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When the Green Camp took action, several new recruits formed by Xinxing were ordered to concentrate in Dongcheng. Zhou Shixiang's purpose of letting the new recruits come was very simple, which was to let them see what kind of morality the flag soldiers were.

Since Li Chengdong led his army to Guangdong in the second year of Yongli (the fifth year of Shunzhi), his troops were originally peasant army and their combat effectiveness was several times stronger than that of the Southern Ming official army, so he must win every battle, which made the Guangdong Ming army nowhere to gain a foothold, and even scared the Yongli court to run away from Guangdong to Guangxi. In this case, the people of Guangdong naturally captured the strength of the Qing army, and people at that time all said that "the northerners are invincible."

Later, in the fourth year of Yongli (the seventh year of Shunzhi), Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao led their Han army flags into Guangdong. Although the number of Han troops under the two kings was only a few thousand, because the soldiers were all veterans in Liaodong and their equipment was mainly firearms, their combat power was stronger than that of Li Chengdong's troops. After Li Chengdong's return to the Ming Dynasty, his Qing army became the main force of the Guangdong Ming army. Although Li Chengdong's death caused the Guangdong Ming army to be inauspicious and collapsed, the Han army flags and Manzhou soldiers who entered Guangdong were also the main reasons for the defeat of the Guangdong Ming army. Later, Li Dingguo used two famous kings to attack Guangdong with tens of thousands of elite troops, but successively defeated in Zhaoqing and Xinhui, which made the Guangdong people even more scared of the Qing Dynasty.

When Zhou Shixiang was still a scholar in Xinhui, he often heard people say "The green camp cannot be provoked, the flag soldiers cannot be seen, and the soldiers cannot be listened to." The general idea is that the soldiers of the green camp cannot be offended, so don't say that the flag soldiers can be offended, you can't even look at them, and the soldiers are even more serious. Don't say that they can be looked at them at once. Just hearing the word "the soldiers" can scare people to death, and they can escape as far as they can. Otherwise, at the least, they will lose their entire family, and at the worst, they will move their heads. Although these three sentences are a bit exaggerated, you can also find out how fearful the people of Guangdong people are about the Qing army.

After the new Taiping Camp, the newly formed teams of Taiping Camp were all new recruits. These soldiers were not subconsciously more afraid of the Qing army than the old soldiers who fought with the Qing army. Therefore, it was necessary for Zhou Shixiang to let them see with their own eyes what the legendary "unsighted" flag soldiers are. As long as they see the old flag soldiers, they will be afraid, beg for mercy, and they will die if they are chopped down, and the fear in their hearts will naturally fade.

Whether it is Manzhou people, Han army, or Green Camp, they are all humans. As long as they are humans, they are all raised by their parents, and they are not as many heads as others, and they are not as good as others with more hands. If they cut their heads, they will be noisy.

If you don’t work once, you will be twice, and if you don’t work twice, you will be three times. If you don’t work twice, these new recruits have no reason to be afraid of the Qing army. Of course, the premise is that the Taiping Camp can continue to win, otherwise, a single defeat can make everything in the Taiping Camp disappear.

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The one-sided massacre was very relieved. Although the Green Camp soldiers were the ones who took action, they were also happy in the eyes of the recruits of Taiping Camp. Although there were many people who vomited, the results were also effective. At least, Zhou Shixiang heard some recruits muttering, "The Northerners are just like this."

But that's fine!

When Qin Zhisheng just proposed to accommodate the flag soldiers and surrendered soldiers, Zhou Shixiang was moved, but immediately denied the proposal because he believed that the flag soldiers were flag soldiers. These people were different from the green camp and were no longer Han people. Many of them surrendered to Manzhou in Liaodong before the Jiashen National Migration. After the Qing army entered the pass, the overwhelming advantage of the Ming army made them firmly loyal to the Qing court. Especially the identity of the Han army flag made them think that they were higher than the Han people in the pass. Under this mentality, it was impossible to expect them to remember their identity as Han people. If we use the later term, Zhou Shixiang would prefer to call the Han army flag the "Two Devils". The facts prove that the Two Devils are far more abominable than the big devils, because when they massacred their compatriots, they were often more cruel than the main master and had to use any means.

The two Japanese devils who drove a group of slaughtered their compatriots to fight against their former masters. Zhou Shixiang believed that they did not have the ability and mind yet. What is important is that the Han army flag in Guangdong was all from Liaodong to Guangdong, and their families were all in Guangzhou. Therefore, it was impossible to follow the Taiping Camp with all their hearts, unless one day they would cut off their own way like the Green Camp today - to exchange their lives with the heads of Manzhou people.

In short, the current strength of the Taiping Camp is not enough to accommodate these unfamiliar flag soldiers. Zhou Shixiang did not want to raise tigers, so he could only use their heads to avoid the retreat of the Green Camp. At the same time, he also allowed the new recruits in the camp to see the virtues of the flag soldiers, which not only indirectly expands the team, but also indirectly improves morale, killing two birds with one stone.

After witnessing more than 100 flag soldiers being dismembered by random knives, the recruits received a new order to drag the dead flag soldiers outside the city. The order was to drag them outside the city, without saying that they would burn them, without saying that they would be buried, or that they would be dragged outside the city. As for whether the corpses were eaten by wild dogs or buried by Gao's people after leaving Taiping Camp, it was not a question that Zhou Shi was concerned about. In addition to the acquisition of more than 200 Gao's Green Camp, the captured Han military flag muskets.

Unlike later records, the fire guns used by the flag soldiers obtained by Zhou Shixiang are of high quality and powerful. They are definitely not able to rush over with a gun. Although they cannot be compared with later muskets, they are definitely something that costs human life. If they can be used in mass production, the original ** musket can completely eliminate any advanced cold weapons.

Zhou Shixiang didn't know much about muskets. Qin Zhisheng, Jiang He and others had known more about the general flags that had worked in the Ming and Qing dynasties. According to them, the muskets used by the Ming army often exploded guns, so the soldiers did not dare to use them with confidence. Over time, muskets became fire sticks in the army. Any general with a solution always avoided the subordinates equipped with muskets, but instead asked for as many swords, bows and arrows as possible. Even if they wanted more cotton armor, they were not willing to ask for more muskets.

There are many reasons for the poor quality of the Ming army's muskets. Everyone said it differently, but one thing is common, that is, the court did not give enough money. Without enough money, there was no enough raw material. The craftsmen who were responsible for building the muskets were generational craftsmen like military households. These people could not even solve the food and clothing of their own family, so how could they make the muskets with care? Under the vicious cycle, the muskets that could have made the Ming army scattered across the north of the desert became abandoned children in the army.
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