Whoever gives me meat will work hard. A very simple sentence, without being passionate, will not be deafening, but it expresses the voice of this soldier, and the voice of all Taiping Army, including the Iron Guard. They fight not to revive the Ming Dynasty, not to save the Han Dynasty, nor to expel the Tartars and restore Chinese civilization, but to simply fill themselves up and eat meat!

Zhou Shixiang was silent. These soldiers did not have lofty goals as they imagined, but were just to live and to have a piece of meat to fight. Having milk is the one used by my mother to describe these soldiers. Whoever lets them eat enough and whoever can have meat to eat will work for them! As long as they can eat full, they will no matter who you are, even if Zhu Ming, Emperor Yongli, Zhu Youlang, stood in front of them, if he couldn't take out the meat, the soldiers would probably tie Zhu Youlang up and give it to those who could give them meat to eat. This has nothing to do with loyalty, it is only about survival.

Zhou Shixiang was silent, but was not angry. He could not tell any big truth about these soldiers who could not read a word. It was so ridiculous to expect these soldiers who could not read a word to understand the concept of nation he was obsessed with.

Let’s not talk about these soldiers who are ignorant of big words. Even the original Samantabhad Zhou was also an ordinary person who just wanted to live a life honestly. The barbarians were not barbarians, and the Chinese and barbarians were not Chinese. It was never a matter for Samantabhad. He considered more about how to survive in this chaotic era, how to make his wife and children have no worries about food and clothing, and how to get the fame of the Juren after peace. The inheritance of nations, countries, and civilization has never been something that ordinary people like Samantabhad Zhou. They only focus on reality and cherish the tangible benefits that can be seen and touched in front of them. These are small people, but these small people constitute history, and their existence is history.

There is nothing to blame. In this era when the Ming and Qing dynasties, most Han people were like Zhou Xiucai. As long as they could have a bite of food, no matter how dark the government was, no matter how oppressed them, they would never rise up, nor would they sacrifice their lives for the nihilistic national justice. They should pick their hair and dress as they should change their clothes. They would never think about why I did this, and why I could not do this. If they resisted in doubt, they would die. Those who live would not pity them, but would instead ridicule them for not knowing the current affairs. In this world, only when they live has the right to speak, and dead people have no chance to refute and blame others. This has been the case for thousands of years, and people live like this, even hundreds of years later, aren’t it the same? Being able to fill their stomachs is the greatest happiness for the Han people.

If it weren't for the possession of a new soul, the once timid and afraid of things, Zhou Xiucai would never take the risk of slashing at Youyun Long to revenge. He would probably agree that everything happened to him. He would not have the courage to resist, he would only cry loudly in front of the empty graves of his parents, wife and children during festivals. This is the fact, the cold fact, just as the Iron Man Guard only wants to be able to fill his stomach and have meat to eat. It makes people surprised and speechless, but it is so realistic and so real.

Zhou Shixiang did not scold the ungrateful soldier, but instead said to him and all the iron-armored soldiers happily: "Follow me and I will ensure that you have meat every meal!"

Just a simple promise, but it is more important to the soldiers than any famous saying that can be passed down through the ages. Soldiers will not understand what "will kings, princes, generals and ministers have a seed" or think about "How can sparrows know the ambition of swans"? But they know who will have meat to eat with them. How to ensure that they have meat to eat.

What Zhou Shixiang has to do is to fulfill his promise. As long as his promise can be fulfilled, these Iron Man Guards will work hard for him to the end.

Zhou Shixiang was not without depression because he also set up the Anjun envoy in the Iron Man Guard. But now it seems that the work of these Anjun envoys is not in place. This may be related to the Anjun envoys themselves being an ordinary person, or perhaps it is because they have not trained them enough. In short, the Anjun envoys in the Iron Man Guard were unable to play their role, which made Zhou Shixiang wary. He must strengthen the Anjun envoys in the military. Having milk is not a bad thing, but if Zhou Xiucai couldn't provide this milk, it would probably not be a good thing.

After leaving the Iron Man Guard, Zhou Shixiang climbed up the stone tower built by the local people to commemorate the famous anti-Japanese general General Yu Daqiu. He went up to the top of the tower and looked at the Qing army camp at the foot of the mountain. He suddenly remembered the past, which was in my mind and never forgotten.

"What are you, a scholar, who worship me?"

"Student parents, wives and children are in the general's belly. Now the cold food is approaching, and students have nowhere to worship. If they don't worship the general, they don't know where to worship?"

"You scholar is really true."

"The students' parents, wives and children both died tragically at the hands of the general. How dare you ask the general, do students take revenge?!"

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Filling the stomach and eating meat is the simple wish of the Iron Guard. They fight to the death for this wish; revenge is Zhou Shixiang's wish. The soldiers are working hard for their own wishes, and he is also working hard for their own wishes. The two wishes cannot be said to be higher or inferior, nor should they be nobler, but they are closely linked and bound together. Zhou Shixiang cannot take revenge alone. He wants to use the efforts of everyone to revenge, but the premise is that he must fulfill his promise.

To defeat the enemy, you will naturally have meat to eat. Only with meat will there be more people who will work hard for you.

Suna climbed up the mountain and asked Zhou Shixiang in confusion why he sent someone to persuade him to surrender. At present, there were only 3,000 Taiping Army and the Iron Man Guard, but there were still more than 10,000 people in the Qing army. Zhou Shixiang's persuasion of surrender may arouse Ji Du's anger. If he suppressed all his troops regardless of everything, the Taiping Army, which suffered heavy casualties, might not be able to defend Xuanwu Mountain. After all, the Qing army already knew the existence of the Iron Man Guard, and they would not have advanced again as before.

Zhou Shixiang did not answer Suna immediately, but asked the blind Li to apply Jin Chuang medicine to the wound on Suna's chin, and then took out the handkerchief that Lin Wan'er gave him and carefully bandaged Suna. This move was the same as Ji Du ordered people to take a lounge chair to the general Yang Zhenwei, which made Suna feel like he was dead.

Zhou Shixiang told Su Na that persuading surrender was just a bluff, which made the Qing army confusing it so that the other party thought that the Taiping army on Xuanwu Mountain was still sufficient and did not dare to attack again rashly. After all, the Qing army had been defeated for two consecutive times, and they could not understand the background of the Taiping army. The higher the attitude Zhou Shixiang made, the more cautious the Qing army would be.

Zhou Shixiang asserted that Ji Du would not attack again. Suna didn't say much, and he had already sold his life to Zhou Shixiang. There was no way he had to go to the Qing Dynasty. If Ji Du really got crazy, he could only fight to the end.

Fortunately, Jidu was not crazy, the Qing army did not launch another attack, and the next day did not reorganize the army to attack again. On the third day, Jidu received bad news. He stayed in Lufeng to monitor the four Mongolian Niulus of Taiping Army in the city, and asked the Taiping Army to defeat and retreat to Jieshi Guard.

Ji Du asked carefully about the battle situation and realized that after the main force of the Qing army advanced north, a Taiping cavalry coming from the south came from the direction of Haifeng. At the same time, the Taiping army in the city also drove a group of people to attack the Mongolian soldiers. The tactics of the Taiping army were quite similar to the Qi family army that was defeated in the Hunhe River in Liaodong, causing heavy casualties and finally had to retreat. Now the Taiping army was heading towards Jieshi Guards with the cooperation of the cavalry, which seemed to capture Jieshi Guards. Ji Du was furious and immediately asked Surile to send Mongolian soldiers to purge the Taiping Army. However, when Surile led the cavalry over, the other party retreated back to Lufeng City and did not fight with it at all. Faced with Lufeng's tall walls, Surile could not break the city and had to lead his troops back.

At the same time, a war broke out in Xiamen, hundreds of miles away. Although King Zheng Chenggong of Yanping refused the invitation of Zhou Shi to join forces to attack the Jidu army, he sent troops to launch an offensive against the Qing army in Zhangzhou, Fujian, under the persuasion of Chen Yonghua, to restrain the Qing army in Fujian.

After Dasuwen, who was appointed as General Annan by Shunzhi, reported that Zhangzhou was attacked by Zheng's army, he immediately transferred the Eight Banners Army under Andali, the Eight Banners Army and the Green Camp Navy in various coastal provinces to Fujian. Dasu personally commanded the Eight Banners and more than 10,000 Green Camp troops in Fujian to advance to Zhangzhou. After the arrival of the Qing army reinforcements, the Zheng army lifted the siege of Zhangzhou and retreated back to Xiamen.

Seeing that the Zheng army withdrew, Dasu actually wanted to attack Xiamen in full and completely eliminate the Zheng army, so he led his army to Quanzhou and attacked Xiamen from Tong'an, Weitou and Haicheng respectively. After hearing the news, Zheng Chenggong immediately commanded the Zheng army to fight. On the one hand, he sent the troops of the town general Chen Peng to guard Gao Qi to resist the Qing army on the Tong'an side, and he led the main force to gather in the sea area of ​​Haimen to face the Qing army on the Haicheng side.

At dawn on February 26, the Qing army set out from the sea to attack. Zheng army generals Zhou Rui and Chen Yaoce fought bravely and died heroically. Dasu sent Zhejiang Navy to attack Zheng army general Chen Hui's troops. Chen Hui ordered his subordinates to launch artillery to burn a large number of Qing warships. The Qing army could not resist and retreated. At noon, a strong wind blew from the sea and the waves surging. Zheng Chenggong personally led a giant ship to rush to the Qing army fleet. Hou Guan Jianping Zheng Tai also led the Zheng army on the Dakinmen side to join the battle. The Zheng army became more and more brave. The Qing army was defeated and corpses were everywhere. Dasu fled back to Quanzhou in a small boat.

Two hundred Manchu soldiers fled to Dakinmen Island on a boat to try to defend and resist. Zheng Chenggong's general Ma Xin ordered people to lure the Manchu soldiers, and then dismantled them at night to tie the more than 200 Manchu soldiers to Dashi and drowned alive. On the Gaoqi side, Chen Peng, the Zheng army guard general, secretly agreed that the Qing army planned to surrender. The Qing army set out from Tong'an thought that Gaoqi was within reach, so he relaxed his guard. However, Chen Peng's subordinate Chen Mang refused to surrender and led his subordinates to resist the Qing army. The Qing army that had landed was unprepared and was killed and blood flowed into a river. Countless Qing troops jumped into the sea and drowned. On the Gaoqi side, the Zheng army killed more than 1,600 Qing troops and captured the Qing army's chief general Lu Hala. Zheng Chenggong immediately arrested the rebellious Chen Peng and replaced his position with Chen Mang.
Chapter completed!