Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 709: Lower Ganzhou

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The Taiping army made a massive northern expedition, and the thief Xiucai personally led tens of thousands of troops to storm Shaozhou. According to the Guangdong Admiral Tang Sanshui, who was guarding Shaozhou, he led his troops to hold on for three days. In the end, he was forced to give up Shaozhou because he was outnumbered, and he led the rest of his troops to retreat to Ganzhou. On the way, he was chased by the Taiping army cavalry. Fortunately, Hu Yousheng, the general soldier of Qingnan Jiangxi, rescued him, and his troops were finally preserved.

It was urgently reported that after the Taiping army occupied Shaozhou, they took Nanxiong with a partial division. The main force immediately crossed Meiling and divided their troops into two routes, one from Longnan and Xinfeng, the other from Nan'an and Nankang, and approached Ganzhou. When the news came out, Jiangxi Province was shaken, and the situation was like when Jin and Wang rebelled.

"The pirate army's banners, banners, and weapons were dazzling for a while, and the grain and salaries, bows, knives, guns, gunpowder, etc., were innumerable. Their spirit was strong, and their intention was to take Ganzhou first, then Nanchang, and then return to Jiujiang, march east, and join the pirates. Soldiers, seek Nanjing!"

Su Hongzu, the governor of Southern Gansu of Qing Dynasty, sent 800 li to the Qing court to rush to the Qing court after verifying with Tang Sanshui, the governor of Guangdong Province. At the same time, he asked Xia Yie, governor of Jiangxi from Nanchang, to immediately mobilize the main force of Jiangxi Green Camp to reinforce Ganzhou.

After discussing with Liu Guangbi, the Admiral of Jiangxi, Xia Yie believed that Ganzhou was the gateway to Jiangxi. If Ganzhou was lost, there would be no other important towns south of Nanchang to stop the Taiping army except Ji'an. At that time, the Taiping army would inevitably attack Nanchang. Troops will be hard to resist. Only by gathering the strength of the whole province to reinforce Ganzhou can the Taiping army be blocked from Meiling.

In order to strengthen Xia Yie's confidence in defending the enemy, Liu Guangbi emphasized that in those days Liu Wuyuan, Gao Jinku and others defended Ganzhou, first defeated Jin Shengheng, Wang Deren, and then Li Chengdong's deeds, which made Xia Yie's confidence soar, and he readily agreed to gather troops from the whole province to rescue him. Ganzhou. On July 13, Jiangxi Admiral Liu Guangbi led the main force of Jiangxi Green Camp 6000 from Nanchang and reinforced Ganzhou via Ji'an. At this time, the front of the Taiping Army had reached Xinfeng, and the thief Xiucai sent letters to the guards of Ganzhou in the Qing Dynasty to recruit and surrender.

In the city of Ganzhou, the Qing Guangdong Admiral Tang Sanshui, the Southern Jiangxi Governor Su Hongzu, and the Southern Jiangxi Commander Hu Yousheng and others adopted a strategy of delaying the army, and sent messengers to reply to express their willingness to go anyway, in order to paralyze the thieves and scholars. Food, fortification of city defenses.

Ganzhou City, like Liuzhou City in Guangxi, faces water on three sides, has dangerous terrain, and has strong city walls. It is an important town that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. In addition, a Ganzhou city made hundreds of thousands of Ming troops looking at the city and sighed anyway. The current southern Jiangxi commander Hu Yousheng also participated in the two defense battles of Ganzhou throughout the whole process. At a rate of 100,000 kilograms, more reinforcements from the governor of Jiangxi came, and the morale of the Qing army in the old city was high, and they were full of confidence in defending the city.

Guangdong Admiral Tang Sanshui, accompanied by the chief soldier Hu Yousheng, inspected the whole city, and said to the officers and soldiers that there is Xiongcheng in Ganzhou, and that thief Xiucai must be the second Li Chengdong, and the period of defeat and death is not far away!

On July 17, the Taiping army on the right was pushed all the way to the foot of Ganzhou city through Longnan and Xinfeng. After the Taiping army reached the city of Ganzhou, the thief Xiucai ordered dozens of battalions, and the artillery fire continued throughout the night. At the same time, the Left Taiping Army, under the command of General Ge Yi, quickly swept Nan'an, Nankang, Chongyi, and troops into Jiuniu Station, dismantling the resistance force of Zhou Zuoqing Army in Ganzhou.

Tang Sanshui, the admiral of Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty, and Su Hongzu, the governor of Nangan, saw that the Taiping army was strong and Zhouzuofu county was lost. Hu Yousheng selected elite soldiers and suddenly opened the city to fight, caught the Taiping army by surprise, destroyed their fort, and bought time for the Nanchang reinforcements to arrive. This plan was exactly the way that Southern Ganzhou governor Liu Wuyuan, chief soldier Kong Guozhi and others defended Ganzhou and defeated Li Chengdong.

In the early morning of the next day, Hu Yousheng, the commander-in-chief of Qingnan Jiangxi, led an army of 4,000 troops out of the city from the small east gate, south gate and west gate, intending to attack the battalion and inflict heavy damage on the Taiping army. Unexpectedly, the Taiping Army was already prepared, the cannons fired in unison, and the horse team rushed out. In all directions, they shouted to kill Zhentian, and the Qing army was caught off guard when they left the city, and they retreated in panic. The general soldiers of Nangan raised their heads to the sky and cried out in grief.

Unexpectedly, when Hu Yousheng led more than a thousand defeated soldiers to retreat to the city, he found that no matter how they shouted to open the door, the city gate would not move. Not only that, the original Ganzhou soldiers in the city were gone, replaced by Guangdong soldiers brought from Shaozhou by Guangdong Admiral Tang Sanshui. The Cantonese soldiers were condescending, laughing at the Ganzhou soldiers under the city, and immediately fired their guns, guns, bows and arrows. Hu Yousheng was shocked, knowing that it was not good, Tang Sanshui must have had an affair with the thief Xiucai. In desperation, he tried to flee, but was attacked by both the Guangdong soldiers on the city and the Taiping army outside the city.

First, the sneak attack out of the city failed, and now the old nest was taken over. The Qing army was in chaos and fled one after another. Most of them were chased into the river by the Taiping army horses and drowned. After the war, when the battlefield was cleaned up, a Taiping soldier captured a large horse on the river beach, complete with golden saddles and bridles, and sent it to the camp for inspection. The prisoners of the Qing army were interrogated and confessed that they were the war horses mounted by the commander-in-chief Hu Yousheng. Reward.

When Zhou Shixiang heard that Hu Yousheng's mount was captured, he ordered people to go downstream to search for Hu Yousheng's body, but found it. After the corpse, it was confirmed that Hu Yousheng was not killed by an arrow, but fell off a horse and drowned. This death is similar to that of Dongxun and Li Chengdong back then, but I don't know if it's God's will or just a coincidence.

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Jiangxi Admiral Liu Guangbi, who had just led his army to Ji'an, looked at Guangdong Admiral Tang Sanshui, who had escaped from Ganzhou in a panic. His whole person became bad.

"The thieves brought 100 red-clothed cannons and came to attack Gancheng for 40. The remaining 60 were in Meiling. When they reached the city, the artillery fire continued day and night. The commander Hu Yousheng and the governors went out of the city to attack the camp. Unfortunately, they were surrounded by thieves. The thieves attacked the city on a large scale, breaking the big and small east gates, the governor Su Hongzu committed suicide by hanging himself in the Fuya, and the Guangdong Provincial Admiral Tang Sanshui led the remnants to fight with the thieves alley for one day, and at night, Fang led hundreds of remaining soldiers to escape. Taking Ganzhou will inevitably invade Ji'an and Nanchang. People in the province are frightened, and they have nothing to rely on.

When Xia Yie, the governor of Jiangxi in Qing Dynasty, heard that Ganzhou had fallen, he was inexplicably grieved and indignant, and asked the Qing court urgently. At the same time, the Admiral Liu Guangbi was ordered to lead the army to garrison Ji'an on the spot, and the Guangdong Admiral Tang Sanshui was asked to lead the remaining soldiers, and another 800 battalions were assigned to jointly defend Jishui.

After the Taiping army seized Ganzhou city, they pushed to Ji'an without any rest and did not give Jiangxi Qing army any respite. At the same time, Zhou Shixiang, in the name of the Duke of Yue and the Governor of Da Ming, widely spread the word about Jiangxi, and ordered all places to surrender early, otherwise the army would arrive and slaughter as soon as possible. (To be continued.) Mobile users, please browse and read for a better reading experience.

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