Chance, yes!
Not now, but nine years from now!
This is momentum!
Potential that others cannot see.
This trend is the "San Francisco Rebellion" that swept half of China!
Regardless of whether he surrenders to the Qing or insists on resisting the Qing, Wang Wu's motivation comes from this trend.
But he had no way to tell Tian Wen that nine years later the southwest war drums would hammer the Manchu Qing Dynasty to the point of collapse, and that time would be the last chance for those who persisted in resisting the Qing Dynasty to regain their consciousness.
How he survived these nine years, he didn't know.
It’s really just a matter of taking one step at a time.
The most important thing right now is to take people to Laomukong. If Liu Tichun, the leader of the Kuidong Ming Army, can be rescued, history may be slightly changed.
With Liu Tichun's prestige in the eyes of Laoshun's soldiers and his appeal among various Ming armies, he might be able to postpone the fall of the Kuidong Ming army.
If Wang Wu can lead people to rush out and move behind the Qing army, the butterfly's wings may not be able to flap.
With the combination of various factors, it is difficult to say that Wu Sangui cannot be carried away to raise an army!
Or it may not cause new variables.
He stopped thinking about it and asked the mute Zhu San and the blind Wan Si to go with him to the granary and arsenal.
The grain stored in the warehouse was hoarded by Tian Shou a lifetime ago. It was probably enough to support the previous four thousand Ming troops for half a month.
This will reduce the number of the Ming army by three-quarters. If Wang Wu chooses to hold on, the food will last for two months.
The problem is that it is impossible to stay and we must leave.
After looking around in the warehouse, Wang Wu ordered Wan Si: "Let our brothers and the people in the old camp carry ten days' rations, and set the rest on fire."
When going to rescue Liu Tichun, Wang Wu couldn't let people use large and small carts to bring all the food. This would not only increase the burden on the soldiers, but also affect the marching speed. They might be overtaken by the Qing army halfway.
Travel must be light and simple, and anything that slows down the march must be abandoned.
Wan Si responded to the order, and was also ordered by Wang Wu to kill the pigs and more than 30 sheep raised by Tian Shouyi in the camp, and then take them away with the same manpower.
After handling the food and livestock in the camp, Wang Wu took the mute Zhu San to the arsenal to have a look.
Due to the blockade of the Qing army for more than ten years, the weapons and equipment of the Ming army in the Kuidong area were very poor. The armor rate was less than 3%. The weapons used were mostly cold weapons, broadswords and spears, and there were very few firearms.
The reason was that the Ming army was unable to make its own gunpowder and could only replenish it by capturing it.
This resulted in that even though there were more than 300 fire guns in the warehouse, Wang Wu regarded them as fire sticks and did not even look at them. He only asked Zhu San to add more than a dozen pairs of iron armors, more than a hundred pairs of cotton armors, and more than two hundred pairs. Playing cards and some good-looking crossbows were taken out and distributed to the soldiers.
There was something Wang Wu didn't dare to waste at all, so he asked people to carry it all away in a bamboo basket.
This thing is salt.
The blockade of the Qing army caused the Ming army to be extremely short of salt. Therefore, salt was as good as gold in the Kuidong area. In order to obtain salt, the Ming army did not know how many casualties it paid.
There is no way. If a person cannot eat salt, he will soon become swollen and exhausted, and his whole body will be weak. How will he continue to fight against the Qing army?
Tian Shouyi stored the salt in the arsenal instead of in the granary, which shows the importance of salt.
A total of 28 jars of salt were carried by Wang Wu's direct soldiers. Each jar of salt weighed twenty or thirty kilograms. It was no problem to carry it on the body for a short time, but it would definitely be tiring to march for a long time.
None of the soldiers who carried the salt complained about being assigned a hard job. Instead, they wrapped the bamboo baskets containing salt tightly with cotton clothes as if they had found a treasure, fearing that there would be holes in the bamboo baskets halfway and the salt jars would fall to the ground and break.
Except for food, livestock and weapons, basically nothing is needed.
Finally, some gold and silver were unearthed from the residences of Tian Shouyi and other generals. It was not much, about a few hundred taels.
Originally, Wang Wu didn't want to take them away. Considering that he might need money if he successfully broke through and reached the rear of the Qing army, he asked the mute Zhu San to wrap the gold and silver in cloth and take them on the road.
There is no need to carry copper coins or anything like that, just throw them away.
The team at the dam field has been reorganized. In order to facilitate the command, Wang Wu asked Tian Wen to compile four hundred-man teams.
Tian Wen and Zhao Jinzhong each led a team, Wang Wu's younger brother Gou Sheng also led a team, and the remaining team was led by a man named Zhang Pengyu.
This Zhang Pengyu was a personal soldier of Suo Yanlong. During the Batai Incident, he not only did not resist Wang Wu and the others, but also stopped several other companions who wanted to fight. Wang Wu remembered this and was willing to stay. When he continued to resist the Qing Dynasty, he was asked to serve as the commander of the first team.
Half of Zhang's team was Suo Yanlong's soldiers. Instead of letting others command them, it would be better for Zhang Pengyu to command them.
This is also the benefit of voluntary travel.
There is no need to worry about the people who stay having different intentions.
Zhao Jinzhong himself is a marksman, so there are many archers in his team, which can be regarded as the only long-range attack power in Wang Wu's hands.
The entire team can use only 48 fireguns, and the total amount of gunpowder is about the same weight as two jars of salt. If they encounter the Qing army, it is estimated that a few guns will become misfired.
better than nothing.
Wang Wu's own personal troops are still under his direct command, and are used both as sharp knives for attacking and as a reserve force.
After notifying everyone that he was going to return to Lao Mukong to rescue Liu Shuai, Wang Wu gave the order to set off. Lao Shun's army over there had already assembled.
At this time, two people started making noise, saying that they also wanted to go with the team.
Wang Wu looked at the two of them and found that one was about fifteen or sixteen years old, and the other was only twelve or thirteen years old.
A boy, a child.
"what happened?"
Wang Wu turned to ask Tian Wen.
Tian Wenhui said that one of the two children was named Liu Yuan and the other was named Song Xiaotiao.
"Song child?"
Wang Wu smiled and thought that this was definitely not the name of a human child. Most likely, the child had no name at all like him, so he was called that.
that is the truth.
Both of them are only sons. According to Wang Wu's request, there are no only sons in the army, so they cannot follow the team. But for some reason, these two people refused to leave no matter how much they tried to persuade them. They insisted on fighting with the Qing army to the end with their team.
After understanding the whole story, Wang Wu asked Tian Wen to bring the two of them. After taking a closer look at the two, he asked them why they insisted on staying instead of asking for a living like those who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.
"Sir, it's true that we are an only child, but we are also orphans. Our parents called Qing Gou and killed us. How can we get revenge if we don't go with you!"
Liu Yuan, the older man who spoke, turned red with excitement.
"Yes, we want to stay and take revenge, you can't let us go!"
The younger Song child looked nervously at Wang Wu in front of him, his immature face full of stubbornness.
"If you follow me, you will die. I don't want your family to have no offspring. Your parents don't even have anyone to burn paper during the New Year."
Letting his only son live away is Wang Wu's human nature and the morality of this era.
After hearing this, the young man Liu Yuan shouted anxiously: "Sir, if you don't let us avenge our parents, how can we have the face to burn paper for our parents!"
Wang Wu fell silent after hearing this and looked at the two children motionlessly.
After a while, he nodded, called the mute Zhu San over, and motioned the two children to follow Zhu San.
"Thank you, sir!"
When the two children saw that they were accepted into the team again, they immediately turned their bitterness into smiles and happily followed Zhu San into the soldiers' team.
Ma Sizhong from the Laoshun Army sent someone over to inform them that they had set off, and asked the fifth brother Wang to follow behind.
"Let's go and save Liu Shuai!"
Following Wang Wuyi's order, 487 Ming soldiers picked up their weapons without hesitation, carried their rations on their backs, and walked towards the outside of the camp without looking back.
At this moment, everyone knew there was no turning back.
No regrets, no holding back.
Just because they have the last faith.
Wang Wu, like everyone else, was walking at the front of the team carrying his own rations. After leaving the camp, he turned around and wanted to take a last look at Wu Jiayuanzi, but was stunned by the scene in front of him.
A large flag with clear characters stood high in the team, and under the flagpole was the child Song, who was only twelve or thirteen years old.
You can see how difficult this big flag is for children.
But the child gritted his teeth and carried it on.
Even if her young face turns red from suppressing it, she is unwilling to give it to others.
This scene made Wang Wu smile.
Be open-minded in all your thoughts.
Then, let him carry this banner to the end!
