Chapter 123: Hot Eggs from the People
People were talking, and suddenly a dozen old men appeared at the front of the line with baskets of eggs.
"Master Guanjun, this is a little bit of the heart of every family in our village, the eggs are just steamed, and they are still hot, please eat them while they are hot, it will be cold after a while, and it is not delicious."
Runzhi was at the front, and originally wanted to refuse, but thinking that this was a little bit of the people's intentions after all, how could he bear to refuse?
So he asked the quartermaster on one side to arrange for someone to receive it, and then sent someone to stand on the side of the road, along the line, and quickly passed these boiled eggs one by one.
The old man said:
"When I was young, I also participated in the battle against the king of the mountain in a big mountain near us, at that time, there was no such village, because some robbers occupied the mountain as the king, plundered the people everywhere, and killed people indiscriminately, so there was no family within a radius of a hundred miles, and people were terrified when they heard this, and then my Eight Banners Army came here to fight, and finally completely wiped them out!"
The old man continued: "Although those robbers killed many of us, but in the end we still eliminated them, it can be seen that the magic is one foot higher and one foot higher, and now seeing that the officers and soldiers are going to the front line to fight for us bloodily, I can't help but think of my past years, but I am old, or I will go directly with you to fight the enemy!" ”
The old man, then, seemed to think of the other soldiers who had died in the battle, and couldn't help but leave a few tears in his eyes, and for a while, people even talked a lot, and everyone was almost paying attention to Runzhi and these old people, naturally these old people actually represented most of the families in this village.
Runzhi held Lao Rao's hand kindly, and unconsciously, a few tears began to appear in his eyes, and suddenly he realized that he had a long way to go, in fact, he tried his best to protect the people on this side.
Because considering that this village was already relatively close to this Nanyang, Runzhi immediately asked the quartermaster to leave some spears, spears and shields, bows and arrows for this village according to the number of young and middle-aged people in the old man's house, as well as several batches of good horses.
Runzhi seemed to feel that this was not enough, so he immediately ordered a commander to lead his men to stay for the time being, and spend the shortest time in charge of teaching this village and the young adults within a radius of two hundred miles to use these weapons and the basic rules of war, as well as some methods of leading everyone to kill the enemy and escape.
In order to allow other residents within a radius of several hundred miles to have weapons and know how to use them, Runzhi also specially handed over to the commander a document that had been prepared long ago and stamped with his own seal, which read: "Handwritten by the Generalissimo of the East, his subordinates hold this document, and all their requests should be met and reported to the Generalissimo's Mansion", obviously the remaining weapons, the centurion directly received them from the nearby state capital.
After doing this, Runzhi said goodbye to the people in the village, and continued on the road towards Annan.
Because this village is not far from the place where the South Sea pirates are rampant, that is, the subject country of Annam, often after the pirates invade Annam, they will immediately invade the area around this village within a radius of at least two hundred miles, so Runzhi has long had the idea of letting a commander stay and arm this people for the time being.
Indeed, before Emperor Yongzheng, every time a pirate invaded, it was the people of the invaded area who suffered the most.
These common people are really miserable, because there are no bows and arrows, no spears, no shields, and when they encounter pirates, although they can occasionally gather hundreds of people and fight hard, but a few hundred people often can't beat dozens of widows with bows and arrows.
As a result, many ordinary people had to be slaughtered as easily as if they were slaughtering livestock, even if they were lucky enough to snatch the bows and arrows and spears in the hands of the Japanese Kou, because they couldn't use it, they had no choice but to put it on the shelf and continue to fight hard with hoes and Japanese Kou!
Runzhi had been thinking for a long time that if before these pirates arrived in these places, he had sent someone to teach these civilians how to use the latest and sharpest spears and the best bows and arrows.
Before those pirates came, they taught these people to use many weapons, gave these people enough bows and arrows, spears and shields, and carefully chose the generals of the people, ploughed the fields in peacetime, and all the people were soldiers in wartime, so do you still need to be afraid of these pirates?
"Welcome to our Annan Kingdom, these pirates are really hateful, under the blow of Qi Jiguang before, they were almost completely extinct, and now these pirates have united with white-skinned and blue-eyed yellow-haired ghosts who came from nowhere, invaded us from the sea, burned and plundered everywhere in us, and occupied a lot of places, turning thousands of people in these places into their slaves!"
When Runzhi arrived in the north of the Annan subject country with the elite division of the 200,000 Eight Banner Army, most of the southern and northern parts of the Annan country had been occupied by these pirates with white skin, blue eyes and yellow hair.
Pang Huachen, the king of Annan, wrote in a letter: "In the hands of the ministers, I am deeply saddened by the loss of a large area of land in Kyushu. Therefore, I sincerely ask our emperor to send the elite division of Kyushu to sweep away the pirates in one fell swoop, so that Kyushu can return to peace! ”
Originally, because the Yongzheng Emperor entered the customs of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he was very, very uninterested in the land that was not considered a national territory that had become a subject country due to a war in the previous dynasty.
Emperor Yongzheng first thought of this place, although the rice yield is extremely high, and the quality of the tribute rice is very good, but the Central Plains of Kyushu, the rice is rich, everything is prepared, the people of Kyushu, live and work in peace and contentment, rich in products, is the super rich country, your little tribute rice and that production of tribute rice, I can't look down on it, want me to send troops to help you, I have nothing to eat and support?
After seeing the letter of Pang Huachen, the king of Annam, I was moved by his words, especially the sentence "The land of Kyushu, how can pirates occupy it?" It directly made Emperor Yongzheng slap on the case, and even the original music on the case was shocked a lot, and decided to resolutely help them recover the lost ground!
"Indeed, it's so well written, my dignified land of Kyushu can't be occupied by just pirates! It must be recaptured! Even if I hold Kyushu to the last person, I will take it back! As soon as Emperor Yongzheng slapped his head, he immediately called Huang Mao beside him and personally drafted the holy decree, asking Runzhi to immediately stop the case in Chang'an to help this Annan regain the lost territory.
After occupying large areas of land in the south and north of Annam, these pirates put swords around the necks of the people and forced the people to build them high and strange fortified cities like tofu blocks for them day and night.
These pirates and pirates went around looting money and food, hunting down women, killing superfluous men who built castles and other kinds of slaves, and gathered all the women in this strange city built one by one, and used them to rape and make fun.