Chapter 432: Embarrassed to become a traitor (1)
President Qian Su Liangzhong ran away, but Wei Dewan didn't run away. When many soldiers were panicked and didn't know what to do, he resolutely led a dozen subordinates to the top, but he wanted to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty.
Wei Dewan is very generous and does not drink much blood from soldiers. He can share the blessings with his soldiers and share difficulties with them, so he is very supportive of soldiers. When he gambles in the institute on weekdays, Wei Dewan never misses the account and loses as much as he loses. Unlike the Qiang General Su Liangzhong sometimes refuses to admit his account. If any soldier loses barely, Wei Dewan can also help him in time, so the soldiers in the Pengzhou Institute admire this righteous general.
When the chaos was in chaos, when they saw Wei generals leading people over, dozens of soldiers immediately surrounded him. As soon as these people gathered around Wei Dewan, the other Qing soldiers who were running around were also subconsciously running here as if they had seen the backbone. Because people are so innate, they must think that they are safe and braver when they see them. In this way, there are more than a hundred Qing soldiers gathered by Wei Dewan. With so many soldiers around him, although Wei Dewan didn't know that they had a great chance of winning, he was not afraid of the Taiping Army rushing in, and shouted and killed the Taiping Army.
When Pengzhou first built a thousand-household office, local people were not allowed to live in the office. Later, during the Jiajing period, people were allowed to live in the office to prevent Japanese pirates. In addition, in the past two years, Chaozhou banned the sea, and those fishermen who could no longer go to the sea to fish were moved to Pengzhou office, which resulted in two or three thousand people. After Zhao Ziqiang's South China Sea soldiers rushed in, these people were immediately affected by military disaster.
The South China Sea soldiers were originally the Qing army without reorganization. The military discipline of the Taiping army had no restrictions on them at all, so the military discipline was extremely corrupt. After rushing into Pengzhou, as long as they met living people, they didn't care whether the other party was a soldier or a civilian, and they would kill each other and kill again. They were like a murderous demon, and their eyes were full of violence. However, nearly a thousand people rushed into the village. The orders were not clear. The soldiers who were eager to seek wealth were distracted and went to the people's house in groups, but few Qing soldiers who were still resisting were dispersed and destroyed them. They were all concerned about robbing property and slaughtering unarmed people. How could they remember that there were still enemy soldiers not destroyed?
Zhao Ziqiang, a thousand households in the South China Sea, found that a Qing army officer with a general appearance and a group of Qing soldiers came out, and his subordinates were still robbing property, but no officer led his troops forward to block the enemy. He was furious and issued a strict order. Those who dared to rob property before the Qing army cleared them were killed without mercy.
Zhao Ziqiang was serious and led his personal soldiers to cut off the heads of the two unlucky guys. Seeing this posture, the South China Sea soldiers dared not say anything, so they took their swords and went to fight against the Qing soldiers who delayed their wealth.
Although Wei Dewan was brave and his soldiers were willing to go out, he could not help but rush in too many Taiping troops, and he was soon killed dozens of people. Seeing that the Taiping Army was powerful and his side could not stop it, Wei Dewan judged the situation. Although he wanted to serve the Qing Dynasty with his death, he could not die in vain. So he immediately decided to retreat to the old scam camp of Pengzhou to defend with the advantage of the land.
However, when he decided to retreat, Wei Dewan forgot to tell his subordinates to go with him. As a result, when he turned around and ran back, the Qing soldiers who followed him dispersed directly. The reason why the Qing soldiers who insisted on resisting survived until now was because Wei Dewan was brave enough to be a role model, so he insisted on resolutely as if he had a backbone. Now, when Wei Dewan ran back, he didn't care about anything else. Besides, Wei Dewan ran very fast and Taiping Army came quickly. There was no time to allow them to react first, and no one knew who called first, so everyone scattered like birds and beasts, leaving only Wei Dewan and a few personal soldiers still running into the old scam camp without knowing the situation.
After running to a stone fortress building in Lao Qianhu Camp, Wei Dewan realized that there were only four people left with more than 100 soldiers following him. Wei Dewan was furious, not angry, but angry. The fortress building in Lao Qianhu Camp had a good terrain and was well-made in defense and fortifications. There were all kinds of whistle towers, which were built by the Ming army to deal with the Japanese pirates. With this fortress building, no matter how many Taiping soldiers were, they would never attack it if they wanted to attack.
Wei Dewan did not realize that it was his fault that his subordinates were scattered by birds and beasts. He said that these soldiers were afraid of death and were all living by themselves. The more they thought about it, the more angry they became, the Taiping Army that was getting closer and closer, and they were not caring about it. They were walking back and forth quickly and fro. Wei Dewan didn't care, but the others were anxious. Seeing that the Chief General was just in charge of being angry, they didn't make any decisions. If they stood there stupidly, the Taiping Army would come to the point. At that time, everyone would have to throw their lives away. The older Qing soldiers persuaded him: "Sir, there are too many Taiping enemies, everyone ran away, and Lord Qian ran away, I think we can run away too, keep the green mountains there, and don't be afraid of burning firewood!"
The other three Qing soldiers also agreed: "Yes, yes, sir, let's run away. It's not too late to bring the reinforcements and come back to settle the score with these Taiping bandits!"
When he heard the four of them were about to run away by themselves, Wei Dewan glanced at the four of them and said in a muffled voice: "You all go, I won't leave. The court's military law is strict, and abandoning land and losing land is a death sentence. Even if the Taiping Gun cannot cut off my head, the court doesn't want my little character's head. Wu Junmen will definitely cut me off! Since the left and right are dead, I might as well die here!"
"grown ups!"
Seeing that Wei Dewan insisted on staying here, the older Qing soldiers couldn't help but be anxious: "My lord also knows that there is only one who can die here. Since that's the case, I should run with us. I'll ask the rescuers to fight against the Taiping gang again. How can I give up and throw my life here? I'll also ask the master to run with us!"
Unexpectedly, Wei Dewan refused to leave. The old Qing soldiers had been following Wei Dewan for several years, and finally they were in love. The other three couldn't wait. Hearing the Taiping Army's shouts from outside, they were anxious and abandoned Wei Dewan and ran away. In a blink of an eye, there was no one. Seeing this, the older Qing soldiers were stunned. They looked at the three escaped guys, then looked at the death-looking President Wei. Finally, they stomped their feet and ran away.
Wei Dewan had no business anymore, and he was determined to die at this time. It was normal for his subordinates to seek a way out. He closed his eyes and thought about how he should die. After a long time, he decided to commit suicide, so as not to die under the Taiping Sword or be raped by them to survive. He pulled out his waist knife. The knife was very sharp and clean, and there was no rust at all. From the blade, it could be seen that as long as he wiped it hard on his neck, he could go to the underworld. However, Wei Dewan held the knife several times on his neck. However, whenever he had to cut it hard, his heart softened and could not be wiped.
"Forget it!"
It turns out that suicide is something that people cannot survive or die. When I saw those Ming generals who had committed suicide in the past, I always said that it was not difficult to give myself a knife. I didn’t expect that it was my turn, but I realized that it was such a difficult thing to spear at me. I always said that those Ming generals were cowardly, and committing suicide was just to save trouble. I was afraid that they would suffer from falling into the hands of the Qing army. Now it seems that I was wrong. The Ming generals who committed suicide were not really cowardly, not afraid of being punished by life. They were really determined to die, and they were really no longer afraid, and they did not have the thought of fear of pain like themselves.
Wei De, who couldn't do anything, gritted his teeth and thought that instead of committing suicide, it would be better to fight against Taiping Band and pull the two of them back!
Wei Dewan made up his mind and rushed out with his sword. But dozens of Taiping troops holding spears were facing each other. Seeing Wei Dewan wielding his sword, the people in front were startled and stabbed the spear without saying a word, and ended up nailing Wei Dewan to the stone wall.
After controlling Pengzhou Station, Zhao Ziqiang found that many Qing soldiers and people were running to the beach. It was the windy day and it was the first month of the year. The weeds had not yet turned green, and they were dry and dry. Zhao Ziqiang smiled grimly and ordered people to ignite the weeds. Then he guarded the various holes and came out to catch one.
The weeds on the beach are usually good ingredient for the people to make fires and cook. Now they just light up the fire, and it is really a little bit. The fire takes advantage of the wind and suddenly the beach is red, and the fire light illuminates most of the Pengzhou. The dry weeds mixed with some hay are burning. The thick smoke wrapped in the sky, and the fire blows away from the upper and lower vents like a long dragon. It makes people warm and comfortable when they are far away, but it is not good when they are close. Their faces are so hot, and the thick smoke chokes on the eyes. The South China Sea soldiers guarding the lower vents hide in other places where smoke cannot be blown, but they have not forgotten their responsibilities. They stare at the Pengcao Beach in front of them with their eyes wide open, and just wait for someone to come up and capture him.
When the fire broke out, Su Liangzhong and the two personal soldiers were anxious: they wanted to run away, but the Taiping Army was surrounded outside; keep staying there, as the fire was about to burn, but the fire didn't cook the people!
It’s impossible to run away, and it’s impossible to hide. The three of them are in this situation, which really corresponds to the saying “It’s called it’s not effective every day, it’s called it’s not effective”. They have greeted all the eight generations of the Taiping Army ancestors who set fire to the fire.
Su Liangzhong was even more regretful. If he had known that the Taiping Army was so vicious, he would have fought with them. He would have died more happily. It was not like now, waiting to be roasted like an ants on a hot pan.
"Listen to the people inside, if you don't want to be burned alive, come out quickly, otherwise the fire will burn to you, and then the king of heaven will not be able to save you!"
The three of them were anxious and didn't know what to do, but there was a shout outside. After the shouting, the other directions rang again. After hearing this, the three of them looked at each other and said that the people who were arrested by the Taiping Army were all the people and Qing soldiers. One shout after another heard it, and it was like eating a silence before the execution. They were afraid and hopeful. They were afraid that the fire was really burning in front of them, and no one could save them. They were afraid that if they just walked out like this, they didn't know how the Taiping Army would deal with them; the hope was that the wind direction would change sharply or rainstorm would drop the damn big fire, but this hope was so unrealistic, as if they were looking forward to "retaining people under the knife" before the guillotine.
After a brief silence, a soldier whose forehead was sweating was oozing, swallowed his saliva, looked at Su Liangzhong with a hint of crying, "Sir, what should I do? Or let's go out, otherwise the fire will burn."
As soon as the personal soldier finished speaking, before Su Liangzhong could speak, another personal soldier hurriedly stopped his companion and said, "The Taiping Guard is cunning, we can't listen to them! If we believe them, there will be a dead end!"
Seeing that his companion disagreed, the personal soldier who wanted to go out to surrender became anxious and glared at him: "This is so angry. If you don't go out, are you waiting to die here!"
"Anyway, I can't go out, I'd better be burned to death if I really want to go out."
The personal soldiers who disagree with going out don’t know how to do it.
Seeing that Su Liangzhong was not speaking, he lowered his head and was thinking something. The personal soldiers who wanted to go out thought that Mr. Qian thought that Mr. Qian had a way to escape, and hurriedly asked, "Sir, have you figured out a way?"
Su Liangzhong did not have any way to do it. He lowered his head and didn't say anything because he was already desperate and did not expect to run out. Now he was thinking about what to use to ask the Taiping Army to not kill him after he surrendered. He was thinking about what price to pay to exchange for the other party's sword to keep people under the sword, but suddenly he was screamed by the personal soldier and was immediately angry: "I have a fucking trick!"
After saying that, he was choked by the thick smoke coming over, his eyes were so red that it was uncomfortable. Two lines of tears flowed uncontrollably, and his throat was also uncomfortable. Seeing that the fire was still a hundred meters away from here, he was about to burn his mouth. He couldn't allow him to think carefully. He stood up from the ground and said to his two subordinates: "Let's go. Come out with me. We can't escape now. Do you really want to be burned here?"
The personal soldier who wanted to go out was overjoyed when he saw this. He didn't ask for anything else, but just wanted to survive. The personal soldier who refused to surrender couldn't think of it, but the fire was about to burn it. He had to surrender with Su Liangzhong if he was afraid of being burned alive.
"Don't kill us, we surrender, we surrender!"
While reaching out to pluck the weeds, the three of them kept calling out, fearing that the Taiping Army outside would just kill him without saying a word when they saw him. Fortunately, when the people outside heard his shouting, they just waited for him to come out and did not rush forward to attack him. In this way, Su Liangzhong was taken to Zhao Ziqiang. At the same time, hundreds of people and dozens of Qing soldiers were forced out by the fire. After killing some Qing soldiers holding weapons, Zhao Ziqiang ordered the other people to live, because the order he received was to move the people he encountered to Guangzhou as much as possible in addition to collecting food.
It was too troublesome to move people to Guangzhou. Zhao Ziqiang didn't want to be so troublesome, and it would be easier to kill them all, but if he only handed over the food but not the person, the Taiping Army would definitely know that everyone asked him to kill them. I'm afraid he would cause trouble for himself.
Mr. Qian, Su Liangzhong's arrest surprised Zhao Ziqiang. When he came up, he didn't wait for him to speak, but the other party suddenly knelt down and shouted: "But if the hero can spare his life, I am willing to pay the hero a lot of money!"
"High money?"
Zhao Ziqiang laughed and thought that Su Liangzhong was quite smart. He knew to buy his life with money, so he asked with interest: "Tell me, what is the so-called heavy money? Report the price to me to see if you can buy your life."
When he heard Zhao Ziqiang say this, Su Liangzhong was very calm and thought that since this Taiping bandit was greedy for money, it would be easy to discuss. He immediately reported the price he had thought in his heart: "As long as the hero can let me go, I am willing to pay 50 taels of gold for the hero's expenses!"
Zhao Ziqiang curled his lips and said, "Fifty taels of gold? Not bad, not bad, this is a lot of money." Su Liangzhong breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and a smile appeared on his face. However, before his smile faded, he heard the other party's words turn and say viciously: "But in my eyes, this Fifty taels of gold cannot buy your life!"
"ah?!"
Su Liangzhong was shocked and his face turned pale: "How much does a hero want? Even if he says, even if he says, as long as I can satisfy him, I will be satisfied. He only asks the hero not to kill me!" Seeing that the other party was unmoved, Su Liangzhong was really anxious. If the other party didn't love his money, his life would be eight out of ten. Ninety was really left here.
At the critical moment of life and death, there was nothing to care about. Su Liangzhong made a cruel decision and gritted his teeth and said: "I'm going to hide it from the heroes. I have several shops in Chaoyang County and a store in the Fucheng City. I have made a lot of money over the years. If the hero is willing to let me go, I would like to dedicate all these stores and my family's savings to the heroes..."
Zhao Ziqiang was not interested in the store belongings mentioned by Su Liangzhong. It was fine. How could he take the shops in Chaoyang County and Chaozhou City? It was a pity that this bastard could think that if I could fight Chaoyang County, I would have to destroy you, Pengzhou! That county is not as prosperous as yours!
Zhao Ziqiang was so angry that he cursed casually: "******, if you sell me Chaoyang County, I can spare your life, but you ******* to make excuses for me with something that I can't move. It's really a fucking thing you are looking for death!"
Chapter completed!