In April, it rains a lot in the south of the Yangtze River, and it rains for a few days, and the temperature is extremely low, which makes people feel that the spring cold has not gone.
The drizzle in Tongxiang County continued to fall for several days, and the rain stopped on this day, but the fog was thick and did not slowly dissipate until noon.
Look up at the sky, but see the sun.
The whole day went on and so drew, until nightfall.
At all times, the county seat of Tongxiang was silent, and there were occasionally a few guards on the city wall walking around to keep warm.
The white paper lanterns hanging on the tower of the city gate do not stop swaying in the cold wind, and emit a hazy glimmer in the night.
The people in the city have long been asleep, and most of the defenders have fallen asleep.
The rainy roads have been muddy for days, and there is Jiaxing Fucheng in the north, and the defenders of Tongxiang are not afraid that the Taiping army will come over.
However, the Qing army in Tongxiang did not know that just yesterday, the sixth town of the Taiping Army had conquered Jiaxing and captured Fubiao guerrilla Liu Chengyin.
In order to shock the Qing army and those gentry attached to the Qing Dynasty, Suna, the general of the sixth town, ordered Liu Chengyin and more than a dozen Qing military academies to be beheaded.
After conquering Jiaxing in one fell swoop, Suna immediately ordered the Ding Brigade of the town to march to Tongxiang, the C Brigade to attack Pinghu, and he himself led the A Brigade and the B Brigade and the town guard headquarters to attack Hainingwei, in order to sweep away the Qing army in Jiaxing in one fell swoop.
The Ding Brigade that attacked Tongxiang was a brigade newly formed by the Qing army and the Zhejiang army in Suzhou in the sixth town, and Wang Xingzhi was originally the Zhang Huangyan department of the Zhejiang army, and his father Wang Deyuan was the general of the Dongjiang Mao Shuai.
After Mao Shuai was killed, the generals of Dongjiang Town killed each other for power and profit, Wang Deyuan was unwilling to kill his colleagues, so he fled from Dongjiang and settled in Laizhou.
After the Jiashen State Change, Wang Deyuan moved his family to the south, and later entered the Dingxi Marquis Zhang Mingzhen's department to resist the Qing Dynasty, and was awarded the deputy general.
In the third year of Yongli, Wang Deyuan died in Zhoushan, and his department was taken over by Wang Xingzhi, and then participated in the anti-Qing campaign of the Zhejiang army, and won the appreciation of Zhang Mingzhen, the Marquis of Dingxi, and Zhang Huangyan, the Shangshu.
Wang Xingzhi is good at making spears, and in the ninth year of Yongli with Dingxi Hou in Jinxia, he had to be guided by Duncan, a Taixi man, and practiced more than 100 guns in the army.
After the defeat of the Zhejiang army with the Yanping army, Wang Xingzhi has been following Shangshu Zhang Huangyan, and the rest of the Zhejiang army was rescued by the Taiping army.
After the Taiping army conquered Nanjing, most of the Zhejiang army was reorganized into the Yangtze River Naval Division, and the remaining few soldiers who were good at land warfare were incorporated into the towns of the Taiping Army, and Wang Xingzhi was transferred to the sixth town in Suzhou as a brigade school.
It has the rank of deputy general in the Zhejiang Army, but the brigade school of the Taiping Army only has the rank of 1,000 households, which belongs to the high position and low allocation.
However, the Zhejiang army has no complaints, on the one hand, the Taiping army is much stronger than the Zhejiang army, and on the other hand, it is also because the Taiping army is a life-saving benefactor in the Zhejiang army.
Of course, Zhang Huangyan's coordination also played a major role.
After the Jiangbei War of the Taiping Army, Zhou Shixiang has been integrating the surrender of the Qing Army and the Zhejiang Army and the Zheng Army, striving for institutionalization.
For example, in the past, even if he was a chief military officer, in the Taiping Army, he could only be based on the military position of the Taiping Army, such as Wang Xingzhi, a deputy general, who was reappointed to the Thousand Households Brigade School, and there were even more people who served as the deputy brigade of the General Army.
Wang Xingzhi's Ding Brigade accounted for about two-thirds of the Qing army and the Zhejiang army, and the remaining third was drawn from the other three brigades.
Originally, Suna was not satisfied with the military marshal's mansion forcibly giving him a brigade school from the Zhejiang army, but after seeing Wang Xingzhi and his spear, Suna didn't have anything to say.
The Qing army in Tongxiang only had a few hundred people, and the garrison was named Xie Junzhi, who was originally under the Yanping Domain, and before the Zheng army entered the river last year, it was this person who brought two boats and a number of firearms to surrender to the governor of Zhejiang, Tong Guoqi, and revealed the strategic intention of the Zheng army to attack Nanjing on a large scale.
However, although his intelligence was important, it was too late, so Tong Guoqi was not reused in him, and only gave him an empty title.
If it weren't for the fact that the Qing army in Zhejiang was really unavailable, Tong Guoqi would not have given him the opportunity to lead the troops.
Although Tongxiang is a small city, it is also built strongly.
And because there was still a guerrilla Liu Chengyin stationed in Jiaxing in the north, and it was rainy for several days, Xie Junzhi didn't think there was any danger in Tongxiang, and he and his wife Liu rested in the house early.
The Lord will be like this, and the people below are even more like this, and the Tongxiang city defense can be said to be very light.
When the soldiers walking around on the city wall to keep warm yawned, under the city gate, several figures crawled close to the city wall in the night.
They moved very slowly, moving forward little by little.
As they approached the city gate, several figures rolled in vigorously, then dropped a few medicine bags and immediately rolled around.
There was a loud "boom", and the city gate was blown open.
The Taiping army, which had been lurking outside the city for a long time, immediately jumped out of their hiding place and rushed into the city before the defenders could react.
The Qing army, who came back to their senses from the explosion, shouted: "The Ming army has entered the city, the Ming army has entered the city" Some officers led their soldiers to block the city gates, but where could they parry the Taiping troops who poured in like a tide, they were quickly cut down to the ground.
The sound of shouting, scolding, and sword clashing resounded in the small Tongxiang city.
Xie Junzhi and his wife Liu were resting in the room when the sound of an explosion woke him up.
Decades of riding career made him instinctively jump up from the bed, too late to light the lamp, put on a jacket robe, and jumped into the courtyard with a big knife.
Outside the courtyard, there are faintly countless people and horses rushing to kill, shouts everywhere, and in the dark night, I don't know how many Ming troops have killed.
Xie Junzhi was wearing the clothes and armor given by the soldiers who rushed to hear the news, and shouted to them: "You all come with me" These personal soldiers were all brought out by Xie Junzhi from the Zheng army, and they were very loyal to him.
Hearing the order, he did not hesitate, and followed behind Xie Junzhi with knives one by one.
Xie Junzhi did not go towards the shouting of killing, but in the direction of Nancheng, where there was less movement.
Unexpectedly, he just rushed out of the yard with his troops, but he was grabbed by someone, and when he looked back, it was his wife Liu who pulled his eight-year-old daughter and chased after him at some point.
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"Master, don't leave us two behind" Liu clung to her husband's shirt, while her daughter cried and hugged her mother.
Seeing this, the relatives and soldiers wanted to step forward to help the mother and daughter go together, but Xie Junzhi stomped his feet and shouted to Liu: "You let go, the Taiping army is about to kill, I can't take care of you."
After speaking, he waved his knife, cut off a large piece of clothing, broke free from Liu, and rushed into the night without looking back.
Liu grabbed it tightly, but her husband cut his robe, and he couldn't exert his strength, so he leaned back, sat on the ground with his buttocks, and cried.
The daughter was also so frightened that she cried, and the mother and daughter looked at the direction where Xie Junzhi disappeared, in pain.
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