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Later, Zeng Guanlan of Daozhou sent someone to send detailed military information. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Zeng Guanlan first said the news of the capture of Yongzhou, in which he pleaded guilty, believing that the fine camp was not launched, resulting in Xiang Rong sending troops from Guilin without detection.

In this regard, Feng Shaoguang did not blame Zeng Guanlan, he was a scholar who had never governed a place, and he had just taken over the government affairs of Daozhou, and he would definitely need to invest a lot of energy to manage and be familiar with many government affairs, and the time invested in the detailed work camp would naturally be less. Secondly, the manpower of the fine work camp is already small, and they are all a group of reconnaissance rookies, for an old demon like Xiang Rong, who is experienced in leading troops, it is not difficult to sneak attack and deceive the Taiping Holy Army.

The most useful information in Zeng Guanlan's letter is the military situation around Changsha mentioned later. Under the command of the Heavenly King and the Eastern King, the Taiping army of 40,000 Taiping troops was stationed in Changsha City, and another 15,000 troops led by the Yiwang Shi Dakai were in the west of the Xiangjiang River and the Qing army to grab grain.

As for the Qing army, the situation has changed a lot from the previous period. The 10,000 Qing soldiers who rushed to support from Jingzhou and Wuchang in Hubei Province joined the local soldiers of Yuezhou Prefecture and had already gathered into a force of 13,000 people and had arrived in Xiangyin. The Qing troops in Chenzhou Mansion and Changde Mansion had already arrived in Changsha, but when they saw that the Taiping army was strong, they retreated to Ningxiang and confronted the Taiping army of Yiwang in Hexi. Although I don't know the specific number of this Qing army, it can confront the 15,000 troops led by Shi Dakai, and it is obvious that there are no more than 10,000 troops. In addition, the soldiers of Baoqing Mansion and Hengzhou Mansion were originally following the main force of the Taiping Army with the Guangxi chasing army, but now they have also left Xiangtan and other places where they are stationed, and marched to the south of Changsha City, this force is only close to 20,000.

Another important piece of news is that the 5,000 Qing reinforcements in Guangdong, because they sent troops into Hunan as early as when Changsha was besieged, did not meet Luo Xuan, who attacked Chenzhou. The fall of Changsha made it impossible to turn back to rescue Chenzhou, after all, Changsha is a big city in the provincial capital, and Chenzhou can be recovered if it turns back. The headquarters of the Qing army in Guangdong has now arrived in Liuyang with the local soldiers of Liling, and the troops are approaching the east of Changsha City. In addition, the captured Chenzhou Yacha once revealed that more than ten days before Chenzhou was captured, some Guangdong Qing soldiers passed through Chenzhou and went north to Changsha, and after two verifications, they knew that the news was true.

The other Qing troops in Guizhou and the reinforcements in Jiangxi also entered the territory of Hunan, and the number of troops will not be small. Coupled with Xiang Rong, who set out from Guilin and stationed in Yongzhou City, the Qing army had mobilized troops from all over the country to form an encirclement of Changsha. It seems that the capture of Changsha by the Taiping army also forced the Manchu court, so that he mobilized all the forces that could be mobilized at any cost to blockade Changsha, and wanted to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Taiping army in one fell swoop.

Yes! This explains why Yang Xiuqing was in a hurry to send Zeng Shuiyuan to contact him and invite him to attack Hengzhou together. Changsha has been besieged from the military situation, and Changsha itself has struggled to defend itself, and it is simply unable to send troops to attack Hengzhou. Therefore, asking himself to attack Hengzhou Mansion was actually just a pretense, and its purpose was to allow himself to send troops, attract Qing troops, and reduce the pressure on the Taiping army in Changsha. Thinking about this, Feng Shaoguang decided that perfunctory Yang Xiuqing was a wise move.

Zeng Guanlan's news came in time! Feng Shaoguang has no one else to choose to take charge of the fine camp for the time being, after all, the person who is a cronie and suitable person is Zeng Guanlan is the most suitable. He replied to Zeng Guanlan, telling him not to mind and comfort, and then ordered him to pay close attention to the operation of the fine work camp, expand the fine work, improve the salary, and send the fine work to all over the surrounding area to inquire about the military situation. At the same time, food, clothing and other materials were collected and transported to the border between Yongming Jianghua and Guangxi.

On the 25th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, while the Qing soldiers were concentrating on dealing with the main force of the Taiping Army in Changsha, Feng Yunshan, the Holy King of Taiping, ordered that the Taiping Holy Army was divided into four routes and sent troops to two Guangzhou!

The east road is the main force, with the first inspection point of the palace as the main general, and Chen Yu, the commander of the Holy Fourth Army, becomes the deputy general, leading the main force of the Holy First Army and the two departments of the Holy Fourth Army, with a total of 15,000 troops, from Chenzhou to attack Shaozhou.

The middle lane is divided into two sections. The first one, led by Lin Fengxiang, the second commander of the palace, led 5,000 soldiers of the Holy Third Army to Linwu and capture Lianzhou and Hezhou. The first was led by Li Kaifang, the third commander of the left of the palace, and more than 6,000 officers and soldiers of half of the Holy Fifth Army and the Sixth Army of Tuying, followed by Lin Fengxiang's troops, sent troops to Lianzhou and Zhaoqing, and then looked for fighters according to the situation.

The Western Route Army was led by Luo Qiongshu as the main general, and Bai Huihuai, the imperial forest guard who stayed in Daozhou, as the deputy general, led a total of 7,000 soldiers from Daozhou and Jianghua Yongming Holy Army.

The rest of the people in Chenzhou and Daozhou stayed behind, always paying attention to the movements of the Qing army in Liangguang, Hengzhou, Yongzhou and other places, and responding to changes at any time.

Soon, the Chengui area and the Daozhou area quickly took action, and everywhere you could see the banner waving, the tail of the card pushing the baggage cart, and the busy scene of the army going out one after another.

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On this day, in the Shantang Wei in the south of Linwu County, thousands of people gathered in the polder early in the morning, and some people went to the polder one after another.

Yesterday, Shantang Wei posted a notice, saying that at noon today, there will be a big show at the Wei assembly, and the audience will have half a catty of pork to send each other! So the people of the surrounding villages ran around, competing to spread the news, and thousands of people gathered early in the morning.

At this moment, under the shade of the trees behind the polder, looking at the villagers gathering more and more, a strong man in his fifties stood up and said loudly: "Although the hour has not yet come, there are enough people. Brothers, let's start the big show! ”

"Yes, Big Boss!" The hundreds of people gathered around replied in unison.

This majestic and strong man in his fifties is none other than Yin Shangying, the leader of the Heaven and Earth Society that Feng Shaoguang is looking for.

He was originally a Jiahe person, his family was wealthy, he liked to travel, and he was kind and charitable, because he joined the Heaven and Earth Association in his early years, and often helped the brothers in the congregation, which led to the decline of the family way, but he was also admired and supported by everyone. At the beginning of the siege of Guilin by the Taiping army, Yin Shangying gathered more than 1,000 people, wrapped their heads in red scarves, and moved in the areas of Guiyang, Linwu, and Blue Mountain, fighting on a mobile basis, killing the rich and helping the poor, and the power soon grew to nearly 3,000 people.

Originally, the Taiping Holy Army captured Daozhou, and a while ago occupied Jiahe, Guiyang and other places, Yin Shangying wanted to lead his brothers to defect to the Taiping Holy Army. Unexpectedly, some of his brothers suggested that this Taiping Holy Army was no longer the Taiping Army in Guangxi, occupying Jiahe Guiyang and other places, not burning down the Confucian Temple School, nor hunting and killing corrupt officials and squires, and it was not worthy of the brothers' service.

Yin Shangying hesitated. He was afraid that he would continue to stay in Jiahe, and that the Brotherhood would clash with the Taiping Holy Army, so he led everyone all the way south, and now came to Shantangwei in the south of Linwu County.

According to the usual practice, whenever he went to a place, he led his brothers to seize the local squires who had wealth and had been officials, publicly pronounced the sentence and beheaded them, confiscated the family wealth, and gave half of it to the local poor people. This practice of killing the rich and helping the poor was welcomed by the people along the road, and the brothers also received some property, so more and more people followed him.

With the expansion of the activity area, the rich households in the Linwu area of Jiahe Blue Mountain have been swept away, and those who have not been caught have fled elsewhere, and the life of Yin Shangying and his brothers has become increasingly difficult, so he has set his sights on the neighboring ---- Lianzhou, which he has never been to.

After doing this experience in Shantangwei, I took my brothers to Lianzhou! Yin Shangying looked forward to it, with a smile on his face, and led people to the polder!