Chapter 38 Chapter Thirty-eight

When he first saw the two men in fishermen's attire, Ruan Dacheng couldn't believe his eyes.On the way to Qingpu, he was so depressed that he decided that the three monks and his party would not take the risk of going ashore.Unexpectedly, he led more than a hundred brothers under his command and had just arrived at Qingpu Town when they bumped into those two men at the intersection.He was a little dazed at the time, staring blankly at the two men, until one of the tall men approached him, and he realized that these two men were underlings of the third monk, who had recuperated their wounds in Qingpu last year of.The tall man was nicknamed Erguizi, and the other was Zhao Simao.

The second ghost came forward and said, "Uncle Ruan, what is the general situation? Did Jinkou ever win? Why did you come to Qingpu in such a panic? Could it be..." Ruan Dacheng hurriedly said: "It's hard to describe the details of the case! I took it down, but lost it again, we'll talk about it in detail later! But why didn't you come to meet me? Where are the third master and the Haihai brothers now? Quickly take me to the meeting!" " The second ghost said: "Uncle Ruan doesn't know something! After you sent a fishing boat to contact us, our third master prepared boats, artillery, knives and guns, and prepared to go ashore to respond. Unexpectedly, we met the government navy on the way and fought a scuffle. More than a dozen brothers were killed or injured, and a ship was destroyed, so time was delayed..."

Master Qi beside Ruan Dacheng interjected: "Don't mention this, it won't be too late to talk about it in the future! Uncle Ruan wants to see your third master now!" The second ghost said: "The third master is now on Biandan Island, which is four miles away from the coast of Qingpu. We can go ashore immediately when the two of us go back to contact each other!" Dacheng said: "Then you two, hurry up and row the boat to Biandan Island, let the third master get all the boats here, and pick me up and wait for the brothers to go to the sea! The pursuers from the government will come soon!"

The second devil was startled: "So it's hopeless to make a fuss!" Master Qi sighed: "The fate is like this, there is nothing we can do!" Erguizi and Zhao Simao knew that the situation was critical, so they didn't dare to delay any longer, turned around and walked back, saying as they walked, "We have arrived at Biandan Island, and we will report to the third master immediately, you must block the officers and soldiers on the shore, and don't let them overwhelm you! Our boat turned around and leaned against Wanghaiyan on the north side of Nansipo, remember, Wanghaiyan! There are no fishing boats, no traces, no one will pay attention!"

Ruan Dacheng and Master Qi saw a glimmer of life, and responded repeatedly: "Remember! Wang Haiyan, we will be there immediately to wait for you!" At this time, the sky was already dark, and at some point, a wind blew up, and the eyes of Ruan Dacheng and all the brothers were dim.For a while, the brothers were blinded by the wind and sand. Master Qi spat out the sand blown into his mouth, and worriedly said to Ruan Dacheng and Du Tianxing: "I'm afraid things are not going well, if the wind blows stronger and brings out a storm, the boat of the three monks will not be able to move." We have landed at Wanghaiyan, so we can..."

Ruan Dacheng said angrily: "Brother Qi, don't say such depressing words!" Du Tianxing also said: "Yes, we must not curse ourselves! This small wind can't stop the big ship from docking!" However, the unfortunate thing was revealed by Mr. Qi's words. When Ruan Dacheng led his brothers back to the seaside of Wanghaiyan, the wind became stronger and stronger. Come.As night fell, the third storm came ashore.And at this moment, Zhu Jianning, the prefect of Linjiang, and Hei Masan, the green battalion guard, led hundreds of officers and soldiers, rushing towards them shouting all the way.The officers and soldiers held torches in their hands and burned the shore bright red.

There is a chasing soldier on the right, there is a sea in front, the storm suddenly rises, the ship of the three monks cannot dock, Ruan Dacheng, Master Qi, Du Tianxing and more than a hundred brothers surnamed Hong are in a desperate situation... Master Qi Ming Daqi believed that it was God's will, the blue sky extinguished the flood, and the flood could not be extinguished.Master Qi, who had experienced vicissitudes, looked up to the sky and sighed. He believed that he could not resist the sky, and that he would die tonight under the chaotic swords of the officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty.When the flickering fire approached him amidst the noise mixed with the tide and shouts, the idea of ​​suicide appeared in his mind for the first time.What he is holding in his hand is no longer the bright red crutch, but a sword, which Ruan Dacheng picked up from a dead brother.

He put the sword across his sagging neck, wanting to end his poor life quickly.However, as soon as the cold sword touched his flesh, his body couldn't help shaking, and his hands drooped limply. Master Qi couldn't make up his mind to die. At this time, the brothers around him told him to retreat to Wanghaiyan, he turned around numbly, dragging the sword that was not in use, and then retreated, very slowly, every step seemed to be very difficult. When retreating to Wanghaiyan, Master Qi was full of resentful thoughts.He believes that he has a clear conscience. Whether he was in power in Guiping or when he participated in the Hongmen brothers' uprising, he always respected the sky and followed the public opinion.Since Qi Mingda has the appearance of an emperor, he is bound to create a new celestial dynasty for the people of the world!This is not what he meant, it was originally what God meant!Why did God give him the appearance of an emperor, but he was unwilling to fulfill his career of emperor to rule forever?The sky is so unfair, what hope do the people on this desolate land have?

The sky is unfair, the sky is really unfair! He tripped over something on his feet, and Master Qi fell limply. When he fell, another gust of wind passed by. Master Qi's body was covered with fishy and wet dust, some sand got into his nostrils and mouth, and the sword in his hand Fell out a few steps away. Master Qi struggled to get up against the wind and sand, staggered to pick up his sword, and only after grasping the sword in his hand did he cast his hopeful eyes on the boundless sea again.The sea was roaring fiercely under the incitement of the strong wind, and waves like hills rolled over one after another, pounced on the beach and land, and the small stone slope of Wanghaiyan became wet everywhere under the violent collision of the waves again and again. There was a swirling spray in the bay, and the sea was pale.There are no sails or lights on the sea, only the earth-shattering sound of the waves.

Master Qi's hope turned into despair once again. Facing the raging sea, Master Qi remembered the brave suicide for the second time. Master Qi finally raised his sword with trembling hands, aiming the sharp edge at his neck. At this moment, the sea water came up, and he felt that his feet and calves were immersed in the rapidly surging water.Instinctively, he lowered his sword, and climbed two more steps towards the rocky slope overlooking the sea, getting rid of the entanglement of the sea water. However, after only two short steps, the sword in his hand could no longer be lifted, as if the sword was extremely heavy, as if the hand no longer listened to the command of his own brain.Later, at an unknown time, the sword slipped from his hand, fell on the rock, and jumped a long way.

Wanghaiyan, which protrudes into the sea, is full of desperate brothers surnamed Hong, full of princes and generals in his dream dynasty. Now, his dream of a dynasty is shattered, and he is about to die, but these princes and generals in his dream dynasty No one is willing to kill himself!This is also a tragedy for him!He Qi Mingda has the looks of an emperor, the virtues of an emperor, and the air of an emperor, but he does not have a group of truly loyal generals and officials!The sky wants to destroy him, maybe this is one of the reasons! God, God! The sky harmed him, and the sky gave him the appearance of an emperor, which made him rebel, but it didn't bless him to achieve great things!God bastard!Worse than the court of the Manchus! His mind was in a mess, and his ears were full of noisy waves. His clothes were almost completely soaked, and his face was also wet. He couldn't tell whether it was tears or the sea water splashed on his face.The master felt cold, he thought of many good times in his life for no reason, and he couldn't help but feel a little regretful. Yes, he should not be involved in this anti-Qing riot with Hongmen brothers as the main body.He was fooled by fate, and he was also fooled by these Hongmen scoundrels!It's not that Qi Mingda doesn't know that Hongmen's rebellion against the Qing Dynasty has been unsuccessful since the fall of the Ming Dynasty. He was obsessed with ghosts and stepped into the bottomless abyss that would swallow his life.He can not participate in the uprising.He was a juzi at the age of twenty-four, a Jinshi at the age of twenty-nine, and the head of a county at the age of thirty-two. The Manchu court treated him well.Even if he resigned from office and returned to his hometown later, he would still be able to get by in those days. He really shouldn't have to fight against the Qing court.Now, he is looking for a way out.He knew very well that as long as he fell into the hands of officers and soldiers tonight, his whole life would be considered an confession. He has no way out. His only choice is to die, or to be executed by the government, or to commit suicide. After realizing this, he still decided to kill himself. He was dazed and went looking for his sword again. However, just as he turned around to look for the sword, the jumping lights approached and rushed to his side.He saw countless torches burning in front of him, saw the faces of vicious officers and soldiers under the firelight, heard a cry of killing that overwhelmed the sound of the waves, and saw swords gleaming coldly. Come to him. He dodged hastily, looking for his sword everywhere while dodging.He doesn't want to kill himself, he wants to kill, he wants to taste the taste of killing with his own hands at the last moment of his life!Yes, he can kill, too, and he will!He was destined to be killed by others, but before he was killed by others, he might cut down two and stab two. Like a dog, he crawled on the rocks with water flowing, and burrowed into the crotches of officers and soldiers.His body was submerged in the tide of officers and soldiers, and his panting was mixed with the shouts of officers and soldiers. After searching for a long time, he finally found the sword on the feet of an officer and soldier.He lifted it up, stood up tremblingly, and stabbed an officer and soldier beside him.The officer and soldier screamed and fell down with a "plop".He pulled out the bleeding sword and stabbed down another officer and soldier who rushed over. At this time, many, many officers and soldiers discovered the existence of the great hero Qi Master, and all discovered the existence of this true man.They surrounded him, surrounded him.All the knives and guns in their hands stretched out, forming a steel circle in front of him.The circle shrunk little by little, and finally, it shrank to his side. Dozens of swords pierced and slashed at him.He was in excruciating pain, and he rolled crazily, shaking off all the blood from his body while rolling. He can't make money anymore. He collapsed on the ground, looking at the dark night sky, lying peacefully like this, letting the remaining blood on his body flow out.He believed that the fate that Suan Potian had predicted for him many years ago had come true today, and since he was not as honorable as the emperor, it was natural and reasonable for him to die under the sword. He screamed: "Heaven!" Master Qi died extremely tragically. A brilliant dynasty came to an end because of Master Qi's death. When leading the people on the rock to rush down the rock, Generalissimo Ruan Dacheng discovered the body of Master Qi soaked in the sea water.At first, Ruan Dacheng didn't think that Master Qi was dead, thinking that he had been knocked and fell to the ground, but when he pulled it up, he found that Master Qi had passed away. Ruan Dacheng scolded contemptuously: "Damn it, I scared one of them to death before I fought against the officers and soldiers! How can such a useless thing be my leader of the Hongmen!" Du Tianxing said: "Leave him alone! No matter what happened to Mr. Qi, he still followed me to the end! I may not end up better than him in the future!" Dacheng was silent, and then he confessed to the brothers in front of him and behind him: "Brothers, the tide is too strong, and the ship of the third monk can't dock. I can't wait here to die. I have to risk my life to meet With the officers and soldiers fighting a bloody road, there is hope of survival! Brothers, if anyone is lucky enough to break out of the encirclement, he must remember my great cause of greatness and the great hatred of today!" All the brothers responded together: "I will be born as a member of the Hongmen, and will die as a ghost of the Hongmen. I will never destroy the Qing Dynasty. I swear not to be human!" Dacheng brandished his sword and shouted: "Okay! Come with me, everyone, today we will fight to the death with these gangsters!" Dacheng took the lead in jumping off the slope foundation of Wanghaiyan, placed himself in the waist-deep seawater, and went towards the approaching torches of officers and soldiers.Du Tianxing and more than a hundred brothers also shouted, waved their hands, and jumped into the sea one after another, preparing to fight to the death with the officers and soldiers of the green battalion. Ruan Dacheng's last decision was sober.When he led the crowd to climb to the top of Wanghai Rock, which is tens of feet high, he realized that he and his brothers were entering a desperate situation.Wanghaiyan is a rocky slope protruding into the sea alone. As long as the bottom of the slope is surrounded by officers and soldiers, they have no other way out except to commit suicide by jumping into the sea.Discovering this, he made a decisive decision and drove all the brothers back down the slope, trying to fight the officers and soldiers on the coast, waiting for an opportunity to break through the encirclement—although there was little hope of breaking through the encirclement, he had no choice but to do so. Ruan Dacheng rushed to the front with the sea water in his chest.He had a premonition that his time had come and he could not escape tonight's calamity of swords and soldiers.However, in his almost desperate heart, he is still begging the Emperor Heaven Buddha to give him one last chance, so that he can rebuild Qingpu Hongmen Xiangtang in his lifetime and pass on the fireworks of Xiangtang.He didn't want to ruin the great cause of Hongmen because of this unsuccessful move! From the second year of Daoguang to today, he has completed a glorious road.Alone, he drifted from Nanyang to Qingpu, risking his entire life's accumulated silver taels, his family and his life, to build the Hongmen Fragrance Hall and a powerful world buried underground that can call wind and rain!Now, when this world naturally emerges from the ground, it is so unreasonable that it was destroyed by the Manchu government all at once.He wanted to understand why this uprising, which could and should have been successful, failed?Why did you lose so quickly and so badly!Apart from Master Qi and Du Tianxing's mistake of not playing the banner of Hongmen, what other reasons are there?Just under the banner of Hongmen, will the uprising succeed?There were nearly 4,000 brothers surnamed Hong all over Jinkou, but when they withdrew from Jinkou, there were only a hundred or so left?Where are all those 3,900 bastards surnamed Hong?The mobilized starving people don't know the details, don't the more than 3,900 people with the surname Hong also don't know the background?Since they are willing to be in the Hongmen, why are they unwilling to fight to the death for the great cause of the Hongmen?In the past, the three households could still perish in the Qin Dynasty. Why can't the more than 4,000 righteous men who rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty not perish in the Qing Dynasty today?More than 4,000 people, this is not a small number!In the last years of Qianlong's reign, when Lin Shuangwen, the ally of Lin, led an incident in Taiwan, he did not have such strong strength.However, the leader of the Linda Alliance made a big fuss, not only occupying Taiwan, but also leading the crowd to attack Fujian when the momentum was high.Of course, Leader Lin also failed in the end, but the earth-shattering deeds that Leader Lin made shocked the Qing Dynasty for decades! Compared with Master Lin's career, his fuss here today is just a trick, just a laughing stock that makes people dismissive! He lost.lost. He was deceived, by fate, by heaven, by the fifth patriarch of the Hongmen whom he believed in, and also by the brothers surnamed Hong whom he relied heavily on. At the beginning of the incident, he was obviously not calm enough, and he was obviously blindfolded by an illusion of enthusiasm and noise.He only saw the number of brothers surnamed Hong and the emotions of the hungry people caused by the tide, but he failed to conduct a solid test and training for the four thousand brothers surnamed Hong, and he did not combine his own strength with that of the Qing Dynasty. Make a serious comparison.He was smart all his life, and was confused for a while, and was finally mistaken by his own confusion. ... The sea water became shallower and shallower under his feet. When he led most of his brothers to rush to the sandy shore, a group of officers and soldiers rushed towards them and handed them over. Ruan Dacheng brandished his double swords and fought bravely.The first officer and soldier who jumped in front of him raised his knife, but before he could slash it, he dodged around and pierced his stomach with a sword.Another officer and soldier pierced his side with a gun. He moved the gun head aside with a sword in his left hand, followed two steps, and stabbed the second opponent down with another sword in his right hand.The brothers around him were also killing like crazy, and some people fell to the ground from time to time, but the ferocious momentum like a tide was unstoppable.In a blink of an eye, their team, which was fighting for survival, inserted into the ranks of the officers and soldiers, causing chaos in the ranks of the officers and soldiers. It didn't take long, however, for the confusion to end.When the officers and soldiers cut off the retreat of Ruan Dacheng and the brothers, a small encirclement circle was formed, and the officers and soldiers with torches firmly surrounded them.Scores of officers and soldiers fell to the ground, and more officers and soldiers rushed from all directions.Ruan Dacheng and his brothers rushed here and there, but failed to break out of the siege. However, many brothers lost their lives in the rush again and again, and finally there were only more than 30 people left. These thirty or so brothers are undoubtedly the backbone of the Hong clan, and they are rare heroes among the nearly four thousand brothers with the surname Hong. After another round of fighting, there were only a dozen or so left among the thirty or so people, and even Zhu Renfu, the invulnerable martial arts master, was killed by the officers and soldiers' swords and guns.Ruan Dacheng watched with his own eyes an officer and soldier slash Uncle Zhu's neck with a big knife.He rushed to the rescue, but it was too late.When he stabbed down the officer and soldier with the sword on his right hand, the officer's knife had already struck Uncle Zhu. Uncle Zhu screamed and never got up again. Then, Ruan Dacheng took a shot himself, and the tip of the gun was pierced from the back. He only felt a numbness and a shock behind him, and he fell headlong on the sandy ground soaked in salty sea water, and never climbed up again. stand up.At the last moment before he lost consciousness, he saw a blood-dripping knife stuck obliquely in the sand, saw many feet on soap boots jumping non-stop, and saw a shell illuminated by the fire beside him. Most of the shell was buried in the sand, and the exposed shell was soaked in bright red blood... When Ruan Dacheng fell down, Du Tianxing was still holding the sword in his hand, and swung it around very seriously.He had the best luck. After retreating from Wanghaiyan, he had been under the protection of many brothers. The brothers knew that their military division was weak and their martial arts skills were not good, so the protection was very careful.But at the end of the killing, there were fewer and fewer people, and they couldn't take care of themselves, so they had no choice but to give up their duty of protection and let Master Du resign himself to fate. Du Tianxing understood his dangerous situation and was not afraid, so he waved the sword in his hand that had never been used logically, trying to stab the two of them down.Unexpectedly, as soon as that limp hand was raised, the officers and soldiers around him immediately saw the flaw.The officers and soldiers believed that he was not an opponent, and speculated that he was the leader of the rioters who led the crowd to make trouble, so they let him do the sword dance.When he was tired from dancing, they pushed forward one by one, playing him like a monkey, and tricked him away.This one touched him with the back of his knife, the other stomped him with the heel of his boot.At first, Du Tianxing didn't realize that he had degenerated into a monkey, and thought that his martial arts were not bad.Later, after being slapped twice on the buttocks, he realized the trick. Du Tianxing conceded defeat, slammed his sword, lay down straight on the ground, and said angrily: "You guys kill me! You can kill me, you can't be humiliated!" These words aroused the interest of the officers and soldiers to play tricks, Du Tianxing was dying, but they refused to let him die.Du Tianxing didn't want to be humiliated, but they insisted on teasing him. They laughed and cursed around him, their faces lit up by the burning torches. Only then did Du Tianxing think of committing suicide.He got up, cursed, and touched the sword.However, before he could grasp the sword in his hand, several officers and soldiers pressed on him and twisted him tightly... With Du Tianxing captured, the fight on the beach ended.More than 80 of Ruan Dacheng's hundreds of brothers were killed, and more than 20 were injured and captured alive.It was night, when the storm subsided, the third monk sent people to look at Wanghaiyan, but they saw corpses lying everywhere on the beach in front of Wanghaiyan, with blood everywhere, and it seemed that even the sea water smelled of blood...