Rolling people circulate guò Guiyang Prefecture City, continue to advance eastward. Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, ordered Xiao Chaogui, the king of the west, to command Zeng Shuiyuan, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang and other troops to march into Chenzhou. Weeser went from being the vanguard of the whole army to the rearguard.

At this time, a large number of local people in Guiyang Prefecture defected to the Taiping army, and Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, asked Wei Ze's troops to accept these new people. There are so many people who have joined the army, it can be said that it is "thanks to the blessing of the Manchu Qing Dynasty". Li Qizhao, the governor of Guiyang Prefecture, was the son of Li Qi, the governor of Shandong, who was a cool official, and in the face of many revolts and even uprisings by the people of southern Hunan, he adopted extremely high-handed means of "torture" to suppress them. When Wei Ze led his troops into Guiyang Prefecture, many heads were hung at the city gate, and many local rebels were arrested by Li Qizhao with a large wooden flail at the gate of the Yamen of the prefecture city. These arrested people were beaten to the flesh and wore wooden shackles weighing dozens of catties, if Wei Ze hadn't entered the state city and released these people, they would have died in a few days.

According to the people who came to join the army, when Li Qizhao fled for his life, he carried a pocket behind the horse, in which he put hundreds of Spanish eagles, and was about to throw silver dollars when he encountered the pursuers to stop the pursuers from chasing after them.

But he took some of his own soldiers and ran to Zhangshuwei, but he did not meet the pursuers, but was watched by hundreds of civilians who went to meet Wei Ze's troops. At this time, Lord Li Qizhao of Zhizhou can no longer fabricate charges against the people and kill them. When the people saw the embarrassment of his bereaved dog, they sang and danced one after another, and shouted together, "The Taiping Army is the best!" ”

Under the strong psychological pressure created by the onlookers, Li Qizhao, who knew that he owed a lot of blood debts to the people of Guiyang Prefecture, was finally scared to commit suicide.

Many of the people of Guiyang Prefecture rebelled against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Li Qizhao committed suicide, Wei Ze entered the city of Guiyang Prefecture, and a large number of people came to join the army. When the front, middle, and rear armies of the Taiping Army all passed through Guiyang Prefecture, in addition to the many people who were taken away, there were also thousands of new people on Wei Ze's side who came to join the army.

Yang Xiuqing stood on the west gate wall of Guiyang Prefecture City and said to Wei Ze, who was following him, "If Chenzhou is captured, there should be many people who come to join the army." ”

"That's what the king of the east said! There should be quite a few people coming to join the army. Weeser replied very seriously.

There are many mining areas in Guiyang Prefecture, and the local area is still a powerful area of the Tiandihui. The mines of the Manchu Qing were basically "state-owned", so the Manchus attached great importance to the suppression of miners. Because miners have to be organized and disciplined to dig holes, and they are the most exploited. Once these able-bodied miners rise up in rebellion, it is indeed very difficult to deal with.

When the Taiping army revolted in Guangxi, an uprising also broke out in southern Hunan, but the uprising was suppressed by the Manchus. Li Qizhao was one of the executioners who suppressed the uprising in southern Hunan. After the failure of the uprising of the Heaven and Earth Society in southern Hunan, some of the remnants even went to Guangxi to join the Taiping army that was besieging Guilin. Heaven and earth will have great connections among the miners, and now that the Taiping army has entered southern Hunan and arrived in Guiyang Prefecture, the local people have naturally joined the army.

Weser was a little regretful that none of the people who gave it to him were particularly capable. The miners who joined the army were all incorporated into the newly built "earthen camp", and in this era of underground blasting of the city wall as an important means of engineering, these miners and soldiers who were accustomed to digging dangers and hammering and were not afraid of far-reaching were indeed a great human wealth.

Even so, Weeser was very satisfied. After entering Shonan, those who came to join the army were not dragged by their families, but by young men and young people who joined the army themselves. Without a large number of old and weak people who need to be protected, it is much easier for troops to march and fight.

"How did Brother Wei arrange these new brothers?" Yang Xiuqing asked.

"The subordinates organized most of them into the original four divisions, drew some old brothers from the original divisions, and formed a division with the remaining new brothers." Weese replied.

"That's not good!" Yang Xiuqing expressed his disapproval at that time, "The reorganization of the team, it is best to organize the troops in each place together, and their relatives will lead the team, so that it is convenient to give orders." Besides, so many recruits are assigned to the ranks of the old brothers, and when they fight, they are worried that the team will not be able to give orders. ”

"My subordinates know." Wei Ze replied to Yang Xiuqing. It is easy for the troops to have a sense of belonging because of the regional kinship, and because of this layer of blood kinship during the battle, it is easy to share the same hatred and hatred of the enemy when fighting a tough battle, which is a very traditional organizational model. Wei Ze just felt that the opponent Qing army was too weak, so he chose to separate the troops. Bringing new recruits from veterans is always possible to increase combat effectiveness faster. Since Yang Xiuqing was kind enough to build a good life for Wei Ze, no matter if he could do it or not, Wei Ze couldn't help but refuse.

mentioned the matter of recruits, Yang Xiuqing was quite annoyed. The Taiping Army welcomed new recruits, but they couldn't take it very seriously. The people of Guangxi and southern Hunan are already a very good source of soldiers, and as long as the situation is not extremely bad after going to the battlefield, no one really says that the girl escaped. It's just that there is a limit to this, and recruits have to go to the battlefield many times and gradually accumulate experience before they can become veterans who can be used with confidence. After the Taiping army entered southern Hunan, a large number of local people defected to the Taiping army, and the number of troops skyrocketed. But now at this time, it is still the old brothers of Guangxi who can really use it. In addition, it takes time for the new recruits to be reorganized and trained, and it is a huge problem how much time they can have to train after conquering Chenzhou this time.

Yang Xiuqing said: "Brother Wei, I heard that your gunner is very capable, so I left you as the rear team, and you have to fight the Qing demon tomorrow, you have to fight me well." This time, if the Qing Demon who can fight does not dare to die by himself within a month, we will be able to train our troops well. ”

"Please rest assured, Dongwang, his subordinates will do their best!" Wei Ze has always attached great importance to the training of the army, and he has gradually sorted out a complete set of training methods, and he is very confident.

Seeing that Wei Ze was quite warlike, Yang Xiuqing smiled and said, "Brother Wei, I don't know why you wanted to join the Taiping Army last year?" ”

"Kill the demons!" Wei Ze replied categorically, "If you don't kill all the demons, you won't have a good life!" ”

"Haha!" Seeing Wei Ze's attitude, Yang Xiuqing laughed, "What if you kill all the demons?" ”

"After killing all the Qing demons, it is naturally the East King who sits in the world!" Weese replied unequivocally. In 1852, people were not socialized, and it was an art to try to explain the questions and answers of superiors and subordinates appropriately. But for people in the 21st century, it's just a technology that can be learned. Not to mention this kind of air-to-air, no-frills Q&A.

However, Wei Ze is only 19 years old after all, and Yang Xiuqing has never been mixed with officialdom, let alone state-owned enterprises, after hearing Wei Ze's words, he was stunned at first, frowned and looked at Wei Ze for a while, and then patted Wei Ze's shoulder while laughing, "Brother Wei, you are childish!" ”

Wei Ze didn't want to say something that was not suitable for his age, so he simplified it and said to Yang Xiuqing seriously: "King Dong! Your subordinates think that you are the number one person in our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, if you don't sit in the world, who can sit in this world? ”

When Yang Xiuqing heard this, she was already smiling, "Brother Wei, if you want to sit in the world, you can kill all the demons first!" If you can't defeat the Qing Demon tomorrow, no one will want to sit in this world! We've already said how to fight, I'll just wait to see you go into battle! ”

On August 17, the west gate of Guiyang City. Wei Ze personally led the first and second divisions of 2,000 men and horses to set up a formation outside the city, and the two divisions each sent out a brigade, and a total of ten soldiers laid a horizontal formation against the city wall. At the head of the city, all the artillery carried by Weezer was swinged.

On the left and right of the Wei Ze array, there were two thousand elite troops of Yang Xiuqing's rear army. The most admired troops in the Taiping army were troops capable of hand-to-hand combat, and more than seventy percent of the two thousand elites were armed with broadswords and spears. That's a double of the ratio of three-quarters of Weese's troops to musketeers and one-quarter to pikemen.

In the morning, Hechun's troops finally appeared in front of this battle formation of more than 3,000 people. Wei Ze saw that the Qing army had arrived outside the city, so he ran up to the city to take a look, but saw that on the road west of Guiyang Prefecture, there was a Qing army with no end in sight. The Qing army besieging the Taiping Army in Daozhou originally had about 13ooo, and now after Jiang Zhongyuan, Zhang Guoliang and other troops joined, the total strength has been about 20,000. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's troops left in Guiyang Prefecture included Wei Ze's 5,000 men and Yang Xiuqing's more than 3,000 troops, which together were less than half of the Qing army. The number of Taiping troops deployed outside the city was only 3,000, and in terms of the proportion of numbers, the Taiping army was undoubtedly at a great advantage.

After seeing the number and momentum of the Qing army heading straight to Guiyang Prefecture, Wei Ze was about to go down to the city. Yang Xiuqing stopped Wei Ze, "Brother Wei, can your 1,000 men and horses hold on?" ”

Wei Ze smiled murderously: "Please rest assured, King Dong!" The subordinates will lead the brothers to fight at the front, and if the Qing demon wants to touch the city wall, he must first step over the corpses of his subordinates! ”

Yang Xiuqing looked at Wei Ze, who was boiling with fighting spirit, and said with a smile: "That's good!" I'm in the city watching Brother Wei kill the enemy! ”

The Qing army pursued all the way, and there was simply no way to carry heavy artillery. Weese carried all the artillery with him when he marched eastward, and a quarter of the army's troops carried the artillery. It was precisely because of the defect that the Qing army did not have artillery that Wei Ze dared to line up in the Chinese army with a thousand elites.

The Qing army was not afraid this time, they just reorganized their troops and horses a little three or four miles away from Wei Ze's troops, and then lined up in an array and marched towards Guiyang City.

As soon as the drums and trumpets sounded, Weezer's troops loaded their muskets first, and then the array of ten pawns began to move forward slowly. This time, the queue did not move forward together, but the two troops in the middle were the most advanced, staggered by about five meters, and the two troops further out began to advance. The entire transverse array forms a large obtuse angle.

After the Taiping army marched east from Daozhou, the Qing army's pursuing men and horses never dared to enter the Taiping army's brigade. They were far behind the Taiping army. However, now the Qing army does not seem to intend to continue the previous passive pursuit posture, even if Wei Ze's troops advanced towards the Qing army, the Qing army did not stop or retreat. Their troops also continued to advance towards Wei Ze's troops, and it seemed that the Qing army had also made up their minds to fight.

On the morning of August 17, 20,000 Qing troops and 3,000 Taiping troops entered the battlefield. The armies of both sides are ready to fight this battle, and Yang Xiuqing, the eastern king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Wei Ze, the winter official and deputy prime minister of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, have absolute confidence in victory!

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