Chapter 145 City Wall
"Brother Chen, do you think the thief will come in?"
On the city wall, a young man named Fan Si carefully removed a stalk from his shoulder, and then looked at his companions behind him with a worried look. Both of them were pulled by the Qing army to the city yesterday to help defend.
Fan Si just entered the city from the countryside at the beginning of the month. He originally thought that everyone in the city had almost died, and many houses had become ownerless things. Since they were ownerless things, they would not be occupied without any use. Therefore, Fan Si also wanted to take over a house so that he could take over the old lady from the countryside to live in the city. But after entering the city, he found that many of them were occupied by people from Guangzhou. These people have a certain relationship with the government, so he dared to offend him.
If you can't occupy a good house, Fan Si can only find some other houses that are not considered dilapidated. But he didn't know that the house has not been found yet, and Xinhui City is surrounded by bandits again!
I heard from the Green Camp that the bandits came this time, which was not as small as when the old bandits siege last year. The general Wu Zhentai asked them to kill them in Guifeng Mountain. The bandits were all at the city, and none of the soldiers in the Green Camp dared to go out of the city to fight them.
Fan Si was really afraid. He was afraid that the bandits would come into the city this time. At that time, the strong man who guarded the city would definitely not escape to death, because the people from the Green Camp said that once the bandits broke through the city, they would definitely slaughter the city. At that time, no matter the elderly, weak, women and children, they would not escape to death.
Thinking that if he died, the mother in the countryside would be no one to take care of her. Fan Si was so regretful that he shouldn't believe the people in the neighboring village and come to the city to occupy a house. Now that I'm fine, I won't take over the house and my life will not be guaranteed.
Brother Chen was not as scared as Fan Si. He rubbed his hands and said casually: "Don't worry. The thieves can't fight in. Last year, tens of thousands of old thieves were defeated. No matter how powerful the thieves are, can they be better than the old thieves?"
When he heard this, Fan Sixin nodded quickly and said, "Yes, when I was in the countryside, I heard people say that the thieves are the old thief team who can fight the most. Now even the old thiefs can't do anything to our Xinhui City, and others can't even think of fighting." When he spoke, he didn't pay attention to Brother Chen's face, but his face was deep and terrifying.
The bandits could not fight in, but what about the Qing army?
Looking at the group of green camp soldiers lying on the city and stomping on the outside, somehow, Chen Yucai's eyelids were pounding violently because he thought of the bones he had picked up from a dry well in the city at the beginning of the year.
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The Qing army on the city wall was still staring at the outside of the city. Although the three miles away were separated by the three miles, most people's eyes were not enough to see clearly what the Taiping army was doing, but from the screams of their companions, they already knew roughly what the Taiping army was going to do next.
The soldiers from the green camp privately discussed: "Many of the prisoners are flag soldiers, so how can the thieves be willing to kill them? They can keep up with these flag soldiers and exchange them for a lot of silver and food."
"Who knows that when the old man thief came last year, he didn't have any help from the old man thief to kill them. Why did the thief want to kill this time?"
The Green Camp soldiers were talking about last year. After Li Dingguo's army entered Guangdong, they captured many Han army flag Qing troops, but did not kill these people. Instead, they exchanged these Han army flag prisoners with Guangzhou for a batch of urgently needed materials from the Ming army. Although this matter was pacified and Jing and the two vassals were both hidden from the Qing court, there was no airtight wall in the world. At least the Qing army in Xinhui knew about this. This incident also made many Han army flag Qing troops no longer have the determination to fight to the end when facing Li Dingguo's troops. If it weren't for the Manchu soldiers from Beijing who arrived at the critical moment of siege and broke the Ming army's defense line in one fell swoop, Xinhui City would have been captured by Li Dingguo.
"Don't yell, be cheer up. The bandits will attack the city at any time, and the medicine will be loaded with cannons, and the eyes will highlight me. The bandits will shoot them as soon as they move!"
With the officers suppressed the city, the Qing army closed their mouths and made their final preparations. They just waited for the bandits to attack the city and taught them a lesson.
"The bandits killed our brothers in front of us in order to scare us. Brothers, don't be afraid. If the old thieves ask us to defeat us, what can these bandits do to us?"
"When the bandits come up later, follow the orders to shoot artillery, don't tremble your hands, and fight in places where there are many people. Have you heard of them?"
"I heard it!"
The gunners of the Han army flag responded with a loud bang. Compared with the green camp soldiers, they had no intention of fearing the bandits outside the city, and had no sympathy for their captured companions.
Su Xianting, the leader of the Inlaid Blue Flag who had recovered his life from Guifeng Mountain, was also on the city, but now he looked out of the city with a solemn look, and he looked like two people when he was escaping the day before yesterday.
"Tell General Zheng Shen, let his people work harder, otherwise don't blame my people for using the knife!"
"twitter!"
A personal soldier, Goshha, immediately went to pass the message. After hearing what Su Xianting came, Zheng Guodong said nothing, but just snorted coldly.
The magistrate Huang Zhizheng has now taken the county magistrate and a group of minor officials from the city. He is a scholar and has no power to tie a chicken to leave the city. Moreover, the scene of the two armies fighting is not good enough to avoid blood and stomach.
The magistrate did not dare to look at it, and the county magistrate and others did not dare to look at it. They had mobilized all the remaining young and strong men in the city to go to the city to help with defense, and prepared the food needed by the defenders and the supplies used to defend the city. The next thing was the desperate work of these sword-holding warriors, and they could not help or ask.
When he was down the steps of the city wall, Huang Zhizheng suddenly asked the county magistrate: "Have Ku Yin carried it over?"
"Everything is brought here. Just like last year, there was no copper plate left. Huang Si's men watched, and there was no way to go."
The county magistrate said nonstop, and subconsciously paused, glanced around, lowered his voice and said, "Just like last time, the lord has already sent it to the inner hall."
Hearing this, Huang Zhizheng said "Oh" lightly, and then slowly walked away with his hands on his back. Seeing him like this, the county magistrate couldn't help but curse, but his face was not visible. He quickly followed and said something else diligently.
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Outside the city, Shao Jiugong could not wait. His face was a little hideous and excited. His bloodthirsty eyes were red and red. He stared at the Qing army on the top of the city. Under the gaze of countless pairs of eyes on the city, he raised his waist and waved it down.
"Cut it!"
The surrendered soldiers of the Green Camp who could not tolerate the execution were hesitant at all, and the long sword in their hands slashed at the neck of the Han army flag soldier who was kneeling.
"puff!"
The head rolled to the ground, the knife was extremely sharp, and the flesh and blood were not connected at all. The flag soldier only let out a muffled groan before he died.
"Wan Sheng!"
Chapter completed!