"Brother Chen, did you say that the thieves would come in?"

On the city wall, a young man named Fan Si carefully unloaded a piece of wood from his shoulder, and then looked at his companion behind him with a worried expression. Both of them were dragged by the Qing army yesterday to go to the city to assist in defending them.

Fan Si had just entered the city from the countryside at the beginning of the month, thinking that everyone in the city was almost dead, and many houses had become ownerless. Since it is an ownerless thing, it does not occupy white or nothing, so Fan Si also wants to occupy a house so that he can take his old lady from the countryside into the city to live together. But after entering the city, he found that all the good houses were occupied by people, and many of them were occupied by people from Guangzhou, and these people had a certain relationship with the government, where did he dare to offend.

can't occupy a good house, Fan Si can only find some other houses that are not dilapidated, how do you know that this house has not been found well, and Xinhui City is surrounded by thieves again!

Listening to the military masters of the green battalion, this time the thieves came no less than last year when the old thieves besieged the city, and the general soldier Wu Zhentai asked them to kill them in Guifeng Mountain, and the thieves and soldiers all came to the city, and none of the military masters in the green camp dared to go out of the city to fight them.

Fan Si was really afraid, he was very afraid that the thieves would enter the city this time, and then he, the strong man guarding the city, would definitely not escape death, because the gang in the green camp said that once the thieves broke the city, they would definitely slaughter the city, and at that time, regardless of the old, weak, women and children, all of them would be unable to escape death.

Thinking that if he died, the old lady in the countryside would have no one to take care of, Fan Si's intestines were all repentant, and he shouldn't have believed the words of the people in the neighboring village to come to this city to occupy a house, but now it's okay, the house is not occupied, and his life is not guaranteed.

That Brother Chen was not as scared as Fan Si, he rubbed his hands and said casually: "Don't worry." The thieves can't get in, and last year, the tens of thousands of thieves were defeated, and this time the thieves have a great momentum. Can you be better than the old thief? ”

As soon as he heard this, Fan Si's heart was relieved. Hurriedly nodded and said: "Also, when I was in the countryside, I heard that now the thieves belong to the old thief department and are the most capable of fighting, and now even the old thief can't take our Xinhui City, and others don't want to beat it." When he spoke, he didn't pay attention to the deep and terrifying face of Brother Chen.

The thieves can't get in, but what about the Qing army?

Looking at the group of green battalion soldiers who were lying on the city trample and looking out, somehow, Chen Yucai's eyelids jumped hard. Because he thought of the bones he had picked up with his own hands from a dry well in the city at the beginning of the year

The Qing troops on the city wall were still staring closely at the outside of the city, although the eyes of most people were not enough to see what the Taiping army on the other side was doing three miles away, but from the exclamations of their companions, they already had a rough idea of what the Taiping army was going to do next.

Some soldiers from the green battalion privately discussed: "Many of the captives are flag soldiers, how can the thieves be willing to kill?" With these flag soldiers, the old man can keep up with the head and exchange a lot of silver and food. ”

"Who knows, when the old thief came last year, it wasn't that he didn't capture the old man of the flag soldier, but no one heard that the old thief killed them, why did the thief kill him this time?"

The Green Battalion soldiers were talking about last year, when Li Dingguo's army entered Guangdong and captured many Han and Qing soldiers, but they did not kill them. Instead, these Han army flag captives were exchanged with Guangzhou for a batch of materials urgently needed by the Ming army, although this matter was hidden from the Qing court, but there is no impermeable wall in the world. At least the Qing army in Xinhui knew about it to some extent. If it weren't for the Manchurian soldiers from Beijing who arrived at the critical time of the siege and broke through the Ming army's defense line in one fell swoop, I am afraid that Xinhui City would have been captured by Li Dingguo.

"Don't shout, cheer up, the thieves will attack the city at any time, the medicine is loaded with cannons, and the eyes are bright for me, and the thieves will shoot them as soon as they move!"

With the bullet pressure of the officers. The Qing troops in the city all closed their mouths, each making the final preparations. Just wait for the thieves to attack the city and teach them a hard lesson.

"The thieves killed our brothers in front of us in order to frighten us. Brothers, don't be afraid, the old thieves have told us to defeat, and what can these thieves do to us! ”

"Wait for the thieves to come up, listen to the order to shoot cannons, don't tremble with your hands, shoot at the places where there are many of them, do you hear them!"

"I heard you!"

The gunners of the Han Army Banner responded with a bang, and compared to those green battalion soldiers, they did not have any fear of the thieves outside the city, nor did they have any sympathy for those captured companions.

Su Xianting, the leader of the blue flag who retrieved his life from Guifeng Mountain, was also in the city, but this would be looking at the outside of the city with a solemn face, and the embarrassed appearance when he fled for his life the day before yesterday was like two people.

"Tell General Zheng to let his people work harder, or don't blame my people for using knives!"

"Wow!"

One of his own soldiers, Goshha, immediately went to deliver the message. Listening to Su Xianting's words, Zheng Guodong didn't say anything, only snorted coldly.

Huang Zhizheng, the magistrate of the county, has taken the county and the officials down to the city, he is a scholar, he has no power to tie the chicken, and he can't get out of the city if he stays in the city, and the scene of the two armies fighting is still not good, so as not to see blood and stomach.

The county didn't dare to look at it, and the county didn't dare to look at it, they had mobilized all the remaining young men in the city to go to the city to assist in the defense, and prepared the food needed by the defenders, and the materials used to defend the city.

When going down the steps of the city wall, Huang Zhizheng suddenly asked the county Cheng: "The treasury silver has been brought over?" ”

"It's all here, just like last year, not a single copper plate was left, Huang Siling looked at it, and there was no mistake."

The county man didn't say anything, he subconsciously paused at his feet, glanced around, lowered his voice and said: "Just like last time, the adult's share has been sent to the inner hall." ”

Hearing this, Huang Zhizheng let out a faint "oh", and then slowly paced away with his hands behind his back. Seeing him like this, the county couldn't help but curse secretly, but his face was not obvious, so he hurriedly followed and said something else very attentively

Outside the city, Shao Jiugong couldn't wait, his face was a little hideous, and a little excited, his bloodthirsty eyes stared at the Qing army at the head of the city, under the gaze of countless pairs of eyes above and below the city, he raised his waist knife and waved it down.

"Chop!"

The green battalion soldier who couldn't tolerate the execution hesitated for the slightest, and the long knife in his hand slashed at the neck of the kneeling Han army flag soldier.

"Poof!"

The human head rolled to the ground at the sound of the sound, and the knife was so sharp that the flesh and blood were not half connected, and the flag soldier only let out a muffled snort before he died.

"Wan Sheng!"

As the first human head landed, there was a burst of cheers from the Taiping army. (To be continued)