Chapter 375: A Lot of Hostages
Long before entering the city, Zhou Shixiang had already arranged candidates to solve the key points in the city of Guangzhou, the person responsible for attacking the governor's yamen was Guan Tianshui of the pro-military battalion, and the deputy battalion officer of the left battalion of the infantry army was Jiang Fan, who was responsible for attacking the Jingnan Palace, and Zhou Shixiang personally led the army to attack the Pingnan Palace. The rest of the men, under the leadership of Shao Jiugong, Tie Yi and others, controlled the yamen of the prefect of Guangzhou, the garrison of the green camp and took over the city gates of Guangzhou.
Ge Yi was wounded by an arrow when he was in Shenwan, and although he shouted that he wanted to go to Guangzhou to do a big ticket, the injury made him unable to move with the army, so he had no choice but to stay in Shenwan. Zhao Sihai had to take the baggage battalion to count the seizures and settle the wounded soldiers, so he could not participate in the battle to capture Guangzhou. After the two brothers buried Qin Zhisheng together, they made two pots of wine from the captive, sat by Qin Zhisheng's tomb and got drunk, and cried happily.
Jiang Fan led people to the Jingnan Palace, and there were panicked people everywhere along the way, after seeing the Taiping Army Brigade appear, even if the slogan of the Taiping Army at this time has changed from "The Ming Soldiers have arrived!" The four characters became "The Ming soldiers have arrived, and the people should not be afraid!" Eight words, but these people are still screaming and fleeing in all directions. Whether it is the Ming army or the Qing army, those with knives in their hands are always frightening.
After the Taiping army entered the city, except for a small number of Han family members who hid at home and did not dare to come out, the rest all ran to Jingnan Wangfu, but the road was blocked by Jiang Fan's people.
In order to flee for their lives, the families of the Han army scrambled to trample on each other, and the old man's shouting and scolding, the woman's scream, and the child's cry were endless. These Han army families who were anxious for their lives pinned all their hopes on the Jingnan Palace, where their master was located.
Jiang Fan was anxious to take the Jingnan Palace, where was he willing to be delayed by these women and children of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty. immediately drove the crowd away, but thinking that the commander had confessed, he didn't swing his knife and slash and kill. Just disperse the women and children.
Zhou Shixiang and the generals had a fierce quarrel over how to deal with the families of the Han army under the command of the two feudal kings in Guangzhou, and the final decision was to kill those who resisted, and those who did not resist were all encircled and could not be slaughtered.
The reason for this decision was only because Zhou Shixiang took a fancy to the Han army under Geng Jimao and Shang Zhixin. If they can spare the lives of their families, use them properly. Those Han soldiers may not follow Geng Jimao's letter to the end regardless of their wives and children.
Even if these Han soldiers all had Han blood on their hands, they all participated in the Guangzhou Massacre and the Chaozhou Massacre that year. But as long as they could be used by the Taiping army and turn the targets of their slashing into their former masters, the Manchurians, Zhou Shixiang would not blame them for their past.
There were a lot of Han soldiers in the Taiping Army, and there were several people who did thousands and hundreds of households. It can be said that the current Taiping Army is a force initiated by Zhou Shixiang. But it is an army composed of bandits, Manchus, Han soldiers, volunteers, and good people, in essence, this army is composed of different people, fighting for a common goal, so from top to bottom, the Taiping army does not exclude outsiders, and also longs for more people to join it.
can't kill and loot those Han army families, Zhou Shixiang naturally has to compensate his subordinates, and this compensation is naturally Pingnan Wangfu and Jingnan Wangfu. And the city that made everyone's hearts flutter. As for the family members of the Eight Banners, they are all hostages without exception. The kidnappers are the Taipings
Thousands of Han army family members rushed to the Jingnan Palace, they were desperately banging on the gate of the palace outside, hoping that the people in the palace could let them in for refuge, but the guards of the palace did not dare to open the gate without authorization to let them in, so they could only go to ask the master's mother, Fujin Shi Yuanling, for instructions.
Shi Yuanling is the king of Jingnan Fujin, these people outside are the family members of the Han army under the Jingnan Domain, and they are also the clothed servants of his Geng family, and now their men are fighting with their husbands outside, so Shi Yuanling does not dare to abandon these family members no matter what, she is busy asking the guards to open the door and put the people outside into the mansion.
"The door is open, the door is open!"
The moment the gate of the palace opened, the families of the Han army rushed in excitedly, and the guards of the palace were too late to maintain some order. The Eight Banners family members who rushed in were stunned, still screaming and crying, and as a result, those people in the palace who were already frightened and uneasy also cried out with sorrow, as if the sky had fallen.
There were too many people, and the guards in the palace couldn't hold it down at all, so they could only let these family members cry there.
Shi Yuanling was annoyed by listening, but he didn't have the slightest solution.
The shouts of the Taiping army came from Da Nan Street and Chaotian Street not far away, but the family members outside were still pouring into the house, and the guards were all changing color.
"Close the door!"
Shi Yuanling's pretty face was pale and bloodless, and she gritted her teeth and ordered the guards to close the door immediately. Finding that the palace guards were about to close the door, the family members outside were frightened and rushed in with ear-piercing screams, but under the slamming of the scabbards of those guards, the gate of the palace was finally slowly closed. The family members of the Han army who had already entered the palace listened to the cries outside, sad and uneasy, but at the same time feeling happy.
There are still more than 1,000 Zhenghuangqi family members stranded outside the gate of the palace, no matter how they cry inside, how to kowtow, how to report their man's name, the gate of the palace is closed and does not move.
"The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have arrived, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have arrived!"
Screams spread rapidly from the outermost part of the crowd to the inside, and the frightened Zhenghuangqi woman was holding her child and wanted to flee to other places, but the Taiping army came on both sides of the street. They have nowhere to run.
"Get down on your knees, get down on your knees!"
"Get out of the way, don't get in the way of the Ming soldiers!"
The old men shouted loudly in order to prevent these women and children from being slaughtered by the Taiping army, and the women and children listened blankly, because of fear, with the old man's voice, they automatically retreated to the sides, making way for a passage to the gate of the Jingnan Palace.
The Taiping troops rushing on both sides looked at these terrified Eight Banners family members with knives and spears, but no one shouted and stepped forward to kill them with knives, but just ran along the passage in the crowd towards the gate of Jingnan Palace.
"Daddy, Daddy!"
A child in the crowd suddenly pointed loudly at a Taiping soldier walking in front of him and shouted, the child's scream would startle her mother, but she was surprised to find that the Taiping soldier her child was pointing at stopped after hearing the sound, and was looking at them with excitement.
The family members who were familiar with this woman around were stunned, and they could see clearly, wasn't that Taiping army the second child of the Wu family who had died in the battle with the Manchurian soldiers in the Lutou River?
More and more women found their own men from the ranks of the Taiping army, and like the second child of the Wu family, their men were wearing the clothes of Ming soldiers, and the braids on the back of their heads had long been removed.
The guards lying on the wall of the palace were stunned to see the family members outside crying and screaming excitedly, but their faces were full of joy
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