Just when Chen Yucheng led the Third Division A to sweep around in Xiangxiang, Su Sanniang, who was heroic and cool, led the soldiers of the Seventh Division to set off from Shaoyang, the newly occupied Baoqing Mansion, and marched around by different routes. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ordered two regiments of nearly 3,000 people to stay in the territory of Baoqing Mansion, and raided and swept the countryside such as Wugang and Xinning, and the remaining four main regiments, led by her personally, went north to capture Xinhua and Anhua.

Su Sanniang's Seventh Division does not have an artillery regiment and an engineer regiment, so it is also quite a headache for the siege.

She led nearly 6,000 soldiers to capture the army, all the way from Baoqing Fucheng by boat, along the waterways on both sides of the Zijiang River, swept to Xinhua County, and then surrounded Xinhua County.

Originally, if it was replaced by other small counties, the county magistrate who was greedy for life and afraid of death would have fled to the countryside to hide, but Xinhua was different. There is a group of regimental training in Xinhua City, and the battle is brave, and the county order relies on this group of regimental training and is determined to defend the county seat.

However, this group training was formed by Zou Hanxun, a Xinhua national, with a total of more than 800 people. Zou Hanxun's younger brother Zou Hanzhang was originally a general of Jiang Zhongyuan, but later changed his name to Zou Shouzhang at the invitation of Zeng Guofan, but he served as the sentry officer of the fifth and sixth battalions of the Xiangyong Naval Division in Yuezhou. Through various connections, Zou Hanxun bought some shotguns and gunpowder from the government, and trained day and night.

However, he still underestimated the strength of the captive army, even if he did not carry artillery, but the tradition of siege has always been passed down from the Taiping army, and that is the method of the crypt.

It took two days, the seventh division of the first ghost from the woods outside the city more than two miles, digging a tunnel to the southwest side of Xinning County under the city wall, and then filled the two coffins with explosives, the lead fuse was long, ignited, after the person ran out of the hole, only to hear a loud bang, the entire Xinning City was alarmed, and the city wall on the southwest side of the city was blown down. Su Sanniang took the lead and led the captive army to rush into the city, fighting with the regimental training who heard the news.

However, the regimental training of less than 1,000 people, which is the opponent of thousands of captive troops, even if you add hundreds of city flood control troops in Xinhua County, it will not be of any effect. Soon, after months of training, it seemed that after months of training, they really encountered the battle-hardened captive army, and they were immediately killed and scattered.

Zou Hanxun, the leader of the regiment, was captured by the captives and escorted to Su Sanniang.

If it had been changed before, this unlucky Zou Hanxun would have been ordered by Su Sanniang and clicked off directly. However, Zou Hanxun was lucky. He met Su Sanniang, who had just returned from Guangzhou and was full of thoughts of Feng Yunshan.

So, after learning that this Zou Hanxun is not only a lifter, but also a famous university scholar, and will also use the method of latitude and longitude to survey and map maps, although Su Sanniang does not know what this is, but she knows that the Holy King must know. In addition, she happened to want to send someone to find out Feng Yunshan's attitude towards herself, so she ordered a class of soldiers to escort Zou Hanxun to Guangzhou and hand over this Zou Hanxun to the Holy King for disposal.

Then, Su Sanniang was satisfied with all the county yas and official warehouses in Xinhua City, and continued to lead the army north to Baixi Town, and then abandoned the ship to take a shortcut and attacked Anhua County.

The Anhua County Order packed up the fine and soft as early as when the captive army captured Xinhua County, and hung up the seal as early as two days ago, I don't know whether he fled back to his hometown, or fled incognito to another country, in short, there was no one. As soon as the county order went, the flood soldiers defending the city were even more uninterested in fighting, but they were also single, and directly opened the door to welcome the captive army into the city.

Then, Su Sanniang received a letter from Chen Yucheng, the commander of the 3rd Division, asking the 7th Division to rush to Xiangtan as soon as possible, gather troops, and prepare to besiege Changsha.

On the other hand, Liang Litai led the 4th Division to easily occupy Youxian County and Hengshan County, and then, without resting, he led the officers and soldiers of the 4th Division to Liling County. Liling was troubled by the Heaven and Earth Congregation before, and there were not many troops for a long time, and the defenders in the city were looking at the wind and surrendering.

However, Liang Litai's Fourth Division, due to the excessive occupation of the county seat, left half a regiment of soldiers everywhere, resulting in fewer and fewer, and when Liling was captured, it was found that it was very difficult to defend or not!

The Fourth Division of the First Division in Hengshan, Youxian, Changning, Leiyang and Hengzhou Fucheng, have left part of the troops, and now suddenly found that the soldiers of the Fourth Division who followed Liang Litai were only more than 5,000 people.

In fact, not only the 4th Division, but also the 3rd and 7th Divisions. There are more territories occupied, and naturally, a lot of problems are coming!

Think about the green battalion soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in fact, there are quite a few establishments, but on the one hand, because of the serious empty salary, there is actually not so many people in the establishment, and on the other hand, the most important thing is that it is too scattered. The green battalion soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, except for the soldiers of the various standards and the headquarters of the association, more than half of the rest were Chengxun soldiers, which were completely aimed at suppressing the local people and could not serve the purpose of guarding against other places.

Therefore, how could the ordinary county towns of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, with the addition of half a battalion or one or two Xun, that is, three or four hundred Chengxun soldiers, resist the attack of thousands of captive troops? However, all the Manchu county towns were configured in this way, so it can be said that it was easy for the captives to capture the county seats.

This is also a limitation of the Manchu Qing system, which stipulates that the green battalion soldiers are all deployed to various flood points and even stations, and how can a dozen or even one or two urban flood soldiers be quickly dispatched to organize a war? Therefore, this way of arranging troops fundamentally shows that the Manchu court was only guarding against the people under its rule, rather than a large number of external enemies.

But now, the captives occupied more and more places, and Chen Yucheng, Liang Litai and other division commanders found that they also began to follow in the footsteps of the Manchus.

Not only do the occupied county towns need to be garrisoned, but they also need to appoint new county magistrates and cadres to govern them, but now there are no talents in this area at all, and the county government of Liangguang and Guangxi is still short of people.

In desperation, Liang Litai and Chen Yucheng jointly sent an urgent report, sending someone to report to the Holy King Feng Yunshan quickly, asking for instructions on how to deal with it.

Then, Liang Litai finally gritted his teeth and sent a regiment of troops to guard the county seat of Liling. The main reason is that Liling is the junction of Munan and Jiangxi, which is just stuck in the throat of the passage between the two provinces, and its strategic position is important, so Liang Litai finally chose to send a regiment of troops to defend it.

At this time, Liang Litai, who only had 4,000 people around him, hurriedly became a division commander when he entered Xiangtan County, which was jointly captured by the captive army. The county seat of Xiangtan was easily captured by Chen Yucheng the day before by the third division led by Chen Yucheng and the 4,000 naval division of Peng Yulin.

Just when Su Sanniang led the Seventh Division to Xiangtan, the instructions of the Holy King Feng Yunshan were also brought to Xiangtan City by the messenger on a fast horse. Feng Yunshan asked Chen Yucheng and Liang Litai to just make a gesture of attacking Changsha City, and not really attack Changsha City for the time being. As for the problem of defending the city, Feng Yunshan said that it would be properly resolved in the near future, and asked them to overcome it first.

Feng Yunshan explained in the letter that in order not to attract the attention and strength of the Manchu court to Changsha, the attack on Changsha should be postponed, and the attack on Changsha would be postponed for another month or two.

He received news that in the near future, the Taiping army in Nanjing City would organize troops to carry out the Northern Expedition, which would inevitably cause panic in the Qing court, and at that time, all the eyes and forces of the Qing court would be attracted by the Northern Expeditionary Army. At that time, it was the time for the soldiers of the captive army to join forces to storm Changsha City! (To be continued.) )