The Taiping Army's improper response and loss of territory naturally led to high morale and strong fighting spirit of the Qing Army. And those who were identified by Shao Jiugong as having a weak fighting spirit and a chaotic and low morale of the army were stimulated by a series of victories of the Qing army, and also judged that the Taiping army was inferior to the Qing army, and the Ming Dynasty still had to finish, so they had the idea of making meritorious contributions in front of the new master. If they want to make meritorious contributions, they naturally have to submit their names to the Qing Dynasty, which is why the most casualties in the attack on Xiaobeishan are those surrendering troops, and the surrendering army is still working for the Qing army, because what they see is that the Taiping army is surrounded and attacked by the Qing army, not the Taiping army surrounding the Qing army.

In this process, Line Guoan also showed the qualified means of good generals, and his appeasement of the surrendering army, especially the generals in the surrendered army, was definitely not weaker than Zhou Shixiang.

Money, official positions, women, territory, everything that can provoke people's lives, line Guoan has generously promised. And in these years, ordinary soldiers are almost no different from cannon fodder in the eyes of generals, the line Guoan spent a lot of money, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were about to be captured and killed, and the marches were constantly victorious, and there was no reason for the generals not to sell their lives. As long as the relatives are there, the soldiers below will not make trouble. When the person is gone, it will be pulled again, and the two-legged toad in this world is difficult to find, but the two-legged person is very easy to find.

The generals are all working hard, and the descendants of the line national security are even more weak. The Taiping army robbed them of their net worth, and all their savings for so many years were wasted, not to mention that they had soldiers under them, even if they were ordinary people, who did not grit their teeth with hatred.

Just like the template of the Taiping Army's fortune, the surrendered troops under the command of Line Guoan retook the road of surrendering to the Taiping Army, and behaved more viciously and more ferociously, not weaker than Li Chengdong, Jin Shengheng, Wang Deren and others back then.

The Qing army advanced in a big way, and the Taiping army lost ground one after another. On the side of the Taiping Army, some demoted officers and generals have also misjudged the situation, and many people have begun to prepare for a way back, preparing how to clear their own excuse of "rebelling from thieves".

For a few days, Shao Jiugong was restless in Liuzhou City, and he was very worried that he would not be able to hold Liuzhou, which would mean that the entire deployment and all the efforts of the marshal in Guangxi would be in vain. If Guangxi was reoccupied by the Qing army, the Taiping army that invaded Hunan would be in a desperate situation, and under the tripartite attack of the Qing army in Lianghu, the Qing army in Guizhou, and the Qing army in Guangxi, it would be absolutely impossible for the marshal to turn the tables no matter how rich he was. Therefore, Guangxi must not be lost, and Liuzhou must not be lost!

In order to prevent the most terrible situation from appearing, Shao Jiugong did his best to mobilize all the soldiers and horses he could to mobilize in Liuzhou, and ordered the sailors to transport a large amount of grain and grass to Liuzhou, and ordered the wolf soldiers who had just been formed in Nanning and Xunzhou and had not yet undergone much training to be transferred to Liuzhou.

After the good online Guoan broke into Liuzhou, it was blocked by Xiaobeishan for more than ten days, and the troops were lost, and they no longer fought and rushed quickly a few days ago, destroying the withering and decaying offensive. This made Shao Jiu Gong's mind calm, and also made those demoted generals who had different thoughts re-examine it, waiting for the follow-up war changes. If Line Guoan can break through Xiaobeishan and take Liuzhou City, the previous preparations will naturally be useful. If the line of national security fails, then the traces of the previous preparations must be erased immediately. Compared with the knives of the Qing soldiers, the knives of the Taiping Army are also very hard.

Every time Xiaobeishan sent a military information, Shao Jiugong had to carefully examine it, and he strictly ordered Wu Mazi not to exaggerate the number of casualties of the Qing army, so that he could see the real casualties in his eyes from it.

The successive victories of Xiaobeishan induced a strong fighting spirit of the Liuzhou defenders, and some generals asked Shao Jiugong for battle, and the Qing army came from afar, and they were tired for many days, and they must have been extremely tired, and at this moment it was time for the whole army to attack and inflict heavy damage on the other side, so as to end the war.

Shao Jiugong's seriousness is true, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't have courage. He was able to follow the Kong Guozhi brothers all the way from Jiangxi to Guangdong, not because of his old habits, but because of his murderous spirit, otherwise, he would not have lived until now.

After superimposing the casualties of the Qing army, the governor of Guangxi, who was born in Jiangxi, combined with the information he received from the prisoners, made a judgment that he thought was quite accurate, that is, in the case of the failure of the attack for several days and the loss of troops, the Ministry of State Security was also extremely weak at this time and was in a dilemma. Most of the Ming Dynasty troops in its army did not want to be used as cannon fodder to consume, and if the Liuzhou defenders went out of the city to attack, even if they could not hit the line of the Ministry of State Security, they should be able to force them to retreat to Qingyuan. In this way, the communication between Liuzhou and Guilin can be restored. Shao Jiugong has always wanted to ask the wandering Zhao Ziqiang, do you still have me as the governor in your eyes

On the city tower, Shao Jiugong lightly rubbed his beard, which had grown a lot in the past six months, looked at the direction of Xiaobei Mountain, listened to the sound of cannons over there, and sneered a little. Line Guoan really doesn't give up if he doesn't see the Yellow River, he doesn't cry when he doesn't see the coffin, the fortifications of Xiaobeishan are extremely strong, he wants to take it down at least more than 10,000 casualties, and he can bear the price of this casualty? He has been attacking for more than ten days, can't he see that he has no ability to take Xiaobeishan at all? Take 10,000 steps back, what can you do if you take Xiaobeishan on the national security line? Do you think you can still take Liuzhou?

Line Guoan's pause for half a month made Shao Jiugong feel good.

"Lord Futai, Commander Niu made an urgent report, the Qing army drove a large number of people to attack Xiaobeishan, our army's consumption of medicine is too large, Commander Niu asked Lord Futai to transfer another batch of medicine."

"Driving the people to attack?"

Shao Jiugong shook his head, disapproving against the stupid practice of line Guoan, what good could the Qing army's approach do in addition to making the people of Guangxi Han and Tu hate them even more? It is difficult to become a line, Guoan thinks that those unarmed people can take Xiaobeishan for them. However, the problem of the Xiaobeishan defenders being consumed too much cannon fodder must be faced, the Qing army drove the cannon fodder up, and the defenders could not fire a single cannon or a gun, if this is the case, how to defend this position.

"Go, allocate another batch of medicines from the domain treasury to Xiaobeishan, and in addition, ask Wu Mazi to report the casualties."

Shao Jiugong instructed that Xiaobeishan was very important to Liuzhou, and the defenders could be defeated and killed, but they could not be defeated because of lack of supplies.

Wang Youxi, the deputy general in charge of the quartermasters, stepped forward and said with a bitter face: "My lord, there is no medicine left in the domain. ”

"No medicine?"

Shao Jiugong was taken aback.

When the Taiping army seized Guangxi, they did not capture much gunpowder, because most of the gunpowder of the Qing army in Guangxi was taken away by the Han army under the line national security. Except for a very small number of Han troops, the Qing army left behind in Guangxi was mostly cavalry and battalion soldiers, and they did not use firearms at all, so naturally there was no gunpowder for the Taiping army to seize. Therefore, except for a small part of the medicine used by the Taiping army in Guangxi and Hunan, the rest are brought from Guangdong in the early stage.

Although a new military factory was built in Guangdong to produce gunpowder, this factory was newly built and the quantity of medicine produced was limited. In order to supply the medicine for the front line, under the auspices of Song Xianggong, the Yamen of the Guangdong political envoy and the Buddha people in Macao purchased a batch of heavy money, and also purchased a batch from the Zheng family of Jinxia, which ensured the supply of medicine for the front line. However, because the Taiping army was advancing too fast, the battle line was stretched too long, resulting in certain difficulties in transporting materials from the rear to the front. Here in Liuzhou, it will take six days for the fastest batch of medicines to be delivered.

Shao Jiugong had a headache, the reason why the Xiaobeishan defense line was able to kill and injure a large number of Qing troops relied on the ring fortifications built along the mountain, but the fortifications were dead, and the final killing and wounding of the enemy soldiers relied on the powerful firearms advantage of the Taiping army on Xiaobei Mountain. Now that the Xiaobei Yam is exhausted, there is no medicine in the domain treasury to send to replenish, which makes the soldiers on the mountain how to kill the enemy.

Adjutant General Wang Youxi suggested that some medicine should be urgently sent from the other two brigades in the fourth town, and another support army should be transferred to rush there, because after losing the advantage of firearms, the A Brigade on the mountain could only fight hand-to-hand with the Qing army, and the casualties would definitely be great.

Shao Jiugong immediately adopted this suggestion and ordered a brigade of soldiers from the tenth town to rush to Xiaobeishan to reinforce the fourth town, and asked the sailor to find a way to get some medicine and send it to Xiaobeishan.

When Liuzhou was trying to find a way to replenish the shortage of medicines, on Xiaobei Mountain, the soldiers of the Fourth Town A Brigade and Artillery Town had already fought with the Qing army that rushed up.

At the forefront were those who drank blood wine and wore iron armor. They were either the elite of the Han army, or the personal guards of the generals who surrendered to the army, and everyone received a big reward in advance, and even a big reward after the war. Under the encouragement of heavy rewards and the fact that most of the Ming army's positions were broken through, the Qing soldiers bravely took the lead, stepping on the corpses of men and women, stepping on the torsos of their own comrades, and climbing to the top of the slope in groups

Answering the questions of book friends in the book review area about the matter of driving cannon fodder, about the plot of cannon fodder, the bones may have some details that violate the authenticity of the writing, slightly exaggerated, but generally realistic, based on the specific war examples of countless barbarians over the past thousand years.

For thousands of years, it has never been heard of cannon fodder rebelling. In other words, for thousands of years, there has never been a description in the history books that our Han people would rise up when they were driven by barbarians to attack their own army, and they would turn around and fight desperately with those barbarians who forced them to die.

If so, please point out in the book review that the bones would also like to see the so-called cannon fodder against the water to disrupt their own side of the war example. In the process of searching for historical materials, all the bones saw was thousands of Han people desperately attacking their own soldiers and horses in order to survive, and after one or two times, if any of these people could survive, then they would willingly become accomplices of the barbarians.

There are many people in the so-called Han army banner who were originally Ming soldiers captured by the Qing army, and the people who were taken captive. In the early days, the value of their existence was cannon fodder. In the end, they became fierce Qing soldiers and accomplices in aiding and abetting abuse. In the Liaodong battlefield, many cities were opened by internal spies, and many cities were smashed open by cannon fodder.

Don't forget that in Yangzhou, hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered, and no one resisted. In Jiangyin, in Guangzhou, and in many cities, there were massacres that were also unresisted. In modern times, more than 300,000 people in Nanjing City (including soldiers who laid down their arms), they have never resisted. Or, only a handful of people dare to resist.

When slaughter becomes an invisible fear, the crowd will obey in order to save their lives, even if they move forward and die. But there is always a possibility of surviving, even the slightest possibility, it is worth it. This is history, this is truth. (To be continued.) )