Liuzhou is built by the river, surrounded by water on three sides, geographically speaking, Liuzhou is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but there are not many soldiers and horses in the city of Liuzhou, and the Qing army slaughtered the city in Liuzhou last year, resulting in Liuzhou officials want to levy the people to go to the city to help defend it. After the soldiers and horses of the three towns of the Taiping Army came down the river from Wuzhou and appeared under the city of Liuzhou, there was a dispute between the surrender and the defense in the city of Liuzhou.

Yuan Dashou of Youjiang Branch, Tian Shenglong, Guangxi Governor of Supervision Road, and Su Lin, Governor of Liuzhou, and Huang Ding, Governor of Liuzhou, were in charge.

Su Lin was born in the Han army with a white flag, a native of Gaizhou, Liaodong, and was transferred to Liuzhou in the fourteenth year of Shunzhi, so he didn't want to surrender. Admiral Xuezheng Huang Ding was born in Chongzhen's 12th year of Jinshi, and served as the imperial history of Guangxi Province in the Longwu Dynasty, and the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites. After the Qing Dynasty Southern King Kong Youde soldiers entered Guangxi, Huang Ding descended to the Qing Dynasty, and in the thirteenth year of Shunzhi, he served as the governor of Guangxi with the title of right attendant.

When the main surrender and the main battle officials were arguing, Xu Chonghua, the deputy general who actually commanded the Liuzhou garrison, judged the situation and knew that the meager troops in the city could not stop the Ming army that was pressed by the large soldiers, so he stood on the side of the main surrender faction out of his own life. With the support of Xu Chonghua, the forces of the officials of the main surrender faction overwhelmed the main battle faction, and finally, half a day after the given time of surrender of the Taiping army, Yuan Dashou of the Youjiang sub-patrol road, Tian Shenglong, the governor of the Guangxi patrol of the supervision province, and Xu Chonghua, the deputy general of Liuzhou, went out of the city to negotiate the surrender of the Taiping army on behalf of the Qing army in Liuzhou.

"From now on, wherever the army goes, it will not be threatened by the slaughter of the city, but only by the slaughter of officials."

"Those who do not surrender within the time limit will be slaughtered by hundreds of civil and military officials and their families to set an example!"

"Gu Nian Liuzhou is really the first city of the army to enter Gui Kai, and only a few people will be punished, and the rest will not be cared for. Even then, regardless of the size of the official character, whether they surrender or not, they will be punished if they fail to do so, regardless of the old and weak, and regardless of the infancy, so that the military and the people of the world will know that our Taiping military orders are prohibited, so as to avoid casualties among the people. ”

After entering the city, Zhou Shixiang ordered people to arrest Su Lin, the prefect of Liuzhou, Huang Ding, the governor of Xuezheng and other officials, and then ordered the officials and gentry to watch the punishment together. Under an order, several officials and more than 100 members of the family went to Huangquan.

Through these more than 100 heads, Zhou Shixiang wanted to clearly tell those Qing court officials who were still resisting: If you don't open the city, you will kill your whole family after breaking the city. Your whole family is not in this city, and it doesn't matter, and when the Taiping army arrives in your hometown, your wife and children will also bring knives. No, it does not frighten you; If you are not afraid, you will have the courage to continue to fight for Manchuria.

In this world, it is no longer a loyal minister without a queen, but a traitor without a queen. At least, Zhou Shixiang asked the Taiping army to handle it everywhere they went

In Nanning Mansion, the Qing army resisted stubbornly.

The tenth town and the eleventh town of the Taiping Army were ordered to attack Nanning, and the second town was adapted from the Ming Army in western Guangdong, and the combat effectiveness was weaker than the old four towns of the Taiping Army, but more than 10,000 soldiers and horses attacked the Nanning Mansion City guarded by only two or three thousand defenders.

In order to take Nanning City as soon as possible, Wang Xing and Gao Jinku drove all the way to reorganize, recruit troops from Anlai, and bandits continued to attack the city. Cloud ladders, rushing cars, gunpowder, and all the siege equipment that can be used were all used, and they were all used on the defenders of Nanning like crazy.

The Qing army in Nanning didn't know what the situation in Guangxi was now, they only knew that the Ming army was frantically attacking them. For Wang Guowei, the defender of Nanning, the Ming army's lifeless attack, completely ignoring the attack in the rear, only shows one thing, that is, Xunzhou and Liuzhou must have been lost, otherwise the Ming army would not have driven directly to Nanning City, so desperately stormed Nanning City.

"Hold on, hold on! As long as we get through, our reinforcements will come! ”

Looking at the soldiers who were obviously demoralized and frightened by the Ming army's offensive, Wang Guowei could only keep patrolling the city and cheering for the soldiers loudly, in addition to moving the silver taels from the treasury. As for the distant reinforcements, he didn't count on them at all.

Wang Guowei didn't believe that any reinforcements would come, and his generals also knew, but the soldiers didn't know, and after listening to the words of the commander, their hearts were full of hope, and they gritted their teeth and fought to the death.

Zhou Shixiang only gave the 10th and 11th towns military orders to take Nanning, and other than that, he didn't give anything. There is no need for him to give anything, a lonely city without foreign aid, three or five thousand unpopular guards, more than 15,000 soldiers and horses in two towns to attack, Wang Xing and Gao Jinku are embarrassed to take it?

Wang Xing and Gao Jinku are really embarrassed to take it, Zhou Shixiang will Nanning, Xunzhou, Liuzhou, Guilin several mansions have been promised to them these new towns, now Xunzhou, Liuzhou, Guilin has been down, there is only one Nanning city left, if they can't take it, I am afraid that in the future in the Taiping army system will be looked down on forever. They are all raised by their fathers and mothers, so why can't we compare to them? They are all Taiping Army, they are all soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, is it true that people can underestimate it?

Wang Xing tried his best to prove himself, and Gao Jinku also sold a lot of energy, but not to prove how capable he was, he just wanted to prove that he didn't have two hearts. However, there was no progress after attacking for a long time, and the second general couldn't help but be a little discouraged, and then thinking about the feat of the Taiping Army's second town taking Wuzhou City in one day, he was shocked by the Taiping Army's combat effectiveness.

In the city of Nanning, on the one hand, encouraged by the false news that reinforcements were about to arrive, and on the other hand, the officers continued to preach that the Taiping army had killed prisoners, saying that these Cantonese barbarians never left a living mouth, so thousands of Qing soldiers were also united and willing to die, and the determination to defend the city was much stronger than the Taiping army had expected.

The Taiping army's offensive continued, and the Qing army demolished almost half of the houses in the city, turned them into logs, and threw them under the city, or turned them into dry firewood, and poured a pot of boiling dung juice on the heads of the Taiping army. Those captives and bandits who were driven to attack the city were suffering and wanted to retreat, and the broadsword of the Taiping Army Inspector was even sharper, and they wanted to climb up, and the Qing soldiers above were merciless. It's really a dilemma, and I'm tormented under the city.

Seeing that the offensive was blocked, Wang Xing gathered his gunners and put a platoon on the city according to the idea of the staff officers sent by the military marshal's office. Rounds of firearms continued to shoot near the city wall, and immediately suppressed the Qing soldiers in the city.

At the head of the city, in addition to the Qing soldiers, there were many young men who were driven to the city by the Qing soldiers. These young men were used by the Qing army as cannon fodder to offset the firepower of the Taiping army, so as to reduce the consumption of the Qing army's own troops as much as possible. It's just that the young people are already dissatisfied with the Qing army, and when they see the Ming army outside the city, where are they willing to defend the city for the Qing army. Although they didn't dare to resist, they knew that they couldn't do their work, and they all hid behind the city wall with their heads down, no matter how the Qing soldiers threatened, kicked and beat them, they just refused to go out and throw stones down.

"You people can't die if you want to!"

Some Qing generals drew their swords and hacked two young men to death, intending to shock the young men to sell their lives, not wanting the death of these two young men to anger the other young men, they stood up one after another to pick up the knives and guns of those dead Qing soldiers, and shouted that they wanted to fight with the Qing soldiers. Suddenly, there was chaos on this section of the city wall, and the Qing soldiers suppressed the young and strong resistance on the one hand, and on the other hand, they had to guard against the Ming army attacking the city.

Deng Yao, the brigade school of the B Brigade of the 10th Town and the general of Jingxiang, who was commanding outside the city, saw it, and he was willing to let go of such a good opportunity, and immediately ordered the brigade of the headquarters to climb the city. The soldiers of Brigade B were all adapted from Deng Yao's original subordinates, and when they got the general's order, they immediately shouted and rushed forward, but the Qing soldiers quickly suppressed the young Zhuang who resisted in the city, and the Second Brigade missed the best opportunity to seize the city and could only be forced to retreat.

The wooden and lime Qing soldiers threw down everything that could be thrown down on the city wall, and even knocked down countless bamboo ladders, which finally suppressed the Taiping army's offensive this wave. Looking at the retreating Ming army, the Qing soldiers gasped for breath, but none of them dared to take a second look, because although the Ming army under the city retreated, it retreated in a very orderly manner. There were hundreds of guns in turn towards the city to put a row of guns, and some of the Qing soldiers who couldn't dodge were beaten into a hornet's nest by the Ming army's guns, which was extremely miserable.

The orderly retreat of the Ming army made the Qing generals at the head of the city sigh for a while, and the losses in the city were very large, and they didn't know that they could withstand several such lifeless attacks of the Ming army. Wang Guowei's brows were also furrowed, he knew that Wuzhou City would fall one day, and it was said that the army had blown down the city wall of Wuzhou alive with countless gunpowder, so he was very worried that the Ming army outside the city would also use this method to blow up the city wall of Nanning. Losing the protection of the city walls, even if the walls are only a small opening, is fatal to the defenders of the city.

"My lord, I'm afraid that the people in the city can't be trusted, I almost made them bad before, didn't you take them..."

A Qing army officer looked at the young men who were escorted to the city viciously, and made a head-killing gesture with his hand. The surrounding officers were all stunned when they saw it, and they subconsciously looked at the chief soldier, and no one echoed the officer.

The proposal of his subordinates made Wang Guowei even more headache, if it was in the past, he would have killed these people if he said he would have killed, but now he can really do this?

Nanning has been surrounded by the Ming army, and the Admiral is leading the main force to attack the Yongli court in Yunnan, Guilin, Liuzhou, and Xunzhou have no news at all, and it seems that eighty percent of them are either occupied by the Ming army or surrounded by the Ming army, so the reinforcements are not at all, and Nanning is actually fighting alone. If you really want to slaughter the people in the city, can the Ming army outside the city let them go?

Wang Guowei ignored the proposal of his subordinates, and the other generals were also secretly relieved when they saw it, and they would be able to see each other in the future. If this kind of thing is really done, they just want to surrender and have no way, and the Ming army is afraid that they can really slaughter them all.

After the Taiping army retreated, a cavalry shot a letter that stated that if the Qing army did not surrender again, after the city was broken, the officials defending the city would not use force, and the whole family would be executed. (To be continued.) )