In the morning, just as dawn, a shocking drum sounded in the Nanjing New Army camp. The camp gate opened wide, and shield chariots loaded with mahjong pushed out of the camp, pushing towards Yizhen City in the morning mist.

The auxiliary soldiers who pushed the cart were all yesterday's prisoners. The 10,000 prisoners selected by Zhao Peng took the battle this time. They tied a white towel on the sleeve of the Yuanyang Battle Jacket to use as a symbol of identification with the rebels. Each prisoner had no weapons in his hand, and only pushed the cart with his bare hands. Their task was to throw the maroon bags on the cart into the moat.

Li Goudan, wearing a mandarin duck battle jacket and a goose yellow fan hat, shouted a labor horn and pushed a cart with other prisoners. He was also a rebel soldier who was captured yesterday. Li Goudan was twenty-three years old this year and was originally a refugee from Shanxi. He was originally a family of six, his parents, his wife and two children. As a result, due to the disaster, all the others in his family starved to death except himself. Later, he joined the Rebellion Army. When the Rebellion Army fought with Sun Chuanting, he was captured by the official army, and then joined Liu Liangzuo's army and became an officer and soldier.

However, after becoming an officer and soldier, his treatment was not better than that of the bandit army, and his military discipline was similar to that of the bandit army. To put it bluntly, Liu Liangzuo's official army was just a group of bandits dressed in the skin of the official army.

Let’s look at the officers and soldiers from Nanjing. Although they are all officers and soldiers like Liu Liangzuo’s, the officers and soldiers from Nanjing are strict in military discipline and look like elites at first glance. Moreover, the officers and soldiers from Nanjing are not against the people around them. No wonder they beat Liu Liangzuo.

In the battle yesterday, Li Ergou and other officers and soldiers were captured by the Nanjing New Army. After identification, Li Ergou, who did nothing bad, was left to be incorporated into the auxiliary soldiers.

What Li Ergou had to do today is to push the shield cart to the moat and then throw the macao into the moat. Every time he traveled twice, he could get a small brand made of bamboo. At lunch time, people with a small brand in his hand could go and get a meal, people with a two small brand could get a vegetarian dish, and people with a three small brand were said to get a braised pork.

"Branded pork!" Li Ergou drooled when he thought about it. His memory was that he only ate braised pork once when he was young. It was during the Chinese New Year when he was a child. The braised pork was stewed at home. It was delicious and it made people saliva flow unstoppable. I guess he hadn't eaten that thing for almost twenty years. In short, after Emperor Tianqi passed away and Emperor Chongzhen came to power, the lives of the people were getting worse day by day. When he was a child, he could eat a meal of meat, stir-fry a few eggs, and wrap some white flour dumplings during the Chinese New Year.

But from the time he was five or six years old, Emperor Tianqi was gone. If he was Chongzhen, he never ate meat again. Not to mention meat, even white flour dumplings were luxury goods. As he grew older, life was getting worse and worse. Originally, he could have a meal of coarse noodles, leeks, dried tomatoes during the Chinese New Year. Later, it was good to be able to eat a full meal during the Chinese New Year. When Li Ergou was sixteen, his parents asked him to fulfill his family's bride who was five years older than him. A year later he had a son, and two years later, his wife gave birth to another daughter. But the good times did not last long. The court's salary increased by one year, and the farmers worked hard all year round. Not only did they not have enough food, but they also had to owe usury at the end of the year, otherwise they would not be able to pay Liao salary at all.

Don’t pay the wages? The government and the gentry will not let you go. The county yamen runners and the village gentry will force you to death! If you can’t pay it, then wait to go to the jail! If you go to the jail, what should you do if your family is big or small?

Li Ergou was thrown into prison by the government because he could not afford Liao pay. After he was released from prison, he found that the family was starved to death. Just when he was planning to find Li Juren in the village to fight to the death, Li Zicheng's rebel army came and saved Li Ergou. But soon after, Li Zicheng was defeated by Sun Chuanting, and Li Ergou was also captured. After being captured, he joined the army in Liu Liangzuo's army.

Anyway, there is no one at home, and the whole family is not hungry if they eat one person. Li Ergou lives and doesn’t have much hope for the future, but just lives just to live for the sake of life.

Whenever the night is late, the idea of ​​"I want to take revenge" recurses. Following Liu Liangzuo's army from Shanxi to the south, Li Ergou didn't know how many gentry it had harmed. As long as the scholars with fame fell into his hands, they would want to torture the way to make progress and then snatch their money.

When they were rebelling in the army, they still did this in Liu Liangzuo's army, which was no different from being in the thief army. There was only a small difference, that is, when they were rebelling in the army, they could attack some people with great fame and kill officials; when they were rebelling in the army, they could only bully scholars, juren, etc., and they would not dare to move those who had the fame of Jinshi.

Just as Li Ergou was thinking about it, the shield car was only three hundred steps away from the city wall. Only the sound of "boom boom boom" cannons sounded at the top of the city, and several balls of white smoke rose, and black shells came towards him.

Li Ergou saw with his own eyes that a shield cart beside him was hit by a shell shot from a Franc. More than one pound of shells hit the thick wooden board of the shield cart. Although the wooden shield was not broken, fragments flew across the back of the wooden shield, and several auxiliary soldiers screamed and fell down.

The auxiliary soldiers were obviously hesitant, and the whip in the hands of the Nanjing military households following behind showed no mercy. A raindrop-like whip fell down, making the auxiliary soldiers cry and cry.

Li Ergou speeded up and, together with the other auxiliary soldiers, pushed the shield cart forward. For this reason, he did not get a whip.

Less than a hundred steps left from the city wall, arrows on the city were raining, and light arrows shot from the sky flew over and over again. Most of the arrows were blocked by the wooden shield in front of the shield cart, but some arrows still fell from the top of their heads.

Among the auxiliary soldiers who were pushing the cart, someone held a wooden sign in his hand and raised the wooden sign high to block the falling light arrows.

Li Ergou was also very lucky not to be shot. Both auxiliary soldiers around him fell down. The auxiliary soldiers behind him came up and pushed the shield car forward with him.

When there were only fifty steps left, dense arrows shot on the shield car. Li Ergou only heard the sound of heavy rain on the front shield board of the shield car, but he was relatively safe to hide behind the shield car. At this time, he heard the roar of firearms behind him, which was the Nanjing New Army shooting at the top of the city with a turtle dove gun and a light Franc.

When the shield car arrived in front of the moat, Li Ergou quickly carried a bag of scoops from the car, put the scoops on his head, rushed out quickly, threw the scoops in the moat, and then ran back to the back of the scoops as fast as possible. He saw with his own eyes that several auxiliary soldiers who went out did not come back, some were shot to death halfway, and some went to the side of the moat, and fell into the moat with people and scoops.

Li Ergou, who threw the macao, returned to the back of the shield car, moved a macao out and threw it into the moat. With the efforts of the other brothers, he quickly moved the car full of macao. So the auxiliary soldiers pulled the shield car and walked back.

Back at his camp, Li Ergou and the people who came back alive came to receive a small bamboo sign. He carefully put the sign in his arms and pushed the shield cart away again.

When he returned to the camp for the second time, Li Ergou had an arrow inserted in his leg. He received the second sign. The military household in charge of issuing the sign advised him: "You have been back and forth twice, so don't go!"

"No, I want to eat braised pork!" Li Ergou said firmly.

"Then you go." The military household had no choice but to let Li Ergou push the shield cart and set off again.

Shortly after the third departure, Li Ergou came back, and this time he had two arrows inserted on his back.
Chapter completed!