Huang Kaiguang saw that the thieves at the east gate had poured in, and he didn't care to plug the gap in the collapse of the city tower, so he led hundreds of soldiers to block the road leading to the city at the east gate, and was murderous and ready to fight to the death. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Unexpectedly, the thieves who rushed in were not in a hurry to charge, but lined up in two rows, approaching step by step.

At more than a hundred paces, the thieves stopped moving, and a leader with a yellow scarf on his head shouted: "Ready, steady, fire!" I saw hundreds of lead bullets spraying out with the light and smoke of the fire, and suddenly, nearly 100 Qingyong in front of Huang Kaiguang were shot and fell to the ground.

The thieves in the back row took a few more steps, stopped, and then opened fire, and dozens of soldiers fell to the ground and screamed. Huang Kaiguang was heartbroken. He even wondered if these thieves had demon magic!

Hundreds of paces away, the shotgun can't hit at all, why is the thief's shotgun so powerful? didn't have time to think about it, he hurriedly ordered the Qing soldiers to retreat, preparing to engage in street battles with the thieves, but when he turned his head, except for more than 100 personal soldiers, the rest of the soldiers had already scattered and fled.

"Bastard! When the thieves retreat, Lao Tzu will skin you one by one, and then you can only hate in your heart! Yes! Another row of lead bullets hit, unfortunately, Huang Kaiguang was also hit by two bullets and fell to the ground, and his own soldiers also dragged him, and he wanted to run when he picked it up, but he was hit again.

It was a little sluggish, and it was already surrounded by thieves from the side.

Huang Kaiguang only felt that he was being held by a leader of the thieves with a yellow turban on his head with a firearm that was one size longer than a shotgun, and then he was tied up by two thieves, and as soon as he wanted to resist, he was kicked and hit in the wound, and then he fainted in pain.

Lin Fengxiang looked at Huang Kaiguang, who was escorted by the guards, and said to the person behind him: "He is the chief soldier of Qiongzhou Town?" ”

"General Huisheng, this person is Huang Kaiguang, the chief soldier of Qiongzhou Town." The person who answered was Deputy General Wang, who had previously led the persuasion of Huang Kaiguang to escape, and then led his troops to surrender to the capture army.

"There is still a prefect of Qiongzhou left, brothers, hurry up and follow me into the city to search! Adjutant General Wang, since you have surrendered, follow me and surrender the soldiers in the city along the way! Don't try to run away, be careful that my musket doesn't have eyes! Lin Fengxiang admonished, waved his big hand, and led everyone to rush towards the prefect's yamen.

The prefect Lin Hongnian didn't know when he had slipped back to the mansion, he wanted to die, but he was unwilling, and when he was hesitating, the door of the mansion was kicked open, and a team of vicious thieves rushed in.

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Lin Fengxiang led the first division to occupy the capital city of Qiongzhou in one fell swoop, and captured Huang Kaiguang, the general soldier of Qiongzhou Town, and Lin Hongnian, the prefect of Qiongzhou and Lei Qiongdaodao, but Huang was too seriously injured and died soon.

In the name of Huang Kaiguang and Lin Hongnian, Lin Fengxiang issued a surrender order, allowing the 3 states and 10 counties under the Qiongzhou government to surrender.

The main force of the Qing army in Qiongzhou Prefecture has been defeated, and the remaining prefectures and counties have very few brave soldiers, and even some counties only have one or two hundred brave soldiers. Lin Fengxiang didn't care whether they surrendered or not, and sent two main infantry regiments of the 1st Division of the First Division, starting from Zhoucheng and crossing the river along the south to capture Ding'an County and Chengmai County in the middle. He personally led the rest of the men and horses of the 1st Division of Jia, and then took a warship to surround Qiongdao in the east and west, and occupied the rest of the states and counties on the whole line.

Except for the two magistrates of Lingao County and Danzhou, who refused to surrender, the rest of the counties were willing to surrender. This is also no way, in front of tens of thousands of troops, one or two hundred green battalion city flood soldiers can't resist at all.

However, whether the three magistrates were forced by their subordinates to surrender the city, or committed suicide by taking poison, it can be said that they were loyal to the Manchu court, which makes people sigh. However, it was useless here in Lin Fengxiang, and he ordered the county order to commit suicide to the head of the city, saying that it was the fate of the Manchu minions.

As for Lingao County and Danzhou, it was only because there were a few local wealthy gentry who were afraid that the captives would divide their fields after the occupation of the army, so they led their families and instigated the people in the city to defend the city to resist.

In just six or seven days, the entire Qiongzhou Mansion was occupied by Lin Fengxiang and Luo Xuan.

Lin Fengxiang left a regiment of troops to stay in Qiongzhou Mansion and sent people to Guangzhou to report the good news.

Then, Luo Xuan led the fleet, loaded Lin Fengxiang's First Division, and went straight to Leizhou Mansion.

There are still more than ten miles on the seaside in the city of Leizhou Prefecture, and Luo Xuan's warships can't reach it. Moreover, the Nandu River in Leizhou City was very narrow, and the fifth-level warship could not enter, and in the end, Luo Xuan could only place Lin Fengxiang's First Division at the mouth of the Nandu River.

When Lin Fengxiang led the First Division to approach the capital city of Leizhou, a middle-aged Confucian student, who claimed to be Lei Xuehai, the prefect of Leizhou, led dozens of squires and thousands of Qing soldiers to bravely open the city gate to welcome Lin Fengxiang into the city.

Lin Fengxiang was overjoyed.

The territory of Leizhou Mansion is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and in the face of the capture army of warships and fleets, the Qing soldiers felt that there was no danger to rely on, and there was no place to buffer and retreat. In addition, there are not many Qing soldiers in Leizhou Mansion, only more than 2,000 people, or walking everywhere, it is impossible to compete with the captive army of tens of thousands of elite soldiers, therefore, the prefect Lei Xuehai has been thinking about the city since he found out that the powerful fleet passing by the coast of Leizhou is the captive army.

It turned out that Lei Xuehai's hometown was in Yongzhou Mansion, which had long been occupied by the rebels, and he was not afraid that the Manchu court would exterminate his nine clans or something. Because of this, he saw that the rule of the Manchu court in Liangguang had passed, so he thought of dedicating Leizhou as a capital for dependent promotion.

Lin Fengxiang heard that this Lei Xuehai was from Yongzhou Mansion, and couldn't help but think that this Lei Xuehai was a clean official. If he is greedy for a lot of money, he will definitely send it back to his hometown, which has already become a rich gentry, and he will definitely not be able to escape the land reform in Yongzhou, and he will definitely be wiped out.

Seeing that this Lei Xuehai had a plan, he reassured him with good words, saying that if the people recognized him as a good official, he would report to the Holy King and continue to appoint him as an official. However, at present, it is necessary to send him to the counties of Gaozhou to persuade the inland counties to surrender, and there is no need to persuade the counties on the coast, so the warships will drive over directly, and after a few rounds of shelling, the small county town will either fall, or the squires in the city will voluntarily surrender the city.

Lei Xuehai knew that his new recruits were not very trusted, and he didn't say much, so he agreed, and led a few entourages to Shicheng and Huazhou in Gaozhou Mansion to contact the local officials he knew, and persuade the county order and the Qing soldiers defending the city to surrender.

Two or three days later, the captives entered the territory of Wuchuan County, which had surrendered.

Luo Xuan led the Fifth Division of the Navy to dock in Wuchuan County, separated the two wooden sail gunboats and steam armed ships, went up the Jianjiang River, and soon came to Huazhou, 70 miles away, and Lei Xuehai at this time had not yet arrived in Huazhou.

The city of Huazhou Prefecture was low, Luo Xuan didn't say a word, and ordered the wooden sail gunboats and steam armed ships to open artillery and bombard the city wall.

Luo Xuan originally wanted to continue along the river and attack the capital of Gaozhou, but unexpectedly, before he reached half of Gaozhou, the river became narrow, the river was full of tree stumps, and the river was full of big trees that sank into the water.

Luo Xuan, who cherished the warship, although angry, hurriedly ordered the 5th Division to stop advancing. Lin Fengxiang finally seized the opportunity, otherwise he would have to be like Wuchuan and Huazhou, Luo Gang's warships lined up on the river, bombarded in turn, and the Qing army surrendered obediently. Then his first division will be useless.

Leaving Luo Xuan and other sailors to clean up the blockages on the river, Lin Fengxiang led the First Division A to take a shortcut and attack Gaozhou Fucheng.

The territory of Gaozhou Prefecture, especially Xinyi, which is hundreds of miles to the north, and Luchuan, which is nearby, has always been a place where there are many thieves. After the Ling Eighteen Uprising was suppressed by the government, the scattered Minzhuang gathered up again at this time.

Hearing that the subordinates of Feng Yunshan, the southern king of the original Taiping Army, had called, everyone rushed to tell each other, and when the first division approached the city of Gaozhou, Xinyi County, north of Gaozhou Prefecture, had been captured by the people who had raised troops to respond. Moreover, under the leadership of the original Ling 18 troops, the rebel army quickly gathered nearly 10,000 people and marched in the direction of Gaozhou, the capital city, saying that it was to cooperate with the troops of the Southern King to conquer Gaozhou City.

Lin Fengxiang divided the four infantry regiments of the 1st Division into four directions, scattered and attacked in all directions, sweeping all the towns in Gaozhou Prefecture and exterminating the flood soldiers of the Manchu Qing Green Battalion, while he personally led two infantry regiments and an artillery regiment, and more than 3,000 captive troops surrounded the Gaozhou Mansion and shouted for the surrender of the Qing army in the city.

Seeing that the Qing army did not react, Lin Fengxiang ordered the artillery regiment to aim the twenty field guns that were easy to move at the city tower is a round of fierce bombardment, and bombarded the defensive city gate cannons on the city tower on the spot. It's a pity that there are not many field artillery cannons, otherwise, Lin Fengxiang would have to blast the city gate open directly.

The Qing army in Gaozhou City had no intention of fighting at all, if it weren't for the adults above and the old men in the city, forcing them to go to the city to defend the city, and giving them half a tael of silver a day's fighting money, they would have scattered and fled long ago. However, even so, they don't dare to show their heads, where can it be considered defense?

This is because the officers and men of the 1st Division under the city, equipped with 1,000 Charville firing muskets, were all transferred by Lin Fengxiang to the city of Gaozhou to shoot the defenders at the head of the city. Basically, as soon as the Qing soldiers bravely emerged behind the battlements, they were shot dead by the soldiers of the 1st Division A 200 steps away.

In this way, the Qing soldiers did not dare to raise their heads at all, and later, they all hid in the caves of the hidden soldiers. At this time, a thousand generals of the Qing army in the city, seeing that the situation was not right, secretly contacted several generals, called more than 300 Qing soldiers, controlled a city gate, and sacrificed the city.

By the time the prefect and the deputy general of the Gaozhou Association in the city reacted, the captives had already rushed into the city like a tide, and the Qing soldiers were fired in a row, unstoppable.

By the time tens of thousands of rebels outside the city arrived outside Gaozhou City, the captive army had already occupied the entire Gaozhou City.

Two days later, as Lei Xuehai persuaded Suixi, Shicheng and other counties to surrender, the 1st and 5th Divisions quickly cleared the entire territory of Gaozhou Prefecture, and the 8th Division led by Chen Tianshi also occupied all of Luodingzhou.

So far, in less than half a month, the captive army has occupied the three prefectures of Gaozhou, Leizhou, and Qiongzhou in the western region and the surrounding areas. (To be continued.) )