Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 103: Governor

Be careful, but Zhou Shixiang did not want to pour cold water on the Ge Zheng brothers and discourage their enthusiasm, because he is also optimistic about winning Gaoyao City smoothly. The county seat with only more than 500 green battalions garrisoned is not a big problem. However, for the sake of safety, he still wanted to ask Shao Jiugong, who had worked in the green camp, for his opinion. After all, he was familiar with the situation of the green camp, and he would be confident in his judgment as a staff officer.

Shao Jiugong thought for a while there, compared the situation of the enemy and us in his heart, and then said cheerfully: “Qianhu, the green battalion garrisoned in Gaoyao City should be some foreign soldiers, and these foreign soldiers will not die in defense of the city. Li, if we fight, we should have a 70-80% chance of winning.”

After listening to Shao Jiugong’s words, Ge Zheng brothers were relieved, they were afraid that this Jiangxi guy would be a hindrance. He followed Zhou Shixiang for a few days, but the two brothers did not even see the ghost of a Qing soldier, and Zhou Shixiang did not let them **** the towns along the way. If you give it a hit, the brothers are afraid that they will all get sick.

“Since we went south, our engineer battalion has not blasted the city wall yet, so we might as well take Gaoyao City first, or let the Tartars know how powerful our Taiping Battalion is. However,” Tie Yi was not worried about taking Gaoyao City, but I was a little worried about Zhaoqing Mansion, “The only thing to worry about is Zhaoqing’s side. If we attack Gaoyao City, it is impossible for Zhaoqing Mansion’s Qing troops to come. If they are entangled, then we will be in trouble.”

“What’s the trouble?”

After hearing this, Ge Zheng disapproved and said, “We’re not sticking to Gaoyao City, but we’re just going in and grabbing things and running away. Is it possible that his Zhaoqing dog can still follow us all the way? Besides, Lord Qianhu said earlier, let’s go before us. The camp is approaching Zhaoqing this time, in order to make him Zhaoqing Qing army think that we are going to attack the other city, not to take Gaoyao city to scare them, they will definitely not take us seriously, they really want to come out and bite us, then It’s time to be troublesome.”

What Ge Zheng said was the strategic plan made by Zhou Shixiang when he led the former battalion from Xinxing Town half a month ago. This plan was to concentrate the forces of the former battalion to attack Zhaoqing to clear or scare away the garrisoned green battalions in the counties under the jurisdiction of Zhaoqing, so as to make the latter The battalion can safely move toward the new club from the opposite direction. To put it bluntly, this plan is the real intention of the former battalion’s actions to cover the rear battalion and to replace the Taiping battalion and move into Xiangshan by feigning Zhaoqing.

In order to cooperate with this plan, Zhou Shixiang racked his brains to recall the series of military operations of the Iron Army on the Long March. , But in this era, Zhou Shixiang firmly believed that the Qing army would be confused and defeated by the actions of the Taiping Battalion, because they did not have any advanced communication tools, nor any fast-moving means of transportation. Just imagine that there will be wireless telegraphy in later generations. In this era, the iron army can rely on amazing endurance and speed to confuse and defeat the enemy who encircled them, and this is still an era dominated by cold weapons. In many cases, the Taiping Battalion may be only a few miles away from the Qing army, but in the absence of effective communication tools, it is difficult for the Qing army to find and mobilize more troops to encircle and suppress it.

The most important thing is that Guangdong has many terrain and water networks, and the hilly terrain is undulating, which is not suitable for cavalry combat. Therefore, the Qing army in Guangdong has hundreds of cavalry in addition to the Han flags under the Jingnan and Pingnan feudal lords, and the rest of the Qing army has no cavalry at all. The cavalry, and some are just galloping horses. When Li Dingguo attacked Guangdong, he often dispatched infantry troops. He would rather bring more elephant soldiers than cavalry. The reason is that the terrain in Guangdong is not conducive to cavalry combat, and the cavalry is not useful at all.

Without the threat of cavalry, under the tactical command of Zhou Shixiang, the Taiping Battalion could naturally rush to the left and right between the Qing army and lead them behind the nose.

Avoid fighting the Qing army with a large number of troops, avoid fighting with the Qing army to attack the fortress and attrition, avoid fighting the stalemate with the Qing army, only drag the Qing army with speed and endurance, and then choose the opportunity to destroy him!

Even if there was only a short one-day jet lag, the Taiping Camp could successfully jump out of the eyes of the Qing army, because the times limited its opponents.

Daming officials organized numerous large-scale siege against Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, with hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, but in the end Daming Jiangshan was destroyed by rogues in the eyes of the officials. The reason is that Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others fully Aware of where their shortcomings are and where their strengths are, they know that they use their own strengths to attack others’ weaknesses, rather than foolishly attacking others’ strengths with their own shortcomings. If Li Zicheng and others started a head-to-head battle with the Ming army with the rabble under his command, and a battle for one city and one pool, I am afraid that they will go to see the King of Hell in less than a year. Without the troubles of the rogues, how could Daming die at the hands of the Manchus and aliens?

The successful battles of the peasant army at present, the reappearance of the iron army in later generations, Zhou Shixiang has no reason not to adopt the same method. From another point of view, the Taiping camp is the peasant army, and the Qing army is the Ming army, or the Taiping camp is the Red Army, and the Qing army It was Bai Jun, who was in exactly the same situation. Zhou Shixiang didn’t use the successful tactics of his predecessors, and his mind was really embroidered.

The fact was as expected by Zhou Shixiang. After the former camp moved from Xinxing to Zhaoqing, it was quickly discovered by the Qing army because it did not deliberately hide its whereabouts. Zhaoqing’s commander-in-chief Xu Erxian was very stunned by the Ming army that suddenly emerged from Yunwu Mountain, because just a few days ago, Deqing’s garrison Tang Sanshui had just launched an army to retake Luoding Prefecture, which was captured by Li Dingguo’s troops of the Nanming Dynasty.

From the map, Luo Dingka is the only way for the Ming army to advance eastward in Gaozhou. If Luo Dingqing army is not removed, the Ming army in Gaozhou will not be able to launch an attack on Zhaoqing. In any offensive, how come a group of men and horses under the banner of Nanming and wearing black soldiers’ uniforms ran under their noses?

Xu Erxian couldn’t figure out whether the soldiers wearing black uniforms were the Ming army in Gaozhou or other soldiers and horses in Nanming, so he strictly ordered the green battalions stationed in the counties to quickly find out, but the green battalions of the counties dispatched one after another. The news reported was various, some said that it was the soldiers and horses of Li Dingguo of Gaozhou, some said that it was the superintendent of Lian Chengbi, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, some said that it was the men and horses of Guo Zhiqi, a scholar of Nanming University, and some directly said that they came out of Yunwu Mountain. All in all, there was a lot of information gathered in the General Military Mansion, but none of them were reported in a true tone, most of them were vague, and Xu Erxian was so angry that he scolded a bunch of rubbish.

After scolding his subordinates, Xu Erxian still had to cheer up and deploy his troops, or let this unidentified army kill the mansion or burn, kill and loot in the mansion. Although Xu Erxian was a bannerman of the Han army, he was also a peaceful man. King Nan’s cronies couldn’t hold back the pressure from the Governor’s Palace. If the Governor-General sent some bad words about Xu Erxian in the memorial to Beijing, he was afraid that His Excellency Xu’s career would come to an end.

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Xu Erxian is really afraid of the current governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Li Suotai, because the identity of this adult is no worse than that of the two princes. His wife, so after all, this Governor Li is a relative of the royal family.

Not only did he gather the daughters of the clan, Li Ruitai also had great military exploits. In his early years, he followed Taizong Huang Taiji to expedition Chahar and Korea, attacked Jinzhou in the Ming Dynasty, and attacked Guannei Shandong from Beiler Abatay. He was promoted to the Han army due to his military exploits Zhenglanqi Mailer’s forehead is true. In the first year of Shunzhi, he also served as the Ministry of Punishment and participated in politics, leading the army to garrison Jinzhou. In April, he followed Prince Rui Dorgon into the customs and defeated Li Zicheng. He also led troops to attack Shandong and Henan, and killed Li Zicheng’s general Zhao Yingyuan, forcing the Dashun army to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. In the second year of Shunzhi, he followed Prince Duoduo of Yu to defeat Li Zicheng at Tongguan, then led his army southward to conquer Yangzhou and Nanjing, and then divided his troops to pacify Suzhou, Songjiang and other places.

In the third year of Shunzhi, Li Ruotai followed Duanzhong Prince Boluo to invade Zhejiang and Fujian, and was awarded the second-class Adahhafan and Tusalahafan because of his merits. In the fifth year of Shunzhi, Zheng Cai invaded Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other places in Fujian. The Qing court ordered Li Ruitai and Jingnan general Chen Tai to suppress Zheng Cai and restore Changle and Lianjiang counties. When Zheng Cai was defeated and left, Li Suotai captured Gu Shichen, the governor appointed by Zheng Cai, and others. In the sixth year of Shunzhi, Li led Tai again northward to attack the rebel general Jiang Cheng of Datong, captured Baode, captured Jiang Cheng’s party member Niu Hualin and others, and again added officials to drag Shalahafan because of his merits.

In the eighth year of Shunzhi, Li Suotai was transferred to the Ministry of Personnel and became a scholar of Hongwen Academy. In the tenth year of Shunzhi, the Qing court obeyed the recommendation of the university scholar Hong Chengchou and conferred the post of Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi on Li Ruotai. It has only been a few months since the Governor-General took office. After taking office, Li Ruotai successively impeached a group of civil and military officials who were unfavorable when Li Dingguo attacked Guangdong. , Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao did not dare to offend him.

The prince is like this, what about Xu Erxian, the chief soldier. Even though he is also from Liaodong, and he has made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty, compared with Li Suotai, the royal family, he is simply a servant of servants. Under these circumstances, how could Xu Erxian dare to let that unidentified army approach him? Zhaoqing Fucheng, under his dispatch, successively garrisoned green battalions in Xinxing, Sihui, Yangjiang and other counties to attack the Taiping Army’s former battalion.

However, under the command of Zhou Shixiang, the former battalion relied on the long-distance rapid march and the cohesion of the top and the bottom, and just left these garrisoned green battalions far behind, and successfully ambushed the Sihui green battalion in Sihui County. The famous battalion soldier won his second victory since Luoding’s departure.

The battle of the Sihui also greatly improved the morale of the Taiping Battalion, and the captured Green Battalion soldiers also strengthened the strength of the Taiping Battalion. At present, the total military strength of the Taiping Battalion has reached as many as 2,000 people, unless the Zhaoqing general Xu Erxian leads the main force. Otherwise, the garrisoned green battalions of the counties in Zhaoqing Prefecture would not be the opponents of the Taiping Camp alone~www.readwn.com~ Brother Ge is right. We have fought well these days, but we have never captured a city. The Qing army is very We may look down on us because of this, so I want to see that Gaoyaocheng should not only fight, but also fight harder, try to take it down in one go, so that the Qing army in Zhaoqing will be afraid, I don’t know how many people we have , will they fight Zhaoqing House again? In this way, they will hide in the city and dare not come out. Otherwise, this dog will be behind us today, and the dog will be in front of us tomorrow. head? Brothers are not immortals, it is rare to hold on until now, anyone who sees it will praise the elite, and if it drags on, the brothers will not be able to hold on anymore. “Qin Zhisheng, the commander-in-chief, who has always participated in the military conference and did not speak much, opened his mouth to express his thoughts, and reminded everyone that after the half-month marching and fighting, the nerves and physical strength of the soldiers in the former battalion have actually been stretched to the limit. Appropriate supplementary rest, I’m afraid it won’t last.

The bald Jiang He listened to Qin Zhisheng’s words, patted his thigh, and said: “Brothers are really suffering these days, we really need a place to rest for a few days, and the rear camp will also run out of food, let’s If we can’t raise food and grass, people are afraid that they will be unstable.”

When Ge Zheng heard it, he said quickly: “If that’s the case, then let’s go to Gaoyao City, or else the battalion really runs out of food, and the soldiers under Lao Tzu are still fighting?”

“Brothers are working hard for the sake of their wives and children. As long as you tell everyone about the situation in the rear camp, how can the brothers hold on for a while longer, Qianhu, order it!”

Tie Yi got up and looked at Zhou Shixiang.