There are too many possibilities in the world, and Guo Kuoyu, the governor of Biyuan who was single-handedly promoted by Hong Chengchou, turned into a hero who led the military and people of Yuanzhou anyway, and then under his "persuasion", Xiao Hanying, the prefect of Chenzhou, and Zhang Xueren, the prefect of Changde, also responded to the call for restoration of sight and led the military and civilians of Chenzhou and Changde to return anyway.

So far, dozens of Manchu officials have been added to the list of Manchu officials who have returned from the Taiping Army "anyway", among which the heavier ones are Zhang Zhaotao of Hunan Province, Guo Wanxiang, Baoqing Prefect, Feng Heng, Baojing Prefecture, Zhao Jideng, and others, and other Green Battalion generals such as Yuanzhou General Guo Yong, Chenzhou General Ruan Qing, and Baojing Deputy General Chang Tianxiao also surrendered to the Taiping Army.

During the Guilin military discussion, the town general Zhao Ziqiang once said that the Qing army in Hunan was vulnerable, and the Taiping army could encircle Hunan. The facts are also true as Zhao Ziqiang said: When more than 30,000 officers and men of the Taiping Army broke through from Huaiyuan, Guangxi, to Jingzhou, Hunan, on 13 October and seized the passage into Guizhou, the main force of the Qing army in Hunan, which had gone to Yunnan with the five provinces via Liuhong Chengchou, was overwhelmed by the Taiping Army's troops and was completely irresistible.

On the 17th, the sixth town of the Taiping Army captured the capital city of Jingzhou, and then the troops marched into the meeting and cut off Yingkouyi, another important road into Guizhou. Yang Shiying, the prefect of Qingjing Prefecture, did not dare to resist the Taiping army, and led the remnants of 1,000 soldiers to retreat to Qianyang County. Later, when he heard that the Taiping army was killing Qianyang, Yang Shiying was so frightened that he abandoned Qianyang City and fled to Suining. After only staying overnight in Suining County, Yang Shiying felt uneasy, and hurriedly retreated to Chengbu, sixty miles south of Suining.

The sixth town general of the Taiping Army, Suna, sent the deputy general Eduo to lead a brigade of soldiers in hot pursuit, and finally surrounded Yang Shiying in the city. After being besieged, Yang Shiying had no hope of defending the city, there was no hope of breaking through, and in desperation, he actually hanged himself on the hanging beam of the county office. After his death, Sun Daquan, the general of the Jingzhou Green Battalion, who fled to the city with Yang Shiying, knew that he was not an opponent of the Taiping army, so he led people to open the city gate and surrender to the Taiping army.

The sixth town was ordered to garrison Jingzhou, with a brigade of soldiers to attack Guizhou to contain the Qing army in Guizhou, with a brigade stationed at Yingkouyi, and to drive the troops to destroy the official road leading to Guizhou together with more than 20,000 people. Trenches are dug in wide places, and narrow places are blocked with medicinal rocks. In addition, watchtowers and blockhouses were built on the slopes on both sides of the dangerous places, so that the people cut down more than ten miles of woods, some of which were used to make rolling wood, and some of which were transported to Yingkouyi for the construction of watchtower fortifications.

In order to build fortifications before the Qing army returned north in Guizhou, Suna, the general of the sixth town, spared no effort and ordered the soldiers to surrender and the people to work day and night, and finally built dozens of miles of official roads leading from Yingkou to Guizhou into a dreaded defense line at the cost of more than 4,000 casualties. If the Qing army wanted to break through this defensive line, tens of thousands of people would have to die.

In addition, according to the requirements of the military department, Suna organized the young and strong people who surrendered and requisitioned into an army, issued captured weapons, and expanded the three brigades on the basis of the C brigade. They were stationed in various counties in Jingzhou to maintain local law and order, purge the remnants of the Qing army, and recruit and suppress the Tusi forces that cooperated with the Qing army.

In order to provoke the surrender of troops and the young and strong, Suna ordered the brigades to wantonly "persuade food" to the gentry and large households in the territory, and seventy percent of the proceeds were handed over to the town department, and the remaining brigades left a reward. Under the stimulation of this order, the three brigades of soldiers hastily formed by surrendered troops and civilian men set off a bloody storm in Jingzhou, and the Tusi armed forces, which had originally changed their attitude to cooperate with the Ming army, also turned hostile to the Taiping army and constantly attacked and harassed the Taiping army's strongholds.

When Zhou Shixiang was leading the army to attack Chenzhou and Changde in the north, Suna took matters into his own hands and issued a massacre order, ordering all ministries to "kill, burn, and rob" the natives in the territory of the gathering area, which made the natives in Xiangxi cry and shook the four fields.

After hearing the absurdity of Suna in Jingzhou, Zhou Shixiang, who was far away in Changde, immediately ordered Suna to stop the Sanguang Order and turn to appease Tusi in the territory. But the premise of appeasement is that the Tusi must lead his people out of the mountains, select young and strong people to serve in the Taiping Army, and at the same time learn Chinese characters, speak Chinese, and change his name from Han customs.

Zhou Shixiang also ordered that if the local official did not accept Wang Hua, he could send someone to contact the people under the local official, promise a heavy reward, and they would kill the Tusi. When the matter is completed, the official is appointed, and the natives and Han people of the ministry are generally protected by the Taiping Army and can participate in the division of land and production.

For the local officials who had cooperated with the Qing army to attack the Ming army and massacre the Han people, Zhou Shixiang strictly ordered that there should be no forgiveness, and if it was inconvenient for the sixth town to use troops, the local officials could be encircled and suppressed. If the matter is completed, all the property of the local official will be owned by the local official who is encircled and suppressed, and at the same time, he can be promoted to the rank of secretary.

For the demotion, Zhou Shixiang as before bold use, all the city to vote, are entrusted to the original, there are the Qing court to grant the title, the Taiping army is still making a book, to be awarded the same or promoted to the Ming Dynasty title in the future.

The surrendered troops must be dispersed and used, and the generals must be appointed by another battalion, and this principle must not be shaken by Zhou Shixiang's strict order.

After the rebuilding of the local government offices, the first thing to do is to count the Dingkou for future reference; the second is to collect money and food for military use; the third is to reassure the people, in order to be stable; Fourth, it is necessary to recruit displaced people, persuade refugees to return, and resume production.

When the Sixth Town was purged in Jingzhou and set off a bloody storm, the Ninth Town, which was weaker in combat effectiveness, besieged Yuanzhou with the artillery town and cavalry brigade. The second town crossed Yuanzhou and marched towards Chenzhou.

On the 21st, the cavalry brigade of the Taiping Army attacked Hongjiang, Huaihua, and Yuanshui three stations, killing more than 500 Qing soldiers stationed in the garrison, and then surrounded the capital city of Yuanzhou before the Qing army could react. The Ninth Town and the First Division of the Artillery Town followed suit. On the 24th, the Taiping Army artillery town shelled the capital city of Yuanzhou. At the same time, the first battle of Wuzhou was promoted to the commander of the same knowledge of the horse harrier Wang Fu. The cavalry led by the minister burned the two posts of Benshui and Huangzhou west of Yuanzhou, and killed more than 300 post soldiers of the Qing army stationed in the garrison.

After the Taiping army besieged the city and began shelling, Guo Kuoyu, the governor of Yuanzhou and a protégé of Hong Chengqiu, immediately made a decision, knowing that it would be difficult for him to resist the Taiping army with cannons with only more than 3,000 soldiers in the city, so he led the city's Chinese military officials to return to Ming anyway, so as not to accompany his family to bury him after the city was destroyed.

Anyway, Zhou Shixiang was overjoyed, and still appointed Guo Kuoyu as the governor of Biyuan, and ordered more than 3,000 defenders of Yuanzhou to go out of the city to accept the reorganization of the Taiping Army. The ninth town and the first part of the artillery town were stationed in Yuanzhou, and on the one hand, the Qing army near Yuanzhou was cleared, and on the other hand, the people were requisitioned like Jingzhou to block the official road from Yuanzhou to Guizhou.

After Guo Kuoyu, the governor of Biyuan, anyway, he asked his colleagues to persuade Xiao Hanying, the prefect of Chenzhou, and Zhang Xueren, the prefect of Changde, to surrender, and Zhou Shixiang readily agreed.

On the 28th, under the coercion of the second town of the Taiping Army, Xiao Hanying, the prefect of Chenzhou, wisely accepted the persuasion of Shangguan Guo Kuoyu and led more than 2,000 defenders of Chenzhou anyway.

After taking Chenzhou, the second town did not stay for a moment, and continued to march to Changde in the north, attacking the city all the way, and it was unstoppable. Zhang Xueren, the prefect of Changde, was unable to defend the city, and he had no courage to commit suicide, so he had to choose anyway like Xiao Hanying.

As soon as Changde is open, the gate to Kuidong will be opened

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