Han’s Son is Not a Slave

If you want to know how many Ming troops in Guangdong have been adapted into green battalions, you must have the help of people who are familiar with the internal affairs of the Qing army, and those who can know this kind of information must have a high status in the Qing army, at least they must participate in it. The above officials, or the two confidants who can directly contact this kind of secret, will do. There is no such person in the Taiping Army at present, but this information is very important to the Taiping Army, so Zhou Shixiang activated the card of Zhang An.

In view of the needs of intelligence work that day, Zhou Shixiang hurriedly established the Department of Military Intelligence in Luoding, and made Zhang An, who was a fluent speaker, as the ambassador of the Department of Military Intelligence. However, when the Military Intelligence Division was established, the Taiping Army was about to leave Luoding and enter the Fragrant Mountains. Therefore, Zhou Shixiang did not have the energy or enough resources to invest in Zhang An, and he was basically holding a shot against Zhang An's Military Intelligence Division. Intend. Fortunately, after Zhang An arrived in Zhaoqing with the silver note given to him by Zhou Shixiang, the development went smoothly. Song Ying, who was down the line in Zhaoqing, risked his life to spread the information about Gaoyao City, and directly helped Zhou Shixiang decide to seize it. Gaoyao City.

Afterwards, because of being trapped in Xinhui, the communication channels of the Taiping army were cut off by the Qing army, Zhang An was unable to get in touch with Zhou Shixiang, and this line was considered broken. After the Battle of Yinpingzui Mountain, Zhou Shixiang found Song Ying, who is now the flag of the Taiping Army, and handed him the wooden plaque engraved with the word "li", and asked him to go to Zhaoqing to find Zhang An. This time Zhou Shixiang gave Zhang An. An's mission is very clear, that is, he wants to find out the garrison deployment of the Qing army in Guangdong at all costs, and try his best to obtain the details of these garrisoned Qing troops.

Compared with the main force of the Qing army in Guangzhou, the Taiping Army is undoubtedly the soft one, but compared with the Zengcheng Green Camp, the Taiping Army is the hard one.

Earlier, Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong had analyzed the strength of the Qing army in Guangdong, and they reached the unanimous conclusion that the overall strength of the Qing army in Guangdong should be between 30,000 and 40,000, and the main force of the Han army was still gratifying. , Geng Jimao's Han army is between 5,000 and 8,000 troops in the Yellow Banner, and the rest of the Green Battalion's troops vary in strength, and the strength of the governor's troops promoted by the Governor of Guangdong Yamen is the strongest.

After the Xinhui World War I, the prisoners learned through interrogation. The total strength of the siege army commanded by Shang Zhixin once reached more than 18,000 people during the peak period, and then some were withdrawn one after another. By the time of the decisive battle of Xinhui, the total strength of the Qing army outside the city was more than 14,000 people. Among them are Shang Fan's Han flag and 2,600 soldiers from his own family. Geng Fan has 600 Han army flag soldiers, more than 500 green battalion supervising pacesetters, and the rest are green battalion soldiers transferred from various places. The most of these green battalion soldiers are those under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou government. Fragrant Hill is under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou Government, and is close to Xinhui. The garrison battalion was drawn the most. As a result, when the Taiping army crossed the river to attack Xiangshan, the Qing army stationed in Xiangshan had no strength to resist.

With the current strength of the Taiping army, it is impossible to directly confront the Han army flags of Monk Kexi and Geng Jimao, but the Taiping army is operating under the nose of Guangzhou, and a head-to-head confrontation with the two feudal vassals in the future will definitely be inevitable. In order not to be overwhelmed by the Han flag, the Taiping army must become strong enough, and an army wants to become strong, not simply by expanding its strength on paper, equipping weapons, and simply mobilizing. It must improve its combat effectiveness through constant battles.

Unable to fight with the Han army flag soldiers, and they had to fight to improve their combat effectiveness, Zhou Shixiang could only focus on those green battalion soldiers. Of course, the green battalion soldiers also have hard bones, and the Taiping army can't fight the hard stubble at the beginning, the loss will be too great, and the gain will outweigh the loss, so they have to pick up the soft ones and fight first, but which green battalion soldier is the soft one, Zhou Shixiang doesn't know. Therefore, he urgently needs the garrison deployment and strength of the Guangdong Green Camp.

Before leaving for the former cottage, Song Ying disguised as the son of a landlord who had escaped the massacre in Yongle Township and infiltrated a team of refugees. All the people in this team "escaped" because their hometown was occupied by the Ming army. Landlord gentry and their families, their target of escape is Guangzhou.

Taiping's military discipline is not to kill. However, the landlord gentry who dared to resist were killed regardless, and some evil gentry who had helped the Qing army were slaughtered regardless of whether they surrendered or not.

The trap camps who occupied Yongle City were all from poor miners. They hated these landlords and gentry who lived by drinking the blood of the people. Therefore, several massacres occurred in Yongle City. Those killed were either country bullies or had children who served in the Qing Dynasty. The process of extermination was naturally very bloody, and many underage children were killed. The matter reached Zhou Shixiang's ears. Although he was a little dissatisfied, he did not expressly rebuke Tie Yi for such an inhumane slaughter. He only said that Tie Yi should treat the local gentry differently in the future, and he should not kill in vain or indiscriminately. . We must pay attention to unite local people, rather than slaughter ignorantly. As a result, the words reached Tie Yi's side, but it was regarded as Zhou Shixiang tacitly agreeing with him. Instead, there were several cases of annihilation. Among them, several households did not help Zhou Shixiang to help the Qing army, but they just received high rent on weekdays. more, and more loan sharks.

"This is the instinctive reaction of our soldiers to the squires who used to ride on their heads to make a fortune~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It is also due to the poor people's natural disgust for the rich. Before they were unable to resist these people, Now that they have knives in their hands, they can do whatever they want. I am very afraid that this kind of thing will become the norm in the future, it is not good and it is not good for the development of our army.”

"Destroying these landlords and evil gentry who are rooted in the countryside will make our army's reputation in some places worse and will also be resisted, but at the moment I have no better way to deal with these things. At present, our biggest enemy is the Qing Dynasty. And his lackeys, the landlords and gentry in the occupied areas are to some extent the lackeys of the Qing Dynasty, as long as they do not stand up clearly to support our army and the Ming Dynasty, then there is nothing wrong with them being eliminated."

Song Xianggong, who received Zhou Shixiang's letter, was very confused about Zhou Shixiang's different attitudes towards Tie Yi in the letter, and he didn't know what Zhou Shi's attitude was to the gentry. In his busy schedule, he took a pen and wrote down some of his views and sent it to Zhou Shixiang, but the latter did not express his views on the matter after seeing the letter, and only hurriedly asked about his land in Longandu. How is the consolidation going, what are the views of the local people on the arrival of the Taiping Army, whether the Taiping Army has violated the interests of the local people, and whether the local people are very enthusiastic about joining the Taiping Army, etc...

Song Ying successfully concealed the investigation of the Qing army in Guangzhou. After staying in Guangzhou for two days, he went to Zhaoqing under the pretext of going to the family and found Zhang An. To be continued.