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Chapter 19 Taihu First Victory

In the Taihu Water Village, more than 2,000 people are working feverishly to reinforce the wall. Stones, lake mud, wood and other materials are abundant here, so the reinforcement speed is naturally very fast.

After capturing the water village, I have already organized more than 300 young men from the water village into two regiments, and divided the three companies in each regiment into nine companies, each with about a hundred men.

, the people recruited in the future will be incorporated into the company to expand the number of people.

I inspected the cannons in the water village and found that the cannons were already covered with a thick layer of rust. After asking the person in charge of the village, I found out that there was not a single cannonball or a grain of gunpowder in the water village. The cannon was just a

Just decoration.

I inspected the weapons in the water village again. They were all rusty swords and guns. The only good ones were more than a hundred bows and arrows made of bamboo and wood.

Just as I was inspecting the situation in the water village, military advisor Huang Ziya, First Regiment Commander Li Erdan, First Regiment Deputy Commander Mo Xiao, Second Regiment Commander Zhao Qijin and Second Regiment Deputy Commander Li Gaoshun rushed over. Huang Ziya rushed over.

He said to me: "Chief, our more than 200 old and young people on the island were looted by unknown water pirates. More than 40 people died, 71 people were injured, and 11 people were missing. Food and seeds

All the equipment and equipment were robbed.”

After hearing this, I was shocked and angry. I wanted to kill all the water bandits who were trying to kill us. I just felt itchy at the root of my teeth. I said, "Bring them to the water camp first. The military advisor and Deputy Commander Li have both studied medicine."

, please take the trouble to treat the injured brothers. Once we have strengthened the water stronghold, we will go to take revenge." Huang Ziya said: "Don't worry, leader, Brother Gao Shun and I will do our best, most of the elderly are already weak.

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I don’t think we can save a few of them. The young ones are still growing, which is a good time for recovery. I think most of them will survive.” I said, “Use wine and salt water to disinfect the wounds, use sewing clothes and needles, and boil them in boiling water.

Seal any large wounds. If the wounds become suppurative, squeeze out the pus. Wash with more wine. Use all the good and bad wine we robbed from rich families. The lives of our brothers are at stake." Huang Ziya and Li Gao

After Shun listened to my words, he realized that the leader also had unheard of profound medical skills. Li Erdan, Mo Xiao, Zhao Qijin and dozens of brothers around him listened to my words and were deeply moved by my last two sentences.

, the people at that time were relatively simple, and they immediately had the urge to die for me no matter what. They all knelt down and shouted passionately: "I am willing to go through fire and water for the leader, even if I die, my liver and brain will be wiped out in return for the leader's compassion."

Yes." I quickly asked them to get up and said: "We are all brothers. We have established our own power for no other reason than that everyone can live a good life and let the poor in the world have a way to live. Okay,

While you are doing your business, by the way, we will have a meeting tomorrow at the Juyi Hall. I want to say something. Okay, let’s go.” Everyone left and dispersed, and the remaining people continued to lead me on the tour I wanted to do.

Place to go.

The next day, all the leaders, big and small, gathered in the Shuizhai Juyi Hall. I sat down in the hall and asked everyone to sit down. Huang Ziya also sat next to me. I said to everyone: "Everyone is here. Today I will call everyone

The purpose of coming is to establish our name, military flag, and military

Songs, disciplines and the direction of our development. We are all ordinary people. We were persecuted by the court and those corrupt officials and officials. We couldn't survive, so we got here. Well, we have survived now, but there are many of us.

People's family members and relatives all died

I even suspected that the bandits who killed us were officers and soldiers. Then why did the officers and soldiers come to arrest us as soon as the bandits left?" At this time, Huang Ziya said: "The leader is right. There is an inscription in my family's family history.

Huang's family heirloom Huang Jade Ring was stolen by bandits

"Come on, when we were outside Nanjing, I saw a general wearing my topaz ring on his hand. He was not very far away from me. I could see clearly that it was mine." Many people also said:

He said that the treasure his home had been robbed by bandits was found on the bodies of officers and soldiers.

I raised my hand, and soon no one spoke anymore. It seems that our discipline is still good, and the people in Shuizhai who surrendered are very disciplined because they are afraid of me.

I said: "Officers and soldiers are our enemies, but they have high officials above them, and above them there is the emperor. If we want to live a good life, we must revolutionize, change the fate of the emperor system, let us ordinary people be the masters of the country, and abolish the emperor system.

Establish a system where everyone is equal

Du, if this is the case, we will be heroes if we succeed. Even if we die and fail, we will still be heroes who will be remembered forever. Are you willing to work with me in such a cause?" Everyone expressed their willingness, and the crowd was excited, even the people from the original water village

They all became passionate.

I raised my hand and everyone immediately shut up. I said: "From now on, we will be called the Revolutionary Army. I have promulgated the three major disciplines and eight points of attention of the revolutionary army. Everyone must obey them resolutely. I will also implement the three major disciplines and eight points of attention."

Pay attention to the composition of the song, everyone is determined to pass it on

Sing obedience. Our military flag will be the red flag. If we want revolution, we will bleed, so we will use the red flag dyed with our own blood as our flag. I wrote two military songs last night, one is "Flag Against the Wind"

", one is "Serve the Country with Loyalty"."

I first changed the lyrics of the ending song of the TV series "Iron Teeth and Bronze Teeth Ji Xiaolan" that I watched when I was a child in my original world and sang the song "Flag Against the Wind": "Autumn Wild Geese Two Lines Rain on the River"

, the heroes in the world, we are the ones who keep the rules, the heaven and the earth are for us

The common people, an army with righteousness in mind, fight for the common people, all the blood is shed, oh, all the lives are fought for, rushing forward with righteousness, for the sake of the working people, oh, let's go to kill the enemy, oh, let's go

Fight, charge forward with integrity, for the working people, and follow the path of revolution

, I am carrying the flag against the wind, for the sake of equality for everyone, and the happiness and prosperity of the people. I am walking on the road of revolution, and I am carrying the flag against the wind, for the sake of equality for everyone, and the happiness and prosperity of the people." Everyone listened in the middle.

He couldn't help but started singing along with me. The more he sang, the smoother and smoother he sang.

Gao, after hearing this, the soldiers outside all gathered around and sang along. Then I sang "Serve the Country with Loyalty": "Wolf smoke rises, the country looks north, the dragon curls up, the horse neighs, the sword is like frost

"My thoughts are on the Yellow River, its vast water, twenty years..." Everyone also sang along.

It took a full half a year to strengthen the water village and build a barbican city. During the six months, the two regiments took turns to take charge. One regiment, the construction regiment, was dispatched to attack other water bandits or surrounding landlords and wealthy households. While we were annihilating and annexing other water bandits, many Taihu regiments

The nearby volunteers all joined forces, and soon the number of residents in our water village increased to more than 3,000.

, the army expanded more than three times to more than 7,000 men. It was organized into two regiments and a logistics company, with each regiment having more than 3,300 people, and divided into nine companies, each company with more than 300 people.

, divided into three platoons, each platoon has nine squads, each squad has more than a dozen people, and the logistics company has more than 400 people, personally commanded by military counselor Huang Ziya.

I have wiped out or surrendered most of the water bandits in Taihu Lake. Soon the spies scattered outside reported that the nearby government officials were mobilizing soldiers frequently. Many soldiers were mobilized to Wuxi City. It seemed that they were probably coming to deal with our revolutionary army. I immediately stepped up my efforts.

Train troops and speed up the search, recruitment or elimination of other water pirates.

In Suzhou City, Huang Degong's nephew Huang Xiqing gathered food and brought five thousand Ming Army soldiers out of Suzhou City under the farewell of officials at all levels. He rode on his horse and looked at the five thousand well-equipped soldiers with pride.

Thinking about how he would be promoted to an official position after he eliminated the Taihu water bandits.

This time Huang Xiqing came to suppress the bandits under Huang Degong's order. After years of hard requests from important ministers and generals, Emperor Nanming finally prepared to start the Northern Expedition at the beginning of spring next year, because the Taihu Revolutionary Army was getting stronger and stronger.

It was too close to the main military food production and supply area of ​​the imperial court, threatening the generals.

To provide food supplies for the Northern Expedition, the Taihu Revolutionary Army must be wiped out this year, and the Nanjing Admiral Zhao Zhilong, who had narrowly escaped death, wrote a book in front of the emperor, telling the Nanming Emperor that Wang Bao was killed by the Taihu Revolutionary Army, and the emperor immediately issued an edict.

Huang Degong sent a group of troops to wipe out the Taihu Revolutionary Army.

After the troops led by Huang Xiqing arrived at Wuxi City, they received another two thousand soldiers who were ordered to transfer from Wuxi City. They rested for a day and advanced to Taihu Lake early the next morning.

All the leaders of the revolutionary army, big and small, were gathered in the Juyi Hall in the Taihu Water Village. I looked through the intelligence I had collected and saw that there were 500 musketeers and five cannons named "General Yingwu" in the Ming Dynasty army.

, I circulated the information to everyone. I thought about it and said: "Does any of you know the specific situation of the cannon named "Yingwu General"? Can our city wall withstand its bombardment?" Everyone shook.

Shake his head.

Huang Ziya said: "It must have been destroyed after a few cannons. The walls of Tongguan and Xi'an are so strong. They are many times stronger and taller than our water stronghold. They were all opened by the Manchu and Qing army's artillery fire, and our water stronghold is even worse.

But we are surrounded by lakes, and their cannons need to be transported by ship, so we will drill through their cannon-carrying ships to see how they deal with us."

After hearing this, I hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, we can also pierce the musketeers' boats. The gunpowder will no longer be usable when exposed to water, and we won't be afraid of their firearms."

After the vanguard of the Ming army arrived, with a thousand men, they mobilized surrounding ships, but only a few small fishing boats were obtained. All the ships had been taken away by the Taihu Revolutionary Army, a local snake.

After the large troops led by Huang Xiqing arrived, Huang Xiqing saw that there were no boats and could not cross the lake. He had to ask the soldiers to make rafts, and at the same time sent people to Wuxi City to ask the officials to find craftsmen to build some simple pontoon boats that could carry cannons.

Five days after the arrival of the shipbuilders hired by the government in Wuxi City, they had not finished building a simple floating boat capable of carrying cannons. When Huang Xiqing saw that the rafts were ready, he wanted to test and attack the Taihu Revolutionary Army first. If there were no cannons,

If the Taihu Revolutionary Army can be eliminated under the circumstances, there will be no need to be so troublesome.

Huang Xiqing left a thousand men to guard the cannons, gunpowder and shells. He took six thousand soldiers on rafts and boats to cross the lake. After driving for a while, suddenly the bottom of the boat full of musketry soldiers made a noise. It only made a few noises before it appeared.

After digging a hole, the soldiers immediately

They used cloth bags and clothes that they had taken off to plug the holes. Other Ming soldiers on the raft moved closer to the boat. Huang Xiqing was also on the boat, which was more stable than the raft. Seeing water rising from the bottom of the boat, he shouted: "Get down if you know how to swim."

Take care of the other party’s water ghosts.”

The Ming soldiers who heard his words nearby jumped into the water one after another. After entering the water, they were stabbed by water-splitting thorns. The swords and guns in their hands were difficult to use in the water, so they were used by the water ghosts of the Taihu Revolutionary Army.

The water-splitting thorns were stabbed to death one by one, and red appeared on the lake.

Although Huang Xiqing knew how to swim, his water quality was not good. He did not dare to go into the water in a lake full of enemies. Seeing that the water in the boat was getting worse, he had no choice but to get on the raft.

Suddenly many boats appeared around, and a large number of arrows fell on the heads of the Ming army. More Taihu Revolutionary Army soldiers entered the water and swam over.

The water in the lake was boiling, and all the boats of the Ming Army sank. The rafts were cut apart by the water ghosts of the Taihu Revolutionary Army.

Before Xi Qing could react, he was stabbed in the thigh and dragged away.

The boats of the Taihu Revolutionary Army immediately surrounded the enemies and used fishing nets, bows, arrows and hooks to kill or capture the enemies when they saw them. The battle was over soon. I don’t know how many Ming troops escaped, but there were 1,800 captured.

More than a hundred people.dd


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