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Chapter 114: Smoke and Clouds

There was a clamor around.

Min Yuanqi walked at the core of the battlefield, and the members of the final team completed the task completely. Everyone sat cross-legged on the high side of the official road, and everyone's battle jacket and boots were soaked in blood.

There was a strong fishy smell by the beach, coupled with the smell of blood, the smell of sweat, the smell of feces, and various odors, making Min Yuanqi look dizzy.

In addition, there are shocking corpses everywhere, bandits whose heads were broken by muskets, broken corpses with broken eyes, many unwilling to accept their desires, excessive blood loss, pale and shrinking facial skin, terrifying corpses, scattered on the ground, and various broken arms and limbs...

Walking in such a place, your mind must be extremely strong.

Many flag soldiers sat and rested with pale faces, and many people were nauseous and vomiting. This time they really vomited.

The battlefield is too tragic, and people have overdrawn their physical strength in the battle just now. In addition, the various odors and odors of smoked people are so weird that it would be strange if they don’t vomit.

Even if you vomit, you cannot leave the battlefield. Without military orders, everyone sat cross-legged and rested in a row according to the flag team.

Most of the people had empty kettles, but no one had the idea of ​​eating. Many people had empty brains and looked confused on their faces. They looked at the piles of corpses from time to time, as if they couldn't believe that this was done by themselves.

When Min Yuanqi was inspecting, when approaching each flag team, each flag team would stand up and salute.

In any case, after this battle, Min Yuanqi's reputation will be further improved, and the banner army's respect for him will also increase.

Before the battle, although people were encouraged to have the courage and the determination to protect their family and property, no one would have thought that this battle would be the result in front of them?

The pirates may have swam in the water, but there will be no more than a hundred people. Yang Shili was killed, and none of the bandit leaders such as sweeping kings were running away. Now the final team is resting. After a while, the flag teams will take turns to cut the heads.

This is the order of the officers, and of course Min Yuanqi means.

Although it was already the end of the Ming Dynasty, beheading nearly a thousand levels is still quite a sensational military merit.

The people suffer for pirates and bandits. The serious officers and soldiers will not suppress these small reptiles. They are concerned about the large bandits. Moreover, the military discipline of officers and soldiers is probably worse than that of bandits. At least the bandits must consider sustainable income and cannot kill them all at once. The officers and soldiers basically use open robbers and rob them all. They rob them all of them. Whoever dares to resist will kill people, and even no one resists will kill people. Kill good people and behead a large number of innocent people, including women. The officers and soldiers do a lot of these things.

After beheading for nearly a thousand years, Min Yuanqi planned to send people along the river to Nanjing, first from the Huaihe River to Huai'an, then along the Central Canal, to Yangzhou, cross the river and release the water to the west gate, and send a large number of heads to Nanjing's Ministry of War. At that time, it will depend on what kind of reward Shi Kefa will give.

Min Yuanqi is not fond of money or something, he wants official positions and reputation.

Especially reputation.

In the chaos in the Southern Ming Dynasty, if there were always hundreds of elite soldiers under his command, it would not be difficult to get the position of general, but a reputable and good reputation would be quite rare.

In the eyes of many scholars and officials, martial artists are unreliable.

In the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, many examples of success and failure are the suspicion and alienation of civil officials and military generals.

For example, if the remaining troops of the Dashun Army have more than 100,000 people, the Zhongzhen Camp is adapted, if the food and salary are up, there is a stable territory and reason for fighting, and the combat effectiveness of this army is not weak.

In the Huguang battlefield in the early Southern Ming Dynasty, the remnants of the Shun Army won many victories.

However, under the command of several civil servants, the Southern Ming army not only did not cooperate with the Shun Army, but also had more guard against and excluded them.

The two sides had a rift, even to the point of fighting. As a result, when the Qing army was weak, it failed to seize the opportunity to restore Huguang and occupy the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

Many things are destroyed in unnecessary battles and suspicion, missing opportunities, which makes people regretful.

After all, Min Yuanqi was a military officer from the garrison who had inherited from generation to generation. The general family of generals did prove his loyalty in the late Ming Dynasty. Generals who were from the camp or non-guards, such as Zuo Liangyu, Wu Sangui, were really not loyal. There were countless generals who were born in the garrison and died in the country, especially the You family and He family, who were in the last juncture, and Li Zicheng almost returned to Xi'an because of the sacrifices of these generals.

After all, the Min family is a serious general of generations. Min Yuanqi has the title of suppressing bandits and killing thieves, so in the eyes of the literati and officials, he can be trusted.

With a great reputation and reliable strength, you can go anywhere in the world. Whether you are in Zhejiang, Fujian, Huguang, Yunnan and Guizhou, you can have a place to settle down anyway.

Min Yuanqi did not think that his current record was worth mentioning. There were only two things that made him happy. One was to keep the foundation and continue to make money and consolidate the foundation. The other was to use this battle to encourage the soldiers, win people's hearts to a greater extent, and make the soldiers more loyal and brave.

Of course, the benefits brought by Min Yuanqi's military merits and the soldiers have become veterans with practical experience. The power in Dahewei and Yuntiguan will increase greatly, and these benefits will be continuously obtained by Min Yuanqi, but it is more important than the first two.

"Everyone has worked hard, but it has to be done at the beginning and end. They have to clean up the battlefield, collect weapons, property, and the sanctions are responsible for monitoring. Those who dare to embezzle will be dealt with by military laws in front of the formation. Each flag team takes turns to behead the beheading and collect the body."

After Min Yuanqi inspected, he summoned the officers together to give orders.

Min Yuanzhi rode back on a horse. At this time, he was not only covered in blood, but also ran away with sweat, as if he had just been fished out of the water.

"Sir, what should I do if the body is going to happen?" Min Yuanzhong said: "The weather is getting warmer, so you have to burn it quickly, otherwise it will be not easy to cause a plague."

Min Yuan interrupted, "Didn't you see my father and Li Kecheng come? It's a trivial matter for them to mobilize thousands of people, and we may not even have to do such a mess."

This guy was outspoken and invisibly sold his own father.

Min Yuanqi smiled and said, "Uncle San is here. I'll go and welcome him. By the way, I'll ask Li Qianhu to solve the chores below and give us some appropriate rewards. Our 300th household is for the invading pirates and bandits of Qianhu, which has solved the big problem. The Qianhu official department can't show any signs."

Many military officers laughed. Before today, Min Yuanqiruo said he wanted to knock Li Kecheng's quarrel, most people would object.

It’s already worry-free if Li Kecheng doesn’t come to cause trouble, so how can he take the initiative to provoke him?

Now no one feels wrong. Not only Min Yuanqi and Min Yuanzhi, but also Min Yuanzhong, who have always been cautious and careful, also feels natural.

...

Seeing more than twenty riders heading towards him, Li Kecheng felt dry mouth and even his hands were trembling.

Although there are only more than twenty cavalry, their power is better than that of thousands of troops.

The cavalry had just killed one fiercely, and even the people and horses seemed to have just been taken out of the blood pool. Because they were not used to this kind of thing, they were not really a soldier of war from another perspective, so the murderous aura on their bodies was too obvious. Even when they arrived in front of Li Kecheng, the murderous aura was as real as it was, stinging the eyes of the Qianhu.

Li Kecheng almost didn't dare to wait for Min Yuanqi to come. Although Min Yuanqi's robe was clean and not like other people's terrifying appearance of blood, in Li Kecheng's eyes, this nominal deputy Qianhu was the devil.

"The official...I have met Lord Min in the lower house!"

Li Kecheng changed several names in an instant. Before that, he did not take Min Yuanqi seriously. Even the entire Min family was suppressed by Li Kecheng. The Li family had a commander-in-chief family in Huai'an Prefecture City, which was to steadily suppress the Min family.

Min Yuanqi besieged people at the Shui Pass, which implicated Li Kecheng's fleet to pay more money, which made Li Kecheng very angry. Not only did he take the opportunity to attack Min Qiande, but he also attacked and suppressed Min Yuanqi.

Later, Min Yuanqi took the water pass and killed a hundred people, and Li Kecheng calmed down a lot.

The incident of the salt pool again made Li Kecheng and some of the forces behind him jealous. They were accumulating strength and trying to figure out the technology of salt drying. Then Li Kecheng would choose a suitable place to build the salt pool and compete with the Min family...

This plan is completely bankrupt today.

Seeing Li Kecheng wearing a fifth-grade replenishment uniform in front of him, he looked humble as a bear, Min Yuanqi was fine. What is the end of the dynasty? The rules and regulations were not broken and the music were broken. Those great scholars, six ministers, ministers, ministers, and chief censors, and ministers, civil officials who stayed in the two capitals were the essence of the essence of the civil official group. Which of the famous scholars, who chose to protect themselves in this end of the day and chose to die for their country?

When Li Zicheng entered the capital, more than 800 officials in the capital knelt on the Tao and chose to surrender. Those civil officials could be officials without leaving the capital to become officials. In the peaceful season, a censor could control more than 10,000 local soldiers and horses, and scolded the generals like slaves. However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, these famous ministers and scholars in the country were honestly kneeling in front of the bandits they had always looked down upon, respectful and trepidated.

When the Qing soldiers entered Nanjing, it was raining heavily. The ministers of the Southern Ming Dynasty wore red robes and knelt at the city gate to wait for the Qing soldiers to enter the city. Under the rain, the red on the hands and official robes fell into the water, and the rain flowed everywhere, like blood.

Even those great scholars and famous officials are like this, how can a thousand-family military officer talk about integrity?

Min Qiande forced himself to suppress his excitement and could not be as arrogant and domineering as a child, making the Min family seem to have no background, but the happy expression on his old face could not be concealed.

At this point, everyone has a clear understanding of the fact that in such a time, it is true that having soldiers on hand is the case. The rest of the wealth, official positions, and family background are just passing by.

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