On the third day of the second lunar month, the Taiping army besieged the city of Hanzhongfu.

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This is not to say that Chenggu was captured by the Taiping army, and the county seat of Chenggu was still firmly controlled by the Qing court. It was because Chenggu was too difficult to fight, and the Taiping army had abundant troops, so Chen Decai decided to surround and slow down Chenggu, and sent Qi Wang Liang Chengfu and Yongtianan Ma Ronghe to lead the troops to attack Hanzhong Fucheng.

In the previous Dongguan offensive and defensive battles, the lessons learned from the battle between Li Lanyi's army and Liu Xian were learned, and the Taiping army did not dig tunnels and approached directly in trenches. The ready-made Liu Xian and Li Ying, the direction of Guancheng was helpless, and they only watched a row of three trenches constantly approaching Guancheng from outside the range of iron cannons.

Lai Wenguang also pushed through the old and brought forth the new, if you want to hit Dongguan, you must first break the breastwork wall under the city, the Taiping army used to attack the city by relying on the strength of the people, the tide of the sea surging non-stop charge, with human lives to bulldoze a qiē defense measures outside the city, but Lai Wenguang got inspiration from the trench dug trench, in the process of advancing the trench only with a small number of troops to feint to contain the defenders of Dongguan, the elite warriors who dared to fight recuperated, when the trench was less than 20 steps away from the breast wall, the defenders behind the breastwork could threaten the safety of the Taiping army digging soldiers in the trench with gunpowder cans, After three rounds of fire, the elite soldiers were exhausted, and they swooped down on the chest wall.

The gunpowder canisters were thrown and exploded during the charge and affected the defenders behind the breastwork, and the gunpowder smoke and dust raised from the explosion of the gunpowder canisters covered the shots of the defenders at the head of the city, and Liu Xian's well-designed three-dimensional fortifications only withstood two attacks and were declared lost in the third attack of the Taiping army. The breastwork was captured, and the two squads of Liu Xian's army and the first sentry of the volunteer battalion Ding Yong, a total of more than 160 people, lost three or four percent, and finally retreated into the pass under the bombardment of five mountain-splitting cannons at the juncture.

The subsequent attack and defense of the city only lasted for one day, and the city pass was blasted, which meant the failure of the defense. Liu Xian's army and the 500 defenders of the Volunteer Battalion lost 200 people, and the five mountain-splitting guns lost two of them, and the wolf bèi retreated to the county seat.

The Taiping army also paid the price of thousands of casualties, and the corpses of yellow suits were lying all over Dongguan City. Chen Decai stopped the offensive on Chenggu, the Taiping army's gains were disproportionate to the losses, so many pillar forces in the army fell, only a small Dongguan, if you continue to gnaw at Chenggu County, what will be left of your 200,000 army after gnawing?

10,000 or 20,000? And then with more than 100,000 old and weak women and children?

The losses that were even heavier than the battle against Xing'an Mansion frightened Chen Decai, so there was a scene of Liang Chengfu and Ma Ronghe leading their troops west into Nanzheng.

On the fifth day of the second month, Li Lanjun handed over Baocheng to the Taiping Army, and the sixth county of the first month was attacked by the Taiping Army, and Nanzheng, north, south, east and west were completely besieged.

At this moment, Liu Xian misses the wireless telephone and radio station very much, he doesn't know the situation of Nanzheng at all, if Nanzheng City is broken, the pressure on Chenggu is really greater than that of Shandu.

The atmosphere in the city is good, and the impact and panic caused by the loss of Dongguan have been calmed down, but it also makes people have to feel the fragility of the spirit of the people in the city. When there is a wind and grass, that is, the grass and trees are all soldiers, and the wind is loud.

In the final analysis, there is only one sentence: the credibility of the government is too low. Liu Xian didn't have the slightest solution to this.

He has little strength, weak shoulders, and can't take on too much responsibility, so it's enough to keep the city. has the spare time to brush up the credit of the government, he might as well talk to the two little girls who are newly 'bought'.

Nowadays, 50,000 or 60,000 rural people have poured into the county seat, and the accumulation of these families does not even have many decent clothes.

The rich gentry in the city are buying, **** is buying, and even ordinary wealthy families are buying cheap, Liu Xian can't stop this wave of tragedy, he doesn't buy it himself, but others can't send it to the door. So there are two more fourteen or fifteen-year-old brittle girls in his room.

Although the person has not grown yet, she is just a flower-like age, but it can also be seen that the second daughter, who is tall and has a beautiful face, will definitely be beautiful in the future. In the future generations, it will be an unattainable goddess like Liu Xian!

But now, in this time and space, in this era, they are the girls who warm the bed, and they have no status. If Liu Xian doesn't lift them up in the future.

As for the age of adulthood, it is even less of a problem. Fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls, they are not married to mothers. Especially the girl who gave it away, she was old, sixteen or seventeen, and she couldn't do it.

Food and clothing are enough to think**. What the ancestors said is a wise saying! Liu Xian, a person who has tasted the taste of women, is not difficult to control his little brother when he is recuperating from his injuries and at the critical time of pulling the team, but now that he has achieved some fame, it is a little difficult for him to live a monk's life. He is not a saint or sage, he is just an ordinary person, at most he has lofty goals and ambitions, and he still lacks seven emotions and six desires.

So Liu Xian was smiling on one side when he was 'taking bribes', and on the other hand, he was scolding people. Fourteen or fifteen years old is still a little young at the end of the year, and a few years older is better. Twenty-year-old 'old girl', he really doesn't look old at all.

On the evening of the tenth day of the first month of February, it was about a watch. The streets in the city have been quiet, and the cold night of winter is particularly cold and desolate.

Soldiers and brave men were stationed at all the important street intersections, and as soon as it was dark, all those who passed by were checked. The world is urgent, and now the whole city is under martial law, even people who come and go in official clothes must take a good look at it.

A few red or white paper lanterns are lit, dimly lit and swaying under the eaves. In the dim light, you can see large woodblock printed martial law notices on the walls of each street entrance.

In the narrow and long alleys of the streets, there were often soldiers carrying small lanterns or holding knives and guns, knocking on broken wooden poles and shouting along the way, and the shadows of the cowering were as slow and listless as the sound of the bangs.

The head of the county town is also very quiet, and there is a fire camp every short distance, where frozen and shivering soldiers are standing. The cold winter night is not ordinary!

Outside the county, there are many fires rising, the sky is reflected in a red and purple, and from time to time the rumbling cannon will be heard, like a summer thunder rolling in the sky. But the residents of the city are not worried at all, and the Taiping army's tactics of harassment at night are now known to everyone in the city.

That cannon is not a real cannon, but just a big flower cannon!

Therefore, despite the rumbling of cannons outside the city, the flames soaring to the sky, and the soldiers and horses in the city were all under martial law, patrolling the streets, and prohibiting night walks, the poor people in the shacks everywhere still slept peacefully, and they still lived a life of spending days and drinking in the courtyards of the deep houses.

Only those mansions that were closer to the county government were afraid that they would be annoyed by the leaders of Li Ying and Liu Xian's army, so they reined in. Anyway, there are very few of them to really pay attention to the war outside the city, since the first battle of Dongguan, Changmao suffered a big loss, and they lost more than they gained by fighting the city, so they didn't fight the city and changed to attack the city.

A lie told a thousand times is the truth. The big-character poster of the county government said so, and every day it was said, and the people and gentry believed it if they didn't believe it.

The wealthy gentry were very happy to see the good news from the government, because then Li Ying would have no reason to apportionment and collect donations from them.

Because Liu Xian mentioned yì to Li Ying, after keeping the county seat, he could build temples and monuments according to the contributions of each family, and pass on his name to future generations. Therefore, the rich gentry would rather give more to the poor and buy a good reputation, rather than fill the bottomless pit of the official office.

There are 2,000 troops of Liu Xian and 3,000 people of the Volunteer Battalion, how much is a head!