14. The Battle of Wuchang (3)
"In the past, Cao Cao's million-strong army went south, defeated by Zhou Yu's fire, and Cao Wei did not dare to touch Jingzhou again for ten years, but at that time it was blowing the north wind, Zhou Yu had nothing to do, so he could only ask Zhuge Liang to borrow the east wind in the Seven Star Altar, and then he broke Cao Cao's 800,000 army in one fell swoop. The northerners rode horses, the southerners sailed, if the rebels' naval army was defeated and lost, the emperor said, the rebels relied on the infantry army, then no matter how big the momentum was, could they still fly out of the emperor's palm? Xingzhen smiled skillfully, and what she said in her mouth was not the content of the wind and snow at all, and the meaning of Jin Ge Iron Horse and Beacon Smoke was revealed, and there was no doubt that at this time, Xingzhen seemed to be incarnated Zhuge Kongming in gossip clothes, and the Vermilion Bird Feather Fan could burn most of the sky in the south with a wave of light!
On the night of 13 November, the Taiping army began an attack at Wuchang, and the besieging soldiers painted their faces with ink, stuck feathers on their heads, and released poisonous smoke to attack the city with cloud ladders. The Qing soldiers who were sleeping soundly www.biquge.info pen ~ fun ~ pavilion were startled, but they woke up in time and knocked the Taiping army out of the city. The Taiping army attacked the city with artillery fire, and the Qing army also washed it with water dragons, and the Taiping army's firearms failed, so they had to retreat.
The Taiping army earthen camp dug a tunnel outside the city of Wuchang, preparing to attack the city in the cave, and many brave Qing soldiers went down the city, destroyed the Taiping army's tunnels, and attacked the earthen camp soldiers, and this plan was declared a failure.
Outside the city of Wuchang.
Mao Liu was wearing long hair, wearing a red turban, wiping the long knife in his hand, he was not yet fifteen years old, thin and small but only like a teenager, at first glance, he had not eaten enough since he was a child.
Mao Liu is a native of Hengyang, Hunan, his parents died early, and there are no relatives to help, and there is no field at home, and when the Heavenly Army attacked Hengyang, he "reasoned" in Hengyang City, saying that he could have food to eat, a field, a house to live in, and maids to serve, Mao Liu ate the white-flour steamed buns shared by the Taiping Army, and listened to such good things as long as he joined the Heavenly Army, he would have it at his fingertips, and he joined the Taiping Army in a daze.
Before, it was just carrying grain, grass, ordnance and other carrying work, since the Taiping army broke Yuezhou and ordered the destruction of the Manchu remnants of the whole city, Mao Liu also trembled and took a knife under the coaxing of the veterans, and stabbed to death the youngest daughter of the Yuezhou Tongzhi family with his own hands. The girl was only five years old, soft and weak, almost unable to speak, there was a silver collar around her neck, the hair of the horn was scattered on her face, she didn't know that she was facing the threat of death, she touched the Tongzhi lady who fell in a pool of blood and cried sadly, hearing the laughter behind her, the little girl turned her head and looked blankly at Mao Liu trembling and walking over with a knife, Mao Liu saw the little girl's eyes, her heart trembled, and she remembered her sister who died of wind and cold without medicine when she was begging before, At that time, my sister was not very good at talking, and she would not speak out if she was uncomfortable, until she died, she looked at herself blankly, Mao Liu shrank back, and her originally strong courage suddenly seemed to be emptied.
The veteran behind him scolded and pushed Mao Liu up; "I lost your mother, how can you follow the king and the military advisor to Beijing to kill those clear dog demons! Hurry up, kill this little Qing dog, this is your experience, you can become a great weapon! ”
Mao Liu gritted his teeth and stepped forward, and put the knife in his hand against the little girl in the pool of blood, the little girl didn't seem to know what was going to happen, just looked at Mao Liu blankly. Mao Liu really couldn't stab it, turned his head and wanted to beg the veterans to let go of this poor little child who had been completely destroyed, the veteran behind him pushed Mao Liu violently, Mao Liu fell down, dived forward, and the knife in his hand stabbed into the little girl's chest.
The blood-red blood slowly seeped out from the silk clothes under the silver collar, the little girl's eyes widened, it seemed to be very painful, but her throat was already hoarse, and after a few blinks, she lost the look in her eyes, looked at Mao Liu blankly, twitched her body, and stopped moving.
The veterans laughed, and ripped the stunned Mao Liu away, and the knife that Mao Liu was still holding in his hand was pulled out, and the blood that had not yet cooled was splashed on Mao Liu's cheeks, Mao Liu was pulled to the ground, and in the gaps in the veterans' bodies, watching the little girl covered in blood was rudely ripped off the gold collar around her neck, and her mother, who was also stripped of her jewelry, was pulled into the bus, and disappeared into her own world with a car of blood.
The little girl appeared repeatedly in Mao Liu's dream, followed from Hunan to Wuchang, and gradually coincided with the image of her sister, wearing a bloody silver collar in her dream, always looking at herself blankly, silently not speaking. Mao Liu gradually lost weight and became listless, only his eyes still showed a sickly light, and he just wiped his first killing knife when he was free.
"Mao Liu, you are blessed! The commander told you to take the lead! Now it's good, even if you die, you can go to heaven! The veteran beside him had red eyes and stared at Mao Liu feverishly.
The Taiping army will select each battalion of tail boy soldiers fifty people to take the lead, these children are very simple, do not know the fear of life and death, and believe in Hong Xiuquan's "born to sit in a small paradise, killed by others, but also sit in a big paradise" theory, outlaw is better than elite veterans, and later the world-famous Chen Yucheng is also among these fifty people, the boy soldiers desperately rushed into the gap, the army led and swarmed in, and the city will fall (theocracy Iran in the Iran-Iraq war, too, with children to impact the Iraqi minefield, It is said that through a minefield you can go straight to heaven).
Take the lead, if you get busy, you may not dream of that little girl again.
Jiang Qi and a group of young men followed a veteran, and struggled to carry a cannon, and put the cannon on the fort at the head of Wuchang City, these young and strong veterans admired Jiang Qi the most, with great strength, obeying commands, and a ruthlessness in his eyes, the veterans let Jiang Qi be the head of these young men, and said that after the siege of Wuchang was lifted, he would also go to the green camp with his commander to protect Jiang Qi and eat this bowl of rice. Jiang Qi just smiled and didn't speak.
Jiang Qi is a plasterer in Wuchang, or has a lot of strength, the year before last, his parents told him a family matter, it was Yun'er who was a maid in the yamen of the Yuezhou prefect's mansion, he didn't sell himself, just an errand, Jiang Qi saw Yun'er the year before last, and saw Jiang Qi's Yun'er in the teahouse with his mother blushing, bowing his head to the honest and honest Jiang Qi was very satisfied, and when he left, he also shyly sent a purse embroidered with clouds to Jiang Qi. After waiting for Yun'er to be on an errand two years later, Yun'er was married to the door, and the two were filial to their parents and happily together.
When Jiang Qi was busy on the city wall, he remembered the scene when the two first met, and smiled softly. When he straightened up and saw the red banner and the towering human head outside the city, the remaining tenderness in his eyes turned into a sharp arrow of hatred!
Well, it doesn't seem good to have these scenes in the New Year, but who made this a plot need, here I wish you all a happy New Year's Day and all the best!!
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