Chapter 240: One Follow
The city of Shanghai fell in one day, Wu Jianzhang of the Qing Dynasty and Yuan Zude, the magistrate of Shanghai, were killed, more than 2,000 Qing soldiers of the green battalion and more than 4,000 new offices were killed, more than 2,000 were killed and wounded, and the remaining 4,000 people surrendered.
When the leaders of the gangs such as Mu Guandao of the Guandao Gang and Xie Yinglong of the Ningbo Gang were in the city, they actually ordered their gangs to immediately remove the cool hats of the Qing Army on their heads, take out the red cloth they carried with them and wrap them on their heads, and turned into the Taiping Army. They welcomed the Taiping army into the city, and led the Taiping army to chase and kill the Qing army everywhere, and their motivation was much higher than when they were the Qing army, but the Qing army's uniform and outfit didn't look very good.
Wu Jianzhang and Yuan Zude and other officials wanted to escape from the city in disguise and hide in the foreigners' lease, but they were held by Mu Yinghong, the female general of the Guandao Gang, in the middle of the road. Yuan Zude pretended to be a teacher and wanted to get by, but he coveted Mu Yinghong's beauty before, and proposed to Mu Guandao several times, wanting to accept Mu Yinghong as the third aunt, Yuan Zude would recognize Mu Yinghong even if he turned into ashes. At that moment, Yuan Zude was caught, and Wu Jianzhang was also brought out by the way.
After the city of Shanghai was broken, Chen Yucheng led more than 1,000 soldiers and horses into the city, and Mu Guandao, Mu Yinghong, Xie Yinglong and other anti-Shuiqing generals sent Wu Jianzhang, Yuan Zude and others to meet him. Chen Yucheng immediately ordered someone to cut off the heads of Wu Jianzhang and Yuan Zude, and sent them to the West King outside the city to pay the order. For the disposal of Wu and Yuan, the king of the west has already made an order, but there is no order for the disposal of the gang leaders such as Mu Guandao, Mu Yinghong, and Xie Yinglong, and Chen Yucheng has to order someone to take a few gang leaders to meet the king of the west outside the city. Chen Yucheng was afraid that the thousands of gangs would cause trouble again, so he ordered the Taiping army to seize their blades first and take care of them on the spot, so these gangs became prisoners of the Taiping army.
Mu Guandao and the others saw that the Taiping army had seized their blades, and treated them as if they were prisoners, so they immediately quit. clamoring to see the king of the west and seek justice. Chen Yucheng immediately led the troops to suppress them, and coldly warned Mu Guandao and the others that if they dared to resist the heavenly soldiers, he didn't care about fighting again! If you want to see the king of the west, how to deal with these gangs must wait for the order of the king of the west.
At that moment, Mu Guandao and others were sent by Chen Yucheng to the camp to see Xiao Yungui, and Mu Guandao and others complained about Mu Yinghong along the way, saying that the message of the King of the West she brought back was not allowed, as long as it was against the Manchu Dynasty. In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they could be high-ranking officials, and now they are treated as prisoners. Mu Yinghong bit her thin lips, her eyes were red, and she didn't dare to say a word by letting others count them. I only hope that Xiao Yungui will be able to speak.
Xiao Yungui returned to the camp, and he was very tired from fighting for days. After eating something. He leaned back on the chair to rest for a while, and suddenly remembered Li Xuanji's delicate appearance in his mind, and his heart was like a monkey scratching, and he coughed lightly and ordered the guards outside the tent to find Li Xuanji, only saying that he had something to ask her.
After a while, Li Xuanji arrived. After Xiao Yungui ordered the guards to go out, let her sit down and look at this talented woman in the Taiping Army with ill will. I saw Li Xuanji wearing a tight-fitting red shirt with a round neck, tied to her waist with a piece of red and green silk. And open the placket on the left, that is, "Zuo Wei", which is the difference between the Taiping military women's clothing and the Manchu women's clothing. In order to make it easier to ride a horse and walk, the hem of the placket is slit on both sides, and underneath is a pair of light blue lace trousers. An ordinary outfit wrapped Li Xuanji's delicate figure, coupled with Li Xuanji's charming face, made Xiao Yungui swallow his saliva when he saw it.
Li Xuanji was very embarrassed by him, hung his head and pinched the corner of his clothes and asked in a low voice, "What is the matter with His Royal Highness the King of the West looking for his subordinates?" ”
Xiao Yungui said with a hippie smile: "It's okay, just ask you how the situation is on the women's camp?" Again, how are you doing? ”
Li Xuanji saw that King Xi was smiling frivolously, and her heart was flustered, and she didn't dare to look up at him, so she only said: "Everything is fine, my subordinates and Xiuying's sister take care of the women's camp together, and recently we have received 1,323 more female soldiers, all of whom are lonely women who have fled and have been registered and reported to the women's hall, and their subordinates are ...... My subordinates and sister Xiuying are very good, during the day I take the sisters of the women's battalion to practice martial arts, laundry, cooking, transporting food, and taking care of the wounded soldiers, and at night I take everyone to read and write, buy shoes, and weave cloth, everything is fine......"
Xiao Yungui saw that the more she spoke, the lower she spoke, and her head got closer and closer, until Li Xuanji could hardly speak, and the flush on her little face made Xiao Yungui look fascinated for a while. followed Xiao Yungui and said in a low voice: "Sister Xuanji, have you ever thought about getting married?" Do you have someone you like? What do you think of this king? ”
Xiao Yungui slowly approached Li Xuanji, just like a tiger slowly playing with the prey in his arms, and the meaning of the words in his mouth was obvious, but Li Xuanji blushed and didn't dare to raise his head, and only said in his mouth in shame: "King Xi, King West, don't be like this, it's not good for Queen Xi to know it......"
Xiao Yungui saw that she looked like she wanted to refuse and welcome, and his heart was full of desire, and he said, "She won't know." As he spoke, he reached out to hug Li Xuanji's slender waist, Li Xuanji was in a hurry, and hurriedly wanted to avoid it, but Xiao Yungui grabbed his arm with his big hand and couldn't break free.
Li Xuanji was ashamed and anxious, and just when he didn't know what to do, the guards outside the tent suddenly reported loudly: "His Royal Highness the King of the West, Hangzhou Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang have urgent military information delivered!" ”
Xiao Yungui's lust suddenly cooled, and he scolded in his heart that this military situation was not at the right time, he stood up and coughed and said, "Send the military intelligence in!" ”
Li Xuanji hurriedly stood up and said, "His Royal Highness the King of the West has something important to deal with, and his subordinates will retire first." ”
Xiao Yungui raised his hand and stopped: "You wait a minute, let's listen to the military situation together, so that we can give this king an idea." ”
Li Xuanji had no choice but to sit down, but she sat at the end of the tent, far away from Xiao Yungui's main seat, for fear that Xiao Yungui would come lightly again.
The guards brought in the messenger sent by Lin Fengxiang, and the messenger sent the letter sealed with fire paint, Xiao Yungui opened it and looked at it carefully, only to take a few quick glances and then said with great joy: "Great! Hangzhou City has also been won! ”
Li Xuanji was also overjoyed when she heard this, as if she had forgotten Xiao Yungui's lightness just now, stood up and walked a few steps forward and asked, "His Royal Highness the King of the West, Hangzhou has also been captured?" ”
Xiao Yungui nodded and said: "Yes, you see, this is a military report jointly sent by Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang, just the day before yesterday, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang and Ji Wenyuan's troops and horses joined forces, and they began to storm Hangzhou City." The Qing demon Qin sent to the old demon head to hear that Suzhou had been lost, Jiang Zhongyuan's reinforcements were repulsed, Li Tingyu returned to Fujian, and the reinforcements from all over the country did not arrive. Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang pursued and intercepted, defeated the Qing demon in Lin Xian Town, killed more than 13,000 Qing demons, captured more than 10,000 Qing demons, and captured the Qing demon Hangzhou general Du Xing'a, the general soldier Hu Songlin, and the director of the criminal department Liu Cunhou. The Qing Demon General Qin Ruhu and the county magistrate Ding Guoen were killed, which can be described as a complete victory, but it is a pity that Xiang Rong, the old fox, escaped again. ”
Since Li Xuanji joined the Taiping Army, she has been following Hong Yun'er to do things, but she has always served in the women's camp and the women's hall. After finding Wu Sangui's treasure in Yuezhou, she and Yang Dongqing helped Hong Yun'er manage the treasure. What I do has always been a matter of financial management. Since the battle of Shapoling in Xiangyin. After the women's battalion commander Hu Damei was killed in battle, and Xi Wangniang was almost in danger, the West Hall no longer let the women's battalion go into battle, Li Xuanji rarely had access to the military, this was the first time she saw the military report, and she couldn't help but look at it curiously.
Xiao Yungui handed over the military report with a smile and said, "Take a look." Later, the king ordered a few copies to be transcribed, and distributed to the generals everywhere. Speaking of this, he paused, rubbed his hands again and again and said with a smile: "Hangzhou and Shanghai have been conquered, and all the land in southern Jiangsu belongs to me." Okay, okay, now we finally have a place to stay, and the next thing is to manage this territory, it seems that this king has to meet those foreigners as soon as possible, and then return to Suzhou, and put the strategy of how to run the territory underground, ah, by the way, I have to go back to Tianjing, I have to be busy, I have to be busy. ”
Xiao Yungui said to himself, Li Xuanji looked at the military report: "His Royal Highness the King of the West, or I will help you transcribe the military newspaper, so that all the armies will know the good news earlier." Xiao Yungui smiled and nodded, and Li Xuanji transcribed it behind the table.
At this moment, the guards outside the tent reported that the messenger of Chen Yucheng's department in Shanghai had arrived, and several gang leaders asked to see the king of the west.
Xiao Yungui didn't know that Chen Yucheng had a problem for him, and with a wave of his hand, he ordered a group of people to come into the tent, but he didn't expect Mu Guandao, Xie Yinglong and others to enter the tent and salute their names, and then they shouted nonsense.
Xiao Yungui's old face sank, and he slapped the table and shouted angrily: "What a noise!" Are you the king of this market? If you quarrel again, pull it down first and hit a hundred military sticks! ”
Xiao Yungui's voice was as powerful as Zhang Fei, and he didn't dare to make a sound when he calmed Mu Guandao and the others, Chen Yucheng's messenger sent two wooden boxes, Xiao Yungui opened it with a straight face, and almost sat on the ground in fright, it turned out that it was the heads of Wu Jianzhang and Yuan Zude.
Xiao Yungui made up his mind and read Chen Yucheng's military report, which mentioned the exploits of Mu Guandao and others in holding Wu Jianzhang and Yuan Zude, but Chen Yucheng felt that these gang members waited until the city was broken to raise troops against the water, and their intentions were insincere, and they were so embarrassed that they would be of great use in the future, so please make a decision from King Xi.
After Xiao Yungui read the letter, he ordered someone to take out the heads of Wu Jianzhang and Yuan Zude to pass on the orders of the whole battalion, and saw Mu Yinghong looking at him pitifully, remembering what he said to Mu Yinghong that night, and then soothing Mu Guandao, Xie Yinglong and others with a smile, when he comforted casually, his mind kept thinking about how to arrange Mu Guandao and these people. As Chen Yucheng said, after Mu Yinghong put it back, he also brought the words to these people, if Mu Guandao and these gang leaders really wanted to join the Taiping army, they would have already raised troops to fight against the water, and when the Taiping army was preparing to attack the city a few days ago, they should have raised troops to respond, but they only turned back to Zuihou, obviously if they didn't see the Taiping army taking the advantage, they would not rebel. To put it bluntly, these people are typical wall grass, once the Qing army has the advantage, they will definitely rebel again without hesitation.
These people can't be reused, but then Xiao Yungui will start to govern Shanghai and other places, these people may be of other uses, and they are looking for it, and the guards outside the tent reported: "His Royal Highness the King of the West, there are more than a dozen foreign brothers who claim to be ministers outside the camp who ask to see them. ”
Before the end is done, the foreigners are here again, it seems that the Taiping army has really pushed a pair of dominoes to capture Shanghai, Xiao Yungui frowned, there are a lot of problems at the moment, how to appease the local shili, how to deal with the foreigners, how to manage southern Jiangsu, how to deal with Tianjing, it seems that the defeat of southern Jiangsu is just the beginning, and the troubles will follow. (To be continued......)