The funerals of Ge Zheng and Peng Dazhu, the two old brothers from Daqiao Mountain, were very simple, and like those Jiangxi soldiers who died in battle, they also found a vacant land in the city and buried them, and similarly, there was no monument.
Ge Yi was deeply affectionate, too sad about the death of his brother, and cried and fainted when his brother entered the ground, which frightened Zhao Sihai and them at that time, and later Lang Zhong took a look, saying that he was too excited for a while, and he would be fine for a day or two.
People die and are buried.
Hurt, cure.
Those who can't be cured can only wait for death, and then bury them in the ground.
Everything is simple, and the hearts of the surviving people are hung on the city wall, on the besieging Qing army outside the city.
After three strong attacks, the Qing army, which had lost no less than 5,000 troops, finally stopped its crazy behavior and did not continue to take human lives to fill the bottomless pit of Xinhui Jiancheng, but the Qing army camp outside the city was still standing, and the layers of defense lines were still tightly surrounding Xinhui, which made the Taiping army in the city breathless.
According to Zhou Shixiang's instructions, Song Xianggong once again counted the remaining materials in the city, such as grain, salt, vegetable oil, fire oil, lime, sasswood, weapons, etc., and the results were not optimistic.
Song Xianggong privately suggested to Zhou Shixiang to break through immediately, because the food in the city could last for about ten days at most.
Ten days later, if the Qing army has not withdrawn from the siege, then the Taiping army will have no food to eat, if it wants to break through the siege, it must start immediately, otherwise, in a few days, it will not have the strength to break through.
The proposal to break through was put forward as early as the initial army of the Qing army's siege, but it was vetoed by Zhou Shixiang, and now, he still does not approve of the breakthrough.
The reason is very simple, it is impossible for the soldiers in the army to leave their wives and children behind and flee alone, he Zhou Shixiang really dared to order a breakthrough, I am afraid that before the city gate is opened, the city will already be fratricidal.
The officers of the former Green Battalion headed by Shao Jiugong and Li Fuguo supported the breakout, and they were all lonely in the Taiping Army, and they were naturally unwilling to wait for death in the isolated city of Xinhui.
On the contrary, Tie Yi, who was trapped in the camp and Qin Zhisheng, who was in the Hujie camp, was resolutely opposed to breaking through.
Regarding Tie Yi's opposition, Zhou Shixiang naturally understood, because most of Tie Yi's subordinates were his co-workers in the Laofengzhuang Copper Mine, and all the families of the officers and soldiers in the camp were in the city.
Qin Zhisheng's fierce opposition to the breakthrough made Zhou Shixiang a little surprised, Qin Zhisheng was alone when he fell to Daqiao Mountain with Hu Quan, and he did not marry a wife and have children for so many years, so he, like Song Xianggong and Li Fuguo, has no family in this city, so it stands to reason that he should support the breakthrough, after all, if you break through, you can have a little more life, and most of the people who stick to this city are dead. never thought that Qin Zhisheng was as determined as if he had eaten a scale, and he didn't agree to break through, and even angrily scolded Li Fuguo when he quarreled with them, you want to run, Lao Tzu doesn't run Zhou Shixiang never had the idea of guessing the psychology of his subordinates, but this time he couldn't help but ask Song Xianggong to find out why Qin Zhisheng was so fiercely opposed to the breakthrough.
Song Xianggong was silent for a moment and told Zhou Shixiang that Qin Zhisheng and Hu Quan were both on errand in Li Chengdong's army, Hu Quan was Li Chengdong's personal soldier, and Qin Zhisheng was the commander of Li Chengdong's subordinate Zheng Kuiguo.
In the second year of Yongli, Li Chengdong led his troops to attack Ganzhou, Jiangxi anyway, but he never wanted to be defeated and drowned.
After the death of Chengdong, the dragons have no leader, the generals surrendered, retreated, when Zheng Kuiguo was ordered to keep the letter of Yuancheng, after the Qing army approached, Zheng Kuiguo actually ignored the thousands of sergeants in the city and abandoned the city and ran, he ran as a result of the Qing army into the city after the thousands of families were killed.
Song Xianggong said that among the thousands of army sergeants and soldiers, there are probably people who Qin Zhisheng admires, because since then, every year on the ninth day of April, which is the day when Xinyuan breaks the city, Qin Zhisheng will be alone in the back mountain to find a no-man's place to drink alcohol.
Once, Ge Yi accidentally saw Qin Zhisheng hiding his face and crying in the direction of Northeast Xinyuan.
Whether there are any people Qin Zhisheng's admirers or relatives in Xinyuan City who were slaughtered by the Qing army, it has been so long, Qin Zhisheng himself does not say it, and others can only guess.
Zhou Shixiang had no intention of exploring this matter in detail, but he felt that this matter was probably not much different from what Song Xianggong said, because there was an abandonment of the city that led to the tragic death of thousands of old and weak women and children, so today Qin Zhisheng would rather die than break through, because he knows better than anyone else that this so-called breakthrough is actually abandoning the city and abandoning those old and weak women and children who cannot break through with the army.
The bald Jiang He was the most vicious among the brothers in Daqiao Mountain, and when Zhou Shixiang was discovered by them, Jiang He also had the most fierce attitude towards him.
But it's also strange to say, Jiang He's life is big, and since the beginning of the fight against Luo Ding, this guy has not been injured at all, and he hasn't even encountered any danger, which is very embarrassing.
As for whether to break through, Jiang He had a neutral attitude, neither supporting Shao Jiugong and Li Fuguo, nor supporting Tie Yi and Qin Zhisheng, but said that everything is listened to by Qianhu, and if Qianhu says to break through, then break through, and if Qianhu doesn't say break through, then defend it.
This is tantamount to saying in vain, and it is similar to the later saying of "who supports whom in the central government".
Those who held the same attitude as Jiang He included the Guards Battalion to try 100 households to regenerate Lin, and the Hujie Battalion to try 100 households, Zhang Erjiang and others.
Song Erniu and Zheng Erniu, the two test hundred households with the name of the cow, were killed and refused to break through, and their situation was similar to that of the trapped camp, they all had wives and children in the city.
The dispute between the two sides was very fierce, and the military discussion was ultimately inconclusive, because the main purpose of Zhou Shixiang to convene the generals was not to discuss the matter of breaking through, but to make detailed arrangements for the defense of the city, and to make up for several gaps caused by the Qing army's strong attack.
In the end, Zhou Shixiang announced that because of Ge Zheng's death, the post of 100 households in the Zhenying camp was vacant, and now Ge Yi took the lead, and then ordered the generals to retreat first, and he wanted to discuss with Song Xianggong again.
I never thought that after the generals returned, the news that the Taiping army was going to break through the siege spread in the city, and for a while, the soldiers of the five major battalions, the old and weak of the rear battalion, and the people were panicked.
Those old and weak women and children were even crying in the back camp, lest Zhou Shixiang, a thousand households, would abandon them.
The cries of women and children naturally caused the men in the barracks to be distraught, and the officers and soldiers whose families were in the rear camp surrounded their hundreds of households and hundreds of households, asking if there was a breakthrough.
Under the excitement of the crowd, some soldiers even took off their military uniforms angrily and threatened not to work for the Taiping Army again.
The incident happened so suddenly that Zhou Shixiang was stunned for a while, because he had repeatedly told the officers attending the meeting in advance that no one should disclose all the information about the breakout.
However, the truth was that his gag order did not work, and rumors of a breakout intensified in the city, almost to the point of shaking the morale of the army.
Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong slapped the table at the same time and determined that someone was behind this incident and there was a ghost oshow7 t1706231537: