"Wait a minute!" Everyone's faces suddenly turned pale, "What... do you mean?"
The commander knew he had no way out, so he shouted louder and louder: "Send a man to the fort to directly bombard the barbarian ships, and then pretend it was a mistake!"
After hearing this, the soldiers all looked at each other and took a deep breath.
"General, if there are only a few of us plotting, it will definitely not succeed. I am afraid that not many people in the whole army are willing to follow you and risk beheading, so we'd better be patient for a few days."
"Why don't you know it yet?" The officer shook his head and said, "Niu Yuan is doing everything for meritorious service. He wants to do it as quickly as possible. He doesn't care about our life and death in other places! Unless the people really rebel and shake the peace of the border. , he will restrain himself. However, this person's nature cannot be changed after all. Whenever he is in power for a day, we soldiers at the bottom will suffer for a day! Let alone a few days, it will take ten or eight years to endure it. It’s not over yet!”
He stood up immediately: "The long-term pain is worse than the short-term pain. Today I really want to do such a treasonous thing! As for whether it will succeed or not, you don't have to worry, I have my own plan in mind."
"Captain, a warship has docked!" The soldiers outside the big tent shouted hurriedly, interrupting the officer's next words. He had no time to persuade everyone, so he hurriedly put on his shirt and asked: "Is it a pirate ship?" ?" Then he walked away.
As soon as the officer left, the soldiers who stayed here fell into an awkward silence, with only the inexorable sound of wind and rain making the sound. They each observed each other's expressions, swallowing their saliva nervously, and no one dared to reveal their true thoughts.
"Let's do it." A soldier really couldn't stand such an atmosphere. He opened his dry mouth, breathed out gently, and put his black hands in front of the bonfire; the flames swayed and trembled under the cold wind.
The others immediately moved their gazes over, looking at him with suspicion and surprise.
"Do you know what you are talking about!" A tall and thin officer and soldier stood up, slammed his helmet on the ground, and shouted angrily, "The country supports us soldiers because it expects us to be loyal to the country and kill the enemy with meritorious deeds! Now each and every one of them wants to target the imperial court... Let me tell you, once we turn against the barbarians, tens of millions of people in Fujian Province will never have peace! For the sake of your own comfort, you have to abandon your responsibilities. Are you going to Don’t you have any sense of shame?”
"It's not like you and I haven't seen each other before! When we escorted them to move south, a large number of people died along the way. Now they are like slaves, preparing for a civil uprising every day. If the New Deal is not brought to an end, God knows what will happen to them! "
"It's obvious that the imperial court lost its shame and just sat back and watched the people become displaced. It became our fault instead? Don't forget, we were also tortured to death!"
As a result, everyone held their own opinions, and there was such a quarrel that some people had already pulled out the swords from their waists.
"How many days have it been and you still haven't fought enough?" The soldier who was still warming himself by the fire slowly raised his head, with tears shining in his eyes, "I am tired and just want to take a rest...Brother, let's be honest. You said, I have been a soldier since I was a child. I have never asked for any extravagant comfort. If I can live a good life, it is considered good. But now, we are running around like coolies, and those with weak bones cannot bear it and are sick. Sickness, death; there is no satisfying day in the military camp. I also want to serve the country and kill the enemy, and I also want to fight happily, but I want to be an upright person. Let the New Deal stop, I just want to stop suffering like this... "
After everyone heard this, they all stopped arguing, turned to look at him, and sat down slowly. These words obviously aroused sadness in their hearts, and they all pinched their sore noses and lowered their heads.
"But, we..." The tall and thin soldier could no longer utter righteous words, so he knelt down on the straw mat with a plop, gritted his teeth, and cried bitterly, "If we do this, It's tantamount to betraying the country! We have caused chaos in the sea, do we still deserve to be called soldiers..." After that, his voice became more choked and became increasingly difficult to hear. A cold strong wind blew through everyone's hearts.
"Have you seen it clearly? Are there any people holding the imperial edict among the people who came ashore?" The officer walked quickly and ran to the fort to ask.
A military man holding a telescope and looking around replied: "Sir! They are only dressed as Yi people. They don't seem to be... Oh, there is a Han! There is a Han!"
"Who cares if he's a bastard or not? Have you produced the imperial edict?" the officer shouted angrily.
"Well...if you don't go to pick up the ship, they won't show you the imperial edict."
"Then we can't say for sure!" the officer shouted hurriedly, "The pirate ships we see every day also look like this, with many Han people mixed among them. The governor told us to be careful, just for fear of someone fishing in troubled waters!"
At this point, he caught a glimpse of a few people coming out of the big tent, so he turned around and told them: "You guys watch here, I will take people down to explore the truth!" Without waiting for anyone to persuade him, he lit up. More than ten soldiers came down the mountain to inquire.
"What are you doing!" He jumped down from a hillside and shouted with a knife.
The group of barbarian soldiers were unloading artillery pieces from the ship and preparing to transport them up the mountain to present them to the officers and soldiers. When they saw them coming down to ask questions in person, they felt it was convenient. Everyone was happy and went forward to greet them.
"How outrageous!" The officer opened his eyes angrily before they could get closer. "What's your intention in pointing the muzzle at the city wall? I'm afraid it's not a pirate in disguise with evil intentions!" The soldiers just came from behind and saw the officer and The Yi people quarreled fiercely, thinking that they really encountered pirates, so they stepped forward to help without any polite words: "Explain it to me quickly!"
When the barbarians saw this, they did not give in. They took a few steps forward, pointed at the officer's nose and cursed. Seeing the situation, the officer and his officers and soldiers rushed forward together, and both sides started pushing and shoving.
The Han envoy was standing at the bow of the ship, still picking up the imperial edict in his arms. When he saw this scene, his face turned pale with shock, and he hurried forward to explain.
"It's not good! It seems that pirates are really taking advantage of the situation to attack!" A soldier observed the situation under the city wall and said to the brothers around him, "Hurry up and fire up the artillery to support the commander!"
The others were horrified, and before they had time to confirm the authenticity, they quickly lit a match and stuffed it into the hands of the tall and thin soldier; but the latter frowned and kept his hands motionless, as if he was in a daze.
"Fire the cannon!" Another person looked anxious and walked up directly, pressing the match rope to the fire hole - 'Bang! The shells were fired solidly, hitting the two-story "barbarian ship" in the middle!
As soon as the artillery here fired, I saw it from the fort opposite Meiling Port, believed it to be true, and fired the cannon. So more than ten cannonballs were fired simultaneously, and more than a dozen holes appeared in the ship. It shook violently and began to tilt towards the sea.
