Chapter 444: Raid, dead soldiers of the Hunan Army (please order, please vote)
It was a dark night, and Hengshan County, located in Hengzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, fell asleep in the darkness.
Feng Yunshan was lying down in his clothes, about to fall asleep.
This is a habit he developed during his two years of fighting in southern Hunan, southern Jiangxi, northern Guangxi and northern Guangdong, making it easier to get up at any time.
He has not had an easy life in the past two years. The one who faced him on the battlefield in Hunan was Jiang Zhongyuan, the most capable fighter among the Hunan Army! And he was assigned to Hengzhou, Chenzhou, Yongzhou, Guiyang Prefecture and the eastern part of Changsha Prefecture
Both You County and Chaling Prefecture were not wealthy, and the property gained from defeating local tyrants was given to the main force of the Taiping Army in the Northern Expedition, so Feng Yunshan's rear army has always been in difficulty.
This year, Feng Yunshan's territory was hit by a severe drought. Not to mention that the land was thousands of miles away and there was no harvest. The production was also reduced by 40 to 50%! And the Taiping Army's plan to march into Guangdong and Guangxi could not be stopped because of the difficulties on Feng Yunshan's side.
Because the Holy Angel Wu King Luo Yaoguo has already asked the above.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\nThe answer is that it will become more and more difficult in the future. The most indispensable thing for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is difficulty!
Therefore, Feng Yunshan and Nan Wangfu must face the difficulties and complete at least half of the annual grain collection plan, and mobilize enough civilians to support the Second Army and the Rear Army in their march to Guangdong.
Feng Yunshan faced the difficulties and resolutely implemented the instructions of the Prime Minister's Office and the Military Advisor Conference. The consequence was that at the same time that the main rear army of about 30,000 people commanded by Luo Guangda invaded Shaozhou Prefecture in Guangdong, a peasant uprising broke out in the territory ruled by the Nanwang Palace.
, No, it should be a rebellion launched by the remnants of the gentry and landlords instigated by Jiang Zhongyuan and Jiang Yaotou!
These days, he has led some of the elite rear army and local militia left behind to suppress rebellions and bandits in southern Hunan, and to appease the people. It is really hard work. Three days ago, he heard that a war broke out in Xiangxiang County under Qingyao's rule.
The civil uprising was quite large, and they headed north without stopping, from Guiyang Prefecture to Hengshan County. The journey was bumpy, and they urgently needed a good rest tonight.
But not long after he lay down, he suddenly heard a dull roar, like thunder, or...,
Feng Yunshan hurriedly got up and ran to the window, opened it and looked outside:
The fire is soaring into the sky!
Hengshan County is very close to Hengyang, where the Nanwang Mansion is located, and is close to the Xiangjiang River. The geographical location is very important, so Feng Yunshan often comes to Hengshan for inspections and is very familiar with the situation in the city. After thinking for a moment, he knows that the location of the fire is the county government office and ordnance.
Ku, my heart suddenly screamed:
Too bad.
The two locations were raided at the same time, and it seemed to be successful. Those who could do such a thing must not be ordinary rioters, but dead soldiers of the Hunan Army!
The dead soldiers of the Hunan Army were all "bastards" who escaped from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom territory and went to the landlords and gentry families under the influence of Jiang Zhongyuan. All of them had a blood feud with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! They would often sneak into the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom territory to carry out sabotage, assassination, and...
When the Hunan Army attacks the city, it serves as an internal response or as a front guard. And Hengshan is close to the Hunan Army's territory, so...
Alas, it seems that Jiang Zhongyuan has been fooled again. The Xiangxiang civil uprising must be fake news released by this damn monster!
One of Feng Yunshan's personal female officers opened the door and ran in quickly. She was relieved to see that Feng Yunshan was fine.
After taking the dragon robe off the hanger, he helped Feng Yunshan put it on, and then the two of them quickly went out to the yard outside.
Feng Yunshan has been assassinated more than once in the past two years, but he doesn't dare to be careless anymore. Even on his own territory, he is extremely careful. His residence is kept secret from the outside world, and there are dense sentinels around him, all of whom are elite soldiers of the Southern Palace.
When Feng Yunshan arrived at the yard, his soldiers had already gathered quickly. There were a total of 500 foreign rifle teams and thirty pistol teams. Among them, the foreign gun teams were all Guangxi veterans, and the pistol team were all Guangxi Hakka female soldiers.
This guard of 530 people was designated as a "division", with Zeng Zhaoyang, Feng Yunshan's confidant and General Zeng of the Taiping Army, as the division commander.
Seeing that all his men had arrived, Feng Yunshan immediately ordered: "Follow me to find Magistrate Hu!"
The magistrate of Hu County was named Chang, and he was the brother of Hu Yihuang. Because he did not support the rebellion of King Hu Yihuang of Yu, he did not participate in the Jintian Uprising. But later, seeing the power of the Taiping Kingdom, he took his family and came to join Feng Yunshan.
He was appointed as the magistrate of Hengshan County by Feng Yunshan.
"His Royal Highness Nan Wang, please send someone to guard the north and south gates of Hengshan Mountain." Zeng Zhaoyang took a step forward and reminded in a low voice.
This Zeng Zhaoyang was both civil and military, and had a careful mind. He was not only Feng Yunshan's captain of the guard, but also Feng Yunshan's staff and military advisor.
Yes, Feng Yunshan nodded. He had previously analyzed that it was Jiang Zhongyuan's dead soldier of the Hunan Army who caused the trouble.
In addition to engaging in assassinations and sabotage, the dead soldiers of the Hunan Army often served as the Hunan Army's internal responders to attack the cities of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The west gate of Hengshan City facing the mountains has been sealed, and the east gate faces the Xiangjiang River. If the Hunan Army wanted to break in through the city gate
, you can only go through the south and north gates.
Therefore, no matter how these dead soldiers of the Hunan Army make trouble, as long as they guard the north and south gates of Hengshan City and prevent their backup from coming in, the chaos in the city will be settled sooner or later.
"Ji Qingyuan! Tan Shaoguang!"
Ji Qingyuan, a general of the Ji family of the Taiping Army, and Tan Shaoguang, a former boy soldier, came out after hearing the news. Both were brigade commanders under Zeng Zhaoyang, and they were also the number one and number two generals in Feng Yunshan's guard division.
"You two each lead a hundred men to guard the north gate and the south gate!"
The two of them took the order and each led a team of men and horses to rush to the north gate and then the south gate.
In this room, Feng Yunshan and Zeng Zhaoyang led the remaining 330 people to the county government office. They saw officials and soldiers running around.
Like a headless fly, the magistrate Hu Yichang was nowhere to be seen.
He grabbed a clerk and asked, "Where is the magistrate of Hu County?"
Feng Yunshan was wearing a dragon robe, and he was accompanied by a female guard with a pistol. The clerk knew that he was the Nanwang, and immediately calmed down a lot: "No, Magistrate Hu is not here!"
Feng Yunshan frowned and raised his chin to a female guard beside him: "Go to the Hu family to find him!"
The female guard responded and left, but before she had gone far, a master from Hengshan County rushed over, her face turned pale: "Your Highness, Nanwang, Your Highness! Magistrate Hu was beheaded at home!"
Hu Yihuang's brother is gone now? Feng Yunshan's heart tightened: "Who did it?"
"My family in Huzhi County said that a few stout men with local Hengshan accents climbed over the wall into the house and killed him with two stabs!
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Feng Yunshan immediately took out his Nanwang token from his arms, raised it high, and said in a loud voice: "I will take over the affairs of Hengshan County for the time being. Where are the Brigade Commander of Hengshan County and the branch leader of Hengshan County Datonghui?"
The fire that broke out in the Hengshan County Yamen was not extinguished, and the nearby gunpowder depot under the jurisdiction of the Hengshan County brigade was bombed into ruins. However, the prestige of Nan Wang Feng Yunshan was still high enough. He drank several times, causing people to panic.
Great reduction,
Start acting according to orders.
After another half-quarter of an hour, the chaotic situation improved greatly. The local brigade commanders and branch leaders from Hengshan County came to see the situation and reported the latest situation to Feng Yunshan.
But Feng Yunshan's face did not look relaxed.
The other party dared to send dead soldiers to infiltrate the city while he was in Hengshan City, setting fires and killing people. He must be trying to do something big.
And now Luo Outline has led the main force of the rear army into Guangdong. If there is a problem in southern Hunan, the battle of Guangdong may not be easy to fight.
At this moment, a sharp and sharp bell suddenly sounded from the direction of the north gate:
"Dang-dang-dang!"
Then there was another burst of gunfire!
The panic that had finally subsided in Hengshan City rose again. Because Hengshan County is close to the territory of the Hunan Army, the sound of bells and gunshots has only one meaning:
The Hunan Army is invading!
Feng Yunshan immediately led people to the north gate of Hengshan Mountain.
Hengshan County is not large in area, and it takes less than one stick of incense to go from the county government office to the north gate.
As soon as the city gate came into view, shouts started coming from the front. When Feng Yunshan Dingqing looked, he saw that it was his own soldiers holding foreign guns and chasing a few men into the residential area.
All the way there was a lot of jumping, screaming and screaming.
Feng Yunshan listened carefully and frowned. He heard someone shouting with a Hunan accent: "Bless me, Saint Kong, the false heavenly father is dead!"
This is the slogan of the famous Hunan Dafang teacher recently!
This famous sect, now also imitating the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’s Datonghui, has begun to establish an organizational system with one level supervising the other.
Although the famous religious organization is not comparable to the Datong Association, it is still much better than without an organization.
Feng Yunshan walked more than a hundred steps to the north gate, where there was chaos again:
The city gate was closed tightly, but something slammed into it, making a whirring sound.
This shows that the suspension bridge of the moat has been lowered, and the Hunan army has reached the city gate....\n.\n.\nIt came so fast!
Ji Qingyuan strode up and said, "Your Highness, King Nan, a group of Hunan Army dead soldiers took advantage of the chaos to attack the city gate guards and tried to open the city gate, but the general came to stop them. However, the suspension bridge was lowered!"
After saying that, he pointed to the stairs leading up to the city tower, and everyone saw many corpses lying there, some of them Taiping soldiers and some thieves in civilian clothes.
The stairs were stained with blood, showing how fierce the battle that just happened here was!
Feng Yunshan was secretly frightened. If Ji Qingyuan had not arrived in time, the north gate of Hengshan would have been opened wide at this moment, and the Hunan army would have entered the city.
Just when he thought of this, someone suddenly shouted in his ear: "East Gate, there's a fire outside the East Gate!"
Chapter completed!