Chapter 91: Loyalty
Xin'an County and Dongguan County, Xiangshan County belong to Guangzhou Prefecture together, there is a Qiniang Mountain in its territory, this mountain is high and the valley is deep, the ancient forest in the mountain is rich and covered, the air in the forest is pleasant, whenever the mountain breeze blows, there are bursts of forest Tao, people appreciate the heart. In the mountains, there are more mountain streams and streams that are ups and downs, waterfalls and springs, and the water flows slowly and urgently, and it is really as good as fairy sound in the ears.
Such a fairy scene in the world, but today it is stained with evil spirits. In the stream flowed not water, but blood; It was not the sound of the wind that came from the forest, but the desperate cry of a woman.
At the foot of the mountain, more than 600 Ming troops in ragged clothes and incomplete armor were surrounded by thousands of green battalion soldiers with pigtails on the back of their heads, swords and guns in their hands, and a large "Yong" shirt printed on their chests.
The soil on the ground was already stained red with the blood of the war dead, and the stream was cut off by the corpses of thousands of old and weak women and children by the stream not far away.
The upstream is blood, and the downstream is also blood, which is the blood of the Han people, the blood of the elderly, the blood of women, and the blood of children.
The pebbles by the stream were also stained red with blood, and they were red in the sunlight.
Among the corpses, there are undead people who are making painful voices before dying, and there is also a childish child who doesn't know anything and is still learning to speak ignorantly lying on top of the corpse of his dead mother, and keeps pushing his mother with his little hands, hoping that his mother can get up and coax him, but no matter how he pushes, his mother will never wake up.
"Wow Wow Wow"
The child's cry resounded through the valley, and it was heartbreaking to listen to
The green battalion soldiers besieged from all directions were the elite of the green battalion drawn from Xiangshan, Shunde, Xinhui, Lianshan, Dongguan and other counties in Guangzhou Prefecture, with a total strength of 3,000 people, and the object of their siege was Li Wanrong, a general under the command of Zhang Jiayu, the late prince of the Ming Dynasty.
After Zhang Jiayu was martyred in Zengcheng, Guangdong, Li Wanrong led his subordinates to fight in Xiangshan and Xin'an, and insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty in the mountainous areas such as Qiniang Mountain and Wutong Mountain.
At the beginning of the year, after Li Dingguo's army was defeated and retreated to Xinhui, the Qing army in Guangzhou mobilized the green battalion soldiers and horses of various counties in Guangzhou to encircle and suppress Li Wanrong's troops in order to completely solve the problem of the heart, and after two months of fierce fighting, Li Wanrong's troops were reduced from 5,000 to less than 1,000 people, and the area of activity was also compressed from Xin'an, Xiangshan, and Dongguan counties to the territory of Qiniang Mountain in Xin'an County.
Three days ago, under the leadership of the traitor, the Qing army entered Qiniang Mountain, the Ming army was caught off guard and suffered a heavy defeat, Li Wanrong's subordinate Shen Yizhong led two hundred dead soldiers to resist the Qing army desperately, in order to cover Li Wanrong and the old and weak women and children to move to the depths of Qiniang Mountain. Unfortunately, the desperate resistance of Shen Yizhong and the two hundred dead soldiers failed to save the situation, and just this morning, the Qing army finally caught up with the Ming army in this Fengjian Valley.
Under the hand-to-hand combat, the well-equipped Qing army gradually surrounded the remnants of the hundreds of Ming soldiers who lacked food and clothing, and more than 2,000 dependents who moved with the Ming army were also slaughtered by the Qing army, and even the children were not spared
The battle has reached this point, facing the Qing army besieging from all directions, Li Wanrong knows that the general trend has gone, and he can't save this Ming.
The soldiers of the Ming army who had not closed their eyes for two days and two nights could no longer support it, and under the fierce attack of the green battalion soldiers, some soldiers fell to the ground, but even if they knew that everyone was going to die here today, the Ming army did not collapse, and no one was so frightened that they threw away their knives and guns and surrendered to the Qing army. They gritted their teeth, reunited with each other, and fought to the death with the Qing army in front of them with their remaining strength.
Under the trapped beasts, although the green battalion soldiers are numerous, they can be limited by the terrain in the mountains, and they can't annihilate all the Ming troops for a while, which makes the blue flag Han army Niu Lu Tong Erhan from Guangzhou a little impatient, hundreds of days without food, even the weapons can't hold the miscellaneous Ming army can not swallow, these green battalion soldiers are really useless, it seems that the flag soldiers still have to go into battle!
"Shoot them with arrows!"
Hearing Lord Niu Lu's order, the two hundred Han troops with blue flags immediately took out their bows and arrows and walked to the front of the formation and shot at the Ming army.
The Ming army, which had no armor at all, didn't even have the strength to raise a knife, how could they dodge the arrows of the Qing army, and after a few rounds of shooting, half of the Ming army fell to the ground with arrows.
The Ming army who were hit by the arrow knew what their end would be without looking at the eyes of their comrades and enemies, and they did not hold grudges, but calmly lay on the ground and closed their eyes and waited for death.
Before people die, they think most about their loved ones.
The voice and smile of the father, the image of the wife and children, the grass and trees in the hometown, bit by bit, kept flashing in the minds of the dying people, and in the end, everything fell into boundless darkness.
"Brothers, mother-in-law and baby are all called Qinggou to kill, let's not live, fight with Qinggou!"
There are Qing troops on all sides, the remnants of the Ming army know that they will definitely not be able to escape, but no one retreats, no one kneels on the ground and shouts for mercy, they are still fighting desperately, back to back together and the Qing army are fighting desperately, the knife is smashed hard, the spearhead is stabbed hard, and the weapon is picked up and stoned.
"General!"
In the shadow of the sword and sword, Li Wanrong's personal soldiers hugged him, he didn't say anything, but Li Wanrong resolutely pushed him away, and then roared and rushed towards the Qing army.
"General!"
The eyes of the pro-soldier became red, he is not a bad breed, he is also a man!
"Dog's day, Lao Tzu fought with you!"
"Rush up, rush up!"
"Retreaters are engaged in military law! Retreaters are engaged in military law! ”
No matter how desperately Tong Erhan urged the Green Battalion to settle the battle quickly, Li Wanrong and the remnants of the more than 200 Ming troops were as unshakable as Mount Tai. They took advantage of the terrain and the surrounding trees to repel the attacks of the Green Battalion again and again.
Seeing that the sky was about to get dark, Tong Erhan, who was worried about the extraneous branches, had to send the flag soldiers he had been reluctant to send.
Under the surveillance of the Han army flag, the green battalion soldiers once again rushed towards the Ming army. What is surprising is that this time they did not encounter the desperate resistance of the Ming army again, and those Ming troops did not move in the face of them rushing up, just stood there and looked at them silently.
The Ming army was exhausted.
………
Seeing that the Ming army had completely lost the ability to resist, Yan Guozhen, the general of the Green Battalion who was directing the attack in front, ran over and asked Tong Erhan: "My lord, the Ming army has no strength, do you want to catch it alive?" ”
Thinking of the explanation of the prince of Jingnan before coming, Tong Erhan said coldly: "As long as Li Wanrong, other personalities will be killed!" ”
"Wow!"
Yan Guozhen nodded in response, and waved his subordinates to follow him to arrest Li Wanrong. At this time, Li Wanrong's body was covered with blood, his robe had been shattered into clothes, and there were no less than several knife wounds on his body.
"Capture Li Wanrong alive! Capture Li Wanrong alive! ”
"Capture me alive?"
Hearing the shouts of the green battalion soldiers, Li Wanrong smiled bitterly, suddenly pointed the long knife at his neck with his backhand, and then shouted up to the sky: "Lord Taibao, the last general is incompetent, and the last general is asking you for sin!" ”
Seeing this, Yan Guozhen's face changed, and he shouted urgently: "Stop him, stop him!" ”
Before the words fell, the green battalion soldiers who rushed to the front saw that the senior officer of the Ming army wiped the long knife into his neck.
With a "poof", the long knife entered the flesh, the trachea was cut off immediately, and the heart shrank sharply, and the blood did not gush out, but flowed out little by little along the blade, and flowed into Li Wanrong's palm holding the knife little by little.
Lady, you must take our son out!
The moment he fell, Li Wanrong muttered to himself, and the green battalion soldiers in front of him clearly saw that this senior official of the Ming army was looking at the mountain peak in the west when he died.
"The general is dead, how can we survive!"
Witnessing Li Wanrong's suicide, the remnants of the Ming army were shaken, and a young Ming soldier gritted his teeth and stabbed the knife in his hand into his chest.
"Let's go with the general!"
"Long live Daming!"
"Da Ming will not die!"
None of the more than 200 Ming troops hesitated, and they did not hesitate to choose to follow the general to commit suicide. In an instant, there were more than 200 corpses on the ground, and as far as the eye could see, none of the more than 600 Ming troops were alive, either killed in battle or committed suicide. This situation moved Yan Guozhen and all the green battalion soldiers, and also made Tong Erhan and the two hundred Han soldiers with blue flags stunned
On the peak of the mountain that Li Wanrong looked at when he died, a woman was struggling to climb up the mountain with her infant baby on her back, and every step was so difficult. The baby on her back was asleep, and her mother's bumps seemed to shake blue.
Suddenly, the woman's body trembled, as if she had a heart, and she turned around and tried to look into the distance, but the dense forest blocked her view, and she could see nothing.
Husband!
When the woman turned her head again, two lines of tears were already flowing from her sockets. Out of nowhere, the woman's speed suddenly became faster, and she no longer paid attention to the branches and stalks, but climbed upwards with all her might.
At last, the woman climbed to the top of the mountain, her face and hands covered with blood, and the long openings made the woman look like a ghost.
Under the mountain peaks, a pool of water is not alarmed, and the sunset shines on it, emitting a dazzling light.
The woman sat down on the ground, panting loudly, and in a moment, the baby behind her suddenly moved, and the woman's heart trembled, and she gently untied the cloth belt tied around her waist, and took the baby in her arms behind her back, and then looked at her son with great affection.
Mountain peaks, sunshine, dense forests, forest waves, ponds
I don't know how long later, the woman stood up from the ground with her son in her arms, her face pressed against her son's face, and the warmth of her son made her sad.
After standing there for a while, the woman looked at her son, who was still asleep, and suddenly said softly: "Since ancient times, there has been no queen of loyalty, Jing'er, your father is the loyalty of the Ming Dynasty, so you should be a loyal and good man like your father!" ”
When she had finished speaking, the woman jumped down the cliff.
Hate to stand still,
Follow your husband across the river.
Twin into the peach blossom water,
Turning into a mandarin duck is also an immortal!