In Xinhui, the Taiping army had repelled the third siege of the Qing army.
Learning from the lessons of the previous siege failure, in the past few months of siege, Shang Zhixin ordered the army to build a large number of shield vehicles, ladders, and building carts for siege, and even sent the people to build another earthen wall along the Xinhui city wall, intending to take advantage of the geographical advantage to condescendingly shoot the Taiping army in the city.
Although the Taiping army could not go out of the city to destroy, they used the large and small artillery on the city wall to bombard it, resulting in heavy casualties among the mud people.
It is difficult to avoid epidemics in the army, and the bitter cold in the north is not afraid, but Guangdong is in the land of Lingnan, the climate is hot and humid, there are no large number of corpses, and epidemics are also common.
Once there is an epidemic in the army, the soldiers will suffer a large number of non-combat casualties, and if they are not controlled, they will cause a catastrophe that cannot be saved.
In the past, there was a strong city that was difficult to overcome, and there were Manchurian soldiers from Beijing to help, and there was an epidemic in the camp, and under many factors, Li Dingguo could only look at the city and sigh.
After Zhou Shixiang occupied Xinhui City, faced with the dilemma of being alone in a lonely city, he naturally paid more attention to the prevention of epidemics in the army.
Since Luo Dingxing's army, the Taiping army has coerced a large number of local people every time they occupy a place, including Shinong and industrialists, and Langzhong has designated all of them to be conscripted into the army.
Since the southward war, the people with the army have suffered heavy casualties, but only one of them has not been damaged, and they have all been arranged in the medical camp as military doctors.
Since Xinhui City was "food city" by the Qing army, there are few residents left in the city, and there is a shortage of medicinal materials.
However, this is not difficult for Zhou Shixiang, who has been a man in two lifetimes, and most of those prescriptions are used to treat the epidemic, not to prevent the epidemic, if there is really an epidemic in the army, how can it be cured by just treatment, and how to control the epidemic from a large-scale epidemic.
The five battalions of the Taiping Army, together with the security regiment, are only two or three thousand people, and if there is really an epidemic, the combat effectiveness can be said to be wiped out in an instant, so the solution of Zhou Shi relative to the epidemic lies in the word "prevention".
The burial of the corpses of the dead soldiers and the Qing army was the first priority, followed by the mass burning of the city in the city.
Of course, this burning city is not to burn Xinhui City to the ground, but to pick up some houses in dense areas and burn them, and use the high temperature to kill the germs hidden in them.
After burning, it is spread with lime, and then specially excavated in the camp to defecate places, other measures such as drinking boiled water, set up a special isolation place, once someone is found to have signs of infection, whether it is true or not, quarantine is carried out, and people infected with the epidemic are never allowed to contact others.
As a result of these measures, there has been no outbreak in the city for several months.
Song Xianggong is naturally full of praise for Zhou Shixiang's epidemic prevention arrangement, but Zhou Shixiang is not very proud, and the method he adopted is just a simple measure for later generations, but the times are different and the knowledge is different, which makes people admire today.
The Taiping army took epidemic prevention as the top priority in the city, but the Qing army outside the city did not take the epidemic seriously.
On the contrary, some people raised the issue of the epidemic to Shang Zhixin, but His Royal Highness, who was born in the north, did not pay much attention to it, and only sent people back to Guangzhou to ask his father to write to the governor's yamen, and ordered the governor's palace to recruit some langzhong from various prefectures and counties.
Other quarantine measures, but limited to knowledge, can not do much.
In Shang Zhixin's view, compared to the fear of the epidemic, the Taiping army trapped in the lonely city should be more afraid.
In the isolated city, the water and sanitation conditions are limited, and he ordered people not to collect and bury the corpses of soldiers killed in battle, the purpose of which was also to breed epidemics in the city, so that Xinhui could be taken without a single soldier.
However, it backfired, and after waiting for a few months, the Taiping army in the city not only did not show signs of breeding epidemics, let alone lack food and water, but his army fell ill because of the lack of attention to the epidemic and the death of a large number of people.
For those people who were plagued, Shang Zhixin and the generals of the Qing army naturally did not pay attention to them, and let them fend for themselves, and when they died, they dragged them to a distant place and did not even want to dig a pit and bury them.
The large number of deaths of the Minfu and the superiority of the Taiping army's artillery made it impossible to carry out Shang Zhixin's plan to besiege the city, and the epidemic in the army must have affected the morale of the army.
However, before the destruction of the naval camp, Shang Zhixin did not take the epidemic problem to heart, compared to the total number of soldiers and horses besieging the city, the infection of hundreds or thousands of people is not worth the Pingnan Wang Shizi to mobilize the army to solve it.
What really made Shang Zhixin unstoppable was the destruction of the sailor and the cutting off of grain and grass.
Shang Zhixin decided to attack, Qin Guocheng suggested that he first send someone back to Guangzhou to ask the prince for instructions, this is Lao Cheng's serious suggestion, after all, the Qing army has attacked Xinhui several times, but in addition to the loss of troops and generals, it has not even taken the city.
This time, if you attack again, the soldiers and horses who throw it in don't know how much they will lose.
The prince of Pingnan went south to rely on five thousand soldiers and horses under the domain, and the previous siege, the most elite soldiers and horses under the domain folded four or five hundred, and other banner soldiers also folded hundreds, although this loss for the Pingnan palace is not a big injury, but it is also a broken muscle.
If you really want to fold it a little more, I'm afraid you won't be able to deter the green building attached to the south.
Besides, the Green Battalion had lost four or five thousand men due to the previous siege, and now they were not willing to ask them to attack again.
According to Qin Guocheng's idea, he naturally asked the king of Pingnan to make a decision, and then whether to break the siege and return to Guangzhou or attack it by force, it was the idea of the king of Pingnan, whether it was the soldiers and horses of the feudal clan or the green battalion, they did not dare to disobey the orders of the prince, but if His Royal Highness the prince made the decision, I am afraid that some people would have ideas in their hearts.
Some of the generals of the domain have recently gotten quite close to His Royal Highness, and His Second Highness has been quite favored by the prince's side in recent years, which has made some people in the palace have strange thoughts, after all, outsiders don't know that the prince has decided to send His Royal Highness to Beijing.
This time, the prince ordered the prince to command the army to attack the new meeting for the purpose of cultivating the prestige of the prince, but the failure of the siege had a certain blow to the prestige of the prince, and the blow to His Royal Highness the prince was even greater.
Qin Guocheng has not heard some rumors, saying that the prince was furious after returning to Guangzhou, and he was quite dissatisfied with the performance of His Royal Highness the prince.
Whether these rumors are true or false Qin Guocheng doesn't talk about him, but what is the purpose of the spread of this rumor, can he know if there is any connection between Neizhong and His Second Highness, and he, the old minister, does not dare to say that there is no.
Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, there can only be one prince of Shizhen Lingnan, and there can only be one His Royal Highness the prince.
The eldest became a prince, and the second child could only live silently for a lifetime.
Power is an aphrodisiac, the desire of old age, how can this young person not look forward to it.
Qin Guocheng did not dare to get involved in the dispute between the princes, but at the moment, he wanted to assist Shang Zhixin wholeheartedly, without him, just because the eldest prince was the successor designated by the prince, and he was also the prince of Pingnan canonized by the imperial court.
The prince wanted to attack, but Qin Guocheng couldn't stop him, so after sending people to report to Guangzhou quickly, he dispatched troops to command the siege.
On the 17th, Shang Zhixin took the Guangzhou Green Camp as the main force to attack the city, and concentrated 3,000 people to storm the eastern city.
On the 18th, with 800 Han army flags to cooperate with the green battalion to attack again, the fierce battle until the evening, piled up more than 1,000 corpses, to no avail.
On the 19th, Ban Zhifu hurried to the camp.
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Knowing that the grain and grass of the sailor were burned, Shang Kexi couldn't hold his breath, weighed it again and again, and ordered Ban Zhifu to take him to the command to pass on the army, and ordered the generals to cooperate with His Royal Highness the Prince to win the new meeting On the 20th, Shang Zhixin mobilized 600 soldiers from Shang's own family, 1,200 from the Han army, and 4,000 from the green battalion to attack Xinhui again.
The battle lasted for three hours, the east gate of Xinhui was almost broken, the defenders of the city suffered heavy casualties, at the moment of crisis, the guard general Zhou Shi blind date led the death squad of 200 people out of the city to fight to the death, killed Wang Guangming, the deputy general of the Guangzhou Green Battalion, and defeated the enemy in one fell swoop, forcing Shang Zhixin Mingjin to withdraw his troops.
On the way to withdraw the Qing army, Zhou Yuanliang, the deputy commander of the Pingnan Domain, was hit by a cannon, and was seriously injured and died that night after being desperately snatched out by his subordinates, becoming the highest general of the Qing army killed since the Xinhui Siege. oshow7 t1706231537: