When many soldiers were panicked and didn't know what to do, he resolutely led more than a dozen of his subordinates to go up, but he wanted to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty.

Wei Dewan is very bold, he doesn't drink much soldier blood, and he and his soldiers can share blessings and difficulties, so he is very supported by soldiers. When gambling in the institute on weekdays, Wei Dewan never pays his bills, and loses as much as he loses, unlike Su Liangzhong, the general manager of Qian, who sometimes denies his account, if any soldier loses his ass, Wei Dewan can also help in time, so the soldiers in Pengzhou admire this righteous general.

When he was in chaos, he saw Wei Commander-in-Chief coming, and dozens of soldiers immediately surrounded him. As soon as these people gathered around Wei Dewan, the other Qing soldiers who were running around saw it, and they all subconsciously ran here as if they had seen the backbone of the main body, because human nature is like this, but when they see many people, they will think that they are safe, and they will be more courageous. In this way, there were more than 100 Qing soldiers gathered around Wei Dewan. With so many soldiers by his side, although Wei Dewan knew that he had no great chance of winning, he was not afraid of the Taiping army that was rushing in, so he raised his arms and shouted towards the Taiping army.

When Pengzhou first built a thousand households, the local people were not allowed to live in the house, and later in the Jiajing period, in order to prevent the Japanese from entering the house, and in the past two years, Chaozhou was forbidden to the sea, and those fishermen who could no longer go to the sea to fish also moved to Pengzhou, so that there were as many as two or three thousand people in the house. After Zhao Ziqiang's South China Sea soldiers came in, these people were immediately affected by the military disaster.

The Nanhai soldiers were originally Qing troops that had not been reorganized, and the military discipline of the Taiping Army did not restrict them at all. Therefore, military discipline is extremely corrupt, and as long as you meet a living person after rushing into Pengzhou, it doesn't matter whether the other party is a soldier or a civilian. stepped forward and stabbed the result, all like the reincarnation of a fierce demon, with murderous intent on his face and anger in his eyes, and brutality. However, these nearly 1,000 people poured into the tunzi together, but the orders were not clear, and the soldiers who were eager for money were in a mess. Groups of three or five went to the houses of the people, but few of the Qing soldiers who were still resisting dispersed and destroyed them. One by one, they only cared about looting property and slaughtering unarmed people. Do you remember that there are still enemy soldiers who have not been destroyed.

Zhao Ziqiang, a thousand households in the South China Sea, found that there was a general Qing army officer who led a group of Qing soldiers to kill, and his subordinates were still looting property, and there was no officer to lead the troops to stop the enemy, and he couldn't help but be furious. Issued a strict order. Before the Qing army was cleared, those who dared to rob property were killed.

Zhao Ziqiang was really moved, and took the pro-soldiers team to directly cut off the heads of two unlucky eggs, and when they saw this posture, the South China Sea soldiers didn't dare to say anything, so they went to fight with the Qing soldiers who delayed their fortune.

Although Wei Dewan was brave and his soldiers were also released, he couldn't help but rush in too many Taiping troops, and he couldn't stop them soon. Dozens of people were killed. Seeing that the Taiping army was strong, he couldn't stop it. Wei Dewan judged the situation, although he wanted to repay the Qing Dynasty with death, but he couldn't just send him to death in vain, so he immediately decided to retreat to the camp of the old thousand households in Pengzhou to hold on to it with the advantage of geography.

However, when he decided to retreat, Wei Dewan forgot to tell his subordinates to go with him, and when he turned around and ran back, the Qing soldiers who followed him dispersed directly. The reason why the Qing soldiers who insisted on resisting until now is all because of Wei Dewan's courage as an example, so they insist on not retreating like the backbone, and now when they see Wei Decan running back, how can they care about anything else, and Wei Dewan is running fast, and the Taiping army is also coming fast, there is no time for them to react, and I don't know who shouted first, so everyone "screamed" and scattered, leaving only Wei Dewan and a few personal soldiers still running to the old Qianhu camp without knowing the situation.

After running straight to a stone-built fort in the old Qianhu camp, Wei Dewan found that there were only four of the more than 100 soldiers who had followed him. Wei Dewan was furious, not angry, but angry, the terrain of this fort in the old Qianhu camp is very good, the defensive fortifications are also quite in place, and the sentry tower has everything in place, which was built by the Ming army in order to deal with the attack of the Japanese invaders. With this fort here, no matter how many Taiping soldiers there are, they can't attack it if they want to.

Wei Dewan didn't realize that it was his own fault that made his soldiers scatter, but these soldiers were greedy for life and afraid of death, and they all went to live by themselves, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and the Taiping army that was getting closer and closer outside didn't care, and walked back and forth in a hurry. Wei Dewan didn't care, but the others were in a hurry, seeing that the general adult was patronizing and getting angry, he didn't have an idea, if he stood stupidly like this again, then the Taiping army would be there, and then everyone would have to throw their lives here, and the next slightly older Qing soldier persuaded him: "My lord, there are too many Taiping Kou, everyone has run away, and Mr. Qian has also run away, I think let's run too, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood!" ”

The other three Qing soldiers also chimed in: "Yes, yes, my lord, let's run, it's not too late to bring in the rescuers and come back to settle accounts with these Taiping Kou!" ”

As soon as he heard that the four of them were going to run by themselves, Wei Dewan glanced at the four of them, and said in a sullen voice: "You all go, I won't go, the imperial court has strict military laws, and abandoning land and losing land is a capital crime, that is, Taiping Kou can't cut off my head, the court doesn't want my little character's head, and Wu Junmen will definitely cut me!" Since the left and right are dead, I might as well die here! ”

"Your Excellency!"

Seeing that Wei Dewan insisted on staying here, the slightly older Qing soldiers couldn't help but be anxious: "My lord also knows that staying here is only one death, in this case, my lord should flee with me and others, please save the soldiers and fight with Taiping Kou again, how can you give up and throw your life here!" Please join us in running for your life! ”

I didn't want Wei Dewan but refused to go, the old Qing soldiers had been with Wei Dewan for several years, and finally had some affection, but the other three couldn't wait, listening to the shouts of the Taiping army outside getting closer and closer, they were so anxious that they abandoned Wei Dewan and fled for their lives, and there was no one in the blink of an eye. Seeing this, the old Qing soldier was dumbfounded, looked at the three guys who had escaped, and then looked at Mr. Wei with a dead face, and finally stomped his feet and ran away.

Wei Dewan has no business, at this time, he is bent on death, and it is human nature for his subordinates to seek a way to live, so he closed his eyes at the moment, thinking about how he should die. After a long time, it was better to make up my mind to commit suicide. lest they die under the swords of the Taiping or be taken captive by them to survive, and they must not ask for death. He pulled out his waist knife, and it was sharp and clean. There was no rust at all, and it could be seen from the edge of the blade that as long as you wiped it your neck, you could go to Huangquan, but with this knife in her hand, Wei Dewan lifted it to her neck several times, but every time she wanted to cut it off ruthlessly, her heart softened. I can't wipe it off.

"That's it!"

It turns out that this suicide is also a thing that people can't survive and die, when I used to look at those Ming generals who committed suicide in defeat. In general, it is not difficult to give yourself a knife, but I don't want to be my turn now, but I find that it is so difficult to smear the knife on myself. It is always said that those Ming generals are cowardly, and they commit suicide just to save trouble. is afraid of falling into the hands of the Qing army. Now it seems that I was wrong, but those generals who committed suicide were not really cowardly, not afraid of living crimes, they were really determined to die, and they were really no longer afraid, and they were not like themselves who actually had the idea of being afraid of pain.

Wei De, who couldn't do it, had thousands of intestines and stomachs, and finally gritted his teeth. Instead of committing suicide, Xindao might as well fight with Taiping Kou. Dora two pad backs!

Wei Dewan made up his mind and rushed out with a knife, but he was confronted by dozens of Taiping soldiers with spears, and when they saw Wei Dewan swinging his knife to kill, the people in front of him were startled, and without saying a word, they slashed the spear up, and as a result, Wei Dewan was nailed to the stone wall alive

After controlling Pengzhou, Zhao Ziqiang found that many Qing soldiers and people were running to the beach, at this time the wind was strong, it was the first month, and the grass had not yet turned green, dry and dry, Zhao Ziqiang smiled hideously, and ordered people to set the grass on fire, and then guard each opening, and come out to catch one by one.

The fluffy grass on the beach is usually a good burning material for the people to make a fire for cooking, but now they can light it directly on the fire, and it is really a little bit. The fire took advantage of the wind, and suddenly the beach was red, and the firelight illuminated most of Pengzhou. The dry fluffy grass mixed with some hay burned like a "thunderbolt", and the smoke wrapped in the sky-high fire blew away from the upwind outlet and the downwind outlet like a long dragon. It's warm and comfortable to be roasted by a big fire far away, but it's not good when it's close, the face is very hot, and the smoke chokes the eyes, and the South China Sea soldiers on duty at the downwind outlet will hide in other places where the smoke can't blow, but they haven't forgotten their duties, and they stared at the Pengcao Beach in front of them with big eyes, and they just waited for someone to come up and go up and capture him.

When the fire broke out, Su Liangzhong and the two personal soldiers were anxious: if they wanted to run, they were surrounded by the Taiping army; Keep where you are, and see that the fire is about to burn, and the fire is not yet cooking!

I can't run, I can't hide, the three of them will be in a situation that really responds to the sentence "It is called that the sky is not spiritual, and the earth is not spiritual", and in their hearts, they greeted the ancestors of the Taiping Army who set the fire for eight generations.

Su Liangzhong was even more remorseful, he knew that the Taiping Army was so vicious, he should have fought with them, and he would die happily, like now, waiting to be roasted like ants on a hot pot.

"Listen, if you don't want to be burned alive, come out quickly, otherwise the fire will burn in front of you, and then the king of heaven will not be able to save you!"

The three of them were in a hurry and didn't know what to do, but there was a shout outside, and after this shouting, it sounded again in other directions. One after another shouts were heard in the ears of the three people, like eating a severed head before the execution, and their hearts were afraid, afraid, and hopeful, afraid that the fire would really burn in front of them, and then no one would be able to save them; What I'm afraid of is that if I just go out like this, I don't know how the Taiping Army will deal with me; That hope is to hope that the wind will change sharply or rain down to extinguish the damn fire, but this hope is so unrealistic, and it is generally unreliable to hope that "people will be left under the knife" before going to the guillotine.

After a short silence, a soldier with sweat oozing from his forehead swallowed his saliva, looked at Su Liangzhong with blank eyes, and said with a little crying: "My lord, what should I do?" Let's go out, or the fire will burn over." ”

As soon as the pro-soldier finished speaking, before Su Liangzhong could speak, another pro-soldier hurriedly stopped his companion and said, "Taiping Kou is cunning, we can't listen to them!" If you believe them, you can only die! ”

Seeing that his companion disagreed, the pro-soldier who wanted to go out and surrender was anxious and glared at him: "This is all burning eyebrows, if you don't go out, will you wait here for death!" ”

"I can't go out anyway, I might as well be burned if I really want to go out."

The pro-soldiers who didn't agree to go out didn't know how to do it.

Seeing that Su Liangzhong didn't speak, he lowered his head and was thinking about something. The soldiers who wanted to go out thought that Mr. Qian had thought of a way to get out, and hurriedly asked, "My lord, have you thought of a way?" ”

Su Liangzhong has no way. He lowered his head and didn't speak because he was desperate, and he didn't expect to run out at all, and now he was thinking about what to do after he went out and surrendered so that the Taiping army would not kill him, and he was thinking about what price to pay to keep people under the other party's knife. ”

After speaking, he was choked by the thick smoke drifting over, and his eyes suddenly turned uncomfortably red. Uncontrollably shed two lines of tears, and his throat was also uncomfortable, seeing that the fire was still more than 100 meters away from here. He was about to burn when he spoke, and he could not afford to think about it carefully, so he immediately stood up from the ground and said to the two men, "Let's go." Go out with my officer. We're out of the woods now, do you really want to be burned here? ”

The soldier who wanted to go out was overjoyed when he saw this, and he didn't ask for anything else but to be able to live. The other soldier who refused to agree to surrender couldn't think of it, but seeing that the fire was about to burn, he was afraid of being burned alive, so he could only surrender with Su Liangzhong.

"Don't kill us, we're down, we're down!"

The three of them reached for the tufty grass. While constantly calling outside, lest the Taiping army outside see him and say nothing. OK. After the people outside heard his shout, they just waited for him to come out, and did not rush forward to stab him for a while, just like that, Su Liangzhong was escorted in front of Zhao Ziqiang. At the same time, hundreds of people and dozens of Qing soldiers were forced out by the fire, and after killing some Qing soldiers with weapons, Zhao Ziqiang ordered to give the other people a way to live, because the order he received was to move the people he met to Guangzhou as much as possible, in addition to collecting food.

It was too troublesome to move people to Guangzhou, Zhao Ziqiang didn't want to be so troublesome, and it would be more troublesome to kill them with a unified knife, but if he only handed over food and didn't hand over people, the Taiping army would definitely know that everyone told him to kill, and he was afraid that he would find trouble for himself.

The arrest of Su Liangzhong, the head of the thousand, surprised Zhao Ziqiang, and when he was escorted, he didn't wait for him to speak, but the other party suddenly knelt down and shouted: "But if a good man can spare a little life, I am willing to pay a lot of money to a good man!" ”

"Heavy money?"

Zhao Ziqiang laughed, feeling that this Su Liangzhong was a very smart person, knowing how to buy his life with money, he asked with interest: "Tell me, how much is your so-called heavy money, report the price to me and see if I can buy your little life." ”

As soon as he heard Zhao Ziqiang say this, Su Liangzhong was relieved, and said in his heart that since this Taiping Kou is greedy for money, it is easy to discuss. At the moment, he quoted the price he had thought of in his heart: "As long as the hero can let me go, I am willing to give fifty taels of gold for the hero to spend!" ”

Zhao Ziqiang pursed his lips when he heard this, and said angrily: "Fifty taels of gold? Yes, yes, that's a lot of money. Su Liangzhong breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and his face couldn't help but overflow with a smile, but before his smile faded, he heard the other party's words and said viciously: "But in my eyes, this fifty taels of gold can't buy your life!" ”

When he said this, Zhao Ziqiang was secretly happy in his heart, the other party hid fifty taels of gold in this place It was really a windfall, but his idea was that since the gold was here, he would also be able to find the gold if he killed someone, so it was a big deal to spend more effort to search for it, since this was the case, there was no need to leave him alive. This guy doesn't inquire, when did your Grandpa Zhao take money to do things?

"Huh?!"

Su Liangzhong was shocked, his face turned white with fright: "How much do the heroes want, just say, just say, as long as I can be satisfied, I will be satisfied, just ask the heroes not to kill me!" Seeing that the other party was unmoved, Su Liangzhong was really anxious, if the other party didn't love his money, there was a chance that this little life would be eight out of ten. Jiuzhen is lost here.

At the moment of life and death, he couldn't take care of anything, Su Liangzhong was ruthless, gritted his teeth and said: "Don't hide it from the hero, I have a few shops in Chaoyang County, and there is also a storefront in Fucheng, and I have made a lot of money over the years, if the good man is willing to let me go, I am willing to dedicate these stores and all the savings of the family over the years to the hero......

Zhao Ziqiang is not interested in these storefronts that Su Liangzhong said, and the gold and silver are just returned, so how can he take the shops in Chaoyang County and Chaozhou City? It's also a shame that this bastard can figure out what Lao Tzu can do if he can beat Chaoyang County, and come to break your Pengzhou! That county town is not as prosperous as yours!

Zhao Ziqiang was angry and scolded casually: ". Yes, if you sell me Chaoyang County, I can spare your life, but you. took something that Lao Tzu couldn't move and prevaricated it to me, it's really fucking looking for death! ”

After finishing speaking, he was about to drink and order his subordinates to drag Su Liangzhong out and cut it, so as not to look angry, but Su Liangzhong had an idea, and shouted in a hurry: "If the hero wants to take Chaoyang County, I can help." (To be continued.) )