Dominate the Country

“Bang, bang, bang…”

Three cannon shots followed one after another, and there was silence outside the west city of Lushan County.

In the large open space in front of the city gate, the Green Camp soldiers stood upright on the spot, their swords, guns and firearms shining with a chilling light in the early spring sunshine. Around them, under the triangular Green Camp dragon flags were awe-inspiring cannons, and the faint smoke had just been blown away by the wind.

On the parade stand - in fact, it was a high platform made of wood.

Baoning looked at the two thousand Green Camp soldiers arrogantly. Since he took office in Nanyang Town, he has been strict with the lax military discipline in Nanyang Town. Now it is time to test Nanyang Town. Although it is still unknown what these soldiers will do on the battlefield, just looking at it now, the effect is still very good.

Wang Jun flattered Baoning and praised the elite of Nanyang Town, while keeping an eye on the gentry and officials of Lushan County below the stage. Sure enough, this group of people are now much more excited. After watching the review of the elite soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, these loyal people of the Qing Dynasty were greatly encouraged and confident.

The Chen family in Funiu Mountain was initially just a confrontation with the government, and posed no threat to the gentry in Lushan County. But who would have thought that after Chang Rui burned Tumenji, the Chen family went completely crazy. First, they broke Tumenji, tortured and killed many prisoners of war and Chang Rui himself, and then rushed out of the mountains, sweeping across half of Lushan County, but wreaked havoc on the gentry.

The Chen family did not kill people without reason. Except for the Wang family and the Dong family, the Chen family army had been traveling to half of Lushan for less than a month, and no one had heard of their killings. But they broke the private mines, released a large number of slaves, and robbed food, cloth, salt and other necessities of life, which really made the gentry feel uneasy and their interests were damaged.

And most importantly, the name of the Chen family had been reported to the governor's office by Chang Rui, and the entire Nanyang Town was mobilized because of it. Thousands of Green Camp soldiers marched into Lushan County. Fortunately, Lord Baoning, the general of Nanyang Town, was a good official who was very strict in military discipline, otherwise the whole Lushan would have been in trouble by these thousands of Green Camp soldiers.

The gentry originally had a feeling of "the death of the rabbit makes the fox sad, and the animals feel sad for their own kind" about the "experience" of the Chen family, but now all of this has disappeared. These people, represented by the Xu family, wished that Baoning would send troops today and report victory tomorrow. Of course, Xu Pengchun also sighed to the moon. If there was a regret pill in the world, he should have asked someone to report to the Chen family at that time. How could he have imagined that such a big mess would happen?

Mighty and powerful, my Qing Dynasty soldiers marched towards Tumenji with great force.

From Lushan County to the west gate, then to Xiguan, and along the banks of Yinma River, they were all surrounded by people watching the excitement. The willows are sprouting new leaves, the spring breeze is blowing, and thousands of willow branches are fluttering in the wind, exuding the breath of early spring. In such an atmosphere and among the crowd, no one can find that there are a few people in the crowd with nervous, solemn, or dignified expressions on their faces, which are different from the ignorant expressions of the people who are watching the excitement.

"Twelve cannons of different sizes, two thousand people."

A short message, very clear, very clear, and easy to detect. The Qing army did not hide at all. Baoning showed all his strength, obviously not treating the Chen family as a real opponent. But how to send the news back to the nest for these pigeons under Chen Guang is a huge problem.

It is not impossible to cross Tumenji and then detour to Fenghuangtai. But the road is difficult and difficult to walk, and there is no through road at all. It is necessary to use ropes to hang under the broken rocks, and more than once on the "way".

Every time a message is delivered to the mountains, it is a gamble of life. Chen Guang has begun to train pigeons, but this takes time.

The main force of the Chen family army, which is mainly composed of miners, is no longer in Tiezhai, but moved to Xiaonangou at the end of January. In this way, after receiving the emergency intelligence from Fenghuangtai, it can be more convenient to reinforce Fenghuangtai. Chen Ming said goodbye to his wife and children and followed the army to station here.

In the Chen family ancestral hall, the empty ancestral hall where the spirit tablets and family tree have all been moved away. Chen Ming often comes here these days. The war is coming, but his heart is a little uneasy.

It is not because of the innocent people who died in Tumenji, nor because of the lives that will be lost in the war. Although the "war" he provoked will cause the death of thousands of lives that could have survived, he is for a better future for China. How many lives did China lose in the century-long shame in history?

Chen Ming has a clear conscience, so he will not feel guilty about it.

Chen Ming is uneasy about the "insecurity" in the future. If the Chen family wins the battle in front of them, it will definitely be heard by the heavens. If Qianlong sent troops to suppress the rebellion, there should not be too many Qing troops around the area of ​​western Henan. Can Funiushan Mountain stop the overwhelming Qing troops?

Chen Ming knew that in the battle of Jinchuan during the Qianlong period, the Qing Dynasty mobilized 500,000 to 600,000 troops, and many governors and generals died. It cost tens of millions of taels of silver and decades of time. Can Funiushan Mountain match the battle of Jinchuan?

You should know that Lushan is the junction of plains and mountains, not in the real mountains. In addition to the various Nanyang towns, Hanzhong Town in the west, Yunyang Town in the south, and the general of Xing'an Town in the southwest, it means that behind the battle of Nanyang Town, the troops of Yunyang Town, Xing'an Town, and Hanzhong Town are lined up.

So you must not think that Henan Green Camp has few soldiers, and really regard this place as a place where the Qing Dynasty has no military strength. As long as the Qing government realizes that something is wrong, the troops from Huguang, Gansu, Shaanxi and Sichuan will be able to suppress it immediately. The Qing army has few people in Henan, but it has grasped the Nanyang Basin, a key transportation point between the Central Plains and Huguang.

What Chen Ming is secretly afraid of is the Qing army's stamina, a continuous stamina. If they lose, can the old and young in Funiu Mountain still survive?

Chen Ming is not afraid of how many soldiers will die, but he is afraid that the women and children in Funiu Mountain will die, which would be too tragic. What's more, with his military level, after dealing with the current war, if he really takes the troops out of Lushan, how big a storm can he stir up? He himself has no idea.

At this time, the Qing Dynasty is in its heyday, and most people still have food to eat and a way to survive. Even if he wants to fight the local tyrants and divide the land, he probably can't stir up the masses.

As time passed by step by step towards the bright spring, more and more random thoughts came to Chen Ming's mind, and some of these thoughts were even completely opposite. Chen Ming's heart was also very strange. He could agree that hundreds of soldiers died on the battlefield, but he was very afraid that the women, children, and the elderly in the mountains would be harmed. Sometimes he thought this thought was very strange.

So he came to this empty ancestral hall. Perhaps it was a kind of power of the ancestral hall itself. Here, the messy thoughts in Chen Ming's mind would calm down, allowing him to better sort out the many thoughts in his mind and look forward to the future more clearly.

Since it is determined to subvert the world and reshape China; since it is determined that China will not repeat the old path in history, there should be the determination to sacrifice everything, and there should be the idea of ​​sacrificing everything. Chen Ming obviously did not have these, or he did not have the determination to sacrifice his mother, wife, and children for the world.

In the face of the tide of the times, this is his weakness. His weakness brought him thousands of random thoughts during this period of time. This is just like his mentality when he was preparing to break out of the prison.

This is a normal reaction of a mortal facing the tide of the times, but Chen Ming is not a mortal, he is a time traveler.

——He not only wants to make the Chen family army stronger, but also to make his heart stronger!