Chapter 11 The banner is fought to the end
There is a chance!
Not now, but nine years from now!
That's the potential!
Momentum that others can't see.
This trend is the "Rebellion of the Three Feudatories" that swept half of China!
Regardless of whether the Qing Dynasty is lowered or the Qing Dynasty is insisted on, Wang Wu's motivation comes from this potential.
But he had no way to tell Tian Wen that nine years later, the sound of the war drums in the southwest would hammer the Manchus to the ground, and that would be the last chance for them to regain their sight after persisting in resisting the Qing Dynasty.
How he survived these nine years, he doesn't know.
It's really just a matter of taking one step at a time.
The most important thing at the moment is to take people to Lao Mugang, if you can rescue Liu Tichun, the leader of the Kui Dongming Army, maybe you can make a small change in history.
With Liu Tichun's prestige in the eyes of the old Shun soldiers, as well as his appeal among the Ming armies of various departments, maybe the time for the destruction of the Ming army in Kui Dong can be postponed.
If Wang Wu can lead people out to move in the rear of the Qing army, the butterfly's wings may not be able to flapp.
With the combination of various factors, it is difficult to say that Wu Sangui cannot be carried to raise troops!
Or maybe it won't lead to new variables.
Don't think about it anymore at the moment, and ask the dumb Zhu San and the blind Wan Si to go with him to the granary arsenal.
The grain stored in the warehouse was hoarded by Tian Shou before his death, and it was about enough for the previous 4,000 Ming troops to support half a month.
This would reduce the number of Ming troops by three-quarters, and if Wang Wu chose to hold on, the food would last for two months.
The problem is that it is impossible to keep it anymore and must go.
After looking at the warehouse, Wang Wu instructed Wan Sidao: "Let our brothers and the people of the old camp carry the rations for ten days, and the rest will be set on fire." ”
If he wanted to rescue Liu Tichun, it would be impossible for Wang Wu to let people use big carts and small carts to bring all the food, which would not only increase the burden on the soldiers, but also affect the speed of the march, and if he didn't do so, he would be caught up by the Qing army halfway.
It is necessary to travel lightly, and everything that slows down the march must be discarded.
Wan Si went as ordered, and at the same time, he was instructed by Wang Wu to slaughter the pigs and more than 30 sheep raised by Tian Shouyi in the camp, and then took them away in the same way as manpower.
After dealing with the grain and livestock in the camp, Wang Wu took the mute Zhu San to the arsenal to take a look.
Due to the blockade of the Qing army for more than 10 years, the weapons and equipment of all units of the Ming army in the Kuidong area were very poor, and the armor rate was less than 3 percent, and the weapons used were mainly cold weapons, broadswords, and spears, and there were few firearms.
The reason was that the Ming army could not make its own gunpowder, which could only be replenished by capturing it.
This led to the fact that even if there were more than 300 firecrackers in the warehouse, Wang Wu would not look at them as if they were burning sticks, and only asked Zhu San to take out more than a dozen sets of iron armor along with more than 100 pieces of cotton armor, as well as more than 200 sets of cards and some bows and crossbows that looked good in quality and distributed them to the soldiers.
There is something that Wang Wu doesn't dare to waste at all, so he lets people take it all away with a bamboo basket.
This thing is salt.
The blockade of the Qing army led to an extreme shortage of salt in the Ming army, so salt was comparable to gold in the Kuidong area, and the Ming army did not know how many casualties it paid for in order to get salt.
There is no way, if people can't eat salt, it won't take long for them to swell and collapse, and they will be weak, how can they fight with the Qing army at that time?
Tian Shouyi's storage of salt in the arsenal instead of in the granary shows the importance of salt.
A total of 28 jars of salt are carried by Wang Wuyan's personal soldiers, and each jar of salt weighs twenty or thirty pounds.
None of the soldiers who carried the salt complained about being divided into drudgery, but used cotton clothes to make the bamboo basket containing salt sturdy like a treasure, lest half of the bamboo basket break the hole and the salt jar fall to the ground.
Except for food, livestock, and weapons, basically nothing.
In the end, there was some gold and silver that was turned out from the residences of Tian Shouyi and other generals, and it was not much, about a few hundred taels.
Originally, Wang Wu didn't want to take it away, thinking that if he successfully broke through to the rear of the Qing army, he might need money, so he asked the mute Zhu San to wrap the gold and silver in cloth and carry them on the road.
There is no need to carry copper coins or anything, and they are all discarded.
The team on the dam side has been reorganized, and in order to facilitate the command, Wang Wu asked Tian Wen to organize a team of four hundred people.
Tian Wen and Zhao Jinzhong each led a team, Wang Wu's little brother Gou Yu also led a team, and the remaining team was led by a person named Zhang Pengyu.
This Zhang Pengyu is Suo Yanlong's personal soldier, not only did he not resist Wang Wu and them during the Batai Incident, but also stopped the rest of the companions who wanted to come forward to fight, so Wang Wu remembered the matter, and saw that he was also willing to stay and continue to resist the Qing Dynasty, so he was called to serve as the commander of a team.
Half of Zhang's team are Suo Yanlong's soldiers, and it is better to have Zhang Pengyu, his own person, commanding them than letting someone else command them.
This is also a voluntary benefit of going and staying.
There is no need to worry about the people who stay there having different intentions.
Zhao Jinzhong himself is a marksman, so there are many archers in his team, and he is the only long-range attack force in Wang Wu's hands.
The whole team can only use 48 guns, and the amount of gunpowder together is about the same as the weight of two jars of salt.
Better than nothing.
Wang Wu's own personal army was still under his direct command, both as a sharp knife for attacking fortifications and as a reserve.
informed everyone that he wanted to come back to Lao Mugang to rescue Liu Shuai, and Wang Wu was about to give the order to set off, and the Lao Shun army over there had already been assembled.
At this time, two people quarreled and said that they were going to go with the team.
Wang Wu looked at the two of them and found that one was about fifteen or sixteen years old, and the other was only twelve or thirteen years old.
A teenager, a child.
"What's going on?"
Wang Wu turned his head and asked Tian Wen.
Tian Wenhui said that one of the two children is named Liu Yuan and the other is called Song Child.
"Song child?"
Wang Wu smiled, thinking that this must not be the name of a human child, most likely this child has no name at all like himself, so he was called like this.
That's just the way it is.
Both of them are only sons, and according to Wang Wu's request, there are no only sons in the army, so they can't go with the team. But for some reason, these two people were unwilling to leave no matter how much they persuaded them, and they had to fight with the Qing army to the end.
After understanding what was going on, Wang Wu asked Tian Wen to bring the two of them, and after taking a closer look at the two, he asked them in harmony why they didn't beg for a way to survive like those who descended to the Qing Dynasty, and they had to stay.
"My lord, it's true that we are only children, but we are also orphans, our parents are called clear dogs, how can we take revenge if we don't go with you!"
Liu Yuan, who was a little older when he spoke, turned red because of excitement.
"Yes, we want to stay and take revenge, you can't do without us!"
The young Song child looked at Wang Wu in front of him very nervously, and his immature face was full of stubbornness.
"Come with me, you'll die, I don't want your family to be extinct, your father and mother don't even have a person to burn paper for the New Year."
Letting the only son leave and live is Wang Wu's humanity and morality to this era.
When the young man Liu Yuan heard this, he shouted anxiously: "My lord, if you don't let us avenge our parents, what face do we have to burn paper for our parents!" ”
Wang Wu was silent after hearing this, and looked at the two children motionlessly.
In the middle of the sound, he nodded, called the mute Zhu San over, and motioned for the two children to follow Zhu San.
"Thank you, sir!"
When the two children saw that they were accepted into the team again, they immediately turned their bitterness into laughter, and happily followed Zhu San into the pro-soldier team.
On the side of the old Shunjun, Ma Sizhong sent someone over to inform them that they had set off, and let the people of the five brothers Wang follow behind.
"Let's go, save Liu Shuai!"
With Wang Wuyi's order, 487 Ming soldiers did not hesitate to pick up their weapons, carry their rations, and walk towards the outside of the camp without hesitation.
At this moment, everyone knew that there was no turning back.
No remorse, no flinching.
Just because they have the last faith.
Wang Wu, like everyone else, also walked at the front of the line with his own rations on his back, and after leaving the camp, he turned around to take one last look at Wu Jiayuanzi, but was stunned by the scene in front of him.
A big banner with clear characters stood high in the team, and under the flagpole was the twelve or thirteen-year-old Song child.
It can be seen how difficult this banner is for children.
But the child gritted his teeth and carried it.
Even if the immature face is flushed with it, he doesn't want to give it to others.
This scene made Wang Wu laugh.
Be open-minded.
So, let him beat this banner to the end!