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Just when Feng Yunshan was discussing sending troops to Guangzhou, news came from the north: more than half of the Qing army besieging Changsha continued to pursue the main force of the Taiping army that had conquered Yuezhou, and the other small part of the Qing army began to slowly move south, presumably waiting for the Qing army from other places to come. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Fortunately, the Qing army is used to garrisoning one place, and the efficiency of centralized mobilization is low, and in half a month, it will pass through Hengzhou Mansion, whether it is to attack the land of Chengui or Yongzhou City, it is not yet possible to see. But it is certain that since the Taiping Holy Army captured Guilin, the Qing army no longer regarded the Taiping Holy Army as ordinary bandits, but another main force with the Taiping Army, and it was also the object that must be exterminated.

Feng Yunshan knew that time was running out, and once the Qing army had enough troops and prepared the materials and food for the expedition, he would come to attack him. However, at present, he has concentrated most of his forces in the two Guangzhous, especially in the critical period when he has decided to attack Guangzhou, and he cannot divide his troops. Therefore, it is necessary to take the city of Guangzhou as soon as possible and completely occupy the two Guangzhous.

Feng Yunshan had already thought about it, so he decided to concentrate all his efforts on capturing Guangzhou City first, even if he lost the entire land of southern Hunan, he would also occupy Guangzhou. Because he knew that the tariffs and trade profits brought to the Manchus by the city of Canton alone were close to the taxes of a province in Hunan.

The most important thing is that if you occupy the city of Guangzhou, you can contact foreigners, deal with all kinds of foreigners, and do business, so that you can do a lot of things through foreigners. By the way, I sent Guan Youli in Daozhou to look for the Westerner and his students in the city of Guangzhou, and I don't know what happened. Feng Yunshan estimated that even if Guan Youli found people, he would take them back to Guiyang and Daozhou first.

However, thinking of the foreigners, Feng Yunshan immediately thought that the biggest obstacle to the capture of Guangzhou City was actually not the Qing soldiers in the city, but the foreigners. How you deal with these foreigners is the key.

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However, it was said that He Lu, the supervisor of the Holy Fifth Army, was assigned by Feng Yunshan to lead more than 100 Holy Army brothers to a place he was familiar with, Shilong Town, Dongguan County.

He Lu, also known as He Liu, is a native of Tan Village, Shunde. At the age of ten, he followed his father to open a rice shop in Weiji in Shilong Town, Dongguan, where he learned martial arts with famous teachers since he was a child. Feng Yunshan sent him to Guangdong, naturally because he knew that He Lu was in history, so he was assigned by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and after conquering Wuchang City, he returned to Guangdong to launch the Tiandihui Uprising. It's just that Feng Yunshan asked him to return to Guangdong two years ahead of schedule to revolt.

With the help of the more than 100 people he brought, who were originally brothers of the Shonan Tiandi Society, He Lu quickly gained a foothold in Shilong Town. With the support of thousands of taels of silver brought, He Lu spent more than half a month with the leaders of six or seven small triad halls in Shilong Town, from slowly becoming familiar with them to being called brothers, and finally because He Lu's martial arts are the most strong, and he is heroic and refreshing, the brothers in the mouth of the large and small triads in Shilong Town have more or less received He Lu's sporadic favors, so they jointly elected He Lu as the leader of the triad in Shilong Town.

That night, the little boss of Xinjie Tangkou in Shilong Town came to report that a patrol inspector of the Xinjie Inspection Department had bullied the sister of a cousin brother.

After hearing about it, the little leader called more than a dozen brothers to go to the inspection department to discuss an explanation, but he didn't expect that the new county chief was stationed in Shilong Town, and when he heard that a congregation had come to the inspection department to make trouble, he sent dozens of flood soldiers and a dozen or so officials, not only to arrest the brothers who were surrounding the inspection department, but also to completely destroy the triad at the entrance of the hall of Xinjie. Xinxian Cheng also threatened to purge all the triad congregations in Dongguan County early tomorrow morning.

The little boss hid to the side, frightened, and then came to report for help.

When He Lu heard the news, he was not worried, on the contrary, there was a look in his eyes that he had finally obtained after a long time. He jumped up and said, "Quickly inform all the brothers in Shilong Town that we will gather in front of the Xinjie Inspection Division tonight, we will seek justice for the brothers and save the brothers!" ”

The little boss hurriedly followed his orders.

Half an hour later, He Lu gathered more than 100 brothers from the Holy Army and more than 100 brothers from his own hall, armed with shotguns and spears that had been hidden for a long time, and rushed to the Xinjie Inspection Division.

Outside the Inspection Division, hundreds of triad brothers had gathered to prepare for the inspection theory, but the door of the Inspection Division was closed. As soon as He Lu arrived, without saying a word, he cried out, "Brothers, this is an unfair world! We've worked hard for a year, but we've achieved nothing! Our brothers and sisters are bullied, but there is nowhere to redress them! What to do? Now the government is the lackeys of the Manchu Qing Tartars, who specialize in bullying us Han people and don't treat us as human beings, what should we do? Will it be for a lifetime? ”

"Nope! I've had enough! Why don't we rise up and rebel? Smash this bullshit inspection department and rescue our brothers! Smash this Tartar mansion and save ourselves! After speaking, He Lu rushed to the gate of the Inspection Division with more than 200 of his cronies.

The crowd was excited, and everyone shouted: "Smash it, smash it!" ”

The gate of the inspection department was rushed by the crowd and opened, and more than ten Qingyong inside panicked and wanted to come to block everyone, but they were stabbed by He Lu's people with a spear, and they fell to the ground one by one, and were trampled by the crowd that swarmed, which was unbearable.

Killed all the Qing soldiers in the inspection department one by one, and finally found the imprisoned brothers, He Lu led everyone to release them. Seeing that more than a dozen brothers who were detained by the Inspection Department were all covered in bruises, and everyone was even more angry, He Lu took the opportunity to shout: Brothers, rebel with me! The crowd responded. Remove all valuable property in the inspection department.

Then, he contacted the entrance of the Tiandi Hall in other places in Dongguan County overnight, and attacked the Tangxun garrisons in various towns all the way, attacking the mansions of the official gentry. For a time, the congregation of the uprising gathered more and more, and in just two days, it reached more than 3,000 people. At this time, the magistrate of Dongguan County knew that more than 100 Chengxun soldiers could not exterminate the rebel army, so he asked for help from the guerrilla general stationed in Shilongxunli, the land standard raising camp of the Green Camp, not far from the county seat of Dongguan.

The guerrillas immediately sent more than 300 garrison flood soldiers to support, and the Dongguan magistrate personally led 500 regiments to practice and join the flood soldiers, and the two pursued the rebels together. Unexpectedly, He Lu led his troops out of the city to go around in circles, and the triad that had been arranged in the county town should suddenly cause an incident, and He Lu divided another force to storm the county seat, and occupied the county seat under the combination of inside and outside. Mo Qiliang, the protector of Guancheng, was killed in battle, and the other two generals were also captured.

Dongguan Zhixian and the guerrilla general learned that the county seat was occupied, and hurriedly returned to the city to rescue, but was defeated by the righteous army who had arranged an ambush on the way. Then, He Lu applied what he learned in the Taiping Holy Army in Daozhou, held a public trial meeting in Dongguan County, tied up all the captured officials headed by the magistrate, organized thousands of people who were bullied on weekdays to cry, scolded the officials' evil deeds, exposed their crimes, and finally beheaded them for public display.

The public trial meeting attracted tens of thousands of onlookers, and the villagers of Dongguan joined He Lu's righteous army one after another, and within a few days, the righteous army reached more than 20,000 people. He Lu also contacted the congregations of heaven and earth in the surrounding Bao'an County, Huiyang County and other Dongjiang areas to jointly raise anti-Qing events.

At this time, He Lu received news from the triad brothers within the Qing army that Huang Zhehua, a general of the Huizhou Association of the Guangdong Land Governor, led 2,000 Qing soldiers to Dongguan County and town. Although the rebel army had more than 20,000 people, the number was ten times that of the Qing soldiers, He Lu believed that the difference between the weapons and equipment and military training quality of the two sides was too far, and in order to preserve his strength, he still decided to abandon Dongguan County and go to attack Bao'an to avoid its edge. At the same time, you can ask for help from your triad brothers in other surrounding counties. He Lu's plan was to lead the rebel army to wander around, pocket the surrounding Hui Party and anti-Qing villagers, and further strengthen his own strength, so as to better complete the task assigned by the Holy King.