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Whoever gives me meat to eat, I will give my life to whom, a very straightforward sentence, not impassioned, nor deafening, but also the voice of this soldier, but also the voice of all the Taiping troops, including Tierenwei - they are not fighting for what Zhongxing Daming, not for what to save the Han family, not for what to expel the Tartars and restore Chinese civilization, but simply for themselves to be able to fill their stomachs and eat meat!

Zhou Shixiang was silent, these soldiers did not have lofty goals as they imagined, but only to live, to have a piece of meat to eat in the battle. Milk is the mother used to describe these soldiers is probably very appropriate, whoever lets them eat enough, who allows them to have meat to eat, they will die for whom! As long as you can eat your stomach, they don't care who you are, even if Zhu Mingzi Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang stands in front of them, if he can't get the meat, these soldiers will probably tie up Zhu Youlang and give it to the people who can give them meat to eat. It's not about loyalty, it's about survival.

Zhou Shixiang was silent, but he was not angry, he couldn't make any big sense to these soldiers who couldn't read a single big character, and how ridiculous it was to expect these soldiers who couldn't read a single big character to understand the national concept he was attached to.

Hugh said that these illiterate soldiers, that is, Zhou Xiucai at the beginning, how could he not be an ordinary person who just wanted to live honestly, Hu Lu is not Hu Lu, Hua Yi is not Hua Yi, it has never been Zhou Xiucai's consideration. He thought more about how to survive in this era of war and chaos, how to make his wife and children worry-free, and how to gain fame after peace. The inheritance of the nation, the country, and civilization has never been something that ordinary people like Zhou Xiucai have considered. They only focus on reality and cherish only the tangible benefits that can be seen and felt in front of them. These are the little people, but it is these little people who make up history, and their existence is history.

There is nothing to blame, in this era of the alternation of the Ming and Qing dynasties, most Han people are like Zhou Xiucai in the past, as long as they can have a bite to eat. No matter how dark the government is, no matter how much the government oppresses them, they will never rise up. They will not sacrifice their lives for any nihilistic national righteousness, they should be removed from their hair, they should be easy to obey, and they will never think about why I do this. Why can't I do otherwise? Questionable rebellion. As a result, when they die, the living will not pity them, but will ridicule them for not knowing the times. In this world, only when you are alive can you have the right to speak, and the dead have no chance to refute others and accuse others. This has been the case for thousands of years, and this is how people live, even hundreds of years later. Isn't it the same? Being able to eat a full stomach is for the Han people. It's the greatest happiness, who would have a head cramp to rebel.

If it weren't for the new soul possession, Zhou Xiucai, who was once timid and fearful, would never take a risk to take revenge on Yunlong, he would probably acquiesce to everything that happened to him, he would not have the courage to resist, he would only cry loudly in front of the empty graves of his parents, wife and children during the New Year's holidays, and after crying, he used his fame to remarry his wife and have children, and gradually forgot his dead relatives. This is the truth, the cold truth, just like the Iron Man Guard just wants to be able to eat a full stomach and have meat to eat, it sounds surprising and speechless, but it is so realistic, so real.

Zhou Shixiang did not scold this soldier who didn't know what to do, but happily said to him and all the ironclad soldiers: "Follow me, make sure you have meat to eat!" ”

A simple promise won the hearts of the soldiers more than any famous saying that could be recited through the ages, and the soldiers would not understand what it meant to be "a prince and a prince would rather have a kind", nor would they think about what "the bird's nest knows the ambition of the bird", but they knew who would have meat to eat, and what to do to ensure that they had meat to eat.

What Zhou Shixiang has to do is to fulfill his promise, as long as his promise can be fulfilled, these iron guards will work for him to the end.

Zhou Shixiang is not without depression, because he also set up an army envoy in the iron man guard, but now it seems that the work of this group of security envoys is not in place, which may be related to the fact that the security army envoys themselves are ordinary people, or maybe they are not trained enough, in short, the security army envoys in the iron man guard have not been able to play their role, which makes Zhou Shixiang vigilant, he must strengthen the role of the security army envoys in the army, it is not a bad thing to have milk is a mother, but if he Zhou Xiucai can't provide this milk, I'm afraid it's not a good thing.

After leaving from the Iron Man Guard, Zhou Shixiang climbed the stone tower built by the local people to commemorate the famous anti-Japanese general Yu Daxuan, he went up to the top of the tower, looked at the Qing army camp under the mountain, and suddenly remembered the past, which was clear in his eyes and never forgotten.

"What are you doing with me?"

"The student's parents, wife and children are in the belly of the general, and the cold food is approaching today, and the students have nowhere to sacrifice, and if they don't worship the general, the students don't know where to worship?"

"You're really talented"

"The student's parents, wife and children all died tragically at the hands of the general, dare to ask the general, should the student take revenge?!"

“”

Filling their stomachs and eating meat is the simple desire of the Iron Man Guard, and they fight desperately for this desire; Revenge is Zhou Shixiang's wish, the soldiers are working hard for their own wishes, and he is also working hard for his own wishes. The two aspirations cannot be said to be superior or inferior, or who is nobler, but they are closely linked and bound together. Zhou Shixiang can't take revenge on his own, he wants to take revenge with everyone's efforts, but only if he fulfills his promise.

Defeating the enemy will naturally have meat to eat, and only when there is meat to eat will more people die for you.

Suna climbed up the mountain and asked Zhou Shixiang puzzled, why did he send people to persuade him to surrender, at present, the Taiping army and the iron guards are only 3,000 people, but the Qing army still has more than 10,000 people, Zhou Shixiang's persuasion to surrender is likely to arouse Jidu's monstrous anger, if he is desperate to press all the troops up, the Taiping army with heavy casualties may not be able to hold Xuanwu Mountain, after all, the Qing army already knows the existence of the Iron Man Guard, and they cannot rush forward again as just now.

Zhou Shixiang did not answer Suna immediately, but asked the blind Li to apply the golden medicine to the wound on Suna's chin, and took out the handkerchief given to him by Lin Wan'er from his arms to carefully bandage Suna.

Zhou Shixiang told Suna that persuasion to surrender was just a bluff, so as to confuse the Qing army and make the other party think that the Taiping army on Xuanwu Mountain was still very strong and did not dare to attack again, after all, the Qing army had lost two battles in a row, and they could not figure out the details of the Taiping army, and the higher Zhou Shixiang's posture, the more cautious the Qing army would be.

Zhou Shixiang asserted that Jidu would not attack again. Suna didn't say anything, his life had been sold to Zhou Shixiang, and there was no way for him to go on the Qing side, Jidu was really going crazy, and he could only fight to the end.

Fortunately, Jidu was not crazy, the Qing army did not attack again, and the next day there was no re-attack of the whole army, on the third day Jidu wanted to fight again, but received a bad news, he stayed in Lufeng to monitor the Taiping army in the city of the four Mongolian Niu Lu called the Taiping army to defeat and retreat to Jieshiwei.

Ji Du carefully inquired about the battle situation, and knew that after the main force of the Qing army advanced north, a Taiping cavalry from the south was killed from the direction of Haifeng, and at the same time, the Taiping army in the city also sent a force to attack the Mongolian soldiers, and the tactics of the Taiping army were quite similar to the Qi army that was destroyed in the Hun River in Liaodong, so that the Mongolian soldiers suffered heavy casualties and finally had to retreat. Now the Taiping army is moving towards Jieshiwei with the cooperation of the cavalry, as if it has the intention of capturing Jieshiwei, Jidu was furious and immediately asked Su Rile to send Mongolian soldiers to pacify the Taiping army, but when Su Rile led the cavalry to rush over, the other party retreated to Lufeng City and did not fight with it at all. Facing the tall city walls of Lu Feng, Su Rile could not break the city and had to lead his troops back.

At the same time, a major battle took place in Xiamen, hundreds of miles away. Although Zheng Chenggong, the king of Yanping, refused the invitation of Zhou Shi to join forces to attack Jidu's army, he sent troops under the persuasion of Chen Yonghua, who joined the army, to launch an offensive against the Qing army in Zhangzhou, Fujian, in order to contain the Qing army in Fujian.

Da Su, who was appointed by Shunzhi as the general of Annan, reported that Zhangzhou was attacked by the Zheng army, and immediately transferred more than 20,000 people from Zhejiang to Zhenming Andali's Eight Banners Army and the Green Camp Water Army of the coastal provinces to Fujian, and Da Su personally commanded the Fujian garrison of the Eight Banners and more than 10,000 Green Battalion soldiers to enter Zhangzhou, and the Zheng army relieved the siege of Zhangzhou and retreated to Xiamen after the arrival of Qing reinforcements.

Seeing that the Zheng army was retreating, Da Su actually wanted to attack Xiamen in an all-round way and completely eliminate the Zheng army, so he commanded the Qing army to attack Xiamen from three directions: Tong'an, Weitou, and Haicheng. After hearing the news, Zheng Chenggong immediately commanded the Zheng army to meet the battle, on the one hand, he sent the town general Chen Peng's department to guard Gaoqi to resist the Qing army on the Tong'an side, and he himself led the main force to gather in the Haimen sea area to meet the Qing army on the Haicheng side.

At dawn on February 26, the Qing army set out from the sea to attack, and the Zheng generals Zhou Rui and Chen Yaoce bravely resisted and died heroically. Dasu sent a Zhejiang naval division to attack Chen Hui, the general of the Zheng army, and Chen Hui ordered his subordinates to fire a large number of Qing ships, but the Qing army could not resist and retreated. At noon, a strong wind blew on the sea, the waves were turbulent, Zheng Chenggong personally led the giant ship to kill the Qing fleet, and Zheng Tai, the marquis of Jianping, also led the Zheng army of Dajinmen to join the battle, the Zheng army became more and more brave the more they fought, the Qing army was defeated and the corpses were all over the sea, and Dasu fled back to Quanzhou in a small boat in embarrassment.

Zheng Chenggong's general, Ma Xin, ordered people to lure down this group of Manchurian soldiers, and then disarmed them, and all the more than 200 Manchurian soldiers were tied to boulders and thrown into the sea at night to drown alive. On the Gaoqi side, Chen Peng, the defender of the Zheng army, secretly agreed that the Qing army planned to surrender, and the Qing army from Tong'an thought that Gaoqi was within reach, so he relaxed his guard, but Chen Peng's subordinate Chen Python refused to surrender, and led his subordinates to resist the Qing army. On the Gaoqi side, the Zheng army killed more than 1,600 Qing troops and captured the Qing army's commander-in-chief, Lu Hara. When Zheng Chenggong heard the news, he immediately arrested the mutinous Chen Peng and replaced him with Chen Python.

This battle greatly damaged the vitality of the Qing army in Fujian, and the naval division transferred from Zhejiang was annihilated. As a result, Zheng's army relieved the threat of the Qing army's attack on Xiamen on land, and made every effort to prepare for the battle of the Yangtze River in July. (To be continued.) )