On the other hand, Qian Jumei on the wall of Ruian, Wenzhou, was still responding to waves of enemies attacking the city in the bloody fireworks. He still underestimated the size and strength of the enemy entrenched in southeastern Zhejiang.
I thought it was dominated by enemy troops in one place, but I didn't expect that more than a dozen people, large and small, from the five states in southeastern Zhejiang were all united under the banner of General Zhang Zimian.
As a result, in response to the counter-offensive strategy of the Taiping Army's offensive in the north, he had just achieved some results. He was severely frustrated under Yongjia City, Zhouzhi, and then pushed back, and finally trapped in this Ruian City.
To make matters worse, most of the Fujian army, which he assembled so easily, lost confidence and fighting spirit, and fled with a few generals who left without saying goodbye on the way of defeat.
In the end, those who were able to retreat to Pingyang City with him nearby were left behind. There were only two thousand people who were not enough for this equipment, food and grass. Worse still, the siege equipment seized by the Fujian Army before was also transported. Came over to deal with myself.
Therefore, under Qian Gumei's screaming and awe-inspiring faces on the left and right, some feelings of despair and ruin arose inevitably.
Because he didn’t know how long he could hold on, or how long the Fujian soldiers under his command could hold on. After all, they fled all the way and they had been fighting for three days and two nights. There was no water and equipment collected in the city. too much.
If it is a soldier of the Taiping sergeant who is a regular warrior system, he will naturally have the certainty and confidence to hold on for a longer period of time, and even launch a targeted counterattack. But these Fujian soldiers under his command are just hard to say.
Nowadays, the people gathered under Qian Jumei are mainly from Shan Ha Zhuang Ding in the 33rd hole between Jianzhou and Fuzhou, as well as the remnants of Jianzhou unity who had returned in the past. And he had already killed more than a dozen of those who were shaken and flinched.
If it weren't for him, he still had hundreds of people transferred from the Metropolitan Government, and the former Hangzhou Army Corps, which was dominated by Shi Jingdu's children, would sit and suppress this situation for him, I'm afraid someone would have rebelled long ago.
However, when the enemy outside the city pushed up the siege equipment and killed and injured more than a hundred people, even these old family members of Hangzhou could not help being shaken and panicked. It only relied on his pioneering fighting and fighting to support everyone while cheering up.
As soon as he sat down against the wall and drank a few sips of cold boiling water, he saw a military academy and tribe named Qian Shuiting approaching and said:
"Lieutenant Du, it's hard for us to hold on anymore..."
"So far I haven't heard of reinforcements coming, my brothers are all talking... all are talking"
When he said this, he became hesitant, looking at Qian Gumei while hesitant.
"Say what"
Qian Gumei said in a cold voice.
"Does it mean that everyone has been abandoned?..."
Qian Shuiting replied cautiously.
"It's nonsense. The Metropolitan Government has always acted meticulously and meticulously. If there is support, it must be supported..."
Qian Gumei glamorously said.
"My generation naturally knows that the general governor is a person who does great things with his promises, but he can't hold back the people underneath... If you have opinions and intentions, a little delay can lead to annihilation..."
Qian Shuiting said with sadness and sigh on his face.
"Is this your thoughts and intentions..."
Qian Gumei suddenly calmed down and asked rhetorically.
"The Metropolitan Government is very good to its subordinates and committees, and it is naturally desirable. However, if there is no life, wouldn't all of this be empty..."
"When did you get in touch with outside the city..."
Qian Gumei asked again without moving.
"Yes... That is, just a letter came in last night... It is said that he has a commendable ambition to fight in the captain, and he is willing to help the whole teacher."
Qian Shuiting was surprised before continuing.
"The subordinates just think that as long as they lower their heads a little, they can keep this useful body, and then use it for some time.. In this way, regardless of whether it is to cut off a side here in the future, or wait for an opportunity to re-establish the capital, There is a lot to do..."
"Do you really think that others are stupid, and let your head and mouse both ends wantonly fiddling..."
Qian Gumei also sighed extremely disappointed.
"But in any case, as long as Du Wei can lead us through this difficulty... Please also Du Wei can do it..."
Qian Shuiting also disagrees; of course, he also obscured the other party and would only leave behind some of the conditions and truth of the old Hangzhou Ministry.
"That said, you are all prepared..."
Qian Gumei laughed instead of anger, but his heart sank slightly; looking forward to the left and right, only to find that his familiar soldiers were not nearby.
"This is also a helpless thing, all for the sake of everyone's way out... So I also ask Du Wei to fulfill our wishes."
Qian Shuiting's eyes flickered as he said, but at the same time he made a gesture behind his back; some former Hangzhou Badu children gathered and looked at him silently and firmly.
Qian Gumei looked at the other person's familiar and unfamiliar face, and suddenly felt a lot of regret; instead, he remembered a class taught by the governor of the capital when he was studying in Jiangling; he was talking about the world. Military troops of various origins.
Among them are the soldiers of the countryside connected by the kinship of the clan; the army of the tribal generals maintained by the private kindness and justice; the teachers of the economic system recruited by the government system; and even driven and cohesive by the righteousness and future. Soldiers of the National War.
Among them, the local soldiers who are brave enough to fight privately but are afraid of public warfare are undoubtedly the most inferior among them. Although they have the determination and courage to protect the country, they can not be used in other places. They are also easily lured by private interests. Make short-sighted actions.
And one of the reasons for the country’s steadily deteriorating state since the Mid-Tang Dynasty is that these local soldiers and family generals who only care about the personal interests of individuals, clan and clan and family members have become more and more economical soldiers and soldiers that can be used for public weapons and justice. The result of the almost demise of the soldiers of the National War.
In fact, at the beginning, Qian Gumei guaranteed and raised these people and so on. What he thought was to rely on the close relationship between the countryside to support and promote each other, so that they can work harder and be more reliable. Thinking about it now is the mistakes and bitter consequences of my own selfishness.
When they usually act in concert in the army, they can work diligently and recklessly; however, when they act alone in a local area, they will inevitably reveal all the evils and selfishness of cowardice and death at critical moments.
Thinking of this, Qian Gumei inevitably had a certain resolute meaning in her heart. Even if you lose yourself here, you can't make this generation easily succeed, otherwise you would be too sorry for the support and value of the chief governor.
It's a pity that those soldiers who didn't know he had returned, and while thinking, he held the half-cut spear stuck in the battlement behind him. At this moment, someone yelled suddenly.
"Hurry up and support Ximen, the enemy is coming to attack the city wall again..."
But it was another Taiping military lieutenant, former Suzhou Huqiu town general Liu Jiwei, and led a group of soldiers hurriedly from the wall.
The atmosphere of some urgency suddenly vented, and the former Hangzhou old department gathered around, involuntarily sideways gave them a way to pass, allowing Qian Gumei to go to the west gate.
"Thank you, it's me who has nowhere to go... It's just them,"
Qian Gumei breathed a sigh of relief and hesitated to Liu Jiwei.
"Old money, I can't take care of this anymore... It's a while if you can drag it for a while..."
Liu Jiwei also sighed helplessly.
"Gather some available manpower with me first, and figure out how much you can rush out. Only by keeping a useful body can we plan for the future..."
At this time, the earth groups and town soldiers who had come to cover the city with various equipment outside the city stopped one after another; they turned their heads and looked behind them one after another. There was a faint sound of intensified fighting.
"I'm afraid it's not that reinforcements have arrived?"
Qian Jumei, who was changing into a shattered armor suit again, was involuntarily blessed to face Liu Jiwei.
"Also ask Xiaowei Liu to help me. They are all brothers who are comparable to each other in the past. It is a little bit that can be pulled back from the forked road..."
And on the fishing village wharf at the mouth of the Feiyun River not far from Ruian Chengcheng, many small boats and paddles were also crowded and docked. In the sea-ship fleet on the river, more small boats full of people and materials were put down one after another.
With a headscarf and a kapok buckle shirt, Kong Liluo, the chief of the Outer Territory of Nanhai Road, slowly boarded the fishing village with a small boat steadily docking. Pre-set wooden piles and horizontal slabs, temporarily laid out on the trestle bridge.
Then a group of strong armed leaders with different skin colors but uniformly wearing "Yi Cong" shirts also surrounded him and showed a certain expression of awe and awe at him:
"This time is the first opportunity for us overseas volunteers to contribute and kill the enemy in China. It also relates to the chance that everyone can be naturalized and settled in China."
Kong Liluo coldly told them:
"Whoever dared to drop the chain or make mistakes for us, then it's no wonder that I buried his whole family and the whole clan..."
—I am the dividing line —
"Congratulations, Wang Xuanjiao! This is a third-class award, which can be converted into a ten-acre land quota right now, or as a bonus to the priority order at the time of transfer..."
At the same time, in Qiantang City, as one of the members of the census team selected to cooperate, Wang Yanshou also received the commendation notice with a stunned expression.
It was only because he stood out with relatively accurate and detailed reports in the local surveys on the sericulture and silk products around Taihu Lake, especially for the evaluation of the management and production processes mastered by the wealthy family members, which was specifically named by the chief governor.
However, this is thanks to his early experience with the members of the Zhongyuan branch of the family, who specially purchased silk and silk from Weiming in Hebei and Shenguang in Henan, and sold them to the neighboring Great Wall in Daibeiyun.
Therefore, for a long time, for all kinds of silk, brown, cloth, Burmese, yarn, silk, Luo, brocade, and other fabrics, and there are many different varieties under each, such as grade brocade, large brocade, Jing brocade, Weft brocade, soft brocade, big Zhang brocade, variegated brocade, half-arm brocade, Ruiling, white braided thread, Yukou Ling, Fei Ling, etc., all have corresponding understanding.
It was just that when he got the physical reward accompanied by the corresponding award-the five-pronged lake silk scroll, he still inevitably lost his thoughts with mixed feelings. Because when he worked in the family, it was not that he didn't get the corresponding reward.
But the feelings from the two are completely different. Although the land of Hedong is known as the mountains and rivers in the outside world, the territory of Taiyuan, where the Wang family lives and multiplies, is famously narrow and crowded.
Even if it is known as the terraced rice fields for hundreds of miles, the two Wangs of Jinyang and Qixian, who have land properties across counties in Lianzhou, have a large number of clans and they are divided among the specific branches and houses.
Therefore, the life's wish of most of the king's children is to buy a piece of land that can be passed down to the world under the shadow of the family. But here, as long as you are willing to do things seriously and achieve something, the fields, houses, and various supporting welfare means are just as easy to get.
Suddenly, he understood more and more. Those poor scholars who were still deeply afraid of the Taiping Army or the offspring of the local tyrants, after joining them voluntarily or involuntarily, quickly gave up their previous grievances and did not hesitate to die. Li's mentality has changed.
Because only the Taiping Army can break through the barriers and shackles of the past imperial courts and clans, and within more reasonable rules and systems, allowing most people to work hard to get what they want.
This is the greatest fairness and justice in the world. (End of this chapter)