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The news that Guangdong sent people to report the victory to the Son of Heaven and brought more than 200 real Manchurian Tartar heads has long been in Kunming City.

Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang knew the news, outside the city has gathered a lot of officials and people who rushed to hear the news, if it is not for the special period in Kunming now, in and out of the city gate is strictly checked, I am afraid that more people come out of the city.

There were too many onlookers, afraid of no less than thousands, the Ming army guarding the city was afraid of any chaos, so they sent two thousand generals with a few teams of soldiers to maintain order outside the city, and the Kunming government also sent more than 100 officials to help, so as not to clean up if something really happened.

When Li Dingguo, the king of the Jin Dynasty, was the king of the Jin Dynasty and beheaded the Manchu prince Nikan, Kunming City was far behind, so he did not have much impression of these two great victories. Now with the Son of Heaven moving to Kunming, even the pawns in the market know the great changes that have taken place in the Ming Dynasty in the past ten years, and even the Manchurian Tartars who have seized the Ming Dynasty are also very curious, and they are naturally afraid of curiosity. They can't be afraid, because it is rumored that those Manchurian Tartars are beasts that eat people's hearts alive, and they will slaughter cities everywhere they go!

Now Guangdong suddenly came to report the victory, and sent more than 200 Manchurian Tartar heads to Kunming, the old and young masters in Kunming City naturally became a sensation, and they all wanted to see what this real Manchurian Tartar head looked like, is it more eyes or ears than our Han people, otherwise I liked to eat people so much yesterday?

The first to hear the news were the idlers who often wandered around the city gates, and these guys were very familiar with the soldiers guarding the gates. Find a familiar soldier and ask a little to find out what is happening outside the city, and then set up a friendship and go out of the city to see the excitement. But these guys usually act like good men in the city, but when they really see the Tartar heads that have just been taken from the wine jar. Half of it vomited on the spot. The remaining half covered their mouths and ran into the city as if they had seen a ghost, which made the people around them laugh in shame, and some of them even joked that they were useless.

Many of the onlookers were people who were ready to enter the city, some were visiting relatives, some were going into the city to buy things, and more were carrying vegetables from their own vegetable fields into the city to be sold, and there were also many people carrying firewood. There are also several caravans that run commercial goods to Kunming from all over the country. This will not go into the city, and watch the excitement there.

Seeing that the ranks of the Taiping Army stopped here, and surrounded many officers and soldiers, the people were naturally curious. As a result, like those idlers, the people were also shocked when they saw the piles of people who were stacked like a small Jingguan. Even the butcher panicked when he saw it. After all, with so many heads in front of them, the scene was really scary, and I was panicked in broad daylight.

Some women have seen such a terrible scene, and they are stunned on the spot, and they are ignorant and forced to squeeze in to see the lively children, and they are scared and crying. The people of the Ma Gang walked through the mountains and rivers on weekdays, and they ate like food on the edge of a knife, but few of them were frightened, but they were pointing at it. It seems to be saying that the real Manchurian Tartars look nothing more than that, nothing to be afraid of.

Stunned stunned. Scared and crying, looking at the vomit, and when they inquired again, they knew that these heads were the Manchurian Tartars who had seized the Ming Dynasty, and the people naturally burst into cheers.

The people of the same clan and the same hatred are most vividly expressed in these people, even if these people outside Kunming have not been harmed by the Tartars, but they still subconsciously shout good, not for anything else, just because they are also Han people.

The Han people and the alien Tartars have been inseparable since ancient times, either you die or I live.

Of course, the crowd of onlookers is not all Han Chinese, Yunnan is located in a remote place, there are many tribes in the territory, these tribes controlled by Tusi for the Ming Dynasty, for the Yongli Emperor is mostly supportive, but there are also a few in Sun Kewang after the invasion of Yunnan with contact, in a vain attempt to act as an internal response, and a few fantasies can be the same as Shadingzhou to be the king of Yunnan. The people of these tribes mixed in the crowd, and when they saw the heads of the Manchurian Tartars, they also had different thoughts.

There were also many officials in the crowd of onlookers, but most of them were petty officials in green robes, and they didn't see a single red-robed official, and they all hurried over to see the Manchurian Tartars after hearing the news. Most of them are not from Yunnan Province, but from other provinces who came all the way from Zhaoqing with Emperor Yongli, some from Liangguang, some from Jiangxi and Fujian, and even some from Beizhili, most of whom are in their thirties and forties.

Seeing with my own eyes the heads of the Manchurian Tartars placed in front of them, many of these low-grade officials actually shed tears, although they were civil officials, but none of them were stunned by these heads, and no one vomited for them, they all gritted their teeth and looked at the Tartar heads. From their expressions, it can be seen that each of them has a tragic past behind them that they can't bear to look back.

The more onlookers there were, the more excited Liang Shuanghu and his men became, because this would allow them to show the people of Yunnan the great exploits of the Taiping army.

Before coming, when Zhou Shixiang summoned Liang Shuanghu and Guo Shaoshi, he also repeatedly emphasized that he would not only escort these Tartar heads to Kunming this time, but more importantly, after arriving in Kunming, he should do everything possible to promote the prestige of the Taiping Army to the officials and the people, so that the people of Yunnan would know that there was a Taiping army in Guangdong that was no worse than the elite soldiers under the command of King Jin.

Previously, in order to hide his identity and evade the Qing army's investigation, Liang Shuanghu had no chance to publicize it, but now he finally had the opportunity, and he felt sorry for himself without showing off. On several occasions, he would casually lift one or two Tartar heads and shake them at the people and officials around him, telling them how they had been defeated by them and how their heads had been cut off.

Liang Shuanghu tried to show the "martial arts" of the Taiping Army to the people of Yunnan, but Guo Shao was a little anxious, the previous general said that he had entered the city to report for them, but after so long, there was no movement in the city.

When he came, Song Xianggong told Guo Shao that this time he went to Kunming to offer victory, and the Son of Heaven would definitely meet him as a good envoy and ask for the details of the war in Guangdong, and then there would be a reward as usual, but how the imperial court arranged for them to report to the Son of Heaven, Song Xianggong himself did not know, so he only wanted Guo Shao to cooperate with the imperial court after he arrived at the place.

Now that he has been waiting at the gate of the city for so long, but there is still no movement in the city, Guo Shao is inevitably suspicious and guessing.

The Ming army guarding the city outside the city and the officials who rushed to hear the news also felt strange, the team from Guangdong had been coming for half an hour, even if it was delayed any longer, the officials in charge of the court should have arrived, there was no reason for the team to wait outside the city for so long.

What is the imperial court doing, doesn't this kind of practice chill the hearts of the soldiers!

The officials whispered, dissatisfied with the delay in the arrangements made by the princes of the imperial court.

Liang Shuanghu was also impatiently waiting, and was about to ask what was going on with the Ming army defending the city, but there was a roar from the crowd: "Coming, coming, coming!" ”

What's coming?

Liang Shuanghu looked at the city gate, and in his sight, he saw two sedan chairs coming out of the city gate, and the sedan chair man walked quite quickly, obviously the officials in the sedan chair were urging him. Behind the sedan chair was a large group of officials, and looking at their panting appearance, they knew that this road must not stop.

After the sedan chair fell, two red-robed officials walked out of the sedan chair, and then walked to this side one after the other, and the Ming army guarding the city saw that the two of them were saluting. The previous lieutenant general, Liang Mingyuan, also came with him.

When Liang Shuanghu saw this posture, he knew that these two people must be big officials, so he asked Guo Shao: "Who are they?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense, the one in the red robe must be a big official, let's wait." Guo Shao motioned to Liang Shuanghu not to talk nonsense and wait patiently.

These two were none other than the cabinet assistant Fu Gang and the university scholar Guo Zhiqi, and they both rushed over after the cabinet heard the news.

More than 200 real Manchurian Tartars were beheaded, more than 800 Han army banner soldiers were captured, more than 3,000 green battalion soldiers were captured, and thousands of battalion soldiers and more than a dozen Manchurian soldiers were captured.

Guo Zhiqi was even more happy that the Taiping army was able to win two victories over the Qing army near Guangzhou, and also sent the head of the real Manchurian Tartar and the captured Manchurian military flag to the imperial court. If you talk about rewards, the chief soldier of the Taiping Army, Zhou Shixiang, has meritorious, the governor of Guangdong, Lian Chengbi, and he is even more meritorious, but Guo Zhiqi and Fugang went out of the city together not for any merit, but to see with their own eyes the heads of the 214 real Manchurian Eight Banner soldiers.

After Fu Gang and Guo Zhiqi arrived, the people knew that it was the big official who came, so they automatically separated to both sides, and under the escort of the officers and soldiers, Fu Gang and Guo Zhiqi came to the convoy of the Taiping Army.

"Test!"

Fu Gang didn't say a word to Liang Shuanghu and Guo Shao, so he eagerly ordered several military officials who came with him to re-examine their heads.

The officials of the military department thought that they were also familiar with this kind of thing, and when they saw so many people swinging their heads, they all took a breath of cold air at first, and then one of them picked up the head of a Manchurian soldier and examined it. Check one, nod once, and after a while, 214 heads will be verified one by one. After checking the captured Manchurian Eight Banners military flags, several military officials excitedly reported to Fugang that it was indeed correct.

In fact, Fu Gang knew that he couldn't be wrong from the expression of the military department official when he first tested a few heads, but he still waited patiently until the end, and when it was finally decided, the excited Fu University Scholar no longer knew what to say, and at this moment, there were no words to describe the joy and excitement in the heart of this cabinet deputy assistant. If it weren't for the respect of the elders, the people were watching, but I was afraid that the scholars would have jumped up with cheers.

Guo Zhiqi was also full of smiles, looking at the Taiping Army and the more he looked at it, the more pleasing it became, especially when he saw Guo Shao dressed as a literati, he was even more cordial, and asked him with a smile: "You are the envoy sent by Zhou Shixiang?" (To be continued.) )