Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 87: Fragrant Hills

“Xiangshan County?”

Song Xianggong was stunned there. If he remembered correctly, this Xiangshan County belongs to Shangxian County of Guangzhou Prefecture. This meeting has been occupied by the Qing army. Why did Zhou Shixiang want to go to this place? With the current strength of the Taiping Battalion, isn’t it an idiot to want to seize Xiangshan from the Qing army?

When he was puzzled, Zhou Shixiang got up and fetched a map, but it took him two days to draw a map of Guangdong.

For this map of Guangdong, Zhou Shixiang really racked his brains for the past two days, trying to recall the maps of China in later generations, and asked Lin Wanfu and others, and then barely drew the map. Although the details are definitely wrong, the general picture is The frame should be correct. At least, with this map in place, the Taiping Camp will go in the right direction in the future.

In ancient times, the map was an important weapon of the military, and ordinary people could not see it at all. In addition to the inconvenience of transportation, most people would never go out of the place hundreds of miles away from home in their lifetime, and they did not know where the strategic places were and where Therefore, once the people rebel, without the help of maps and people of insight, they are often confined to one place, unable to quickly occupy strategic positions, so that subsequent development cannot be achieved. The insurgent army is naturally passive in the face of the official army, and it is very easy to destroy the official army with a map in hand.

Zhou Shixiang did not have a ready-made map of Guangdong in his hand, nor did he have any GPRS satellite positioning. It was too dangerous to rely solely on the guide to determine the marching route. Moreover, the Taiping Camp urgently needed a strategic plan, so he drew this map of Guangdong by himself, so that Don’t become a blind man with dark eyes.

In the process of drawing this map of Guangdong Province, which can only be regarded as a framework, Zhou Shixiang even made up his mind to organize the staff of the Taiping Camp when the conditions are right, so that more professional talents can draw more and more information for the Taiping Camp. Professional map. If even a village and town can be carefully marked on the map, a small river and a well on the road can be clearly listed, and even the height of a hill can be measured, the value of this map will never be 100,000. under the army.

It’s a pity that there are not many people who can read and write in the Taiping Camp now. It is a dream to have a professional map drawing person. Zhou Shixiang can’t even set up the shelf of the staff. Everything is difficult at the beginning, and it is a last resort. Now Zhou Shixiang can only do his best to make more plans for Taiping Camp.

“This is?”

Song Xianggong looked at this map made of charcoal and was very curious. After carefully looking at the place names on it, he suddenly realized that he was very excited: “Is this a map of Guangdong Province?”

Map is what the ancients called maps. Zhou Shixiang, who was the original owner of the body, naturally knew this. He nodded and said, “This is indeed a map of Guangdong Province. Please take a look at it, sir. This black circle is located in Xiangshan County.”

Zhou Shixiang said while holding his finger to a black circle specially marked. If this black circle was drawn on the map of later generations, it would be Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Shunde and other places in Guangdong. All belong to the jurisdiction of a county in Xiangshan.

Song Xianggong was a magistrate, so he could understand the map naturally. Where?”

“Because of this place.”

Zhou Shixiang moved his finger to a solid black dot next to the black circle, and spat out a place name: “Macao.”

“Macao?”

Song Xianggong Dingqing saw that this solid black spot is next to the black circle. If you look at it roughly, you only think that the black spot is within the black circle. If you look closely, you will realize that the black circle is a black circle and the black spot is a black spot.

“Macao?”

Song Xianggong murmured a few words, suddenly remembered something, and said anxiously: “Isn’t this place where the Hongyi cannon was produced?”

Red Cannons?

Zhou Shixiang was stunned for a moment, but the memory of the owner of his body made him wake up. It turned out that the Hongyi cannon was the artillery purchased from the Portuguese in Macau in the Ming Dynasty. The captured Hongyi artillery was changed to the Great General Artillery.

“As Mr. said, Bai Yi, who lives in Macau, is good at making firearms. During the reigns of Chao Tianqi and Chongzhen, I bought a lot of red guns from Bai Yi.”

Hearing what Zhou Shixiang said, Duke Xiang of Song couldn’t help but say, “Could it be that the reason Qianhu wants to go to Fragrant Mountain is to buy Hongyi cannons from those Baiyi?”

Zhou Shixiang shook his head: “How can we have so much money to buy cannons from Bai Yi, but the reason I want to capture Xiangshan is indeed related to Macau, but we are not buying, but finding ways to build, not only to build cannons, but also To build our fire cannon.”

“make?”

Song Xianggong was stunned again. He never thought that the Taiping Battalion could build its own cannons. The battalion could not even complete the weapons, but Zhou Shixiang wanted to build the cannons. This, this, this really made him unbelievable and surprised. With Zhou Shixiang.

“It’s better to buy than to build. If you can’t build, what’s the use of buying more?”

Zhou Shixiang didn’t think that Song Xianggong was thinking that under the conditions of Taiping Camp, there would be no chance of making cannons. He just thought that the other party thought that it was faster to buy than to build. Since he could buy it directly from Bai Yi, why bother to make it himself.

Seeing that Zhou Shixiang had misunderstood what he meant, Duke Xiang of Song couldn’t help complaining: “It’s good to build cannons and guns, but the question is what do we use to build them? How can we build them? We don’t even have a complete set of weapons. Gun, this is too…too long-term, right?” He couldn’t say that Zhou Shixiang was a madman, so he could only gently remind that it was not realistic.

“Let’s take it step by step, let’s go to Xiangshan first, and then we will find a way to contact Bai Yi, first collect some money to buy some from them, and then we will find a way to learn their skills and make our guns and guns. As for silver, living people We won’t be suffocated to death by urine. As long as we have the will, things can be done. At the beginning, no one of us thought we could take Luo Ding, and no one thought we could defeat Deqing Green Camp? But what was the result? Everything you imagined has come true!”

In fact, Zhou Shixiang couldn’t answer Song Xianggong’s questions, because he didn’t know how to solve these problems at that time, but since he had made up his mind to go to Macau, he must use an optimistic attitude to resolve Song Xianggong’s doubts and win the support of the other party.

Between “take one step at a time” and ‘see one step at a time”, Zhou Shixiang obviously chose the former. No matter what the front faces, no matter how difficult it is, don’t be afraid, don’t worry about it, as long as the goal is set, go ahead It’s stabbed. People are hanging to the sky, the big deal is to die again, if he can’t die, he must be good-looking!

Zhou Shixiang’s optimism was infected with Song Xianggong. Thinking of the realization of things he had never dared to think before, Song Xianggong couldn’t help but admire Zhou Shixiang’s correct judgment and decision, or it is not too far-sighted. However, this time he was not easily led into the ditch by Zhou Shixiang, but said firmly: “I can’t go to Xiangshan!”

“Why can’t you go?”

Zhou Shixiang stayed there, not understanding how Duke Xiang of Song was so decisive, he was not like this before.

Song Xianggong stretched out his hand and pointed to the three prominent characters above the black circle painted by Zhou Shixiang – “Guangzhou House”, and then said very worriedly: “Xiangshan is too close to Guangzhou, it can be said that it is right under the eyes of Guangzhou, if we occupy there , the Qing army in Guangzhou can come to beat us without having to travel long distances. At that time, we can stop them with our strength? If we can’t beat them, what’s the point of going there, and then where should we go? , this Fragrant Mountain is our dead place.”

“If we can’t resist, we will outsmart, and if we can’t outsmart, we will run.” Zhou Shixiang did not worry about Song Xianggong at all. He seemed not to be afraid of the Qing army in Guangzhou at all, so he raised his eyebrows and said, “I have sixteen characters to fight the enemy. The policy, sir, sounds feasible?”

“Which sixteen characters?” Song Xianggong raised his brows.

Zhou Shixiang said loudly: “When the enemy advances, I retreat, when the enemy is stationed, I disturb, when the enemy is tired, I fight, and when the enemy retreats, I pursue!”

“……”

Hearing these sixteen characters, Song Xianggong’s eyes lit up, and Zhou Shixiang added another sentence, “If the enemy is coming, I will go all the way. The territory of Xiangshan is not a plain, there are many tombs, and there are many mountains. Dahai, if we really can’t beat the Qing army, we will hide and wait for the opportunity. The Qing army is also human, and can’t bite us. When he relaxes, we will come out and give him a hard blow. There are sixteen characters. Against the enemy, we will definitely be able to stand in this Fragrant Mountain!”

“What kind of tactics are these sixteen characters?”

“Guerrilla War!”

“Guerrilla battle?” Song Xianggong pondered for a moment, nodded and said: “It is possible, but even if we can withstand the attack of the Qing army, Luo Ding is thousands of miles away from Xiangshan, and there are Qing troops everywhere along the way, how can we get there? Put on your wings and fly over?”

If you want to go to Xiangshan, there is only one land road in Guangzhou. If you don’t go by land, you can only go by the sea, but Taiping Camp has no navy. If you go by land, Guangzhou is a big nail in the road. If you don’t pull this nail, it is impossible for the tens of thousands of people in Taiping Camp to reach Xiangshan in the south of Guangzhou. However, Li Dingguo’s tens of thousands of troops can’t win the small county town of Xinhui, the outpost of Guangzhou. The Taiping Battalion can beat this thousand soldiers, and then run to Xiangshan under the eyes of the Qing army in Guangzhou?

Song Xianggong looked at Zhou Shixiang with a solemn face. Although he believed in the other party and recognized the other party’s ability, it was related to the lives of tens of thousands of people in the Taiping Camp and his own lives, so he could not be cautious. If Zhou Shixiang could not give a feasible way to reach Xiangshan, he would never agree to march into Xiangshan.

“We can’t fly by flying, but we can blow up.”

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