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After Zhu San and Wan Si figured it out, Wang Wu immediately called his officers into his room without any delay.
As a battalion officer, it was impossible for him to have a heart-to-heart talk with every soldier, so he could only assign ideological work to the people below.
Due to the complex origins of the Ming army in the Kuidong area, some were from the Shun army, some were from the Ming army, some were from Tuanlian, and some were armed by landlords. Therefore, the various ministries of the Ming army did not have a unified organization or unified orders. All ministries recommended Liu Tichun to be in charge of military affairs. Each family's troops are divided into sixteen battalions.
If there is a war, each family will follow Liu Tichun's command and send troops together.
If there is no war, he will train while farming.
On weekdays, each family goes to its own house and does not interfere with each other.
Liu Tichun's headquarters followed the military system of the old Shun Army. Because Tian Shouyi was a hereditary officer in the Jingzhou Guard of the Ming Dynasty, his army organization used the guard system of the old Ming Army.
Specific to the personal barracks commanded by Wang Wu, the lowest level officer is the small flag, which is in charge of ten people; above the small flag is the general flag, which is in charge of fifty people; above the general flag is the general flag, which is in charge of hundreds of people.
As the leader of the personal barracks, Wang Wu could only serve as a pilot for thousands of households.
In fact, he holds the title of Jingzhou General, and the General is at least a colonel and brigade commander.
But in reality, Wang Wu only had about 300 people under his command, the most of whom was a major battalion commander.
The reason for the disparity between official positions and positions is naturally the indiscriminate granting of official titles in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
In the Ming Dynasty, there were countless seals here, and in the Qing Dynasty, there were also names all over the place.
The eldest brother does not talk about the second brother.
Three hundred households and six general banners arrived soon.
These nine people are the intermediate leadership team of the personal barracks, and they are the backbone of Wang Wu's army.
Zhu San is the flag bearer of Wang Wu and is equivalent to the messenger, carrying ten messengers in his hand.
Wan Si is the captain of Wang Wu's direct soldiers, and he also leads ten people.
These 20 people belong to Wang Wu's own direct subordinates, and the total number of officers and soldiers in the whole battalion is 324.
The three hundred households are Tian Wen, 32, Guo Kui, 31, and Zhao Jinzhong, 28.
Among them, Tian Wen was from Jingzhou. He voluntarily defected to Tian Shouyi from his hometown in the sixth year of Yongli to participate in the anti-Qing activities. When he was young, he attended a private school in his hometown for several years. He claimed to be a scholar, but in fact he was just a boy.
Guo Kui was a native of Xiangtan, Hunan. In the second year of Yongli Period, the Qing army invaded Xiangtan and massacred the residents of the city. Guo Kui escaped with his relatives in other places, but his whole family, including his young brothers and sisters, were killed by the Qing army. . At this point, he joined the Anti-Qing Yi Division, and later joined the Tian Shou Division.
Zhao Jinzhong is a native of Wushan. He was originally a hunter. Because he was good at shooting arrows, he was forcibly recruited by Tian Shouyi. In a few years, he worked for hundreds of households.
Two of the remaining six general bannermen are also from Jingzhou, and three others are from Xiangyang.
There is another one who is Wang Wu's companion in the children's camp. He is three years younger than Wang Wu and is only nineteen this year.
He has no name, so he is called Gou Sheng.
"Gouzheng" sounds like the leftovers eaten by dogs, and it has a discriminatory meaning.
In fact, these days, poor families often use the word "Gou Sheng" when naming their children, because the poor believe that giving their children a vulgar and mean name will make them easier to support, and they will be able to withstand beatings and illnesses.
Among the six general banners, Gou Sheng is the closest to Wang Wu, probably because Wang Wu often took him to play with him in the children's camp.
A group of people have different experiences in joining the army and have different lives.
Now, we are facing a difficult choice together.
After repeating what Zhu San and Wan Si said to the nine people, Wang Wu did not ask the nine people to obey the order in an imperative tone, but let the nine people make their own choices.
If you are willing, just be willing. If you are not willing, just leave tomorrow morning.
He is not Suo Yanlong, and he cannot force his men to surrender with him.
"well!"
The scholar Tian Wen was the first to sigh, as if he had anticipated what would happen today. He smiled bitterly and said: "The building will collapse and it will be difficult to support it alone. Today, the situation can no longer be changed by our persistence. Since it has been decided by the higher authorities, , I don’t have anything to say, the worst I can do is go back to my hometown and farm.”
Zhao Jinzhong, who was born as a local Orion hunter, hummed slightly but said nothing.
In the end, Guo Kui of a hundred households, as well as Yu Zhu and Song An, who had a hatred of annihilation with the Qing army, chose to fight the Qing army to the end and refused to surrender.
Wang Wu understood and respected the three people's choices and asked them where they planned to go.
Guo Kui said without thinking too much: "Let's go to Hushuai's place!"
"Tiger Commander" is the famous Lin Guogong Li Laiheng. His adoptive father Li Guo was nicknamed "Yi Hu", so he was called "Little Tiger", and over time he was respected as "Tiger Commander".
Li Laiheng's tribe is the most "pure" branch of the Ming army in Kuidong. They are all old Shun troops. Their base is in the Maolu Mountain area in Xingshan. They are also the strongest branch of the Ming army at the moment, with about 10,000 soldiers. Many horses.
But Wang Wu knew that at this time, there were at most seven or eight months left before the Qing army captured the Maolu Mountain area. With the defeat of Liu Tichun's troops, the Maolu Mountain anti-Qing base area would eventually be heavily surrounded by the Qing army.
Therefore, Guo Kui and the others chose to go to Maolu Mountain to join Li Laiheng at this time. It was a fearless move that they knew they would die but still sacrificed themselves for it.
He didn't know what to say, so he could only nodded slightly and asked everyone to inform the soldiers about the surrender tomorrow. This was also based on the principle of voluntariness and never force.
When the nine people stood up, Wang Wu looked at Guo Kui again: "If there is anyone who is willing to continue, you can take it to Commander Hu."
After that, Zhu San was asked to take inventory of the weapons and equipment in the camp, select some good weapons, and give them to Guo Kui and the others to take away together with the small amount of gunpowder in the camp.
Guo Kui and the others didn't say much, they just bowed their hands to Wang Wu, the young captain.
Everything is left unsaid.
After this farewell, we may never see each other again.
Before dawn, the general results will be out.
To Wang Wu's surprise, more than half of the soldiers were unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and chose to follow Guo Kui to Maolu Mountain to continue fighting the Qing army to the end.
These people are not from the Lao Shun Army, but are defeated troops that Tian Shouyi has collected in various places over the years, and there are even some strong men from Shila. Logically, these people can survive if the Qing surrenders, but they choose to sacrifice their decision and the Qing instead. The army fought to the end, which really made Wang Wu full of emotions.
Combined with the fact that among the middle and high-level generals who discussed matters in the lobby at night, except for one Yu Guohua, who would rather die than surrender, the rest of them had no objection to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and they felt even worse.
While feeling emotional, Wang Wu secretly ordered Tian Wen and Zhao Jinzhong to help Guo Kui lead people away.
Tian Wen was a little worried: "With so many people leaving at once, what if Mr. Tian is blamed?"
"After tomorrow, you and I are both pure people. There is nothing to blame... just do as I say."
Wang Wu was not worried about Tian Shouyi, because after surrendering, it was hard to tell whether Tian Shouyi was his superior or not.
It was impossible for the Qing army to allow the Ming army that had surrendered to continue to maintain its intact structure.
The day soon dawned, the snow stopped, and even the wind stopped.
The snow was deep, even knee deep.
The long-lost sun appeared in the east, and a ray of sunshine fell on the land of Wushan. Although it could not warm people, it gave every Ming army soldier deep in Wushan a sense of warmth.
This warmth comes more from the motivation to survive.
The surrender to the Qing Dynasty is basically known to everyone.
Wang Wu didn't know what the other troops were thinking. He only knew that the soldiers of Hu Jungui's troops stationed not far away made a noise early in the morning. It was not a mutiny or a riot, but a particularly relaxed chat.
A group here, a group there, telling each other whether they should continue to serve as soldiers and earn a living after surrender, or receive severance money and return to their hometowns to live a better life.
Maybe there are some who are unwilling to surrender, but they are definitely in the minority.
People tend to follow the crowd. Without organization, a few people cannot shake the overall situation and can only follow the crowd.
Guo Kui took more than 180 people who were unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty to meet with Wang Wu for the last time, and then quietly left the camp gate in the name of patrolling the camp.
Wang Wu had been standing at the gate of the camp watching these warriors who were desperate to leave, until their figures disappeared, then he stamped his feet melancholy and returned to the station a little lonely.
It is not safe for Guo Kui and the others, because the Qing army may have arrived at Lao Mukong.
As soon as he returned to the camp, he received an order from Tian Shouyi, asking him to lead the soldiers' battalion to gather at Dongba immediately, and emphasized that they should carry weapons.
Dongba was the training ground for the Ming army. Wang Wu didn't think much about it. He just thought that Tian Shouyi was going to speak to his subordinates and then go to the Qing camp to disarm. Then he ordered the remaining soldiers to gather at Dongba.
After arriving on the ground, he was shocked by the scene in front of him.
In sight, several groups of people were surrounding a group of people.
The group of people surrounded was about a few hundred people. Judging from their clothes, they were all veteran soldiers who had followed Suo Yanlong here a few days ago. Many of them had gray hair.
Surrounding this group of old soldiers were the troops of Suo Yanlong's other deputy generals Wang Zhili, Lu Congyun and others.
Lieutenants Ma Dasheng and Li Zhibing, who were regarded as right-hand men by Tian Shouyi, each led a team of soldiers to block the west gate of Dongba.
Before he understood what was happening, Tian Shouyi's voice came to his ears: "Why are there only these people, where are the others?"
Wang Wu hurriedly walked towards Tian Shouyi, who was looking at him with a frown, and said in a low voice: "The others are not willing to follow you to the Qing Dynasty, so I will let them go at my own discretion."
Hearing this, Tian Shou was furious, kicked Wang Wu, and cursed: "Asshole, who told you to let them go!"
Wang Wu didn't dodge, he took Tian Shouyi's kick and stood there with his head lowered and didn't say anything.
Seeing this, Tian Shouyi became even more angry, but there was something more difficult than this at the moment, so he did not continue to get angry. He just said to Wang Wu in a low voice: "I will settle this account with you later. You can lead others to follow me first." I come."
Wang Wu hurriedly responded, waving his hand to signal Tian Wen and Zhao Jinzhong from Baihu to lead their troops, and then asked Tian Shouyi in a low voice what happened.
Tian Shou said as he walked: "Those are Yu Guohua's soldiers, and they are unwilling to return to the Qing Dynasty with Suo Zhen."
Wang Wu raised his head and glanced at the group of old camp soldiers who were confronting each other: "What are we going to do about Suo Zhen?"
"what to do?"
Tian Shouyi stopped walking and glanced sideways at Wang Wu, "When the red flag falls in Suo Town, you will lead your troops and kill all these people!"
