"Why does it sound like a group of women?"

Huang Shijie asked and took out his ears. He seemed to suspect that he had too much earwax and had heard wrongly.

"You heard that right!" the green camp commander named Zhang Dingxiang said with a bitter smile, "They are just a group of thieves from Guangxi... All the long-haired male soldiers were besieging Lingling, so they sent a group of thieves to fight. Lingtang, they are still clamoring to kill the gentry, divide their wealth, and divide their fields! Ziying, the biggest gentry in the three towns of Lingtang, Etang, and Shuangpai is you!

You should run away quickly, it will be over if they catch you!"

"What's the end?"

Huang Shijie can't agree! His family's 20,000 to 30,000 acres of fertile land are on both sides of the Xiaoshui River. Most of his family's loan sharking pawnshops are located in the three towns of Etang, Lingtang, and Shuangpai. His family's mansion, granary, and money bank , are also in Etang Town.

How much wealth can he take with him if he is running away in a hurry? Even if he really wants to run away, he still has to fight for a while to buy enough time to transfer his family property!

Thinking of this, Huang Shijie yelled at Zhang Dingxiang, Boss Zhang: "Zhang Bo'an, you can be regarded as a favored person by the emperor, why are you afraid of a group of Guangxi thieves coming here? There are hundreds of gang members in Etang Town, why don't you stay with me Let's hold on together. As long as we can kill the long hairs and kill more thieves, are you still afraid that we won't be promoted? If you think the soldiers' pay is not enough, how about I pay five thousand taels?"

As he spoke, Huang Shijie stretched out his hand, raised it high, and deliberately shouted at the top of his voice: "I reward the army with five thousand taels of silver... Anyone who cuts off a long-haired head, I will give another five thousand taels of silver." A reward of two silver coins!"

This is really a good idea!

Although the Huang family in Etang is a wealthy family, it is getting worse every year. It is still a bit difficult to spend thousands or even thousands of taels of silver at one time.

However, the boss Zhang Dingxiang was not moved at all, and even shouted dejected words: "Huang Ziying, what do you know? Women with long hair are also long hair, and they are fierce! All of them are not afraid of death, and they can kill thieves with shotguns." allow!

Now Baojunmen, Hezongzhen, Jiangfuzun, and Sunzongzhen have gathered 8,000 people, but they only dare to defend Lingling! How much salary do my Green Camp soldiers and your regiment members get in a month? Why fight for your life? ah?"

After saying this, General Zhang whipped his horse and headed south along Dijie Street without looking back. Behind him were a dozen panting and thin men. The elites of the Green Battalion, who have no pipes and hold a long spear in their hands - these days, the Green Battalion who do not smoke foreign cigarettes, only run away when they see thieves, and have not lost their weapons, are indeed elite!

When they saw Mr. Zhang Dabao running away again, they didn't say anything and ran with them, holding their spears.

In fact, they had already fought against those ferocious Guangxi female Changmaos before! Otherwise, how would Mr. Zhang Dingxiang know that the female Changmao was fierce and accurate in shooting? They had already been beaten!

Mr. Huang was dumbfounded when he saw General Zhang leading a dozen defeated soldiers from the green camp and running away without looking back.

Although he has three to four hundred regiment members on hand, and a cousin who practices martial arts as the regiment leader. However, these regiment members, as well as his cousin who is the regiment commander, usually only deal with the nearby bandits and water bandits. He has absolutely no experience fighting against the big rebels like the Long-haired Thieves...and he doesn't have the guts either!

Now that they had seen with their own eyes all the green soldiers from Lingtangxun fled, how could they still have the guts to fight with Changmao?

"Kill the clear demon and go to heaven! Kill the clear demon and go to heaven..."

At this moment, the slogans of the long-haired women were getting closer and closer, while on the embankment street, there was silence. Everyone seemed to be under a restraining spell, just looking at Etang Town steadily. The incomparable Huang Shijie and Huang Dashanren!

Suddenly, a voice seemed to burst out from the chest: "The Taiping Army is coming!"

Then there was a response like an angry wave: "The Taiping Army is coming! The Taiping Army is coming..."

This is a cheer full of expectation from the bottom of the heart of people in despair!

Huang Shijie has never been so scared as he is now, because he knows very well that as the people on Di Street shouted "The Taiping Army is coming," Huang Dashan's rule over Etang Town has collapsed.

"O-Master... what should I do?"

His old housekeeper Huang Fu was completely panicked.

However, Huang Shijie quickly regained his composure and snorted coldly: "This is the end of the world! No one can come down... Without me, they would just wait for people to eat each other!"

Humph, let’s go, let’s go right now! Go to Shuangpai Town to ask for troops from Yujunmen, and at least kill these long-haired women who don’t know how to live or die first!”

Huang Fu let out a long breath and waved his hand vigorously: "Let's go...protect the master to Shuangpai Town! I'll give you three taels of silver per person there..."

Huang Shijie didn't wait for his butler to finish shouting, and slapped him: "Five taels! Give me five taels... Whoever accompanies me to Shuangpai Town will get five taels!"

Now is not the time to save money!

He could already smell the "smell of gunpowder" in the air... Once the female soldiers of the Taiping Army entered Etang Town, the poor guys here would immediately "explode", and even the regiment members he raised would follow them. fry"!

He must now stabilize the hearts of his men and leave immediately!

Immediately afterwards, Mr. Huang waved his hand, "Let's go!"

"Got the order!"

The group members below were a little shaken just now, but now that they saw Mr. Huang being so generous, they immediately became energetic and together they protected Huang Shijie and headed south along Di Street under the gaze of thousands of red-eyed poor men. !

Not even a quarter of an hour after they left, hundreds of Taiping female soldiers led by Su Sanniang swaggered along the Di Street of Etang Town, passed through a low city gate, and entered Etang Town, which was loyal to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

...

As Su Sanniang shouted in Cantonese Mandarin: "Welcome the Angel of Peace...kneel down!"

Thousands of poor men standing on both sides of Ezhendi Street were kneeling together, and some of them were holding up their only property with both hands! Some were holding up a broken baggage, and some were holding up a roll of straw mat... .... Wang Huoxiu held up a broken bowl with more than a dozen copper coins in it, while his sister Wang Xier knelt beside him - this was their brother and sister's last bit of survival money!

Now, Wang Huoxiu and Wang Xi'er will donate all their survival money to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom...and then join the Taiping Army empty-handed with nothing!

Giving up all your property, burning down your house, abandoning your land, and then joining the Taiping Army with your whole family means leaving no way out and following the Taiping Army wholeheartedly to the end!

Don't look at it. Most of the people who joined the Taiping Army were from the extremely poor class and had almost nothing.

However, for them, the last bit of money to survive is probably more valuable than Mr. Huang's big house, granary, and money bank combined, right?

Mr. Huang lost his property in Etang Town and Lingtang Town. He still has properties in Shuangpai Town and Changsha City! He is also the number one scholar in Yongzhou Prefecture and a scholar-bureaucrat of the School of Economics, as well as Luo Zenan and Zuo Zongtang. Such seniors... even if their fortune is really gone, they will come back sometimes.

But for people like Wang Huoxiu and Wang Amei, after giving away their last property, they really have nothing... So they have to make more determination than Mr. Huang made when he abandoned the property in Etang Town. Determination is greater!

"The angel of peace has arrived..."

Suddenly, the female Taiping soldiers who were maintaining order on both sides of the street started shouting together.

Wang Huoxiu, who was kneeling, quickly turned to look at the north gate of Etang Town and saw only two female Taiping soldiers in red, each holding a red flag and riding in.

When Wang Huoxiu was a child, he went to the elementary school in Etang Town that Mr. Huang paid for, so he knew some writing. He found that two red flags were embroidered with "Angel of Peace" and "Chief Lecturer"... The words "Angel of Peace" and "Chief Lecturer" were embroidered on them. What kind of official is "chief lecturer"?

Just as Wang Huoxiu was thinking about it in his mind, his skinny girl suddenly exclaimed: "Oh my God, what is the angel riding on?"

What is it?

Wang Huoxiu took a closer look and saw a tall man wearing a yellow robe and a red hood, riding a "self-propelled two-wheeled vehicle" and following behind the two female Taiping soldiers holding flags. Appeared inside the south gate of Etang Town!

This cart...why does it move on its own without a horse or someone pushing it? This must be a magic weapon!

Could it be that...there are really gods in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom? Is there really an emperor?

"God the Father, bless us!"

At this moment, the female soldiers cheered.

Wang Huoxiu, Wang Amei, and all the other people who had donated all their property and were about to join the Taiping Army, also issued their loudest cry: "Heavenly Father, God bless us..."
Chapter completed!