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The fire burned fiercely under the clear sky.
April 30th, the rainy season in the Wuzhou area temporarily ended. The blue sky was so clear it seemed to suck people in. The sun was shining brightly, and the clouds were snow-white. It was an excellent day.
Vézé pulled the spear from a corpse. He raised his head to look at the beautiful scenery but he did not feel the slightest sense of comfort after such a beautiful scene. Just now, he had stabbed a 15 or 16-year-old boy to death. This feeling was very bad.
A 15 or 16-year-old boy was considered an adult in Guangxi. In the memories of the owner of Vézé's body, he had killed someone for the first time when he was around 14. Wei Changrong had killed someone for the first time when he was just 17. Furthermore, this youth was holding a weapon and leaping at Vézé. At this time, Vézé could only choose to kill the other.
This fact could not erase Vézé's guilt. This was because the child had charged out of a burning house with a weapon and the one who had ordered the burning was Vézé.
From Vézé's perspective, this was something that could not be helped. In order to take down Wu Town, Vézé had to first cut off Wu Town's wings, the two Tu village. The head of Wu Town, Wu Taishan, was a smart person. He used the two Tu village to suppress the six guest villages. The Tu village could not resist and could only be Wu Taishan's lackey. Thus, the guest villages that could not take down Wu Town placed their resentment on the two Tu village. All kinds of conflicts of various sizes occurred continuously. Moreover, Wu Jiazhen would also lend a helping hand when Tu Clan Village really couldn't hold on any longer. Thus, the resentment grew deeper and deeper. The two Tu village were completely tied to Wu Town's war chariot.
"I've found him!" Zhang Yingchen shouted excitedly. Outside the burning courtyard, there were already corpses lying on the ground. Some seriously injured were moaning in pools of their own blood. But if no one treated them, their deaths would not be long. Those who could rush out of the courtyard had already rushed out. Zhang Yingchen and the others rushed in. At this moment, they carried a person out of the burning courtyard. This person was a subordinate of Zhang Yingchen. He was entrusted by Vézé to contact the two villages.
To Vézé, Wu Jiazhen's attempt to sow discord was just a simple matter of social relations. This had happened countless times in history, and it had happened many times in the new China. This kind of thing was equivalent to the government allowing the underworld to expand freely. In the north, there was also such a thing. However, after the government's iron fist crackdown and violent execution, this kind of trivial matter also disappeared along with the destruction of the underworld organization.
Regardless of how Vézé's troops viewed him, Vézé, of course, viewed his troops as the "government". This was a kind of inevitable confidence. Wei Ze had always been very confident.
But it was obvious that the Tu Clan village did not agree with Vézé's confidence. As for the Taiping army representative who persuaded them to give up on their hatred towards the Hakkas and clearly revealed Wu Jiazhen's sinister intentions, the Tu Clan village used violence to capture their brother. At the same time, they also sent someone to Wu Jiazhen to report.
The reconnaissance troops lying in ambush by the roadside captured the informant. Even after beating him up, he still did not confess. After putting a finger clip on him, he only needed to pull the rope once, and the informant confessed.
When he found out that his brother had been captured, and that the Tu Clan village was going to send him to Wu Jiazhen to ask for a reward. Since the other party was so stubborn, Vézé had no other choice but to resolve it with violence.
Besieging a village without any walls didn't require the entire army to be mobilized. Vézé asked a Hakka representative of the six villages how he planned to deal with this Tu Clan village. The representatives looked at each other. In the end, an old man said tentatively, "Sir Wei, can we kill them all?"
This was really 'whoever sows melons reaps melons, whoever sows beans reaps beans'. Whoever sows hatred will suffer the consequences. If the old Hakka was filled with anger and indignation, Vézé would think that he was just saying it out of anger. However, the old man's emotions were calm. Instead, he probed Vézé's attitude, causing Vézé to feel a chill down his spine.
Afraid that he might have misunderstood the old man's attitude, Vézé asked: "Old man, we are only attacking the village, we are not going to kill them ourselves."
The old man asked in astonishment: "Didn't you ask us how to deal with the people in the two villages? We feel that we should just kill them all. Let's see if Lord Wei is willing to let us do it. "
Vézé looked at the old man's expression. His wrinkled face was very calm. Vézé felt that the old man was worried that Vézé and the rest would not have the courage to attack, so he used these words to scare Vézé. He continued to ask: "Old man, after you kill your way into the two villages, are you really going to kill them?"
The old man replied with a calm expression: "Lord Wei, my older brother died in the hands of the people in the front village, and my nephew died in the hands of the people in the back village. These people who came here this time, in the past few decades, which family hasn't killed someone from the two villages? What's there to be afraid of if we kill the people in the two villages? We have been wanting to kill them all for a long time! "
Vézé really didn't know what to say. He could only prepare to attack. The village's defensive system was just trenches and traps. To be honest, these were things that the Tu family learned from the Hakka family. Because the Hakka family had always been in a disadvantageous position, they attached great importance to these things. Zhang Yingchen's scouts forcibly opened up a small path through the Hakka village's bamboo stick formation and traps.
The Taiping army took advantage of the darkness to sneak through the small path and launched their attack in the wee hours of the morning. A fire broke the hemp ropes holding the fences and barricades in place. After pushing down the fences, Vézé brought his men and killed their way into the village. This time, the villagers were alarmed. The various families' troops started to surround Vézé and his men. Vézé and his men robbed a house and used their muskets to resist.
After the Tu family villagers were attracted, the Hakka soldiers who had been lying in ambush were led by another group of Taiping army troops and charged in from the front. Their agile brothers crossed the village gates and unlocked the latches from the inside. The Hakka soldiers killed their way into the Tu family village like a torrent.
Vézé had always thought that the Hakka people were just words of anger when they said they would kill everyone in the village. Only when the Hakka used their advantage in numbers and started a massacre, did Vézé realize that he was too ignorant. Regardless of their gender or age, everyone in the Tu family village fought back with all their might. There was no sign of them begging for mercy.
Facing such an unyielding enemy, the Hakka soldiers didn't make any noise and didn't try to reason with them before killing. Everyone just killed as soon as they saw each other. Blades stabbed into their bodies, spears stabbed into their bodies. There was only a desperate massacre, only screams before death.
Although the Hakka soldiers had the advantage of surprise attacks, the Tu family almost had a chance to retaliate. Because they were going from house to house, the Hakka soldiers' attack speed wasn't fast. When they reached the Tu family ancestral hall, they saw a large group of Tu family warriors charging out.
The people at the back controlled the super long weapons. Long bamboo poles were tied with metal tips, and the bamboo poles were placed on a rack carried by two people at the front. Two people at the back controlled the weapons. The distance could be as high as five to seven meters. Vézé had heard of these super long spears before. Today was an eye-opener for him as he saw how these weapons were used in battle.
It was a pity that no matter how lousy a musket was, it was still quite lethal within ten meters. The Tu family's super long spear formation collapsed. Vézé and his men charged all the way to the Tu family ancestral hall.
The Hakka soldiers calmly spread out their forces on the two sides. The Tu family members who could resist were all gathered at the ancestral hall. There were no more people in the other houses who could resist. The Hakka soldiers threw the tough bones to Vézé and his men while they went to pick the soft persimmons.
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