Chapter 345: Caught as a piglet
With the long coastline of Ningde, Bao Chao's team finally caught up with Yang Xiaoshan. The two sides experienced several fierce battles, and the coastline was full of corpses of the Qing army and the Taiping army, covering the ground horizontally, tattered military flags, raging wildfires, and filthy coagulated blood, which showed the cruelty of the war.
Yang Xiaoshan led everyone to fight with the Hunan army in turn, and finally the large army was dispersed by the Hunan army. In the last engagement, after single-handedly killing the five-member squad of the Hunan army, he finally lost his strength and fell. When he awoke, he found himself half-crushed by the corpse of an enemy.
Yang Xiaoshan was just about to push the enemy's corpse away, when suddenly a shout came from in the distance: "Search to see if there are any living people!" β
Yang Xiaoshan was startled, listening to the footsteps it seemed that there were still a lot of people, he was now alone, and he was powerless to fight so much, so he could only close his eyes and pretend to be dead, trying to hide the past.
Unexpectedly, these people were still very careful, and one person stretched out his index finger and put it under Yang Xiaoshan's nose to see if he was alive.
Yang Xiaoshan hurriedly held his breath, he didn't expect that person was very sophisticated, grabbed Yang Xiaoshan's wrist, held his pulse and shouted, "This person is still alive!" β
Yang Xiaoshan immediately opened his eyes and was about to resist, but after seeing the costumes of these people, he gave up this idea again. These people are not Qing soldiers, nor are they like local militias, and they look like local people in their attire.
If he acts rashly now, it will anger these people, why not let them catch them and see what they really want?
Seeing that Yang Xiaoshan did not resist, those people thought that he had no strength and did not embarrass him, so they tied Yang Xiaoshan's arm, put chains, blindfolded him and threw him in a big car.
He didn't know how long the bump had been, but when the blindfold was lifted, he found himself being taken to a very large wooden room. It was very large, but strangely there were no windows, just a staircase on one side, and at the top of the staircase there was a large iron gate, from which it seemed that he had been brought down.
There were several oil lamps hanging on the walls, and strangely enough, they were wrapped in iron cages, and people outside could not reach in without a key.
"East King!" Yang Xiaoshan's body was stunned, and he heard a familiar voice. In the dim light, he saw Wu Ruxiao and Li Shixian.
"Why are you here? Where is this? Yang Xiaoshan was a little alert.
"We have just been arrested here, and we don't know the specific situation, but it seems that the person who captured us was not the Hunan army." Wu Ruxiao replied.
"King Gu is right, it's definitely not a Qing demon, I was knocked unconscious by their sneak attack after I was alone. Looking back on their moves now, they look like skilled ticket-kidnapping bandits. Li Shixian recalled.
"Why are the bandits arresting us?" Yang Xiaoshan was a little puzzled, it was difficult to sacrifice them to the Qing Demon for a reward, but this Guan Ren's house was too big, and he still locked them up?
Yang Xiaoshan was puzzled, and suddenly the big iron door that he was staring at opened, and a strong light hit inside, and Yang Xiaoshan's eyes subconsciously closed. But a voice startled him!
"Who are you? Lao Tzu is the admiral of the imperial court! How dare you tie me up! Let me go, and spare you death! Yang Xiaoshan fixed his eyes again, this is not Bao Chao of the Hunan Army!
Bao Chao was still struggling, and was shouted "shut up" by the people behind him, and then a knife handle was thrown behind him.
Seeing this scene, Yang Xiaoshan and the others were all stupid, what the hell is this? These people not only tied up the Taiping army, but even the Qing army!
Followed by people being left behind, there were Taiping troops and Qing troops, Yang Xiaoshan found another acquaintance, and Feng Zicai was also brought here.
There were slightly more Taiping soldiers in the big wooden house at first, and almost all of them were Qing troops in the back. The number of people is about more than 200 Taiping troops and more than 4500 Qing troops. Good guys, there are nearly a thousand people here, the Taiping army sits at one end, the Qing army sits at the other end, the two sides are distinct, the only thing in common is that they are both shackled and shackledγγγγγγ
Finally, it seems that the big wooden house is about to be full. The big iron door opened again, and a fat man came in, holding a stack of papers in his hand, and said loudly: "It's been so long, everyone must be hungry, it doesn't matter, we'll start eating immediately, but before that, everyone has to draw a bet with their fingers on it." β
The fat man paused, and then emphasized: "Everyone must draw a charge, and those who do not draw a charge must not eat." Now let's line up and draw a bet! β
"Let me out, I'm going home!" A young man in the Hunan army suddenly cried and rushed to the bottom of the ladder.
Several people behind the fat man shot at him, and the young man was killed on the spot, and there was silence in the big wooden house.
Under the supervision of the musketeers on the steps, the people in the big wooden house lined up in turn, and each person was given two steamed buns after drawing a post, which was regarded as a reward.
Most people are illiterate and have no idea what is written on the paper.
When Yang Xiaoshan approached, he understood that this was a paper contract, which meant that he would voluntarily go to Peru to work as a miner. Yang Xiaoshan and Wu Ruxiao behind him looked at each other, and he also understood, this was to sell them to South America to be piglets, and these people who arrested them were afraid that they were pirate traffickers in this area. This is not a large wooden house, it should be the lower cabin of a steamer.
It turned out that during this period, South American countries were extremely short of labor, and some of them knew that there were many Chinese, so they came to China to recruit workers.
Although there are many people in China, there are only a few who are willing to leave their homeland and voluntarily go to other places to earn a living. At this time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom happened to be fighting with the Qing army, so these people took the opportunity to start and started after the war, arrested people and sold them as piglets to South America, and made a windfall.
On the coast of Ningde, Zeng Guofan's face was blue, not only Yang Xiaoshan was not found, but even Bao Chao and others disappeared, could it be that they all fell into the sea and drowned, and now he is very unwilling to see people and corpses.
"Is Yang Xiaoshan dead?" Zeng Guofan called a general who followed Bao Chao and asked sharply.
"The last general really doesn't know, the battle is really fierce, the last general retreated after being injured, and the specific situation is not clear to the last general." The general raised his bandaged arm to indicate that he was wounded.
"You are a high-ranking general who has escaped, and you still have the face to live! Come on, pull him down and cut him down. "Zeng Guofan is crazy, there are so many people in the Hunan army, and they have been chasing for so long, but the result is so confused, how can he write a recital to the emperor? What will the Queen Mother think of herself?
As everyone knows, at the moment when he was angry, the Fujian slave ship had already left the coast, and Yang Xiaoshan and others in the cabin were all taken to Peru in South America.
Passing by the slave ship was a small steamer that Luo Jian came to meet, and the Luo brothers and sisters on the side of the ship anxiously observed the situation on the coastline.
"Brother, there are a lot of corpses on this shore, is Brother Xiaoshan in danger?" Luo Meiying clung to the railing, looked at the shore, and said worriedly.
"Your little brother is so hard, nothing will happen." Luo Xuan comforted, after so many years, this sister still has Yang Xiaoshan in her heart, if she finds Yang Xiaoshan this time, she will have to let him marry her sister if she says anything.
Luo Xuan thought so in his heart, but he didn't expect that Yang Xiaoshan was on the slave ship that had just passed by, fate was really unreasonable, obviously the two could meet, but they couldn't be together.
In the vast Pacific Ocean, the black smoke column on the slave carrier ship pierced through the sky. The blue sky and the sea melted together, a few seabirds roared by the side of the boat, Yang Xiaoshan, as a traverser, didn't calculate that he was sold as a piglet to Peru in South America, what kind of fate awaited him? The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom American Gaiden chapter has officially opened, so stay tuned!