Chapter 577: Die or Die
Wu Mazi really wanted his subordinates to know his name, because since he was beaten to the point of being defeated, the name "Wu Yishui" was no longer known. To this day, except for a limited number of old brothers, there are very few people who know the name Wu Yishui.
Wu Yishui was used to becoming Wu Mazi himself, and Wu Mazi was also used to becoming Mazi himself. When he was in Daqiao Mountain, Wu Mazi was a very low-key person, so low-key that Zhou Shi didn't have a deep impression of him, and he always thought he had died in battle. If Ge Yi hadn't talked about his former brothers with Zhou Shixiang once, I'm afraid Wu Mazi wouldn't be known to Zhou Shixiang.
Now, this bandit man who was almost forgotten by Zhou Shixiang is about to lead his remaining three or four hundred subordinates to fight the Qing army. At this moment, Wu Mazi hopes that his subordinates can know his name.
"The brothers fought happily in this battle. Now they are dead, and there is no regret. The family is under the supervision of the general, and there is nothing they can't let go. When they joined the Taiping Army, no brothers were ready to die. Nowadays, those who are greedy for the knife will not live long. Even if they want to live, they have to see if God will give him a way out."
Guo Kui, a Qianhu, who was born in the Anti-Qing Yishima in Guangdong, was actually a scholar. In addition to the Grand Marshal Zhou Shixiang, the only military officer in the old four towns was born in the scholar. Like Zhou Shixiang, Guo Xiucai was not like a scholar. After years of fighting and staying with the big-headed soldiers for many years, even the Jinshi master was full of blood. Even the top scholar, I am afraid he would have to hang the Three-character Classic every day. In the Chongzhen Dynasty, the commander Yuan just said and cursed. No matter what scholar you are, if you stay in the military camp for a long time, you will naturally have a bad temper and a violent personality.
Guo Kui is a scholar, but he has never had the word retreat or fear in the dictionary of the scholar. He wants to take revenge. In the Taiping Army, Zhou Shixiang was definitely not the only one who lost his parents, wife and children. Under the hatred of the family and the country, there are more people who are willing to endure the bloodlessness, and even less people who are bloody and fight with the bloodyness.
"Sir, brothers are still capable and can still follow you!"
Guo Kui led his subordinates to gather around Wu Mazi, looking firmly at the slope. There was no fear in his eyes, but on the contrary, he was expecting.
"If I don't die, I will lead you to do it and kill you."
Wu Mazi nodded and said to his subordinates who gathered with various weapons: "Brothers, we have tried our best. If you really lose this battle, I can't blame any of you. When the Qing army comes up later, I'm afraid many of you will fall, but don't worry, I will fight you until the last moment."
Three or four hundred soldiers covered in blood did not speak, but looked at Wu Mazi silently. After a moment, a voice sounded: "Sir, I am not afraid of death! I joined the Taiping Army that day to be able to have food to eat. Later, the general told us that we are Han people, so our Taiping Army is not fighting for food to have food to eat, but fighting for the Han people in the world without being enslaved by foreign races in Manzhou. If we do not resist, we Han people will be over. Therefore, we must fight like a man, even if we die, we must fall on the road of advance, rather than on the road of retreat."
"I came to join the army, and my whole family supported me. The Taiping Army arrived in our village and distributed the land for my family. My family was taken care of by my company. I had two brothers under me. One of them died, and someone would continue the incense of the Wang family." A young soldier with two fingers broken with his left hand smiled sadly.
A soldier hesitated for a moment and finally plucked up the courage to ask loudly: "Sir, if we die, will the Grand Marshal send our bodies to our hometown and to our relatives? I am from Guangdong, and I am afraid of being a lonely ghost in Guangxi. My family's ancestral tombs are buried at the east end of the village, and my father is buried there. I cannot accompany him before my lifetime. After death, I will always bury his grave at his grave and take care of him day and night."
This question seems to have asked many people's hearts. The Han people pay attention to returning to their roots and burying them on the tombs of their ancestors after death. This is due to the national spirit and is also a kind of inheritance. The Han people value blood inheritance, family inheritance, and national inheritance. Filial piety is one of the core of this inheritance.
"Don't worry, even if I die, the Grand Marshal will definitely send us back to his hometown! Not only you, but every brother who fell here can return to his hometown! I, Wu Yishui, promise you that everyone in the A Brigade of the Fourth Town will not become a lonely ghost!"
Wu Mazi looked moved. He thought of his hometown and his hometown that had long been empty. After his death, can his soul return to his hometown?
"Okay, I'll die with the Lord!" The soldier who asked about this question smiled miserably, turned around and said to his companions: "We are all from the same place, so many brothers are dead, and we are the only ones who are left with us. Since there is someone to take care of our affairs, everyone will die here. There is nothing to regret."
A soldier smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Even if I were to survive, I would not have the shame to go back to my hometown. Zhuzi and his parents asked, what do you want me to say?"
After hearing this, my companions around me felt sore and had no words to say. There were more than twenty people coming out of a village, and now there were only six left. No one was feeling well.
A soldier who was shot with an arrow on his left leg laughed, raised the spear in his hand in mid-air, and shouted: "My whole family was slaughtered by the Qing army. The purpose of joining the army is to avenge his parents and sisters. Today, the officials do not run away, but instead take us to fight with the Qing army to the end. My life is worth it! Brothers, stop talking about anything, just say one thing, I wish to die with the general!"
"I wish to die with the general!"
Three or four hundred Taiping soldiers yelled from the bottom of their hearts, and no one retreated or hesitated. At this moment, death was the only choice they could make.
"I wish to die with the general!"
Guo Kui's voice was also heroic.
Then let’s die together!
Wu Mazi took a breath and slowly lifted the long sword that had cut many holes into the air, pointing hard towards the Qing soldiers who rushed up like a tide below the slope.
"kill!"
As Wu Mazi fell down, the shouts of killing sounded again on Xiaobei Mountain. And just seven or eight miles away from this place, half an hour ago, more than two thousand soldiers of the Qi family lined up in an orderly line, holding wolf fairies, muskets, and short swords slowly stepped towards the Qing army opposite under the guidance of the "Qi" flag and the town flag. With the call and flags, the formation formed by more than two thousand soldiers stopped, and stopped about two miles away from the Qing army.
Chapter completed!