Han’s Son is Not a Slave

After Qi Hao and others were hanged in the city, Song Xianggong was about to separate them from the messenger, and then questioned them separately. This is also a matter of course. Qi Hao did not feel dissatisfied with the Taiping Army because of it. He would also be the same. Carefully sail the ship for ten thousand years. After all, no one knows whether the Qing army will use the same method to send it to the city. spy. He remembered clearly that when he was under the order of Li Dingguo of the West House to guard Hengyang City, there were Qing army spies who mixed in with the refugees and entered the city, and then set fires everywhere at night. Qi Hao did not give up to defend Hengyang, but called the Qing army to seize it early.

Song Xianggong cross-examined the messenger first, and then interrogated Qi Hao and his subordinates respectively. After a few confirmations, there was no problem, but Song Xianggong was still not at ease until Qi Hao took out his general manager awarded by the Yongli court of the Southern Ming Dynasty. It was only when the soldier gave the seal that the suspicion of Duke Xiang of Song was completely dispelled.

Qi Hao's commander-in-chief was given the seal by the Yongli Imperial Court after the Great Western Army's alliance with the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, according to Sun Kewang's registration form, but more often he has nothing to do with the Yongli Imperial Court, and can really command He is still Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo. For the Ming army generals from the former Daxi Army, the Yongli court is just a Buddha statue on the incense table.

After Qi Hao was forced to abandon Hengyang due to the strong Qing army, Li Dingguo once seized his post of commander-in-chief and served in the rank of general, but the seal of commander-in-chief was never taken back. Li Dingguo wanted to come, although he was angry that Qi Hao had abandoned Hengyang, but he also knew that this was forced by the situation, that is, he was not forced to fight in Guangdong because of Sun Kewang's forcing. In the final analysis, although Qi Hao was not his direct descendant, he was also a member of the Great Western Army, and even took the initiative to vote for him, Li Dingguo. If it is really too harsh on Qi Hao regardless of his feelings, it will not be good for his reputation as Li Dingguo.

The official seal of the Nanming court, Zhou Shixiang naturally also has one. However, compared with Qi Hao's seal of commander-in-chief, it is much inferior, only the seal of the General of Luo Dingzhou. This seal was not given to him at first, but given to Hu Quan by Cheng Bangjun, the military officer of the Yongli court. Now that Hu Quan is dead, this seal naturally falls into the hands of Zhou Shixiang, the actual leader of the Taiping Army. .

The first-level official crushed people to death, and the person who came was the chief military officer, but he was only a general who had not been officially recognized by the Yongli court. This brings a question, how to deal with Qi Hao, the chief military officer of Ming Dynasty who came to vote.

The problem is easy to solve. It is related to the command of the Taiping Army and his own life. Zhou Shixiang is not ambiguous. In front of Qi Hao and his men, he bluntly said that the Taiping Army welcomes you to vote. , I don't know if you want to.

I thought that Qi Hao had been a chief soldier after all, but now he can only be a general flag, and the gap is not small. There must be some resentment in his heart, but he didn't want Qi Hao to say anything after hearing the appointment, so he readily agreed. Zhou Shixiang felt a little embarrassed because of his cheerful appearance, which underlined that he treated the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. Imagine that he followed Zhang Xianzhong to fight in the South and the North in his early years. No matter his age or seniority, he was a man of the second generation. Xiucai is much stronger, and can lead his brothers to insist on fighting against the Qing when Li Dingguo retreats to the west. Although the messenger said that they are doing more bandit activities than fighting the Qing army, and even fighting against the Qing army's green battalion. Some of them sat on the ground to sell dirty, but in any case, they did not surrender. He didn't turn his gun to attack his former colleagues, but he resolutely came to shoot even knowing that Xinhui was surrounded by the Qing army. This alone is enough to explain everything. Such people, how can they only have fame and wealth in their eyes, and how can they be suspicious of themselves.

From Qi Hao, Zhou Shixiang learned about the situation in the outside world after Xinhui was besieged. Last month, a Ming army in Dongan tried to move closer to Xinhui, but was repelled by the Qing army. They entered the estuary by boat, but they did not break through the blockade of the Guangdong Navy of the Qing army. Just half a month ago, I heard that a Ming army landed on Hailing Island, Yangjiang, but there was no movement after that. In addition to these, Qi Hao did not have much information from the outside world. This information was learned by the other party when he and the Qing army were doing dirty work.

These news made Zhou Shixiang sigh secretly. Although he sent more than a dozen messengers to the outside world before Xinhui besieged the city, it was Gaozhou who really had hope. Wings can affect the Ming and Qing wars, at least it can prevent Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo from fighting at this juncture, but now it seems that this hope is probably lost. From the time, Sun Kewang is afraid that Li Dingguo is in a hurry, and tens of thousands The elite soldiers of the Great Western Army cannibalized each other under the command of the two princes.

Without Li Dingguo's third eastward march, Xinhui's situation would be a dilemma. It would be foolish to expect those Nanming rogue troops and sailors who can only dominate the water to solve this crisis of the Taiping Army. What's more, few of the generals of the Nanming army scattered all over Guangdong seem to be able to see the impact of the Taiping army's occupation of Xin on the situation in Guangdong. The generals are all moving to the Xinhui.

It is better to ask for others than to ask for yourself. It seems that the Taiping Army can solve the dilemma of the Xinhui itself. How can it be solved?

The three-story Qing army encirclement outside the city left Zhou Shixiang unable to do anything. On the premise of not abandoning those old and weak women and children, he has almost no possibility of breaking through. The soldiers in the city ran after him, this **** is even more unrealistic than a fool's dream.

Fortunately, after suffering two losses, the Qing army no longer had the courage to forcefully attack Xinhui, and the food in the city could last for three or four months. The only trouble was the salt. Concerned about eating salt, Zhou Shixiang naturally asked Qi Hao how they entered the city, and whether there was a way to transport salt out of the city along this road.

Qi Hao and the others can come in, and naturally they can go out. As long as there are not many people, this passage outside the West City can be said to be the only passage for the Taiping Army to communicate with the outside world. But it's easy to get out, but where to find salt? They can't grab the salt from the Qing army. If they really want to make a noise, the Qing army is not a fool. Naturally, they know that there must be a flaw in the defense line. When the investigation is done, the road on the river will definitely be broken. It's really a lonely city.

Qi Hao had a headache for a while, but one of his brothers suddenly said that it was not impossible to transport salt to the city, but the cost would be higher.

Hearing this, Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong's eyes lit up, and they both asked about this person. According to this person, he and Qi Hao used to look for food when they fell grass on the mountain, and had no intention of hooking up with a person from the Guangdong Navy. Although this person was from the Navy, he was also well-known on the road. Bold, he only recognizes money but not people. If the money is enough, he will kill his own mother for fear of being able to do it. At the beginning, when they went down the mountain to get some wealth, most of them were handed over to this person. Speaking of this, the faces of the man and Qi Hao were embarrassed, and their words were mostly slurred, but Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong couldn't hear it. The navy's people took action in exchange for the food they needed.

Zhou Shixiang had never done this, but how did Duke Xiang of Song never do it, and which of the bald Jiang He and Ge Zheng did not do! To be a bandit, you must have the consciousness of a bandit, to be a bandit, you must have a way of living as a bandit, not to kill and set fire, what do you want this bandit to do?

In troubled times, people's lives are like ants, killing people and setting fire to gold belts. Zhou Shixiang has long seen that the two worlds are human beings. This world is not peaceful for a day, and this kind of thing will not end for a day. The difference is only which one dies.

Seeing Qi Hao's face ashamed, Zhou Shixiang hurriedly changed the conversation and asked him if there was a way to contact the sailor to see if he could buy the salt that the Taiping Army urgently needed from him. Silver is not a big deal, as long as there is salt, the price is not a problem, I am afraid that there is no salt!

Just like that, Qi Hao and the others rested in the city for two days, and then sneaked out of the city along the road of Laishi in the middle of the night. Using the contacts they made when they were bandits in the past, they really talked to the sailor, and the other party heard that. They asked for salt~www.NovelMTL.com~ without a second thought, they directly gave the price, one hundred and two bags of salt (50 catties).

This price is really ridiculous. Although it is a chaotic world, the price of salt is much higher than in the Taiping years, but a bag of salt is at most ten taels of silver. This guy gave birth to a son without fart. But after scolding, he went back and reported it to Zhou Shixiang. Zhou Shixiang didn't have such an excited reaction as he did, so he pondered for a while and asked him to go to Houying to find Song Xianggong to go to the public treasury to get a thousand taels of silver and take it with him. .

Zhou Shixiang didn't care about money, and Qi Hao naturally didn't care. In this way, the problem of the Taiping army's lack of salt was solved by this black-hearted figure of the Qing army's Guangdong Navy. Basically every three days, Qi Hao takes people out of the city. It's not that he doesn't want to buy more at a time, but he can't have too many people out of the city. Otherwise, if the Qing army is found, there will be nothing.

The salt problem was solved, the firewood was forced to demolish the house, and the water was barely covered. The food could last for a while. The Taiping army just sat guard in Xinhui City, and did not leave the city to attack at night. .

The Qing army outside the city was also determined to trap the Taiping army. A few months passed, but no troops were withdrawn, but they did not increase their troops. However, it was often seen in the city that large quantities of food and grass were transported from time to time in the Qing army camp. Now the competition between the two sides is about supplies. Whoever has more food will be the final winner. (To be continued)