I will never abandon you!

There are people who have everything!

Zhou Shixiang must let everyone in the city know that he will not abandon them!

This is not only for the survival of the Taiping Army, but also for the lives of the people in the venue!

Zhou Shixiang couldn't imagine what would happen to these lives in front of him once the city was broken!

Whether they believe it or not, he must tell them unmistakably that this is a guarantee, an oath, and a promise!

At the same time, he also has to make the final mobilization, he wants to let the thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city know why they are fighting, know that they may all die, but before they die, they understand why they are dying!

"Many of you were originally at home for your birthday, and it was because of our presence that you were standing here. I know that some of you hate me because we Taiping Army have kept you away from home, and your family has lived a precarious life from now on, and even now, you are worried about how many days you will survive. ”

"Yes, this is indeed the case, it was our Taiping Army who forcibly turned you into thieves, and became the target of the Qing Demon shouting and killing, it was I Zhou Shixiang who brought you to the lonely city of Xinhui, and I made you fall into a desperate situation! But I want to ask you, without the arrival of our Taiping Army, would your life really be stable? Is it true that your family can eat enough at every meal and sleep soundly every night? Without the arrival of our Taiping Army, your lives would really be your own?! ”

These words silenced the soldiers and civilians in the audience.

"Absolutely not!"

Zhou Shixiang waved his arms vigorously and roared, "What is a Qing Demon? That's a Tartar, a non-my race, a bunch of fowl who take pleasure in slaughtering our Han people. Beast! In their eyes, we Han people are cattle and sheep, and we are all livestock that can be slaughtered at will! In the eyes of the beast with the knife, will the lives of cattle and sheep be their own? ”

"Since entering the customs, how many sins has the Qing demon done? Which time didn't kill our Han people with a river of blood! Hundreds of cities in Yangzhou, Jiading, Jiangyin, Datong, Fuzhou, and Guangzhou were slaughtered by the Qing Dynasty. Hundreds of millions of people have their heads cut off! ”

"Countless people are the same as you, they are all kind-hearted, law-abiding citizens, they all hold the idea of coming to the Ming and the Qing coming to the Qing, and they all want to live a good life in their own homes, which is just like me that day, but what is the final outcome?"

"What happened last year in this city beneath your feet?! It's a massacre, it's killing people for food, it's a tragic thing that really uses our Han people as livestock to slaughter! Under the swords of those demons, no one can be left alone. He doesn't care if you're a submissive or not, he just knows that if he kills you, he can take everything from you! Food, houses, land, property, women will snatch you in the same way, and finally cut off your head, and even your body after death will be eaten by them! ”

Among the soldiers and civilians present, there were people after the Xinhui tragedy, Zhou Shixiang's words first made them cry bitterly, and more were quietly thinking about Zhou Shixiang's words, they were thinking that if they were not coerced by the Taiping army. Is their life really good, and their lives really won't be taken?

"Perhaps, some of you will disagree and think that this is me Zhou Shixiang who is lying and threatening. So that you may follow me to the end, because before our Taiping Army, your lives are still there, and your family property is still there. Although life was not good, at least it was not starvation. Here, I want to say to you. It is precisely because the butcher's knife has not yet fallen on your necks that you have to fight hard, and by the time the Qing Demon Butcher's Knife falls on your necks, it will be too late for you to fight! When the Qing Demon kills your neighbors, you don't fight, you are afraid, you dodge, you are glad that it is not you who cut off your head, and when the Qing Demon wants to kill you, no one will come to pity you, and no one will complain for you! ”

"Now, you join the Taiping Army, and Ben Qianhu will lead you to fight, to save your own life, and to fight against the Qing Demon! I believe that as long as we stand up and fight, even if we die in the end, we will not have regrets when we die, because we have resisted! ”

After saying so much in one go, Zhou Shixiang took a long breath, suddenly changed his words, and said: "Of course, there may be a small number of you who lived a very comfortable life before the arrival of our Taiping Army, and the family was very rich, and the officials sent by the Qing Demon still respect them very much, for these people, Ben Qianhu just wants to say to them, no matter how you were in the past, today you can only go with Ben Qianhu to the end, as I just said, the knife of the Qing Demon will not care who you are, and whether you are willing to follow the Taiping Army!" If you don't believe it, you can continue to hide in the crowd and paralyze yourself, and see if the Qing Demon in the city will kill you! ”

These words made the faces of a very small number of people in the crowd unchanged, and when they thought of something, their faces turned pale instantly.

Zhou Shixiang froze for a moment, and said quickly: "I should have said it to everyone, believe it, believe it, don't believe it, but there is one thing that cannot be changed, that is, I, Zhou Shixiang and everyone are now in the same boat, if this boat sinks, I Zhou Shixiang is a death, and everyone can't run away!" As the old saying goes, we have repelled countless attacks of the Qing Demon in Xinhui City, killing tens of thousands of Qing soldiers, I believe that the Qing Demon is also a human being, he does not have three heads and six arms, as long as we are united and persevere to the end, they will definitely fail in the end! ”

After speaking, Zhou Shixiang remembered something, raised his hand to take off his hat, pointed to the long hair that had grown on his head and said to the crowd in the audience: "We are Han, we know that our flesh and blood are given by our parents when we are young, and our clothes are inherited by our ancestors, but why does the Qing Demon of his dog day tell us to cut our hair, and why do we make it easy to obey!" I see that there are still people in the crowd who still have little pigtails on their heads, and I want to ask you, is it really safe to keep this braid on your head?! ”

"Since Jiashen, how many bloody men have died in my Ming Dynasty, why can't we die as generously as them! Is it fucking alive to bow down to those tartars, to offer our gold and silver treasures, and to our women? Or can you keep this braid to save your life when the demon slaughters the city! ”

As soon as these words came out, some people in the crowd blushed under the gaze of the crowd on all sides, ran to the side and borrowed a knife from the soldiers, and cut off the pigtail like a rat's tail at the back of their head with their backhand.

Since the head of the camp in Luoding, because of the continuous needs of the southward conquest, the army has not been forced to cut the braids, which makes some soldiers in the five battalions and some old men in the camp still have braids on the back of their heads.

The cut braids were thrown in the open space under the high platform, and every time someone stepped forward to throw down the braids, it would cause a burst of applause from the crowd.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Song Xianggong hurriedly stepped forward and raised his arms and shouted: "I am willing to live and die with Xinhui!" ”

"I am willing to live and die with Xinhui!"

The soldiers and civilians responded instantly, shouting in an uproar, and many people had tears in their eyes.

The sudden outburst of shouts in Xinhui City caused a commotion among the Qing troops outside the city, and they all looked up at the city. Shang Zhixin, who was discussing with the generals about advance and retreat, was also alarmed, and walked out of the big tent with a gloomy face and looked at Xinhui City

After the uproar of the army and the people, Zhou Shixiang waved his hand again, and as his big hand fell, Qin Zhisheng suddenly turned around and ordered: "Capture Li Fuguo!" ”

Before Li Fuguo could react, several soldiers of the Guards Battalion, who had already been instructed, immediately stepped forward and pushed him to the ground, and then escorted him to the high platform amid the stunned eyes of Li Fuguo's subordinates.

"Why do you take me, why do you take me!"

At this time, Li Fuguo didn't know why Zhou Shixiang took him, but he shouted to himself: "The bid is definitely not to cast a tartar, but to share the worries of thousands of households, this city is about to run out of food, if you don't break through"

"Shut up!"

Zhou Shixiang let out a loud shout, and a personal soldier stepped forward to break Li Fuguo's jaw with lightning speed, so that he could no longer speak.

"Hmm"

Li Fuguo's great pain was unbearable, he was frightened and frightened, and he couldn't make a sound, so he could only scream "hmm".

Zhou Shixiang stepped forward and looked at him coldly and said, "No matter what your intentions are, I have to borrow your head today, otherwise, the army will be uneasy!" ”

After finishing speaking, ignoring Li Fuguo's begging for mercy, he turned around and shouted at the soldiers and civilians at the venue: "Today, Li Fuguo, the general of the green battalion, has ill intentions and spreads rumors in the city, intending to shake the heart of our army and people to defend the city. In the future, if there are any more people who shake the morale of the army, they will all be dealt with in this way! ”

As soon as the words fell, Qin Zhisheng had already suddenly pulled out his knife and cut down, and before he could scream, Li Fuguo's head had already landed, which shocked the women in the audience and screamed, which also made the green battalion soldiers under Li Fuguo stunned, but no one dared to move.

Without waiting for everyone to digest Li Fuguo's death, Zhou Shixiang shouted loudly: "Today's situation, there is no advance or retreat, this thousand households swear to live and die with the army and the people, and swear to fight with the Qing demon to the end!" ”

"Swear to live and die with the army and the people, and swear to fight with the Qing Demon to the end!"

Under the leadership of Qin Zhisheng, Shao Jiugong, Jiang He, Ge Yi, Tie Yi and other hundreds of households, the five battalions responded vigorously, and the people of the camp were also in high spirits and responded one after another.

The outburst of "swear to live and die with the army and the people, and swear to fight with the Qing demon to the end" clearly spread to the ears of the Qing army outside the city, which made the Qing soldiers who had been fighting hard for days and could not advance an inch with bitter faces.

At this time, on the surface of the Tanjiang River, which is more than ten miles away from Xinhui City, hundreds of warships are going upstream, and a big flag is erected on the tallest ship in the middle, with the book "General Chen of Jinghai in the Ming Dynasty". (To be continued.) )