At the same time, a small trader named Huang Wei in Tong'an Guankou also began to step up contact with the local congress parties in Xiamen to prepare for the anti-Qing uprising. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Huang Wei is engaged in selling cowhides, and has always been good at fighting grievances, daring to help the weak and suppress the strong, which is deeply expected. After the death of Chen Qingzhen, the leader of the Knife Society, the Knife Society will go underground. Although Huang Wei went underground, because of the admiration of everyone around him, they all joined the Little Knife Society. For a time, there were thousands of henchmen under him, most of whom were outlaws in the rivers and lakes, operating in the area of Tong'an Haicheng.

However, at the beginning of March, two brothers Jiang Yuan and Jiang Fa from Haicheng County, who returned from Nanyang, bought hundreds of foreign knives and gave them to the surrounding people to rebuild the knife club in Shigutang.

But on the third day, the brothers Jiang Yuan and Jiang Fa were hunted and killed by Wang Shiqing of Haicheng Zhi County.

The brothers' men found Huang Wei and begged for revenge. As soon as Huang Wei agreed, a man who claimed to be a messenger of the capture army came to ask for a meeting. According to the messenger, the army was created by the original Taiping army, the king of the south, and had already occupied Liangguang. Now, he is preparing to start attacking Haicheng County and Kinmen Island, and he must cooperate with the siege and carry out the uprising.

Huang Wei was overjoyed when he heard the news. He hurriedly gathered the backbone of the Little Knife Society, gathered at Guan Kou Li Lin Liu Xin'an, and decided to hold an uprising. Some congregations suggested that Huang Demei in the nearby Jishan Li was also preparing to start an incident, so it was better to invite them together, and Huang Wei agreed.

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Seeing Huang Demei, the representative of the messenger of the capture army was Huang Feixing. He was originally just a commander, and he made great contributions in conquering Chenzhou, and later followed Luo Outline all the way to attack Shaozhou, Guangzhou and other cities, and was cumulatively promoted to the commander of the division, but now he has been transferred to Lin Fengxiang's staff officer of the lieutenant colonel of the First Division of the First Division.

Seeing Huang Demei, seeing that although this person was a landlord, he hated the Manchu government, so he said: "Leader Huang, I don't know if you are willing to submit to the Holy King and obey the command of the commander of my army Lin Fengxiang?" ”

"Huang has long heard that the Taiping Army is brave and good at fighting, and he also knows the name of the Heavenly King and the East King and the Holy King of Guangdong! We are willing to submit to the Holy King! But obey the command of Commander Lin Fengxiang? I'll forget it! With the thousands of Little Knife Society brothers we have with the Huang Wei brothers, at least we should directly obey the Holy King. Huang Demei said bluntly.

Huang Feixing was helpless, and after thinking about it, could it be that Huang Demei has any other concerns? At the moment, he also asked frankly: "Leader Huang, I'm afraid you don't know that the 13,000 brothers led by our Division Commander Lin are the elite of the entire captive army. Let your army obey the command of Division Commander Lin, it is just a battle against the Manchu Qing, not that you yourself have to obey Division Commander Lin. You can talk to the Holy King directly! ”

Huang Demei insisted that the rebels fight on their own.

Huang Feixing patiently interrogated the reason.

Huang Demei said: "Everyone is surnamed Huang, and people with the surname Huang are all straightforward people. I'll just make it clear, it's not impossible for me to let go of my command over my brothers, but there must be a promise from the Holy King to me. ”

Only then did Huang Feixing learn that Huang Demei had heard that the Taiping army had raided all the landlords and squires everywhere they went, and all their family property had been confiscated, so he was afraid in his heart and wanted to control the military power himself and have the power to protect himself.

Huang Feixing was in a dilemma now, he just came to discuss how to make the other party revolt and cooperate with the captives to attack the city. This kind of issue involving military power must be reported to the Holy King.

So, he said to Huang Demei: "Leader Huang, since this is the case, we will attack separately." Your army is on its own, and if it is defeated or in other circumstances, you can send someone to contact us at any time. However, before the fourth day of the first month of April, it was necessary to formally start an incident and cooperate with the attack of our army's two water and land divisions. ”

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On the third day of the fourth month, Huang Wei and Huang Demei led the two righteous armies to gather outside the city of Tong'an, and officially announced that they would take refuge in Feng Yunshan, the holy king who occupied Liangguang, and launched an uprising in Tong'an.

The rebels acted quickly, learning from the captives, and everyone wore braided hair and wrapped red cloth on their heads. The troops were divided into three routes, and attacked Haicheng County, Zhangzhou Prefecture and Changtai County at the same time.

On the fourth day of the fourth lunar month, Lin Fengxiang led the First Division A and had not yet arrived in Haicheng County, and Wang Shiqing of Haicheng County had already led his cronies and officials to hide in the countryside.

Huang Wei and Huang Demei led the rebel army, but did not capture Wang Shiqing, but captured the guerrilla Chong'an in Haicheng County alive, and tied him to the place where the Jiang brothers were killed. At the same time, open the official warehouse of Chenghai County and put grain for the people in Haicheng County, and the servants were like rain for a while.

On the fifth day of the first month of April, when Lin Fengxiang led the first division to Haicheng County, he found that at this time, the Xiaodaohui Righteous Army had occupied Zhangzhou and Changtai at the same time, and Zhangzhou Governor Wenxiu and the general soldier Cao Zhizhu were also killed.

Lin Fengxiang couldn't help but exclaim, is the combat power of these knives too strong? Or were the Manchu soldiers in Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other places too weak?

At this time, Luo Xuan led the sailors to attack the sailor camp in Kinmen Town. Due to the serious losses caused by the battle between the Fujian Naval Division and the Guangdong Naval Division some time ago, Shi Degao, the commander of the Fujian Naval Division, ordered all the naval divisions to hold the camp and fort of the Naval Division in Kinmen Town, and transferred hundreds of warships and several heavy coastal guns from the two towns of Haitan and Funing in the north to defend Kinmen Island.

Luo Xuan and Liang Peiyou led the 5th and 5th Divisions of the First and Fifth Divisions to attack the Shuizhai in Kinmen Town, but they were not noticed for a while, and were sunk by several heavy coastal artillery on both sides of the Shuizhai, 6 ships were captured, and more than a dozen ships were damaged, and they returned in a crushing defeat.

Fortunately, the newly defeated Shi Degao did not dare to pursue, otherwise, he was afraid that the 5th Division A and the 5th Division B would lose more.

The worst thing was that the Feisha and the Iron Bull, which rushed to the front, were damaged and unable to fight, so Luo Jian sent people to drag them back to Nanao Island for repairs.

The tide of the battle was unfavorable.

Just when the generals of the Qing Army's Fujian Water Division were proud, the liaison messenger sent by Luo Outline had arrived on the day agreed with the Knife Society's righteous army!

In the early morning of the 6th day of the first month of April, 3,000 to 4,000 rebel troops attacked Xiamen in more than 30 large ships and landed at Yundang Port. Because many of the dock workers, shipwrights and Qing soldiers in Xiamen had already secretly joined the Little Knife Society, as soon as the rebels arrived, everyone responded one after another.

A cadre of the Xiamen Navy Admiral Yamen has long since fled. The rebel army attacked the west gate and the south gate, killing hundreds of Qing soldiers. Fortunately, Admiral Shi Degao of the Navy Division supervised the battle on Kinmen Island, otherwise, it is estimated that he would also be arrested and set up a model.

However, the concubines and family members of these Qing Dynasty officials all fell into the hands of the righteous army.

Due to the admiral Shi Degao supervising the battle on Kinmen Island, the army in Xiamen City was empty, and the members of the Little Knife Society in the city were all over the class, and the most important thing was that there were also members of the Little Knife Society among the Qing soldiers, they opened the city gate to respond, and the rebel army quickly occupied Xiamen City. (To be continued.) )