Chapter 17: Occupation of Daozhou

With the addition of the mountain people of Zhengjia Yaozhai, the number of combatable soldiers in the rear army increased by more than 200. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The more than 100 frail, old and sick Yao people who were eliminated by info were all charged into the tail of the card. Feng Shaoguang summoned out the people who had been coerced all the way, including more than 400 people who were unwilling to follow the kingdom of heaven, and now he was no longer worried about their whereabouts being exposed, so he issued some copper coins and asked them to return home on their own. The remaining 700 or so people, perhaps because they had enough to eat in the past few days, were willing to join the Holy Sect, either genuinely or falsely, so they selected 300 young men among them and incorporated them into the Holy Soldiers, and the other 400 were still included in the end of the card.

Zheng Yuanbo awarded the post of chief soldier, selected four of his younger brothers and nephews to award two Simas, selected the brave as the captain, and the rest were ordinary holy soldiers, and properly placed everyone.

In the evening, there was a detailed report from the news in the city of Daozhou, there were less than 1,000 defenders in the city of Daozhou, led by Yu Wanqing, the commander of the Qing army, Qu Iqian, the guerrilla general, and Wang Yuyi, the governor of Zhizhou. Yu Wanqing's original 3,000 Qing troops retreated from Quanzhou to Daozhou City, of which more than 2,500 people had been transferred north to Yongzhou a few days ago and went to Gongwei City.

Feng Shaoguang was overjoyed, since the Qing army sent Daozhou defenders to Yongzhou to defend, it must be that the main force of the Heavenly Kingdom has already arrived in Yongzhou, and the Qing army will only be transferred if it is threatened.

Since the beginning of the Jintian Uprising, the Taiping Army has always been twisted into a mess and has never divided its troops on a large scale. When the Qing army saw that the main force of the Tianping Army had arrived in Yongzhou, they would never have thought that there would be another Taiping army that would turn around halfway and attack Daozhou. Sure enough, everything was as he expected, and Daozhou City was really weak. As soon as he led the Taiping army to the outside of the city, presumably the admiral Yu Wanqing, who was afraid of war and death, would give him a big gift just like in history.

The next day, Feng Shaoguang ordered the Taiping army to open the ranks, erect more flags, strengthen the army, and divide the troops into two routes to march to the county seat of Daozhou. One route was led by Li Kaifang and Luo Xuan, and the army of 1,000 people went down a mountain stream called Takishui; The other route was more than 1,300 people from the second army under the command of Lin Fengxiang and Liang Litai, and marched all the way along the mountain pass to the official road of Daozhou City.

Feng Shaoguang continued to distribute the fine battalion and ordered Zeng Guanlan to be responsible for collecting intelligence on the nearby Qing army. He himself led the personal guard battalion and other baggage and paiwei people to follow behind the rear second army, pulling branches all the way to the ground, making the dust fly, and driving towards Daozhou City. For a time, on the road passed, the villagers and the gentry inquired one after another, and they all spread rumors, and soon, both the people and the government around Daozhou learned that a large number of Taiping troops from Guangxi had called.

After Shouyanwei, 40 miles southwest of Daozhou City, there are villagers Chen Tianshi, Chen Shuitai and 400 people rushed to take refuge, and then Yongfengji, Jiang Tianyi and Hu Gou led 300 people to attach, all of whom were awarded the post of chief soldier. Along the way, the squires took refuge, the big families closed their doors, and the poor people accompanied them like shadows.

Under the leadership of the defecting villagers, the Taiping army raided the homes of the squires who had done a lot of evil, filled the holy treasury with property and grain, confiscated the land deeds, and distributed the idle and miscellaneous goods to the villagers.

The mighty Taiping army came to a nine-mile-long mountain, which was not high, but there were thin clouds and mist surrounding the mountain. Lin Fengxiang asked the villagers of Xinfu and learned that the name of this mountain is Yunshan. Lin Fengxiang was shocked, he couldn't imagine that there was really a place called Yunshan, and he couldn't help but secretly sigh at the omnipotence of his Heavenly Father. When everyone learned that the hill that crossed ahead and blocked the way to Daozhou City was the "Cloud Mountain" in the twenty-four-character mantra of the Heavenly Father's edict, the crowd was excited for a while, and the army was greatly invigorated. In the Taiping army, it was rumored that a few days ago, the king of the south sprayed the red 24-character mantra given by the heavenly father on the wordless heavenly book, and the people who had newly joined the Taiping army were in great spirits, and they all felt that there was really a heavenly emperor, and they were guarding everyone by the side of the sect.

At that time, it was already dark, Lin Fengxiang and Liang Litai led the second army, plus the newly attached 700 people, a total of more than 2,000 people, raised flags and lined up in front of Yunshan, burning thousands of fires. Later, Feng Shaoguang led the women's battalion and the Paiwei baggage troops, and thousands of bonfires were lit on both sides of the mountain, which was spectacular.

In the city of Daozhou, Yu Wanqing, the governor of Hunan, surrounded by more than 50 personal guards, climbed the west city tower of Daozhou, looked at the foot of Yunshan Mountain, densely packed with bonfires that could not be seen, flags came and went, and people were crowded, and I was afraid that tens of thousands of soldiers and horses could not be lowered. After hearing the news that the big drum and Cantonese thieves had marched into Daozhou, he sent more than a dozen fine workers to investigate. Unexpectedly, only three spies sent out by the city came back, and they were all rough and hurried back to the city, and reported to him with a fearful face, a large number of Cantonese thieves came straight to Daozhou City, and the number of people was even more spread all over the mountains, and they were too many to count. At first, he didn't believe what the spies said, but now when he looks outside the city, the Cantonese thieves are really like a tide, and once they attack the city, they will soon be able to flood Daozhou.

Yu Wanqing was frightened, and hurriedly guarded him to go down to the city, and called the more than 200 guards who defended the west city gate to go down to the city tower, and led more than 300 people from the west gate of Daozhou to go out of the city overnight. Some officers and soldiers of the guards asked why they went out of the city, and Yu Wanqing said: "It is better to defend the city than to guard the danger, and it is better to suppress the thieves than to defend the thieves!" This standard led the guards out of the city to look for fighters. "The guards were stunned.

In the Taiping Army camp outside the city, Feng Shaoguang was just about to fall asleep, and Zeng Guanlan mysteriously brought a scribe in his thirties to ask for a meeting.

"How can the villain see the opportunity to meet the southern king of the heavenly kingdom!" When the scribe saw Feng Shaoguang, he paid a big salute.

"Excuse me, you saw me late at night, where did you come from?" Feng Shaoguang asked calmly.

"The villain is a tribute student in the city of Daozhou, because he does not want to be enslaved by the Manchu Qing Dynasty anymore, he heard that the heavenly soldiers of the Heavenly Kingdom swept away the Manchu thieves and went out of Daozhou. The villain is familiar with the arrangement of the Qing soldiers in the city, and he has come to meet the king of the south, and is willing to lead the way into the city for my heavenly soldiers. ”

"Haha, Brother He is really a righteous man! Can you assist the king, expel the Manchu Tatars, and restore my Han people? Feng Shaoguang said overjoyed.

"I can't ask for it! How dare you refuse! He Jianji hurriedly knelt down and bowed again.

This is the first scholar who came to take refuge since entering Hunan, Feng Shaoguang was overjoyed, gave He Jianji the post of bookkeeper, and ordered him to temporarily follow his staff and military affairs. According to what He Jianji said, in the evening, Yu Wanqing, the commander of the Qing army, had withdrawn all the officers and soldiers defending the west gate, and the west gate was undefended, and the Qing army in the city plus Tuan Yong was less than 600 people. This is a great opportunity, Feng Shaoguang concluded that what He Jianji said was the truth, because he knew that there was indeed a person surnamed Gongsheng in history who secretly told the Heavenly King Daozhou about the situation in the city.

At this time, Li Kaifang and Luo Xuan led the latter army to the northeast of Yunshan. The latter army received more than 900 villagers who had come to take refuge along the way, and the ranks soared to nearly 2,000 people. Feng Shaoguang immediately ordered Li Kaifang and Luo Xuan to lead an army of 1,000 people to detour to the north of the city and block the north gate; Lin Fengxiang and Liang Litai led the second army of 2,000 people to attack the city from the west of the city. Feng Shaoguang led the personal guard battalion and the tail of the card, holding a torch in the back, waving the flag and shouting, and growing the momentum.

Lin Fengxiang and Liang Litai led the troops to the west city gate, seeing the city gate wide open, Lin Fengxiang suspected that it was a trap of the Qing army, and wanted to send someone to investigate, but saw dozens of Qing soldiers rushing to the city gate in a panic and were about to close the city gate.

How weird? Is there such a trap? Even if it's a trap, Lao Tzu admits it!

Lin Fengxiang and Liang Litai could still hold it, and with a wave of their hands, the Taiping soldiers rushed forward and waved their swords to seize the city gate. Dozens of Qing troops, led by a middle-aged general, scattered as birds and beasts. Surprisingly simple, the Taiping army easily occupied the west gate, and more than 2,000 people from the second army rushed straight into the city.

PS: The word count is less, and one chapter is divided into 2 chapters!