Guangdong

A few days before the incident, he sent more than 100 brothers into the city to contact the party brothers in the city, planning to join forces to capture the county.

"Big man, the city gates are open! It was the three sons who opened the gates of the city! ”

He Liu also saw it, and shouted with a big knife: "Rush! The brothers rushed into the city to grab the money! ”

More than 2,000 brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society all rushed to the city gate with a roar, and from time to time a person who fell to the ground was trampled twice by those behind him, and then got up again and continued to move forward.

An hour later

He Liu sat in the county hall and smiled at the county order kneeling below.

The county commander's legs trembled, and his speech began to stutter: "Okay...... Han spares his life. ”

He Liu patted the shocked wood and shouted: "Dog officer! Tell me, how much money you've embezzled! ”

The county commander knelt on the ground and cried: "The hero is wronged! This official, no, the lower official...... The official is really not corrupt, the lower officials have a clean breeze on their sleeves, and the heroes are invited to bypass the lives of the lower officials. ”

He Liu continued to pat the shocking wood and shouted: "Be bold and dare to quibble, the little ones will pull down and beat fifty boards!" ”

Seeing the lively brothers, all laughed, and two people carried big knives and dragged them out of the hall with county orders.

"The hero spares his life, I said, I recruited it!" Looking at the big knife on his forehead, a puddle of water came out of the county order's lower body, and the stench filled the county hall.

He Liu pinched his nose and waved his hand below: "Drag it down and search out the silver." ”

"Who's next?" He Liu asked the leader next to him.

The leader looked at the roster and replied, "It is Zhou Shanren, the biggest landlord in the city, who took away the land of the big man's family last time." ”

He Liu rubbed his palms. New hatreds and old grudges came to mind together, and the crooked official hat was straightened. Excitedly: "Don't bring the prisoner up yet!" ”

Zhou Shanren was caught by two people, one left and one right, and scolded in his mouth: "He Liu! How dare you rebel? You wait, the imperial army will come soon, you will let me go, my son is a general in Guangzhou, and he can still intercede for you at that time, so that you will not die. ”

He Liu looked at Zhou Shanren, who was stubble, and laughed, suddenly became hideous, and asked loudly: "Back then, I just asked your family to borrow a hundred taels of silver." If you don't have the money to return it, you and I will snatch away my family's 30 acres of good land, and we must return it today! ”

Zhou Shanren said with a smile: "It should be so, I will give the title deed with both hands when I go back." ”

He Liu stared at Zhou Shanren's eyes and said word by word: "I want all your fields!" ”

Zhou Shanren thought that he had heard it wrong, and only reacted when he saw He Liu's strange expression, and said angrily: "You just kill me, my Zhou family's real estate is passed down from generation to generation, not by the wind." You'd better die of this heart! ”

He Liu said angrily: "This is not up to you, to tell you the truth, the 100,000 army of the Han Dynasty has invaded Guangdong, and it is unkind to be rich like you." Do evil and harm the countryside...... The traitors who oppress the good are the targets of the Han army's suppression, and today I will end you in advance. ”

Zhou Shanren stammered, "You want to ...... What are you going to do? I...... I'm telling you. If you dare to touch a single hair of me, my son will never let you go! ”

He Liu saw that he was stubborn. said angrily: "Pull down and hit the fifty boards, if you still don't repent." Just beat him until he dies! ”

There are many people in the "Obey the Order" Heaven and Earth Association who have been ruined by Zhou Shanren's family, and they all flocked up, carrying the struggling Zhou Shanren forward.

"Who's next?"

The leader replied: "It's Li Xianggong in the west of the city." ”

He Liu waved his hand and said: "This Li Xiang is fair and kind, although he has some festivals with Lao Tzu, I am not the kind of unreasonable person, let him go, and judge the next one." ”

At the end of the day, He Liu only cared about interrogating the gentry of the whole city, whether he was arrested or released, beaten or closed, or coerced or intimidated, and obtained 300,000 taels of silver, more than 50,000 acres of fields, and 30,000 quintals of grain and grass in one day.

The complacent He Liu Liu shouted: "Give each of the brothers ten taels of silver, let them hurry up, report it, all those who come to take refuge, regardless of whether they are high or low, will be issued three taels of silver, and tomorrow morning it will be like a march to Guangzhou." ”

On the same day, Chen Kai rebelled in Foshan and soon occupied Foshan Town, while Li Wenmao and Chen Xianliang gathered tens of thousands of people in the suburbs of Guangzhou to attack some counties and towns outside Guangzhou.

The Liangjiang Governor's Mansion in Guangzhou

Ye Mingchen was anxious to turn around, and overnight, tens of thousands of rebels appeared outside Guangzhou, cutting off Guangzhou's external contacts.

"My lord, no, the number of rebels has increased again, and tens of thousands of rebels are coming to Guangzhou in the direction of Dongguan and Foshan!" After receiving the information, Guangzhou Dutong Laicun was flustered and hurriedly reported to Ye Mingchen.

Ye Mingchen pretended to be calm and reprimanded: "What kind of system is it that you are flustered!" If you have something to say, speak slowly! ”

Lai Cun was drunk in front of him, frightened over fear, and replied: "Lord Qiyu, Dongguan, Foshan, Sanshui, Guangzhou and other places have appeared one after another to rebel, and the momentum is huge, with a total of more than 100,000 people, all of whom are attacking Guangzhou. ”

Ye Mingchen immediately ordered: "Arrest all the party members in the city and torture them, order the governor of Guangdong to send troops to quell the rebellion, find all the guns and cannons transported by the foreigners, and order the defenders in the city to guard the city gates!" ”

Lai Cun saw Ye Mingchen giving orders unhurriedly, and was also infected by his calm appearance, and suggested: "I'm afraid that the thieves have a connection with Fujian Shorthair, Dongguan and other counties in eastern Guangdong have fallen, and Shorthair can drive straight into Guangzhou for a long time, and adults must be on guard." ”

Ye Mingchen nodded again and again, and praised: "You're right, if you're not afraid of 10,000, you're afraid of what if, the short-haired soldiers are sharp, and they are not comparable to ordinary anti-thieves." ”

Lai Cun said: "It is better to transfer the army of Guangxi to quell the rebellion back to Guangdong, and if there is a naval division to respond, it will be able to reach Guangzhou one step ahead of the short hair, and with these tens of thousands of troops to defend, Guangzhou will be safe and sound." ”

Ye Mingchen vetoed and sighed: "Taking care of this and losing the other, Guangxi anti-thieves have conquered the city, I heard that they have marched in the direction of Hunan, in case they meet with Changmao in Hubei, the crime is great, and the saint blames it, you and I can't afford it." ”

Lai Cun panicked and said: "How is this good, there are only 8,000 green camps in Guangzhou." 20,000 villagers, with them more than enough to resist the rebels of the Hui Party. I'm afraid I can't deal with short hair. If Guangzhou is captured, the two Guangzhous will inevitably be shaken, and Hunan and Yunnan will be in danger! The emperor must cut off our heads. ”

Ye Mingchen gritted his teeth and said: "I said that foreigners would sell us guns for nothing, since this is the case, it is better to ask foreign soldiers to help defend it, and then just promise a few conditions." ”

I heard that there were foreign soldiers to help, so I came to store my heart, but I didn't expect Lord Ye to shout about guarding against foreign and foreign countries, and at critical moments, he could also let foreigners send troops to help. What's in here?

Ye Mingchen looked at Lai Cun stunned in place, and said angrily: "Don't go quickly!" ”

"If you obey your commands, you will go immediately." Lai Cun didn't dare to think nonsense, and hurriedly left the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion.

In order for the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society to occupy Guangzhou in advance, Wu Hong deliberately delayed on the road for a few days before arriving in Xiamen, Fujian.

After listening to Wu Hong's report, Zuo Zongtang pondered for a long time and was silent, but he did not expect that the power of the Guangdong Hui Party was greater than that of Fujian, and hundreds of thousands of people rebelled together at every turn. If there were a few people with bad intentions among them, wouldn't these hundreds of thousands of people be a big trouble, and the entire Han army left in Fujian was only more than 30,000 people.

Li Xuanke didn't care how many people's troops there were in Guangdong, and he was contemplating when he saw his own marshal. He stood up and said: "The last general is willing to attack Guangzhou for the vanguard, as long as Guangzhou is a little, the rest of the region can be passed on." ”

The army marched all the way south. The Third Army did not participate in the attack on Ningbo, Jinhua, Wenzhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou and other places. has been cleaning up the remnants of the Qing soldiers in the rear, and Li Shixian held back his stomach. He said: "The last general is willing to attack Guangzhou, please allow it." ”

Seeing that the two of them were competing for battle, Zuo Zongtang said with a smile: "Zhejiang and southern Jiangxi have been conquered by our Han Dynasty, and Fujian is as stable as Mount Tai. ”

Wu Hong was surprised: "In that case, Fujian has no soldiers to defend, in case there is a disturbance in the people's livelihood, wouldn't it be all wasted." ”

Li Shiqi explained: "Since the conquest of Fujian, our army has selected many veterans as leaders to form a militia, and now the militia has spread all over all provinces and counties in Fujian, with more than 500 people and less than 200 people, according to the following statistics, Fujian has a total of 15,322 militiamen, which is enough to deal with the rebellion. ”

Zuo Zongtang said to Li Shiqi and Yang Kailin: "Fujian will be handed over to the two of you, the first army is still in Zhejiang, and the Qing army's sailors will come to make trouble, delay the Qing army as much as possible, and then quickly invite the first army to go south." ”

Li Shiqi and Yang Kailin said in unison: "Obey the order"

Wu Hong admonished: "If you want to capture Guangdong, the first thing is to guard against Hunan. ”

Zuo Zongtang deeply thought that the Hunan people were good at fighting, if the Han army was defenseless, it would inevitably be attacked by the enemy at that time, and whether Guangzhou could be captured or not was also said: "The third army is the main force along the line of Meizhou, Longchuan, Huizhou, and Dongguan to drive directly to Guangzhou, and the eleventh army will attack Shaoguan and the surrounding county capitals to intercept the Qing troops in the north." ”

The prefect of Meizhou learned that the Han army was coming, opened the city gate and ran away with his henchmen, and there were thousands of green battalion soldiers stationed in Meizhou last month, but the rebels in Guangxi attacked the city and besieged Wuzhou, and was transferred away by Ye Mingchen, the governor of Liangguang, with an official document, and did not even leave a single hair, and wanted to rely on those thousands of townships to defend the city, but these turtles ran faster than his prefect.

The Third Army did not stop in Meizhou, and continued to attack westward after a little training, and captured Longchuan County before dark, and there was no Qing army that dared to resist along the way, and some of the townships turned into righteous troops, guiding the rest of the Third Army to occupy counties and towns, and the Third Army had more than 10,000 people, and only 14,000 were left when they arrived in Longchuan.

Zuo Zongtang looked at the land of Guangzhou, his mind was complicated and unpredictable, this is the place where his mentor Lin Zexu stayed, that is, to destroy opium in Guangdong and resist the invasion of foreigners......

Li Shixian looked at the map of Guangzhou carefully, calculated the distance, and said to Zuo Zongtang with a sad face after a while: "Dashuai can't do this, there are more than a dozen counties from Longchuan to Guangzhou, if they all stay in the garrison, there will be few people left in Guangzhou?" ”

Zuo Zongtang came back to his senses: "If you don't send troops to stay, will it be left to the Qing army, in that case, our army will rush to Guangzhou, won't it fall into the Qing army again?" The reason why the Liukou can't succeed is because they wander from east to west, wandering everywhere, even if there are only a few hundred people stationed in the county, this is also a deterrent to the Qing army. ”

Li Shixian still couldn't let go of his feelings, and said worriedly: "There are more than 100,000 Hui Gang under the city of Guangzhou, and we only bring a few thousand people to join them. ”

Zuo Zongtang disagreed, he did not deny that the Hui Party was bold, but the Third Army was not vegetarian, and it was more than enough to defeat them with these thousands of people, and the Hui Party was not united.

"Commander Li is too worried, the Third Army is well-equipped, although the artillery is still behind, but there are 2,000 foreign guns, with them is enough to deter the party from making trouble, when you arrive in Guangzhou, you must make enough momentum, don't let them underestimate it."

Li Shixian was relieved, which reminded him of the time when he followed the emperor's uprising, tens of thousands of troops surrounded Wuzhou, but they couldn't start, they could only choose to surround it, and the city wall of Guangzhou was taller and thicker than Wuzhou, and the Hui Party was definitely helpless, and when the Third Army conquered Guangzhou, it would inevitably impress the Hui Party and make it dare not act rashly.

Before dawn, the Third Army was ready to go, and rushed to Huizhou in the evening of the third day, Li Shixian counted the number of people and found that there were only more than 10,000 people left in the Third Army.

Looking at the battle flag of the Qing army flying and dancing on the city wall of Huizhou, Zuo Zongtang asked Wu Hong: "Is there a green battalion of the Qing army guarding this Huizhou city?" ”

Wu Hong thought for a while and replied: "When Xiao came last time, he didn't find out that the regimental training green battalion that was stationed before had been transferred to Guangzhou, and it stands to reason that Huizhou is just an empty city!" ”

Li Shixian saw that the sun had completely set into the West Mountain, and said to Zuo Zongtang: "It's getting late, our army is still resting outside the city, and we will attack the city tomorrow, what does the marshal think?" ”

Wu Hong suddenly shouted: "I know that He Liu must have started an incident in Dongguan, so that the Qing army was prepared, and the officials in the city transferred all the nearby soldiers and horses into the city, so that there was really a heavily guarded Huizhou City." ”

Zuo Zongtang nodded and asked, "How many Qing soldiers are there in Huizhou City?" ”

Wu Hong thought for a moment, and said worriedly: "There can be 20,000 at most, when the foreign soldiers invaded, the government ordered the people to form camps to protect themselves, and the people have many people who participate in the regimental training. ”

Zuo Zongtang said to himself: "It's okay for the regiment to train the township to defend the city bravely, but it will become a third-rate attack in the field." ”

Li Shixian listened and replied: "Dashuai wants to bypass Huizhou!" ”

Zuo Zongtang pointed to the west and replied: "Yes, this place is less than 100 miles away from Dongguan, the army marched overnight, and it can be reached before dawn, and then Dongguan will rest and explore the situation in Guangzhou." ”

Li Shixian said: "It's okay, the army is running around day after day, and it should be repaired in Dongguan for a few days." ”

Wu Hong said with a smile: "Although He Liu attacked Guangzhou, there must still be brothers stationed in Dongguan, and it is the right time for the army to arrive in Dongguan." (To be continued......)

PS: There is a temporary urgency, and there is no inspection............