Chapter 197: Duoduo's Panic (1)
Morale! How to boost the morale of the remaining soldiers?
Jiang Wei looked at the cloud-covered sky with some despair, although the last heavy rain stopped two days ago, the sky was still overcast, no sunlight appeared, and he didn't know when it would fall again.
Soon, it was completely dark, and because of the inconvenience of attacking the city at night, Duoduo did not order his soldiers to brave the darkness of the night to attack the city.
The soldiers on both sides seized the time to rest and prepare for tomorrow's big battle.
The Qing army camp is brightly lit, from the city wall, you can see a group of high-morale Qing soldiers patrolling the camp back and forth, the military camp of the 200,000 army, stretching for nearly ten miles, almost can't see the edge on the city wall, which makes people frightened!
After leading the soldiers to fight for a day, Jiang Wei was exhausted, and took advantage of the night when the Qing army did not attack the city and returned to the mansion to rest.
Although tired, Jiang Wei was worried about tomorrow's battle situation, and he didn't feel sleepy!
At this time, a staff general suddenly came to Jiang Wei urgently.
"Your Excellency, the situation is not good! Just now, more than a dozen soldiers fled from the camp without permission, and when they were caught, their uniforms turned into ordinary people's clothes, and after interrogation, they wanted to be deserters! ”
"There is such a thing!" Jiang Wei was so angry that he punched the table, and at the same time he was extremely desperate in his heart, before tomorrow came, the morale of the remaining soldiers was so low that even the deserters appeared.
"Lord Commander! What should I do? The general asked. According to his meaning, it is natural to kill without mercy! Use their heads to intimidate others, after all, the impact of desertion is too serious, if it is not stopped, it is likely that the soldiers in the city will collapse themselves without the Qing army attacking the city tomorrow.
"Isn't there a way for me Jiang Wei to live!" Jiang Wei sat slumped in his chair, extremely desperate, and had no hope at all that he would hold on for a day tomorrow, even if he was now leading these remnants of soldiers without any morale to abandon the city overnight and break through, he would not have the confidence to lead them and escape the pursuit of the Manchu iron cavalry.
Suddenly, Jiang Wei's eyes were fixed on a Daming daily newspaper on the desk, with a big headline on it, Expelling the Tartars, and returning my rivers and mountains is about Zhu Cihong's speech to 100,000 soldiers of the Yinglong Army in the palace on the day of his personal expedition, which was only sent here at the moment before the Qing army arrived at the city of Linyi, and there were only 100 copies in total.
Jiang Wei remembered that there seemed to be a special order to publicize the emperor's speech to the soldiers below.
Due to the arrival of the Qing army, Jiang Wei did not have time to watch at that time.
Jiang Wei was in despair, frowned and picked up the Daming Daily to watch, the more he looked at Jiang Wei, the more shocked he became, and finally turned into excitement, his hands trembled, his expression was like a torch, as if he saw hope.
"Hahahaha, there is hope! There is hope! Jiang Wei laughed.
"Lord Commander, what are you?" the general asked curiously.
Originally, he was waiting for Jiang Wei to order the execution of the dozen or so soldiers, but when he saw Jiang Wei suddenly pick up a copy of Daming Daily and watch it on the light, he was very puzzled, seeing Jiang Wei's expression at this moment, he was immediately curious.
"Just look at it!" Jiang Wei excitedly handed the Daming Daily in his hand to the general.
This general was very strange, but fortunately he was also literate, and immediately watched it carefully.
On the same side as Jiang Wei just now, the more the general looked at it, the more shocked he became, and finally he was extremely excited: "The emperor actually led hundreds of thousands of troops to conquer in person, and the rebuke and words to the Qing prisoners are even more exciting, and they make my Han people bloody!" If we and hundreds of millions of Han people work together, how can the Tartars be afraid! ”
"Yes, if you can publicize these to the soldiers, it will definitely arouse the blood of the soldiers! Boost the morale of the soldiers! Tomorrow it is expected to hold Linyi for another day, and it is also expected to break through completely! "No one wants to die if he can, Jiang Wei doesn't want to die, he won't give up any chance to live.
That night, Jiang Wei ordered to find 100 literate generals to publicize the content of this Daming Daily, especially the emperor's speech, to the remaining soldiers defending the city, which really caused a shock, and the soldiers were excited! Many people are getting their blood boiling!
In the early morning of the next day, when the sky was still hazy, Jiang Wei was always on the city tower before the Qing army attacked the city, shouting to all the soldiers defending the city.
"Soldiers, a few days ago, the emperor had already led my army of tigers and wolves north to fight a decisive battle against the Qing captives! The emperor is right, although the Tartars are ferocious, they are not terrible, as long as all our soldiers are united, we will be able to defeat the Qing captives under the leadership of the emperor and recover the rivers and mountains! Our wives and daughters' families are not allowed to be trampled on! This general soldier believes that no one wants to be a slave of the Qing captives, and no one wants their family to be enslaved by the Qing captives! Everyone is united and swears not to be a slave to the country! ”
Thinking of the rumors about the Manchus, thinking of the people who were enslaved by the Manchus under the rule of the Daming Daily, and thinking that their families were likely to be enslaved by the Manchus, all the soldiers were angry in their hearts! Bloody up! Yes, but it's better to die than to be a family enslaved by a foreign race of Tartars.
"Your Excellency is right! We will not be slaves to the country! Some soldiers took the lead in shouting, and immediately countless soldiers followed the shout.
The sentence of swearing not to be a slave to the country seems to have infinite magic, whether it is now or in the future, it can arouse the blood of the nation! In later generations, there were countless Chinese sons and daughters who did not hesitate to sacrifice their precious lives under this sentence, fought bloody battles with the enemy to the end, and finally succeeded in getting rid of slavery and defeating all enemies! It has played a backbone, played the respect of the whole world, and played a people's republic against which no one dares to make war easily!
The earth-shattering cry sounded in Linyi City for a while, vowing not to be a slave to the country! Even many of the people in the city were infected and followed the cry!
"Daddy! My son wants to go to war! Swear not to be a slave under the rule of the Tartars! In the city, in an ordinary people's home, a young man said to his elderly father with great firmness.
The father was silent, once when the previous dynasty was mediocre and incompetent, Li Zicheng and other rebels were raging, he thought about letting the rebels take refuge in the rebels and follow them to overthrow the decaying Ming Dynasty, but he never thought of defecting to the Manchu Qing aliens, which is unacceptable in any way, not to mention, the current Ming Dynasty has improved a lot since the new emperor ascended the throne, not as incompetent as before, and has been defeated repeatedly, several big victories have made him see hope, the Ming Dynasty is still good, at least in any case, it is worth supporting than the Qing Dynasty.
"Go ahead!" The father waved his hand.
After the young man knelt down and kowtowed to his father a few times, he still walked out of the door, this is a moment when the blood is gradually aroused, the blood of the Han people will become more and more vigorous, and finally it will be like Qin Emperor Han Wu, Tang Zong and Taizu of this dynasty, to create a new era!
"What's going on! What's going on! "The camp of the Qing army, Duoduo clearly heard the shouts in Linyi City, and sucked it sharply for a while, and was almost overwhelmed by this momentum, aren't the Han people weak and incompetent, the defenders of Linyi City were originally able to hold out for two days under the offensive of his 200,000 army, which already made him feel extremely surprised, obviously the morale has fallen to the lowest point, why did such a strong fighting spirit suddenly emerge, what is the reason!
Dodor had a gloomy face! It shouldn't be that way!
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