Chapter 1101: Poor Qin Rigang
Looking at the charred black city in front of him, the ruined and dilapidated Madison City, and even the corpses of many civilians or soldiers in the city who had broken limbs and arms were unburied and exposed in the ruins, Qin Rigang was extremely shocked!
Three months ago, Qin Rigang was rewarded with $200,000 plus 10,000 hectares of land around Chicago, Illinois, for betraying Lin Qirong's Hexi United Army, but because General McDowell of the American Federation had been dragging his feet and refusing to sign a certificate or guarantee for him, he had to wait in St. Paul. After a month of hard work, he got McDowell's paperwork, and immediately led nearly 500 of his cronies from St. Paul's on the Mississiley River in Wisconsin to his "fiefdom" - Chicago.
However, along the way, it became the beginning of Qin Rigang's nightmare journey!
Because of the war, all these boats in the upper reaches of the Mississippi River were either requisitioned for combat or burned, and Qin Rigang and others could not find the boats, so they could only go down the banks of the Mississippi River. But he didn't expect to be encountered by a group of more than 1,000 Wisconsin militia groups of more than 1,000 people, and attacked them as the Hexi United Army. Qin Rigang's more than 500 cronies are also brave and good at fighting, defeating the Wisconsin militia of more than 1,000 people, but he also lost nearly half of his manpower, and he didn't have time to bury the bodies of his brothers, and another group of Wisconsin militia rushed to support when he heard the news, Qin Rigang had no choice but to abandon these old brothers who followed him to fight for most of the world with tears, and fled in a hurry, he led his cronies away from the banks of the Mississippi River and into the primeval jungle.
And this escape is the beginning of two months of suffering!
The biting cold all the way, the peeing also turned into ice, and many of the injured brothers gradually became fewer, and many stayed in the difficult crawl along the way, and fell in the unknown and unknown woods.
The panicked fleeing food could not be carried, and soon there was a shortage of food, so Qin Rigang had no choice but to look for food. But it's sparsely populated, so where can you find it for a while? Moreover, Qin Rigang didn't want to expose himself, and there were only less than two hundred subordinates at this time, and the slightly larger fortresses didn't dare to attack, so they could only look around for small villages, small farms and hunters, capture and loot them all, and barely survive, but in the cold winter season, plus these people in the west are also very poor, where will there be much surplus grain?
As a result, Qin Rigang and others were almost cornered by hunger and cold all the way. What annoyed Qin Rigang the most was that every time he finally found a town, as a result, either there were many local militia guarding it, or it had been completely destroyed by the Chinese Empire or the Hexi Army, and there was no way to supply it at all.
In order not to be exposed, Qin Rigang could only look for remote mountains and forests to walk, just more than 200 miles of the road, he walked with difficulty for more than half a month, and finally suffered from the attack of a cavalry unit of the American Federation, losing more than 60 people, plus more than 20 people lost all the way to the ice, and finally only 108 people were left to survive and rush to a town with only a few hundred people, no defense force, and not burned down by the army of the Chinese Empire, and the town was looted, which was barely safe.
Organizing people to change into the clothes of local residents, dressed up as Indians, and with the help of some carriages, Qin Rigang and the others finally got out of the sea of suffering and quickly marched to Chicago.
But along the way, towns and farmsteads that were completely burned down kept appearing, which made Qin Rigang thrilled. Qin Rigang's cronies Cui Lunbu and Shinichi Ando and his younger brother Qin Riqing did not understand English, and Qin Rigang himself couldn't even understand Japanese, so he couldn't ask the local residents about what happened, but from the tragedy of the scene, Qin Rigang had a faint feeling in his heart.
He couldn't help but guess that this was the revenge of the Chinese Imperial Army. If that's the case, then his group should be more careful. Moreover, looking at it like this, those troops are not only ruthless, but also quite numerous, and they are also walking in front. However, on the other hand, Qin Rigang was a little lucky. After all, the more ruthless the Chinese Empire was with the foreigners, the more beneficial it would be to itself.
But when Qin Rigang and the others arrived in Madison City with great difficulty, they were still stupid by everything in front of them. The charred smoke was still filling, and it was clear that the enemy had just gone far. At this moment, Qin Rigang was finally scared, and he didn't dare to go any further.
So, he led the more than 100 men to the desolate jungle in the northeast, where there was some grain for the horses to keep behind. After hiding in the mountains and forests for nearly two months, there was really no food, so Qin Rigang sent people out to investigate and found that the war seemed to be over.
But because of the language barrier and the fact that he couldn't ask about the specific situation, in desperation, Qin Rigang had to hope that the war was really over, and led his men out of the mountains and forests, and found that the war seemed to be really over.
Qin Rigang and the others took the opportunity to grab some horses, rode them with their hands, and according to the roughly known location of Chicago on the lake on the map they found, they identified the direction and headed south.
When they arrived in Chicago, Qin Rigang and others found that this was simply an apocalyptic catastrophe. The miserable situation of small towns and villages they had seen before was insignificant.
The city within a radius of ten miles has been burned to pieces, although more than half a month has passed, the air is still filled with a scorching smell and the smell of barbecue, even if Qin Rigang is used to seeing life and death, his face still changes greatly.
While he was stunned, a small group of cavalry spotted them, and soon hundreds of cavalry rushed over to besiege them, led by Brigadier General Anderson, who had seen him.
When Qin Rigang saw that he was General Anderson, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly shouted at him, claiming that he had taken General McDowell's seal and came to receive the fief.
Unexpectedly, Anderson directly ordered Qin Rigang and others to surround and send people to forcibly unload their arms. Although Qin Rigang and the others felt bad, because there were only about a hundred people, and hundreds of cavalry around them, all of them were aiming muskets at them, they didn't dare to resist, they just asked Anderson loudly why this was, and asked to see General McDowell with a letter from General McDowell.
It's just that Anderson waved his hand to show that he didn't understand, and then ignored it completely!
After that, Qin Rigang and the others were imprisoned, and they traveled day and night from a carriage, and they were always guarded, and the general McDowell he was expecting never appeared. After being locked up like this for more than ten days, one day, Qin Rigang was suddenly escorted out, and the person in front of him surprised him: Fan Ruzeng!
He was suddenly cold, and his heart felt like it had fallen into an ice cellar.
It's all very clear!
Sure enough, when he was already the prime minister of the Heavenly Kingdom, the person in front of him was just a guy who was not even an official saint soldier in the underage boy camp, Fan Ruzeng, now he has become a hot celebrity in front of Feng Yunshan, the head of the secret service, smiled at him, and said: "Should I call you the Prime Minister of Heaven, or the King of Yan, or His Majesty who established himself as the emperor, or the MIR Qin who took refuge in the foreigners?" ”
Qin Rigang ignored the sarcasm in his tone, and just asked, "Fan Ruzeng, why did you appear here, what do you want to do?" ”
"Haha, Qin Rigang, it's rare that you still don't know why I'm here?" Fan Ruzeng said with a smile: "Of course, it was the foreign adults you who took refuge in and handed you and your subordinates to me!" They have been defeated and have signed an armistice agreement with our Chinese Empire, and our Chinese Empire has agreed to an armistice, one of the conditions of which is that you Qin Rigang will be captured and handed over to our Chinese Empire in good condition! You betrayed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, betrayed His Majesty the Emperor, and betrayed my Chinese Han family, did you ever think that there would be today? ”
"It can't be! How could this be, I have already fled to this place outside the world, and I can't escape from the palm of that surnamed Feng......" Qin Rigang screamed miserably, his face turned pale, and he fainted without breathing.
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