Chapter 62: Crush, the dark Qing Dynasty! (Friday, 12 o’clock, first order please!)
It was dark at night. In the Qing army barracks where Yu Wanqing's troops were originally stationed, beside a bonfire, about two hundred soldiers in uniform were weighing the heavy "Ying Yang" in their hands while looking at Yu Wanqing's. A godson.
Yu Wanqing's godson was named Yu Dabao. He was tall and round, with a fleshy face, unshaven beard, and a fierce look in his eyes.
"Rebellion!" Yu Dabao shouted, "If we don't rebel, we will be eaten alive by the people named Huang and the people named Zhang! The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is going to rob all the little property that Huang has. I’m almost a pauper, why should I do group training? Does he have any money to give us?”
"Definitely not!" Immediately, Yu Wanqing's "new godson" took over the question.
"When we followed Yu Junmen, we didn't have much money all year round... We were still masters of economy and control! Now that we have changed to a group training, we still have to go hungry for nine meals in three days?"
This time, Yu Wanqing's old subordinates agreed, but judging from what he said, Uncle Yu must also be a corrupt official who drank the blood of his soldiers.
Of course, Yu Dabao would not let the people below take the topic astray, and quickly shouted: "Instead of doing this, it is better to follow the Taiping Army and drink spicy food... The Taiping Angels are so generous, give each of us ten Yingyang! That's it!" After that, I’ll give you another ten yuan! That’s twenty yuan in total... Even if I served as a soldier for Lord Xianfeng for two years, I couldn’t save these twenty yuan! Brothers, tell me, should we rebel or not? ?」
"It's done!" an older Qing soldier with a gray beard said with a ferocious expression, "I have served as a soldier for the Manchu emperor's family for thirty years, and I haven't even saved twenty taels... I'm so poor. !You can get twenty if you rebel now! Why are you hesitating? Rebel!"
"I'm rebelling too!" Another veteran in his forties with a scar on his face stuffed ten pieces of eagle ocean into his arms and said through gritted teeth, "With the help of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, I think they can succeed!
Anyway, I can’t get ahead as a green soldier, so I might as well rebel... maybe I can even become a founding hero!"
These two veterans had a high prestige among Yu Wanqing's pacesetters who stayed in Daozhou. As soon as they took the lead, the more than 200 people below were eager to try, and soon there was a rebellion.
Yu Dabao drew out his sword with a loud sound and waved it: "They are all good... Let me tell you the bottom line, the Tiandihui brothers in Daozhou City will also join us in the rebellion! As long as we fight, There is a rebellion in Daozhou City!"
He pointed at the scarred face of the forty-year-old man again: "Ji Dapao... you are the gunner. Hurry up and take a few people to set up the cannon and shoot it in the direction of the Zhizhou Yamen!"
"Hey...yes!" Ji Dapao waved his hand, called a few friends, and went to set up the cannon together.
Said to be cannons, they are actually just a few small cannons weighing 200 to 300 kilograms. They are usually mounted on a cart. When you want to fire them, you have to build a cannon pier with soil and sandbags, then lift the cannon up and place it properly. Use hemp rope and wooden stakes to secure the cannon.
This process was too troublesome, so Yu Wanqing simply left the artillery team to look after the house that day.
Today, these cannons were quickly set up at the entrance of the military camp! Yu Wanqing's camp was located at the entrance of the Lieutenant Colonel of Daozhou City, occupying the original barracks of the Daozhou City Guards Camp. Daozhou's state government office was diagonally opposite. .
However, it was late at night when Ji Dapao led the men to set up the cannon, and all the soldiers watching the gate of Daozhou Prefecture were dozing off, and no one saw them.
Naji Dapao was really a daredevil. After setting up the cannon, he and a dozen old guys loaded up the shells and gunpowder. Then he lifted up his robe and knelt down, and kowtowed to the cannon first. He also shouted: "Grandpa Pao, bless you!"
This cannon... belongs to my grandfather!
It was cast during the Qianlong period and participated in the Battle of Jinchuan and Jinchuan! Three generations of Ji Dapao's family have served it.
After finishing the kowtow, Ji Dapao lit the fire line on the butt of the cannon. As the sparks entered the fire door, the old cannon roared with a roar.
Then I heard a loud "click" coming from the government office opposite, followed by an inexplicable shout of surprise.
"Oh my God! The door, why did the door fall down?"
"How do you guard the door?"
"I, I, I don't know!"
Ji Dapao didn't care what the other side yelled, he just directed his artillerymen to load ammunition for this "Grandpa Cannon" and the younger Cannon Dad, and fired two rounds at the Yamen opposite.
"Boom boom..."
"Oops, the wall fell down again..."
"What's going on?"
"Why did this beautiful wall collapse?"
"Hurry and report to the governor..."
These few people's reaction to looking at the gate was really slow. Even now, they don't know that someone is bombarding their Yamen with a cannon!
However, Mr. Zhang Dingxiang, who was eating supper with Wang Kuiyi in the inner hall of the Yamen, was a knowledgeable person. He knew something was wrong when he heard the "boom, boom, boom" of the cannons.
"Having sex? Someone is having sex!" Zhang Dingxiang suddenly stood up.
"What?" Huang Shijie, who was slightly drunk at the side, became nervous at once, "Growing... long hair and attacking the city?"
"No, it's not that far...it seems like someone is having sex outside the government office?"
Wang Kui looked at Zhang Dingxiang: "How is this possible? Lao Zhang, are you drunk?"
"Boom boom..."
Two more shots!
Immediately afterwards, I heard someone shouting outside: "Master, Master, it's not good... the gate of the Yamen suddenly fell down, and part of the wall collapsed!"
"ah?"
"Someone is bombarding...zhouyamen?"
"There is a rebellion in Daozhou City!"
Now Wang Kuiyi, Huang Shijie, and Zhang Dingxiang all know that something is wrong!
However, Wang Dazhizhou was still calm and reacted immediately: "Ziying, Mr. Zhang... Hurry, quickly go and mobilize the team to practice suppressing the rebels, and you have to protect me to break out of the encirclement!"
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"Listen...someone is shooting off a cannon!"
In the mansion where more than 30 Tiandi Huixiang masters and hall masters gathered in the Daozhou area, some people had already heard the sound of cannons.
This sound of cannons is the signal for uprising!
"It's Yu Dabao, his green camp has started!" Jiao Hong slapped the table and looked at the group of Hongmen brothers who had already "dressed up" below - these people had already wrapped their heads in red scarves, but their braids were I didn’t even cut it... If things go wrong, I can still pretend to be a docile citizen of the Qing Dynasty!
"It's our turn for the heroes of the Tiandihui!" Jiao Hong stood up and said to Xu Yuegui beside him, "Brothers and sisters, you come to be the marshal of the three armies and guard the Chinese army camp. Xianggui and I will be the left and right vanguards. We will go respectively. Take the North Gate and West Gate to welcome the Taiping Army into the city!"
Xu Yuegui nodded, with an excited look on his face: "Okay! I will stay behind in the Chinese Army and wait for your victory report!"
The three people then discussed again and divided the "Thirty-Six Xiangtang Rebels" below into three parts. One part followed Xu Yuegui and was responsible for controlling the streets and alleys around the headquarters of Daozhou Recruitment Hall. The other two parts followed Xu Xianggui. Jiao Hong went to capture the north and west gates of Daozhou City.
The "Thirty-Six Xiangtang Rebels" claim to be tens of thousands, but in fact they are only three thousand or several hundred men, all of whom are strong miners and brothers of the Tiandihui.
They are now ready. They all have red scarves on their heads, holding spears in their hands and short knives in their waists. Some of them also carry homemade explosives and are squatting in several alleys around the headquarters of the Recruitment Hall. Among them, each of them received a few taels of silver, and also learned the song "Welcome the Taiping". They all knew why the Taiping Army fought!
Jiao Hong left hundreds of rebellious miner brothers to follow Xu Yuegui to look after the house. The remaining nearly 3,000 people split into two, holding torches, and ran along the two streets towards the two city gates of Daozhou. , while running, he shouted the song "Welcome to Peace" loudly.
"...Slay the evil gentry, slaughter the evil gentry, open the city gates to welcome peace, and divide the fields when peace comes! Divide the fields, divide the wealth, and ensure that everyone is fed and warm. If you don't pay rent, don't repay debts, there will be no peace in the world. Everything is uneven..."
As the song "Welcome to Peace" becomes louder and louder, the crowds flowing to Daozhou West and North Gate become more and more turbulent!
At the same time, Xu Yuegui, who was left behind, led others to set a fire in a dilapidated and vacant yard where there were many firewood and igniting debris. The fire suddenly ignited!
The entire Daozhou City soon began to boil as if a pot had been boiled.
"The Taiping Army has entered the city!"
"Oh my God, here comes the long hair!"
"The Heaven and Earth Society has also rebelled!"
"The Green Camp has also rebelled!"
"Kill the pure monsters, slaughter the evil gentry, open the city gates to welcome peace..."
Chapter completed!