Chapter 5 We Cast the Tiger

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After Zhu San and Wan Si's ideas were completed, Wang Wu did not delay and immediately called the officers under him to his room.

As a battalion officer, he could not talk to every soldier, so he could only assign ideological work to those below him.

Due to the complex source of the Ming army in the Kuidong area, there are Shun army backgrounds, Ming army backgrounds, regimental training backgrounds, and landlord arms, so the Ming army departments did not have a unified establishment, nor did they have a unified order, only each department pushed Liu Tichun to preside over military affairs, and divided the soldiers and horses into 16 battalions.

If there is a war, each family will obey Liu Tichun's command and send troops together.

If there is no war, the troops will be trained while farming.

On weekdays, each family returns to its own family, and does not ask each other questions.

Liu Tichun's headquarters followed the military system of the old Shun army, and Tian Shouyi's side was born as a hereditary officer of Jingzhou Wei in the Ming Dynasty, so his troop establishment was based on the guard system of the old Ming army.

Specific to the pro-military battalion commanded by Wang Wu, the lowest grassroots officer is Xiaoqi, who is in charge of ten people; Above the small flag is the general flag, which is in charge of fifty people; On the general flag are 100 households, and 100 people are in charge.

Wang Wu, as the leader of the pro-military battalion, is at most a thousand households.

In fact, he has the rank of Jingzhou staff general, and the staff general is at least a colonel and brigade commander.

But in reality, there are only about 300 people under Wang Wu, and at most he is a major battalion commander.

The reason for the asymmetry of official positions and positions is the indiscriminate sealing of official titles by both sides in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

There were many seals on the Ming Dynasty, and the names on the Qing Dynasty were also all over the place.

The eldest brother doesn't talk about the second brother.

Three hundred households, six general flags will soon arrive.

These nine people are the middle-level leadership team of the pro-military battalion, that is, the backbone of the soldiers and horses under Wang Wu.

Zhu San is the flag of Wang Wu, which is equivalent to a herald, with ten heralds in his hands.

Wan Si is the captain of Wang Wu's direct pro-soldiers, and he also brings ten people.

These 20 people belonged to Wang Wu's own direct subordinates, and the total number of officers and soldiers in the battalion was 324.

The three hundred households are 32-year-old Tian Wen, 31-year-old Guo Kui, and 28-year-old Zhao Jinzhong.

Among them, Tian Wen is a native of Jingzhou, Yongli took the initiative to defect to Tian Shouyi from his hometown to participate in anti-Qing activities in the sixth year of Yongli, and he studied in a private school in his hometown for a few years when he was young, claiming to have a talent and fame, but in fact he was just a child.

Guo Kui is a native of Xiangtan, Hunan, in the second year of Yongli, the Qing army invaded Xiangtan and carried out a massacre of the residents of the city. So far, he has participated in the anti-Qing righteous division, and then joined the Tian Shou Department.

Zhao Jinzhong is a native of Wushan, originally a hunter, because the arrow shot well, Tian Shouyi forcibly pulled a strong man, and in a few years, he also did it to a hundred households.

Two of the remaining six general flags are also from Jingzhou, and three are from Xiangyang.

The other is Wang Wu's companion in the children's camp, who is three years younger than Wang Wu and is only nineteen this year.

He doesn't have a name, and he is called a dog.

"Dog leftovers", which sounds like dogs eating leftovers, has a discriminatory meaning.

In fact, in recent years, poor families often use the word dog to name their children, because the poor think that giving their children a vulgar and lowly name is easy to feed, and they can withstand beatings and illness.

Among the six general flags, Gou Yu is the closest to Wang Wu, probably because Wang Wu often took him to play with him when he was in the children's camp.

A group of people who have had different experiences in joining the military and have different lives.

Now, we are facing a difficult choice together.

After repeating what Zhu San and Wan Si had said to the nine people, Wang Wu did not demand that the nine people must obey the order in a commanding tone, but let the nine people choose themselves.

If you are willing, you are willing, and if you are not willing, you will leave tomorrow.

He is not Suo Yanlong, and he can't force his subordinates to surrender with him.

"Alas!"

Xiucai Tianwen was the first to sigh, as if he had expected today's events, and said with a wry smile: "The building will fall, and it will be difficult to support it alone." Today, the situation can no longer be changed by our insistence, since the above has decided, I have nothing to say, it's a big deal to go back to my hometown to farm. ”

Zhao Jinzhong, who was born in a local Orion, snorted slightly and didn't say anything.

In the final result, Guo Kui, a hundred households who had a hatred of destroying the Qing army, as well as Yu Zhu and Song An, the general banner, chose to fight to the end with the Qing army and swore not to surrender.

Wang Wu understood and respected the choice of the three and asked them where they planned to go.

Guo Kui didn't think much about it and said, "Let's go to Hushuai!" ”

"Tiger Shuai" is the famous Linguo Gong Li Laiheng, whose father-in-law Li Guo is nicknamed "a tiger", so he is called "Little Tiger", and over time he is respectfully called "Tiger Shuai".

Li Laiheng is the most "simple" part of the Ming army in Kuidong, all of which are the old Shun army of the year, and the base is in the Maolu Mountain area in Xingshan, and it is also the strongest Ming army in all walks of life, with more than 10,000 horses.

It's just that Wang Wu knows that at this time, there are at most seven or eight months left before the Qing army captures the Maolu Mountains, and with the defeat of Liu Tichun's troops, the Maolu Mountain anti-Qing base will eventually be surrounded by the Qing army.

Therefore, Guo Kui and his family chose to go to Maolu Mountain to join Li Laiheng at this time, which was a fearless move to dedicate themselves to it knowing that they would die.

He didn't know what to say, so he could only nod slightly, and asked everyone to inform the soldiers of the matter of tomorrow's clearance, which was also based on the principle of voluntariness and would not be forced.

When the nine people got up, Wang Wu looked at Guo Kui again: "If you are willing to continue to persevere, you will take it to Hu Shuai." ”

After speaking, let Zhu San count the weapons and equipment in the battalion, select some good weapons, and hand them over to Guo Kui and them to take away.

Guo Kui and the three didn't say much, but just arched their hands towards Wang Wu, the young captain.

It's all in plain sight.

This goodbye may never see each other again.

Before dawn, the rough results came out.

To Wang Wu's surprise, more than half of the soldiers were unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and chose to follow Guo Kui to Maolu Mountain to continue fighting the Qing army to the end.

These people are not from the old Shun army, but Tian Shouyi's routs that have been collected in various places over the years, and even some of them are strong men, it stands to reason that these people can survive if they surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but they don't want to sacrifice and decide to fight with the Qing army to the end, which really makes Wang Wu full of emotion.

Combined with the fact that the middle and high-ranking generals who were discussing in the hall at night were not willing to surrender, except for one Yu Guohua, the rest of them had no resistance to surrendering, and their hearts were even more uncomfortable.

In addition to sighing, Wang Wuji ordered Tian Wen and Zhao Jinzhong to assist Guo Kui and lead people away.

Tian Wen was a little worried: "With so many people leaving at once, what if Lord Tian is to blame?" ”

"After tomorrow, you and I are both pure people, what is there to blame... Do as I say. ”

Wang Wu was not worried about Tian Shouyi, because after surrendering, it was difficult to say whether he Tian Shouyi was still his boss.

It is impossible for the Qing army to let the Ming army that has surrendered to the past continue to maintain its intact structure.

It was soon dawning, the snow stopped, and even the wind stopped.

The snow was so thick that it was knee-deep at depth.

The long-lost sun appeared in the east, and a ray of sunshine fell on the land of Wushan, although it could not make people warm, but it made every Ming army soldier in the depths of Wushan have a warmth.

This warmth comes more from the motivation to live.

The matter of lowering the clearance is basically well known.

Wang Wu didn't know what the other troops thought, only that the soldiers of Hu Jungui's troops stationed not far away were noisy early in the morning, not a mutiny, nor a disorder, but a particularly relaxed chat.

A group here, a bunch there, told each other whether they would continue to be soldiers and eat after surrendering, or whether they would receive the severance money and return to their hometowns to live.

Maybe there are some of them who don't want to descend, but it's definitely a minority.

People tend to follow the crowd, and in the absence of an organization, a few people cannot shake the overall situation and can only go with the flow.

Guo Kui took more than 180 people who were unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty to meet Wang Wu for the last time, and then quietly went out of the camp in the name of going out to inspect the camp.

Wang Wu had been standing at the gate of the camp and watching these death-defying warriors leave, until their figures disappeared, and then he stomped his feet melancholy, and returned to the station a little lonely.

Guo Kui and the others are not safe on this way, because the Qing army may have come from Lao Mugang's side.

As soon as he returned to the camp, he received an order from Tian Shouyi, asking him to lead the pro-soldier battalion to assemble in Dongba immediately, and emphasized carrying weapons.

Dongba is the training ground of the Ming army, Wang Wu didn't think much about it, he just thought that Tian Shouyi was going to speak to his subordinates, and then went to the Qing camp to disarm collectively, and then ordered the remaining soldiers to go to Dongba to gather.

When he arrived on the ground, he was shocked by the scene in front of him.

In the line of sight, several groups of people were surrounding a group of people.

The group of people who were surrounded were about hundreds of people, judging from their clothes, they were all old battalion soldiers who came here with Suo Yanlong a few days ago, and many of them had gray hair.

Surrounding this group of veteran battalion soldiers were the troops of Suo Yanlong's other subordinate deputy generals Wang Zhili, Lu Congyun and others.

The deputy generals Ma Dasheng and Li Zhibing, who were regarded as Tian Shouyi's right-hand men, also each led a team of soldiers to block the west gate of Dongba.

Before he could understand what was happening, Tian Shouyi's voice came from his ears: "Why are there just these people, what about the others?" ”

Wang Wu hurriedly walked towards Tian Shouyi, who was frowning and looking at him, and said in a low voice: "The others don't want to return to the Qing Dynasty with the adults, so the last general will let them go on his own initiative." ”

Hearing this, Tian Shou was furious, raised his foot and kicked Wang Wu, and scolded: "Bastard, who let them go!" ”

Wang Wu didn't dodge, he took Tian Shouyi's kick, and stood there with his head down and didn't speak.

Seeing this, Tian Shouyi was even more angry, but now there was something more tricky than this, so he didn't continue to attack, but only said to Wang Wu in a muffled voice: "This account will be settled with you, you bring someone with me first." ”

Wang Wu hurriedly responded, waved his hand and motioned to Baihu Tianwen and Zhao Jinzhong to lead the troops over, and asked Tian Shouyi in a low voice What happened.

Tian Shou said as he walked: "Those are Yu Guohua's soldiers, and they refuse to return to the Qing Dynasty with Suo Town." ”

Wang Wu looked up at the old battalion soldiers who were confronting: "What are you going to do with the lock town?" ”

"What should I do?"

Tian Shouyi stopped his pace and glanced at Wang Wu with a sideways face, "Later, when we see the lock town, the red flag falls, you will lead the troops to slaughter these people!" ”