"Brothers, I just hope that Mr. Qian can give us a way to survive!"
After saying that, he stared at the guard of Guangen Gate.
"What kind of survival do you want?" The guard of Guang'en Gate looked at him and said, "Only by guarding Gaizhou City can everyone have a way to survive."
Mr. Lai frowned subconsciously and said, "Mr. Qian, do you know what the last general said?"
"I'm not the roundworm in your belly. How can I know what you are thinking? Do you want to abandon the city and escape? Don't think about it. There are tigers and thieves outside several city gates. It's not that easy to escape. "Guang'en gatekeeper said.
Hearing this, he looked at the face of the guard of Guangen Gate for a long time, and then said: "Mr. Qian, please stop pretending to be confused. You know what the last general means. Gaizhou City is guarded. Guangen Gate is here." We can’t hold on for long, we can defect to the Qing Dynasty from the Ming Dynasty, why can’t we defect to the Tiger Flag from the Qing Dynasty again?”
"You don't want your life! How dare you say such nonsense!" The guard of Guang'en gate darkened his face and looked around nervously, for fear of being overheard by the Eight Banners soldiers on the city wall.
The general stared at him and said: "If the Eight Banners soldiers were really capable, they would not have lost Jinzhou and Fuzhou. Now even Gaizhou can hardly be defended. The Eight Banners soldiers will bully the weak Ming army and fight against the tiger character." The flag's soldiers are nothing. Previously, leader Dosan Zuo led his people out of the city to seize the tiger thief's cannon. Hundreds of people left the city, but in the end less than fifty people came back. Dosan Zuo, the leader, even blocked his life. Outside the city, we have seen these with our own eyes, Mr. Qian, if the fight continues, our brothers will be buried with the Qing Dynasty. We are Han people and we are not the same as those Tatars."
"Are you crazy? You did what happened to the slaves of the third surname. Do you think the tiger thieves would take in someone like you!" the guard of Guang'en Gate said with an ugly expression.
Asking him to surrender to the tiger-character flag and become a slave of the three surnames is really unacceptable.
The general said: "What's wrong with the slaves of the three surnames? At worst, I will just become an ordinary citizen. I have already asked about it. A commoner on the tiger bandits' side has a better life than us. Will he stay in the Qing Dynasty?" Not to mention the future, we still have to work hard for others. If we have good things, we should stick to those Eight Banners soldiers first. Let Han soldiers like us do everything that involves death. Anyway, I have had enough of this kind of life."
The guard of Guang'en Gate was silent when he heard this.
In the past, when compared with the Ming army, it was not so obvious. Although the life in the Qing Dynasty was not very easy, it was still better than when it was in the Ming army. The key is that the Qing army was more powerful than the Ming army, and had a greater chance of surviving on the battlefield. .
Since the Ming Army disappeared and was replaced by the Tiger Flag, they discovered that the Qing Army's life was not so good, and it was almost the same as before when they were in the Ming Army.
Mr. Ba continued to persuade the guard at Guang'en Gate: "Mr. Qian, you are a Han Chinese. We talents should be of the same mind. Those Eight Banners soldiers are different from us. There is no need to follow them all the way to darkness."
"Don't say these words anymore, let others hear that no one can save you." The guard of Guang'en Gate said, and then said, "Go back and defend the city honestly, and tell the brothers below not to be stupid. When you are under fire, you should hide when you need to, and the firemen don't care whether you are a Han or an Eight Banners soldier."
Hearing this, the general manager was stunned for a moment, then reacted and quickly said: "General, I understand, let's make arrangements now."
After saying that, he turned around and left quickly.
The guard of Guang'en Gate sighed and shrank his body behind the parapet, trying to avoid being exposed as much as possible.
Facing the shelling outside the city, the defenders on the city wall had no ability to fight back at all, and they all tried to hide whenever they could.
Not only the Han soldiers were hiding, but the Eight Banners soldiers on the city wall were also hiding.
A few Eight Banners soldiers stayed on the city wall and stared at the others. The remaining Eight Banners soldiers all hid under the city wall, but the Han soldiers under the Han army flag were not well. There were Eight Banners soldiers staring at the Han soldiers and they could not leave the city wall, so they could not hide. We can only hide on the city wall.
Fortunately, the shelling outside the city mainly hit the wall on the left side of Guang'en Gate. There were not too many cannons on the wall, and the Han soldiers guarding the wall also had more places to hide.
The day was spent in shelling.
At night, the shelling stopped, and the guards on the wall at Guang'en Gate finally had the opportunity to move around.
The guard of Guang'en Gate directed his men to clean up the corpses on the city wall and move them to the bottom of the city wall for placement.
"President Qian, General Ye Bilong is here."
When the guard of Guang'en Gate was directing his men to work, one of his sentry officers came over to report the news.
Shortly after the bombardment stopped, Ye Bilong once again led people to Guang'en Gate.
Guangenmen was the focus of the Tiger Banner's attack, and naturally it was also the place where he, the leader of the Eight Banners Association, paid attention and worried.
"I will see the general at the end." The guard of Guang'en Gate came to salute in front of Ye Bilong.
Ye Bilong looked at the busy figures on the city wall and asked, "How is the situation here at Guang'en Gate?"
"Thanks to the general, Guang'en Gate has been defended under the bombardment of tiger thieves. The dead and wounded are currently being counted." The guard of Guang'en Gate replied.
Ye Bilong nodded and turned to the guard of Guang'en Gate and said, "Thank you for your hard work. Reinforcements will arrive if you persist for two more days. I hope you can continue your efforts and guard Guang'en Gate. If you need anything, just ask." , I will be satisfied with whatever I can do.”
"Have the reinforcements arrived?" The guard of Guang'en Gate flashed in his eyes.
Ye Bilong said: "I have just received the news that Long Live Lord has assembled an army and is heading south. It will arrive in Gaizhou soon. By then, the siege of Gaizhou will naturally be solved."
"With the reinforcements sent by Long Live Lord, I can finally put my mind at ease." The guard of Guang'en Gate said first, and then asked, "General, how many troops and horses will come from the reinforcements this time?"
E Bilong shook his head slightly and said, "It's still unclear. The person who sent the message came from Haizhou. He only said that reinforcements would arrive soon, and didn't say anything else."
"What about Haizhou? Have you sent reinforcements? Haizhou is closest to our Gaizhou. If Haizhou can send reinforcements, our pressure in Gaizhou City will be reduced." said the guard of Guang'en Gate.
Ye Bilong turned his head and looked in the direction of the fire outside the city, and said, "Forget about the reinforcements from Haizhou. The Haizhou defender was afraid that the tiger bandits would split up their troops and go to Haizhou, so he didn't send any reinforcements at all."
"That's such a pity." The Guang'en gatekeeper looked regretful.
But he could hear dissatisfaction with the Haizhou defender from Ye Bilong's voice.
Ye Bilong withdrew his gaze and said to him: "The troops in the city are tight, so we won't send troops to replace you. Before the reinforcements arrive, Guang'en Gate will be handed over to you in the past few days. If you need anything, I will try my best to arrange it for you."
"The tiger thieves only shelled during the day. The losses of the defenders on the city were not too great. They just lacked the opportunity to counterattack." The guard of Guang'en Gate said.
(End of chapter)
