Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 88: Turn Into

After two days of rain, the weather finally cleared up. For the crops in the field, the rain was very timely, but for Taiping Camp, the rain was not at the right time.

Under the auspices of Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong, the strategy of marching into Xiangshan has been finalized and conveyed to the level of Xiaoqi, but the rear camp has not received any notice, not only has no one told these old and weak women and children that they are going to travel thousands of miles away Fragrant Mountain, and no one even told them that Taiping Camp would leave Luoding soon. In order to keep it secret, Zhou Shixiang issued a strict order, no matter who leaked the news, he would be punished.

It’s not Zhou Shixiang’s way of doing things to keep most people in the dark. He wants to let every man, woman and child in the Taiping Camp know what they are going to do, because only if they know what they are doing, they can follow with confidence, rather than a lot on the road. Run away, or resist, so that the morale of the entire Taiping camp drops to freezing point. It is impossible for an army without morale to complete the goal of turning thousands of miles into the target, and the biggest possibility is that it will be scattered halfway.

However, knowing that concealment did more harm than good, Zhou Shixiang still chose to conceal and block the news, because this was not a battle for a hundred miles, but a thousand miles, a complete abandonment of his hometown to a strange place. In contrast, his biggest enemy was not the Qing army. It is the unique rural concept of the Han people.

Whether it is Luoding or Deqing, the distance is not too far. In the eyes of the common people, these two places are both western Guangdong and their own hometowns, so there is no difference between Luoding and Deqing and from Deqing to Luoding. what a difference. They may never have been to the provincial capital in their entire lives, but it is common to go to a neighboring county to go back to their relatives, so the distance of a hundred miles is nothing to them, but if they know that they are thousands of miles away, and it is possible They will never be able to return to their hometown in their lifetimes, and most of them will be the lonely ghosts who have died in a foreign land, so most of them will panic. Even if there was a butcher’s knife around their necks forcing them to go, they would not be reconciled. It was natural for them to choose to flee, and fleeing was precisely what Zhou Shixiang couldn’t tolerate, because he couldn’t let the Taiping Camp be lost because of the people’s fleeing. morale.

The people can let it go, but they can’t let it know.

Zhou Shixiang did not dare to take risks. The composition of the Taiping Camp was too complicated. If the people refused to leave, it would be difficult for him to force them to leave, because his soldiers and people were one. So he could only hide it, taking one step at a time, until the day when the people could never look back even if they knew the truth.

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The ideological work of officers is also divided into batches. Zhou Shixiang first personally came forward to understand the thoughts of officers from Daqiao Mountain, such as Ge Zheng, Zhao Sihai, Ge Yi, Jiang He, etc. The people who talked most about Luo Ding was too poor, and Xiangshan was too poor. Fu, continue to stay in Luoding, everyone not only has nothing to earn, but also easy to be attacked by the Qing army. Going to Xiangshan, although this road is too dangerous, but if you really want to get there, you can make a lot of money, and you are not afraid of the Qing army. New recruits, as long as the old brothers are afraid of something.

In the end, Zhou Shixiang slapped his chest again and depicted the bright future behind Fragrant Mountain. He even coaxed and deceived the bandits from the general banners. Going to Zhou Brothers said that Xiangshan County went to make a fortune, but they turned a blind eye to the possible dangers. Anyway, with Brother Zhou here, the brothers will not suffer!

Blind arrogance and self-confidence are exactly what Zhou Shixiang needs. He is not afraid of these general banners being arrogant, he is just afraid that they are not arrogant enough. Before an army is truly formalized, arrogance is a kind of capital and a kind of confidence. Of course, with Zhou Shixiang personally commanding, he certainly doesn’t have to worry that this kind of arrogance will become a sign of failure.

Shao Jiugong is the only one who is still sober. He is not stupid. Others don’t know what it means to go to Xiangshan. Can he not know? However, seeing that everyone was instigated by Zhou Shixiang, he didn’t dare to come forward and contradict Zhou Shixiang. After the others left happily, he hesitantly told Zhou Shixiang about his worries.

Basically, Shao Jiugong’s worries are exactly the same as Song Xianggong’s worries. The difference is that for Song Xianggong, Zhou Shixiang explained it well, and for Shao Jiugong, Zhou Shixiang made him die with just one sentence.

Zhou Shixiang said, “If you can erase the words on your back, you don’t have to go.”

Dog day!

This is the first time Song Xianggong cursed Zhou Shixiang secretly in his heart after joining the Taiping Camp. After scolding, he could only sigh, and he felt a sense of helplessness that he couldn’t get off the boat of thieves: go to Xiangshan County when you go to Xiangshan County, I hope This time, Zhou Xiucai, who was a dog, did not lead Lao Tzu to death.

Tie Yi, as one of the only two pilot households in the Taiping Camp, also leads the engineer battalion that Zhou Shixiang leans on as a “magic weapon”, so Zhou Shi explained to him the most, and at the same time asked him to return to the camp immediately to prepare for the urgent need on the road to the south. The enemy’s weapon – thunder.

The so-called thunderbolts are actually firecrackers, but compared with traditional firecrackers, this kind of firecrackers is much more powerful. The sample of Zhentianlei was made by Zhou Shixiang himself. Because there was not enough iron, he could only make it out of bamboo. The specific manufacturing process is to take a section of bamboo with bamboo knots, then remove the sundries in the bamboo tube, make small holes on the side of the bamboo tube, then pour the gunpowder into the bamboo tube, and then wrap the gunpowder in paper to rub the root lead, and place a section on the bamboo tube. The other end of the medicinal powder in the bamboo tube passes through a small hole in the wall of the bamboo tube and is tied to the outside with hemp rope. After these steps are completed, a piece of paper is inserted into the surface of the gunpowder inside the bamboo tube as a spacer, some broken iron nails are sprinkled on the paper, and finally the bamboo tube is sealed tightly with soil.

The traditional firecrackers are all guns, but this time Zhou Shixiang used granular gunpowder and added lethal nails. He blew one with his own hands, and the effective killing area was five meters. That is to say, after a thunderbolt explodes, not only people within one to two meters of the center of the explosion will be directly injured by the gunpowder explosion, but the iron nails ejected by the explosion will also kill enemies within five meters. Beyond five meters, the penetration power of the iron nails will be weakened. This is the inadequacy of using bamboo as a thunderbolt. If it is wrapped in iron, it is truly like a grenade used in later generations. The shrapnel alone can kill an enemy.

Due to insufficient conditions, Zhou Shixiang could only hope for the mass production of Lei Tianlei. He made three samples, two exploded, and one was brought back to the camp by Tie Yi for trial production.

The construction process of Zhentianlei is very simple, and the raw materials are also simple, but the amount of gunpowder required for a Zhentianlei is at least five taels, and there are only less than 200 kilograms of medicine in the camp, which means that even if all the medicine is used All of them are used to make thunderbolts, and only 400 of them can be made. In this regard, Zhou Shixiang only asked Tie Yi to do it first, because he needed to have a group of thunderbolts in his hands immediately, so that Duke Xiang of Song could truly believe that they could bomb all the way to Xiangshan. As for gunpowder, Tang Sanshui will have more or less a batch. After departure, he will find a way to collect saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal and prepare to make it himself. Otherwise, no matter how good tools and methods are, it is limited by the shortage of gunpowder. It is difficult to exert maximum power.

When Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong worked together on the ideological work of the small flag officials, Zhou Shixiang’s statement was completely different from that of the general flags. What he said most was a way of life – going to Xiangshan for nothing but stuttering!

The little banners all came from abject poverty. Before they entered the Taiping Camp, they were honest and honest villagers. They were not like Ge Zheng and the others who dared to be bandits who robbed their houses, so they lived very hard, and they were often an old family. pause. Now that they have finally managed to have Taiping to accommodate them, give them a future, and give their wives, children, and children a bite to eat, what else can they ask for?

Lord Qianhu said that if you stay in Luoding, everyone will starve to death. This is true. Everyone can see Luoding’s situation. He is really poor. I can’t stand eating so many mouths. Everyone used to live a life. Is there anyone in this world who can sit and eat for a long time?

That’s all, since Lord Qianhu has found a way to live for everyone, Luo Ding really can’t support everyone, so everyone will bite their teeth and follow Lord Qianhu~www.readwn.com~ As long as you can give your wife and children a bite to eat, really if It’s okay to die on the road.

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On the 19th, Tang Sanshui of Deqing sent a message that he was willing to do this business with Zhou Shixiang, but the deadline had to be delayed a little, because he didn’t have that many medicines in his hands, and he had already sent people to Guangzhou to secretly buy them. When the medicine is collected, the two parties can buy and sell immediately.

Zhou Shixiang is not worried that Tang Sanshui will not make this transaction, because this transaction is too beneficial to him. If he is not a Han Chinese, Zhou Shixiang even wants to sell Gaozhou to Tang Sanshui. He does not need to do anything, just tell the other party. Once in Gaozhou, there is no Daxi army stationed there.

The Qing army in Guangdong could not defeat the Daxi army, but it was a piece of cake to fight other Nanming soldiers. Take Luo Ding first, then take Gaozhou, after a series of great achievements, how could Tang Sanshui, the former president of the thousand, be able to get a lieutenant Dangdang.

However, since he is a Han Chinese, it is outrageous to sell Luo Ding. If he really wants to sell Gaozhou again, this is not a traitor but also a traitor. Besides, Luo Ding, who was sold to Tang Sanshui, was nothing but an empty city, and no common people could let the Green Camp harm it, but Gaozhou had more than 100,000 Ming people. If the Qing army really wanted to occupy Gaozhou, his own evil would become bigger. , With the virtue of the Qing army, if the city is not slaughtered, the Buddha will burn incense.

Just wait, just wait, a thousand miles is not a piece of paper, and you can walk away with a single stroke of your hand. If it is only the former camp, the difficulty is not too big, but with nearly 10,000 old and weak women and children in the latter camp, this road will be much more difficult. Before departure, all preparations must be done in place, minimize unnecessary casualties on the road, and try to take away all the supplies that can be carried.