Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1131 People ([-])

After a typhoon passed, several gunboats on the east coast sailed on the river again.

Lieutenant Liu Fubo stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the dark river banks on both sides, and felt a sense of peace in his heart—yes, sailing on a fully armed naval gunboat was not a battle at all in their eyes, but a trip, because from past cases It seemed that the Qing army was unable to cause even the slightest harm to them, not to mention that it was the dead of night.

"The Qing soldiers have nothing to do with us. Staff Officer Sun, feel free to do it when you go ashore, and withdraw when you are done. You must move quickly!" Liu Fubo pointed his command knife in his hand, and several gunboats with a draft of only 0.8 meters deep swarmed in like a pack of wolves. They crossed a branch of the port, and then more than two hundred officers and soldiers of the army and navy on the east coast jumped off the boat like dumplings, wading towards the shore in the muddy water up to their knees.

Li Gen heard a frenzied barking of dogs in the yard, got up and opened the door, "Oh my god..." His knees gave way, and he almost knelt down.

In Li Gen's field of vision, a group of black shadows were advancing rapidly in the section of the harbor in front of the house. They were carrying lanterns, and their armor was clanging—such a sound, in the former Mingwei, " Li Gen, who has been in the green battalion of "I am Qing Dynasty", can hear it as soon as he hears it, this is a soldier!

Li Gen didn't hesitate. After returning to the house, he didn't have time to put on his clothes. He took Lao Lai's son and ran to the reeds behind the house.This is not a joke. As the saying goes, thieves pass like a comb, and soldiers pass like a grate. No matter which company's soldiers come, if they stay where they are, they will only suffer disaster—well, maybe the soldiers of the bandits in yellow will be better. They never kill people indiscriminately, and they don't rob people very much, but Mr. Li in the village said that they "eat people's hearts", is that okay?Or hurry up and run!

When Li Gen and his father rowed the boat into the river, the fastest soldier had already arrived in the yard in front of his main house, and his domestic bitch also chased after him by swimming with a puppy in his mouth.At this time, Li Gen's only seedling seemed to vaguely see the cold light of the bayonet shining in the darkness.

"Father, it's a thief in yellow clothes! Mother and sister haven't escaped yet!" The child's voice was faintly crying.

Li Gen was also a little stunned, holding the boat and not knowing where to go.

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"That's all there are?" Lieutenant Sun Wu of the Army stood on the grain drying field in front of the village, looking at a circle of dozens of Ming people with ugly pigtails, and asked a little irritably—hundreds of soldiers raided at night , but only a few dozens of Ming people were caught, how could this not make him depressed!

"Sir, these people are like rabbits. They run so fast that they can't catch up. We kept shouting, but no one stopped. Occasionally, a few of them were caught by me, and they collapsed on the ground and cried loudly. , Say something like 'I'm going to die now', 'I'm going to be eaten alive', it's inexplicable, maybe someone is trying to discredit our army." A sergeant with muddy legs said with a sigh, "I don't know what's going on. Over the years, our reputation has been getting worse and worse, and the efficiency of arresting people is getting lower and lower. If this continues, the share of immigrants will be insufficient every year, and the local side will be furious. Bar."

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and transport people." Sun Wu pointed to a large ship moored in the center of the Yangtze River, and said: "Be careful to set up a guard post. Although there is no Qing army brigade nearby, it is better to be vigilant in everything. Besides In the eyes of the elders of the gentry, we attack the village and plunder the population, which means taking food from their bowls and robbing their slaves. It's making a fool of myself."

After speaking, ignoring the cries from the crowd, Sun Wu stood on a high ground by the river and observed the surrounding situation with binoculars.Nearby is endless farmland, a typical Jiangbei water town, with excellent agricultural conditions and rich products. In the agricultural society, it is also a rich area with the title of "Land of Fish and Rice" - no wonder I don't want to immigrate, the co-author is that everyone has food and clothing , the rule is fairly stable!I don't know how this Daqing did it. Although they are a bunch of barbarians from top to bottom, they are much better at governing the country than the gang of pigs in the previous Ming Dynasty. At least the weather in this place is much better. .

"If we hadn't killed us suddenly this time, most of these Ming people should be able to live in peace and stability, and then die of old age or illness." Sun Wu kicked a stone under his feet a little desolately, I thought: "Perhaps the longer the time, the more stable the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and the more difficult it is for us to colonize the East Coast. What a pity, not only can we not send enough people to colonize the Far East, but we have to Transferring the population from here and sending them back to the mainland, we will not be able to truly control this vast land until the year of the monkey, maybe—is it far from impossible?"

A remnant stele appeared in the grass under his feet. Sun Wu squatted down and saw the inscription: "The tomb of Liu Lieshi, the second lieutenant of the infantry who died in battle... The Tartars invaded, and the people were in dire straits. Dozens of battles, big and small, loyal and brave for the country, invincible to those who stand in the way...Respecting death as home, making a heroic sacrifice...The martyrs He Erman, Hou Dabao, Li Jun, An Lushanda who died in the same service were buried together...The Heishui Security Command stands here. "

The handwriting on the stele body is already blurred, and the stele body is also incomplete, as if it has been violently damaged.However, Sun Wu could still clearly judge that this should be the officers and soldiers who died in a certain landing operation. Due to various reasons, the corpse could not be taken away, so the officer leading the team carved a tombstone for them in the local area and buried them hastily.But after the enemy—probably the Qing army, or at least the local regiments—recaptured here, their tombstones were violently damaged, and their bones might also be crushed to ashes. This is really...

Sun Wu immediately asked someone to interrogate the captured Ming people. As expected, one of the Ming people named Li Gen (who was reluctant to part with his family and ran back with his children) said that the bones of several officers and soldiers who died in the yellow army had been captured. Yizhen County ordered the exposure of the corpses, and later Li Gen felt a little unbearable, so he secretly collected the bones and buried them in the woods behind his house. After discovering the remains of the fallen martyrs, he ordered the requisition of a high-quality coffin prepared for him by an old squire (who had escaped) in the village, filled the remains of the martyrs, and prepared to transport them back to the Sakhalin Island National Cemetery for burial.

After the brief and solemn encoffining ceremony, Sun Wu called Li Gen, who looked restless, and asked, "You are Li Gen, a righteous man? Will you go to the east bank with me?"

"Master, this..." Li Gen couldn't understand Sun Wu's Mandarin, but when the master asked, he subconsciously wanted to kneel.

"We don't like kneeling on the east bank." Sun Wuxu knew that his question was useless, so he waved his hand and ordered: "Take 200 silver dollars to pay Li Gen for his righteous act of collecting the remains of my soldiers on the east bank. In addition , His family is four people, right? At the beginning of next year, let their family take the Pacific route to immigrate to the mainland, um, find them a better berth on the ship, and it will be more comfortable along the way."

After speaking, Sun Wu turned around and went to the river bank to blow some air.In the past six months, he has been fighting guerrillas and captives along the Yangtze River, and he sent eight hundred people to Ningbo, if not one thousand. However, the difficulty of arresting people became more and more difficult every time, and the resistance of the group training became more determined every time, but it was very scratching. The disintegrated regiment of the shore army dared to compete with the yellow army now. This naturally caused unnecessary casualties for the people on the east coast, and actually increased the difficulty of capturing immigrants, which made people quite depressed.

Sun Tzu knows that if this situation continues, this year will be fine, and the number of immigrants in the 1658-59 transportation season will definitely not be satisfied - 6 people, where can you find it?You must know that in the current Far Eastern Ming country, except for the large-scale wars in Sichuan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Fujian, other areas have temporarily fallen into silence.After all, all parties have spent a lot of money in successive years of war, especially the Qing court. The Yangtze River water transport was harassed by people on the east bank to death, and Sichuan, Hubei, and Jiangxi have been engaged in intense wars all year round. The material consumption of the past few years has been very high, and it is necessary to take a break for a while; and the Fifth Battalion of the Shun Army needs more breathing space than the Manchu Qing. Now, except for Guo Sheng's troops, Shen Yongzhong's field group, which continues to squeeze northeast Jiangxi, has tens of thousands of people. However, Li Guo has already encouraged childbirth and rewarded land reclamation in Hunan, the core of his province, and at the same time he has also opened courses to obtain scholars, trying to reconcile with traditional gentry, which can be regarded as going farther and farther on the road of "revisionism".

As for the small imperial court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, as long as no one comes to attack them, they will be Amitabha. It is simply too much to expect them to take the initiative to attack the Qing army.At present, except for their conflicts with the Qing army in Jiangxi, northern Fujian, and a small part of southern Sichuan, the territory is generally calm. However, the various factions in the middle school are still fighting and tearing each other, creating an end-time scene of drunkenness and dreams.

"The flames of war in the Ming Dynasty are gradually extinguishing, and the people feel at ease. This will be very detrimental to our east coast in the long run!" Even if Sun Wu is not a high-level decision-maker, it is not difficult to figure out this problem: "We must find a way to let them We need to move and fight, otherwise how can we create refugees for us to absorb? But now all parties are a little tired and don’t want to move in the short term, so what should we do? Is it possible that I, Dadong’an, will go out in person? This may be a Thinking, but the question is where to break the situation? Hubei or Shandong? It is best to go along the Yangtze River. After all, this can effectively bring out our army's mobility advantage. However, I am afraid that this matter will not be organized until Commander Liao takes office. Right? Commander Liu should be hoping to calm down at this time, so it seems we should wait."

(End of this chapter)