Chapter 159: The Final Battle (I)
"Loyalty!"
Gonggong Wei's new decision puzzled Chief of Staff Lu, but after all, he was a professional soldier and a hereditary military background, so although this order was cruel, he still unconditionally obeyed his father-in-law's new decision.
Wing Captain Ma Wenqing sighed lightly, and did not persuade his cousin not to violate Tianhe, but silently retreated and deployed.
This is Ma Wenqing's interest, although he is the third cousin of Wei Gonggong and an elder, but as Wei Gonggong is getting bigger and bigger, there are more and more soldiers and horses under his command, and his authority is getting heavier and heavier, Ma Wenqing inevitably has the meaning of "fear of the top".
Besides, his third cousin also recognized him around the corner, but he couldn't really think that he was a green onion, so there was no reason to provoke Father-in-law Wei for some irrelevant people.
The second nerd can do whatever he wants.
"Uncle Thirteen, those savages can survive until now, and they can be regarded as warriors, can you give them a chance to mend their ways?" What people didn't expect was that Wei Xuewen actually begged for mercy for the savage.
"It is precisely because they are warriors that Uncle Thirteen wants to kill them all."
Gonggong Wei looked at his cousin and nephew with deep meaning, he believed that in the process of learning and growing up, he would definitely understand the painstaking efforts of the thirteenth uncle.
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"The father-in-law has an order, no one will be left, and all of them will be killed!"
"The father-in-law has an order, no one will be left, and all of them will be killed!"
More than a dozen heralds shuttled through the jungle, passing the latest military orders word for word to the squad level.
Hearing this military order, the exhausted officers and soldiers of the imperial army, who had been engaged in the search and encirclement for the past few days, suddenly became excited, and looked at the wild men who were surrounded in front of them, and their eyes lit up.
If you don't keep one, you have hundreds of heads, and one head is a military feat.
The Taiwanese Volunteers and the security forces of various townships also received this order, but this order had a completely different response among the two groups.
The security teams in each township are composed of "familiar fans", who are close to the Han people, not only accept the existence of the Han people, but also accept the production and lifestyle of the Han people, and most of them are married to the Han people and can speak Chinese. If the old surnames are not retained, it will be difficult for outsiders to tell whether they are Han Chinese or not.
But it's precisely because of this that the ripe ones were attacked by the raw ones in the mountains and forests, because in the eyes of those raw fans, the ripe ones were abandoned people who betrayed the ancestral spirits. As long as Shengfan goes down the mountain to hunt grass, the familiar fan is their prey like the Han people.
Therefore, the familiar people hated the shengfan, and they wished that the imperial army could sweep away the shengfan, so that they could work with the Han people to reclaim the fertile land occupied by the shengfan.
In this way, the security forces of the townships naturally accepted the orders of the imperial army in their entirety, and it was in their interests to kill all the people.
But as far as the Taiwan Volunteers are concerned, this order has made many people entangled and painful.
As the leader of the Volunteers, Thangka is actually very conflicted in his heart.
On the one hand, his wife and children were controlled as hostages by the imperial army, forcing him to serve the imperial army; On the other hand, after all, he has the blood of the Pingpu people in his bones, and it is difficult for him to take killing his own people for granted without guilt.
This kind of emotion also envelops the hearts of almost every soldier of the Taiwan Volunteers, which is why the imperial army strictly ordered them not to let go of a single person and let them self-supervise.
The head and the rest of the clan have been completely surrounded, if the head can surrender at this time, the imperial army is willing to accept their surrender, for the thangka and them, it is naturally a happy thing.
No one wants to help outsiders destroy their own people, and no one wants to help outsiders destroy their own people.
Thangka had always harbored illusions about this, and he was even ready to persuade the head to surrender to them himself. But this latest order from the Imperial Army shattered his illusions and plunged him and his people into great pain.
"Captain, do you really want to help the Han people kill all our people?" A seventeen-year-old boy asks his captain, who is also his uncle Thangka.
The rest of the clansmen were watching the thangka, and they all wanted to know the answer to the thangka.
Thangka didn't know how to answer this question, he stayed for a long time, and finally, whispered to his nephew, "Do you want your grandmother to die?" Do you want your brother to die? ”
The seventeen-year-old boy shook his head, he was already a warrior who had cut the grass, he was an adult, and he knew what his uncle was telling him.
The rest of the clan turned their heads, and they all had answers.
"Captain, will we be the descendants of the ancestral spirit of the Pingpu clan in the future? Or will we be Han Chinese in the future? The seventeen-year-old boy hesitated and asked his uncle another question.
Thangka did not answer this question, and he himself wanted to know what the answer to this question was.
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After the military order was issued, the imperial officers and men who participated in the battle, the Taiwan Volunteers, and the security forces of various townships adjusted their arrangements and made preparations for the attack.
The besieged Pingpu savages apparently noticed that the Han army surrounding them was about to attack, and most of them gritted their teeth and took their weapons in hand, ready to make a final fight with the enemy.
Others sat on the ground with dull eyes, and the constant hunger and constant slaughter had made these savages lose the pride and courage of the past.
They were already desperate, and if the Han soldiers had rushed up and killed them earlier, it might have been the best relief for them.
"All up, all stand up, what are you doing!"
Luo Daao angrily picked up the scabbard and slapped the two clansmen around him who did not want to get up and fight, but the two clansmen let him whip like a stone man, but they did not move.
"Cowards are not qualified to be led by the ancestral spirit!"
The angry Luo Daao swung his knife and wanted to hack the courageless clansman on the ground to death, and used his blood to tell the rest of the people: Only by fighting can he be worthy of being a clansman and be worthy of being led by the ancestral spirit!
"Rodao!"
Aganon stopped Rodao in time, he held Rodao's hand tightly, shook his head at him, and sighed softly: "Let them go, it's their own choice... Anyway, they won't survive. ”
Rodao let out an "oops" and stomped his foot to put the knife down.
"Looks like this is where we are buried."
Aganon looked at the hunting grounds occupied by the Han Chinese army, and his face was painful.
There, there is not only the place where the ancestral spirits are sacrificed, but also the place where the ancestors of the Pingpu people are buried. How he wished he could die in the hunting grounds, feel the call of the ancestral spirit, feel the call of his grandfather and father.
But now, he had to be stranded on the edge of this cliff with the last of his people, and his dream could not be realized. In the distance, over the hunting grounds, black smoke was rising.
The damned Han Chinese army burned down their sacrificial places and smashed the clay pots in which their ancestors had parasitized their bones.
There, already completely destroyed, completely desecrated.