Chapter 129: Massacre
After Su Xianting climbed the mountain, the green battalion soldiers in front of him had turned the top of the mountain into a hell on earth, and there were corpses everywhere, the dead and the undead were sandwiched together, and the smell of blood that made people vomit was all coming to their noses.
The soldiers of the green battalion killed people when they saw them, regardless of the old and weak, women and children, but they made those who gasped for breath become the souls of their swords. Driven by the butcher's knives of the battalion soldiers, the battalion fled in all directions like headless flies.
The Green Battalion lit torches and set fire to the mountain, and soon the mountain became a sea of fire, full of soldiers with torches and murder. These Han people slaughtered their compatriots like wild beasts, without hesitation or softness. After the fire was lit, the sound of a horn was heard when the Qing military camp under the mountain was neutral.
At the beginning, there were still a few battalion elders and camp managers who were constantly calling, trying to organize the campers in the back mountains to escape, but with the advance of the Qing soldiers, the campers were divided into several units, unable to contact each other, and could not know how many Qing troops were killed.
There were too many people and too chaotic, and the camp elders and camp managers saw that the situation could not be recovered, so they could only rush to escape for their lives. The men's screams, the women's screams, the kneeling and kowtowing for mercy, the baby's wah-wow cry, all kinds of sounds are intertwined, and the mountain behind the Yutai Temple in the pure land of Buddhism has become a purgatory on earth.
Xu was accustomed to the slaughter of his Han compatriots, and the Green Battalion soldiers did not pause or hesitate at all when they slashed and killed those unarmed compatriots, as if they were only pigs and sheep killed by the knife. Compared with the cruelty of the Green Battalion soldiers, those Han Army Banner Qing soldiers were more ruthless, this ruthlessness was not the ruthlessness of killing skills, but the ruthlessness of killing - they could not see any look in their eyes at all, and they could not see any expression on their faces, some were just ruthless, even hateful.
During the massacre of the Qing army. Dozens of security guards who arrived first stood out from the chaotic crowd, and instead of turning around and running towards the front temple, they rushed towards the Qing soldiers with their sharpened wooden guns. Although all of them are afraid. But they didn't have any choice, and they didn't dodge. Because their wives and children are on this mountain.
The fleeing crowd saw these security guards with wooden guns in their hands, like drowning people seeing a straw, and in an instant, hundreds of people rushed towards them.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, kill the Tartars with us!"
Because they were too scared, the security guards yelled heartbreakingly, and the roar covered up the fear in their hearts, and at the same time, some people subconsciously stopped running away. Picking up any tools from the ground that could be used as weapons, they followed them back and charged towards the Qing army.
After discovering that such a group of men and horses rushed out of the fleeing crowd and attacked them, Su Xianting smiled fiercely and shouted at the flag soldiers who were loading: "Let go!" Kill them, kill them! ”
Hearing this, the flag-bearers quickly raised their firearms, and then lit the firearms in their hands at the security guards.
"Bang, bang, bang"
The security guards, who were not aware of the Qing army's firearms, rushed straight towards the Qing army, and the dense sound of guns suddenly sounded in their ears, and the choking smell of medicine permeated the entire mountaintop. The sound of the thunderclap could be heard several miles away, and the birds on Guifeng Mountain were all over the sky. Close-range firing with firearms is a one-sided slaughter for security guards without heavy armor. They simply can't withstand the onslaught of guns with their flesh and blood.
The sound of guns continued to sound, and one security guard after another fell on the ground, and countless tiny holes were punched out of their bodies without exception. The holes were like inlays, and each hole was oozing bright red blood. The security guards of Zhongqi rolled on the ground and wailed, but they could not breathe for a while, and watched as the Qing army stepped over their corpses and chased after the old and weak women and children. As time passes, these mid-gun security guards will eventually die of blood loss, without exception.
The security team could not resist the attack of the Qing army, which made those old and weak women and children even more frightened, and the courage raised by the appearance of the security team was also frightened without a trace.
In the darkness of the night, men, women, old people, and children were all fleeing in all directions. Some ran to the Yutai Temple in front, and some ran to places they didn't even know. At this time, everyone's mind is to run. The farther you run, the better. There were crowds fleeing for their lives everywhere, and there were bloody corpses everywhere.
The movement in the back mountain is big enough, according to the original plan, the Qing army under the mountain should take the opportunity to attack Yutai Temple, at this moment Su Xianting has to do is to lead these 200 Qing soldiers to stir up the situation on the mountain as chaotic as possible, and attack back and forth, so that the Taiping army on the mountain will completely collapse.
After leading his troops to kill hundreds of people like a lamb, Su Xianting found that there was a group of men and horses with knives and spears faintly rushing towards them in front of him.
Seeing that the leader took the lead and led the flag soldiers to rush forward, the green battalion soldiers also came back to their senses, and no longer went around slashing and killing the people who had no power to fight back, but rushed towards the Taiping army with knives and spears with the flag soldiers.
"Kill the thief, kill the thief!"
The Qing soldiers screamed and rushed towards the oncoming Taiping army, expecting that these thieves would be defeated in an instant like the previous thieves, but before they could get closer, they heard someone in the opposite team shouting, and then several black things were thrown at them, and before they could see what the black thing was, there was an explosion in their ears that was louder than the sound of fire.
With the sound of ear-piercing explosions, countless iron nails shot out of the air, and the dozen or so flag soldiers who rushed to the front were blown to the ground before they could react, and dozens of battalion soldiers behind were also shot by the flying iron nails.
"What?!"
The horror was only for a moment, although the firecracker-like weapons thrown by the Taiping army surprised Su Xianting, but he was not frightened and retreated, but raised his arms and roared, desperately rushing towards the Taiping army.
"Kill them all, kill them all!"
Su Xianting roared loudly, and the moment he approached the other party, he felt that two spears had hit him, but they were bounced away by the iron armor on his body, and they didn't hurt him at all. Taking advantage of the stunned surprise of the two Taiping soldiers who had killed him, Su Xianting's knife had already slashed at them, and under the scream, the two Taiping soldiers were immediately stabbed and fell to the ground.
Close hand-to-hand combat, relying on Su Xianting, who was protected by an iron armor, was like entering a no-man's land, and no one could stop half of the sword light. And except for the few explosions that sounded before, the thief soldiers did not throw out the black firecrackers again, which made Su Xianting breathe a sigh of relief, he had already seen that these thieves who fought were not very fierce, and it could even be said that they were completely helping the rabble, as long as there were no powerful firecrackers, close to the fight, these people were not the opponents of the Qing soldiers at all. (To be continued)