Zhao Xing is not from Liuzhou, he is from Qingyuan, and this time the whole family was captured from Qingyuan by the Qing army to be cannon fodder.
Zhao Xing's two elder brothers are dead, and Zhao Xing doesn't know where the bodies are, only that they are dead.
My father and mother also died, one was starved to death, and the other was killed by the Qing soldiers.
In addition to his dead brother and parents, Zhao Xing also has a little sister alive.
Compared with her brother who was forced to fill the trench for the Qing army and her father and mother who were beaten to death and starved to death, Zhao Xiaomei was very lucky, although she was ruined by a lot of stinking Qing soldiers every day, but Zhao Xiaomei did not have to worry that she would be driven to fill the ditch by the Qing army like her brothers, nor did she have to worry that the Qing soldiers would drive her to the defense line of the Ming army.
In troubled times, the body is a woman's biggest capital and the biggest survival capital.
Fortunately, Zhao Xiaomei is a woman, a young woman, not a man, so she has the value of surviving.
As for the humiliation she suffered, is it really humiliation, and humiliation does not exist at all in this era when human life is not valuable, only the dead and the living exist.
The death of the two elder brothers and the humiliation of the younger sister did not make Zhao Xing have much hatred for the Qing army, and he was now running forward frantically with a bag of mud on his shoulder.
He couldn't hear the cries and screams in front of him, he couldn't see the corpses and blood on the ground, he just ran forward like crazy.
He did not lose his mind, on the contrary, he was very sober, because he clearly knew that many people had died, and if he didn't hurry up and help the Qing soldiers fill the ditch, he would die soon.
If you want to live, you have to move fast, you have to be fast Only by quickly throwing the bag of dirt on his back into the ditch, and only by running back quickly to take down a bag of dirt, could he see the Qing soldiers rush into the Ming army's defense line earlier, and then slaughter them.
Only then will he survive.
The reason for the desperate effort is simply to live; The reason for being brave is just to live.
Countless Han people who had the same idea of living as Zhao Xing rushed forward bravely and resolutely, shouting and screaming, as if forgetting life and death, and fell one after another under the cannons and guns of the Ming army.
But more of them went forward one after another, appearing in the sight of the Ming army on the opposite side with a brave attitude of fearless death.
"They can't go crazy, why don't they go back and fight with those Qing soldiers" This thought flashed in the minds of the soldiers of the Taiping Army who were shooting mechanically, they couldn't understand what those people who knew that they were dying but still wanted to run forward thought, although they had no weapons, but they had a lot of people, why didn't they resist, even if they resisted, many people would die, but how many people would die than now There may be another way to survive if you resist, maybe you can escape some people, but if you don't resist, you can only line up in front of Lord Yama, waiting in a daze for death to beckon him.
However, no one resisted, on the contrary, they scrambled to be the first, on the contrary, they were killing each other, in order to be able to throw the mud bags in their hands into the ditch, in order to fill the trench as soon as possible, the soldiers of the Taiping army saw many uninjured people being pushed into the pit by the people behind them.
"The people are not afraid of death, they are not brave, they just dare not turn back, because they are afraid of the sword of the Qing soldiers.
If they don't rush forward, they won't even have a chance to turn back.
If I had to explain their madness, it would be that it is better to die late than early, and it is better for you to die than for me, understand?"
Niu Gensheng had no expression on his face, and he did not give the order to stop the shelling, so as not to kill and wound innocent people in vain.
He has seen too much of the scene in front of him, but in the past, he drove the people to rush to the Ming army, but now he is watching the people come to rush him.
The human heart is made of flesh, not iron.
At first, Niu Gensheng also trembled and couldn't bear it, but after seeing too much, what could he do In these days, there is nothing more important than being alive Either you die or I die More than 10,000 Han people rushed towards the Taiping Army like a sea of people, like a wave, and retreated again and again.
The cycle goes on and on, without stopping.
Only the corpses everywhere and the half-filled trenches told both sides on the battlefield that this was a life-and-death war, and that there was no sympathy in war.
Looking at the people who were driven over to serve as cannon fodder, and looking at them falling in the trench in front of the Taiping Army one by one, the Guangxi Admiral Line Guoan's expression was unmoved, and there was no unbearability or hesitation on his face, the life and death of these people were not a matter to him at all.
Even in his report to the imperial court, he would not waste a word describing how these people bravely filled the trenches for the Qing Dynasty, he only cared about whether the death of these cannon fodder could fill the trenches.
If he couldn't, he would have to have a headache to find more cannon fodder, because the people in a radius of dozens of miles had been looted by him.
If it doesn't succeed this time, the governor of Guangxi will really be anxious.
He was delayed in Liuzhou for too long, and the casualties he paid in Xiaobeishan were too great, and the prince was already very dissatisfied with his delay in taking Liuzhou.
"The Ming army uses turns to fire, non-stop shooting, it seems that the guns are very fast and dense, but their guns are not much stronger than ours, and they always have to stop when they hit five or six guns, otherwise the guns are too hot and the medicine can't be loaded, so there will always be a pause.
The same is true of the artillery on the opposite hill, I calculate, about seven or eight cannons, there will be a pause in the artillery of the Ming army.
Don't underestimate this pause, that's the key to our victory. ” "What the Admiral said is that the Ming army has indeed stopped."
The general soldier of the left wing listened to the sound of artillery for a while, nodded, laughed hehehe, and said with some pride: "No matter how powerful the Guangdong barbarians are, they can't resist us getting so many people to rush."
The more ferocious they fight, the greater the consumption of the medicine, and then it will be seen how long they can last. ” "Pass the order, hear the sound of artillery and the whole army press, today no matter what, we must take Xiaobeishan" "Chirp" At that moment, there were soldiers from the line national security who went to give orders.
"Lord Admiral, we have driven all the people within a radius of dozens of miles, if they all die, this Liuzhou and Qingyuan will be an empty space."
There are some regrets in the whole section.
Line Guoan said disapplausively: "It doesn't matter if there is no one, when the Ming army is leveled, people can be moved from other places." ” Quan Jie's eyes suddenly lit up, and he pointed forward with a horsewhip, and said excitedly: "Most of the trench has been filled, and if there is another pillar of incense, I'm afraid this ditch will be filled." ” The line national security probe glanced at it, waved his hand, and ordered: "Go, ask the artillery battalion to push the cannon up, you can't just listen to the sound of the Southern Barbarians' cannons, our cannons must also be sounded." ”oshow7 t1706231537: