times as many soldiers, you must fight.

Ban Zhifu would never be convinced of what was written in the military book. He had decades of experience in fighting wars. In his opinion, the Taiping Army would never be able to win Xinhui City. Destroy this daring Nanming miscellaneous brand.

How to annihilate it is very important. The Taiping army has just ambushed Wu Jinzhong in Guifeng Mountain, and tens of thousands of people have followed the army. The morale of this meeting must be high, and the leading bandit general must also be very high-spirited, so the reinforcements do not have to hurry. to the new club. Rather, it should be slow, preferably waiting for the Taiping army to suddenly appear when it hits a **** under Xinhui City, and then take the cavalry as the vanguard. Destroy them like a rotten tree, and this is the way to use soldiers. Only in this way can the greatest victory be exchanged for the least cost.

When he took the order, Ban Zhifu had already told Shang Kexi his plan to King Pingnan, and Shang Kexi agreed with it. This was the scene where the reinforcements did not march in a hurry after they left the city. Otherwise, the 4oo cavalry with the blue flag would be afraid. Long ago galloped away to the new club.

When the sun rose above his head, Ban Zhifu waved his hand to signal his subordinates to stop advancing, and then asked his personal soldiers to let him go and inform Lin Shanzhi, the commander of the Green Battalion. Let his people rest and cook on the spot, and go out after half an hour. This place is called Sanzhou, only thirty miles away from Xinhui.

After Lin Shanzhi received the order, he immediately ordered the Green Battalion to stop advancing, and after explaining a few words to his subordinates, he hit his horse and went to see His Royal Highness.

The green battalion soldiers here did not set up camp for themselves first, nor did they rush to prepare meals for themselves first, but went to serve the flag soldiers with the blue flag and fell off their horses to rest. Several generals of the Guangzhou Green Camp followed behind several bannermen officers like dogs, passing on the demands of the bannermen officers from time to time.

The flag soldiers were served by the Green Battalion soldiers, but the Green Battalion was served by the young men and women. 2ooo famous people and young men were recruited from Guangzhou, and basically none of them were authentic Guangzhou people. Most of them are villagers near Guangzhou, and some are from Huizhou and other places. The original Guangzhou people were killed by the Qing army long ago, in order to enrich the Guangzhou population. The Qing army then moved its population from all over Guangdong to Guangzhou, but until now, the population of Guangzhou has not recovered to the number before the massacre. As of last month, the latest population of Guangzhou government showed that the total population of Guangzhou is only more than 160,000. Among them, Dingkou is 90,000. In addition to the 160,000 new Guangzhou people who migrated over, there are thousands of coats brought from Liaodong by Ping and Jing.

In the troubled times, the Master's fate must be extremely bitter, except for a few who can be lucky enough to be turned into soldiers. Most of the rest were cannon fodder, and very few survived and returned home. It's pretty good to be able to die happily. Fear of being eaten alive as food. In the battle of Xinhui to defend the city, the Qing army ate more than 70,000 people in the city. They also devoured more than 4,000 young men and women, and filled the streets and alleys with skeletons.

Under the whipping of the Qing army, the civilians were tremblingly doing all kinds of work, and if they moved slowly, they would be beaten to death. The more than 2,000 Guangzhou Green Battalion soldiers said to be Guangzhou Green Battalion, but in fact they were not from Guangzhou, but the descendants of the Ming army who had been recruited by Shang Kexi all the way to the south. The city of Guangzhou is actually a foreign country to these Guangzhou green camp soldiers. The attitudes of local soldiers and foreign soldiers to the people are naturally different. The soldiers from other places are different. In their eyes, these Guangzhou people have nothing to do with them. As a result, they will naturally not show mercy.

Most of the civilians knew their fate when they were recruited by the magistrates, but they all believed that they could come back alive. There was no other reason. In the past few years, the Ming and Qing wars have been fought, and the Qing army has won so many times that ordinary people know it. The Qing Dynasty will definitely take the country. Since the Qing army is sure to win, it is obviously a hundred times better to be the master of the Qing army than to be the master of the Ming army.

People, there is no other hope, but it is enough to have enough to eat. If you are not full, you want to live. Is it better to die than live?

With this thought in mind, surprisingly none of the civilians had any resentment against the Qing army, and even those who were beaten couldn't have any resentment, but they blamed themselves for being late and deserved to be beaten by the army master. As for the little food they could only eat, they were even more satisfied. There is a great chance of survival, and if you can hang your life, what else can you do?

When Lin Shanzhi saw Shang Zhixin, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com Ban Zhifu was also there. His Royal Highness was not as depressed as before. He was talking to Ban Zhifu, and when he saw Lin Shanzhi coming, he raised his still young face and nodded slightly.

"Slave Lin Shanzhi greets His Highness!"

Lin Shanzhi slapped his sleeves twice, then knelt on the ground with one leg and gave a military salute to Shang Zhixin, and then kowtowed three times. The head kowtowed extremely heavily, Shang Zhixin couldn't help but feel satisfied when he saw it. Ban Zhifu next to him looked at it, but he didn't want to be annoyed. You, Lin Shanzhi, aren't even a bannerman. Why do you call yourself a slave in front of the Prince's Highness! Also learn to salute like our bannermen, not ashamed or ashamed!

"Mr. Lin is more polite, get up." Shang Zhixin's mouth curled slightly, and he waved at Lin Shanzhi.

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Hearing the sound, Lin Shanzhi stood up slowly and took a step back. His demeanor and expression were obviously extremely respectful to Shang Zhixin.

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Author's Note: There won't be much of a recent update, as things aren't done yet. (To be continued)