Text Chapter 175 Mistakenly Joined the Taiping Army
The fire burned for three days and three nights, destroying three-quarters of the houses in the city! When the long-haired man withdrew, the whole city was full of broken bricks and tiles, and there was a lot of mourning! There are corpses everywhere inside and outside the city, and the smell of decay is terrible! Those who survived stumbled through the ruins, digging through useful things!
I don't know where the crows flew from, and they flew down in flocks on the dead trees that were still smoking, staring viciously at the living people under the trees, flapping their wings and "croaking"! Some bold crows jumped down from the branches and took square steps on the ground, calmly scrambling for a piece of the dead man's belly! A wild dog suddenly sprang out from under a nearby rock, bared its teeth and scared away the ravens, biting one end of its stomach and disappearing into the smoking ruins!
After the war disaster, there was a great epidemic, and the survivors really couldn't survive anymore, so they fled with their families! I took the rat in my arms and fled out of the city with the crowd! In those years, there were wars everywhere, and it was not easy for people to survive, let alone have enough to eat! Since I'm a skill, I'm not going to starve to death! At that time, if you want to eat well, there are only two ways to go, one is to join the army to fight long hair, and the food and clothing in the army are naturally provided by the state, so you don't have to worry about it, and the other way is to join the long hair to fight the official army. I have the craft, so I naturally disdain to exchange my life for a full meal!
I fled all the way, and I didn't starve much, but the embarrassment at this time was no less different from my previous life! At that time, my destination was Nanjing, and I knew that Nanjing was a big city, with plenty of soldiers and food, and a strong city.
As soon as we walked to the outskirts of Nanjing, we were intercepted by a few long hairs wearing uniforms, wrapped in red cloth on their heads, and holding guns and sticks! After they carefully interrogated us, they picked out a few of our strong young men, tied them with ropes, and led us in the direction of Nanjing!
There were only two long-haired soldiers escorting us, one was a middle-aged man with a stubble on his face, and the other was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old doll whose hair had not yet grown! I heard the doll call the middle-aged man Uncle Changqing, and the middle-aged man called the doll's milk name, Dog Leftover!
The dog leftover is young, and he hasn't had time to savor the cruelty of war, and in his opinion, all this is just a game! As he tossed and turned in the ditch, covered in mud and steaming intestines running out of his stomach, when his arm was cut off and he tried to plug the bleeding wound with his other hand, his delicate throat could only cry out one voice!
At this time, he was walking at the back of the line, he had his spear in his hand, his hands free, and the untrampled snow on the side of the road caught his attention! He trampled on the white snow and gradually moved away from the group!
Uncle Changqing turned around, squinting his eyes, the west slanting sunlight shone on his dark face, and the long knife in his hand flashed a chilling white light in the sun!
We were all five of us, and they were all tied to a rope like grasshoppers! I was very scared at the time, because everyone said that Changmao did not believe in ghosts and gods, did not worship ancestors, and even ate living people! I was secretly planning as I walked, trying to find a chance to escape! But that long-haired man named Changqing was very vigilant, and waited for us to go a long way, and I didn't find a chance to escape!
We are getting closer and closer to the city of Nanjing, and we can clearly hear the rumbling cannons of the longhairs attacking the city, and the cannons are coming one after another, hitting the top of the city wall, and blowing up into clouds of black smoke! Black smoke drifted away from the wind, sending a choking smell of gunpowder!
We were escorted to a large camp by the long-haired people, and walked to the outside of a tent, the curtain was opened, and out of it came a heroic young officer, the long-haired man named Changqing, who hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Lord Brigade Marshal! ”。
The brigade commander waved his hand and asked Changqing, "Where were they all captured?" ”。
Changqing said: "My lord, at the intersection of the credit bridge!" ”。
The brigade commander nodded and ordered: "Give them all a full meal first, and if they want to, they will all be put into the team, now the whole army is attacking Nanjing City, the battle situation is urgent, it is the time to employ people!" ”!
Changqing bowed and said, "Lord Hui, my subordinates will definitely do it!" ”。
In this way, we ate the long-haired camp meal, and of course we also became long-haired, we changed into long-haired uniforms, took long-haired weapons, and conducted simple training, until this time I knew that the middle-aged man named Changqing turned out to be my top boss, his official position is two Sima, and he is a low-level officer of the Tianping Army!
I was not willing to die for the Taiping Army, I always wanted to find a chance to escape, but at this time, the Taiping Army was like a bamboo, and the military discipline was strict, so there was no chance to escape at all! I hadn't eaten a few full meals before they were taken into battle!
The Taiping army has besieged Nanjing City for a long time, but it has never been able to take it! The Taiping army that died under the city every day was countless, and after the Taiping army attacked several times with all its might, it gradually became the end of the crossbow, and it was no longer able to organize large-scale siege battles!
In order to prevent the defenders in the city from breaking through the siege, the Taiping army built a long fortress outside the city of Nanjing, surrounded the entire city of Nanjing, and bombarded the city with cannons in turn every day, in order to completely destroy the will of the officials and soldiers in the city to resist!
However, the officers and soldiers in the city did not show weakness, they would from time to time from the head of the city, sneak attack the camp of the Tianping army, and several times almost broke through the encirclement carefully constructed by the Taiping army! The long siege battle is a huge torture for the soldiers on both sides, and we guess that there is not much food to eat in the city of Nanjing, and the city should be broken in the next few days!
We were surrounded outside the city, although we didn't worry about food, but every day we braved the artillery fire of the city, squatted in knee-deep muddy water, and our feet were almost rotten and couldn't walk, and it was not a way to squat in this trench all the time. If this has always been the case, Lao Tzu will never want to escape for the rest of his life!
I hope that the city of Nanjing will be breached, so that I can take advantage of the chaos to escape, after all, who will pay attention to a little minion like me? We waited for another ten days, but there was no movement in the city! There was no response to the surrender letter sent into the city, and at this time, I had completely lost confidence in the surrender and siege, so I proposed to my immediate boss, Liang Sima Changqing, that I could plant explosives under the city wall and blow up the city wall!
He shook his head and said no, this method has been tried, but it has not succeeded, and he has lost a lot of brothers! I said, let's dig a tunnel so we can attack the city without even knowing it! His mouth opened wide in surprise, frightened by my approach, he told me to wait where I was, and he ran away to find the brigade commander!
My plan was quickly approved, and digging began at the back of a hill that night! After hundreds of people took turns digging for several days, we finally dug under the city wall, we placed a large number of explosives under the city wall, and lit the fuse, only to hear a loud "boom", the huge city wall of Nanjing City was blown up by explosives A gap, the Taiping army jumped out of the trench, through the gap, and rushed into the city of Nanjing!
After the capture of Nanjing, I was rewarded for my meritorious deeds, because I was not only promoted to an official position but also rewarded with a lot of gold and silver treasures! I was so busy in the Taiping Army that I stopped thinking about running away! In this way, I have been in Nanjing for more than ten years, during which I have also experienced all kinds of strange and strange things, until after the city of Nanjing is broken, I will sneak into the world!
Jia Laodao asked: "Then how did you get mixed up with the Jinsha Gang?" ”。
The Gray Family Ancestor said, "Dao Chief, don't be anxious? I'm not done yet! ”。
He swallowed a mouthful of foam and continued: "After I escaped from Nanjing City, I was like a leaf of duckweed, with no place to return, and I heard that the Taiping army had been exterminated and killed by the imperial court, and I couldn't help but be frightened, and I didn't dare to go back and forth between the two lakes and Jianghuai, so I gritted my teeth and stomped my feet, and went to Guanwai!"
After I came to Guanwai, I went incognito, founded the Gray Family, called myself the ancestor, recruited disciples, spread my wings, and specialized in stealing chickens and dogs, slipping doors and picking locks! Because I have this must-see, it didn't take long for me to make a name for myself in the white mountains and black waters outside this pass!
I gained a firm foothold outside the gate, and my disciples once reached hundreds of people, and these disciples and disciples walked the rivers and lakes to do business, which inevitably offended people, and this was formed with the Jinsha Gang! Several of my apprentices have been picked off by the people of the Jinsha Gang! In a fit of rage, I used the rat-trapping technique to clean up the vaults of the Sands Gang! I thought that this matter was done unknowingly, and the Jinsha Gang would never have expected that it was my hands and feet, but I never expected that on the third day of the incident, Gang Leader Liu would bring someone to knock on the door!
He pointed a gun at my head, forced me to hand over everything, and then arrested me and put me in Jinshazhai and put me in a dungeon! I was devastated in the dungeon, life was worse than death, and I was about to burp when I saw it, I suddenly remembered the few pages of scraps of paper I got in the ancient tomb many years ago, although Gang Master Liu was disdainful of my rat-hunting technique, but the Thunder Heart Dafa recorded on another piece of paper, maybe he would be interested?
Fortunately, my memory has always been very good, and until now, I still remember what was written on that piece of paper, as if it were yesterday! So I hurriedly asked the guards to invite Gang Master Liu, and bragged about the wonderful use of this thunderous heart Dafa with him!
As the saying goes, there is no basis for what you say, but what do you want to be the leader of the Liu gang? That's a master who is more refined than a monkey, how can he believe me? I had to pick up the words on the shredded paper and memorize a few sentences, and then he doubted the letter and released me from the dungeon! Since then, I have been cultivating the Thunder Heart Dafa in this abandoned garden of the Liu family, until today you suddenly broke in......!" ”。