In the spring of the eighth year of Qianfu, there were times when Ling thief was trapped in Jiangdong.
"Jiangning History"
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Under Dantu City, the Taiping Green Banner spread like a forest.
The west and south of this area are surrounded by Jingjian Mountain and Gouli Mountain in the Ningzhen Mountains. The north side is backed by the vast Yangtze River, and the east side is adjacent to the southern section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. It can be regarded as one of the few water towns in the southern Jiangsu Plain. One of the most victorious places.
But the so-called victorious form is surrounded by the blue flag thief army all over the mountains, and there are also thief navy sailors on the river echoing it, which seems to be lonely and especially ridiculous. Although he was very old, he was still wearing his whole body. Standing on the head of the city, Zhenhai Jiedu Shi Zhou Bao was also looking at the enemies outside the city with a blank face.
With the sudden attack of the Taiping thief in Jiangning, Ding Congshi, who was fighting to meet and intercept, was defeated. The momentum of the army in Runzhou counterattacked and reported victory almost took a sharp turn in a few days.
Although Ding Cong, who was defeated and overthrown, had escaped and returned safely, and brought news of the strong armor and sharp equipment among the grass thief, and let Dantu City prepare in advance and wait for the enemy.
But then these peaceful thieves broke Jurong City again, and in a very short time successively sank Lishui, Yanling, and Qu'a that were still in the hands of the officers and soldiers. The combined division surrounded the Dantu City of Zhenhai Lisuo.
Therefore, now this Dantu City has returned to a scene of panic and shock for a few days. It all depends on him to send dental soldiers to patrol the neighborhood day and night, cut off hundreds of heads that "demonstrate the crowd" and "open eyes for thieves", and open the mansion in the daytime and swear to recruit strong men, thinking that the city will work together. Prepared for the enemy, it stopped and calmed down.
Despite this, the news and rumors about the camp officers who have been sent out to discuss thieves, the united children, and the people who came to aid and help in the fight have been wiped out by the thieves. It is still in the city secretly like wildfires in the spring wasteland. One after another, but inconsistent.
Therefore, he can only walk out of the comfortable and well-placed festival hall with singing and dancing, standing on the head of the city with an old beard, hair, frost, and snow, standing on the head of the city, as a reason for patrolling. Face, I think it is the key to inspiring and invigorating and calming people's hearts.
And these thieves outside the city, known as "Fatou Thieves," "Taiping Thieves," "Green Banner Thieves," and "Grey Pine Thieves", are indeed different in their auras. Even the simple lineup of the camp reveals that a certain constitution and order called the prohibition of orders does not have the chaos or chaos of the grass thieves he had crusades and passed through earlier, or it is noisy, or wanton.
This also made him more vigilant and cautious, and more conservatively and firmly rejected his subordinates' request for orders, and used the division of troops as a temptation; after all, the surplus military horses in this city are considered to be the elite of the Zhenhai camp. Morale available is relatively limited; if there is a slight loss, it will not only frustrate the spirit, but also shake one's control over the city.
You know, since taking the post of Zhenhai Jiedu and passing through the western part of Zhejiang, he has often allocated a lot of expropriation and arbitration in the city and in the place in the name of preparing for the enemy and defending against invaders; he has also incurred a lot of things. Voices of criticism and backlash. It's just that most of them have not had the opportunity to arrive in Chang'an for a long time, and they have become the rhetoric used by political enemies to criticize and attack their own home.
Although, a considerable part of the income and income of this has become expensive goods that are regularly shipped to the north of the hometown, or are more than a dozen mansions, museums and kabuki music in the city; but it is relatively shabby. The blue sky is three feet high, and the town commander and defender who are in ruins in the trenches and the armor is in disrepair, he can expand the army, manage the city defense, and build armor, which is quite conscientious and bottom line. Up.
Fortunately, this time, the big family members who have always been boycotted and criticized in the city have suffered tragic encounters with the survivors of the officials, gentry, and wealthy families who have escaped from other places after the destruction of the Taiping Thieves City; It is also the sad and hateful agreement between the rabbit and the fox in the south.
They almost unanimously donated generously or succumbed to their families, each contributing money and enthusiastically donating food and grass; there were even people who gathered the children of the right age in the family to join the army to fight. As the saying goes, it is a momentary harmony that can be used by people's hearts, which gives him a little more confidence and confidence when facing the enemy.
Therefore, as an old and respectful general, he would rather carry out a long-term firm basis with evidence, until the thief appears to be tired of the teacher or the back strength, it is he who sees the flaws and weaknesses and fights back. And the time to reverse the situation.
"Is the corresponding rewards enough to go down..."
Thinking of this, he once again asked many subordinates, including the grain judges, small branch envoys, and military planners around him, in public.
"Is the appropriation in the library enough to cover it,"
"Is it based on head points..."
"What is the response and request of the soldiers..."
"The newly raised Yiyong and Ding Zhuang in the city, have their settlement money and food paid have been sent..."
"In response to Ling Gong, all the rewards will be sent out..."
Grain judges, small branch envoys, military planners, and others are also solemn reports on the matter.
"The money, food, cloth and materials in the treasury are still plentiful and sufficient to be used for several years..."
"All the clothing, food, body money, wine and food, all battalions, regiments, brigades, and teams, all ordered the names and watched them accept it personally..."
"Linggong can rest assured, the soldiers are all satisfied, I wish to follow Linggong to kill the enemy and serve the results..."
"The righteous and strong people in the city also have enough food and clothing at home, so there is no need to worry about it..."
"Nevertheless, you must not treat me lightly, all the soldiers and soldiers are with me... the people in the city who helped fight are all with my children..."
Then when he heard this, Zhou Bao couldn't help but speak louder, half admonition and half encouragement.
"You need to be as diligent and diligent as ever to prevent me from starvation and cold, and my children not to be attacked by thieves..."
"Only I would like to follow the teachings of Linggong..."
"Don't dare to make mistakes..."
The left and right suddenly bowed in unison and responded in unison.
Of course, since the siege of the thief army; similar things will be repeated in public in different locations and sections of the city every day when he visits the city.
Although it was a bit of a deliberate kindness to do so, it still received an uplifting and stimulating effect within a short period of time. At least the calls of "Ling Gong Mighty" and "Ling Gong Gen De" under the city are basically not fake.
An important reason why he can be called a "good general of the Four Dynasties" is that, in addition to the means and skills of administering the military and employing soldiers, he is also good at managing and gathering; when he was Ren Jingyuan’s Jiedu Envoy, he used to mobilize and mobilize all the soldiers and civilians. Cultivation, 200,000 huh of grain was gathered in that year, which was praised by Emperor Wu Zong as "Liang Jianger of the current dynasty".
When he arrived in Zhenhai, he also did not lose his "good general" qualities; almost the southeastern part of the business that can make profits is indispensable for his own name and others; therefore, the short-term gathering is no matter what Whether it is a public treasury or a private residence, there is a lot of accumulation.
Of course, what he was most proud of was that when he was also serving as the deputy envoy of Jiangdong transshipment, he established special expropriation commissions in various places in Wangyi, Fu County, and appointed Xu Lang and others; under the rule of Zhenhai, it was used every year. Not only did the three-point wealth for sending to the court, staying in the state, and returning to the town have increased substantially, they could even continue to provide a large amount of wealth to Chang'an in order to serve the emperor.
On the other hand, although he has the reputation of being good at gathering and hobbing money like most of the feudal marshals, he did not have any less than the clothing, food and body money of his subordinates in his office. The routine rewards and festivals were always good. Disbursement in full; this is also a big advantage of being an envoy of Zhenhai (Western Zhejiang) and having many rich counties in the southeast.
Whether it is Run, Chang, Su, Hu, or Hangzhou and Mu prefectures, they are all land of fish and rice, which are located thousands of miles above the fertile fields. Although the wars and chaos of these years have been endless, they are still quite rich compared with the folk accumulation in other places; as long as you have ideas Scrape, squeeze, and squeeze are all ways to get money and food.
However, when he walked back to the heavily guarded tower, he suddenly fell loose as if he had changed himself, and there was a crowd of maids and servants who couldn’t wait to get rid of the gorgeous luang pockets and heavy armor, holding gold. Silver utensils, perfumed lotion, and towel, clean his face, rinse his mouth and comb his hair and beard;
Then he was carefully supported and leaned on the soft couch made of wolf and tiger skins. Several concubines with thin waists and white skin came around and massaged and beat him from head to toe. Only then did he fall into a sleepy sleep amidst a certain visible snoring sound.
After all, after pretending to say so many things and patrolling many places; he is already more than sixty years old, he can't help showing tiredness and fatigue; if it is ten or twenty years earlier, he will still be galloping. With immediate spare power, why should he sit in the city facing the mere thieves, and rely on remote support to make those who are not safe and reliable to fight.
However, his Xiaomei on the head of the city was destined not to last long, and was awakened by the sudden noise and drum horns.
"The thieves have attacked the city..."
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On the Gouli Mountain, which can only be regarded as a low mound outside the city, Zhou Huaian was also observing the enemy's situation. In other words, it is to observe the response and corresponding methods from the defenders at the head of the city when the troops responsible for the feint attack rushed up.
After gathering and gathering the defeated Rebels, Zhou Huaian asked them to choose as strong as possible, and temporarily trained them into six full-staffed temporary battalions; and it was these temporary troops that took turns in charge of the feint attack.
Of course, he did not expect to rely on these rear-armed miscellaneous cards, after a little training, he could explode his combat power and rush up to the city; as long as they could lift the shield and push the cards a little bit to flatten and dismantle those horses, fences and pits. ；
Then one by one he destroyed the sheep and horse wall that hadn't been new for a long time, and even covered the servants with soil bags and firewood in batches, and just arrived at the moat and threw them in and then retreated. Just like any normal siege to siege necessary preparation process, it slowly cannibalize and fill in the obstacles from the outside.
Accompanied by it, there are round-the-clock clamor and harassment behavior to further exhaustion and slack in the spirit and fighting spirit of the defenders.
However, the true military focus of the Taiping Army is not this famous city that requires a considerable price in a short period of time before it can be won. Although as the only remaining power hub in Jiangnan for the Zhenhai Jiedu Envoy and Tang Ting who suppressed the West Zhejiang Province, Dantu has considerable political and military significance and symbolic value of ruling.
But for the Taiping Army, who did not intend to open a sub-base in this place far away from the base area and occupy it for a long time, it is a pity that there is no meat to eat. It is a good thing if it can be beaten down, but the cost of subsequent governance and maintenance is somewhat outweighed.
Therefore, according to the strategy of the Taiping Army led by Zhou Huai'an, the main purpose is to actively search for favorable fighters within a limited time, and to eliminate as much as possible the local active forces led by the official army under the favorable home field formed during the movement; All kinds of resources and properties are even better.
When the armed forces in the Jiangnan region that supported and supported the imperial court were wiped out or greatly weakened by the rebels swept across the border, naturally there will be various peasant rebels to fill the corresponding gaps, and achieve Some kind of long-term and potential purpose that is both detrimental and self-interested.
Of course, at this stage, this kind of thing cannot be told to the mouth, but can only be quietly made and slowly digested in a muffled way. For this reason, even the four cities that were sent all the way down this time were handed over to the rebel subordinates for a fee.
But it only emptied most of the resources available in the city, and forcibly took away all kinds of professionals such as craftsmen, craftsmen, monks, and students; and was closely related to the old regime, and was listed in The five types of people on the blacklist.
Of course, the cities that were handed over to these other rebels were not out of good intentions; I just hoped that they could maintain order for a while and not become the help of the officers. At the same time, it is just a potential decoy and chess piece that attracts officers and soldiers to attack and creates new fighters.
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