Han’s Son is Not a Slave

There are too many possibilities in the world. Guo Kuoyu, the partial Yuan governor recommended by Hong Chengchou, turned into a hero who leads Yuanzhou's military and civilians. Then, under his "persuasion", Chenzhou prefect Xiao Hanying and Changde prefect Zhang Xueren also responded to the call of restoring the Ming Dynasty. He led the military and civilians of Chenzhou and Changde to return anyway.

At this point, dozens more people have been added to the list of Manchu officials who came back from the Taiping Army "anyway". Among them, the heavier ones included Zhang Zhaotao on the Hunan Road, Guo Wanxiang on the Hunan Road, Feng Heng, Bao Jing, the prefect of Baoqing. Zhizhou Zhao Jideng and others, in addition to Yuanzhou general Guo Yong, Chenzhou general Ruan Qing, Baojing deputy general Chang Tianxiao and other green battalion generals also surrendered to the Taiping army.

During the Guilin military meeting, the town general Zhao Ziqiang once said that the Qing army in Hunan was vulnerable to a single blow, and a single town of the Taiping army could attack Hunan. The fact is exactly as Zhao Ziqiang said, when more than 30,000 officers and soldiers of the Taiping Army rushed into Jingzhou, Hunan from Huaiyuan, Guangxi on October 13, and seized the main passage into Guizhou, the main force went to Hunan in Yunnan through Hong Chengchou. The Qing army was defeated by the Taiping army, and it was completely irresistible.

On the 17th, the sixth town of the Taiping Army seized the city of Jingzhou, and then the troops entered the joint and cut off Yingkouyi, another important road into Guizhou. Yang Shiying, the prefect of Jingzhou in the Qing Dynasty, did not dare to resist the Taiping army, and led a thousand remaining soldiers to retreat to Qianyang County. After hearing that the Taiping army was attacking Qianyang, Yang Shiying was so frightened that he abandoned Qianyang City and ran to Suining. After staying in Suining County for only one night, Yang Shiying felt uneasy, and hurriedly retreated to the city steps sixty miles south of Suining.

The sixth town general of the Taiping Army, Suna, sent his deputy general E Duo to lead a brigade of soldiers to pursue them, and finally surrounded Yang Shiying at Chengbu. After being besieged, Yang Shiying had no hope of defending the city, and hopeless to break through. After his death, Sun Daquan, counselor of the Green Battalion in Jingzhou who fled to Chengbu with Yang Shiying, knew that he was not an opponent of the Taiping army, so he led people to open the city gate to surrender to the Taiping army.

The sixth town was instructed to garrison Jingzhou, and used a brigade of soldiers to puppet attack Guizhou to contain the Qing army in Guizhou. More trenches were dug in the wide areas, and the narrow areas were blocked with rubbing rocks. In addition, watchtowers and bunkers were built on the slopes on both sides of the dangerous places, so that the people cut down the forests in a radius of more than ten miles, some of which were used to make rolling logs, and some of them were transported to Yingkou Station for the construction of watchtowers.

In order to build fortifications before the Qing army from Guizhou returned to the north, Suna, the general of the sixth town, spared no effort in the people's efforts, ordered the soldiers and the people to work day and night, and finally took Yingkou to dozens of miles of official roads in Guizhou at the cost of more than 4,000 casualties. Build a formidable line of defense. If the Qing army wanted to break through this line of defense, it would take tens of thousands of lives.

In addition, according to the requirements of the military department, Suna organized the army of the young men who had surrendered and recruited into an army, issued the captured weapons, and expanded the three brigades on the basis of the C brigade. They were stationed in various counties in Jingzhou to maintain local law and order, eliminate the remnants of the Qing army, and mobilize the chieftain forces who cooperated with the Qing army.

In order to stimulate the surrendered soldiers and the young men to give their lives, Suna ordered the brigades to "persuade food" to the big gentry in the territory. Provoked by this order, the three brigades, which were hastily formed by surrendering soldiers and civilian husbands, set off a **** storm in Jingzhou. The Tusi armed forces, which had originally changed their attitude to cooperate with the Ming army, also turned hostile to the Taiping army, and continued to harassed the Taiping army strongholds.

When Zhou Shixiang was leading the army to attack Chenzhou and Changde in the north, Suna then made his own decision and issued a massacre order, ordering the ministries to carry out the three-light order of "killing, burning, and robbing all the natives in the territory", ordering the territory of western Hunan. The sound of people's mourning shook the four fields.

After Zhou Shixiang, who was far away in Changde, heard about the absurdity of Suna in Jingzhou, he immediately ordered Suna to stop the Sanguang order and turn to appease the chieftain in the territory. But the premise of appeasement is that the chieftain must lead his people out of the mountains, select young people to serve in the Taiping Army, and at the same time learn Chinese characters, speak Chinese, and change their names from Han customs.

Zhou Shixiang also ordered that if the native official refuses to accept Wang Hua, he can send someone to contact the people under the native official, and promise large rewards and large profits, and they will kill the chieftain. When the matter is completed, the commissioner takes office. The natives and Han people of the ministry are generally protected by the Taiping Army and can participate in the division of fields and production.

Zhou Shixiang strictly ordered the native officials who had cooperated with the Qing army to attack the Ming army and massacred the Han people. When the matter is completed, the native official's property will be owned by the encircling and suppressing native official, and at the same time, he can be promoted to the rank of Yousichai.

Zhou Shixiang used the same boldly as before. Those who voted from the city were entrusted with their original positions. Those who were awarded titles by the Qing court were still compiled by the Taiping Army. They will be awarded the same or promoted to the Ming Dynasty in another day. knighthood.

The surrendered troops must be scattered and used, and the surrendered generals must be appointed to other battalions. This principle must not be shaken by Zhou Shixiang's strict order.

After the reconstruction of government offices in various places, the first thing is to count the small mouths for investigation and narration; the second is to collect money and grain for military use; the third is to make public announcements for stability; the fourth is to recruit refugees, persuade them to return, and resume production.

When the sixth town was swept up in Jingzhou, and a **** storm broke out, the ninth town, which was weaker in combat, accompanied the artillery town and the cavalry brigade to besiege Yuanzhou. The second town crossed Yuanzhou and marched towards Chenzhou.

On the 21st, the Taiping cavalry brigade attacked Hongjiang, Huaihua, and Yuanshui three posts, killing more than 1,000,500 garrisoned people, and then surrounded Yuanzhou Prefecture before the Qing army in Yuanzhou could react. Ninth Town and Cannon Town One followed up. On the 24th, the Taiping Army Artillery Town shelled Yuanzhou City. At the same time, in the first battle of Wuzhou, he was promoted to command the same-known Ma Yaozi Wang Fu. The minister led a cavalry to burn down the second post of Bianshui and Huangzhou west of Yuanzhou, and killed more than 300 soldiers of the Qing army stationed there. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

After the Taiping army began shelling the city, the governor of Yuanzhou City, Guo Kuoyu, a protégé of Hong Chengchou, made an immediate decision. Knowing that it was impossible to resist the Taiping army with cannons with only more than 3,000 soldiers in the city, he led the Chinese military officials in the city to return to Ming anyway, so as to avoid the situation. After the city was broken, the family was buried with him.

Hearing Yuanzhou anyway, Zhou Shixiang was overjoyed, and still appointed Guo Kuoyu as the governor of Pianyuan, and ordered more than 3,000 Yuanzhou defenders to leave the city to accept the Taiping army. The Ninth Town and Pao Town were stationed in Yuanzhou. On the one hand, the Qing army near Yuanzhou was purged, and on the other hand, like Jingzhou, the civilians were sent to block the official road from Yuanzhou to Guizhou.

After the partial Yuan governor, Guo Kuoyu, asked himself to persuade his colleagues to surrender Xiao Hanying, the prefect of Chenzhou, and Zhang Xueren, the prefect of Changde, Zhou Shixiang readily agreed.

On the 28th, under the coercion of the second town of the Taiping Army, Xiao Hanying, the prefect of Chenzhou, wisely accepted the persuasion of Shangguan Guo Kuoyu and led more than 2,000 defenders of Chenzhou anyway.

After taking Chenzhou, the second town did not stop for a moment, and continued to advance to Changde in the north, attacking the city and the land all the way, and it was unstoppable. Zhang Xueren, the prefect of Changde, was unable to defend the city and had no courage to commit suicide, so he had to choose anyway like Xiao Hanying.

Once in Changde, the gate leading to Kuidong opens. (To be continued.)