Chapter 108: Surrender

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The official road outside Gaoyao West leads to Yangchun and Guangning counties, but except for the stone road that is six or seven miles long near the county seat, the rest of the sections are mostly stone roads built according to the situation, and some sections have become muddy because of long-term disrepair, coupled with heavy rain and mudslides. It's better for people to walk, but if the carriage and horses are passing, it will take half a day.

Although Qin Ming of Gaoyao County is incompetent, after taking office, he really wants to do something practical for the people, and since he has surveyed this road, he wants to ask the government to allocate some silver, and then cooperate with Yangchun and other counties to repair it, so as not to abandon this official road connecting the two prefectures and counties. Of course, Qin Zhixian is not entirely determined to do this with good intentions for the benefit of the people, but most of it is to be able to set up cards to collect taxes on this road. The merchants are very shrewd, and the road is not easy to walk, how can they come?

However, in the past few years, there have been continuous wars in Guangdong, and the rule of the Qing court in Guangdong is not solid, from top to bottom, the war is the priority, and local affairs are naturally not taken seriously.

That's it, Qin Ming's county has been full of calculations for almost three years, but the road is still the same as three years ago, and it is even worse than three years ago, the reason is that some people in the city often steal the stone slabs on the road when building their own houses, and as a result, you steal and I steal, and the stone road that was originally intact has also become a hole in the east and a patch in the west, and people can trip over it if they are not careful.

However, at present, this stone road full of pits is the only way for the Qing army in the city to escape, and they have no other choice, either to rush out with their lives, run as far as they can, or wait for the Ming army to block the city gate and obediently die. No one wants to die, they all want to live as an official or soldier, and if they want to live, they can only grit their teeth and rush forward.

There were a lot of houses outside the west gate, it used to be a bazaar, but four years ago, the Qing army did not let go of the people outside the city when they slaughtered the city in Gaoyao, and it didn't count if they were killed, and another fire burned all the houses outside the east and west cities, which would be a ruin outside the city, and the weeds were overgrown on the ruins, and there were unknown grasses that grew taller than people.

After escaping from the city, the Qing soldiers had no other direction to run, so they could only follow the stone road all the way to the west, because the south side of this road is a dense forest, stretching for dozens of miles, and this forest grows along the hills. In addition, except for the outer part of the forest, which was cut down a little thinly, the trees inside grew intact, and it was not easy to walk everywhere.

To the north, there is a farmland, it is April, and this year the harvest is good, and the wheat grows in the field is green. The problem is that the horse can't walk, because the ditch in the field is crisscrossed, and if the horse is not careful, it can stumble and fall.

The north and south are dead ends for Xiang Guoqing, who is riding a horse, and his own soldiers, and there is only a stone road to live.

"Run!"

Without exception, the Qing soldiers all chose to run to the west, this road is their only way to live, as for where to run after rushing out, and how many can they get rid of, it depends on each man-made.

The Ming army came quickly, almost when Xiang Guoqing had just come out of the city gate, several Ming troops who ran the most quickly had already killed him.

"It's a Tartar official, brothers, catch him!"

The Ming soldiers saw Xiang Guoqing's official uniform at a glance, and decided that this person was a big man in the Qing army, so they grabbed it and wanted to stop Xiang Guoqing. But Xiang Guoqing's kung fu was very good, and he rushed through them in a leap, and the knife in his hand brought down a Ming soldier.

After the horse rushed out, he couldn't even breathe, and he continued to rush forward on the National Day, as long as he could rush over before most of the Ming army was blocked, he would be able to escape. The pro-soldiers behind also followed, and when they saw that the Ming army surrounded them again, a pro-soldier protector was anxious, and shouted loudly while waving his sword to resist those Ming troops: "My lord, you run quickly, I will stop them!" ”

Good minion!

Xiang Guoqing, who regarded himself as a flag man, subconsciously shouted, and whipped his mount with all his might. Behind him, more and more Ming troops blocked up, although they failed to stop Xiang Guoqing, but they blocked the hole in the city gate.

The rabbit was anxious to bite people, in front of the Ming army blocking the road, behind the chasing Ming army, seeing that there was no way to live, there was a flag soldier who gave up the idea of escaping, and yelled at the panicked companions around him: "I can't run horizontally and vertically, it's better to fight with the southern barbarians!" (Author's note: Northerners call Southerners barbarians, Southerners call Northerners Nephews)

"Brothers, fight with the thieves!"

Hearing this, more than a dozen flag soldiers suddenly stopped, and one by one they rushed towards the Ming army around them with red eyes. Driven by them, some battalion soldiers also fought together with the fierce Ming army.

If the thieves and barbarians want to kill them all, Lao Tzu will fight with you to break the net! Even if I die, I will pull you on your back!

The trapped Qing army did not create a miracle in the end, the number of Taiping troops besieged before and after was several times that of them, and the morale was even higher, which can be described as turbulent, but they were stubbornly resisting under despair, and this battle did not need to be fought, and the outcome was doomed.

However, these trapped beasts still caused some casualties to the Taiping army, especially the fire hammer in the hands of the banner soldiers at close range made the Taiping army feel afraid, but after the engineer battalion that arrived later threw out the earth-shattering thunder again, in addition to the sporadic Qing troops in the city to resist, the main battle was declared over. Most of the fierce flag soldiers and battalion soldiers who are not afraid of death have been killed in battle, and the rest can only choose to surrender in a desperate situation.

Wu Er, the general of the green battalion, was hit by the Taiping army on the way to Dongcheng, and he couldn't swing a knife and fight with the Taiping army, he was struck by a lightning strike, although he was not killed on the spot, but without an arm, he was not far from death if he couldn't stop the bleeding,

Li Fuguo's luck was much better than Wu Er's, and after leading his own soldiers and the battalion soldiers gathered around him to desperately flee to the West Gate, only to find that the West Gate had been captured by the Ming army, and the banner soldiers had been destroyed, he chose to surrender on his knees.

Li Fuguo really surrendered, not like Zhao Shiyu, the general of Xinxing, and even if he really did it, the result might be the same as Zhao Shiyu - the head was hung at the entrance of Xinxing Town, which was empty.

ran to the National Day, and learned that they had run away from the leader of the Han Army Banner, and Zhou Shixiang did not blame Ge Zheng for them, because they had done their best. In order to occupy the West Gate before the Qing army, Ge Zheng and the others almost ran all the way around the city, and they were able to firmly block most of the Qing army in the city when everyone was tired and panting, and they had made great achievements.

After completely controlling the situation in the city, Zhou Shixiang ordered to count the number of prisoners, separate the green camp and the Han army flag, and bring the officers in the two groups of people over, he had to find out why the Han army flag that was not in Song Ying's intelligence appeared in Gaoyao City, and what they were here to do, in addition to them, were there any other Qing soldiers and horses near Gaoyao, and whether there were Han army flags among them. (The novel "Han'er is Not a Slave" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! )