After Hu Qili killed Ge Mingyi and his subordinate generals, he immediately issued an encyclical to the whole city in the name of Zuo Qing, who participated in politics, and from now on, the entire army and people in the city will return to Ming together.
When the news came out, the Shunde Green Battalion was in an uproar, but the generals were all killed by the Governor, no one took the lead, and the Green Battalion had more than 1,000 people but no one dared to move lightly, and as a result, it was divided and conquered by Hu Qili's Supervisor, and it took only half a day to control the Shunde Green Battalion.
After taking control of Shunde City, Hu Qili sent people to inform the Taiping army, requesting that the Taiping army immediately reinforce Shunde; On the one hand, he immediately organized people to defend the city, blocked the four gates with bricks and stones, and opened the granary, allowing the people to assist in carrying grain, and for a while more than 1,000 young people went to the city to help defend it.
Shang Zhixin, who had just retreated to the left ditch of Longyan Township, heard that Shunde had changed banners, and was shocked to immediately lead his troops to recapture Shunde, but the Han army had no intention of fighting because of his family, and Tang Sanshui, the deputy general of the Zhaoqing Green Battalion, shirked the lack of food in the army, and the soldiers could not eat enough and had no strength to attack the city.
The morale of the army was so depressed, Shang Zhixin had nothing to do, and in desperation, he could only lead his troops to move closer to Sanjiangkou.
On the way, more than 600 Han troops left the camp.
Guangzhou, when Shunde changed banners, Zhou Shixiang had preliminarily completed the integration of soldiers and horses in Guangzhou.
There were a total of 5,300 Taiping troops in the city of Guangzhou, 156 Manchurian troops, 360 soldiers under the Yellow Banner of the Han Army under the Pingnan Domain, 2,100 people under the Blue Banner of the Han Army under the Jingnan Domain, more than 1,200 Green Battalion soldiers in Foshan, more than 900 soldiers in the Nanhai Battalion, and more than 700 troops in the original Guangzhou Green Battalion, with a total strength of 10,716 people.
Among these troops, the South China Sea Battalion and the Foshan Green Battalion and the Guangzhou Green Battalion have the worst combat effectiveness, so Tie Yi and others suggested that these battalions that could not fight should be abolished, but Zhou Shixiang did not accept this proposal, but commissioned the Foshan Green Battalion garrison Wang Zhaoxing as the Foshan Thousand Households, and the South China Sea Green Battalion guerrilla Zhao Ziqiang as the South China Sea Thousand Households, and still asked the two to lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to return to the station on the same day, and at the same time asked Wang Zhangjun of Guangzhou Prefecture to select personnel to take over the two counties, and temporarily exercise the right to know the county affairs, and wait for Song Xianggong to come from Xiangshan to form the Guangdong Political Envoy Yamen and then formally elect officials and transfer.
The Guangzhou battalion was scattered and incorporated into the Taiping Army as auxiliaries.
If Wang and Zhao lead their troops back and have remorse, and raise troops to rebel, they will inevitably lose their previous achievements, and the Taiping army will have to take great pains to capture Foshan and Nanhai counties, and they will have unnecessary casualties.
Shao Jiugong and Tie Yi are all questioning this arrangement, Zhou Shixiang is Daowang and Zhao are indeed repeated villains, but these villains have merit, now the Taiping army is strong, as long as the Taiping army is undefeated in the short term, it still has Guangzhou, and the two of them are under the nose of the Taiping army, even if they have two hearts, they dare not be vivid easily.
This is like a sword hanging over the heads of Wang and Zhao, although he knows that the owner holding the sword is not staring at them, and there are countless enemies around him, and they will rush up at any time, but as long as the sword is there, Wang and Zhao can only stay obediently, and dare not turn around and fight back, because even if the owner of this sword is no longer able to resist those enemies, he can gently take the lives of the two of them.
Villains are smart people, and they certainly know what to do in their best interest.
Zhou Shixiang is now facing the situation is like this, although the Taiping army occupies Guangzhou, but the strength of the Taiping army is very limited, can not divide enough troops to occupy the neighboring prefectures and counties, can only concentrate forces to deal with Shang Zhixin's right army, so they have to let these generals return, as long as they do not surrender to the Qing, even Yang Fengyin must also endure, to solve Shang Zhixin's right army, there is no threat near Guangzhou, that is when the Taiping army really integrates the forces of the prefectures and counties near Guangzhou.
Now, these people are pretending to be powerful, or they are hiding their bad intentions.
This example is equivalent to Hu Mingyi of Zengcheng, under the banner of the Taiping Army, but he is doing his Hu family affairs.
As soon as Geng Jimao's right army left Guangzhou, he led people to escape from Zengcheng, and waited until Geng Jimao was defeated before coming back.
In this regard, Zhou Shixiang smiled and didn't care about him.
It was difficult to oppose the Qing Dynasty, and the overall power of the Southern Ming Dynasty was far weaker than that of the Qing court at the large level, and at the small level, although the Taiping army that occupied Guangzhou controlled the core of central Guangdong, there were not many available friendly troops around, Chaoshan in the east, Zhaoqing in the west, and Shaozhou in the north all had varying numbers of Qing troops garrisoned, and the Taiping army could use less than 10,000 troops, of which the soldiers who could fight were actually five or six thousand.
Such a small number of troops are enough to defend Guangzhou, but if you want to completely solve the Qing army in Guangdong, you don't need to think about it in the short term.
What Zhou Shixiang can do is to immediately solve the largest mobile force of the Qing army in Guangdong, Shang Zhixin's right army, as long as Shang Zhixin's troops and horses are defeated again, then the Taiping army can really gain a foothold in Guangzhou, and he has the ability to stabilize Guangzhou while recovering the important towns occupied by the Qing army one by one.
If it is necessary to send troops to garrison one county after another now to compete with the Qing army, Zhou Shixiang will not be able to fight this battle, and the Taiping army will not have the ability.
Since the Taiping army itself did not have the ability to immediately capture and take over the neighboring prefectures and counties, they could only let go of the appointment of generals, let go of the Qing army, as long as the other party was willing to surrender, then regardless of the previous crimes, all entrusted with heavy tasks, so as to achieve the same as when Li Zicheng marched into Beijing, as soon as the army arrived, the Ming army surrendered everywhere; The army was defeated, but the Ming army was against everywhere.
The situation is so dangerous, Zhou Shixiang wants to make the situation in Guangdong like the snowball before the defeat of the army, he must ensure that he is undefeated, otherwise, this snowball will kill him.
The green battalion soldiers can be forgiven, and the troops can be stationed in situ, but the Han army is absolutely impossible, but Zhou Shixiang understands this.
He scattered the Han troops under the Pingnan Domain and the Jingnan Domain into the Taiping Army, and the officers under the Domain could use them, and if they could not use them, they would be idle and guarded, and they would be disposed of after the settlement of Shang Zhixin.
The officers who can be used under the domain are to lead the Taiping army, and the officers of the Taiping army are to lead the feudal army, so as to avoid the feudal generals taking the opportunity to make trouble to the greatest extent.
After receiving the report that Shunde changed banners, Shang Zhixin did not dare to attack the city but went to Sanjiangkou, Zhou Shixiang was overjoyed, and immediately led the pro-army battalion and the left battalion of the infantry army to Shunde, and commissioned Tieyi to stay in Guangzhou, and closed the city gate to wait for news.
The thing Tie Yi wants to do is to defend Guangzhou, defend the Jingnan Palace, and guard the families of those Han soldiers.
He also sent people back to Xiangshan to report the news, asked Qi Hao to lead the artillery battalion to Guangzhou, and asked Jiang He to lead the reserve battalion to Shunde, and ordered Liao Ruixiang to organize the township offices to settle the people to return and develop production.
Song Xianggong led the army to Guangzhou with the artillery battalion, preparing to serve as the political envoy of Guangzhou.
The defense of Xiangshan was taken over by Zhao Sihai's baggage battalion.
Regardless of whether the Yongli court named himself a prince or not, Zhou Shixiang was determined to completely control the military and political power in Guangdong, and for this reason, he must rush to build the Guangdong political envoy and the county yamen before the Yongli court knew the news.
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