Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

"I don't know if the general has started taking action?"

Wang Erdan muttered.

Wang Erdan didn't know that the mountain he was thinking about had already touched the outside of Tuhutong Fort.

Outside the fortress, the Qing army used felled trees to make simple horses, which were arranged in a circle to encircle the top of the mountain where Tuhutong Fort was located.

A group of soldiers were lying on the ground, wrapped in sheepskin blankets, and they were very sleepy.

Outside Juma, in the four directions of southeast, northwest, there is a bonfire that has been burned out, and the green smoke is still slowly drifting away.

Beside the bonfire, there was a whistle leaning this way and that, dozing off.

It was midsummer, and the grass and trees were growing wildly. In the grass that was half a man tall, the location of the secret whistle was unknown.

Gaoshan led hundreds of Langya Camp soldiers to lurk halfway up the mountain, leaving only a few dozen feet away from the Qing army camp on the top of the mountain.

They are waiting for their hunting moment...

The warriors who set off first had already lurked in place and were crawling toward the outpost.

The sky is about to break at dawn. Even if you have never figured out the time for the Qing army's guard posts to be changed, you can deduce from common sense that the guard post currently on duty is the last one.

In other words, at this time, they had been on night watch for at least almost an hour.

Seeing that dawn is approaching, this should be the time when they are most relaxed.

Anyone who has stayed up late will understand that this is actually the sleepiest time.

Under the night, Gao Shan's eyes suddenly narrowed.

Within sight, I could see a soldier twenty steps away from the Qing army sentry post. He had quietly stood up and was half-kneeling in the grass.

They raised their crossbows one after another and aimed at the Qing sentry sitting on the stone in front of him, holding a musket and taking a nap.

"Shhhhhh!"

Several inaudible sounds broke through the air, and they flew in front of the Qing army in the blink of an eye.

"Puff puff!"

The arrow shot from the bowstring hit the Qing army Mingshao who was dozing off in the neck.

At a distance of twenty steps, for the soldiers of Langya Camp who had already become elite soldiers, there was no possibility of missing.

What's more, these soldiers are warriors carefully selected by Gaoshan!

"Uh!"

Those bright whistles issued a few low screams of pain before death.

He put his hands on his neck and fell to the ground.

Someone was shot with his spine broken and died on the spot.

Some Qing soldiers, because of the angle, were only shot through the throat. They were holding the crossbow arrows around their necks, gasping for air, and could no longer speak.

As they breathe, blood is sucked into the trachea, and blood foam blocks their alveoli.

Some people even had their carotid arteries cut off, and their blood spurted out like a faucet blocked by their fingers...

"Enemy attack!"

A secret sentry hiding in the pile of rocks escaped the disaster. When he heard something wrong, he suddenly stood up.

Only then did he realize that the outpost was under attack, and he hurriedly shouted loudly.

Along with the exclamation of the secret whistle, what greeted him was the crossbow arrows fired by the Ming army.

How could the brave soldiers of the Ming army, who had not killed anyone just now, let go of this living target!

In the blink of an eye, the secret whistle turned into a hedgehog!

However, although the warrior shot the secret whistle to death, his exclamation successfully awakened Zu Dale's forward army.

"Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack!"

The Qing army was in chaos.

Zu Dale, who served as the commander of the vanguard, crawled out of bed, grabbed the waist knife beside the pillow with one hand, and shouted at the top of his lungs:

"Assemble! Assemble!"

"Get up, everyone, get up quickly, someone is attacking the camp!"

The vanguard of the Qing army suddenly became chaotic.

Sudden attack, although these Qing troops panicked for a while, they quickly stabilized their position.

The shabby military officials shouted loudly and gathered their troops together.

The more than 3000 people who lived in Zu Dashou were all the "Guanning Iron Cavalry" who spent endless money from the Ming Dynasty to support them.

In other words - they are the private soldiers of the ancestral family.

The Ming Dynasty spent hundreds of millions of silver. The so-called strong army that was supposed to be loyal to the country and kill the enemy to serve the country has become the private property of some people...

Zu Dalue is Zu Dashou's cousin.

The ancestral family is a giant in the Guan Ning army. There are dozens of descendants of the ancestral family serving in the army, and there are even more than a dozen people who are officers and generals!

The crown prince of the Joseon Dynasty, Li Jing, once commented on his ancestral family in "Journey to the Yanjing" and "Journey to the Yanjing":

"Zu Dashou, Zu Da Le, Guan Ning is also a giant. The houses and property of the ancestral family are spread all over the Guan Ning. In Guan Ning and Jinzhou, there are luxurious courtyards built by the two ancestors. They are extremely extravagant!

The luxurious houses where Zu Dashou lived were several times more luxurious than those of Zu Dashou.

The ancestral family held Pixiu (meaning greed for the country), controlled Longsha with power, and abused the soldiers and civilians just for their own luxury and pleasure.

This shows that his family is not loyal to the king and will not fight for the country.

You can be said to be a sinner through the ages! "(This is the original text, I translated it from classical Chinese.)

These emperors of the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty, who spent countless money to accumulate armies, only know their ancestral family, but not the country!

In fact, the current situation of the Ming Dynasty's army has become normal since the food power was taken away by the civil service group before Ming Yingzong came to power.

As the saying goes: "Only weapons and names can't be faked. It's the job of the king!"

Name is power, and utensils are objects.

As long as these two things are lost, even if the Holy King is in power, there will be no chance to turn around...

After more than two hundred years, the literati group gained the power to control the imperial court's rewards, and also obtained the power to control the material supplies that tied the court's neck...

Whether the armies raised by these countries are surnamed "gentry" or "emperor" is a question that even a child can guess.

This is the law!

Throughout the ages, this has always been the case overseas and in the world!

The former "Guan Ning Army" who was full of money was worthy of the evaluation of Liaodong's elite.

Sharpen your sword and fight for your motherland!

Almost at the moment when the soldiers of Langya Camp killed the secret sentry and moved away the horse, Zu Dale's soldiers woke up from the panic.

Although they were in a hurry and didn't have time to put on heavy armor, they still formed a battle formation.

There were even several slaves born from the ancestral family, leading their men to attack the Wolf Fang Camp.

(Note: Zu Kuan, who was beheaded by Chongzhen, was a son of Zu Dashou’s family, that is, a slave.)

\"Kill!\"

"Guan Ningjun" roared, brandished his sword, and rushed towards Daming Yicong.

The soldiers who were previously sent to deal with the Qing army's outposts had already rushed to the fence and were moving the horses away to make the gap wider so that the army behind them could have a wider attack path.

"Crack crackle crackle!"

There was a burst of gunfire from the Qing army, and several soldiers fell to the ground with blood spurting all over their bodies.

The Ming army's crossbow arrows were also fired at the Qing army, which was the first to react.

The first moment the two sides fought, it was a situation of exchanging pieces.

A dozen warriors carefully selected by Gaoshan finished shooting their hand crossbows, threw them away, picked up their daggers, and charged forward.