"The people of the old camp, Liu Tichun's last belongings."

The young man muttered, and his heart was inexplicably sour.

These white-haired people are all elite veterans of the Liu Department brought by Suo Yanlong from Lao Mugang, and almost half of them are the original Lao Shunjun.

These people can be said to be all elite soldiers who crawled out of the pile of dead people, and their combat effectiveness is very strong, but it is a pity that the years are not forgiving, and now the average age is probably fifty years old, not to mention that some old soldiers even joined the peasant army during the Chongzhen period, and they are now in their sixties.

Usually, people in their fifties and sixties are basically trying to live an old life, and it is impossible for them to charge on the battlefield like young people, because their energy and body no longer allow it.

However, these white-haired veterans are still fighting on the front line of the anti-Qing Dynasty like young people, and even used as the most important combat force at critical times, I really don't know whether it is the sorrow of history, or the sorrow of the times, or the sorrow of this nation.

For no reason, the young man thought of the white-haired veterans of the Tang Army who held out in the Western Regions thousands of years ago.

How similar are these white-haired veterans in front of them to the veterans of the Tang Army who held out in the Western Regions thousands of years ago!

One is for the last glory of the Tang Dynasty, and the other is for the last integrity of the Han family.

Alas.

Thinking of this, the young man sighed again, although he admired these white-haired old soldiers, but he knew that the great event had passed, and the destiny of heaven could not be disobeyed.

At present, there are still a few months left before the total annihilation of the Kuidong Anti-Qing Base.

This anti-Qing righteous division that has persevered for 18 years is destined to be heroic and extremely tragic.

If the young man is not mistaken, the last commander of the Loyalty Battalion, Lee Lai Heng, should have been martyred by his family.

Li Laiheng's death was characterized by later historians as "the end of the armed anti-Qing movement on the mainland under the banner of the restoration of the Ming Dynasty." ”

There is no way to do this, just ask, how can the land of projectiles be able to fight against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which owns the whole of China!

In the current situation, in the face of the heavy encirclement and suppression of more than 100,000 Qing troops, how can the Ming army, which has less than 20,000 remaining and has no foreign aid or supplement, hold on?

The Qing army piled up human lives and killed the Ming army!

The Ming army died one, one less!

The Qing army died one, but it can replenish countless ones!

Failure is inevitable.

There is no hope of any victory.

Therefore, young people do not reject surrender in their bones.

At least, after hearing that many Ming generals led their troops to surrender one after another, he did not look down on these people, let alone hate them, but felt that their choice might be right.

In the face of life and death, not everyone has a firm and eternal heart and is not afraid of death!

Choosing to live or die is human freedom.

No one can take this freedom away.

Dying for the faith is praiseworthy, but is it necessary to blame it for surviving?

Today, in the Three Gorges area of the Yangtze River, there is no dawn for the Ming army, and there is only despair and a bottomless abyss.

Keep fighting, there is only sacrifice.

Of course, the young man himself will not take the initiative to choose to surrender, because he will not be able to pass the hurdle in his heart.

So, he's waiting.

Wait for someone to take him to surrender.

There is still a difference between active and forced landing.

Although the result is the same, it can make people's hearts feel better.

Perhaps, this is the meaning of the existence of the fig leaf.

The young man's name was Wang Wu, and he had no name.

Sui's father-in-law's surname.

Wang Wu's father-in-law was surnamed Wang Deshun, a captain of the Shun army, who was adopted by Wang Wu during the siege of Kaifeng with Li Zicheng.

At that time, Wang Wu was taken by his hungry father to exchange food with others.

It is said to be "easy to eat".

After giving Wang Wu's father a few pieces of bread, Wang Wu, who was two years old at the time, became Wang Deshun's fifth son.

Collecting righteous sons is a custom in the peasant army, because there are many orphans in the war, in order to let these orphans live, and in order to leave an incense for their own family, many peasant army generals like to collect righteous sons.

For example, the famous Jin King Li Dingguo is the righteous son of Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the Great Western Army.

Similarly, the famous Li Laiheng is also the righteous son of Li Zicheng's nephew Li Guo.

Wang Deshun was illiterate and didn't bother to think about it, so he didn't name a few righteous sons, so he called Wang Da and Wang Er according to age...

Then, Wang Wu is called Wang Wu.

Wang Deshun received a total of seven righteous sons, and now there are only three left.

In addition to Wang Wu, there is also an elder brother Wang Si and a younger brother Wang Liu.

The rest either died of illness or died in Qing attacks.

Wang Deshun himself was also attacked by the local Tusi when he entered Hunan with the dragon and tiger general Gao Yigong in the tenth year of Yongli, and unfortunately was killed by an arrow. After his death, his subordinates followed Liu Tichun, and Wang Wu, who was 13 years old at the time, entered Liu Tichun's children's camp with his two brothers.

The three brothers began to serve in the army when they grew up one after another, because they were the children of "martyrs", and Wang Deshun was very good with Liu Tichun during his lifetime, so in the rest of the shade, the three brothers were reused by Liu Tichun and held different military positions.

Wang Si, who was two years older than Wang Wu, took up the post of guerrilla, and Wang Liu, who was one year younger than Wang Wu, served as the flag commander in Liu Tichun's personal barracks, and Wang Wu himself was assigned to serve as the general commander under Tian Shouyi, the general soldier of the Hanging Seal.

It is always the official system of the Ming Dynasty, the seven products, which belong to the grassroots officers of the army.

The former Shun army was the head of the ministry.

This must be a good starting point for Wang Wu, who was only 16 years old at the time.

In the following years, Wang Wu has been following Tian Shouyi to fight, and in a few years, he has also been promoted to the chief official of Qian.

In the battle with the Qing army last autumn, Wang Wu led people to successfully outflank a Qing army, won more, and personally killed a deputy general of the Qing army's green battalion.

is that the 22-year-old Wang Wu is not only the captain of the personal army Tian Shouyi, but also the Jingzhou general of the Ming Dynasty.

However, everyone knows that this Jingzhou general is a big pie at all, because Emperor Yongli strangled Wu Sangui to death.

The emperor is gone, this general is a bird, who will admit it?

It's really the position of the captain of the pro-soldiers.

As we all know, the general's personal battalion is the most elite place in the army, and those who can serve as the captain of the personal army must also be the confidants of the general, and their position in the army is very important.

Wang Wuneng was the captain of Tian Shouyi's personal soldiers, which shows that Tian has a lot of faith in him.

And Tian Shouyi was not from the old Shun army, this person was originally an officer of Jingzhou Wei in the Ming Dynasty, Liu Tichun, who led people to defect in the seventh year of Yongli, and it was precisely because Tian was not from the old Shun army that Wang Wu always doubted that he would surrender to the Qing army.

If this is the case, Wang Wu will not object.

Tian Shouyi had expressed to Wang Wu half a month ago that the situation had collapsed and that he wanted to make plans for the brothers in advance.

At that time, Wang Wu was still the original Wang Wu, so after hearing it, he only said that only the general soldier was from him.

Now Wang Wu is another soul in his place, but this soul also agrees with the idea of making plans early.

This battle really can't be fought.

Now it seems that Tian Shouyi may be afraid of Suo Yanlong, so he doesn't dare to make up his mind.

Liu Tichun, the Duke of Anhui who is as famous as Li Laiheng, the Duke of Linguo, Wang Wu knows, but the general soldier Suo Yanlong, who led the troops over a few days ago, does not know anything, only that this person is Liu Tichun's henchman.

Not long ago, he commanded the Ming army to counterattack the Qing army in Chenjiapo, but unfortunately the Ming army failed to win that battle, resulting in the Qing army subsequently capturing the Ming army's important town Tianchizhai, which caused many Liu generals to lose confidence in resistance and lead their troops to surrender to the Qing, which made the already tense situation worsen instantly.

This time, Liu Tichun sent Suo Yanlong to bring the old battalion soldiers over to take over the defense of Wujiayuanzi, in addition to wanting to increase the defense capacity of the western front to block the Qing army, it may not be to guard against Tian Shouyi's rebellion.

In case Suo Yanlong is also a good man like Liu Tichun and Li Laiheng, I am afraid that there will be a civil strife in Wujiayuanzi, but I don't know whether Suo Yanlong will strike first or Tian Shouyi will strike first.

If Tian Shouichi really decides to surrender and get rid of Suo Yanlong, as Tian's personal captain, Wang Wu will definitely lead someone to do it.

Thinking of this, Wang Wu couldn't help frowning slightly.

Although he wanted to clear up with Tian Shouyi, it didn't mean that he wanted to help Tian Shouyi get rid of Suo Yanlong.

After all, for the heroes who would rather die than surrender, he still admires and respects them from the bottom of his heart.

Therefore, he absolutely did not want his hands to be stained with the blood of the anti-Qing righteous soldiers.

But what if Tian Shouyi forces him?

Not following Tian Shouyi means that he will die as heroically as Li Laiheng and them!

He didn't want to die here.

Wang Wu, who had a deep lock in his head, really looked worried, and he couldn't make up his mind after a few hesitations, so he decided to take one step at a time.

When you come out, you are awakened by urine.

After a long soak of urine, he was about to go back to the house to continue sleeping, but not far away there was the sound of the guards shouting and scolding, and then he saw a figure shaking at the camp gate.

On duty at the camp gate today are the old battalion soldiers brought by Suo Yanlong.

Before long, the officer on duty at night rushed to the residence of the main general Suo Yanlong with three people covered in snow.

Seeing that several people were in a hurry, as if there was something important, Wang Wu suddenly wondered what was going on, but he was not familiar with the old battalion officer who was on duty at night, so it was inconvenient to stop and ask.

Standing in the wind and snow and watching from a distance, until several figures disappeared into the darkness, Fang shook his head and returned to the house.

It was so cold outside that he couldn't stand it.

This house made of earth and stone is the "welfare treatment" of Wang Wu, the captain of the personal army with the rank of general, although it is not much better than the thatched house where ordinary soldiers live, at least the house is not cold, and there is a charcoal fire.

It's just that Wang Wuyi is not living in this house, there are two others.

It is Wang Wu's personal soldier.

One is called Zhu San, who is mute.

One is named Wan Si, who is a one-eyed dragon.

Zhu San was originally able to speak, but in a battle, the spear of the Qing soldier poked his cheek, and after hitting that, his tongue didn't seem to work, and he was called dumb after a long time.

Wan Si's left eye was shot by an arrow called Qing Bing, and the entire eyeball was gouged out, similar to Li Zicheng back then.

Wang Wu also had injuries on his body, and there was an inch-long scar on his back, which was injured when he fought with the deputy general of the green battalion of the Qing army last year.

Zhu San and Wan Si sat all the time, and only after Wang Wu came in did they lie down again.

Wang Wu slept on a bed, and Zhu San and Wan Si squeezed a bed.

The charcoal stove is not burning coal, but charcoal made by Zhu San, and the taste is not choking.

Seeing that the charcoal in the furnace was almost burning, Wang Wu dragged out a bamboo basket from under the bed, picked up a few large pieces from it and threw them in the furnace, and then did not go to bed, but sat on a small stool by the stove while roasting the fire, thinking about who came to Wujiayuanzi in the snow late at night, and what happened to report.

Zhu San and Wan Si on the bed were also half-asleep, looking up at the captain by the charcoal stove from time to time.

Wang Wu waved his hand at the two of them, signaling that it was okay to let them continue to sleep.

Suddenly a little hungry in his stomach, Wang Wu found a large one from a pile of sweet potatoes piled up in the corner of the wall and threw it on the charcoal to roast, and when it was almost roasted, he was about to take it and peel it and eat it, when someone outside whispered: "Captain, Mr. Tian asked me to call you to the lobby to discuss matters." ”

It was Tian Shouyi's personal soldier.

Hearing this, Wang Wu didn't care about the sweet potato, so he hurriedly put on his cotton clothes, took his saber and went to the lobby with the soldiers outside.

Zhu San and Wan Si also got dressed as soon as possible, and each carried a knife to follow behind Wang Wu.

The "lobby" is not the hall where the Yamen tried the case, but the meeting place where Wujiayuanzi was stationed in the Ming army, which may have been the ancestral hall of the local Wu surname.

After rushing to the lobby under the heavy snow, Wang Wu saw that there were many people inside, including the old battalion officers brought by Suo Yanlong, and the officers under Tian Shou, as well as the general Hu Jungui, the deputy general Wang Zhili, Zhao De'an and others were all there.

After a closer look, they were all important generals under the commanders.

Two lanterns were hung on the beams above the lobby, and due to the strong wind, the lanterns were sometimes high and low on the beams.

Tian Shouyi was talking to Suo Yanlong in a low voice, when he saw Wang Wu coming over and nodded slightly and asked him to stand aside first, and then said to the officers who were puzzled why they were convening a military meeting late at night: "I just received the news that something happened to Lao Mugang. ”

"What's wrong?!"

All the officers were shocked, because Lao Mu Kong was Liu Shuai's station!

Wang Wu is also in his heart, Lao Mugang is Liu Tichun's last important stronghold, and it can even be said to be Liu Tichun's lair, once something happens there, it means that the head of Liu's command will be ended, so the Ming army on Wujiayuanzi's side is really leaderless, either it will be dispersed, or it will be cleared one after another.

There is no other suspense.

Tian Shouyi did not let everyone wait, and directly said that the chief soldiers Tian Heng and Wan He secretly colluded with the Qing army to make trouble in Laomugang.

As soon as he heard that Tian Heng and Wan He were in trouble, the deputy general Yu Guohua was angry and angry, and hurriedly said to the main general Suo Yanlong: "Please give an order to Suo Zhen, and the last general will take someone to save Liu Shuai, and dismantle Tian Heng and Wan He, the two turtle sons!" ”

Seeing this, the rest of the officers also shouted angrily to lead the troops to Laomugang to quell the chaos, and all the generals of the Ming Army in the hall were angry, and those with family members in Laomugang were so anxious that cold sweat oozed from their foreheads.

Wang Wu didn't say anything, although his righteous brother Wang Liu was in Lao Mugang.

He just looked at Tian Shouyi quietly, because he found that this Tian General soldier's eyes seemed to be a little wrong when the generals roared to quell the chaos.

I can't help but wonder if the news of Lao Mugang's chaos prompted Tian Shouyi to make up his mind to surrender?

At this time, he saw that Suo Yanlong, who was like an iron tower, suddenly raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then slowly glanced at the anxious officers, and said in a deep voice:

"Most of Liu Shuai's side has been killed, it is too late to save it, and now, the town has repeatedly discussed with the general soldiers of Tongtian, and decided to send people to Qingying to worship the table as soon as it dawns."