Chapter 230: Feng Yunshan's Righteous Son
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 was skillfully controlled by Shi Dakai, and even before him
Stepfather Feng Yunshan's account is still brave and fierce. 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 joined the Taiping Army from the first day
, originally to repay the kindness of his father-in-law.
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.
"The Great Luo of the Worlds"