In the night, in the governor's study, "Dad, do you really want to rely on these thousands of green battalion soldiers to resist Long Hair?" Can these twin spearmen fight? Jiang Wan asked anxiously.

"Your father can't turn into an army, so he can only rely on them!"

"The long hair is big, do they dare to defend it?"

"If you don't dare to defend it, you have to keep it, my generals in the Qing Dynasty will abandon the defense and lose the city, I don't believe that he Wang Pengfei is so bold!" Local officials had the responsibility to defend the territory, and the Qing court prevented officials from surrendering to the enemy, so this provision was particularly strict in the Qing law.

"Dad, why don't you retreat to Luzhou and join Uncle Zhou."

"Bastard! How dare you peek at your father's letters! Zhou Tianjue, who was also an old opponent of the Taiping army, was living in Suzhou, and was ordered to organize defense with Jiang Wenqing, the governor of Anhui.

"Dad, let's retreat, the long-haired people, Uncle Zhou will intercede with the court for you!" Jiang Wan pleaded.

"Dad won't retreat, wait for your brother to come back tomorrow to raise food, you can leave." Jiang Wenqing is the white flag of the Han army, at the age of twenty-three, he is a junior soldier, and his career is smooth. It's just that a pair of children on his knees make him feel uneasy.

"Dad, I have seen the poison sent by Uncle Zhou, I won't let you die!"

"Anqing City is about to be broken, and it is inevitable that there will be a military disaster in the south of the Yangtze River, and my father, as the governor of Anhui, is already to blame. Our Han army banner is favored by the emperor in the world, and the country is in danger, how can we be a deserter! Jiang Wenqing said helplessly.

"Dad, let's run, don't you say Yunnan, let's go to Yunnan and find a place where no one lives."

"Silly boy, the whole world is not the king's land, can you run out of the Qing Dynasty? Besides, do you want your father to bear the eternal infamy of being disloyal and unfilial? ”

"Daddy...... Is there really no way? I won't let you die! Jiang Wan choked.

"Dad won't die, this doesn't grow hair yet." Jiang Wenqing said sadly.

"That daughter is going to stay with her father!"

"Okay, our father and daughter are here to fight for the Qing Dynasty until the last moment!" Jiang Wenqing promised his daughter in his mouth, but he was ready to call a henchman to escort her and send her daughter away overnight. It is his Jiang Wenqing's duty to guard Anqing City, even if he dies, he will die here, but his daughter is different, she is only sixteen years old, how can she be put in danger.

Lao Chiang's rigid policy caused many jailers to also be transferred to the city defense force, which made Jing Yuan, who always paid attention to the movements of the jailers, very excited, and the prisoners looked forward to the arrival of the Taiping army. It's about to break out of the cage.

"Damn the big smoke soldiers, what kind of city are you still defending!" Yuan Hongmo scolded and kicked the wooden prison door, only to see gritting his teeth, although it was a little painful, but he couldn't suppress the anger in his heart at all.

Looking at the wooden door that was kicked by Song Luzhou, Jing Yuan smiled weirdly, and unconsciously touched the cigarette case in his jacket.

On the twenty-second day of the first month of the heavenly calendar and the seventeenth day of the first month of the summer calendar, the vanguard led by the Wing King appeared. On the river outside the south gate of Anqing, thousands of sails are racing, flags are in the sky, and there are cannons on all the warships that can be seen. On the upper floor of the South Gate, the generals panicked, and the soldiers were terrified. Jiang Wenqing was desperate and muttered to himself: "I'm afraid I'm going to be loyal." Unfortunately, Wang Pengfei beside him heard this, and he secretly complained to himself, what kind of rogue is this, thousands of warships, hundreds of thousands of troops, more cannons than sailors, and his own two thousand green battalion soldiers are not enough to be ten as one, and now I heard the governor say this, and I began to think about it in my heart.

Just as the high-ranking officials of the Qing Dynasty were thinking about their own thoughts, the Taiping army fired the first cannonball, and the cannonballs hit the city wall heavily, followed by a rumbling roar, which instantly poured on the city wall. This continuous cannonball frightened away the high-ranking officials watching the battle on the city tower, and also alarmed the prison of the Inspectorate in the west of the city. Just as the prisoners were panicking, Jing Yuan shouted loudly: "Brothers, this is the cannon sound of the Taiping army attacking the city, and the time for us to be free has come." I saw that he brought the straw that blocked the wind, took out the cigarette case and took out the long-cherished fire, and in an instant the straw piled under the wooden cell door was ignited, the fire slowly became stronger, and the smoke slowly became thicker.

"The cell is on fire!" The jailers, who were still worried about the fighting outside the city, finally noticed the light smoke.

"It's the prisoners inside who want to escape, hurry up and put out the fire!" The cell boss shouted.

"Hurry up and burn it! Burn! The prisoners also ignored the smoke and kept blowing wind through the wooden door, which was already on fire.

"Don't open the cell door, go get water to put out the fire."

As long as the wooden door is burned, the prisoners can rush out, and as long as the fire is extinguished, the prisoners can be suppressed. In an instant, a wooden door became the key, and time is the weapon of victory. Seeing that the wooden door had been burned to charcoal, suddenly a bucket of water was poured down, and the straw was extinguished in an instant, and the fire on the wooden door gradually became weaker. Seeing that the fire was about to be extinguished and the rebellion was about to fail, Jing Yuan was extremely reluctant. Suddenly, Yuan Hongmo took off his jacket and was about to put down the burn, Jing Yuan had a flash of inspiration, and hurriedly stopped him, but took off his down jacket, and the light machine burned in an instant. With the bright flames and thick smoke, the down jacket soon burned into a ball, and a large amount of black oil dripped on the wooden door, causing the wooden door to burn again, and the fire became more and more intense.

On the surface, the follow-up ships of the Taiping army arrived one after another, and they were larger and more luxurious, but these large war ships did not join the battle, but only increased the deterrent power of Anqing City. On the tower of the city, artillery fire was flying, and Jiang Wenqing personally led officials of all sizes to supervise the battle. Although he had ordered Wang Pengfei to transfer more than half of the artillery in the city, the Taiping army was still insufficient in the face of thousands of sails.

"My lord, it's dangerous here, get out of here!" Political envoy Li Benren said with concern.

"Confused! The soldiers are using their lives, how can this official withdraw first! Li Benren has been with his colleagues for many years, more of a friend than a subordinate, and at this time his words are more grateful than rebuke.

Seeing Jiang Wenqing's rejection of Li Benren's proposal, Wang Pengfei felt bad in his heart, and said: "Lord Jiang, the enemy is big, let's retreat!" ”

"What to retreat! Wait for the king's lu, that is, you should be loyal to the king! As the chief soldier, it is your duty to swear to serve the country to the death, and if you retire, the official will kill you first! ”

This sentence frightened Wang Pengfei so much that he quickly shut up, although he Wang Pengfei was an official and lived in the second grade, and Jiang Wenqing was only from the second grade, but the Qing Dynasty emphasized literature and light military force, and the general army was under the jurisdiction of the governor during the war, although he came from afar as a guest army, Jiang Wenqing would not really kill him, but it was still a simple matter to treat him as ineffective in resisting the enemy.

In fact, Jiang Wenqing just wanted to teach him a lesson, so that he would not think crookedly, and when he saw that he had shut up, he said: "You go and transfer Fu Jixun from Ximen, the long hair goes down the river, and it is not from the dry road, this is more important than Ximen." ”

"Yes!" Wang Pengfei heard it as if he had a life-saving charm, and quickly slipped away.

"Daddy! It's dangerous here, let's retreat to the yamen first! A little guard who was standing beside Jiang Wenqing at some point pulled his sleeve and said.

When Jiang Wenqing saw it, he immediately said angrily: "Why haven't you left yet!" After speaking, he seemed to realize his mistake, and hurriedly shouted: "Go, go back to the yamen!" ”

Looking at Jiang Wenqing's figure being embraced away, Wang Pengfei couldn't help but scold: "Old thing, it's not that you're afraid of death!" ”

In the prison of the Anhui Provincial Inspectorate, the chemical fibers had burned Jingyuan's cell door to black, and the bottom of the door was completely carbonized. Jing Yuan glanced at Song Luzhou, and Yuan Hongmo, ignoring the still burning fire, kicked the bottom of the cell door violently, and the cell door broke. At this time, when the cell boss saw that the cell door was broken, he quickly shouted: "Prisoners must come out, go and get weapons!" With that, he ran out with a few jailers, leaving only four jailers with sticks of fire and water.

Yuan Hongmo was the first to rush out of the breach, and the four jailers pounced on him and beat him, but Song Luzhou was brave and fierce, and he didn't care about the water and fire sticks in the hands of the jailers, and blocked all the jailers. In less than a while, Jing Yuan and the others all rushed out to join the battle, each desperately fighting to the death, and the four jailers were the opponents of the eight of them. When the jailer with the saber arrived, Jing Yuan and the four leaders all carried water and fire sticks.

I only heard Yuan Hongmo shouting, and rushed out of the wooden gate with a water and fire stick to meet him, and he hit him with a sword and a sword, completely ignoring it, like a god. Lu Yaoling and Xie Zhenke immediately joined the battle group, only Jing Yuan hesitated, he had fought before, and he had never encountered a real knife or a real gun. While hesitating, a jailer rushed over with a knife, Jing Yuan looked at the water and fire stick in his hand, frowned, and raised the stick to split. Seeing this, the jailer immediately raised his knife to block, and Jing Yuan took advantage of the situation and hit the jailer in the thigh, making him scream. Jing Yuan slashed his head again, and the blood instantly flowed down from the top of the jailer's head, and the jailer immediately fell to the ground and died. Jing Yuan raised his knife and rushed to kill with a wild laugh.

The battle was soon over, with a total of eleven jailers dead and four escaping, while only Yuan Hongmo was the only one on Jing Yuan's side who was slightly injured because of the previous rush.

"Brother Wang, you won't kill someone for the first time, will you?" Yuan Hongmo asked.

"I've never killed before."

"Brother Wang is doing to spy on the news, wouldn't killing indiscriminately reveal his whereabouts, how can you be like you, born a killing god, killing people is like killing pigs!" Lu Yaoling quipped.

"My old Yuan often kills pigs in his hometown, a reckless man, just rushing to kill, hehe, Brother Wang is laughing."

"Brother Yuan, brave and good at fighting, if he can join the Taiping Army, he will be able to be a marquis and a general one day!" Seeing his bravery, Jing Yuan was even more determined to take these prisoners for his own use.

"Really! Then Brother Wang, hurry up and take us to join the Taiping Army! ”

"Yes, Brother Wang, what should we do next?" Xie Zhenke and others also asked.

"We have to free the other prisoners first, most of whom have been unjustly imprisoned like us." Jing Yuan knew that if he wanted to break out of Anqing City, it was not enough to rely on a few of them alone, he had to expand his team, and these prisoners were the best supplementary strength.

"Listen to Brother Wang, open the cell! I'll get revenge first! Lu Yaoling searched for the key from the corpse of the cell leader, and went to open the cell door with a machete. Diao Zongge, who was fighting with him for land and water, was in an adjacent cell, and the two sides had an armed fight in their hometown, causing casualties to each other, and the surname Diao suffered a great loss. The lawsuit was fought from the county government to the provincial government, and Lu and Diao were both sent to Anqing Provincial Prison pending execution. If you find it this time, you will be killed with a knife.

Soon, the thirty cells of the prison were opened, and the prisoners had heard the riot to some extent, but when they came out of the cell they were still surprised to see the rioters with machetes. This group of people who were in the hands of the jailers just now, but now they can decide the life and death of others, make them both envious and afraid.

"Quiet! Everyone, be quiet! Jing Yuan jumped on the chair and shouted to the crowd: "My name is Wang Jingyuan, an hour ago, I was a prisoner like everyone else, but I didn't commit a crime!" Do you have any? ”

"Nope! We didn't sin either! ”

"Brother! Wronged! ”

……

"Be quiet! I know you are all wronged, but the court doesn't think so, who in this prison will not be sentenced to death or exiled! These corrupt officials just want us to die! Can we die? ”

"Can't die!"

"Damn them!"

……

Jing Yuan waved his hand and said: "Now that the Taiping army has reached the outside of Anqing City, the cannon sound just now is that the Taiping army is attacking the city!" Once the city is broken, the Taiping army will definitely kill all the people who resisted, and they will also kill us by mistake! ”

"What should I do then?"

"Now that the Qing army is gathered in the south of the city, the defenses in the city are weak, we only need to kill the west gate, and we can escape! Do you want to live or die? ”

Now the audience is quiet, and many people still have concerns about the "rebellion".

"I want to live!" Suddenly, a figure rushed towards Jing Yuan from the crowd, so frightened that Lu Yaoling hurriedly protected Jing Yuan, and Yuan Hongmo also rushed up to catch him. I saw that the man suddenly knelt in front of Jing Yuan and begged: "I want to live!" I was sentenced to 3,000 miles of exile, and I will return to Xinjiang in the next year! ”

Jing Yuan took a closer look, this guy was full of scars on his face, and he squinted again, but he was extremely strong, it was rare for him to be so powerful, and said: "Okay, Yuan Hongmo gave him a knife!" Who else is going to live! ”

"I want to live......" The audience boiled at this moment, and they all knelt down and begged for help.

"Anyway, it's a death to the left and right! It's the other way around! It's the other way around! Yuan Hongmo shouted with a glare. Originally, there were people from his hometown in the other cells, and these people also shouted back, and the exile even shouted: "Let's follow Brother Wang to join the Taiping Army!" Unexpectedly, a large number of people shouted after this guy, and now the rest of them shouted whether they wanted to or not.

"Okay, brothers, follow me to attack the prison department!" Wang Jingyuan waved his broadsword.

The full name of the Prison Department is the Prison Prison Bureau, which is the higher-level management body of the Prison Prison of the Inspectorate Prison, and in order to facilitate management, it is located opposite the Prison of the Inspectorate. Originally, the Prison Department was a small organization, except for more than 20 jailers in the big prison, there were not many officials in the department, and now there was a big war at the south gate, and the idle prison officials had already been drawn, so when Jing Yuan led the prisoners to attack the Prison Bureau, he did not encounter any resistance at all, and the prison was gone.

The prisoners opened the Prison Department's arsenal and everyone was given weapons. Jing Yuan did not stop at all, and then attacked towards the west gate of Anqing. Along the way, Jing Yuan ordered his subordinates to deliberately set fires, and asked them to shout the slogan "Long live the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, long live the Heavenly King", as if the Qing army did not know.