Chapter 122: Mosquitoes

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Li Dingguo's name was famous in later generations, but now, Zhou Shixiang had to admit that he was far away in the Hunan battlefield, and Sun Kewang, the king of Qin, who led the main force of the Great Western Army, was the mainstay of the Southern Ming Dynasty's resistance to the Qing Dynasty. In history, Sun Kewang finally descended to the Qing Dynasty, which led to the decline of the Southern Ming Dynasty, but in which year Sun Kewang descended to the Qing Dynasty, Zhou Shixiang is not clear.

However, just as Zhou Shixiang said to Song Xianggong in Luo Dingshi, Sun Kewang is probably not far away from this major event, otherwise why did the Yongli Imperial Court's military department staff Fang Shilang Zhongcheng Bangjun suddenly disappear, Li Dingguo's general Le Tongwu who stayed in Gaozhou to preside over the situation also had no news, and Lei Xianchu and Pang Tianci, who were ordered by Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of the four prefectures, to prepare to receive Luoding, why were they ominous about Gaozhou's affairs?

Zhou Shixiang clearly resisted Lei and Pang, and even regarded himself as a rogue, so why did Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of the four prefectures, not take any action against Luo Ding? The reasonable explanation is that Gaozhou is an empty city, Zhang Xiaoqi has no troops to send, or there is something important in the Yongli court that has restrained the governor of the four prefectures, leaving him unable to free up his hands to deal with the gang of bandits and bandits who are close at hand.

This major event may be related to Sun Kewang, otherwise with the support of Li Dingguo's army and Li Dingguo's general Le Tongwu, Zhang Xiaoqi would be helpless against the Taiping camp of a few hundred people.

When Sun Kewang will be cleared, Zhou Shixiang doesn't know. Nanming only insisted on more than ten years and died, but he knew that this year is the ninth year of Yongli (the twelfth year of Shunzhi), from the perspective of time. I am afraid that it will be a few years before the demise of Nanming, combined with Sun Kewang's surrender to the Qing Dynasty. Li Dingguo still supported it for a few more years, so Zhou Shixiang had reason to believe that the Qin King Sun Kewang he had been worried about would either happen this year or next year. In between, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo will definitely have a battle, either Sun Kewang, who wants to stand on his own, wins, or Li Dingguo, who is bent on protecting Zhu Ming, wins, but no matter which of the two wins, it will be a disastrous consequence for the cause of the Southern Ming Dynasty to resist the Qing Dynasty.

Confronted with a formidable foe. Their own family but because of the power and cannibalism, with the consumption of not much Han vitality, Jiashen, the Ming Dynasty fell into a strange situation of fratricidal and peer infighting, step by step to give the great country to the Mantars, twelve years have passed, the tragedy is going to be staged again, Zhou Shixiang in addition to regretting is still regretful, because he can not change the minds of those big people, nor can he use his own strength to prevent the great change in the Southern Ming Dynasty. The only thing he could do was to do his best to lead the Taiping Camp into this anti-Qing cause that might succeed or fail, in order to be worthy of the Yanhuang blood he shed. In order to be worthy of his ancestors.

In his previous life, his ID card was printed with the word "Han", but in this life, he does not need any identity proof, he is also a Han person, a Han who has a blood feud with the Tartars.

One life is Han, the world is Han, and the children and grandchildren are Han!

Zhou Shixiang is a Han Chinese, but also a man. It is also a son, a husband and a father. Sue the ancestors and ancestors, and sue the wives and children: Either I will die in life. Either Hu lives and I die!

The blood feud is destined to make Zhou Shixiang unable to survive, unable to use his knowledge to be a Shunmin, a rich man or a big official in the Qing Dynasty, all he can do is kill people, kill more Tartars, until the moment he falls.

He vaguely remembered that he was unable to speak in the dream, and it was extremely difficult to breathe, but he still crawled forward, little by little, so that he could die next to his father and mother, and die next to his wife and son

it, it, it! People are hanging to the sky, him!

Xinhui City, I, Zhou Shixiang, must take it, if not for anything else, just for revenge!

Different from the division of administrative regions in Guangdong in later generations, the territory of a county today is really large, such as Xiangshan County, the base of Zhou Shixiang for the Taiping Army, there are three cities and one special zone in later generations, but in this era, such a large territory is only owned by one county.

The same is true of Gaoyao County, at least a few counties exist in Gaoyao County in later generations, and now the mountains and rivers belong to a Gaoyao County, and the population is even less than that of later generations, except for Gaoyao County, on the way west of the Taiping Army, Zhou Shixiang never saw a complete village and town. The farther west, the more desolate it became, there was no one for a hundred miles, and what I saw changed from plains and hills to continuous mountainous areas, and the official roads had long been dilapidated, and most of the time the Taiping army was not walking, but pushing. On the mountain road, the speed of carriages and horses can be described as snail speed, and no matter how anxious people are, they can only move forward little by little. Fortunately, there was no Qing army intercepted in the front, and the Xiongwei battalion in the rear did not find that there was a Qing army chasing from Gaoyao, as long as it did not rain in Tiangong, it would take another four days for the Taiping army to step into the territory of Xinhui.

The weather is hot, the meat cannot be preserved at all, and the pigs and sheep seized from Gaoyao City are already limited, and they have long been eaten by the soldiers, so where will they be reluctant to eat and stink. After finding that the sergeants of each battalion liked to go to the small rivers and streams on the side to catch snakes and frogs when they set up camp, Zhou Shixiang simply asked the hundreds of households to organize several teams of soldiers to catch them, and after they were caught, they poured vegetable oil on the cauldron and boiled with salt, and then the soldiers divided them among the teams, so as to make up for the physical exertion caused by the continuous march without meat.

Not only snakes, frogs, fish and shrimp are to be caught, Hujie Camp did the most ruthlessly, directly piled up a dam at the head and end of a small river, and then two or three hundred people took all kinds of tools to scoop water, and it took a lot of effort to really clear this section of the river, and caught nearly 1,000 catties of herring and grass carp out, and the whole camp was filled with the fragrance of fish that night. Zhou Shixiang also ate a herring, although there was no soy sauce, chili pepper, and no green onions, peanuts and ginger in later generations, just put a little oil and salt, but it was extremely delicious to eat, and a whole herring weighing five catties was eaten by him alone.

On the 22nd, after a five-day march, the Taiping army arrived at the westernmost Antelope Gorge of Gaoyao, which is the status of the Antelope Ridge in the canyon, and the name of Gaoyao County is also derived from this place. Before entering Antelope Ridge, Zhou Shixiang ordered the Zhenyu battalion in front of him to send a team of soldiers to investigate, and after confirming that there was no ambush by the Qing army, the team entered later. That night, the whole army entered the Antelope Ridge all night, the weather was hot, and it was not too cold to cover the quilt at night, the only trouble was that there were too many mosquitoes, and there were not many mosquito repellent herbs in the battalion, so the sound of the officers and soldiers beating the mosquitoes at night was one after another, and the sound was not heard until the second half of the night, but it was not because the mosquitoes were photographed, but everyone couldn't lift their eyelids, and they just wanted to sleep, so how could they pay attention to those mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes are the most likely to let malaria run rampant, after a night of mosquito bites, the next day when he woke up with big bubbles on his neck and hands, Zhou Shixiang immediately convened 100 households in each battalion and tried 100 households to discuss the military, but the content of the military discussion was not a march, nor a war, but how to prevent mosquito bites. (To be continued)