Chapter Seventy-Seven: A Visit Before Release
Five words a day is really not much, in fact, most of Wang Feng's subordinates use a fashionable sentence, belonging to the urban proletariat, this part of the people are different from the pure illiteracy distributed in the vast countryside, may not be able to write, but for some common words know the pronunciation, can understand the meaning, really ruthless to learn, relatively easy to get started, the main problem is lazy, do not want to learn, but when you have to learn, the original bitter gourd face has become a look of resignation.
Wang Feng immediately threw a powerful look at Hong Xuanjiao, Hong Xuanjiao smiled proudly, stretched out her slender hand and pointed forward: "Wang Feng, Erhu and Xiaoying are back." ”
About two or three miles away, with the last glimmer of light before sunset, you can see a thousand soldiers led by Li Erhu and Zhou Xiaoying escorting a hundred grain trucks, and five or six hundred captives tied up with flowers and flowers slowly coming, obviously robbing the grain carts effortlessly!
Everyone's faces showed joy, and soon, Lu Dayou pulled Zhou Xiaoying and jumped onto the ridge, and arched his hand excitedly: "Report to the commander of the supervising army, the grain truck is full of rice, a total of 700,000 catties, and 600 people have been captured by Xiang Yong and the coachman." ”
Zhou Xiaoying also followed the chirping and added, generally the Taiping army was divided into two ways, Lu Dayou attacked head-on, she led some soldiers to outflank from behind, two phases of attack, cut off the back road, Xiang Yong was already lacking in training, weapons and equipment were backward, and the Taiping soldiers were not comparable to each other at all, and then they were shocked by a series of explosions not far away, just a few shots and a burst of shouts, Xiang Yong surrendered one after another!
"Well done!" After listening, Wang Feng nodded approvingly, and set his eyes on the captives under the ridge, these captives were mainly young and middle-aged, and their faces were full of uneasiness.
After a slight glance, Wang Feng hooked his hand: "Untie the rope." ”
"Yes!" The warriors stepped forward in pairs, and in a short time all the ropes on the captives had been untied.
Wang Feng asked, "Which of you is the leader?" Come out and speak. ”
A man who was nearly thirty years old stood up with a cower, stammered and said, "Little Zhu Zhu Fugui, see the adult, thank you for your grace not to kill." ”
"Hmm~~" Wang Feng and Yan Yuese asked, "Zhu Fugui, how many surnames do you people have?" Don't be nervous, our Taiping Army is not a murderous demon king, if you have something to say, speak slowly. ”
Although Zhu Fugui didn't understand Wang Feng's intention to ask, Wang Feng's calm attitude made his tense heartstrings relax a little, and his speech was also a lot sharper: "My lord, among the five hundred brothers who don't even have the coachman, the surname Zhu is the most, accounting for seventy percent, and the rest have the surname Li and the surname Zhang, all of which are from Zhujiaqiao Town in the back twenty miles. ”
"Oh~~" Wang Feng said noncommittally: "According to the rules of our army, there are two ways for prisoners, one is to die, and the other is to join our Taiping Army, which one do you choose?" ”
Suddenly, six hundred people, including the coachman, all changed their faces drastically, they didn't want to take these two roads, Zhu Fugui knelt down for the first time, and shouted loudly: "My lord, it's not that we don't want to join the Taiping Army, but our parents, wives and children are in the township, if the government learns, I'm afraid it will affect them, pity most of us, there are eighty old mothers, and there are young children waiting to be fed, please be kind to adults!" Woo woo woo~~"
As he was talking, Zhu Fugui wiped away his tears and cried heartbreakingly.
"Plop! Thump! Everyone also knelt in the paddy field one after another, being pointed at the head with a gun, not even daring to move, and they all looked at Wang Feng pitifully.
'Huh? Hong Xuanjiao is slightly frowning, when Wang Feng disposed of Xiang Rong's chasing soldiers, he took the initiative to return the captives who had a family and a mouth, and when he borrowed grain from Shengfu, he did not act excessively, but why did he threaten Xiang Yong today? And what does he want to do?
Hong Xuanjiao was far from the only one who had similar thoughts, especially the soldiers who were forced to surrender their names in the valley, they all looked at each other.
Sure enough, Wang Feng hesitated for a while, and said very embarrassed: "Since you are in difficulty, I can understand it, okay, if you don't want me, I won't be strong, but you colluded with the Qing court and took the initiative to be my enemy, this time, I can release you unconditionally, but there will be a next time."
Just as there was a ray of light at the darkest moment, Zhu Fugui shouted with a crying voice: "If you don't investigate our collusion with the court, and let us go back, how can we not remember your kindness and go against you again, is that still human?" Rest assured, we won't dare! ”
"Yes, yes! In this life and this life, we will never be enemies of the Taiping Army! The rest of the people hurriedly raised their tickets.
"Be quiet!" Wang Feng pressed his hands, waited for the noise to stop for a while, and said: "My name is Wang Feng, I am 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 want to ask you to bring a word to your lord, my goal is to overthrow the Qing court and restore the Han people, and I have no intention of being an enemy of the Jiangnan squire, but if people don't offend me, I won't offend anyone, if people offend me, I will kill his whole family, if anyone dares to collude with the Qing court to deal with me, it is unexpected!" ”
"Yes, yes! We understand, we'll talk to you when we get back! Zhu Fugui was busy assuring.
Wang Feng's face softened a little, and he turned around and pointed: "You have all seen it, this is the foreigner who stomped his feet, and the city of Beijing was also shaken three times, six hundred people, five hundred and two people were annihilated by me, ninety-eight people were captured alive, and none of them escaped, how is the Qing army compared to the foreigners?" How do you compare to foreigners? Come on, take them up to see it, and then you're done. ”
"Yes!" The soldiers lined up with the captives and climbed the ridge one by one.
The first thing that caught the eye was the foreigners sitting in a row on the side of the road, their faces full of dejection, and the captives looking at them like ghosts.
"This is a foreigner? Why is hair as yellow as straw? ”
"Look at those eyes, they are green, they are clearly ghost eyes, and the white face, just like the pigskin of the old sow that has just been slaughtered at home during the Chinese New Year!"
"Shhhh Be quiet, foreigners have powerful firearms, be careful to give you a shot! ”
"No matter how powerful you are, haven't you been caught by the Taiping Army? I'm afraid of him! ”
These people pointed and talked a lot, but not long after being taken forward, their faces changed greatly, and they saw that the road was fragmented, and they were covered with deep pits in turn, along the road, some Taiping soldiers were holding needles and threads to sew their thighs to the thighs of the corpses, and some were holding a bunch of green intestines in their hands and stuffing them into their stomachs, and some people were holding half of their lungs, with a purple heart hanging on them, and carefully loaded them into their chests. There were arms, heads, legs and other parts on the side, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.
"Vomiting ~~" Some people couldn't help it, vomited wildly, the first person vomited, everyone vomited, because the stomach was empty, all the vomit was yellow-green bile, many people vomited and collapsed directly, the two legs trembled, thanks to the mutual support with their companions to barely stand!