Chapter 459 Surrender to avoid death
After a night of chaos, when it was dawn, within a radius of more than ten miles with Hushu Town as the center, sporadic battles continued, while a larger scale was a kind of liberation surrender.
Tens of thousands of soldiers in the East Palace performed last night like those who had premature ejaculation. They began to break through with a firm determination, but after the dense and thick firepower of the West Palace was launched, the morale of the East Palace quickly collapsed. When the shouts of surrendering and avoiding death came out, the collapse came even more violently, and it was like a thousand miles of collapse.
If the enemy opposite the East Palace soldiers were the Qing army, they might have fought to the death, but the brothers from the Kingdom of Heaven and the troops led by the Western King of Heaven, so the defeated surrender became more and more intense.
The squad leader led Xiao Guangxi and Skinny men to start their search. Although there were tens of thousands of soldiers in the West Palace who participated in the battle, they seemed to have few troops scattered within a radius of more than ten miles. Therefore, Chen Yucheng decisively ordered the broken up into pieces and gathered the defeated soldiers in the East Palace to the greatest extent.
Little Guangxi held up a wooden sign that put down his weapons and surrendered to death, walked in the first place with his head high, and the squad leader walked behind. The tall and thin men were chatting and laughing with the East Palace prisoners beside him from time to time. There were thirteen East Palace soldiers following them. Although they were prisoners, they were not depressed at all. The tall and thin men were also a chattering master, so they couldn't stay idle even if they opened their mouths.
"Brother, I heard you are from the Northeast?"
"Yes, the Taiping Army who joined the last year was General Tan Shaoguang and Tan. In fact, I heard from my ancestors that my hometown was from Shandong. I couldn't survive during the Qianlong period, so my ancestors followed him and left their hometown to go to Guandong."
"Didn't the Northeast be sealed by Qing Yao? How can you break through?"
"The area in the northeast is really vast and sparsely populated. No matter how many Qing Yao people there are, they can't seal the entire Northeast. In fact, I heard from my grandfather that since the Kangxi year, people who can't survive will travel to the northeast every year. At the beginning, there are still fewer people, dozens or hundreds. By the Daoguang year, there are thousands of horses in Chahar every year, and even Chahar's horse team can't stop it. Qing Yao is really a sin. There are many people inside and fewer people outside the pass, but we don't let people go to make a living. The black soil over us is so fat, and we can harvest whatever we plant, and there are many forests and prey."
"Oh, brother, what should you do when you are a soldier?"
"My eldest son was under General Tan Shaoguang's command and went to Miaojie to garrison. The second son worked in Dalian. The military port was built there, and the manpower was in urgent need of people. The whole family still lives in their hometown. The military pay and wages of our three brothers were all very good when they sent home."
"Do you still have military pay?"
"Nonsense, the West Palace has already started to live with salary, but it's not like we are still living with the Holy Kumi grain."
"Oh, brother, would I be the one who served as a soldier in the West Palace?"
"Then I can't make the decision. I'm just a private, and I'm listening to the squad leader."
The squad leader turned around and said, "After you join us, there are naturally arrangements above, but I guess you still have to reorganize and train before you can become soldiers in the West Palace."
"I am so strong. When I killed the Qing demon in Nanchang, I killed two Qing demons. I still need to retrain them?" A very strong East Palace soldier shouted.
The squad leader frowned and said, "What's the noise? Do you know this thing? It's called a rifle of the back-mounted rifle, do you know? It was made by Norway in the west. Now our West Palace soldiers are using it. Can you play it? This guy is different from yours that use medicine in front."
The soldiers of the East Palace gathered around and looked at the squad leader fiddling with the rifle in his hand. The squad leader skillfully controlled and fired. The gunshots were very loud, which scared the soldiers of the East Palace, "This thing can be more than 400 steps away, and your bird gun can only be shot 150 steps. How can you be the opponent of this thing..."
Before he finished speaking, a feather arrow flew over with a whoosh and was inserted into the wooden sign held high in Xiao Guangxi. The feather arrow penetrated two inches deep into the wooden sign, and the feather tail was trembling. Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then the squad leader shouted loudly: "Let's go down. There are enemies!"
The three of them hurriedly fell to the ground. Sure enough, several feather arrows flew out from the forest not far away. A soldier from the East Palace could not even fall to the shoulder by the feather arrows, and fell to the ground and screamed loudly.
The squad leader turned around and shouted to the soldiers of the East Palace: "You take him back and be careful."
The quite strong soldier of the East Palace said, "Brother, the people in the forest may be from our East Palace. I will ask them to come out and surrender."
The squad leader shook his head and said, "If they want to surrender, they will surrender when they see the wooden sign."
"Maybe they can't read, but there are not many people who can read." The strong East Palace soldier stood up as he spoke, shouted loudly and walked forward. The squad leader said anxiously: "Be careful..."
Before he could finish his speech, a feather arrow flew into the throat of the East Palace soldier. The soldier fell back straight and twitched for a few times before moving.
Xiao Guangxi said furiously: "Damn it, kill everyone yourself." After that, he raised his gun and shot into the forest. The squad leader and the tall and thin man also began to fight back. The feather arrows in the forest were sparse and did not pose any threat to the three people, but the three people's rifles made the trees fly in a row.
After a while of shooting, the gunshot attracted a platoon of the West Palace soldiers. The commander was a platoon leader of the lieutenant. He immediately ordered the soldiers to rush into the woods in combat formation. The squad leader asked several East Palace soldiers to stay in place by themselves. With a greeting, the three of them rushed up with the platoon.
When I entered the dense forest, I saw three corpses lying behind the tree, all of whom were gunshot wounds. I don’t know who killed me. I saw that the clothes were all the clothes that were guarded by the East Palace.
The lieutenant platoon leader squatted beside the corpse and looked at it, and said, "They are all guards of the generals of the East Palace. It seems that there are big fish in the forest, so let's chase them." Then he looked at the squad leader and the other three and said, "You are from the Third Company, go carry out your mission, we can come here."
The implication was that he didn't want the squad leader and the other three to participate. The squad leader didn't say much, and greeted the lieutenant platoon leader Xiao Guangxi and the two turned around and came out of the forest. The tall and thin man muttered behind him, "The grandsons of Erlian are really cunning. When they saw that there were big fish, they wouldn't let us get on."
The squad leader smiled and said, "They were chasing them from behind, and we were circling forward, and we might be able to catch a big fish."
Xiao Guangxi said with some concern: "It's just the three of us? Should we call more people?"
The squad leader sorted out the ammunition on his body and said, "Erlangzi and the others stayed in the camp. It took a lot of time to go back and forth. It was too late, so we were the three of us! We were afraid of asking!" After that, the squad leader told the prisoners of the East Palace to wait for them to come back on the spot. If they met other soldiers from the West Palace, they would follow them. After the instructions, the three of them surrounded the south along the path by the forest.
After walking for an incense stick, guns suddenly sounded loudly from the forest. The squad leader called on the two of them to hide in the pile of rocks beside the road by the forest. Sure enough, more than ten East Palace guards surrounded them and retreated from the forest.
Without hesitation, the squad leader gave the order, and the three of them shot together, knocking down two of them. The group of East Palace guards exclaimed together: "There are also ambushing here!" "Yang Jiandian is desperate and begging!"
"Put down your weapons and surrender to avoid death!" While reloading ammunition, the squad leader distracted the East Palace's guards. Although the three of them were able to load ammunition skillfully, they could only guarantee about four rounds per minute. Even if the three rifles fired volleys, the firepower was not enough to ensure that they could stop the charge of more than ten people.
Sure enough, the East Palace guardians hesitated for a while, and one of them surrounded him suddenly shouted: "Things have come to this point. It's useless to kill more, everyone will surrender."
The more than ten guards were stunned and fell to the ground together, crying loudly, "Guozong, we can still protect you and rush out." "Even if the last person is left, we can't surrender."
The man separated everyone and walked up. He was dressed in red robe and yellow turbans. He saw that he was the high-ranking official of the East Palace. Although the man was fleeing, he tried hard to maintain his dignity and demeanor. He waved his scarlet cloak and smiled bitterly: "The situation is over. Chen Zhaoping turned against the battlefield and the soldiers have no desire to fight. How can he break through? Forget it, for nothing. We can't die in front of the Northern Tyrants, so we should surrender."
More than ten guards were still crying and persuading. The lieutenant platoon leader in the forest had already led people to chase him out. The squad leader and the three others also stood up from the pile of rocks. The soldiers in the west hall faintly surrounded the more than ten people in the east hall in a fan shape.
The lieutenant platoon leader glanced at the squad leader and turned to the man and said, "Put down your weapons and surrender to avoid death. The West Palace will not harm your brother's lives!"
The man sneered a few times, and said with the airs on his back: "Take me to see your Western King!"
Xiao Guangxi spat and said, "Who are you? You can see him just by saying that you want to see the King of the West?"
The man walked forward, raised his head and said loudly, "I am Yang Fuqing, take me to see you Western King!"
The lieutenant was slightly stunned. Then he asked in a deep voice: "Are you really Yang Fuqing?"
The man snorted, "If you don't change your name or your surname, I'm Yang Fuqing!"
The lieutenant nodded, took a few steps back and then winked at a sergeant beside him. The sergeant raised his hand, and the platoon of soldiers actually lifted his guns. The squad leader noticed something was wrong and had not come to ask, but the lieutenant shouted loudly: "Let's fire!"
Dozens of soldiers surrounded Yang Fuqing and more than ten people, and dozens of rifles fired at the same time. The distance was close. After a burst of random guns, all the people surrounding them were shot to death.
The lieutenant waved his hand expressionlessly, and more than ten soldiers came forward with bayonets and finished stabbing the body.
The squad leader and the three others were shocked. The lieutenant put away his revolver short gun, walked up, took out a pack of cigarettes and sent it to the three people with expressionless face, and asked, "What have you seen?"
The squad leader's heart was thundering. He knew that the second lieutenant platoon leader must have accepted some secret order and wanted to kill Yang Fuqing, the largest leader of the East Palace, on the spot. He immediately said with a trembling voice: "We didn't see anything."
The lieutenant said coldly: "When you go back with us, you are not allowed to talk to others on the way. Don't worry, you three only need to stay in the Intelligence Department for a while before you can return to the company. Your military achievements will be renewed from the advice. I believe you won't say anything randomly."
The squad leader wiped the sweat from his forehead and nodded, "As long as the commander is in charge!"
The lieutenant nodded with satisfaction, and then waved his hand to start to restrain his bodies. A sergeant ran over and reported loudly: "Report to the platoon leader. When our army was ordered to search and advance, we encountered more than ten stubborn enemies in the East Palace. Our army was forced to counterattack and killed more than ten remaining enemies on the spot. According to the investigation, Yang Fuqing, the founder of the East Palace, was among them..."
The squad leader did not listen to the following words. He pulled Xiao Guangxi and the two others and explained: "This matter is rotten in my stomach, so remember what the sergeant said just now!"
Little Guangxi held a cigarette in his trembling hand and couldn't help but whisper: "Squad leader, didn't he say that he would put down his weapons and surrender to avoid death?"
The squad leader sighed and whispered: "Some people cannot put down their weapons..."
Chapter completed!