When the Chinese New Year was seven days away, Zhang An, the ambassador of the Military Information Department appointed by Zhou Shixiang in Luoding, secretly arrived from Guangzhou to Renhoufang, the capital of Xiangshan County. When he arrived, Zhou Shixiang was not in the city, but led the guard camp to the Qianshan Village of Ning'andu. The Taiping Army left behind Renhoufang with Ge Yi's Zhenlu camp, and the new Xiangshan magistrate Liao Ruixiang.

The Taiping Army captured Renhoufang, Xiangshan County on November 14th. In this battle, the defender Xiangshan Green Camp killed more than 200 people below Zhou Mazi, captured more than 500 soldiers from the camp, and captured more than 500 strong people. In addition, he also captured the Xiangshan magistrate Sun Quanzheng appointed by the Qing Dynasty. However, this Sun magistrate is much more backbone than Guo Shao, the ambassador of the Salt Inspection Office, who was captured in Liangdu. After being captured, he not only refused to surrender, but also cursed the Taiping Army in every way. He even called Zhou Shixiang a "thief scholar" one by one. Zhou Shixiang ordered people to drag him out of the city and buried him alive.

After capturing Renhoufang, Zhou Shixiang kept Ge Yi's Zhenlu camp to guard the county town. Tieyi's camp went east to capture Yongle and Changle and other Fangdu belonging to Xiangshan, and tried to contact the remnants of Ming dynasties hiding in Wutong Mountain and Qiniang Mountain, and tried to recruit these anti-Qing heroes. Due to the inconvenience of movement and insufficient gunner training, Zhou Shixiang asked him to lead his troops to train in Deqingfang, not far from Renhoufang, so that he could play a huge role in the subsequent war. Zhou Shixiang himself led the Guards to capture the former mountain village of Ning'andu.

The Qianshan Village was a city set up by the Guangdong Governor's Yamen in Xiangshan in the first year of the Tianqi period of the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, the camp was established, and the general's office was stationed in the guard. This camp was not only a military fortress, but also the yamen in the Guangdong region that manages Macau and Qianshan's administration and diplomatic affairs in Guangdong. Regarding this village, Zhou Shixiang privately called it another title in his letter to Duke Xiang of Song, that is, Zhuhai.

Shortly after the Qing army captured Guangzhou, Qianshanzhai was occupied by the Qing army. Because Qianshanzhai had the authority to manage Macau affairs, and the Qing court regarded itself as the successor of the Ming regime, the Guangdong Governor's Office did not demolish Qianshanzhai, but continued to send troops to garrison. However, the person who was appointed was not the generals of the former Ming Dynasty, but Qianshanzhai. He was no longer under the jurisdiction of Xiangshan, but under the direct jurisdiction of Guangzhou Prefecture.

The Qianzheng of the Green Camp stationed in Qianshan Village was named Chen Shiqi. He led his troops to participate in the defense of Xiangshan County. After the city was broken, he led more than 100 remaining soldiers to flee back to Qianshan Village. Knowing that the Taiping Army had approached Qianshan Village, Chen Shiqi knew that he was defeated, so he ordered people to burn down all the documents in the village and led his subordinates to sea to escape to Lingdingyang, preparing to escape from the Pearl River to Guangzhou. When he fled, the Taiping Army seized Qianshan Village without losing his battle.

After capturing the former mountain village, Zhou Shixiang originally planned to contact the people of Folang, Macau immediately, but because the Taiping Army occupied Xiangshan too quickly, the distance between the various units was too long, and there were a small number of Qing army scattered soldiers in the countryside, and communication between various places was unstable. Therefore, Zhou Shixiang did not send people to Macau immediately, but ordered each battalion to send troops to the countryside to clear the Qing army scattered soldiers, and recruit troops to expand the Taiping army.

From the crossing of the river on the 10th of November, the Taiping Army captured Xiangshan smoothly. In addition to capturing Renhoufang, Xiangshan County, the larger-scale war also took place in Yinpingzui Mountain in the north of Liangzidu. This battle also refreshed Zhou Shixiang and Taiping Army's understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Qing army's green camp soldiers.

During the battle of Yinpingzui Mountain, the Taiping Army actually dispatched only Shao Chengguo's troops who were ordered to go north to guard the Qing army in Zengcheng. The troops had only 46 cavalrymen who could barely run on horseback. The opponents rushed from Zengcheng to rescue Liangzidu as many as 1,200 Green Camp soldiers.

Before the battle began, the explorer sent by Shao Chengguo discovered the green camp that was rushed from Zengcheng. At first, Shao Chengguo did not have the idea of ​​actively attacking the green camp because the forces of the enemy and us were too different. However, when he was about to drive the horse back to send the information back, he found that the formation of the Zengcheng green camp coming to assist was very disordered. The team of more than a thousand people actually dragged four or five miles long, and the guerrillas leading the troops were not riding horses but sitting in a sedan chair carried by four people, Shao Chengguo changed his mind.

When the Qing army passed by Yinping Mountain Pass almost halfway, Shao Chengguo was cheering up by him. But he was still very scared and rushed towards the Qing army. The Shao Chengguo's troops suddenly rushed out frightened the Qing army, and even more frightened the guerrillas leading the troops. A ridiculous scene appeared. Before the Taiping Army could approach the Qing army, the green camp guerrillas leading the troops jumped out of the sedan chair, and then ran desperately towards the way they came without looking back.

The consequences of the general run away were unknown. The final result was that except for half of the Qing army, the other Qing soldiers knelt down and surrendered to Shao Cheng's troops, who had only 40 people. This scene scared Shao Guocheng, who was brave just now. While sending a quick horse to Liangdu to report the news, he led the other subordinates to monitor the Qing soldiers in case they found that the Taiping Army had far less troops than them and went on a difficult situation. However, Shao Cheng's concern was obviously unnecessary. Until the camp that arrived at the camp took over the prisoners, nearly 600 Qing army prisoners had never acted rashly for nearly an hour.

More than 40 people defeated more than 1,000 people and captured half of the other party. This record made Zhou Shixiang and a hundred households, and the hundreds of households were stunned. After the interrogation, it was found that the Green Camp soldiers stationed in Zengcheng were adapted from the original Ming army of the Nanhai Guard, and the guerrillas led by the troops were also the Thousand households of the Nanhai Guard. These people used to farm and fish for the officers of the Nanhai Guard. None of them had ever been on the battlefield to fight, and even had not participated in the battle to wipe out pirates. After the Qing army occupied Guangzhou, the farmers and fishermen of the Nanhai Guard did not dare to resist at all, so they descended from the Qing army under the leadership of the officers of the Guard and were adapted into the Green Camp soldiers stationed in Zengcheng. After Ma Yulong, who was of Liangdu, learned that the Taiping Army was forcing Liangdu, had sent people to Zengcheng to report the news.

After receiving the news that the word Liang Du was invaded by the Ming army, the Qianzong General of the Green Camp in Zengcheng, which was the original Nanhai Wei Qiandu Jiang Shuangxi, thought that the person who attacked the word Liang Du was just a small group of soldiers in the Ming army, so he tried to make contributions and killed Qi soldiers and horses at the Liang Du. Because of his fatness, Jiang Shuangxi could not ride a horse, and he was exhausted when riding a horse. Therefore, he always sat in a four-person sedan chair and carriage when he went out. Because he was too upset, he could not stand it. As a result, he did not achieve his achievements and lost half of his subordinates. If it weren't for the loyal protection of his master, and the few people carried him away, Jiang Guerrilla would probably have become a prisoner.

Jiang Shuangxi, the incompetent Zengcheng guerrilla, naturally would not make Zhou Shixiang interested. What he was interested in was how many former Guangdong's Ming army had been adapted into the Qing army's green camp. (To be continued.)
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