When Gan Hui and Yu Xin were taken out of prison, one was carried by others, and the other was carried by several people. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoBoth of them were seriously injured, but after Zhang Huangyan invited Lang Zhong to see them, he said that it was okay, but it was just a traumatic injury, and he didn't break his muscles and bones, and he would be a lively man after a few days.

"Lord Shangshu..."

Yu Xin felt very guilty, and struggled to get up from the stretcher to salute Zhang Huang. He thought he was being rescued by the Zhejiang army.

Gan Hui noticed that the soldiers wearing red red army uniforms behind Zhang Huangyan were not from the Zhejiang army, and the generals of the Zhejiang army such as Guo Faguang and Wei Dalong, who he was familiar with, did not appear, and he didn't even see Xu Yungeng, who joined the Zhejiang army. There was only a strange young man beside Zhang Shangshu, who looked a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

Zhang Huangyan briefly told Gan and Yu about the situation. Gan and Yu were stunned after hearing this, and they couldn't believe it, they couldn't imagine that the hundreds of thousands of troops of the king of Yanping failed to take the city of Nanjing, but the young prince of Guangdong easily broke the city with more than 10,000 men.

Gan Hui calculated that when they arrived at the city of Nanjing, the Taiping army might have just entered Jiangxi, but as a result, after the people took Nanchang, they immediately marched eastward with the whole army, rushed to the city of Nanjing in the shortest possible time, and attacked the city as soon as they arrived, without delay. Although it was too easy to succeed, it was also the cause and effect of Fang Shan's battle, so in terms of the boss's absolute success, his own feudal lord was much inferior. If the lord of his own domain could have been so resolute that day, and not be deceived by the nonsense of Lang Tingzuo and Guan Allegiance, and was delayed in the city for a month, I am afraid that the city of Nanjing would have been returned to Zheng Jun long ago.

Yu Xin asked about the situation of the feudal lord at the moment, and there was a sad look on his face when he spoke, thinking that he was worried that he would not be punished by the feudal lord after he went back, after all, if it wasn't for his carelessness and connivance with the corruption of military discipline, he would not have suffered a fiasco.

Zhang Huangyan told them that the king of Yanping had withdrawn his troops to Chongming, and most of the Zheng army had withdrawn back to Jinxia. Hearing that the feudal lord had returned to Jinxia, Yu Xin's expression was very gloomy, both relieved and abandoned. Gan Hui didn't think so, the city of Nanjing was really defeated too badly, and the army brought so many family members, and the feudal lord had no place to settle in Haikou, how could he stay for a long time, and where could he save them? Therefore, the feudal lord must return to Jinxia, otherwise once the food is eaten, the rest of the army will collapse by itself.

The grace of saving lives is unforgettable.

Gan Hui asked Zhang Huangyan to take them to see Zhou Shixiang to thank this young prince who had only heard his name but had not seen his face for saving his life.

Zhang Huangyan said that he didn't have to, he said that the justice of the Yue Kingdom was busy supervising the troops to attack the city, and he asked Gan Hui and Yu Xin for help with other important matters.

Gan Hui was busy saying that the Duke of Yue Guo had the grace to save their lives, and they had something to do, although they were instructed, He Lao specially invited Zhang Shangshu to pass the word. Although Yu Xin was seriously injured and could not move, he also patted his chest and expressed his willingness to serve the dogs and horses of the Guangdong Kingdom to thank him for saving his life.

Zhang Huangyan immediately told the two of them what Zhou Shixiang meant, but he asked Gan and Yu to come forward to rectify the rescued Zheng army soldiers a little, and then cooperate with the Taiping army to clear the remnants of the Qing army in the outer city and control the Qing army strongholds outside the city. If possible, Zheng Jun will be required to cooperate in attacking Zhenjiang to lock the mouth of the river.

Zhang Huangyan did not have any scruples, bluntly said that the Taiping army did not enter Nanjing There were not many soldiers and horses, there were still many Qing troops near Nanjing, and the Manchurian Tatar chieftains had also led the army to Xuzhou at this moment, so although Nanjing was down, the overall situation was still not optimistic, so it was urgent for Gan Hui to reorganize the captured soldiers of the Zheng army, otherwise, this force was really urgent.

This favor, how Gan Hui and Yu Xin refused to help. However, because Yu Xin was unable to move, Gan Hui was worried that he would make a mistake, so he told Zhang Huangyan that he would first go to see the captured subordinates, and he would contain and rectify as much as he could, and first cooperate with the Taiping army to sweep the Qing army outside the city, and then clear the Qing army stronghold outside the city.

Zhang Huangyan had no opinion, he told Gan Hui that most of the officers of the Zheng army were imprisoned in the inner city of Nanjing, and most of the ordinary soldiers and their families were imprisoned in the Qing army camp on the other side of the Jinchuan Gate in the outer city, and these people were basically rescued by the Taiping army, including their families, there were about 7,000 people. In addition, according to the confessions of Qing prisoners, there were still many Zheng troops in various Qing army strongholds in the city, all of whom were taken by them to do hard labor to repair the forts and strongholds destroyed by the Zheng army that day. In the end, Zhang Huangyan hesitated, but still told Gan and Yu that the female dependents of Zheng Jun's family who were captured were very unbearable.

After Gan Hui and Yu Xin heard this, they were silent for a moment. For the fate of the captured women, they have actually been mentally prepared for a long time. When the Qing army succeeded in the sneak attack on Jinxia, they kidnapped thousands of women of the Zheng army and used them as camp prostitutes, tortured day and night, and finally survived only more than 100 people. Even these more than 100 poor women, after seeing their relatives, most of them chose to commit suicide, because their bodies had completely collapsed, and their hearts were even dead.

Zhang Huangyan also sighed, and introduced Wu Chongshan, the envoy of the Taiping Army's Thousand Households and the Hundred Households of the An Army, to Gan and Yu, saying that this was sent by the Duke of Yue for Gan Hui to dispatch and help rectify and rescue the captured soldiers of the Zheng Army.

Seeing that it was a Mongolian, Gan Hui was stunned for a moment, but he didn't ask much. immediately resigned Zhang Huangyan and rushed to Jinchuanmen with dozens of Zheng Army officers who were rescued from prison. When he arrived at the Qing army camp at Jinchuan Gate, Gan Hui saw that the Taiping army was distributing the captured Qing army weapons to the rescued Zheng soldiers. Namutu stepped forward and showed the order of the military marshal's office, and the hundred households in charge of the third town of Jinchuan Gate handed over this place to Gan Hui and them, and rushed back to the battalion command post with the headquarters.

Most of the Zheng soldiers imprisoned in Jinchuanmen were iron soldiers under Yu Xinzhi, and although they suffered a lot, most of them were flesh wounds and were not in the way.

Gan Hui ordered the officers he brought to go down and pick 50 soldiers who could run and move, and then gathered these people, gave a few brief explanations, and then rushed to Yifengmen and Guanyin Mountain in the outer city with the Taiping army led by Namutu. There, there were many strongholds of the Qing army, and there were also many Zheng troops who did hard labor.

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When Zhang Huangyan returned to Zhou Shixiang, Zhou Shixiang was personally presiding over the attack on Mancheng.

Mancheng was originally the imperial city built by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, which is wide and majestic, and the city is high and thick, which is conducive to holding and is not easy to attack. The city is well equipped, with training rooms, bow rooms, archery paths, firearms depots, artillery ranges, school factories, martial arts halls, sentry rooms, military rations depots, etc. Although it is called a city, it is actually a fortress and barracks of the Qing army, but there are a large number of family members in it.

According to the captured Han army, from the establishment of Manchuria, the Manchurian soldiers stationed in the city remained at more than 4,000 soldiers, with a population of 30,000 or 40,000. However, in the Battle of Zhenjiang, more than 4,000 Manchurian Eight Banner soldiers brought by Guan Xiaozhong were almost wiped out by the Zheng army, and only more than 100 people fled back to Nanjing. Later, several hundred garrison soldiers came to Hangzhou, plus more than 1,000 Manchu soldiers brought by other places and Yue Le from Anqing, so that the number of full soldiers in the city reached 2,000. But now there are definitely not so many in the city, mainly because there are hundreds of full soldiers who followed Gushan Ezhen Daya Dali to Jiangbei, and Yue Le also brought eight hundred full soldiers when he left the city, so the Han army prisoners estimated that the number of full soldiers who could fight in the city now would definitely not exceed 1,000.

This number was recognized by Zhou Shixiang and Zhang Huangyan, but they didn't know that at this moment, the whole city was full of soldiers.

Mancheng, as early as the moment when the Taiping army invaded the inner city, the Jialazhang Jing Tong Haonian in the city mobilized all the active Manchurian men to go to the city. In addition, more than 2,000 Manchurian women also went to the city with weapons. Different from the image of Manchurian women that outsiders think, these Manchurian women in Mancheng, Jiangning are very skilled in arching horses. (To be continued.) )