Chapter 62: Both People and Money (Asking for Votes!) )
(No one rewarded today, woo, I can't find anyone if I want to thank you!) )
The sky has already darkened, and the shouting and killing sounds around Chenzhou City have subsided, which means that the battle has ended, and Chenzhou City has been occupied by the Taiping Holy Army!
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"Lord Commander, the entire city of Chenzhou has been occupied by our Holy Army! Now only the defenders in the pass on Dingguan Pass are left nearby, and they have not been eliminated. ”
"Dingguan Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and our holy army will attack strongly, and it will definitely suffer heavy losses! Now that Chenzhou City has been occupied by our holy army, Dingguan Pass is short of supplies, and when food and water run out, it will naturally win without a fight! Therefore, we can besiege it, and we must not force an attack and sacrifice the soldiers of the Holy Army in vain. ”
"Haha, yes! With no food to eat and no water to drink, can they stay in the mountains forever? Or the conductor has thought it through! ”
"It's a pity, let the demon head Zhizhou run away!"
"How so? The commander, the head of the Qing Demon Zhizhou, Sun Enbao, saw that the general trend had gone, abandoned the seal and fled, and before he left the city, he was recognized by the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society on the road and captured on the spot! Chen Tianshi, who was covered with injuries, had just been wrapped in herbs by the army, and was reporting to Luo Xuan, who was sitting in the middle of the lobby.
"Okay, I finally didn't let this demon head run away!" Luo Xuan laughed, obviously very satisfied! After he brought the holy soldiers into the city last night, he rushed straight to the state office, but he didn't catch Zhizhou, only found a few boxes of gold and silver and a piece of Chenzhou Zhizhou official seal, he was still a little depressed, thinking that he let this demon head run away, but he didn't expect to be recognized and captured by the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society.
"Tianshi, then you need to thank these Heaven and Earth Society brothers for me, as well as the leaders of the other Heaven and Earth Society!" Luo Xuan thought about it and said in a deep voice.
"My subordinates understand! This time, Chenzhou City was able to be captured so smoothly, thanks to the help of these Heaven and Earth Society brothers, as well as the wise command of the commander! Chen Tianshi praised sincerely.
Yesterday, he learned from Li Guanlong that there was a secret passage from Songjiadong to Lijiachong, so that he could bypass the Dingguan Pass, which was carefully fortified and strictly guarded by the Qing army, and directly attack Chenzhou City. After learning the news, he quickly sent a messenger to report to Luo Xuan, the second commander of the palace. After receiving the report, Luo Jian sent a messenger to inform him that he would lead a large army to arrive before the early morning, and that they would attack the city together.
Sure enough, Luo Xuan led the other divisions and battalions to arrive on time, rested in Li Jiachong, and ordered the siege of the city when the time came. Chen Tianshi originally thought that there would be a hard battle to storm the city, but he didn't expect that the commander had already made arrangements, not only to attack from the north city gate, but also to arrange more than hundreds of holy army brothers, leading more than 2,000 people from the Tiandi Congregation who had already been contacted, to attack from the west city gate and disperse the Qing army.
The most important thing is that the commander arranged for the brigade commander Chen Yucheng to lead some of the fine workers into Chenzhou City in advance, contacted hundreds of Tiandihui brothers in the city, and agreed to set fire to the city after midnight to disrupt the deployment of the Qing troops in the city, and then take advantage of the situation to open the north gate and let the holy army outside the city enter the city. In this way, the internal and external sides were attacked, and sure enough, Chenzhou City was quickly captured.
Thinking of this, Chen Tianshi was indeed convinced.
"Half of what Brother Tianshi said is right, half is wrong!" Luo Xuan said with a smile, "This time I was able to successfully conquer Chenzhou, thanks to the help of the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society, but it was not that I commanded it well, but that someone offered a good strategy!" After speaking, he looked at Chen Yucheng who was standing aside under his eyes with satisfaction.
Everyone in the hall suddenly realized, looked at Chen Yucheng, and said secretly, I didn't expect this plan to be thought up by this kid. The four-eyed dog was promoted to brigade commander, and this time he has made great contributions, and it seems that he will soon be promoted to division commander! Commander, my God, fifteen-year-old commander? This became the division commander earlier than the original Tan Shaoguang, I am afraid that he will become the youngest general in the Holy Army.
Rao is Chen Yucheng's young and old, but he is still a little unnatural when he is stared at by everyone in the hall.
"Or command the lord to use the army like a god, this time my holy army marched fast, conquered Guiyang Chenzhou one after another, only forced to kill Guiyang Zhizhou Li Qizhao the day before yesterday, and today captured Chenzhou Zhizhou Sun Enbao. Presumably, when the Holy King heard the news, he would also admire the commander's use of troops! Luo Qiongshu, the commander of the Holy First Army next to him, praised.
After he mentioned it, everyone laughed when they thought of the scene of the attack on Guiyang the day before yesterday.
At noon the day before yesterday, the army slaughtered under the city of Guiyang, but saw that the city gate was closed, and was about to set up a formation to prepare to attack the city, but saw hundreds of defenders open the city gate, erect a flag and surrender.
But it turned out that Li Qizhao of Zhizhou had fled on horseback in advance, and Luo Outline ordered Luo Qiongshu to lead people to pursue, and found that Li Qizhao, who was familiar with history books, actually came up with the allusion to use the history books to put a large amount of silver money on horseback and throw it all the way to slow down the pursuit of the army. Unexpectedly, all the seizures of the Taiping Holy Army belonged to the holy treasury, and no one dismounted to pick up the silver money, not only did not slow down the pursuit, but because of the silver money thrown to slow down his escape, he was blocked by Luo Qiongshu and others, frightened, looking for a well on the side of the road, jumping into the well and committing suicide.
When it comes to the silver money, he thinks of the seizure, and Luo Xuan said: "The day before yesterday, I occupied Guiyang City, and my Holy First Army captured a lot, and now Chenzhou City has been occupied, and the captured must be counted as soon as possible!" There are also captured Qing Demon Soldiers, all of whom need to be counted. ”
Luo Qiongshu is now the commander of the Holy First Army, and hurriedly agreed: "Subordinates receive orders!" Commander, there's one more thing to report! Many of the Heaven and Earth congregations and miners in Chenzhou, Guiyang, wanted to join the Holy Army, but the number of the First Army in our Taiping Holy Army was only more than 13,000 people, but now our First Holy Army has absorbed thousands of people and horses in the vicinity of Guiyang City alone, plus the officers and soldiers of the Holy First Army in Daozhou, Jianghua and other places, it has already exceeded more than 13,000 people. The subordinates don't know how to deal with it, please instruct! ”
"Oh, don't worry about this matter, I heard an urgent report from the messenger the day before yesterday, saying that the Holy King was preparing to leave for a trip to Guiyang Chenzhou in person. I think it will come soon, and then it will be decided by the Holy King. But now in the land of Chengui, there are still many brothers of the Hui Party, especially the miner brothers in the Guiyang area, who are the ideal source of soldiers for our holy army. You don't have to think too much, just put up a flag and recruit them, and we will wait for the holy soldiers, the more the merrier! After Luo Xuan finished speaking, he got up and stood up, let everyone disperse, and fought all night, all need to rest.
Thinking of the seizure in Guiyang, Luo Xuan's heart was filled with joy again. When the Holy King comes, he will definitely be frightened and have a big surprise!
It turned out that after Guiyang was occupied bloodlessly, the surrendered Qing soldiers took the initiative to hand over the weapons and property in Guiyang City in order to curry favor with the holy army. The weapons were returned, and they were only about the same as those captured during the occupation of Daozhou. But the property, especially the simple silver and copper coins, directly seized 75,000 taels of silver. The finished minerals are more than 30,000 catties of cast copper, more than 40,000 catties of white lead and black lead, 100,000 catties of pig iron, 5,000 catties of zinc, and more than 30,000 catties of sulfur.
That's a great asset! The mineral exploitation in Guiyang Prefecture, the government took 20% of the tax, and stored it in the official warehouse, which had not yet been released in the future, and it became the war profits of the Taiping Holy Army. Other ores such as iron, sulfur, zinc, and tin were piled up, and Luo Xuan sent people to seal and guard them, waiting for the craftsmen sent by the Holy King to smelt them.
The greatest wealth is not these, but the mines! When Luo Xuan was still in Ningyuan, he heard Sun Yingzhao talk about the sulfur mines, so he couldn't wait to occupy them and provide minerals for the Holy Army Land. Today, in addition to the sulfur mines in Baoshan, on the outskirts of Guiyang, there are more than a dozen mines that have been occupied by the Holy Army, and with these mines, they can provide a steady stream of mineral money in the future.
For the land of Chenzhou, Luo Xuan is very familiar. Back then, when he was active in the Guangdong Tiandi Club, he also came here occasionally. Chenzhou is the only place where the mainland and Guangdong are connected, and Guangdong's products, taxes and silver, continue to go north from Chenzhou and be transported to various places, so Chenzhou has become a traffic artery, a place where businessmen gather, and it is also very rich. Luo Xuan couldn't help but be enthusiastic in his heart, I don't know how much surprise he will give himself when the seizures in Chenzhou are counted?
I'm afraid that when the time comes, Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang will both have to repent to death! Who let their Holy Second Army and Holy Third Army march so slowly, no wonder Luo Mou took the Holy First Army to eat alone! However, since they must be told to eat alone, then simply eat to the end.
With a hint of a wicked smile, Luo Xuan made up his mind to let the soldiers of the Holy First Army rest for a while, and send them out early tomorrow morning to conquer Yongxing, Xingning, and Guiyang counties around Chenzhou, and snatch and expand the results of the battle! In addition, he sent out meticulous work everywhere to spy on the movements of the troops around him.