Chapter 519: Cutting Braids and Killing Tartars
Keep your hair without your head, keep your head without your hair!
What does it mean to cut off the braids, it means to break with the Qing Dynasty and become an enemy of Manchuria!
"That person is a soldier of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty!"
The Green Battalion soldiers whispered, and they watched as the soldier of the Eight Banners of Han asked his companion to cut off the braid at the back of his head, and then stood up from the ground and looked up at the city wall, his eyes full of anticipation and longing.
Chen Wu and Wude also looked up at the city, wondering if the Taiping army really wanted to absorb them. If yes, they won't hesitate any longer.
In the city, a hundred households of the Taiping army looked at the captives below with an expressionless face, but the corner of the mouth of an army envoy next to him showed a smile. He was waiting, waiting, waiting for the first prisoner who took the initiative to join the Taiping Army, and now, he had finally waited.
The excited envoy of the An army was about to speak, but his eyes were attracted by the military song coming from outside the city.
"The clouds are from the dragon, the wind is from the tiger, fame and fortune are from the dust and the earth; Looking at Shenzhou, the people are bitter, and thousands of miles of fertile land are barren; Look at the world, as much as you want, and make up for the defects of heaven; Good boy, don't be parents, just for the common people, not for the Lord, the golden drum roars in unison, and the yellow dragon vows are endless! ”
The loud military song attracted the attention of the Taiping army in the city, the prisoners under the city, and the attention of the surrendered officials who were waiting for the marshal of the Taiping army to receive them.
Military song?!
What a magnificent, such a powerful military song!
The clouds are from the dragon, and the wind is from the tiger
Zhang Zichang, the political envoy of Guangxi Zuobu, was familiar with the history books, and he knew that the Taiping army outside the city was singing the military song of the Red Turban Army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and this military song was said to have been composed by Liu Futong, the leader of the Red Turban Army, but there is no evidence. But what is historical is that thousands of Han men sang this military song in unison and buried the Yuan Dynasty.
Now, after 300 years, this military song that has been sung in the north and south of the river is once again recited in the ears of the world.
Zhang Zichang was silent, he had surrendered, although he didn't know what the young marshal of the Taiping Army would do with him, but he knew that he really hoped that the Taiping Army could sing this red scarf military song all the way to Beijing
The soldiers of the third town, who were the first to disembark and land, sang a loud military song under the guidance of Xiong Zhen's military flag, and drove to the city of Wuzhou with neat steps.
After the victory of Chaohui, the Taiping Army Uniform Factory in Xiangshan was expanded again, and the captured armor was sent to the Uniform Factory for reconstruction, and tens of thousands of red cloth armor uniforms were distributed to every soldier. The neat and clean military uniform brings pride and pride to the soldiers, and also makes them more cohesive. They roared and sang their military songs with the loudest voices, just to let the people in Wuzhou City know that they were the Taiping Army, and their mission was to hold the steel sword ninety-nine and kill all Hu Erfang!
The captives were once again shocked, their eyes were shocked, but more envious and admired
The captured Qing army is actually the elite in a sense, most of them are the main force of the Ming official army when they did not become the green battalion or the Han army, and even the generals' families, so no matter when, they are the main force, even if they become the Qing army, they are still the main force. They know how important the queue of an army is, and the first thing that any strong army shows is the neatness of the queue. A team that can step out with such neat steps is definitely a strong army, and a team that can sing military songs so proudly is a strong army among strong troops, because they have confidence.
The Ming army in Guangdong was so strong that the captives were shocked, they thought that the second town of the Taiping army that defeated them and the cavalry with a strength of about 1,000 people were already the most elite team of the Taiping army, but now it seems that their idea was wrong, and the Taiping army had more second towns.
Perhaps in order to shock those Qing army captives, or to make the people of Wuzhou City have confidence in the Ming army, the third town entered the city with a very high posture, row after row, densely driven into the city from the city gate. The long procession is like a long dragon that never ends, stretching from the riverside a few miles away to the city of Wuzhou.
The singing never stopped.
The third town, the fifth town, the sixth town, the ninth, the tenth, the eleventh
In addition to the second town and the first cavalry that arrived in Wuzhou in advance, the main force of the Qin King of the Ming Army in Guangdong Province was divided into the city from the four gates of Wuzhou. Zhou Shixiang, the commander of the Taiping Army, entered the city at dusk under the escort of the Iron Man Guard and the 3,000 cavalry of the Guijian Cavalry Brigade.
The entry of the main force of the cavalry brigade of the Taiping Army, composed of Han, Manchu and Mongolian soldiers, made the entry into the city reach the highest. Tide, Iron Man Wei is covered in iron armor, walking on the road like a torrent of steel. The cavalry is all dressed in heavy armor, armed with cavalry guns, sabers, and three-eyed guns, which makes people feel irresistible when they look at it.
As former enemies, it was impossible for the Qing captives not to compare the Taiping army that entered the city with the Manchurian Eight Banners, but they agreed that the Taiping army from Guangdong was much stronger than the Manchurian soldiers.
The captives believed that the presence of the Taiping army would make the myth of the invincibility of the Manchurian soldiers a joke. In fact, this is already a joke, and the more than 2,000 Manchurian soldiers under the command of the Manchurian general Hahamu, together with tens of thousands of family members in Guangzhou, as well as the Manchurian prince who died in Huizhou, and a cadre of Ezhen, Dutong, and staff have proved that the Taiping Army is the strongest army in the world. Otherwise, they would not have appeared in Guangxi, outside the city of Wuzhou.
"I want to join the Taiping Army!"
Wang De no longer hesitated, when his companions were still shocked by the strong strength of the Taiping army, he chose the best time, that is, the young commander of the Taiping army suddenly shouted when he entered the city, and then cut his own braid with a stone.
Wang De's actions made Chen Wu stunned, and suddenly he thought of something, and he also waved his hands and shouted: "Handsome, handsome!" I used to be a Ming army, I want to be anyway, I want to kill the Tartars with the big handsome! ”
"We also want to join the Taiping Army, and we also want to kill the Tartars!"
All the captives were shouting, their braids were cut off from the back of their heads, and everyone had only one thought - to follow this strong army!
The shouts of thousands of captives resounded in the sky above the four city gates of Wuzhou at the same time, and resounded in the sky over the entire city of Wuzhou.
Zhou Shixiang grabbed the big green horse and swept his gaze to the Qing army at those gaps. He laughed, laughed happily. This is the first time that the Qing army did not take the initiative to join the Taiping Army under the circumstances of being forced or deceived, and since then, he no longer relies on what to use on his back to brand, cast his name or something to force the Qing soldiers to work for him, and he does not have to worry that these persecuted Qing troops will turn back, because the Taiping Army is so strong that the captives take the initiative to defect!
Zhou Shixiang beat his horse and galloped in front of the captives, raised his horsewhip, and shouted: "Do you know what it means to join the Taiping Army?" ”
The captives stared intently at the very young Taiping commander, and their breathing became rapid.
"It means that you will follow me from now on, fight with me against the Manchus to the end, and rise with me to the Ming Dynasty, and many of you may die on the battlefield! In the past, you were willing to be a lackey of the Manchu Dynasty, not just to survive, not to have something to eat, but now, why do you regret it and want to be a soldier of the Ming Dynasty again anyway? Why, tell me! ”
"Dashuai, I am from Guangdong, when the emperor left, I lost my backbone, and when I saw that everyone else had surrendered to the Tartars, we followed the officials to surrender to the Tartars. For several years, we have been following the officials to work for the Tartars, and we will do whatever they tell us to do, and in Liangguang, we have done a lot of bastard things, but now we don't want to go on like this. We want to join the Taiping Army, we want to fight the Tartars with the big commander, because we are also Han Chinese, and we don't want to work for other races anymore! In the past, we didn't have a chance, because we couldn't see hope, but today, we see the hope of Ming Zhongxing, we see the hope that we can defeat the Tartars, as long as the big man is willing to accept us, we will die on the battlefield and have a clear conscience! Wang De clenched his fists and shouted with a blushing face.
"The An army envoy under the commander always tells us how the Manchus bully us Han, in fact, they don't say it, we also know, because we are also victims, our relatives have not been harmed by the Manchus, we don't want to call the Manchus to oppress the scourge anymore, and we don't want to poison our compatriots, so we want to follow the Dashuai!"
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When someone shouted, more people shouted, and they shouted for many reasons, and their voices were also noisy, but their voices had only one content, that is, they wanted to follow the Taiping army to kill the Tartars.
"I believe in you, I will accept you!"
Zhou Shixiang pressed his heart and was excited, he glanced around at the captives, and said loudly: "From now on, you are a member of my Taiping Army, and I will lead you all the way down until you enter Beijing City, arrest those Manchu nobles from the Forbidden City, and behead them one by one in front of the noon gate!" From now on, let us Han people never be oppressed by foreign races, forever, no matter who they are! ”
"Long live Daming! Long live the Han Chinese! ”
Hearing that the commander of the Taiping army was willing to accept them, the Qing soldiers and prisoners suddenly shouted.
After their cheers subsided, Zhou Shixiang suddenly raised his whip and pointed to the west, shouting: "Now, you go with me to open the gates of Guilin, Xining, and Liuzhou to me one by one, and then follow me to Yunnan to poke Tartar's asshole!" (To be continued.) )