Gong Zhaolu was very aggrieved in his heart, he had already said it to Bi Fuguang in an almost pleading tone, but he didn't expect Bi Fuguang to be unmoved.

Bi Fuguang only shook his head: "I'm still more interested in how long you can go on a hunger strike and die." ”

"You! Soldiers can be killed but not humiliated, Gong is a dignified scholar, how can he let you and others tease like this, Gong would rather jump down and fall to his death than let you achieve your goal! ”

Gong Zhao was so angry that he walked to the city wall, but as soon as he saw the rocks below and the corpses of the Qing soldiers lying on the ground, he retreated in fright.

"You're jumping!"

Bi Fuguang couldn't help but shout with a smile.

"After all, falling to death will damage the hair and skin, but the skin can be given to the parents, and the destruction is not filial, I still choose to die of hunger strike, I swear to die as a person who keeps the festival in the Qing Dynasty, and you don't have to persuade Nankou anymore!"

Miyazhao shouted angrily.

"We didn't persuade either!"

Bi Fuguang shouted with a wry smile.

Early the next morning.

Bi Fuguang came here again: "Are you dead?" ”

And Gong Zhaolu had completely collapsed, and knelt directly on it and kowtowed to Bi Fuguang: "This uncle, count, it's small, please, you can save my life, I don't want to die, I don't want to die on a hunger strike!" ”

"You yourself want to be a person who keeps the festival in the Qing Dynasty."

Bi Fuguang replied.

"No, no, I won't do it, I just beg you to let me go, save me, I will give you all my possessions, and my Ruyun will be given to you."

Gong Zhaolu held his mouth and begged Bi Fuguang with tears in his eyes.

"The official is not interested", Bi Fuguang only replied lightly.

"That's good! Since you are determined to let me die, can you make me a full ghost, and the condemned prisoner must have a good meal before his beheading, not to mention that I am still a scholar! ”

Gong Zhaolu suddenly roared confidently, but then cried again: "I'm really hungry, please, please, I'll be a slave for you, you will be my master in the future, as long as you reward me with a bite to eat." ”

"It is precisely because you are a scholar that you want to die on a hunger strike, after all, we also respect your decision, I promise, the march record will write that on October 28, the 22nd year of Chongzhen, the first corps of the Third Army of the Guards Army regained Weihui Mansion, and the people of Fucheng died of hunger strike in one fell swoop, and they were loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty!"

Bi Fuguang left as he spoke, and in the afternoon he continued to go north with the main force.

And Gong Zhaolu was dying after another day of starvation: "I don't want to be faithful, why are you forcing me." ”

In the end, Gong Zhaolu fulfilled his promise to keep the festival and starved to death on the walls of Weihui Mansion.

……

At this time.

The Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards also surrounded Huaiqing Province.

The difference between Huaiqing Mansion and Weihui Mansion is that Lu Ke, the prefect of Huaiqing Mansion, took the initiative to unite with the local landlords to resist the Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards, and even organized an army of 50,000 to take the initiative to go out of the city to kill the Second Corps of the Guards.

Lu Ke, the prefect of Huaiqing Prefecture, served in the Qing court's military department, and knew that the current city could no longer withstand artillery, so he chose to take the initiative to attack.

Seeing the dense crowd of more than 10,000 infantry and archers coming, many of whom were still holding hoes and kitchen knives, Liu Qian, the deputy chief of the Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards, couldn't believe his eyes.

If he hadn't seen many Qing army officers wearing cotton armor and the civilian official wearing the four tops of the Qing court, he would have thought that he had encountered a group of thieves.

"Six infantry battalions go up to practice marksmanship, artillery and cavalry will not move first, and then there will be opportunities to train."

As soon as Liu Qian said this, it didn't take long for the six infantry battalions of the Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards Army to also present a fan-shaped offensive, holding Chongzhen 22-style rifled guns or Chongzhen 21-type rear-loading flintlock pistols and Chongzhen 19-style flintlock pistols towards the Qing army led by the prefect Lu Ke.

Among them, Lin Baishui, an infantry member of an infantry battalion of the Guards, participated in actual combat for the first time, and even trembled a little when he held the gun, after all, this was his first time killing, and he was a little nervous, but he still took it very seriously and began to shoot at the face of a Qing army in accordance with the operation process he was used to during training.

Bang!

The Qing soldier fell down in response, looking at Lin Baishui in shock, and the Qing soldier didn't understand how he was killed so quickly.

And with the beginning of killing the first Qing army, Lin Baishui, an infantry member of the Guards, instinctively chose to continue shooting, one after another, and began to change from nervousness to excitement.

The same is true of the infantry of the other Guards, crackling bullets like a sickle harvesting wheat, constantly harvesting the lives of these Qing soldiers.

The Qing army was directly defeated!

Prefect Lu Ke didn't expect that the Ming army not only had artillery and strong firearms, but also had such powerful firearms, and when he saw the Qing army he organized running back with his armor abandoned, he also panicked:

"Oh my God, how can this battle be fought, Da Ming, Da Ming, why don't you die, why do you want to come back, why do you want to come back!"

When Lu Ke, the prefect of Huaiqing Prefecture, shouted, dozens of guards infantry had already aimed at him, and dozens of bullets hit him, directly beating him into a sieve.

The Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards Army successfully entered and occupied the capital city of Huaiqingfu.

And the people of Huaiqing Mansion are the same as the people of Weihui Mansion, because they were bewitched by the local gentry, thinking that the Guards would wash the city in blood after entering the city, so they rushed to flee, but because the Guards appeared too quickly, they were blocked in the city by the Guards, and some people were so frightened that they knelt directly on the ground when they saw this:

"Soldiers, spare your life, spare your life, we are just ordinary people, whether it is the Qing Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, we don't understand these big truths, we know that the Ming Dynasty is the emperor of the Han people, and we are also Han people, but no one has ever taught us to only recognize the emperor of the Han people!"

"Folks, don't be afraid, our guards are the king's division, we will not do anything to the people, we only do it to the Han thieves who go out of the country, you still do your own, our guards will never interfere, if someone in the guards bullies you, you can directly come to our military justice department to complain, everything with such an epaulette on the shoulder is from the military justice department, you can say it first."

Ren Huai'an, the governor of the Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards, conscientiously conveyed his Guards' policies to these people in person, and gradually these people were relieved to see that the Guards really did not do anything to them.

And when the Guards took the initiative to recruit local people to bury the corpses of Qing soldiers who died in the battle and sprinkle lime for sanitary treatment, some people gradually took the initiative to undertake such post-war treatment work when they saw that there were silver dollars.

Because the domestic trend of the development of the Northern Expedition was very optimistic, a large amount of funds flowed to the use of the Northern Expedition through the issuance of Northern Expedition coupons.

As a result, the various units of the Guards were well paid to recruit local people, and as a result, more and more civilians in the newly occupied areas began to actively serve the Northern Expedition, so that a reform movement continued to advance smoothly into the north.

(End of chapter)