The doubts of the seven or six thousand household officials

The reason why they are so confident is that, on the one hand, this method has been successfully used before, and on the other hand, they now have a practical example.

——The Ming Dynasty officer who was picked out from the pile of wounded and sent to Chengmai County to negotiate for the release of Xiao Wei came back. He personally brought Wei Aiwen back and did not take the opportunity to escape, which surprised everyone.

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Facing the questions here, the officer looked very backbone and said proudly:

"Since I have been ordered to exchange prisoners, the life and death of my fellow soldiers are all tied to me, so there is no reason to escape on my own. "

He actually spoke in a polite manner, which was completely different from the old slicker and other illiterate veterans, which immediately aroused everyone's interest.

Asked about his name, place of origin and other information, he claimed that his surname was Zhang, Ming Ling, and his courtesy name was Ru Heng. He was born in the 31st year of Wanli in Baoji County, Fengxiang Prefecture, Chengxuan Government Envoy, Shaanxi. In the 48th year of Wanli, he inherited his father from Guochuan Wei Town.

Position. In the fourth year of Tianqi's reign, he moved to the capital of Shaanxi Province to command and make the deputy director of the department. The following year, he won military exploits and was promoted to Xi'an Qianwei Town Fu.

In the first year of Chongzhen, he was ordered to send troops to conquer Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang and other rebel bandits. He fought against Zhu Jin, Gao Yingxiang's foreign aid, at the foot of Cuihua Mountain. He personally led his troops into the battle, defeated the bandits and captured a large number of people. Zhu Jin led the remaining party to escape overnight, and again

Make a great contribution.

Just because he didn't want to kill good people and take credit, his superiors and colleagues were very dissatisfied. As a result, he was tampered with when discussing merit and rewards. He was promoted, from the fifth rank of Wei Zhenfu to the fifth rank.

He has a thousand households, but his position is sent to Qiongzhou Prefecture, thousands of miles away.

Zhang Ling and Zhang Ruheng originally didn't care about such small tricks. He was known for his good fighting skills in the army. He firmly believed that he could be promoted no matter where he was with his bravery. Not long after arriving in Qiongzhou, he was sent out to suppress bandits again. This time

Those who were suppressed were short-haired bandits.

However, this time he was completely defeated. The short-haired bandits did not fight with them at all. They were blown up without even seeing the enemy's face. It was completely different from the war methods of this era that he was accustomed to. This time

The mortality rate of generals in the battle was astonishingly high - among the local Qiongzhou Prefecture and the six thousand households sent by Guangzhou, he was the only one to survive. In fact. If he hadn't been knocked unconscious from the beginning, he would have definitely been killed by the North Latitude

Got sniped.

This bright general probably thought that he wouldn't live long - in the previous battle. The powerful lethality displayed by the time-travelers could easily make people think that they were very cruel. So Zhang Ling told a lot about his life story.

After reviewing everything, I was ready to die heroically.

However, what surprised Zhang Qianhu was that the short-haired gangsters who were said to kill without blinking an eye in these rumors, and who actually killed without blinking an eye in real fights, did not show any angry behavior, nor did they have any intention to kill him.

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In fact, just listening to his Shaanxi Mandarin was enough for everyone here. In addition, the birdman also reported a lot of official and place names that were difficult to pronounce. For a long time after Zhang Ling shut up, they gathered around to calculate the years. They understand.

What about official positions?

"...The thirty-first year of Wanli? Well, it is 1603, so he is only twenty-seven years old this year. From the fifth rank? This official is not young. The status of military generals in the Ming Dynasty is low? After all, he comes from a family of generals from Shaanxi, and with

King Chuang has fought in battles!... No, it's not King Li Chuang. It's King Gao Chuang, Li Zicheng's former boss..."

"It's good, it's good. Finally, an officer survived. This guy from Beiwei is too clever. He killed all the senior officers as soon as the war started. It's not easy to have only one left..."

A group of people murmured for a long time. They were quite happy to capture a Ming Dynasty officer prisoner - a snake cannot survive without a head. To manage thousands of Ming army prisoners of war, of course it is best to use their own officers.

Of course, it would be unrealistic to directly order him to do this or that, but since this man has such a good reputation, it can be seen from the fact that he came back when he had a chance to escape, it is still possible to instruct him to do certain things.

——This is what Ade is best at.

So Zhang Qianhu soon found out depressedly: Although he was not dead, he was faced with an embarrassing situation - these shorthairs actually let him continue to take care of people and work without any hesitation!

If it were a normal situation, he Zhang Ling and Zhang Ruheng would have shouted out long ago: "I am a dignified official of the Ming Dynasty. I will definitely not bend my knee to be a thief. If you want to kill me, I will kill you. A true man can kill but not insult!"

But what those short hairs asked him to do now was to lead people to rescue the wounded of the Ming army themselves - bandaging them with medicine, making stretchers, building temporary huts to shelter them from wind and rain, etc.

Zhang Daqianhu was blinded at this time. Logically speaking, he should refuse the order from the enemy, but this order was beneficial to themselves - the shorthairs were not acting, their rescue operations were well organized, and although the treatment methods were novel

But it was quite effective. It can be said that even the Ming Dynasty army's own rescue camp could not do better than these short-haired bandits.

In the end, Zhang Ling chose to obey. After all, the people he was rescuing now included his own personal guards, and his reaction was just as Ade had expected - since he was able to complete the prisoner exchange before, it shows that this person's mind is still relatively flexible.

He is not a pedantic and reckless person.

However, it is certainly unrealistic to expect the Qianhu of the Ming Dynasty to be so determined. In fact, Zhang Ling had been secretly observing the equipment of these short-haired bandits while working. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were far less powerful than the Eight Banners soldiers of the later Qing Dynasty.

Idiots, they expected to use red-painted toilets to resist foreign guns and artillery. In fact, most of the Ming army soon felt the rumors that had been dismissed as rumors by their superiors - these "bandits" soon after the war began.

The firearms and equipment were so sophisticated that they far exceeded those of the regular army of the Ming Dynasty.

It’s not that the Ming Dynasty army had never fought against enemies with better equipment than theirs. Zhang Ling didn’t have much contact with them when he was in Shaanxi, but after being transferred to the south, he heard about the battle of the Ming Dynasty army to regain Penghu many times. The Red-Haired Man

How arrogant, yet still being beaten back.

I originally thought that these short-haired bandits were just Liu Xiang's people, who took advantage of the power of foreigners and obtained some firearms from Westerners to show off their power. The imperial officials were reluctant to kill them lightly before, mainly because they did not want to provoke the people behind them.

Although the Ming Dynasty was not afraid of foreigners, for bureaucrats, it was better to do less than to do more.

But later, it was said that the red-haired people themselves wanted to deal with them, and they were actually willing to lend arms to the court for this purpose, which made Guangzhou make up their minds. Although it is not clear how this group of people dare to fall out with the foreign masters behind them, but

Since there is no basic support, the civil and military officials in charge of military affairs such as the Guangdong Inspector General, the Bing Bei Dao, the Qiongya General, and the Qiongzhou Bing Bei Dao do not mind adding to their credit books.

After all, this group of people is rebellious by killing officials. Qiongzhou, Guangdong, and Fujian have been sending people to inquire about the news here. The Lingao County magistrate has also been informing them of the news. The number of people here has long been found out:

There are more than a hundred people, and there are many women. After the county town was captured, there was no talk of coercing the people to expand its power. This was really incredible in the eyes of Zhang Ling, who came from Shaanxi - after a county town in their place fell, it would not take long for someone to appear.

Thousands of bandits came, and most of them were originally good people. But if you still don't want to become bandits after your home is destroyed, you will have no choice but to die.

In short, a lot of intelligence has been transmitted. It can be said that they know everything that happens here. But knowing does not mean understanding. The behavior of this group of short-haired people is not only inexplicable in the eyes of locals, but also inexplicable to officials in Qiongzhou, Guangzhou and other places.

In his eyes, it was just as unreasonable.

But as the saying goes, "If you don't get surprised, you will lose yourself if you find it strange." Since they couldn't understand it, the officials didn't think much about it. The suppression must be suppressed. According to normal circumstances, this dispatch of troops will be a very easy operation: use the

With thousands of troops annihilating more than a hundred pirates, and with the help of red-haired firearms, isn't that a piece of cake?

Therefore, Mr. Xue, the inspector of Guangzhou Haidao, personally brought people to supervise the army, just to get a share of the credit. Everyone estimated that there might be more troubles during the march... Before the army was sent out, Qiongzhou Prefecture and Guangdong Road

All the officials think so.

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Zhang Ling's memories ended here, and he didn't even want to think about what happened next. Until now, he still couldn't believe that the entire five thousand army was just wiped out - these five thousand people were real, along with the heavy supplies of food and grass behind them.

They were all young and strong. If they were in Shaanxi, they would be able to wrap up 40,000 to 50,000 old and weak people, claiming to be 170,000 to 80,000 people... Just like that, with a bang, they were gone!

If it was completely blown up by the thunder, he might feel better and would not be convinced. After all, manpower cannot compete with the power of heaven. But after the explosion, because his troops were forwards, the losses were not too great. However, what followed was

, this elite unit that he brought to Hainan from his hometown in Shaanxi and had great military achievements was crushed alive by the opponent's armor.

Zhang Ling was knocked to the ground and unable to get up, but he saw with his own eyes how the armored vehicle continued to move forward slowly and without any hindrance, and how the armored vehicles and the armored soldiers on both sides used powerful weapons to move forward.

The muskets knocked down the Ming army row by row...

Afterwards, Zhang Ling thought over and over again. Even if there was no previous explosion and the two sides faced off head-on, they would not have any chance of winning. At most, they could knock down a few with good luck with artillery, but it would not change the overall situation. The fire blunderbuss was completely useless, even if it was given by the red-haired man.

So are those.

Zhang Ling began to wonder whether the weapons of these people came from Westerners. Neither Hongmao nor Franji seemed to have such powerful firearms? This suspicion reached its peak when he was assigned to help build the sick camp - he

I was shocked to see that hundreds of red-haired people were also working under those short-haired escorts! {Piaotian Literature thanks all book friends for your support, your support is our greatest motivation
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