Seven days before the Chinese New Year, Zhang An, the ambassador of the Military Intelligence Department appointed by Zhou Shixiang in Luoding, secretly arrived in Zhiren Houfang in Xiangshan County from Guangzhou. When he arrived, Zhou Shixiang was not in the city, but led the guard battalion to the former cottage in Ning'andu. The Taiping army stayed behind in Renhoufang was Ge Yi's Zhenyu camp, and the person in charge of civil affairs in the city was Liao Ruixiang, the new magistrate of Xiangshan County.

The Taiping army captured Zhiren Houfang in Xiangshan County on 14 November, and in this battle, it killed more than 200 people under Zhou Mazi, the commander of the Xiangshan Green Battalion, and captured more than 500 battalion soldiers and people, and also captured alive Sun Quanzheng, the magistrate of Xiangshan County, appointed by the Qing court. However, this Sun Zhixian is much more backbone than Guo Shao, the ambassador of the Salt Patrol Station who was captured in Liangzi, not only refused to surrender after being captured, but also scolded the Taiping Army in every possible way, and was even more a "thief showman" to Zhou Shixiang, so angry that Zhou Shixiang ordered someone to drag him outside the city and bury him alive.

After seizing Renhoufang, Zhou Shixiang left Geyi's Zhenyu camp to defend the county seat, and Tie Yi's trapping camp went east to capture Yongle, Changle and other fangs belonging to Xiangshan, and tried to get in touch with the remnants of the Ming Dynasty who were hiding in Wutong Mountain, Qiniang Mountain and other mountainous areas, and tried to incorporate these anti-Qing heroes. Qi Hao's artillery battalion was inconvenient to move and the gunners were not well trained, so Zhou Shixiang asked him to lead his troops to be stationed in Deqingfang, not far from Renhoufang, for training, so that he could play a huge role in the later battles. Zhou Shixiang himself led the guard battalion to capture the former cottage of Ning'an Capital.

Qianshanzhai is the first year of the Great Ming Dynasty by the Guangdong governor Yamen in the territory of Xiangshan set up the walled city, at the same time the village and the garrison of the general's office, this village is not only a military fortress, but also the Ming Dynasty Guangdong local management of Macao and Qianshan administrative and diplomatic affairs of the yamen. In this regard, Zhou Shixiang privately wrote another title in his letter to Song Xianggong, that is, Zhuhai.

Soon after the Qing army captured Guangzhou, the Qianshanzhai was occupied by the Qing army, because the Qianshanzhai had the authority to manage the affairs of Macao, and the Qing court regarded itself as the successor of the Ming regime, so the Yamen, the governor of Guangdong, did not demolish the Qianshanzhai, but continued to send troops to garrison it. However, it is not the general of the former Ming Dynasty, but the general manager of Qian, and it is no longer under the management of Xiangshan, but under the direct management of the Guangzhou government.

Chen Shiqi, the head of the green camp stationed in the former cottage, led his troops to participate in the defense of Xiangshan County, and after the city was broken, he led more than 100 remnants to flee back to the former cottage. After knowing that the Taiping army was approaching the front cottage, Chen Shiqi knew that he was invincible, so he ordered someone to burn all the documents in the village, and led his subordinates to flee to Lingdingyang by boat, preparing to escape back to Guangzhou from the Pearl River. He fled. The Taiping army captured the former cottage without a single battle and without losing a single pawn.

After seizing the former cottage, Zhou Shixiang was originally scheduled to immediately contact the Macao Franc Jiren, but because the Taiping army was advancing too quickly in occupying Xiangshan, the distance between the various departments was too long, and there were still small groups of Qing army stragglers in the countryside, and the communication between various places was unstable, so Zhou Shixiang did not immediately send people to Macao, but ordered each battalion to send troops to the countryside to clear the Qing army. In addition, recruit troops to expand the Taiping army.

Since the crossing of the river on the 10th day of November, the process of the Taiping army seizing Xiangshan has been smooth, and the large-scale battles have taken place in the northern part of Liangzidu, in addition to capturing Zhiren Houfang in Xiangshan County. This battle also made Zhou Shixiang and the Taiping Army refresh their understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Qing army's green battalion.

In the first battle of Yinbeizui Mountain, the Taiping army actually dispatched only Shao Chengguo's department, which was ordered to the north to guard the Qing army in Zengcheng, and the department only had 46 cavalry who could barely gallop on horseback. The opponent rushed from Zengcheng to rescue the green battalion of Liangzidu, with as many as 1,200 people.

Before the battle began, the scouts sent by Shao Chengguo discovered the green camp hurrying from Zengcheng. At first, Shao Chengguo did not have the idea of taking the initiative to attack the Green Battalion, because the difference in strength between the enemy and us was too great, but just as he was about to drive his horse to send this information back. However, when he found that the formation of the Zengcheng Green Battalion that came to help was very disordered, the team of more than 1,000 people dragged four or five miles long, and the guerrilla attack with the troops was not on horseback but on a sedan chair carried by four people, Shao Chengguo changed his mind.

When the Qing army was almost halfway through the Silver Bottle Pass, Shao Chengguo rushed towards the Qing army with his subordinates, who were full of strength but still very afraid. Shao Chengguo, who suddenly rushed out, frightened the Qing army, and even more frightened the guerrilla of the leading soldiers, and a ridiculous scene appeared, when the Taiping army had not yet rushed close to the Qing army, the green battalion guerrilla who led the troops jumped off the sedan chair, and then ran desperately towards the way they came without looking back.

The Lord will run, and the consequences are unknown. The final result was that except for half of the Qing army running away, the rest of the Qing soldiers knelt down and surrendered to Shao Chengguo, who had only 40 people, and this scene frightened Shao Guocheng, who was still bold just now. However, Shao Chengguo's worries were obviously excessive, until the trap camp who rushed to take over the prisoners after hearing the news, nearly 600 Qing army prisoners had no one in nearly an hour.

More than 40 people defeated more than 1,000 people, and captured half of the other party, this record made Zhou Shixiang and the 100 households and 100 households dumbfounded. After the interrogation, it was learned that the original Green Battalion soldiers stationed in Zengcheng were adapted from the original Nanhai Weiming Army, and the guerrilla leaders were also the thousands of households of the original Nanhai Wei. In the past, when they were in Nanhaiwei, they specialized in farming and fishing for the officers of Weili, and none of them had ever fought on the battlefield, not even in the battle to exterminate pirates. After the Qing army occupied Guangzhou, the peasants and fishermen of Nanhaiwei did not dare to resist at all, so they surrendered the Qing army under the leadership of the Weili officer, and were reorganized into the green battalion soldiers stationed in Zengcheng. After Ma Yulong of Liangzidu learned that the Taiping Army was advancing towards Liangzidu, in addition to asking for help from Xiangshan, he sent someone to Zengcheng to report the news.

After receiving the news that Liangzi had been invaded by the Ming army, Zengcheng Green Camp Qianzong, that is, the original Nanhai Wei Qianhu Jiang Shuangxi thought that the attack on Liangzidu was just a small group of stragglers of the Ming army, so he held the idea of meritorious service and killed all the soldiers and horses towards Liangzi. Because of his fatness, Jiang Shuangxi couldn't ride a horse, and he was so tired that he was panting when he rode a horse, so he traveled in a four-person sedan chair, and the carriage couldn't do it, because it was too bumpy, and his old man couldn't stand it. If it weren't for the loyalty of a few of his own family members to protect the master, and a few people carried him away, I am afraid that Jiang Guerrilla would most likely become a prisoner.

Jiang Shuangxi, an incompetent Zengcheng guerrilla, naturally did not interest Zhou Shixiang, he was interested in how many of the original Ming army of Guangdong had been reorganized into the green battalion of the Qing army. (To be continued.) )