On the city wall of Wuzhou, the Qing prisoners who were building the city wall saw that the Ming army sailors who had disappeared from the river for several days appeared again. This time, the warships of the Ming army's naval division came more than last time, densely covering the river surface that was more than ten miles long. The wings of each warship were filled with flags, and from a distance, it looked like the Xijiang River had turned into a sea of flags.

As the first ship docked at the dock that had been renovated by the captives, a horn sounded on the river. Immediately afterwards, one after another warships docked at the dock one after another, and the planks were lowered from the bow, and with the flag-bearers on the warships, a group of Taiping troops wearing red military uniforms drove ashore from the board under the guidance of a military flag embroidered with Xiong Zhen. I don't know how many Taiping soldiers were guided by this Xiong Zheng military flag to get off the ship, but before the prisoners came to their senses, dozens of warships docked, and then a group of Taiping troops in red military uniforms drove ashore under the guidance of an embroidered unicorn military flag.

The captives could not count the number of wharves built by their own hands along the river, and they only saw the Ming army driving endlessly from the boats to the shore. First the Xiong Zheng military flag, then the Qilin military flag, then the Qinglong military flag, the elk military flag, the Vermilion Bird military flag, each military flag led thousands of Taiping troops from the boat to the shore, each military flag behind countless small flags, embroidered with various numbers.

30,000? 40,000 people? 50,000? 100,000 people?

The captives were stunned by the huge strength of the Taiping army, they really couldn't count how many Taiping troops drove over, they breathed so heavily, and watched the groups of Taiping troops slowly walking towards Wuzhou City from several miles away. Among the captives were veterans who had fought battles, and they had defeated many Ming troops and beheaded countless Ming soldiers, but it was the first time they had seen such a neat and large army.

Finally, the captives saw a military flag embroidered with Pixiu set foot on the shore under the escort of hundreds of Taiping troops in iron armor. The appearance of the ironclad soldier made one of the captives named Chen Wu look dumbfounded, and muttered dumbfoundedly: "My good man, the Ming army in Guangdong was so big yesterday, but this ironclad soldier couldn't be made by our old prince when he was there." This armor, this momentum, the world's first-class strong army! ”

"It's not a first-class strong army, we will lose so badly?"

The officer prisoner on the side, who was also the general manager and named Wang De, smiled bitterly, and then lowered his head again and went to work silently. He was really scared of being killed by the Taiping army, and he was also afraid.

At the forefront of those ironclad Taiping troops, a very young general rode on a big green horse, and the general did not rush into Wuzhou City after coming ashore, but raised his horsewhip and pointed at Xijiang and said something to the dozens of officers around him.

The Taiping Army of the Second Town, who were monitoring the captives on the city wall to repair the wall, looked at the captives who were used as coolies with contempt, and then said to them proudly: "Our handsome man is here!" ”

As he spoke, dozens of horseback generals in the city rushed out of the city gate and ran towards the young general, dismounted from a distance, and then a group of Taiping generals who killed the Qing army in Wuzhou and lost their armor knelt down on one leg in front of the young general, and shouted in unison: "Welcome to the commander!" ”

The voice spread far and wide, so that the captives on the city wall could hear it clearly, and at that moment, they were shocked in their hearts, the commander of the Taiping army was that young man?

"Look at the posture of the Ming army in Guangdong, I'm afraid the Manchurians can't beat it. Just look at the majesty of those soldiers, it is not something that we can pretend to be able to catch a master at random, alas, I don't know how long it takes to practice to be so imposing. Chen Wu's heart was overturned at this moment, only to feel that the Ming army from Guangdong was too strong, far from being able to match them with the Guangxi green battalion.

Hearing Chen Wu's words, Wang De, who lowered his head to work, moved in his heart, looked up at the city, and found that the Ming army supervising the work was looking outside the city, so he whispered: "If we had followed such a strong army, we would not have lowered the Qing army to make this Laoshizi green camp back then." ”

"Yes, why can't we keep up with such strong soldiers, otherwise we wouldn't be in the situation we are today."

Chen Wu's face was scornful, and he felt indescribably lonely in his heart, he still had hope, the Admiral led the army back to help, and the Ming Army in Guangdong would definitely not be able to stop it, but he didn't expect so many reinforcements to come behind him, and it looked like the Ming army that captured Wuzhou could fight, just looking at the scale of this reinforcement is much stronger than his own Admiral, how can this battle be fought? Once this army of soldiers and horses has gained a firm foothold in Guangxi, they will probably be very sad about the captured Qing army.

Wang De suddenly wanted to join the Taiping Army, but as a person, he never wanted to be a prisoner for a lifetime, and when he was a prisoner who would be exhausted to death at any time, he wanted to work with the strong army and become a member of the strong army. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the Taiping army would not really consume them as coolies like this, because not all the captives could become coolies to work, at least those captured Hui soldiers had the Taiping army drag them to the river and feed them fish and turtles. Although they are very miserable now, at least they are still alive, they still have food to eat every day, although they are not full, they will not starve to death, and they can go back to rest after work when the sun goes down. Although there would be some officers of the Taiping army called the Anjun envoys who would come and gather them together and tell them how the Manchurians treated the Han people brutally, how miserable the places where the cities were slaughtered, and said something about the Ten Days in Yangzhou, the Three Massacres in Jiading, the Massacre in Fuzhou, the Massacre in Guangzhou, and the Massacre in Liuzhou, and said that the Manchurians were just using them as cannon fodder, in the future, if the Manchurians really sat firmly in the world, the Han people would be oppressed by them forever and let them be used as cattle and horses.

At the beginning, the soldiers of the Green Battalion and the Han Army were very resistant to the Taiping Army's security envoys, because they all participated in what they said, not to mention, which of the dozen or so massacres in Guangxi was not done by them, otherwise how could the population of Guangxi be left with the current 100,000, and how could the millions of people in the Ming Dynasty disappear out of thin air? The Taiping army said that the Han people who were slaughtered were miserable, and how miserable the women were when they were taken captive, didn't they say that they were cruel in disguise, and that they were acting for the Manchurians. So whether it is an officer or a soldier, they are all unimpressed, and they are very indifferent to what the An military envoy said, and they are also very annoyed by them, if it weren't for their own lives being pinched by the Taiping Army, they would not bother to pay attention to these wordy guys.

However, as they listened to these things every day, and the tragic things they heard every day were different, the officers and soldiers suddenly had a change in their mentality, no longer the original mind of accepting money from others and doing things for others, nor the mind of only living for their own family in the troubled times and caring about the death of others, but suddenly felt a little guilty about what they had done in the past.

It seems that the Taiping Army's security envoys did not forcibly change the mentality of the captives overnight, and let them actively join the Taiping Army and become anti-Qing fighters, but only subtly influenced them. The Green Battalion soldiers had a low status and became prisoners of the Taiping Army, so some of the captured Qing soldiers were active in thinking that they could be rescued and become Green Battalion soldiers again, which is probably not a good thing, and joining the Taiping Army is not necessarily a bad thing. It's just that no prisoners have offered to join the Taiping Army, to take revenge on the Manchurians who killed the Han Chinese, or anything.

Chen Wu didn't have this idea, he just felt that what he had done in the past might be wrong. Wang De wanted to join the Taiping Army, but he was afraid that people would not accept it. But when a captive of the Han army not far away suddenly lay on the ground, asked his companions to cut his braids with angular stones, and shouted a word to the Taiping army in the city, the two of them saw hope or a choice while in a daze.

The Han captive soldier who wanted to cut his braids shouted to the city: "I cut my braids, I want to join the Taiping Army!" (To be continued.) )