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Chapter 364 Shikai is not a butcher
Jia Liu was eager to resolve the battle, not because he was afraid that Shu Hede would come to claim credit, but because he was worried that Shu Hede would order the massacre of the city.

As soon as Qianlong's central government's highest characterization of "If you don't resist, you will go against it", it undoubtedly opened the Pandora's box and completely loosened the moral bottom line of the Qing army.

In addition, Jia Liu is a living example of the prime minister who was dismissed for preventing the massacre. It is certain that once Linqing City is breached, tens of thousands of innocent people in the city will be slaughtered.

This time, no one will stand up and order the knife to be sealed.

In order to avoid the tragedy, Jia Liu could only take down Linqing City before Shu Hede arrived and when he, the laid-off prime minister, still had some power.

Getting people to persuade them to surrender was not to give Wang Lun a way out, but to give the thousands of ever-victorious troops a way out, and it was also a way out for the tens of thousands of people in the city.

Although he was mentally prepared for Wang Lun's refusal to surrender, Jia Liu's heart still ached when Wang Lun ordered people to hang up banners on the top of the city wall that read "Mountains and rivers are on the brink of China, the sun and the moon will reopen the Great Han Dynasty". a bit.

He is familiar with this pattern, the slogan of the Red Scarf Army uprising in the late Mongolian Yuan Dynasty.

Wang Lun changed one, "Song" to "Han".

The complexity of the heart is like the couplet that the bandits hung on the blockhouse back then, "Dai Fa is loyal on the 100,000th, representing the people of the seventeen dynasties of the Taizu; [-] people are united in righteousness, and save the Ming Dynasty for three hundred miles".

On the top of the city, looking at the Qing army outside the city who were preparing to siege the city, Wang Lun changed his royal clothes and put on the doctor's clothes he used to treat patients in the early years. Looking at the endless sky, he put his hands together He looked at his congregation with great devotion both above and below the city and chanted: "Home in a vacuum, without parents. Kill the Qing and kill the Hu, and the sun and the moon will come back! There is a saint in my heart, protect my home!"

"There is a saint in my heart, protect my home!"

The ever-victorious army composed of thousands of Qingshui sect members roared in unison.

Their weapons were poor, and their situation was dangerous, but when the leader appeared in front of them, their morale, which was originally low, was suddenly revived.

What he saw in front of his eyes and what he heard in his ears made Jia Liu have to face up to the combat effectiveness of the ever-victorious army again.

He knows that faith can be added infinitely.

It can be predicted that even after the city is broken, what greets the Qing army will inevitably be extremely brutal street fighting.

Jia Liu glanced at Fan Wei, the military adviser beside him, who sighed slightly and shook his head.

It seems to be saying that there is no way not to die.

"Siege!"

Jia Liu issued a siege order.

With the sound of the horn, Shandong Green Camp, Zhili Green Camp, Hedao Green Camp, Eight Banners Forbidden Army, Sauron outside the customs, and Mongolian cavalry rushed towards Linqing City according to the pre-war deployment.

The morale is high and the fighting spirit is strong.

Especially those officers who led the troops, each of them seemed extremely active, and they were completely different from the way they were defeated when they met the enemy in the past.

Because, an hour ago, they got a secret order that after the city was broken, the treasury and silver would be divided equally.

The premise is that no random killing is allowed.

All the consequences will be borne by Master Jia Jia alone.

After knowing about this matter, Yang Jingsu, the Zhili chief envoy, had the good intentions to persuade Shi Kai's virtuous brother that he might be impeached by the imperial censor for this move, and the emperor would pursue it. It was also an angry rebuke from the emperor, and even a complete dismissal from office.

"Ning Chaotang called me domineering, and Emperor Ning accused me of excessive rewards, and the Shandong people would not call me Jia Jia Shikai a butcher!"

After hesitating for a while after saying this, Jia Liu finally whispered to the elders in the meeting: "Shikai's ancestors were also Han people. Although he is Manchuria today, he really can't bear to slaughter the Han people to get promoted. If the people in this city can be preserved, even if they are sent to the frontier, they will feel at ease."

Yang Jingsu stood there in a daze and didn't say anything for a long time.

After a bombardment, the besieging Qing army reached the city wall.

Jia Liu did not choose to continue to consume the Qing army this time, but directly ordered Zamur to lead the team to blow open the city gate.

After the same loud noise, the north gate of Linqing City was blown down, and the prepared Qing army jumped up from the ground and swarmed up along the collapsed city wall.

As Jia Liu expected, fierce street fighting broke out.

The Changsheng Army relied on the streets and alleys and solid residential buildings to resist. Although the Qing army was equipped with advanced equipment and used muskets and bows to shoot and kill the Changsheng Army, but under the tenacious resistance of the Changsheng Army, they failed to break the city for half an hour. achieve great success.

Seeing this situation, even if he was reluctant, Jia Liu had no choice but to order the fire.

Fires quickly ignited everywhere in the city, and the hot weather coupled with the scorching flames finally forced the persevering Ever Victorious Army to retreat into the city.

Some of the ever-victorious troops retreated to their houses and were surrounded by the Qing army and still refused to surrender. The Qing soldiers set fire to the house until the house was completely burned, and none of the Qingshui sect members inside came out to surrender.

Shandong Commander-in-Chief Wei Wei heard that Wang Lun might be hiding in a certain big pawnshop, so Wei Wei, who was determined to capture and kill Wang Lun, personally led hundreds of officers and soldiers to search for the big pawn shop here.

As a result, more than [-] Qingshui sect members stood firm here and fought hard against the Qing army. There were even more than a dozen women fighting the Qing army with sticks and hoes.

Under the onslaught of the traitor Yan Fengyuan, the big pawnshop still fell, and all the Qingshui sect guards were killed, but Wang Lun was not found, only Wang Lun's younger brother Wang Zhu was found in the body.

When Jia Liu was wearing armor and advancing towards the city surrounded by his personal guards, a member of the Qingshui sect suddenly jumped off a roof that had been burned into a shelf, rushed towards Jia Liu with a knife, and was beaten to death on the spot.

Jia Liu was a little startled by this attack method, so he stopped going deep and set up a front-line headquarters on the spot to urge all ministries to eliminate the remaining enemies in the city.

As the street fighting progressed, the Changsheng Army and the Qing Army competed for every street and every house.Except for Sauron's soldiers and Changwei's army, the hand-to-hand combat capabilities of the rest of the Qing army were mediocre, and they were even killed by the Changsheng army.

However, although the Qing army suffered heavy casualties, the Changsheng army fell into a situation of fighting on its own. Without a unified command, they were destined to be wiped out one by one by the Qing army.

"My lord, according to the testimony of the people, Wang Ni lives in a mansion with the surname Wang in the city!"

Jia Liu, who was sweating profusely, heard the information and immediately shouted: "Debu, Yingjitu!"

"The end is here!"

Two will be dequeued at the same time.

"Order the two of you to lead the army to attack Wang's house quickly, and make sure to capture and kill the thief against Wang Lun!"

"Whoo!"

Without saying a word, Debu and Yingjitu led the troops to hurry to the Wang family's mansion. When they arrived, they found that the mansion was very large, and there was a small five-story building in the yard.

Since there were many Qingshui sect members gathered outside the gate, after Yingjitu discussed with Deb, he led a dozen people to climb in through the courtyard wall, hoping to capture Wang Lun alive while the Qingshui sect's attention was attracted to the gate.

Because Yingjitu didn't recognize Wang Lun, Liu Huan, the former deputy marshal of the Changsheng Army who surrendered, sneaked in with him.

After the Qing soldiers climbed over the wall, they first beheaded several members of the Qingshui sect who found them, and then rushed directly to the courtyard. Not long after, they really found out that the traitor Wang Lun was discussing something with them.

Before Wang Lun could react, Yingjitu and the others charged up and cut down a few bandits, and grabbed Wang Lun.But when they were about to retreat, dozens of Qingshui disciples rushed out from the hatchback and rescued Wang Lun.

Unwilling to be reconciled to his success, Yingjitu ran away and led his men to fight with the Qingshui Cultists. As a result, he scuffled with Meng Can, the thief marshal who arrived on the ground. In the end, Yingjitu was stabbed in the throat by Meng Can with a dagger.

Liu Huan and others saw that Ying's guard died in battle, they dared not love to fight, and hurriedly escaped over the wall.

"what?!"

Knowing that Yingjitu was killed in battle, Jia Liu felt sad and took off his hat and vowed to avenge Yingjitu.

(End of this chapter)