The good characters are all garrisoned by the Qing army, and unlike other Xiangshan Fang, the good characters are a big town protected by a walled city.
This walled city is the old Dongguan county that was built in the second year of Tang Zhide, after the Southern Song Dynasty Shaoxing 22 years to re-establish the county Xiangshan, the old county governance of the good word capital was gradually abandoned, but because the good word is located in the traffic of Xiangshan and Guangzhou, so the Guangdong government of all dynasties have set up officials to garrison here, the old walled city has also been retained, and the past dynasties have also been repaired, not broken.
According to the confession of the Xiangshan soldiers in the army, the Qing army stationed in Liangzidu is a green battalion subordinate to Zengcheng, and the number is not large, only more than 100 people, but in addition to these green battalion soldiers, Liangzidu is also stationed in the Guangdong Salt Patrol Station, which has a salt Ding team of more than 300 people.
Qing raided the Meiji era, there were salt tea ambassadors in various places, and the salt-producing areas of Lianghuai, Liangzhejiang, Changlu and Hedong all had special salt patrol imperial history, although Guangdong did not have a full-time salt patrol imperial history, but there were several salt patrol offices.
These salt patrol stations were set up by Shang Kexi at the request of the Qing court seven years after the Shunzhi reign, with the purpose of monopolizing salt profits for military use, and at the same time cutting off the channels for transporting salt from the coastal areas of Guangdong to the Ming army in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hunan and other places.
In recent years, except for the coastal areas and Gaozhou in the west, the rest of Guangdong has basically no Ming army activities, and Xiangshan is under the rule of Guangzhou Prefecture, since the original activities here Li Wanrong's department was destroyed, Xiangshan is not afraid of the Ming army to attack and harass, so the salt patrol station set up in Liangzidu has increased the intensity of salt seizure, the salt team has been expanded from more than 100 people to more than 300 people, and the investigation of salt in transit is much stricter.
More than 100 green battalion soldiers and more than 300 salt dings who will only set up a card to check and arrest, naturally not in the eyes of Zhou Shixiang, he ordered Qi Hao to lead the artillery battalion forward, Shao Jiugong led the Xiongwei battalion to cooperate with the siege, Ge Yi and Tie Yi led the shock and trap camp to detour to the rear of Liangzidu to set up an ambush, if the Xiangshan Qing army came to help, it would be eliminated on the spot, if the Xiangshan Qing army did not dare to come, cut off the communication between the two places, and at the same time prevent the Qing army of Liangzidu from retreating to Xiangshan.
In order to prevent the Qing army in Zengcheng in the north from sending troops to help when they learned that the Taiping army was attacking Liangzidu, Zhou Shixiang ordered Shao Chengguo, the chief banner of the cavalry team of the Guards Battalion, to lead the newly expanded cavalry team to the north near Yinzhuizai Mountain.
As early as when Gao Yao awarded the military flag, Zhou Shixiang formed a cavalry team in the guard battalion, but there were only a dozen horses in the army at that time, so the cavalry team has not played a role since then.
After Xinhui captured more than 30 war horses of the Qing army in the First War, Zhou Shixiang expanded the cavalry team, and Shao Chengguo, who originally led the team, was a small banner, but now it is promoted to a general flag.
The new recruits to the cavalry are also the first to join the Taiping Army's Green Battalion surrendered soldiers, and they have experienced the battle of Xinhui defending the city and going out of the city, and their loyalty is never inferior to that of the Taiping Army.
Zhou Shixiang's order to Shao Chengguo was actually a battlefield vigilance, and the main force was informed of the possible new enemy situation in the shortest possible time.
But Shao Chengguo had other plans, and since he had been trapped in Xinhui for a few months, Shao Chengguo felt that his cavalry team was completely an ornament, and he had no chance to go to the battlefield at all, and some of them were just fighting with the Qing army in the city like the infantry, instead of riding a war horse to rush to the Qing army and slash and kill.
The performance of the cavalry of the Shang family of the Qing army on the Eastern Front at the end of the battle has always made Shao Chengguo angry, and he believes that as long as he can lead such a cavalry, then his own family will not be pressed and beaten by the Qing army on the battlefield, and his brothers will not be killed or injured so many people.
However, the reality made Shao Chengguo, who had the dream of a large cavalry, very depressed, without war horses and not enough riders, where would he go to form a cavalry army comparable to the Shang family's own soldiers After accepting Zhou Shixiang's order to guard to the north, Shao Chengguo did not just want to simply carry out the task, but thought about whether he could take this opportunity to show it, after all, the Qing army in Zengcheng was a green battalion, if they really dared to reinforce Liangzidu, although their cavalry was small, it was not impossible to meet them for a while.
When Zhou Shixiang was deploying, he never considered that the Qing army in Guangzhou would send reinforcements to Xiangshan.
After the battle of Xinhui, he and Chen Qice sent people at the same time to inquire about the movements of the Qing army's defeat and retreat, and the news came that most of the Qing army retreated to Guangzhou, and a small number of Qing troops fled directly to Zhaoqing.
After Shang Kexi learned of the defeat of Xinhui, he did not reprimand his son, but immediately transferred 3,000 troops to Sanjiangkou, on the one hand, to collect the rout, and on the other hand, to guard against the Xinhui Ming army to seize Sanjiangkou.
If Xinhui is the southern gate of Guangzhou, then Sanjiangkou is the threshold of crossing Guangzhou and the last line of defense of Guangzhou.
If the three rivers are lost, there is no danger in Guangzhou.
At the same time, Shang Kexi ordered Xu Erxian, the commander-in-chief of Zhaoqing, to send troops to block the traffic artery from Zhaoqing to Xinhui, and ordered the Zhou Division of the headquarters of Wu Liuqi, the general soldier of Chaozhou, to be transferred to Guangzhou, intending to form a new Guangdong Naval Division to deal with Chen Qice's Naval Division.
The news of the defeat of the Qing army did not hide for long, and soon the city of Guangzhou knew about the defeat of the Qing army in Xinhui, and at the same time knew that it was the Linghai general Chen Qice and his sailors of the Ming Dynasty who captured Xinhui, but the Taiping army that really captured Xinhui and its leader Zhou Shixiang did not have a good reputation.
In this regard, Zhou Shixiang didn't care, his Taiping Army was weak, and he himself had no legal law in the Yongli Imperial Court, so it was normal to be ignored.
He was glad that everyone in Guangdong knew the name of General Ling Hai, and preferred that Chen Qice's sailors be regarded as a fierce enemy by the Qing army in Guangdong, rather than his Taiping army.
On the same day, Zhou Shixiang decided to give up Xinhui City, but there was no calculation for Chen Qice to nail the Taiping army to attract the attention of the Qing army in Xinhui, from a strategic point of view, Xinhui is more important than Xiangshan, Shang Kexi can tolerate the Taiping army's activities in Xiangshan, but can never tolerate Xinhui occupied by the Ming army, especially by a Ming army with a naval division, which means that the Ming army in other coastal areas can gather to Xinhui through the Tan River.
How can the side of the collapse allow others to sleep soundly, no matter how much Shang Kexi despises the Ming army, it is impossible to really take the Ming army who gathered in Xinhui lightly, not to mention that the Ming army that appeared in Xinhui also restrained his westward expansion plan.
He had ordered Ban Zhifu to redeploy, withdraw the troops and horses that had been decided to be sent to Zhaoqing to advance westward, and attack Xinhui again when the grain and grass brought in from all over the country arrived.
King Pingnan could not tolerate the defeat of Xinhui, in order to mobilize the required soldiers, horses, grain and grass, in addition to forcing Geng Jimao to send troops and horses for his command, he did not hesitate to admit defeat to Beijing, and asked the imperial court to send real Manchurian soldiers to the south.
Of course, he emphasized in the recital that the infighting between Sun and Li Erthieves in the Southern Ming Dynasty was the best opportunity given by God to the Qing Dynasty, and he was still happy to serve the Qing Dynasty wholeheartedly, and was willing to use all the forces of the domain to advance westward to seize new land and population for the Qing Dynasty, but he was limited to the lack of soldiers and horses under the Pingnan Domain, and lost some men and horses under the Xinhui City because of the defeat of the enemy, so he also asked the imperial court to send Zhen Manzhou south to Guangdong to support him.
Song Shu was sent to Beijing by express horse, whether the Qing court would send Manchu soldiers south, Shang Kexi did not dare to pack tickets, but wanted to at least send some Mongolian soldiers to help.
During the period when the reinforcements arrived in Beijing, what Shang Kexi had to do was to wait, in addition to waiting for reinforcements, he also had to wait for grain and grass, as well as a number of Hongyi cannons that the governor Li Shutai had requested from Beijing a month ago.
Ban Zhi Fuli Chen Qingjun should not only pay attention to Xinhui, and the elite soldiers were elected to move westward to get in touch with Guangxi's line and national security, so that the two Guangxi forces at the same time, even if Xinhui is occupied by the Ming army, but the territory of the two Guangxi can be opened up, and the whole situation is alive, regardless of Li Dingguo's eastward expansion through Guangxi, the Qing army of Guangxi and Guangxi can also see the opportunity to attack Guizhou.
At that time, the general trend of Nanming has gone, and what role can a new city play.
Ban Zhifu's proposal was very good, but it was vetoed by Shang Kexi.
In the Battle of Xinhui, if the Qing army did not return from a major defeat, Shang Kexi might still approve Ban Zhifu's proposal to advance westward, because the strength of his soldiers and horses was still there, and he did not worry that the Xinhui Ming army would pose a threat to Guangzhou.
But the battle of Xinhui ended in the defeat of the Qing army, and the soldiers and horses lost nearly 10,000 people before and after, and the soldiers and horses under the banner of Shang Kexi also lost more than 2,000, which made him have to be cautious, and he decided to solve the nail under his eyelids before moving west, otherwise the Ming army in Xinhui will always be a threat.
After Shang Zhixin returned to Guangzhou, Xu realized that his decision-making was inescapable of being responsible for the defeat, so he did not sue Ban Zhifu and Qin Guocheng in front of his father, but vented his anger on Geng Zhongde and Hu Qili, but Geng Zhongde was Geng Jimao's uncle, and Hu Qili was Li Shutai's cronies and generals who were single-handedly pulled out to fight against the two feudatories, so no matter how angry Shang Kexi was, Geng Jimao and Li Shutai ignored it, and tried their best to protect Geng Zhongde and Hu Qili.
Hu and the others fled from the battle, but the Qing court did not answer this stubble, and there was no response at all.
After the anger, Shang Kexi also understood that the Qing court would not do anything to Geng Zhongde and Hu Qili, after all, Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, and Li Shutai, the governor of Jingnan, were originally used by the Qing court to balance him King Pingnan, so how could they hit the board on them.
The lawsuit between Shang Kexi, Geng Jimao, and Li Shutai in Guangzhou City could not reach Zhou Shixiang's ears, but Zhou Shixiang knew that Shang Kexi would not be able to wave his troops to attack Xinhui again in the short term, nor would he be able to draw troops and horses to Xiangshan, so the situation was favorable to the Taiping army.
However, this favorable situation would not last long, and Zhou Shixiang had to seize Xiangshan in the shortest possible time, purge the Qing army in the territory, gain contact with the Westerners in Macao, strengthen the field strength of the Taiping army by purchasing firearms from Xiyi, and at the same time obtain a local base to expand the strength of the Taiping army, and then inflict heavy losses on Shang Kexi when he launched the second battle of Xinhui.
Time waits for no one, Zhou Shixiang can't waste a day, he is now racing against time to take Guangdong before the collapse of the Ming army's various fronts, and make Guangdong a new hope for the revival of the Southern Ming regime.
Less than an hour after the deployment was completed, the good news came that after Qi Hao ordered people to fire two shots at the city wall of Liangzidu, the Qing army in the city raised the flag and surrendered. oshow7 t1706231537: