Chapter 120: The Fortified City
PS: See the exclusive story behind "Han'er is not a slave", listen to your more suggestions for the novel, pay attention to the starting point Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter qdread), tell me quietly! Killing, throughout the ages, has been a means of warfare, and even politicians often use a method, when the two armies are at war with each other, killing the enemy generals often breaks the stalemate of the war situation, and has an unexpected effect. Eliminating half of the dead soldiers who are old and weak, leaving only half of them strong, Zhou Shixiang's purpose is very simple, he wants to make this dead soldier squad transform into a special force for future generations, specializing in battlefield chaos and decapitation tasks.
In view of the fact that Chen Mo's gang has not paid enough attention to them all along, and they are completely free-range, resulting in the team of dead soldiers not playing a role in the war, and even becoming a tool for the "kidnapping thief" Chen Mo to personally rob and make a fortune, Zhou Shixiang spent half a day to sort out the training methods for special operations, and explicitly ordered Chen Mo to train his subordinates in strict accordance with this training method in the future. The core of this training method is the sense of teamwork, and what Zhou Shixiang wants is the cooperative operation mode of the special forces, rather than the melee and fighting of people in the rivers and lakes.
To Zhou Shixiang's surprise, Chen Mo, who was illiterate, actually comprehended the special operations concept he proposed very quickly, and could even draw inferences from one another, although some aspects were still unsatisfactory, but after all, he began to train his subordinates according to Zhou Shixiang's requirements, which made Zhou Shixiang quite satisfied, and dispelled the idea of transferring other people to form a special operations team.
Zhou Shixiang of course hopes to provide Chen Mo with as much equipment as possible, but the weapons and equipment of the special forces in his impression of later generations can be drawn by him, and he can't make them, so he can only temporarily equip them with some tools such as wall climbing hooks. After arriving in Xiangshan County, Zhou Shixiang wanted to send someone to Macao to purchase a batch of short guns for the use of the special squad. If not, ask someone to make a batch of crossbow arrows as much as possible.
Crossbow arrows are more powerful than bows and arrows at short distances, and have a higher hit rate. Best for surprise killing. It's a pity that there are only thirty bows in the camp now, and there are no crossbows. Therefore, it can only be equipped in the future, and those archers in the bow team are also half-hanged, and none of them can be called archers, otherwise a few can be transferred to the special squad to be used as snipers, so that they can directly shoot enemy generals on the battlefield, which is much safer than sneaking into assassination.
Although the number of cavalry is only more than 30 people, Zhou Shixiang gave the establishment of a team, and the team is Zhu Er, who was born in Daqiao Mountain. Zhu Er has a big name called Gan. It sounds like pork liver, so Zhu Er doesn't like people to call him by his big name, because he is the second oldest in the family, so he likes people to call him Second Brother Zhu, or Second Brother Zhu.
Like Ge Zheng and Ge Yi brothers, Zhu Er did a lot of things in his early years, and he was a companion with Chen Mo, and he liked to tie up the female dependents of those big families. I was stunned that no one had ever been caught, compared to Chen Mo, who was caught in a big prison and almost beheaded, his luck was not ordinarily good.
Born in Daqiao Mountain. can also ride a skill, and he has been a bandit back then, and he is clever, these conditions add up, Zhu Er is the best candidate for the cavalry team.
As soon as the cavalry team was formed, Zhu Er received his first task after taking office, leading people to sneak to the Xinhui area to explore the movements of the Qing army, and sent people to contact the rear camp that was being transferred, so that the rear camp could hide in the southwest area of Xinhui. He also asked Song Xianggong to allocate some men from the camp to receive the grain that was about to be transported from Gao.
Xiangshan County and Xintong belong to Guangzhou Prefecture, as seen from the map. Xinhui is the gateway to Guangzhou, stuck between Guangzhou and Zhaoqing Prefecture. Its land and water transportation is the place where the four towns converge, and it is also the key place of the Pearl River Delta. If the Taiping army wants to go to Xiangshan, they must pass through Xinhui, and there is only one way to cross the Tan River.
Tan River is also known as the Junzi River, it and the West River, the East River, the North River together called the four major water systems in Guangdong, the West River, the East River, the North River three rivers confluence is the Pearl River, most of the county under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou Prefecture is in the Pearl River Delta, Xiangshan County is the southernmost county of the Delta. Xinhui is located in the lower reaches of the Tan River, which flows south in Shuangshui Town, Xinhui County, and flows into the Huangmao Sea through the entrance of the cliff of Yinzhou Lake.
As a native of Xinhui, Zhou Shixiang naturally knows the flow of the water system in Xinhui, but he knows that he can't make up his mind about how to live in Xinhui.
Xinhui was originally a small county, since the Ming Dynasty, the Xinhui city wall is not tall like most counties in Guangdong Province, but since the Qing army entered Guangdong to occupy Guangzhou, after the defeat of the Southern Ming army to the west of Guangdong, Xinhui became the gateway of Guangzhou because of its geographical advantages.
Since the third year of Yongli (the sixth year of Shunzhi), the Qing army has strengthened the Xinhui city wall several times, and in the eighth year of Yongli (the eleventh year of Shunzhi), Li Dingguo led tens of thousands of troops from Liuzhou, Guangxi to attack Guangdong, and even went down to Hengzhou, Lianzhou, Gaozhou, and successively defeated the Qing army commander Gao Hu, Gaozhou guard Zhang Yue, Shang Kexi's deputy general Chen Wu, Li Zhizhen, Leizhou general Xianqiyu and other Qing army generals. Li Dingguo went to Gaozhou on the third day of March, and the righteous teachers from all over Guangdong responded in groups, and Shang Kexi, the king of southern Qingping, Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, and the pacesetters of the governor did not dare to fight, concentrated their forces to defend the Guangzhou area, and sent an urgent report of 800 miles to Beijing, asking Beijing to send more Manchurian troops to Guangdong to resist Li Dingguo's menacing attack.
Because Xinhui is located at the gateway of Guangzhou, the gains and losses of Xinhui are directly related to whether Guangzhou can be defended, so the two feudal clans of Ping and Jing sent elite soldiers and strong generals to garrison Xinhui, and the guards will be the banner of the Han army You Yunlong, and the right wing chief officer Wu Jinzhong. After these two generals were stationed in Xinhui, they requisitioned the people in the city to strengthen the city wall, making the Xinhui city wall as strong as the city of Guangzhou. At that time, Zhou Shixiang witnessed the Qing army driving the people to build the city day and night in the city, and there were hundreds of corpses of the people who were tired to death under the city every day and were pulled outside the city.
At the same time, Li Dingguo originally planned to lead the main force to attack Guangzhou, but in April he fell ill, so he had to send his subordinate general Wu Zisheng to lead his troops to attack Guangzhou. In October, Li Dingguo personally led an army of 200,000 to attack Xinhui, and successively adopted tactics such as digging tunnels, bombarding the city with artillery, and logging and filling trenches to carry out a strong attack, but all of them were defeated by the Qing army in the city.
During the siege of Li Dingguo's army, the Qing army in the city actually killed people and ate under the condition that the grain and grass were not cut off, so that the parents, wives and children of the talented Zhou Shixiang were tragically killed.
While it is sad, it is to take revenge, but Li Dingguo's army can't break Xinhui City, how can the Taiping army of more than 2,000 people break the city. If Xinhui City is not broken, the old and weak of the Houying will not be allowed to turn into Xiangshan, and if they want to avoid Xinhui Jiancheng, they can only cross the Tan River with a large number of boats, but where did Zhou Shixiang find so many boats. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow the ~ point / Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter qdread can be), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the qdread WeChat public account! (To be continued)