Chapter 100 The loyal lieutenants of the Qing Dynasty feel bitter in their hearts! (Please subscribe)
"Arrogant and arrogant, laughing at thousands of waves, with blood as hot as the red sun, courage as strong as iron, bones as fine steel, a mind as vast as a million feet, a far-sighted vision, vowing to work hard to become a good man... The high-pitched song "Men Should Be Strong", At this moment, there was a sudden sound outside Chenzhou City on the west bank of Chenjiang River!
However, this time "Men Should Be Strong" was not sung in Cantonese, but tens of thousands of people sang it together in Xianghu accent and Hakka dialect.
Chenzhou City has been surrounded from all sides, west, north, south... and inside, all sides are Taiping Army or brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society who have worshiped God! And from the prefect Sun Enbao standing on the tower of the west gate of Chenzhou City Looking out, there is already a sea of ​​red!
Outside Chenzhou City, there was a vast swarm of "red-headed men", perhaps thirty to forty thousand in number, so many that the green battalion soldiers of the Chenzhou City Guard Battalion and Chenzhou's local regiment trainers who were standing at the top of Chenzhou City were terrified. Sun Enbao, who was the guardian of Chenzhou, looked ashen and despairing, and said with trembling lips: "How could there be so many, how could there be so many, tens of thousands of people, where did they come from...
The number of Taiping troops was much greater than he imagined!
As early as three months ago after the fall of Daozhou, he carefully collected intelligence on the Taiping Army. At that time, the Taiping Army that came from Lingling only had a few thousand people at full strength. Even including the Taiping Army that attacked Lingling, The number of people cannot exceed 30,000.
The Taiping Army is still besieging Lianzhou, Guangdong, heading north along the Guanjiang River to approach Quanzhou to seek bad luck for the Imperial Envoy Sai Shang'a, and is attacking Lingling, and is heading north from Lanshan County in Guiyang Prefecture. Set off and rush to Chenzhou to conquer the city and territory.
This is a four-way division of troops!
Even if the Taiping Army expanded its troops in Daozhou and increased its number of troops to fifty or sixty thousand, after dividing by four, each road would only have more than ten thousand troops. This is still the case where Daozhou does not leave a single soldier.
But now there are 30,000 to 40,000 red-headed people outside Chenzhou Prefecture alone, with red flags flying and red scarves everywhere. They also sang war songs together... Although Sun Enbao couldn't understand the lyrics, he still felt frightened. This is... .Respectable!
Thinking of "decent", Sun Enbao almost burst into tears.
Like Wang Kui of Daozhou, he was born as a Jinshi and had to pay a lot of "official rent" to become the prefect of Chenzhou. The prefect is much more expensive than a prefect of scattered states. In order to buy this job, he But he owed a large amount of debt to Beijing, and the "lease period" of this prefect was only three years.
The so-called "three years to clean up the prefecture, one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver" does not take into account the cost. If the cost is included, he must be careful and greedy, and he must not be burdened with Ding You, or a disaster like the civil commotion, in order to earn ten thousand to twenty thousand snowflakes of silver. .Normally, those Han Jinshi who passed the examination and did not rank high in the palace examination had been ups and downs in the officialdom for twenty or thirty years, and finally made tens of thousands of taels of silver and landed safely, returned to their hometowns as officials, and were considered extremely successful.
And what Sun Enbao is facing now is not an ordinary natural disaster or civil commotion, but tens of thousands of life-threatening Taiping troops... "Master Sun, it can't be done, we can't hold on... Run away, keep the green hills, don't worry about running out of firewood!"
The person who came into Sun Enbao's ear and spoke tremblingly was the most powerful "Master Huang" in Chenzhou, named Chen Qishu. Like Huang Shijie, he was also a regimental leader who was loyal to the Qing Dynasty and recited the "Anti-Jing".
Sun Enbao turned back and glared at Chen Qishu: "You are the one who left the green hills without fear of running out of firewood, right? You are not a minister of the land, and you still have 800 regiments in hand. When you go to Saitang, you will have to be a candidate for the county magistrate! And I ...We can only do the same as Wang Kui, escort him to Beijing and hand him over to the Ministry of Finance for discussion!"
"No, not so..." Chen Qishu didn't know how to comfort Sun Enbao, so he could only say a few words casually. Because Wang Kueyi's fate was already there!
He is a defender who has lost his duty, and he does not have an army that truly belongs to him, so what good fruit is there to eat? Although Huang Shijie won the alternate magistrate, and Zhang Dingxiang won the guerrilla, their boss Wang Kuiyi was killed by Sai Shang'a He took the blame and sent a bullet to Xianfeng.
Old Sai was kind-hearted and thought that Wang Kui would be exiled to Xinjiang as soon as possible, so he wrote the bullet in a polite manner without adding insult to injury.
But when Xianfeng saw that Daozhou had fallen, he lost Ningyuan, Jianghua, Yongming, Xintian, Lanshan, Guanyang and other counties. He also asked the Taiping Army to invade Guangdong and surround Lianzhou City. Longyan was furious and directly surrendered to Wang. Kui Yi issued a message: "Go to Beijing and hand it over to the Ministry for discussion." In the current situation of losing troops and losing ground, is it still possible to negotiate a settlement with the Ministry?
That must be serious and severe. This is the attitude of wanting to go to Caishikou!
The name of Daozhou is "zhou", which is actually a scattered state, that is, a state that belongs to a prefecture or a Zhili prefecture, and is slightly larger than a county. Chenzhou City is a prefectural city! After the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Qing Dynasty had not yet Lost the Fucheng! The Yong'an Prefecture City, Quanzhou City, and Daozhou City that fell before were all the prefecture cities of Sanzhou. The prefecture city of Guiyang Prefecture may have been lost, but it was only the prefecture city of Zhili Prefecture. , and Chenzhou City is a prefectural city.
As the first defender of Diufucheng, Sun Enbao was still not allowed to go to Caishikou with Wang Kui to keep company?
Thinking of this, Sun Enbao let out a long sigh: "Forget it, forget it... I'm already old. I still have to submit to the Ministry for discussion, I have to lock people in Beijing, I have to deal with all kinds of extortion, I have to sell my property and borrow money everywhere to raise money." Money is needed to repay the debts of those Eight Banners disciples to the King of Hell! Why bother? It’s nothing more than death! I die to repay the king when I’m in trouble... If I die, the court will have to give me a grand burial, and the creditor will have to admit that he is unlucky and suffer bad debts. , you can’t force the loyal family members to pay debts, right?
I, if I die, a hundred will be lost, a hundred will be lost..."
As he spoke, Sun Enbao turned around and staggered towards the bottom of the tower.
Chen Qishu hurriedly followed him, with two traces of tears streaming down his round, yellow face: "My lord, my lord..., don't forget to leave a legacy to the long live Lord! You will be loyal and loyal in no time, and you can help your descendants." Please show me your grace. Also...
"I understand, I understand..." Sun Enbao nodded, "Bowen, I know the rules...I will speak for you on the funeral!" When he said this, he suddenly gritted his teeth and said in a bitter voice: "You have to do something for me! My old family member Sun Fugui is a slave of Prince Zheng's palace in the capital. He is the worst thing... kill him!"
"Okay!" Chen Qishu nodded and readily agreed. Of course he understood what was going on?
The creditors who lent Beijing debts were all Eight Banners dignitaries. In order to ensure that they could recover the Beijing debts, they would usually send servants from the government to follow the "official white laborers", teach them to be corrupt, and help them to be corrupt... Of course, this The slaves who help the dog are even more greedy, and they dare to take any money! Once something happens, it will be the "officials who work for nothing", no, it should be the "officials who work for nothing".
Sun Fugui, who followed Sun Enbao, was particularly greedy. Not only did he teach Sun Enbao how to be greedy, but he also used the name of Mr. Sun's family to reach out and take any money... which made Sun Enbao miserable. A "rented official" ” “Officials are in vain”, with such a thing around, how disgusting it is, I hate it so much!
Sun Enbao didn't know how many times he wanted to get rid of this maggot attached to the bone, but where did he dare in the past? But now... he has nothing to be afraid of. He has already died to repay the king, so he can't just do it for the people. What about eradicating harm? Although he himself is also an official who harms the people!
As he walked down the city, he was still mumbling: "I really want to be a good official, I really want to be a good official, but they don't allow it, they don't allow it..."
Chen Qishu followed Sun Enbao, the big corrupt official. Looking at his back and listening to his mumbling, he felt a little dazed for a moment, as if that person was not Sun Enbao but Chen Qishu... No, he would not end up like this. , He has soldiers! Chen Qishu suddenly touched the "Anti-Jing" in his arms, and then the roar of artillery fire suddenly sounded in his ears!
"Boom boom boom boom..."
Chapter completed!