Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Seven days before the Chinese New Year, Zhang An, the ambassador of the Department of Military Intelligence, appointed by Zhou Shixiang in Luoding, secretly arrived in Zhirenhoufang, Xiangshan County, from Guangzhou. When he arrived, Zhou Shixiang was not in the city, but led the guard camp to the former cottage in Ning'an. The Taiping Army was left behind in Renhoufang by Ge Yi's prison camp, and the one in charge of civil affairs in the city was the newly appointed magistrate of Xiangshan County, Liao Ruixiang.

The Taiping Army captured Zhirenhoufang in Xiangshan County on November 14. In this battle, they killed more than 200 people below the general Zhou Mazi of the Xiangshan Green Battalion, captured more than 500 battalion soldiers and strong civilians, and captured alive the Xiangshan County magistrate appointed by the Qing court. Sun Quanzheng. However, this magistrate of Sun County is much more stubborn than Guo Shao, the ambassador of the Yanxun Institute, who was captured in good characters. After being captured, he not only refused to surrender, but also scolded the Taiping Army in every possible way. He was even more angry with Zhou Shixiang. Zhou Shixiang ordered him to be dragged outside the city and buried alive.

After capturing Renhoufang, Zhou Shixiang left Ge Yi's Zhenlu Camp to guard the county town, and Tie Yi's trapping camp went east to capture Yongle, Changle and other square capitals belonging to Xiangshan, and fought for the remnants of Ming Dynasty who were hiding in Wutong Mountain, Qiniang Mountain and other mountainous areas. Get in touch and try to include these anti-Qing heroes. Because Qi Hao's artillery battalion was inconvenient to move, and the gunners were not trained enough, Zhou Shixiang asked him to lead his troops to be stationed in Deqingfang, not far from Renhoufang, so that he could play a huge role in the subsequent wars. Zhou Shixiang himself led a battalion of guards to capture the former cottage of Ning'andu.

The former cottage is a fortress built by the Guangdong Governor Yamen in the territory of Xiangshan in the first year of the Ming Dynasty. The village is also guarded by the General’s Office. This village is not only a military fortress, but also the local management of Macau and Qianshan in Guangdong. The yamen of administrative and foreign affairs is located. Regarding this village, Zhou Shixiang privately wrote a letter to Song Xianggong with another name, that is, Zhuhai.

Soon after the Qing army captured Guangzhou, the former cottage was occupied by the Qing army. Because the former cottage had the authority to manage Macau affairs, and the Qing court regarded itself as the successor of the Ming regime, the Guangdong Governor Yamen did not demolish the former cottage, but continued. Send troops to garrison, but it is not the former generals who are appointed, but Qian General. It is no longer affiliated with Xiangshan Management, but is directly managed by Guangzhou Government.

The general manager of the Green Camp in the Qianshanzhai was named Chen Shiqi. He led his troops to participate in the defense battle of Xiangshan County. After the city was destroyed, he led more than 100 remaining soldiers and fled back to the Qianshanzhai. Knowing that the Taiping Army has approached the forward cottage. Chen Shiqi knew that he was invincible, so he ordered people to burn all the documents in the village, and led his subordinates to flee to Lingdingyang by boat, preparing to escape from the Pearl River back to Guangzhou. When he fled, the Taiping army did not have a fight. The former cottage was captured without a single pawn.

After seizing the former cottage, Zhou Shixiang originally planned to contact the Macau Folang Robot immediately, but because the Taiping army occupied Xiangshan too fast, the distance between the various ministries was too long, and there were still small groups of Qing army skirmishers operating in the countryside. The communication between them was unstable, so Zhou Shixiang did not send people to Macau immediately, but ordered each battalion to send troops to their respective countryside to clean up the Qing army skirmishers, and recruit troops to buy horses to expand the Taiping army.

From the tenth crossing of the river at the beginning of November, the process of Taiping's capture of Xiangshan has been smooth. In addition to the capture of Zhirenhoufang in Xiangshan County, the larger-scale battle took place in Yinpingzui Mountain in the north of Liangzi Capital. This battle also allowed Zhou Shixiang and the Taiping Army to refresh their understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Qing Army's Green Battalion. .

In the battle of Yinpingzui Mountain, the Taiping army actually dispatched only Shao Chengguo's department, who was ordered to guard the Qing army in Zengcheng to the north. The department only had 46 cavalrymen who could barely run on horses. As many as 1,200 Green Battalion soldiers came from Zengcheng to rescue Liangzidu.

Before the battle began, the scout sent by Shao Chengguo discovered the Green Camp hurried from Zengcheng. At first, Shao Chengguo had no intention of attacking the Green Camp, because the difference between the strength of the enemy and ours was too great, but just as he was about to drive the horse to take the information When they were sent back, they found that the formation of the Zengcheng Green Battalion who came to aid was very disordered. Shao Chengguo changed his mind when the troop of more than 1,000 people dragged on for four or five miles, and the guerrilla leader was not riding on horses but sitting in a sedan chair carried by four people.

When the Qing army was almost halfway through the Yinping Mountain Pass, Shao Chengguo was energized by him. But still very frightened subordinates rushed to the Qing army. Shao Chengguo, who suddenly rushed out, stunned the Qing army and even the leading guerrillas. A ridiculous scene appeared. Before the Taiping army could approach the Qing army, the leading green guerrilla guerrilla jumped down. The sedan chair, and then ran desperately toward the way without looking back.

The master will run. Consequences do not want to know. The final result was that except for half of the Qing army who ran away, the rest of the Qing soldiers knelt down and surrendered to Shao Chengguo's army, who had only 40 people. All reported the news, while taking the rest of the subordinates to monitor these Qing soldiers, in case they found out that the Taiping army was far less than them and attacked. However, Shao Chengguo's worry was obviously superfluous. When the trap camp came to take over the prisoners after hearing the news, the nearly 600 Qing army prisoners had not acted rashly for nearly an hour.

Forty people defeated more than a thousand people~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and captured half of the other party. This record made Zhou Shixiang and the hundreds of households and the hundreds of trial households dumbfounded. After the interrogation, it was learned that the original Green Battalion soldiers stationed in Zengcheng were adapted from the original Nanhaiwei Ming Army, and the guerrillas leading the troops were also thousands of households of the original Nanhaiwei. When they were in Nanhaiwei, these people were dedicated to farming and fishing for the officers in the Weili. None of them had ever fought on the battlefield, not even the battle to destroy pirates. After the Qing army occupied Guangzhou, the Nanhaiwei group of farmers and fishermen did not dare to resist at all, so they descended the Qing army under the leadership of Weili officers and were reorganized into the green battalion garrisoned in Zengcheng. When Ma Yulong of Liangzidu learned that the Taiping army was advancing towards Liangzidu, in addition to going to Xiangshan for help, he sent someone to Zengcheng to report the news.

After receiving the news that the good characters were invaded by the Ming army, Zengcheng Green Camp Qiangong, that is, the original Nanhaiwei Qianhu Jiang Shuangxi thought that the attack on the good characters was just a small group of Ming army skirmishers, so they thought of meritorious service. Qi soldiers and horses killed all the good characters. Because of his body weight, Jiang Shuangxi couldn't ride a horse, and he was exhausted when he rode, so he traveled in a sedan chair for four people, not a carriage. As a result, the merit was not achieved, and half of his subordinates were lost. If it wasn't for a few of his family members who loyally protected the master, and a few people carried him to run, I am afraid that Jiang Guerjian would most likely have become a prisoner.

Jiang Shuangxi, an incompetent Zengcheng guerrilla, naturally wouldn't interest Zhou Shixiang. What he was interested in was how many of the former Guangdong Weisuo Ming Army had been adapted into the Qing Army Green Battalion. To be continued.