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Chapter 109 Precedents

Li Fuguo was first brought to Zhou Shixiang. So far, this is the third Green Camp Thousand General Zhou Shixiang has met. The first two are Kong Guoliang, the Qiang General of the Green Camp Thousand General Zhou Guoliang, and Li Deming, the Qiang General of the Green Camp Soochow County. The fate of these two Qiang General Zhou was very bad. The former was cut off by Zhou Shixiang, while the latter was stabbed by a squad leader of the Taiping Camp with a spear. As for the fate of the third Qiang General, it is hard to say.

"Li Fuguo is willing to surrender, and I hope the general will spare his life!"

When Li Fuguo was brought over, his clothes were intact and he was not injured. Except for his extremely bad mental state, he could not see any difference between his usual appearance. On the way he was taken to him, he was observing the Taiping Camp. When he was brought to Zhou Shixiang, he saw that the Ming army on both sides were very respectful to Zhou. He immediately realized that this person was the commander of the Ming army. He knelt on his knees and kowtowed to Zhou Shixiang to get alive.

Although his begging for mercy was very hoarse, it seemed to be innovating in Zhou Shixiang's opinion. However, Li Fuguo's sincerity in begging for mercy was much stronger than that of the Xinxing general Zhao Shiyu. At least he was really begging for mercy with tears in his nose, rather than bargaining from time to time like Zhao Shiyu in the process of begging for mercy, as if the second manager of the Jingnan Prince's Mansion he tied him was really a treasure.

Thinking of the second manager of the Jingnan Prince's Mansion who was released back, Zhou Shixiang couldn't help but have some imagination. He didn't know how the second manager would raise the supplies he needed, and when would he ask him to silence Xiong Yingfu and others Zhaoqing people, so as not to let his master Geng Jimao know that he was a slave and the army would strip him alive.

What is Xiang Er's manager doing? Zhou Shixiang doesn't care about it. Anyway, he is holding Xiong Yingfu and others on hand. If Xiang Er is not tactful and thinks that the sky is high and the emperor is far away from Taiping Camp, and Taiping Camp has no choice but to do anything to him. Then Zhou Shixiang has to let him know what life is worse than death. Although his hands are not long and cannot reach Guangzhou, there are ways to let Geng Jimao solve this guy who is untrustworthy for him. I think Prince Jingnan is also willing to strip him of this slave who is tyrant alive. However, after so many days, he has to send someone to remind Xiang Er's manager, so that this guy will really think that Taiping Camp has forgotten him.

When Zhou Shixiang's thoughts turned from Guangzhou to his eyes, Li Fuguo's voice was almost hoarse. Seeing that the other party was reluctant to express his opinion, he was gritting his teeth and deciding to kowtow a few more times, Zhou Shixiang finally spoke, but did not say he wanted to forgive him. He only asked him: "When did the Han army flag come from Gaoyao City, and why did they come?"

"this..."

Li Fuguo's head fell and stopped hearing the sound. Then he looked up and said with a bitter look: "Return to the general's words, the Han army flag is the city that was entered by the sound of Wu. I didn't know that they would come before. As for why they came, I was just the Green Camp official. I really couldn't care or ask them, so I didn't know."

Don't know?

Zhou Shixiang pondered for a moment, and did not scold Li Fuguo for being evasive and refused to report it. Instead, he asked him: "Who leads this Han military flag? Apart from them, are there other flag soldiers or green camps nearby?"

"The commander of the army was Xiang Guoqing, the leader of the Inlaid Blue Banner. The man was not aware of this person, but only knew that he was brought by King Jingnan from Liaodong. As for whether there were other flag soldiers nearby, this... He thought there should be no. If there were any, he should not be told. The green camps of other prefectures and counties could ignore them. If the flag soldiers were to be well placed, they would have to be settled, otherwise, the humble man would have no good results."

Li Fuguo did not hide anything in his dialect, but he honestly explained that he knew that if he didn't say it, there would be someone else's words. It would be better for him to say it by himself, so that he would have more chances to save his life.

Zhou Shixiang did have plans to interrogate others. After Li Fuguo finished speaking, he waved his hand and ordered the soldiers, "Take this man down first."

"Yes, thousands of households!"

At that moment, a soldier came up to pull Li Fuguo. Li Fuguo was stunned for a moment, not knowing whether Zhou Shixiang would forgive him. When he was hesitating, he saw Zhou Shixiang nodding at him, then smiled a little, and felt relieved. He thought that this Ming general would probably not kill him. With hope in his heart, Li Fuguo also knew the reason to stop when he was about to be good, and he was afraid that if he stayed, he would make this Ming general unlucky. He hurriedly and honestly went down with the soldiers. On the way, he was even more fortunate that he had not fought to the end, otherwise he would have become a corpse.

After Li Fuguo was dragged down, Zhou Shixiang ordered people to bring a few green camp soldiers, including Li Fuguo's personal soldiers and a general manager. The situation explained by the few was correct from what Li Fuguo said, and they all said that they didn't know why the Han army flag came.

The Green Camp could not ask about the situation, so Zhou Shixiang could only ask the surrendered soldiers from the Han army flag. After all, the sudden appearance of the Han army flag made his nerves tense. If he could not figure out why the Han army flag came, this Gaoyaocheng would not be a safe place. A war is a bad thing, and if he is careless, he will be doomed.

There were no officers among the surrendered flag soldiers, but after interrogating several flag soldiers, Zhou Shixiang still figured out why the Han army in the Inlaid Blue Banner appeared in Gaoyaocheng. Unlike what he was worried about in advance, Xiang Guoqing's Han flag was not sent to Zhaoqing to encircle and suppress Taiping Camp. Even this Han flag had never heard of the three words Taiping Camp. The reason why they ran from the provincial capital to Gaoyaocheng was entirely because of what happened in Leizhou recently.

Half a month ago, when the Taiping Camp just came out of Yunwu Mountain and rushed to Xinxing Town, a major event happened to Leizhou Prefecture. Although the Southern Ming Dynasty nominally set up the governors of Gao, Lian, Lei and Qiong, except for Gaozhou and Qiongzhou, most of Leizhou and Lianzhou were controlled by the Ming army, but were occupied by the Qing army.

Because Leizhou Prefecture has many counties near the sea, and the Qing army did not have a naval army in Guangdong, the coastal Ming army can use the navy to launch an attack on the Qing army. Since Chen Qice, the general appointed by the Southern Ming Dynasty, led his troops to respond to the eastward advance of Li Dingguo's army last year, he led his troops to fight against the Leizhou Peninsula two months ago. Half a month ago, he even captured Xuwen County, which was heavily guarded by the Green Camp, and captured Gao Youyi, the general appointed by the Qing court.

The news reached Guangzhou. Li Shutai, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, had just pacified Xiangshan, Dongguan, Shunde and other counties, immediately requested that the Han army under the command of Pingnan and the two vassals of Jingnan be allocated a unit to Leizhou to ensure the safety of Haikang County, Leizhou prefecture, and wait for an opportunity to wipe out Chen Qice's troops.

Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao in Pingnan were not concerned about Leizhou affairs. The two kings were determined to ensure the wealthy Guangzhou and Chaoshan areas, so they did not want to send troops to Leizhou at all. But Li Shutai repeatedly asked the two kings to send Han troops to transfer Leizhou, and also asked the two kings to issue one under their command, "It is best to have thousands of soldiers." However, they failed to resist Li Shutai's request and backstage. After Shang Kexi discussed with Geng Jimao, the situation was not stable because Chaoshan had just been pacified, and Li Dingguo's army had just withdrawn from Guangdong for only a few months. How could they know if they would rush their troops to advance east again? Therefore, most of the Han army in Guangzhou could not easily transfer other parties, and Geng Jimao sent more than 300 flag soldiers to Leizhou to assist the local green camp in combat.

When Xiang Guoqing and his more than 300 flag soldiers were swaying to Gaoyao City and preparing to loot the people in the city, they happened to encounter Taipingying, which was running all the way, and the situation was now.

As long as it was not for Taiping Camp, Zhou Shixiang was relieved, and although he led the front battalion to make a big fuss in Zhaoqing Prefecture, his real purpose was to ensure that the back battalion could safely advance towards Xiangshan, rather than to really attract the main force of the Qing army to compete with Taiping Camp. In that case, it would be a fake drama that turned into real.

The navy of Chen Qice, General Linghai of Leizhou, also came into Zhou Shixiang's sight for the first time, but the other party was a general appointed by the Southern Ming Dynasty court, and the navy was full of troops. It was not something that he could recruit, but he could solve the Han flag of National Day for him. It was also a matter of being able to get a relationship with him and he would have the chance in the future.

Qin Zhisheng came over and asked for instructions: "Chihu, should we still deal with these prisoners as before?"

The so-called precedent refers to emerging and old things. The Taiping Camp adopted the approach of dealing with emerging surrendered Green Camp to retain troops but not officials, and to kill officials by killing them and accepting them.

After thinking about it, Zhou Shixiang ordered him, "Don't follow the previous example, you should take your men to take all the flag soldiers and the green camp to Dongcheng."

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