To be cut down on the battlefield before the final victory has been the tragic but fitting fate of warriors for centuries, but the revolutionaries taken prisoner instead found themselves tasting the bitterness of defeat.
壯志未酬身先死，本是千古憾事，但馬革裹屍、效命沙場，也算死得其所。而被捕的黨人們，卻真正咀嚼了失敗的滋味。他們經過拷問，在四月三日行刑就義。