Hearing the shouts of the soldiers on the street, Cheng Xueqi and Ding Ruchang looked at each other, and there was a surprise in their eyes! They saw in each other's eyes the blazing fire that had ignited in each other's eyes. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Yes! The third thing that these soldiers shouted at the captive army was what moved them the most. Joining the Imperial Army and becoming a member of the Imperial Soldiers is much better than joining the Taiping Army!

Think about it, if you join the Taiping Soldiers, except for being able to eat without starving to death, the rest, unless you become a prince, there is no benefit! On the contrary, the little entanglement he originally brought was confiscated by the Heavenly Sacred Treasury! As soon as he thought of this, Cheng Xueqi felt a little resentful of the hateful Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqinglai.

Even if you are a Qing demon, when you are a soldier for a few years, even if you are deducted half of your salary, you can still get a few taels of silver every year, save for a few years, and you can also entrust your relatives in your hometown to buy land or say that you are a daughter-in-law. can join the Taiping Soldiers, all year round, there is nothing, everything is returned to the Holy Treasury, and there is no salary. Sometimes, these Taiping soldiers feel very lost, if it weren't for the strict military discipline of the Heavenly Kingdom, it would be difficult for them to escape, and perhaps, these Taiping soldiers who are not the old brothers of Guangxi, would have fled a long time ago.

Now it's okay, neither of them expected that the treatment of joining the imperial army would be so generous. In particular, the temptation of dividing the field was simply terrible, and it attracted them deeply. Even if like Ding Ruchang, there are no relatives in his hometown, but in the simple rural concept, he can earn a few acres of land, which is a big thing worth working hard! As a result, every strong man present in the streets and alleys leaked out hungry eyes like wolves, and even many people rushed directly to the Celestial Palace in the center of the city!

Seeing this, Cheng Xueqi and Ding Ruchang hurriedly returned to the men's hall, gathered more than 20 brothers in the hall, and sent people to inform hundreds of other subordinates scattered throughout the city, and hurriedly rushed towards the Tianchao Palace.

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In the Taiping Gate in the northeast wall of Tianjing City, Zhang Daguang mixed behind several people, carrying a big burden, pulled down the hat on his head, and touched the three pieces of jewelry that he had hidden at the beginning, he wanted to blend out of Tianjing City.

It's just that the world is so big, he feels that there is nowhere to go. The whole south was occupied by the captives, and he was a southerner, so he was reluctant to go to the north, and the north was now slowly being occupied by the captives. He really didn't know where he was going, so he had to get out of Tianjing City first.

However, at this moment, his heart is not only uneasy, but also full of deep remorse.

Zhang Daguang was originally the general of the captive army, the commander of the Ninth Brigade stationed in Shaowufu, Fujian, he was a native of Wuxuan, Guangxi, just because he was an old brother in Guangxi, he saw that even Chen Yucheng, He Lu and others were division commanders, and he was only a brigade commander, and he was dissatisfied. Therefore, after receiving a secret letter from Yang Xiuqing, the eastern king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he decided to defect from Feng Yunshan and take refuge in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

In the end, Zhang Daguang led more than 200 cronies to Tianjing City, and received a cordial reception from the King of Heaven and the King of the East.

But later, the situation took a turn for the worse, and he was just used by Yang Xiuqing as a typical tree, and he was not really reused. Even, when Qiu Changdao and other traitors in the army were assassinated, he was deeply frightened, and he did not dare to come out of the barracks all day long, living a life that did not look like a human being. Moreover, the most important thing is that he can't stand the life in the kingdom of heaven anymore, and on the way he escaped, the several large boxes of gold and silver treasures he looted were all confiscated by the holy treasury of the kingdom of heaven, and his daily life was much worse than that of the original army of prisoners. He found that this kingdom of heaven was not a place for people, especially those who had spent time in the captive army.

Tianjing City is under martial law, and he is not allowed to enter or leave, and he doesn't know if he can get out of Tianjing City. But he had to leave! He had a feeling in his heart that the Holy King Feng Yunshan would not let him go. Even though a year had passed since his defection and no one had spoken of it again, he felt a sense of crisis.

Who knew that this king of heaven was so bad, Tianjing City couldn't hold it at all, and as soon as the captive army arrived, the Taiping soldiers surrendered directly. Knowing this, he would have left Tianjing City earlier. However, these are not the things that make him regret the most.

What he regrets the most is how he believed in Yang Xiuqing's bewitchment in the first place, accepted his reward, betrayed the Holy King, and traveled thousands of miles from Fujian to Heaven to Tianjing, and many brothers died along the way. But now the most ironic thing is that the generals of the Kingdom of Heaven have surrendered to the captive army one after another, but they are pig brains, and they actually defected from the captive army to join the kingdom of heaven!

Zhang Daguang was nervous all the way, and unconsciously came to Taipingmen.

As soon as he entered the doorway, Zhang Daguang found that several people in front of him had been stopped by the city gate guards and were interrogating.

"Master Jun, the little one has an urgent matter when he goes out of the city, and the old man in the countryside is seriously ill, so I am in a hurry to go back and see the last one!"

"The countryman? Tell us the location and name, and we'll send someone to take you in a horse-drawn carriage! However, if you are telling a lie, you will not be able to escape the charge of deceiving the Imperial soldiers and neglecting military affairs! In principle, you are not allowed to leave the city for these three days, and after these few days, the city has been cleaned up and martial law has been lifted, and you can enter and exit freely! I advise you to bear with it! A sergeant who looked like a platoon leader said.

"That's right. Then, in fact, it can be delayed for a few more days, just wait! After saying this, the people turned around and walked into the city, and decided not to leave the city.

When Zhang Daguang saw it, sure enough, the city gate was very strictly censored, and he was interrogated one by one, and none of them were released from the city. It seems that it can't be mixed up. He planned to wait until it was dark at night, venture to find a remote city wall, and escape directly by tying himself with a rope. However, now the city walls are constantly patrolled back and forth, which is too risky. So he turned around and wanted to follow the people into the city.

At this moment, two soldiers of the begging army armed with foreign guns shouted at him: "The one with the hat? Do you want to get out of town too? ”

Zhang Daguang sighed in his heart, secretly said that it was not good, and hurriedly replied with a smile: "Master Jun, the little ones don't go out of the city, don't go out of the city!" ”

"Don't get out of town? What are you doing here without going out of town? And on a sunny day, you bring a hat and cover your face, and you can't see anyone? The sergeant said and walked up to him, "Take off your hat, and let's compare ourselves against this felony on the wall!" ”

Only then did Zhang Daguang find that there were several portraits pasted on the wall of the city gate, and the second of them was his own portrait. Zhang Daguang was shocked, turned around and ran. Unexpectedly, several strong men suddenly appeared in front of him, although they were wearing people's clothes, Zhang Daguang had already seen that they were soldiers in civilian clothes.

"Let go of me! I'm just an ordinary Taiping soldier, and I'm going to join your army of captives! Zhang Daguang was pressed to the ground, struggling and yelling.

But no one paid attention to him, and soon he was escorted to the city wall, where the hat on his head and the burden on his back were removed, and his whole body was pressed against the wall.

"Zhang Daguang! It turns out that you are Zhang Daguang! You traitor, I've finally caught you! After the platoon commander of the captive army rushed over to carefully identify it, he shouted with surprise on his face as if a hunter had found his prey: "Come on, hurry up and report to the battalion commander, no, report directly to the regiment commander!" Keep this traitor in good hands! ”

Zhang Daguang hurriedly escaped from his arms with the largest pearl necklace, handed it to the platoon commander as quickly as possible, and said with a smile: "Master Jun, you have recognized the wrong person!" What a big light, a villain is not! Raise your hand! ”

"You! Less in this set! Zhang Daguang, you traitor, you actually turned your back on Your Majesty, turned your back on our brothers in the captive army, and took refuge in Hong Xiuquan, you can't imagine today! The platoon commander was jealous and hateful, and rejected Zhang Daguang with righteousness and awe, but ordered the two soldiers beside him: "Search him carefully to see how many treasures there are, these are all people's fat and people's ointment, and they must be handed over!" ”

Zhang Daguang only felt that his heart sank to the bottom......