Late Qing Dynasty Executioner

Chapter 155: Just a Dog Slave
"Isn't it?" Liu Qing said disdainfully: "You rebels are indeed powerful, but you don't have any boats. The river is a thousand miles away. Do you still have a way to escape?"

"Escape?" Chen Gu smiled and shook his head, saying, "What a joke, why would I run away?
You know our army is strong, but do you know how strong it is?"

Chen Gu's army was undoubtedly powerful. The Tongan warships of Attis, the five hundred elite battalions of Delentang, the nine thousand troops of Lebao, the deaths of two Chengdu generals and a governor of Sichuan were enough to prove Chen Gu's strength.

But how powerful Chen Gu was and why he was so powerful, no one in the court really knew.

Addis's entire army was wiped out and no one survived. There were a few survivors from Delentang's 500 elite troops, but it was already dark and the government office was burned down by gunpowder explosion.

Even though Rong Zhao, who was still alive, was trying to escape for his life, he did not understand how powerful Chen Gu's army was. He only knew that Chen Gu's firearms were very powerful.

Some of Le Bao's thousands of troops must have escaped, but they only fought a siege battle with Chen Gu, after which the whole army was annihilated due to the fire and the explosion of the ammunition of the cannons and muskets.

Therefore, the final news received by the imperial court was just that Chen Gu's firearms were very powerful, with a fast firing rate and a long range, but it was not specific. Instead, the two fires were mentioned in particular.

This led to a certain misjudgment on the part of the imperial court, who believed that although Chen Gu was powerful, he was more of a strategist and relied on luck.

Otherwise, even if Yang Kui and Liu Qing were given a hundred courages, they would not dare to take the few remaining troops in Chengdu to Luzhou to intercept Chen Gu.

The shooting range of Chen Gu's rifle can reach two hundred meters. Because of the crosshair design, the soldiers have undergone special training and their accuracy within one hundred meters is very high.

Not to mention the Naxi River which is only 10 to 20 meters wide, even sailing on the Yangtze River which is nearly 100 meters wide at this time is very threatening to the naval soldiers. In this case, how can you stop Chen Gu from crossing the river with only two flying dragon boats and thirty or forty cannons on several large sampans?

Liu Qing naturally didn't know so many details, but seeing Chen Gu's disdainful look, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous, thinking that he and Yang Kui might have been too confident this time.

You have to know that no matter whether it is Atis, Delentang or Lebao, each of these three is a veteran general who has been through many battles. The worst of them, Atis, is the one who survived the battle to attack the Jinchuan Islands.

Delentang and Lebao have both had experience in suppressing bandits in recent years. Lebao was elected Governor-General of Sichuan last year for his meritorious service in suppressing bandits.

After Delentang had wiped out the rebels at the border of Sichuan and Shaanxi, he was on his way to Chengdu to take up the post of General of Chengdu. Because Na Yancheng had found out the culprit of the Addis incident and Delentang himself had found out the source of the rebels' bombs and detonators, he took the 500-strong battalion to Jiangjin to capture people.

It can be said that the two generals of Chengdu and the governor of Sichuan were no ordinary people, but even these three people were defeated after facing Chen Gu.

Liu Qing and Yang Kui are just pure literati. Even if they are really smart, can they definitely be better than the three veteran generals in fighting?

Liu Qing narrowed his eyes, cupped his hands and said, "It's hard to persuade a damned ghost with kind words. Since you are stubborn and unyielding, I will take my leave now!"

"Why are you panicking?" Chen Gu sneered.

"What else?" Liu Qing's heart trembled, and he said calmly, "When two armies are fighting, envoys should not be killed. Chen Gu, since you call yourselves a righteous army, don't you even follow the most basic etiquette?"

"You, the Qing court, are nothing but bloodthirsty butchers who have slaughtered tens of millions of our Han people. Even you, Liu Qing, are nothing but a fraud. Why should I talk about etiquette with you?" Chen Jue said with a cold light in his eyes. There is nothing much to say about the Ten Days of Yangzhou, the Three Massacres of Jiading, the Eighty-one Days of Jiangyin, the Massacre of Datong, the Guangzhou Massacre, and the Sichuan Massacre. Liu Qing did not want to argue about this.

But Liu Qing refused to accept the charge of deceiving the world and stealing the reputation, so he said angrily: "I have been an honest official all my life, and the people of East Sichuan have witnessed it, and the civil and military officials in the court know it. How can you, Chen Gu, slander me!"

"Slander! Let me ask you, where is Wang Sanhuai now?" Chen Jue sneered, "You pretended to persuade Wang Sanhuai to surrender, but allowed Le Bao to slaughter the rebels. Wang Sanhuai even ended up being executed by slow slicing. And you still say that you are not a fraud?"

Speaking of Wang Sanhuai, Liu Qing knew that he was in the wrong, but in Liu Qing's opinion, this matter should not be blamed on him, "Le Bao is the governor, and I was just a prefect at the time, how dare I disobey him?"

"Yes, as a governor, how dare you, Liu Qing, disobey the will? So you just watched the rebels being slaughtered, and Wang Sanhuai was escorted to Beijing and executed by slow slicing. The Manchu court was even more powerful, and you, Liu Qing, dared not disobey the will? So you just watched the Han people starve to death and have no clothes to wear.

But." Chen Jue said with a grim expression: "But these do not prevent you from being loyal to the Qing court, nor do they prevent you from being promoted to the Sichuan Provincial Surveillance Commissioner by stepping on the corpses of the rebels and Wang Sanhuai.

You have been honest all your life, but to me, you are nothing but a servile dog slave. All the books of sages you have read in your life have gone into the dog's stomach.

Do you know what it means that a merchant woman knows not the sorrow of losing her country, and still sings the song of Hou Ting Hua across the river? "

When Chen Gu said this, Liu Qing almost vomited blood. He pointed at Chen Gu and said, "You~, you~!" But he didn't know how to refute.

Bai Wencheng, Bian Shichun and others were all very upset. Chen Gu's words naturally included those who had the title of scholar.

On the contrary, the people from the Buddhist treasure family looked excited.

"Don't you want to see how powerful our army is?" Chen Gu sneered, "I won't kill you for now. I will let you see how our army crosses the river. Not only will I take Chengdu directly, but I will also stay behind to liberate Luzhou.

Speaking of which, I have to thank you and Yang Kui for bringing the only remaining troops in Chengdu out. Chengdu is now a piece of meat on the chopping board. As long as my family arrives in Chengdu, there will be no obstacles.

Come here, take these dogs away!"

"You~!" Liu Qing's face changed drastically, and his two followers also drew their swords.

Lao Piao's eyes lit up, and he stomped his left foot on the ground, rushing out like a hungry tiger pouncing on a sheep. With just two punches, the two followers brought by Liu Qing flew out.

Lao Piao clapped his hands with disdain and said with a smile: "That's it, and you dare to use a knife?"

"Take them all away. There's no need to torture them, but there's no need to take care of them either!" Chen Gu said indifferently.

Yunhua personally stepped forward and punched Liu Qing twice in the stomach, then, regardless of Liu Qing's struggle, stripped off his hat, feather and official uniform before taking Liu Qing away.

(End of this chapter)