At noon, the sun is very poisonous, the ground is like a steamer, and there is not a trace of wind, which only makes people feel that this world is like a big steamer. www.biquge.info It was thanks to a heavy rain just a few days ago that the floating soil on the road was pressed away by the rain, so that these officers and soldiers marching on the road would not have to endure the stuffy heat and choking dust at the same time, and on the mountain road, the captured and requisitioned donkeys and horses carried supplies and infantry marched forward like a fiery sun, as if they were intent on making the officers and soldiers suffer, shining with blazing light.

On the march in this hot day, for the soldiers, they dare not think of anything else, and the greatest wish and happiness is to be able to drink water wherever they go, and never run off the water. Although they are all equipped with aluminum 1L kettles (1), but on summer marches this kettle is always not enough, but fortunately the capture solves everything, if there is no captured bamboo water cylinder from the Qing army, the water will definitely not be enough to use, fortunately everyone will bring four or five captured bamboo tubes.

The mountain road was difficult, and the men and horses were so tired that they were panting. The mortar gun on the back of the pack horse also crumbled, swinging back and forth, almost falling off. The men leading the donkeys and horses were equally tired and panting, and unlike the soldiers in military uniforms, these soldiers were dressed as civilians, and they included both prisoners and local conscripts.

Ever since the Korean garrison entered Mukden, there have been residents who have been kneeling down along the way to "ask for the protection of the heavenly soldiers" in order to protect them from being robbed and harassed by Qing officers and soldiers. There are many who are willing to be obedient people. Every time the troops pass through villages and towns. There were always gentry at that time who sent condolences to buy the hearts of the officers and soldiers, and this always encouraged the officers and soldiers, and the sense of honor of the liberators became even stronger.

Under the influence of the sense of honor of the "liberators," the officers and men also treated the ordinary people with great politeness, and maintained "decency" everywhere, as in Korea, so as not to be despised by the people. In contrast, even when the Qing army had not been defeated, the Qing army that had moved its defense was also repeatedly undisciplined, burning, killing, looting, raping and plundering wherever it went, which can be described as doing all kinds of evil, so that whenever an officer and soldier passed by, the people had to hide from the military disaster, and the defeated army was even worse. They disguised themselves as civilians and passed on the danger of death to the people. Burning, killing, looting, adultery, and plundering have also intensified.

In contrast, the garrison army, which was called a "rebel bandit" by the government, easily won the trust of the people, and was accepted by the people, at least to a certain extent.

After climbing a few mountains, you came to a vast plain. Here, nothing can be seen but wheat fields. In the small village in the wheat fields, the troops rested directly by the river next to the village, and in the shade of a large tree at the entrance of the village, a 10-year-old child took care of his crippled father, who had lost a leg, while selling a kind of jujube cake wrapped in leaves.

Next to the jujube cake, which was only a few pieces, those coolies relied on the prestige of the official army to greedily pick it up and eat it, and no one wanted to pay.

"Uncle, uncle, this is all used by my family to sell for money!"

The young child looked at these people and prayed powerlessly, and began to cry, and the crippled father could only endure it in silence, with grief and anger in his eyes, but his face full of helplessness. Even so, the coolies still had no intention of restraint, just grabbing each other's jujube cakes in greed.

"Smack!"

At this moment, there was a sudden loud slap in the face, and then before these coolies could react, they saw that one of the coolies was kicked to the ground violently, and the coolies who were laughing and grabbing the jujube cake were all stunned, and Sun Yuming turned around and saw the squad leader with a blue face, and the so-called squad leader was actually the soldier who commanded them. They may be the most basic presence in the army, but to the coolies, they mean authority.

"Bastard, don't you see what the child looks like when he cries? If you don't give money for eating, it's robbery, and you don't want to eat guns. ”

The iron-faced squad leader scolded while kicking the coolie who was kicked to the ground, and after kicking a few times in succession, the squad leader was even about to take the gun as if he was angry.

"Squad Leader Cheng, that, there is someone who said that he would not give money,"

Sun Yuming, who was captured as early as Huangqibao, knew that this garrison was not the defense army of the past, he had seen those soldiers because of robbery, and they were punished on the spot, and he would see that someone had been slapped, and he saw that the squad leader wanted to take down the gun, and hurriedly took out a one-yuan North Korean coupon from his pocket and handed it to the child.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, ......"

When the crippled father saw this scene, he hurriedly knelt down with a wooden staff and kowtowed, but the child who was pulled to his knees looked at the black-clad soldier gratefully, and seemed to be a little unconvinced by the colorful paper tickets in his hand.

The child's grateful eyes were mixed with admiration and doubt in his eyes, so Cheng Li immediately realized that the people here might not have seen silver dollar coupons yet, so he hurriedly took out a silver dollar from his pocket, this silver dollar was a trophy when cleaning up the battlefield, and it was easier to exchange it for paper money.

"Here, take this for you,"

When he looked at the silver dollar, the boy, who was only ten years old, hurriedly waved his hand and said.

"Master Jun, yes, it's not so much, it's not so much, it's not so much......"

"Take it!"

Shoved the silver dollar into the young man's hand, and then pulled the young man up, looking at the admiration and full of worship in the eyes of the young man with braided hair when he looked at him, Cheng Li said with a smile.

"The extra money should be regarded as an apology for you, you are so big, and it is not easy to take care of your father!"

When the group left, the crippled father still kept kowtowing and thanking him, and when the young man looked at the back of the soldier in black, his eyes were full of admiration, and at the same time with admiration and yearning.

The squad leader's style suddenly made Sun Yuming's face hot, his house is a second-shed shop more than 30 miles away, this father and son are his neighbors, but he even wants to eat these few pieces of jujube cakes. That's a ...... I don't want to be unreasonable. The more I think about his face, the hotter it becomes. So much so that he couldn't raise his head at all in front of the squad leader.

"Sun Yuming, are you from the second shed shop?"

Cheng Li didn't seem to notice Sun Yuming's sense of shame, but directly asked about what the company commander asked him to ask.

"Back to the squad leader, I'm from the second shed shop! Less than thirty miles further south, you will arrive at the second shed shop, and after the second shed shop, you will walk another twenty-five or six miles, and you will be in Huairen City......"

Huairen City, that is the destination of the troops. The purpose of the troops going to Huairen was very simple -- to establish a civil affairs department, and after the civil affairs hall in Huairen was completed, they would also go to Tonghua City, and the troops would go with more than a dozen civil affairs officers and policemen, and they would only need to leave a squad of troops to cooperate in maintaining order.

"Since that's the case, I'll convey the order of the company commander......"

Cheng Li looked at Sun Yuming and said.

"In order to prevent the people from being deceived and resist our army, the company commander has agreed to release your ......"

Release!

Hearing these two words, Sun Yuming couldn't help but be stunned, although he was a military man, he was different from a recruited military man. He was a captive, and now he is being released? Can you go home?

"After all, it's close to your home. However, the company commander hopes that when you return home, you will be able to see with your own eyes the strict discipline and innocence of our army stationed in Korea along the way, and preach it to the villagers and elders, so that they can teach them to know the kindness of our army......"

This is the simplest psychological propaganda, using the captured Qing soldiers to return to their hometowns to preach the kindness of the troops stationed in Korea, and most of these Qing soldiers who were used as coolies are Qing army militia or temporarily recruited regimental training, and with their return to their hometowns to publicize, it can naturally alleviate a lot of resistance.

"Squad leader, I, I will live up to the trust of the commander, and I will pass on the kindness of the army to the villagers......"

At this time, Sun Yuming knelt on the ground gratefully, whimpering to show loyalty and gratitude, when he was captured, he had thought that he would be beheaded, and he had thought that he would survive. Although he became a soldier with the army, except for the occasional slap for violating military orders, this day is much better than in the past in the defense army. Even he, like the conscripted coolies, took up the money, and there was no deduction from the superiors. In total, this day is even more comfortable than the days in the camp in the past, and if there is any inconvenience, it is just too much constraint.

After turning over the loyalty, Sun Yuming left the army, and when he left, he even got a horse, which was a captured military horse, which could be sold for several taels of silver in the market, but now it has become a gift from the army to Sun Yuming.

Most of the men outside the gate will ride horses, and Sun Yuming's equestrian skills themselves are extremely skilled, more than an hour later, after Sun Yuming came to the second shed shop, this will be the second shed shop, the town on the side of the official road is a chaos, outside some shops can be seen with the shop owner and shopkeeper who are pretending to be hiding from the war, and seeing a familiar shopkeeper, Sun Yuming hurriedly rode over.

"Shopkeeper Xu, what are you doing here?"

"Yo, isn't this the boss of the old grandson's family? You're not ......."

The shopkeeper Xu, who was beckoning his family to get into the carriage, looked at Sun Yuming and immediately realized that the person in front of him hadn't gone to eat military rations before? Look at this, you must have suffered a defeat and fled all the way back. It's good to escape back, but it's all about saving your life.

"Hey, it's good to save your life, it's good to save your life, this soldier's food has to be eaten like this, it's okay to bear peacetime, in this troubled world, it's important to save your life first!"

After some exclamation, Xu Tangjiao continued:

"What else can I do, isn't this North Korean rebel coming, this bandit is like a comb, the soldier is like a grate, I can't recruit it, we can't afford to escape......"

Since ancient times, soldiers and bandits are all one family, and even more than bandits, when bandits come to the door, there can still be some omissions, but when those soldiers cross the border, they can't wait to sift through the big guy's property like a sieve.

"Look at what you said, the army stationed in Korea is different from the officers and soldiers in the past......

Sun Yuming hurriedly explained his experience one by one, and seeing that the shopkeeper Xu seemed to be a little unconvinced, he hurriedly took out a copy of the notice of Anmin carried in the cowhide tube behind the saddle, and then posted it directly in front of the shopkeeper Xu's restaurant.

"Shopkeeper Xu, look, this is an Anmin notice stamped with the seal of the chief civil affairs officer of Huairen County, now you can rest assured!"

Seeing that many people gathered over, although everyone didn't know what the official position of the "civil affairs chief" was, but for thousands of years, the awe of the official had long been engraved into their bones.

"Don't run away, this garrison is a real king, along the way has never disturbed the people, just like the Yue family army said in the book, freeze to death and do not demolish the house, starve to death and not plunder, although the big guy is relieved to stay at home, this Mencius said that the pot pulp, in order to welcome the king, we are all from Shandong, Shandong is the hometown of the sage, don't let people laugh at us rude, the big guy just boil the tea, welcome the king,"

First there was the pacification of the people's notice, and Sun Yuming used his family to save his life, most of the people in the town still stayed, but there are still many women who still hide, after all, some losses are not eaten no matter what, not afraid of 10,000, just in case it is not.

Two hours later, when a company of troops stationed in the DPRK entered the second shed, Sun Yuming hurriedly led his family and neighbors and the gentry and elders of the town to kneel down at the entrance of the town to welcome Wang Shi, and when the civil affairs officer, who was only twenty-one or twelve years old, stepped forward to help, Sun Yuming kowtowed with tears on his face and said:

"When the king comes, how can the foolish people not be obedient?"

When Sun Yuming knelt down and kowtowed, some bold people around him all looked at these "rebel bandits" in surprise, unlike the officers and soldiers they had seen in the past, these "rebel bandits" in the mouths of the government were all dressed in a foreign style, but they seemed to be very energetic.

"Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up!"

In the kowtow of a group of gentry, the civil magistrate hurriedly helped up, and at the same time politely dealt with them, and finally faced the fat pigs and grain of the labor army sent by the gentry and elders, naturally first declined, and finally reluctantly accepted the people's "kindness", and came, in the eyes of everyone, the civil affairs officer first loudly thanked the people of the second shed shop for their love for the army, and then announced that this year's summer tax was exempted, compared to others, although this tax exemption is "generous to others", but it won the favor of the people in an instant.

When the troops were temporarily stationed in Ershanzidian, the people in the town finally believed what Sun Yuming said before, not only did the soldiers on this team not break into their homes, but even levied grain and vegetables at market prices, and there was no imaginary looting at all.

"The villagers have all seen the benevolence and righteousness of Wang Shi, and they must pass on the kindness and benevolence of the army to the villagers......

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