Chapter 66: The War of the Gods
When Feng Sheng'a and Xiande rushed to Little Nanjing with a large group of men, Guo Xing'a had already occupied Little Nanjing for a whole day, and the infantry battalion and artillery entered the Sanguan City Gate. If it weren't for the blue dragon flag that represented the blue flag of the Qing Dynasty at the head of the city, Feng Sheng'a and the others would not have dared to believe that Guoxing A and 300 people had captured such a Xiongguan.
Guo Xing'a locked himself in the tower of the drum tower all day and did not see anyone, and the order was to shout from the tower by Fuquan. Mu Shun and the others thought that Guo Xing'a was planning a new strategy, and only Fu Quan and a few other close people in the guard squad knew that Guo Xing'a was trembling in the city tower with a pale face.
Following Dong Zhuo's method in the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, the cavalry ran back and forth in the town, which did play a role in deterring the rest of the Taiping army, but the reality that Guoxing'a occupied Little Nanjing with only 300 men could not be changed. Although most of the people in Little Nanjing were confined to their living quarters and could not get out, after the assault battalion entered the city, the skirmishes in the city never stopped, and the sound of shouts and gunfire echoed in the city.
The disarming of the Goxinga plan has not been carried out, and the people who have been blocked in the living quarters have set up defensive lines in the living quarters. Although their weapons were all sealed in the arsenal by Goxinga, they only had some swords in their hands, and many of them even needed to throw bricks and stones to fight, but the disparity in strength made it impossible for the various departments to open the situation.
Generally speaking, the living area is divided into four large blocks, east, west, north and south, but the four blocks are also divided into countless small pieces, each of which is fighting on its own, even if they take the head of the Taiping Army Brigade Commander or even the division commander, they have not been able to shake their determination to resist. At present, the Qing army can only set up a defensive line at the entrance and exit of each small piece to prevent these Taiping troops who are still resisting from converging, but let alone annihilation, they can't even persuade them to surrender.
After Fengsheng'a, Xiande and others were led to the drum tower, Guoxing'a was like a child who had found his parents, and suddenly threw himself into Fengsheng's arms. Without any words, without any other expression, Guo Xing'a seemed to be just venting his emotions, hugging Fengsheng Ah and crying.
"My lord, the brothers have just entered the city, are you assigning a station to let everyone rest!" Seeing that Guo Xing'a was almost crying, Fengsheng Ah asked.
"Rest his grandmother's legs, and the artillery and supply companies will come to Lao Tzu immediately and cooperate with the guard squad to fortify. You go and meet with Mu Shun, the cavalry company, the assault company, and your first and second companies, each company is responsible for an area, and quickly occupy all districts in the city. Completely block these people in the city for Lao Tzu and let them come out, and we will completely stop eating. Guo Xing'a, who was still touching his snot, immediately changed his fierce face.
"Fuquan, go and tell Lao Tzu's order to strictly enforce military discipline and talk to the first and second companies again, and those who dare to violate military discipline will immediately correct the law on the spot!" Guo Xing'a seemed to suddenly remember that a bandit had entered his house, and immediately ordered Fuquan to go to strict military discipline.
"The whole army is ordered, "Three Disciplines, Eight Attentions" must be sung, not stopped, loud, and heard by everyone in the city!" Guo Xing'a remembered the classic track whose lyrics he had changed.
"My lord, the brethren are so tired from the march all the way. Isn't it slowing down! "Feng Sheng'a felt a little sorry for his soldiers.
"Hold on! Do you know what our situation is now, we have 700 people surrounding 10,000 people, and our heads will be lost when we slow down! Goxinga suddenly became hysterical.
"Huh!" Realizing the seriousness of the problem, Fengsheng'a, who was also frightened by Goxinga, hurriedly agreed.
After the order was delivered, the cavalry company was finally able to remove its almost worn ass from its horseback, and as the song sounded, the companies began to occupy the living quarters of the city in divisions. After the troops were replenished, the Qing army's defense line suddenly became tighter, and the Taiping army, which had some opportunities to conflict, was completely blocked in the living quarters.
After the situation stabilized slightly, instead of moving away from the Drum Tower, Guoxinga made the Drum Tower a defense center for the Qing army. He himself lived in the city tower of the Drum Tower, and the guard squad, supply company, and artillery all moved over and set up a tight defense line in the Drum Tower. Looking at the hundreds of soldiers downstairs and the eight sharp artillery, Guo Xing'a's miserable face recovered a little.
"Master, can we not live here? I'm so scared! Sister Tianni also learned from Fuquan to call Guoxinga in private, and began to call Guoxinga master. The fat cook was cooking for Guo Xing'a downstairs, and the two sisters wanted to clean up the drum tower, but looking at the hanging heads around them, the little girl was inevitably scared.
"Don't be afraid! Unafraid! What is there to fear from the dead. When he was alive, Lao Tzu could kill him, and when he died, what waves could he make. Look at the one hanging on the flagpole, he was the original commander of this city, and I cut off his head with my own hands. Guoxing Ase took the sister flower in her arms in a daze and comforted her softly. Guo Xing'a, who is accustomed to fighting on the battlefield, will no longer take corpses and blood seriously. As for the head cut off by his own hands, he bragged to the two little beauties, and when Guo Xing'a cut off the head of the division commander, the division commander had already been killed by a musket.
"Congratulations to the master, you finally killed this bad guy who has been working against the master." Minnie looked at the head level with a feeling of disgust, and listened to Guo Xing's words with even more disgust, but Tianni took advantage of the situation to congratulate Guo Xing'a. Of course, she remembered the name of Huang Daping, the original commander in her town, but she still deliberately blurred it.
"I didn't kill it! He still ran away, this is the main general of this little Nanjing. "Mentioning Huang Daping is still a piece of Guoxing's heart.
"The master is so powerful, sooner or later he will be killed." Tianni smiled and complimented Guo Xing.
"Hahaha...... borrow your auspicious words!" Guo Xing'a reached out and scratched Tianni's nose, although the sisters were still young, Guo Xing'a couldn't help but feel fluttering.
"Master, it's time to eat!" Fu Quan walked in with the fat cook with the food, and his tone was quite displeased.
"Hmm!" Guo Xing'a snorted, he didn't like Fuquan's face of going to the Internet café to catch students who skipped class.
"Wait, master, wait a minute!" Guo Xing'a lifted the chopsticks and was about to do it, but was stopped by Fuquan, and Guoxing'a, who was repeatedly interrupted by Fuquan, almost went berserk. However, Fuquan forced the fat cook to taste every dish and rice first, and Guo Xing'a, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, of course lost his temper.
After eating a few bites of the fat cook's rice, Guo Xing'a's gloomy mood suddenly improved. Guo Xing'a, who was hungry and full and had eaten dry food for several days on the march, almost gnawed his chopsticks as chicken paws. The fat cook's skills are still good, and serious hot dishes and hot meals are much better than dry food.
"Fatty, you can follow me in the future! Go to the supply company as a soldier, and after a while I'll find someone who can cook and make you a cooking squad leader. Guo Xing'a said with rice grains sprayed.
The fat cook stood stunned, neither thanking Guo Xing'a nor refusing to excuse himself.
"You're so happy! Thank you for your grace! Out of affection for her fellow countryman, Tianni hurriedly reminded the fat cook.
"Ahh The fat cook was still a little dazed.
"Kill a thousand knives, you know how difficult it is for a soldier to be a squad leader, don't hurry up and thank Lord for your grace." Fuquan was not happy when he saw the sister flower, and he kicked the fat cook in the back.
"Adult, villains can't kill people and fight, so they can't be soldiers!" The fat cook finally reacted, but he was so anxious that he was about to cry.
"You still have to practice, but you don't need to go to war, just follow the team and cook for Lao Tzu and the brothers. In the future, I will reward you with a daughter-in-law, and you can follow Lao Tzu with peace of mind! "Guo Xinga now likes to call himself Lao Tzu.
"Thank you, sir!" Just cooking can have an official body, the fat cook suddenly became happy, and kowtowed to Guoxing Ah Lian.
In the next two days, although he was accompanied by his sisters, Guoxinga was not happy at all, because the war still did not progress. Although there was no food in the living quarters, and the Qing army had made certain breakthroughs in individual points, the overall situation was still a standoff. Guoxinga was reluctant to let his soldiers take risks, so they all sent captives to persuade them to surrender, but the effect was too poor. Either they were shot before they could go in, or the messengers who persuaded them to surrender never returned, and even the women's battalion insisted on fighting, and there was no trace of surrender in the whole city.
Xiande came up with the idea of sending some food inside, and then some poison, Guo Xing'a was interested for a while, and finally gave up. The rest of the Taiping Army inside is not a fool, and they will definitely not eat it together, but it was found to be poisonous and shouted, and no one was willing to surrender.
"My lord, someone has violated military law, and I am here to ask you to deal with it!" Mu Shun walked up to the drum tower with Chengtai eyebrows.
"Fuck, that bastard is crooked." Persuasion is the only way for Guo Xing'a to deal with the remnants of the Taiping army in the city, and whoever comes at this time is no different from giving Guo Xing'a eye medicine.
"In the morning, the assault battalion laid down part of the courtyard of the women's battalion in the southern district, and the soldiers who searched for the remnants of the enemy caught a few long-haired female bandits, and a few of them were not very clean. But don't worry, my lord, I was arrested by the guards who came down to inspect before it happened. Chengtai kept his head down and didn't speak, so Mu Shun had to come out and explain the reason.
"Who are they?" The assault company has been performing well, and Guoxing Azhen doesn't want to take the assault company's people under the knife.
"The leader of the team is a flag man named Ah Jing'a, and there are a few Han soldiers under his hands, all of them are touching a handful or something, and a scum pounces on people, and the belt is caught before it is untied." Chengtai said a little vaguely, but he still wanted to keep his subordinates as much as possible.
"The one on the upper body is on the spot and the Fa is cut for Lao Tzu. Ah Jing'a, how can that bastard control his subordinates, thirty lashes, and the remaining few bad seeds will also have fifteen lashes. Pull them to the place where they committed the crime, and let the hairs inside see it. "Guo Xinga is still not willing to kill them all.
"My lord, don't you have a few whips, don't rub the spirit of our army." Chengtai, who didn't dare to plead, looked at Mu Shun pitifully, and Mu Shun could only speak hard.
"What time is it? One more day of the gang inside, one more day of danger for us, they have no hope of breaking through, let them rest assured! Guo Xing'a said word by word.
"Huh!" Mu Shun also knew that Guo Xing'a said no more truth, and pulled the depressed Chengtai to retreat.
"How good it would have been for him to do this earlier!" Minnie in the back hall said to her sister secretly.
"It's late!" Tianni said hatefully.
After a human head with dozens of whips, the Taiping women's battalion in the city surrendered, and they handed over their weapons in exchange for food. The Qing army promised them that they would remain where they were and that they would not be harassed, and that they would surrender their weapons with confidence. They couldn't rush through the tight musket array of the Qing army, and they didn't know how many people there were in the Qing army.
With the surrender of the women's battalion and the promise of the Qing army, the Taiping troops in various parts of the city laid down their arms one after another. They have long lost hope and insist on just trying to break the net. Now that the Qing army can guarantee their safety, they are still willing to pursue that little hope of survival. Under the watchful eye of the Qing army, groups of Taipings who laid down their arms withdrew from their strongholds and returned to their prison-like living quarters. Of course, the Qing army compressed their living space, and the original four districts of the southeast, south, and northwest became two battalions of men and women in the north and south. The men were in the men's camp on the north side and the women were in the women's camp on the south side, and the Qing army distributed food on time while guarding the surrounding areas.
"All around the camp are buried by Lao Tzu to death*, and if there is any change, they will all be blown up." After the overall situation was decided, Goxinga issued an order to prevent future troubles. Originally, when besieging the remnants of the army, Guo Xing'a relied on muskets and * to build a defensive line, and this time he even trapped the people in the city in the * pile with great fanfare.
However, the city has not been completely pacified, and the fighting continues outside a courtyard in the east of the city. The Taiping army here fought very tenaciously, and the artillery dispatched two guns, but it still failed to break through the flesh and blood defense line of the Taiping army. However, after the gunfire in various parts of the city fell silent, the Qing army heard what seemed to be an internal strife in the courtyard, and the Qing army heard some words such as "God and God fighting". I don't know if it's the Taiping Army doing it inside, so I hurriedly went to ask Guo Xing'a to come over and sit in town.