After a night of chaos, when the sky was bright, sporadic battles continued within a radius of more than ten miles with Hushu Town as the center, but on a larger scale, it was a kind of relief surrender.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the East Hall in the battle of last night's breakthrough were like people who had premature ejaculation, and they began to break through very firmly, but after the dense and strong firepower of the West Hall was carried out, the morale of the East Hall quickly collapsed, and when the shouts of surrender and death all over the mountains came out, this collapse came even more violently, and it was simply a collapse.

If the enemy opposite the Dongdian soldiers was the Qing army, maybe they would have resisted desperately, but it was the brothers of the Heavenly Kingdom who fought it, and it was the soldiers and horses led by the Western King of the Heavenly Kingdom, so the rout-like surrender intensified.

The squad leader took Xiao Guangxi and the thin and tall people to start their search and arrest operation, although there were tens of thousands of soldiers in the West Hall who participated in the battle, but they were scattered within a radius of more than ten miles, and the troops were thin, so Chen Yu ordered to break into pieces and collect the defeated soldiers in the East Hall to the greatest extent.

Xiao Guangxi held high the wooden sign of putting down his arms and surrendering to avoid death, walking in the first place with his head held high, the squad leader walking behind, and the thin and tall man laughed with the prisoners in the East Hall beside him from time to time. There were a total of thirteen Dongdian soldiers who followed the three of them, although they were prisoners, but they did not have the slightest frustration, and the thin and tall Northeast guy was also a nagging lord, and his mouth could not be idle.

"Big brother, I heard that you are from the Northeast?"

"Yes, next to Wanzigou in Dalian, my hometown, the Taiping Army who participated in the last year was the first to follow General Tan Shaoguang Tan. In fact, I heard my ancestor say that his hometown was from Shandong, and he couldn't survive during the Qianlong period, so his ancestor followed the uprooted man to the eastern part of the country. ”

"Didn't the Northeast let the Qing Demon be sealed? So how do you get through? ”

"Our Northeast is really vast and sparsely populated, and no matter how many demons there are, they can't seal the entire Northeast, in fact, I heard my grandfather say that it started from Kangxi. Every year, there are people who can't survive to run to the northeast, and the number of people is small at first, dozens or hundreds, but when it comes to Daoguangnian, it is tens of thousands every year, and Chahar's horse team can't stop them. The Qing demon is really evil, there are many people in the Guan, and there are few people outside the Guan, but they don't let people go over to ask for a living. The black soil over there is fertile, what is planted and harvested, and there are many forests. There are also many prey. ”

"Alas, big brother, what should you do at home when you become a soldier?"

"The eldest of my family was stationed on Temple Street under the command of General Tan Shaoguang, and the second child was working in Dalian, where the construction of a military port began. There is an urgent shortage of manpower. The family is still living in their hometown, and the three of us brothers are doing well when we send our military salaries and wages home. ”

"Do you still have military pay?"

"Nonsense. The people in the west hall have already begun to get paid to live. It's like we still live with that portion of the Holy Kumi's bread. ”

"Alas, big brother, if I serve as a soldier for your West Temple?"

"Then I can't be the master, I'm just a private, and I listen to the squad leader."

The squad leader turned around at this time and said, "After you join us, there will naturally be arrangements from above. However, I suspect that you will have to reorganize and train before you can become a soldier in the West Temple. ”

"I'm so strong, I hacked two Qing demons to death when I killed the Qing Demon in Nanchang, and I still have to retrain here?" A rather athletic Dongdian soldier shouted loudly.

The squad leader frowned and said, "What's the noise?" Do you know how to play with this thing? It's called a breech-loading rifled rifle, you know? It was made in Norway to the west. Now that we're using it, will you play it? This guy isn't like your drugged shotgun. ”

The Dongdian soldiers gathered around and watched the squad leader fiddle with the rifle in his hand, the squad leader's skillful control and then fired, the gunfire was very loud, which frightened the Dongdian soldiers, "This thing can fight more than 400 paces away, your shotgun can only fight 150 steps, how is this thing's opponent......"

Before the words were finished, a feather arrow flew with a whoosh, just inserted on the wooden card held high by Xiaoguangxi, only to see that the feather arrow was two inches deep into the wooden card, and the feather tail trembled, everyone was stunned for a moment, and after a while, the squad leader shouted: "Lie down, there is an enemy!" ”

The three of them hurriedly lay down on the ground, and sure enough, several feather arrows flew out of the forest not far away, and a soldier of the East Temple was shot in the shoulder by a feather arrow, and fell to the ground and screamed loudly.

The squad leader turned around and shouted to several Dongdian soldiers: "You take him down and be careful yourself." ”

The rather sturdy Dongdian soldier said: "Big brother, the people in the forest may be from our East Temple, I'll go and ask them to come out and descend." ”

The squad leader shook his head and said, "If they want to descend, they will descend when they see the wooden card." ”

"Maybe they can't read, but there aren't many of us who can read." The sturdy Dongdian soldier had already stood up as he spoke, and walked forward with a loud shout, and the squad leader hurriedly said, "You be careful......"

Before the words could be spoken, a feathered arrow flew into the throat of the soldier of the East Temple, and the soldier fell straight back, and after a few convulsions, he did not move.

Xiao Guangxi said angrily: "Damn, kill everyone yourself." With that, he raised his gun and shot into the woods, and the squad leader and the tall and thin man also began to return fire, and the feathered arrows in the forest were sparse, and did not pose any threat to the three of them, but the rifles of the three of them hit the trees and sawdust.

After a period of firing at each other, the sound of gunfire attracted a platoon of soldiers from the West Temple, led by a second lieutenant platoon commander, who immediately ordered the soldiers to break into the woods in battle formation. The squad leader asked a few Dongdian soldiers to stay where they were, and as soon as they greeted the three of them, they rushed up with the platoon.

When I entered the dense forest, I saw three corpses lying behind a tree, all of them were wounded by gunshot wounds, and I don't know who killed them.

The second lieutenant platoon commander squatted next to the corpse and looked at it and said, "They are all the personal guards of the general of the East Palace, it seems that there are big fish in the forest, let's scatter and chase." Then he looked at the squad leader and the three of them and said, "You are from the third company, carry out your mission, and we can come here." ”

The implication was that he didn't want the squad leader and the three of them to get involved, and the squad leader didn't say much, and saluted the second lieutenant platoon commander and beckoned Xiao Guangxi and the two turned around and walked out of the forest. The tall and thin man muttered behind him, "Erlian's gang of grandsons are really cunning, and they won't let us go up when they see a big fish." ”

The squad leader smiled and said, "They are chasing behind, and we are outflanking forward, maybe we can catch a big fish." ”

Xiao Guangxi said with some worry: "Just the three of us? Would you like to call more people? ”

The squad leader sorted out the ammunition on his body and said: "The second stunned they stayed in the camp, and it would take a lot of time to go back and forth, and it was too late." Just the three of us! I'm afraid to beg for it! After saying that, the squad leader told a few prisoners of the East Hall to wait for them to come back, and if they met other West Hall soldiers, they would follow, and after the explanation, the three of them followed the path by the forest to the south.

When I walked a stick of incense, I only heard the sudden gunfire on the other side of the forest, and the squad leader beckoned the two to quickly hide in the pile of rocks beside the path on the edge of the forest.

The three of them did not hesitate, and the squad leader gave an order, and the three of them shot together, and immediately knocked down two. The group of East Hall guards exclaimed together: "There is also an ambush here!" "Yang checks and begs for death!"

"Lay down your arms. Surrender or die! The squad leader distracted the attention of the East Hall guards while reloading the ammunition, although the three of them could skillfully reload the ammunition, they could only ensure about four rounds per minute, and the salvo fire of the three rifles was not enough to ensure that they could stop the charge of more than ten people.

Sure enough, those East Hall Counselors hesitated for a moment. One of them suddenly shouted, "This is the end of the matter, and it is useless to kill more." Everyone, let's go down. ”

The more than a dozen nurses were stunned. Then they knelt on the ground and cried loudly, "Guozong, we can still protect you and rush out." "Even if there is only one person left, we can't surrender."

The man separated from the others and stepped forward, but he was dressed in a red robe and a yellow scarf. At first glance, it is the great official of the East Temple. Although the man was on the run, he still tried to maintain his prestige and demeanor, and he waved his scarlet cloak and said with a wry smile: "The general trend has gone, Chen Zhaoping is on the verge of defection." The soldiers have no fighting spirit, how can they still break through? That's it, that's it, we can't just die in front of the northern traitor, let's surrender. ”

More than ten guards were still crying and persuading, the second lieutenant platoon commander in the forest had already led people to chase them out, the squad leader and other three people also stood up from the pile of rubble, and the soldiers in the west hall faintly fanned around the more than ten people in the east hall.

The second lieutenant platoon commander glanced at the three squad leaders, and turned back to the man: "Put down your arms, surrender and avoid death, the West Hall will not harm your brother's life!" ”

The man sneered a few times, and said with the shelf: "Take me to see your King of the West!" ”

Xiao Guangxi snorted and said, "Who are you?" Said you can see the king of the west? ”

The man stepped forward, raised his head and said loudly: "I am Yang Fuqing, take me to see your King of the West!" ”

The second lieutenant was slightly stunned, and then asked in a deep voice, "Are you really Yang Fuqing?" ”

The man snorted and said, "If you don't change your name or change your surname, I'm Yang Fuqing!" ”

The second lieutenant nodded, took a few steps back, and glanced at a sergeant beside him, who raised his hand, and the soldiers of the platoon actually raised their guns. The squad leader sensed that something was wrong, and before he could ask, he saw the second lieutenant shouting, "Fire!" ”

Dozens of soldiers surrounded Yang Fuqing and more than ten others, dozens of rifles fired at the same time, and the distance was close, and after a burst of random shooting, the people surrounding it had all been killed by random shooting.

The second lieutenant waved his hand expressionlessly, and more than a dozen soldiers stepped forward with bayonets and mended knives on the corpse.

The squad leader and the other three were startled, and the second lieutenant put away his revolver, stepped forward, took out a pack of cigarettes and handed them to the three with an expressionless face, and asked, "What do you see?" ”

The squad leader's heart jumped suddenly, he knew that this second lieutenant platoon commander must have accepted some secret order, and he wanted to directly kill Yang Fuqing, the biggest leader of the East Hall, on the spot, and said in a trembling voice: "We didn't see anything." ”

The second lieutenant said coldly: "Come back with us, don't talk to others on the way, don't worry, the three of you only need to stay in the Intelligence Department for a while before you can return to the company, and your combat exploits will also be discussed from the top, I believe you won't say anything." ”

The squad leader wiped the sweat from his forehead and nodded, "Listen to the commander's order!" ”

The second lieutenant nodded with satisfaction, and then waved his soldiers and began to collect the corpses, and a sergeant ran over and reported loudly: "Report to the platoon commander, when our unit was ordered to search and advance, it encountered more than ten stubborn remnants of the East Temple attack, and our troops were forced to counterattack, killing more than ten remnants of the enemy on the spot, according to the investigation of Yang Fuqing, the Emperor of the East Temple, was among them......"

The squad leader didn't listen to the words anymore, he pulled Xiao Guangxi and the others to explain: "This matter is rotten in my stomach, just remember it for me according to what the sergeant said just now!" ”

Xiao Guangxi held a cigarette in his trembling hand, and couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "Squad leader, didn't you say that you will lay down your arms and surrender to avoid death?" ”

The squad leader sighed lightly and said in a low voice: "Some people can't put down their weapons......" (To be continued......