Wu Qing, originally they have been medicine pickers in the mountains of Guangxi for generations, and he has practiced excellent light body kung fu in the mountains with his father and ancestors since he was a child.

Although it can't be said that he is like a real master, stepping on the snow without a trace, but it is not a problem to walk on the wall, especially good at climbing the cliff.

Long before the Jintian Uprising, by chance, Feng Yunshan took a great risk from the Qing soldiers to save the lives of Wuqing and his family.

Since then, in order to thank Feng Yunshan for his great kindness, Wu Qing's father asked Wu Qing to lead the young Zhuang in the clan and began to follow Feng Yunshan's left and right, always protecting the safety of Engong.

After the Jintian Uprising, Feng Yunshan saw that Wu Qing was brave and good at fighting, so he even adopted him as a righteous son and became his personal guard. On weekdays, he is responsible for his own daily life with the left and right.,Once in case of war, he will often be sent out to conduct enemy reconnaissance.,As a scout.。

Not to mention, don't look at Wu Qing's young age at the time, he was just sixteen or seventeen years old, but he lived up to expectations and made many miraculous achievements under Feng Yunshan's strategy. At the beginning of the second year of Xianfeng, when Yong'an was established, he was named a brigade commander under the account of the king of Nan because of his military exploits, with 500 elite cavalry under his command, specializing in the position of scout.

As the saying goes: "If the crockpot is not broken from the well, the general will inevitably die in battle." ”

In June of the second year of Xianfeng (1852), when Feng Yunshan, the king of the south, was forced to cross the Lingyi ferry in Quanzhou, he was unfortunately hit by artillery fire by Jiang Zhongyuan's troops of the Qing army, which had already been ambushed, and was seriously injured and died. At that time, Wu Qing was leading his men to the front, and they went far behind the Qing army on the shore, preparing to implement the surprise attack plan and cooperate with the army to force the crossing.

What I never expected was that Feng Yunshan's ship behind was violently shelled by the Qing army, and a generation of famous generals fell.

When he heard that Feng Yunshan had unfortunately died in battle, Wu Qing immediately went crazy and led his five hundred athletes to launch a suicidal mad charge against Jiang Zhongyuan's tent of the Qing army. But Jiang Zhongyuan is also a famous general of the late Qing Dynasty, and he is not given in vain.

He not only stubbornly repelled Wuqing's suicidal charge, but also took advantage of the situation to defeat Feng Yunshan's troops in one fell swoop, so that the Taiping army left a large number of baggage and had to turn to Hunan by land from the west bank.

After this bloody battle, there were less than 200 of Wuqing's 500 elite horsemen left, and he himself was seriously injured, and was finally rescued by his men.

After they got out safely, they gathered the remnants of the scattered soldiers along the way, and after a short repair in the mountains, they recruited some local young and strong young people one after another, and their strength slowly recovered some, and they gathered two or three thousand brothers under their command.

However, at this time, Wu Qing knew very well that with only these remnants of the defeated army in his hands now, it would be difficult to kill Jiang Zhongyuan to avenge his father-in-law. So, he decided to take them to Shi Dakai, the winged king who was most valued by his father-in-law during his lifetime, to serve in his army, waiting for the opportunity to seek revenge again.

After Wu Qing took these horses to Shi Dakai's army, Shi Dakai was also very happy and treated him with special courtesy. Not only did he still let him lead the brothers he brought, but he also allocated another six or seven hundred old brothers to him, so that he could form a battalion of his own army. and promised to try his best to help him create opportunities for him to personally avenge Feng Yunshan, the king of the South.

In this way, Wu Qing began to follow Shi Dakai with all his heart and became a fierce general under his command.

In fact, to put it bluntly, this is also the cleverness of Shi Dakai as a coach all the way. He knew very well that a brave person like Wu Qing did not have lofty ambitions in the first place, he just acted on his own temperament and righteousness.

Only by letting go of the use can he have a sense of knowing, and he can better exert his greatest energy. Only by thinking about what he misses and what he misses, can he be truly grateful to Dade and desperately complete the tasks delivered.

Sure enough, this Wu Qing, under Shi Dakai's skillful control, was even more brave and fierce than he had been under the tent of his stepfather Feng Yunshan earlier. soon became a fierce general who terrified the Qing army, and made great achievements for Shi Dakai.

And Shi Dakai really fulfilled his promise, and in the third year of Xianfeng (1853), he finally firmly surrounded Jiang Zhongyuan, who had just arrived in Luzhou.

At the same time, he deliberately ordered Wu Qing to lead the elite of his subordinates to serve as the vanguard and launched a fierce attack on Luzhou. After several months of bloody fighting, the city of Luzhou was finally breached by the Taiping army, and Jiang Zhongyuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the water in a desperate situation.

This time, Wu Qing was finally able to complete his great cause of revenge, and since then he has more respect for Shi Dakai, and since then he has truly become a confidant general under Shi Dakai's account.

In the sixth year of Xianfeng (1856), due to the intensification of contradictions between the high-level leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Tianjing Incident, the largest event that led to the acceleration of the demise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, finally broke out.

In this incident, the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan first secretly dispatched the Northern King Wei Changhui, carefully arranged, and suddenly attacked, killing the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing in one fell swoop, and wantonly slaughtering tens of thousands of his subordinates.

Afterwards, Shi Dakai expressed great dissatisfaction with Wei Changhui's indiscriminate killing of innocents, but Wei Changhui, who had already killed the red eye, simply did not do anything, and then launched a fierce attack on Shi Dakai.

Fortunately, Shi Da saw the opportunity earlier, and there were a group of brave soldiers from Wuqing under him who resisted desperately, so that he was able to escape and flee to Anqing.

Although Shi Dakai escaped, some of his relatives and subordinates who remained in Tianjing did not escape Wei Changhui's killing, and all of them were killed. Even Wu Qing was temporarily put on death row after he was seriously injured by exhaustion, saying that he wanted to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots together after Shi Dakai was caught.

Of course, Wei Changhui also read that he was the son of the late Southern King Feng Yunshan, so he opened up and did not kill him directly.

After Shi Dakai escaped, Wei Changhui became even more arrogant. In the end, even the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan felt deeply threatened, so he finally designed to capture Wei Changhui and more than 200 of his cronies in one fell swoop. and sent someone to welcome back Shi Dakai and ordered him to take charge of government affairs.

But it didn't take long for the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan to be suspicious of Shi Dakai again, crowned his brother as the king, restrained and suppressed him everywhere, and intended to cause harm.

In desperation, Shi Dakai left Tianjing again to avoid trouble. Since then, he has embarked on the tragic road to the southwest step by step, and finally defeated the Dadu River, and was tortured to death by the Qing court in Chengdu.

And when Wu Qing ran away from Tianjing to avoid trouble in Anqing again when Shi Dakai left, he was unable to accompany him because of his injury.

Fortunately, he has outstanding military achievements on weekdays, and his reputation in the army is quite good, plus after the Tianjing Incident, the Celestial Empire is extremely short of generals who can really fight, and he is the son of the late Southern King Feng Yunshan.

So after the incident, not only was he not implicated and punished, but he was also officially crowned a general, specifically responsible for recruiting and training scouts.

However, at this time, Wu Qing had become increasingly depressed after personally experiencing the Tianjing Incident. Especially Shi Dakai's forced escape from Anqing again, which made him unacceptable and puzzled.

Originally, he didn't have much affection for this Celestial Empire, and he joined the Taiping Army from the first day to repay his father-in-law's kindness.

Later, he continued to follow Shi Dakai, to put it bluntly, it was just to avenge his father-in-law, and after so many years of military exploits, it can be regarded as repaying Shi Dakai's acquaintance.

So before this, he had already secretly thought of retreating, because he didn't know what he was calling around like this all day for.

Brothers who were still together in life and death yesterday are inexplicably drawing swords to fight each other today, and many old brothers who came out of Guangxi can still die in the desperate fight with the Qing army, but in the end they died in the hands of their former brothers.

In particular, in the early years, the beautiful and happy life that the Heavenly King and his leaders imagined for everyone turned into just their own comfortable pleasures in the end, and the people below even lived even more miserable, and they could not see the slightest prosperity of the Celestial Empire.

Wu Qing was like this, and after repeated inner struggles, he decided to escape from Tianjing like the Winged King Shi Dakai. But he didn't try to find another way and continue this vague dream of the Celestial Empire, but wanted to completely escape from this bloody battle that he couldn't understand, and become a plain mountain man again.

With this idea in mind, he secretly searched for his former subordinates, thinking of taking them with him to escape from the hopeless Celestial Empire.

It's just that after he has been searching for more than a year, he has only found more than 30 old brothers who have fought all the way with him, and the rest have almost died in battle. And most of his old brothers agree with his idea, and they don't want to work hard like this all day long.

Of course, there are also a few brothers who have become generals, although they are a little greedy for their hard-won positions, but they also all say that they will never betray everyone to the Celestial Empire.

It's just that the road is facing the sky, everyone goes their own way, and if necessary, they will provide them with some help, which can be regarded as repaying Wuqing's kindness back then.

In the end, after more than half a year of full preparation, Wu Qing finally successfully escaped from Tianjing with twenty-eight old brothers, escaping from the crazy and bloody Celestial Empire.

After they escaped, they did not go west directly and fled back to their hometown in Guangxi, but wisely chose to go east to sea according to the plan, first to a small island in the East China Sea that they had already discovered earlier, and temporarily hid. After the real world is peaceful, he will return to his hometown in Guangxi and recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors.

Since each of the twenty-nine of them had a good kung fu, and they had all been serving as scouts in the army earlier, and they were also very well prepared, their escape was very smooth. In less than two months, they successfully escaped to the sea in a fishing boat that had been forcibly captured from the sea.

However, not long after they went out to sea, they unfortunately encountered a typhoon, which disrupted their earlier plan to escape to the small island in the East China Sea. As a last resort, they followed the typhoon all the way north, and finally drifted to an island in the Yellow Sea.

Luckily, this is not a deserted island, with a small number of indigenous inhabitants and even a group of pirates. When they first signaled to the island for help, they were expelled by the island's pirates.

It turned out that the pirates knew at a glance that the dilapidated fishing boat had no oil or water at all, so they were not allowed to dock directly, and even shot at the fishing boat with bird guns and crossbow arrows, threatening them to get out of the way quickly.

This annoyed Wu Qing, firstly, there was almost no food and fresh water on their fishing boats, and secondly, the other party was so unreasonable that it would matter if they didn't help rescue, they even shot at them for no reason, injuring one of their brothers.

However, Wu Qing did not rashly launch a counterattack against the other party, but quickly escaped from the pirate's attack range, pretending to flee in a hurry, and left the island far away.

Seeing their broken fishing boats fleeing, the pirates did not pursue them, and it was certain that they would die in the vast sea in a short time.

In the middle of the night, Wu Qing actually commanded the fishing boat to sneak over from the other side of the island. It turns out that the terrain of this island is very dangerous, except for a flat gap in the southeast, all other places are cliffs tens or even hundreds of meters high.

Therefore, at that time, the pirates on the island only placed regular defensive personnel in this southeast gap at night, and there were no sentry posts at all in other places, at best symbolic sporadic patrols.

Because, like the kind of rock wall where the sea crashes all year round, it is extremely difficult for ordinary people to climb from anywhere. Even if they were lucky, it was only three or two people, and in the face of more than 100 vicious pirates in the hinterland of the island, it was just a wolf. You must know that whoever became a pirate in those years was not a ruthless and murderous character who did not blink.

However: "Everyone is a bodhi fruit, and the wicked have their own wicked grinding!" ”

These pirates never dreamed that the Wuqing family was originally a unique branch of Hakka medicine pickers in the mountains of Guangxi, who had been begging for a living on the cliffs for generations.

No matter how dangerous the cliff is, in the eyes of their clan, it is also an extremely ordinary smooth road, because their clan has always had a little-known secret.

That is, the center of their hands and feet, they are born with an extremely rare powerful sucker, which is difficult for others to find on weekdays, and only shows up when they perform their own climbing skills.

Of course, this is also an extremely important reason why Wu Qing and his old brothers in the camp have always been valued by the kings of the Celestial Empire, because they are indeed able to create many incredible miracles under many incredible circumstances.

When Shi Dakai besieged Luzhou City for several months, it was Wu Qing who led his brothers to climb the city wall with their bare hands in the torrential rain, forcibly blew open the city gate from the inside, and finally forced Jiang Zhongyuan, a famous general of the late Qing Dynasty, to death in one fell swoop.

At this time, on the fishing boat, among the twenty-eight people led by Wu Qing, there were five of his clansmen, and the rest were all good hands who followed him for the rest of his life.

In fact, as early as the daytime when the pirates were showing off their might, Wu Qing had secretly decided that he must forcibly take this island. Because he has fallen in love with the wonderful environment here, which is a treasure place for him and his brothers to live temporarily or even for a long time.

That night, Wu Qing left only seven brothers who were not good at rock climbing to take care of the fishing boat and the injured brother, and he personally led the remaining nineteen people to climb directly from the cliff.

By the time they entered the pirates' caves from above, almost all of them were still asleep. Originally, even if they were all awake, it would be difficult for them to resist the attack of these twenty battle-hardened scouts, not to mention that they were almost unable to resist now.

It didn't take half an hour for Wu Qing and them to completely control the situation. But Wu Qing did not kill them on a large scale, but only killed seven or eight particularly stubborn leaders with his own hands, and did not blame any pirates who were willing to surrender, and even the little minion who shot and wounded their brother was not held accountable.

Because Wu Qing knows very well that in this kind of unfamiliar place, if you want to stand firm and survive, you must rely on these people.

Especially in this vast sea, no matter how high their martial arts are, it will be useless, after all, they have only walked in the rivers earlier, but once they encounter this real sea, they have no ability.

Moreover, most of the pirates like them are fierce bandits, and they just gather together to take what they need. But they have one thing in common, that is, they worship heroes blindly, and as long as you completely surrender them, they will sincerely submit to them.

Because their ultimate goal is nothing more than eating, drinking, and having fun, to put it bluntly, it is to survive better, who has the ability they will naturally believe in whom, and there is no ordinary set of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness.

Therefore, as long as it can truly deter them, over time, I can slowly train them into a fighting force.

Sure enough, after seeing Wu Qing's kung fu, these pirates all expressed their willingness to push him as the master and make him the boss. Especially after they knew Wu Qing's true identity, they were even more convinced, because although they were alone overseas, they had already heard of the prestige of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Even they secretly guessed at that time that Wuqing and they might have been sent by the Taiping Army to subdue them, and one day these people might be able to really worship the generals and marquis like those Taiping Army.

Of course, Wu Qing did not tell them the true origin of his group, but followed their meaning, saying that it was the Heavenly King who sent them to find and open up overseas bases.

It's just that they encountered a typhoon on the way, and their warship was destroyed, but fortunately they met this fishing boat, and they found this place. Not only that, Wu Qing also immediately pretended to reward them in order to win people's hearts.

Fortunately, when they fled Tianjing, they were well prepared and brought out a certain amount of property, and when they fled later, they robbed several large households and obtained a lot of money, which came in handy.

In this way, Wu Qing firmly grasped this team of more than 100 pirates, and finally had a territory of his own, which could temporarily allow the brothers to settle down.

After everything stabilized, Wu Qing was able to study the island well.

It turns out that this island is indeed a treasure that can be lived in for a long time, this island is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces water, and the terrain is dangerous and difficult to defend. There are numerous caves on the hills on three sides of the island, and the inhabitants and pirates of the island live in the caves, and there is no need to build a separate dwelling.

In the center of the island there is a large area of fertile land that can grow a large amount of crops, which basically meets the normal needs of the island's inhabitants and pirates.

In addition, there are many edible wild fruits on the mountains on three sides of the island, which are rare treasures on the sea.

In addition, there are several mountain springs on the island that do not dry up all year round, which solves the problem of fresh water. This means that even if these pirates live here in peace, they will be able to live a self-sufficient and stable life.

What's more, they also have more than a dozen large and small pirate ships, and some relatively advanced weapons in their hands, so they can go out to loot from time to time.

After Wuqing took charge, on the one hand, he vigorously carried out the self-sufficiency of the island, allowing the original residents of the island to engage in production in a divided manner, so as to ensure the normal supply of the island's perennial needs.

On the one hand, we have strengthened the training of the pirate armament on the island, selected a group of capable men, and personally carried out intensive training. Weed out some of the old, sick and disabled pirates and let them join the production or do some logistical work within their means.

Soon, Wu Qing personally trained a team of seventy or eighty capable pirates, plus the twenty-eight people he brought himself, to make a total of a team of one hundred people.

Moreover, Wuqing also set up many rules that everyone must follow. For example, it is forbidden to rob ordinary fishing boats, to rob and humiliate women, to collude with other pirate organizations, and to participate in fights between any other forces.

When encountering domestic merchant ships, only goods are allowed to be grabbed, unless it is necessary not to hurt people's lives; When encountering a foreigner's ship, no matter what the situation, whether it is a caravan or a wandering pirate, as long as the situation allows, they will all be taken, and the personnel will solve the destruction on the spot and leave no trace.

When encountering the fleets of domestic officers and soldiers, they should all stay away, and never provoke them easily, and if they have to do so, they must only attack with complete certainty.

One of the most important was that no one should be allowed to surrender to the Qing court, because the hatred between the Qing court and their Taiping army was too deep.

In this way, in less than a few years, under the leadership of Wu Qing, their island became more and more prosperous. Due to their strict discipline, quick movements, and secretive work, coupled with the fact that their island is relatively remote, they have not attracted special attention from all sides, so they have developed steadily and peacefully.

At its peak, his pirate armament numbered more than two hundred, and the island's inhabitants numbered six or seven hundred. Of course, at this time, everyone had long forgotten the original past, and even Wuqing and his brothers gradually forgot about going home, and everyone hoped to live and work in peace and contentment.

Later, Wu Qing simply married an indigenous woman on the island and began to live a decent life.

Gradually, Wu Qing grew old, but his descendants have always inherited his position as the leader, and it has been passed down from generation to generation.