On that day, more than 1,000 guards who accompanied Li Xiucheng and Hong Tianguifu to successfully break out of Tianjing City were all elite cavalry of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Although the Hunan army did not recognize Hong Tianguifu's appearance, but was very familiar with Li Xiucheng, when he was not far from Tianjing City, some people in the Hunan army saw through this strange situation, especially one of the people who looked like Li Xiucheng rode on the back of an old woman, and there were a large number of soldiers dressed in Hunan army in the rear to follow and not make a move, Zeng Guofan then drew more than 5,000 cavalry from the army to chase after him.

This more than 1,000 Heavenly Kingdom cavalry was originally Li Xiucheng's direct army when he fought with Shi Dakai in Anqing, and then Li Xiucheng was sent by Shi Dakai to Tianjing to support Hong Xiuquan and took it away, and then followed Li Xiucheng to fight for many years, and he had already inherited the spirit of loyalty and righteousness of the two kings in his bones.

Among these eleven people, it also includes Li Xiucheng's mother Lu.

Although Li Xiucheng was one of the most important generals in the later period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he never forgot that he was born in a poor peasant family in Wuzhou Mansion in Guangxi Province. When he was eight years old, his uncle took him to the village school where he worked for two years, but because the family life was too hard to continue studying, he had to study on his own while returning home to help his parents with some menial work. When spring came, he went up the barren mountains to plant orchids, and in autumn and winter, he went up the mountains to cut trees and burn charcoal, despite this, Li Xiucheng's help to his family was still limited, but he developed a more resolute character and a strong physique than ordinary people.

One day when he was twenty-eight years old, his father Li Shigao told him that there was a "Mr. Hong" in the township, and it was said that his Heavenly Father had sent him to the world to save the people of Li.

In the next 13 years, Li Xiucheng made outstanding military achievements, especially the major military victories such as the second breakthrough of the Jiangbei camp and the victory of the three rivers, which shocked Hong Xiuquan and also made the world praise, so he made steady progress all the way. His father Li Shigao died of illness four years ago, and at this time Li Xiucheng had been crowned King Zhong for a whole year, and because of his mother's old age, he took the Lu family to live in the palace of King Zhong.

At this time, eleven people have arrived at a safe area surrounded by camphor trees, seeing that there is no pursuer in the rear, Li Xiucheng helped Lu down the horse, knelt on the ground and said: "Mother, since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety can not be both, the son is a loyal minister, it is difficult to be a filial son, today the Tianjing City is broken, the child must shoulder the transfer of the young king's destiny, since the fast horse whip march, it is difficult to be around the bridesmaid, I have to beg the mother to be separated from the son, and find a place that no one knows to spend the rest of my life." ”

Although the Lu family is over sixty years old, he has lived a privileged life in the Zhongwang Mansion for a long time in recent years, and his legs, feet, and sanity are clearer than those of old women of the same age, but he looks not much older than Li Xiucheng, who is only forty-two years old but has seen many vicissitudes due to the vicissitudes of fighting everywhere. The old mother lovingly helped Li Xiucheng up, raised her hand to stroke her son's hair, knocked off some dirt on his hair for him, and said with tears in her eyes: "Xiucheng, since your father led our family into the worship of God, my mother has always thought that there will be such a day of life and death, but I want to say goodbye to your father more, but I don't want my son to be so good, to become the most important person of His Majesty, and one day he will shoulder the heavy responsibility of protecting His Majesty...... Actually, do you know what my mother is most proud of? It's not how powerful your ability is, how prominent your position is, what my mother cherishes the most is that no matter how high you fly or how far you go, what you are most worried about in your heart will always be the people of the lower classes. Your money is used to help the poor, so that more families, less separation, less hunger and cold, I have enjoyed enough as an old woman, what are the regrets? Although the first emperor is a long live lord, he is also a father, and now His Majesty is a child who has lost his father, so my son must not only do his duty as a loyal minister, but also

I care about Your Majesty as much as I care for my own son! ”

Li Xiucheng responded: "My son must follow his mother's teachings!" ”

Lu straightened Li Xiucheng's collar again, he had already realized it but was reluctant, and said softly: "Then, my mother is gone." ”

At this time, eleven people, except for Hong Tianguifu, had already dismounted. Li Xiucheng turned to a holy soldier and said, "Brother Qi, my mother, I'll leave it to you." ”

The holy soldier commanded: "Obey, loyal to the king, I will swear to the death to protect the old man's house to reach the safe place, and arrange everything properly!" ”

So, after the holy soldier changed into cloth clothes, he carried the Lu family on the horse, and got on the horse himself, and said, "King Zhong, farewell!" So he drove his horse away. Along the way, Lu had tears in his eyes, and looked back at his son who had become a hero from time to time, until Ma Juechen left, and the two could no longer see each other.

Li Xiucheng knew that this farewell was an eternal farewell, and in the direction of his mother's departure, he knelt on his knees again, kowtowed three times, and cried tears all over his face.

At this time, there were still nine people left in the team, and Li Xiucheng waited for his mood to stabilize a little, then got up and said, "Sorry for delaying everyone's time, let's continue on the road." ”

Although Hong Tianguifu is the lord of heaven, he was also touched when he saw Li Xiucheng and his mother say goodbye. In fact, since Hong Xiuquan entered Tianjing, he has never left the city for half a step, Hong Tianguifu knows nothing about the world outside Tianjing City, and finally saw the world outside the wall, and couldn't help but sigh: "It turns out that the world we live in is so difficult?" ”

Li Xiucheng saluted and said: "Exactly, Your Majesty, like the previous emperor, is the son of God, I hope that one day when Your Majesty makes a comeback, you must put the people in your heart, as long as my great heavenly kingdom is the desire of the people, the Qing demon will never be able to defeat us!" ”

"Comeback...... Hong Tianguifu sighed, "There is a question, when I ask my father, he always laughs and does not answer, now, I want to ask King Zhong, you, in this world, is there really a God?" ”

When Li Xiucheng heard this, he was suddenly shocked: "Of course, Your Majesty must not have doubts about God!" We have not heard of this matter today, and in the future, please do not ask Your Majesty again! Also, when Your Majesty addresses himself, call him 'I', okay? ”

Hong Tianguifu nodded and said: "Okay, I still have a lot of questions that I don't understand, in the future, I hope you will make more arrangements, now, everyone will go on the road." ”

Everyone began to mount their horses one after another, and suddenly, someone in the crowd exclaimed: "Wait a minute, over there, it seems that a Hunan army has discovered us!" ”

A group of people suddenly tensed their heartstrings, and looked in the direction of the shouter's fingers, and sure enough, in the sparse camphor forest, a man dressed as a Hunan army walked in the distance, the man walked in a lifeless posture, and he was alone, seeing nine people, there was no change in movement, and he still walked towards this side unhurriedly, and he couldn't imagine that this would be the power sent by Zeng Guofan to chase and kill everyone.

"How can you come alone like this?" Su Sanniang was used to fighting monsters, and immediately found that this matter was really weird, so she found out if the other party had a demonic energy, leaned less, and wondered, "Alone, it's not a monster, what's going on with this person?" ”

The crowd just took out the Pu knife, and there was no substantive movement, because it could not be ruled out that this person was a nearby villager who picked up the clothes of the corpse of the Xiang army to wear, but he couldn't be indifferent, so Li Xiucheng rushed to the person and warned sharply: "Who are you?" Don't come any closer, or don't blame us for being polite! ”

The man remained silent, and walked closer and closer in a daze, and after everyone hesitated, this person walked directly to a place only a few places away from everyone, and then he took out his musket and wanted to shoot at the nine people.

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Account stuff! Seeing this, Li Xiucheng couldn't tolerate half a moment of hesitation, stepped forward, and cut off the man's head with a knife in his hand, and at the same time, the man had pulled the trigger, and his quasi-heart was crooked when his head was separated, and he hit a horse, which fell down and died instantly.

When everyone broke through from the Taiping Gate, it was eleven people riding ten horses, and then the holy soldier surnamed Qi and the Lu family left on a horse, leaving nine people and nine horses, after a gunshot, a group of birds in the forest flew away, one horse died, and the other eight horses were also suddenly frightened and restless.

Li Xiucheng saw that the person who came was dead, and he didn't care about him anymore, and beckoned: "Everyone quickly pacify the horses, let's leave here quickly!" ”

Everyone adjusted their thoughts back to the horses, only Su Sanniang felt that something was wrong, and stared intently at the corpse of the person who came.

Sure enough, a boy's voice came from the headless body: "Hey, hey, hey, this thing with a gun is really not good......"

Li Xiucheng was stunned: "Who is talking?" ”

At this time, looking at the man's body, at the same time that red blood flowed from the broken part of his neck, another crimson sticky substance flowed out of it, although the two red strands were mixed together, but after a while, the sticky matter gradually converged and formed, and finally became the appearance of a boy's head!

Su Sanniang exclaimed: "Everyone, retreat, retreat, sure enough, this thing is still a monster!" ”

The boy smiled and said, "Hahaha, it turns out that you adults are so flustered when you see the monster?" It's really exciting, hahaha......"

At this time, the holy soldiers who were not used to encountering monsters were already frightened, but out of loyalty, they did not flee, but tightly surrounded the equally frightened Hong Tianguifu, only Li Xiucheng could still stabilize his position, and asked: "Sand King, what's going on?" ”

Su Sanniang said: "This must be a monster, and this monster is different from a monster, and it is not a traditional humanoid monster, in my experience, it seems to be demonized by a child." ”

The boy's head laughed when he heard the sound and said: "Hahaha, I guessed well, when I was a human being, I was beaten and scolded by my mongrel father all the year round because I didn't like to study, and I was already eager to kill him, but I didn't expect him to be cursed by the Red Yaksha, and he died with a whimper, but I became a monster with great powers, which really excites me!" ”

With that, the boy's head quickly turned into slime and burrowed into a nearby camphor tree.

The camphor horse shook violently, but there was no other attack, and then the boy's voice came from the camphor tree: "The trees seem to be uncontrollable...... That's it, let's switch hosts. ”

With that, a hole was automatically cracked in the trunk of the camphor tree, and the crimson slime seeped out again, merging into the boy's head.

"Lao Tzu slaughtered you!"

At this time, some of the holy soldiers couldn't help it, and after shouting to strengthen their courage, they carried the Pu knife and wanted to cut off the boy's head.

The boy's head had turned into a puddle of sticky before the knife hit, and because the Holy Soldier was close, the sticky suddenly flew towards the Holy Soldier's face, wrapping his head.

Although Su Sanniang is a purification messenger, she secretly complains about this type of attack, if she attacks the face of the holy soldier, not to mention whether the knife and arrow can cause damage to this kind of sticky, it can be sure that it will take the life of the holy soldier.

When he hesitated, amid the screams of the holy soldier, the sticky substance had already entered his body through the mouth and nose of the holy soldier!

"Brother Zhang Zhiang!" Li Xiucheng was even more helpless, and could do nothing but call his name.

In just a moment, the holy soldier named Zhang Zhiang was already controlled by the monster, and he raised his fire gun at everyone with a wicked smile.