When the Taiping army occupied Xinhui, Qi Hao and his brothers were laying grass in the mountains and forests not far from the Tan River in the northwest.
Of course, this is not a serious business, and it is all a bloody business.
After coming and going, he had a lot of fame in the local area, and he also had something to do with the Qing army because of the need for "trading".
Although limited to livelihood needs, he had no choice but to start trading with the Qing army, but Qi Hao still had his bottom line, and repeatedly warned his brothers that it was okay to do business with the Qing army, but it must not be used by them, let alone surrender, so as not to fall into the name of the boss king, after all, he Qi Hao followed the boss king to fight for so many years, witnessed the boss king being shot dead by the Qing army, and followed the boss king's four righteous sons from Sichuan to Yunnan, and then from the south to kill, so many years, he and the Tartars have nothing to talk about, either you die, or I die In his conscience, he Qi Hao has done a lot of bad things, and there are more innocents who died under the knife, but if he Qi Hao throws himself into the Tartars, don't even think about it, unless he Qi Lao Si dies, or he has to go down with the Tartars, he doesn't believe that the Han people's rivers and mountains can really be occupied by the Tartars Qi Hao's brothers were looking for "germination" nearby, when they bumped into the envoys sent by Zhou Shixiang to contact them, the remnants of the Ming army, and learned that the Taiping army occupied Xinhui, these original Ming troops were naturally taken aback, and did not dare to slack off and sent the messenger up the mountain.
After the envoy saw Qi Hao, he simply told them about the situation of the Taiping army, and finally asked Qi Hao and others to go down the mountain to support Xinhui for the sake of the same Ming army.
I have been a bandit for more than half a year, and I have waited for more than half a year, and finally there is news of my own army, but which battalion is the head of this Taiping army, and which king is under it Qi Hao is very sure that this Taiping army is not the soldiers and horses under the account of Li Dingguo in Xifu, and he does not have the impression that it is any other soldiers and horses in Guangdong, but it doesn't matter, as long as it is to fight the Tartars, not to mention that this Taiping army has done something that even tens of thousands of troops in Xifu have not done and occupied Xinhui What the gains and losses of Xinhui mean for the situation in Guangzhou and even the whole of Guangdong, Qi Hao, who had been the chief soldier, naturally knew it, and he almost did not hesitate to agree to the envoy's request, and was willing to take his brothers down the mountain to join the Taiping army.
However, when people arrived in Xinhui, they received the news that Xinhui had been surrounded by the Qing army, and this time not only Qi Hao's brothers, but also the Taiping army envoy who contacted him also lost his charter and didn't know what to do.
Faced with the dilemma, Qi Hao's subordinates were shaken, half of them were unwilling to continue to move forward and die, bluntly said that it was to break through the encirclement of the Qing army and enter the city, it was useless, I didn't see that the Qing army had surrounded the three layers of Xinhui City and the outer three layers of the city to death, this has to be planted headlong, and starve to death depending on the situation, the Taiping army will not be able to hold on to Xinhui, and sooner or later it will be a death, in this case, everyone should go back to the mountain, so as not to give away their lives in vain.
The other half of the people don't want to go back to the mountains to be bandits, after all, most of them are from the Great Western Army, so many years with Qi Hao and the Qing army to kill one after another, although I don't know what national righteousness, but all of them are well-known, would rather die in battle than surrender to the Tartars, now there is a team of soldiers and horses in front of them who are fighting hard with the Qing army, and they don't want to kill the Tartars with these good men, but shrink back to be bandits When the envoy saw Qi Hao's subordinates arguing, there was nothing he could do but put his hope on Qi Hao, the leader.
In the face of the differences among his subordinates, Qi Hao was also single, so he simply told those who were unwilling to vote for the Taiping Army to go back by themselves, and the rest of those who were willing to vote continued to join the Taiping Army with him.
He also said to the envoy that it was true that the Tartars had surrounded Xinhui City, but it was not a bucket, and it was definitely not possible to rush into it openly, and his manpower was not enough to stuff the teeth of the Qing army, and he had to think of other ways to enter the city.
Something else The envoy is just an ordinary pawn in the Taiping army, because he can speak, and he knows a few words before he was selected by Zhou Shixiang to be sent out to contact the Ming army in various places, he has no urgency, and he is not much stronger than others, so he really rushed into the encirclement, he is also afraid, if it weren't for his wife and two young siblings in the city, he couldn't say that he really took off the clothes of the Taiping army and ran away.
Qi Hao said that he was looking for another way to enter the city, and the envoy was naturally willing, so he responded immediately, but he was still not optimistic that Qi Hao could find any safe way to enter the city.
I didn't think that this Qi Hao looked at the rough man, he was indeed a careful-minded person, and he really showed him the weak point of the Qing army's defense line, and boldly proposed to find a small boat to sneak ashore from the river in the middle of the night, and then sneak into the city.
If a large group of people and horses go ashore from the river, it will definitely not work, unless the Guangdong sailors on the river are all dead, but if a small boat hits a dozen or so men to touch it, it is feasible, after all, the Qing army just wants to trap the Taiping army, do not allow the Taiping army to break through, and cut off all possible Ming troops from all directions, but in addition, they don't care about any movement in the city.
It's just that some people really let it in, as long as it's not a big team of people and horses, and they don't bring food, it doesn't matter to the Qing army.
The envoy couldn't think of a better way, so he could only agree with Qi Hao's idea, and after a few days of careful observation, Qi Hao took them to Xinhui City at night.
Along the way, there was no danger, although they encountered a patrol warship of the Qing army's sailors, but they were not found, and they did not encounter the Qing army after touching the shore.
After shouting, he called Zhou Shixiang over.
For Qi Hao and others to vote, the Taiping army is not without suspicion, Song Xianggong is one of them, he reminded Zhou Shixiang that the new city has been besieged for more than a month, and none of the more than a dozen groups of people who were sent to the city before came back, but this will suddenly appear one, and bring people back, maybe there is fraud, in case the people who come to vote are the people of the Qing army, so easy to let them in, I am afraid of causing a big disaster.
In order to arouse Zhou Shixiang's enough attention, Song Xianggong said several examples of the Qing army's battle that should be opened in the Qing army, whether it was the Apocalypse and the Liaodong war during the Chongzhen period, or after the Qing army entered the customs, the Qing army often used spies to infiltrate the city that was difficult to capture, and then opened the city gate inside and outside.
Song Xianggong's reminder also made Zhou Shixiang's heart beat a drum, and he couldn't help but wonder if the people who voted were real, but there were only a dozen people who thought about it, so what could they do if they were really Qing army spies, as long as they were properly cared for, what kind of waves could these people make.
But if they are not allowed in, it will not be a pity if these people are really people who have come to vote In the end, Zhou Shixiang chose to let people in, and another reason that prompted him to let people in was curiosity, he was very curious about how these people broke through the Qing army's defense line and touched the city. oshow7 t1706231537: