Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 424 Wu Zhong's Hesitation

As more Beihai Navy came to join the battle, the confrontation between the two sides in hand-to-hand combat became a situation where the more fought the less; from one-on-one at the beginning to two-on-one and three-on-one later.

Beihai has a large number of people, armed with sharp weapons, high pensions, and more and more courageous.On the contrary, the number of people on the Qing army's side became less and less, and their momentum dropped, and they could no longer resist.

Some leaders and co-leaders were unwilling to surrender, so they simply wiped their necks with a knife when they couldn't move, or rushed towards the guns of the Beihai Navy; The courage to continue fighting; and more were killed by bullets and stabbed to the ground with bayonets by angry soldiers.

There were also some Qing soldiers who tried to escape into the forest, but under the chasing light of several strong flashlights, the dense rain of bullets beat them like a hornet's nest.

Huji, who was blocked by his subordinates from passing by, paced back and forth in the distance, holding the "handicraft" that Zhao Xin gave him back then, pulling it out and putting it back.

The light and shadow of the bright flashlight swayed from time to time in the dense forest, the swishing sound of people running against the branches and leaves of the bushes, the sound of gunfire one after another, and the hoarse screams of the wounded filled the open space in the mountain.

Regardless of their own safety, several disheveled female doctors and nurses ran into the smoking ruins of the field hospital, searched for usable medicines and bandages, and immediately ran to the injured Bei Haijun to give first aid.

The disheveled Zhu Dagui and his wife hid in a tree pit under the slope in the north of the camp. The couple watched the fighting scene in front of them with trepidation, and their souls almost flew away.Fortunately, the two of them ran fast just now, if they were later, they would have been caught up by those armored soldiers.

Zhu Dagui's wife tremblingly said: "Father, what are we trying to do? Or, why don't we resign the village chief, and let's take Xiaoshun back to our hometown?"

"Bah! It's really long hair but short-sighted. You can afford to pay the [-]% of the rent when you go back? Besides, the braids are gone now, and you will lose your head if caught by the government!" Zhu Dagui glared viciously, making the woman look down head.He turned his head to look at the Qing soldiers who were fighting with the Beihai Navy, and cursed: "The officers and soldiers of the dog day almost caused me to see the King of Hades."

The couple were talking to each other when they heard the sound of branches and leaves being broken behind them, which made Zhu Dagui and his wife tremble in fright.When he took a look through the light, he saw a gray-white head emerging from behind the tree, and now Zhu Dagui was even more frightened.

"village head?"

Hearing the voice sounded familiar, Zhu Dagui trembled after a long while and said, "Who? Who's there?"

"The village chief, it's me, it's me."

Zhu Dagui squinted his eyes and saw a person walking out slowly from behind the tree, still limping, with bandages wrapped around his arms, wounds, head and legs.

"Junior?"

"Hey."

After Zhu Dagui confirmed the identity of the other party, he carefully leaned over and helped Zhu Nise over.Asked: "Why are you alone? What about the others?"

Junise sighed and said, "I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, and when I got up to pee, I heard movement!"

In fact, the earliest fire was set by Zhu Ni Se.This guy first knocked the doctors and nurses who were rounding the ward unconscious with a low stool, and then set fire to the tent with half a bottle of alcohol that he stole while disinfecting his wound in the afternoon.Because of his inconvenience and fear of being accidentally injured by his own people, Junise found a place to hide.

He consciously acted secretly, thinking that even if the Qing army succeeded in a surprise attack, he would have to move in and out quickly, and he really couldn't run fast like this.Instead of this, it's better to lurk down first, recover from the injury and then find a chance to slip away.

The three of them were talking in low voices, when suddenly a loud shout came from not far above their heads: "Who's there! Come out! Don't come out and shoot again!"

Zhu Dagui shuddered in fright, and hurriedly said loudly: "Don't! It's me, Zhu Dagui! The village chief of Xingkai Lake Second Village!"

When the three of them supported each other and climbed up from the slope, they were completely blinded by the flashlight.A Beihai soldier lowered the brightness of his flashlight, stepped forward to look around for a while, recognized Zhu Dagui, and then signaled the others to put down their guns.

"Oh, it's Village Chief Zhu, why are you hiding here? Why is there still a wounded person?"

Zhu Dagui hurriedly said: "This is also from our village, Hezhe people, called Zhu Nise."

The soldier nodded, took a flashlight to shine on the bandages on Zhu Nise's body, and then said: "The migrant workers are all on the edge of the mountain in front, you go to rest for a while, and someone will bring you water and clothes later."

Zhu Dagui hurriedly clasped his fists in thanks, and then helped Zhu Nise to walk away slowly.

The battlefield on the south side of the Western Front Headquarters was as bright as daylight at the moment, and a company of Northern Navy soldiers were sweeping the battlefield with bayonets.Those who died had to be stabbed, and those injured Qing soldiers would not be shot as long as they did not run or resist, and they would be tied up with ropes and escorted back.

The first-class bodyguard Bobin was also tied up now, but because he suffered gunshot wounds to his legs and shoulders, he was carried on a stretcher by two Qing soldiers, and was sent to a temporary first-aid point under the escort of several Northern Navy soldiers.

The field hospital in the logistics camp has been reduced to ruins. Several migrant workers who came to help clean up found a female body in a tent that collapsed after burning.

Seeing the charred corpse, a migrant worker scolded: "These days! How can you bear to attack women!"

Several people sighed for a while, then found a piece of cloth that was still intact, covered the body, and carried it to the storage point.

Three or ten minutes later, Zhao Xin got the preliminary casualty and loss statistics.The logistics and garrison company of the Beihai Navy suffered heavy losses. The company commander died in battle, and three platoon leaders died and were seriously injured; the entire company suffered more than 10 casualties.The Headquarters of the Second Battalion of the Sixth Regiment exchanged fire with the Qing army at close range. In order to avoid accidental injury, more than 70 people were seriously injured and five were killed in battle; Except for the loss of two sentinels on the Ministry side, everyone else was safe and sound.

As for the casualties of migrant workers, there were many more. Many people were directly burned to death in the tents;

After hearing the report, Zhao Xin's face was livid with anger, and he said to himself that this mother spent a night, and I have never suffered such a big loss!Fortunately, Anshao was equipped with a thermal imaging night vision device.

Hey~ wait!Zhao Xin figured out that something was wrong.He suddenly remembered that a set of night vision goggles had also been issued at the logistics camp. What are those dark whistles for?
Thinking of this, Zhao Xin said to his subordinates: "Find that secret sentry immediately, if you want to see people, if you want to see people, if you want to see dead bodies!"

After more than 20 minutes, a message came from the walkie-talkie that the body of the dark whistle was found, with a knife in the chest and a knife in the neck, and the night vision goggles and rifles that were issued were gone.

"Pay attention to checking every corpse of the Qing army!"

On the other side, the three of Zhu Dagui went to the col where the headquarters was located and found a place to sit down. When they saw someone pouring water from a pot, he got up and went over.He himself was very thirsty, so he drank two cups first, and when he filled another cup of water and walked back, he accidentally saw Qibukadai, another Hezhe man from his village, squatting in the crowd and looking around.Zhu Dagui walked over and kicked the opponent lightly, sighed: "You kid survived!"

At the same time, in the resettlement site of Whale Town, thousands of miles away, there was a lot of snoring in the wooden board room with Datong pavement structure, and the old boxer Wu Zhong lying on the bunk did not fall asleep at all.

From disembarking yesterday morning to arranging a place to rest at night, Wu Zhong was dazzled by the day.He has lived for more than 50 years, traveled far and wide, and has seen a lot of knowledge. He has never seen the government give the refugees a bath, give them new clothes, or even ask a doctor to check their bodies.

The meal is also not ordinary. At noon, there is a big pot of pork bone soup with stewed radish and white flour steamed buns with bran.The young man, Li Han, also said that the reason why everyone is not allowed to eat meat is because many people are weak and cannot eat a few sips of oil throughout the year, otherwise they will not be able to hang in their intestines after eating, and they will definitely have a stomachache.

After dinner, Wu Zhong asked Li Han specifically what the people in Whale Town ate for two meals a day.Li Han smiled and said to him at the time that the staple food is the same, and it is also white flour steamed buns with bran.This is specially prescribed by doctors, saying that if you don't eat bran, you will easily get sick.

However, what Li Han said next shocked Wu Zhong.Li Han said that our Beihai Town has three meals a day instead of two.Sure enough, when it was time for dinner at night, everyone was served hot noodle soup, which was stewed with leftover bones, cabbage and radish, but the noodles were still white noodles!
Now all the new immigrants can be suppressed.It was only natural that they ate well when they got off the ship, and the landlord's family hired a long-term foreman for the first meal to fill him up with sorghum rice.

Good guy, I have given white noodles and steamed buns, but also white noodles!Although Wu Zhong's own family is well-off, white flour and meat are not something that can be eaten every day. Sorghum is the staple food for two meals a day.Even in the affluent Jiangnan, those long-term coolies only eat brown rice twice a day, and a little fish and shrimp make people feel like they are in heaven.

Wu Zhong stared at the pitch-black roof, wondering why Beihai Town is so rich?how can !
Thinking of the scenes on the port after disembarking yesterday morning that made him dazzled and dizzy, Wu Zhong felt as if he was in a dream.If it is really like what Li Han said, the rebel leaders in Beihai Town want to let the common people in the world live like this, then how can they be considered rebels?

Do not!Wu Zhong shook his head slightly.Fake, these rebels are just inviting people to buy people's hearts and tricking them into joining the gang.Once these people are assigned to farm and work for the rebels, they don't know what kind of exploitation they will endure and what a miserable life they will live. Wu Zhong has seen too many such things.

Lord Qianlong is the Son of Heaven, not something ordinary people can talk about.But those capable ministers and officials in the court are all well-read poems and books, who are like stars in Wenqu, can they deceive us?The grasslanders can eat sorghum every meal, and the family has some surplus food, so that they will not sell their sons and daughters in famine years. Can this be considered a prosperous age?

But Wu Zhong immediately thought of that Li Han again.When eating dinner, Li Han squatted on the ground with a bowl like everyone else.He said that his family was hit by a disaster three years ago, and almost followed him to eat human flesh.If the old men in Beihai Town hadn't bought him, his mother and younger brother together in the Luoyang People's Market, he would have been snatched away by wild dogs long ago.

Yes!The catastrophe in the 51st year of Qianlong also affected Wu Zhong's hometown Qingyun. The Wu family also gave porridge and donated money outside Zhuangzi at that time.Recalling the scene at that time, the clothes were ragged, the orphan was old and weak, and he hung his life on that bowl of porridge every day, even a person with a hard heart would cry for it.

But just like the subordinate sent by Master Liu Chongru said to himself, this world is too big, there will inevitably be a disaster, either here or there.Besides, Lord Qianlong is in charge of hundreds of millions of people in the world, so it is impossible for him to take care of everything.Didn't the imperial court also allocate several million taels of silver for disaster relief, and also transferred the grain to be transported to Beijing?

Wu Zhong tossed and turned all night, and didn't fall asleep until the sky was dim outside.As a result, when it was time for breakfast, Wu Rong who came to look for her father saw her father with two dark circles under his eyes, snoring and drinking porridge.
At six o'clock in the morning, Zhao Xin finally got the final casualty statistics.People from the [-]rd Battalion of the [-]th Regiment searched in the middle of the night, but they never found the missing rifle and night vision device.

Zhao Xin was drinking strong tea while listening to his staff's report.After listening, Zhao Xin asked Hu Ji: "How is it? I haven't slept all night, can I continue to fight?"

Huji immediately stood at attention, saying that there was no problem at all.Zhao Xin said: "Okay. Let the first battalion rest for three hours, and before noon, knock down the Qing army's fortress."

Hu Ji saluted after listening, and then went out of the tent to make arrangements for the first battalion.

At this time, there were only two staff officers left in the tent. Zhao Xin pinched his swollen eyebrows and asked one of them, "What is the cause of death for the nurse in the hospital?"

The staff officer was taken aback, flipped through the notebook in his hand, and said, "First she was attacked from behind, injured her head, and then died in the fire. However, judging from the degree of burns on the body, it is very likely that she was choked to death by smoke." of."

"Do you still have the duty records of the field hospital?"

"We didn't find it, it should have been burned."

Zhao Xin looked at the staff officer and said, "I have a task for you, don't make it known to everyone. Find the nurses and doctors who survived, and find out in private which areas and patients the dead person was in charge of at night. go."

After the man left, Zhao Xin said to another staff officer: "The interrogation of the captives will begin immediately. Find out the senior generals among the captives. No matter what method you use, you must ask about the history of the attack. "

"My lord, many captives are wounded, and I'm afraid they won't be able to survive if they are severely punished."

Zhao Xin was also a little dizzy. This staff officer was not from the Beihai Town Public Security Department, and he knew nothing about many interrogation methods.So he beckoned the staff officer to come over and muttered.The staff officer showed a suddenly realized expression after hearing this, thinking that there is still such a way.

At this time, the Ouchi bodyguard Bobin who was shot and injured was already awake.Because they deeply hated the sneak attacking Qing army, the doctors and nurses in charge of rescue did not intend to give these people anesthetics.So when a nurse washed his wound with iodine, Bobin, who was tied to the stretcher, screamed in pain and almost jumped from the ground.

The two Qing soldiers who were in charge of pressing Bobin said: "My lord, hold on, this is treating your injuries."

Bobin looked around and roared, "Let go of me! Kill me if you can! I don't want your hypocrisy!"

"Be honest!" A North Navy soldier raised the butt of his gun, and hit Bobin on the chest, hitting Bobin almost out of breath.

The soldier continued: "You son of a bitch! If it wasn't for your lord's words, who would you think would save you!"

The nurse wearing a mask on the side didn't say a word, and took a spreader to insert the wound on Bobin's calf to open it up, and then took the surgical forceps and stretched it in.

"Howl~~!!" Bobin screamed, almost passed out from the pain.After a while, Bobin, who was sweating profusely, only heard the nurse say, "It's taken out."

Then, I heard a "click", as if something fell into the iron plate.

　Don't believe that the population growth during the Qianlong period was due to corn and sweet potatoes.This rumor has been regarded by countless authors as a treasure to travel to the end of Ming Dynasty.So countless traversers either introduced or brought corn and sweet potato seeds, which could feed a large number of hungry people and create a prosperous world.What nonsense!Planting corn in ancient times was very labor-intensive. In the early and mid-Qing Dynasty, only in mountainous and hilly areas that were not suitable for growing five grains and the agricultural production environment was not favorable, would people grow corn, and no one would grow corn in the plains.Drought tolerance, cold tolerance, and sandy soil are the three unique biological attributes of corn. This is the first time that China has dryland food crops suitable for planting in high-altitude mountainous areas to solve the food and clothing of local people.However, high-altitude mountainous areas were not the main food-producing areas and densely populated areas in the Qing Dynasty. In addition, corn needs a lot of water during the growth period, which does not mean that it can be grown in the northern arid areas.

　　
　
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