Zeng Guoquan is in a dilemma. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

On the one hand, his brother Zeng Guofan handed over Yuezhou to his own guard, and if he abandoned it without fighting, it would definitely be unreasonable, and he would get into trouble and let the court officials splash dirty water on his brother; On the other hand, thirty or forty thousand thieves attacked, and Yuezhou was an important place to block the attack of the thieves, and the thieves would definitely not stop if they did not take it, but now there are only 4,000 Xiangyong in Yuezhou City, including the newly recruited 2,000 people, and there are 5,000 sailors outside the city, but this point of strength, Yuezhou City must be difficult to hold.

Wait a minute! The elder brother knew that Yuezhou was so important, and he also led most of the troops to leave Yuezhou and develop to the small county town in the north of Mubei, presumably because he had expected this situation!?

As soon as he heard the news that there were Cantonese thieves attacking Yuezhou, Zeng Guoquan sent an urgent report to Zeng Guofan for help.

A day later, when the 4th Division of the Cantonese Thieves arrived at the Xinqiang River, 30 miles south of Yuezhou City, the messenger finally sent back Zeng Guofan's order: let Zeng Guoquan lead the 4,000 Xiangyong in the city, leaving only 1,000 newly recruited Xiangyong to defend the city, and the rest, regardless of the naval division or the land division, all withdrew to the territory of Jiayu County, and then waited for Zeng Guofan's unified dispatch.

Zeng Guoquan suddenly realized that his brother had a plan and had already made a plan to retreat to the north. It's just that, in order to seal the mouth of the imperial court, more than 1,000 newly recruited Minzhuang were left to act as Xiangyong, showing that they had resisted and would not damage their own forces.

So, when Liang Litai led the Fourth Division to Yuezhou City, he was surprised to find that there were many flags on the city wall, but there was no movement. Just wanted to set up camp in a position, but heard a report from Tanmalai who found out about the military situation, more than ten miles north of Yuezhou City, found a large group of men and horses, and withdrew to the north.

Liang Litai was a little stunned: Could it be that the Qing Demon knew that he couldn't defend Yuezhou City, so he simply saved his strength and abandoned the city?

Is the flag on the head of the city a bluff?

So, Liang Litai tried to send two main regiments to attack the city from two directions, and rushed into the city wall within two miles, and only then did he fire a few cannons in a panic, but he didn't know where to hit at all. More than 2,000 captives stepped forward again, and when they entered the city wall for a mile, the muskets on the city began to sound sparsely. They are all empty guns, which is equivalent to welcoming the captive army to attack the city.

When these two regiments of the Fourth Division rushed to the city, the Qing army at the head of the city seemed to be dumbfounded, and the gunfire became even more rare.

Liang Litai was overjoyed, it seems that the Qing demon in Yuezhou City has no firepower at all.

Originally, according to the plan, his Fourth Division only came to set up camp and attack Yuezhou in the middle of the night, so that the Qing army on the tower of the city could not rest in peace, and the grass was startled. Then, waiting for the 3rd Division, the main force of the captive army, to come, plus the 7th Division, together with the Naval Division, joined forces to attack Yuezhou City, and strive to conquer it in one fell swoop.

But now, Liang Litai realized that the emptiness in Yuezhou City did not need to wait for all the people to be together as planned.

As a result, Liang Litai immediately ordered all the officers and men of the 4th Division to attack together.

He took the lead and rushed ahead, and the guards around him followed closely to protect him. Under his stimulus, the soldiers of the 4th Division carried the simple ladder and swarmed forward.

On the city wall, a group of green battalion soldiers and more than 1,000 people who stayed behind saw the sound of killing under the city, and they swarmed the dense army of begging for capture, and they had no will to fight at all.

The prefect of Yuezhou had already gone to the Yangtze River section of Linxiang County under the pretext of inspecting the Yangtze River embankment for flood control, and he had already learned that Zeng Guofan had abandoned Yuezhou City, and with the 2,000 green battalion soldiers in the city, where could he resist the fierce captive army? If you don't have an excuse to escape, will you be captured or killed?

After hearing that the prefect had run away, he immediately led a group of cronies and ran to the countryside, which is also the northernmost part of Linxiang.

In this way, the actual person in charge of Yuezhou City became a master and two thousand generals, leading less than 2,000 green battalion soldiers, and more than 1,000 people, and there were only about 300 shotguns, and the rest were all moved away by Zeng Guoquan.

The main book is not stupid, and Mr. Qian is not stupid, they still have to pretend to defend the city, and they can't open the door and surrender as soon as the Cantonese thieves arrive, which is too cheap, and it will make the Cantonese thieves look down on them. According to their plan, it was to resist for two days, let the thieves suffer a little, and then they surrendered the city, so that the Cantonese thieves would understand their value and they would get more benefits.

But they didn't know that they had overestimated the combat power of the green battalion soldiers in the city.

I saw thousands of soldiers of the captive army putting the ladder on the city wall, like monkeys, with long hair pinned to their waists, biting the card knife in their mouths, and they climbed up one after another.

The green battalion soldiers at the head of the city, who defended in a disorderly manner, had no intention of fighting, and only thought about their positions in advance in order to escape. Seeing the soldiers of the captive army rushing to the head of the city, not only did they not come forward to besiege, but they breathed a sigh of relief, threw away the waist knife in their hands and ran.

Therefore, there was a very strange scene in the siege of Yuezhou, that is, the begging army under the city, as long as they climbed to the top of the city, not only did they not come forward to stop the Qing soldiers, but retreated.

Within a quarter of an hour of the attack, more than a dozen gaps were opened, and hundreds of soldiers climbed up to the top of the city.

The lord of Yuezhou, Bo and the two thousand generals, saw that the captive army had already stood on the city tower, and they knew that the general trend had gone, so they hurriedly changed their plans, and rushed to lead their cronies to rush forward and open the city gate. If you don't open the city gate again, you will directly become a prisoner, and there is no point in surrendering.

So, in this way, from the beginning of the siege, in less than two quarters of an hour, the three gates of Yuezhou squeaked open almost at the same time, and a group of green battalion soldiers stood at the gate to welcome the captive army into the city.

To say, these two thousand and this master book are both very efficient, and almost all of them are the fastest speed to open the city gate.

Here, Liang Litai under the city was still thinking about how many brothers would be sacrificed, but he didn't expect that in addition to being killed and injured by a few people because he was too eager to climb the ladder, and more than ten people were shot and killed by the Qing soldiers and civilians on the city, there were basically no casualties, and there was no contact battle with the Qing soldiers.

This was already the fewest casualties of all sieges.

Liang Litai was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered the soldiers of the Fourth Division to enter the city and occupy the whole city.

With the cooperation of the party leading the way, the reception of Yuezhou City was very smooth.

The chief bookkeeper of Yuezhou even ordered someone to count the treasures in the treasury and write labels. It's just that the property is too little, and the value is not much, and they were all taken away by the two brothers Zeng Guofan and Zeng Guoquan, and the rest, Liang Litai really doesn't look down on it.

This Yuezhou City, although it was the easiest he captured, was also the least captured.

In any case, Yuezhou City is the seat of the state government, and it is the first time that Liang Litai has captured such a large city alone. He hurriedly sent a few messengers to Changsha and Guangzhou to report the victory.