Li Fuguo was the first to be brought to Zhou Shixiang, and so far, this is the third green camp Qianzong that Zhou Shixiang has ever seen. The first two are Kong Guoliang, the thousand general manager of the green battalion stationed in Luoding Prefecture, and Li Deming, the thousand general manager of the green battalion stationed in Sihui County. The fate of these two thousand generals was very bad, the former was cut off by Zhou Shixiang, and the latter was stabbed with a spear by a captain of the Taiping Battalion. As for the fate of this third thousand, it is difficult to say.

"Humble Li Fuguo is willing to surrender, and I hope that the general will spare his next life!"

Li Fuguo was still in good clothes when he was brought over, and there were no injuries on his body, except that the whole person's mental state was extremely bad, and he couldn't see any difference in his appearance on a peaceful day. On the way to be escorted, he was observing the Taiping camp, and when he was brought to Zhou Shixiang, he saw that the Ming army on the left and right was very respectful to Zhou, and immediately realized that this person was the commander of this Ming army, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Zhou Shixiang to beg to live.

Although his plea for mercy was very hoarse, in Zhou Shixiang's opinion, it was nothing new, but Li Fuguo's sincerity in begging for mercy was much stronger than that of Zhao Shiyu, the new general Zhao Shiyu, at least he was really begging for mercy with a handful of snot and tears, rather than bargaining from time to time in the process of begging for mercy like Zhao Shiyu, as if the second steward of the Jingnan palace he tied up was really a baby.

Thinking of the second steward of the Jingnan Palace, who was put back by himself, Zhou Shixiang couldn't help but have some reverie, not knowing how the second steward would raise the materials he needed, and when he would ask himself to exterminate Xiong Yingfu and the others in Zhaoqing, lest his master Geng Jimao know that he was a slave and flayed him alive.

What to do with Xiang Er, Zhou Shixiang can't control it, anyway, he has Xiong Yingfu and others in hand, if Xiang Er is not interested in thinking that escaping from the Taiping camp will be far away from the emperor, and the Taiping camp can't do anything about him, then Zhou Shixiang has to let him know what life is better than death. Although his hands are not long enough to reach Guangzhou, there is a way for Geng Jimao to solve this untrustworthy guy for him, and he is happy to come to Jingnan to peel his own slave alive. But after so many days, I have to send someone to remind the second steward Xiang, lest this guy really think that the Taiping Camp has forgotten him.

When Zhou Shixiang's thoughts turned from Guangzhou to his eyes, Li Fuguo's voice was almost hoarse, and when he saw that the other party was slow to express his position, and was gritting his teeth and deciding to kowtow a few more times, Zhou Shixiang finally spoke, but did not say that he wanted to spare him, but only asked him: "When did the Han army flag come from Gaoyao City, and why did they come?" ”

"This"

Li Fuguo's falling head stopped abruptly when he heard the sound, and then raised his head and said with a bitter face: "Back to the general's words, the Han military flag is the city that rings at noon, and I didn't know that they would come before, as for why they came, the humble is just a green battalion officer, and I really can't control or ask them, so I don't know." ”

In the dark?

Zhou Shixiang groaned slightly, and did not scold Li Fuguo for prevaricating and not reporting, but asked him: "Who is leading this Han army flag, and besides them, can there be other banner soldiers or green battalions nearby?" ”

"The commander of the army is Xiang Guoqing, the leader of the blue flag, and he doesn't know about this person, only that he is a person brought by the king of Jingnan from Liaodong. As for whether there are other flag soldiers nearby, this humble person thinks that there should be none, if there is, he will note the lowly, and the green battalion of other prefectures and counties can ignore it, and the flag soldier must be placed in a good place, otherwise, there will be no good fruit to eat. ”

Li Fuguo did not hide anything in his words, but honestly confessed, he knew that if he didn't say it, someone else would say it, so that the general of the Ming army asked from the mouth of others, it was better to say it himself, so that there would be more chances to save his life.

Zhou Shixiang did have the intention of interrogating the others, and after Li Fuguo finished speaking, he waved his hand and ordered the soldiers: "Take this person down first." ”

"Yes, Chiho!"

At that moment, a soldier came up to pull Li Fuguo, Li Fuguo was stunned for a moment, he didn't know whether Zhou Shixiang would spare him or not, and when he was hesitating, he saw Zhou Shixiang nodding at him slightly, and then showed a little smile, and suddenly felt at ease, and it seemed that most of the generals would not want their lives. There is hope in his heart, Li Fuguo also knows the truth of accepting it when he sees it, he is afraid that if he stays any longer, he will let this general be an eyesore, so he is busy and honestly going down with the soldiers, and on the way, he is even more glad that he did not fight to the end, otherwise he will only be afraid that he will become a corpse.

After Li Fuguo was dragged down, Zhou Shixiang ordered someone to bring a few green battalion soldiers, including Li Fuguo's personal soldiers and a general, and the situation explained by several people was not wrong with what Li Fuguo said, and they all said that they didn't know why the Han military flag came.

The green camp couldn't ask about the situation, Zhou Shixiang could only go to mention the surrender of the Han army flag to ask, after all, the sudden appearance of this Han army flag made his nerves tense all the time, if he couldn't figure out why this Han army flag came, this high city would not be a safe place. Soldiers, murderous things, one carelessness is a catastrophe.

There were no officers among the bannermen who surrendered, but after interrogating a few bannermen, Zhou Shixiang still figured out why this blue-flaged Han army appeared in Gaoyao City. Unlike what he feared in advance, the Han army flag Xiang Guoqing was not sent to Zhaoqing from Guangzhou to encircle and suppress the Taiping camp, and even this Han army flag had never even heard the word Taiping camp, and the reason why they ran from the provincial capital to Gaoyao City was entirely because of what happened in Leizhou recently.

Half a month ago, that is, when the Taiping Camp had just drilled out of Yunwu Mountain to Xinxing Town, something big happened in Leizhou Mansion. Although nominally the Southern Ming court set up the governors of Gao, Lian, Lei, and Qiong, except for Gaozhou and Qiongzhou, which were controlled by the Ming army, most of Leizhou and Lianzhou were not owned by the Ming army, but were occupied by the Qing army.

Because the counties under the jurisdiction of Leizhou Prefecture are mostly close to the sea, and the Qing army does not have a naval division in Guangdong, the coastal Ming army can use the naval division to launch an attack on the Qing army. Chen Qice, the general of Linghai appointed by the Southern Ming Dynasty, led his troops to echo Li Dingguo's eastward advance last year, and two months ago he led his troops to the Leizhou Peninsula, and half a month ago he even attacked Xuwen County, which was heavily guarded by the Green Battalion, and captured Gao Youyi, the general soldier of Leizhou appointed by the Qing court.

When the news reached Guangzhou, Li Shutai, the governor of Liangguang, who had just pacified the Ming army in Xiangshan, Dongguan, Shunde and other counties, immediately requested the Han army under the command of the two feudal domains of Pingnan and Jingnan to transfer a section to Leizhou to ensure the safety of Haikang County, the capital of Leizhou, and wait for an opportunity to exterminate Chen Qice's army.

Pingnan Shang Kexi and Jingnan Geng Jimao did not care about Leizhou affairs, and the two kings only wanted to secure the rich Guangzhou and Chaoshan regions, so they did not want to send troops to Leizhou at all. But Li Shutai again and again, again and again asked the two kings to send the Han army to Leizhou, and also asked the two kings to send one each, "it is best to have thousands of soldiers", but Li Shutai's requirements and backstage, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao discussed, with Chaoshan just pacified the situation is not stable, and Li Dingguo's army has just withdrawn from Guangdong for only a few months, I don't know if it will wave its troops to the east again, so most of the Han army in Guangzhou can not be lightly transferred to the name of other parties, and Geng Jimao reluctantly sent more than 300 banner soldiers to Leizhou to assist the local green battalion to fight.

When Xiang Guoqing swaggered to Gaoyao City with more than 300 banner soldiers under his command and was about to sack the people in the city, he happened to encounter the Taiping camp that came all the way, and the result became the current situation.

As long as it wasn't for the Taiping Camp, Zhou Shixiang, who understood the situation, was relieved, although he led the front camp to try his best to make a big splash in Zhaoqing Mansion, but the real purpose was to ensure that the rear camp could safely march to Xiangshan, not really to attract the main force of the Qing army to come and compete with the Taiping Camp.

The sailor of Chen Qice, the general of Linghai in Leizhou, also entered Zhou Shixiang's sight for the first time, but the other party was a general appointed by the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the sailor had a large number of soldiers, but it was not something that he could recruit as a fake thousand households, and he could solve the Han army flag of Xiang Guoqing for him, which could be regarded as a relationship, and he would be able to use it if he had the opportunity in the future.

Qin Zhisheng came over and asked: "Qianhu, do you still dispose of these captives according to the previous example?" ”

The so-called precedent refers to the new old thing. The Taiping Battalion's approach to dealing with the newly surrendered Green Battalion was to retain troops but not officers, and to kill officers and surrender them.

After Zhou Shixiang thought about it, he instructed him: "If you don't follow the precedent, you will take people to escort all the flag soldiers and the green battalion to Dongcheng." ”

Hopefully, the theft of the author's number this time was a fortuitous event.