Anti-Qing: Starting from the Reincarnation of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 73 Dong’an Massacre (12)

The smile on He Zijing's face was hypocritical like a smiling tiger, and he said with a smile.

"The old gentleman looks good. I believe that the old gentleman will have the opportunity to serve the imperial court in the future."

He Zijing thought about it. Later, he would lead his men to kill his whole family, use his family's money to reward the army, and distribute his family's female relatives to the soldiers to enjoy, in order to boost the morale of the army and ensure that the victory over the thieves would go smoothly. .

It should be considered that he contributed to the Qing Dynasty, right?
But Xu Shaoding failed to sense the malice in He Zijing and just continued with a smile.

"No, no, no."

"Now that I am really old, I have no hope of taking the imperial examination anymore. If I take the exam again, I might die on the way to Beijing to take the exam."

"When you reach the age of old age, you should educate your children and grandchildren well and let them read more books so that they can take part in the imperial examinations and serve the Qing Dynasty. This is the right thing to do!"

The expression on He Zijing's face remained unchanged, he just curled his lips and spoke.

"What a great idea, sir..."

Obviously, as a vulgar martial artist, He Zijing did not have much favorable impressions of scholars.

Soon, the hot water and meals needed by the Qing army were prepared in Dong'an Town, and even the Qing army's camp outside Dong'an Town was set up.

The strong men in Dong'an Town were busy inside and outside, trying their best to please the Qing soldiers who looked at them with green eyes.

They are afraid that these soldiers will harm their hometown!

Not long after, the main force of the Qing army led by Gao Sheng also arrived in Dong'an Town.

Looking at the army with no end in sight, Xu Shaoding was filled with shock. After coming to his senses, he hurriedly ran forward to please Dao.

"I pay my respects to the Admiral."

"May your official career be smooth for a hundred generations, Lord Admiral..."

Gao Sheng glanced at Xu Shaoding who was kneeling in front of his horse, narrowed his eyes, and said.

"I have received intelligence and suspect that there are bandits hiding in Dong'an Town, and that the upper and lower ranks of Dong'an Town are colluding with Ming thieves and rebelling against the Qing Dynasty."

"Come here, capture this person immediately and start interrogating him severely."

"Send another military order and ask the soldiers to immediately control all the wealthy gentry in the town. They must pry open their mouths and get evidence of their collusion with the Ming thieves."

This kind of order typically means that you have to give in and be beaten.

As for telling the truth?
That doesn't matter, no one cares.

After a slight pause, Gao Sheng continued.

"I will then send an order for soldiers from all departments to take turns to enter the town to search for the traitors and spies. We must not let any of the bandits escape."

"have you understood?"

Gao Sheng didn't have He Zijing's bad taste, so he and Xu Shaoding teased Menzi.

As soon as they arrived in Dong'an Town, they immediately ordered the Qing army to attack Dong'an Town.

When the surrounding Qing generals heard this, they responded in unison with excitement!
When Xu Shaoding heard this, a trace of obvious astonishment flashed across his face at first, but he immediately reacted and kowtowed and begged for mercy.

"Junmen, why would Junmen say this!"

"Please also ask the military sect for a clear lesson. Everyone in Dong'an Town is loyal to the court and will never collude with Ming thieves!"

"When we found out that the imperial army's army to suppress thieves had arrived in Dong'an Town, we took the initiative to prepare food and grass for the army and rewarded it with wine and meat."

"He even contributed people to help the army build forts and prepare food and hot water. How could he be in league with the rebels?"

"Please give the military a clear warning!"

Hearing this, Gao Sheng sneered disdainfully and then spoke.

"What you said is not important!"

"The important thing is that I said you were a rebel, and you are!"

"Understood?!"

After saying this, he rode away and gave instructions to his bodyguard, Goshiha.

"Solve it clean!"

When Xu Shaoding heard this, his eyes were full of humiliation and anger, and a strong sense of powerlessness instantly surged into his heart, making the expression on his face become a little distorted.

Because he knew that Dong'an Town was finished, the Xu family was finished, and he was finished too!
Before he could say anything more, he felt the back of his head tighten.

He was grabbed by the braid by the highly promoted Goshiha, and his head was pulled back, exposing his neck.

Puff!
Xu Shaoding felt a chill in his throat, and someone wiped his neck with a knife.

A large amount of blood rushed out of his veins like a fountain, spraying everywhere.

Xu Shaoding's body collapsed on the ground, and there was a roaring sound in his throat. His blood gradually turned cold, and he gradually lost his voice and turned into a corpse.

The highly-promoted Goshiha shook off the blood on his long sword, sheathed it, and then followed his footsteps and rushed into Dong'an Town.

Grab things when you see them, kill people when you see them!

……

My wife was busy cooking in front of the stove, and the smell of rice filled the air.

The husband was chopping firewood outside the courtyard wall with an axe.

The children chased each other around the yard with sticks and played together.

The elderly man with limited mobility was sitting on the bed in the house, listening to the children's play, with a smile that couldn't be hidden on his face.

The big yellow dog that had been raised for six or seven years was lying at the door of the house, wagging its tail listlessly.

The family's life is ordinary and peaceful.

The meal was almost done, and the wife straightened up, ready to call her husband and children to come and eat.

"The heads of the family, Dabao and Xiaobao, are all here for dinner."

"Mom and dad, please wait a moment, I will bring it to you later..."

However, as soon as she finished speaking, she saw her big yellow dog suddenly stood up and faced outside the courtyard wall, baring its teeth in a defensive posture.

A dangerous and low roar came from his throat.

"Wow woof! woof woof! woof woof!"

Immediately afterwards, her husband's questioning voice sounded from the courtyard wall.

"Who are you?"

But as soon as the voice of inquiry appeared, there was a scream.

"Run quickly, the rebels are coming!"

Before he fell to the ground, the husband yelled at the top of his lungs into the courtyard wall, trying to remind his wife to take the children and run away.

But only halfway through what he said, he felt another sharp pain in his chest.

A long knife pierced his heart, and blood spurted all over the heads and faces of the Qing soldiers in front of him.

This Qing soldier looked even more ferocious with his face covered in blood.

His eyes were full of greed and cruelty.

At the same time, a large number of Qing soldiers also poured into the courtyard.

When the seven or eight-year-old boy saw this scene, he was so frightened that he screamed, but in the next moment, he was shot through the body and nailed to the ground.

When the child's mother saw this, she screamed in horror.

But she was pushed to the ground by several rebel soldiers, who started to pick off her clothes.

The sound of tearing cloth was heard.

"Help, help my child, please save my child."

"Beasts, you are all beasts, you are all beasts!"

"No... don't, ah ah..."

"..."

The wife struggled desperately, but as a woman, how could she be a match for several strong soldiers?

Not long after, he was stripped naked, pressed next to his child's body and humiliated.

Even the big yellow dog was hacked to death while trying to save the savior.

The head was cut in half, and the brains were everywhere. The scene was shocking.

The old man with limited mobility in the house heard the noise outside and wanted to come out to check, but was directly hacked to death on the bed by the Qing army who rushed into the room.The warm blood dyed the patched quilt scarlet, and the smell of blood was astounding.

The Qing army killed, set fire, looted and raped wantonly in Dong'an Town. Almost every household suffered.

An elderly farmer waved his flail, trying to protect his grandchildren behind him.

But he was completely knocked away by the galloping horsemen. After falling to the ground, his bones and tendons were broken, and he vomited blood.

But he could not die for a while, and watched helplessly as his grandchildren were murdered.

Before that, his son and daughter-in-law had already suffered at the hands of the Qing army.

Even if his daughter-in-law died, her body would not escape the fate of being insulted.

Those Qing army rebels really took advantage of the heat!
Orion hid in his house, with the doors and windows closed, holding a bow and arrow and confronting the Qing troops outside the house, protecting his old mother who was paralyzed in bed.

He shot several arrows in succession through the window, and his precise arrow skills scared off many Qing troops.

"Xiaochen, go quickly, go quickly, leave mother alone."

"Mom doesn't want to drag you down!"

Yang Chen's mother said with a voice full of pleading.

She and her deceased husband only had one son, and she didn't want her son to take risks for herself.

She was afraid that if something happened to her son, the Yang family would be cut off, and she would not be able to explain to her husband when she went underground.

When Yang Chen heard this, he just shook his head vigorously.

"Mom, don't say anything. I will definitely protect you."

"We need to leave, let's go together!"

However, at this moment, the Qing army's counterattack from outside also came.

collapse!Bumble!

There was a sound of bow strings trembling as densely as raindrops.

Then there was a crackle of shotgun fire.

The thrumming sound of arrows hitting objects, and the concentrated burst of shotgun pellets on wooden furniture kept coming to mind.

Yang Chen hid under the window sill, so there was nothing wrong.

But his mother was unable to dodge because the spring was on the bed, and was hit in the chest by a shotgun pellet.

Blood spurted out immediately, and the person died immediately.

"mother!"

Yang Chen couldn't help but let out a shrill scream and threw himself at his mother.

But his mother's eyes widened, she pointed her finger outside the house, her voice was extremely weak, and she spoke tremblingly.

"Quickly... hurry up, mother is dying, please leave quickly!"

"Our Yang family can't... we can't give up, otherwise I'll be sorry for your father..."

"Chen'er, please leave quickly. If you...if you don't leave, mother...will bite her tongue and kill herself right now. She will die in front of you so as not to drag you down anymore."

When Yang Chen heard this, his eyes were about to burst, and tears poured out of his eyes as if they were free of money.

The voice gradually became choked.

"mother……"

Yang Chen's wife did not reply, but repeated tremblingly.

"Let's go...go quickly, let's go, mother doesn't want to drag you down..."

"..."

In the end, Yang Chen finally made a decision, gritted his teeth, and prepared to escape.

Because he knew that if he died here today, no one would be able to avenge his mother!

Then his mother's death would have been in vain!

He picked up a clay pot and threw it toward the front window.

While the broken window of the pottery jar attracted the attention of the Qing troops outside the house, he also climbed out of another window.

A Qing soldier saw Yang Chen climbing out of the window and shouted.

"The rebel is here and he wants to run away!"

"Fire arrows, fire blunderbuss, shoot him to death!"

"Don't let the thief get away!"

"..."

The Qing troops who reacted quickly began to shoot arrows at Yang Chen who climbed out of the window.

Fortunately, Yang Chen's body was light and he jumped up the wall in two or three steps, rolled over, and then ran away.

Yang Chen is a hunter, and the physical fitness he developed from hunting in the mountains makes him very flexible.

Soon he disappeared from the eyes of the Qing soldiers.

In the rain of arrows just now, he was only hit by one arrow.

Feeling the severe pain on his back, Yang Chen couldn't help but grinned, and the expression on his face looked a bit ferocious.

Holding his hands on the rammed earth wall, his breathing became faster and faster, and his chest seemed to be blowing bellows.

But as soon as he turned around, he saw a familiar figure.

He is Zhu Haitao, the son of a butcher in the town.

When he is a hunter, he usually gives the prey to the butcher for sale. Therefore, the relationship between the two is not bad.

Seeing that he was an acquaintance, Zhu Haitao walked over quickly, supported the pale-faced Yang Chen, and asked.

"Brother Chen, how are you doing?"

Yang Chen held back his grief, pointed at his back, and said.

"My mother died and I was hit by an arrow."

"The damn Tatars won't give us a way to survive."

"What about you, Haitao?"

Zhu Haitao grinned and said with a wry smile.

"It's gone, it's all gone. My father and mother were both killed, and my younger brothers and sisters were also murdered. I am the only one who escaped from my family."

"Brother Chen, why don't you just be patient and I can pull out the arrow for you first? It won't be a big deal if the arrow stays stuck in the wound."

Yang Chen nodded.

"Pull it!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Haitao did not hesitate and directly pulled out the arrow from Yang Chen's back.

There was a pop, and blood spurted out. Zhu Haitao said with a wry smile as he looked at the shreds of meat on the arrow.

"Luckily, there's no barb on this arrow, otherwise it wouldn't be so easy to pull out!"

The severe pain made the expression on Yang Chen's face distorted, but he did not scream.

Because the physical pain could not cover up the pain in his heart.

Yang Chen said through gritted teeth while bandaging his wounds with strips of cloth torn from his clothes.

"Haitao, I'm going to surrender!"

"Damn it, my mother was killed by those stupid Tatars in front of my eyes. I must avenge my mother."

Zhu Haitao agreed while helping Yang Chen apply the medicine.

"I will never forget the tragic situation my parents, brothers and sisters were in before they died. I also want to take revenge!"

"Brother Chen, let's go together..."

The two made up their minds and began to prepare to escape the town.

Relying on their familiarity with the environment, they really succeeded in reaching the outside of the town.

After bypassing several Qing army sentries and patrols, the two of them dived into the mountains next to the town without looking back, heading towards the direction of the Ming army.

(End of this chapter)