Just when all the cavalry thought their defeat was certain, Sun Sanhu, who had been chasing them all the way and was very angry, finally arrived. When he saw the cavalry withdrawing from the road, they were furious.
"Okay, okay, are these the green soldiers of the Qing Dynasty? They really live up to their nickname of cowards. How could the imperial court raise a bunch of trash like you? You can't even deal with a few women. Do you still have the nerve to live? Have the nerve to breathe? Escape sooner or later. If you lose your organization, go home and chew the yellow mud..."
The green battalion cavalry was already very angry. How could they withstand the cynicism and abuse of this latecomer?
"I quit, I won't serve you anymore. If you dare, go and kill yourself... Brothers, let's go!" At this moment, a dark shadow suddenly floated in front of the hot-tempered soldier, and then he felt My throat felt a little cold and wet.
The soldier subconsciously reached out to touch his throat, only to find that the palm of his hand was shockingly red. Then a piece of blood mist spurted out. It turned out that the black shadow floating past was Sun Sanhu. The fine steel dagger in his hand was worthy of being a fine product, and killing people was not stained with blood.
The soldier looked at the blood mist spurting out of his throat in disbelief. He wanted to speak, but when he opened his mouth, large amounts of blood poured out. His body swayed and fell directly from his horse into the snow, with his legs only twitching. .
"Do you see clearly? This is the fate of rebelling against the imperial court! Don't forget, this is the Qing Dynasty, you are all the emperor's soldiers, and I am the royal eagle dog, and I am the sword-wielding guard of the Forbidden City. I have secrets in my hands. Purpose……"
"What are you looking at? What are those looks like? You're trying to rebel! You'll be blinded if you look at them again..." Sun Sanhu looked around, and his killing finally shocked these Green Camp soldiers who were about to collapse.
The Green Camp of the Han Army actually existed before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs. These armies, whose main body was the surrendered Han people, did the hardest and most tiring work in the process of the Qing Dynasty's territorial expansion. What they accomplished was The most difficult and dangerous mission, but the reward is the least.
Hundreds of years of suppression have created a deep fear in the Green Camp soldiers who have been passed down by their families for generations. Facing the strict imperial power, they dare not resist at all. You must know that their families are all in the Green Camp military register. It is recorded above that any soldier who is deemed a traitor will definitely be executed.
Under Sun Sanhu's terrifying threat, these soldiers turned their horses' heads conscientiously, preparing to continue their attack on the Xiao family mansion. But at this time, the Xiao family had just settled in a group of new troops, and it would not be so easy to eat them again.
"Sir... Your Majesty, we only have more than a hundred people now, but the Xiao family has received nearly 700 reinforcements. Even if we want to fight, we can't do it... It's not that we are timid, we are just afraid of delays. It’s your business…”
"That's right, it doesn't matter if we lose our lives, but if we delay the emperor's errand, won't you also be in trouble, sir?"
The soldiers were talking all over Sun Sanhu, but they didn't want to hit Sun Sanhu without making him laugh angrily, "Haha, you idiots, stop hiding the needle in the cotton. I've been prepared for it a long time ago. Why don't you use your brain to deal with Xiao Letian?" It can be done."
While talking, Sun Sanhu jumped on the horse that had been vacated by the dead cavalry, and waved to a dead soldier beside him. The two quickly urged their horses to run eastward. Not far from their direction, there was a group of dark warehouses.
After a while, Sun Sanhu and the dead man were each carrying two bulging sacks. They were able to control the horses to avoid obstacles on the ground with just the strength of their legs. They waited until the high-speed horses rushed through Xiaojiayuan. Behind the wall, two sacks were thrown into the fire scene of the compound.
"Brothers, there is a lot of charcoal and sulfur in the warehouse. Throw them into the fire, burn them to death, choke them to death..." The cavalry suddenly realized that Sun Sanhu had already searched the terrain on the road. Damn it, why didn't we think of checking those warehouses?
The annoyed cavalrymen shuttled between the warehouse area and the mansion like a long dragon, using the power of the horse's sprint to throw sack after sack of sulfur and charcoal into the fire. Fortunately, there was no saltpeter in these warehouses, otherwise the fire would have directly It matches.
"Speed up, hurry up, you are cavalry and you must behave like cavalry. Increase your speed. As long as your horses don't stop, the enemy will not be able to do anything to you..."
Sun Sanhu's command was correct. Now there is not a single war horse in the Xiao family mansion. These two-legged infantry can only use the range of muskets to intimidate the cavalry. However, when encountering such a group of horse control masters late at night, the accuracy of musket shooting Greatly reduced.
Now there was a mess around Xiao Letian. People watched helplessly as bags of charcoal and sulfur were thrown into the fire. Except for a small number of people who fell outside and were able to pull them aside, those who threw directly into the fire were basically Can't fish it out.
Charcoal is not bad, since those houses are already burned through, so it doesn't matter if you add more firewood. However, sulfur is very dangerous when exposed to fire. The large amount of sulfur dioxide gas released is a typical poisonous gas, which is highly irritating to human mucous membranes. After a while, the whole inner house was filled with violent coughing.
"Ahem, cough, cough... My eyes, give me some water. My eyes are going blind... I can't breathe. These wicked people, sir, please think of a solution..."
What can Xiao Letian do? Fortunately, there is water in the pond, and there are plenty of cotton cloth in the inner house. Each person can tie a piece to his mouth and nose and use it as a simple gas mask.
Now, only the main back house of the Xiao family mansion remains intact, and there is already a ring of fire on the outside. Looking back at the tunnel, I saw that it was filled with corpses. I tried to clean it up and the result was Before the move was completed, thick smoke poured in from the other end of the tunnel.
"Sir, these bastards want to trap us all to death. If the fire continues like this, none of us can survive...Sir, why don't we break out separately? We'll go first to distract the enemy, and you can retreat last. Maybe there's still a way to survive." …”
"Fart! Do you know who that person is outside? That is the secret protector of the Red Sect in the capital. He is a professional killer who has been raised by the Qing Dynasty for two hundred years. They do such desperate things all the time. Breaking out in separate ways is simply not feasible..."
The intelligence agency set up by Chun Shisanniang in the capital is not just for free. All the secret information of the Red Sect in the world was delivered to Xiao Letian yesterday. The intelligence shows that these Red Sect protectors have secretly carried out many massacres. , the methods are extremely cruel, and the experience is also extremely rich.
To use the strategy of dividing the troops to break out in front of such people is to seek death, not to mention that they have only one cavalry in their hands, even if they defeat them one by one, they will not have enough time.
"Now we have no choice but to defend one road. As long as we can hold it until dawn, as long as our new army comes back to support us, we will win...cough, cough, cough, tear me another piece of cotton, but I will choke to death. I am..."
Xiao Letian knew that he was not defeated. He was just disrupted from the rhythm of the battle. It was a very urgent situation in the Xiao family mansion, but if he looked at the entire Tanggu city, he had actually won now.
In the black wilderness, a war horse ran with white smoke rising from its body, and a broken flag rustled in the wind. Lord Long was indeed a man who did not follow the ordinary path. He rode his horse into the field, rushing all the way from north to south. past. No matter what ditches or piles of residual snow, horses can always jump over them.
There were three cavalrymen chasing him just now, but before they had chased five miles, each of them had died tragically under Long Ye's hidden weapon. Now Long Ye's eyes were all focused on the south, and he had already heard There were shouts of killing like a sea wave ahead.
The fire was getting closer and closer. It was the torch lit by the Marines. Not only that, but rows of gunfire lit up in the black shadow, which was unusually eye-catching in the middle of the night.
"Who is it?" The sound of Long Ye's horse hooves alerted the soldiers on the flanks, and then a row of Spencers pointed in the direction in which the horses were charging.
"I am Xiang Shaolong... I am delivering your military orders... I am holding the flag! I am holding the disabled flag!" A roar full of energy and inner strength resounded throughout the field, and both the enemy and us heard it clearly.
"Hold the flag? Hold what flag?" The three generals who were struggling to support felt a chill in their hearts. Chinese people have been sensitive to flags since ancient times. Why is rebellion called flag-pulling? Because the flag represents an army or even a force.
If there were no military flags, Xiao Letian could still argue that these soldiers were Western-style guards. However, if the soldiers on the opposite side had their own flags, it would only prove that Xiao Letian was going to rebel, and there would be no other excuse at all.
In sharp contrast to the astonished expressions of the generals, the young men of the two New Army companies were shocked as soon as they heard the word "hold the flag". When they saw Xiao Letian galloping towards Naha unstoppable, he recognized Xiao Letian. Behind the flag, the entire army roared like thunder.
"The battle flag is our battle flag... Your Majesty's residual blood flag... Wan Sheng!" The boys were completely crazy. They once again recalled the scene of thousands of people charging towards the enemy. With the residual flag, it was like Xiao Letian Come in person.
"Brothers, Mr. Xiao has an order... Immediately eliminate the enemies in front of you and destroy them as quickly as possible. Your Excellency is now surrounded. He is waiting for you to come back for reinforcements! Don't let Your Excellency down..."
Xiao Hexin, Sima Yun and Wang Huaiyuan rushed to Lord Long's horse. "What's wrong, sir? Where is your Excellency now?"
"I was trapped by two hundred cavalry at the Xiao family mansion. My lord said... you did the right thing. The division of troops was my fault. Your decision is correct..."
"But I also tell you that my lord wants you to fight hard again, defeat these enemies as quickly as possible, and then lead the entire army to save him... Time, what my lord wants now is time..."
The situation has reached this point, so there is no need to talk nonsense anymore. The residual blood flag is flying, and there is no need to encourage anyone anymore. All the soldiers have gone crazy. The blood-remnant flag represents Xiao Letian. Under this battle flag, you can either bring victory or die with the enemy.
The flag of remaining blood, the flag of deadly battle, the flag of killing, is the flag that the soul of the new army is condensed into. Once this flag is raised, it has proved the doom of these green soldiers.
