Since late June, Zhu Jinglun has been rushing back and forth between Xin'an and Heshan. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because with the establishment of the Shuikou Convention, the Hakka people of Heshan returned the land of the Cantonese people, and other counties also began to seek peace.

Guarding a stable life, in fact, no one wants to fight around, and the Hakka people are not barbarians, they later emigrated overseas, not under all kinds of humiliation, endure humiliation, and do not resist.

First of all, Xinning Hakka Tuanyong, after seeing that Yangjiang Bureau Tuyong captured the walled gate, they contacted Fang Shan, hoping to negotiate peace.

At this time, the gate was taken back, and the Hakka people did not defend it with thousands of dead and wounded.

They still have the capital of peace talks at this time, although the area of Zhaimen is occupied by the natives, but the guests still occupy a lot of land in the forty-nine, fifty, Chonglou and other places, they are willing to exchange, with the land in this area, in exchange for the land that originally belonged to the Hakka people in the walled gate, and then everyone is safe.

At this time, after the Hakka people saw their disadvantages, they should be said to have released full sincerity, because they gave up more land.

Although the Cantonese people in Zhaimen disagreed, they couldn't bear the Cantonese people in other places to press them with righteousness, and recruited mercenary groups to pay for it together, and they didn't plan to abide by the agreement, telling the Zhaimen people that after they took back their own land, the Zhaimen people could continue to fight.

In this way, on June 20, the two families of Xinning and Tuke negotiated terms with each other, and made a covenant in Chonglou, stipulating that the two sides would strike the army and make peace, and reconcile.

Although Tuyong has not yet begun to counterattack Kaiping, Zhu Jinglun's men have swept the Hakka settlements in the Kaiping area, especially Cangcheng, the Hakka center, was captured, which dealt a great blow to the Hakka people, so the Hakka people in Kaiping also chose to make a covenant in Cangcheng, and the time was on July 10.

So far, there is no contract, there are only three counties of Enping, Gaoyao and Gaoming, these three counties are also the most difficult places, in the Tuke weapon fight, Enping is the worst, the Hakka people have wiped out the most villages, more than 400 villages have been razed to the ground, houses have been burned, land has been occupied, tens of thousands of dead and wounded, it can be said that the hatred is as deep as the sea. And the Gaoming Hakka people are the most, they occupy the most land, currently occupy two-thirds of the land, and have not yet encountered a large-scale attack, and it is almost impossible to let them hand over the land for nothing. And Gao Yao is because many Hakka leaders are from Gao Yao, these people have the most benefits in the fight, and they don't want to give up the most.

But unexpectedly, some landlords and gentry forces in these three counties took the initiative to contact Fang Shan and told Fang Shan that they were willing to make a contract, but some people disagreed.

In fact, the upper echelons of both sides don't want to fight, and what they really want to fight are those prodigals who have nothing and have nothing to worry about, this kind of person is called the most revolutionary in the words of Wei Guangzheng.

As for the gentry class, although the fighting has been fierce over the years, many people of insight know that it is not good for anyone to continue, so peace talks between them have been carried out several times.

For example, when the weapon fight had just begun to spread to Kaiping, Enping, and Gaoming counties. The natives and Hakka people in Xinning County were shocked to see the tragedy caused by the armed fight in the neighboring county, and they had made peace with each other. However, it could not stop the fierce fighting in the Chishui area. In the end, all the regions were involved.

A decisive reason was that the lack of government management, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Raven War, made the government too busy to take care of itself, and it was simply unable to intervene in the Tuke arms fight, so it adopted a careless attitude. In the absence of strong guarantees, even if a few people of insight can succeed in peace talks, their agreement is not binding at all.

At this time, the two sides have been organized separately, both sides have the ability to harm each other, in this case, they have fallen into a situation similar to the prisoner's dilemma, if you don't confess if someone else confesses, you will increase the sentence, if you confess, others can reduce the sentence or not, the same reason, everyone has a knife in their hands, but there is no adjudicator, do you fight? What if you don't hit others and others come to beat you, so often a wind and grass can cause one party to strike first.

For these people who are willing to negotiate peace, Zhu Jinglun instructed Fang Shan to send someone back with these people, and preside over a small area of covenants in their places.

After the covenant was made, they protected these covenant areas, and those who violated them, whether they were natives or guests, were ruthlessly suppressed.

As a result, covenants slowly penetrate into a small area, and once everyone sees the benefits of such covenants, more and more people will choose them.

Finally, there was a breakthrough in Gaoming, where the Hakka people were strong, and the Tuke squires in the Gaoming Henggang area made a contract at the end of August, but the Gaoming Hakka group was not convinced, and a large number of Hakka groups set off from Mingcheng, the county seat of Gaoming County, and killed several Tujia who had just moved back near Henggang.

Fang Shan reported the news to Xin'an, and Zhu Jinglun decided to send a large army to encircle and suppress Mingcheng Keyong.

This city was originally captured by the Hakka people from the hands of the Hong soldiers, in history, until the first year of Tongzhi, Gao Ming Tuyong gathered troops to attack the Ming city, besieged the city for five months, bombarded the city with 8,000 catties of artillery and used gunpowder to blow up the city foundation still could not be attacked. In the end, the guests in the city were "exhausted of food and rice, grass roots, wood leaves, and cowhides", and they were defeated. In addition to escaping dozens of guests, more than 3,000 people were killed.

Zhu Jinglun planned to capture Gaoming two years in advance, and he didn't plan to kill thousands of people, and he wouldn't need to besiege the city for several months, because the fortress in his hand would bombard this county seat, and there should be no problem.

Even if he kills three or five thousand people in the end, Zhu Jinglun still won't hesitate, because in history, the last Hakka people in Gaoming were almost wiped out, and it was originally a county with the most Hakka people, and in the end, the existence of Hakka people can only be seen in a corner of the western mountains, and Zhu Jinglun is actually saving them.

However, if you want to capture a county like Mingcheng, you can't rely on the 2,000 manpower under the black dog alone, and you must use the county warriors who are scattered and trained in the Xin'an area.

It's just that I didn't dare to move these people before, and it was not without reason, the first was that I was worried that the British were plotting Kowloon, but in August, the main force of the Anglo-French army went north, and it should be to fight Dagukou, and the third Dagukou Battle broke out, and then it will continue until the capture of Beijing, and the British and French forces will not withdraw, which provides Zhu Jinglun with a buffer period of half a year.

However, there are other concerns about letting Xin'an County Yong disperse training, that is, these people's weapons are too good, a water rifled rifle, more than 10,000 musketeers, such a force is in the hands of Zhu Jinglun, can the Qing court rest assured? Even Bai Gui probably won't be at ease, no matter how Zhu Jinglun shows his deference, I'm afraid Bai Gui will be worried.

In the past, these county Yong were all scattered in hundreds of bazaars and market towns in Xin'an, and they were mixed with the local township Yong, Bai Guiyuan was in Guangzhou, and he did not deliberately arrange his eyes to stare at Zhu Jinglun, so it was impossible to know the reality of these county Yong, but now as soon as they are assembled, it will be exposed.

It's just that this is a matter of time, Zhu Jinglun's knife can't be hidden in the scabbard forever, he will sooner or later draw his knife to the Qing court and the world, so he doesn't care much, just know it, anyway, Zhu Jinglun didn't hide it from Bai Gui, he had already told Bai Gui that he had recruited 10,000 county warriors, and the name was used to guard against township warriors and foreigners. And a well-trained army with a professional European officer corps as advisers.

It can be said that the name is County Yong, in fact, it is better equipped than all the armies of the Qing army, and it is much more well-trained, such an army, who can rest assured.

The order was given, and the county warriors from all over the country were to assemble in the county seat one after another, with a team of 100 people and 200 people on a boat, and transported to Gaoming County, so as to prevent the army from massing in Xin'an on a large scale, and try to reduce the impact of this army.

In the north, in July, the British army occupied Dalian Bay and named it Victoria Bay, and the egocentrism of Westerners was committed again, or it has not been changed, hearing this news, Zhu Jinglun secretly made up his mind that when he was in London for the first time, he would definitely name London Xianfeng Village, so disgusting to the British.

In August, under the guidance of the Russian minister who was called mediation and was actually a spy, the British and French troops landed in Beitang, and the Russians' news was very accurate.

On August 21, 2,500 British soldiers, 1,000 French subordinates and 2 companies of artillery began to attack Dagukou, and at 6 o'clock in the morning, French artillery and British artillery began to attack the first battery on the right bank and opened fire, and the allied warships also fired artillery to assist.

At this time, the mines that Seng Greenqin bought from Zhu Jinglun worked, and they actually sank a British battleship, killing and wounding more than 300 people, and Monk Greenqin's 100,000 taels of silver were not in vain.

After using it, Monk Lingqin ordered Guangdong to purchase 100 mines, and Zhu Jinglun basically gave a cost price of 100 taels for each of them in order to take care of this first business, the purpose of which was naturally to hope that the Qing government would see the benefits of mines after the war, and large orders continued to flow. Of course, it was all on the grounds that it was bought from a foreigner, but I didn't dare to say that it was made by myself.

The British and French forces were also too careless, or looked down on the Qing army too much, and their warships chose to bombard closely, not knowing that the Qing army would lay mines, and they didn't think about it at all, and they paid a heavy price as a result.

But small local gains can't stop the general trend. The newly equipped Armstrong breech-loading rifled guns of the British army suppressed the Qing battery, and the Qing army gradually lost the artillery fire, and at half past 7 o'clock, the British and French troops launched a charge, engaged in white-knuckle fighting, and captured the first battery near 10 o'clock.

On August 23, the British naval commander Hebu went north to Tianjin, and the governor of Zhili, Hengfu, went out to meet him, and the Qing Dynasty sent Gui Liang, Hengqi and Ergin, the representative of the coalition forces, to negotiate peace in Tianjin.

On September 10, Zhu Jinglun gathered 5,000 troops in the Henggang area and began to attack Mingcheng, and another major battle broke out.