Wushan, there are almost no living people!

The struggle against the Qing Dynasty was brutal.

Don't say that the small Wushan is a neighboring province in Sichuan after years of military disasters and massacres by the Qing army, and the current population reported by Li Guoying to the Qing court is only "18,090 dings".

There are only 100 people left in Chengdu Prefecture.

Guizhou and Yunnan in the southwest have become no-man's land.

So Wang Wu knew that what the people were saying was the truth.

This area is already barren and its population is not large, and the Ming army has been operating here for more than ten years, and the population loss in the Wushan area has been very serious due to the continuous resistance to the Qing Dynasty.

Zhao Jinzhong, the archer under Wang Wu, was a strong man who was forcibly pulled by the Ming army.

To a certain extent, there is no essential difference between the Kuidong families and the warlords, and pulling Zhuangding is a very common behavior.

Needless to say, the difference lies in the severity of the matter.

In other words, some are persuaded to "mobilize", while others are directly arrested.

Without this, the Ming army would not have been able to hold out until now.

Excluding the Ming army and their families who withdrew with them to the Wushan area, Wang Wu estimated that there were at most 10,000 or 20,000 locals left under the control of the Ming army.

This is also one of the reasons why Wang Wu wavered and prepared to surrender to the Qing Dynasty at the beginning.

If there is no one, there will be no reinforcement of soldiers, and there will be no source of food.

No matter how determined the Ming army is, no matter how much it can fight, without population replenishment, they will not be able to hold out at all.

Even without the Qing army, as long as the encirclement lasts for a long time, the Ming army will collapse internally.

Kui Dong is a dead place.

The fact that the king of heaven and Lao Tzu is here can't change the fact that this is a dead place!

It's a fool's dream to base it on.

Mo said that its own conditions were not enough to support the long-term struggle against the Qing Dynasty, and that the Qing army's "sweeping hole" action announced the inevitable defeat of the Ming army.

People are dead, and there is not even a person to report the news, how can this battle be fought?

Therefore, Wang Wu didn't want to continue to wait for death in this place of death, he wanted to stand out!

This time, no matter whether he can rescue Liu Tichun or not, he has to break through.

As for these people in front of him, Wang Wu does not blame.

First, I don't hate them for being short-sighted, and second, I don't hate them for being spineless.

They are ordinary people, ordinary people who just want to live in peace.

The national righteousness is very distant to them, and the debate of Huayi must be unheard of, and they don't care about clothing or anything.

It can be said that the Ming and Qing dynasties outside the mountains have nothing to do with them at all.

If it weren't for the Ming army occupying Kuidong to resist the Qing Dynasty, they wouldn't even know that Emperor Zhu's country was occupied by outsiders!

Even, if it weren't for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they would have rebelled against the Ming Dynasty.

Because, too, they will live.

The Ming Dynasty was abandoned by the people.

It was not the Manchus who overthrew him, but a rebel army of thousands of peasants who were forced to change their children and eat!

If he hadn't come to the eighteenth year of Yongli and the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Wang Wu would have been one of the survivors who sounded the horn of attack to the Ming Dynasty.

As the middle-aged man said, when the Ming army came, they planted land and paid grain, and the Qing army came to plant land and pay grain, neither the Ming army nor the Qing army would make a qualitative change in their lives, and they were still cattle and horses.

Why, then, should they be sacrificed?

And why don't they live like dogs?

If they are traitors, then what are the thousands of people in the north and south of the country who have braided their hair under the rule of the Qing court?

Among them, does it also include the ancestors of Wang Wu?

Thinking of this, Wang Wu couldn't help but laugh at himself.

There's nothing wrong with it, it's this era that's wrong!

Some people choose to die standing up, and some choose to live on their knees.

Whether to live or die is the greatest freedom of human beings.

If he had to deprive him of this, Wang Wu didn't know what he was doing to resist the Qing Dynasty.

There is a saying that every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and now, why not?

Is it a country, or is it a home country?

Different people have different understandings.

The gentry scholars thought that there was a country first and then a home, but the common people thought that there was a country before there was a home.

The two viewpoints have always coexisted and are also-for-tat.

If the country is gone, where will the home come from?

If your home is gone, what country do you need?

After thousands of years of debate, there is no answer.

Just look at the heart.

Wang Wu never frowned when he killed people, and he never showed mercy, but he was not a person who talked about righteousness, nor was he a person who shouted at every turn that you would die if you didn't go with me.

He does not engage in moral kidnapping, he respects all choices.

Since these people thought that the Ming army that insisted on resisting had harmed them, if there was no Ming army, they would have been able to live in peace under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, without having to break up their families and wives and separate, then Wang Wu had no need to take them.

He has no time and will not talk to these people about the general trend of the world, about the righteousness of the family and the country, and even sensationally preach about what has happened in the past 20 years, so as to arouse the empathy of these people who have already broken their families, and make them clamoring like chicken blood to fight to the end with his big sword Wang Wu and Tartar, and avenge the death of their relatives or something.

He just ordered the people to be released wherever they went.

Xu Lin felt unacceptable to this order, and persuaded: "General, these people are hopeless, let them go, they will definitely report to the Tartars when they turn back!" ”

The dog remnants and the blind man Wan Si also thought that these eggless people should be killed, so as not to cause trouble to the Ming army.

Zhao Jinzhong didn't say anything, but his eyes obviously said that he didn't agree to do this.

No matter what these people think, they are all from Wushan and his fellow villagers of Zhao Jinzhong.

There is only such a poor person left in the family, and they are only working for the tartars, and it is not a capital crime.

Wang Wuzi will not kill these people, what is the difference between doing so and the Qing army?

What the Qing army didn't do, he Wang Wu led the Ming army to do it for the Qing army?

"Let the people go."

Wang Wu was not worried that letting these minfu go would cause trouble to their next actions, because these minfu were not scuds, how could they be able to notify the Manchurian soldiers in time as soon as the Ming army left.

By the time the nearby Manchurian soldiers received the news, the Ming army had already sneaked to Cizhu Cage.

This may be the only benefit that the inconvenience of communication brings to Wang Wu.

Looking back at the people who were happy because the Ming army was going to release them, Wang Wu suddenly said lightly: "Maybe I let them go, it's not a good thing for them." ”

"Huh?"

In Xu Lin's puzzled gaze, Wang Wu had already walked to the front of the assembled team.

Looking at the different faces looking at him, he didn't want to say anything, but after a moment of silence, he still chose to raise his voice and said: "You have heard the words of those people, maybe you have sympathy, hatred, contempt, and coldness for those people in your hearts...

But what I want to say is that they are all poor people, and there is nothing wrong with them wanting to live, and there is nothing wrong with us choosing to die!

Why do we choose to die?

Not because of how brave we are, not because of how fearless we are, but because we have an unyielding heart!

Remember, we are not dying for whom, we are dying for ourselves! ”