Laughter gradually came from beside him; the burly man, covered in bruises from being tortured, chuckled intermittently.
Immediately, a soldier shouted in a cold voice, "No laughing, no talking!"
The bearded man immediately cursed, "I'm about to die, and you won't even let me say a few last words?!"
"Do you really want me to turn around and accuse you of being an inside agent of my Red Tide Alliance?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the man next to the soldier whispered, "Ignore them. They'll be dead by noon. Who cares? They can't escape anyway."
The soldier stopped trying to stop them and simply waited for time to pass.
At this moment, the bearded man said to Jin Changge beside him:
"Young lady, did you hear that just now? The people are not happy."
"Even if these foreigners come, they can forget about living peacefully on our land and acting like tyrants."
“I knew it. We Yan people would never willingly become slaves to foreigners, whether in the regions already ruled by His Majesty or here.”
"The blood flowing in our veins is that we will never submit to anyone." The bearded man was badly injured, his face a bloody mess, but he looked relaxed, as if he were having a casual afternoon chat.
“Yes, no matter where you are, the people are all the same. They… are always like this,” Jin Changge murmured.
The bearded man looked up at the sky, then turned his head with difficulty to look at Jin Changge, and said in a deep voice:
"It should be the hour of Si (9-11 AM) now. Once it's noon, we'll be beheaded. Aren't you scared?"
Jin Changge chuckled softly: "It's alright, I can just close my eyes."
"Anyway, it'll still be a good one eighteen years from now..."
At this point, the bearded man couldn't help but chuckle softly: "Hahaha, you're a woman, you should say something else."
Jin Changge blushed and said, "I've read that in those storybooks, that's how it's said. Before an execution, those outlaws would all shout that."
"As for what a woman shouts when she's beheaded... I haven't seen it yet."
"Then you're the first one. With so many people here today, if you manage to utter a phrase that becomes widely known, it might be recited by everyone in the future, haha," the bearded man joked.
Jin Changge fell silent, seemingly pondering what to shout.
But that wasn't actually the case. After a brief silence, she looked at the bearded man's body covered in wounds and sighed, "I've dragged you all into this."
The bearded man remained calm and smiled, "There's no such thing as being implicated or not."
"Any conscientious Chinese citizen should know that we must protect our country and not let it fall into the hands of foreigners."
“We, the members of the Crimson Tide Alliance, are skilled in martial arts, so naturally we should step forward first.”
"It doesn't matter if we die today."
The bearded man looked at the crowd in the distance and continued:
"As long as the nation survives and the people live on, the flame of the Red Tide will always remain, and the will of the Red Tide will be passed down from generation to generation."
"Ten years, a hundred years, no matter how much time has passed, whoever oppresses us, we will stand up."
"Before, we opposed this corrupt court; now we oppose these invading foreigners. Wherever there is oppression, there we will be."
"We are willing to fight for our country and die for our people. We, the people of Red Tide, will always live up to this spirit."
At this point, he looked at Jin Changge again: "That's why I said, although you are a member of the Jin family, you are essentially the same as us. Today we can die here together, so we can keep each other company, hehe."
Jin Changge hummed in agreement and continued to gaze at the bustling crowd in the distance.
She didn't know how much time had passed when she could see that the crowd seemed to be in turmoil. Some people were running wildly, and soldiers were rushing into the crowd with weapons, seemingly to capture someone.
As her gaze gradually fell closer, she saw a familiar figure.
That was Prince Qing, who was talking to Mai Lirui beside him. The two were surrounded by a huge number of soldiers, including both Chinese and foreigners.
But soon, the sounds from afar grew louder and louder. Jin Changge saw that more and more people were gathering outside the cordon that the soldiers had blocked. They seemed to want to move forward, but the soldiers were doing their best to stop them and maintain order.
Then, more and more soldiers rushed from the perimeter of the execution ground to the outer perimeter, which was undoubtedly a reinforcement of troops.
Following closely behind, the foreign gun team carrying firearms also rushed over. Looking at the fully armed foreigners, Jin Changge frowned and silently worried.
At this moment, the bearded man said, "It looks like trouble has arisen."
"The people...want to come over."
Jin Changge remained silent, watching as the soldiers and civilians huddled together in the distance, and at that moment, they drew their weapons.
"Could it be..." Jin Changge's heart skipped a beat, and then he saw that a fight seemed to have broken out over there.
Meanwhile, the foreign gun team had arrived, followed by a sound like firecrackers exploding, and at the same time, wisps of smoke slowly rose into the air.
"Kill anyone who comes any closer!" shouted a foreign officer inside the cordon, brandishing a matchlock gun.
Just now, he fired a shot into the air, but it didn't have much effect and seemed to have the opposite effect.
Before them stood a group of indignant men, the ones at the front of the group all with angry faces, their mouths full of foul language, expressing only one meaning: to release these prisoners.
The officer was furious and turned to the soldiers beside him, saying, "Tell them to step back!"
"If you still don't listen, don't blame us for taking action!"
The leader of the army quickly led his soldiers forward, shouting and cursing as he did so:
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