On the battlefield, Leo is constantly pressing the shutter, and for the magical East, every detail is deeply attracted to him, whether it is the war or the scene of crying in front of him.

Many years later, he has already become a China expert, and he has compiled countless photos into a catalogue, and each photo is accompanied by a story, and this battlefield lunch is one of the most famous.

In the catalogue, Leo said that Chinese society is a very contradictory conglomerate, and their governing philosophy is really incomprehensible to the West, because they are always trying to balance, playing what they call yin and yang.

How could a group of ordinary people who had never received a military education, a closed group that had to open a way even a hundred miles out of their hometowns, and frogs at the bottom of the wells who were tied to their homes by the land and clans, how could they react to the sudden changes?

Don't blame these people for their cowardice and insensitivity, because they have not received any education to resist since they were young, and even the slightest threat to the family has been confiscated.

The whole society educates them, and instills in them only to be submissive, to live a humble life. Unless such a group of people has a strict ***, unless they really can't live, they will risk their lives to resist, and at the beginning of the rebellion, their ideal is just to live.

But it is this group of people who have been completely brainwashed by the rulers, and they are also the group that the ruling class is most angry about, whenever the country is invaded by foreign enemies, or internal strife, no one reflects on their own stupid brainwashing policy, but one by one scolds the people for being insensitive.

This is not a reason at all, you even took away the knives in the people's homes, and you are usually afraid that the people will resist a little, but when the foreign enemy comes, you still expect these sheep to immediately turn into tigers?

This is really a big joke, in history Cixi used the Boxers to fight against the foreigners, in fact, it is a manifestation of this kind of thinking, when he instigated the fanatical people to attack the foreigners, she is afraid that she has long forgotten that she had ordered the slaughter of millions of Taiping troops and twisted troops.

Poor and lamentable Chinese grass people, this grass word is used so well, and human life is as cheap as grass.

Today, in Leo's lens, this group of grass people are crying bitterly over the canned meat one by one, and many people choked up and said, "I knew I was going to do it with you, there was such a good thing to eat, we would have put it together a long time ago, woo woo woo woo ......"

All the new troops were stupid, Xiao Letian was also stunned, and even those benevolent people were dumbfounded, why did this group of ordinary people remember to eat and not remember?

The new army is really spoiled, they have forgotten their original lives, once upon a time when they were grass people, the expression on their faces was the same insensitive, they could fight hard for a bite to eat.

Xiao Lotian sighed and sighed secretly in his heart: "Hey...... I have experienced the cheapness of human life in the late Qing Dynasty, I have read my lover's notes before, and the clan fights in Guangzhou will hire countless idlers to take the lead, and a life is only a thousand copper coins...... And after the Eight-Nation Coalition entered Beijing, Qing Dynasty officials even spent money to buy the lives of untouchables, cutting off their heads to calm the anger of foreigners, and that life could not exceed three taels of silver......"

"I didn't believe it before, but today I really believe it......"

"What do you believe, my lord?" asked Wang Huaiyuan suspiciously.

"It's nothing......," Xiao Letian hurriedly interrupted, "You said that the Huai army neither fights nor gets out of the way, are you waiting for reinforcements? Are there still reinforcements in Beijing that can be transferred? Just that group of soldiers who smoke a lot?"

Wang Huaiyuan sneered and said: "Of course there are soldiers, in fact, the private soldiers of those princes and nobles in Sijiu City are collected together, which has always been a large army, but it is difficult to say whether this kind of unorganized army can fight..."

"I'm most worried about Jingshan now, although Zeng Guofan and many Hanchen officials have put pressure on Cixi, this old witch no longer dares to touch the life of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, but the longer we drag on, I'm afraid that Jingshan won't be able to withstand the pressure...... If you compromise, it's not going to be easy..."

Xiao Letian nodded, "Intelligence shows that Ci'an is a woman with an introverted personality and a great view of the overall situation, she is different from Cixi, this woman has a society in her heart, and Cixi is just pursuing the maximization of her rights......"

"This time I turned my face, Ci'an was able to bargain with the court under pressure, it was not easy, I dragged it on for a long time, and I was afraid that the weakness of Ci'an for the good of the court would come up again......"

Speaking of this, Xiao Lotian was ruthless and gritted his teeth, "There's no time to rub in, use our killer weapon..."

As soon as these words came out, Wang Huaiyuan suddenly felt a stirring in his heart, "My lord... Have you really thought about it, do you really regret it?" At that moment, even Wang Huaiyuan, who was accustomed to life and death, showed fear on his face.

"If I don't go to hell, whoever goes to hell, even if there is retribution in the future, I, Xiao Letian, will bear it alone...... But this weapon is too dangerous to let our baby bumps take the risk, let's pay mercenaries to ......" said Xiao Letian and pointed to the group of people who were crying.

After a while, Liu Anchen and a group of benevolent people appeared in the group of refugees, "Everyone has obeyed the order, Prime Minister Xiao of the East China Sea has an order, recruit mercenaries from among you, and fight today's scene, ten foreigners' silver coins per person...... Did you sign up?"

"The prime minister invited you to eat meat and gave you foreign money...... Ten silver coins are enough to buy a calf, you have to think clearly, there will be no such shop after this village......"

The crowd was in an uproar, and the grass people, who had never spent any silver in their lives facing the loess with their backs to the sky, all their eyes lit up at this moment, and their insensitive expressions disappeared magically.

It is difficult for modern people to imagine the polarization of social wealth in the late Qing Dynasty, and the large gap between the rich and the poor at that time was simply unimaginable, like the officers under Xiao Letian, whose monthly salary was several hundred fast, and the purchasing power at that time was enough to buy hundreds of cattle, or several acres of paddy fields.

Even Xiao Lotian himself, ten yuan for a family banquet is not enough. But for the destitute people, who have only spent copper coins in their lives, and sometimes even barter with merchants with eggs and vegetables, silver is a legend for them.

Everyone was excited, this is the price of a cow, and a cheap daughter-in-law can buy one, and many young men stood up and "did it...... Count me in, as long as you don't fool me..."

Xiao Letian couldn't cry or laugh when he heard this: "I'm fooling you, I'm fooling you about ten yuan, and I'm not going to inquire about the self-name of Lotte Foreign Bank...... One person will be given two rewards first, and when the battle is over, those who die in battle will be given a hundred yuan of ocean pension, and those who are seriously injured will be given sixty yuan of ocean ......"

As soon as they heard this, everyone went crazy, and five or six hundred young men jumped out of the crowd, and they signed up around the beneficiaries.

The abnormal movement in the new army could not escape Li Hongzhang's eyes, and at this time, he had already made Xiao Letian mad, and his face was full of cruelty, and he had lost the demeanor of a senior minister in the past.

"Damn, this Xiao Letian is organizing young and strong, and he has more than a thousand more subordinates, damn it...... What about the war horses that the court promised me, and the reinforcements that promised me? The whole night has passed, and why haven't you come here after half a day today..."

At this time, the nephews and nephews beside him said, "Dashuai, why don't we withdraw... The dead are all Huaijun's brothers, we can't afford to die so many of our own brothers for the Manchurians... Save your strength......"

"Shut up, do you think I don't want to withdraw? The Queen Mother's reinforcements are not there, how can you let me withdraw? There are 3,000 war horses, and 10,000 Eight Banner soldiers, there are so many people, I don't believe I can't break through this small phalanx......"

"It's time for the last critical moment, what if ......we win? Besides, if the Eight Banners can't stop the new army, we will have a good excuse to withdraw again, and the imperial court will have no excuse to embarrass us at that time..."

Time passed minute by minute, Li Hongzhang sent his guards to calm the morale one by one, and Xiao Letian's military formation on the opposite side was also ready for battle, and one of the five hundred carefully selected young men carried an extra-large grenade in his hand, with a diameter of half a foot.

"Be careful, be careful, and when you pull the rope, you throw them into the enemy's pile...... It's not heavy, you can all throw it......"

"Sir, what is this? Is it your cannon?"

"Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, I'll tell you, this thing is dangerous, don't miss your feet... Obediently, you will earn a cow by throwing a few fat people into a blessed business, which is a ...... that you will never encounter in your lifetime."

The new army was teaching young men to use this grenade, nicknamed 'Fat Man', when suddenly a sudden change abruptly appeared, and the ground in the northwest suddenly shook slightly, and the stagnant water on the ground rippled.

"It's cavalry... Large-scale cavalry ......" Luo Huo shouted out on the spot.

At this time, the Huai army also jubilated, especially the defenders in the northeast, who jumped out of the ditch one by one, and they exploded a few heads in Shangye Qiu.

Soon, in the rain curtain in the northwest, a black shadow rushed over, it was the reinforcements that came late, the three thousand war horses had begun to accelerate, and there were countless crazy shouts behind the horses, it was the ten thousand reinforcements.

"Prepare the horses, I'm going to meet the reinforcements..."Li Hongzhang rode his war horse and bypassed the horses to meet him, and he saw An Dehai's familiar figure from afar.

"Father-in-law...... I'm Shaoquan...... You're here......"

"Oh, it's Li Dashuai...... The miscellaneous family is polite, how is the battle going?"

Li Hongzhang didn't expect Cixi to send An Dehai out as a supervisor, and when he looked back at the group of internal affairs officials around him, he immediately understood that the army he brought today could be said to be the last army in the Beijing division that could fight in the field.

"I'm ashamed, that Xiao Lotian has four rapid-fire guns in his hand, and the firepower is dense into the rain...... We lost three percent of the battle, and we didn't ......," After speaking, Li Hongzhang wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.

An Dehai still knew the severity, he understood that these Han warlords with troops could not be offended, and hurriedly reassured, "Don't be sad, don't be sad, don't you bring reinforcements from the miscellaneous family, the command behind it depends on the commander..."

"Nothing to say, nothing to say...... This battle is easy to fight below, our Huai army blocked the north, south, and east directions, made way of the west, and let the three thousand cavalry rush in, no matter how fast their guns were, they couldn't ...... in time."

"As long as their formation is out of order, our more than 10,000 elite soldiers can drown them with a mouthful of foam...... Father-in-law, you can give the order, this victory is for you..."

An Dehai was happy all of a sudden: "Oops... So the miscellaneous family can also get over the addiction of a general? Well, the whole army obeys the order and attacks..."

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