The Sun Never Sets Great China

Just as Tuhai, the leader of the Manqingshui Army, was distressed by the cannon, Dahari of Yangzhou City was also distressed. He was troubled by food.The people who were sent to grab the grain have all returned, and their harvest is pitiful, they only got tens of thousands of catties of rice and 10,000+ catties of miscellaneous grains, and these grains are really a drop in the bucket for the tens of thousands of soldiers in the city, not to mention the residents of the city And the number of "refugees" is more, we can't let them all starve to death before they are used, that will not only waste a long time, but also make it impossible to use them to defend the city. Occupied by rioters.

Now the grain in the city is completely dependent on the grain stored in the past, and all the grain stores in the city are closed. After Dahari's investigation, the grain in these grain stores has indeed been sold out, and it is not because they want to hoard.Seeing the depletion of the food in the treasury day by day, Dahari wanted to cry without tears. According to his calculation, if he ate it at this rate, the food in the city would only be enough for two months of consumption. After two months, there would be no food left in the city. With one piece of grain, those big households who have food reserves may be able to survive for a few more days, but those refugees and the poor in the city will immediately lose their food, so it doesn't matter if the tragedy of "changing children and eating" takes place in Dahari, but they are afraid of riots. , In that case, it would be like shooting yourself in the foot.

In order to survive for a few more days, Dahari ordered that the number of porridge factories where the villagers who had been driven into the city and turned into "refugees" drink porridge be reduced to once every two days, and daily patrols should be strengthened to control The situation in the city to prevent chaos.However, this kind of worry is obviously unnecessary, because the "refugees" in the city live on the bowl of gruel without a few grains of rice every two days, and most of them have no extra energy to do other things. In addition to lying down, Tian was still lying down. Occasionally, a few strong men wanted to resist, but the Manchu Qing army effectively deterred them after massacring a few people.

Another way for Dahari to raise food is to ask Tuhai for help, because he knows that because of the convenience of the navy, Tuhai brought a lot of food and grass with the army. It is urgent, and Tuhai's navy has been operating for many years, and they have hoarded a large amount of grain and grass in the water village surrounded by earthen fortresses. If grain can be transported from there, then the grain shortage in Yangzhou City can be solved.However, the distance between Tuhai's navy and Yangzhou is not too close, and his navy army is not large, and it is too dangerous to transport food on the road, so after Tuhai received the letter, he only agreed to transfer some food from the army, but when There is no guarantee that it will be delivered. Since the militia units of the Chinese Revolutionary Army are everywhere on the land, we can only send ships to Yangzhou to deliver food to Dahari by water.

In order to stabilize the morale of the army and maintain the combat effectiveness of the army, Dahari did not reduce the rations of his soldiers. It's time to kill the horse and add food.Now Dahari is looking forward to the Chinese Revolutionary Army's quick attack to end this boring waiting, but there are many Chinese Revolutionary Army troops in the south and many in the north, but they just don't move. It seems that they are not here to fight, but to fight. Came for an outing.

Another day later, according to the latest information reported by the horse scouts, there was a team of the Chinese Revolutionary Army in the north slowly advancing towards the southwest. When they reached Dinggou Village, the army stopped moving and camped in In this small village less than seventy miles away from Yangzhou City, soldiers are trained every day, but they just don't move.

Another news that disturbed Dahari was that those sent to the west to grab food came back empty-handed, some never came back at all, and they reported that more than 100 miles to the west, there was no traffic, Something unusual seems to have happened.Dahari was surprised when he heard this. He guessed that there might be a large army coming quietly from the west, and he might want to attack Yangzhou City with the Chinese revolutionary army from the north.Detectives were sent out, but they hadn't sent back any news, which made Dahari even more worried.Therefore, whenever those high-spirited subordinates and generals asked him to fight against the Chinese Revolutionary Army who did not know who was leading them in the north, they were all rejected by Dahari. Take advantage of the loophole.

On this day, Dahari was counting the remaining grain in the treasury when suddenly the guard came to report that a person had come to see him.Dahari returned to the Yamen with the guards, only to find that the person who came was actually a guard of Tuhai. The guard immediately sent Tuhai's important artillery and a letter explaining that Zhang Huahan was commanding the battle on the Chinese Revolutionary Army navy fleet. Seeing Tuhai asking for cannons, he secretly resented him, regretting that he told Tuhai how many cannons he had, but if he asked someone for food, he would give them to you. Said: "Tell your general, as soon as the grain ship arrives, we will send the guns to the grain ship for you as soon as the food is unloaded."

Zhang Huahan was deducing the siege tactics with a group of officers in the army tent. At this time, his personal soldiers reported that someone was looking for him. He immediately left the army tent and saw that it was Liu Xiaoliu, the leader of the special reconnaissance team.

Zhang Huahan led Liu Xiaoliu into the tent next to him. Liu Xiaoliu waited for the guards to walk out of the tent door, and immediately saluted Zhang Huahan, saying: "Subordinate Liu Xiaoliu pays homage to the leader!" He also came from Taihu Lake, he is an old man, Naturally knowing the details of Zhang Huahan, he can be regarded as Zhang Huahan's confidant.

Zhang Huahan smiled and said: "Haha! I haven't seen you for so long, why are you suddenly polite? How is it? How is your development now?"

Liu Xiaoliu said: "Thanks to the chief's blessing, since my people entered Yangzhou City, everything has gone smoothly. Not only have the number of peripheral brothers increased several times, but they have already taken root in the vicinity of Jianghuai. With our property, for example, in the city of Yangzhou, there are seven inns and eight gambling halls in the hall, and three brothels have joined us. Now the monthly income of the team I lead is excluding various expenses. With a surplus of more than [-] taels, the life of the brothers is also very prosperous, and they are all happy!"

After Zhang Huahan listened, he smiled faintly, sat on the chair by himself, then pointed to another chair beside him and said, "Stop standing, sit down quickly." Liu Xiaoliu said, "Thank you, Chief, for giving me your seat!" He sat down neatly.Zhang Huahan asked: "You just said that you make a lot of money, but let me ask you, how are you doing with the tasks I entrusted to you? Don't you just remember to make money?" Liu Xiaoliu said: "Boss How dare the subordinates forget the leader's order? I was originally in Yangzhou. When I heard the news that you were leading a team to fight, I immediately came to see the leader. I started to get news that you were on the canal, but unexpectedly the canal was full of water. The Qingshui Division blocked it, so I had to make a detour, but when I found our fleet, I found that you were not in the fleet, but here, so it took a few days to find you here. After my subordinates left Hangzhou and went north, they arrived in Nanjing , we started to move around to see where the conscription was, and which Manchu officials were recruiting servants. After several months of hard work, we have more than 100 brothers sneaked into the homes of various generals and officials, and even Dahari’s mansion There is a brother of ours, but he is a cook and cannot get any important information." Zhang Huahan asked with great interest: "Oh? There are people from us in Dahari's house? Where is he from? When did he enter the special office? The detective team?"

Liu Xiaoliu said: "He is from the northern part of Jiangsu. His ancestors have been cooks for generations, and he is good at cooking. Two years ago, when I went to the northern part of Jiangsu to handle errands, it happened that he was beaten by several green skins. I gave him a hand. Help, he has followed me since then, and he can be regarded as my old brother, absolutely reliable!"

Zhang Huahan said with a smile: "Can you cook good food? Now Dahari is lucky, but I don't know if he can eat it now? By the way, I heard that the chief general of the Qing army is Tuhai. Are there any of us in his water village?"

Liu Xiaoliu shook his head and said, "This subordinate also finds it strange that Tuhai's original servants and servants are all in the capital of the Manchu Qing court, just when manpower was needed, but he didn't recruit people from outside. But What's even more strange is that within a few days after he blocked the canal and built the water village, there were many more maids and servants in the water village, I don't know where they came from!"

Zhang Huahan frowned and said, "So that's it. You just said that you sent people into the army? How many people were infiltrated? Which troops?" Liu Xiaoliu said, "About two hundred brothers have infiltrated the army. , They have also developed a lot of people in the army, but the subordinates obey the orders of the general leader and the commander-in-chief, and dare not casually recruit people from outsiders, but they can definitely be used. Now according to the estimates of the subordinates , the number of troops we can control should be more than 3000. Since my jurisdiction is only in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, there are not many troops mixed in, that is, the forbidden army in the capital, the navy in Tuhai, and some The opportunity to recruit troops sneaked into his army." Zhang Huahan raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and asked: "What? You said that a brother sneaked into Dahari's army?" Liu Xiaoliu said: "Yes! What's the matter? Does the leader have any questions?" Zhang Huahan asked: "What kind of official position do they have now, do they have any officers?"

"There are only three or five junior officers, such as corporal chiefs and special chiefs, and the rest are soldiers. If the chief wants them to instigate some troops, I'm afraid it won't work. And I heard the people they sent to deliver information complain , In Dahari's army, there was no payment, and it can be said that there was no money at all, and some brothers clamored to come back!" Liu Xiaoliu looked at Zhang Huahan and said helplessly.

Zhang Huahan's eyes lit up, and he asked: "Then can you contact them now?" Liu Xiaoliu said: "It should be possible. I have been to Dahari's army several times as a fellow villager, and there is no problem. I don't know if the chief has What order?" Zhang Huahan narrowed his eyes and smiled.

The Grand Canal is like a colorful chain, stretching across the easternmost part of China, starting from Hangzhou in the south and reaching Beijing in the north.Since its opening in the Yuan Dynasty, it has become a well-deserved north-south traffic artery. Rice from the south is continuously transported to the north through this artery, and the north feeds back fur, cattle and horses, medicinal materials, local products and coal to the south through it. thing.In addition to being used for the transportation of materials, the canal also bears the heavy responsibility of cultural exchanges between the north and the south. The gifted scholars, beauties, literati and poets who traveled north and south through this canal left behind many well-known and immortal poems, and how many love stories of joys and sorrows were staged. , who has counted these things?Who can count clearly?Who still remembers the infatuated Du Shiniang who sank into the treasure chest angrily?Does anyone still remember the unlucky Li Yu who "a river of spring water flows eastward"?

In fact, the original purpose of digging the canal was for war. On this point, China and foreign countries are the same.The geographical characteristics of China determine the direction of the rivers. Most of the rivers flow from west to east, which makes it very difficult to transport the army and military supplies from north to south. In order to carry out the war smoothly, the rulers of various countries and dynasties have dug canal.As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, King Fuchai of Wu ordered people to dig Hangou to connect the Yangtze River with the Huaihe River, transport food and troops, and defeat the powerful northern neighbor Qi State in one fell swoop. He formed an alliance in Huangchi and once dominated the Central Plains.For Fucha's hegemony, Hangou contributed a lot, so it later became a part of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.In the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to resist the Jin soldiers going south, the Southern Song Dynasty built defenses on the south bank of the Huaihe River, and the canal became the most important transportation lifeline. How much bitterness, how much helplessness is expressed in the sentence "the iron horse and ice river come to dream", and how much clank and iron blood is mixed in it!

During the Taiping period, the canal was bustling with boats and boats, and the two sides of the canal were full of residential houses, shops, teahouses, and wine shops, making people intoxicated and unable to extricate themselves.But things are different now. Wars and floods have blocked the Grand Canal. Things from the north cannot be transported, and goods from the south cannot be transported out. Moreover, the sediment of the Yellow River has made the canal seriously silted up, and some places can no longer use large ships.

Although war is terrible, people in the midst of war have to continue to live. The same is true for the boatmen on the canal. From time to time, some boats can be seen. The boatman on the boat is chanting chant while shaking the oars. Listening to those familiar chant sounds, people seem to have returned to the peaceful days of the past.

But recently, no ships have been seen on the canals around Yangzhou, and even a small fishing boat is rarely seen. The Ranger appears.On the west bank of the canal are the troops of the Manchu Qing army, while on the east bank are the troops of the Chinese Revolutionary Army. They often appear on both sides of the canal at the same time, and stare at each other across the canal, and even shoot at each other with firearms. The grassroots people were too frightened to come out, but most of them were originally driven by the Manchu Qing army to Yangzhou City as "refugees", and there are no common people here.

The weather today is very bad, the sky is always gloomy and gray, and the north wind keeps blowing on people's faces, as if it is going to rain again.Zhang Wenyuan straightened his right hand and asked his soldiers to stop their horses. He sat on his horse, looked up at the sky, and murmured, "Is it going to rain again?" as if to fulfill his prophecy , A few drops of rain fell on his face, splashed on the few cracks left by the wind knife, and soon soaked it. "Hiss..." Zhang Wenyuan gasped, and gently wiped the frostbite on his face with his right hand. He is from Lingnan, and he is not used to the climate here. Originally, he was a small school in the Ming Dynasty guard, but Later, he followed the Nanming army and surrendered to the Manchu Qing court, fought bravely with the Nanming army and was promoted, and then the Manchu Qing court sent him to help Dahari, who was defeated and fled on the south bank of the Yellow River, rebuild the Han army. When the Han army was established, he stayed behind down.

What displeased Zhang Wenyuan was that although he had worked so hard to rebuild Dahari's Han army, Dahari didn't seem to take his credit to heart, and just promoted himself to a guerrilla general. The important Han generals are all Dahari's cronies, and the entire Manchu Han army is completely dominated by Dahari's cronies. Those guys flatter each other, but they are all useless when doing business. What's more annoying is that, They partnered to exclude other generals, and Dahari was also happy with it. Just because he said a few truths about military training, he demoted himself to general manager, and was demoted two ranks in a row.

Thinking of this, Dahari sighed and ordered his subordinates in Mandarin with a strong Guangxi accent: "Put on the coir raincoat and bamboo hat!" He immediately put on the bamboo hat he was carrying behind his back and took it off from behind the saddle Putting it on, he touched the flintlock gun behind him that the Qing court spent a lot of money to buy from Westerners, and thought: "Hey! It can't be used again today!" A few days ago he was in the canal While patrolling the border, they encountered the cavalry of the Chinese Revolutionary Army on the opposite bank, and the two sides fired at each other. The guns in the other party's hands are not affected by the wind and rain at all, every shot must go off, and those guns shoot very fast, as soon as I fired one shot, their guns can go off three or four times, and the final result is naturally He fled with his men.

Looking at the falling rain, he touched the waist knife at his waist with his hand, and said softly: "Old man, it's all up to you now!" This knife was left by his great-grandfather who joined the Qi family army , It is said that my great-grandfather used this knife to chop off the heads of ten Japanese Japanese pirates. On the well-maintained knife, there seemed to be faint bloodstains and bursts of murderous aura.I think that when he left for the camp of the Ming army, his father who was still alive at that time hung this knife on him with his own hands, and repeatedly told him to kill more Tartars and be loyal to the country.It is a pity that this knife not only did not drink the blood of the Tartars, but was sent by the court established by the Tartars to accompany his master to slaughter his own people who opposed the Tartars. It is really chilling, but thinking that everyone surrendered at that time , and if you don’t surrender, you will die, so Zhang Wenyuan at that time can only go with the flow. Sometimes, people and things are really fickle.

Zhang Wenyuan sighed heavily again, waved his right hand, and ordered: "Let's go!" After finishing speaking, he clamped the horse between his legs, yelled in his mouth, and took the lead to rush through the thicker and thicker rain and fog, and ran towards the unknown destiny go.

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