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Chapter 11 Robbery Camp (Part 1)

Duolona is already in his fifties. He has experienced three masters from Nurhaci to Shunzhi. From Juehua to Yangzhou, he has been active in the army. This time, because of his rich experience, he was selected to follow the emperor in the south to the emperor.

"When moving forward, it's Yangzhou." Duolonga had no good impression of Gaoyou. After listening to some of the history of the Han people, he also knew the significance of Gaoyou in the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Zhang Shicheng was fighting against the millions of troops of the Yuan Dynasty with more than 10,000 troops alone, and finally defeated it, thus breaking the myth of the invincible Mongol cavalry in the world and greatly inspiring the fighting spirit of the Han people - the rule of the Yuan Dynasty relies on this myth, just as the rule of the Qing Dynasty relies on the power of the Eight Banners soldiers. After the Battle of Gaoyou, the rule of the Yuan Dynasty lasted for some years, but the pressure that the Mongols once suffocated the Han people certainly did not exist since the Battle of Gaoyou, and the demise of this dynasty relied on terror was inevitable - even if this victory was achieved by the enemy of the Ming Taizu, the Han people were still flirting with their glorious victory.

Compared with Gaoyou, Duolona had a very good impression of Yangzhou. Yangzhou, which was personally guarded by the Minister of War of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the Master of Ge, was captured by the Qing army in a flash. After the victory, the Qing army carried out a cruel massacre to show the world the consequences of resistance, even if it was a slight resistance. Blood flowed into a river in the city, and Duoduo stood arrogantly on the top of the city, pointing to the bloody sea under his feet and said: "There will be many soldiers everywhere, and the officials, military and civilians will resist and surrender. Weiyang can be seen!"

At that time, Duolona was standing not far from Duoduo, and the Qing court continued to implement this policy afterwards. When he heard that Wu Sangui did not massacre the city that resisted in Guizhou, Shunzhi also issued an edict to accuse King Pingxi of not massacreing the Han people, which was extremely unreasonable and could not reflect the majesty of the court.

"The majesty of the imperial court will make the Han people crawl at the emperor's feet forever." Duolona had not been to Jiangnan for many years. He made up his mind to go to his hometown to revisit after he arrived in Yangzhou.

The Imperial Camp walked on the territory of the court, surrounded by Jiangnan and tens of thousands of green camps in the north of the Yangtze River. The enemy's movements would always be presented to the imperial front in time, which made many Imperial Camp officers relax their vigilance, and Duolona was no exception. But Duolona was different from others. Even in such a safe march, he still insisted on sending out sentry detectives to reconnaissance and guarding the surroundings of the Imperial Camp. This was not that Duolona believed that the enemy could suddenly appear near the Imperial Camp, but to train the Eight Banners soldiers.

Since entering the pass, the frequency of the Eight Banners of Manchuria has been declining. In recent years, there have been few cases of the Eight Banners fighting. Although the large number of new men entering the banner are well-equipped and far from comparable to the older generation when fighting hard outside the pass, their combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced. For example, the two thousand Eight Banners soldiers in the Imperial Camp have never participated in actual combat after ten years of Shunzhi. They do not even think that they will have the opportunity to go to the battlefield. This also leads to the slackness of the Eight Banners soldiers in daily training. Not only do ordinary soldiers have no motivation to train hard, but even officers often live by because they feel sorry for their children.

Last year, Jiangning suffered heavy losses in the Eight Banners. Recently, many Eight Banners soldiers failed in the battle in Xiamen. Duolonga couldn't help but think that if the Eight Banners could maintain the training intensity outside the pass, even if the number of new recruits remained unchanged, they would not be beaten so badly by the Zheng army.

Although Duolona has such a sense of knowledge, he still finds it difficult to withstand the pressure and improve the training intensity of his opponents when he was in the capital. In the past, when he was outside the pass, few people dared to be lazy in training because of the huge survival pressure. If there was such a life-and-death thing, even if he was beaten to death by the officer on the spot, no one would say that he was not. But now the living conditions of the bannermen are completely different. They do not rely on skillful archery and horses to steal property, and the hard-core crops will come to their doors. And now, let alone beat the lazy bannermen to death, even if the punishment is too heavy, many people will say their feelings, thinking that everyone is related to their relatives and finally lived a good life from the Dragon Pass. Is it because they beat the children to death for a small matter? If they really suffer from a disability, their fathers and grandparents who have made great contributions will not be able to remain at peace in the nine springs.

Therefore, this time the guardian of the emperor was an opportunity for Duolong to train his subordinates. With the emperor's safety, no one could not go out to stand guard. Previously, the local officials in Zhili and Shandong took care of the imperial camp, which made Duolonga secretly dissatisfied with him, making him no chance to teach his subordinates how to set up camp tents correctly and how to dig trenches quickly. After arriving in Jiangnan, Lin Qilong was meticulous in the imperial camp. Not only was the camp placed more properly, but the horse materials were even divided into the correct proportion of food, so that the officers and soldiers of the imperial camp did not even have to take care of their own flattery. This of course further encouraged the laziness of the Eight Banners soldiers.

Lin Qilong, who allowed them to open their mouths and stretch out their clothes, now the imperial camp is full of praise. The Eight Banners soldiers can fall asleep after marching every day. Although Duolonga was a little dissatisfied and felt that this made him unable to temper his subordinates, he could not compete with the mainstream of public opinion.

Tonight, when Dorona came out with some of his rotating subordinates, he noticed that they looked even more listless. Most of the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Camp were unwilling to come out at night in such a cold day. Especially after seeing that other comrades were very comfortable, they felt unlucky for having a direct boss like Dorona.

While Dorona was deploying tasks to these dozens of subordinates and explaining various precautions for camping, he suddenly saw a fire dragon winding towards him in the distance.

"What's going on?" Dorona narrowed his eyes and observed the team driving over. In a short time, he made a judgment that it was an army, and it was a large number of people, thousands.

"What are they going to do and where are they going?" Duolona was puzzled. If it were twenty years ago, he would have shouted "enemy attack" and immediately ordered his subordinates to go back to report the news as quickly as possible, and led the remaining people to start harassing and attacking.

During the long military life of Dorona, many incidents of misunderstandings of friendly forces as enemies have happened. He encountered more false alarms than real ones. However, even so, for twenty years, he would still issue this alarm without hesitation, because misunderstandings are always better than being sneak attacked; taking off his armor and going to bed is always better than being caught off guard by the enemy; when a misunderstanding occurs, Dorona never complains. If he encounters an alarm again soon, he will still put on his armor without hesitation and rush out of the military camp to find his commander and subordinates.

But it is not twenty years ago. It is already the territory of the Qing Dynasty rather than the territory of the Ming Dynasty. The army that can walk on it can only be the troops of the court.

"Did you send us food and grass?" asked a Dorona's subordinate.

"Hasn't the food and grass been sent today?" another flag soldier replied.

"Maybe it was the added charcoal and grain, or maybe there was wine?" When they were in Shandong and Zhili, the local officials sent wine to the Imperial Camp, and the officers didn't mind drinking a little. As long as they were controlled within a certain range, they would not be unable to keep up with the team. Lin Qilong sent more, and the soldiers could share some of it. The officers did not interfere with it. It was also necessary to warm their bodies in winter. Anyway, Deng Ming was still far away in Taiping and Chizhou.

"Come over and ask." Doron A led his subordinates to the scene quickly. The emperor might have been sleeping at this time. Doron Along didn't want too many people to approach the imperial camp, disturbing the emperor's sleep.

This team of Qing cavalry rushed over with torches, and the coming column saw them early. When Dorona came first, someone was already greeting him.

"We are subordinates of Zhou Gongzong." The officer led by the army introduced himself: "Wei Zhi was ordered to escort some prisoners to the emperor. On the way, he received an order from Governor Lin. He was worried that there was not enough firewood in the imperial camp, so he asked us to send some charcoal and food along the way."

As he said that, the officer pointed behind him. There were many large trucks in the column, filled with straw like hills. Then the officer pointed to the distance: "Prisoners are behind."

"It is strictly forbidden to wait for people to approach around the Imperial Camp!" Duolona shouted loudly. He just leaned closer and glanced at it, and felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the team. As doubts arose, he had to blurt out his orders: "What prisoners and food should be sent to you tonight, and you should return it quickly!"

"No?" the officer opposite said lightly.

After only a moment, the suspicion in Doron'a's heart became stronger. There were too many soldiers on the opposite side, and their figures seemed to be too agile. The attitude and tone of the green shadow officer in front of the horse seemed too unlucky...

Yu Guang seemed to have swept some action. Before turning to confirm, a wild beast-like intuition developed by years of war made Dorona roar reflexively. Before his mind realized the danger, he had reached his back and held the hilt of the knife.

The waist knife was suddenly pulled out, just holding a spear that was stabbing. The enemy soldiers in the column on the road pulled out their weapons together as soon as the officer finished speaking and rushed towards the pair of imperial camps like a tide. At the same time, many arrows were shot out from the darkness.

None of the men of Dorona's men could compare with their commanders. The flag soldiers closest to the road were stabbed off their horses in the blink of an eye. The cavalry in the back row were stunned and shot into the cheek and neck by the feather arrows that rushed towards him, and fell off the horses screaming.

Two long spears stabbed from both sides at the same time, with no speed or time to avoid them. Dorona roared and used a knife to drive a shot, took it out of the stirrup and kicked it out like a fly, kicking it accurately on the tip of the gun, so that it could not hit the target.

But at this time, an enemy soldier had already rushed to the front of the horse, and a sword flashed into the chest of Doron's mount.

When the horse fell to the side, Dorona saw several more people jumping up, and at the same time, he waved his sword and spear and slashed at him.

"Such skillful cooperation is the enemy's elite soldier..." Dorona's head and head were already different before he could finish his thoughts.

All his subordinates were knocked down at this time, and they all lay on the ground with their eyes open.

"Don't make noise, keep moving forward." Jiang Nan ordered that he did not see arrows rising from the left and right wings, which means that the Imperial Guard did not deploy secret sentries around. This place is very close to the Imperial Camp in Shunzhi. This sound and scream may attract more inquirers: "Boards are on guard, and anyone who comes close to the question will be shot and killed."
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