This is the most magnificent era in China's 5,000-year history.

The Chinese nation, mired in the swamp of humiliation, is undergoing unprecedented changes.

Ahead of him are the murderous and barbaric colonial powers,

Behind him is a backward and corrupt feudal dynasty,

He is just an ordinary person from modern times.

- "The Rise of the First Sino-Japanese War"

The Qing army, which was unable to seize the northern front, was unwilling to be trapped alive, and under the command of Prince Jian Jidu, they once again stormed Lufeng City. The Qing army knew the predicament at this time, if they couldn't take Lufeng City, they would be starved to death, so in order to survive, the Qing army was desperate, and the offensive was very fierce.

The Taiping army and Huizhou soldiers in the city fought back bravely under the command of Tie Yi, the second town of the Taiping army, no one on both sides refused to back down, this battle was only fought for more than two hours, the corpses under the city piled up into a mountain, the Qing army suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and the Taiping army suffered more than 1,000 casualties. The city gate was in danger several times, but it was saved several times.

In the evening, a cavalry brigade that maneuvered between Lufeng and Haifeng appeared on the right flank of the Qing army under the leadership of the town general Shao Chengguo, so that Jidu had to divide the Mongol troops to intercept the Taiping cavalry, so as not to be attacked by the other side of the Chinese army.

More than 1,000 soldiers of Shao Chengguo's army and Mongolian soldiers of the same strength launched a cavalry hedge on the plain, but the result was that they were defeated by the Mongols, and after hundreds of casualties, Shao Chengguo led his troops to break away from contact with the Qing army and retreat in the direction of Haifeng.

At this time, the Qing army besieging the city was also tired, unable to attack for a long time, and suffered heavy casualties, so that the Qing army once again lost the courage to attack the city. The victory of the cavalry did not change their predicament, after dark. Jidu had no choice but to order the troops to be withdrawn, and the next day, under the persuasion of Bel Dueryou, Jidu ordered the whole army to retreat to Jieshiwei and wait for help.

Jieshiwei is a fort built by the Ming army in order to guard against enemies at sea. The surrounding land is all saline, and it is impossible to grow crops, and the people who used to live in Jieshiwei were fishermen who made a living from fishing. In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, after Jieshiwei was occupied by the peasant army Su Cheng, it was first attacked by the Ming army in Huizhou, and later because Su Cheng refused to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, it was attacked by the Qing army in Chaozhou and Huizhou. After more than ten years of war, the fishermen who have lived in Jieshiwei for generations have not been killed by the rebels. is to leave his hometown with his wife and move to live elsewhere.

After the Taiping army retreated from Chaozhou, it implemented a strong wall in Huizhou, and the original Su Chengbu family members who lived in Jieshiwei and the people of Lufeng who depended on the Su family were all withdrawn by the Taiping army, leaving only a few hundred old and weak women and children who refused to leave. After the Qing army occupied Jieshi, they slaughtered these old and weak women and children. But he didn't have time to transfer the military rations from Chaozhou. After Ji Du led the remnants to retreat to Jieshiwei, in order to save military rations, he ordered the slaughter of the people who accompanied the army, resulting in the tragic death of more than 1,700 people on the seaside. The carcasses were carried into the sea by the tide and became the food for fish and shrimp. Some of the bodies were not carried into the sea by the sea. It was just resting on the beach, and within two days it was soaked and swollen, and from a distance, it looked like a big fish lying on the beach. Under the scorching sun, the corpse began to decompose, emitting a foul smell, and the maggots in it wriggled and miserable. This beach has also become a forbidden place that the Qing army did not dare to come. At night, there always seemed to be someone crying in the howling of the sea breeze, which made the Qing soldiers who were so murderous also have a numb scalp. Don't dare to look at the empty beach.

When carrying out the order to massacre the people, Liu Zhong, the general soldier of Guide, and Zhang Chaoduo, the general soldier of Nanyang, kept an eye on it, they did not fully carry out Jidu's order to kill the people, but secretly let them go, telling them to run to Lufeng City in the south or Xuanwu Mountain in the north, and the Taiping army would not embarrass these people. This resulted in more than 1,000 people, many of whom became members of the Taiping Army, and later avenged their tragic deaths at the hands of their comrades at the hands of the Qing army.

A large number of massacres of civilians and the rations saved by the Qing soldiers who died in the battle made the grain and grass of the Qing army able to support from the original ten days to one month, which made the Qing army uneasy, but it was no longer as frightened as before, always thinking that the reinforcements would definitely arrive, as long as they held on. However, as time passed, the Qing army did not see any reinforcements coming. Dasu in Fujian did not seem to know about the great changes that had taken place in Guangdong, and no gunfire could be heard in the north. Seeing that the military rations were running out day by day, Jidu panicked, the generals of his subordinates also panicked, and the soldiers began to panic.

On March 18, Jidu suddenly ordered to stop the supply of rations to the soldiers of the Zhili battalion and told them to go out of Jieshiwei Fort to collect food.

Food?

The soldiers of the Zhili battalion were angry, although this ghost place is dozens of miles big, the food may have been looted by the Taiping Army, and there are wild vegetables on the mountain, but that thing can fill the stomach and make it hungry?

This is to leave our Zhili soldiers alone, this is to let our Zhili soldiers fend for themselves!

The Tongzhou soldiers who were unwilling to starve to death held the general soldiers hostage and wanted to rush into the Weizhong granary to snatch the military rations, but they were cut down by the Mongolian soldiers who had already been prepared, and Zhang Dan also called the Mongolian soldiers to slash and kill in the chaos, and the remnants of hundreds of Tongzhou soldiers fled to the fort crying wolf, and some ran to the sea in a panic, and the result was that the Mongolian soldiers were driven into the sea alive and drowned. About 300 Tongzhou soldiers and more than 200 Zhending soldiers ran to Xuanwu Mountain, desperately running towards the Taiping army defense line in the north of the mountain. More than 100 Zhili soldiers ran to Lufeng and were contained by the Taiping army in the city.

After Yang Zhenwei, the chief soldier of Zhending, knew that his subordinates had asked the Mongolian soldiers to drive out of the fort, he vomited a mouthful of blood and passed out, but after waking up, he couldn't say anything, and he was so angry that he had a stroke. Yang Zhenwei, who had suffered a stroke, had no one to take care of him, and no one paid attention to him, and he was found dead in the house a few days later, his body emitting a foul smell, but it was not caused by decomposition, but the urine and urine that could not take care of himself stuck to his body.

The dignified general soldier died so miserably, but he was also the first person in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The fate of the Zhili Green Camp made the Henan Green Camp and the Chaozhou Green Camp also sad, and they began to escape. In the beginning, only a few bold battalion soldiers secretly escaped, but later there were dozens or hundreds of escapes, and even thousands of officers at the general level also secretly escaped. On the 24th, there was a fugitive Gao in the green camp in Henan. A scene of the tide -- Liu Zhong, the chief soldier of Guide, and Zhang Chao, the chief soldier of Nanyang, led all the battalions under them to flee to Xuanwu Mountain at night to surrender to the Taiping army, including 13 generals and 1,650 soldiers of the green battalion below the general army.

The Chaozhou soldiers did not run, and when the Henan soldiers ran, they were the first to notify the Mongolian soldiers and the Manchu soldiers. But the "righteousness" of the Chaozhou soldiers was exchanged for the slaughter of them by Prince Jane's guards Goshha.

Zhang Xianyong, the deputy general of Chaozhou, shouted loudly on the neck of the Mongolian soldier's knife frame and wanted to go to Prince Jian to complain, but the Mongols did not listen to his defense at all. Or cut off his head. At the moment when his head hit the ground, Zhang Xianyong saw the figure of Prince Jian Jidu and Du Nahai, but the two did not say a word about Zhang Xianyong's killing.

Jidu knew that Zhang Xianyong was wronged, and he also knew that the Chaozhou soldiers did not collude with the Henan soldiers, but he still ordered Su Rile to slaughter the Chaozhou soldiers, because he had no surplus grain and grass to supply these Han people

Alta is a distant relative of the Mongol Lindan Khan, and according to the generation of the Han Chinese, he is also the distant uncle of the current Chahar king Abnai. Since the first king Ezhe was broken by the Manchurians and surrendered. The Great Khan of Manchuria was very enthusiastic about Chahar on the surface. In fact, it is to draw and limit the land, and try to weaken the blow by all means. Every time you go out to fight. The Manchurians are all less conscripted by other tribes, and the Chahar is more and more conscripted, and there are fewer and fewer men, cattle and sheep in the tribe, and the big and small Taiji are full of complaints. Although the current prince Abunai is not happy in his heart. But I didn't dare to make a sound. Fearing that the princess, Makata, the daughter of the Manchurian Hongtai Khan and the sister of the current Qing Emperor, would return to her parents' house to complain. The wolf on the prairie and the eagle under the sky have now become a nest of people who are afraid of their wives, which is really unusual.

This Manchurian is really not a thing, his mouth is full of Meng, and his back is all bad. Let's just say that this time, it was obviously he Jian Wang Ye who lost the battle, and everyone was starved by the long-haired Han people in this ghost place. The rest of the grain was still in the hands of the Manchurians, and the Manchurians ate double portions. The Mongols can only eat a small portion, and there is still no meal. Hungry to the cow's recorded son's howl.

Aletta was angry, and ran outside the tent to shout and curse a few words, but he was resented by the guy, and one day he whipped himself in public under the pretext of being drunk in the army. Ezhen Surile was afraid that Aletta would not swallow this breath, so he started fighting first in the big camp, so he asked Jidu for a dispatch, and ordered Aletta to take the remaining more than 300 dolls from the four disabled Niu Lu out of the camp and send them to Lufeng to guard against the sneak attack of the long-haired Han people in the south.

said that it was a precaution, in fact, everyone knew that the long-haired Han people would not come out at all at this time, they were very cunning, knowing that the Qing army was running out of food, and they could not capture their cities, so they waited for the Qing army to starve to death, so as to avoid their own casualties. The Taiping army really dared to go out of the city and fight a decisive battle with the Qing army, not to mention others, Aletta was confident that he would definitely be able to wipe out these southern barbarians cleanly.

Since the attack on Wuzhen Chaoha in the back road, the army has been trapped here for more than 20 days, and the food is about to run out. In order to save food, the prince of Manchu first ordered the killing of the people's husband, and then drove the green camp, in order to save all the grain to supply the Manchu and Mongolian children. But even so, the rest of the food will not last long.

Ezhen Su Rile asked people to go hunting on Xuanwu Mountain, hunt some livestock back so that they could get some meat to eat, and at first they could catch a pheasant and wild boar and the like, but after two days the wild boar was gone, and the long-haired Han people came. A dozen unlucky hunters had their heads cut off and thrown back into the camp by the horsemen on the other side, and the rest refused to go into the woods again to die. Later, a stupid person came up with a bad idea that he could go to the sea to catch fish, and he was really angry and took a big mouth: Our Mongolian children have been born forever, and we have seen which one can go to the sea!

If you can't hunt or catch fish, you'll have to starve. The Manchurians thought of finding an opportunity to break through the siege, and they were not allowed to kill war horses in the camp, and they also searched out the few bean cakes for the horses to eat. The Mongolian sons and daughters who watched were all complaining, how good it was to have this food for people to eat, and this horse was useful for eating. If this horse is really useful, does it need to be trapped here! It won't be long before you have no food to eat and you don't want to kill the horse, it's a waste to feed an extra bite!

What the top thinks, Aletta doesn't care, he doesn't want to be filthy by the Manchurian capital anyway, and it doesn't matter if he is sent to Lu Feng's side, it is also a bit of a Tiangao emperor.

The Mongolian men who came down from the steppe were all very straightforward, and they did not have the bad minds of the Manchurians. If you're hungry, you have to eat, what to eat? Eat horses!

Hungry, Hugh said that the order of the prince of Manchuria, even the order of his own flag lord is a fart!

On the night of Lu Feng's arrival, Aletta asked his subordinates to find a few old horses to kill, wash them and put them on the fire for barbecue, and everyone ate meat around the fire, as if they were back on the grassland of Chahar's hometown in a trance.

Although there was not much food, there was still wine to be brought. Mongolian men are good wine. It's so easy to have a meal of meat, how can you live without wine? They untied the milk wine in their skins and poured it down. After drinking the first big head, I don't know who took the head. sang Humai, and sang so that the children were homesick, crying and screaming. The Taiping Kou on the opposite side used to hold a banquet at the head of the city every day to eat and drink to clear the soldiers, but now he was a little stunned when he saw the Mongols singing and crying at this barbecue party.

After a day, my stomach was hungry again. Aletta wanted the doll to kill the horse again, but the Taiping Kou in Lufeng City on the opposite side sent a messenger over, saying that he wanted to discuss with them.

Aletta is a Mongol. In the past, he traded with the Han merchants in Shanxi, so he knew a little about the Chinese dialect in the north, so he asked Erlang to escort the envoy over for questioning. But the long-haired Han man's Nanban accent was too strong, and the two pointed fingers and gestured for a long time before Aletta realized that Taiping Kou was going to trade rice noodles with him for military horses.

Aletta was a little hesitant, trading military horses with the Taiping army was a deadly deal. Let the Manchurians know that it is a great disaster. Not only will he be beheaded. The cattle and sheep of the family will be distributed to other tribes. But looking at the dolls next to him who were so hungry that their faces were yellow and thin, and when they looked back, they thought that anyway, the horses were killed and the wine was drunk, which one was not a capital crime banned in the army? He Jian Wang Ye himself can't jump for a few days, what do you want so many mothers-in-law and mothers-in-law to do?

At that moment, Aletta gritted his teeth, took the idea, agreed to the messenger's sale of the horse, and bargained again. The Mongolian man is not fake, and he is straightforward. It's not that he doesn't know how to do business, and Aletta has done everything he killed. Naturally, I don't want to suffer too much.

Unexpectedly, the envoy was the same as those merchants in Shanxi, very cunning. The mule had to pay eight taels of silver a head, and he was embarrassed to say that four war horses were only exchanged for a hundred catties of white rice! At that moment, the straight-hearted man of Aletta was so angry that he pulled out a knife and cut people on the spot!

However, the intestines are straight, and now they are asking for this group of thieves, and the taste of hunger is not pleasant. Aletta's anger was swallowed alive in his stomach, and he tried his best to squeeze a smile on his face, so that he could look more honest, and beg the profiteers to give him more. In the end, the chickens and ducks talked for a long time, and the messenger became impatient, and finally set the price of 100 catties of rice for two war horses and returned to the city.

The price is no longer negotiable, just change it, don't do it and leave. The messenger's nostrils were facing the sky, and his attitude was very arrogant, and if Aletta didn't do this business, he would miss this shop, and there was no store in the lower village that could do this business with you. Then you will be trapped for ten days and a half months, and then I am afraid that it will be ten horses to exchange for 100 catties of rice, if you don't change it, kill the horse and eat it, although the horse meat is full, but if you eat it at once, hehe, who knows what it tastes like.

Aletta blackened his face, pinched his nose and admitted the deal, there was no way, he didn't do it, but the dolls under his command wanted to do it.

After a while, Taipingkou pushed a few carts out of the city, and Aletta also asked ten horses to come over. A little test on both sides, it is really white rice, not mixed with sand and soil in it. The Mongolian men couldn't help but smile, and they were able to eat a full meal with their stomachs open.

The two sides of this back and forth are also familiar with each other, and Taiping Kou knew that the Mongols were hungry for wine, and two days later set the price of a horse and two jars of rice wine. When the wine was delivered, he also brought an extra bite of the pig and said that it was for everyone's friendship. was so moved that the men on the grassland shed tears: compared to the Manchurians, the long-haired Han people are really fair and righteous, one day and one earth! That night was another feast, drunk.

The next day, there was another envoy from the opposite city, but it was a Han official wearing a Ming Dynasty uniform. Aletta's attitude was much better this time, and he hurriedly invited the official into the tent, and presented Maza to sit and talk. The officer sat down with his hands arched, and took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to himself, and Aletta took it and opened it, but he could not read a single word.

The official saw that the Mongolian leader was holding the letter, and he didn't know what he was reading, so he couldn't help but laugh at the moment. coughed and said: "Our Emperor Ming is a Buddha, and even ants refuse to step on it; Although our family Xingping Bo is a military general, he is also a good person who eats fasting and worships Buddha. This time the two countries fought a war, each of which was originally its own master, and did not blame you Mongols. The Manchurians are too hateful, that is, they are defeated and wait for death, and they eat more and you eat less, what is the reason? My uncle saw that you were starving here with the Manchurians, so he called the official to pass on a message to the leader. If you are willing to come to join our Taiping Army, your uncle will treat him as his own son, and he will never learn from the Manchurians' partiality and bad intentions. Officials or officials, soldiers or soldiers, there are white flowers of rice and noodles to eat on weekdays, and they will be rewarded with wine and meat every other day. Don't hide it from the leader, there are many Manchurians in my Taiping Army, and whoever works hard, his uncle has given it to the big officials, and he is very happy. Zuo Ling is also a good man, why should he give his life to the Manchurians? If you come to join our army, it will be the first merit anyway, and there must be a general to do it, no better than starving to death here?! ”

Listening to what the official said, Aletta felt quite reasonable, but when he thought that the Qing Dynasty had strict laws, he didn't dare to agree. The Han official smiled slightly, as if he knew what he was thinking, and then said, "Zuo Ling is afraid that the Manchurians will harm your family, right?" It doesn't matter, when the time comes, Zuo Ling will change my Daming clothes, cut off the braids, and change your name and surname, who knows that you are Mongolian? That is, if you know later, how can you tell whether you are Korqin, Bahrain or Uliangha? This time, don't even think about running away from any of these people, when the time comes, the whole army will be wiped out, and the Manchurian court will have to give your family a pension silver? …… Well, to put it bluntly, as long as you don't say it yourself, my uncle doesn't say it, and the Buddha doesn't say it, who can know? ”

"Hmm..."

The official's words made Aletta very moved, although the Qing army can hold out for some time, but as long as the reinforcements do not arrive, it will definitely not be able to hold on. If the Manchurian prince died, even if their Mongols had a life to run back, would the Manchurian court be able to spare them?

Thinking about it, there is a dead end on the left and right, so it's better to just do the opposite, and show the dolls a way to live!

Aletta was sure, so he asked Erlang to take the wine, cut the palm of his hand with a knife, squeezed the blood and dripped it into the wine and served it to the Han officials. The Han official was not a bad breed, and he also pulled out a dagger and slashed his palm, turning into blood wine. At that moment, the two laughed, and took turns to make an alliance with blood and wine, and set a big event. Then Aletta led nearly 400 Mongol soldiers to fight anyway. On the side of the Taiping Army, the town general Tie Yi personally opened the door to greet him, killing pigs and sheep and setting up a banquet to entertain them. That night, the Mongols, who were fortunate to save their lives, played the crown and celebrated, and they all drank crookedly, but they had already left the banner master of Jieshiwei and the prince of Manchu behind. (To be continued.) )