After the surrendered battalion soldiers identified each other, 26 of the 415 green battalion soldiers participated in the massacre in the back mountain, and after confirming that it was correct, 26 people were pulled out and imprisoned with the flag soldiers. Just as Shao Jiugong was about to coerce those battalion soldiers to kill people, Song Xianggong hurried to stop him, and then after Song Xianggong's persuasion, Zhou Shixiang agreed not to execute these people for the time being, and brought them to Xinhui City to break the morale of the defenders.

Song Xianggong also advised Zhou Shixiang not to rush to attack Xinhui City, but to rest here for a day, wait for the arrival of the guard battalion before advancing to Xinhui City.

Zhou Shixiang disagreed, saying that the soldiers were fast, Xinhui City was only forty miles away from Guifeng Mountain, and now the defenders in the city must know the news of the destruction of the Qing army in Guifeng Mountain, and when they were panicked, the Taiping army should immediately attack Xinhui City, so as not to prevent the defenders from starting to prepare for defending the city after the initial panic. If the defenders were prepared, it was conceivable how many Taiping soldiers would throw their lives under a fortified city that even Li Dingguo's army could not overcome.

Song Xianggong said, the Qing army in the left and right cities already knew the situation of Guifeng Mountain, and now rushed to confuse the defenders for a while, and no matter what means Zhou Shixiang took to attack the city, in the face of the Qing army with a strong city to rely on, the front battalion still had to pay huge casualties, and it was unrealistic and impossible to expect the defenders to collapse on their own.

Yes, the Xinhui guard will be killed by Yunlong Zhou Shixiang, and now the general Wu Jinzhong died in Guifeng Mountain, but the fact is that there must be other officers in Xinhui City to take on the heavy responsibility of defending the city, and the soldiers of the front battalion marched rapidly for days in order to rescue the rear battalion, and just fought with the Qing army, from top to bottom, everyone is tired and exhausted, and many people can't even open their eyelids. Whoever can afford it, and who can hold it, really have to force the march. I'm afraid most of them are going to die.

Of course, Song Xianggong did not bluntly say that Zhou Shixiang forcibly attacked Xinhui City to send him to death. Instead, he tactfully reminded Zhou Shixiang of the consequences of sending troops now, and he still paid attention to the maintenance of Zhou Shixiang's authority between words, after all, the Taiping Battalion was built from scratch, from small to large, and was built by Zhou Shixiang, after Hu Quanzhan died, to a certain extent, Zhou Shixiang has become the core of the Taiping Army and the soul of the Taiping Army. Although he was not afraid or worried that Zhou Shixiang would be disgusted by his advice. But Song Xianggong still consciously corrected his status and identity, and now there is only one boss in the Taiping Army, that is, Zhou Shixiang, a new talent in the show.

After listening to Song Xianggong's words, Zhou Shi thought for a long time, and his intuition told him that Song Xianggong was right, the brothers in the front camp must rest, if they really order it now, I am afraid that before they get to the bottom of the mountain, more than half of them will fall asleep on the mountain road. He did not insist on his opinion any longer, and ordered the whole army to rest and recuperate at Guifeng Mountain. Wait for the Guards Battalion and the Hujie Battalion to arrive before advancing to Xinhui City.

During the break, Zhou Shixiang was not idle, and he roughly told Song Xianggong about the reorganization of the flag awarding to the former camp in Gaoyao City. The two of them analyzed what kind of actions the Qing army in Zhaoqing would take now, and how the Taiping and Jing feuds in Guangzhou and the governor's palace would deal with the Taiping army that appeared under their noses and appeared in their heartland.

The two discussed the next move of the Taiping army after taking Xinhui City, in case they could not take Xinhui City, where the Taiping army should retreat and where to develop. This conversation lasted for most of the hour, during which Lin Wan'er brought food over. However, Zhou Shixiang, who was thinking about things, didn't notice it, which made Miss Wan'er feel very disappointed after going out. Song Xianggong saw it in his eyes. Helplessly, he smiled bitterly.

The former battalion was divided into five major war barracks, and the officer promotion system was established. Song Xianggong expressed his approval and support, if it is said that the impression given to him by the Taiping Camp in the past was that he was a rogue, and now this reorganization and expansion will give him a feeling of regular officers and soldiers.

Due to the fact that the three battalions of Zhen, Xiongwei, and Trap suffered a lot of losses in the battle, Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong discussed and asked the third battalion to replenish from the captives of the green battalion who surrendered, and selected 100 young men from the remaining more than 200 men in the rear battalion to make up for it, so that the soldiers of the three battalions were replenished again, and all the 520 people were restored.

More than 300 people in the Qing army camp under the mountain were requisitioned by the Qing army from Xinhui City, many of them knew Zhou Shixiang, when they knew that Zhou Xiucai, who was a big official of the Qing army that day, had now become a thousand households of the Ming Taiping Army, these people were surprised, and after being surprised, they were counting on Zhou Xiucai to let them go back for the sake of them all villagers, but Zhou Shixiang did not let these villagers go back, but forced all of them to be conscripted as soldiers to fill in the rear camp, and the remaining men in the back camp were reorganized into the security brigade, and the captain was temporarily vacant, After Zhao Sihai recovers from his injury, he will take over. Such an arrangement made these people complain, and they scolded Zhou Xiucai in private for being unkind, but none of them dared to escape.

In view of the fact that the armed forces of the rear camp were too weak, the battle of Guifeng Mountain could not fully protect the people of the camp, resulting in half of the women and children in the rear camp losing when they retreated, so Song Xianggong asked Zhou Shixiang to expand the armed forces of the rear battalion, so that the rear battalion could have a force that could protect itself, so that it would not have the power to counterattack when it encountered the Qing army again

Zhao Sihai's battle team can be said to be wiped out, and the remnants have been added to the front camp, and most of the security team members have been lost, and the treasury army is also dead and wounded, and the men in each battalion are basically dead and wounded, so Song Xianggong asked Zhou Shixiang to transfer some officers and veterans from the front battalion to the rear battalion, and there is no need to set up a battalion head in the rear battalion to imitate the front battalion and directly expand the security team.

Zhou Shixiang agreed to Song Xianggong's request, and mischievously upgraded the security team to a security regiment, the meaning of this regiment is about the same as regimental training, the number of soldiers is expanded to no less than 1,000 people, so that everyone has weapons, and the training is completely in accordance with the specifications of the war barracks, which makes Song Xianggong very happy. However, Zhou Shixiang then said that now he can only imagine that because of the imminent attack on Xinhui City, he could not transfer veterans and officers from the front camp, but temporarily added those Xinhui people who had just joined the back camp into the security regiment, and after taking Xinhui City, all the remaining people in the city would be included in the rear camp, among which Qingzhuang was the reserve soldier of the security regiment, and after arriving in Xiangshan, the formation and training of the security regiment were officially completed.

Although it was just a big cake drawn by Zhou Shixiang, Song Xianggong also knew that the front camp could not transfer people at the moment, after all, whether he could take Xinhui City, and whether he could defeat Guangzhou and Zhaoqing later. Even the Qing troops transferred from other prefectures and counties to encircle and suppress the Taiping Army all relied on the strength of the front battalion, and at this time they took the liberty of transferring officers and veterans from the front battalion. Undoubtedly an extremely stupid move. Even after taking Xinhui City, priority should be given to replenishing the front battalion. Instead of expanding his security corps.

After nodding in agreement, the matter of the security group came to an end for the time being. Zhou Shixiang's future task to Song Xianggong was to take the remaining more than 4,000 people in the rear camp to move with the front battalion, and this lesson made Zhou Shixiang dare not easily lead the front battalion to act alone. Although the rear battalion is full of old and weak women and children, it is the future of the Taiping Army, the soldiers of the front battalion, money and food will fall on the rear battalion in the future, after having a solid base, the elderly, children and even women are productive forces, and they will also be soldiers.

The words "all the people are soldiers" are not Zhou Shixiang's casual remarks on a whim. He can foresee that the Qing army will categorically not let him gain a firm foothold in Xiangshan County, and encirclement and suppression again and again will be inevitable.

From Song Xianggong's mouth, Zhou Shixiang learned that Lin Wan'er had an extremely strong performance when surrounded by the Qing army, much stronger than his father, and even stronger than some men. Song Xianggong said casually, Miss Lin came in just now. Seeing that the Lord of Qianhu was thinking about things, he didn't bother and retreated, and he seemed a little lost when he went out.

Hearing this, Zhou Shixiang was dumbfounded. However, he didn't go out of his way to find Wan'er, because until now, he didn't know how to treat this titular maid, and he didn't even think about sleeping with this girl. Perhaps, in his heart, he can't forget his tragic death of his wife, or maybe he has more sympathy for this girl than anything else.

For Lin Wan'er's sake. In addition, the situation was urgent at that time, and surrender was the choice of most battalion elders and camp managers. Even the thoughts of everyone in the besieged Hou Lao, and even Zhao Sihai had the idea of surrendering. Zhou Shixiang did not rebuke these people, nor did he embarrass Lin Wanfu, and even Lin Wanfu was not removed from the post of ambassador of the treasury, but let them make meritorious contributions. It is understandable to surrender in a desperate situation to save their lives, after all, these people are ordinary people in this era, there is no national hatred like Zhou Shixiang, and there is no national righteousness, they only know that they want to survive, they have to eat their stomachs, and it is unrealistic and immoral to force them to die for the Taiping Army.

To a certain extent, Zhou Shixiang's arrangements stabilized the uneasy hearts of the camp elders and camp management, so that the rear camp did not have unnecessary turmoil because they were worried that Zhou Shixiang would liquidate them.

The money and grain materials discarded by the Qing army at the foot of the mountain were all stationed in the camp of the Qing army at the foot of the mountain, and now these money and food materials have been recovered, and some money and grain of the Qing army have also been seized, but because the Qing army did not carry much money and grain when they went out of the city, the seizure was also limited, but a lot of carriages and horses were seized, and there were more than 300 vehicles, which was a surprise. Such a large number of carriages and horses could alleviate the much-needed transportation capacity of the Taiping army's carriages, and also speed up the pace of marching.

The monk Qilin, who offered to lead the monks in the temple to treat the Taiping camp, was arrested, and he was arrested because the surrendered Qing army confessed that Wu Jinzhong, the chief soldier, decided to attack the mountain after receiving a secret letter from the monks on the mountain.

In the empty palace of the Heavenly King, Zhou Shixiang and Monk Qilin stood in front of the Bodhisattva and had such a brief conversation:

When he heard that the Jizo Bodhisattva saw the suffering of the beings in hell, he felt the same way, and made a vow to go to hell to save the sentient beings, saying, "If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell!" Hell is not empty, and you will not become a Buddha! ”

"It's good, the donor actually knows the allusions of Buddhism, and he is a person of great wisdom."

"I wonder where I'm going after a hundred years?"

"Or a speck of dust in the world, or a donkey or a horse, or grass or a tree."

"And then? Don't you go to hell? ”

"If it's the final level, I'll naturally go to hell."

"Presiding over is the knowledge of great goodness, how can you go to hell?"

"If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell to educate sentient beings?"

"The host is really compassionate, so now can I ask the host to go to hell to educate sentient beings?"

"What? Yes! ”

"Come on, send the host to hell!"

"Donor's general spare your life!"

"I will spare your life, who will spare the lives of those old people, children and women!"

I'm tired these days. (To be continued)