After all the remnants of the Qing soldiers surrendered, Zhou Shixiang ordered Shao Jiugong and Peng Dazhu to lead people to take all the prisoners to the ferry, and then took Ge Wu and Ge Liu brothers to find the body of Hu Laoda, and found his head in a bush, holding it in his hands with tears, asking Ge Wu to hold Hu Laoda's body on his back, and then walked towards the ferry step by step.

"Big brother, Brother Zhou has taken you home!"

Ge Wu and Ge Liu followed all the way, and they also cried all the way, and the old brothers of Daqiao Mountain who met along the way also became tearful people one by one, even those Luo Dingbing and Jiangxi soldiers who had no feelings also shed a few tears.

After arriving at the ferry, Zhou Shixiang asked Shao Jiugong to send his men to the surrounding villages to find needles and threads, and snatched a coffin from a family.

Gently placing Hu Quan's head on his neck, Zhou Shixiang let out a long sigh, and carefully sewed Hu Quan's head on the corpse with a needle and thread like a woman.

"Brother Hu, we Han people pay attention to returning to the roots when they die, where they are born, they will be buried there, even if they have a great future in this life, they must be buried with their parents after death. But brother, I have no way to send you back to my hometown now, so I can only bury you in Luoding first, and I hope you don't blame me in the spirit of heaven."

After silently chattering in his heart, Zhou Shixiang, who was a soldier in his previous life and learned needlework, skillfully tied the needlework into a dead knot, then lowered his head and bit off the needle and thread, got up and carried Hu Quan's body into the coffin, and said to the five Ge brothers who were choking: "Don't cry, nail the coffin, and then find a carriage to take Brother Hu back." ”

"Hey, okay."

Ge Wu and Ge Liu stopped sobbing when they heard this, and they both got up and walked to the coffin to close the lid, but when they saw Boss Hu in the coffin, the two brothers stayed there motionless.

Seeing that the two of them didn't make a move, but stared at the coffin, Zhou Shixiang couldn't help but wonder: "What? ”

"Brother Zhou, big brother he, he"

Ge Wu muttered and didn't know what to say, but Ge Liu swallowed in his throat and couldn't speak.

Zhou Shixiang frowned slightly, leaned over to look at the coffin, but found that Hu Quan's eyes were still open.

In the eyes of the ancients, if the dead do not close their eyes, there are still things to worry about in this world, and if they don't end it, the eyes will never be closed, or in other words, the breath will not be swallowed.

If you don't believe it, it's hard to explain why he came to this era, and if he says he believes it, it's hard for him to convince himself. However, whether you believe it or not, you can't let Hu Quan die like this.

The five brothers Ge Wu and Ge Liu stood for some reason, and they all pointed to Zhou Shixiang to solve this problem, but Zhou Shixiang is not a great dancer, what can be done?

After wrinkling his head and thinking for a while, he could only lean over into the coffin with the attitude of giving it a try, and then leaned into Boss Hu's ear and whispered: "Brother Hu, you can go with confidence, as long as I Zhou Shixiang does not die, I will definitely find my aunt's remains, and then bury you next to her old man." ”

After speaking, he closed Hu Quan's eyes with his hand, and then slowly took his hand away with some apprehension under the gaze of Ge Wu and Ge Liu, and suddenly heard Ge Wu shout: "Shut up!" ”

"It's really closed, it's really closed"

Ge Liu was stunned

The surrendered Qing soldiers were all escorted to the ferry, a total of 219 people, including 23 armored soldiers. Zhou Shixiang ordered all their upper clothes to be stripped off, leaving only a pair of pants, and the cloth belt that tied the waist of the trousers was also searched, which would hang their heads one by one, and kneel on the ground with their pants in embarrassment and fear.

Peng Dazhu led people to collect the corpses of the Taiping Battalion soldiers who died in the battle, and by the way, collected all the captured weapons.

A few Jiangxi soldiers sent by Shao Jiugong to guard came over and reported that someone in Deqing City came to look at the intersection, and then ran back.

Tang Sanshui said that there were a total of 500 Qing soldiers in the city, and the elite were all brought out by Zhang Dade, and the 200 green battalion soldiers in the city were all masters, and they should not be of great use, and Lu Gongming, the county governor, was a master who was afraid of death, and it was impossible to have the courage to lead the troops to kill him, so Zhou Shixiang was not worried about the Qing army coming over again, and asked them to continue to be vigilant.

Although this battle was won, the price paid by the Taiping Battalion was not small, the main general Hu Quan was killed, the commander Wu died three, and more than half of the soldiers were killed or wounded.

When the bodies of the dead soldiers were carried over, Zhou Shixiang felt very guilty, because it was his decision that allowed these people to die innocently, and at the same time, he was determined to train the recruits, otherwise they would encounter the armor of the Qing army, and what awaited them was still a one-sided massacre.

Today, if it weren't for the green battalion soldiers who were not wearing armor and greedy for small profits, and the number of armored soldiers was small, it would be really difficult to say whether they would win or lose.

"The wounded must be brought with them, and the dead must be brought back, and when we bring them out, we must bring them back, even if they die, and give them back to their relatives."

How do you bring back so many corpses?

Peng Dazhu, who got this task, looked embarrassed, but Zhou Shixiang didn't care about him and asked him to figure out his own way. In the end, Peng Dazhu got clever and led the troops to the surrounding villages to catch the young and strong, and all the livestock that could pull things were robbed, making the trouble restless and the people were wronged.

After learning that Peng Dazhu's troops were looting, Zhou Shixiang smiled bitterly, and did not send anyone to stop him, as long as someone passed the word to Peng Dazhu, it was okay to rob things and pull strong men, but don't hurt people, let alone rape. Lewd women.

Peng Dazhu only wanted to solve the problem of having no manpower to carry the corpses and take care of the wounded, but he had no intention of doing evil, and finally captured more than 100 young people, plus three mule carts, seven donkey carts, and three ploughing oxen with handlebars, so that the problem of insufficient manpower was barely solved.

When Peng Dazhu led people to pull Zhuang Ding, Zhou Shixiang called the five Ge brothers, Bald Man, and Shao Jiugong to discuss the disposal of the prisoners.

How to deal with these prisoners, the team was divided into two factions, and Shao Jiugong advocated following their method to brand these Deqing soldiers, so that they could not turn back, and followed the Taiping camp with all their hearts.

Under the banner of avenging Boss Hu, Ge Wu strongly demanded that all these prisoners be killed, and then threw their heads under the city wall of Deqing, so that the city knew the fate of opposing the Taiping camp.

Ge Liu even shouted to enter Deqing City and slaughter the whole city Ding for the funeral of Boss Hu, of course, this proposal was not approved by Zhou Shixiang, and even his brother Ge Wu ignored him, because this proposal was too whimsical, and the front camp of half of the people still wanted to enter Deqing City, which was a fool's dream.

No one paid attention to him, Ge Liu was so angry that he ran to Boss Hu's coffin alone and cried bitterly, saying that as soon as the eldest brother died, they would lose their righteousness, so angry that Ge Wu ran over and beat him up.

In the end, it was Peng Dazhu who said: "Now that Brother Hu is gone, Brother Zhou, the commander of the whole battalion, is the biggest and has great ability, and the brothers will listen to you in the future, and how to deal with the prisoners will also listen to you." ”

Zhou Shixiang didn't say a word, and quietly watched the reactions of Ge Wu and the bald man.

"When the eldest brother was here, he asked us to listen to Brother Zhou, and now that the eldest brother is gone, we will listen to Brother Zhou."

Ge Wu and the bald man glanced at it, and they all nodded, recognizing Zhou Shixiang's position as the leader. Shao Jiugong is an outsider in their eyes, and he is forced to do it, so naturally he has no right to speak, he is also wise and silent, anyway, no matter who is the leader, it will not be his turn.

"Since the brothers listen to me, then I will be the master for the time being, and I will discuss it when I return to Luoding." Zhou Shixiang pointed to the captives kneeling by the ferry in the distance, "It's definitely not okay to kill people, I mean to exchange them with Deqing." ”