Han’s Son is Not a Slave

In Xinhui, the Taiping army had already repelled the Qing army's third siege.

Learning from the failure of the previous siege, in the past few months, Shang Zhisheng's army has built a large number of shield vehicles, ladders, and towers for siege, and even ordered the civilians to build another earth wall along the Xinhui city wall. The location is condescending and shoots the Taiping army in the city. It is a pity that this move was seen by the city as soon as it was implemented. Although the Taiping army could not leave the city to destroy it, they bombarded it with large and small artillery on the city wall.

Epidemics in the army are unavoidable, and the north is not afraid of the bitter cold, but Guangdong is located in the Lingnan region, and the climate is hot and humid, so there are not a lot of corpses, and epidemics are also common. Last year, Li Dingguo's army was forced to withdraw half because of the epidemic in the army . Once an epidemic breaks out in the army, soldiers will suffer a large number of casualties in non-war combat, and if it is not controlled, it will lead to a catastrophe that cannot be saved. In the past, there was a fortified city that was difficult to overcome, and there were soldiers from Beijing and Manzhou coming to help. There was an epidemic in the camp. Under many factors, Li Dingguo could only look at the city and sigh.

With Li Dingguo's lessons learned and two generations of people, Zhou Shixiang, after occupying Xinhui City, faced the predicament of being alone in the lonely city, and naturally paid more attention to preventing epidemics in the army. Since Luo Ding started his army, every time the Taiping army occupied a place, they had coerced a large number of local people, including scholars, peasants, businessmen, and businessmen. Since the battle in the south, the civilians who accompanied the army suffered heavy casualties, but only one of the Langzhong survived, and they were all recruited into the medical camp to serve as military doctors.

Since Xinhui City was "food city" by the Qing army, there were not many residents left in the city, and medicinal materials were even more scarce. However, this is not difficult for Zhou Shixiang, who has been a man for two generations. Besides, most of those prescriptions are used to treat epidemics, not epidemic prevention. If there is an epidemic in the army, only a few can be cured by light treatment. open.

The five battalions of the Taiping Army, together with the security regiment, numbered no more than two or three thousand. If there is an epidemic, it can be said that the combat power will disappear in an instant, so Zhou Shi's solution to the epidemic lies in the word "prevention".

Burying the bodies of the dead soldiers and the Qing army is the first, followed by the large-scale burning of the city in the city. Of course, this burning city is not to burn up Xinhui City, but to pick up some houses in dense areas and burn them, using high temperature to kill the germs lurking in them. Sprinkle with lime after burning. In the camp, we will dig out the place of defecation. For other measures, such as drinking boiling water, we will set up a special isolation place. Once someone is found to have signs of the epidemic, they can be isolated regardless of whether it is true or not. The infected person is absolutely not allowed to contact others. Under various measures, there has been no epidemic in the city for several months.

Song Xianggong was naturally full of praise for Zhou Shixiang's epidemic prevention arrangements, but Zhou Shixiang was not very proud. The method he adopted was nothing but a simple measure for later generations. It's just that the times are different and the knowledge is different, which makes people admire today.

The Taiping army took epidemic prevention as the top priority in the city, but the Qing army outside the city did not take the epidemic seriously. However, someone raised the issue of the epidemic to Shang Zhixin, but His Royal Highness, the prince born in the north, did not pay much attention to it. He only sent someone back to Guangzhou to ask his father to write the words of the governor's yamen, and ordered the governor's office to recruit some servants from various prefectures and counties. Other quarantine measures are limited to knowledge and cannot do much.

In Shang Zhixin's view, it is compared to the fear of epidemics. The Taiping army trapped in the lonely city should be even more afraid. Within the isolated city, water and sanitation conditions are limited. At the beginning, he ordered people not to bury the bodies of the soldiers who died in the battle, and the purpose was to make the city breed disease, so that he could win the new club without a single soldier. However, things backfired. After waiting for a few months, the Taiping army in the city not only showed no signs of breeding diseases, but also did not lack food or water. On the contrary, it was because of his lack of attention to the epidemic and the death of a large number of civilians in his army that the epidemic developed.

Naturally, Shang Zhixin and the generals of the Qing army did not pay attention to those people who suffered from the epidemic, and let them fend for themselves. Something happened. As a result, the unbearable smell of burnt corpse wafted over the camp all day long.

The large number of deaths of civilians and the superiority of the artillery fire of the Taiping Army made Shang Zhixin's plan of sieging the city impossible to implement, and the epidemic in the army must have affected morale. However, before the navy camp was destroyed, Shang Zhixin didn't take the epidemic problem to heart. Compared with the total number of soldiers and horses besieging the city, the infection of hundreds or thousands of people was not worth it.

What really made Shang Zhixin unable to hold back was the destruction of the navy and the cut off of food and grass.

Shang Zhixin decided to attack, Qin Guocheng suggested to send someone back to Guangzhou to ask the prince for instructions first. This was a serious suggestion from Laocheng. After all, the Qing army had already attacked Xinhui several times, but except for the loss of soldiers and generals, they had not even won the city head. This time, if you attack again, the soldiers and horses thrown in do not know how much they will lose. When Prince Pingnan went south, he had to rely on 5,000 vassals to send troops and horses. In the previous siege, the most elite soldiers of the vassal troops lost 400 to 500 yuan, and the other flag soldiers also lost hundreds of dollars, although this loss was a loss to Pingnan. The palace can't say that the vitality is seriously damaged, but it is also hurting the muscles and bones. If you really want to fold it a little more, I am afraid it will not be able to cause a deterrent to the green camp attached to the south. Besides, the Green Camp lost 4,000 or 5,000 people due to the previous siege, and they are not willing to ask them to attack now.

According to Qin Guocheng's idea, it is natural to ask King Pingnan to make a decision. At that time, it is King Pingnan's idea to clear the siege and return to Guangzhou first or to attack by force. Whether it is the vassal's troops or the green camp, they dare not disobey the king's orders. , but if it is up to His Royal Highness to decide, I am afraid that some people will have an idea.

Some generals under the vassal have been very close to His Royal Highness recently. His Highness has been favored by the Prince in recent years, which has caused some people in the palace to have strange thoughts. After all, outsiders do not know that the Prince has decided to send His Royal Highness to Beijing. This time, the prince ordered the prince to attack the new club for the purpose of cultivating the prince's prestige. However, the failure to attack the city would have a certain blow to the prince's prestige, and the blow to the prince's highness was even greater.

Qin Guocheng has not heard some rumors, saying that the prince had been furious after returning to Guangzhou, and he was quite dissatisfied with the performance of His Royal Highness. Whether these rumors are true or false, Qin Guocheng will not talk about him, but what is the purpose of spreading the rumors, he can't know if there is any connection with His Highness the second, and he, an old official, does not dare to say no.

Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read. There can only be one prince of Lingnan in Shizhen, and only one of His Royal Highness. The eldest became a prince, and the second could only live in silence. Power is an aphrodisiac, and the old yearns yearn for this young man.

Qin Guocheng did not dare to get involved in the dispute between the princes, but at the moment, he wanted to help Shang Zhixin wholeheartedly, without him, because the eldest son was the successor appointed by the prince, and he was also the prince of Pingnan who was canonized by the court.

The prince wanted to make a strong attack, but Qin Guocheng could not stop him. After sending people to report to Guangzhou, he dispatched troops to command the siege.

On the 17th, Shang Zhixin attacked the Green Camp in Guangzhou.

The main force in the siege, UU reading www.uukanshu.com concentrated 3,000 people to attack Dongcheng, and it was impossible.

On the 18th, they attacked again with the 800 Han army flags in conjunction with the Green Battalion.

On the 19th, Ban Zhifu rushed to the camp.

Knowing that the navy's food and grass had been burned, Shang Kexi couldn't hold his breath anymore. After weighing it again and again, he ordered Ban Zhifu to bring him a password to the army, and ordered all the generals to cooperate with His Royal Highness to win the new club!

On the 20th, Shang Zhixin mobilized 600 soldiers of the Shang family, 1,200 soldiers of the Han army, and 4,000 soldiers of the Green Battalion to attack Xinhui again. The battle lasted for three hours, and the east gate of Xinhui was almost broken. The defenders in the city suffered heavy casualties. At the time of crisis, the defender Zhou Shi led a death squad of 200 people out of the city to fight to the death and killed Wang Guangming, the deputy general of the Guangzhou Green Battalion. Ming Jin withdraws his troops.

On the way of the Qing army's withdrawal, Zhou Yuanliang, the deputy commander of Pingnan, was shot at the gun. After being grabbed by his subordinates desperately, he died of serious injuries that night. He became the highest killed general of the Qing army since the Xinhui offensive. (To be continued...)

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