The old general Chen Qice held Zhou Shixiang's hand, I don't know what to say, when he heard that the Taiping army regained Guangzhou, he was already on the side of the Tan River with joy and tears, this meeting Zhou Shixiang, is even more excited beyond words.

Zhu Tong, the general of Zhenguo who was born in the clan, was also excited, since the second year of Yongli, the situation in Guangdong has been collapsing, even though the king of Jin has two crusades to the east, but it has no help to the situation in Guangdong. The essence of Guangdong Province is occupied by the Qing army, and it has always maintained an overwhelming advantage over the Ming army. Now the Taiping army has recovered Guangzhou in one fell swoop, beheaded the Manchurian Jing army Hahamu, killed the king of Pingnan Shang Kexi, forced the king of Jingnan Geng Jimao anyway, today's battle is more annihilated the Qing army in the mouth of the three rivers, looking at Guangdong, who else can be a blow to the Ming army!

The recovery of Guangdong province is just around the corner!

"It's a good show! Shang Zhixin, that kid was captured? ”

Zhu Tong laughed and came up and gave Zhou Shixiang a shoulder hammer, but it was a hammer recognized by the elders to the juniors, and it was not malicious. He liked this young man from the bottom of his heart, and he was proud that he was able to grasp the opportunity and lead his troops to Xinhui to help Chen Qice. If he doesn't come, where will there be such a good thing waiting for him.

A few days ago, Deng Yao of Qinzhou, Zhou Jintang of Lianjiang, and Li Changrong of Hailing Island all sent people to Xinhui to contact Chen Qice and Zhu Tong, because they heard that the Taiping army had won two successive battles in Xiangshan, sawed down all the Manchurian leaders, and sent people to Kunming to report the victory, so they all thought that the Taiping army could defeat the Qing army with just a new battalion, and if they led their troops to come, wouldn't they be able to capture Guangzhou immediately. Recover the whole province of Guangdong.

For this reason, Deng Yao and the others changed their previous negativity and became very optimistic. Several letters kept going back and forth, wanting to attack Guangzhou together, and then divide the territory near Guangzhou according to the number of troops sent by each family. As a result, as soon as they heard that the Qing army in Guangzhou was attacking the Taiping army in three ways, there was no news at all, and they shrank up one by one. It's good now, Ren Xiucai led the Taiping Army to take Guangzhou quietly, and see that these guys still have the face to discuss how to draw territory.

Guangzhou. Zhu Tong didn't want to think about it, he had a few pounds and a few taels in his heart, Zhaoqing. But he watched it closely, and made up his mind that this time he would let Zhou Shixiang send troops to help them recover Zhaoqing no matter what.

Zhou Shixiang saw Zhu Tongzhen for the first time, and he had always felt that this person must be very obscene, or very philistine. Or maybe it's a profiteer. I don't want this person to look very honest, if he takes off the armor on his body and changes it into people's clothes, no one will suspect that he is an old farmer.

Zhou Shixiang sighed and said to Zhu Tong: "Shang Zhixin has been executed by me." ”

"Killed?"

Zhu Tongyi was stunned, shook his head with some pity, and said: "Why did you kill him, how good it is to sacrifice this little boy to the emperor, you can show your talent." can also raise the prestige of my Ming army, and the Son of Heaven will definitely be happy when he sees it. ”

Chen Qice also felt that it was a pity that Zhou Shixiang killed Shang Zhixin like this. But it's just a pity, he hasn't digested the miracles created by Xiucai these days, and he really doesn't care much about the life and death of a prince of Pingnan.

"I have a lot of Han troops under the Pingnan Domain, if I keep the old master of Shang Zhixin, I am afraid that these Han troops will be unstable."

Zhou Shixiang told him frankly that if he didn't kill Shang Zhixin, the Han army under the Pingnan Domain would not be able to return to his heart.

"That's just as well."

Zhu Tong nodded after hearing this, although the Taiping Army is now amazingly strong, but the number of troops surrendered is also amazing, although there are family members pinching it, but if you don't watch out for it, you can't say it. He didn't say anything about it anymore, but smiled and pointed at the group of Han army captives who were being held on the ground, and said: "These Han soldiers will give you all the price, ten taels of silver per person and 50 catties of rice, do you think it's good?" ”

Just finished dealing with a money-greedy Qing adjutant general, and now he wants to deal with a money-greedy Daming Zhenguo general, Zhou Shixiang couldn't cry or laugh, in line with the intention of helping friendly troops and using friendly troops, he readily agreed.

"I will do what General Zhenguo wants."

Zhu Tong asked for money when he met, which made Chen Qice's old face blush, and Zhou Shixiang's cheerfulness made him even more pleased, and he stepped forward to tell Zhou Shixiang that he had resettled all the refugees transferred from Xiangshan in the city, and he could send them back later.

Zhou Shixiang hurriedly thanked him, and said that he would let Song Xianggong take care of this matter when he went back, and he would definitely compensate these people for eating and drinking in Xinhui City.

Chen Qice did not shirk, his family background was not relaxed, if it weren't for Zhou Shixiang's help in the past few months, the sailors would have been hungry a long time ago. Because Zhaoqing was still in the hands of the Qing army, Chen Qice did not dare to recruit displaced people on a large scale to cultivate the land outside Xinhui City, so he basically had no income and could only barely make ends meet. This is also the reason why Zhou Shixiang sent him to Zhaoqing, and he and Zhu Tong immediately waved their troops to help in the war.

On the Xinhui side, it was too poor, and the most important thing was that there were too few people, and most of them were killed by the Qing army. Zhaoqing is relatively better, after all, it is a place, as long as it is well managed, it is still possible to be self-sufficient. More importantly, Zhaoqing is the place where the Zijian State ascended the throne today, so the significance of recovering Zhaoqing is no less than recovering Guangzhou.

"Xiucai is making a big deal now, don't be polite to him, go back and ask someone to settle the account, and then double it and send it to Xiucai. If you can't finish eating, you can even order me. Zhu Tong didn't forget to take the opportunity to fight the autumn wind, and his life was not easy.

"It's here, I'm going to take people back to Guangzhou, Zhaoqing."

Zhou Shixiang told them what Tang Sanshui, the deputy general of Zhaoqing, had agreed with him, and when he heard that Tang Sanshui was willing to take people to the city, Chen Qice and Zhu Tong were overjoyed.

Without further ado, the three of them agreed that Zhou Shixiang allocated 500 personal soldiers and Tang Sanshui's Zhaoqing battalion soldiers to take the sailor ship along the Xijiang River into Zhaoqing, and Chen and Zhu selected more than 1,000 elite soldiers to wait outside the city. After taking Zhaoqing, Tang Sanshui led people to Shaozhou, Zhou Shixiang's troops returned to Guangzhou, and Zhaoqing City was officially taken over by Chen and Zhu. After agreeing, and dividing the accounts of today's battlefield capture, Zhou Shixiang happily said goodbye to the two of them, and hurriedly led the army back to Guangzhou.

Chen Qice and Zhu Tong thought about Zhaoqing City, and they didn't have the heart to stay in Sanjiangkou for longer, so they both went back to select troops and transfer generals, preparing to take Zhaoqing in one fell swoop.

Tang Sanshui had already selected 600 reliable subordinates, and Zhou Shixiang asked Zhu Qing to bring 500 soldiers to Zhaoqing with Tang Sanshui, and let Suna lead dozens of Manchurian soldiers to follow. It can be regarded as an additional insurance, if Xu Erxian has any suspicions, Suna will deceive the city.

This is the advantage of backward communications, up to now, the information that there are Manchu soldiers in the Taiping army has not been known to the Qing army in Guangdong, let alone the Qing soldiers in the north. If Zhou Shixiang wanted to, he could let these Manchurian soldiers of Suna go around the city, but he didn't plan to do so, because he didn't need that much territory at the moment.

Zhou Shixiang's top priority was to reorganize the army, and the Guangzhou Prefecture had jurisdiction over more than ten counties, which was well managed, and it was enough to support the Taiping army in the short term. In addition, Zhou Shixiang did not have a strong civil official system in his hands, and the township and village office system in Xiangshan had just been established, and only the territory of Guangzhou could barely build up the management system.

If Sun Kewang had not been defeated and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing army had entered Yunnan in a big way, Zhou Shixiang would naturally have time to start building a civilian government system, slowly advancing and maximizing Guangdong's resources.

Zhou Shixiang did not bring all the captured Qing troops back to Guangzhou, but divided them into four groups, one in Shunde, one in Xiangshan, one in Panyu, and the other in Guangzhou.

Hu Qili led his governor to march to Huizhou on the eighth day of the first month, and the governor's desire for new territory made their march very fast, capturing Boluo, Changning and other counties within two days, and several counties were passed on, and the county appointed by the Qing court had changed banners before Hu Bu's arrival. Wang Wen, the prefect of Huizhou, absconded with Yin, and almost any resistance in Huizhou was declared to be clear. Like the Taiping Army, Hu Qili's troops also snowballed in Huizhou, and the soldiers stationed in each county were all braided and turned into the Ming Army.

Hu Qili regarded himself as the general army of Huizhou in the Ming Dynasty, and wantonly sealed the officials, and if the official seal was not enough, he would carve it on wood, and in just one month, his department had expanded to more than 10,000 people, and the descendants of the soldiers and horses stationed in the city of Guishan had also expanded to more than 3,000 people.

Without asking Suna to come forward, Tang Sanshui successfully deceived the city gate, and after entering the city, in addition to leaving people to control the city gate to welcome Chen and Zhu Buming's army into the city, he led his troops to the general army with Suna. Xu Erxian, the general soldier of Zhaoqing in his sleep, was slashed and killed before he could organize a human resistance. After Xu Erxian was killed, the battalion in the city was leaderless, and was soon broken by the Ming army, and after dawn, the Ming army flag was raised at the head of Zhaoqing City.

Tang Sanshui played a trick, he ransacked the Zhaoqing Treasury, and took advantage of the chaos to loot the big households in the city, and took more than 100 large and small carriages to Shaozhou. Zhu Tong was so angry that he wanted to send troops to hunt him down, but was persuaded by Chen Qice.

After learning about this, Zhou Shixiang had no choice but to coordinate and let Tang Sanshui take out part of the money and post some of it himself, which made General Zhenguo not so angry.

More than a dozen counties under the jurisdiction of Zhaoqing Prefecture are like Huizhou, and once the city is lost, the counties will change banners one after another, and some counties that do not want to change banners are also tied to the head of the city by the battalion soldiers. The leading soldiers of Duyang Chunzhi County resisted stubbornly, but the city was broken by the Ming army in less than a day. In just over a month, all 48 counties in Guangzhou, Zhaoqing, and Huizhou returned to Ming, and the world shook when the news came out.

(To be continued.) )