Chapter 168: The Fall of the Righteous Army (Part II)
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Lu Shunde quickly guessed the ins and outs of the matter, and couldn't help but sigh for Chen Kai secretly. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoBut this is Chen Kai's own choice, and he doesn't want to deliberately avenge Chen Kai.
He was worried that Lin Huanlong and Chen Xianliang would join forces and force him to join the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
At this time, Lai Wenhong also recognized Lu Shunde at a glance and exclaimed: "Lu Shunde? Are you Lu Shunde, Luo Gang's subordinate? ”
Lu Shunde did not deny it: "Uncle Erguo, don't come unharmed!" "It was originally a family, but now although it has not torn its face openly, it has faintly become two families, and there is even a slight hostility.
Lin Xunlong on the side realized that this Lu Er was actually a member of the Taiping Holy Army. The original intention of killing Lu Shunde also faded away and disappeared.
Although I don't want to join the Taiping Holy Army, I can't offend. He knew the terrifying military power and combat power of the Taiping Holy Army. It's better to take a step back and the well water does not interfere with the river water.
Thinking of this, Lin Huanlong shouted loudly: "Brother Lu, since you are a member of the Taiping Holy Army, then everyone is a family, so let's just say it." The big boss wants to lead his brothers north together and go to JX to join the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and you and your subordinates will definitely not want to follow us together, so go your own way. How is it? ”
When Lu Shunde heard this, he thought that he had few rebels and his strength was indeed not enough, so he responded: "Then go your own way." My brothers are in their hometown in Guangdong, and they are not going anywhere! ”。
On the one hand, Lu Shunde led his brothers to retreat to the headquarters camp, but on the other hand, he sent dozens of Sanshui and Shunde guards to sneak into Chen Xianliang's military camp to inquire about the news. If he didn't see Chen Xianliang, he spread rumors that Chen Xianliang was killed by Lin Huanlong, and if he did, he would say that Chen Kai was killed by Lin Huanlong.
In fact, Lu Shunde really didn't know that Chen Xianliang was really killed by Lin Xunlong, he just wanted to create chaos, so that they would not be at ease and could not run to JX smoothly.
Back at the headquarters camp, Lu Shunde hurriedly called the two old brothers in the holy army and sent him to speed up his horse overnight, bypassing the other righteous army camps, and going to the holy army stationed in Baoa County, dozens of miles away, to report the news.
However, it was said that in Chen Xianliang's camp, several small leaders crowded together and discussed.
"What? My eldest brother has something to do directly with the big boss, so he won't be back to camp tonight? A small leader who seemed to be Chen Xianliang's own brother or cousin said loudly: "Brothers, just now there was an order from the big leader, let us set off at dawn and go to the north, without saying where it is!" ”
"At this time, it just so happened that my eldest brother didn't return to the camp? I always felt that something was wrong! The eyelids kept pounding just now, so don't do anything! So, let's send someone to investigate again. The little leader said worriedly.
"Second Brother Chen is right!" Someone chimed in.
Just as everyone wanted to send someone to investigate, another small leader slammed the door in and said, "Oh no, something happened!" ”
"Second Brother Chen, it's not good! The big boss and the Chen leader were both killed by Lin Huanlong's traitor! The little boss ran out of breath and gasped violently.
"What?! What the hell is going on! The leader named Second Brother Chen grabbed the collar around the neck of the little leader and yelled anxiously.
The little leader coughed violently twice, and it wasn't until Second Brother Chen let him go that he continued with a sad face: "I have a distant cousin who is the personal guard of the big leader, and he is on duty to guard the big leader's tent today. In the evening, because of a stomachache, he secretly hid in the grass next to him to have diarrhea, but he didn't expect to see Lin Xunlong commanding a group of people to carry a few jars of wine and poison all the guards on duty outside the camp tent of the big boss. ”
"My cousin was so frightened that he lay in the grass and didn't dare to come out. He saw Lin Huanlong's personal guards, surrounded the camp tent of the big leader, Lin Huanlong, the bastard, and another stranger entered the camp, and soon there was a quarrel, and then the big leader ran to the door of the tent, and was hacked to the ground by Lin Huanlong's own soldiers! He also threw the body of the big boss into the grass. ”
Then, they tricked Leader Chen into the tent! After a while, my cousin saw that Leader Chen was also killed, with several stabs in his body and his body thrown in the grass. Later, Lin Huanlong sent someone to invite the leader of the land, but he didn't expect that the leader of the land was a member of the Taiping Holy Army, and he was not fooled. My cousin, taking advantage of the confusion among them, secretly fled to me and informed me. ”
Hearing this, Second Brother Chen had tears in his eyes, slapped the table, and shouted angrily: "Lin Huanlong, this bastard, a guest brute, is in the same group as those Qing soldiers, if you don't kill him to avenge my eldest brother, I swear not to be a man!" ”
"Brothers, follow me to kill Lin Huanlong, the Hakka dog thief, to avenge Leader Chen, and to be angry for the natives!" I don't know who yelled like this, attaching the hatred for the Hakka people to Lin Huanlong, so everyone was furious, roaring and commanding his brothers to attack Lin Huanlong.
In Chen Kaiyi's army, there are both local natives and foreign Hakkas, but local natives account for the majority.
For a long time, the Turkish-Ke conflicts in the Guangdong area have been very violent, and there have even been frequent large-scale casualties. The two sides hate each other, and they are a bit incompatible.
Chen Xianliang's rebel army already has many children of the Chen family, and most of them are local natives, so they are very wrong about Lin Huanlong, a Hakka. In addition, most of Lin Huanlong's subordinates are Hakka, and he has always suggested that Chen Kai go to the Hakka gathering area for development, which makes the native rebels in Chen Xianliang's headquarters very opinionated.
Now that the leader Chen Xianliang and the big leader Chen Kai were killed by Lin Xunlong, they suddenly broke out the hatred that had been accumulated on weekdays!
In addition, the "rumors" spread by Lu Shunde among the rebel army under Chen Xianliang added fuel to the fire.
For a time, under the leadership of Second Brother Chen, the Chen Rebel Army slaughtered the camp of Lin Huanlong's department.
Lin Huanlong led his own soldiers to purge the small leaders loyal to Chen Kai in the camp of Chen Kai's headquarters, and many of the small leaders of the Chen Department saw that the general trend had gone, so they said that they would lead their subordinates to join Lin Huanlong.
Lin Huanlong and Lai Wenhong were overjoyed, and if they subdued more than 20,000 rebels from Chen Kai's headquarters, their strength would be greatly increased.
Just as they were about to lead people to Chen Xianliang's department to purge the small leaders of Chen's department in the same way, they suddenly heard the shouts of killing in their own camp.
Lin Huanlong and Lai Wenhong hurriedly led the troops back to the camp to rescue.
But it was already in the dark night, and most of the rebels had night blindness, so they couldn't see clearly, and the rebels on both sides were dressed the same way, and each was led by many small leaders, and suddenly there was chaos, and the two rebels couldn't distinguish between the enemy and the enemy at all.
At this time, Lu Shunde received the news and immediately realized that this was a great opportunity! He led the rebel army, and two or three people lit a torch and rushed to the camp of Chen Kai's headquarters.
Most of the volunteers in Chen Kai's department were natives, and the small leaders heard that the big leader Chen Kai was killed by Lin Huanlong, so they turned back and threw themselves into the Lu Shunde rebels who rushed with torches, demanding revenge for Chen Kai.
Lu Shunde took advantage of the situation to integrate Chen Kai's volunteers.
At this time, the sky was a little cloudy, and Chen Xianliang's righteous army and Lin Huanlong's righteous army fought for two hours, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.
Lin Huanlong's righteous army is a Hakka people, and his combat power is stronger, but he was injured a lot in the dark night. As soon as the morning dawned, the combat power was immediately displayed, and the rebel army under Chen Xianliang was defeated and retreated.
When Second Brother Chen saw Lu Shunde leading the righteous army to appear, he hurriedly sent someone to ask Lu Shunde for help.
Lu Shunde finished integrating Chen Kai's volunteers, and when he saw that Lin Huanlong's righteous army was exhausted, he was overjoyed, and took the opportunity to make a gesture to avenge Chen Kai and launched an attack on Lin Huanlong's righteous army.
Lin Xunlong saw that the general trend had gone, and if it continued like this, all his Hakka people would be buried here, so he retreated, ignoring Lai Wenhong's opinion, and led his rebels to flee north.
Lu Shunde did not let his subordinates deliberately chase after him, and Lin Huanlong and others left.
However, the uncle of the two countries, Lai Wenhong, was taken care of, and Lu Shunde sent Zhang Bashan to lead more than ten old brothers of the Taiping Holy Army to ride fast horses, and soon caught up with Lai Wenhong and captured him.
Second Brother Chen couldn't restrain his subordinates from taking refuge in Lu Shunde, and in desperation, he had to say that he would follow Lu Shunde.
Lu Shunde received the rebels from various battalions, as well as millions of taels worth of property donated by various rebels. What was even more surprising was that Lu Shunde's personal soldiers found nearly 100 foreign guns and more than 300 boxes of opium snatched from Hong Kong Island in the camp of Chen Kai's headquarters and Lin Huanlong's headquarters. Since the foreign guns had no bullets, they were collected by Chen Kai and Lin Huanlong like treasure ornaments, and the opium had been smoked a lot by some rebels.
Lu Shunde pulled out the volunteers who smoked opium*, and together with the volunteers who were unwilling to defect to the Taiping Holy Kingdom with him, they were slightly entangled and ordered to return home on their own.
At this point, the former tens of thousands of Chen Kai's righteous army disappeared, and the remaining nearly 40,000 righteous army, all led by Lu Shunde, defected to the Taiping Holy Kingdom together.
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