Chapter 74 Rescue the people of Ming Dynasty (5)
Li Laoer was very conflicted. To save the people, it would definitely cause many casualties. If they were not saved, they would be robbed by the Later Jin army to be a Baoyi Aha outside the pass. After leaving the pass, most of the people would be frozen to death and starved to death and exhausted to death. Only a few people later followed the Qing army into the pass and became Baoyi slaves who were higher than the Han people.
If it is over tonight, it will be too late to attack the Jin army tomorrow, because it is only twelve or three miles away from Santun Camp. The Jin army will arrive at Ajige's camp at noon tomorrow. Even if the three hundred Jin soldiers can be destroyed by the day tomorrow, Ajige, who is stationed in Santun Camp, sends troops here, and these ordinary people will not be able to escape.
After thinking for a long time, Li Laoer finally made up his mind: to achieve great things, there should not be a woman's kindness. In order to save the people, it is inevitable that someone will die in the war, and many people will die tonight. However, sacrificing some people in exchange for more people to survive, this is still a cost-effective business.
More important than saving the people, Li Laoer remembered his mission to this era, which was to prevent the ignorant and backward Qing Dynasty from replacing the Ming Dynasty. If the decaying Ming Dynasty wanted to perish, it could only perish in the hands of the Han people. Li Laoer would never allow the barbaric and backward Qing Dynasty to steal the rulers to take the Central Plains! That was a disaster for the entire China, causing the Han culture to be cut off, the land of China was regressed from civilization to barbarism, the Han people turned into slaves, and were forced to kneel on the ground. The darkest 267 years from 1644 to 1911 were the era of rapid development of the West, which made the East completely lag behind the West.
Whether it was the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China or the Mongols and Yuan Dynasty's destruction of Songs, the harm caused to Chinese civilization was not as good as that of the Qing Dynasty! The Qing Dynasty's shaving hair and clothing directly destroyed the clothes of the Han people, and the thoughts of slaves broke the backbone of the Han people. The repeated literary inquisitions destroyed the books left by the Han people for thousands of years. The regression from the feudal system in the late Ming Dynasty to slavery was a regression of civilization.
Compared with the Mongol Yuan, the Mongols were wolves. They fought with you face to face, and there were not many conspiracies, so the Mongols retreated after less than a hundred years of rule. The Qing rulers were a poisonous snake hidden in the dark, an extremely vicious snake. They directly promoted their orthodox nature by destroying the Han culture and turned all the Han people into barbarians. Only in this way can they maintain the rule of nearly three hundred years and bring endless troubles to the future generations of China. That trouble cannot be eliminated even if it enters the 21st century!
What Li Laoer wants to save is not only the common people in front of him, but also the Chinese civilization. Therefore, it is worth sacrificing some common people.
As for the people who will die in the chaos tonight, let’s take the account to Jiannu for the time being!
Thinking of this, Li Lao Eryang gave a hand and signaled his brothers to retreat with him first and return to the side of the war horse a mile away.
After all the brothers retreated, Li Laoer untied his own jade lion and slapped his horse: "Brothers, if we do not act tonight, most of the people who were robbed by the Tartars will die. If we act, although it will accidentally hurt many people, most of the people will survive! What do you think? Should we take action?"
"Yes! Take action!" The loyal Han Dashan was the first to echo.
Li Hong, who was raised by Li Laoer's father since childhood, also agreed with his brothers, saying that he would take action. Even if he accidentally hurts the people, it would be worth it to save more people.
Tang Chong, Zhang Wei, Cao Lei and others all expressed their agreement with Li Laoer's view, but He Xing thought it was inappropriate: "Brother, since we are trying to save the people, we have to sacrifice another group of people to save a group of people. Isn't our approach no different from the Tartars?"
"I sacrificed a small number of people in exchange for more people to be rescued! What's more, what I want to save is not only the people, but the Han family's clothes! Brother He, when you go to our city, you can see the heads of the fake Tartars! Many of them were the Ming people who were captured by Jiannu, and they became their coated slaves when they were captured in Liaodong. Jiannu had to force the Han people to shave their hair and change their clothes! Once one day, the Central Plains was stolen by Jiannu, they would let all the Han people in the world shave their hair and change their clothes! Are you willing to leave the rat tail of money to see your ancestors a hundred years later?"
"Will Jiannu steal the Central Plains?" He Xing couldn't believe that there would be that day. Although the Ming Dynasty was already corrupt, it was still a huge empire. How many people did Jiannu have? How could it swallow the Ming Dynasty?
"Because of the civil strife of the Han people! Shaanxi encountered natural disasters, but the Donglin Party continued to increase taxes in Shaanxi, and the people could no longer survive. Shaanxi Wang Jiayin, Wang Ziyong, Wang Zuogao, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Cunmeng, Wang Monk, Wang Daliang and others raised the matter. The court wanted to wipe out the rioters and increased the expenses. Jiannu from the north invaded and plundered again. The Ming Dynasty's finances were not enough, and the gentry was still in a dilemma. If this continues, the world will collapse sooner or later."
Although He Xing did not understand these questions very much, he still understood the principle of sacrificing a few people to rescue most people. So he just hesitated for a moment and agreed: "Okay! I'll listen to my brother!"
Li Laoer then made an arrangement: "Han Dashan and He Xing, you two each brought 100 sprinters to explode the east and west camp gates. Kill into the camp, rush straight into the stable, untie the reins of Jiannu's war horses, and release the horses! Li Hong, you bring one hundred cavalry, and when the east gate of the camp explodes, you will enter from the east. The rest of the people followed me and entered from the west camp gate!"
"No!" Everyone stepped back and prepared.
Several infantrymen carried the empty boxes found in the nearby village and put gunpowder into the boxes. Li Laoer drilled a hole in the box, inserted the fuse, and then sealed the gaps in the box with wax, so they made two gunpowder boxes.
Han Dashan, with a hundred infantry horse thieves, approached the east gate of the Jin army camp again. Two of the brothers followed behind with gunpowder boxes. After approaching the Jin army camp, Han Dashan discovered that the Jin soldiers stationed in the middle of the camp did not find anyone approaching the gate of their camp. So he and his brothers moved the horses at the gate of the camp away, put the gunpowder box outside the wooden door, lit the fuse and quickly retreated to the safe range.
Li Laoer rode on his horse and was approaching a single arrow from the Jin army camp. Looking at the sparks burning in the fuse, he felt very complicated: the camp gate was blown open in a while, and the people inside would definitely be in chaos. He rushed into the camp with his cavalry. The first one to trample on the Ming Dynasty was the people of the Ming Dynasty. I don’t know how many people were trampled to death before he could rush to Jiannu.
While thinking, I saw a flash of fire in front of me, and a loud bang was like thunder falling to the ground, and the Jin army camp was smashed to pieces.
Chapter completed!