Han’s Son is Not a Slave

The sky-shattering oath in Xinhui City made the morale of the Qing army outside the city even more depressed. After the naval camp was burned down, the food and herbs in the Qing army camp were in jeopardy. Shang Zhixin made a desperate decision to attack Xinhui. The King of Pingnan in Guangzhou sent general Ban Zhifu to make a name for his son, but he could not transport a grain of food.

In the three storms, in addition to the loss of soldiers and the loss of generals, the consumption of food and grass in the army is even more alarming. After all, when driving soldiers to forcibly attack the city, they must first feed them. The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers.

Zhou Yuanliang, the deputy commander of Pingnan, who was killed by the Taiping army's artillery fire, counted the army's food and grass after the naval fire, and came to the result that it was only enough to last for three or four days. However, now, the Qing army has been attacking Xinhui for eight days. The food and grass that could only last for three or four days was absolutely impossible to maintain for so many days. Now the Qing army is still guarding the city. The price is A large number of soldiers and civilians were starved to death. Of course, those Qing soldiers who died in the storm also saved some rations for the living.

When Shang Zhixin left Guangzhou, Guangzhou Prefecture, on the order of the Governor Yamen, recruited more than 3,000 people from the prefecture and county to serve in the army. Later Shang Kexi rushed to Xinhui in person, and Prince Pingnan personally recruited, and the number of civilians employed in this army would naturally double.

According to a rough count by the Guangzhou government, the total number of 10-dollar young men sent to the army has reached more than 7,000, and this does not include the number of people collected by the Guangzhou government to raise food for the army. So many civilians were conscripted into the army, making the scale of the Qing army look very powerful from the outside.

According to the military system of the Qing army, the supply of the Eight Manchu Banners was higher than that of the Eight Mongolian Banners, the Eight Mongolian Banners were higher than the Han Army Banners, and the supply of the Han Army Banners was higher than that of the Green Battalion.

The army besieging the city was dominated by the gratifying Pingnan Fan under the Han flag and Geng Jimao's Jingnan Fan under the banner, supplemented by the Green Battalion. Therefore, although the Guangdong Green Battalion accounted for more than half of the army, it was the Han army in terms of food and grass supply. Standard soldiers are more expended. Under the exploitation of the Han army flag, the rations of the Green Battalion soldiers were very limited. In order to fill their stomachs, the Green Battalion soldiers naturally placed the targets of exploitation on the people of lower rank than them.

"Lafuzi" is undoubtedly a disaster for ordinary people. In this era, no matter which side of the Ming and Qing Dynasties is, the teachers who serve in the army are treated the same - the same abuse and harshness. The common people who were drawn into the army to be their masters often died nine times, and if one of ten survived, it would be considered smoke from the ancestral grave, and the ancestors showed their spirits.

Before the Qing army ran out of food, in order to give the people the strength to work, the Qing army could more or less let them eat half full, after the run out of food. This half-full has become a luxury. After wantonly looting the rations for the soldiers of the Green Battalion to feed the flag soldiers, and thinking about using the Green Battalion to fill the bottomless pit of Xinhui, Shang Zhixin stopped distributing the rations for the civilians, and even suggested that the generals of the Green Battalion would let his subordinates plunder the last bit hidden by the civilians. Food, so that the Green Battalion soldiers can continue to serve as cannon fodder for the attack on Xinhui City.

As a result, a large number of civilians who were already in a state of semi-starvation were starved to death in large numbers. The first two days were fine. There are thousands of corpses. The few thousand remaining are severely malnourished. The half-dead villagers also face the danger of falling down at any time.

It's not that no one thought about escaping, but under the strict surveillance of the Qing army, the fate of those who escaped was even more tragic. There are daring people who do not want to be starved to death and run to the riverside in the middle of the night, but there are very few people who run to the riverside. There are only a handful of people who can successfully jump into the river and swim out alive.

No one in the Qing army suggested that these civilians should be dismissed. Lest they needlessly die here. However, this suggestion was ruthlessly rejected by Shang Zhixin. The reason he explained to the generals was that military information should not be leaked. He said that at present, every place knows that a large army will not be able to besiege the city for several months, and a large number of civilians have been dismissed in the sudden army.

A simple statement of not allowing military information to be leaked determined the tragic end of thousands of civilians. The daily wails in the Confucius camp made the Qing army not bear to enter the camp to visit, and only asked the camp to drag the dead to the riverside and discard them. This practice made the fish and shrimp in the Tan River even more plump.

Some Qing army generals thought more deeply. The prince kept so many civilian husbands who were dying of starvation in the army, and I was afraid that it would also be effective in the purpose of the grand birthday of the ancestors or the action of Yunlong last year.

In the Chongzhen years of the former Ming Dynasty, the ancestor Dashou guarded Dalinghe City. Last year, Yunlong guarded the Xinhui. The people in this city finally made military rations!

People are knives, I am fish!

The people who are unable to decide their own life and death are looking forward to nothing more than the Qing army breaking the city in one fell swoop, or the thieves in the city defeating the Qing army. No matter what happens, they can end their current tragic situation.

Every time the Qing army was closely guarded in the camp in the Houchengtou, the good news of breaking the city came, but every time they were deeply disappointed. It was the Taiping army in Fantasy City that was able to defeat the Qing army.

Therefore, when the oath that shook the city was spread to the outside of the city and to every corner of the camp, the people who were still able to move struggled to get up from the ground, climb to the place where they could see, and looked at the new people in front of them. Huicheng was silent. When some of them saw that the Qing soldiers who were guarding them were all drooping their heads and looking down at Xinhuicheng, their eyes began to flash with strange brilliance.

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The shocking movements of the Taiping Army in the city one after another made the Qing army, which was already low in morale, especially depressed. There was no sound, no whispering, no whispering, just despair.

Together with Shang Zhixin, the commanders Ban Zhifu and Qin Guocheng, the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Green Battalion, Lin Shanzhi, the commander-in-chief, Hu Guoli, the commander of the Jingnan vassal Geng Zhongde, and the cadres and generals under the Pingnan vassal, There are about ten people.

Ban Zhifu was ordered by Shang Kexi to come to Xinhui to help his son, but he is not an immortal. Facing the fortified city of Xinhui, which was difficult for Li Dingguo's tens of thousands of troops to conquer, he, a veteran of hundreds of battles, was helpless. In his heart, Ban Zhifu did not agree with the prince's decision to attack, and he believed that it should be the time to withdraw troops and return to Guangzhou, because compared with Xinhui City, the infighting between the two thieves of Nan Mingsun and Li was a major event.

In a small Xinhui city, a Taiping army with only a few thousand people is really not worth the mobilization of the king of Pingnan. As long as the Sanjiangkou is blocked so that the Taiping army has no chance to invade Guangzhou, the elite troops can be dispatched to advance to Gaozhou. When the news of the infighting between the two kings of Nanming is confirmed, the Taiping army will be defeated even if it is not defeated!

After all, this Taiping army is just a lone army, without the support of Li Dingguo, in the heart of the Guangdong Qing army, facing the Guangdong Qing army far beyond his strength, what kind of waves can the Taiping army make?

That thief show was able to defend the Xinhui, but it was because the city was too strong to be easily defended and difficult to attack! If the thief scholar really dared to lead his troops out of the city, Ban Zhifu dared to promise the King of Pingnan that he could defeat this rabble in one fell swoop as long as he led a cavalry of several hundred people!

However, the matter is not something he can decide. Although he knew that King Pingnan and his elders were hesitant about the prince's decision, he still supported the prince in the end. This is not so much that King Pingnan also believed that Xinhui City could not be lost, but rather that King Pingnan believed that the authority of the prince could not be attacked. And the prince's side is actually difficult to ride a tiger. As the prince of Pingnan, it is the first time to lead an army. No matter what aspect, Shang Zhixin can't accept failure, because he can't fail!

Ban Zhifu did everything he could, and when he came, he personally went to the Governor's Yamen and Guangzhou Mansion. The purpose is to make them rush to bring a large batch of grain and grass. But a few days later, a grain of grain has not been delivered to Guangzhou.

This can't be blamed for the failure of the Governor of Guangdong, Li Ruotai, and the prefect of Guangzhou, Zhu Guorong, to do their best, but in the short term they really couldn't get food together. Now I really can't scrape out the food! One can only blame Liang Biaoxiang for his incompetence. If it weren't for him, would the army be short of food!

When he thought of Liang Biaoxiang who had disappeared without a trace, Ban Zhifu was inexplicably angry. But as soon as the anger came up, it was pressed down again and again. At this juncture, it was not enough to kill Liang Biaoxiang, but the problem at hand had to be solved. Look at the movement in the city. I am afraid that it will be difficult to break through the city after three more strong attacks. Let’s think about how to persuade the prince to withdraw his troops. This new club can’t stay any longer.

Thinking of this, Ban Zhifu glanced at the generals who were all faceless, and with one mouth opened, he was about to persuade the prince to withdraw to Guangzhou, but before he could open his mouth, Shang Zhixin suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "This is the envoy in the city. Out, the thief will clearly want to cover up, trying to deceive me to save the siege, but I am not as good as he wants, pass my orders, and then attack the city with three drums!"

Hearing this, Ban Zhifu and the generals were all taken aback, everyone thought that the military's heart had been depressed to such a level that His Highness the Prince was going to attack the city. Isn't this self-defeating!

"Your Highness can't!"

Ban Zhifu was in a hurry, and he didn't care about so many people, and said directly: "If you attack the city again, you can only bring shame on yourself!"

Hearing this, Shang Zhixin's cheeks trembled violently, and he stared at Ban Zhifu with a fierce light, and regardless of the fact that the man in front of him was an old subordinate who had followed his father for more than 30 years, he yelled: "You What did the old man say!"

When the generals heard this, they were all stunned and stunned on the spot. Everyone was stunned. Ban Zhifu was stunned at first, and then his face was blushing. His Royal Highness was speechless for a long time.

After a while, he regained his composure, took a step back and bowed his head to plead guilty: "Your Highness, calm down, you will be speechless!" When he said this, Ban Zhifu felt extremely sad in his heart.

Shang Zhixin also came to his senses at this time, knowing that he had fainted for a while when his temper came up, and that he had actually said abusive words that hurt the heart of the first trusted confidant beside his father, and he regretted it very much, but it was because he was not good at being in front of so many people. Ban Zhifu apologized, snorted angrily, and waved to Ban Zhifu that this was not necessary.

After Ban Zhifu looked up, he no longer looked at Shang Zhixin, but took two steps back silently, standing outside the generals without saying a word.

After experiencing the scene just now, the generals were all lingering in fear, and no one spoke. Shang Zhixin was also silent, staring at Xinhui City angrily. The scene was at an impasse for a while.

All the people present, except Ban Zhifu, was the most respected commander of Qin Guocheng, followed by Geng Zhongde, the lower commander of Jingnan. Right now after work, Zhifu was dissuaded and scolded, and no one dared to speak up again. Although Shang Zhixin never mentioned the siege, things couldn't be so rigid any longer. There must be a decision, or else it would drag on for two or three more. On the day, this army will disintegrate on its own.

Qin Guocheng opened his mouth to persuade him, but he felt chilled when he thought of Ban Zhifu's fate, thinking that the prince is now riding a tiger, and he might not be able to change his mind if he came forward. The prince does not give face to his own family, but he has to give some face to outsiders. Thinking of this, Qin Guocheng turned his face to look at Geng Zhongde, not wanting the other party to seem to know what he meant, so he turned his head away pretending not to see it.

This scene was so angry that Qin Guocheng cursed in his heart. He had no choice but to take a step forward, his mouth moved, and he said, "His Royal Highness..."

Just after saying two words, Geng Zhongde suddenly made a "Huh" next to him. Qin Guocheng was even more annoyed when he heard it. Before asking you to come forward, you refused, but what are you doing now. When he raised his head, he was about to glare at him, but he also said "Huh", his expression condensed there, and his back was cold as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

Qin Guocheng and Geng Zhongde's eyes fell on the Tan River in the west, but there was an extra fleet on the river.

A red fleet.

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