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After capturing Wuzhou, Feng Yunshan ordered all the soldiers of the Holy Army to rest for a few days, and by the way, they collected ships everywhere. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On 18 October, Liang Peiyou, the leader of the boat army hiding in Fengchuan County in the lower reaches of the Xijiang River, led the boat army on the surface of the Xijiang River to surrender, with more than 700 large and small boats and more than 3,000 boat bandits. Feng Yunshan was overjoyed, and specially went out of the city to greet him, and put on the posture of 20,000 holy soldiers, which not only made Liang Peiyou and his subordinates feel the importance of the holy king, but also saw the strength of the holy army with pleasure and sincerity.

Speaking of "boat bandits", Feng Yunshan knew that they were originally a member of the Guangdong Heaven and Earth Association who begged for a living on the water, and most of them were Hakka people, especially several leaders, most of whom were Hakka people from Heshan County, Zhaoqing Prefecture, Guangdong. They are familiar with the waterways between Guangxi and Guangzhou, especially the surface of the Xijiang River, and have rich experience in boating. In the last years of Daoguang, after the Sino-British Opium War, the Manchu Qing Dynasty set up a large-scale regular naval division in Guangdong, and it became more and more difficult for the "boat bandits" to make a living in Guangdong, and many "boat bandits" were driven into Guangxi.

Guangxi, on the other hand, has no regular sailors and only relies on local regimental training to maintain water security, and there is nothing better for the "boat bandits" because their boats, the "Boshan boats," have a large hull, a flat deck, and many oars on both sides, and they are light in driving; they are no match for the warships of the Qing army's naval divisions on the Pearl River, which is deep and wide, but they are very comfortable in dealing with the small boats of regimental training in Guangxi's inland rivers.

At the beginning of this year, the leaders of the boat army, Liang Yachang, Guan Fu, Ren Wenbing, and others, led more than 2,000 people to attack cities and plunder land along the Xijiang River, occupy prefectures and counties, rob the rich and help the poor, release prisoners, recruit Hakka people from all over the country, and expand their troops. By May, there were more than 500 boats and more than 10,000 congregants.

Unexpectedly, in June, Xu Guangjin, the governor of Liangguang, led Shen Dihui, a high-ranking Taotai, and Cui Datong, the deputy general, to garrison Wuzhou, and transferred four 3,000-pound cannons from Guangzhou to the Wuzhou City Tower. In mid-June, Liang Yachang and others really hit the plan and led the boat army to attack Wuzhou, but they were bombarded by Qing artillery and suffered heavy damage. When the boat army retreated, it was pursued by the Qing army, Liang Yachang and Guan Fu retreated to Yangjiang and were killed, and Ren Wenbing was also knocked into the water on the way to escape from Teng County, and his body was difficult to find.

Liang Peiyou then became the leader of the boat army, and led the boat army to hide in the middle reaches of the He River for more than two months. It was not until Changsha was captured by the Taiping Army that Xu Guangjin was transferred by the Manchu court to be the governor of Huguang and led his troops to leave, so he dared to return to Xijiang.

Hearing that the Holy King of the Taiping Holy Army had sent someone to recruit him, Liang Peiyou originally just wanted to laugh it off. But because he had been in the mountains for a long time and wanted to inquire about the situation outside, he met with the messenger who came to contact him. Only then did I know that the Taiping Holy Army had not only captured Wuzhou, but also most of the rest of Guangxi, and was about to attack the border of Guangdong.

He was taken aback, he had only heard that there was a Taiping army in southern Hunan that was active, but he never thought that in less than a few months, it would develop so rapidly, and he had already occupied such a large territory, and he already had the strength to compete with the Manchu government. If you rashly refuse, if you anger the other party, if you don't talk about yourself, you will also affect the brothers. Liang Peiyou had to think carefully.

In addition, when he heard that Luo Yawang, that is, Luo Xuan, was actually the "second leader" of the Taiping Holy Army, his heart settled. You must know that Luo Xuan and Ren Wenbing, the former second leader of their Boshan Boat Army, were sworn brothers. And Luo Outline and Ren Wenbing have always taken good care of Liang Peiyou, Liang Peiyou has just become the new leader of the Boat Army, and was attacked by the Qing Army, and he doesn't know what to do, as soon as he heard that even Luo Outline has joined the Holy Army, with his understanding of Luo Outline, he knows that this Holy Army must not be underestimated.

So, after careful consideration, Liang Peiyou resolutely led his subordinates to join the Taiping Holy Army.

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On the twentieth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, in the yamen of the Wuzhou prefect, Feng Yunshan sat in the hall. Lin Fengxiang, Liu Shengbang, Bai Huihuai, Huang Dingfeng, Liang Peiyou, Xu Xiangguang, Cui Datong and others were present.

It turned out that after Huang Dingfeng led the congregation to capture Hengzhou, he met Bai Huihuai and others who came to contact, and led the congregation to take advantage of the situation to meet Bai Huihuai, who led the congregation. The two sides joined forces in one place, and their power increased greatly, and there were originally many congregations of heaven and earth and worshippers of God worship in Xunzhou Mansion, taking the opportunity to respond, Huang Dingfeng and others went down the Xunzhou capital without a fight, all the way down the river, Liankepingnan, Tengxian and two places, and arrived in Wuzhou two days ago to meet Feng Yunshan.

Li Kaifang and Luo Qiongshu obeyed Feng Yunshan's orders, guarding Nanning and Baise to guard against the Qing troops in Yunnan and Guizhou, while continuing to send troops to capture Taiping Mansion, Lianzhou Prefecture and Gaozhou Prefecture and Yangjiang Zhili Prefecture in Guangdong.

Feng Yunshan saw that the rest of the main forces of Guangxi had arrived in Wuzhou, so he requisitioned and prepared ships to prepare for the attack on the city of Guangzhou. However, the matter was very important, and there were many holy soldiers mobilized, and under the influence of the habit of being unable to do things without holding meetings in state-owned enterprises for many years in later generations, he called the generals to discuss the matter of going on the expedition.

Feng Yunshan looked at the seats of everyone in the hall, and couldn't help but feel distressed.

Lin Fengxiang, Liu Shengbang, Bai Huihuai, Huang Dingfeng and others originally knew each other, except for Huang Dingfeng, they were all old men of the Holy Army, so they naturally sat together in the middle, Huang Dingfeng had a straightforward personality, and he didn't think too much about it, so he also sat next to Bai Huihuai. And Xu Xiangguang and Cui Datong both surrendered from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and their status is not high, so naturally the two of them sit down together. Liang Peiyou was the only one, sitting on the side, and glaring angrily at his original enemy Cui Datong from time to time.

In order to ease the atmosphere in the hall, Feng Yunshan smiled at Liang Peiyou and said: "Brother Liang, this time I can send troops to Guangzhou, this king has to thank you a lot!" was able to lead the boat brothers to join the Holy Army in time, so that the ships sent out this time had landed. ”

"Holy King, Liang is willing to work with his brothers to follow the Holy King and expel the Qing Demon of Liangguang!" Liang Peiyou hurriedly stood up and replied.

"Brother Liang doesn't have to be polite! This time into Guangzhou, the Lin brothers were the pioneers. But you are most familiar with the surface of the Xijiang River, so you will be your deputy to assist Brother Lin and lead the fleet to guard against the Qing army's sailors, how about it? Feng Yunshan began to assign tasks.

"Liang should obey the orders of the Holy King!" Liang Peiyou agreed, but he continued: "Holy King, it's not that Liang is arrogant, since the fiasco in June this year, the boat army brothers are no longer the opponents of the Qing Demon's Guangdong Naval Division, if they fight with him head-on, Liang is worried that he will miss the Holy King's big event." Liang asked the Holy King to be careful of the Guangdong sailors. ”

He was afraid that Feng Yunshan would not pay attention to it, so he continued to explain with some concern: "Although the Admiral of the Qing Demon Water Division is stationed in Huizhou, the main force of his Water Division is distributed in the left and right battalions of the Xiangshan Association, the left and right battalions of the Shunde Association, the left and right battalions of the Xinhui Association, the left and right battalions of the Dapeng Association, the left and right battalions of the Chixi Association, the right battalion of the Qingyuan Association, the Guanghaizhai Battalion, the Yongjing Battalion, etc., with a strength of nearly 6,000 troops, and thousands of land infantry. ”

"There are more than 400 warships in total, although they are all wooden sailing ships. But the largest battleship with a displacement of thousands of stones, it was a new type of battleship with broadside guns, and the guns were sharp. Although the rest only carried 12 breech iron guns, they were much more powerful than the hundreds of stone displacement Boshan ships of our boat army, which had only two or four iron guns. ”

Feng Yunshan couldn't help but nod secretly when he saw Liang Peiyou's detailed words. Judging from the intelligence of the Qing army alone, Liang Peiyou was much stronger than the ordinary leaders of the Heaven and Earth Congregation.

However, these problems in Liang Peiyou's opinion are not a big deal for Feng Yunshan. Because he still has a super hole card, and now he is about to go out, and it's time to show it. That is the Tiandihui Righteous Army near Guangzhou!