Liuyang Gate is one of the east gates of the ancient city of Changsha, was built in the period of five dynasties, because out of the city is named after the post road to Liuyang County, at this time the sun has been westward, in the dim city gate hole, the Taiping army lit a cluster of torches, the fire light reflects the mottled blue marks on the masonry, indescribable darkness and desolation.

Two heavy city gates are open, they are full of bowl-sized copper nails, out of the dark city gate hole, there is a temporary bridge on the moat outside the Liuyang Gate, called Liucheng Bridge, it is a wooden temporary bridge, at this time the bridge is crowded with hundreds of people who fled from Liuyang.

When Hong Yun'er, Hu Jiumei, and Li Xuanji arrived with female soldiers, they saw Lin Fengxiang with the men's battalion soldiers and horses checking the identities of the people.

Hong Yun'er's eyes swept over, only to see that these people were all shabby and ragged clothes, and some of them only had a piece of clothing to cover their bodies, fear, panic, anger, sorrow, all kinds of complex expressions were written all over their faces, shouts, doll's cries, injured wails, and domestic animals were mixed together, hovering over the crowd, making the scene even more chaotic.

Seeing Hong Yun'er coming, Lin Fengxiang hurriedly greeted him, hugged his fists and said: "Xiwang Niang, the women among the people have the sisters of the labor women's camp." ”

Hong Yun'er nodded and said: "It's okay, let the people who are not suspicious enter the city, I asked the women's camp to prepare more food, as well as medicine, and the injured people can also be taken care of." Later, I will ask General Lin to let the soldiers of the men's battalion build some shacks, so that the people can have a place to live temporarily. ”

Lin Fengxiang replied respectfully: "I would like to follow the instructions of the Queen of the West, there was originally a place in the west of the city where the fleeing people from all over the country took refuge, and they could be arranged to go there, the place was wide, and it was enough for hundreds of people to come." ”

Hong Yun'er snorted, seeing that Hu Jiumei, Li Xuanji and other female soldiers had stepped forward to greet the women among the people to come and check one by one, the Taiping army was mainly worried that there were Qing army spies pretending to be refugees to blend into the city, at the beginning of the year, there were Qing soldiers in Yong'an who pretended to be refugees and mixed into Yong'an City and the traitor Zhou Xineng secretly communicated the news, in fact, early in the morning, Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, checked out the details, but Yang Xiuqing remained silent, and only secretly monitored, until Zhou Xineng decided to rebel, Yang Xiuqing took the opportunity to attack, Let the Heavenly Father come down to earth to unravel Zhou Xineng's conspiracy.

Most of the soldiers of the Taiping Army were born in poverty, and many of them had been refugees who had fled, and they were quite accurate about the Qing army pretending to be refugees, and the Qing army's meticulous work rarely escaped their eyes.

Seeing Li Xuanji shouting to the people with a local accent in Hunan, many ordinary women listened to Li Xuanji's words, holding the baby and holding their treasures one by one to let the female soldiers of the Taiping Army check, and if there was no suspicious, they were put into the city.

Seeing that the Taiping Army was so benevolent, the people were so grateful for a while that they thanked again and again, and many people shed tears, praising the good of the long hair, and some couldn't stop cursing the officials and soldiers.

When Li Xuanji was busy, she saw a peasant girl squeezing forward and crying: "Sister Xuanji, I'm Holly, I'm Holly." This woman was Yang Dongqing, a peasant girl who was captured by the Qing army with Li Xuanji that day.

Li Xuanji followed the prestige, hurriedly stepped forward to separate the crowd and pulled Yang Dongqing aside and said happily: "Dongqing, did you escape too?" The two of us were separated in the war that day, and I worried about you for a long time. ”

Yang Dongqing's face was sad, and the two lines of tears couldn't help falling, and he choked up: "Sister Xuanji, that day Changmao and the official army fought, the two of us were separated, I was rescued by the long-haired soldiers, gave me something to eat and let me go home, who knew that when I returned to our village, the defeated soldiers of the official army just fled to our village, killing people when they saw them, and robbing things when they saw them." ”

Li Xuanji's face turned pale, and she grabbed Yang Dongqing and asked urgently, "Where is my mother?" Did my mother escape? ”…,

Yang Dongqing cried loudly: "I heard from the people who escaped together that Aunt Li was killed by the official army, and your house was also burned, and I was the only one in my family who escaped. ”

These words were like a burst of thunder, which shocked Li Xuanji into a daze, and only after a while did she squat down and hugged her knees and cried, Yang Dongqing also squatted beside her and cried loudly.

Hong Yun'er was explaining some trivial matters to Hu Jiumei, but when she turned around, she saw Li Xuanji squatting on the ground crying, and hurriedly separated everyone and stepped forward to ask, "Xuanji, what's wrong with you?" ”

Li Xuanji was already crying and couldn't speak, but Hong Yun'er still asked the reason from Yang Dongqing's mouth. Hong Yun'er sighed lightly, born in troubled times, human life is always rootless, it can be broken at any time, followed by a wave of hatred, these Qing army lackeys are really hateful, poisoning the township, killing the people, it is not as good as pigs and dogs.

Hong Yun'er gently stroked Li Xuanji's back, only to feel that the girl's delicate body trembled, and comforted softly in her mouth: "Xuanji, you have to be stronger, the deceased is gone, if the king of the West wins the battle later, it will be regarded as revenge for you, you still have the eldest brother to find, don't cry and break your body, our God has taught that as long as you are kind-hearted, you can go to heaven and enjoy happiness after death." Hong Yun'er didn't know how to persuade her, so she could only comfort her by saying the doctrine of God.

Li Xuanji cried for a while, suddenly stood up, wiped her tears, her eyes were full of anger, she clenched her fists and gritted her teeth and suddenly bowed down in front of Hong Yun'er, and said sadly: "Xi Wangniang, you accept me and Holly as Taiping female soldiers, we have to learn martial arts, we want to kill demons, kill all these beasts!" ”

Hong Yun'er sighed slightly, only to see Yang Dongqing stand up weakly, kneeling beside Li Xuanji and saying, "Queen Xi, please take us in." Although Yang Dongqing didn't know Hong Yun'er, she saw that she was dressed extraordinarily, and she was wearing a yellow headscarf on her head, which was different from the ordinary long-haired red turban, and she was also very beautiful. Could it be the mother of the King of the West? But this woman is so young, it's impossible, is it the concubine of the king of the West and his father?

Of course, Hong Yun'er couldn't think of what strange thoughts Yang Dongqing was thinking, so she hurriedly stepped forward to help the second daughter and said, "You have to think clearly, you will die at any time when you become a soldier." ”

Li Xuanji said firmly: "Xi Wang Niang, the little girl is now alone, and my brother was also forcibly arrested by the Qing Demon to do group training, and now the Qing Demon has killed my mother again, this blood feud can only be avenged by me, since the Qing Demon forced me to no longer take the front female red, I picked up the sword to ask them for justice!" Yang Dongqing also widened his eyes and echoed loudly.

Seeing that the two girls were determined, Hong Yun'er nodded slowly and said: "Okay, you two just follow me, my name is Hong Xuanjiao, I am the commander of the Taiping Women's Battalion, you can be my personal guard by my side now, I will ask Aunt Hu to record your military registration when I turn around, and then I will tell you some rules, let's settle the fleeing people first." The second daughter cried with joy, and with tears in her eyes, she followed Hong Yun'er and got busy again.

After the refugees in Liuyang entered the city, the news spread quickly, and many people in Liuyang Township who were captured had become Taiping soldiers, and when they heard that their hometown had been ravaged by the Qing army, they were excited for a while, and they gathered at Liuyangmen to go out of the city to take revenge.

The commanders of the Liuyang New Army, He Bin, Zhou Zhaoyao and others hurriedly persuaded them, Hong Yuner and Lin Fengxiang saw that the chaos outside the city had not subsided, and the city was in chaos again, so they hurriedly withdrew into the city, only to see that the Liuyang New Army was full of anger and shouted, "General, you let me go out of the city, Lao Tzu wants to fight with Qinggou, don't stop me!" "Dog Guanjun, Dog Guanfu, let's fight desperately for them, they actually killed my wife and daughter, Lao Tzu wants revenge!" "These heavenly officials and soldiers, the long hair is not as vicious as them, Lao Tzu wants revenge!" …,