Chapter 208: Qi Number (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
The tall weeds were blown by the wind, and rolled like the waves of the sea, and like the waves of wheat. The scenery www.biquge.info all kinds of flowers and plants blooming all over the hillside, as if you have entered a hundred gardens, is a beautiful view, but in the eyes of people who are speeding in the mountains, this scenery does not attract their eyes.
This unit, which had come from outside the pass, was moving along the mountain road to the south, or more precisely, towards the pass. When the villagers who were busy living in the barren land in the mountains saw this group of soldiers from afar, they immediately ran towards the ravine to avoid the military disaster, which has been the rule for thousands of years. If the bandits want to hide, this soldier must avoid even more.
But to their surprise, these soldiers in black military uniforms walked straight forward as if they didn't see them, leaving behind a piece of dust that had been rolled up, and the dust raised by the large army kept falling on the leaves. The trunk was also covered with dust. The warriors walked farther and farther away, and after a while, the road in the field was silent again.
After a rain in the afternoon, the valleys become foggy, and the distant mountains and nearby fields are also shrouded in layers of clouds. The convoy carrying supplies was splashed with mud, the ponies pulling the wagons were struggling to move on the muddy roads, and the mules and horses carrying ammunition boxes were also struggling to move forward in the fields, and the warriors on the horses were constantly urging the horses forward with whips and reins.
The officers and men also marched in the mud, their rubberized rain caps wet from the rain, and their rifles were casually carried on their shoulders. Under the cloak, the bullet carrier and the backpack on the back made them look bulky and bloated, and the rain always hit the faces of the officers and soldiers along the brim of their hats, but the faces full of rain were a little tired.
"I have a gun. Shoulder-saddled. The bullet was loaded. The bayonet flashed cold......"
The military song in the marching ranks was loud and loud, although it was raining, but the singing still looked majestic, which was the officers and soldiers cheering themselves up through the military song.
"Impassioned, rushing to the battlefield, who dares to stop the charge! Swear to destroy the enemy and return to his hometown with a song of triumph......"
In the passionate military song, Yu Xiaobao wiped a handful of muddy water. The muddy water was thrown on his face, and a wry smile was squeezed out of his face full of muddy water, and the muddy military boots weighed several pounds, and after a few days of marching, the legs were like they were filled with lead, so that people could not lift their feet.
“…… Get on the bayonet, get on the bayonet, move forward, move forward! Even if the mountain is high and the road is in the way, even if the river is deep and crossed, get on the bayonet, get on the bayonet, and move forward......"
With the cry of this voice. The singing became more heroic, but Yu Xiaobao couldn't shout heroic. Until the last sentence "Rush! Kill! He could only regain some energy, but even so, he could only grit his teeth and rush forward.
Yu Xiaobao, who has been familiar with each other for a few years, is a villager at the foot of Jiaoao Mountain, because of the relationship between many brothers in the family, he left home two years ago and wanted to go to the Kanto region, and he went to North Korea by mistake, and became a policeman.
trotting beside the platoon commander, carrying a rifle, Li Jianye squeezed in front of the platoon commander and asked.
"Sir, when do you think we can get to Xifengkou?"
Hi Feng Kou!
This is their task, although the Fourth Division is a unit that has been reorganized from prisoners, but it is also responsible for the task of attacking Guannai, and now for the 15,000 officers and men of the Fourth Division, their task is to seize Xifengkou and pave the way for a large army to attack Guannai.
How many enemy troops are there at Xifengkou? This is not something that lower-level officers and soldiers need to think about, the only thing they need to think about is to seize the pass.
Strict military discipline is the foundation for maintaining the combat effectiveness of the troops, whether it is the punishment of the gendarmerie or the military stick or muzzle of the commander, it is a way to maintain military discipline, although this causes the prisoners to be timid in the strict military discipline, and then bravely take the lead on the battlefield, for fear of being incorporated into the punishment camp and becoming cannon fodder for mortality.
"Tomorrow!"
Yu Xiaobao replied casually and continued to walk forward with heavy steps. Although he was exhausted, he did not dare to slack off, and military discipline was not only used on those "captive soldiers", even sergeants and officers like him were no exception.
According to military discipline, if they do not reach their destination tomorrow, officers and soldiers will be removed from the ranks, which means that they will be placed in "correctional battalions".
The so-called punishment battalion is actually a cannon fodder battalion, that is, officers and soldiers who have been removed from the military rank are used as cannon fodder to launch a bayonet charge against the Qing army's defense line, with only 10 bullets per person.
If you don't want to enter the punishment camp, then there is only one choice, obey the order, and never be afraid, but the premise is that you must complete the tasks assigned by your superiors.
Compared with the "punishment battalion", they are more afraid of "tithing", this military order just issued, it is said that it is learned from the "successful experience" of the Sixth Division, compared with the "punishment battalion" is more cruel, for the troops who do not obey the order, according to the method of killing one person out of ten, and the murderer is not even a gendarme, but nine other people, which means that someone who does not obey the order, is taking the heads of the other nine people, naturally there will be other people's fists and feet to maintain military discipline, no one wants to tie their heads to someone else's belt, Now they don't even need the supervision of the commander, they are afraid of the "eleventh day", they will take the initiative to maintain military discipline for the commander, and many times those captives are even more active than Yu Xiaobao.
"Sir, you say, when we go to the capital, will we enter the capital?"
As a herald, Li Jianye, although he is not very old, his head is extremely flexible, which is why he was selected as a herald.
"Let's talk nonsense, the walls of the capital are as high as mountains, and you can fight them if you want to!"
"It is the duty of a soldier to obey orders!"
When he said this, Yu Xiaobao pulled the shoulder bag on his waist back, and the rubberized body blocked the rain. It is the duty of a soldier to obey orders. Military personnel who refuse to obey military orders. It's the rebels. There will be no mercy on the rebels.
“…… Grandma's, then won't it be a change of dynasty! ”
A word came from the side, making Yu Xiaobao drink on the side.
"Brothers, hurry up, don't let the third row overtake us!"
Shouting, his pace sped up a lot, and at this moment, Yu Xiaobao saw the side of the road. A rain-soaked army marching briskly through the wind and rain differed from the others in that they had no raincoats, no weapons, no backpacks, and many of the soldiers were barefoot.
A little attention can be seen that there is no rank on their collars, this is a battalion of officers and soldiers who have been stripped of their ranks, and their status in the unit is extremely special - "punishment battalion". This was a feat of the 4th Division, which was actually aimed at the use of captive soldiers. Everyone learns from each other and learns from each other. Just as the "tithe" came from the 6th Division, the "Punishment Battalion" came from the 4th Division, and the division invented this method in the first place, to be precise, a pioneering feat aimed at the cowardice of the "captive soldiers".
When the officers and soldiers of the "punishment battalion" passed by him, Yu Xiaobao involuntarily took off the rifle from his shoulder as a marching supervision, and according to the order, if the officers and soldiers found a soldier who did not wear a military rank, they could enforce battlefield discipline at any time.
Wearing a soaked military uniform, Li Zhongyuan's brows were tightly locked, he could feel the contemptuous eyes cast from all around, unlike those captive soldiers around him, he was a policeman and had never been timid, but why did he retreat? Whenever I think of the battle with the militia two weeks ago, when the soldiers in the platoon retreated in a hurry, he also retreated, and I felt a pang of shame and indignation in my heart.
If it weren't for that, how could he have fled, he was not a prisoner, he was even an officer, a warrant officer, maybe after this battle, he would have been able to study in the lecture hall and thus become a real officer, but now, everything is over, and he bears a very shameful reputation - "deserter".
"If I had died......
Li Zhongyuan couldn't help but think in his heart, if he died, those deserters would be responsible for his death, whether it was sitting or tithing, they would be held accountable for his death, but what about him? but chose to run away,
It was better to die at the beginning! Complaining like this in his heart, Li Zhongyuan glanced left and right, he thought about escaping countless times, but where to escape?
Not to mention that he has no military rank, he may eat his own people's guns at any time, even if he escapes by luck, he may also face the muzzle of the regimental training, and cut off the braided "rebel" head, which is worth ten taels of silver in the eyes of those people, maybe they dare not fight with the army, but it does not mean that they will put the lone soldier in their eyes, in their eyes, there is nothing about whether there is a military rank, and there are only ten taels of silver.
"Hurry up! Don't pretend to be dead, run, run......"
When the scolding came from the side, the more than 200 officers and soldiers in the punishment camp immediately quickened their pace, when they passed by the side of other troops, they would always make the surrounding officers and soldiers feel a little lucky, and they would not sympathize with the cowards, this is the minimum rule in the ranks, and even for some officers and soldiers, they even hope that the other party will break through the enemy formation first, and then when they charge, the casualties will be less, although the resistance of the Qing army along the way is extremely weak, and even the resistance of the official army is not as good as that of the militia group, But who knows what will happen at Xifengkou?
Xifengkou is located in the valley of the Luanhe River, the left and right are high mountains to arch, the terrain is very dangerous pass, located in the eastern section of the Yanshan Mountains, known as Lu Longsai in ancient times, the road leads to the north and south since ancient times for the soldiers to fight for the place. After the Manchu Qing Dynasty seized the Central Plains, although it was no longer necessary to worry about "raiding and harassing" from outside, it could be used as a key pass, for more than 200 years, there was still a battalion of flag soldiers stationed at this Xifengkou, and even just 20 years ago, the flag battalion at this Xifengkou also practiced a foreign gun team, but these flag soldiers who were accustomed to extorting some silver money and goods from the caravans in the past had never practiced foreign guns, or even practiced foreign exercises.
For these banner soldiers who have enjoyed peace for hundreds of years, war seems to be an unattainable thing, and no one thought that there would be a war one day, but when the news came that the "tens of thousands of troops of the Korean rebel army" advanced to Xifengkou, it only made the officers and men of the pass flag battalion tremble.
For the flag soldiers in the family camp here, they didn't think about fighting with the "rebel army" at all, and they saw that the rebellion was about to kill Xifengkou, and the Xifengkou banner camp suddenly became chaotic.
"Quick,, hurry. Hurry up and pack your things. This place can't be stayed! ”
Leermin, who was holding a foreign gun in his hand, rushed into the courtyard. He shouted at the mother-in-law in the courtyard, and he spoke, who had been stationed at Xifengkou for five generations, and he still had a Beijing accent, and his face was full of fear.
"Hurry up, I heard that the people over there in Gubeikou have escaped, this thing of the Nimangha family is really not a thing, serve the court, and our grandfather will serve a bird with a little silver......"
While he was complaining. The woman, who was tidying up, muttered a little puzzled.
"What's the matter, when Emperor Shizu entered the customs, it was all from Yuguan, and the courage of this Tang rebellion is too big, this one who crossed the mountains and mountains came to our Xifeng Pass, and he was really not afraid that someone would cut off his back road!"
Although she is a woman's family, this mother-in-law is reasonable and orderly when she speaks, isn't it? This long-distance march over mountains and mountains to fight a war has long violated the principle of using troops. The original big guys didn't think that the North Korean army would definitely attack Yuguan, which was guarded by Li Hongzhanghuai's camp, but who would have thought that it would go straight to Xifengkou.
"Don't say it, run away quickly, if you don't run away, it's too late, we're only a few hundred people, even if we are desperate, what can we do? Stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood, I look at ......"
Leermin lowered his voice, glanced left and right, and whispered.
"The qi of this Great Qing Kingdom is over......"
The gas is exhausted, when Le Erming took his mother-in-law and left Xifengkou, a majestic fire had burned in the flag camp next to Xifengkou, which was the big guy setting fire to the "home" there, although the home was very simple, although they were looking forward to leaving this black place in their hearts, but at this time, when they looked at the "home" that was thick and fell into the sea of fire, the face still showed reluctance.
"Shall we come back again?"
The mother-in-law's words annoyed Le Erming's heart, and he scolded casually.
"Come back? Why are you going back to this bird place? This Great Qing Kingdom is going to be finished, what kind of broken family do you want this! Walk ......"
Heart-wrenching glance at the flag camp caught in the flames, Le Erming scolded in his mouth, but the heart hurt, his heartache was not the broken house in the flag camp, his heartache was the Daqing Kingdom that gave him silver from the moment he landed.
"Let's go, let's go to the capital, I don't believe it, our Daqing Qi will be exhausted today!"
When Leerming said this, he put the foreign gun that was usually hung on the wall and put it on his shoulder, even if he was practicing in the past, he would not carry the foreign gun, which seemed to be lighter to carry, but his mind was calm, and every step he took seemed extremely heavy.
Is the Great Qing Kingdom really going to end?
Leerming doesn't know, but he knows that this Qing Kingdom is his country, and those Han people can not want this Qing Kingdom, but if the Qing Kingdom is over, then how can he, who can neither farm nor trade, live?
Is it to be a soldier? I'm afraid that the Han people will also look at those children in the banner who can't lift swords and guns and can't bask in the sun, and when the Qing Dynasty is over, they will follow.
In the midst of the roar of the horses and horses, more than 500 households, two or three thousand banner soldiers, women and children who withdrew from the Xifengkou Banner Camp fled in the direction of the capital in such a hurry.
"This lord, our host said, a foreign gun is twenty taels of silver, ...... you see?"
On the side of the road, a man dressed in a short beat, every time he saw a flag soldier, he would lean over, yo the price of the gun, the foreign guns of this flag camp have always been the best, in the past, a gun could be sold for thirty or forty taels of silver, but now even these people have taken advantage of the fire to rob it.
"What? Selling guns? Lao Tzu doesn't sell! ”
When Leermin heard that this man was going to buy his gun, he immediately became annoyed and shouted loudly.
"The master eats the emperor's salary, and he relies on this foreign gun to protect the country of the Qing Dynasty, so he can sell all this foreign gun ......"
But before he finished speaking, he saw Fu Liu, who was walking in front, walking towards the side of the road with a gun on his back, throwing the gun and bullets, and shouting in his mouth.
"Brand new Mauser eight-shot gun, one hundred and twenty rounds, don't talk nonsense fifty taels!"
Not only was there only one rich man who sold guns, but there were other people, and after others sold their guns, they kept lobbying him there.
"Second Master Le, look at your dead mind, this Qing Kingdom is all on this, and it's not bad for you to always give him this loyalty, right? This gun was sold, it was a few dozen taels of silver for nothing, and whether the flag salary was still in the future is a word, no matter how loyal our men are, then we have to take care of the stomach of the whole family first! ”
"No, second master, sister-in-law is still pointing at you!"
Another persuasion came to Lermin's ears, looking at the faces around him that were all "for your sake", looking at the appearance of those people, Lerming only felt that the sky was falling apart for a while, what happened to this Great Qing Kingdom?
Not only did those Han people not know loyalty, but also the banner people who were born and could eat and pay when they fell to the ground, they also fell into the well, and they all came to this point, can the Qing Kingdom not die?
"It's with these dozens of taels of silver, let's go to the edge of the capital and put a few acres of land, no matter how bad it is, it's enough to make ends meet, just let us receive two years of military salaries, do you say it's this reason, second master!"
The Great Qing Kingdom is dying!
When there was no weight on the shoulders relaxed, there was only one thought left in the heart of Le Erming, who was walking towards the capital with the crowd, even the flag people who played small graces were like this, it was really unreasonable for the Qing Dynasty not to die!
The Qi of the Great Qing Kingdom is about to run out!
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