Great Qing Dynasty talker

Chapter 284 The Baga temperament of the 4th Legion is hard to describe in just one word!

The deli shopkeeper smiled slyly:
"The world is so big, where can't we sell wine? There are many wine sellers in Jiangnan, so just go to other states and counties. As long as King Wu can secure the world, this business will be an ironclad job."

A person next to me also came over:
"I'm from Suzhou, and my family owns a restaurant. My father said this business is worth it. After these five years, our restaurant can be turned into a big restaurant."

Li Yu asked gently:

"What if you die in battle? You can't tell in a war."

The man felt sad and then replied:

"That's fate, and I accept it. Before I came here, my family found a wife for me and left me with a family. My father and brother also swore in front of the ancestral tablets that if I died in battle, my father's share and mine would be given to my children."

……

Li Yu stretched out his hand and pointed at the flintlock gun in his arms:
"Show me?"

"Row."

……

"I don't have the habit of bringing money when I go out. So, lend me a piece of silver."

"almost."

"I do not believe."

The boy from the restaurant put away his gun proudly, stretched out his right hand, and said with a smile:

The power of lead bullets is still too much for dogs.

Very embarrassed and said:

Li Yu looked sarcastic and shook his head:

Everyone laughed, and this guy whispered:
"Guan Ye, which yamen are you from?"

A brand-new flintlock gun, the barrel is thick, the brass parts are polished brightly, the strike is powerful, and the beech stock has smooth lines.

"make a deal."

"The gun is good, but your marksmanship is not that good?"

He looked at the guy who was sitting on the chair with his flintlock on the back of the chair and a coat between him.

……

Li Yu suddenly had a premonition:
I'm afraid I'm going to lose 1 penny.

Seeing the training officer leaving, the man smiled and said:

"Seunghye!"

Li Yu was stunned and rummaged through his pockets.

Everyone suddenly realized that it was the scholars who formulated the tactics. They were reasonable, very reasonable!

The restaurant boy suddenly felt uneasy and asked hesitantly:

People nearby join in the fun:

far away,

The guards stood behind and watched this scene silently.

The young man whose family ran the restaurant came closer and said:

"He is a good cutter in his own restaurant, and his hand speed is not slow."

"It's fast enough."

……

"Nothing but familiarity with my hands." The boy from the restaurant said proudly.

This is a dog that has been wandering on the east bank of the Huangpu River for a long time. Recently, it found that it can find food at a fixed place at a fixed time, so it comes here every day.

Bang, a bullet hit the dog's body, and it rolled on the spot for two and a half weeks.

"Have you seen that wild dog? It must be thirty or forty feet away, right?"

Li Yu added another label to this person: reading.

One of the guards took out 1 coin and put it in the palm of the restaurant boy's hand. At the same time, he glared at him with an evil look.

"Bet on whether I can hit the target. Bet 1 silver. How about a small bet for fun?"

"I am from the staff headquarters. I came down to understand the situation of each legion and then go back to formulate the most reasonable tactics."

"Let me tell you. If I were shooting from behind a wall, I would be more accurate than the captain."

"Commander, how about we make a bet?"

The boy from the restaurant dragged over a broken chair and put the gun on the back of the chair to feel it. Then he started loading skillfully, and his movements were smooth and smooth.

"Ok?"

The wild dog found food, a bone thrown out from the kitchen, and started gnawing happily.

But they don’t know that the free ones are the most expensive!

"Master, when you go out, you never bring money?"

"Yes."

"I'd better return this money to you."

Li Yu did not answer, but asked in confusion:

"I'm willing to admit defeat in my bet. It's just a piece of silver, nothing more."

"I don't think you have the temperament of a staff officer."

"Have you met the staff officer?"

"There are two of them in the camp, they are from Shaoxing. The one you see is the little master who is making a lot of calculations."

Li Yu's thoughts were suddenly distracted, but he immediately adjusted himself and began to ask the question he was most concerned about:
"Brother, there's something I don't understand. Your target shooting results are not ideal? Why were you shooting so accurately just now?"

……

Everyone winked and snickered at each other.

In the end, it was this restaurant boy who answered:

"We lined up to shoot and huddled together, feeling panicked. If the other party were to fire a barrage of arrows and cannons, how many people would die? Squat and hide while attacking. If you don't panic, your hands will be steady."

Li Yuhuan was enlightened, and for a moment he didn't know whether to be angry or funny.

The corners of the guards' mouths twitched and they wanted to chop these guys with their swords.

Chengduo, a member of the Guards, was the first group of refugees to follow him. He received a lot of favors, and most of them could block the gun without hesitation.

Li Yu looked around at everyone and asked:
"Are all of you like this?"

Most people nodded in approval.

The man who cooked the cooked food was afraid that Li Yu wouldn't believe it, so he explained specifically:

"Among us, there are oil sellers, restaurant owners, brewers, craftsmen, and tailors. To put it bluntly, we all rely on our hands to eat, and our hands are very steady."

"If you don't believe it, ask him, three generations of oil sellers in his family. 1 tael of gunpowder or 1 tael of 3 qian of gunpowder, just pour it."

The oil seller nodded slyly.

……

"The formation shooting performance is poor. I'm afraid it's more than just panic and trembling hands. Are you thinking that if your marksmanship fails, you will be picked by the captain to be a skirmisher?"

Seeing how sharp Li Yu was, everyone remained silent, which was regarded as acquiescence.

The Li family army has a fixed formation of skirmishers.

There are two or three people in each team, and thirty or fifty people in each battalion. A musket array was deployed dozens of feet ahead to shoot at the enemy officer's flag bearer, inducing the enemy soldiers to shoot indiscriminately before they got within range.

The soldiers of the 2nd Army regarded it as an honor to serve as skirmishers.

But when I got here, I became the fool that everyone avoided~
Li Yu took a deep breath:

The 4th Legion’s temperament is truly hard to describe!

A strong smell of merchant army, Baga~
The deli shopkeeper carefully expressed his final thoughts:

"General Staff Officer, when you go back to formulate tactics, you must fully consider the characteristics of our army. We are not good at lining up to shoot, and that style of play is too stupid."

There was another person coming over:

"I heard that the palace has a special magical building material. When the powder is mixed with water, it is as hard as stone. It is called cement. The fort towers are suitable for us."

"Yeah yeah."

……

Li Yu smiled, very gently.

Kindly add:

"For garrisoning strongholds, rifled guns are more advantageous."

"Yeah yeah."

Someone immediately boasted:
"The shooting accuracy of rifled guns is much more accurate than the smoothbore guns we have. But they are expensive, so only skirmishers use them."

"Although I am a small staff officer, I still have some connections. Let's go out to camp in the afternoon and show off your marksmanship. I can't believe it just listening to you shouting and bragging."

Everyone hurriedly patted Yue's chest: "That's no problem."

During lunch time, Li Yu ate absentmindedly.

He has determined that the entire 4th Army is like this. A glimpse of one spot will reveal the whole leopard, so there is no need to investigate any further.

What he wanted was a field corps, but he ended up with a slick and cunning security corps.

I was annoyed for a while.

When forming the 4th Army Corps, the cost of military uniforms, firearms, food and materials was not mentioned. It also involves the wine distribution rights and the civil service career of his children, which can be said to be a huge cost. "

These are not a one-time buyout, but long-term favors!
"A bunch of bastards."

……

4th Corps Headquarters.

A group of officers stood silently, waiting to be scolded.

Some of them are meritorious officers of the other three regiments, and some are graduates of the non-commissioned officer school.

They had long seen that there was a big problem with this group of soldiers. But there was no way, military sticks, scolding, humiliation, and provocation were all used.

The training of this group of people seems to be quite satisfactory, but in fact, even a blind person can see the retreat.

If you can't take risks, you will never take risks. Value your own life and safety very much.

A battalion commander from Huaixi suddenly took off his military cap, his eyes reddened:
"Your Majesty, I recommend canceling the entire 4th Army Corps."

"Take away all the rights that have been promised to them, recover their military pay. Drive them home."

Another officer who grew up as a coolie at Xujiang Wharf also said:

"The 4th Army should not be issued bayonets at all. They don't need one. They will never have to use bayonets."

Inside the headquarters, the mood was boiling.

The officers were understandably angry.

Not so long ago, many of them were soldiers, or captains and lieutenants.

He was promoted for his bravery in combat and transferred to this newly formed legion. I thought there were many opportunities, but they were all pitfalls, and the carrot was not crowded at all.

Take a look at the training results,
My heart feels cold, and there are indeed pits everywhere, but they are so deep that I can’t even see the bottom.

……

Li Yu also looked very unhappy.

Many people below were opposed to absorbing soldiers from Jiangnan from the beginning.

Aren’t young men running around everywhere these days?

As long as there is food, there will be as many strong men as you need, so why bother thinking about Jiangnan?

Now that the troops have reached southern Zhejiang and the border between Anhui and Jiangxi, it is no longer difficult to recruit troops. Flags were put up, silver boxes and rice bags were piled up, and people came.

Then select suitable ones and organize them into various battalions in the army. With daily nurturing among veterans, these people can grow up quickly.

Even Du Ren had tactfully hinted to himself that people from Jiangnan might not be suitable for military service.

"I heard that a group of bandits and rebels gathered together in Nanqiao Town, Fengxian County. They resisted the payment of grain, built village forts, and erected the dragon flag of the Qing court. The leader was a scholar."

"Deploy a battalion to suppress the village."

Everyone was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

This is a matter of duty, just to let these people see some blood and let the prince see clearly.

"The king will personally take command, and all of you should accompany him."

As a result, hundreds of people marched out from the camp. Part of it is on foot and part of it is by boat, so it can be considered a journey on both land and water.

……

Nanqiao Town, Xingang Village.

It is only 5 miles away from the East China Sea.

The village has a prosperous literary style, and has produced one Jinshi, one Juren, and many other scholars.

The flagpole stone at the entrance of the village is a symbol of status.

Several prestigious people from the village have been instilling the idea of ​​"loyalty to the emperor" with the villagers.

Even though the pseudo-King of Wu started quickly, they firmly believed that the imperial court would definitely come back, it was just a matter of time.

until,

The tranquility here was broken only by the arrival of the food collection team.

The people in the village actually resisted grain under the organization of two scholars.

Of course, it’s not an unpaid one. Instead, he only paid 30% of the amount stipulated by Li Yu, and then used the excuse that all the land in the village belonged to the Juren Master, so he was exempted from paying the grain as usual.

The food collection team was surprised and reported it urgently.

There were very few such cases during the entire autumn harvest season, less than 10 cases.

……

Minister of Economic Affairs Fan Jing directly ordered the requisition of grain by force.

When the report was submitted to Li Yu, he modified two words: changing grain expropriation to village extermination.

In the evening, the army arrived around Xingang Village.

Under the orders of the officers, camp was set up.

Li Yu did not live in the camp, but chose another temple to stay with his guards.

He wanted to observe the performance of the 4th Army.

The march is quite orderly, not to mention protruding, nor to mention stretching the crotch.

Camping, too.

Slowly, half of the people were divided and camped on several access roads in the village. The other half are on guard duty.

The villagers poked their heads around, neither making contact nor running away.

In short, their confidence is very strong.

It was probably a few intellectuals in the village who were very good at brainwashing me. And the only one who was elected was actually too old to get out of bed, it was just a symbol.

……

“Does this village have a village hall?”

"No, but the person from the next village will take over the job. Does the prince want to see someone?"

"bring it here."

A somewhat chubby man knelt down on his knees.

"Young man, please pay my respects to the prince."

"How many fields are there in Xingang Village? How many people are there?"

"There are more than 7000 acres of paddy fields and more than 200 households. The investigation was carried out clearly, and the grain payment vouchers were sent to them early."

“Where do they get the confidence to resist grain?”

"Because there are many scholars in the village, they believe that the Qing government will come back."

"That's it?"

The man hesitated and said:
"The prosperity of Xingang Village may also be related to maritime merchants and pirates."

Li Yu smiled, that's right.

There are only a few scholars who are not so bold. There are some guys in the village.

……

Open the telescope and look at the bonfire at the entrance of the village from a distance.

The houses here are obviously better than those in other villages, and there are many tile-roofed houses.

"Take a break for now."

"Pass on the military order and wipe out the village tomorrow. Patrol tonight. If you slack off a little, we will engage in military law."

The soldiers of the 4rd Musketeer Battalion of the 3th Army Corps finally realized what it means to be a soldier.

The patrol team changes every hour, and the sentry team changes every two hours. And the bayonet was attached.

That night, most people didn't sleep.

The boy in the restaurant tossed and turned. He always felt that something was wrong with the staff officer he met today.

Do you have the habit of going out without any money?

How big of a deal is it to go out without taking money with you!
And he said it so calmly, as if it was natural. Unless he is a high official, a big one.

……

His heart skipped a beat and he got up.

The rest of the people in the tent also climbed up.

"What's wrong?"

"No, it's nothing. I was just thinking about what to do if I shoot someone tomorrow?"

A group of people were silent, and someone said silently:
"Then kill him. The consequences of disobedience are too serious. The children will be expelled from school and the liquor distribution rights will be lost."

"Yeah yeah."

Everyone quickly completed their psychological construction and comforted themselves that shooting and killing people was not cruel.

From that far away, Ba Gou shot the man down with a single shot, and the level of blood was average. It is a relatively humane way of killing.

……

In Xingang Village,

The villagers are also busy, first of all hiding their belongings.

The general income of this village is higher than that of other villages. In addition to farming, they can also get a share of the maritime smuggling chain!

He rowed a small sampan to provide some fresh water and food to passing ships, and occasionally helped sell stolen goods.

The Qing government banned the sea, so doing this kind of thing was often a collective behavior, and at the same time it had to be covered by some official connections.

Dong Xiucai held a torch and directed his family members to hide all the gold, silver and soft goods, as well as some food.

Finally, he wiped his shiny forehead coolly:
"I am not afraid of thieves. Let them search tomorrow."

"Ms. sir, are you letting thieves into the village? Aren't you going to fight them?"

"Hit? What to beat with?"

"There are knives and fire guns in our village."

"The war is just an excuse to massacre the village. If you don't fight, let them rob you. It will be safer."

"what?"

"My dear lady, don't be nagging. Go wipe some pot ashes and change into tattered clothes. Otherwise, if the soldiers see that you are pretty, it will be troublesome to drag you into the woodshed."

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(End of this chapter)