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It seemed that the whole city was also shocked by the sound of footsteps that "boasted, boasted". Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe footsteps echoed through the streets like the sound of drums on a drum tower.

For the people of Anlu Mansion, the neat and uniform footsteps of "boasting, boasting" were constantly beating their hearts, but they breathed a sigh of relief.

At least, the plague is finally over.

The corner tower of the city gate over there, which will still be smoking--but it was only shelled for half a day, and the city fell without waiting for people to attack the city, and at this time, the people of Anlu Mansion were all hiding in their homes, nervously praying for the gods and Buddhas in the sky, praying that they would bless the people of the whole city.

This military disaster is almost over, but the people still don't dare to act rashly, after all, this notice has not been posted yet, in case the other party comes to a big rope, so what, so those girls and daughters-in-law are all wiping pot ashes on their faces, and even worse, they have begun to tie ropes on the beams of the house, ready to hang themselves at any time.

Nervous!

Compared with the nervousness of the people, the brave man wearing the uniform kneeling on the ground undoubtedly looked more nervous, they were afraid that the other party would break his previous promise - not to kill a single person after entering the city!

If it weren't for this promise, Xu Jinshi would not have ordered the city gate to be opened, and the prefect would not have hanged himself in the palace.

Sometimes, people are always faced with many choices, for these brave men, they actually have no more choices, they are just a group of Ding Yong who took two or five dollars of silver and temporarily raised Ding Yong, and they couldn't afford to pay their heads for so much silver.

"Sinner Xu Yiqing knocks to see the general!"

At the city gate, Xu Yiqing, a jinshi over forty years old, knelt in front of Lin Yuqing, at this time he had already taken off his cotton clothes outside his body, only wearing a white middle coat, kneeling there like a sinner.

If he had a choice, he would not necessarily have surrendered, but he did not choose, not to mention that there were thousands of men and horses from Wuchang outside the city, just in the morning they used cannons to hit the city wall, and were blown up by the flowering bombs that fell inside and outside the city, looking at the houses that were blown down, and looking at the wall bricks that were blown away.

Xu Yiqing knew that he had only one choice, when there was still a chance to surrender, he would take the opportunity to open the city wall to save the lives of the Manchurian fathers, he was an Anlu person, and he couldn't use the lives of the city's fathers and elders to be loyal to the emperor of Manchuria. If the other party fights hard to take Anlu Mansion, how many people will be left in this Anlu Mansion at that time?

"Master Xu resolutely opened the city gate and welcomed us into the city, what is the crime?"

Lin Yuqing hurriedly and enthusiastically helped Xu Yiqing up, and hurriedly said with kind words.

Although the city wall of Anlu Mansion is no more than two zhang high, it is still a city wall after all, even if the city wall is collapsed and the city is easily captured, it is inevitable that there will be casualties, even if the casualties are small, they are casualties.

As the commander of the Fifth Regiment, Lin Yuqing naturally didn't want to increase casualties in vain, and it was naturally a good thing for someone to surrender and sacrifice the city. What's more, this can also play a "leading role", since the city has fallen, then the counties below naturally have no need to hold on.

"The general is benevolent and righteous, we dare not forget ......"

Just when Xu Yiqing was nervously thinking about how to appease the general in front of him, he listened to him over there.

"Master Xu can rest assured, I have asked people to post a notice in the city, but I still need to ask Master Xu to tell the fathers and elders in the city that since my Han Righteous Army is a righteous army, it will never disturb the people, please rest assured that the fathers and villagers in the city can ......rest assured."

As soon as he entered the city, a notice was posted on the other side, gongs and drums were beating, and there were officials in the city shouting that they would never kill anyone indiscriminately, and that the people should do their part. But the people did not open the door in a hurry, and now everyone is watching and watching.

But not everyone is watching at home, for those who have no home, they can only stay on the street, such as the beggars in the city, looking at the soldiers who entered the city, Li Wencheng, who was wearing a torn cotton jacket, was secretly beating the drum in his heart. He was doing small business in Yuezhou, who would have thought that this Yuezhou was occupied by Cantonese bandits from Guangdong, not only were the goods robbed, but the people were also pulled by the Taiping army, and finally escaped, all the way to the Anlu City, reduced to beggars, seeing that people were almost hungry and couldn't hold on, the Anlu Mansion City was occupied by this group of rebels.

This Anlu City has just been captured, and there is a recruiting flag set up near the City God Temple, which reads "Expelling the Tartars and Restoring China", which is a recruitment flag erected by the rebels, but for most people, they don't know what this is a Tartar, and they don't even know what China is.

However, it doesn't matter if you don't know what "expelling the Tartars and restoring China" is, for ordinary people, whether it is the Tartars or China, it is far less than the silver of the white flowers.

"Use good nails for shipbuilding, and a good man should be a soldier!"

As the gong sounded, Li Wencheng heard someone shouting there.

"Be a soldier and be paid, four taels a month!"

Perhaps, for the people, the military salary of four taels of silver is enough to make the idlers inside and outside the city flock to it, but in a moment, the recruitment office of the City God's Temple is crowded with hundreds of people.

"Official, official, look at me......"

"Official, look at my body...... bones"

Just as the idlers were crowding the table and showing their strength to the officials, the soldiers holding red tassel guns on the side unceremoniously pumped them with the barrels of their guns, shouting loudly while whipping.

"If you line up, whoever squeezes it again, not only will you not be a soldier, but you will also have to be punished for the capital crime of bombing the camp!"

Dozens of soldiers beat them with red cherry guns, and then scared them with capital crimes, although those idlers didn't know how to line up, they also lined up with the whipping of the guns, and Li Wencheng, who was following behind, also lined up like a learner.

"January 42!"

Li Wencheng was talking about this military salary, and like everyone else, he lined up in front of the City God Temple, and the military salary of four taels a month was even better than the small business he had done in the past.

"If you become a soldier for a few years, you can't save more than 100 taels of silver......

In a trance, Li Wencheng was thinking about this year's military salary in his heart, imagining the days when he would come back to Yuezhou in the future, set up a shop in the city, and marry a daughter-in-law. People always have dreams, and for Li Wencheng, this is his biggest dream.

Of course, for him, the most important thing at the moment is to respond to this soldier.

"Hey!"

With that heavy shout, the stone burden weighing one hundred and sixty pounds was lifted. Seeing that the man was holding up the stone burden, Li Wencheng listened to someone next to him counting there.

"One, two、......"

Just like this, lifted, lowered, lifted again, and put down again, after doing twenty in succession, the people on the side answered.

"Okay, take this number plate and go to the queue over there, and report to the camp outside the city in the afternoon!"

The oil-soaked bamboo pole is tied with a cowhide rope and the stone pole is about the thickness of an arm's arm, and a stone cake is worn at each end, Li Wencheng is no stranger to this stone pole, he has seen others play with this thing when he walks the streets and alleys to do business, in addition to lifting it like before, he also holds this thing like a gun and a stick, but he thinks that he does not have the strength, not to mention anything else, even if he lifts 20 in a row, then he has to use the strength to eat milk.

"What are you stunned about? Don't hurry up yet! ”

As soon as he urged over there, Li Wencheng hurriedly grabbed the pole, obediently, it was really heavy!

With such a thought in his heart, with the strength he had cultivated when doing business, Li Wencheng still lifted the 160 catties of stones, although it was a little difficult to lift, but he also held it up 20 times.

For the vast majority of people, unless the body is too weak, otherwise, anyone who is used to doing the work can pass this hurdle.

"It doesn't seem to be that difficult?"

After receiving the number plate, Li Wencheng looked at the "187" written on the number plate, and guessed that this was his own number, perhaps because he was not a local, so that even if he passed the test, he could not integrate into that group of people, so he could only stand alone next to him.

"This brother, my name is Yin Yi, I don't know my brother's surname?"

Just when Li Wencheng was standing beside him, a person standing alone like him next to him came to him and said enthusiastically.

"Look at what the elder brother said, you look at my dress, can I be a nobleman, the younger brother's surname is Li, his name is Wencheng, listen to you, it's not from An Lu's side?"

"Anhui's, no, I was robbed by soldiers a few days ago, isn't there really no way to do it......"

Before he finished speaking, the sound of the drum coming from his belly made Yin Yi's face embarrassed.

"It's not, it's just a ...... to make a living"

Li Wencheng rubbed his belly, which made him feel more hungry. Hungry, he couldn't help but look forward to the barracks, at least there was always something to eat!

In fact, like him, there are indeed a lot of people who eat for a mouthful of food, many of them are dish-faced, looking malnourished, but their hunger did not last long, waiting for more than an hour, Li Wencheng and Yin Yi and others lined up under the shouts of others and the drive of red tassel guns, and walked towards the camp outside the city, and when they arrived at the camp, the first thing was to eat.

The rice is white rice, and the dish is the most common radish in winter, boiled radish, although there is not much oil and water, but it is better than it can make people full - there is enough food, there is no limit, you can eat as much as you want!

"I don't know, after entering the camp, can I have a full meal like this......"

Li Wencheng, who has been doing small business outside for many years, knows very well that this soldier can also see that he can eat well, just like those green battalion soldiers in Yuezhou City whose ancestors have been soldiers for generations, it is also a half-starved and half-full foolish day. (To be continued.) )