The Taiping Army's Xin'er Town was ordered to attack Xingguofu, which was located in the northeast of Ganzhou. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Zhu Qinglai, the general of Info Town, personally led a brigade of soldiers to break through the five wooden cities set up by Kang Qingquan, the defender of the Qing Xingguo, and captured more than 1,000 Qing soldiers. At noon on the 24th, the Taiping army advanced to five or six miles away from Xingguo City, Kang Qingquan waved his army to meet the battle, but was defeated by the Taiping army and retreated into the city. The next day, the Taiping army began to attack the city, when the torrential rain in the upper reaches caused the river to swell and make it impossible to cross. Zhu Qinglai then ordered to dig and plant piles outside the west and north gates and on the dry road at the south gate to prevent the Qing army from breaking through.

suffered a crushing defeat, lost contact with Nanchang and Ji'an, rejuvenated the country in a lonely city, and the Qing army was unstable. The Taiping army besieged the city for only two days, and the Qing army collapsed, and fled across the river from the east gate at night and day. The Taiping army occupied Xingguo City, and Zhang Tianwen, the prefect of Qingxingguo, surrendered by himself. Zhu Qinglai ordered Zhang Tianwen to remain the prefect of Xingguo, and ordered the people to be reinforced, leaving hundreds of troops to the town, and the rest of the troops took advantage of the situation to follow the pursuit of the Qing army and launched an offensive in the direction of Ningdu.

The defeated and fleeing Qing army was a guest army in the north, and there was no concept of the land in their hometown, and on the way to escape, they actually caused a lot of harm to the people. At this time, the Ming and Qing dynasties competed, the world was not quiet, and people with a little wealth buried their gold and silver treasures and took them out when the world was peaceful. When the people in some places saw the Qing army coming, they did not think that the Qing army was defeated but fled, and they were afraid of the prestige of the Qing army in the past, and they offered food one after another, but they did not want the Qing army to arrest the people, torture who had money, and then put the rich people on the fire to roast, if the bitter lord refused to hand over the hidden money, he was roasted alive. Some obese people often die with a lot of oil, which is extremely disgusting and miserable.

In addition to torturing and extorting money, the Qing army also abducted women, and all the women who had a little appearance in the people's homes were taken captive, or taken to remote places for sexual shame, or in front of their fathers and brothers. When the Qing army was defeated and fled for their lives, they robbed the boat, simply tied the snatched woman to the boat, and messed around on the boat day and night. If the robbed women weep a little, they will immediately cut off their heads.

Tens of thousands of people in the two places spontaneously cut their braids, or besieged the county government, or guided the Taiping army, or ambushed the Qing army on the road, or provided intelligence for the Taiping army, so that the new two towns marched quickly, and went down to six county seats in a few days.

The atrocities of the Qing army in Xingguo and Ningdu reached the ears of Zhou Shixiang, who was commanding the attack on Ji'an City, and he wrote a warrant on the spot, ordering all Qing troops belonging to Xingguo and Ningdu not to surrender. After receiving the warrant, Zhu Qinglai, who was in charge of attacking Xingguo, Ningdu, Guangchang and other places, immediately ordered that all the more than 600 Qing troops who had been captured and captured be killed, and at the same time ordered that the looted property of the captured Qing army be returned to the bitter master, and the women were also returned, which won the support of the people.

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Yongning County belongs to Ji'an Prefecture, due to the order of the Admiral's Office, the original county town of the Green Battalion Yong 400 soldiers moved to the capital city to help defend against the southern Cantonese bandits. The defense of the city is filled by the young and strong villagers recruited by the county governor, and the specific defense of the city is responsible for the general washing of the thousand troops.

On this day, Guan Zhi County held a banquet in the back hall of the county government to invite the gentry in the city to discuss the matter of raising food and wages, but some soldiers defending the city bravely came to report, saying that a large group of battalions from Ziyongxin County had come and were making a noise to enter the city.

To the east of Yongning is Yongxin, how did Yongqin's soldiers come to Yongning? Could it be that Yongxin has been lost?

Guan Zhixian and the washing were always taken aback, and the gentry in the county were also all discolored. Everyone knew that the stakes were high, so they immediately gathered around the county magistrate to take a look at the city to see if it was really the rout of Yongxin from the east.

After everyone went up to the city, they saw that there were two or three hundred soldiers of the green battalion who were making noise under the city. The soldiers were in tatters, many of them were wearing bandages and were obviously wounded, and most of them had no weapons in their hands. Seeing that the defenders of the city did not open the city gate, these battalion soldiers were furious and scolded their father and mother.

Hearing these battalion soldiers scolding badly, the gentry couldn't help frowning, but Guan Zhixian didn't care about this, leaned out and stretched out his head and asked loudly, "Where are you from?" ”

"Yongxin!"

Is it really a soldier who is forever new?

Guan Zhixian's heart suddenly, looked at it carefully, and asked again: "Where are you Yang Qian?" ”

The Yang Qian that Guan Yongchao said in his mouth was Yang Xiaozhong, the nephew of Yang Wenyuan, the general soldier of Ji'an. Stained with the light of his uncle, Yang Xiaozhong was appointed as a thousand commanders at a young age, and when Guan Yongchao went to Fucheng on business in March, he had a meal with Lu Zhifu, and Yang Xiaozhong was on the banquet. Although Yang Xiaozhong is said to be a military attaché, he is quite elegant, very good at reading, and respects scholars, and every year he pays out of his own pocket to support students from poor families in the county to go to school, so he is quite well received by the gentry and the people. Guan Zhixian and Yang Xiaozhong had a friendship on several occasions, and when they heard that the city was a soldier of Yongxin, they wanted to ask about Yang Xiaozhong's whereabouts.

Listening to the shouts from the city, the general of the city walked out of the crowd, craned his neck and shouted: "On the city, Taiping Kou has entered Yongxin City, Yang Qian always called the thief to kill, the thief blocked the road to Ji'an, we have nowhere to run, so we retreated to your Yongning..... Hurry up and open the city gate and let me in, otherwise there will be no one to help you defend the city when the Taiping Kou comes, they can chase after you, and it won't take long to call! ”

Taiping Kou Ben Yongning is here?!

Guan Zhixian and the gentry were all taken aback, and the two timid gentry were even more frightened and their legs weakened, and they almost fell to the ground. The soldiers in the city were all discolored when they heard this, and their cheeks trembled badly.

Guan Zhi County is very panicked, there are not many garrison battalions in the county, a few days ago, the general soldier transferred most of them with a paper order, and now there are more than 200 soldiers left, if it is not for the urgent recruitment of more than 1,000 young people to go to the city to assist in the defense, I am afraid that there are not many people in the city. He burns incense every day in the hope that the Buddha will bless him, and the Taiping Kou will go to the capital and provincial capital, don't worry about his small place, who would have thought that the Buddha would not bless him, and the Taiping Kou who killed that day still came. I was very panicked, but Guan Zhixian still cheered up, stabilized his mind, and asked the general officer: "How many people are here in Taipingkou?" ”

"Who knows, I'm waiting for the patronage to flee for my life, who dares to turn around and investigate... However, it is estimated that there are no less than a thousand people. "That guy always looked impatient.

More than a thousand?

Guan Zhixian's face was hard to see, if there were not many Taiping Kou who came, he mobilized the whole city to defend together, and he could always hold out. But there are no less than a thousand people this time, and I'm afraid that this little manpower in the city can't withstand it.

Seeing that the city was patronizing and asking questions, and did not open the door to let them in, he couldn't help but be anxious, and shouted: "What are you rubbing about, let us into the city quickly, if Taiping Kou calls, I can still help defend the city." ”

Hearing this, a gentry suddenly shook their heads, "County Zun, you can't let them in, this soldier who has suffered a defeat can't be trusted!" ”

When the others heard this, they all echoed it after thinking about it, and did not agree to let these Yongxin defeated soldiers into the city, because they were afraid that these defeated soldiers would rob and cause chaos after entering the city, and the consequences would be not much worse than that of the Taiping Kou. In these years, as long as you are not a local soldier, you can't believe it. The general wash Qianjun didn't have any ideas, so he looked at Guan Zhixian and listened to his decision.

Guan Zhixian was very hesitant and silent. Seeing that there was no response from the city, the Yongxin soldiers outside the city were also anxious, constantly shouting and urging. The soldiers guarding the city naturally did not dare to open the city without the order of the county master.

After pondering for a long time, Guan Zhixian made up his mind, gritted his teeth and instructed the general manager: "Open the door and let them in." ”

Mr. Xi Qian hesitated for a moment and said, "The county is not afraid that these routs will be chaotic?" ”

Guan Zhixian shook his head and said: "They are tired and scarred, how can they have the intention to make trouble?" Besides, they are all officers and soldiers of the imperial court, and as an official of the imperial court, how can I refuse them from the door. "There is one thing that Guan Zhixian did not say explicitly, he was afraid that if he did not let these soldiers in, in case he asked someone to play the governor's yamen, he would not be able to eat and leave.

When the gentry saw that the county lord had decided, they did not dare to oppose it anymore. So the general Xiqian ordered someone to open the city gate, and the two or three hundred Yongxin soldiers outside the city immediately rushed into the city excitedly like seeing a savior. Fortunately, the routs were honest when they entered the city, and the robbery that the gentry feared did not happen. Guan Zhixian asked the general manager to place these defeated soldiers in the barracks, and less than half an hour later, the sound of horses' hooves was heard far away outside the city, and the dust swept up in the air.

There are really a lot of Taiping Kou who came, there are hundreds of cavalry alone, and the rest are infantry troops, and I am afraid that there are one or two thousand people. These Taiping soldiers did not immediately begin to attack the city after they arrived at the city, but shot several letters of persuasion into the city, the first few were kind words, but the last one was a threat to surrender without opening the city, and after the city was broken, they asked the city Chinese military officials and their entire families to kill them all.

A group of gentry were frightened, and some people persuaded Guan Zhixian to surrender in Kaicheng, but Guan Zhixian gritted his teeth and would rather die than surrender to the thief. The general who led the troops received a lot of benefits from Guanzhi County on weekdays, and his whole family was in Ji'an Mansion, so he didn't dare to surrender. He was afraid that if he surrendered, his entire family would be killed by the Qing army.

In order to stabilize people's hearts, but also to motivate the young and strong people to be brave, Guan Zhi County opened a treasury, took out all the tax silver that had just been collected in the county, plus some money raised by the gentry, and gave each soldier a reward of ten taels of silver.

In the middle of the night, something suddenly happened in the city. There were dozens of people lighting fires everywhere in the city, and in an instant, the fire was in the sky, the wind helped the fire, the city burned to pieces, and the defenders on the city head were immediately in chaos! After a while, the Yongxin battalion soldiers who were put into the city during the day rushed to the city gate to seize the city, they killed the Yongning soldiers and young men who were defending the city, stepped on their corpses to open the city gate, and put the Taiping Kou who had been waiting outside the city into the city.

When the accident happened, Guan Zhi County was discussing the defense of the city tomorrow with Cheng Lin Yuankang of the county, the general wash Qianjun and others, and had to report that the Yongxin soldiers who were put in turned out to be the internal response of the Taiping Kou, and Guan Zhi County regretted that his intestines were blue. But at this point, there is nothing he can do but die to repay the king.

Guan Zhixian was desperate to find his wife in the back hall and prepared to hang himself, but Lin Yuankang, the county Chenglin, and the general manager of the wash took people to organize soldiers to fight against the Taiping army.

"Long-haired bandits, I'll fight with you!"

Although Lin Yuankang, who was powerless in Yongxin County, was scared to death, he bravely waved a long sword and bravely rushed towards the Taiping army with the old servants at home.

"Am I not as weak as a scholar!"

The general wash of thousands of troops was moved by Lin Yuankang's loyalty, and led his subordinates to fight with the Taiping army without their lives. However, although they were heroic, they were outnumbered after all, and the city was already full of Taiping troops, so how could they turn the tide if the so-called general trend had gone. In just a moment's effort, the chief of washing and his own soldiers were chopped into meat sauce by the Taiping army.

Lin Yuankang was still desperate with the Taiping army after several knives in his body, although he tried to swing his sword to kill the Taiping army, but he couldn't hurt anyone, and those Taiping soldiers deliberately teased him, and after he was exhausted, he rushed up and hacked him to death. Guan Zhixian didn't die, in the final analysis, he was still afraid of death. The moment the rope was put around his neck, his heart softened, so he was tied by the Taiping army and sent to see their main general.

The main general of the Taiping army did not enter the city, but was at the city gate. When Guan Zhixian was escorted to the city gate, he found that the Yongxin defeated soldiers he had put in during the day were there, and the general who deceived him was also there.

The general did not ask for credit and reward for himself in front of the Taiping army commander, but pulled the braid at the back of his head and shouted at his subordinates: "What kind of braid does a good man have!" Then he took a dagger and cut off his own braids, and his men did the same, and everyone yelled and cut off the braids at the back of their heads.

The general of the Taiping Army saw Guan Zhi County, who was escorted over, and asked his subordinates who this person was, and after learning that it was Yongning Zhi County, the general waved his hand impatiently and said to his subordinates: "Bai Ri said that if he didn't surrender, he would kill his whole family, what did you bring people over?" ”

(To be continued.) )