Han’s Son is Not a Slave

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Zhaoqing is the gateway to the west of Guangzhou, blocking Gaozhou and Luoding; Xinhui is the gateway to the south of Guangzhou, blocking Leizhou and Lianzhou; these two places are the must-guard places in the eyes of the Qing army in Guangdong, when Li Dingguo entered Guangdong At that time, he sent all his troops to Zhaoqing, but was repelled by Xu Erxian, the general of Zhaoqing. In the second attack on Guangdong, Li Dingguo abandoned Zhaoqing City and went straight to Xinhui. During the siege of the city, Zhou Shixiang, who was a scholar at the time, heard people say that the old thief came to Xinhui to receive water from the Zheng family of Nanming from the sea. Division, thus encircling Guangzhou by water and land.

Whether Li Dingguo's strategic purpose in attacking Xinhui was to respond to Zheng Chenggong's navy, time has changed, and Zhou Shixiang, who was not the party concerned and had no way of knowing Li Dingguo's decision that day, naturally could not know, but what was in front of him was how to cross the strong city of Xinhui to Xiangshan County. go.

Crossing the Tan River does not mean that the Taiping Army has entered Xiangshan County. There is still a Xijiang River in front of it. The Xijiang River is not much wider than the Tan River. There are tens of thousands of people crossing the river below, which sounds like a fool's dream. Unable to cross the river, there is only one choice left to Zhou Shixiang - take Xinhui City, and then go straight to Xiangshan by land.

Li Dingguo used typical ancient siege methods to attack Xinhui City, such as climbing walls with ants, logging and filling trenches, digging tunnels, bombarding the city with large artillery, etc. However, none of these methods were successful in the end. How strong are the Xinhui defenders. However, on that day, Zhou Shixiang personally killed the defender Yu Yunlong. It is unknown whether the Xinhui defenders without You Yunlong were as strong as when they faced Li Dingguo's army.

Gao Yao was too close to Zhaoqing, and although the Taiping Army had managed to confuse the green camps stationed in the counties in Zhaoqing Prefecture in a series of previous campaigns. But with the passage of time, in the end, Zhaoqing commander Xu Erxian was still able to judge the details of this army from the signs of the Taiping movement. Therefore, Gaoyao City could not stay for a long time, and the Taiping army would leave Gaoyao in three days at the latest. The direction of the new club is turned in.

Although the old and weak camp led by Duke Xiang of Song avoided the county town and only acted in the countryside and mountains, at this time they were probably in the mountainous area southwest of Xinhui, which was not a safe place. Zhou Shixiang must immediately lead his troops out of contact with the Zhaoqing Qing army and join the Houying, otherwise, there will be big troubles on the Houying side. After all, there are too few capable soldiers in the rear camp. Only the three hundred people under Zhao Sihai, if they really run into a large Qing army, will be more fortunate than fortunate.

Zhou Shixiang, who had no other choice, pinned all his hopes of passing the new club on the trap camp. He called Tie Yi and asked him to make most of the existing gunpowder in the camp into granular gunpowder, and immediately searched the city for good wood to make it. Two large coffins came out. Zhou Shixiang had only one requirement for these two large coffins, that is, they must be completely sealed and must not leak.

Tie Yi has some doubts about the purpose of Zhou Shixiang to build the coffin. When Zhou Shixiang told him that he was going to blow up the Xinhui city wall by means of blasting, he was a little surprised, and then led the order away with a solemn expression. Previously, the trapped camp had only done two small blasting tests on the Luoding city wall, and the pottery irrigation was used to bury the medicine. Although the blasting effect shocked everyone, Tie Yi did not have the opportunity to try to blow up the city wall by means of blasting in the subsequent battles.

This time on a blind date, Zhou Shi told him that he was going to blast the Xinhui city wall, and that he would use two large coffins at a time, and the amount of medicine in them was almost half of the medicine in the camp. If it exploded, the power would be astonishing. But because the charge was too large, Tie Yi couldn't help but feel uneasy. Fear that the blasting will fail. Zhou Shixiang made it clear that if the Xinhui city wall could not be exploded, the Taiping army would be trapped in the siege of the Qing army, and no one would survive.

It was a matter of life and death for the entire army, so Tie Yi was naturally cautious. After returning to the camp, he immediately brought people to arrest all the shopkeepers and staff of a coffin shop in the city, and brought over a few good coffins in the shop. These coffins have been improved. Two layers of thick wood have been added, and pine glue and the like have been brushed again and again. After making the coffin, put the coffin in water, put lime in it, soak it overnight, and then take it up. Tie Yi was relieved to see that the lime was not soaked.

The two coffins were too big and too heavy. Only a dozen men could lift one of them with ropes, and it was difficult to imagine the difficulty with such two big guys on the road. After Zhou Shixiang learned that the coffins were ready, he quickly dispatched people to hand over all the dozen or so horses that were collected from the city's chariots and horses to Tie Yi. The dozen or so horses did not pull anything, but only pulled the two coffins.

The Taiping army left the city on the 17th. On that day, many people in the city saw the two large coffins pulled by more than a dozen horses. They all guessed which big man of the Taiping army was in the coffin, but they didn’t know the empty space inside. Nothing.

When leaving the city, the high-ranking recruits of each battalion were a little reluctant to leave their hometowns, and some recruits had the idea of ​​​​running away, but under the strict supervision of the wuxiaoqi and sergeants, few guys were able to escape.

"After eating Lao Tzu's meal and becoming Lao Tzu's soldier, you have to follow Lao Tzu!"

This sentence Zhou Shixiang once said unintentionally to his subordinates has now become something that many officers often shout in front of new recruits. Whenever this sentence sounds, it will always be accompanied by the vicious eyes of officers and veterans, and even officers will pretend to act. Withdraw the knife in half. Although this approach is far from the "people's army" in Zhou Shixiang's mind, it fits the current situation of the Taiping Army. If it were not so vicious, the ghosts would know how many recruits would run away. Just running away, he was afraid that these recruits who already knew the details of the Taiping Army reported to the Qing army. This was absolutely unacceptable to Zhou Shixiang.

Shao Jiugong's Xiongwei Battalion was the last to leave the city, and was responsible for the post-admission task. Although the sergeant who sent out to investigate reported that the Zhaoqing Qing army had not left the city, Zhou Shixiang asked Shao Jiugong to make some preparations, so that the Xiongwei Battalion would always be in harmony. The former camp kept a distance of half a day, so that the Qing army in Zhaoqing would not bite the Taiping army.

Zhou Shixiang is not afraid of fighting, but now he can't fight, and rendezvous with the rear battalion is the top priority of the front battalion. Before leaving the city, the Taiping army spread a lot of fake news in the city, the intention was still to confuse the Qing army, so that the true intention of the Taiping army could be concealed for a while longer.

There are a hundred carts before and after the food collected from the county government and the big households, and the guard battalion is responsible for escorting them. For this reason, almost all the carts and horses in Gaoyao City were collected. In addition, 300 people were recruited to take charge transport. To these people, Zhou Shixiang, as before, also promised them that as long as the food was delivered, they would be able to go home.

Going west from Gao Yao, you can still see some villages at first, but if you go further west, there are no people. There are deserted land and ruined villages everywhere, except for the occasional flock of birds flying out of the ground and one or two wild animals. ** Rabbit, you will never see living things again.

Most of Guangdong Province has a developed water system, there are many rivers and rivers, and there are many small rivers and streams. When the Taiping Army was stationed, the frogs and snakes in the small rivers and streams nearby were basically captured, which made Zhou Shixiang very emotional. Guangdong It is true that people love to eat snakes.

That day, the leader of the Han army with the blue flag ran to the west of Gaoyao City for National Day. Ge Zheng led his men to chase after them for more than ten miles, and they disappeared. During the days when the Taiping Army was in Gaoyao City, Zhou Shixiang sent them again one after another. Several teams of soldiers searched along the two sides of the official road in the west of the city, but apart from a torn cloth belt, nothing was found.

Zhou Shixiang was not as nervous as his subordinates as to where Xiang Guoqing's group had fled. Gao Yao was heading west to Leizhou. The Qing army in Leizhou had just been hit hard by Ling Hai's general Chen Qice a few days ago, and they were also incapable of fighting the Taiping Army. The only threat to the Taiping army was the Qing army in Zhaoqing.

Xu Erxian was a veteran of Liaodong, and he was a warrior under Shang Kexi's command. However, there were not many soldiers stationed in Zhaoqing. Confused, Xu Erxian would not leave the city easily until he finally confirmed the details and action intentions of the Taiping Army. After all, the gains and losses of Zhaoqing City were much more important than the Taiping Army. Besides, Xu Erxian was able to defeat Li Dingguo's army back then because of Zhaoqing's tall city walls. He really wanted to abandon the city to fight, and his number of troops was obviously not enough for Li Dingguo to drink a pot.

Shao Jiugong and Li Fuguo, two officers from the Green Battalion, were cross-examined by Zhou Shixiang after they returned to Zhou Shixiang. From their mouths, Zhou Shixiang generally had a preliminary understanding of the strength of the Qing army in Guangdong. Unlike before when he was a newcomer, he was afraid of the incomparable strength of the Qing army. Now Zhou Shi is not afraid of the Qing army at all~www.NovelMTL.com~ And he knows that the Qing army in Guangdong is not as powerful as he heard before. .

The Qing army in Guangdong is currently composed of three groups of troops. The main force is also the core of the Han army flag soldiers under King Pingnan and Shang Kexi. . In addition to the vassal soldiers, the governor-general of the Guangdong Governor Li Suitai was another strong force of the Qing army in Guangdong, with a strength of about 2,000 people. The rest is a large number of soldiers, but because of the green battalion soldiers scattered in various places, the total number of troops is roughly between 20,000 and 30,000. In addition, there is the newly formed Guangdong Navy Division, which has about 3,000 troops. A few groups of troops are added together, and the total number of the Qing army in Guangdong is about 40,000.

If 40,000 people are taken out alone, another ten Taiping battalions will not be an opponent. Fortunately, Guangdong Province is not monopolized by the Qing army. In the southeast, there are Zheng clans who are eyeing tigers in Chaoshan. On the southwest coast, there are Ming army navy soldiers and volunteers attacking, and the northwest is even more confronted. Li Dingguo's army with 100,000 troops, Gaozhou, Lianzhou, Leizhou and other places have other Nanming troops. The existence of these troops directly dispersed the strength of the Guangdong Qing army, making it impossible for the Guangdong Qing army to form against the Ming army on any side. overwhelming advantage. As long as the Emperor Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty exists for one day, it is impossible for the Qing army in Guangdong to occupy the entire province of Guangdong. Compared with the situation in Guangdong, the current Hunan battlefield is the focus of both Ming and Qing Dynasties. (A good event to drop pie in the sky, the cool mobile phone is waiting for you! Follow ~ point / official account (WeChat add friends - add official account - enter dd), participate immediately! Everyone has a prize, and now pay attention to dd immediately WeChat public account!) (To be continued..)