Dominate the Country

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Chen's Iron Mine.

This place where thousands of Qing soldiers and militia prisoners of war are detained may be a big pile of gunpowder to outsiders, but it is actually very peaceful. Not only because there is a first-class mining protection team here, but also because of the spies hidden among the prisoners of war and laborers.

The latter Chen's army resolutely denied it on the surface, but the prisoners of war and laborers in the iron mine all knew it. Therefore, these prisoners of war and laborers who spoke cautiously could not stir up any waves in the iron mine.

Not to mention that the Chen family publicly commended and rewarded those "rebels" who informed on the matter. If the informer is a Qing prisoner of war, he will immediately be treated as a laborer - the food will be much better, his life will be improved every three days, the accommodation conditions will be much better, and he will be paid a salary, which is quite generous, although there are certain personal restrictions; and if the informer is a militiaman, the treatment will be even better, and he will directly become a member of the Chen family army - a supervisor in the mine, with better overall treatment. Depending on the severity of the informant, both can also get a reward of varying values.

The Chen family's method is combined with disrupting and splitting groups, so that militiamen from different towns and counties stay together, and green camp soldiers from different camps are organized together. Those with prestige and official positions are all "reformed separately", which really manages the prisoners of war and laborers in the coal and iron mines.

Monk Jingkong has been in the mountains for nearly a month. He works from dawn to dusk every day. His hair has grown stubble and cannot be shaved. Now, except for his hair that is obviously different from the prisoners of war, militiamen, and laborers with pigtails, the naked eye can no longer tell that this dark-faced strong man is any different from other prisoners of war and laborers.

His moon-white inner garment has long been the same as his outer clothes, as black as charcoal. Jingkong has learned to sleep in piles of ore of different sizes, learned to sit on the ground to eat, learned to curse and hit people, learned to use his fists to protect the ore he dug, and even used his fists to "mine" iron ore. He has become one of the countless little tyrants in the iron mine.

Monk Jingkong, who was determined to die by the Beiru River, has "died". After coming to the mine, more than 20 days have changed this Shaolin Temple monk with the character Jing.

——What he said is all empty, and the hard fist is the real thing.

The life in the iron mine was completely different from the life in the previous 35 years of his life.

After lunch, the alarm bell suddenly rang. Whether it was prisoners of war or laborers, they all stood up reflexively, and then gathered in groups on the large playground where they had lunch. They saw a group of soldiers wearing iron armor and holding cold swords and guns escorting hundreds of people into the playground.

"You, you..., and you. Here, hurry up..."

"You two, come here, here..."

With stern shouts, the mining team divided the hundreds of people into teams in just a moment, and there were four more people in Jingkong's group.

Two of the four people were obviously honest farmers, with sad faces, but they didn't dare to say a word in this strange place, and they worked very hard in the afternoon. The other two were not honest people, they were big and strong, and their spirits were as frost-bitten old hens.

At night, Jingkong finally figured out the origins of this group of people and understood their ins and outs. They were all locals from Lushan. When the main force of the Chen family bandits went out to Yancheng to fight the government troops, they were excited and defected. However, they were slaughtered by Chen Hui before they even formed a team. The leaders were all beheaded, and the remaining tenants, thugs, etc. were sent to the coal and iron mines for labor reform.

A trace of confusion flashed in Jingkong's eyes. The Chen family bandits and the government troops outside. He had only been in the mine for more than 20 days, but he had already forgotten the days outside. All he thought about was the mine and the ore.

Now when he heard it, it seemed like a lifetime ago, a lifetime ago...

...

"Boom..."

Chen Erbao watched helplessly as one of the two shells hit his own camp flag, making a big hole, and then the other shell flew over his head two or three feet high. Two iron bullets hit Chen Erbao's personal soldiers. Amid screams, the first personal soldier's head was smashed, and then the shells smashed the chest of the personal soldier behind him. Chen Erbao saw it with his own eyes. He knew the name of the personal soldier. The breastplate he wore could not stop the iron bullet at all. It was smashed through directly, and then the iron bullet as big as a child's fist was completely immersed in the chest of the personal soldier. It was like a flying 100-jin hammer was smashed on the chest, and the whole chest collapsed. Another personal soldier was torn off the arm by the slow-moving shells, and the personal soldier behind him had his calf smashed off.

The two personal soldiers who died directly were better, and the injured personal soldiers screamed with their throats. These two people were so seriously injured that even if they could survive, they would be useless.

The central army of Chen Erbao's camp was suddenly bombarded, and it was such an accurate bombardment. Even if he pretended to be brave, Chen Erbai felt his scalp tingling. The shell just now passed directly two or three feet above his head. Chen Erbao was very clear that if this shell had been lower, the first person to be hit would not have been the soldier whose arm had been torn off, but Chen Erbao himself whose head would have exploded like a watermelon.

But Chen Erbao couldn't retreat. He was the first general of the Chen family army and the most powerful general of the Chen family army. He was the commander-in-chief on the front line of the battlefield and he must not move. Compared with his life and reputation and his future status, Chen Erbao was willing to take risks.

His camp flag continued to flutter, and he ordered his personal soldiers to disperse, leaving only a few real confidants to accompany him to continue standing in front of the big flag.

In the rear of the Chen family army, Chen Ming put down the telescope on the high platform. Chen Erbao didn't retreat, which made him feel relieved. The three camps of Chen Erbao, Lulong and Gao Jinghui were fighting with the Qing army on the front line. As the main general on the front line, if Chen Erbao suddenly retreated, it would affect the morale.

In a military camp behind the front line of the Qing army, a high platform was also built. Ford, Ma Wenjie and others stood on the high platform, also holding a telescope to watch the changes of the Chen family army.

Ronghua mobilized several artillery pieces to bombard the location of Chen Erbao's flag, but the Chen family army's position was not shaken at all. Ford had fought with the Chen family army frequently these days, and he no longer dared to underestimate the Chen family army in his heart. At this moment, he still admired it.

The general of the Chen family army on the opposite side was so brave!

As a regular army, the Green Camp soldiers pay attention to fighting in formation. But they know that the Chen family army's musketeers are sharp, and Ronghua will not be stupid enough to line up his soldiers to eat the bullets of the Chen family army. The Qing army's bird gun soldiers cooperated with artillery and were placed behind the breastwork and fence. This defense has risen by many levels.

The method of the Chen family army is to pile up shield car formations, and their magic weapon is the flying thunder cannon. This kind of artillery with a large-angle projector nature can completely hide in the shield car formation and fire. So knocking off this layer of the Qing soldiers' shell did not make the Chen family army feel difficult. The fierce battle really broke out after the Chen family army rushed through the trenches, fences, and breastworks.