Chapter 18: The Occupation of Daozhou (Part II)

The middle-aged general who was a little obese was Qu Wuqian, a guerrilla general in Daozhou City, who heard that all the guards at the West City Gate were transferred away by Admiral Yu Wanqing, and he was busy opening the city gate to recover Yu Wanqing. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Fortunately, Qu Iqian is familiar with the terrain in the city, although he is fat, but at the critical moment of escaping, he is agile and strong, and he gets into the alleys of the city, and in a few breaths, he has disappeared without a trace.

The governor of the Daozhou Bureau, Wang Yuyi, happened to lead people to patrol the city to the east gate at this time. Suddenly, there was a commotion in the west of the city, and the killing shouts shook the sky, and the people in the city were all running around, and they immediately understood that the Taiping thief army had entered the city. Wang Kuo's face turned white, the court has already had a decree, and all local officials have the responsibility to defend the land, once there is a crime of losing the land, it will harm the family, and it is better to die. This is also the reason why the local civil officials of the Qing Dynasty were slow to flee in the competition.

For the sake of his reputation and not to affect his family, he pushed away his entourage and cronies, jumped from the East City Tower, and unexpectedly fell into the Xiaoshui under the city.

There is a small island in the middle of Shixiaoshui, named Dongzhou Island, and a fishing boat from Dongmen Village on the island passed by to rest, and heard that someone fell into the water, and hurriedly rescued it. Wang Kui jumped all over his body, and he didn't want to die in fear, so he fled to Yongzhou Mansion City in a small fishing boat with the support of Changsui.

However, it is said that Lin Fengxiang and Liang Litai led the Taiping army to attack the city, because in the dark night, although there are enough torches, the line of sight is still not far, and the Qing army is searched everywhere, but they are not seen, and they find a high slope in the south of the city, only to find that the state government is built on the high slope, and hurriedly trap the inside and outside of the yamen. The generals of the Qing army, who were in the uniform of 1,000 commanders, led more than 100 people to rush out of the ya, and rushed down the slope to the Taiping army, preparing to break through. Liang Litai ordered the shotgunners in the army to shoot, two volleys, most of the Qing soldiers were killed and wounded, and the rest knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. The general of the Qing army was shot several times, but he still tried his best to swing his sword forward, but before he reached the front of the Taiping army, he had already fallen to the ground and died of exhaustion.

Lin Fengxiang and Liang Litai saw that this Qing general was extremely brave and fierce, and they were very admired, and when they asked, they learned that this person was Tang Desheng, the general manager of Yongzhou Xieqian, so they ordered someone to collect the body and find a place to bury it.

However, it is said that Qu Iqian, a fat guerrilla general, fled into the city with agility, gathered more than 20 cronies, opened the city gate before the Taiping army occupied the north gate, and rushed out of the city at night. After only a mile, suddenly a large group of people and horses on both sides of the road came out, blocking the road, and there were hundreds of people in the rear holding torches high, chasing and killing, although Qu Wuqian was agile, he could not get rid of it, so he had to lead his men to abandon the knife on the spot.

However, it was the latter army led by Li Kaifang, Luo Outline and others who were ambushed on the side of the road north of the city, but they did not expect to capture a big fat fish.

Subsequently, the Taiping army encircled and suppressed the Qing army in the city. The 600 Qing troops in the city were killed and wounded on the spot, more than 200 people were wounded, more than 300 people were captured, and the remaining nearly 100 soldiers fled in all directions, changed their clothes, and hid in the city. Because the south gate, east gate and small west gate of the city were blocked by the Qing army with stone blocks, and the Taiping army blocked the west and north of the city, no one escaped except for the king of Zhizhou who dived.

It was the night that the people in the city of Daozhou did not dare to turn on the lights all night, and the doors and windows of every house were closed. Lin Fengxiang and Luo Xuan led the Taiping army to search for the Qing soldiers who were hiding street by street, and even took the opportunity to capture the big families and wealthy merchants in the city who took in the Qing soldiers, and speculated on their wealth. On the contrary, the artisans and vendors in the city were poor, and they were exploited by the Qing army and government officials in the city on weekdays, and took the initiative to inform the whereabouts of the Qing soldiers who were hiding, and even tied the Qing soldiers and escorted them to the Taiping army. More than 90 Qing soldiers were newly captured, including two surnamed Yang and Zhang. Therefore, before dawn, all the Qing soldiers who escaped from the city were cleared.

On the 30th day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, at dawn, the Taiping army completely occupied the entire city of Daozhou.

Feng Shaoguang ordered Hu Damei to lead the women's battalion of the Fourth Army to inspect back and forth in the city to maintain order in the city, merchants and shops were open as usual, and all military supplies in the Taiping Army were purchased and procured at the usual market price, and they were not allowed to loot, except for large landlords or evil squires.

Zeng Guanlan and Xie Xiangcai led people to blockade the state government, and found the captive state government secretary of the sixth room, the chief attendant and the official servant, and interrogated the state government treasury, Chang Ping and Yicang one by one. The more than 40 captive scribes lived with their lives, how could they work for the Qing court, and suddenly 1510 spit out the family in Daozhou City, and immediately led the Taiping army to go straight to various warehouses to count the materials.

The Daozhou Prefecture Ya is built on a high slope called the gourd top, the gate is facing the south city gate, standing on the top of the gourd, you can overlook the entire Daozhou City now, Feng Shaoguang set up the rear army camp in the state ya, and the state government was renamed the Yundao Palace.

By noon, with the assistance of dozens of people from the Nanwang Guard Battalion and more than 200 people from the Second Army, Zeng Guanlan and Xie Xiangcai supervised the secretaries and the chief retinue to count out the list of seizures in Daozhou City.

Looking at Zeng Guanlan, who was overjoyed and couldn't close his mouth, and came to him with a long slip in his hand, Feng Shaoguang couldn't help but joke: "Guanlan, have you seized a lot of things, look at your happy appearance." ”

"Nanwang Shengming! Guanlan was shocked! Thanks to Heavenly Father Hongfu, this time, my rear army is really famous! Nanwang, look. Zeng Guanlan couldn't help but be overjoyed and waved the list in his hand.

Feng Shaoguang took the list, and when he saw it, he was also startled:

More than 6,500 taels of silver, more than 700 sets of cloth and clothes, 8,000 stones of rice, and 500 quintals of salt were seized. In addition, some of the squires and people in the city, probably afraid of the Taiping army, wanted to pay money to buy peace, and took the initiative to donate, totaling more than 700 taels of silver, 90,000 copper coins, and 800 stones of rice.

seized 2,000 red tassel guns, 900 spears, 1,500 oxtail knives, more than 200 bows and crossbows, and more than 70 sets of armor; There are more than 700 shotguns, 70 guns, more than 40 large and small copper cannons and iron cannons, and 26 fixed cannons on 15 forts on the city tower, with hundreds of cannon pellets, 10,000 lead bullets, and more than 50 quintals of gunpowder.

After sending it, Feng Shaoguang also lost his usual composure, his hands shook with excitement, the list fell to the ground, picked it up again, looked at it again, and couldn't help but rejoice: "Okay!" With this batch of seizures, we have a strong material base! ”

Feng Shaoguang instructed Zeng Guanlan to send people to closely guard the various warehouses, and ordered Zeng Guanlan to organize people to carry shotguns, guns and other weapons, register them, and distribute them to reliable holy soldiers in the latter first and second armies to improve their combat effectiveness.

Now that Daozhou City has been captured, the first step has been achieved, and the next step is to issue a document to denounce the Qing court, strengthen its own momentum, and then set up a camp to recruit soldiers and form its own forces. However, although the momentum is conducive to attracting the congregations of nearby heaven and earth to take refuge, it will also attract the attention of the Qing army, and prematurely attract the main force of the Qing army to come to encircle and suppress.

"Guanlan, haven't you sent the news over there yet?" Feng Shaoguang frowned and asked. His own power was still too weak, and he did not establish a spy system, and only relied on dozens of meticulous workers to spy nearby, unable to obtain effective information, and became blind. Now I can only guess that the main force of the Kingdom of Heaven has already arrived in Yongzhou City, and I don't know if there is a war with the Qing army in the city, whether to capture Yongzhou City, or to go around the city directly from outside the city, and directly take a boat down the water Hengzhou Mansion and march to Changsha?

"Back to the king of the south, there is no news. Before the division of troops in the temple, I secretly met with Uncle Tianyang, at this important moment, once there is a chance, he will send someone to spread the news! Zeng Guanlan saw that King Nan was still happy just now, and now he seemed to be worried about something, so he continued: "Is King Nan worried that King Dong of Heaven will be frustrated in Yongzhou City, turn to Daozhou, and happen to meet with my rear army?" ”

"There are worries about this! Yongzhou City is the first capital city in Hunan, and the Qing demons of Guangxi and Hunan all gather here to intercept the march of the Heavenly Kingdom. I am worried that the main force of the Kingdom of Heaven will fail to attack Yongzhou and retreat to the Daozhou side, and at that time, the yin and yang will gather together again, which will not be conducive to us. Feng Shaoguang was worried that, as in history, once the main force of the Heavenly Kingdom really folded to the side of Daozhou, it was impossible to say that in order to completely control the rear army, he would lead the rear army to withdraw from Daozhou and not join the main force of the Heavenly Kingdom.

"King Nan doesn't have to worry. A few days ago, when our army marched to Zhengjiayao Village, Guanlan sent more than a dozen people to go north along Xiaoshui to Yongzhou to listen to the news, and spread the information that tens of thousands of Qing troops gathered in Daozhou and prepared to go north to exterminate the Taiping army. I believe that the main force of the Kingdom of Heaven will hear the news spread by me, so naturally they will not choose to go south to Daozhou. ”

"And, with my understanding of the Heavenly King Dongwang, I will definitely rush to Changsha as soon as possible to establish a small paradise regardless of the safety of the rear army." Zeng Guanlan said.

Feng Shaoguang asked the prisoners escorted in the original guard camp and the prisoners captured in Daozhou City, and was thinking about how to deal with them, Xie Xiangcai rushed over and said loudly: "King Nan, something happened!" Just now, dozens of people in the city besieged the commander of the second army and wounded the commander, and now the commander returned to the camp with more than 100 people, killed two civilians, and wounded more than 10 people. The people in the city gathered to make trouble, and the commander of the second army, Liang, had rushed over to deal with it. ”

Feng Shaoguang's brows couldn't help but furrow again. "What the hell is going on? Let's go, take a look outside! ”