S: Look at the exclusive story behind Han'er is not a slave, listen to your more suggestions for the novel, pay attention to the official account WeChat add friends to add the official account to enter, and tell me quietly Zhaoqing is the gateway to the west of Guangzhou, blocking Gaozhou and Luoding; Xinhui is the gateway to the south of Guangzhou, blocking Leizhou and Lianzhou; These two places are the places that must be defended in the eyes of the Qing army in Guangdong, when Li Dingguo entered Guangdong, he sent his army straight to Zhaoqing, but was repelled by Xu Erxian, the general soldier of Zhaoqing.
During the siege of the city, Zhou Shixiang, who was a talented man at the time, heard that the old thief came to Xinhui in order to be able to meet the sailors of the Zheng clan of the Southern Ming Dynasty from the sea, so as to encircle Guangzhou by land and water.
Whether Li Dingguo's strategic purpose in attacking Xinhui was to meet Zheng Chenggong's sailors, time has passed, and it is not that the parties have no way of knowing Zhou Shixiang, who made Li Dingguo's decision that day, naturally cannot know, and what is now in front of him is how to cross the fortified city of Xinhui to Xiangshan County.
Crossing the Tan River does not mean that the Taiping Army will enter Xiangshan County, there is a Xijiang River in front, the Xijiang River is not much wider than the Tan River, and there is a newly formed naval division of the Qing Army in Guangdong on the river, and it sounds like a fool's dream to cross tens of thousands of people under the nose of the Qing Army's naval division.
Unable to cross the river, there was only one choice left for Zhou Shixiang to take Xinhui City, and then go straight to Xiangshan by land.
Li Dingguo's attack on Xinhui City was a typical ancient siege method, such as ants attached to the wall, felling and filling trenches, digging tunnels, bombarding the city with cannons, etc., but none of these methods succeeded in the end, which shows how strong the Xinhui city wall is and how elite the Xinhui defenders are.
However, on that day, Zhou Shixiang personally slashed the defender You Yunlong, and it is unknown whether the Xinhui defenders without You Yunlong are as strong as they were when they faced Li Dingguo's army.
Gaoyao is too close to Zhaoqing, although the Taiping army has successfully confused the green battalions stationed in the counties in Zhaoqing Prefecture in the previous series of movements, but with the passage of time, in the end, Xu Erxian, the chief soldier of Zhaoqing, can still judge the details of this force from the signs of the Taiping army's movement, so Gaoyao City can not stay for a long time, and the Taiping army will leave Gaoyao and move in the direction of Xinhui in three days at the latest.
Although the old and weak battalion led by Song Xianggong avoided the county seat and only operated in the countryside and mountains, at this time, I am afraid that they also reached the mountainous area southwest of Xinhui, which was not a safe place.
Zhou Shixiang must immediately lead his troops to break away from contact with the Qing army in Zhaoqing and join the rear camp, otherwise, I am afraid that there will be big trouble on the rear camp.
After all, there are too few capable soldiers in the rear camp, only the 300 people under Zhao Sihai, if they really encounter a large Qing army, they will be more than lucky.
Zhou Shixiang, who had no other choice, pinned all his hopes for passing the Xinhui on the trapping camp, and he found Tie Yi and asked him to make most of the existing gunpowder in the camp into granular gunpowder, and immediately searched for good wood in the city to build two large coffins.
Zhou Shixiang has only one requirement for these two large coffins, that is, they must be completely sealed and must not leak.
Tie Yi was a little puzzled about Zhou Shixiang's purpose in building the coffin, and when Zhou Shixiang told him that he was going to blow up the Xinhui city wall by blasting, he was a little surprised, and then took the order with a solemn face.
Previously, the trapping camp had only done two small blasting tests on the Luoding City Wall, and it was the pottery irrigation that was used to hold the burial medicine, although the blasting effect shocked everyone, but Tie Yi did not have the opportunity to try to blow up the city wall by means of blasting in the subsequent battles.
This time, Zhou Shixiang told him that he would blast the Xinhui city wall, and he would use two large coffins at a time, and the amount of medicine in it was almost half of the Chinese medicine in the camp.
But because the charge was too large, Tie Yi couldn't help but be worried, worried that the blasting would fail.
Zhou Shixiang made it clear that if the Xinhui city wall could not be blasted, the Taiping army would be encircled by the Qing army, and no one would be able to survive at that time.
It was a matter of life and death for the whole army, Tie Yi was naturally cautious, and immediately after returning to the camp, he led people to arrest all the shopkeepers and men of a coffin shop in the city, and brought over several coffins in the shop, and let people improve these coffins overnight.
After making it, put the coffin in the water, put lime in it, soak it overnight and then take it up, and saw that the lime was not soaked, Tie Yi was relieved.
The two coffins are too big and too heavy, and it takes more than a dozen men to lift one with a rope, and it is difficult to imagine that they can be taken on the road with such two big guys.
After Zhou Shixiang learned that the coffin was ready, he hurriedly sent someone to hand over all the dozen or so horses requisitioned from the chariot and horse company in the city to Tie Yi, and these dozen or so horses pulled these two coffins without pulling anything.
The Taiping army left the city on the 17th, and on that day, many people in the city saw the two large coffins pulled by more than a dozen horses, and guessed which big man of the Taiping army was in the coffin, but they didn't know that there was nothing inside.
When leaving the city, the high-ranking recruits of each battalion were a little reluctant to leave their hometowns, and some of the recruits even had the idea of escaping, but under the strict supervision of the small banners and sergeants of each army, few of them were able to escape.
"After eating Lao Tzu's food and becoming Lao Tzu's soldier, you have to follow Lao Tzu" This sentence that Zhou Shixiang once said unintentionally to his subordinates has now become a word that many officers often shout in front of recruits, and whenever this sentence sounds, it will always be accompanied by the fierce eyes of officers and veterans, and even officers will pretend to draw half of the knife.
Although this approach is far from the "people's army" in Zhou Shixiang's mind, it fits the current situation of the Taiping army, if it is not so fierce, the ghost knows how many recruits will run away by then.
Just ran away, but I was afraid that these recruits who already knew more or less about the details of the Taiping Army reported to the Qing army, which was absolutely unacceptable to Zhou Shixiang.
Although the sergeant sent out to investigate reported that the Qing army in Zhaoqing did not go out of the city, Zhou Shixiang still made Shao Jiugong ready, so that the Xiongwei battalion always kept a distance from the front camp for half a day, so as not to bite the Taiping army in Zhaoqing.
In a war, Zhou Shixiang is not afraid, but now he can't fight, and meeting with the rear battalion is the top priority of the front battalion.
Before leaving the city, the Taiping army spread a lot of false news in the city, still with the intention of confusing the Qing army, so that the true intentions of the Taiping army could be concealed for a longer period of time.
A hundred carts were loaded before and after the grain requisitioned and persuaded from the county government and large households, and the guards battalion was responsible for escorting them, and for this reason almost all the chariots and horses in Gaoyao City were requisitioned and distributed, and 300 people were also levied to be responsible for transporting them.
Zhou Shixiang also made a promise to these people, as before, that as long as the food was delivered, they could go home.
To the west, you can still see some villages at first, but further west you will not be inhabited, and the deserted land and ruined villages are everywhere, except for the occasional flock of birds and one or two pheasants and rabbits flying out of the ground, there is no living creature in sight.
When the Taiping Army was stationed, the frogs and snakes in the small rivers and streams on the side were basically caught, which made Zhou Shixiang very emotional, and it was true that Guangdong people love to eat snakes.
On that day, the blue flag of the Han army led to the National Day to the west of Gaoyao City, Ge Zheng led people to chase for more than ten miles and disappeared their traces, the Taiping Army in Gaoyao City in those days, Zhou Shixiang successively sent several teams of soldiers along the west of the city on both sides of the official road to search, but except for a piece of cloth belt that was torn, there was no other find.
As for where Xiang Guoqing's gang fled to, Zhou Shixiang was not as nervous as his subordinates, Gao Yao was in the direction of Leizhou to the west, and the Qing army in Leizhou had just been severely damaged by Linghai's general Chen Qice a few days ago, and they were not capable of threatening the Taiping army, and the only one who could pose a threat to the Taiping army was the Qing army in Zhaoqing.
Xu Erxian is a veteran of Liaodong, and he is a fierce general under Shang Kexi, but there are not many soldiers and horses stationed in Zhaoqing, and the Taiping army has acted in Zhaoqing one after another, annihilating the Sihui battalion, dragging the other two green battalions dizzy, thinking that before the final confirmation of the Taiping Army's details and action intentions, Xu Erxian will not easily go out of the city, after all, the gains and losses of Zhaoqing City are much more important than the Taiping Army.
Besides, Xu Erxian was able to defeat Li Dingguo's army back then, relying on the tall city walls of Zhaoqing, he really wanted to abandon the city to fight, and his little men and horses were obviously not enough for Li Dingguo to drink a pot.
Shao Jiugong and Li Fuguo, the two officers of the Green Battalion, were interrogated by Zhou Shixiang after they surrendered to Zhou Shixiang, and from their mouths, Zhou Shixiang roughly had a preliminary understanding of the strength of the Qing army in Guangdong.
Unlike in the past, when he was still a Xinhui Xiucai, he was afraid of the incomparably strong Qing army, and now Zhou Shi was not afraid of the Qing army at all, and he knew that the Qing army in Guangdong was not as strong as he had heard before.
The Qing army in Guangdong is currently composed of three forces, and the main force is also the core of the people, naturally the Han army banner soldiers under the command of King Pingnan and Shang Kexi, but the soldiers under the command of the second king are not too many, and there are only about four or five thousand people together.
In addition to the feudal soldiers, the governor of Guangdong, Li Shutai, was another strong force of the Qing army in Guangdong, with a strength of about 2,000 people.
The rest is a huge number of soldiers, but because of the green battalions scattered in various places, the total number of troops is roughly between 20,000 and 30,000, and there is also the newly formed Guangdong Naval Division, with a strength of about 3,000 people.
Several groups of people were added together, and the total number of Qing troops in Guangdong was about 40,000.
Fortunately, Guangdong Province is not the exclusive occupation of the Qing army, the southeast has the Zheng clan in Chaoshan, the southwest coast has the Ming army's naval division, the brave attack, the northwest is facing the 100,000 troops of Li Dingguo, Gaozhou, Lianzhou, Leizhou and other places in the Southern Ming Dynasty are distant, the existence of these horses directly dispersed the strength of the Qing army in Guangdong, so that the Qing army in Guangdong could not form an overwhelming advantage in any of the Ming army.
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