240 Revenge begins
Every week, in the refugee camps of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom on the Livonian border, a varying number of civilians who could not accept full Christianization and the remnants of the Knights of the Holy Sword who were hunted down by the Christian Brotherhood took refuge here.
Although the main combat power of the Knights of the Holy Sword has been destroyed, the Christian Brotherhood will obviously not allow this kind of fanatical fighting organization that has had a 'resurgence' to continue to exist, and under the orders of Jobs and others, all the personnel who have served the Knights of the Holy Sword have been declared 'guilty' by the Christian Brotherhood.
The lighter case is sentenced to imprisonment and slave status, and the heavier case is directly punished with death!
Even though the army of the Holy Sword Knights has been wiped out, there are still many people who have survived the service of this once rising military organization, and the identities of these people have been recorded in the Holy Sword Knights, after all, they also received the former Holy Sword Knights to live.
Therefore, under the pursuit of the Christian Brotherhood, they had to leave their homeland and escape from the Taiping Army shelter set up at the border.
These people, together with a handful of escaped Knights of the Holy Sword Order, formed the so-called remnants of the Knights of the Holy Sword.
These 'remnants' are just a title, and none of the core members of the True Holy Sword Knights or even the elite warriors have survived, which means that the spiritual inheritors of the Holy Sword Knights have actually perished.
The rest of these people are just poor people huddled together for warmth, led by the former soldiers of the Knights of the Holy Sword Order, who have weapons, and use the afterglow of the Knights of the Holy Sword to struggle for survival.
Even if the Holy Sword Knights perished, in the eyes of those ordinary civilians, they were not something that could be easily bullied.
It's just that as time goes by, more and more Livonian refugees pour in, and the news of the complete destruction of the Holy Sword Knights is spreading more and more widely, plus these 'remnants' of the Holy Sword Knights are really indisputable, there is no organization and no strong armament, at most, a few deserters with weapons and a group of down-and-out people to maintain the only remaining bit of dignity.
Newcomers may be reluctant to provoke because they don't know the roots, but as time goes by, who doesn't know what kind of 'bird thing' the Knights of the Holy Sword are today?
As a result, the ordinary refugee gangs in the camp began to clash frequently with the remnants of the Knights of the Holy Sword, for the simple reason that the Taiping Army gave too little food!
The Taiping Army just used these people as coolies, plus screened some people to join the security team, but unfortunately, Hong Tiancheng and other high-level officials of the Heavenly Kingdom obviously overestimated the willpower of these people, and those who fled from the famine were either deserters or refugees from the Holy Sword Knights, and their spirit had already been lost, so how could they have the courage to return to the army and work their lives?
Not to mention the Taiping Army, which is known for its frequent wars!
Later, after discovering that these 'Adou' could not support the wall, the officers of the Taiping Army did not bother to train them, and purely treated them as coolies.
A large amount of tuntian land was reclaimed along the border for these refugees and the so-called remnants to work, and the usual miscellaneous work of the Taiping Army was also handed over to them.
The camp has been transformed from a planned militia training camp into a farmer's camp in the fields......
The most important thing is that these farmers are still uneasy one by one, and the young men under the banner of the remnants of the Holy Sword Knights are constantly clashing with ordinary refugee gangs, and sometimes they can kill people, which annoys the officers of the Taiping Army.
No, it was supposed to be a good time to work hard under a clear sky, but as a result, there was another large-scale weapon fight in the field, and the remnants of the Knights of the Holy Sword gathered hundreds of mobs with clubs and weapons, even the able-bodied women rolled up their sleeves and went into battle, and the refugee gang on the opposite side even attracted thousands of people.
After all, there are deserters with iron sword weapons among the remnants of the Holy Sword Knights, and their combat effectiveness is still slightly stronger, even in the face of a large group of refugees, they dare to be tough.
The reason for the fight between the two sides is that after the two gangs collide like a crazy boy, no one will care anymore, and the contradictions between the two sides have accumulated for a long time, and the reason for the fight is just a small spark that detonates.
The commander of the Taiping Army, who got the news, was furious, and directly ordered two battalions of thousands of soldiers to be transferred to suppress it, which was the first time that such a large-scale weapon fight had occurred!
If it weren't for the fact that these people were still useful to the Taiping army, he would have ordered them all to be shot long ago.
The arrival of the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army armed with flintlock pistols made the fighting group in the melee suddenly calm down, and under the cold muzzle, these people were still instinctively afraid.
The two battalion commanders of the Taiping Army directly sent people to call out the persons in charge of the arms fight between the two sides, and the remnants of the Holy Sword Knights and the refugee gang coincidentally walked out of a total of more than a dozen men wearing linen robes.
The two Taiping Army battalion commanders stood side by side, staring at the dozen or so men who had thrown away their sharp weapons with expressionless faces.
"Do you know the consequences of gathering a crowd to make trouble?"
"Sir, we know, so we decided to do it!"
The person in charge who was standing a few meters away from the two battalion commanders suddenly took out two flintlock handcuffs from an inexplicable place in his robe, and pulled the trigger on the Taiping Army battalion commander who was close at hand with a confused face!
Bang bang!
"Long live Christianity!"
The sudden sound of gunfire and the convulsive commander of the Taiping Army who clutched the bullet part and fell to the ground made the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army around him suddenly look confused, and they had not yet recovered from the sudden transformation of the trembling white refugees into fanatical Christians.
After the slogan of Long Live Christianity was shouted, most of the refugees and the remnants of the Knights of the Holy Sword were in the same state of ignorance, but a few of them were silent as ice without saying a word, and rushed to the elite soldiers of the Taiping Army who were attracted to the scene of the shooting, and ignited the black powder tied to their bodies in their robes as if they were crazy!
"You dogs, go to hell!!"
"Son, your father can finally avenge you!!"
"The glory of God will shine again on the earth!!
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Different shouts were accompanied by a loud rumbling sound, exploding in the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army, and the suicide attacker with a black powder bag wrapped a circle of iron nails, marbles and other small objects outside the black powder, just like the infantry grenades of later generations.
Those elite musketeers of the Taiping Army thought that it was just a routine duty task, but they didn't expect this place to become a battlefield, and they were suddenly attacked, and they were sprayed with projectiles straight up......
The sudden attack of the suicide bombers had clearly assigned their tasks in advance, and they just dispersed in groups of two and two to rush into the crowd of elite musketeers of the Taiping Army, causing the largest area of damage!
It was only at this moment that those 'melon-eating refugees' finally came to their senses......