The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 125 The Courage to Jump off a Building (asking for monthly tickets)

"Grow long hair!"

"It's over, it's over!"

"Woo."

Just when Jin Aduo was feeling creepy, the three Eight Banners soldiers who were hiding with him on the upper floor started shouting and screaming, and one of the timid ones was so scared that he started crying.

Why are you so worried? Are you doing justice to your ancestors?
Jin Aduo thought: "I can't be like them. My surname is Aixinjueluo, and my ancestor is Prince Deyu, the regent. I have to die like a hero!"

"Taiping Army Zhu Ba is here, kill the Qing monsters and go to heaven"

Just when Jin Aduo wanted to die like a man, his chance came. Because he was near the stairs, he was the first to see a limping strong man holding a spear with a "blood flag" hanging on it.

The flag is “blood-red, blood-red”. How many people had to be killed and how much blood had to be sucked to dye it like this?

Jin Aduo was so scared that he turned pale!
Then, he saw a terrifying "bull face" in the darkness! It had a high forehead, an extremely long chin, large ears, a thick beard, a bloody face, a "bull nose", and a pair of horns on its head!
"Oh my god, Bull Demon King!" Jin Aduo screamed and threw the shotgun in his hand that had just been loaded with ammunition towards Zhu Ba. Then he rushed to a window like a fly, jumped out of the window, and jumped off the building from a high place!
When Zhu Ba saw the armed Eight Banners soldier, he was also startled. He thought he was going to shoot him, but he threw the gun at him and then disappeared. He quickly caught it, put down his rifle, and went upstairs with the shotgun.

The three Eight Banners soldiers upstairs were even more desperate now - here came the Bull Demon King with a musket.
While the three of them were in a daze, Zhu Ba raised the shotgun in his hand, aimed at a fat Eight Banners soldier and fired a shot. With a "bang", it hit the man right in the head. The gunshot was so loud that the man's head was shattered, and the broken stuff splattered everywhere.

"Good gun!" Zhu Ba looked down at the matchlock gun in his hand. It was exquisitely made and one could tell at a glance that it was no ordinary item.

After praising him, he put the musket on his back and then drew out a saber - this was Yin Lipei's saber, and it was also a good one, polished to a shine and gleaming with cold light.

There are still two Eight Banners soldiers left in this building. They are both part of the imperial guards, and they belonged to the White Armor Soldiers two hundred years ago!
But these two "late Qing Dynasty white armors" were so smoked that they could hardly walk. Seeing Zhu Ba so brave, how could they have any fighting spirit? One of them, who was more agile, wanted to jump off the building like Jin Aduo. He climbed to the window tremblingly and wanted to jump down, but he saw a group of Taiping soldiers walking in from the downstairs. He would die if he jumped down!

Just when he didn't know how to survive, Zhu Ba had already arrived in front of him, stabbed his kidney with a sharp knife, then twisted it, and then pulled it out. It was like a white knife in, a red knife out, and the Eight Banners soldier's kidney, stomach, intestines, and liver were all twisted. He vomited blood and could not survive.

The remaining Eight Banners soldier had collapsed on the ground, and he felt a wet and warm sensation in his lower body. He must have been scared to death.

Zhu Ba would not let him off, and with a sharp knife in his hand, he stabbed him in the neck, cutting the artery. Blood spurted out as the knife drew out, and the man cried out in pain. He even wanted to cover his mouth with his hands, but how could he cover it? A moment later, he died in a pool of blood.

Zhu Ba looked around and found that there was no Eight Banners soldier left in the shop. He also heard his subordinates shouting from downstairs: "Lecturer Zhu, how is it upstairs?"

Zhu Ba recognized the man's voice and said with a smile, "Yuchun, you are too late. There are six Eight Banner soldiers here. One escaped through a broken window, one jumped off a building, and I asked you to kill the rest!"

After saying that, he quickly walked to the stairs, picked up the rifle with the red flag hanging on it, then walked to a window facing the street, stretched out the red flag out of the window, inserted the other end of the rifle into the gap in the floor, and pulled over a chair to press down the barrel of the rifle.

The first red flag finally flew over Huangdao Street.

Zhu Ba was not the only Taiping warrior who seized the house and planted the flag. As soon as Li Shixian's order was given, the Taiping soldiers who were suppressed by the bullets and bombs fired from the buildings on both sides of the street immediately reacted. They stood up and launched a charge despite the enemy's random bullets.

In an instant, fierce fighting broke out in hundreds of buildings on both sides of Huangdao Street! Screams, exclamations, curses, cheers, cries, the collision of weapons, the firing of muskets, and the sound of thunder mixed together.

In close combat and on a narrow road, only the brave can survive!
Red flags appeared one after another from the shops on both sides of Huangdao Street, dancing in the wind, proclaiming the bravery and fearlessness of the Taiping Army.

Shouts of "Kill the Qing demons, go to heaven" and "Kill the Qing demons, divide the land" echoed back and forth on the long street, soon completely covering up the "crackling" sound of bullets. The battle on Huangdao Street had not yet ended, but the two brigades of the First and Second Armies of the Taiping Army, led by the two fierce generals Li Kaifang and Lin Fengxiang, had already rushed into the open Huangdao Gate like wolves and tigers.

With the arrival of the Taiping Army's follow-up troops, the battle on Huangdao Street soon became one-sided.

Li and Lin led the most powerful Guangxi brothers in the Taiping Army! In history, they once marched all the way north, heading straight for Tianjin City. If the troops were not too weak and the equipment was not enough, the Qing Dynasty would probably have died decades earlier.

Now they are not in the freezing cold north where they can ride on galloping war horses, but are fighting in the streets of Changsha City. Moreover, we are outnumbered and the enemy is outnumbered. How can a mere few hundred weak young men from the capital city be able to defeat us?
Of course, not all the Eight Banners soldiers under Shengbao were weak, and there were some strong and brave men among them. For example, Duolong'a, who was born in the bitter cold land of Heilongjiang and practiced martial arts and archery since childhood, was not so easy to deal with.

He joined the Vanguard Battalion at the age of sixteen, and has been a soldier for more than ten years. He has been promoted to the rank of Vanguard Colonel and is also well-known for his bravery among the Beijing Banner troops. Prince Gong knew that he was very capable, so he added him to Shengbao's Southern Expedition Army as a musket captain. Today, his men are stationed in six shops near the end of Huangdao Street. In one wave of the Taiping Army's attack, two shops were lost and twelve people were killed. It was really sharp!
However, he killed all five Taiping soldiers who attacked a shop where he was stationed! Afterwards, he led his men to rescue the Eight Banners soldiers in three shops in succession, killing eleven people in total. He was truly a real Baturu!
Bai Siwen and Wenxiang were also quite brave, and the shop they worked in was not taken by the Taiping Army. Although they did not have the martial arts of Duolong'a, they were good at using foreign guns and had a life-saving trump card - a flintlock pistol!
Relying on the firepower of two flintlock pistols each, they both led their men to repel the attacking Taiping Army, and both made gains. Bai Siwen killed two people, Wen Xiang killed one and also killed another together with his Eight Banners soldiers. He could be considered a "Ten Times" Baturu!
However, no matter how brave they were, they could only temporarily defend a corner of Huangdao Street. It was undoubtedly a daydream to want to stop the Taiping Army that was coming like a tide.

The change happened so quickly that Shengbao, who was sitting on the tower of Huangdao Gate, could only watch without being able to react.

"How is this possible?" Shengbao's mind went blank, and he could only mutter to himself, "How is it possible that he was fine just now, how is he now..."

Just as he was panicking and at a loss, the old man who had just advised him to close the city gate came up again, trembling: "Master Sheng, it's bad! Another wave of Taiping troops is entering the city!"

"Another, another wave?" Shengbao was already confused, "Close the city gate quickly!"

"It's too late! Our people can't get down anymore."

"Release the sluice gate!"

"Yes!" The old soldier responded and shouted, "Quickly release the gate!" Then he said to Sheng Bao, "Sir Sheng, there are already two or three thousand Taiping troops entering the city, and the Eight Banners soldiers on Huangdao Street... Alas, the Gansu and Shaanxi Green Camps have also suffered heavy losses. The Huangdao Gate can't be defended. Putting down the gate can only resist a little! Please move to Derun Gate."

"What?" Shengbao staggered, "Huang, Huang Daomen can't be defended?"

"Can't hold on"

As if to confirm what he said, shouts of "Kill the Qing monsters and go to heaven" were heard from the horse paths on both sides of the Huangdao Gate Tower.

There were only five hundred Gansu and Shaanxi Green Camp soldiers at Huangdao Gate. How could they stop two or three thousand Taiping troops?

Shengbao's eyes went dark and he almost fainted. The old lieutenant general and one of Shengbao's goshas hurriedly went over to support him.

"Help, help me to the parapet." Shengbao said in a trembling voice.

"Master Sheng, what are you doing at the battlement?"

"I, I want to jump off the city wall! I, Shengbao, feel guilty towards my ancestors and the emperor, and I want to die to atone for my sins."

You don't have to jump off a building to atone for your sins with your death. Can't you just draw your sword and kill yourself?
The old lieutenant general was very experienced and understood the situation. He shouted, "Oh no! Lord Sheng is going to jump off the building to die with his life in the city. Come here quickly, carry Lord Sheng and retreat quickly. If we don't retreat, the Taiping rebels will come to the city!"

The Gansu and Shaanxi Green Camp soldiers on the city gate had been waiting for the order to retreat, and they rushed forward immediately. Shengbao even pretended to struggle for a few times, and then hundreds of people protected him and led him along the city wall to Derun Gate.
(End of this chapter)