The dark and quiet Mopan Street seemed to be uninhabited, and the usual bustle was gone, and there was no light in the darkness.

After the Taiping army entered the city and broke the Pingnan Palace, these Han army families were in panic, they closed the door of the house, the elderly men stood behind the door, and the women hid in the house with their children shivering.

The women were timid, and when they were tired of crying, they sighed and shhh The men gritted their teeth and sat in the courtyard, smoking pot after pot of tobacco pouches, but their hearts could not be calm, and like the women, they were also afraid.

Men and women, all the families of the Han army are afraid, they are all afraid of the imminent revenge of the Ming Dynasty soldiers, and they are all begging God to bless them to avoid this catastrophe.

However, the heavens did not hear their prayers, and those who should have come will come, and suddenly there was a sound of footsteps in the calm street, and the sound of blades and armor clashing resounded throughout the entire mill street.

"Team A goes to the east, Team B goes to the west, seal all the street exits, clear one by one, and don't miss a single household!"

"Order!"

The Taiping army outside responded unscrupulously, but the groups went in different directions. As if deliberately to frighten the families of the Han army who were hiding in the dark, the Taiping soldiers walked extremely loudly, and from time to time knocked their blades on the walls and stone slabs, and even dragged the spearheads of their spears on the ground, making a grinding sound.

Fear spread rapidly in the darkness, and the eyes hidden in the darkness were full of horror.

"Mother, they're coming. They're coming, they're coming to kill us."

The daughter-in-law Li looked at her mother-in-law with a frightened face, and her mother-in-law was also afraid. Holding the little grandson in her arms tightly with both hands, she was afraid that the Ming Dynasty soldiers outside would take the little grandson from her arms when they came in.

"Grandma, you're strangulating me."

The little grandson was hugged too tightly by the grandmother, and felt uncomfortable and whispered, the grandmother hurriedly let go of her hand, and the grandson threw herself into the mother's arms unhappily, but heard the mother seem to be crying. Although the voice is soft, I am really crying.

"Boss"

Grandma turned her face to look at her husband who was sitting on the threshold outside the house, and the almost 60-year-old Yan heard the mother-in-law's shout. Trembling, he put down the dry tobacco pouch, picked up a big knife resting on the side of the door, and slowly walked towards the courtyard door.

"Don't go out, don't go out no matter what happens!"

Old Yan's heart was beating wildly. The big knife in his hand that he snatched from the Ming army when he entered the customs with the Manchurians in his early years also trembled slightly.

"Bang bang bang!"

There was a heavy knock on the door outside the courtyard gate. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, who had been worried about it for a day, stood up in horror at the same time.

Old Yan stood there staring at the courtyard gate in a daze, his heart rose to his throat, as if he saw the courtyard gate being slammed open the next moment, and then rushed into a large group of Taiping troops, cut him to the ground, and then went to arrest his daughter-in-law and grandson.

Old Yan didn't dare to imagine that scene, he stood there in great fear, but he didn't see the courtyard door being smashed open, but heard a strange voice from outside the door.

"Open the door! We are from Guangzhou Prefecture. On the order of the general army of Guangzhou in the Ming Dynasty, I came to check Dingkou, and opened the door quickly! ”

Inventory Dingkou?

Old Yan Tou was puzzled for a moment. He was even more frightened, he remembered that thirty years ago, outside the Guan, Dajin's Belle lords also used this name to deceive those Liaodong Han people from their homes, and then killed them one by one. That time, 3 million Han Chinese were slaughtered.

Bah!

Old Yan stared at the courtyard gate and secretly sighed, what kind of inventory Ding Kou, it's not to kill us!

This Taiping Kou is also doing this too much, and it is not better to directly ask us to go somewhere to concentrate, and it is troublesome to kill us from house to house.

Old Yan Tou was a little desperate, he knew that he couldn't be the opponent of the tiger and wolf soldiers outside, he didn't hate the Ming soldiers who wanted to kill them, he just felt wronged, and he didn't know why this retribution fell on them, not on those Manchurians.

My Yan family is also Han! Why did the Han kill the Han Chinese?

Old Yan's breath suddenly leaked, he sat down weakly on the ground, and he thought of this courtyard.

This courtyard of the Yan family was robbed by the son of the old Yan head a few years ago, and the owner of the yard was killed by his son, and the female corpses in the well in the backyard were also fished up by the old Yan head, otherwise the well would be ruined. Such a good yard would be worthless if there was no well.

Alas, iniquity, retribution

Old Yan Tou smiled bitterly

The people outside saw that the door was not opened for a long time, and they were impatient, and another unfamiliar voice shouted: "He. . . Damn, I know you're hiding inside, and if you don't open the door again, we'll smash it! ”

What to do, what to do?

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the house watched in horror as their husbands (fathers-in-law) sat motionless on the ground.

After the courtyard door was knocked again, under the frightened eyes of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, Lao Yantou suddenly got up and threw the big knife in his hand on the ground, and then ran behind the door in a panic, and opened the courtyard door tremblingly.

After the courtyard gate was opened, seven or eight Taiping soldiers wearing red military uniforms, swords at their waists, pointed felt hats on their heads, and torches in their hands rushed in.

A soldier shook the torch in his hand at Lao Yan's face and scolded angrily: "We knocked on the door for a long time, why don't you open the door!" ”

"Little old man, I" Lao Yan didn't know how to answer, so he could only bow his head and almost plead: "The military master of the Ming Dynasty, the whole family of the little old man is a good citizen, and they are all obedient people of the Yongli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and I ask the military master to spare my whole family!" After speaking, he fell to his knees and kowtowed his head violently.

"Good people? Are there good people in the Han army flag? ”

The Taiping Army Xiaoqi who led the team glanced at Lao Yan, and also saw the big knife placed on the stone table, and laughed, but did not step forward to kill the other party, but said to a small official of the Guangzhou Mansion who was also scared after him: "Question!" ”

"Alas!"

The little official came to the old Yan head with a hard head, holding a register in one hand and a brush in the other, and said to the old Yan head: "What is your son's name?" ”

"Back to the military master, my son's name" Old Yan raised his head and looked at the little official hesitantly.

The Taiping Army Xiaoqi next to him shouted: "What's it called?" Say it! ”

Old Yan Tou was startled, didn't dare to hesitate, and hurriedly said, "My son's name is Yan Chongxian." ”

The little flag nodded and instructed the little official: "Write it down." ”

The little official hurriedly took the note and asked Lao Yantou: "How many people are in your family?" ”

"There are four people in the little old family, the old two have a daughter-in-law, and a six-year-old grandson." After the old Yan Tou finished speaking, he glanced into the room worriedly.

When the little flag saw the old Yan's movements, he sneered in his heart, but he ordered the little official: "Write down the names of all the people in his family." ”

"Yes."

The little official didn't dare to delay, and asked the old Yan head one by one. Every time he said a person's name, Lao Yan was scared to death, but he couldn't help but say it. After the little official wrote down the names of his family, the old Yan waited anxiously for the Taiping army to deal with them, he was afraid that the other party would take them out, which meant that retribution was coming.

I didn't want the Taiping army to be unbannered, but he led his men to retreat, and when he was at the gate of the courtyard, he turned to Lao Yan and said: "If your son is willing to come back, your family will be fine, if you refuse to come back, your family will die." (To be continued.) )