If you want to know how many Ming troops in Guangdong have been adapted into Green Camp soldiers, you must have people familiar with the inside story of the Qing army. People who can know this kind of intelligence must have a good status in the Qing army, and at least they must have officials above the general, or those who can directly contact such confidential staff members of the Second Vatican. Such people are not in the Taiping Army at present, but this intelligence is very important to the Taiping Army, so Zhou Shixiang activated the card Zhang An.

In view of the need for intelligence work that day, Zhou Shixiang hurriedly established the Military Information Department in Luo Ding, and let the clever Zhang An serve as the ambassador of the Military Information Department. However, when the Military Information Department was established, the Taiping Army was about to leave Luo Ding and enter Xiangshan, so Zhou Shixiang had no energy or enough resources to invest in Zhang An. He basically had the plan to make a shot with no dates or dates. Fortunately, Zhang An brought the silver notes given to him by Zhou Shixiang and developed smoothly after he arrived in Zhaoqing. Song Ying, the downline who developed in Zhaoqing, risked his life to spread the information about Gaoyaocheng and directly helped Zhou Shixiang decide to seize Gaoyaocheng.

Later, because he was trapped in Xinhui, the Taiping Army's external contact channels were cut off by the Qing army. Zhang An was unable to contact Zhou Shixiang, so the line was considered broken. After the battle at Yinpingzui Mountain, Zhou Shixiang found Song Ying, who was now the small flag of the Taiping Army, and handed him a wooden sign engraved with the word "Li" and asked him to go to Zhaoqing to find Zhang An immediately. This time, Zhou Shixiang's task to Zhang An was very clear, which was to ask him to find out the garrison deployment of the Guangdong Qing army at all costs and do his best to obtain the details of these garrisons.

The persimmons need to be picked up and pinched. Compared with the main force of the Qing army in Guangzhou, the Taiping army is undoubtedly the soft one, but compared with the Green Camp in Zengcheng, the Taiping army is the hard one.

Earlier, Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong had an analysis of the strength of the Qing army in Guangdong. The two concluded that the overall strength of the Qing army in Guangdong should be between 30,000 and 40,000, while the main force was still very gratifying. The Han army inlaid blue flag, Geng Jimao's Han army in the Zhenghuang Banner should be between 5,000 and 8,000. The remaining Green Camp troops vary from one another, and the governors who were promoted by the Guangdong Governor's Office were the strongest.

After the Xinhui World War, after interrogation, the prisoners learned that the total force of the besieged army commanded by Shang Zhixin once reached more than 18,000 during the Dingfeng period, and some were then drawn away one after another. By the time of the decisive battle of Xinhui, the Qing army outside the city had a total of more than 14,000 troops. Among them were Shangfan's Han army flags and 2,600 soldiers from the family. Gengfan's Han army flag soldiers were 600 soldiers, and the Green Camp Governor-General Models were more than 500 soldiers from the Green Camp. The remaining were Green Camp soldiers transferred from various places. The most green camp soldiers were battalions under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou Prefecture. Xiangshan was under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou Prefecture and was close to Xinhui. The most garrisoned soldiers were drawn. This resulted in the Taiping Army crossing the river to attack Xiangshan, the Qing army stationed in Xiangshan had no strength to resist.

With the current power of the Taiping Army, it is impossible for Geng Jimao to fight against the Han army flag, but the Taiping Army is moving under the nose of Guangzhou, and head-on confrontation with the Second Vastariat in the future will definitely be inevitable. If you want to not be defeated by the Han army flag, the Taiping Army must become strong enough. If an army wants to become strong, it cannot be achieved simply by expanding its troops on paper, equipping weapons, and simple mobilization. It must improve its combat effectiveness through continuous combat.

He could not fight with the Han flag soldiers, and he had to improve his combat effectiveness through combat. Zhou Shixiang's eyes could only focus on those Green Camp soldiers. Of course, Green Camp soldiers also had hard bones. The Taiping Army could not compete with the tough guys at the beginning, as the losses would be too great and the gain would not be worth the loss. Therefore, he had to pick up the soft ones to fight first, but Zhou Shixiang didn't know which Green Camp soldier was corrupt. So he urgently needed the garrison deployment and strength details of Guangdong Green Camp.

Before setting out to the Qianshan Village, Song Ying disguised himself as a landlord's son who escaped from massacre in Yongle Township and sneaked into a fleeing team. The people in this team all "flee" the landlords and gentry and their families because their hometown was occupied by the Ming army. Their target of escape was Guangzhou.

The Taiping Army's military discipline is not to kill people. However, the landlords and gentry who dared to resist were killed, while the evil gentry who had helped the Qing army was slaughtered regardless of whether they surrendered.

The camp that occupied Yongledu was all poor miners. They hated these landlords and gentry who relied on drinking people's blood to make a living, so several tragedies occurred in Yongle. The murdered were either country bullies or children who became officials in the Qing Dynasty. The process of extermination was naturally very bloody, and many underage children were killed. The incident reached Zhou Shixiang. Although he was a little dissatisfied, he did not explicitly denounce Tieyi for such a massacre that was contrary to humanity. He only passed the message that Tieyi should be different from local gentry in the future, and should not be killed in vain or indiscriminately. Pay attention to uniting local people instead of killing them alone. As a result, when it came to Tieyi's side, he was regarded as Zhou Shixiang's intention of acquiesce to him. On the contrary, several family cases occurred. Several of these households did not help the evil and helped the Qing army, but the land rent was collected higher on weekdays and the usury was released more.

"This is the instinctive reaction of our soldiers to the squire who used to ride on them and the natural disgust of poor people towards rich people. They used to be unable to resist these people, but now they have a knife in their hands and can do whatever they want. I am afraid that this kind of thing will become the norm in the future. That would be bad, and it would be detrimental to the development of our army."

"Although the elimination of these landlords and evil gentry who are rooted in the countryside will make our army's reputation worse in some places and will be resisted, I have no better way to deal with these things at the moment. Our biggest enemy at present is the Qing Dynasty and his lackeys. To some extent, the landlords and gentry in the occupied areas are both the Qing Dynasty's lackeys. As long as they do not stand up clearly to support our army and the Ming Dynasty, there is nothing wrong with eliminating them."

Duke Xiang of Song, who received the letter from Zhou Shixiang, was very confused about Zhou Shixiang's different attitudes towards Tieyi in the letter, and did not know what Zhou Shi's attitude was compared to the gentry. In his busy schedule, he wrote down some of his views and gave them to Zhou Shixiang. However, after seeing the letter, the latter did not express his views on the matter. He only hurriedly asked him how the land was being consolidated in Longyandu, what the local people had about the arrival of the Taiping Army, whether the Taiping Army infringed on the interests of the locals, whether the locals were very enthusiastic about joining the Taiping Army, etc....

Song Ying successfully concealed the investigation of the Qing army in Guangzhou. After staying in Guangzhou for two days, he arrived in Zhaoqing on the excuse of joining the family and finding Zhang An. (To be continued.)
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