I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Two days later, Tang Guozhen's troops, together with artillery and air force, left Huai'an with a total of 13,000 troops and marched towards Suqian.

He didn't go far before he was discovered by Qing army spies.

Dahua placed a heavy army in Huai'an, and the Qing court had always been frightened, for fear that the Hua army would suddenly go on a northern expedition.

Therefore, they have done a very good job of intelligence work in this area. They have arranged a large number of sentries, and a large number of spies have also been placed in Huai'an City.

The sentinels of the Qing army quickly returned to report, and Tang Guozhen didn't care, and continued to march.

He wasn't going to make a sneak attack. Whether he was found or not was not a big problem.

The spy sent the news back to Suqian, and the Suqian defender Yiergen Jue Luo Ashan suddenly panicked.

Although he had 20,000 troops under him, only 10,000 people came.

However, this did not make him feel safe at all.

Many previous battles have proved that the Chinese army can win more with less. After many wars, the Qing army already had a sense of fear towards the Chinese army.

Moreover, the gap between weapons is also real.

"Come here, quickly report the military situation to Xuzhou and ask for support."

Ah Shan called in his personal soldiers, ready to ask Xuzhou for help.

At the same time, he also ordered the soldiers in the city to prepare for battle.

When the order was issued, the soldiers of the Qing army complained incessantly.

It is now the twelfth lunar month of winter, and the weather is very cold. Fighting in this weather is terrible.

What's more, the clothes on their bodies are also worn out, and the new cotton-padded clothes have not been delivered yet.

A well-informed person already knows that there are no new cotton-padded clothes this year.

Because the above is reducing expenditure in all aspects to expand the military factory.

Without new clothes, they could barely make it through the winter huddled in the house.

Yes, it would be a bit reluctant to defend the city and fight in this state.

Even if you are not killed by the enemy's guns, you will have to freeze your hands and feet and get frostbite after spending a few hours outside.

Frostbite is not a small problem. Frostbite on hands and feet is easy to edema, and then tissue necrosis becomes a waste.

Frostbite on the body is even more troublesome and directly endangers life.

"Fuck, fight. We can't bear without guns, and now we don't even have warm clothes, how can we fight this battle?"

One soldier couldn't help complaining, and the other soldiers also echoed the words.

As long as one person takes the lead in this kind of complaint, the others will follow.

When there are more people shouting, there will be no way for the people above, because the Fa does not blame the crowd.

If all these soldiers are dealt with, who will defend the city?

When the soldiers' complaints reached Ah Shan's ears, Ah Shan didn't even blame the soldiers.

Because those soldiers are his people.

It is too much for the imperial court to not even send out some supplies to keep warm.

Although, the reason used by the court was that there was no money, and the money needed to be used to make guns.

But Ah Shan also knew in his heart that the people in the palace, as well as those noble ministers, were still living a life of brocade clothing and jade food. They even used Nanjing's honeycomb for heating, Nanjing's perfume, and Nanjing's various commodities.

And these things have a unified feature, expensive.

Thinking of these bad things, Ah Shan sighed in his heart.

"Go to the homes of the people in the city to collect cotton-padded clothes, and give priority to protecting the army."

Ah Shan's ultimate solution is to go to the people's homes to rob him.

If the city can't be kept, what's the use of keeping these people.

Up to now, he has been too lazy to take care of the life and death of the people in the city, and he is too lazy to take into account the reputation of the army.

After the order was given, the Qing army began to operate in the city, knocking on the door from house to house.

However, what they went to rob were ordinary people's homes, some very wealthy merchants, some officials' homes, or some related people's homes, but they didn't dare to rob them.

It is the common people who suffer.

"Five cents will buy my cotton-padded clothes. Why, I won't sell them."

In a common household, three soldiers are negotiating with a householder.

The Qing army has not yet directly robbed them. The way they used it was to buy. It's just that there is no difference between buying and robbing, and giving five cents of money is a bit insulting.

In Ashan's order, he explained that he should pay as much as possible, such as half-price purchases, so that the people might not resist.

However, when the above command is executed by the following people, problems often occur.

How can the soldiers at the bottom be willing to spend so much money without being reimbursed.

Even if there is reimbursement, if you buy it forcibly at a low price, you can make a difference.

Anyway, they have absolute force in the face of the people, and they are not afraid that the people will not agree.

"If you don't sell it, you will be obstructing official business. You will kill without mercy. It is already cheap for you to not force you to go to the city wall to assist in defending the city. How dare you talk so much nonsense."

A soldier drew his sword and looked ready to kill.

"This cotton-padded coat is the only valuable thing in my family. If you rob it, I won't be able to survive this winter. If you want to kill it, kill it, and I won't give it to you."

These people are also stubborn, but unfortunately, this kind of stubbornness is sometimes a good thing, and sometimes it is not necessarily, I can't tell.

His words angered the soldier, and the soldier may have nowhere to vent his resentment. After being provoked at this time, he didn't think much about it and killed the commoner with one knife.

Its screams alarmed the hostess and children in the back room. They ran out to see the dead husband and father, and suddenly a wailing sounded.

The enemy is right in front of them, but they have nothing to do but cry.

The two children were already trembling when they looked at their father in a pool of blood.

Similar wailing sounds resounded from time to time in the city.

There are many people who admit to counseling, but there are also many who are forced to resist.

Even, some people successfully completed the counter-kill and killed a Qing soldier.

Subsequently, that person's family was also exterminated.

In addition to looting, some soldiers abused women in civilian homes.

It is about to go to the battlefield, and many soldiers know that the death rate in battle with the Chinese army is very high.

They were also unwilling to die in vain. Before they died, they became more unscrupulous and inhumane.

For these things, Ah Shan knew very well, and then turned one eye and closed the other.

He didn't dare to interfere, because now the psychological pressure of the soldiers has reached the extreme.

If he had to punish the soldiers for something like this, I'm afraid that before the Hua army came over, there would be mutiny within them.

After some scraping, thousands of cotton-padded clothes were collected.

But that's not enough, there are 20,000 of them.

Who are these thousands of cotton-padded clothes distributed to?

Soldiers who are not assigned will cause trouble?

"It seems that those rich people can't let it go."

Ashan gritted his teeth.

Up to now, he doesn't care whether it will offend people or not, and whether it will have any bad influence on the Qing Dynasty.

At this time, he just wanted to get through the difficulties in front of him.