Zhou Shixiang gritted his teeth and wanted to devour alive Wu Jinzhong, who was at the military camp at the foot of Guifeng Mountain, looking at the Yutai Temple in the distance, and behind the mountain that he couldn't see, 200 Qing soldiers were sneaking to the mountain under the cover of night under the guidance of the little monk of Yutai Temple.
The Buddhas are all Hu people, what if there is one more Hu emperor in the world In the letter to Wu Jinzhong, the old monk Qilin, who comforted himself with this reason, in addition to scolding those black-clothed thieves who occupied the dove's nest, was full of words that he was looking forward to the Qing Dynasty to rescue his family from the dire situation.
In the end, the old monk Qilin showed his greatest kindness to the Qing soldiers, pointed out an unknown path in the back mountain to the Qing soldiers, and wished the Qing soldiers success in suppressing the thieves in one fell swoop.
After receiving the letter, Wu Jinzhong was overjoyed, and had no choice but to take a siege because the thieves occupied the favorable terrain on the mountain and could not attack, although this strategy was effective, but it took too long.
At the beginning of the year, although Li Dingguo's army had retreated, but the remnants of the Ming army did not have time to retreat and there were many bandits hiding in the mountains near Xinhui.
After all, after the siege of Xinhui was lifted, the two princes of Pingnan and Jingnan successively transferred the flag soldiers in the city back to defend Guangzhou, leaving only a small number of flag soldiers and a green battalion stationed in Xinhui.
At present, the number of Xinhui defenders is less than 3,000, and now half of them have been taken by Wu Jinzhong to Guifeng Mountain, and the number of defenders in the city is even less.
The remnants of the Ming army and bandits have always been another threat to the defense of Xinhui City, although compared with Li Dingguo's army of tens of thousands of people at every turn, the former is pitifully small in number, and the threat is much smaller, and Xinhui City is basically not possible to be broken by these people, but their existence is a headache after all.
Over the past few months, Wu Jinzhong has sent troops out of the city several times to suppress the bandits and remnants of the Ming army in the nearby mountains, and even this Guifeng Mountain has also sent troops twice, but every time they just entered the mountain, those bandits either hid far away in the mountains, or they were broken into pieces and hidden, but few dared to compete with the Qing soldiers.
Some of the remnants of the Ming army were operating along the Xijiang River and the Tan River, and the newly built Guangzhou Navy Division also had no way to take them, the river was so long, who knew where these remnants were hiding.
Even if you know, when the sailor rushed over, these remnants would have already run away, and it can be said that there are no people in a hundred miles above the shore.
Fortunately, Wu Jinzhong's purpose in sending troops out of the city to suppress bandits was not to protect the territory and the people, and Guangzhou did not let him clear the place, so he didn't need to explain anything to the above, and sending troops out of the city was just to shock those bandits and the remnants of the Ming army, so that they could stay away from Xinhui, and it would be better if they could capture something.
As for where the bandits are hiding and hiding, Wu Zongbing doesn't care at all, in his opinion, these people are simply things that can't be put on the table, and now the officials and soldiers just can't take care of them, if they really want to kill them, it's as simple as pinching them to death.
The significance of Xinhui City to the Qing army in Guangdong and the significance of the people of Xinhui to the Qing army in Guangdong cannot be compared at all, Hugh said that there are no people in Xinhui at the moment, even if there are people, the Qing army will not care whether they are suffering from bandits, as long as Xinhui City is in the hands of the Qing army, Wu Jinzhong can sleep steadily, and the life and death of the people have nothing to do with him, does he eat less of the people in this city This time, if it weren't for the fact that the rear camp of the Taiping Army suddenly came to the territory of Xinhui, and the number of people was larger than the defenders and surviving people of Xinhui, it posed the biggest threat to Xinhui City since the withdrawal of Li Dingguo's army.
When the spies came to report the news, Wu Jinzhong still didn't believe that such a large number of soldiers and horses appeared in Xinhui, because there was no relevant military information from Zhaoqing, Luoding, and Leizhou in front, and where did such a group of men and horses fly from?
At first, Wu Jinzhong thought that this was Li Dingguo's soldiers and horses killed again, and he was so frightened that he almost sent an urgent report to Guangzhou for help, but later found out that this was just a bandit rogue under the banner of the Ming army, and there were a lot of people, but most of them were old and weak, women and children, and it seemed that there were not even a thousand soldiers who could fight.
There are many people and few soldiers, Wu Zongbing naturally breathed a sigh of relief, this team under the banner of the Ming army has naturally become a fat sheep in the eyes of Wu Zongbing, as for why this team came from Xinxing, how to avoid the Zhaoqing Qing army and came here, and what is the purpose of coming, Wu Zongbing doesn't care, he only knows that he must not let this team run away from under his nose, let alone let them cause any trouble to Xinxingcheng.
The king of Pingnan had just recommended himself to the imperial court to be the governor of Guangdong, and at this juncture, Wu Jinzhong did not dare to make a mistake, although there was a guarantee of the king of Pingnan, but the governor of Guangdong, Li Shutai, was not satisfied with the protection of the king of Pingnan, and was very prejudiced against him, a non-banner person, thinking that the governor of Guangdong should be appointed by the banner man, not by a general who had been a thief.
In order to show that he was not targeting the two feudal domains of Ping and Jing, Li Shutai even brought out Li Chengdong's lesson, repeatedly emphasizing that the governor of Guangdong must not be a general who was born as a thief, that is, not by a banner person, but also by those green battalion generals from the Ming army, so it is a safe policy.
Wu Jinzhong, who heard the news, was naturally very annoyed: Li Chengdong's anti-thief can compare with me, I am loyal to the Qing Dynasty, and I am loyal to the Qing Dynasty Annoyed is annoyed, but Wu Jinzhong can't do anything about this imperial governor, fortunately, King Pingnan and King Jingnan are dissatisfied with Li Shutai, and King Jingnan even promised King Heping Nan to sponsor him Wu Jinzhong as the governor of Guangdong, so Wu Jinzhong is not worried that Li Shutai will ruin his future.
There are two princes who jointly guarantee the promotion, and the court no longer looks down on him, Wu Jinzhong will always sell the two vassal kings a face.
Before the holy decree of the promotion to the governor of Guangdong arrived, Wu Jinzhong had to quickly solve the tens of thousands of troops that appeared in Xinhui, lest the governor yamen take advantage of this to make his future uncertain.
However, he didn't expect this team to be so difficult to fight, and under heavy encirclement, they still rushed to the mountains and occupied the favorable terrain near Yutai Temple, condescendingly causing many casualties to the Qing army.
In desperation, Wu Jinzhong could only take a siege position, trying to use time to solve the battle, but when he was sleeping, someone sent a heartbeat, and the path pointed out by the monk Qilin suddenly made Wu Jinzhong see the possibility of not consuming it anymore, but killing the thief in one fell swoop.
It was very late at night, Wu Jinzhong was still standing in front of the tent in armor, and behind him, a group of officers and personal soldiers were all draped, looking at the mountain with a blank expression.
There was also no one sleeping in the barracks, and the Han army flags, the armor of the green battalion soldiers, and the weapons used to wipe the weapons were all prepared just to wait for the signal on the mountain.
In order to confuse the Taiping army on the mountain, Wu Jinzhong had already ordered that the whole battalion was strictly forbidden to make noise, let alone anyone to move, except for the soldiers who were routinely patrolling, the rest of the people stayed in their tents and waited, so as to cover up the signs that the whole army was preparing for an attack.
The illusion of the Qing army was very successful, and the Taiping army on the mountain did not find anything wrong in the Qing camp, except for the soldiers who were on guard, most of them had fallen asleep.
The Qing army did not attack for several days, which made the old and young in the camp a little relaxed, and they all thought that the Qing army would not attack tonight.
Yutai Temple is not big, it is not small, but thousands of people poured in at once, and the temple was obviously crowded.
On weekdays, the guest rooms for pilgrims are full of women and children, and the old people live in various Buddhist halls, in addition to the more than 100 monks in the temple, the Daxiong Treasure Hall is also home to three or four hundred old and weak, and it is better during the day, and when they sleep at night, they are all people next to each other, head to foot.
The smell in the hall was so smoky that people wanted to vomit, and the old monk Qilin couldn't stand the smell the most, but he could only endure it, hoping that the Qing soldiers would hurry up the mountain to send these damned bandits and Diao people to hell.
The corpses of the campers killed by the Qing army a few days ago are all under the mountain, and they will all be buried by the Qing army, otherwise there will be epidemics under the scorching sun.
The Qing army is also human, and they will also be infected with the epidemic, so whether they want to or not, they have to collect the corpses.
When retreating to Yutai Temple, Zhao Sihai led his men to snatch back some of the injured campers, but the corpses could not be robbed, and hundreds of men were killed and wounded when resisting the Qing army's attack on the mountain.
The dead were carried and buried, but those who did not die were mourned in the palace of the Heavenly King, which was used as a temporary shelter for the wounded, but everyone who heard the wails of the wounded was heartbroken, heartbroken and terrified at the same time, lest they would not be able to hold out the arrival of reinforcements.
Zhao Sihai once wanted to ruthlessly put all the wounded to death, lest they shake the morale of the army there, but Song Xianggongjian would never agree, he said that we are in a desperate situation, and the whole battalion knows the situation, this will be everyone in a group, saving one-ten-thousandth of hope and the Qing army's death, if you will put the wounded to death, what do they think about how Zhou Qianhu promised them that day that day, I am afraid that we will die without the Qing army to attack.
Thinking of Zhou Shi's promise to "treat us if we are injured, and bury us if we die" made by Zhou Shi's relative sergeants and the old and weak who entered the camp, Zhao Sihai dispelled this crazy idea.
Zhao Sihai has been sticking to the front line for several days, his eyes will be red, but he doesn't dare to relax for a while, others can go to sleep, he can't, because he knows that he, the trial hundred, is not only the support of his soldiers and security guards, and the treasury army, but also the support of those old and weak women and children, if he can't hold it, no one can hold it.
Until now, the rear camp can still firmly occupy the Yutai Temple, not because of how brave the battalion soldiers are, but because of the unity of the group, and because of the spirit that does not want to die.
If this spirit is not there, there will be no one on this mountain.
Alas, I don't know where the Thousand Households will go Zhao Sihai, who was really a little tired, gently untied the knife and put it on his lap, leaning against a stone tablet and closing his eyes, he was really tired.
At the foot of the mountain, there is still a black hole, and you can see the bonfire lit in the Qing military camp from a distance. oshow7 t1706231537: