Han’s Son is Not a Slave

The sudden torrential rain made the evacuation of Longyan Township extremely difficult. It was originally estimated that the evacuation could take only five days. It has lasted for a full seven days.

The evacuation of Longyan Township is the largest evacuation operation of the Taiping Army in Xiangshan. The evacuees include the former Houying campers resettled in Longyan Township, as well as local people and new immigrants. Weak women and children are the majority.

Beforehand, in order to prevent accidents, Song Xianggong personally came to the town to direct the evacuation operation. In order to ensure the success of the evacuation operation, Zhou Shixiang also transferred 1,000 reserve soldiers from the rear to assist, plus the security team of Longyan Township, a guard of the Infantry Left Battalion in Longyan Township, and the troops responsible for the evacuation operation reached more than 2,000 people.

Combined with the time of the Qing army's advance, Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong were very optimistic about the evacuation operation, because they had already carried out the evacuation operation ahead of the Qing army, and they were evacuating to Xinhui nearby, and the possibility of failure was very low. Who knows that people are not as good as heaven. A sudden rainstorm interrupted the evacuation operation, which also cast a shadow of failure in this evacuation operation.

At present, there are only more than 7,000 elderly, weak, women and children who have been successfully evacuated to the beach, and more than 4,000 are still on their way to the Tanjiang River. Some of them may never see Tan Jiang again.

The situation was not optimistic. The Qing army had approached Longyan Township three days ago, and the guard in the left camp of the infantry had already fought with their forward. Because of the wind and rain, the Qing army had stopped advancing, which allowed Song Xianggong to win more. Get some people out. However, today's wind is much stronger than yesterday. It was a typhoon. The Xinhui sailor on the other side of the river could not sail the ship in this strong wind. This made thousands of old and weak women and children can only live in the empty, unobstructed. The riverside waited helplessly. They had to wait until the wind stopped, and there was nothing they could do.

The rain is still falling and the wind is still blowing.

The old and weak women and children huddled together on the river beach, their thin and already soaked clothes made them tremble. Densely crowded with people. From time to time, the cries of the baby sounded, which made Song Xianggong feel numb, and he felt a sense of pain.

In the afternoon, bad news came from the security team. A battalion of the Qing army braved the wind and rain to raid the Taiping army behind the pad. In the wind and rain, because of the unknown number of Qing troops coming, the leading Baihu had to retreat. But the Green Battalion soldiers held on to them, and they were now less than a few miles away from the river.

How far is it from the riverside? !

Song Xianggong became nervous, and he knew that once the Qing army rushed to the riverside. What will be the consequences? Even if these Qing troops are only a few dozen people, it will instantly turn the river beach into a **** on earth. Those women and children will trample on each other out of panic, and they will throw themselves into the river out of fear. …

Song Xianggong dared not imagine the consequences of letting the Qing army approach, so he asked for the brigade commander of the reserve soldiers, Qianhu Yu Shizhong.

Yu Shizhong's ancestor was once a side general under General Qi Jiguang, and he was stationed in Jinshan Wei to prepare for Japan. When Jiangnan fell in the first year of Hongguang, Yu Shizhong followed the Ming army who refused to surrender to the south, first entering Fujian to join Emperor Longwu, and then fleeing to Guangdong to join Emperor Shaowu. When the city of Guangzhou was broken in the first year of Yongli, he took some of his men from Guangzhou city to Stanley Island in Xin'an County. Later, Stanley Island was breached by Xin'an's Green Battalion. He led the remnants of the army and fled into Wutong Mountain to continue fighting against the Qing Dynasty.

Zhang Dachang, the magistrate of Xin'an County appointed by the Qing court, once sent people into the mountains to persuade Yu Shizhong to surrender, promising that as long as he brought people out to surrender, he would not only save his life, but also recommend him to guard the green camp in Xin'an County. However, Zhang Dachang's several persuasion to surrender were rejected by Yu Shizhong. He asked the persuaders to tell Zhang Dachang that his grandfather followed Qi Dashuai to fight Japanese pirates to kill the Tartars and died under the sword of the Mongols, while his father died in the mud. Under the sword of He Jinbing, to his generation. Saying nothing will never disgrace our ancestors! If I want him to surrender to the Tartars, there is no door. He was born a Han Chinese and died a Han ghost! (Author's Note: Stanley. Later Hong Kong)

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After the Taiping army captured Xiangshan, Zhou Shixiang sent people to recruit the rest of the Ming army scattered around Xiangshan. After Yu Shizhong heard the news, he led his remnants out of the mountains and crossed the sea at night to reach the former mountain village.

Jiang He saw that the three or four hundred soldiers under Yu Shizhong were all in ragged clothes, as if they hadn't eaten for a long time, and they didn't have many weapons. Only when they were ordinary Ming troops, they felt contempt, but when Yu Shizhong asked Jiang He to see how his subordinates practiced, Jiang He immediately put away his contempt.

Yu Shizhong's three or four hundred men were trained according to the Qi family's military training method. Although there were few people, although they were not hungry, and although they did not have many weapons, once they practiced, Jiang He felt the breath of a strong soldier. .

Jiang He took in Yu Shizhong and his subordinates without a second word on the spot, and asked Yu Zai to be the brigade commander and the title of thousand households. After the appointment was reported, Zhou Shixiang readily approved it.

After learning that the Qing army's three-way army was advancing on Xiangshan, the Taiping army also made a general mobilization. Jiang He led all the reserve soldiers from the former cottage to Xiangshan to stand by. , the first candidate that flashed in Jiang He's mind was Yu Shizhong.

When Duke Xianggong of Song saw Yu Shizhong, the other party was also soaked wet, but no matter how much wind and rain, he still stood and spoke instead of squatting down.

After listening to Song Xianggong's description of the situation, Yu Shizhong was silent for a moment, and gathered the 1,000 soldiers he brought together.

"The news came from behind that the Qing soldiers have caught up with us, and it is only a few miles away from here, and the brothers of the infantry left camp are dragging them, but this Qing army is very fierce and has more numbers than them, I am afraid it will block them. It won't be long. Master Song has discussed with me, no matter what, we can't let the Qing soldiers rush here, otherwise all the women and children here will be dead. So I need you to follow me to block the Tartars."

In the wind and rain, the 1,000 reserve soldiers clung to the spears in their hands, no one spoke, and no one was shaken. Like their thousand households, they let the rain hit their cheeks.

"Set off!"

Yu Shizhong turned around and walked ahead without a word.

Not long after Yu Shizhong's team set off, He Bao, the mayor of Longyan Township, called together the township security team and the security teams of the villages. on his eyes.

"The men of the Taiping Army have worked hard with Qing Yao for your wives and children. Let me ask you, are you embarrassed to let them work hard for your wives and children, but are you hiding here?"

"Head of the village, don't talk about it, let's go and fight the Tartars!" a security guard shouted with a blushing face. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

"Everyone is a man, how can there be a reason for your own mother-in-law to call others to protect it, everyone said, let's go or not!"

"Go, son of a bitch, don't go!"

"As long as our women and children can survive, I will die, and I will not be wronged!"

"Let's go, everyone and the Taiping army men go to kill the Tartars!"

"Go, kill the Tartars!"

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"Then don't stop here, the mayor, I'll go with you!"

He Bao said and looked at Duke Xianggong, who was staring at him, and bowed deeply: "Master Song, these women and children are handed over to you."

Song Xianggong didn't speak or nod, just looked at them quietly.

(To be continued.)