There are too many possibilities in the world. Guo Kuoyu, the governor of Panyuan, recommended by Hong Chengchou, turned into a hero who led the military and civilians in Yuanzhou anyway. Then, under his "persuasion", Chenzhou Prefect Xiao Hanying and Changde Prefect Zhang Xueren also responded to the call for Rest Ming and led the military and civilians of Chenzhou and Changde Prefecture to return.

At this point, dozens of people were added to the list of Qing officials who returned from the Taiping Army. Among them, the more heavy ones were Zhang Zhaotao from Hunan Road, Guo Wanxiang from Hunan Road, Feng Heng from Baoqing Prefecture, Zhao Jideng from Baojing Prefecture, and others. In addition, Guo Yong, the General of Yuanzhou, Ruan Qing from Chenzhou, and Chang Tianxiao from Baojing Deputy General, also surrendered to the Taiping Army.

During the Guilin Army's discussion, the town general Zhao Ziqiang once said that the Qing army in Hunan was vulnerable and that the Taiping army could defeat Hunan with one town. The fact is true as Zhao Ziqiang said. When more than 30,000 Taiping Army officers and soldiers broke into Jingzhou, Hunan from Huaiyuan, Guangxi and captured the passage into the Guizhou main road, the main forces all followed Hong Chengchou, the Hunan Qing army who went to Yunnan with the five provinces to defeat the Taiping Army under the attack of the Taiping Army and was irresistible.

On the 17th, the sixth town of the Taiping Army captured the Jingzhou Prefecture City, and then the troops advanced together and cut off Yingkou Post, another major road into Guizhou. Yang Shiying, the governor of Jingzhou in Qing Dynasty, dared not resist the Taiping Army, and led a thousand remaining soldiers to retreat to Qianyang County. Later, when he heard that the Taiping Army was coming to Qianyang, Yang Shiying was so scared that he abandoned Qianyang City and fled to Suining. When he arrived at Suining County, he stayed there. Yang Shiying felt worried and hurriedly retreated to the city 60 miles south of Suining.

The sixth town general of the Taiping Army, Su Na, sent deputy general E Duo to lead a brigade to chase him, and finally surrounded Yang Shiying in Chengbu. After being surrounded, Yang Shiying had no hope of defending the city and breaking through. In despair, she hung her beams on the county government. After his death, Sun Daquan, the general of the Jingzhou Green Camp who fled to Chengbu, knew that he was not a match for the Taiping Army, so he led people to open the city gate and surrender to the Taiping Army.

The sixth town was ordered to station Jingzhou, and used a brigade to attack Guizhou with a false attack on Guizhou to restrain the Qing army in Guizhou. A brigade station stationed Yingkou Post, driving surrendered soldiers and more than 20,000 young and strong civilians to destroy the official road to Guizhou. There were many trenches in the vast areas, and the narrow areas were blocked with medicine and stones. In addition, guardhouses and forts were built on the slopes on both sides of the dangerous places, so that civilians could cut down forests within a radius of more than ten miles, part of which was used to make rolling wood, and part was transported to Yingkou Post for construction of guardhouses.

In order to build fortifications before the Qing army in Guizhou returned north, the Sixth Town General Suna spared no effort to order the troops to surrender. The civilians worked day and night, and finally built the dozens of miles of official road leading to Yingkou to Guizhou into a fearful line of defense at the cost of more than 4,000 casualties. If the Qing army wanted to break through this line of defense, tens of thousands of people would not survive.

In addition, according to the requirements of the military headquarters, Suna led the surrendered troops, and organized the young and strong civilians to form an army, and sent the seized weapons to the third brigade based on the C Brigade. She was stationed in various counties in Jingzhou to maintain local public order, clear the remnants of the Qing army, and conquered the chieftain forces that cooperated with the Qing army.

In order to stimulate the surrender of the troops, the young and strong man ordered the brigades to "support food" to the gentry and large households in the territory. 70% of the income was handed over to the town headquarters, and the remaining brigades were left to reward. With this inspiration, the three brigades formed by the surrendered troops and civilians caused a bloody storm in Jingzhou. The chieftain armed forces, who had originally changed their magistrates to cooperate with the Ming army, also took a hostile attitude towards the Taiping Army and continued to harass the Taiping Army's strongholds.

At that time, Zhou Shixiangzheng led his troops to attack Chenzhou in the north. Su Na then made his own decision and issued a massacre order, ordering all the troops to gather in the country to carry out the Three Light Order of "killing, burning, and robbing" the local people in western Hunan, which shocked the crying of the local people in western Hunan.

After hearing about the absurdity of Suna in Jingzhou, Zhou Shixiang, who was far away in Changde, heard that Suna immediately ordered Suna to stop the Sanguang Order and switch to the chieftains in the territory to appease the chieftains. However, the prerequisite for appeasement was that the chieftain had to lead his tribe out of the mountain, select young and strong men to serve the Taiping Army, and at the same time learn Chinese characters, speak Chinese language, change the Chinese name according to the customs of the Han Dynasty.

Zhou Shixiang ordered that if the local official did not accept the king's transformation, he could send someone to contact the local official's subordinates, promised a heavy reward and profit, and they would kill the chieftains. After the matter was completed, the officials would be appointed to serve. The natives and Han people in this department were generally protected by the Taiping Army and could participate in the distribution of land and property.

Zhou Shixiang was not allowed to forgive the local officials who had cooperated with the Qing army to attack the Ming army and massacred the Han people. If the use of troops in the Sixth Town is inconvenient, the local officials can be encircled and suppressed. The matter was completed, all the local officials' property will be encircled and suppressed, and they can be promoted to the rank of the Yousi Division.

Zhou Shixiang boldly used the demoted officials as before. Anyone who came to surrender to the city would be entrusted with the original position. If the Qing court granted the title, the Taiping Army would still be established and will be awarded the same or first-level title to the Ming Dynasty in the future.

The surrendered troops must be dispersed and used, and the surrendered generals must be appointed to another camp. This principle is that Zhou Shi was strict with his orders and orders shall not be shaken.

After the reconstruction of governments in various places, the first priority was to count Dingkou for investigation; the second was to collect money and grain for military purposes; the third was to safeguard the people and make it stable; the fourth was to recruit refugees, persuade refugees to return to them, and resume production.

The sixth town was purged in Jingzhou, causing bloody storms. The ninth town, which had weak combat power, followed the Pao Town, and the cavalry brigade besieged Yuanzhou. The second town crossed Yuanzhou and marched towards Chenzhou.

On the 21st, the Taiping Cavalry Brigade attacked the three posts of Hongjiang, Huaihua and Yuanshui, killing more than 500 garrisons. Then, before the Qing army in Yuanzhou had not yet reacted, surrounded Yuanzhou Prefecture City. In the ninth town, one part of the cannon town followed. On the 24th, the Taiping Army's cannons attack Yuanzhou Prefecture City. At the same time, in the battle of Wuzhou, the commander of the Tongzhi Ma Yaozi Wang Fu. I led a group of cavalry to burn down the Bingshui west of Yuanzhou, and killed more than 300 posts of the Qing army in Huangzhou.

After the Taiping Army began to siege the city, Guo Kuoyu, the governor of Pian Yuan in Yuanzhou City, immediately made a decision. He knew that it was impossible to resist the Taiping Army with the more than 3,000 soldiers in the city alone, so he led the military officials in the city to return to the Ming Dynasty to prevent the family from burying him after the city was destroyed.

Anyway, Zhou Shixiang was very happy and appointed Guo Kuoyu as the governor of Pianyuan and ordered more than 3,000 Yuanzhou defenders to go out of the city to accept the Taiping Army's reorganization. With the ninth town, one of the Pao Town stationed in Yuanzhou. While clearing the Qing army near Yuanzhou, he recruited civilians like Jingzhou to block the official road from Yuanzhou to Guizhou.

After anyway, Governor Guo Kuoyu of Panyuan asked to surrender his colleagues to surrender Xiao Hanying, the governor of Chenzhou, Zhang Xueren, and Zhou Shixiang agreed happily.

On the 28th, under the threat of the second Taiping Army's Second Town, Xiao Hanying, the prefect of Chenzhou, wisely accepted the persuasion of Shangguan Guo Kuoyu, and led more than 2,000 defenders in Chenzhou anyway.

After taking Chenzhou, the second town did not stop for a moment and continued to march towards Changde in the north, conquering the city and territorial territory. It was unbearable to defend the city and commit suicide. Zhang Xueren, the prefect of Changde, was unable to defend the city and had no courage to commit suicide, so he had to choose anyway like Xiao Hanying.
Chapter completed!