"What? How dare you resist? Which part of the city is at the top of the city?" Zai Cheng saw this and yelled with rage in his heart.
A figure of a white cricket jumped out of the team behind, kneeling and crawling over. "I know, I know... The commander of the Wufeng Tower defenders is named Xie Ting. He is a new army from the Wuyi Mountains in the south. He is the most trusted direct descendant of the Hunjun." one……"
"Oh! So it's him. I think I've heard about it..." Yi Xin nodded and still had some impressions in his mind. "Go, talk to this Xie Ting. It's a great achievement of yours to convince him to surrender..."
The white beetle was so frightened that his white hair was sweating. "Ah... Long live my lord, this new army is unreasonable... There are heavy machine guns on the top of the city, and the slaves were killed when they went there!"
"Don't worry... I will send someone to protect you, give him a bulletproof vest to wear, and give him a white flag and several guards!"
Bai Jiaoxiao was ready to die. He said in his heart that he just wanted to come over and pat the horse. Why did he pat the horse's hoof directly? Should I go forward? Will I die if I go to negotiate?
But His Majesty has already spoken, what else can I say, just rush in with all your strength! Four bodyguards rushed over and put a bloated vest on him, filled with ceramic armor pieces collected from the battlefield.
Not only that, the four guards also removed several huge door panels from the verandah at the back, which were lined with fine wood and iron bars, making them extremely sturdy.
There were four huge shields surrounding the white frog and he walked forward cautiously. The crotch of the white cricket was even wet, but this was on the battlefield and no one laughed at him.
A white flag fluttered in the gap between the door panel and the shield. A white man holding an iron trumpet shouted in a trembling voice, "Is it Xie Ting's troops on the city? If the two countries are fighting, they will not kill the envoys. I am here to negotiate, not to fight... …”
"Your Majesty asked me to give you a message... Surrender. His Majesty knows that you are a loyal minister and you are capable. You have learned martial arts and sold them to the emperor's family! Follow Emperor Guangxu, and you will naturally have a high official and a generous salary... Surrender !”
Click, click, click... A stream of bullets exploded in front of Baijixiao's small defensive formation, and then Xie Ting's figure emerged from the Wufeng Tower.
Bah...he spat out, "Go back and tell that rebellious master of yours! There are new members of the Royal Forest Army who died in battle, but no new members of the Royal Forest Army who surrendered!"
"We swore an oath in front of Mazu before we came! We will live up to His Majesty's kindness in this life. If I want to beat you, I will beat you... or you will die quickly!"
Bai Xiaoxiao wiped the sweat from his head, "Why bother! Why are you doing this... The luck of the Hunjun Tongzhi Emperor is gone, and your death will be in vain. Think of your parents, family, brothers and sisters... they Still waiting for you to go back?"
"Hahaha...shut up and get out! Ever since we put on this skin, we have never thought about going back alive. The day we walked out of the house, we were ready. Either we would return home with great achievements, or we would be wrapped in horse leather and die on the battlefield. !”
"Don't even think about us surrendering! If I survive as a rebel, I won't be able to enter the ancestral graves when I go back. Damn it..."
Ta da da...ta da da...
The heavy machine gun was spitting out tongues of fire, and several bullets hit the heavy door panel. The bullets of this heavy machine gun were so powerful that even the two-inch-thick wooden board could not withstand it. The two soldiers at the front were shot and fell to their knees on the ground miserably. He screamed endlessly.
The white cricket was frightened and ran back. The other soldiers dragged their injured comrades back and ran away.
"Your Majesty... your servants are incompetent. They won't listen to the good things these people say. They say they swore an oath to Mazu and that their parents won't let them come back alive..."
"This slave is incompetent, please punish me severely..." After saying that, he kowtowed desperately.
Yi Xin waved his hand with a cold face to let this kid go down. He frowned and looked at the New Army soldiers showing off their power on the city wall, puzzled, "What did this group of people do? Why would they rather die than surrender?"
"Because they are mountain people..." At this time, the British military attache Delaney rode over from behind the team, "Your Majesty actually doesn't understand the people of your own Qing Dynasty?"
"We have to admire Xiao Letian's wisdom on this point. We in the UK have tried every means to obtain some secret documents within the Chinese community, and part of them are Xiao Letian's meeting minutes!"
"Do you know why Xiao Letian asked Emperor Tongzhi to choose recruits in the Wuyi Mountain area? It's because Xiao Letian understands the differences in China's vast land, resources and national conditions!"
"Xiao Letian once said something like... I was a non-cultivator in Huizhou in my previous life. He said that Huizhou is a place with many mountains and rivers, but no fields!"
"The cruel living environment forced the people there to find other ways to survive, so merchants came out of Huizhou, and the same happened to merchants from Shanxi. The geographical environment of Shanxi Province is similar..."
"Fujian Province has more mountains and less fields, but more coasts. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, it has been an area with developed maritime transportation, but it was suppressed in the Ming and Qing dynasties!"
"Human behavior can be suppressed and blocked, but culture and the environment will not be easily abolished. The cruel and harsh natural environment makes the people there more united and clannish. At the same time, they do not have the kind of hometown in the plains. An inseparable thought!”
"Whether it's Huizhou or Wuyi Mountain, families with a large population encourage or even force their children to go out to work, either to do business or to go to Nanyang. Their love for their children is different from that in the farming areas of the Central Plains!"
"Why do Fujian people believe in Mazu? Because Mazu bless navigation, travel, and adventure!"
"And what is the most important thing about conquering the world? It is the spirit of a small group. You cannot fight alone, you must unite... This is what the court seems to be most afraid of!"
"The farming civilization in the Great Plains is restricted by etiquette, royal laws, and customs. They naturally require their children to be locked in their hometowns and not allowed to leave... Otherwise, why are there roads to guide them?"
"In fact, the imperial court also wants to lock the population into farmland!"
"This is a very scary phenomenon. The same farmland bears more and more people, and they are not allowed to go out... This leads to internal strife, and disunity naturally arises!"
"This kind of behavior will gradually become a culture, a culture of self-interested people! Soldiers recruited in this cultural zone must undergo very troublesome brainwashing training. Only by changing this selfishness can they become good soldiers!"
"Haha... Let's analyze it this way. If the officers stationed at the Meridian Gate just now were officers from the Xishan Battalion, then they would have surrendered long ago in the face of such a losing outcome!"
"But the culture of this kind of mountain people is different. They are very loyal to small groups, because they can't survive without unity. It's the same whether they go to Nanyang, South America, or Europe!"
"And they value the reputation of their entire ethnic group. If a small group of people ruins the reputation of the entire Wuyi Mountain people! Then their family, parents, and relatives will be shamed and punished by society!"
"So they will not surrender, not for the reputation of the Wuyi Mountain people, and even less for the glory of the family clan!"
"Death on the battlefield is worthy of one's oath. Even if they die, their family will be proud! But what if they surrender? It will ruin the reputation of the entire family and even their hometown!"
"No one will do business with them in the future, and no one will recruit their soldiers! The reputation is ruined, and it will take hundreds of years to recover!"
Delaney's words moved these Manchu nobles. In fact, Delaney didn't say a word and didn't dare to say it.
Xiao Letian once said, "These Hakka people hiding in the vast mountains are actually a branch of the ancestors of the Han people... The blood of these people still retains the true Han genes from before the Five Husties disrupted China!"
"Sacrifice your life and work hard for the sake of righteousness!"
"A promise is worth a thousand pieces of gold!"
And the spirit of all this is what the Manchu and Qing Tartars who entered the Pass feared most!
