The chaos in Xinhui City spread rapidly from the east city to the whole city, and the large-scale killing of the earthquake camp caused the people in the city to suffer unjustified disasters. In the chaos, those who had just joined the Taiping Army began to take advantage of the fire and loot with their familiarity with the terrain in the city, and in addition to them, there were also stragglers of the Qing army who were also fishing in troubled waters, and there were murders, extortion, and arsons everywhere.

The chaos in the city was contained after Zhou Shixiang entered the city, and when it was discovered that the Zhenyu camp was massacring the civilians in the city, Zhou Shixiang immediately sent someone to recall Ge Zheng and ordered his Zhenyu camp to immediately take over the defense of the four gates and not to move in the city again.

However, Rao is Zhou Shixiang's quick reaction could not save the lives of thousands of people who had been killed by the earthquake camp, which made him blame himself very much afterwards. In the final analysis, the owner of this body is an authentic Xinhui person, and these people in the city who picked up their lives from the mouth of the Qing army are also his Zhou Shixiang's real villagers, and even some of them may have relatives and relatives, but he Zhou Shixiang took their lives as the conqueror of Xinhui City, which made him deeply blame himself, and at the same time realized that the addition of too many troops strengthened the strength of the Taiping Army, but at the same time, it also made the military discipline of the Taiping Army even more corrupt, after all, these soldiers were all veterans. Murder and robbery were commonplace for them, and it was almost impossible to expect them to be immediately bound by the military discipline of the Taiping army.

Strengthening his own strength in the way of coercion of the Liukou is the development model that Zhou Shixiang personally selected for the Taiping Army, but this does not mean that he really wants to build the Taiping Army into a Liukou-style team, especially if the army he built becomes the murderer of the city, if the Taiping Army will massacre the people every time it captures a place, what is the difference between this and the Qing Army, and why he claims to be a king, let alone be able to stabilize the foundation and gain the support of the people of Guangdong.

Those who have won the hearts of the people since ancient times have won the world. Although Zhou Shixiang did not dare to hope to win the world, he was never willing to lose the support of the people, when the Qing court had already occupied most of China. The support of the people is really the most important thing for the Taiping Army, which is still a seedling strictly speaking.

The Taiping Army must not become a rogue team, nor can it become an executioner who slaughters compatriots!

After scolding Ge Zheng to the point of blood. Zhou Shixiang ordered the Xiongwei Battalion and the Hujie Battalion to take over the task of encircling and hunting down the remnants of the Qing army in the city, while the Guards Battalion began to exercise military control in the territory already controlled by the Taiping Army.

Although the Xiongwei Battalion, the Hujie Battalion, and the Guards Battalion also had some bad deeds after entering the city, they were much better than the Zhenyu Battalion, and the biggest reason was that the green battalion at the head of the three battalions did not surrender much. Instead, he was able to effectively obey the orders of the officers and did not use his sword against the people.

After the Guards Battalion was ordered to take charge of the army, it immediately blockaded the areas already controlled by the Taiping Army, mainly blocking the streets and alleys, not allowing anyone to move, and not allowing the Taiping Army who were not from the Guards Battalion to loot and set fire to these places.

The bald Jiang and the hundred households of the guard battalion, although they are also authentic bandits like Ge Zheng, who is full of flesh, but compared with the former's temperament of not caring about anything once he kills him, the latter's consciousness is too high and his self-control is too strong. At least after Zhou Shixiang's order arrived, he led his troops to carry out the military order as soon as possible, instead of allowing his subordinates to behave in the city.

After the Xiongwei Battalion and the Hujie Battalion took over the search and suppression of the remnants of the Qing army. Soon launched a street by street search and arrest in Xinhui City, this kind of carpet-like search and arrest work, so that those Qing soldiers who wanted to hide in the houses could not hide at all, they were either forced to resist stubbornly, or handed over their weapons and surrendered, and some of them took off their uniforms and were directly tied up and escorted out by the people in the hiding place.

The massacre, mainly by the Taiping army, ended when the camp was transferred to Simen for defense, and although there were not many Taiping soldiers involved, more of them were the remnants of the Qing army.

After learning that Zheng Guodong, the general of Xinhui, had fled from the south gate, Zhou Shixiang did not send troops to pursue. In his eyes, these escaped Qing troops were no longer important, and what was important now was to completely stabilize the situation in Xinhui City. Then quickly rebuild the bombed city wall, where he was to defend against the incoming main force of the Qing army in Guangdong. Then beat them.

If you want to occupy a foothold in Xiangshan County, the premise is to strike at the main force of the Qing army in Guangzhou, so that they are unable to encircle and suppress the Taiping army, so that the Taiping army can gain a foothold in Xiangshan with peace of mind, otherwise, it will face the continuous attack of the Qing army in Guangzhou.

Since it is necessary to deal a certain blow to the Qing army in Guangzhou, it is better to use the captured Xinhui city to consume the strength of the Qing army in Guangzhou, turn Xinhui into a meat grinder like Verdun, and drain the blood of Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao together with the standard camp of Li Shutai, the governor of Guangdong, so that the main force of the Qing army will not be encircled and suppressed by the main force of the Qing army.

Moreover, Zhou Shixiang did not want to give up Xinhui City, Xinhui as the southern gate of Guangzhou has a unique geographical advantage, control Xinhui is equivalent to placing a nail under the nose of Guangzhou, but also can connect Xiangshan and western Guangdong, easy to contact with the Ming army of Lei, Lian, and Gaozhou.

Fighting alone was never what Zhou Shixiang expected, he wanted to suppress the Qing army with the help of the remnants of the Ming army in Guangdong, so it is of great strategic significance to retain Xinhui and control it, at least, controlling Xinhui City can inspire the Ming army in the west, hit the morale of the Qing army, and also allow the Taiping army to have room for advance and retreat, if Xiangshan really can't gain a foothold, the Taiping army can also retreat from Xinhui to western Guangdong, instead of being surrounded and killed in Xiangshan County by the Qing army that recaptured Xinhui

The day before yesterday, when my father-in-law went to the grave on the third anniversary, my wife wrestled and miscarried on a battery car, because the road was a mess by the contracted fields. The bones are still not demolished, but today there are cadres who contact me and want me to demolish it, depending on the situation, it has been here for three years, and it is really not good to sign it, and it is estimated that I can give more or less 30,000 or 20,000 yuan, although I only gave my house an assessment of 90,000 yuan (non-commercial demolition, together with the homestead). I can't hold it anymore, now the hardware conditions in all aspects of this piece are not good, considering that my son will study in the future, I should take a step back, and talk to them the day after tomorrow. (To be continued)