Chapter 45: Stay and Kill
Gradually, a faint light shone through the sky, and the warriors quickly ran into the woods to count the results of the battle, and found more than one hundred and twenty corpses, half of which were killed or crushed to death, and half of them were killed by arrows shot by the crossbowmen who had been ambushed in advance, and more than eighty wounded, which meant that nearly three hundred horsemen had escaped.
Generally speaking, the cavalry of the Qing army were banner men, and the wounded of these banner men were directly carried back to the position, and the dead bodies were buried on the spot after being looted.
And the Qing army in the valley also surrendered one after another, some of them were tied up by the five flowers, after a rough statistics, excluding the artillery, a total of nearly 300 intact flintlock guns, more than 400 arquebuses, more than 20,000 bullets, of course, arquebuses do not need a single shot, except for the use of the fire rope as a fuse.
In addition, there were two hundred and thirty horses, swords, spears, bows and arrows piled up like a hill, and there was not much food, because Xiang Rong had no plans to fight for a long time, and each person only brought three days' rations, and finally some gold ornaments and gold teeth stripped from the banner man, totaling about ten catties.
After disposing of the spoils, Wang Feng and Hong Xuanjiao walked towards the captives, the faces of the more than 2,000 Qing army captives were more or less uneasy, but those banner men basically looked at each other angrily, putting on a look of death.
Hong Xuanjiao swept her eyes, turned her head and asked, "Do you want to cut their braids first?" ”
"There's no hurry!" Wang Feng waved his hand: "Sister Xuanjiao, it's inconvenient to deal with captive you women, so leave it to me here." ”
"Oh? Then I'll see. Hong Xuanjiao symbolically took two steps back.
Wang Feng hooked his hand: "Bring Fuxing!" ”
The two fighters pushed Fuxing in front of Wang Feng, "Hmph! Fuxing snorted heavily, his face full of contempt!
Wang Feng ignored him for the time being, and called loudly: "The hero goes to Liangshan, first accept the name, since you have descended to my Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, you must also accept the name!" Order, the captives are divided into groups of two hundred, and the flag men are cut in turn, each of them at least one knife, and the knife must see blood! ”
"Yes!" Immediately a part of the warriors stepped forward, divided the captives into twelve teams, and shoved a knife into each of the captives of the first group.
The captives also know that there will be no turning back from this cut, you know, it is the flag man who is chopped, and it must be beheaded when it is passed out, but the people are under the eaves and have to bow their heads, so they can only force them with knives.
Brush Brush Brush! A flash of swords, I have to say that the banner people are worthy of the Tunguska species, although they are corrupt and degenerate, but there is still a hard air in their bones, except for a few, most of them are humming, and some people even exhale.
The first team cut and handed the knife to the second team, lined up to cut, and when the last team finished cutting, the ground was covered with blood, and hundreds of bannermen had all made their souls.
Wang Feng nodded with satisfaction, and called again: "Those who have wives and children stand on the left, and those who beat singles stand on the right!" ”
After looking at each other, the captives began to move to the left and right, until at last they stood still, and there were more than 1,300 on the left and less than 1,000 on the right.
Wang Feng put up a smile on his face, looked to the right and said: "Brothers, I am Wang Feng, the second right Xuancheng of the East Hall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the commander of the third right army of the Taiping Army, I welcome you on behalf of my Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, from now on, you are all members of my Taiping Army, I and the Hong Jian Army will lead everyone to expel the Qing Demon and establish a rich and prosperous country where everyone is happy, okay, now the commanders of each brigade go over to pick people, and leave three hundred people with braids and don't cut them for the time being!" ”
Five brigade commanders and their entourage got into the captives, and if they fancied, they let people take them outside, Wang Feng looked to the left again, and muttered: "You have a family and a child, I don't force you, voluntarily join my Taiping Army, I welcome, I don't want to send ten days of rations per person, you can leave by yourself." ”
As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar, and Hong Xuanjiao hurriedly asked, "Wang Feng, why did you let people go?" There's no guarantee that they won't go back to Xiang Rong again! ”
Wang Feng shook his head and said: "Sister Xuanjiao, they take the Hunan people as the mainstay, they have followed our Taiping Army all the way to fight, and they have to worry about their wives and children at home.
I heard that Zeng Guofan is practicing in Hunan, although this person is dull, but he is wise and foolish, self-cultivation and self-discipline, seeking officials with virtue, etiquette first, seeking government with loyalty, and must not be despised, if I am not mistaken, I will be the enemy of my Taiping Army in the future, put these Hunan people back, if Zeng Guofan is requisitioned it is the best, in the future, when we face this person, there may be unexpected miracles, as for returning to Xiang Rong, don't forget, they have all accepted the name of the vote, are you not afraid that someone will secretly tell the truth? Who would dare to go back? ”
"You always have a point!" Hong Xuanjiao said angrily: "But how much food do we have?" You lion opened his mouth to give ten days per person, I am afraid that if you don't get to Shanghai, you will have to run out of food! ”
Wang Feng said indifferently: "I'll figure out a way to solve the problem of food, how can a living person be starved to death?" As he was talking, he suddenly lowered his voice and smiled: "If I can't get food, Sister Xuanjiao, you can eat my sausages." ”
"Where did you get your sausages?" At first, Hong Xuanjiao didn't understand, but when she saw Wang Feng's lewd smile and deliberately opened her crotch that was still slightly shaking, she understood!
"Shameless!" Hong Xuanjiao's face was flushed, she was annoyed and angry, and she smashed it with a punch!
"Bang!" Wang Feng did not dodge or dodge, he endured it stubbornly, and looked at the more than 1,300 soldiers on the left, these people were all grateful, but almost none of them volunteered to stay, under the guidance of the Taiping soldiers, they lined up one after another and waited for the distribution of rations.
The two piles of pawns were all in order, and there would basically be no incidents, Wang Feng looked at Fuxing again and asked, "Master Fu, do you want to die or live?" ”
Fuxing snorted angrily without thinking about it: "What else is there to say when it falls into your hands?" If you want to persuade the master, it's a dream, come, there's a kind of chopping the master! ”
Hong Xuanjiao also hurriedly pulled Wang Feng: "What are you doing?" Our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Qing Demon swear not to stand apart, do you want to let him go? ”
"Sister Xuanjiao, you come with me!" Wang Feng pulled Hong Xuanjiao aside and whispered: "The Manchurians have been decayed to the core, there is no future, whether to kill or not, it doesn't matter to the overall situation, but due to a series of perverse actions of the King of Heaven and the King of the East, a considerable number of people of insight have been pushed to the Qing court, such as Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang, etc., the enlightened gentlemen represented by these three people are not rigid and conservative, and they are full of innovation, which must not be ignored.
If they are allowed to seize the military and political power in Beijing and even in the local area, the Qing court may have a certain amount of reform and gain a chance to breathe, I mean, for the Manchus can temporarily adopt a policy of staying at the top and killing the people, that is, on the one hand, they can kill the lower classes as much as possible and weaken the foundation of the Manchus, and on the other hand, leave the top leaders to continue to hold power, because the Manchus have always been strict with the Han people, and their top leaders will not sit idly by and watch the Han bureaucrats take charge of the military and government in any case, and the two sides will inevitably fall into a fierce internal struggle, for us, the enemy eats dog, This is a good thing, so you can't do it quickly! ”