241 Incitement to chaos
"Fire! Fire! Kill all these guys who don't know whether they are alive or dead! In the smoke of the explosion, one of the surviving Taiping soldiers roared loudly with anger, and his voice made the dizzy Taiping elite musketeers regain their backbone and began to fight back on a large scale.
A two-horse ran up to the commander who was giving orders and asked loudly, "Sir, most of the people here are unwitting refugees, what should we do?" ”
The captain pulled the collars of the two Simas, pointed to the chaotic scene and asked loudly, "Can you tell which one is a rebel?" Our battalion commanders are all dead here, what is there to hesitate about!
A group of lowly Caucasians, if they are all killed, no one will hold us accountable! ”
"Yes! Sir! ”
As for the two Christian fanatics who suddenly shot and killed the two Taiping army battalion commanders, they were immediately beaten into a hornet's nest by the surrounding guard platoons, and all of them died at gunpoint without explanation.
In this era, there is no concept of 'protecting civilians', and even civilians will not be held accountable for accidental injuries during World War II, let alone the 17th century.
The most important thing is that for the Taiping Army, these white refugees can only be regarded as 'half a person' at most, and they are called as 'two-legged animals' on weekdays, and now their own head officials have been killed by a sneak attack, and their comrades have been sent to the sky by suicide bombs.
The reason why the two Sima of the Taiping Army asked if they wanted to separate the innocent people who didn't know and leave one life was mainly because they felt that it was a pity that so many young and strong laborers had been killed......
You must know that with the existence of these young refugees, the workload of the Taiping soldiers throughout the day has dropped geometrically, and one by one they have really become veritable 'military masters', basically except for combat tasks, even the white refugees are responsible for emptying the toilet......
Of course, the officers and soldiers of the Taiping Army subconsciously regarded these white refugees, who were no different from slaves, as their own 'property', and slaughtered hundreds or thousands at a time, which was indeed a bit reluctant.
This reflects the 'command wisdom' of the senior officers in the Taiping military system compared with the lower-level officers, and the Taiping officers and soldiers below only think of the immediate interests, but the Taiping army commander, who is the commander of the hundred people, thinks of the crisis contained in this attack.
You know, their station began on the Livonian border, opposite the Christian Brotherhood, which could call at any time and place!
At this time, if all civil strife is not suppressed by absolutely forceful means, once the enemy comes in, will it not be attacked from inside and outside?
In fact, the speculation of the Taiping army commander is not far behind.
After the suicide attackers who sneak attacked were all 'self-detonated' and martyred, the remnants of the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army, several people raised their guns in a row and aimed at the crowd, and a row of lead bullets was fired past, whether it was a deserter from the Holy Sword Knights who was about to move, or an ordinary white refugee with a bewildered face, they were treated equally in the face of lead bullet.
All of a sudden, a large amount of blood burst out from the pile of nearly 2,000 people fighting with each other, and at such a close distance, it was closer to the face than a close-range salvo on the battlefield, basically the same distance as the scene of the execution, and almost no lead bullet would miss.
At a distance of ten meters, the flintlock pistol can still guarantee a 100% hit rate.
More and more of the surviving elite musketeers of the Taiping army gathered and raised their guns to shoot, and the people who were fired in a volley suddenly fell into endless fear, but just when the Taiping army thought that the situation was decided, several loud shouts suddenly appeared in the slaughtered crowd.
"Brothers, the Taiping army must be wiped out, the big guys should take up arms and fight, otherwise everyone will die here!"
"The Taiping army is unreasonable, there is no humanity, we have not participated in this murder at all, let alone rebelled, why should they shoot us!
Brothers, the Taiping Army doesn't give us a way to live, what are we hesitating about?! To stay alive, fuck the fuck! ”
"To stay alive !!"
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The chaotic voices gradually converged into the words 'for living', because the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army were firing on all sides, and the crowd had no room to escape at all, I have to say that the few people in the crowd who fanned the flames were quite reasonable, and the Taiping Army really did not plan to let these people go home alive.
The Taiping officers and soldiers present had already regarded these people as burial objects for their commanders and compatriots.
Bang bang bang......
After being blown up indiscriminately by black powder, the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army, which had only more than 1,000 people, lost a lot of troops, and many soldiers were wounded and lay on the ground, losing their combat effectiveness in a short period of time.
Of course, it is impossible to calculate the battle in this way, however, the distance between the two sides is less than 10 meters, and the Taiping soldiers have no room to move on the battlefield at all.
The sound of brushing and drawing knives came and went, and after seeing the crowd rushing up with red eyes towards wooden sticks, pitchforks and other farm tools, the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army decisively threw away their muskets and pulled out their sabers, and slashed straight over with hideous faces!
The hand-to-hand combat ability of the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army may not be good in the face of elite troops such as veteran knights and Polish hussars, but slashing and slashing a group of refugees with rudimentary farm tools is definitely crushing level.
It's just that the purpose of those instigators is obviously not to annihilate this Taiping army, they are just to create chaos and killing.
At the time of the chaotic fighting in the place of the fight, the market town and settlement where the refugees lived and the camp of the Taiping Army received the news almost at the same time, and the white refugees whose family members participated in the brawl in the market town and settlement were instigated by some well-intentioned people to brainlessly pick up the 'weapons' they could find and gather in groups.
When the Taiping army camp received the news, they quickly drove to the area where the refugees had gathered and the place where the fighting had taken place.
The whole situation is rapidly developing towards the brink of riots, and if it were not for the suppression of the Taiping army, perhaps the border areas would have been turned into chaos by the mob.
However, when the gathered group of refugees met the musket team of the Taiping army, the crowd dispersed after only one volley......
Under the strong repression of the Taiping soldiers, the ridiculous families of white refugees who wanted justice did not even make a decent resistance.