At noon the next day, Zhou Huai'an was already sitting on the tower of Xiaowu Gate; While looking at the direction of the battle-filled inner city, one of the gates has been planted with a cyan Taiping flag; While slowly tasting several local specialties.

Although there is no well-developed food system such as the Fire Palace in ancient Changsha City in this year, the local heavy and spicy taste has begun to take shape; For example, dogwood, galangal, and garlic alone can be used to create spicy dipping sauces and sauces.

Rice wine and vinegar sauce soaked in golden sea bass and spicy aoi sauce create a sweet flavor that flows from the tip of the tongue to the base of the tongue. There is also a bean skin roll with scallop river shrimp as the filling with the head and tail; the green and bright lettuce soup and the yellow, clear, mellow and crisp sour and salty bamboo shoots; There is also the milk soup of the taro boiled turtle in sauce, the shredded rabbit meat in the dry pan-fried, and the yellow finch soup with honey.

Finally, a small bottle of glutinous sweet wine with perilla and cloves has been brewed for several years, and it tastes thick and mellow and rippling between your teeth. Such a delicious food is paired with the battle in the city in the distance, and the blood, fire, dust and smoke are the flavors of this situation, this scene, there is a sense of extinguishing this morning food and a faint compulsion.

This dedicated Captain Peng is also a wonderful person who is quite knowledgeable and very shallow. Not only did he open the city gate and welcome the Taiping army in when he saw that the situation was not good, but he also personally led people along the city wall to persuade the guards of the other two city gates in the south of the city; He also deceived a gatekeeper in the east of the city who belonged to the traitorous party and was in a stubborn position on the grounds of asking for help.

Therefore, Zhou Huai'an's subordinates actually didn't have much effort, and they had already reached his basic requirements of not staying overnight; And made persistent efforts to join the purge near the city gate. When it comes to the experience and tactics of night fighting, Zhou Huai'an believes that the Taiping army under his command has never lost to others since it claimed to be powerful.

Therefore, Zhu Cun had already invited himself to be the pioneer overnight, and with the Taiping Army's jumping, selection, first and odd team sequences, he did not hesitate to enter the direction of the inner city. Along the way, they also passed through the streets and alleys to gather a number of scattered other rebels, and sent them to Xiaowumen.

In addition to the suppression and surrender of the towns and neighborhoods outside the city, the remnants of the rebel armies of other tribes with different banners; There were about six or seven thousand of them; Now they are all gathered outside the city and held in custody to be reorganized and reorganized.

Therefore, in the south and east of the city, closer to the city, groups of Taiping soldiers who have taken prisoners or routed their troops, or executed some of the people who have taken advantage of the chaos to kill and set fires in the streets, are restoring basic order in a calm full of slaughter and suffocation.

It's just that Tanzhou, which has been expanded and operated in successive dynasties, is a large Jianghan city with a large population and not much smaller than Guangfu in terms of scale; Even cleaning up and cleaning up the aftermath is not something that can be completed in a short time.

However, for this Peng Zhuan who is so acquainted, Zhou Huaian is a little unsure of how to arrange and dispose of him. At this time, a Yu Hou from the teaching team reported back:

"Report, General Zhu has taken the three gates of the inner city, and the rest of the thieves have fled into the corner of Yacheng to resist stubbornly."

Zhou Huai'an nodded slightly, this Zhu Cun looked like he was a little greedy for money and profit at the beginning, but at least he was able to seize the opportunity in the Northern Expedition and quickly climb to the current position, and the corresponding skills and experience are also unambiguous.

In fact, according to his orders and corresponding strategies, now with sufficient superiority and upper hand, there is no need to deliberately distinguish between friend and foe in the face of these other rebel armies fighting in the city; As long as they face the orders and shouts of the Taiping army, they still refuse to stop and take up arms to face each other, they are the unforgiving enemy who kills them on the spot.

Those who are willing to stop and discard their weapons and accept on-site containment will be brought back to the city gates to be supervised, and then provided with food and hot water, as well as bandaged and treated wounds; In this case, the vast majority of people will temporarily let go of their fear and nervousness, and obediently accept the next step of management, screening, and questioning.

Then it is to let them, the fish or survivors who have slipped through the net, identify and expose each other, and the colleagues who further understand the cause of the chaos in the city, and also bring those potential thorns and dissidents and other unstable factors into these revelations with personal revenge, and those who have missed and not let go are all centrally supervised. And there is no longer an opportunity for people to secretly incite and privately demagogue, spread rumors, and cause trouble.

After sorting out the pieces in this way, as long as the momentum of steady progress and multi-faceted integration is maintained step by step, and the other party is not given any chance to use strange tricks, it is only a matter of time before the chaos in Tanzhou City is calmed down.

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In the palace building on the outskirts of Yacheng, Li Xiang, the left chamber of the Hengjiang Army, broke off the two tailless short arrows inserted in the armor with bared teeth, and then carefully flattened the forks with a short dagger.

The strange rebels who came in the process of sudden killing are simply a group of crazy people and strange ruthless people; Basically, there is no way to negotiate and reason well. But if there is no response to a disagreement or a few words, immediately set up a shield and shoot with a crossbow; He was not given the opportunity or room to make false accusations or maneuver at all.

Even if you want to gather men to ambush and stop them according to the terrain, it is difficult to attack them like a rolling thorn in front of their crossbowmen, card arrays, and spear columns advancing along the street; On the contrary, they are vigilant, full of vigilance, steady and cunning.

As soon as there is a stir around, they will throw poisonous smoke balls at suspicious places from the cart that follows in the center, and then shoot them with a repeater for a while; Then the ambush soldiers who were smoked out of their hiding places or jumped up by the fire on their bodies were shot on the spot by the prey of the snakes.

And without the suddenness of the encirclement and the ambush launched by the joint force, it will naturally no longer be a decent ambush, but a frontal and tough chaotic battle. Then, after each battle, these soldiers will set up a new barricade at the intersection to garrison it, and then replace it with a new batch of new troops to continue to advance;

And in this alternating round of battles, step by step, the Hengjiang soldiers who were scattered among the scattered cities and squares, and who were just taking the opportunity to scrape the city, were separated and divided one by one, and it was difficult to echo and support each other; In the continuous street battles, one by one outflanked and compressed the spare space that their soldiers could move.

When he saw that the situation was not good and forcibly stood out from the encirclement with his troops, there were less than a hundred people left around him. You must know that he is leading two whole battalions, at least a thousand men and horses in Dongcheng.

And now almost everyone is wounded, even he has an arrow in the back and an arrow in the shoulder; If it weren't for the fact that the plain mountain armor he captured from the official army was still quite effective, he might have been shot down on the spot; Instead of continuing to fight and lead his troops desperately forward, he escaped without looking back.

At least he did not dare to pull out the arrow rashly until there were enough medicines and means of treatment; That will cause a larger wound and excessive blood loss, and even lose strength and faint as a result, and even many new soldiers who had no corresponding experience before this will lose their lives before they can be treated.

Knowing that a legendary figure who joined the rebel army implemented the emergency method of needlework and suture and fire wounds he brought in the army, the corresponding mortality rate and the probability of subsequent injury recurrence fell like a dive.

"What the hell is the military master saying there? You can't let people hang here in vain."

He took a sip of water that his subordinates had so easily rummaged through the neighborhood, and said in a hoarse voice

"The subordinates have never seen the military master, but it is Guo Xiaojun who is temporarily presiding over the situation."

But the officer had a sad face.

"He asked the general to continue to hold on for a moment or two, and if there is any difficulty, he can ask for help from the Lanshan Army and the army master."

"What kind of bastard is this, can't you count on your own family and horses anymore?"

Li Xiang couldn't help but change color.

"Then why don't you let me wait to find my own way. Someone came to clean up and stop.,Follow me into the dental city to see you.。。 ”

Although he is unable to compete with the new forces of those enemies for the time being, he still dares to fight in the face of the old robes or something.

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At the same time, at the head of the city, the envoy from He Huaizhong of the Lanshan Army was also brought to Zhou Huai'an.

"All these things in the city are Naga Junhou's proposition, and my military master is willing to fight with the virtual army to turn the war into a jade silk...

The person who came was a scribe who was partial to old looks.

"Speak human words. Otherwise, get out. ”

Then he was interrupted impatiently by Zhou Huai'an.

"My military master...

After the envoy's face turned pale for a while, he still whispered under the watchful eyes of the generals who were stronger than people

"I am willing to pay homage to the whole city of Tanzhou and the treasury, just asking..."

"Don't put what I already have at my fingertips? Let's go straight to the battlefield and see the real chapter."

Zhou Huai'an interrupted again with disdain.

"Lord He is also willing to offer his savings and private savings for many years, as well as the envoys and documents sent by the imperial court,"

The envoy hurriedly continued to speak, and then carefully looked at Zhou Huai'an's face.

"Just ask for the net to open up, and let my Lanshan military headquarters leave other places. I didn't dare to have any more extravagance. ”

"It's beautiful."

At this time, Zhu Cun, who was beside him, said sharply as scheduled.

"He Junhou and He Huaizhong, the two dogs, colluded with the government to kill so many of their own rebel brothers, could it be that they wanted to escape so lightly?"

"What General Zhu means is what I mean."

Then Zhou Huai'an also made up the knife unhurriedly.

"Unless you hand over enough sincerity, no one will want to spare it."

After the arrivals left helplessly like mourning, Zhu Cun said with some doubts:

"Old Void, what kind of charter and plan are you, why don't I understand it?"

"Brother Zhu, are you willing to believe me this time? I definitely won't let these guys who mutilate their own people.。。 It's easy to get off. ”

Zhou Huai'an smiled slightly.

"Believe, why don't I believe you. People who don't believe in you are all unlucky, and they have suffered a lot of losses. ”

Zhu Cun said without hesitation, and then secretly said in his heart that there is one of these people.

"Alright, let's see what happens."

Zhou Huai'an nodded and said to Zuo.

"Let people reveal the situation here, and then transfer the team to come in and step up the attack on the city of Tooth City. Let's see if there are more surprises and surprises. ”

(End of chapter)