With Chen Yucheng's 3rd Division and Liang Litai's 4th Division, they occupied Hengyang City. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThe entire Hengzhou Prefecture, except for Anren County and Yu County in the southeast, the rest were occupied by the captive army.

After Liang Litai sent people to Guangzhou to deliver the letter of victory, he only rested for a day in Hengyang City, and then immediately sent troops to capture the neighboring counties of Youxian and Hengshan. He was also forced to be helpless. Up to now, they have only occupied two small counties of Changning and Leiyang, and even the capital of Hengzhou has waited for Chen Yucheng to defeat Xiangyong, and after Xiangyong retreated, Hengyang City took the initiative to open the city gate and surrender.

Therefore, he Liang Litai did not have much credit, and his soldiers were also holding back their anger. Who made them not have such a good foreign gun assembly? However, Liang Litai still felt that it was indeed a little inappropriate for him to adopt the training method of the Jintian regimental camp during the Taiping Army. In the face of siege warfare, there is no other way than digging tunnels and blasting. You can't wait for someone else to sacrifice the city again and again.

At the instigation of his staff officers, Liang Litai divided his troops into two routes, attacked Youxian and Hengshan counties, and prepared to continue to march north.

As soon as Chen Yucheng saw Liang Litai leading the Fourth Division to go on the expedition, of course he was not to be outdone, except for leaving a regiment to stay in Hengyang City, he led the main force of the Third Division to directly enter Xiangxiang County, and first went to exterminate Xiangyong's nest.

Especially for Zeng Guofan, the leader of that Xiangyong, Chen Yucheng knew that this person had even mentioned the Holy King several times, so Chen Yucheng secretly decided that he would first capture this person and dedicate it to the Holy King!

Therefore, Chen Yucheng led the Third Division, with the cooperation of Peng Yulin, the commander of the water division, through Peng Yulin's hometown of Zhajiang Town, directly north, and rushed to Zeng Guofan's hometown of Heyetang Town, Xiangxiang, which was only fifty miles away, preparing to capture Zeng Guofan's family in one fell swoop.

Unexpectedly, Zeng Guofan, who escaped from Hengyang, was already prepared. Two days earlier, the father and the rest of the brothers had been brought to Changsha with Xiangyong in advance.

Chen Yucheng, who could not find anyone, led his troops into Baiyangping Village, Heyetang Town, Zeng Guofan's hometown, and did not burn his ancestral house, but pasted a few cards on the gate that asked the army scribes to write the words "traitor", "Manchu Tartar lackey", "Forgotten ancestor slave", etc., and then sent troops to gather nearby villagers in Baiyangping Village and held a criticism meeting in front of Zeng's ancestral home.

"The Zeng family is a famous family, the descendants of the Spring and Autumn Zengzi, the descendants of the Yellow Emperor, and now the Zeng family has been reduced to working for the Manchu Tartars, and no longer Zengzi is on the festival, and it is even more ashamed of the identity of the descendants of the Yellow Emperor!" At the gate of Zeng's house, several scribes and staff officers of the Third Division shouted loudly, attracting a burst of onlookers from all the villagers.

"Now, my Holy King occupies Liangguang and marches into Munan and Fujian; And the Taiping Army's Heavenly King occupies the Yangtze River, but also captured the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties Nanjing City, the Manchu Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years, the number of gas has been exhausted, and then for the Manchu Tartars to be a slave, it will be the result of 10,000 years of stench! Shi Huanzhi, chief of staff of the Third Division, shook his head and read aloud, and then gave an order: "Splash!" ”

I saw hundreds of soldiers of the captive army, each holding a wooden toilet, and with a bang, the two of them worked together to throw the toilet on the wall of the ancestral house of the Zeng family, on the eaves, on the gate, and on the edge of the window.

Buckets full of filthy light yellow dung water flowed out, splashing the inside and outside of the Zeng family's ancestral house. Suddenly, there was a stench of inside and outside the Zeng family's ancestral house. The four beams and pillars under the front eaves of Zeng's house were also full of dung, and together with the gate, they were dyed in various ways.

At the end, Chen Yucheng ordered to fill in the lotus pond in front of Zeng's house and set up an inscription, on which the nearby stonemasons were asked to carve the words "Tartar slaves and traitors have been stinking for 10,000 years"!

After the incident, Chen Yucheng asked the soldiers of each regiment to gather the villagers on their own and declare the system of acres of land in the holy country, which aroused the excitement of the villagers.

For a while, a group of villagers who originally had no good impression of the ancestral house of the Zeng family of the big family were not bad, but they all felt that the army was not bad. Immediately afterwards, Chen Yucheng confiscated all the property that the Zeng family had no time to pack up and distributed it to the poor people around him, which attracted praise from everyone again and again.

On the evening of the day when the property was divided, some villagers sneakily came to report that although Zeng Guofan's brother and old father were taken to Changsha by him, two of his four sisters were still alive, and the elder sister Zeng Guolan and sister Zeng Guohui were married to the Wang brothers in Hejiaao, Xiangxiang.

So, that night, Chen Yucheng sent a battalion to Hejiaao overnight to capture all Zeng Guofan's sisters and sisters, and he was not embarrassed, but just sent troops to follow them. Prepare to keep it for later persuasion or to threaten the Zeng State Domain.

After dealing with the affairs of the Zeng family, Chen Yucheng led the Third Division of the First Division unhurriedly to attack Xiangxiang County and Zhuzhou County. In addition, entering the land of Xiangyong's lair, Chen Yucheng led the Third Division A to slowly and dragnet-style propaganda from village to village, village by village, and posted the "Fengtian Edict on Hu Zhubu Quartet" and distributed the newly revised "Shengguo Tianmu System", publicizing the crimes of the Manchu Qing Tartars, spitting on the children who participated in Xiangyong, and ordering all villagers to support the holy king, so that everyone has land and can have enough to eat.

Every time they arrived in a village, the begging army would beat the gong at the entrance of the village and publicize it loudly, and several soldiers of the begging army in the Yongzhou Mansion in southern Hunan cleverly adapted Li Wenmao's Cantonese opera "The White-Haired Girl" and "The Chicken Crows in the Middle of the Night" into the fishing drums loved by the villagers in the Hengzhou Mansion area, and staged a play at the entrance of the village.

As a result, the villagers, who only knew the sunrise and sunset every day, recognized the ruthlessness of the landlords for the first time, and for the first time knew that the Manchu government was the official government of the landlords.

"Second son, didn't your eldest brother and cousin both participate in Xiangyong, who was a shitman? Why don't you rush them back? was really killed by these captives from Guangdong, and the foreign guns were killed, but it was over! Hurry up and persuade them, don't let them follow Zeng Shitou to work for the Tartars, how good it is to come back and farm. ”

"Sanlengzi, isn't your uncle also in the Xiangyong camp that used to be a? Yes? Killed!? You deserve it, work hard for the Tartars, it's good if you don't make your family a stinking for 10,000 years! ”

Rumors of this are rife in the countryside. Interestingly, Zeng Guofan's nickname was originally given by the people of Changsha as Zeng's shaved head, and it slowly spread to his hometown in Xiangxiang, and the villagers were not happy to call it like this. In any case, Zeng Guofan is a big official from Xiangxiang and the pride of their hometown.

But now, after being publicized by the captive army, Zeng Guofan's nickname has also been changed by the villagers in his hometown, changed to "Zeng", and the ancestral house of the family was splashed with dung.

As long as they don't oppose them and let them drive away the Manchu Tartars, most of the people will have land to plant, and when the time comes, who is willing to participate in the Xiangyong formed by hundreds of people who have been splashed with dung!

What's more, I heard that thousands of people were killed in the battle of Hengzhou Mansion alone, who wants to die in vain! Moreover, looking at the fierce and vicious appearance of these captives, I don't know how many people have been killed, and they can't be enemies.

Shi Huanzhi even took advantage of his identity as a native of Munan, and he was born as a scholar, and under the persuasion and publicity, the effect was surprisingly good. Many villagers saw that even the mortal Wenqu Xing opposed the Manchu government and took refuge in the holy king.

For a time, rumors were flying everywhere in the countryside of Xiangxiang, and rumors were rumored that the sky was going to change. (To be continued.) )