Han’s Son is Not a Slave: Chapter 160 defend the city

Xinhui is guarding the southern gate of Guangzhou, and it is very close to Guangzhou City. The Taiping army's occupation of Xinhui will inevitably attract the Qing army in Guangzhou. The generals made it clear that it was in this Xinhui city that they competed with the Qing army in Guangzhou. [ads: This site has a new website, shorthand method:,] On that day, his Qing army was able to repel the tens of thousands of troops of Xining King Li Dingguo with the strong city of Xinhui. Today, the Taiping army can also use this strong city to repel Guangzhou. The Qing army in the city is heavily armed.

All the generals had no objection to this. Regardless of whether they knew soldiers or not, they all knew that holding Pingcheng would definitely be more certain than fighting against the Qing army in the field. The Taiping Army had no cavalry, and most of the battalions were new soldiers. They couldn't compare to the elite of the Qing army in Guangzhou, not to mention the Han flag in Guangzhou and cavalry. When it is time to attack, at that time, I am afraid that there will be more misfortunes than good luck.

Ge Zheng, Ge Yi brothers and others thought that they had been struggling to run since Luo Ding started the army, saying that they had moved in to find a base for the whole battalion, but after walking for so long, Xiangshan County has not yet arrived. Taking this new city in one fell swoop, it would be better to use this new city as a base, so that these former "mountain kings" can also taste the prestige of the official master.

If there is a city, there will be people, and if there are people, there will naturally be tributes. Everyone holds their heads and fights with Zhou Xiucai. It's rare that Zhou Xiucai didn't abandon Xinhui City, so everyone went out and fought against Tartar, and won, from now on, Xinhui will be the world of the Taiping Army, if you lose, you will have a big scar. Depends on how big the bird is after death.

Fighting, fighting, Tartar is also a head, a hanging, Laozi is no less right than them, come and come, see if it is your hardship or your father's hardship!

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When the Taiping army on the top of the city was busy preparing siege equipment, the city was also busy. On the orders of Zhou Shixiang of the Thousand Households of the Taiping Army and Song Xianggong, the general manager of money and grain, Liao Ruixiang, the master of Shaoxing, was appointed as the magistrate of Xinhui County. With the assistance of a team of security guards dispatched by Duke Xiang of Song, all the remaining people in the city were mobilized, whether old, weak, sick, disabled or women, all organized to participate in the defense of Xinhui City.

Xinhui City has experienced the disaster of the Qing army food city last year. The original population of nearly 80,000 was less than 2,000. At the beginning of the year, after Li Dingguo's army was relieved of the siege, Manchu and the new governor of Guangdong, Li Suitai, ordered Guangzhou and neighboring prefectures and counties to move one after another in order to cover up the massacre of the Qing army. In addition, the poor people in the countryside near Xinhui entered the city because they wanted to have a house without an owner in the city. The population of Xinhui returned to 10,000, but there were hundreds of wealthy households from Guangzhou city. After the Taiping army entered the city, the Zhenlu camp under the leadership of Ge Zheng, a hundred households, became aggressive. Most of them suffered from military disasters, and many families were destroyed.

In order to repair the bombed-down city wall before the arrival of the Qing army in Guangzhou, Zhou Shixiang ordered the captured Qing army, the officers and young men in the city as coolies, and repaired the city wall at the cost of manpower. Most of the men arrived at the city wall construction site. Liao Ruixiang was appointed as the magistrate of Xinhui. Suffering from the lack of young and strong men, they had to bite the bullet and ordered all the old and weak women and children to join the army, and together with the remaining women and children of the Taiping Army rear camp, they prepared food and corresponding equipment for the defense of the city.

Master Liao Ruixiang was born and was good at common things. Although he was old, various affairs were arranged in a tight and orderly manner, so that the Taiping Army's front battalion did not have to allocate manpower for logistics. This move made Song Xianggong quite praised. In Zhou Shixiang In front of Liao Ruixiang's words, Zhou Shixiang was pleased and ordered to reward Liao Ruixiang twenty taels of silver.

Received twenty taels of silver. Liao Zhixian worked even harder. He knew the public treasury system implemented by the Taiping Army. All captured and looted proceeds would be confiscated and distributed by the public treasury afterward. Although he was appointed as the magistrate, he did not have his salary fixed, and he still ate the same fixed food as others, so he got twenty taels of silver, which made him very happy. He was originally a prisoner who was imprisoned to die because of his "anti-poetry". If it weren't for the Taiping Army, he would have been killed long ago. Now not only can he survive, he can also be an official, and he can also get money. Such a good thing, wouldn't it make him go crazy. The so-called scholar died for the confidant.

When Xinhui was mobilizing the whole city, Zhou Shixiang did not take time off. He visited the city from time to time, or discussed with the generals about defending the city. He knew that the Qing army who had escaped would definitely report the news of Xinhui's fall to Guangzhou. They will also send troops and horses to **** Xinhui as soon as possible, otherwise, this Xinhui city will be like a knife on the throat of the Qing army in Guangzhou, making it difficult for them to eat. If I were myself, I would definitely try my best to retake the Xinhui. Otherwise, I don't need the Taiping Army to do anything else. I just need to send staff to contact Li Dingguo, and the situation in Guangdong will change in an instant.

For the defense of the city, the Zhenlu battalion guards the east gate, the Xiongwei battalion guards the west gate, the Hujie battalion guards the south gate, the trap camp guards the north gate, and the guard battalion serves as a mobile force to supplement each gate at any time. In addition, the security team of the later battalion was mainly expanded to a thousand people. The source of the expanded security team was mainly young soldiers in the city and prisoners of the green camp of the Qing army. As long as the city wall was repaired, they could be filled with people. The security regiment was controlled by Duke Xiang of Song. As the armed force of the Houying, on the one hand, it ensured the safety of the Houying, and on the other hand, it would maintain order in the city with the magistrate of the county yamen.

The Taiping army captured the fortified city and defeated the Qing army. The morale of the entire battalion was high. Although the rear battalion of Guifeng Mountain suffered heavy damage, most of the casualties were the elderly, the weak, women and children, which relieved the Taiping army to a certain extent. Therefore, although the generals and soldiers have many heartaches, for the leaders, it is inevitable to feel a sense of relief. Zhou Shixiang was not a saint. Of course, he deplored the dead, but the dead cannot be resurrected, and the living must look forward. In this way, without the heavy burden of the rear camp, the Taiping army's mobility and combat ability can be improved. Greatly improved, which gave him a lot of confidence in his idea of ​​sticking to the Xinhui to repel the Qing army.

To defend the city, there must be food, and without food, it is in danger.

The Taiping army certainly cannot kill people for food like the Qing army, so there must be sufficient food to supply the entire army, otherwise, once the food runs out, the entire army will be in danger. Fortunately, there is a lot of grain in Xinhui City. Last year, when Li Dingguo besieged the city, the Qing army in the city did not run out of grain. After the war, Li led Tai entered the city to check, and the surplus grain in the city could still be eaten by the Qing army for half a year. With so much food, and another batch of them shipped in the past few months, it is enough to ensure that the Taiping Army will stick to Xinhui for more than half a year, even without the food that the Taiping Army has scavenged from various places.

It is Zhou Shixiang's bottom line to stick to half a year, but he does not think that the Qing army has the ability to besiege Xinhui City for half a year, because through confessions from prisoners and an estimate of the Qing army along the way, the overall strength of the Qing army in Guangdong does not seem to be very strong, a conservative estimate. , Guangzhou Ping, Jing two can send troops and horses will never exceed 10,000 people. If it exceeds 10,000 people, soldiers from other prefectures and counties must be dispatched. If soldiers from other prefectures and counties are dispatched, it is impossible for the Ming army in Guangdong to not be aware of it. It is impossible for Geng Jimao to take it, because if they do this, even if they win Xinhui City, I am afraid that in addition to Guangzhou, other prefectures and counties in Guangdong will be in the hands of the Ming army~www.mtlnovel.com ~ The most urgent task at the moment, it is very necessary to contact the forces of the Ming army in various places, so Zhou Shixiang sent orders to Zhang Ying, asking him to try his best to spread the situation of the Xinhui to various places, and in any case, he must send people to Gaozhou to go to Gaozhou, no matter what. Whether Li Dingguo is in Guangdong at this time, and whether he is fighting against Sun Kewang, he must also let him know that Xinhui City, which he has been besieging for a year without success, has now been captured by the Taiping Army.

At this time in history, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo were in the midst of turning against each other, so Zhou Shixiang did not dare to put the hope of overturning the situation in Guangdong on Li Dingguo. Guangdong, that is God's business.

Li Dingguo has no hope, but the rest of the Ming army in Guangdong is likely to win it. I don't expect them to come to Xinhui and stick with the Taiping army, but they can also fight for them to attack the Qing army in person to contain the Qing army. , thereby reducing the pressure on Xinhui City. The target of the fight, Zhou Shixiang focused on Chen Qice, the general of Linghai, and also sent people to the nearby to collect and recruit the remnants of the Ming army to enrich the defense force.

The more than 300 green battalion soldiers who were transferred from Chaozhou to Xinhui were all from the navy. After Zhou Shixiang entered the city, he did not care about them for a while, and he also had doubts about their loyalty, so they also acted as coolies until the city wall was repaired. line arrangement. To be continued. xh118