And in another shed farther away in this winter wheat field, the people who took the initiative to surround Yang Shigu, the chief internal affairs adviser, were the new and old subordinates who once belonged to the rebel army. Each listened to his teaching with faint envy and admiration:
"The chief governor once said to a certain saying: The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility! This is really a good point, and it is a great reason for people to wake up..."
"Since the chaos in the world, there may be no lack of insightful and discerning people in this world, who are deeply concerned about their evils; however, what is most lacking is this kind of people who are willing to take their lives and wealth, and take care of the future and the future of the people. Is it the new way out for the new and old choices..."
"As everyone knows, it is the great families who have stolen the high position and authority, and they have been thinking about how to gather and exploit the anointing of the people from generation to generation, and leaned on the people of Li Shu to suck blood and marrow, in order to pass on for generations; but they never thought. How to repay and feed back this world. That's why the whole world becomes such a heinous appearance..."
"Therefore, only the chief governor came out in the name of the Taiping Army, and the mission that should be taken in response to the times is not to follow the times, to slander the people, and to eliminate the noble families, lords, officials, towns, and tycoons in the world. Wait for the five beetles, and then call for a great peace in the world... This is the meaning of true peace."
As for the neighboring sheds, Xuanzhou defense envoy Wang Chongyin, who is already grayish beard, is also awake facing a family of nephews and nephews:
"Seeing that you are all going to let things go, I can't avoid saying a few more things; but it is just some of my personal experience and feelings, but I don't think it is not good to say..."
"Today, the soldiers produced by the Metropolitan Government's unified discipline and economics are the texture and body of an army, which determines the bottom line of this army's combat strength and morale... Therefore, the bottom line of this army's combat strength and morale is determined. Soldiers and soldiers were able to persevere in the fight against the enemy, and were always the best among all the rebels..."
"The generals who follow the military camp/night school and the short training/crash course are the backbone and framework of the military. They are comparable to the bones of the same people. They determine the corresponding military strength and morale, and can maintain peace for a long time. The degree of performance... is that the Taiping soldiers are strict in ordering and advancing and retreating, rather than losing ground for a momentary victory and defeat..."
"As for the generals in the battalion, they are the mind and head of an army, and it also represents the utility that the corresponding army can use and use, and the greatest room for meritorious deeds... Since then, the Dudu Mansion has been able to calmly level the wilds of the four directions with the finest tactics, moving and running to fight in the mountains and rivers, and never succumb to adversity and difficulties..."
"If you want to get the corresponding future and deeds, you must be able to introspect and start step by step to face the difficulties, and steadfastly experience and temper. Don't think about those who are opportunistic and lucky. Means of deviation..."
"Today's Metropolitan Government House has its own aggressiveness and the ambition of sweeping the world. Naturally, there is no shortage of opportunities to make people express and act. Therefore, the skills and contributions that have been accumulated are really The foundation of my perseverance..."
At the same time, in the city of Xiangyang, a small pendant calamus accompanied by a female companion also came to a garden temporarily used as a building.
According to the intentions of the Empress Cao from the New Dynasty of Daqi, thousands of dowries and servants from Chang'an were seated in several batches. After preliminary screening and diversion, the remaining half were gathered here. Waiting for further selection, assessment and assignment from the back house of the governor.
—I am the dividing line —
Shannan East Road, in the county town of Ankang in the northwest of Jinzhou, the Taiping brigade commander Zhang Dong, who has repeatedly repelled the attack, also felt the mixed bloody sweat flowing down his head, only half of his face felt hot and painful.
Sitting on the ice-cold battlements frozen by the watering, his eyes looked vaguely at the thin snowflakes falling from the sky, as well as the rebels retreating in a silent and low atmosphere in the distance. They didn't even care about cleaning up the dead body and the wounded; they just hurriedly withdrew from the misty vision.
Despite the plain white snowflakes, it slowly covered everything on the battlefield outside the upper city, including those that were already immobile and capable. Under the icy cold wind and frosty snow outside the city, it was slowing down. It was too slow to lose the last bit of clamor, and returned to dead silence.
Unknowingly, he has been here for more than a month. In this short time, he fought at least a dozen offensive and defensive battles, and even burned at least three camps outside the city; but he also lost All the mules and horses that can be maneuvered.
The rebels who came to attack constantly were repelled or defeated by the establishment; more and more rebels continued to gather and continue to trap them in an impenetrable siege. Therefore, less than half of Zhang Dong can continue to stand beside him.
And in this small and dilapidated county town, civil strife and riots have occurred twice as a result; he has also lost many of the old robes who had known each other at the edge of Annan, and supported each other all the way.
They did not die in the rain of swords, guns and arrows from the rebels, but they were killed by a sneak attack in a temporary shelter after being wounded, or they rose up to resist until the last moment; they repelled the support of the rebels on the wall and rushed over. , And then released the strength of the last mouth, and died in the irreparable injury and loss of strength.
However, the aftermath and chain reaction of the two failed internal and external cooperation has also caused the remaining thousands of people in Ankang City to gather about two thousand young people. They have changed their passive and negative emotions and reactions and stood completely. The Taiping Army is here.
Especially when the hundreds of well-off and well-off families who had been fleeing in the chaos and fleeing overnight due to mistrust and pessimism were intercepted by rebels who might also be in the same village; they did not hesitate and had no mercy. The old and young women and children were tortured and murdered in the city.
And the fate of the women who were involved in it was much more miserable, and the pain, torture, and insults suffered before death were even longer. They died almost after wailing and crying under the city for most of the night.
Then, the rebels chopped it into pieces in the day and shot them up to the top of the city with arrows one by one, claiming to be after the end of any concord thieves. The vast majority of the people in the city had no unnecessary misses, and worked wholeheartedly to help protect themselves and their families.
Therefore, they did not hesitate to demolish their house, thinking that they would fill and reinforce the city wall or use it as a firewood stove; they gave up their stocked chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep, and cloth quilts, and sent them to the public for slaughter and use. ; Donated all the copper and iron utensils in the house, and made them into various simple weapons and tools such as arrows and gun points;
And after the first snow fell after the first snow fell in the cold winter when the breath became smoke, the sewage in the ditch was filled with wooden fences and sand and poured into a hard and slippery frozen wall. The insurmountable obstacles and nightmares for the rebels who are still unwilling to give up.
They even invented several expedient devices for defending the city; for example, Yanggu's fork and rake were used to transform the city head into a push rod for long ladders; and ropes were used to tie down the hanging wooden hangings to sweep the rebels on the wall. After splitting the bamboo fire to dry and bend it, it is set on the ground to make a catapult with only dozens of life spans.
Even in order to supplement the deficiencies of the wood and rolling stones at the top of the city, the soil and water plastic excavated from the ground were used to form a fan, and then left in the open overnight to freeze the skin and become a simple catapult and wall throwing. It's so good as a gunstone.
The making of this clay fan is so simple that even women, children and children can complete it. So as long as there are hundreds of supplies on the wall overnight. Those rebels who wanted to rely on people to climb like ants fell like rain.
So a few days ago, the rebels changed their course and made many baffles and large rows to cover their brains and rushed down the city. Then they used spades, shovel, picks and other tools to separate and dig at the root of the wall.
As a result, the raw ash and mixed water accumulated by the city's calcined shells and other things, poured down on the pawn and flowed everywhere along the cracks, screaming and screaming and fleeing away from the sky. After all, as a long march athlete who has been on the front line against the southwestern barbarians for many years, Zhang Dong does not lack the experience and means to deal with the siege.
Then, these rebels finally started to pile up dirt hills outside the city, but it was a pity that they had exhausted their methods outside the city and delayed for too long, but after the first snow, in the cold weather day by day, they became more and more difficult. And inefficient.
"Boss,"
At this time, a voice pulled Zhang Dong's thoughts back, but it was the big man in the former army who followed him into the city and was taken prisoner; now, Wang Wanhong, a five-headed man who had been converted to subordinates, leaned by his side.
"I want to take someone out for a touch... Maybe I can take a few early to live back, and ask what is going on..."
Wang Wanhong felt his forehead who had been shaved because of his injury and said cordially.
"Go back over there quickly, and be careful not to get out of the cover range of the arrow under the city..."
Zhang Dong agreed with just a few thoughts. After all, under the cold weather in the wild, it is not easy to stop and ambush.
Immediately I saw the intermittent wind and snow falling like salt, along with the rope ladder and basket hanging down the uneven and slippery wall, the tall and majestic Wang Wanhong brought a few capable soldiers, and arrived by the ladder in a few breaths. Under the wall.
They took out the oiled sword cards and Liannu from the basket, and then they lowered their bodies and walked along the undulating ground piled with corpses, covering each other, stepping on the shallow snow surface, and one by one. Search away from the distance.
It's just that when they stabbed with a knife while pedaling, and after searching a large circle from the inside to the outside, they still didn't seem to have found anything, an unexpected sudden change happened suddenly. A stiff corpse suddenly jumped to its feet and threw a soldier who was instinctively slashing with a knife to the ground.
Then another figure jumped from the place where the "corpse" jumped, scrambling to the distance and fleeing away. (End of this chapter)