Ma Liu is a native of the western suburbs of Cangzhou City, who grew up alone since he was a child, eating hundreds of family meals, and as a Han Chinese, he lives in a Zhuangzi where Hui people gather. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Yesterday, more than 400 of them were told by the government that they immediately packed up their belongings and went to Cangzhou City to hide from the long-haired thieves from the south. And he and more than 20 young men in the village were given a spear by the official master in the city and asked to help defend Cangzhou City.

was escorted into the city, and Ma Liu regretted it a little.

He had long heard that the long-haired thief army from the south was like a bamboo, killing the officers and soldiers all the way. For him, these are not the long-haired thief army, but the Taiping army, and he admires it very much.

Originally, a few days ago, he wanted to invite the two young people from Tongzhuang to go to Xian County to join the Taiping army that attacked there. But Fa Xiao said that the Taiping army believed in Western cults and could not tolerate their Islam and refused to go. When he saw that no one was with him, he also delayed, but he didn't expect that now he was forced by the government to enter the city to fight the Taiping army.

Moreover, the prefect of the city was very fierce, forcing them to train temporarily, so he made a move, stood behind the battlement, and stabbed out with a gun.

Soon, at noon on the third day of Ma Liu's entry into the city, there was an overwhelming shout of killing outside Cangzhou, and there were many flags outside the city, but the Taiping army had already killed Cangzhou.

Two Manchu officials stood up and led Ma Liu and them to the city tower to resist the Taiping army. In the afternoon of the same day, the Taiping army outside the city began to attack the city, Ma Liu was afraid and did not want to help the government fight with the Taiping army, so he pretended to do chores in the city.

The Taiping army was really brave, and when they failed to persuade the prefect to surrender, they directly attacked the city toughly. However, Ma Liu felt that something was wrong and was secretly worried about them.

It is really a high city wall in Cangzhou, and there seem to be a lot of defenders in the city plus the people. Moreover, Ma Liu saw that even Minzhuang, who had only trained for less than two days, were allocated special defensive space.

Moreover, the defenders on the city wall were inspired by the prefect and were in high spirits. The prefect said that the long-haired thieves are the incarnation of demons, and they all believe in some Western cult, and they have to take Western evil medicine once a month.

And this Western evil medicine is made from the human heart and liver as medicinal materials, and is boiled by the secret method of the leader of the long-haired thief. Once Cangzhou City is breached, the long-haired thieves will dig out the hearts and livers of all the people in the city, and use them to refine evil medicine and hook people's souls.

As soon as the prefect said this, the Qing soldiers and the people on the entire city wall were all shocked, and they hurriedly guarded and fought hard to kill the enemy.

Although Ma Liu didn't believe the words of the prefect, he also admired him for arranging the defense of the entire Cangzhou city wall without any flaws, and it was really difficult for the Taiping army to forcibly break through.

Sure enough, the next thing was the same as Ma Liu's thoughts. In the afternoon and evening of the same day, the Taiping Attack launched four waves of attacks, all of which were repulsed by the stubborn Qing soldiers on the city walls.

Early the next morning, Ma Liu heard a Qing soldier at the head of the city say that yesterday alone, the long-haired thieves outside the city had dropped more than 1,000 corpses, and he couldn't help but secretly worry about the Taiping army outside the city.

The Taiping army launched three more large-scale attacks, and unlike yesterday, they pressed on all fronts and bombarded the city towers with artillery. However, for the tall walls, the cannon that fired small solid shells was too powerful to be of much use.

The Taiping sergeant went directly to the city to fight, and almost killed Ma Liu's side several times. However, the hair next to Ma Liu stabbed the spear in his hand into the Taiping soldier who had just emerged, and scolded bitterly: "You devils! Let you slander Allah. Ma Liu couldn't help but be stunned, he couldn't imagine that the religious Hui people hated the Taiping Army so much!

This time, the Taiping army lost nearly 2,000 men.

On the night of the third day, the Taiping army suddenly attacked, and the Qing soldiers at the head of the city were caught off guard and the city was broken by the Taiping army.

Ma Liu had already prepared, immediately changed out of Minzhuang's clothes, changed into people's clothes, and hid in a tunnel in the city, waiting for the war to end.

He seemed to hear endless shouts in the tunnel, and he felt strange.

The Qing army guards in the city are only 4,000 people, plus the people, there are seven or eight thousand people, as soon as the city gate is broken, the people are scattered and fled, and the Qing soldiers are also scattered in all directions, it stands to reason that it will not take an hour or two to occupy the whole city, why did he hide in the tunnel for most of the day, and the city is still killing and shouting?

After staying up for another half a day, the shouts of killing and crying never stopped. It wasn't until late the next evening that he sneaked out of the hole.

As a result, he was stunned by the sight in front of him!

A city full of corpses! In the city, there are corpses everywhere, there are Qing soldiers, people are strong, but more are women, the elderly, and even young children, and the entire Cangzhou City was slaughtered!

The city was littered with burned houses, embers of fire and smoke.

Ma Liu walked forward for a while, and suddenly saw more than a dozen corpses wrapped in white cloths, cut into a blur of flesh and blood, if Ma Liu was not familiar with these white cloth dresses, he would almost not recognize this as a group of Hui people.

The tattered white flags were still fluttering in the smoke beside them, and there were several scriptures on the ground, which had been chopped by sabers and were stained with blood.

Ma Liu could guess that these Muslims were still reciting scriptures before they were slaughtered. It seems that the long-haired thieves hate other religions, and when they see this Islamist, they will behead them so madly, almost chopping people into meat sauce, which is not counting, but also chopping the scriptures to pieces.

Ma Liu walked in the silence of the city, his heart full of anger! Every few steps you take, there are several corpses! It's too cruel, it's too tragic!

There is not a single sentence about the corpses of the long-haired thieves in the city, which can show that this is the evil of those long-haired thieves. Ma Liu, who was originally called the Taiping Army in his heart, was full of hatred for him at the moment, and he had long called him a long-haired thief.

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In Qingxian County, fifty miles north of Cangzhou City, Qin Rigang had a blue face and regretted it in his heart.

In the first battle of Cangzhou, nearly 6,000 soldiers of the Taiping Army were lost, of which nearly 4,000 were veterans brought out by Tianjing and Yangzhou, and nearly 1,000 Guangxi veterans were among them. The losses were so heavy that he immediately lost his mind, so at the moment of breaking through Cangzhou City, a brigade commander ordered to avenge the blood of the sacrificed Guangxi brothers, and frantically slaughtered the Qing army and people in the city, he did not stop it.

Because, for the more than 1,000 Guangxi brothers who sacrificed, he was also extremely heartbroken, and there were even more than 100 people, who were still soldiers he personally brought out from Yong'an City.

You must know that in the entire kingdom of heaven, there are less than 10,000 Guangxi brothers who have come out of Yong'an City. In order to strengthen the combat power of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Dongwang deliberately recruited more than 3,000 Guangxi brothers to participate in the war as the backbone of the Northern Expedition. I didn't expect to lose thousands of people in this small Cangzhou city, unless he successfully captured the Qing Demon Lair in the Northern Expedition, otherwise, the Heavenly King and the Eastern King would definitely have to ask him for it.

Therefore, he was in the same mood as all his brothers, his eyes were bloodshot, and they all wanted to avenge the brothers who died in battle. Unexpectedly, as soon as he killed the red eye, he couldn't contain it, and he slaughtered Cangzhou, not only killing the people, but also the elderly, women and children.

The news of the massacre spread immediately. Not only did the people of Xingji Town, who passed by, flee one after another, burning the grain that their families had too late to transport, but even this Qingxian County was the same.

In the past, the people in Henan and when they first entered Zhili took the initiative to donate food, and the good situation in which the people were enthusiastic to join the army was all destroyed.

I knew that I wouldn't attack Cangzhou. There should be no revenge for the massacre.

At this time, the weather in the north began to cool, and the Northern Expedition soldiers did not prepare winter clothes. And at this moment, the relationship with the people is even more difficult to get winter clothes.

Not only that, but in addition to the barely short of food, gunpowder and muskets all needed to be replenished.

Therefore, Qin Rigang sent two groups of messengers in a row to explain the situation, one is to urge the king of the east to send reinforcements to meet earlier, and implement the strategy of the last step to attack the Beijing division; The second is to ask for help from Tianjing by the way, asking to bring 30,000 sets of cotton clothes to the soldiers for the winter, and in addition, foreigners' muskets, gunpowder bullets and other weapons also need to be replenished in large quantities.

Qin Rigang found that since the Taiping soldiers entered Henan, the fight with the Qing Demon has become more and more difficult, and the Qing Demon soldiers have become more and more fierce.

He began to look forward to the 15,000 foreign guns he bought from foreigners, and he didn't know if they had arrived. If there were even five thousand foreign guns, they would not have lost so many brothers in Huaiqing and Cangzhou.

Qingxian is just a low county town, the city wall is dilapidated, Qin Rigang saw that it was easy to capture, so he sent troops to attack it, but basically did not get any supplements, just collected thousands of sets of cotton clothes. At this time, the weather is getting cooler and cooler, at most a month, it will be cold, and the soldiers are tired from many days of fighting, so they must find a dangerous city as soon as possible that can not only avoid the cold, but also barely hold on, and hold on to rest.

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