Han’s Son is Not a Slave

On the Wuzhou city wall, the Qing army prisoners who were building the city wall saw the Ming army navy who had disappeared on the river for several days reappear. This time, the warships of the Ming army navy came more than last time, densely covering the river surface that was more than ten miles long. The wings of each warship are covered with flags, and from a distance, it looks like the Xijiang River has turned into a sea of ​​flags.

The horn sounded on the river as the first warship docked on the pier repaired by the captives. Immediately afterwards, one after another warships docked at the pier in turn, and the boards were lowered from the bows. Following the flags of the flag bearers on the warships, groups of Taiping troops in red military uniforms were embroidered with the Xiongzhan flag on one side. Under the guidance of the ship, they drove ashore from the ship board. I don't know how many Taiping troops this Xiongzhao flag led to get off the ship. Before the prisoners came back to their senses, dozens of warships came to the dock, and then another group of Taiping troops in red military uniforms arrived. Under the guidance of an embroidered unicorn flag, they drove ashore.

The captives couldn't even count the number of piers they built along the river. They only saw the endless flow of Ming troops from the boats to the shore. First was the Xiongzi army flag, then the Qilin army flag, then the Qinglong army flag, the elk army flag, and the Suzaku army flag. Embroidered with various numbers.

30,000 people? Forty thousand people? 50,000 people? 100,000 people?

The prisoners were stunned by the huge force of the Taiping Army. They couldn't count how many Taiping troops came over. They breathed heavily and watched in awe as the groups of Taiping troops slowly moved towards Wuzhou from a few miles away. Come to the city. Among the prisoners, there are many veterans who have seen battles. They have defeated many Ming soldiers and cut off countless Ming soldiers' heads, but this is the first time they have seen such a neat and large-scale army.

In the end, the prisoners saw a military flag embroidered with Pixiu on the shore under the **** of hundreds of Taiping soldiers in iron armor. The appearance of the iron armored soldiers made one of the prisoners, Chen Wu, stunned, and murmured dumbly: "My darling, the Ming army in Guangdong was so popular yesterday, this iron armored soldier is our old prince. This armor, this aura, the strongest army in the world!"

"It's not a first-class strong army, we will lose so badly?"

The officer next to him, also named Wang De, gave a wry smile, then lowered his head again and went to work in silence. He was really afraid of being killed by the Taiping Army, and he was also afraid of being beaten.

At the forefront of those iron-clad Taiping troops, a general who looked very young was riding a big green horse. After the general came ashore, he did not rush into Wuzhou City, but pointed his whip at Xijiang to the crowd around him. The ten officers said something.

The Second Town Taiping Army, who was monitoring the prisoners and building the wall on the city wall, looked at the group of prisoners who were used as coolies with contempt, and then proudly said to them: "Our commander is here!"

While talking, dozens of generals on horseback in the city rushed out from the city gate and ran towards the young general, dismounting from a distance, and then the generals of the Taiping Army who had killed the Qing army in Wuzhou to the point of throwing away their helmets and armor was the young general. Kneeling down on one leg in front of him, he shouted in unison, "Congratulations to the commander!"

The voice spread far and wide, so that the prisoners on the city wall could hear it clearly. At that moment, they were shocked. The commander of the Taiping Army was that young man?

"Look at the stance of the Ming army in Guangdong, I'm afraid the Manchurians can't beat it. Just look at the power of those soldiers, it's not something we can pretend to be a master at random. Alas, I don't know how long it takes to practice to get such a momentum." Chen At this moment, Wu's heart was overturned, and he only felt that the Ming army from Guangdong was really too strong, far from being able to match the green camps in Guangxi.

Hearing Chen Wu's words, Wang De, who lowered his head to work, moved in his heart, looked up at the city, and found that the overseers of Ming Jun were all looking outside the city, so he whispered: "If we follow such strong The army, it would not have surrendered to the Qing army and made this Lao Shizi green camp."

"Yeah, why can't we keep up with such strong soldiers, or we won't be where we are today."

Chen Wu's face was embarrassed, and he couldn't tell the loneliness in his heart. At first, he still had hope. The Admiral led the army to return to the rescue. The Guangdong Ming army would definitely not be able to stop it. The Ming army can fight just as well. Just looking at the scale of the reinforcements, it is much stronger than his own admiral. How can we fight this battle? Once this army has gained a firm foothold in Guangxi, the captured Qing troops will probably be very sad.

Wang De suddenly wanted to join the Taiping Army, but no one wants to be a prisoner for life. When a prisoner who will be exhausted to death at some point, he wants to work with the strong army and become a member of the strong army. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the Taiping Army would not really use them as coolies, because not all prisoners could become coolies to work, at least those captured Huihui soldiers had the Taiping Army drag them to the river to feed the fish. turtle. Although they are suffering now, at least they are still alive. They still have food to eat every day. Even if they are not full, they will not starve to death. They can go back to rest after work when the sun goes down. Although every time there was a break, some officers called the Anjun envoys of the Taiping Army would come and gather them together and tell them how the Manchus treated the Han people brutally and how the places where the cities were massacred were miserable. What about the ten days of Yangzhou, the three massacres in Jiading, the massacre in Fuzhou, the massacre in Guangzhou, and the massacre in Liuzhou? They also said that the Manchus just used them as cannon fodder. , and let them be at their command.

At the beginning, the soldiers from the Green Camp and the Han Army were very resistant to the Anjun envoys of the Taiping Army, because they all participated in what they said. Let's not say that they did not do any of the dozen or so massacres in Guangxi. Yes, otherwise, how could the population of Guangxi be left at the current 100,000, and how could the population of millions in the Ming Dynasty just disappear out of thin air? The Taiping Army said how miserable the Han Chinese who were slaughtered were, and how miserable the women were when they were taken captive. Didn't they say that they were cruel in disguise, that they were acting like tigers for the Manchus. So the officers and soldiers are all disapproving. They are very indifferent to what the An Jun envoy said, and they are very annoying. If their little life was not held in the hands of the Taiping Army~www.wuxiaspot.com~ They would be too lazy. Ignore these wordy guys.

However, with listening to these things every day, and hearing different tragedies every day, officers and soldiers suddenly have a change in their mentality. I only live for my own family, and I don't care about the thoughts of others dying, but suddenly feel a little guilty for what I have done in the past.

The Anjun envoys of the Taiping Army did not seem to have to forcefully change the mentality of the prisoners overnight, so that they would actively join the Taiping Army and become anti-Qing fighters, but only subtly influenced them. Green battalion soldiers had a low status and became prisoners of the Taiping army, so some of the captured Qing soldiers thought actively that they could be rescued and become green battalion soldiers again. I am afraid it is not a good thing, and joining Taiping The military is not necessarily a bad thing. It's just that no prisoner has offered to join the Taiping Army or take revenge on the Manchus who murdered the Han Chinese.

Chen Wu didn't have this idea, neither did Wang De. They just thought that what they did in the past might be wrong, but when a prisoner of the Han army suddenly fell to the ground not far away, he asked his companions to cut it with angular stones. When they went to braid their own hair, they stayed for a while.

The soldier who was about to cut his own braid shouted to the Taiping army on the city wall: "I cut the pigtail, I want to join the Taiping Army!" (To be continued.)