Wuzhou has always been a big city. Among the more than 20 inland port cities in China, Wuzhou is undoubtedly one of the most important ones. The city is located in the upper reaches of the Pearl River, at the confluence of the Xun River, the Guijiang River and the Xijiang River.

Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to eat the water, the main force of the Wuzhou Tiandi Society is the boat army, and they are the brothers who eat by water on the river. During the Yong'an defensive war, the boat army also tried its best to get close to Yong'an City, but after the Qing army defended the boat army, the two sides failed to converge.

Hu Chenghe was originally the brother of the Wuzhou Tiandihui, and after joining the Taiping Army, he really regarded the Taiping Army as his own safe place. After the other Tiandihui brothers felt that they had no future in Yong'an and fled from Yong'an, Hu Chenghe continued to stay in Yong'an. So he also told the true thoughts of the Wuzhou Tiandihui brothers about the Taiping Army.

The city wall of Yong'an City is one zhang and five feet high, and the city wall of Wuzhou City is two and five zhang high, which is one zhang higher than Yong'an. Moreover, the location of Wuzhou City is excellent, and several waterways gathered here have become a natural defensive barrier for Wuzhou. Even if the Heaven and Earth Society gathered twenty or thirty thousand people, it still couldn't defeat Wuzhou City, and could only force it outside the city.

Since the Taiping Army uprising, it can be regarded as having a great reputation. Since you are in Guangxi, you naturally have Guangxi characteristics. The attitude of the Taiping army of the Heaven and Earth Society was quite similar to the brawl between the Turks, and before the battle, they "scattered the heroes" and gathered the heroes of the three mountains and five mountains to see who had the ability to do what no one else could do in the battle against Wuzhou.

The official army is now on the defensive inside the city, and the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society outside the city are also in control of the situation. Outside the range of the artillery at the head of the Qing army, the boat army was able to act at will. With Hu Cheng and Liaison, the Heaven and Earth Society sent a boat to take Wei Ze from Jiangbei and go straight to the camp set up in Jiangnan.

Now that it has entered the rainy season, the river is very watery. The canopy boat was jolting in the river, and Wei Ze clung to the wooden railing, looking at Wuzhou City in the southeast on the river. There is a lot of fog on the river, and the city of Wuzhou in the distance looks full of shadows, but the majestic feeling is very clear. For modern military affairs, it is very stupid to rely on honest city walls to hold on. But in this era, the towering city walls are the best defense support.

Hu Chenghe briefly introduced that Wuzhou City is surrounded by water on three sides, and it is only necessary to guard the 6th road in the west. Heaven and earth will have 20,000 or 30,000 people who have nothing to do with the tall walls of Wuzhou City. Even if it was just looking from afar, Wei Ze didn't feel that he could come up with any good ideas immediately.

The camp of the Heaven and Earth Society was set up near a river temple, and after getting off the canopy boat, standing by the camp of the Heaven and Earth Society and watching for a while, Wei Ze didn't know what to say. Regarding the military camp and formation of the Taiping Army, Wei Ze couldn't see it at all, thinking that it was the scum of the scum. But Wei Ze compares it to a large state-owned shipbuilding enterprise in northern China.

Now seeing the "camp" of the Heaven and Earth Society with his own eyes, Wei Ze suddenly felt that people had to die more than people, and goods had to be thrown away. No matter how scum the Taiping Army is, it is still an army. From the perspective of the army, the Taiping Army is just a very young, inexperienced, and very scummy army in many places. Comparing the Heaven and Earth Society with the Taiping Army, it can be seen that they are not armies at all, but just a group of people who have gathered to try to fight.

First, the people of the Heaven and Earth Society do not have the concept of camps. The camp is like the sphere of influence of a beast, and a tiger knows very well its living area, hunting area, and patrol area. The same is true of the camp, which can have no walls, no trenches, and even troops simply lying on the ground. These are not the most important, and the most important thing is that an army cannot do without the concept of camps.

The camp of the Heaven and Earth Society that Wei Ze saw, if you must describe it, is that the people of the Heaven and Earth Society have moved their own homes here. Depending on the group, there are a variety of different places where the pot is buried. And all of these places are at the center of each team. It's easy to understand that when you eat at home, you don't want other family members to come and share the food. With different territories in a single barracks, Weeser saw no need to have any more illusions about the rabble.

Hu Chenghe's status in the Wuzhou Heaven and Earth Association is not low, and there are fourteen or fifteen people who came to greet him. Although he already knew that there was no need to have any illusions, Wei Ze was still very disappointed when he saw this number. If it is one, two, or three thousand people, it is normal for such fourteen or fifteen brains to come out. For example, in a factory with one or two thousand people, if you put on a pomp and greet you, there will really be about ten people. But if it is a large enterprise with a scale of 20,000 or 30,000 people, there may not be a small number of people who come to greet it, but there are only one or two real brain figures.

Wuzhou Tiandihui gathered twenty or thirty thousand people, and more than a dozen brains came out, which can only show that this armed force is now a group of dragons, and the order is long. The Taiping army is also a size of 10,000 or 20,000 people, and it is Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, who really gives the order, and the five princes are all princes, but the other four kings cannot openly disobey Yang Xiuqing's orders. Without strong concentration, there can be no strong command capability. If the 8,000 front-line troops with real combat effectiveness were to order the bulls, it would be absolutely impossible to annihilate the elite troops of the Qing army of 4,000 or 5,000 at Dayuan.

Before arriving in Wuzhou, Wei Ze felt that he might be able to toss a career in Wuzhou, at least he could have an excellent performance in the battle of besieging Wuzhou. Now Wei Ze feels that he is taking it for granted, before solving Wuzhou City, Wei Ze first has to think about how to solve the situation of scattered sand.

The brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society were very warm and polite to Wei Ze. Everyone looked at Wei Ze's style clothes with curious eyes, especially Wei Ze's epaulettes and armbands. It was sewn with very brightly colored cloth and thread, after all, it was an object that showed its rank in the army, so naturally it could not be unconspicuous.

A group of people surrounded Wei Ze and went to the Jiangshen Temple, asking this and that on the way, there was a Hakka accent and a Tujia accent. Compared with the Taiping Army, which is almost entirely Hakka, the Guangxi Tiandihui is undoubtedly more localized and more diverse.

Wei Ze briefly introduced the recent operations of the Taiping Army, and mentioned that the main force of the Taiping Army had gone to attack Guilin, the provincial capital, and the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society were all surprised.

Entering the Jiang Temple, all the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society sat down one after another. As a courtesy, Weeser was placed in a guest seat. On the main seat sat two leaders in their thirties. The one sitting in the east is called Hu Youlu, and the one sitting in the west is called Wu Fengcai, according to the introduction of Hu Cheng and before crossing the river, both of them are claimed to have brought two or three thousand brothers, but in fact there are only seven or eight hundred people. The two occupy the leading position in the Heaven and Earth Society. Most of the other brothers said that they had a thousand people, but in fact they had brought only a few dozen people so far. The total number of people in the entire camp is estimated to be only four or five thousand. Compared to Wei Ze, a team that really brought more than a thousand people, the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society were nothing.

Things are the same as Wei Ze thought, the Heaven and Earth Society is a temporary armed force assembled together. Wu Fengcai's mouth is talking about what will happen after Wuzhou City is conquered. After talking about the beautiful vision for the future, the next thing is the main topic, how to enter Wuzhou City. At the mention of how to break into Wuzhou City, a group of people immediately stared at each other. All eyes fell on the newly emerged Wees.

"Excuse me, how many Qing troops are there in Wuzhou City?" Weser couldn't help but ask.

"Five or six thousand, right?" Wu Fengcai said.

"The Qing army is from that battalion, who is the chief soldier?" Weeser then asked.

It seems that this question is not what the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society are concerned about, and the brains look at each other, and no one can answer. After a while, Hu Youlu replied: "When I arrived outside Wuzhou City, the officials and soldiers had already closed the city gate and did not allow people to enter or leave. As soon as we approached the city wall, the officers and soldiers bombarded it with artillery, and we did not know exactly who led the army in the city. ”

Wei Ze had no expression on his face, but he probably guessed in his heart that in fact, how many Qing troops there were in the city, and these brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society were also unclear. Originally, Wei Ze was still holding a little expectation, hoping that the Heaven and Earth Society would already have some battle plans, but now he had no illusions at all. Weeser was sure that the only way forward was to do things at his own pace.

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