Luo Keduo had never seen the civil fortifications of the Taiping Army, but Jidu did, but he died. Different from the fort defense line built by the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong, the pillbox watchtower built by the Taiping army was only based on geographical advantages, and was not for advancement, but for defense. As long as the Qing army cuts off the grain and grass for these defense lines, no matter how strong the defense line is, it is useless, and without the Qing army fighting, the Taiping army in the defense line will collapse by itself. If you don't collapse, you will starve to death, and no matter how much food you have, there will always be a day when you will run out.

But this is on the Hunan and Guizhou borders, the mountainous Hunan and Guizhou borders, and there are only a few roads in and out of the Hunan and Guizhou borders! So Luo Keduo had no other choice, either to fill in the endless Taiping military fortifications with human lives, or to think of another way.

The battle against Pingxiyi was also profitable, and a leader of Zhenglan Banner easily took this important road, and the Taiping army could be described as fleeing from the wind.

King Pingjun, who easily won the important land, was very happy, and galloped into Pingxi Post with a full cheer of soldiers, ready to launch a greater offensive and earn greater credit, but he soon couldn't laugh, and the look on his face was as black as Prince Jian Jidu who was in Chaohui last year.

"The Southern Barbarians are too cunning!"

Zakha really couldn't think of any words other than "cunning" to describe the Ming army in Guangdong.

The Southern Barbarians are too cunning and black-hearted, and the line of defense in front of the Qing army can be said to have a corpse under a foot of ground.

Suna repaired the defense line in Jingzhou and died of more than 4,000 soldiers and civilians. In Yuanzhou, more than 20,000 people died.

Zhou Shixiang didn't want so many people to die, but the civil engineering fortifications of this era were completely manpowered, and there was no machinery to use, and many places on this official road into Guizhou were stone-based roads, which made it very difficult to destroy it.

The construction period is short and the time is tight, so Zhou Shixiang can only use his life to fill this line of defense. During the month-long construction period, according to the statistics of the staff officers who presided over the construction of the military department, about 13,000 natives and more than 9,000 Han Chinese soldiers and civilians died of exhaustion on this official road, which was only 32 miles long.

It can be said that this is a line of defense paved with corpses, a line of defense stained with the blood of the Han and Turkish people. The high-intensity construction work not only killed tens of thousands of lives, but also broke out one after another against the local people and the people. In several repressions, more than 2,000 Han and Tu people were killed.

The specific details and death figures during the construction of the Yuanzhou defense line were ordered by Zhou Shixiang to be sealed, but their destruction was strictly prohibited.

The anti-Qing Dynasty was the struggle of the Han nation against Manchuria, and sacrifice was inevitable. Just as the Qing army used the massacre to coerce the Han people to give up their resistance, in order to achieve the so-called goal of slaughtering for the good of the Han people. In the Taiping Army's struggle against the Qing Dynasty, countless Han people were also sacrificed. And their sacrifice was only for one thing, and that was to bury the Manchurian family.

There is no absolute right or wrong in this world.

Anti-Qing is the right thing for Zhou Shixiang, and it is the most correct thing; And for those who were sacrificed because of their opposition to the Qing Dynasty, I am afraid it is wrong.

Right and wrong were never considered by Zhou Shixiang, he only knew that if he didn't resist, he would not be able to avenge his parents; If he does not resist, the Han Chinese will be the slaves of the Manchurians for more than two hundred years; If he does not resist, future generations will be proud of the Qing Dynasty.

So he had to resist, even if his rebellion actually caused more of his compatriots who had survived the war to die.

If you don't resist, there will be more people who will live; resisted, but let the people who could have survived die.

It sounds incredible, but it's happening. In fact, the Han people in Hunan suffered more because of the arrival of the Taiping army than when the Qing army was there. Many Han people don't want to become the people of the Ming Dynasty and restore the clothes of the Han family, but they are thinking that the Qing soldiers will come to rescue them quickly. The reason why this is so is because the Taiping army implemented Zhou Shixiang's strategy of "drawing blood" in Hunan.

What is a blood draw?

Draw the blood of the Han people in Hunan to feed the Taiping army on the border of Hunan and Guizhou.

Draw the blood of the Han people in Hunan and block the Yunnan-Guizhou Qing army.

What is blood?

Money and food, as well as production materials, chickens, ducks, fish and even lives

Luo Keduo tentatively launched an attack on the Taiping defense line to the north, but before Yizuo led the troops to approach the opponent's watchtower, the sound of cannons rang out, followed by the sound of guns. The soldiers were brave, and a few rounds of arrow rain were terrifying to see, but the arrow was not effective at all except for the "clang" sound of the Taiping army bunker behind the trench.

The Taiping army did not show their heads at all, and they shrank in the bunker like turtles. If the full army is near, they will open fire and fire, and if they do not come, they will wait. The trenches were also frighteningly dug, wide and deep, one after the other, every few dozen paces, and filled with sharpened branches or water. Centaurs fall into it, and they are either choked alive or drowned. There was no chance of survival, because the wall of the trench was so smooth by the Taiping that there was not even a place to help.

How to fight this battle?

How do you get through this road?

The soldiers looked at each other.

If you want to go over, you don't have to take this official road that was made like a turtle shell by the Taiping Army, you can take a detour to take a small road. But the trail horses can't walk, and if people pass, they can only walk for two people at most in the widest place, and it is difficult for one person to walk in the narrow place. What's worse is that the Taiping army obviously touched the surrounding terrain, but wherever there is a trail, the surrounding trees are cut down, swept from top to bottom, and there are no dead ends. Bunkers and watchtowers were built in dangerous places, and places where bunkers could not be repaired were also piled up with stones and rolling logs. And even if the Qing army can pass through the small road, but the Taiping army's defense line has been built along this official road into Guizhou for dozens of miles, and it is the division that is responsible, and the Qing army has broken through one place and another, layer after layer, and it is indecisive, and where there are so many small roads to walk, that is, to take the small road, how many soldiers can you pass. If there are fewer people, if you don't do anything, you can be covered by the Taiping Army in a blink of an eye, there are more people, and it's even more useless, you can't get by at all!

Luo Keduo has nowhere to use his strength, and he has nowhere to fire when he has an empty belly. The guide of the Han army who led the way told the king of Pingjun that there was still a place where the army could pass. King Pingjun was overjoyed when he heard this, but after asking, he shook his hand and gave the Han army guide a slap.

This slap King Pingjun really hit him to death, and the Han army lost a few teeth.

Why is King Pingjun so angry?

Because the place that the Han army said was a hundred thousand mountains!

When the Qing army was unable to advance an inch at Pingxiyi, the native soldiers who had sneaked in for the bounty began their adventure to get rich.

If these native soldiers were to be used as an army, they would not even be able to defeat the battalions of the Qing army, because they didn't know what marching and fighting was, they only knew how to rush and then run away. This rabble has a fart, and if it was useful, it wouldn't be called a native.

But when these native soldiers became the enemies of the Qing army as individuals, they became the greatest nightmare of the Qing army.

When the Qing army was in a dilemma at Pingxi Station, the small groups of men and horses sent out to explore the road or collect grain were constantly attacked. Even at night, enemy soldiers would sneak into the camp and wipe out the necks of the night watchmen, and then cut off their heads.

After more than 80 Manchurian soldiers had their heads cut off in succession, Luo Keyi realized the seriousness of the matter, and he immediately sent troops to search around and clear the woods near the barracks to prevent enemy soldiers from sneaking in. The night guards were also doubled, and the patrols were kept on guard from time to time. As a result of these measures, the attacking enemy soldiers no longer infiltrated the barracks.

But then, Luo Keyi found that the small group of enemy soldiers attacking him were targeting the liaison soldiers he sent to Guiyang, as well as the guards of the post stations in the rear, and the auxiliaries who transported grain and grass.

The losses were getting bigger and bigger, and on the most recent day, 17 full soldiers were killed, and more than a dozen truckloads of grain were looted.

Rocodo was furious and began to fight back. The Qing army went out on a large scale, swept the official roads and the mountainous areas on both sides of the post station, and increased troops to garrison the main roads at each checkpoint. As a result, he was satisfied with the king of Pingjun, and the counterattack was very fruitful, killing more than 200 natives who intended to attack the Qing army.

From the mouths of the native captives, the king of Pingjun and the high-ranking Manchu soldiers heard for the first time about the "Reward Order for Hunting Manchurian Heads" issued by the Ming army in Guangdong, and knew that their heads could be exchanged for half a fat pig or equivalent items from the Ming army in Guangdong.

According to those natives, the price offered by the Guangdong Ming army to the Manchurian soldiers was the same, regardless of official rank, which meant that the head of Luo Keduo, the dignified Manchurian county king, was only worth half a slice of pork.

This made Rocodo furious.

However, the good situation did not last long, and the Qing army once again found that there were natives attacking them, and the number of them was increasing, and some military posts were even attacked by hundreds of natives at the same time.

For a time, the natives on the border of Hunan and Guizhou seemed to be dispatched, and they came from all directions to harvest the heads of the Qing army in the night. At first, it was a simple attack on the Manchu soldiers, and later it was also attacked by the green battalion soldiers.

The Qing army was tired of such endless small-scale attacks, but slowly the Qing army also summed up the experience of being attacked by the natives. Luo Keduo ordered the Guizhou Green Battalion soldiers to enter the mountains and suppress them, and used them to attract some natives to vote, so that they could use the Han to make the soil and the soil to make the soil.

Under this policy, the number of natives who attacked the Qing army on the Hunan and Guizhou borders began to decrease, and the number of natives hunted and killed by the Qing army also increased. But from beginning to end, the Qing army could not cross the northern front.

The initiative of the war is firmly in the hands of Zhou Shixiang, who acts as a turtle, and he is waiting for the best opportunity to attack

The natives in Guizhou attacked the Qing army. The tide was caused by those Guizhou natives, and the reason why the Guizhou natives risked their lives to go down the mountain to attack the Qing army was because they were red-eyed.

After seeing that the native soldiers from Hunan had earned a lot of money and grain by relying on the heads of the Manchurians, the native people of Guizhou were naturally moved. They learned from the natives of Hunan that the Taiping soldiers' heads were not limited to physical objects, gold and silver, and even more objects. This made the hearts of those local people who were already fierce in their folk customs warm, and in the early days, the Hunan native soldiers attacked the Qing army repeatedly, and they all said that the Qing army was easy to bully, so they dispatched on a large scale. As a result, the Qing army was indeed overwhelmed, the pressure doubled, and it also benefited from the Taiping army, but it was quickly suppressed by the Qing army that came to its senses.

When the natives of Guizhou were robbed instead of making a fortune, the Taiping army in Hunan extended a "friendly" helping hand to them.

Under the leadership of the Hunan soldiers, groups of Taiping soldiers who sneaked from the mountains found the natives of Guizhou and taught them how to "sweep" against the Qing army, how to carry out "guerrilla warfare", and how to "change places with one shot"

Weapons and even cotton armor and other equipment were generously sent by the Taiping army, and the exchange of the heads of the natives in Guizhou was completed quickly, and even some difficult villages could advance money and grain in advance.

Compared with the brutality of the Qing army, the friendliness of the Taiping army moved the natives of Guizhou.

However, they did not know that on the other side of the mountain, at the other end of the border between the two provinces, the Taiping army in Xiangxi had raised a sensational slogan.

The slogan is: "The stone must pass the knife, the thatch must pass the fire, and the native must change the species!" ”

A little tired late at night, today the two shifts were completed first. After waking up, there will be three more festivals, and there may be five watches on the 13th. (To be continued.) )