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The Taiping army was to attack Guangzhou Hong Shiming's face was even more ugly than Zuo Qing when he heard the news, and he stayed there, staring at Zhu Guorong, the prefect of Guangzhou, motionlessly, and only repeated one thought in his heart: how the situation in Guangdong had collapsed to this point Wang Huacheng and other generals of the green battalion were also dumbfounded, the Taiping army, which was still being pursued a few days ago, was about to come to attack Guangzhou City in a blink of an eye, and this contrast was really difficult for them to accept for a while.
"It's a bunch of nonsense, where did the Taiping Kou get the tens of thousands of troops, and the battalion officials of Daliang Town made the Taiping Kou frightened, the thieves really have tens of thousands of troops, and he can still stay in Daliang to send a report to the governor."
Li Shutai didn't believe that the Taiping army that ran to Xiangshan from Xinhui could support tens of thousands of troops in just a few months, and he didn't believe that the thief Xiucai Zhou Shixiang had the courage to attack Guangzhou City, and the foreign commissioner of Daliang Town, Qianzong, was also surnamed Hu, and eighty percent was a private person installed by Hu Qili, so he lied about the military situation in order to cover up the truth for him.
He asked Zuo Qing angrily: "What does the Daliang Song report say?"
Zuo Qing hadn't recovered from Zhu Guorong's words, and he didn't react for a while.
Catching a glimpse of Zuo Qing in a daze, Li Shutai couldn't help but say angrily: "Lord Zuo, what did Daliang's recital say, read it, read it to Bendu" "Ah good, this is the thought of the lower official" Zuo Qing came to his senses, hurriedly opened the Daliang newspaper in his hand, scanned a few words, his face turned pale, and he looked up at Li Shutai's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping.
"Look at what Ben Du is doing, read it, is there any worse news than Taiping Kou is going to fight Guangzhou" Li Shutai laughed angrily.
"It's not true, it's just that the lower officials read it, and they read it."
Under Li Shutai's forced gaze, Zuo Qing finally stammered and whispered: "Hu Mingyi, the general manager of the foreign affairs committee of Panyu Daliang, reported that when he heard that the official army was defeated in the Lutou River, he sent a probe horse to the place to inquire about the details, but the Taiping Kou had blocked the checkpoint, and the post was not allowed to go south, and the post sent a boat from the Lutou River upstream, and found more than 1,000 corpses of my green battalion soldiers and soldiers a few miles downstream.
Weijing and other places are trapped in the hands of the Kou, the Kou in the countryside robbed grain and grass, burned the houses, killed the people, all the evil did not do anything, the people escaped from the hands of the Kou, and reported to the post that the head of the Kou threatened to attack the provincial capital, and wanted to race bravely in the Pearl River on the Dragon Boat Day.
After receiving the report, he immediately sent a fast horse to the governor to report the news, in order to prepare the provincial capital as soon as possible, and the other soldiers were menacing, and there were only hundreds of soldiers in the post department. ” After reading it, Zuo Qing looked at Li Shutai anxiously, not knowing how to judge the performance of Hu Mingyi, the general manager of the Great Liang Foreign Affairs Committee.
It's not like it's full of ridiculous words, and it's even less like it's true to say it, I really don't know how to say it.
Li Shutai frowned and looked at Zhu Guorong: "Did the Guangzhou government send someone to investigate?"
Zhu Guorong stepped forward and replied: "Back to my lord's words, the lower officials have sent someone to Panyu County to investigate, and the report of the Daliang Qianzong Office is true, and the border of Panyu County has indeed been attacked by the Taiping Army. ” "What kind of hundred boat races, the thief shows his bluff, so he is mysterious, don't be afraid of him."
Li Shutai was sure that the Taiping army had no ability to attack Guangzhou at all, although the governor and the Guangzhou Green Battalion were defeated at the Lutou River, and they folded a Han army flag Niulu, but there were still thousands of bannermen under the two feudal clans in the city of Guangzhou, and there were even more eight banners stationed in Manchuria, and there were tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Green Battalion stationed near Guangzhou, not to mention that the city of Guangzhou was stronger than Xinhui, and the thief Xiucai had the help of divine soldiers, and he could not defeat the city of Guangzhou If he really has the heart, and he has the strength, he doesn't have to loot grain and grass in Panyu, but he is approaching Guangzhou with the momentum of Lutouhe's victory.
The soldier is fast, he doesn't know the truth of thief talent Although it was believed that the Taiping army could not have the strength to attack Guangzhou, but the current situation also gave Li Shuitai a big headache, in order to encircle and exterminate the Taiping army, he had already sent the superintendent and the Guangzhou green battalion, together with the newly built superintendent artillery team and horse team, and now he really had no troops to send.
Although Hu Qili's report did not mention that the horse team and artillery team were annihilated by the Taiping army, Li Shutai did not have much hope.
Hu Mingyi's recital made it clear that the Lutou River was blocked by the corpses of the officers and soldiers of the Green Battalion who died in battle, and the hundreds of cavalry of the Han Army Banner were all wiped out, and it was impossible to expect the horse team and artillery team to escape.
The top priority at the moment is to immediately transfer troops to attack the Taiping army, even if it cannot be annihilated, it must be driven out of Panyu, otherwise the Taiping army will be allowed to operate in the attached county of Guangzhou, and he will not be scolded to death by the two governors of Guangzhou, even if the imperial court is about to transfer him to Fujian and Zhejiang, Li Shutai is not willing to carry a reputation for incompetence, and this mess must be cleaned up in his hands no matter what.
Soldiers, Li Shutai really can't make it up, the military power of the Guangdong Green Battalion is nominally in his hands, but the only ones who can really be promoted by him are the Governor and the Guangzhou Green Battalion, and the other Green Battalion soldiers are controlled by the two feudatories.
Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao disagreed, and he, the governor, could not move those green camps.
Li Shutai, the superintendent who ran to Shunde, also didn't expect it, Xinjing was defeated, plus Hu Qili was worried that he would cut off his head, it would be good to stay in Shunde honestly, where to expect him to come back with the superintendent, and where to expect the superintendent to go into battle again.
Now he can only go to Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao, Hahamu also has to go there, and whether the Manchurian soldiers of the Zhengbai Banner of Niu Lu are afraid of the enemy or not, he also has to find out.
It's okay for the Taiping army to bluff, at least Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao have no reason to shirk the matter of sending troops.
After thinking about it, Li Shutai made up his mind and instructed Zuo Qingdao: "You will immediately raise 100,000 taels of silver and 10,000 stone of grain and grass with the Guangzhou government, and this governor only asks you, and it may be done within three days." 100,000 taels of silver and 10,000 stone of military rations will be done within three days Zuo Qing and Zhu Guorong were both surprised.
Zuo Qing looked embarrassed: "Lord Governor Mingjian, Guangdong Province accounts for two-thirds of the tax revenue in eastern Guangdong, one-third in central Guangdong, and there is almost no tax in western Guangdong.
If we do it again, I'm afraid there will be civil unrest, my lord. ” "Lord Governor, the treasury of the lower official is really not able to take out one or two silver, last year in order to raise food and grass for the besieging army, the lower officials racked their brains to reluctantly do it, and then in order to build a full city, the lower officials are even more scavenging the people's savings, and they have a reputation of scraping their skins, so they still have a big deficit, and the lower officials are in a hurry to ask for debts every day, and the lower officials are so anxious that there is no way at all, and now they want me to wait for three days to raise so much silver and food, and the lower officials have the heart, but they are really unable to do it."
Zhu Guorong's eyelids jumped when he said this, for fear that the governor would vent his anger with him, he didn't know that the situation was serious, but he really couldn't take out the silver and food.
Li Shutai was not unhappy, only glanced at the two of them, and then said in a deep voice: "This governor does not care if you have a hardship or not, in short, after three days, this governor must see the silver and grain, whether you go to borrow or rob, this governor does not care, as long as the governor has no silver and grain, how do you tell the officials and soldiers to go to Pingkou, is it true that you want Taiping Kou to fight under the city of Guangzhou, do you know what is the relationship?"
After speaking, he flicked his sleeves and instructed Gui Bao: "Prepare a sedan chair, this governor is going to Pingnan Palace." ”oshow7 t1706231537: