Chapter 109: The Battle of Heaven and Earth (3)
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bumped into a team of fleeing officers and soldiers in a daze, and Zhu Hongying was also depressed! originally wanted to attack Lingshan County, but was taken first! It's still Su Sanniang's daughter-in-law, maybe it was sent by the Taiping Army, so don't mess with it. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Is it to attack the nearest Hengzhou, or to attack Qinzhou, which is farther away? Zhu Hongying couldn't help but hesitate. Hengzhou is very close to Nanning, he already knew that there are many heaven and earth congregations there, although the government has more soldiers, but as long as it is defeated, not only will there be more seizures in the city, but also can respond to every call, and there will be a lot more brothers who join. And Qinzhou, although there are few Qing soldiers, but it is a remote and desolate place, sparsely populated, even if it is easy to fight, there is no oil and water, and the most important thing is that it cannot expand the team, which is not advisable for him who is ambitious. Therefore, he decided to lead the congregation of the Righteous Church to attack Hengzhou.
In a hurry, the Lingshan Qing Corps, who was begging for mercy, and the two thousand brothers of the Gongyi Church crossed the Yujiang River and came to Dongguo Village outside Hengzhou City. Zhu Hongying was trying to ask the villagers about the situation in Hengzhou City, but found that the city gate suddenly opened, and thousands of people and horses swarmed out, but they were divided into two teams when they left the city.
Each person in the team wore a white cloth on his head, all of whom looked like Zhuang villagers, but the leader was a tall and burly man. The other team each wore a yellow scarf on his head, and the leader was a sturdy man.
When Zhu Hongying asked, he learned that the white cloth on his head was the rebel army of the 13 Tun peasant uprising in Yongchun County last year, and the tall and burly man who led it was their "head" Li Wencai. The other team with a yellow scarf on the head is the Guixian Tiandi Congregation, led by a sturdy man who calls himself Huang Dingfeng.
It was Feng Yunshan who sent Huang Dingfeng to Guixian to gather anti-Qing forces and recruit the party.
It turned out that two months ago, Wu Ruxiao and Huang Dingfeng rushed to Guangxi from Daozhou in accordance with the order of the Holy King Feng Yunshan, preparing to form an anti-Qing force and prepare for the Taiping Holy Army to conquer Guangxi. Originally, he and Wu Ruxiao went to Guixian together, but Wu Ruxiao was anxious to go to the area of Xinyi Luozhou to contact and find Ling Shibai's righteous army, and the two separated. Before Wu Ruxiao left, according to Feng Yunshan's order, most of the more than 100 brothers who accompanied him were left to Huang Dingfeng.
Not only did more than 100 holy soldiers and brothers help, but Zeng Guanlan later sent 400 holy soldiers to Guixian County one after another, and also brought a large amount of silver taels specially allocated. Now that he has people and money, Huang Dingfeng is faster and more powerful than the Heaven and Earth Congregation that has developed in the original history.
In his hometown of Qintangwei, Guixian County, he opened the "Zhuangding Pavilion" in the name of developing the congregation of heaven and earth. Organize members and call on nearby villagers to participate in the anti-Qing struggle. Due to the area around Guixian County, the Tiandihui organization has been active for a long time, so the nearby villagers are very active in joining the association. Huang Dingfeng naturally became the leader, and the congregation called him Huang Sange.
Huang Dingfeng not only played out the purpose of the Heaven and Earth Society, "opposing the Qing Dynasty and punishing officials, robbing the rich and helping the poor", but also popularized the experience of fighting local tyrants and bullies and dividing the land that he saw in Daozhou. For a time, it was very appealing in the countryside of Guixian County. In less than a month, villagers from more than 70 villages within a radius of dozens of miles from Qintang enthusiastically joined Huang Dingfeng's team.
As Huang Dingfeng's prestige grew, the original sporadic peasant rebels in Guixian County continued to come to defect. Several large and small heaven and earth associations in the vicinity of nearly 100 miles will oppose the Qing forces, Tan Teyang, Zhou Twelve, Liu Yalian, Li Yahua and others, and within a month, they successively led their brothers to join Huang Dingfeng.
Then, Huang Dingfeng caught Huang Desan, the enemy who had hated his father for many years, and disemboweled his stomach in Qintangwei in public, avenging his blood revenge.
Ten days ago, the congregation under Huang Dingfeng had increased to more than 11,000 people, and although they were scattered all over Guixian, they were large in number and had frequent activities, and they were inevitably discovered by the government. Shi Zhao, the magistrate of the county, thought that as in previous years, there were hundreds of congregations forming associations, and he did not care, so he asked the right battalion of Xunzhou Xie, which was stationed in Guixian County, to lead more than 100 soldiers, and then personally led a total of more than 500 villagers in several regiments in the county to go to Qintang Wei to encircle and suppress Huang Dingfeng.
At this time, it happened that Huang Dingfeng heard that the Taiping Holy Army had conquered Guilin and Liuzhou, and was attacking all the way to Nanning Mansion. He immediately thought that it must be the Holy King who was preparing to attack Guangxi, and it was time to respond to the Holy Army in an anti-Qing uprising!
Huang Dingfeng summoned all the congregations of heaven and earth who had returned to him to gather in Guixian County, made an appointment time, and conquered Guixian County in one fell swoop. Then, he sent people to let the lurking in the county seat of Guixian be in ambush in advance in advance according to the agreed time, preparing to seize the city gate. After everything was ready, he personally led the 3,000 congregation brothers in Qintangwei to the county seat.
Unexpectedly, halfway through the road, he happened to meet the thief team led by Shi Zhao, the county magistrate, and without saying a word, 3,000 people swarmed up, and a charge scattered all the Qing troops. The Xun soldiers of the right battalion of Xunzhou Xieyou were powerless, and before they could release a shot, they were hacked to death by the surging rebels. On the contrary, the hundreds of regiments led by Shi Zhao, the county magistrate, and several regiment commanders in the city still gathered together, and resisted stubbornly for a while, but the number was too small, and they were charged by the 3,000 righteous army several times, and only more than 200 people remained, and more than half of them were killed and wounded.
Shi Zhao, the magistrate of the county, and several gentry who were the head of the regiment still wanted to fight to the death, but the remaining regimental training township Yong had already lost their courage and surrendered directly.
As a result, most of the government forces in Guixian County were wiped out halfway, and Huang Dingfeng easily occupied Guixian County.
Huang Dingfeng, who had occupied Guixian County, had not yet had time to rest and reorganize his training team when he received an invitation from an anti-Qing force active in the Yongchun and Hengzhou areas, and it was the Yongchun County Shisantun Township People's Rebel Army, which caused a sensation in the vicinity of more than 100 miles last year.
Their leader, Li Wencai, learned that Guixian had a large number of Heaven and Earth Society organizations, led by Huang Dingfeng, so he invited them to attack Yongchun and Hengzhou.
At that moment, the two hit it off. Huang Dingfeng sent people to contact the Taiping Holy Army in the direction of Liuzhou, informing them of the capture of Guixian and the preparation of capturing Hengzhou. Then, he sent 5,000 brothers to stay in Guixian, and he personally led the 6,000 Tiandihui brothers with the 400 Holy Army as the backbone to break through Yongchun County in one go. Then he joined forces with Li Wencai's Thirteen Tun Township People's Volunteer Army and captured Hengzhou Prefecture, which was seventy miles away.
At this point, in the entire more than 200 miles east of Nanning Prefecture, the Manchu government was wiped out by the righteous army.
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However, he said that Zhu Hongying led 2,000 brothers from the Righteous Cousin, and when he saw that Hengzhou, which he wanted to attack, was taken first, he was still two teams of men, and the number of people was even better than his own, so he couldn't help but be very angry. However, as soon as he inquired, he learned that the people led by the two teams were both locals and strong people, so he had a plan.
Zhu Hongying stepped forward to greet the two of them with great enthusiasm, and said that they were all brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society, and they would either join forces and capture Xingye County and Yulin Prefecture not far to the east. Huang Dingfeng and Li Wencai both agreed very much.
At that moment, the three of them decided to rest in Hengzhou for three days, and then sent troops to Yulin Prefecture.
For a day or two, Zhu Hongying treated the two even closer, as if the three of them were long-lost brothers. Zhu Hongying's idea is very simple, that is, to find a way to gain the trust of the two, whether it is to make the other party willingly recognize himself as the eldest brother, or to find an opportunity to kill the two, in short, this time he is determined to expand his strength.
The people of the Taiping Holy Army don't dare to provoke, you two local strong people, don't you dare to provoke? He even felt that in the dark, the heavens were helping him. Even if Lingshan County was captured at the beginning, it would be impossible to recruit so many subordinates. If you don't take this force that was sent to the door in vain, then you will never want to become a big thing.
Zhu Hongying secretly thought in his heart.
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