At the end of the letter of persuasion, a list of lists was made in turn, but it was a list of Chinese military officials in Nanning City, from the prefect to the chief soldier of the prefect and down to the chief general.
There are more than 100 names written densely in small block letters.
I don't know how much effort it took the Taiping army to get the bottom of Nanning City so clearly from the mouths of the captured Qing army.
This list surprised the Qing army, but what made them even more shocked was that the list issued by the Ming army not only wiped out all the officials in Nanning City, but also marked the place of origin in detail at the back of each name.
What is the purpose of marking the place of origin?
The Qing army was dumbfounded, and there were no fools in the officials, how could they not guess the intentions of the Ming army.
Officials who are not from Guangxi are not very concerned about this list, but the officials of Guangxi and their hometowns in the areas controlled by the Ming army have changed their faces on the spot.
The Taiping army is using their whole family, no, they are threatening them with their family Come down After a few officials from Liangguang were shocked, their first thought was to hurry up, they didn't dare to bet on whether the Taiping army was intimidating them or really preparing to do so.
They just can't afford to gamble.
Besides, if it continues to defend, in addition to making the war more tragic, letting more people die, and making the anger of the Taiping army rise a little more, what good will it do for the situation The officials of the two Cantonese nationalities and their families looked at each other under the Dingnan Domain in Nanning, and they no longer had the courage and confidence to hold on.
Xie Jun, the prefect of Nanning, was less courageous, and he had been hiding in the government when the Taiping army attacked the city, and he didn't even have the courage to go to the city, but after hearing that the Taiping army made such a play to kill the whole family to force him to surrender, he didn't know where he got the courage to express his willingness to surrender to Wang Guowei on behalf of the city officials.
Xie Jun's courage and confidence come from those officers of the Dingnan Domain who have been secretly linked, or rather, at this moment, more than eighty percent of the officials in the city have reached a consensus, that is, this city can no longer be defended, and if it continues to be defended, it is not only them who will die, but also their wives and children, and if they don't make it, the entire family will be washed away by the blood of the Taiping army.
In this era, in the eyes of officials, promotion and wealth are far less important than the survival of the clan, and the Taiping army really wants to kill on a large scale, and the consequences are something they dare not think of.
Under pressure from the chief officials, Wang Guowei sent people out of the city to the Taiping army camp and asked the Taiping army to send people into the city to negotiate surrender.
The deputy general of the eleventh town, Feng Zhengbo Xiong Chaozuo took the initiative to petition the envoy to enter the city, he said that he had been driven by the Qing army like a dog for more than ten years, and today he could finally see the Qing army and the dog being persecuted by the Ming army, so no matter what, he had to go into the city to see the faces of the Qing dogs in the city.
After discussing with Wang Xing, Gao Jinku thought that the Qing army in the city could not have the courage to kill the envoy of the Taiping army, so he agreed to Feng Zhengbo's request.
Xiong Chaozuo only brought two guards into the city, and after entering the city, he found that the Qing army had made hundreds of people in a sword and gun formation, and couldn't help sneering, and walked in front of the Qing soldiers without fear, and then came to a group of Qing generals, looked around slowly, and said to Wang Guowei, who was sitting in the middle: "When do you surrender, this will open the city to welcome my army into the city."
If you don't want to surrender, then don't talk nonsense, each with his own ability, if you can keep it, your ability is great, if you can't hold it, then take your family to Huangquan together, it's no wonder I didn't remind you, Guilin, Liuzhou, Xunzhou have been captured by my Taiping army, you can't count on any reinforcements, so if you want to surrender, you will descend early, don't grind the unpleasant.
After speaking, he said again: "Liuzhou opened the city half a day late, and the marshal of my family ordered someone to slaughter the prefect Su Jin and the admiral Xuezheng Huang Ding's entire family. ” Xiong Chaozuo's voice spread far away, and almost everyone of the civil and military officials in Nanning who were guarding outside heard his words, and heard that Su Jin, the prefect of Liuzhou, and Huang Ding, the governor of Liuzhou, were killed just because they were half a day late.
Wang Guowei's face was even more pale and extremely ugly, Xiong Chaozuo squinted at him, not afraid of his expression at all, the corners of his mouth curled, and he sneered.
"Presumptuous" The officer who had proposed to kill all the young men in the city saw that Xiong Chaozuo did not pay attention to them at all, and he was furious, and drew his sword and put it on his neck.
Xiong Chaozuo was not afraid, but just looked at Wang Guowei and sneered.
He is really not afraid, because if he is the defender of Nanning, he will never cut off the only way to live.
Sure enough, Wang Guowei spoke, but instead of wanting to kill, he said: "You are so bold, you come into my city alone, and dare to humiliate this town so much in front of my soldiers, aren't you afraid that this town will kill you?"
When Xiong Chaozuo heard this, he shook his head and said: "If you kill me, none of the officials in Nanning City will be able to escape, they will not be able to escape, and their wives and children will not be able to escape. ” Xiong Chaozuo's tone was extremely calm, and he glanced at the group of officials as he spoke.
The officials who were swept by his eyes were all cold, and many people consciously avoided his gaze and did not dare to look directly at him, and even some of the generals around Wang Guowei couldn't help but feel their scalps tingle.
Wang Guowei sighed secretly in his heart, knowing that this negotiation had fallen behind from the beginning and was at a disadvantage.
He waved weakly to signal his subordinates to take the knife away, and then put on a negotiation posture, and said to Xiong Chaozuo: "If this official surrenders to your army in Kaicheng, what treatment will he have in the future?"
The Taiping Army's threat to punish the family has divided the officials in Nanning, and now most of them are in favor of surrender, and the few remaining who still insist on not surrendering are none other than their family members who are not in Nanning, nor are they from Liangguang.
Wang Guowei can certainly hold on to it, but he can be sure that many people in the city may not let him hold on.
Most of the officials in Biyi City are from Guangxi, who can watch their clan being uprooted by the Taiping army, and who can watch their wives and children being killed.
Xiong Chaozuo was also unambiguous, and said: "Your soldiers and horses must be driven out of the city to accept the reorganization of our army, in addition, our army will not hold you accountable for what you have done in the past, and we will ensure that all of you are safe." ” Hearing the word adaptation, Wang Guowei's heart jumped slightly, obviously hesitating in his heart.
Xiong Chaozuo also understood his thoughts, but he didn't mean to let go at all.
The reorganization is the minimum requirement for the Taiping Army Marshal Zhou Shi to accept the surrender of the Qing Army in Guangxi, and the Military Marshal's Office has been deliberately breaking the old army model of soldiers as generals, which the Taiping Army, including the new towns, can see.
Although the newly organized towns still maintain their independence in the Taiping military system, the price of this independence is that the combat effectiveness is far less powerful than that of the old Taiping military towns, and they do not have much say in politics.
It is foreseeable that if the new number of towns had maintained this independence, the resources they could get from Zhou Shixiang would be extremely limited. oshow7 t1706231537: