Chapter 1 Life and Death
On September 1, the first year of Hongguang (1645), Jiading.
Wu Changqing stood on the city wall, looking at the devastated Jiading City with corpses everywhere, and his heart was filled with anger.
He was originally an otaku in the 21st century who liked historical novels. He was filled with righteous indignation when he saw the scene of the Three Massacres in Jiading on the Tenth Day of Yangzhou. As a result, he inexplicably traveled to the ancient Ming Dynasty and became Wu Changqing, the son of Wu Zhifan, a famous general of the Anti-Qing Dynasty, and the chief soldier of the Southern Ming Dynasty.
The time he crossed was very bad. Jiading had already been slaughtered twice by Li Chengdong, who had surrendered to the Qing army, and the third time was about to happen.
At this time, Wu Zhifan had already died in battle outside the city, and there were only a group of old and weak women and children left in the city. It would not be long before Li Chengdong led his troops to reach and massacre the city.
Do I just have to watch history repeat itself? Watching Li Chengdong, this beast wantonly slaughter innocent people?
Thinking of Li Chengdong, Wu Changqing gritted his teeth with hatred.
Although he, a person in the 21st century, had no grievances or enmity with Li Chengdong, but whenever he saw what Li Chengdong did, he wanted to slash it with a thousand swords.
Li Chengdong first followed Li Zicheng's subordinate Gao Jie to carry out a peasant uprising. Later, when he saw that Li Zicheng was dying, he surrendered to Daming. Later, when Daming was defeated, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.
In fact, this sin is not particularly big, it is for survival in troubled times. But his fondness for slaughtering cities and raping women is unacceptable.
He slaughtered several cities including Jiading, Nanxiong, Guangzhou, etc., and killed hundreds of thousands of unjust souls under his sword. He also personally beheaded Emperor Longwu of Nanming, captured Emperor Shaowu alive, and made great military exploits for the Qing army.
Later, he was dissatisfied with the Qing court's partiality and full of ministers, and he turned against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty. His life was capricious, and he was more cunning and treacherous than Wu Sangui.
Wu Changqing hated this kind of person very much, not to mention that he has now received the memory of the original body, which can barely be regarded as Wu Zhifan's son, and Li Chengdong also has a revenge for killing his father.
Even if he didn't kill his father, in order to save the 20,000 people in the city, he had to fight against Li Chengdong.
But what are you going to do with the opponent?
Wu Changqing sighed, Li Chengdong, as the chief soldier of Wu Song, had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and now he only has more than 100 village heroes.
The so-called Xiangyong is actually an ordinary adult man who has not received formal military training at all, and is completely incomparable with the regular army under Li Chengdong.
It is a fool's dream to want to use this hundred townships to protect this Jiading city.
"General Wu, let's evacuate."
Baihu Liu Hansan persuaded him that the situation could no longer be saved. If you don't run away, you will surely die.
"Withdraw, what if we withdraw these people?"
Wu Changqing was actually afraid of death, but when he thought that all the people in the city would be killed, he couldn't get down and run away alone. It's too late for them to escape lightly, but they can't get away with the people.
"Yes, we are determined not to withdraw, and we will fight with those clear dogs."
The other two hundred households shouted that they would be loyal to the country and swear to the death. Wu Changqing was very happy to see it.
Obviously, there are still so many people and soldiers who are attached to Daming, but Nanming is like a dead tree. There are constant internal struggles in the court, and the military and the Qing army are collapsed at the touch of a button, and they are defeated after repeated battles.
The reasons for this are quite complicated. There are many people who study this period of history in later generations, but no one can really explain it clearly.
But this is not important to Wu Changqing, he just wants to protect the people in the city now. Of course, if the Ming Dynasty can be saved, it would be better to end this troubled world by unifying the world.
He didn't want to let the Manchus take charge of Kyushu, and then he was beaten by foreigners in later generations, and he signed the treaties that humiliated the country.
God, what's the point of letting me travel to this era just to witness the tragedy with my own eyes?
Wu Changqing shouted in his heart, he wanted to lead the Chinese nation to rise and dominate the world. But he was just an ordinary otaku in his previous life, and he was really powerless.
[The Shengshi system is binding......]
Suddenly, a voice in his mind made Wu Changqing overjoyed. As someone who often reads novels, he certainly knows what the system is.
The system was bound very quickly, and after a while he understood the function of the system.
In this system, the host can get 1 technology point for every population mastered, and 30 resource points for controlling 1 square kilometer of territory.
Tech points can be exchanged for advanced technologies in the system mall, such as the manufacturing methods and principles of arquebuses, flintlocks, and breech guns, red-clothed cannons, steam engines, forging parameters of internal combustion engines, and a series of technologies.
As long as there are enough skill points, the host can immediately master the high technology that is far ahead of this era.
Resource points can be directly exchanged for resources, such as special steel that is resistant to high temperature and high pressure, various weapons and equipment, hybrid rice seeds, and various raw materials.
Wu Changqing was stunned, this system was so defiant, it could be said to be invincible. With the help of this system, do you still need to be afraid of Li Chengdong? Are you afraid you can't end this troubled world? Are you still afraid that you won't be able to become the Ninety-five Supreme?
At this moment, his ambition was ignited.
At present, Wu Zhifan died in the battle. He took over the territory of Jiading City of 460 square kilometers and a population of 21,000, so he had a total of 21,000 technology points and 13,800 resource points.
Tech points are for long-term development, and are of little help in upcoming battles. However, resource points can be directly exchanged for advanced weapons, which is the key to his breakthrough.
Wu Changqing's spiritual sense entered the system mall and came to
Weapons section.
Arquebus, 10 points/piece, 1 point/100 rounds of ammunition. Flintlock, 50 points/piece, 1 point/50 rounds of ammo. 200 breech guns/pcs...
They are all expensive things to die for. You must know that the resource points are limited. Even if the global land is unified, the total resource points will only be more than 4 billion.
However, Wu Changqing couldn't take care of that much at this time. To solve the current crisis and save his life can he have a future.
"Desperately, it's up to us, who are the opponents of Qinggou. The army of the imperial court can't resist Li Chengdong's troops, let alone us. If you stay here, you can only die in vain."
Liu Hansan is a staunch fleeing faction, and he sees no hope of victory.
"Don't panic everyone, I purchased a batch of advanced bird guns some time ago. When I get them, I will definitely be able to call the dogs back and forth. Liu Baihu brought ten people with me to get firearms, Wang Baihu Li Bai The household went to the city to recruit people to help defend the city.”
The things in the system store, he can take out with a single thought, but this is too shocking. So, he made an excuse.
"As ordered."
Wang Dayong and Li Shaobin immediately took orders. In fact, they did not have any hope for Wu Changqing's words, but they would not show it.
They were ready for a deadly battle. Li Chengdong's two consecutive massacres frightened many people, but also completely angered a group of dead men.
Of course, they're pretty much the last of the hard bones, too. Wu Changqing knew that when Jiaqing was slaughtered for the third time, not many people dared to resist the decree that kept their hair and hair.
According to historical records, after the three massacres in Jiading, people in the south of the Yangtze River shaved their hair and left braids, and they became the people of the Qing Dynasty.
well!
Liu Hansan sighed, defending the city can't just rely on blood, strength is the key. He did not believe that Wu Changqing, a young man with no hair, could lead a group of village braves to create miracles.
If it wasn't for the fact that Wu Changqing was Wu Zhifan's son and had considerable prestige among the rebels, he would have fled with his subordinates now.
"Don't worry about Liu Baihu. Although Li Chengdong has tens of thousands of troops, it is impossible for him to send all of them to attack Jiading. I estimate that the enemy's army is at most two or three thousand people. We have every chance to defend it."
Wu Changqing saw Liu Hansan's worries and spoke to comfort him. He didn't want his subordinates to run away before the battle started.
"Having said that, even if there are two or three thousand people, we are not opponents. There is no point in staying here except to die in vain. It is better to retreat to the mountains and wait for the changes."
Liu Hansan is still trying to convince Wu Changqing that he does not want to stay and die.
Wu Changqing can understand Liu Hansan's mood, but he cannot accept it. At other times, if Liu Hansan questioned himself so many times, he would definitely dismiss Liu Hansan.
But at the moment when the enemy is present, he really doesn't want to make other messy accidents.
"Liu Baihu, why don't we make a bet. If we keep it this time, then you must obey my orders unconditionally in the future. If you can't keep it later, I will allow you to retreat first, and I will be the queen in person."
Although Wu Changqing was a leader for the first time, he also knew that if his subordinates did not obey orders, it would greatly damage the leader's prestige.
"The general's words are serious, the general's orders, Han San should obey."
Liu Hansan quickly admitted his mistake, after all, Wu Changqing is still his Shangguan. On the battlefield, Shangguan has many excuses for beheading the next one, because he doesn't want to die in vain.
As for the bet Wu Changqing said, he just sneered in his heart.
Everyone took action one after another. Wu Changqing brought people to the county office and asked Liu Hansan and others to wait outside now.
He went into the warehouse alone and exchanged his thoughts for 140 flintlock guns and 100,000 rounds of fixed-loading bullets.
He did not exchange for cheaper arquebuses, because there were quite a few arquebuses in the Qing army. Against it with a matchlock, there is no advantage.
The flintlock gun is different. Although it looks similar to the arquebus in appearance, because of the improved launching device and the use of fixed bullets, the rate of fire is several times faster than that of the arquebus.
A skilled musketeer can fire at most one shot a minute with an arquebus. With a flintlock gun, you can shoot five shots per minute if you are proficient in operation.
In terms of range, the flintlock gun also has the advantage.
The flintlock gun was invented in Europe in 1547, but it is not yet available in Huaxia, and all arquebuses are used.
Moreover, in the Qing army, the arquebus units were not taken seriously, not the main force of the army, and the main force was still mainly cold weapons.
Using the flintlock gun to fight the cold weapon, Wu Changqing felt that Li Chengdong, who should be able to fight, screamed, and let this grandson taste the power of the transmigrator.