Villager of Daming

Chapter 1240: Being at ease is a conspiracy

The road was not far, and the two sides were only about 500 meters apart. The camp on this side fired cold shots at the other side every once in a while.

The fortifications on the opposite side were being repaired, trenches were being dug, and sandbags were being piled up.

When it rains, the trenches are filled with water after being dug, but sandbags are better.

Nahachu's people learned to pile up sandbags and leave gaps so that they could look at the Ming army through the gaps and avoid being hit.

It took 15,000 people more than ten minutes to walk more than 500 meters. The people in front entered the camp amid the shouts of their own people.

The sniper stopped and allowed them to pass without firing.

"Squat down, don't stand up. If you stand up you will be beaten."

"Why did they let you back? Is there anyone of theirs among you?"

"Oh! There's food. Our fried noodles are almost gone, so we have to go to the river to catch fish. It's raining and we can't find dry firewood. We're not hungry anymore. I really don't want to eat raw fish. There are bugs in it. They're very small and can get into people's bodies."

"Hurry up and send someone over along the rope to tell the governor the good news."

The Yuan army guarding here greeted everyone who came over and looked vigilantly at anyone they thought might be dressed as an enemy.

The fifteen thousand people who had come over squatted behind the sandbag wall and held the bags of food in their arms tighter.

The person whose pocket was accidentally taken away by someone else is now asking for it back. If you don't give it to him, the food is his and there is only enough for five days. He has to eat it sparingly, otherwise it will be gone in two days.

Some people swam to the other side along the rope and told the good news to the prefect.

"How vicious!" Nahachu did not look happy at all after learning about the situation.

He clenched his fists, his eyes widened, and then he frowned.

"Brother, actually... they left some room and didn't send back the more seriously injured soldiers.

If they let the released prisoners carry our wounded here, I can't think of any other possibility for the wounded except death.

Let those who were released come over here and ask them about the situation there.

I think since they followed the team, they should know that Qiha and Bilir were also there and they were not dead.

The Ming army does have experts, but the people they give us now will become a burden to us.

What’s even more terrifying is that they brought their own dry food and ate a little bit every day, believing that they could last for half a month.

On rainy days, we only have a little dry firewood left, which can last us several months."

Nahachu's sister, Gegehaji, had a solemn look on her face. She couldn't be happy about the people being released.

She saw through the Ming army's intention. It would be fine if the people they released did not bring any dry food.

We gave them dry food, but others had none, so they all ate raw fish. Dry food is a good thing, even if it is eaten with clarified rain water, it is better than eating raw fish.

It is written in the booklet that there are worms called parasites, which are most common in river fish. They live in the human body and some even drill into the brain.

If we confiscate the food rations of these people, there are 15,000 of them, how can we manage them?
Do you give them food after you collect it? If you give it to them, they won't be grateful at all. You take all the dry food from them and give them a little bit...

If we don't take their rations, others will think that a captive has no face to eat rations, and you shouldn't be captured, you should fight to the death.

If there were fewer people, only about 1,500, it would be easier to deal with. We could give them a separate place to stay, which would be considered a circle.

How to enclose 15,000 people? How many people are needed to guard them?
What would the people who were circled think? What would the others think? Today, the people who were circled were the comrades who were arrested. Tomorrow...

"What should we do with Qiha and Bilir?" Nahachu also understood the Ming army's plan, but had no way to deal with it.

The enemy released two centurions, and among the prisoners released were their own men. If they were to kill them, would they also kill the prisoners? If they did not kill the two centurions, would they allow them to continue to lead the troops?

It's one problem after another! "It's easy to talk to them, just say they are sick and lock them up first. What I'm more afraid of is that the Ming army will send our other wounded soldiers back.

There is no more vicious strategy to attack someone’s heart than this.

I finally understood why the Ming army did not attack, but instead built a camp there.

It is said that the army that is in a desperate situation will win. When we are in trouble, we become the army that is in a desperate situation. The army that is in a desperate situation has no way to retreat, but we can leave.

We are short of food and medicine now. The Ming army is defending, so we can obviously leave. Why do we have to let our soldiers take the initiative to attack the Ming army on the other side? Who should we send?

Should we let the people on the other side fight? Should we let our people swim over to fight?

The 15,000 people who came back, stay on the other side? Transfer them here…"

Gegehaji couldn't continue talking. He had no choice but to let people stay there. What if they turned against him?
If we let them come over, what will the people who stayed on the other side think? Will their morale still be high?
The best way is to retreat, get everyone to come over, and leave together, and then there will be no food...

If it were Wang Baobao, he would definitely leave most of the people as prisoners to the Ming army, and then quickly escape with the collected dry food and horses.

Send the burden to the Ming army and make sure you don't get killed or captured first.

My brother couldn’t do it, and he couldn’t do it. When Wang Baobao threw people away, they were people from the imperial court, but when my brother threw people away, they were his own people.

The brother and sister were struggling, and the people who were released came over a hundred, selected from different teams before.

Gege Haji hid behind the curtain, and Nahachu called in one after another to ask questions.

"They have food, they've gathered up our stuff, and they've got coke to sprinkle on for a fire, and a hot stew to eat.

I watched them reduce the wet firewood and then dig a hole to simmer it. As long as they built a shed, they could burn it even when it rained.

They had medicine, a lot of medicine. People with serious injuries were given other medicines. The wound on my body, this one, was stitched up.

When I was sewing it, they said they would remove the stitches after it healed in a few days. Now they asked me to come back, gave me some medicine, and asked me to change it myself. There was gauze..."

One of the people who was released knelt there and answered Nahachu's questions, telling him what he knew.

"Go down! Don't worry, no one will steal your rations. Next one!"

Nahachu signaled the other party to get up, go out, and make a promise.

Calling the next one feels like an interview.

One after another, people were called in to talk about their situations. Most of them were the same, and a small number were nothing special.

To sum up, the Ming army's logistics were absolutely no problem, and they could even organize a large-scale offensive.

The Ming army had equipment to chop wet wood into small pieces and then light them on fire.

Once it's burning, just keep adding small pieces of wet firewood to keep it burning.

It's very difficult to make a fire here, and the Ming army eats hot meals every day, this...

"Brother!" Gegehaji waited for the last person being questioned to leave and came out from the back.

"Brother, we can't defeat the Ming army, so let's send someone to talk about surrender!"

After a pause, Gegehaji talked about surrender.

"Surrender?" Nahachu was suddenly stunned.

"Didn't the people who came back say that the Ming army has artillery, which can blow up a large area? Now they haven't attacked us, and the seriously injured haven't been released. We... have no other choice."

Gegehaji stressed his weapon and sighed, "I want to meet their master."

(End of this chapter)