In Ji'an City, Liu Guangbi, the governor of Qingjiang Province, frowned and looked at the sun in the sky. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAfter five days of rain, the weather finally cleared. The moment the sun shone on the earth, the Taiping army outside the city broke out into cheers, but the Qing army inside the city was nervous - the rain stopped, and the Taiping Kou outside the city was about to attack the city!

The heavy rain in the past few days has made the Taiping army have not been able to take an effective offensive against the city of Ji'an, only those artillery that was placed under the shed took advantage of the rain to fire a few rounds on the city, in order to tell the Qing army in the city not to be delusional, no matter how heavy the rain is, no matter how long the time, the Taiping army will not stop for Ji'an.

The main force of the Qing army in Ji'an City is the main force of the Jiangxi Green Battalion brought by Liu Guangbi from Nanchang, with more than 6,000 soldiers, most of these green battalion soldiers participated in the defense of Ganzhou that year, many of them also returned to the Ming Dynasty with Jin Shengheng and Wang Deren anyway, and a small number of them were the original Li Chengdong Ming Army who surrendered with the generals. Because there were more officers and veterans, the combat effectiveness of this Qing army was relatively high.

Liu Guangbi is a rare member of the Qing army, this person is also the Han army is the blue banner people, with Hong Tai Ming siege of the Daling River, leading the troops to conquer three Ming army forts in one fell swoop. Later, Zhang Chun, the commander of the Ming Dynasty, and Wu Xiang, the general soldier, led an army of 40,000 from Jinzhou to help relieve the siege of Dalinghe City, Liu Guangbi took the lead in galloping into battle, killed two generals of the Ming army, and led his troops to attack the car formation, so that the Ming army's position was in chaos. In the thirteenth year of Shunzhi, he entered the world and progressed to the first-class Ada Hahafan, served as the governor of Jiangxi, and was given a saddle horse and a bow by Shunzhi.

In addition to the 6,000 main forces of the Jiangxi Green Battalion brought by Liu Guangbi from Nanchang, there were more than 1,000 pacesetters under the command of Yang Wenyuan, the chief soldier, and more than 2,000 garrison battalions and flood soldiers transferred by Yang Wenyuan from the counties under the jurisdiction of the government before the Taiping Army arrived in Ji'an, barely making the defenders in the city reach 10,000. In addition, the Qing army also requisitioned a large number of young people in the city and looted the villagers near the left to help defend the city, so that the available manpower in the city was as many as 30,000. According to the art of war, the siege of the city needs three times, and the siege of the city needs five times, so Liu Guangbi estimated that the total strength of the Taiping army outside the city should be about 100,000, otherwise the thief Xiu would not have the courage to surround Ji'an.

In fact, the Taiping army besieging the city did not have so many troops, and its first town had four brigades, the fifteenth town had three brigades, and the new town had four brigades, with more than 27,000 horse infantry. In addition, there were more than 4,000 surrendered troops, plus his own guards and young soldiers, and the total strength of Zhou Shixiangtun under the city of Ji'an was only a little more than 30,000. It is certainly unwise to surround Ji'an with such a small number of troops, and it is certainly unwise in terms of the art of war, and the siege casualties will inevitably be great, but Zhou Shixiang is confident that he will capture Ji'an with minimal casualties.

The source of this confidence is the strong artillery advantage of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the battle of Ganzhou, Zhou Shixiang not only got a smooth road into Jiangxi, but also got the countless ordnance accumulated in the city, of which only the medicine is as much as more than 300,000 catties, which means that the Taiping Army's artillery and firearms advantages will be able to play to the maximum. If it weren't for the fact that the weather was not beautiful in the past few days, Zhou Shixiang would have already ordered a strong attack on Ji'an, instead of delaying for several days in vain.

After the weather cleared, Zhou Shixiang stared at Ji'an City for a moment with a clairvoyant mirror, and then ordered all those surrendered troops to be driven up. Hearing this order, Ge Yi, Qi Hao, and Wang. The auxiliary ministers immediately understood that the marshal was going to officially attack the city.

"The last time I shot in the city, I didn't open the city after a pillar of incense, and I didn't leave any chickens and dogs after the city was broken!"

Another way of saying that the chickens and dogs are not left is naturally to slaughter the city, and this order made Ge Yi and Wang. The auxiliary ministers and other generals were all in good spirits, but the soldier Dong Changqing's face changed greatly, and he stepped forward to persuade: "Marshal, the Qing army in the city is solid, but there are also many people, they are only coerced by the Qing army to participate in the defense of the city, and they are involuntarily enemies with our soldiers." If the city is slaughtered after the city is broken, the slaughter will be too heavy, which will damage the prestige of the benevolent and righteous division of our Northern Expeditionary Army, and I am afraid that the people of Jiangxi Province will regard our soldiers as enemies in the future, which is not conducive to the great cause of our Northern Expedition. ”

"Ben Shuai only said that after the Northern Expedition, you must not kill innocent people, and you must not rob the people's property, how can you say that my Taiping Army is a benevolent and righteous army?"

Zhou Shixiang put down the clairvoyant mirror and corrected Dong Changqing's erroneous statement, and said to Dong Changqing: "Do you have weapons in the hands of the young people in the city? Will they be killed by our army after they attack the city? If the answer is yes, they are not innocent... Ben Shuai didn't ask why they appeared in the city, Ben Shuai only knew that their existence was an obstacle to my breaking of the city, and being merciful to anyone who held a weapon to reject our Taiping army was the greatest irresponsibility to my soldiers. ”

Zhou Shixiang said again: "The word benevolence and righteousness, Ben Shuai can't hear it the most. I only hope that all the aliens in the world will know that my Taiping Army is the army of tigers and wolves, and I don't want to hear them praise me as a teacher of benevolence and righteousness. If we can't make them know the strength of our Taiping army and the cruel fate of opposing me, then they will never know fear. Things in the world, but only fear will know how to advance and retreat, and know how to be interesting. It is true that our Taiping Army is the division of the Ming Dynasty, and this Northern Expedition is to recover Sanchu and take the southern capital directly, but it is even more slaughtering Manchuria, smashing the Yellow Dragon, and welcoming the Son of Heaven back to Shenjing, as sung in the song of our army, holding a steel knife of ninety-nine, killing all Hu Erfang! ”

"The marshal also said, holding a steel knife of ninety-nine, killing all Hu Erfang, and slaughtering Hu Ren Manchuria, he wants to slaughter his clan, but in this Ji'an city, it is not Hu Er, but my Han people!"

Dong Changqing is not a mother-in-law, but this Ji'an city is indeed full of Han people, and when the city is slaughtered, it is not Manchu who died, but all Han people, so he couldn't bear it and insisted on admonishing him.

Zhou Shixiang asked him: "Hulu's minions are Hu'er, if they are Han'er, why do they act for Manchu as a tiger?" If they are Han'er, why don't they open the door to welcome our Han army into the city, and why do they refuse to stop us with the city? There are more Han people in the world than Manchuria, but why since I started the army, the most killed people are Han people, not Manchuria? ”

"This..."

Dong Changqing's words were sluggish, but he still couldn't bear it in his heart, hesitated for a moment, and still wanted to open his mouth to persuade him. Zhou Shixiang waved his hand, signaling that he didn't need to say anything, he said: "If you want to have fewer dead people in the future, and if you want to take the whole province of Jiangxi smoothly, this Ji'an City must be slaughtered." But what you said is also right, it is not right to kill all without asking about the Qinghong. Speaking of this, Zhou Shixiang hesitated for a moment and changed his order: "After the city is broken, all the soldiers will be killed, all the Shangcheng will be killed, and all the pseudo-Qing officials and the Tatar gentry will be wiped out, and the rest of the people can live." ”

When he had finished speaking, he turned his head and commanded the king. The auxiliary ministers and Ge Yi generals said: "This battle is different from Ganzhou, you must tell those who serve Manchu with iron and blood that my long knife is better than Manchuria!" (To be continued.) )