"Haha, you only know one but not the other."
Before Fan Yu finished speaking, a voice sounded behind him. The two of them looked over and saw a Ming army officer approaching with his hands behind his back. This man looked very familiar. Gao Heng suddenly remembered that it was the man who had just led the team to support him. officer.
Gao Heng was about to get up, but the officer came over and held him down, "Good boy, you are so skilled. I can see clearly that you killed four Annan soldiers by yourself. You must know that these Annan soldiers are not foreign soldiers. It's the Beijing soldiers, who are very powerful in combat. They come with bad intentions. I'm afraid there will be big operations after today. I see that you are so skilled, what do you think, are you interested in joining my camp?"
"Who are you?" Gao Heng asked. "Haha, I forgot to identify myself. A certain family is defending Baihu Huangkun in Xiangzhou. This time we were ordered to support Zhennanguan. During these days, we will defend Zhennanguan together with several hundreds of families who came to support. "The officer said.
Gao Heng immediately weighed the pros and cons in his mind. It was September of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen. This was not a good year. Gao Heng still knew about several major events this year. On the one hand, Zhang Xianzhong launched a massive attack on Southern Zhili in the first half of the year. After capturing Shucheng and Luzhou, Zhang Xianzhong had attacked Fengyang a few years ago and even overthrew the imperial tomb. It is remarkable that he, Fan Yu and others could endure it until now before fleeing south.
In the first half of the year, outside the Pass, the Songjin War ended, Jinzhou, Xingshan, and Tashan were all captured, and Hong Chengchou should have been surrendered.
There will be a lot of bad news in the second half of the year. If Gao Heng remembers correctly, Kaifeng will fall this month. At the end of the year, Li Zicheng's army will move to Xiangyang. At the same time, a mutiny also occurred in Anqing Prefecture, South Zhili. By next month, the Qing army will break through Jizhou, march south to Shandong, and plunder Shandong. This will be the last time the Qing army entered the Pass before 1644, and it will also be the fifth time the Qing army entered the Pass. The leader should be Aba Thai.
In addition to military disasters and natural disasters, the entire fifteen years of Chongzhen were basically accompanied by various droughts. First, Henan and Huguang, and in midsummer, the drought spread to prosperous areas such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang. According to historical records, people starved to death along the road and corpses floated in the river. Hundreds of children were abandoned in the alleys of the city gates. Some people lured them away, or regarded them as dead. They abandoned the piles of graves, gathered them together and burned them, or dug pits to bury them. They built countless graves. Fortunately, those who survived peeled off the bark of elm trees to make cakes and the chaff bark to make porridge. Looking at the village, all the bark was peeled off. It was a famine that had not happened in decades.
Gao Heng thought for a moment. In fact, the officer's proposal should be said to be a better choice in the current situation. In troubled times, what is the best way to save life? That is to enter a violent institution, with knives and guns in hand, and in the heart Don't panic.
At this point in Chongzhen's fifteenth year, Gao Heng knew very well what would happen. From Fan Yu's mouth, he learned that the two of them were only eighteen years old. He did not want to die again at the end of the Ming Dynasty. However, with the current situation, everyone knew that the Ming Dynasty would not be able to last for a few more years. Two years later When Chongzhen hangs himself, he will enter the Nanming era. Nanming did not last long before it was over. After the Qing army destroyed Dashun, it went all the way south and reached Guangdong and Guangxi in just a few years.
If I remember correctly, the Yongli regime fought for more than ten years in the Southwest, but to no avail. In the end, even the emperor himself was killed by Wu Sangui.
From this point of view, if you want to save your life in this troubled world, joining the army is probably the best choice. For an officer of the Republic like Gao Heng, he is very clear about what the Qing Dynasty's occupation of the Central Plains brought.
Mr. Sun Yat-sen once said that expulsion of the Tartars would restore China. Gao Heng knew the weight of this sentence all too well. The Ming Dynasty was an extremely regrettable dynasty. If it weren't for party strife that ruined the country, if it weren't for the worms that hollowed out the entire country, if it wasn't for the military generals who held heavy troops and became warlords, and didn't resist the bandits and the Qing army, just surrender at every turn, then it would be like How could the Chinese civilization, which shone like stars, suffer a devastating blow, and how could the land of China experience wave after wave of catastrophes?
As a Chinese soldier, the Sino-Japanese War, the Opium War, the Russo-Japanese War, the Anti-Japanese War, etc., etc., these historical events, let alone an officer like Gao Heng of the Southern Excalibur, even an ordinary junior high school student in later generations will understand. This is a century-old shame.
Land cession and compensation aside, these humiliating wars never shed the blood of soldiers and people, and the Manchu rulers actually said they would rather give to friends than domestic slaves. This shows their reactionary nature. They have no regard for the Chinese people at all. They only regard the people as slaves. Think about the century-old history of humiliation, think about Hailanpao, think about Lushun, think about Nanjing, countless dead souls have condensed into the history of blood and tears in China.
It all started with the demise of the Ming Dynasty, with the backward civilization ruling and destroying the original advanced civilization.
"No, I must do something. Since God allowed my soul to be reborn on the battlefield in South Asia, I shouldn't waste this opportunity. The Ming Dynasty seems to be hopeless, but the hundreds of millions of people in China We can't just fall into the clutches of rogue thieves and Jianlu." Gao Heng thought in his heart.
On the battlefield on the southern border, he deeply felt that the West, led by a certain country, was determined to destroy itself. If they had not provided satellite and intelligence support to this country, how could their actions have been exposed, and how could their team have been besieged?
why is that? This is because China has been leading the world since ancient times, but it instantly fell into the abyss of darkness and experienced hundreds of years of darkness and humiliation. Until the founding of the country, the martyrs exhausted their efforts to catch up, and then achieved outstanding results. However, The West is afraid. They try to block us, dismember us, and push us back to the Qing Dynasty so that they can carve us up arbitrarily. As a Chinese soldier, Gao Heng will never allow such a thing to happen.
"When I come to this era, I will do my best to change this era. I will mourn its misfortunes and be angry at them. This era will be left to me to save, not for the sake of political power, but for the sake of the people of the world and for the sake of future generations. Go through those pains again, so that China's brilliant civilization will no longer be destroyed." Gao Heng clenched his fists. At this moment, he had made up his mind to use his best efforts to prevent China from making the same mistakes again.
But thinking about it again, my own power is too weak. It is impossible to make any changes in this era with my own power alone. When he was in the army, whenever he had free time, he also liked to read novels. Time-travel novels were certainly a good choice, but in those time-travel novels, the protagonist could easily use Goldfinger to kill everyone. It was his turn to time-travel, so what? Acting like a beggar, with no resources?
If you want to do great things, you must first have soldiers, guns and money. How can you achieve results if you have nothing? Gao Heng had no idea where weapons, money and food would come from. Therefore, joining the army first is a must. Enter this system first, and then find other ways out.
Gao Heng looked up at the officer and said, "General Huang, can you tell us about the situation this time? We are new here. From our accents, you know that we are not locals, so we don't know much about the situation here."
In the late Ming Dynasty, officers basically withheld military pay, falsely reported their numbers, and drank the blood of soldiers. They had long been accustomed to it, so they were all domineering and it was impossible to have a heart-to-heart talk with a civilian. However, Gao Hengcai's performance was indeed outstanding. Huang Kun belongs to a hundred households in Pingxiangzhou, but Pingxiangzhou is a place with a thousand households, and there are so many hundreds of households. Huang Kun wants to continue to move up, but he has no capable people. Gao Heng is very capable, so Being able to fight, if he could be conquered into his own camp, wouldn't it be a help, so he started to love talents, and then he was willing to communicate with Gao Heng more.
Huang Kun waved his hand and said: "Don't call me a general. A certain family is just a small hundred households. In this huge Ming Dynasty, it is not even sesame and mung beans. Since you want to know, then I will tell you."
Huang Kun paused and said: "We are at Zhennanguan here, facing the direction of Annan. During the Chengzu era, the imperial court sent heavy troops to attack Annan and recover it. Annan has since become a vassal and pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty. But recently, you know, The situation in the Ming Dynasty was difficult, and some of the surrounding countries were ready to make a move. Let's say that Annan was originally a country and a court, called the Li Dynasty. Now there are two big families in the country divided into two factions. The northern one is called Zheng, and the southern one is called Ruan. After ruling half of the country, they have been at odds for decades. This time the two families are re-opening, and the Ruan family has an obvious advantage because they have received support from the Folangji people. The Zheng family has lost a lot of territory and population."
"So, they want to make up for it from the Ming Dynasty. Anyway, the Ming Dynasty is currently suffering from internal and external troubles. The main force is in the north to fight against the rebels and suppress the bandits. They don't care about the small Zhennanguan Pass. If they can open up the Zhennanguan Pass and enter the hinterland of Guangxi, Go to Nanning and plunder, and you will get rich." Gao Heng answered.
Huang Kun was stunned for a moment, then patted Gao Heng on the shoulder and said, "You kid, I didn't expect you to have such abilities. You can see clearly."
Fan Yu was also stunned. They had studied in Yingzhou, but it was just a private school in the countryside. Gao Heng should not have such an opinion. Before Fan Yu could react, Gao Heng stood up and said, "In that case, the common people are willing to follow you, join the army, and defend Guancheng."
Huang Kun didn't expect this guy to agree so happily. In his opinion, there are no civilians who are not afraid of death. Let alone civilian husbands, there are even many soldiers in the army who are afraid of death and want to escape the war. This kind of emotion He could understand that they were just local guards, and their military pay was deducted in various ways on weekdays. As the saying goes, soldiers have to eat food, and there is no military pay and food. How can the army get combat effectiveness? But this guy actually agreed so happily. It's really Huang Kun was impressed.
Gao Heng said: "But I have a condition." If it were normal, Huang Kun would have been angry a long time ago. A common man, being favored by hundreds of households, was regarded as a promotion, and he would even ask for any conditions, but Gao Heng does have the strength. Huang Kun also understood that a powerful person could not have nothing to ask for. If he agreed so readily, he must have something to say. Gao Heng said: "Sir, first of all, I want to be able to eat every meal. Secondly, I don't want to start from a small soldier."
Huang Kun was stunned. He thought Gao Heng would put forward some incredible conditions. It turned out to be this. He laughed loudly and said: "Haha, you kid, okay, I promise you. I don't dare to say anything to others. You can eat every meal." It's definitely no problem to be full. It's just right. We just fought. One of my bannermen was killed in the battle. I still have the power to serve as a banner officer. I will make up for you when I return to the Yamen. From now on, you are He is the flag officer of the second flag under me."
Gao Heng immediately stood up, clasped his fists like the ancients and said, "Thank you, sir." Huang Kun was naturally in a happy mood after getting such a good fighter. He kept patting Gao Heng on the shoulder, and Gao Heng motioned to Fan next to him. Jade, "I am a fellow countryman, I wonder if I can be included in the second small flag?"
Huang Kun nodded and said: "Okay, anyway, a few people in the second small flag have died. We are not satisfied with the number of people. If you are willing to bring people in, then bring them. At present, we do not have additional troops. The second small flag originally had ten people. A total of three of the flag officer and his men were killed in the battle, and one was seriously injured, leaving only six people. You and your fellow villagers are counted as eight people, and there is no supplement. Even so, you have to show results on the battlefield." Huang Kun motioned to Gao Heng to follow him and introduced the situation of Annan's army as he walked.
Those who attacked Zhennanguan this time were the elite troops of the Zheng Dynasty, which was what Huang Kun called the Beijing troops. At this time, Annan's capital was in Thang Long Province, which was later Hanoi. The so-called Beijing troops were to fight against foreign troops. distinguish.
When the Li Dynasty was established, Thanh Hoa and Nghe An areas were regarded as the places of rejuvenation, so the soldiers and horses recruited from these two places were excellent soldiers, also called Qingyi soldiers. These soldiers and horses guarded the capital Thang Long Palace, so they were called the Ming Dynasty. The army is called Beijing soldiers. Except for the armies in these places, they are called foreign soldiers. Whether it is weapons, equipment, or food, military pay is far lower than that of Beijing soldiers. It is similar to the guardsmen of the Ming army. The organization of the Annan army is also similar to that of the Ming Dynasty. Differently, they are divided into battalions, oddities, and teams. The main combat unit is the oddity. Each oddity has two hundred people, which is equivalent to two hundred households. A battalion of five odd men is equivalent to a Ming army with a thousand households.
Through Huang Kun's explanation, Gao Heng finally understood the current specific situation. Lord Zheng of the Zheng Dynasty in the north of Annam and Lord Ruan of the Ruan Dynasty in the south were sworn enemies. People from both sides fought for years, causing the whole of Annan to be in a state of unrest. This Gao Heng is too familiar with this bridge section. In later generations, North Vietnam and South Vietnam were not at war with each other as they were at this time. In the end, North Vietnam unified the country. However, no matter what, it seems that the Annan region has a tradition of confrontation between the North and the South since ancient times.
Now Lord Zheng has suffered a loss on the battlefield. Fighting a war is not a simple matter. As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, food and grass go first. When the cannon goes off, gold is ten thousand taels. No money is enough.
Annan has been the territory of China since ancient times and has always been educated by China. It is basically the same as China in terms of politics, economy, society and humanities. It continued to use Chinese characters until the 20th century. To put it bluntly, it is smaller. , China is lagging behind.
