In Daliang Town, hundreds of Taiping Army carrying muskets and spears confronted the Qing army in the town.

The Taiping Army arrived in Daliang Town in the morning and found that there were many Qing troops and regiments in the town, and there were also built fortresses that were easy to defend and difficult to attack. Huang Si, the leading infantry army's second brigade and third guards, ordered not to attack and sent people to the brigade commander to report the news, asking the brigade commander to ask the artillery team to support him, so that his subordinates could avoid excessive casualties when attacking the brigade.

While waiting for the artillery team, Huang Si was not idle either. He sent people to circle the town and determined two entrances. When the artillery team came over, they launched an attack and must have lunch in the town.

There were about 300 Qing troops in the town, and there were more than 500 young and strong soldiers from the Daliang Town regiment mobilized by the Qing army. The leader was Hu Mingyi, the thousand-ranking general of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Daliang Town in Guangdong Green Camp. This man was the cousin of Hu Qili, the general general of the General of the Biao. The day before yesterday, he sent back the Taiping Army's urgent report to Guangzhou to force Daliang. Today, the Taiping Army came.

After discovering that the Taiping Army appeared outside the town, Hu Mingyi was frowning in the fortress. His uncle led so many battalions and asked the Taiping Army to defeat him. How could he dare to fight with the Taiping Army? He had thought about running, but the Taiping Army was too fast. As soon as he entered Panyu, he divided his troops to rob and blocked several important roads, making him unable to run away even if he wanted to run, so he could only stay in Daliang Town for assistance.

Most of the more than 300 battalions under Hu Mingyi were newly recruits who had just entered the camp. They had never seen such a battle, and they were hiding in the fortress and were frightened. The battalions were like this, and the young and strong regiments who had just been pulled up would be even more frightened. If the Qing army and the gentry had not told them that the Taiping army would have no place to stay once the Taiping army broke through the town. They would not have the courage to carry a hoe here to confront the Taiping army.

Hu Mingyi couldn't take care of himself, and he didn't care about cheering up these useless subordinates. He led two personal soldiers to climb up the fort stairs and looked around. After discovering that the Taiping Army had blocked both ways of leaving the town, he completely lost his mind to break through. He lay on the building as he looked north, hoping that the reinforcements from Guangzhou would arrive soon.

"Mr. Hu Qian, Mr. Hu Qian!"

A rushing scream sounded downstairs, and then someone went up the stairs with a "thump" thump". Hu Mingyi glanced at the visitor and turned around and ignored him.

The visitor was the only Wanjia in charge of the Wanquanan, who was outside the Daliang Town. His master Wanli was a left-handed political officer in the Hubei Provincial Administration and In charge of military affairs and politicians. He was a third-rank official. Therefore, the Wanjia had a high status in Daliang Town and had a great influence. Before the Taiping Army came, Wanli's younger brother Wanguo came forward to organize the young and strong people in the town to form a group training to assist the Qing army in defending the village.

However, Hu Mingyi was not very polite to the Wan family, and it was better to take charge of the county magistrate now. Could a left-ranking political officer far away in Hubei be able to take charge of him? In addition, Wanguo usually relies on his brother as a third-rank official in the court, so he looked down on Hu Mingyi, who was born in Qiu Ba, so the relationship between the two has always been not so harmonious.

After Wanli organized the Youth League in the Town to train and guard, he always pointed at the defense of Daliang Town, hoping to replace Hu Mingyi and personally commanded the Daliang Town garrison. If he could defeat the Taiping Army, Wanli would not be able to get an official. In this way, Hu Mingyi would be even more incompatible with Wanli.

Wan Quan'an knew the conflict between his second master and the foreign minister Qian. Although he was willing to persuade him to make peace, the enemy was in front of him. He had to work together within him, but the second master did not listen to his advice and Hu Mingyi ignored him, which made it very difficult for him to get stuck in the middle.

It’s not easy to live, and the second master on the other side asked him to ask questions. Wan Quanan could only come forward and smiled at Hu Mingyi and said, “Mr. Hu, my second master asked me to ask you, should we rush out to kill them first while there were not many soldiers in Taiping, killing them hard, so that these thieves knew that our Daliang Town was not so easy to mess with?"

Upon hearing this, Hu Mingyi sneered and said to Wan Guoan: "Go and tell your second master that if he sees the Taiping gangs, he will lead people to fight by himself. I will not accompany him to make trouble."

"this..."

Wan Quanan smirked, Hu Mingyi's camp soldiers didn't go out to fight, what could these young and strong men do?

"My second master doesn't have to defeat the thieves. He just feels that letting the thieves set up camp outside the town will ruin our morale a little, so he wants..."

Before Wan Quan'an finished speaking, he was interrupted by Hu Mingyi, "The same thing, if he wants to go out, he will go by himself. Don't take me to die together. Humph, he is easy to bully him, but he is easy to bully us... A corrupt scholar who doesn't know anything, he is just a mess!"

After saying that, he patted his butt and led his personal soldiers down the fortress, threw Wan Quan'an there and sighed, not knowing how to reply to the second master.

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"Brother Huang, it seems that the Qing Yao in Lingshan Town is very scared by us. Hey, these dog Qing Yao know how to bully the weak and fear the strong. What a feint to do in the town? If you have the ability to come out and fight us... My brothers under me are very itchy and I wish I could rush out and pull out the dog Qing Yao out now... I said Brother Huang, when will we have to wait?"

Fan Tongqing, the Zuoying General Banner, who was ordered to lead his own team of spear soldiers to cooperate with the infantry's right camp gun soldiers, humming a small song to Huang Si. He was in a particularly good mood these days because he was promoted from the small flag to the general banner with his military merits in the battle of Lutouhe, and the soldiers under his command also changed from 10 to 50.

Huang Si glanced at Fan Tongqing and smiled. When he was working as a servant in Xinhui County, he knew Fan Si, a guy who ran from the countryside to Xinhui City to get a house to live in for free. Later, the Taiping Army occupied Xinhui City. He and Fan Si were recruited by the Taiping Army to build the city wall. He was very lucky, and neither of them was exhausted. Later, the Taiping Army was short of people and added them to the army, which was still very lucky. After a few months, not only did they not die, but one of them became the guards of the right battalion of the infantry army and the other became the chief flag of the left battalion of the infantry army. It was really sad.

"What are you anxious about? Don't think that you underestimate this Daliang Town. Although the Qing demons inside are not beaten, it is not that easy for us to seize the fortress. If we don't lose dozens of lives, we may not be able to take it down."

Huang Si said as he looked up at the town. There was no movement in the Qing army in the town. Except for the occasional people in the fortress, there was no living person. There was no more bird above the town, so quiet that they could not hear a sound.

"When the artillery team comes, shoot a few shots and see if they dare to hide." Huang Si looked down on the Qing army in the town from his heart. If he hadn't wanted to have too many casualties, he had ordered a strong attack.

Fan Tongqing reminded him: "Brother Huang, the task we received is to quickly occupy Daliang Town. If this is delayed for a long time, will there be any accidents? Ge Yingshuai said that the Qing Yao from Guangzhou City will be coming soon. If we don't emptie Daliang Town in front of them, wouldn't we come in vain?"
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