Chapter 207 Brothers
The fire in the grain warehouse made Liang Biaoxiang stunned. There were piles of food and supplies from tens of thousands of troops on the other side of the shore. This would take a fire to burn him, so how could he explain to King Pingnan!
Several disheveled officers who escaped from the fire were also anxious and asked Liang Biaoxiang to send someone to put out the fire.: Two of these officers were pirates who followed Liang Biaoxiang, while the remaining few were subordinates of Du Yonghe, the former governor of Guangdong and Guangxi of the Southern Ming Dynasty. They followed Du Yonghe to the Qing Dynasty in their early years, and later followed Du He Yonghe to Li Chengdong anyway, and then followed Du Yonghe to the Qing Dynasty. Just like him, I don’t know how many guests they received.
But no matter how many customers were taken, the Ming army surrendered generals were still tempted by the knife. Knowing the severity of the matter, the grain in the grain warehouse was the food of tens of thousands of people on the other side. It would be a big deal if it was burned!
In desperation, an officer yelled to take people to the grain warehouse to put out the fire. Liang Biaoxiang also knew that the situation was serious and the grain warehouse had a great relationship. He must not make any mistakes. He was about to ask to go down to put out the fire, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them back, his eyes rolled and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Liang Biao said nothing, and everyone was naturally confused and looked at him with confusion, not knowing what the General was thinking.
When the Red Flag Navy was fighting, the two officers who followed Liang Biaoxiang to rob the sea were stunned, but they both came over and thought that the batch of grain sent by Guangzhou had been asked to resell a lot of the food sent by Guangzhou, but the deficit in the account was not made up. Now the fire fell from the sky. Could it be that the elder brother was planning to wipe the account directly under the name of the disaster?
The two of them guessed that it was exactly what Liang Biaoxiang was thinking at this time. He thought that the fire had already been lost. No matter how much the grain warehouse was rescued, it would not be able to recover much loss. Since that was the case, he would just burn it clean with one stone. One stone was burned, and ten thousand stones were burned! Anyway, there was some food in Guangzhou, and it would be transported again at that time, but no one would know what he did!
Liang Biaoxiang had already made up his mind not to save the grain warehouse. Even if the old man Shang Kexi, the King of Pingnan, knew that he was not authentic, it would not be a big deal. Anyway, Shang Kexi could not do anything to him. The old man really dared to turn against him and wanted to deal with him. At worst, he could ask his subordinates to pull the sail out of the sea. If he could turn himself into a gang, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Lianchengbi, and rely on his subordinates and all his abilities, he would still be the general when he arrived in the Nanming Dynasty!
"The fire is too big and I can't save it. You guys quickly organize people to get on the boat."
Liang Biaoxiang used the excuse that the fire was too big and suppressed his subordinates who wanted to put out the fire. The general said he would not save him. Naturally, the officers would not fight against him. They could only shake their heads and sigh: No matter what, there are tens of thousands of stones of food in the grain warehouse, and they just called it burned. It's a pity, it's a pity.
Chen Mo and others were still mingling among the Qing army's crowd and leading them around. After running for a while, they saw that the entire navy camp was in chaos. Chen Mo quietly made a gesture to the two subordinates who had been following him. The three of them sneaked out of the crowd and touched the dock. Along the way, there were panicked Qing soldiers everywhere, and no one cared about them when they saw them. Even if the three of them were not wearing the Qing soldiers' clothes, no one would question them. Because there were too many idle people in the camp and they were eager to escape, so who had time to ask who they were.
However, when they passed several camps and came to a place not far from the pier, the three of them found a group of Qing soldiers in front of them blocking the road. When they met the soldiers and civilians who were scared by the fire, they all stopped them and asked them to go around the east and prohibited from continuing to move forward from this road.
Chen Mo and the others were puzzled. They didn't know why this group of Qing soldiers was forbidden to pass by. After watching for a while, they didn't find anything. They pretended to be running out of the camp and mixed into a group of Qing soldiers and walked around the east.
After the fire broke out in the grain warehouse, two-thirds of the entire navy camp had been swallowed up by the fire, and there was no sound from the dock after the initial two explosions. After the initial panic, some Qing soldiers gathered at the dock, and some ran to the camp outside the camp where the fire was watched from afar.
Song Dagang and Qian Guohua were Luo Ding people, and the other was from Jiangxi. The former was the soldiers recruited by Zhou Shixiang and others after occupying Luo Ding City, and the latter was the Taiping Army that the Green Camp in the city surrendered.
In order to prevent Luo Ding Green Camp from turning against the enemy after joining the Taiping Army, Zhou Shixiang ingeniously engraved "Shunzhi is a dog" behind the surrendered camp soldiers. With these big words on his back, the Jiangxi surrendered soldiers were considered to have cut off their retreat. From then on, they could only follow the Taiping Army.
Song Dagang was a Taiping Army who voluntarily signed up for the Taiping Army. Unlike his name, he was quite delicate and was considered a handsome figure among the refugees in Luoding City. Unfortunately, his family was bare and his parents left early, so he was still a bachelor until he was 30 years old.
Since joining the Taiping Army, in order to have a bite of food, Song Dagang was afraid of being ordered by the Taiping Army as his master. During the Battle of Deqing, he was killed by a Green Camp soldier. Gao Yao led the way to attack the Taiping Army in the city in one battle. He killed three enemies in Guifeng Mountain. When Xinhui defended the city, he killed several enemies. With this performance, Chen Mo transferred him to his subordinates when he selected special forces at Zhou Shixiang's instructions.
Qian Guohua's performance after joining the Taiping Army was similar to Song Dagang, and he was also selected into the newly formed special forces because of his brave performance. Chen Mo led his troops to attack the Qing army at night and attacked the east and west forts in the battle, Qian Guohua was a member of the Taiping Army out of the city and became a small flag official after the war.
Not long after sneaking into the naval camp, Song Dagang and Qian Guohua acted separately from the others. The two of them touched the southwest of the camp, and set fire along the way. They took advantage of the Qing soldiers being frightened by the fire and turned northeast, trying to go to the dock as planned to cooperate with Qi Hao and others to destroy the naval warship, and then wait for an opportunity to seize the ship and escape.
But before they walked for a long time, the wind direction suddenly changed. As a result, the way ahead was blocked by the fire, and the way behind was blocked by the fire. The two had no choice but to hide in a house on the left, hoping to run out when the wind direction changed slightly. Unexpectedly, the wind direction did not change for a while, and the wooden house where the two hid was actually called the fire to attract the fire.
The fire was burning inside and outside the house, and the air was filled with choking smoke, so my eyes could hardly be opened. The two of them knew that they could not stay in the room anymore, so they both pulled it out of the window, but they didn't expect the tiles above their heads to fall down with a rush, and a beam fell down.
Seeing that the beam was about to hit Qian Guohua, Song Dagang stepped forward and pushed him. As a result, Qian Guohua was saved, but his leg was hit by the beam, and his leg was broken instantly, and the broken bone tip was exposed.
"ah!"
Song Dagang screamed in pain, holding his thighs and shivering.
Qian Guohua, who was saved, didn't bother to thank Song Dagang, so he went forward to move the beam, but the beam was too heavy and he couldn't move it away for a while.
"I can't move, Brother Qian, don't worry about me, you can leave!"
Song Dagang, who was sweating profusely, saw Qian Guohua unable to move the crossbar that hit his leg, and the fire was burning hard again. He knew that he could not survive. Qian Guohua would die if he didn't leave. He gritted his teeth and asked Qian Guohua to leave quickly.
"If I leave, will it be a fucking man?"
Song Dagang was injured to save himself. Qian Guohua would not leave him behind no matter what, but no matter how hard he tried, the beam would not move. Qian Guohua, who was anxious, found another piece of wood to sled the beam, and sled twice before moving Song Dagang's legs out.
"Brother, I'll carry you away!"
After dragging Song Dagang out, the temperature in the house was so hot that it was hard to breathe. Qian Guohua breathed hard, endured the choking smell of smoke and pushed Song Dagang on his back. He took a step under his feet. With a "thump", a piece of wood fell from the top of his head and slammed him hard on his head. He staggered forward, and Song Dagang on his back also fell heavily to the ground.
"Uh!" Song Dagang let out a scream and struggled to pull Qian Guohua down in front of him. "Second Brother Qian! Second Brother Qian." But no matter how he called, he could no longer hear Qian Guohua's response.
The fire was getting stronger and stronger, and the air seemed to be drained. Every time he breathed, Song Dagang's lungs felt as uncomfortable as if they were cut open with a knife. Gradually, he could no longer breathe, but his hands were still holding Qian Guohua's body tightly.
Chapter completed!