At noon the next day, Zhou Huai'an was already sitting on the tower of Xiaowumen; while looking at the direction of the inner city, one of the city gates had been planted with a green Taiping flag; while he was slowly tasting A few local specialties.
Although this year’s ancient city of Changsha, there is not a fully developed food system such as the Huo Palace, the local spicy flavors are already beginning to take shape; for example, it can be prepared by just relying on cornel, galangal and garlic. Spicy dips and mixed vegetables are here.
The golden and translucent perch slices dipped in rice wine and vinegar sauce, and paired with the spicy-flavored sunflower sauce, is simply a kind of fresh sweetness that flows from the tip of the tongue to the root of the tongue. There are also tofu skin rolls with scallops and prawns as fillings; the bright green bran vegetable soup and the sour and salty bamboo shoots that are crisp and delicious; there is also a milk soup of white-boiled water turtle with taro sauce. Pan-fried shredded rabbit meat, honey-baked yellow bird soup. .
Finally, there is a small bottle of glutinous dessert wine that has been brewed for several years with perilla and cloves, and it tastes thick and mellow in the teeth. Such a flavorful delicacy is matched with the lively fighting in the city in the distance, and the scene of blood, fire, dust and smoke as the flavor, it has a sense of extinction and faint compulsion.
This captain, Peng Cuan, who dedicated the door, was also a very interesting and ingenious person. Not only did he open the gate of the city and greeted the Taiping Army in the bad situation, he also led people along the city wall to persuade the defenders of the other two gates in the south of the city to be surrendered. They deceived the city to open the city for help. In Dongli, a defender who belongs to a rebellious party cron and is in a deadly position.
Therefore, Zhou Huai'an's subordinates actually did not spend much time and effort, and they had fulfilled his basic requirement of not staying overnight; and they continued their efforts to join the sweeping operations near the city gate. Speaking of the experience and tactics of night battles, Zhou Huaian admitted that the Taiping Army under his command had never lost to others since he claimed to be in power.
Therefore, Zhu Cun had asked himself to be a pioneer overnight, and with the Taiping Army's Jumping Army, Selecting Front, Xian Deng and Raiders sequence, he rushed into the inner city without hesitation. Along the way, the rebels who had passed through the streets gathered in many other rebels who had been disbanded, and they were sent to Xiaowumen.
In addition, the remnants of other rebels with different banners were suppressed and surrendered in the towns and neighborhoods outside the city. There are also six to seven thousand people in about mo. Now they are all concentrated outside the city to be detained and accepted. Reorganize and compile one or two more.
Therefore, in the south of the city and some places near the east of the city, groups of prisoners are escorted by prisoners or they are passing by, or some Taiping sergeants who are involved in the chaos, murderers and arsonists are executed on the street. The basic order was restored in the natural calm.
Tanzhou, which has been expanded and operated through the past dynasties, is a big city in Jianghan with a large population and no smaller scale than Guangfu; even cleaning up and restoring the aftermath is not something that can be done in a short while.
However, Zhou Huaian was a little unsure of how to arrange and deal with this Peng Cuan who was so acquainted. At this time, a Yuhou from the teaching team reported back:
"Report, Zhu Jiangtou has already taken the three gates of the inner city, and the remaining thieves have retreated into the Ningyu of Yacheng and resisted..."
Zhou Huaian nodded slightly. This Zhu Cun looked a bit greedy for money and profit at first, but at least he was able to seize the opportunity during the Northern Expedition and quickly climb to the current position. The corresponding skills and experience methods are also unambiguous.
In fact, according to his orders and corresponding strategies, now with sufficient advantage and advantage, the other rebels in these chaotic battles in the city do not have to deliberately distinguish between the enemy and the enemy; as long as they face the orders and propaganda of the Taiping Army, they still refuse. The one who stopped and took up the weapon to face each other was to kill the unforgiving enemy on the spot.
Those who are willing to stop and abandon their weapons to accept in-situ containment will be taken back to the city gate to be supervised, and then provide food and hot water, and come to bandage and treat injuries; in this case, most People will temporarily let go of fear and tension, and obediently accept the next step of management, screening, and inquiries.
Then let them, those who slip through the net or the survivors, identify and expose each other. Colleagues who are further clarifying the cause of the chaos in the city will also entrain those potential stingers and dissidents and other unstable factors in these with personal coercion. Among the reports of private retaliation, those that have been missed are put under centralized supervision. And there are no more opportunities for people to secretly instigate and confuse, spread rumors, and cause chaos.
This sort of piece by piece, as long as the steady progress and the momentum of multi-faceted integration are maintained step by step, without giving the other party any surprisingly tricky opportunities, the chaos in Tanzhou City will be calmed down sooner or later. That's it.
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In the government building outside the city of Yacheng, the Hengjiang Army's Zuoxiang General Li Xiang, grinning, broke the two tailless short arrows inserted in the armor, and then carefully flattened the broken fork with a short dagger.
The unfamiliar rebels who came in the process of killing suddenly are simply a bunch of lunatics and weird and ruthless people; basically, they can't produce good negotiation and rationality. As long as there is a disagreement or no response to a few words, he immediately set up a shield and shoots with a crossbow; he is not given the opportunity or room to make false claims or deal with it.
Even if you want to gather people to ambush and stop them in accordance with the terrain, in front of the crossbowmen, card arrays and spear arrays that they are advancing along the street, it is like a rolling group of thorns that makes it difficult to attack; on the contrary, they are not. Very unvigilant and steady and cunning.
As soon as there is wind and grass around, they will throw poisonous smoke balls from the cart in the center to follow up to the suspicious place, and then use the crossbow to shoot for a while; then those who are smoked out from the hiding place or caught on fire will startle them. Ambush soldiers who jumped up would be shot and killed on the spot by prey.
And without the ambush initiated by the sudden and combined force in the encirclement, naturally it will no longer be a decent ambush, but a frontal, hard and chaotic battle. Then, these soldiers who are facing each other will set up new barricades at the intersections after a battle, and then replace them with a new group of fresh troops to continue their advancement;
And in such alternate rounds of battle, step by step, the Hengjiang soldiers who were just taking the opportunity to scrape the city between these scattered cities were separated and divided one by one, and it was difficult to echo and support each other. ; And in the successive street battles, one by one, they outflanked and compressed the free space that their soldiers could move.
When he saw that the situation was not good and brought the trilogy to forcefully protrude from the encirclement, there were only less than a hundred people left beside him. You must know that he is leading two full battalions, and at least a thousand people are working in the East City.
And now almost everyone is injured, even he shot an arrow on his back and on his arms; if it weren’t for the plain-colored mountain armor that he had seized from the army, he might He was shot down on the spot; instead of continuing the fierce battle, leading the tribes desperately forward and fleeing without looking back.
At least he would not dare to pull out the arrow without enough medicine and treatment methods; that would cause greater wounds and excessive blood loss, and even loss of strength, faintness, and even a lot of no corresponding experience before that. This is why the new pawn lost his life before he was treated.
Knowing that a certain legendary who joined the Rebel Army implemented the emergency method of sutures and fire wounds that he brought in the army, the corresponding mortality rate and the probability of subsequent injury recurrence, just like diving Generally fall down.
"What the hell did the military master say... I can't let people hang around here for nothing."
He drank a bit of water that he could easily find from nearby under his mouth, and said hoarsely
"The subordinates have never seen the military leader, but Guo Xiaodu will temporarily preside over the situation..."
The military officer had an embarrassment on his face.
"He asked the general to continue to hold on for one or two to wait for the opportunity. If there is a problem, he can ask for help from the Lanshan Army leader He nearby..."
"What kind of bastard is this, can't it be that my family and horses can't count on it anymore..."
Li Xiang couldn't help but change his color.
"Why don't you let me wait for my own way..."
Although he was unable to compete with those enemy's new forces for the time being, he still dared to compete in the face of the old robes.
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At the same time, on the head of the city, an envoy from Lanshan Army He Huaizhong was also brought to Zhou Huai'an.
"All these relationships in the city are the propositions of Na He Junhou, and the military leader of my family is willing to fight with the Xu leader to turn fighting into a jade silk..."
The visitor is a scribe who is partial to the old.
"Speaking of people... or get out of here."
Then Zhou Huaian interrupted impatiently.
"My military master..."
After the messenger’s choked face was blue and white, he still whispered under the crowd of more powerful generals.
"I would like to honor the whole city and treasury of Tanzhou, just ask for..."
"Don't pay the price of what I already have at my fingertips... Let's see the truth directly in the battle."
Zhou Huaian again disdain to interrupt.
"He Junzhu would also like to offer years of accumulation and private savings, as well as envoys and documents sent by the court,"
The messenger hurriedly continued to rush to speak, and then carefully looked at Zhou Huaian's expression.
"I just want to open the net and let me run away from the Lanshan army... I dare not ask for anything else..."
"I want to be beautiful..."
At this moment, Zhu Cun, who was beside him, said sharply as expected.
"The two dogs of He Junhou and He Huaizhong have killed so many rebel brothers in their own family by the Goulian government. Is it possible that you want to escape so gently?"
"The meaning of Zhu Jiangzhu is what I mean..."
Then Zhou Huaian also made up the knife without hurries.
"Unless you surrender enough sincerity, don't want to take it lightly..."
After the arriving people left helplessly like a concubine, Zhu Cun said with some doubts:
"Old Xu, what are your regulations and plans? Why don't I understand..."
"Brother Zhu, are you willing to believe me this time... definitely won't let these guys who harm your own people... get off easily."
Zhou Huaian smiled slightly.
"Believe, why would you not believe you... People who don't believe in you are all unlucky, and they have suffered a lot from their old age..."
Zhu Cun said without hesitation, and then secretly thought in his heart that there is one of these people.
"That's good, let's watch the aftereffects..."
Zhou Huaian nodded to Zuo Kandao.
"Let’s let someone shed light on the situation here, and then adjust the team to come in and step up the attack on the city disc in the city... see if there are more surprises and surprises..."
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