The chaos in Xinhui City spread rapidly from Dongcheng to the whole city. In the chaos, the soldiers who had just joined the Taiping Army began to loot with their familiarity with the terrain in the city. In addition to them, there were even more stragglers from the Qing army who were also fishing in troubled waters. There were murderers, blackmailers, and arsonists everywhere.

The chaos in the city was curbed after Zhou Shixiang entered the city. When he found that the prison camp was massacring the civilians in the city, Zhou Shixiang immediately sent someone to recall Ge Zheng and ordered his camp to take over the defense of the four gates immediately and not to act in the city.

However, Rao was Zhou Shixiang's quick response, and he couldn't save the lives of thousands of people who had been killed by the prison camp, which made him feel very guilty afterwards. After all, the owner of this body is an out-and-out Xinhui person, and the people in the city who took their lives from the Qing army are also his real villagers of Zhou Shixiang, and even some of them may be related. However, Zhou Shixiang, as the conqueror of Xinhui City, took their lives, which made him deeply remorse, and also realized that adding too many troops would strengthen the Taiping Army's strength, but at the same time it also made Taiping The military discipline of the army is even more corrupt. After all, these soldiers are veterans. Killing and looting are commonplace for them. It is almost impossible to expect them to be restrained by the military discipline of the Taiping Army immediately.

Strengthening his own strength by coercing rogues is the development model that Zhou Shixiang personally selected for the Taiping Army, but this does not mean that he really wants to make the Taiping Army into a rogue-style team, especially he cannot accept that the army he built alone will become a massacre. If the Taiping army slaughtered the people every time they captured a place, what is the difference between this and the Qing army, and why should they pretend to be the master of Wang, not to mention that they can stabilize the foundation and gain the support of the people of Guangdong.

Since ancient times, those who have won the hearts of the people have won the world. Although Zhou Shixiang did not dare to hope to gain the world, he never wanted to lose the people's hearts, given that the Qing court had already occupied more than half of China. The support of the people is the most important thing for the Taiping Army, which is still a seedling.

The Taiping Army must not become a rogue-style team, nor can it become an executioner for slaughtering compatriots!

After scolding Ge Zheng to the bone. Zhou Shixiang ordered the Xiongwei Battalion and Hujie Battalion who entered the city to take over the siege and pursuit of the remaining Qing troops in the city, while the Guard Battalion began to exercise military control on the territory already controlled by the Taiping Army.

Although the Xiongwei Camp, Hujie Camp, and Guard Camp also had some bad deeds after entering the city, they were much better than the Zhenlu Camp. The biggest reason was that there were not many green battalions at the head of these three battalions. Most of them were young men who had joined the Taiping Army since Luo Ding, and most of them were from poor families. Therefore, after entering the city, they did not start killing like the prison camp. Instead, he could effectively obey the orders of the officers and did not rashly use the sword against the people.

After the Guard Battalion was ordered to military control, it immediately blocked the areas already controlled by the Taiping Army, mainly blocking the streets and lanes, not allowing anyone to move, and not allowing the Taiping Army who were not from the Guard Battalion to loot and set fire in these places.

Bald Jiang and Hundred Households in the guard camp, although like Ge Zheng, who is full of flesh and blood, are from authentic bandit background, but compared to the former's temperament that he doesn't care about anything once he gets jealous, the latter's consciousness is much higher. Self-control is also far too strong. At least after Zhou Shixiang's order came, he immediately led his troops to carry out the military order, instead of letting his subordinates do things in the city.

Xiongwei Camp and Hujie Camp took over the search and suppression of the remaining Qing troops. Soon, a street-by-street search was launched in Xinhui City. This kind of carpet-like search made it impossible for the Qing troops who wanted to hide in the houses to hide. They were either forced to resist or surrender their weapons. When they surrendered, some people who took off their military uniforms were directly bound and escorted out by the people in their hiding places.

The large-scale massacre dominated by the Taiping Army came to an end after the Zhenlu Camp was transferred to the four gates for defense. Although there were not many Taiping soldiers participating in the rest, most of them were the remnants of the Qing army who had been defeated.

After learning that Zheng Guodong, the defender of Xinhui, had fled from the south gate, Zhou Shixiang did not send troops to pursue him. These escaped Qing troops were irrelevant in his eyes. What was important now was to completely stabilize the situation in Xinhui City. Then quickly rebuild the collapsed city wall, where he wants to defend against the coming main force of the Qing army in Guangdong. Then beat them.

If you want to gain a foothold in Xiangshan County, the premise must be to attack the main force of the Qing army in Guangzhou, so that they are unable to encircle and suppress the Taiping army. Only in this way can the Taiping army have a foothold in Xiangshan. Otherwise, it will face the continuous attack of the Qing army in Guangzhou. In this case, a foothold is probably an extravagant hope.

Since it is necessary to deal a certain blow to the Qing army in Guangzhou, if you choose to engage in small-scale battles or guerrilla battles with the Qing army in Xiangshan, then it is better to use the captured Xinhui city to consume the strength of the Qing army in Guangzhou and turn Xinhui into a commonplace. The same meat grinder as Erdeng bleeds Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao together with the standard battalion of Guangdong Governor Li Suitai. In this way, going south to Xiangshan will not be encircled and suppressed by the main force of the Qing army.

Furthermore, Zhou Shixiang did not want to give up Xinhui City. Xinhui, as the southern gate of Guangzhou, has a unique geographical advantage. Controlling Xinhui is like putting a nail under the eyes of Guangzhou, and it can even connect Xiangshan and western Guangdong. As one piece, it is convenient to contact the Ming army of Lei, Lian and Gao Sanzhou.

Fighting alone was never what Zhou Shixiang expected. He wanted to use the remnants of the Ming army in Guangdong to suppress the Qing army together~www.NovelMTL.com~ Therefore, retaining the Xinhui and controlling it has extremely important strategic significance, at least , Controlling Xinhui City can encourage the Ming army in the west, dampen the morale of the Qing army, and also allow the Taiping army to have room to advance and retreat. If Xiangshan really cannot stand, the Taiping army can also retreat from Xinhui to western Guangdong instead of being recaptured. The Qing army of the meeting was surrounded and killed in Xiangshan County.

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The day before yesterday, when my father-in-law went to the grave for the third anniversary, my wife fell and had a miscarriage on a battery car. The reason was that the road was messed up by the contracted land. Today, the petition was resolved, and I paid 10,000 yuan to me. The efficiency is still fast), and I will take her to the Qing Palace tomorrow. The house still hasn't been demolished, but today there is a contact from a cadre who wants me to demolish it. Let's see the situation. I have been here for three years. If it really doesn't work, let's sign it. Well, although only 90,000 yuan was evaluated for non-commercial demolition of my house, it was counted together with the homestead). I can't hold it anymore. Now the hardware conditions of this piece are not good in all aspects. Considering my son's future studies, I'd better take a step back and talk to them the day after tomorrow. To be continued

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