It’s not enough to eat three meals a day without one meal

Chapter 048

People actually make choices throughout their lives. Every morning, you can choose to get up or continue to sleep. This choice has pros and cons. When eating breakfast, you can also choose, choose steamed buns or fried dough sticks, or you can choose to have an empty stomach.

Go to Work.

Every choice means that you will gain something and lose something at the same time.

When Cheng Shijie was training Ning Haijun, he told them the consequences of their choices. For example, when facing the enemy, they could choose to turn around and run away. If their backs were exposed to the enemy, they would only die more.

Come on, running away won't make them any safer.

For example, in the face of petty profits, if you are greedy for petty gains, you will lose more things. If you pick up a sesame seed, you will lose the watermelon.

Under this subtle influence, Zhang Huairen wanted to use the discarded money to attract Ning Haijun's officers to rob it. Finally, they could get rid of some burdens and gain safety.

Just ask Admiral Ning whether the silver or the head is more important, and any soldier will answer that the enemy's head is more important.

In Ning Haijun's military regulations, it is clearly stipulated that whatever is captured must be returned to the public. No matter whether it is a ingot of silver, a box of silver, or even a mountain of silver in front of them, it will not belong to them, but to the collective Ning Haijun.

Regardless of whether they pick it up or not, their share cannot escape.

If they hide property privately, they will also be expelled from Ning Haijun, and their families will also lose the benefits of Ning Haijun's military dependents.

What seems impossible in Zhang Huairen's eyes is actually that simple.

As the killing cries and screams behind him became lower and lower, eventually they could no longer be heard.

Zhang Huairen was actually very tired. It was really hard when climbing the mountain, especially when they climbed a wild hillside with no roads.

"What kind of army is that?"

"There is an army nearby, Dengzhou Guard Zuo Qianhu Station, I heard that Zuo Qianhu Cheng Shijie is a person!"

"I've heard about him. I heard that Qin Wu brought four thousand followers to find trouble with him, but ended up falling into his hands."

"What a pity Qin Wu, he has many good men under his command!"

Listening to the discussion of his subordinates, Zhang Huairen had a sinister look on his face: "Then bring him into the group. Having such a fierce general join the group will be of great benefit to our development!"

"What if he doesn't want to?"

Zhang Huairen sneered: "There are a few people in Liangshan who are willing to go up, but they are all forced. If he is not willing, I will tell him that he will not even be able to make a thousand households, and he will not be able to go up the mountain obediently!"

Zhang Huairen was not bragging. With the power of the Zhang family, it would be very easy to remove a Thousand Household criminal, regardless of whether the Thousand Household criminal committed any crime.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was politically correct for civilian officials to suppress military attachés. In this case, almost everyone took it for granted. Just like in the Wuqiao Mutiny, a chicken of Wang Xiangchun's servant was stolen, and Kong Youde inserted the stolen chicken into the soldiers.

Traveling with arrows to the camp, which is the most severe punishment second only to beheading, involves being beaten with a military stick and then having an arrow stuck in the ear.

However, the problem was that Wang Xiangchun did not agree with such a punishment and took the opportunity to step on Kong Youde, a military attache. As a result, he almost overthrew the Ming Dynasty, but it also laid the foundation for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing that there were no pursuers behind him, Zhang Huairen made a long circle before returning to his home base.

Zhang Huairen's real village was not actually in the mountains, but in a village. Most of the bandits under his command were tenants of the Zhang family. This village called Zhangjiazhuang was exactly the same as an ordinary village.

After walking in the dark for most of the night, we crossed the Rushan River and arrived at Zhangjiazhuang.

However, just as the bandits under Zhang Huairen were crossing the river, densely packed torches appeared on the other side of the river, a torch that snaked for four or five miles.

Zhang Huairen, who was at the rear of the team, did not notice this abnormality because he was too tired. As a noble son from a wealthy family, Zhang Huairen couldn't hold on anymore after midnight. He asked his bandits to make a tree using cut tree poles.

He was lying on a simple wooden sedan, soundly sleeping.

"Officers and soldiers, there are officers and soldiers in front!"

The bandits who were walking in front saw the officers and soldiers waiting in formation, and they were so frightened that they quickly retreated. What was originally a neat formation soon became chaotic.

In the chaos, the bandits who were carrying Zhang Huairen lost their footing and almost fell Zhang Huairen off the wooden sedan. However, they woke up Zhang Huairen.

"what happened?"

"Sir, there are officers and soldiers ahead..."

"What's wrong with the officers and soldiers? During the day, the officers and soldiers still have some combat effectiveness. At night, they are all blind and disperse as soon as they charge!"

Although Zhang Huairen didn't know what night blindness was, he knew that the guardsmen were all beggars, military households who were worse than beggars. Almost everyone suffered from blindness.

This is also because of this, there are many famous battles in Chinese history, and there are almost no battle-level battles that are decisively won at night. Not only do soldiers suffer from nyctalopia at night, but also because the command is very inconvenient.

More than a hundred bandits shouted and killed towards the Ning Haijun military formation on the other side of the river.

Cheng Shijie was slightly surprised when he saw this scene. Where did the confidence of these bandits come from?

You must know that through five-kilometer armed training, the endurance of Ning Navy officers during long-distance marches can surpass the bandits by ten blocks, not to mention that the bandits took dozens of extra miles of detours in order to detour.

But Cheng Shijie already knew in advance that Zhangzhuang Village was the bandit's lair in Sanshan Town by interrogating the captured bandits, so he just waited here for the bandits to arrive.

Seeing the bandits yelling to attack, Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "If they want to die, let them die!"

Following Cheng Shijie's order, Ning Haijun's crossbow shooters, fire gunners, and archers fired arrows at the bandits in the river.

If it were on flat ground, it was indeed possible for these bandits to rush to Ning Haijun's formation, because both the muskets and the crossbows had very slow rates of fire.

This sentence means that when the crossbow machine shoots at the enemy, when the enemy enters the effective range, it only has the chance to fire three arrows in a row.

But the problem is, these bandits actually cross the river, which is simply asking for death.

In the darkness, Admiral Ning began to develop, with streaks of dark red flames and gunshots as dense as popping beans.

It's just a pity that the shooting effect is not very good.

After a volley of two hundred firecrackers, only a dozen bandits were shot and fell into the river. However, one of Ning's naval officers had a soldier's firecracker explode. Fortunately, the firecrackers did not have much charge.

It was just that his hands were bleeding profusely from the blast, but his life was not in danger.

Cheng Shijie realized at that time that until the quality was not up to standard, large-scale equipment of firecrackers must not be carried out, otherwise it would be irresponsible for the lives of the soldiers.

These bandits have also dealt with officers and soldiers, so they naturally know that at this time, they can only bite the bullet and rush forward. If they hesitate, they will only die.

More than a hundred bandits, even though twenty or thirty people were shot and killed, still managed to board the river bank and attack Ning Haijun's military formation.

"Hold on, don't panic!"

"Hold the spear tightly and thrust out with all your strength!"

As most of the new recruits, Ning Haijun soldiers were trained to follow orders and formed muscle memory. As Cheng Shijie's orders were issued, these soldiers did not have to think about what they could stab, they just thrust out their spears.

The bandits who rushed up to fight the officers and soldiers found to their despair that before they even swung their knives or spears, the spears from the officers and soldiers on the opposite side hit them in the chest, throat, and face.

The injured bandits either died immediately or fell to the ground wailing!

Seeing this scene, Zhang Huairen found in despair that the bandits under his command had no chance to break through the army's defense line. Even if they could finally break through, there would only be a few of them left.

"retreat……"

Zhang Huairen turned around and ran away. However, after running less than three or four hundred steps, he saw a fire dragon appearing behind him, and there were quite a few of them, hundreds of them.

If he had not charged across the river, he would have had a chance to fight when he still had more than a hundred people under his command, but now he has no chance.

Zhang Huairen said to the Ning Haijun soldier opposite: "Master, stop fighting and leave us a way to survive. I can give you money. How about it? Think about it. Aren't you eating this bowl of rice just for money? We

Why don’t I give you money?”

"How much money do you have?"

"Five thousand taels!"

"It's only five thousand taels!"

Zhang Yu said with some regret: "Attack..."

"Ten thousand taels... no, twenty thousand taels of silver. You don't know how much twenty thousand taels of silver is. It's enough for you to spend ten lifetimes..."

The Ning navy soldiers under Zhang Yu's command swarmed forward. They may not have strong combat skills, but the problem is that when they are fighting against the few with more, they are like tigers entering the flock, dividing three by five, and destroying the bandits under Zhang Huairen.

It was chopped to pieces.

Many Ning Haijun soldiers chopped off the heads of the bandits, but muttered: "Ten acres, ten acres, ten acres again!"

Now there are only two ways for Zhang Huairen and his bandits. They can retreat. There are pursuers behind them and there are strong enemies in front. They can neither advance nor retreat.

The dozen or so surviving bandits surrounded Zhang Huairen and had no choice but to retreat into the river.

Although the river water was not deep at this time, only about 80 or 90 centimeters, the problem was that the current water was cold and they would soon be unable to hold on.

Moreover, the Ning navy soldiers on both sides of the river began to go down the river. There were many corpses floating in the river. They didn't have time to cut off their heads. They were all white money and fields.

Zhang Huairen shouted at the officers and soldiers: "I am Zhen Sanshan, and I want to see your general!"

Cheng Shijie stepped forward, but Chen Guodong blocked Cheng Shijie with his body.

Zhang Huairen saw Cheng Shijie. Although Cheng Shijie had lost a lot of weight now, he was still a fat man with a white face, and he did not look like a strong general who was good at fighting.

Seeing Cheng Shijie, Zhang Huairen was somewhat disappointed and said: "General Cheng, can you lend me a moment to speak?"

"Okay, you can surrender. This general will not kill defenseless people!"

"Easy to say!"

Zhang Huairen threw down the long knife in his hand, and a dozen other bandits also raised their hands and surrendered.

Soon, four large cars gathered together to form a house. That’s right, it was a house. This was Cheng Shijie’s idea. In later generations, he liked RVs very much, but RVs were big toys for rich people and he couldn’t afford them.
To be continued...