Han’s Son is Not a Slave

In the early morning of the next day, the Taiping Army, who had rested for a day, set off for Xinhui City. In order to capture Xinhui in one fell swoop, not only all the five battalions in the front battalion fought, but all the security guards in the rear battalion were also ordered to accompany the army. In addition, Song Xianggong also organized 500 soldiers. Strong women dressed in men's clothes hid in the army, and finally brought the captured carriages and horses with them, in order to confuse the Xinhui defenders, creating the illusion that the Taiping soldiers were numerous and the army was coming to attack.

Zhu Er's cavalry team continued to serve as sentries of the whole army after replenishing more than a dozen soldiers who could ride horses, responsible for guarding and transmitting military information along the way. The cavalry team also found several teams of Qing troops exploring the horses on the road, but the other party obviously did not intend to entangle with the Taiping army, and after seeing it from a distance, they turned their heads and turned back.

No Qing army came to stop them along the way. When the Taiping army arrived at the foot of Xinhui City, it was already sunset. The Qing army in the city was guarding the city, and the four gates were closed. The annihilation of the Ministry made the Qing army in the city know that the troops in the city alone were no match for the Taiping army, so they acted like a tortoise, waiting for reinforcements from Guangzhou to arrive.

The Qing army in the city did not come out, which was exactly what Zhou Shixiang wished. He didn't care to have too many emotions about seeing his hometown again, and he didn't care to take a look at the empty tomb he built by himself, so he ordered Hujie Camp to guard against the Qing army in the city. , and the rest of the camps set up camp under Xinhui City.

Zhu Er's cavalry team was ordered to swim under the city, in order to induce the Qing army on the city to fire artillery, so as to measure the range of the Qing army's artillery, but the Qing army in the city did not fire the artillery, only used bows and arrows to drive away the cavalry team when they approached.

Seeing that the cavalry could not lure the defenders, Zhou Shixiang immediately ordered the Zhenlu Camp to feign attack on the city. This time, he successfully induced the Qing army to open artillery. living life.

When the Qing army opened fire, many soldiers in the Taiping Army were shocked, covering their ears and lying on the ground, afraid to move. Only those officers and veterans who had heard the explosion in Luoding looked calm. Not at all afraid of the loud noise like thunder, but instead made fun of the recruits who were so scared that they were about to wet their pants. Being so ridiculed by the veterans, the recruits blushed, but the fear in their hearts inadvertently faded.

Although he was not afraid that the Qing army in the city would dare to attack at night, Zhou Shixiang still led people to inspect the battalions, ordered them to dig trenches, deploy bright and dark posts, and formulated regulations on how each battalion should respond after the night attack of the Qing army.

The women who came with the army were also busy preparing food. In order to prevent the soldiers from being arrogant, Zhou Shixiang placed the women's battalion at the back. He personally led the guard battalion to traverse it, and dispatched a team of guards to undertake the inspection task of the women's battalion.

With this strict order, Zhou Shixiang was also a last resort. Who made the current Taiping army too complicated, whether it was officers or soldiers. The military quality and personal morality are not too good. Using the three religions and nine streams to describe the situation in the camp is a bit too much, but it is not much worse.

Anti-microdu gradually. Zhou Shixiang had reason to believe that there must be some unbearable people among his subordinates. The war was imminent, and in order to prevent unnecessary things, it was better for him to talk about the ugly. In order not to be really cowardly, the worms will do something ugly on their brains.

There was no incident that night, and the Qing army did not come to attack at night. There was no scandal in the camp.

The next day, according to Song Xianggong's suggestion, Zhou Shixiang escorted the captured Han army flag and more than 20 green camp soldiers who massacred women and children to the city.

The refusal of the Qing army defending the city to surrender was expected by Zhou Shixiang. It is not surprising that after the Qing army opened fire, he ordered the prisoners to be taken to the front of the army and beheaded them one by one in front of the Qing army on the city.

In the past, it would definitely be unwise to slaughter prisoners in front of the enemy's fortified city, because the consequences of doing so can only arouse the determination of the defenders to resist to the end, and have no effect on the siege of the city, but now Zhou Shixiang also It doesn't matter about the bad consequences of killing prisoners. The Qing army in the city made it clear that they would stick to it to the end. There was a precedent for successfully fighting Li Dingguo's tens of thousands of troops last year, and they would not have any idea of ​​surrender at all. Killing these captive flag soldiers in front of them was just to tell them the Taiping Army's determination to seize Xinhui City, and at the same time to distract the defenders' attention to cover up another major event.

Shao Jiugong's Xiongwei battalion received the most troops from the green battalion, and Lin Youxian, the general manager of Qiangong, was also recruited under his subordinates, which would serve as a small flag officer. The reason why he only carried a small flag, instead of being appointed as the general flag like Li Fuguo, was entirely because of Lin Youxian's deeds of feigning death.

Zhou Shixiang, who pretended to be dead, naturally wouldn't take him too seriously, so he only left him as a small flag.

"When the knife is cut, be quicker, be more ruthless, and don't be soft on anyone. If you can't cut your head with one knife, I will cut your heads! In addition, let me know something about me. If anyone dares to run, don't blame me for being black. !"

Shao Jiugong, who was in charge of the beheading, looked fiercely at the green camp prisoners who were recruited into his camp. He was originally from the same root. He knew these green camp soldiers too well. 80% of these people will do something to run down the Xinhui City. For the sake of safety, Shao Jiugong arranged two more soldiers next to each battalion to be executed. Once these battalions were ready to run forward, they would immediately cut and kill them.

Hearing Shao Jiugong's threat, they were looking at the two eyeing soldiers standing beside them. The soldiers in the green camp were heartbroken. They didn't dare to look at Shao Jiugong. The meaning of courting death, once again thinking about whether I can run to the city alive, and whether I have the strength to run the three miles in one breath, the thought of running against the water before the battle suddenly disappeared.

"Bring everyone up!"

Following Shao Jiugong's shouting, a group of prisoners were taken to the front of the army, and then one by one they were pushed to the ground and knelt down towards Xinhui City.

"What are the thieves going to do?"

The Qing army on the top of the city didn't understand what the Taiping army was going to do at first, but when the sharp-eyed saw that those kneeling were actually familiar people, they suddenly exclaimed.

"Isn't that Lord Lin of the Han army flag?!"

"Goshha from Suzuo is also there!"

"Master Chief Soldier's personal soldier Zhou Youshun!"

"..."

"The thief soldiers want to use the killing of prisoners to shake the heart of our army, which is really whimsical."

After observing the movement outside the city~www.NovelMTL.com~, the defending general in the city and the current chief of the Xinhui defending army, Zheng Guodong, sneered and handed the telescopic mirror to Huang Zhizheng, the magistrate next to him, and said to him: "Then The thief general looks similar to the thief scholar who killed General You a few days ago, Lord Huang to see if it is him."

"A thief scholar?"

Huang Zhizheng was startled, and immediately realized that Zheng Guodong said it was Zhou Shixiang, a scholar in the city.

How did Zhou Xiucai become a thief soldier and a thief general again?

Huang Zhizheng was puzzled. He didn't know how to treat Zhou Shixiang's hand to Yunlong. After all, Zhou Shixiang's whole family was harmed by the Qing army. As a son, a husband, and a father, revenge is a matter of course. But he killed a general of the Qing Dynasty, which made Huang Zhizheng, who was also a Qing official, a little embarrassed. He couldn't give an evaluation, but when he said that he was a thief and a scholar, he absolutely did not dare to agree. However, Zhou Shixiang's reputation as a "thief scholar" came from the Pingnan Prince's Mansion in Guangzhou. Prince Pingnan opened his mouth, not a thief scholar but also a thief scholar.

After Huang Zhizheng sighed silently in his heart, he picked up the telescopic mirror and looked down the city. Sure enough, there was a familiar figure in the camera, and it was the county scholar Zhou Shixiang.

Zhou Xiucai is devoting himself to being a thief to avenge his family's revenge, alas...(To be continued..)