This Qing is wrong

Chapter 79 Desperate Liu Tianming

"Has the casualty statistics come out?"

As dusk approached, Liu Tianming asked the officials in the hall with a tired expression.

"Reporting to my lord, the number of casualties is too large, many of them are scattered in various workshops, and the statistics have not been completed yet."

It has been nearly half a day since the battle ended, and the casualties have not yet been counted.

You know, at the end of the battle, all the corpses of the Shaolin masters were wiped out.

Of course, killing Shaolin masters is much easier than counting casualties. After all, Shaolin masters also have legs, and they don't know how to sneak attack and ambush.

The Qing army, who had formed a formation, just walked around the city and wiped out the Shaolin masters who had suffered heavy losses.

For this reason, Liu Tianming also specially sent someone to issue a notice and posted it in the streets and alleys to reward those quacks.

However, this kind of verbal praise did not attract the surviving quacks to join them. On the contrary, the soldiers of the Qing army guarding the city reported successively that some quacks climbed out of the city wall by relying on light work.

The quacks are terrified of being beaten!

Liu Tianming who got the report knew that the next time the demon Daoist Li Changqing casts war puppets, the help of these quacks scattered among the people will never appear again.

Although the specific casualties are still being counted, one thing Liu Tianming already knew was that only a small half of the puppets who were thrown into the city climbed up the city wall and were wiped out by the heavily armed Qing army, and most of them scattered into the city.

Combined with the results of sweeping up the war puppets later, it is not difficult to infer that the number of war puppets killed by the quacks in the city was no less than that of the Qing army.

Of course, it is also possible that ordinary people and the routs turned against the war puppets, but Liu Tianming is more willing to believe that it was the gangsters who did it...

In terms of being brave and ruthless, ordinary people are completely incomparable with quacks.

The Central Plains Jianghu in this world, compared horizontally to the 21st century, is an upgraded version of the red flower double sticks in the underworld. The comparison here is not about combat power, but a brave and ruthless mentality.

Otherwise, the Qing court would not have set up a separate township office to deter quacks.

Many officials in the hall saw Liu Tianming fell silent, and after looking at each other, the Tongzhi of Chaozhou Prefecture, who was second only to Liu Tianming in status, stood up and asked, "My lord, what should we do next?
After clearing out the demon warriors in the city, the city gate received another letter arrow, and the demon Li Changqing asked us to open the gate to welcome the surrender before the same appointed time tomorrow, otherwise today's scene will repeat itself..."

Liu Tianming naturally knew this message, and also knew that the other party read it out at this time to force himself to make a decision!

The current situation is very clear, three days is absolutely untenable, and the next wave of war puppets will definitely wipe out the Qing army in Chaozhou Mansion.

This is not only a problem of the loss of the Qing army's combat power, nor is it a problem of the help of the quacks to escape, but the remaining Qing army has lost its morale, and the recruits who have been expanded have fled and died, died, injured, or wounded... none of them survive!

Nearly half of the third class of yamen servants lost!

Only the veterans of the green battalion with rich combat experience suffered the least losses, but the veterans of the green battalion have already shown obvious war weariness, and even the military officer of the green battalion has already reported this problem to Liu Tianming.

Those green battalion soldiers don't want to die in Chaozhou Prefecture!

Li Changqing just dropped a wave of war puppets, and broke the morale of the Chaozhou army, which was short of major generals.

Of course, Liu Tianming could still force the green battalion soldiers to continue defending the city, and the soldiers would definitely not dare to disobey the orders of the officials in person.

But together with the battle, those veterans of the green battalion collapsed on their own. Wouldn't it be the same for Chaozhou Prefecture to fall?
Why did the leading generals in ancient times value the morale of the army the most?
Because once the army loses its spirit, it becomes normal to collapse after encountering the enemy.

The arms of the soldiers can't hold the thighs of the officials, can't they run by themselves?
Our lives are our own, why should we go to die with the order of your officials?

The most serious problem in the Chaozhou army now is that almost all the soldiers and even the military officers at the grassroots level believe that they cannot beat the monster Li Changqing's puppet.

So, fighting is definitely hopeless.

Since they can't fight, everyone has only two options left: surrender and run away.

The good news is that this time, the demon Taoist Li Changqing only brought a small tour group here, without a single soldier following him, so it is naturally impossible to besiege Chaozhou Prefecture. If everyone wants to run, there is no need to worry about intercepting them.

The only difficulty is, who issued this order?
All fools know that whoever loses Chaozhou Prefecture, his official career will almost come to an end...

As for surrendering...

What a joke!
The mighty power of the Qing Dynasty spread all over the world, and Li Changqing, a demon, has only one man's strength. What future will he have if he surrenders?
Like the military attache of the Qing army who confronted Li Changqing before, none of the civil servants in the Chaozhou government present were willing to surrender to Li Changqing, even if Li Changqing promised to be a marquis and prime minister, it would not work.

Because no one believed that Li Changqing could overthrow the Qing Dynasty...

There are so many strange people and strange things in this world, and there are rumors of Buddhism in the Western Regions that they can brainwash the people and manipulate people's hearts through preaching!
But in this world, isn't it finally won by the Qing Dynasty?

The demon Li Changqing is very powerful, but he is only one person after all, and the war puppets he summons are only a few hundred people. If Li Changqing can summon [-] war puppets with a wave of his hand, everyone will kneel down and surrender immediately without saying a word!

To put it bluntly, in the eyes of everyone, Li Changqing's personal strength was still unable to compete with the national strength of the Qing Dynasty.

At least that's what everyone thinks...

Hundreds of war puppets are indeed a threat in Chaozhou Prefecture, but in the entire Guangdong Province, it is not a big problem.

Liu Tianming looked at a group of 'officials' who were staring at him eagerly, his face turned blue and he said, how could he not know that these people were forcing him!
This is because they saw that they were about to lose power, so they started to blame themselves collectively!
Everyone was so anxious, they naturally wanted to take advantage of the sunset to escape overnight, after all, officials like them could not run out alone.

The children of concubines raised in the city, as well as the money obtained through hard work and embezzlement, should not be transported out of the city in large and small bags.

This is not a small goal, so it is safest to drive overnight!

It just so happened that those green battalion soldiers of the Qing army didn't want to stay in Chaozhou Fucheng anymore. Wouldn't it be a win-win for those green battalion soldiers to do a 'part-time job' for a little money to escort the convoy?
Therefore, time was running out, so we waited for Liu Tianming to give the order to abandon the city and flee!

Sigh, why is Prefect Liu so smudged, wasting time with everyone, don't tell me you still want to surrender?

When everyone was slandering in their hearts, Liu Tianming managed to suppress the evil fire in his heart.

After all, he did not make up his mind to surrender.

He was the one who abandoned the city and fled to suffer disaster. If he opened the door to welcome the surrender, he would be wiped out!
(End of this chapter)