Chapter 76: Guerrilla
Getting rich is the common ideal of officers from Daqiao Mountain, such as Ge Zheng and Ge Yi. They don’t have beliefs, and they don’t have the right and wrong views of national justice. They only have good ideas about how to get rich, how to make big fish every day, and how to count money to count the good ideas of soft hands. Also, in today’s Taiping Camp, apart from Zhou Shixiang, few people think about the future of Taiping Camp and Huaxia from the national level.
Ge Yi said that he was going to fight Deqing, and he immediately got the support of Jiang He and others. They all said that even though Deqing’s city wall was stronger than Luo Ding, if he really wanted to use this medicine to blow it up, I’m afraid it would be a piece of paper. The walls were blown up, the city was destroyed, and the brothers were rich and happy. The strong man Chen Mo is even more active, saying that he would like to lead the death camp to attack the city before he fights Deqing, and he will definitely capture Lu Gongming in front of the thousand households. He said that Zhou Shixiang was almost tempted, and really wanted to take the medicine in his hand. The sub set up and went to fry Deqing.
Fortunately, he was sober in time. There was wealth in Deqing City that could be grabbed, but what to do after grabbing it, was it to take Deqing and the Qing army to death, or to withdraw to Luoding? There are only so many medicines. If you really want to blow up the wall, I am afraid that you will have to use them all at one time. If you run out of medicines, what will you do next time you encounter a “nail household”? Moreover, Deqing is still a “friend” of Taiping Camp. He just got a large amount of money, grain and supplies from others, and he turned his head and was about to smash people’s doors, which seemed a bit unkind.
Before the source of gunpowder could not be obtained, Zhou Shixiang would not rashly use the only gunpowder for blasting. This less than 200 catties of granular gunpowder was the only weapon in his hand that was ahead of the Qing army. Good things must be used in good places, and Deqing is clearly not the “good place” in his mind. Therefore, he ignored Ge Yi, as long as Tie Yi and others summed up the effect of the blasting and made improvements for its shortcomings. This action made Ge Yi so boring, and it was embarrassing to blink his eyes. Jiang and the others saw that Zhou Shixiang had no intention of fighting Deqing again, so they didn’t mention it.
After seeing the power of Taiping Ying Yaozi, the elders of the camp were ordered to go back to publicize the strength of Taiping Ying to the campers, while Duke Xiang of Song went to prepare the military uniform department of Taiping Ying according to Zhou Shixiang’s request.
The current Taiping Battalion only has more than 400 sets of military uniforms, and most of the rest are dressed as civilians. Zhou Shixiang didn’t have pig iron in his hands, so he couldn’t forge weapons by himself, so he could only gather all the farm implements and irons in the city and hand them over to Guo Dachu, who branded Jiangxi soldiers, so that he could make a batch of long knives as best he could.
Guo Dachui, who got on the “pirate ship”, really complained about this task, but he didn’t dare to say no. He could only lead two apprentices and more than a dozen teenagers assigned to him by Taiping Camp to work day and night. Yes, he provided the Taiping Camp with more than 60 long knives, but it was impossible to do any more, because there was no iron tool for him to cast knives.
It is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and there is no raw material to provide to others. How can you expect others to provide you with weapons. Zhou Shixiang was clearly rewarded and punished, and asked Song Xianggong to pay Guo Dazhui 30 taels of silver, and then appointed him as the ambassador of the Taiping Battalion’s weapons department, and he was treated like a small banner officer in the former battalion. Of course, this weapon ambassador is only a nominal name at present. Guo Dachui is actually a blacksmith. When he is not casting knives, he leads his apprentices and helpers to help the Taiping Camp do some repair work.
Two more days have passed, and the various departments have been running in these two days. Some training for recruits has also been put on the agenda. Although it has not been systematically carried out, at least every day, there are groups of soldiers in front of the city gate shouting slogans in and out. Talk about running training. In addition, there are several teams of soldiers doing something barefoot and shoes, which makes people who have never seen such a training method really look back on it.
The Department of Military Uniforms was also established, and Yang Shanyuan of TEDA was forced to join the army, and he was also forced to serve as the ambassador of the Department of Military Uniforms. Day to deal with cloth.
The battalion lacked even weapons, so Zhou Shixiang naturally couldn’t ask the Military Uniform Division to provide armor for the entire battalion. As far as the current supplies of the Taiping Battalion were concerned, even cotton armor could not be produced by themselves, so Zhou Shi had no requirements for the Military Uniform Division, and only let them Dye the fabric black and make a top and pants. The design pattern of this military uniform is similar to that of the Zhongshan suit of later generations, which is incompatible with the current military uniforms of the Ming and Qing armies. Song Xianggong was very dissatisfied after seeing the first sample clothes, thinking that this kind of clothes did not match the Chinese dressing etiquette, and he was dressed in black. It’s really ugly to wear. However, Zhou Shixiang tried to prevaricate him with the lack of fit and condition.
At the same time as the production of the black military uniform, Zhou Shixiang sent someone to Deqing to find Tang Sanshui, but this time it was not a business, but a gift.
The ceremony was real gold and silver, with a total of 100 silver ingots for 10 taels. There was also a landscape painting that was painted by someone in the Song Dynasty. The former was directly given to Tang Sanshui, while the latter was given to Lu Gongming.
Without reaching out to the giver, Tang Sanshui and Lu Gongming revealed the deployment of Zhaoqing Prefecture and the provincial capital for the “Ming Army” to attack Deqing under the attack of real gold and silver and the calligraphy and painting that I don’t know how to value.
It was said to be a deployment, but in fact there was no deployment. Xu Erxian, the general of Zhaoqing, tried his best to write to Guangzhou, requesting to send troops to attack the Ming army in Gaozhou and recover Luo Ding. Unfortunately, Guangzhou did not agree with his opinion on sending troops, because the two princes in Guangzhou would meet with him. Is being overwhelmed by the situation in Chaoshan.
After He Shangjiu was defeated, the Qing army, who thought they could control Chaoshan, did not expect that Zheng Chenggong of Jinxia was also eyeing Chaoshan. When the Qing army besieged Chaozhou, Zheng Chenggong ordered Chen Liu, the general of Beizhen, to lead his army to help. Invading Chaozhou to get food, and two more times, the troops went straight to Chaozhou, so that the two puppet kings of Guangzhou Ping and Jing, who had just returned to the north for summer because of the Manchu soldiers, did not dare to use troops in the southwest, for fear that after Li Dingguo was used in the southwest, the northeast would be captured by the Zheng clan. multiplied by.
The reason for the lack of troops will naturally not be announced by the Guangzhou authorities. Mingming Ping, Jing Erfan, and the Qing Guangdong Governor Li Routai all strictly ordered Zhaoqing Prefecture to strengthen its troops~www.readwn.com~ ordered Zhaoqing Commander Xu Erxian to send troops to recover lost territory. In order to combat the “old thief” arrogance, other than that, it was a grain of food, and a tael of silver was not given. Pay attention to what crusades are not crusades, and what is recovered is not recovered.
Tang Sanshui got his wish and jumped from the Qian Zong to the garrison officer. It can be said that he was promoted and made a fortune. Lu Gongming was also reported to the governor’s yamen by the Zhaoqing government for “defending the soil”. When the happy event was approaching, the two of them naturally greeted Zhou Shixiang’s messenger with a smile, not to mention that they came with a heavy gift.
The news brought back by the messenger made Zhou Shixiang heave a sigh of relief. He was not afraid of anything else, but he was afraid that the Qing army in Guangdong would attack Luoding in a big way, and the situation of the Taiping Battalion would become extremely dangerous. Fortunately, the Qing army in Guangdong could not completely control Guangdong. In the northeast, there was the Zheng clan eyeing, and in the southwest there was Li Dingguo. In the coastal areas, there were volunteer teachers called by the Nanming Guangdong governor Lian Chengbi and the great scholar Guo Zhiqi. Among the several forces, they can take advantage of the situation. Without the restraint of these Ming forces, the Taiping Camp might not be enough for the Qing army to see.
For the past few days, Zhou Shixiang has devoted himself to the construction of the Taiping Camp, hoping to build the Taiping Camp into a strong army in one day, but he can’t make a fat man in one bite. Fortunately, there are people coming from Gaozhou. Although more than half a month has passed since the occupation of Luoding, they came a little late, but it is better to arrive late than never.
Strangely enough, the person sent by Gaozhou this time was not Zhongcheng Bangjun, the military officer of the Yongli court who had previously contacted them, but Lei Xianchu, a guerrilla under Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of the four prefectures.