Chapter 114: Cutting Braids

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"Fourth uncle, how many flying thunders are there in our army?"

"Two hundred and twelve." Chen Min didn't even think about it, and directly reported the number. When the Chen family army came to Yuncheng, there were a total of 366 flying thunderbolts in the army, and now only 212 are left.

"How much gunpowder do we have in our army?"

"There are fifty-five barrels unopened, and there are twenty-three barrels that have not been used up." The troops set off with a total of 100 barrels.

"What about the paper bullets in our army?"

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In the big tent of the Chen Jiajun, all the battalion officers were present, as well as several officers of the tank team and the independent team, as well as people from the medical battalion. Chen Ming asked, Chen Min answered, from flying thunder to paper bullets, from grain to meat, to salt and sugar, to medicinal materials, Chen Jiajun certainly consumed a lot of materials in the war, but the remaining materials are definitely not scarce.

So, the Qing soldiers swept through the whole county of Wuyang and have begun to infiltrate Ye County, what impact does it have on the Chen family army on the front line? Oh, Ye County's transportation lines have been affected, right? Then don't transport it first.

Oh, there are still 300 people in Huang'an surrounded by Wuyang County. Did the Qing soldiers who besieged the city start to attack the city? No. No, since there is none, what is the hurry? Is there not enough food in Wuyang County?

In Chen Ming's opinion, Chen Jiajun doesn't need to think about the future at all. "What we're going to do now is attack, attack, attack!"

"Pull out the Qing army camps on the opposite side one by one, and completely crush the main force of the Qing army on the opposite side."

Chen Ming pulled out the saber at his waist and didn't split the corner of the table, he didn't learn from Sun Quan. Instead, he hung the pig's tail braid on the back of his head to the knife, and with a slight force, a pig's tail braid fell. He had long wanted to cut this thing, but he was afraid of causing internal commotion. This year is not the end of the Qing Dynasty, China has not had the tradition of short hair since ancient times, and Chen Jiajun will have to cut his braids in the future and play the sign of 'hair growth' like the Taiping Army. Today, he can take this opportunity to cut off his braids to show his determination.

Chen Ming wants to do it with the Qing soldiers to the end, and he will definitely not do it when he goes back to save Wuyang and Ye County.

"Ah......" The frightened sound reached the throats of the crowd, but every battalion officer and team officer forcibly swallowed this exclamation back into their stomachs, and their eyes bulged out. They understood what Chen Ming meant, cutting braids, which was extremely stimulating in Manchu society, made them all deeply feel the fierceness at once!

Chen Min and Chen Erbao's eyes flashed with countless struggles, Chen Ming only gave them a little bit before, and said that he was going to play with braids. The two looked at each other inadvertently, and in the next moment, the four eyeballs invariably broke out, and the two braids fell to the ground at the same time, Chen Min and Chen Erbao, the two core figures of the Chen family in front of the army, showed their support for Chen Ming with their own actions.

They must support, and can only support. Otherwise, the Chen family army will be divided. The conflict at the top will bring a devastating blow to this emerging armed force, and Chen Ming is forcing them.

Chen Erbao 'A good person does it to the end', and he even knelt on one knee. "This Qiu Ba!" After Chen Min saw this scene, all that flashed in his mind was "#¥%...... amp; amp; amp; amp; *()――+#¥%…… amp; amp; amp; amp; *()-", people are going to crash at that moment. Chen Erbao's attitude of recognizing the lord was the same, but Chen Min was left hanging there. Chen Min knelt down a little reluctantly, he was an elder. But so what?

This small turmoil stopped, and Chen Ming's sudden outburst brought much more influence than Wuyang's urgent report.

Chen Ming, Chen Min, and Chen Erbao cut off their braids, which shocked everyone much more than Wuyang's urgent report. The Manchu Qing Dynasty reached the middle of the Qianlong period, and the money rat tail has gone through a hundred years in China and has become a 'natural and righteous' existence. However, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty first entered the customs, the rumors of keeping their hair without their heads, and keeping their heads without hair, were still circulating among the people.

Chen Ming took the lead in cutting off his braids, which meant that he had to fight the court to the end, and completely nailed himself to the position of the thief. The impact on the battalion officers and team officers is incomparably huge.

Because the words 'cut braids' suddenly made them realize one thing - this simple act can be seen as a complete break with the imperial government.

As a traverser, Chen Ming knew very well how much the matter of cutting braids could stimulate the Manchus. At the beginning, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom just grew their hair, and they and their minions were labeled with the contempt of 'long hair'. And look at the peasant uprising of the Qing Dynasty, these rebel armies who were determined to oppose the Qing Dynasty, from top to bottom, up and down, were obviously inseparable from the Manchu government, but none of them thought about twisting their braids. [They don't count at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, and they don't count the Sun cannons at the end of the Qing Dynasty]

This is like when the peasants revolted in the Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, none of those peasant rebels thought of shaving their hair short. There is no such thing as 'changing hairstyles' in everyone's minds, or thousands of people have long regarded braids as a natural hairstyle. [Just like Wang Guowei, he was not martyred by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but a culture]

Chen Wenzan and Shi Meng also cut their braids on the spot, but this kind of spiritual power to overthrow a mountain is obviously not something that everyone has, but fortunately, Chen Ming didn't force them to cut their braids on the spot. Of course, the rest of these people knew that not cutting their braids on the spot would have a big impact on their status in Chen Ming's mind, but they just didn't have enough courage to take this step.

Chen Ming shook his head, and after removing the braids that were in the way, he felt that his head was so light. If it weren't for the sake of 'prestige', he would have shaved a big bald head in the summer, and the freshness would not be ordinarily strong.

At the end of the meeting, the braid-cutting turmoil spread among the Chen family. First of all, Chen Ming's personal guard right battalion, tank team and other descendant troops, and then Chen Erbao, Chen Wenzan and other battalion leaders, and by the time Chen Jiajun continued to attack the Qing army camp in the afternoon, thousands of the three or four thousand people in the whole army had cut off their braids.

If Chen Ming formally ordered the whole army to cut their braids, this order would definitely be carried out in the army. But he thought more about defeating the Qing army in front of him, returning to Lushan, establishing the General's Mansion or something, officially erecting the anti-Qing banner, and then ordering the soldiers and civilians to cut their braids.

"Boom, boom, boom, ......boom" cannon rumbles.

The Chen family army bombarded the camp opposite with two-pound artillery and three-pound artillery. The artillery fire of the Qing army was no longer as strong as it was at the beginning, and after successive defeats, the Qing gunners could run back, but the artillery could not be dragged back. So far, there have been 20 artillery pieces destroyed by the Chen family's artillery and captured Qing artillery. It's just that the Qing gunners sealed the cannon fire door with iron nails before escaping. was captured by Chen Jiajun, and it was just an iron cylinder that could not be used.

It's not yet time for the infantry to attack, but no matter how you look at it, the artillery fire of the Qing army on the scene has been suppressed by the Chen family's army.

On the periphery occupied by the Chen army, the trenches are being filled, and behind this line, the shield carts are moving to the left and right under the impetus of the Qing soldiers and civilian prisoners of war, as long as the trenches are filled, they will push the shield carts towards the Qing army camp little by little.

With a distance of two or three hundred meters between the sides, the shield cart only needed to move to 100 meters in front of the Qing army's barracks, and the Qing soldiers had to take the initiative to charge.

If they don't take the initiative to charge, they will be blown up by flying thunder cannons, and if they take the initiative to charge, they can still fight hand-to-hand with knives and guns.

Just as the camp constructed by the Qing army is getting stronger and stronger, the Chen family's offensive routine is also becoming more and more mature.

Whether it's day or night, relying on the huge power of the flying thunder cannon, you can always bring victory back to your home. Although the role of the flying thunder cannon is only to open the shell of the Qing army!