The investment of the last main army of the Qing Dynasty was indeed a difficult problem for the Hongtang army, which made them almost unable to hold on.

From the beginning of the temptation, to the complete darkness of the night, the Hongtang soldiers have been fighting with the Qing army for fourteen or fifteen hours, which is a very difficult challenge for the physical strength of the Hongtang soldiers, and many soldiers have already had soreness in their arms and physical exhaustion.

"Rush up and break them up!! Scatter them! ”

"Rush in!! Rush in!! ”

The middle and low-level command system of the Hongtang army, even if it was in a state of fighting on its own, quickly responded positively when they found that another living force of the Great Qing Dynasty had been put in.

The countless small teams that were originally scattered in the battle, like piranhas that smelled blood, even if their physical strength was decaying, they still gathered from all sides of the battlefield, gathered from small streams into a big river, and rushed straight to the only formed Qing army that suddenly entered the battlefield.

Wu Chao and the Hongtang commanders knew very well that if they wanted to win this arduous battle with a numerical disadvantage, then they had to pull the enemy into a battle that their Hongtang army was familiar with, and they must not allow the enemy to fight with the superior battle situation that they were familiar with.

Fighting in the middle of the night, it is a very difficult task for the command system of both sides, Prince Li Daishan they dare not retreat, after the main army is all scattered by the Hongtang army, as long as they dare to issue the order to retreat, then for the Qing Dynasty, which is not a strict military discipline, it is likely to bring about the impact is that a large number of soldiers retreat in a hurry, and in the end they cannot maintain a complete system, but will weaken their own strength.

The Hongtang warriors, on the other hand, were reluctant to retreat, since they had already launched a decisive charge, they had never thought of taking a step back before deciding the winner. And to be honest, the troubles brought by the dark night certainly had an impact on both sides, but in comparison, they Hongtang suffered far less than their Qing army.

Under the heavy sacrifice of physical strength and the loss of soldiers, Prince Daishan sent the last living force to achieve the purpose, but he was scattered by the group of outlaws of the Hongtang army.

The 10,000 strong team lasted less than three hours, and finally became like their previous colleagues, scattered into countless individuals and small groups to fight on their own, and the test of the two sides this time finally became who had stronger willpower and a better cooperation in small team fighting.

Feng Laosi is an old man in Hongtang's army, and since he was absorbed by Hongtang before he went to the sea to do a few votes, Feng Laosi has been doing things with Hongtang's people.

Back then, he was a thief because he couldn't survive anymore, and he was pressed on the lives of a family of six or seven people, forcing him to do business.

It is certainly impossible to say that when he was doing business, he aimed the butcher's knife at those business men and sailors on the ship who had no grievances in the past and no hatred in the near future, without a trace of guilt and sadness, it must be impossible, and he was just an ordinary fisherman before he went to sea.

But life is compelled, this world is like this, if he doesn't kill people, he doesn't rob other people's rations, their own family will be hungry and unable to live, and he can only build his family's happiness on the misfortune of other people's families.

Originally, he thought that this retribution would come too quickly, and he had not yet had a few innocent lives in his hands before he met the Hongtang fleet, and after a pursuit, it was not surprising that their group of pirates of more than 100 people became prisoners of the Hongtang fleet.

First of all, the screening and review of their group of pirates, and the trial and punishment of their group of pirates according to the number of innocent lives in their hands, because there is no physical evidence, naturally the specific number of innocent lives in the hands of their group of people is not too clear.

In addition, their group had only just been in the sea for a long time, and after some screening and review, except for a few old thieves who were recognized and reported to have committed countless crimes, they went down to the coolie camp for reform, and novices like Feng Laosi were included in the Hongtang army after receiving several physical tests again.

After entering the Hongtang army, Feng Laosi knew what kind of life is a person's life: his family members who were originally placed in the old nest were taken to a village outside Keelung Town to settle down, according to the number of heads in the family, they could reclaim more than 20 acres of land in the wasteland outside the village as the foundation of their family's livelihood, and every month he Feng Laosi still has five taels of silver, if he has made meritorious contributions, there will be other rewards, and his own income alone is enough to make the family live well.

Not to mention the dazzling array of goods in Keelung Town, which are not only cheap but also have no taboos, as long as they are willing to buy and have money, the Hongmen government will never care what they buy these goods for.

Of course, these things are certainly worthy of people like Feng Laosi who give everything for life to serve Hongmen and contribute their strength, but what Feng Laosi has learned in the Hongtang Military Department and Hongmen system can make him contribute his life for this rare life.

Their three children began to learn to read and read in the Keelung Town Branch of Bengang School, and the private school that they never dared to think of in the past was something that ordinary underage children had to learn under the command of Hongmen, and even some families did not want their children to study, which was a crime in Hongmen, which really made Feng Laosi, who had just arrived, full of emotion.

Although the land allocated to the families required a tax and an additional amount of food each year to offset the cost of clearing the wasteland, the Hongmen would provide them with the necessary cattle, farming tools, food, houses, etc., to help them survive the initial predicament.

In the Hongtang Military Department, Feng Laosi also needed to learn to read and write, because as the Hongtang Military Department began to be equipped with flintlock muskets and field artillery, and later heard that it would also be rationed with new ships, they could run fast without sails, and it would be difficult for them to learn the skills without knowledge, and even if they did, it would be extremely difficult.

During the study, the gentlemen would explain to Feng Laosi many things that they had never thought about, why this world is becoming more and more difficult to live; Why is it that the land of those landlords has always been able to expand rapidly, and the children themselves have worked hard and diligently, but they still cannot support their families......

The wealth of knowledge, like a key, opened the hearts of ordinary soldiers like Feng Laosi, allowing them to look at this world that they had once taken for granted and taken for granted with another vision, and at the same time made them understand the life they wanted to pursue, how much it cost to pay, how to achieve it, etc., and no longer the ignorance and ignorance of the past.

Warriors like Feng Laosi abound in the Hongmen Society, and there are even countless people who are far more tragic than Feng Laosi's family, but under the cultivation and enlightenment of Hongmen's ideology for decades, these people have finally undergone different changes.

When a warrior goes from ignorance and ignorance, only knowing what slogans such as the country and the world are, but in fact he is just an ignorant person who is used by others, to a person who has a pursuit, a faith, and can be down-to-earth to realize the dream in his heart, the strength and perseverance they can show have thrown the ordinary Ming warriors out of the distance, whether it is willpower or strength.

Perhaps, what the Hongtang soldiers saw and understood may not be much, they may only know that with their own and other hands, they can earn a peaceful and peaceful life for their families and descendants; They may not necessarily understand what changes the talent selection and decentralization measures that Hongmen began to implement will bring to their future lives, but they know that if they want to live a better life, they need to work hard to create a life that belongs to their children and grandchildren.

The difference between a soldier who has a strong faith and a soldier who only persists for three meals a day, or who only exists for the sake of killing and other factors can be seen in this battle.

Feng Laosi and his captain and platoon commander don't know when they have been dispersed, and now he is with him, except for a companion who is partnered with him, the rest of the people are still a new team that they met along the way, and then everyone converged to form a new team.

The battlefield has already expanded from a few miles in front of the valley in the morning to a radius of more than twenty miles, and in the dark night, although the Hongtang soldiers have always adhered to the commander's last order, desperately biting any enemy they can see around them, but the limitation of vision and the fatigue of the body make everyone gradually and inevitably spread to the periphery when tracking the enemy's tracks.

The bigger the battlefield, the smaller the chance of the two sides encountering each other, and the army of tens of thousands of people can naturally see clearly in the daytime, but in this gloomy weather and other dark nights, as long as there is no light shining, even if it is only a few feet apart, they may not be able to detect the existence of the opponent if they are afraid of each other.

As for lighting torches in the dark night and beckoning colleagues to come and converge, unless they are consciously strong, who dares to guarantee that they can be intact under the attack of Hongtang's army?

There have been several waves of Qing soldiers who have tried before, hundreds of thousands of soldiers converged together to light the torches, and at the same time, when attracting their own colleagues, they also attracted the Hongtang team that could not find an opponent. The army that had finally been brought together was attacked by dozens or dozens of small teams in Hongtang, and none of them could hold out for more than half an hour, and they were defeated and defeated by Hongtang's army, and then they were chased and killed by their tails, and suffered heavy losses.

The number of soldiers in the Hongtang army was already at a disadvantage, and fighting in this dark environment was the most desirable thing for them to see, and it was also the most able to give full play to their strength, and it was impossible to take the initiative to expose themselves.

"Let's rest first, let's do it in an hour!!"

Finding a secluded cave in the dark, Feng Laosi, the current highest-ranking sergeant, automatically became the commander of this small team of seventeen people, and he gave orders according to the military knowledge he had learned on weekdays.

The dry food belt that each soldier carries on his shoulder is a fried pork belly with lard prepared for emergencies during the war, which is rich in energy and can replenish the energy consumed by the soldiers for a day without too much processing.

As the commander, Feng Laosi took the initiative to serve as a guard to guard the surrounding area with another sergeant when everyone was resting, which seemed to be the habit of the middle and low-level teams of the Hongtang army, even if Feng Laosi was originally only a deputy captain, and now after becoming this temporary captain, he naturally took on this task and let the other soldiers rest for an hour.

The soldiers present were so tired that some of them even tilted their heads unconsciously when eating, leaning on the soil and rocks around them to fall asleep, and there was a faint sound of breathing between their mouths and noses, proving that they were still alive.

Feng Laosi did not wake up these sleeping companions, but opened his eyes and ears with difficulty, and guarded his companions vigilantly.

In the distance, there was a gradual sound of Suosuo, which made his eyes narrow, and Feng Laosi, who seemed to be resting with his eyes closed, suddenly became alert.

He gently pushed the deputy next to him with the scabbard, signaling him to go back and wake up his comrades-in-arms, while Feng Laosi himself watched intently at the place where the noise came from in the distance.

"Wow! Pump! Chirp! ”

The two long and three short vivid cries of the grasshopper were imitated by Feng Laosi before the source of the distant sound entered their sight, and then it didn't take long for them to hear the movement in the distance, and the response of three long and three short made Feng Laosi temporarily let down their guard, and the team members who had just been woken up pulled out their hands and waited for the long knife to be slowly inserted back into the scabbard, but before they saw the other side's face, everyone's hands still did not leave their weapons.

"The third battalion of the second regiment of the third division of the whale department and the fifth company of the cow are strong!"

"Feng Laosi, the third squad of the third battalion of the sixth regiment of the first division of the shark department!"

The Hongtang comrades-in-arms who coincidentally collided together in the dark night battlefield informed each other of their affiliation, and then after verifying each other's ranks, Feng Laosi changed from the previous commander to an ordinary soldier, and was absorbed by the deputy company commander of the new team.

The Hongtang team members who had converged together now had more than 30 people, and after a brief rest, when they heard the sound of crackling and hoarseness in the distance again, Feng Laosi and their team disappeared into the vast dark night again, and quietly touched in the direction of the battlering battlefield.

In the vast darkness of the night, tens of thousands of troops shuttled back and forth in this strange land, and from time to time there was a sudden murder in a region, and then it disappeared after a short time, leaving behind something that could only be seen after dawn.

(End of chapter)