Lianhuashan Town is more than 30 miles away from Guangzhou City in the north, and it is only more than ten miles away from Zini Town in Panyu County, although this town is small, but it is the right bank of the Lion Ocean Waterway, so there are many fishermen, and some "merchants" who do business at sea also take this town as a trading place, so even if Guangdong is full of chaos at present, it is very prosperous here.

On this day, the town was quite deserted, the people hid in their homes and did not dare to come out, the vendors who were selling on the street on weekdays also disappeared en masse, and there were few boats in sight at the mouth of the sea not far away.

The reason why this is so is because of the Manchurian soldiers who came to the town.

Leading the Manchurian soldiers into Lianzhen was the commander of the Eight Banners of the Manchurian Garrison in Guangzhou, Dayinbu, who was a native of the White Banner and his old surname was Tatara.

Dayinbu once served as a second-class guard in the palace, and in the ninth year of Shunzhi, he took the path of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Interior Sony and was transferred to the first staff of Zhengbai Banner as the assistant leader, and the following year he went to Shandong with Belle Durhu to suppress the Han rebellion and made war achievements, and was promoted to the third staff leader.

Last year, the Council of Ministers decided to transfer Manchurian soldiers south to Guangzhou to garrison, and the four bulls drawn from the Zhengbai Flag were the third staff leaders where Dayinbu was, and although Dayinbu himself was very reluctant, he also took the lead in making trouble with some people, and even went to cry at the palace gate, but in the end he was sent to Guangzhou. Along the way, the 4 Niu Lu of Zhengbai Flag kept making trouble and looking for trouble in Galai Daoga, and the instigator behind this was naturally Dayinbu, the leader.

Like coming to Guangzhou, Dayinbu was also very reluctant to go out on this errand to suppress the Taiping army, not that Dayinbu was afraid of the Taiping army, but that the family members from Beijing had just arrived in Guangzhou, and now the city was full of chaos. The families were not settled, and they were making a lot of noise, and he led the men of each family out of the city to fight. He is determined in his heart, and his flag soldiers can be determined?

Limited to Hahamu's strict orders, Dayinbu did not dare not send troops, he dared to go against the blue flag of Kalai Daoga, but he did not dare to play against Hahamu, who was born in the yellow flag and stood behind Sony. With the affection of Sonny and Hahamu, if he really dares not to be long-sighted, Sonny can immediately send someone to take him back to Beijing. Whatever the charge is.

On this trip to suppress the Taiping army, Dayinbu brought two of the four Niulu under his jurisdiction, and one of the two Niulu was Suna, who fled without a fight in the Lutou River. The other is Gangata of the Yehe family.

Because he was a Manchurian general, Suna's performance at Lutouhe did not bring him guilt, although now Hu Qili, the governor of Li Shuitai's subordinate, was still hiding in Shunde to join him, and the governor Li Shutai was also greatly annoyed by Suna's performance of fleeing without a fight. However, there is Hahamu's power to protect. Coupled with the legend of the invincibility of the Manchurian soldiers, this matter was finally reconciled, and the final conclusion was that Suna was a step late when he led his troops to arrive, and the Taiping army had completely annihilated the green camp in Guangzhou, so he had no choice but to withdraw his troops. And Hu Qili accused Suna of just shirking responsibility for the defeat.

Hu Qili was such a bastard, he should have immediately dismissed the official and locked up the crime, but in view of the fact that the Taiping army was marching towards Guangzhou, the Shunde garrison battalion was weak. Li Shutai asked him to lead the remnants of the superintendent to make meritorious service in Shunde, in order to prevent the Taiping army from attacking Shunde and causing the Xinhui Ming army to attack Sanjiangkou again.

Gangtaa's old surname is Yehnala. He was the leader of his father's position, and he did not make an inch of merit on the battlefield, so he was quite despised among the leaders. This time, he begged Dayinbu to let him lead the troops into battle, in order to prove himself and save others from laughing at him.

Together with these 2 Niu Lu Manchu soldiers, there were also two Niu Lu Han troops under Shang Kexi, and a Niu Lu Han army under Geng Jimao.

Shang Kexi made a bloody investment this time, knowing that the Taiping army could turn defeat into victory in Lutou River and annihilate Tong Er's more than 400 cavalry in one fell swoop, mainly relying on artillery and firearms, he sent out all the two Niu Lu equipped with firearms under the domain.

The two leaders are Du Shude and Xiang Guoqing.

Du Shude did not fight with the Taiping army, and he did not participate in the Battle of Xinhui, but led his troops to participate in the Battle of Sanjiangkou in Layue last year. In that battle, the Ming army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, while the Qing army's casualties were only one-tenth of theirs, but only more than 300. This battle was won so easily, Du Shude naturally did not take the Taiping army seriously, and always felt that the defeat of Xinhui was caused by the fact that His Royal Highness the Prince of the World lightly attacked the city and lost too much.

Xiang Guoqing fought against the Taiping Army, and was the first general under the Pingnan Domain to be beaten by the Taiping Army to lose his armor. That battle took place in Gaoyao, when Xiang Guoqing was ordered by King Pingnan to go to Leizhou to support the local green battalion, but he was killed by the Taiping army halfway. Xiang Guoqing, who came back from picking up his life, was not beheaded, but dismissed the leader and listened to it in the army. After the Han army banner generals who attacked Xinhui with Shang Zhixin came back, Xiang Guoqing finally had a little light, everyone was defeated by the Taiping army, and he still had the face to talk about him.

King Pingnan did not intend to resume the post of leader to the National Day, which was won by Shang Zhixiao, the second son of the King of Pingnan, for the National Day.

Shang Zhixiao did this, firstly, to the sister who was waiting in Shang Zhixiao's room for the National Day to speak for him, and secondly, although the eldest brother Shang Zhixin still got the favor of his father Shang Kexi after the fiasco of Xinhui, he could not stand the royal palace and generals at all levels were dissatisfied with His Royal Highness the prince, Shang Zhixiao was already worried about the position of the prince of Pingnan, the Qing Dynasty was not as good as the Ming Dynasty, and he did not pay attention to the long-term system, who could do it should be, and now that his brother has lost his military heart, Shang Zhixiao naturally wants to take the opportunity to win the support of the generals of the Pingnan Domain. If you want to get the support of those people, military merit is the first priority, and Shang Zhixiao can't convince his father to let him lead the army for the time being, but he can train some trustworthy subordinates. Under his repeated requests, Shang Kexi finally reinstated the dismissed Xiang Guoqing and asked him to lead a Niu Lu to fight the Taiping Army with Du Shutai.

Geng Jimao's banner soldiers were less than Shang Kexi, when his father Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi, Kong Youde invested gold together, the Geng family headquarters only a few hundred people, compared to Kong Youde's more than 3,000 monks and 2,000 people, in the following years, Emperor Taizong had great faith in the king of Sanshun, and constantly transferred the Ming army prisoners and captured Hanmin to their subordinates, so that the Geng family could have more than 2,000 direct soldiers when entering the customs, but it still could not be compared with Kong Youde and Pingnan who were named the king of Dingnan, and Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan. The soldiers of these two families far surpassed the Geng family.

In order to expand his strength, Geng Zhongming ignored the imperial court's ban on hiding fugitives. He hid more than 1,000 fugitives under the tent without authorization, but was denounced because he was afraid that the court would cut off his head. Geng Zhongming was so frightened that he committed suicide. The Jingnan prince who stayed behind has not been able to let his son Geng Jimao attack for several years, and the Shunzhi Emperor even wants to remove the Jingnan prince, if it weren't for the queen mother in the palace to speak, Geng Jimao would still be just a third-class Jingqi Hafan, where is one of the Han relatives today.

After Geng Zhongming's death, the generals of the Geng family were divided and scattered, and when Geng Jimao attacked the prince. There are less than 2,000 soldiers under the direct banner. Later, he and Shang Kexi went south to conquer Guangdong, and only then did he accept some Ming troops and generals, which made Jingnan Domain look better. But its own soldiers never reached 3,000. This is also the reason why Shang Kexi asked Geng Jimao to send troops to attack Xinhui together, but Geng Jimao only sent his uncle Geng Zhongde to lead a few hundred people, and his strength was really limited.

This time, Geng Jimao also didn't want to send troops, but he couldn't stand Li Shutai's repeated requests. and moved the court out. In addition, the Manchurians also sent troops, and it was difficult for him to explain to the Qing court if he did not send troops, so he reluctantly sent a Niulu Han army out.

Like Shang Kexi's two Niu Lu, Geng Fan's Niu Lu is also a firearms soldier, with 420 soldiers, and the leader of the army is Geng Jimao's brother-in-law Wang Shude.

When Dayinbu saw that there was no one in the whole town, he was amazed and asked Xiang Guoqing and Du Shude: "Why are these people hiding at home and not coming out?" ”

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slandered Guoqing and Du Shude. The people of Lotus Town did not dare to come out because they were afraid of being harmed by the Manchurian soldiers, but it was not good to say this to Dayinbu. Both squeaked and wanted to get past it.

Wang Shude was amused in his heart. He stepped forward with a straight face: "Your Excellency, since the people in this town are afraid of the officials and soldiers, and think that some of them are colluding with thieves, it is better to lead the troops to blast them out, and then go through their halls one by one to see how many thieves and spies are hidden in this town!" ”

He. Mother's Wang Shude, you want to harm people again.

Xiang Guoqing and Du Shude listened to Wang Shude's words, and they all secretly scolded Wang Shude for being shameless to the bottom in order to please the Manchurians, but the two didn't want to think that they had done a lot of such things in the past.

If it weren't for the fact that the Qing court had repeatedly asked the Eight Banners soldiers not to kill the Han people who had shaved their hair in the past two years, I am afraid that Gangta A would have killed people and become a Buddha.

Not wanting Ta Yinbu to be uninterested in Wang Shude's proposal, he touched the beard on his face, waved his hand and said, "No need, the people are afraid, just let them hide." I was ordered by General Hahamu to encircle and suppress the Taiping Kou, not to disturb the people. ”

Hearing this, they couldn't believe their ears on the National Day: When did the Manchurians treat the Han people so well?

Tayinbu turned a blind eye to the strange expressions on their faces, and raised his whip to order that they should not enter the town to disturb the people, and then raised his whip and pointed at the lion ocean in the distance, and said to Gangta and them with a smile: "When I was in Beijing, I heard that John Tang said that our land is actually not flat, but round, that is to say, if you go all the way west from us, and walk across the ocean for more than ten years, maybe you will return to this place again." You say, "Is this man true, that we can really come back here from the far west and from the sea?" ”

Gangta Aha laughed: "I don't think it's real, how can this land be round, if it's round, then we won't all fall?" Besides, Tang Ruowang's Western devil is also fooling our emperor, and he came up with these heresies to deceive our emperor to let him open an apprenticeship in our Qing Dynasty, and deceive some silver to spend Western devils, how big can that land be, and how big can we be in the Qing Dynasty? Can he have more Western things? According to me, he Tang John is just making some scary statements, or as you Han people say, sitting in a well and watching the sky, what are you doing at night? ”

Wang Shude, who was riding next to Gangtaa, hurriedly reminded: "It's Yelang who is arrogant. ”

"Ah, yes, Yoro is arrogant."

Gang Ta'a glanced at Wang Shude approvingly, "Yelang, this person, is like Tang Ruowang's foreign devil, he is very arrogant, he always thinks that he knows everything, but in the end he doesn't know anything. If you really understand the truth, it is still those who read among you Han people, such as Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanme, oh yes, and Hong Chengchou, they understand that it is the right reason, and Tang Ruowang understands that it is crooked. If it weren't for the emperor believing in him, this Western devil would have been ordered to be cut down by the princes, how could he brag nonsense in our Qing Dynasty! ”

"That's the emperor's sage, magnanimous, can tolerate Tang Ruowang, a Western devil, don't care about him in general, if you want to change to a humble position, you don't have to cut him, but you must also whip him and drive him away." In front of the Manchurians, Wang Shude naturally wanted to shoot the emperor's sycophants.

Dayinbu listened to what the two of them said, and nodded happily on the side: "That's true, Western devils understand that it is crooked, and you Han people who understand is the truth, but if we are full of people sitting today, you Han people can do things for us Manchurians, you must be diligent, don't learn from foreign devils to coax us, otherwise we will not spare you." (To be continued.) )