Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 126
"Why, don't you want to?" Seeing Han Guang's delay in answering, Tong Mengchun thought he was trying to resist him, so he raised his voice and said sharply.

"No, no, I am willing. It is my honor to serve you." Han Guang heard a hint of anger in Tong Mengchun's voice, so he quickly replied.

He knew that Tong Mengchun definitely didn't have any good ideas, but after many battles and hundreds of miles, he saw the strength of Tong Mengchun and the Eight Banners under his command.

So he didn't feel that his life would be in danger, not to mention that there was still Huang Zongbing from the green battalion, and with his 3000 people, he felt that his life was very safe.

"That's good. You and Mr. Huang should stay here first."

After that, Tong Mengchun pulled the horse's head and walked westward. Two or 3000 people in disheveled clothes rode on the horseback and followed behind him.

On the avenue, horseshoes kicked up dust, covering Han Guang's sky. After Tong Mengchun's people had all passed by, Han Guang and Huang Zongbing looked like they had just come out of a mud pit.

"Brother Han, do you know what Master Tong said just now, why did you tell you?" Huang Zongbing suddenly came over and said to Han Guang.

"What do you mean?" Han Guang didn't understand why Huang Zongbing asked him this question. He thought it might be a test of his loyalty to Chi Qing.

After all, he is a new employee. Although he followed Tong Mengchun and killed many of his compatriots, it is still difficult for people to feel completely at ease with him. Maybe this is his chance to show his loyalty, Han Guang thought.

So Han Guangyi said righteously to Mr. Huang, "We are all officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty. When the superior officers give orders, we will carry them out. There is nothing to figure out."

"Mr. Huang, sometimes it's better not to be too smart. If you're too clever, maybe the Mandarin won't like it."

Although Han Guang doesn't think he is a pure dog, but he always puts himself in that position and thinks. He thinks that the Manchus must not like Han people who are too smart.

Just like hunters don't like hounds that are too smart, otherwise what else would hunters do.

"Haha, Brother Han, aren't you a civil servant? Why are you so dumb?" Hearing Han Guang's answer, Huang Zongbing laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Han Guang didn't expect Huang Zongbing to dare to laugh at himself in front of his face, which is too insulting.

Han Guang felt that he had contributed to the Qing Dynasty, and since he was a civil servant, his status in the hearts of the Mandarin people must be much more important than that of Huang Zongbing, a man with strong limbs and a simple mind, so he could not tolerate Huang Zongbing's actions.

"I laugh at you for being too self-righteous."

"Really think that if you work hard for those mite people, you will end well, and they will take you seriously and reuse you from now on? Don't be naive."

"Did you see how disheveled and dusty they were just now? As I expected, Tong Mengchun must have suffered a defeat and wanted to escape, leaving us to die as rearguards here." Huang Zongbing Tell Han Guang his guess.

Anyway, here are his and Han Guang's subordinates, there are no outsiders, and they are not afraid of scheming people using his words to attack him.

"How do you know?" Han Guang didn't understand how Huang Zongbing knew so much, they had been marching slowly on the official road.

"Why do I know? Let me tell you, I have more scars on my body than you have eaten. I have fought and killed as many people as you have processed official documents on your desk."

"What generals, chief soldiers, Erzhen, I know what to do when they raise their butts, not to mention the dejected expressions on their faces, you can tell everything at a glance."

"He, Tong Mengchun, can also deceive a pedantic literati like you." Huang Zongbing said to Han Guang patiently.

"Isn't that impossible? Didn't it mean that the Jurchens are dissatisfied and invincible?"

"I see that the Eight Banners soldiers under Master Tong's command have eight thousand if not ten thousand. How could they be defeated? It's impossible." Han Guang didn't believe Mr. Huang's words.

He seems to believe in the fighting power of Jurchen, and that the Eight Banners soldiers are invincible, but in fact, he can't believe the fact that he was abandoned by Tong Mengchun.

Obviously, he provided such important information to Mi Qing, and even led them to fight and kill the Han people. Why did he abandon him? Han Guang didn't understand, let alone believe it.

"If the Eight Banners are really capable, what do you want us to do with the green battalion and the Han army flag? If you really have the guts, you can do it yourself." Huang Zongbing cursed angrily.

"Anyway, I won't send them to death here. Anyway, the Ming army doesn't have any cavalry. Even if they have cavalry, their combat effectiveness is very impressive."

"I'm planning to go to the nearby villages to plunder, and it's not in vain for us to come here. If we can find a few wealthy households and rob them of ten thousand taels of silver, our trip will be enough even if we die." Huang Zongbing proposed to loot the surrounding villages.

It seems that this is also his traditional art skill. When it comes to looting, his eyes shine like an old prostitute visiting a brothel.

In fact, this is exactly the case. The green battalion like Huang Zongbing was basically the Ming army before, and the Han army flags were also the Ming army.

Mite Qing didn't even have the time to build up his own army. There was still time to organize the Han army, so they were all reorganized Ming army after surrendering to Mite Qing.

However, it was just a change in name. The nominal boss changed from the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty to the Aixinjueluo family of the Qing Dynasty.

The generals in charge of the army and the officers at all levels in the army have not changed at all, and the soldiers at the bottom are naturally even less likely to change.

"This is not good, we are the army, how can we do such a thing as looting the people." Han Guang still has a bottom line.

If it is for the imperial court to suppress and massacre unruly people, then he will never be soft, but if it is for money and looting for no reason, he cannot accept it.

"Hmph, what a coward. If you don't plunder, someone else will plunder. Besides, don't forget the cotton armor you are wearing now. You are an official of the Ming Dynasty. It’s a matter of course for the people.”

"To tell you the truth, even when I followed the great scholar Hong Chengchou to exterminate the bandits, I looted a lot of villages, killing and burning villages at every turn, what's the matter?" Huang Zongbing took out his past in Han Guang's Bragging in front of him.

"Besides, we can't fight forever and be officials for a lifetime. In the future, we have to leave some family property for future generations. If you don't plunder wealth now and accumulate family business, when do you want to wait?"

"Okay then, it's as you say." Huang Zongbing's words awakened the dreamer, and Han Guang finally understood his words.

(End of this chapter)