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In the early morning of the next day, a fire broke out in the houses next to the prefect's yamen and the Daotai yamen on the front street of the city in Nanning, and many houses in other parts of the city were also on fire at the same time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 At this time, hundreds of strong men suddenly appeared on the street in front of the house in Zhenjiang Gate, most of them holding brand knives and spears, and dozens of people holding big axes, lighting torches, taking advantage of the chaos to rush to Zhenjiang Gate in the south of the city.

The city gate guards were shocked, and they hurriedly sounded the gold warning and organized the city tower guards to guard the city gate. Outside the city, on the opposite side of the Yongjiang River, there were thousands of people who bound huge trees and cables to the boats, and used more than a dozen boats to erect ladders and planks, and urgently erected pontoon bridges; On one side, more than 20 boats kept transporting soldiers across the river, and the soldiers on the city tower fired shotguns.

Zhenjiang Gate was built on the Yongjiang River, which was difficult to attack, and because of this, the Qing army had the least number of defenders here. Just now, the prefect's yamen and the daotai yamen were on fire, and some of the Qing Yong who were resting in the cave under the city ran to the yamen to help put out the fire, and when the thieves attacked the city gate, they found out that it was to transfer them away, and under the command of the Qing general, they hurriedly attacked the city gate.

Chen Yongxiu and Luo Si and a group of people, but they desperately resisted the Qing soldiers who rushed to the city gate and inside the city, and kept shouting: "Open the city gate quickly!" ”

Dozens of strong men with big axes in their hands didn't care about attacking the Qing soldiers, and only concentrated on chopping the bolt of the city gate.

For a time, the shouts at Zhenjiang Gate soared to the sky, and the battle was extremely fierce!

Liu Changqing was asleep soundly in the yamen of the Zuojiang Soldiers' Preparation Daotai and had just been woken up by his own soldiers. Zuojiang Daoist was concurrently served by Huang Fuxiang, the prefect of Nanning, so Liu Changqing occupied his Taoist yamen. Liu Changqing kicked over a guard who came to put out the fire, and secretly hated: I don't know such a simple plan to transfer the tiger from the mountain? If the city is broken, this yamen will not be yours to save it! He hurriedly put on his armor and led his troops to rush to the city gate to rescue. Deliang, the chief soldier of Zuojiang Town, and Huang Fuxiang, the prefect, also urgently led people to the other city gates to inspect and support.

Liu Changqing was still a step slower. He led his guards and the soldiers and horses of the left battalion of Zuojiang Town, and rushed to the Zhenjiang Gate, which happened to be smashed open by the Taiping Holy Soldiers outside the city.

But it turned out that a brigade commander named Lin Yuxuan under Luo Qiongshu came up with a good idea.

Luo Qiongshu was worried that the city gate should not be able to split the city gate in time, so he wanted to let the holy soldiers outside the city work together to hit, if the city gate bolt was cut in half, and then rushed from the outside with brute force, it could directly break the city bolt and break the city gate. At this time, Lin Yuxuan, who had just been promoted from the commander of the brigade to the commander of the brigade, made a suggestion.

He saw that the city gate was not far from the Yongjiang River, so he let several boats tie together, tied a huge tree nearly 20 zhang long, and then let the holy soldiers who had crossed the shore pull the boat hard, and the ship weighing tens of thousands of catties carried the giant wood and quickly hit the city gate. Fortunately, the city gate was heavy and did not bounce open, otherwise, the Taiping Holy Soldiers and the Heaven and Earth Society brothers in the city behind the gate would have been knocked away by the door.

Of course, this is also because the brothers in the city have cut off most of the door bolts, so that it can be so.

As soon as the city gate opened, Luo Qiongshu led the holy soldiers to rush into the city, covering all the way. The Qing soldiers, who originally had a great advantage and fought against the Holy Army of the Open Gate and the Congregation of Heaven and Earth, were quickly defeated. This is the case with the siege station, although the defending side has the advantage of the city wall and has a great advantage, but once the city gate is broken, once the original advantage is gone, the morale and confidence will be immediately reversed, and the only thing left is to flee in rout.

Li Kaifang led the holy soldiers to besiege the northern city gate. However, Liu Changqing had sealed all the east and north gates with bricks and stones in the city, so although Li Kaifang was brave, it was difficult for him to achieve good results.

Liu Changqing didn't think about it anymore, he just wanted to lead his troops to escape. It's useless to think about it, as soon as Nanning City is broken, he has fallen into the point of no return, to put it mildly, he is now a surrendered bandit and has fled back to the imperial court. has been an official for many years, and he has long seen through how harsh the Manchu emperor was to them Han officials. He is not even a minion, he has lost battles one after another, and he has lost Guangxi, but he is afraid that the court will catch him and behead him to show the public. It's likely to be a Ling Chi end!

Therefore, Liu Changqing led more than 400 Qing soldiers and more than 100 personal guards from the left battalion directly under the original standard of Zuojiang Town, and first went to the Kui Xuan Battalion and Shangsi Battalion of the New Taixie stationed in the arrow road from the city, and mobilized two battalions of 1,000 Qing soldiers to follow him to break through. Finally, he came to the west gate and ordered the Qing army defending the city to open the door. The guard is the capital division of the Nanning City garrison, belonging to the Deliang family, refusing to open the door, Liu Changqing was furious, and ordered the guards to step forward and hack the capital division to death. He pulled dozens of guards to follow him and went out of the West City Gate. Taking advantage of the night, at the cost of more than 200 people, he rushed out of the encirclement of the Taiping Holy Army, and then quickly whipped his own horse, let the guards lead the Qing soldiers to follow behind, all the way around Xinning Prefecture and other prefectures and counties, fled to Taiping Mansion, and went straight to the cousin of the New Taixielong camp.

Liu Changqing took away the three battalions, and the entire Nanning City was left with only the middle battalion and the right battalion of Zuojiang Town, the right battalion of the Xunzhou Association and the Nanning City Garrison Battalion, with a total of 1,500 troops, and the rest was more than 3,500 people from the nearby regiment Lianxiang Yong, and there was not much combat power.

Soon after Luo Qiongshu led 5,000 holy soldiers into the city gate, he met the right battalion of the Xunzhou Association that came to support, and the Xunzhou Association guerrillas did not have time to give an order, so they were knocked off the horse by the front row of shotgunners, and the rest of the Qing soldiers scattered and fled with a shout, Luo Qiongshu ordered a thousand holy soldiers to pursue, and led 4,000 holy soldiers to surround the prefect's yamen and led people to rush in.

Huang Fuxiang, the prefect of Nanning, led more than 100 city guards to fight fiercely with Luo Qiongshu and others in the prefect's yamen. Helplessly, there were too many holy soldiers led by Luo Qiongshu, so he gave up engaging with them in a short battle, and shot directly from a distance with a shotgun. Huang Fuxiang's side of the Qing soldiers gradually became fewer, and he himself was shot in both legs by shotguns, seeing that the Taiping holy soldiers surrounded him, he committed suicide after scolding a few bandits. Luo Qiongshu was scolded a few words, his heart was on fire, and he ordered the knife hand to cut off Huang Fuxiang's head, hang it on the official road outside the east gate of Nanning City for three days, and sink the body into the Yongjiang River.

Soon, the west gate was also breached, Li Kaifang led 20,000 holy soldiers to rush into the west gate, in front of the torrent of holy troops entering the city, the Qing soldiers and 3,000 regiments in Nanning City quickly collapsed. Because the two city gates were surrounded by the holy army, except for more than 1,000 Qing soldiers and village warriors who resisted desperately under the leadership of the chief soldier Deliang and several garrison commanders, they were all shot to death, and the rest of the Qing soldiers and regimental training abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

The city of Nanning, Guangxi, was declared to have been captured by the Taiping Holy Kingdom. Nanning City is far less rich than Guilin City, and there are not many silver taels and firearms seized, some are just some cold weapons, which makes Li Kaifang and Luo Qiongshu, who were originally excited, disappointed a lot.

However, at least the population of Nanning City is still quite large, Luo Qiongshu asked the captured prefect and said that there were more than 50,000 people, which was comparable to the population of Guilin City, and it was a big city occupied by the Taiping Army. In addition, it is also rich in cane sugar, and looking at the mountains of sugar confiscated in the official warehouse, it makes Li Luo and the others feel a little better.

However, it was said that Chen Yongxiu led all the brothers in the city to deeply feel that the strength of the Taiping Holy Army was strong, and his own hall was really incomparable, and under the persuasion of Luo Si, they all joined the Holy Army. But Chen Yongxiu couldn't rest assured that the brothers of the "Righteous Hall" outside Nanning City, so he asked Luo Qiongshu to go back and persuade the hall masters and the brothers in the hall to vote together.

Luo Qiongshu saw that he was relieved that he could not rest assured that the brothers in the meeting would not be able to join him, and he wanted to persuade people to vote, so he asked Luo San to take two brothers with him to contact the anti-Qing forces of the largest Tiandihui near Nanning Mansion.