At the end of March of the sixth year of Yongli, more than half a month has passed since the order to increase labor intensity and time to speed up the construction of fortifications has been issued.

Until today, the fortifications of Anhua Town have finally been completely completed, and the deep fortifications and camps have also been completed, but for Wang Qinian, it is indeed not easy to survive to this day.

Since the military order was issued by the General Military Office, the officers in charge of their coolie battalion have given orders to get up early and work late every day. At the same time, in order to prevent the coolies from being lazy, the overseers in charge of supervising any problematic sub-section will be punished in the same way as the laborers. Moreover, in order to prevent the collusion between the supervisors and coolies who surrendered to the Ming army in two batches, the Ming army would personally come to inspect the quality of the project every day, and all the unqualified sections would be overturned and restarted, and those coolies and supervisors had to re-complete the project on the same day to be inspected.

In this way, the former and current coolies of the Green Battalion, who were already lacking rest time due to the longer working hours, were often ordered by the Ming army to be pushed to rebuild because the project did not meet the standards, which increased their labor intensity.

For such oppression, the coolies did not protest, words and actions are everything, but the response is mostly the overseer's whip, in fact, being whipped may still be a good thing, because there is a chance to just bear the whipping is obviously not discovered by the Ming army in advance, if it is discovered by the Ming army first, not only the party will be punished, but even the supervisor cannot be exempted. And once the overseer was punished, he intensified his fault-finding and withholding the food they distributed at noon. The result of this is that they are overworked under the condition of starvation, and at the same time, they have to be beaten one after another, and even some of them were directly pulled out by the Ming army to kill chickens and monkeys in the name of unintentional repentance.

There is a saying that the sky is high and the tartars are far away, and there is less food and more hard work; How about hitting three times a day, and not treating it back?

But I want to resist. They had to deal with the half of the barracks and garrisons stationed on the left. At the beginning, they were not able to defeat the Ming army, but now it is obvious that there are more Ming soldiers, and they also occupy the key points and favorable terrain everywhere, and resisting is a dead end.

As a result, those green battalions who had lost their hearts came up with a way to escape, and almost every day, someone would flee together with their acquaintances in private.

Wang Qinian did not think about escaping. Even his "friend in distress" Tan Jingren, who ate in a pot at the beginning, later became a prisoner together, and now is a coolie together, has also persuaded him. But he is different from Tan Jingren and other outsiders who even robbed his daughter-in-law, he is a native of Jinhua Mansion, and his family and industry are in Tangxi County, not far from Fucheng. But if you don't escape, I'm afraid that if you continue like this, you will have to die of exhaustion in this coolie camp.

But just when Wang Qinian was still in a dilemma, the first person to eat crabs appeared. And when he got the news, what he saw was that the man and the two former green battalion soldiers who were accomplices had been captured by the Ming army.

It was noon, and the two conspirators had been killed by the Ming army on the way to avoid pursuit, and even the bodies had been dragged back and hung on a tree next to the construction site. The one who survived was not only broken in one leg, but was dragged to the spot by the Ming army, and was ordered by the officer in charge to be sentenced to five hundred lashes in full view of everyone, and then beheaded for public display.

Five hundred lashes, and whenever the fugitive was knocked unconscious, the overseers would douse him with cold water to wake him up. Later, when even the cold water could not wake it up, the overseer in charge of watering reported to the fierce Ming army officer. This man has been beaten to death.

But even so, the punishment of 500 lashes was not forgiven, and after the corpse was whipped into a pile of rotten flesh, the punishment of beheading was carried out as promised. As for the body, it was also hung on a tree on the left.

With the time of the Ming army's prestige, the former green battalion soldiers, including Wang Qinian, got a little rest. It's just that there is a surplus of food in the evening that there is never before. But the next morning, the three corpses seemed to have some flesh missing, and Wang Qinian didn't know who did it, whether it was a beast or something else. He didn't dare to think about it, and he didn't want to think about it.

As for the escape plan, even Tan Jingren didn't mention it anymore, just worked hard, lest he be found by the Ming army and the overseers. But even so, there are also former green battalion soldiers who are carried out for burial every day because they are tired or beaten to death by overseers, but they don't know which day it will be his turn.

After working all over his body for half a month, he finally completed the prescribed work, and the officer in charge, who seemed to be in a good mood because the fortifications of Anhua Town had been completely completed, suddenly found that they were not far from collective exhaustion, so he let them rest for half a day, and then continued to strengthen the fortifications and barracks in depth.

Hopefully, the day will end sooner rather than later, and I will be able to return home alive to be with my family.

Chen Wen didn't know the prayer in Wang Qinian's heart, and even if he knew, he wouldn't have the slightest mercy, because these former green battalion soldiers who served as coolies were not to mention the suppression of the anti-Qing rebels for the Manchu Qing Dynasty when they were Qing soldiers, these scumbags were stationed in **** townships, robbing people's property, and even seeking money and sex and killing people's lives, everything they suffered at this moment was just retribution.

What you sow, what you reap, rightly so!

The day after receiving the news of the completion of the fortifications in Anhua Town, Chen Wen came to the newly built Nantangying Martyrs' Cemetery outside the city early in the morning. According to Chen Wen's regulations, the bodies of those who are still in the family are placed by each family, and the General Military Office will give them money for burning and burial, and only a tomb for the martyrs will be set up in the cemetery. Those who have no family members are buried in the martyrs' cemeteries of each battalion, and each battalion organizes officers and soldiers to come to pay respects during the New Year's holidays, and as long as the establishment of this army lasts forever, they can eat and drink blood.

It's just that, unlike the martyrs who were killed and seriously injured in the battle of Xiaoshun Town, which was previously killed by the Ming army into Jinhua Mansion and Xiaoshun Town, the martyrs who were to be buried this time were not killed in Jinhua, but those martyrs who died on Tiantai Mountain to protect Wang Jiang.

More than a month ago, Chen Wen and Wang Sheng's envoys, who had returned from Quzhou, had finalized a deal to exchange the "treasures" in his hands for the corpses of his subordinates. And when the agreement was reached, the messenger told the truth.

After Wang Sheng captured Wang Jiang, he used the heads of the Ming army, the common people, and Ye Shirong, the deputy general of the rear battalion, that he had killed on Tiantai Mountain, to repay Chen Jin, while the bodies of Chen Wen's subordinates were simply hidden in the ice cellar of a wealthy family who was killed by Wang Sheng's entire family for fornicating with the Ming army, so that they could trade with Chen Wen in the future.

That's it. After a series of bloody battles in Jinhua Mansion, repeated verification of Wang Sheng's exploits in capturing Wang Jiang, and a series of events in the transfer to the Governor Battalion, this transaction can be regarded as a beginning. After getting the specific situation, Chen Wen sent a close officer to take the troops to the trading place at the junction of Tiantai County and Dongyang County to exchange the body.

However, after the identity was confirmed, the body was not conducive to preservation because the weather began to heat up. He had to be cremated and returned to Jinhua with his ashes.

Today, it is an auspicious day of the zodiac specially chosen by a fortune teller in Fucheng who is said to be very effective, so that these soldiers will not be affected by the delay in burial in the future, so that they can be reincarnated smoothly and do not suffer in the next life. For the same reason, the families of these martyrs gave up the idea of burying their ashes in their own land and chose to be buried here together so as not to affect the future events of reincarnation.

Even if it's just ashes. The coffin chosen this time is still the best. After those former comrades carried the coffins into the cemetery step by step, until the tombstones were buried, the families of the martyrs broke out into heart-rending weeping, and even Chen Wen and the accompanying officers showed sad looks.

Most of these soldiers Chen Wen knew that they were all members of the old Nantang camp before their deaths, and many of them even participated in the battle behind the palace of Siming Mountain, and Niu Ping'an, the garrison of Tiantai Mountain, who was the first to be buried, was even more familiar to Chen Wen.

Wu Dengke's township party, together with Sun Yu and others, joined Dalanshan from Jinhua. Chen Wen always guarded the bonfire and silently added firewood in ancient times, and swore allegiance with everyone in the small courtyard of the Sun family. After training Dalan Mountain, he was unwilling to be unwilling. And when he was in the battle behind the Siming Mountain Palace, when he was advancing in the face of the Qing army's artillery fire, facing the Qing army who had already pressed the torch to the fuse, and the tiger squat cannon that was about to spray anger, he resolutely blocked in front of him with several other long players......

In Chen Wen's impression, Niu Ping'an is not good at words. But he was able to do his duty, and if such an officer hadn't been too slow to accept the new tactics, he would have stayed in the first game at that time, and followed Chen Wen to attack Jinhua Mansion. But after that, as the Ming army of Dalanshan moved from Tiantai Mountain to Jinhua Mansion, Wang Jiang went to persuade the other Ming troops. And Wu Dengke and Li Ruixin left behind to protect Wang Jiang, and there will never be a chance to live to see the day when the Tartars are driven out of China.

In front of Niu Ping'an's grave, Niu Ping'an's wife and two sons hugged the tombstone and cried loudly to vent the grief in their hearts, while Niu Ping'an's township party and his former boss Wu Dengke knelt down in front of the grave, blaming himself for "I hurt you" and other self-blame words, and kept kowtowing.

After filling in the soil, burning paper money, and worshipping, Chen Wen once again expressed his firm will to carry out the welfare system for the orphans of the martyrs to the end in front of the tombstones of the martyrs' families and martyrs, and vowed that their children would be able to live in the future on the land of China, which would once again sweep away the sea and blood, and would never let their sacrifices and efforts go to waste.

Leaving the martyrs' cemetery, Chen Wen, who was full of sadness and heaviness, returned to the camp with his own soldiers. Along the way, Zhang Jun, the captain of Chen Wen's personal soldiers, was not there, but returned home to attend his brother-in-law's funeral. It wasn't until they came outside the camp that the team, which had been silent for a long time, let out a hint of surprise.

Pulling the person in front of him aside, Chen Wen, who was full of displeasure, did not reprimand, but asked bluntly: "Why did you come back, what happened to Quzhou?" ”

The person who came was the "Xuzhu Monk" who stayed in Quzhou to collect intelligence, and when he saw Chen Wen asking, Bai Jinghe hurriedly replied in a low voice.

"Dashuai, the humble position has been ascertained, the reason why Chen Jin's dog Tartar keeps sending messengers to Jiangxi is that he originally planned to gather Zhejiang, Jiangxi and part of the Fujian green battalion to encircle and suppress our army after the Tartars in Jiangxi were wiped out there. And right now, the last Jiangxi Wang Division has been surrounded by Tartars, and I'm afraid it won't last long! (To be continued.) )