The defeat is like a mountain, and this sentence is not false. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoNow the once mighty Taiping Army on the North Road, the elite of the Taiping Army led by Shi Dakai after the fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, has now become a bee.

Half a month ago, when hundreds of thousands of Taiping troops besieged Taiyuan, Zhao Ziyu led his troops to inflict heavy losses on the Taiping army.

Faced with this situation, Shi Dakai sensibly chose to avoid, but was attacked many times by Zhao Ziyu, the governor of Shanxi, so that when he withdrew from Shanxi, he lost nearly 100,000 troops.

The current Taiping Army of the North Road, a group here, a cluster there, three or three, two by two, the boundary of Suiyuan is full of Taiping troops on the North Road who have withdrawn from Shanxi.

The soldiers were covered in tatters, with sporadic hair and unshaven beards, some of them wearing only tattered socks with their toes exposed, and the cloth wrapped around their heads was also of various colors, some black, some yellow, and some red...... If it weren't for the long Taiping knife and a foreign gun in his hand, it would look like something called Hanako.

When the Taiping army on the North Road withdrew from Shanxi, it was attacked by Zhao Ziyu and beat badly. Not to mention the tens of thousands of casualties, a large amount of supplies were lost.

When entering Shanxi, as many as 500,000 Taiping troops on the North Road, now there are less than 300,000 left, because the Taiping army guarding Datong could not support it, defeated, discarded a large number of supplies, in a hurry, other Taiping troops, worried that the retreat route was cut off by the Han army that occupied Datong, and fled to Suiyuan.

Compared with the large population of the hinterland. There are almost no people on the road to Suiyuan. For the Taiping Army, which was accustomed to being the vanguard and preparing grain and grass on the spot, the lack of food was the most difficult.

Along the way, the soldiers of the Taiping army were hungry and cold, and they suffered a lot. At such a point, the rules of military discipline have also been thrown out of the clouds, and they often fight to the death for a bag of grain and a horse, and some even start to rob homes and houses.

Because Suiyuan is sparsely populated, and most of them are herdsmen, even if they rob their homes, all they can grab are some cattle and sheep. In the face of the sudden disaster, the Mongolian herdsmen drove their cattle and sheep and fled to the depths of the steppe. This made the Taiping army even more embarrassed.

On the dirt road pressed out by the prairie many years ago, dozens of routs walked over, and in front of his head walked a man with a revolver on his waist, he had his arms wide open, and his head was wrapped in a rag, and the blood path soaked out from under the rags, it seemed that the injury was not light, but he was not lagging behind others at all when he walked.

This group of men and horses, walking and walking, a small man shouted to the man:

"Brigade Marshal, I really can't drag my legs, sit down and take a breath."

Without waiting for Zhao Tianchao to speak, another soldier with his arm hanging answered:

"You've lived enough, kid, what's up? Han Jun is behind our ass, let him catch and skin you! ”

Compared with the past when they called the Qing army Qing demons, now they do not call the Han army demons, after all, they are also Han people. And now there are so many deserters. The reason for this is probably also because it is the Han people who are sitting in the world now.

The little man was choked like this, and immediately scolded:

"his grandmother, skinning is death, starving and breaking your intestines is death, running and breaking your leg is also death, horizontal and vertical is death, I'm afraid of a bird!"

The man beside him with his arm was grim-faced, and said:

"I never dreamed that our Taiping Army would be able to get to such a step today."

But no, what a hero the Taiping Army of the North Road was, even King Hong died, and their Taiping Army of the North Road went all the way to the north, if it weren't for bad luck, it is estimated that the capital would have been defeated at this time, and where would it be the turn of the Han Army.

Indeed, for them, even if they lose now, they are a little reluctant to lose. For them, they even felt that if it weren't for the Han army of the Northern Expedition suddenly occupying Datong, they would not have fled all the way west to Suiyuan like they are now.

"His grandmother's, if it weren't for the Han army suddenly coming, we wouldn't have come to this step in a while."

"Chicken handle, defeat is defeat, say a bear!"

As soon as the brigade commander said this, for a while, everyone stopped talking, but just sighed silently.

Looking at the dull appearance of the brothers around him, Zhao Tianchao first sighed, and then looked ahead, and suddenly he seemed to see something. Pointing to the distance, he shouted:

"Look, what's that?"

Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and saw that there seemed to be a village faintly on the grassland, and some cooking smoke was rising from there.

That Yan is obviously someone there, making a fire and cooking! For those who are already hungry, the smoke is life-saving.

Looking at the village and the smoke in the distance, Zhao Tianchao's eyes flashed, and he said excitedly:

"Brethren, now we are saved. Brothers, work harder, and let's go for food. ”

Everyone swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva, and those who saw hope suddenly came to their senses. The little man from before, too, swallowed his saliva and said:

"The horse's comparison, I haven't eaten for almost two days, so I drank a few sips of water, and my chest is attached to the back of my back, and this time I can eat a few sheep in one meal."

But now the crowd no longer had the strength to laugh, so they just stepped up their feet and walked briskly towards the village in the distance.

They had just arrived at the entrance of the village. I smelled the smell of meat, and smelled the fragrance coming from the air. The big guys kept snorting and ran towards a dirt fence on the edge of the village. The low part of the wall is only the height of a person's waist, and you can see clearly through the wall, more than a dozen Taiping soldiers are busy inside, a pot is steaming, and large pieces of meat are boiling in it.

The soldiers in the enclosure also saw Zhao Tian towards them at this time, straightened up and shouted:

"What are you doing?"

Zhao Tianchao replied outside the wall:

"Lao Tzu is His Royal Highness the Wing King. What are you doing? ”

One of the soldiers immediately replied:

"We are His Royal Highness King Jin."

The king of Jin is Liang Zuoshan, he led tens of thousands of elites of the Taiping army on the North Road to flee from Shaanxi to Shanxi, and made his own world in Shanxi. After Shi Dakai entered Shanxi, he was named the king of Jin, although he was nominally Shi Dakai, but he has always maintained a semi-independent situation.

When the little man heard this, he shrank behind Zhao Tianchao and whispered:

"Lu Shuai, the people of King Jin are all the same virtue as the people of Shanxi, and others want to pull something out of their mouths."

Another soldier with his arm hanging also showed timidity and said:

"It's the people of King Jin, all of them are more ruthless than one another, and all of them are ruthless characters, we can't afford to provoke them."

",!"

Zhao Tianchao swallowed his saliva, he was already extremely hungry, and scolded in a low voice,

"I'm afraid of a chicken! Look at Lao Tzu's eyes and act! ”

Dozens of people hula jumped into the fence. As soon as he saw someone rushing in, the soldiers in the earthen enclosure hurriedly picked up their knives and guns, and met them not to be outdone. One of them, a man with a scar on his cheek and the appearance of an official, came up and asked:

"What are you going to do?"

hugged his fist and saluted, Zhao Tianchao said:

"Brothers, I haven't eaten anything for two days, and I'm really hungry, but I'm all brothers in the same family, and we are blessed to share it, right?"

As he spoke, he pouted again at the pot and said,

"How about filling the belly a little bit, no."

The scarface said with a dark face:

"I'm sorry brother! If we had given you a cow in the past, we wouldn't have blinked, but now we can't do it, we haven't filled our bellies for several days, so we beat this wild sheep, it's not enough for us brothers to stuff their teeth, let's take care of each other's ......."

Before the words fell, Zhao Tianchao's revolver had already hit the waist eye of "Scarface", and said:

"Brother, that's sorry, since that's the case, then let's be hard."

That scarface is obviously not good at stubble, he shook his left hand, and with a sweep leg under his feet, Zhao Tianchao, who was not on guard, pounced and fell.

"Grandma's dare to do it!"

Zhao Tianchao's little man immediately scolded, took his gun and rushed forward, but let a stout man on the other side knock over the butt of his gun head-on. Zhao Tianchao rolled on the ground, and the gun in his hand rang out, hitting Scarface's chest.

For a while, a hundred or dozens of people shouted and scuffled into a ball. Because there were few people, the people of the king of Jin suffered a loss, but in a moment's effort, five or six died, and the other few jumped over the wall and ran away.

Seeing that the battle had been won, Zhao Tianchao and his subordinates immediately gathered around the pot, and saw that the mutton in the pot was rolling, and cheered, regardless of whether it was cooked or not, they each found something to fish. A soldier took out a bayonet and pricked a piece of meat from the pot and handed it to Zhao Tianchao, Zhao Tianchao opened his mouth wide and bit it, and it was so hot that he screamed "ah", but the meat did not spit out, he shhhed a few times in his mouth, straightened his neck and swallowed it hard.

There was some water in a basin next to him, and the soldier with his arm hurriedly scooped a bowl and brought it to Zhao Tianchao, Zhao Tianchao took it and drank it in one goo, and threw the bowl to the side.

Immediately after that, many soldiers jumped in from outside the fence, and there were five or six hundred of them, all of them holding foreign guns. One by one, they raised their guns and pointed at Zhao Tianchao viciously, and the leader shouted at the top of his voice:

"Don't move, Lao Tzu's gun doesn't recognize people!"

"Damn, don't let any of them go!"

Zhao Tianchao and his subordinates were all stunned for a moment, and the soldiers who came in scolded and rushed up to take down all the swords and guns in their hands, and then tied up the people again.

At this time, a man who was not burly walked in from the entrance of the fence, this person was holding a horse whip in his hand, his face was pale, his face was full of murder, his eyebrows were twisted into a pimple, he came to the front, looked Zhao Tianchao up and down, and asked coldly:

"Are you Li Wencai's people?"

Li Wencai is the general under Shi Dakai, and this person can see their identity just by looking at the number coats on their bodies.

"Yes."

"You killed Lao Tzu's people?"

"Hmm...... We killed it. ”

"What the hell!"

The whip in the man's hand swooped unceremoniously, and Zhao Tianchao immediately cracked a bloody hole in his chest, but he still stood as straight as a stake.

"Look for death!"

The man's teeth clenched, he glanced at Zhao Tianchao gloomily, waved his hand at a team of pistols behind him, everyone was equipped with two revolvers, and said:

"Cut! None of them were left, they were all cut down! ”

Turn around and walk outside.

The guard agreed, pulled out a big knife from his back, and stepped forward to press Zhao Tianchao and the others to their knees. Zhao Tianchao did not feel panicked in this regard, but turned his head and asked:

"Brother, who is this person?"

The Taipings, armed with broadswords, replied:

"You kid doesn't have long eyes, this is our king."

Zhao Tianchao knew that this was the King of Jin, and immediately took a breath, he didn't expect that the King of Jin actually looked no different from others, so he shouted loudly:

"His Royal Highness King Jin, we have a saying!"

Liang Zuoshan stopped at the door, twisted his neck and said:

"Say!"

In the past few years, he has become more and more like a general, and the temperament of a scholar has faded a lot.

"I and these brothers were a bad seed when we fought with the Qing Demon! If you don't die in Datong this time, it's a fate. Today's death in the hands of King Jin is not unjust. It's just that the brothers have been hungry for two days, and I beg His Royal Highness the King of Jin to see that the brothers of the same kingdom of heaven are fighting for their lives, and let us eat a few pieces of meat before we go on the road! The brethren don't want to be starving ghosts! ”

Slowly turned around, stared at Zhao Tianchao, and then tilted his chin to his hand and said:

"Let them eat!"

The guards with broadswords on their backs immediately stepped forward to loosen the ropes. Zhao Tianchao shouted to his men:

"Brothers, after eating this meat, let's go on the road together, and in the next life, we will still be brothers!"

Dozens of people screamed, rushed towards the iron pot, grabbed the meat from the pot and gnawed it. The meat was not yet fully cooked, and the group lowered their heads and kept tearing and shoving into their mouths. There was silence in the enclosure, and the sound of chewing meat and bones was heard very clearly. The people around only felt that their scalps were tingling, and they turned their heads one after another, and they couldn't bear to look at it any longer.

How hungry do you have to be to do this?

Liang Zuoshan came out of the fence, some tears were soaked out of the corners of his eyes, he lowered his head and thought for a long time, sighed and said to the people around him:

"Spare their lives."

With such a group of poor people, he naturally couldn't bear to kill them, even if they killed his subordinates.

The inspector Li Tianyang has been sticking his neck at the door of the fence and watching, and when he heard this, he scolded:

"it, our Taiping Army didn't walk sideways everywhere before, who knew that it would end up here today."

Liang Zuoshan shook his head incessantly and said:

"It's all here now, what else did you say yesterday."

Li Tianyang asked:

"His Royal Highness King Jin, what do you say we should do next?"

Glancing into the distance, Liang Zuoshan shook his head helplessly:

"What else can I do? Didn't you say it, go west! ”

"Heading west?"

Li Tianyang sneered.

"What's in that place? Nothing, do you want to eat or not, do you want to wear or not, where are you looking for death? ”

He's right. Out of Shanxi to the west are rabbits do not pee place, go there can not escape the hardship and suffering, just say that the current west to this thousand miles of journey, the yellow sand is long, flying sand and stones, think about the legs and stomach are weak. But now the question is that the Han army is in hot pursuit behind the buttocks, what way is there to go if it does not retreat west?

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