"The King of Heaven..... I appointed Zhao Ziwei as the Marquis of Pingnan..." Zhao Kuo flipped through the bloody edict, curled his lips a little disdainfully, and said to himself: "I have given you 20,000 more people, and you can't even defeat Changsha? Still thinking about me? Fuck you, get out of here."

In this era, war is still a barbaric war. It is not about who has stronger firepower, nor is it about who has higher resolution, nor is it about who has more accurate missiles; it is only about the organizational degree of a group of men when they are together, that is, morale.

There is no difference between fighting and gathering people to stab people. Who can’t stab people? It depends on which sect can’t hold on first.

How strong is the Taiping Army than the Qing army? Isn’t it just morale?

But with the support of such a backward battlefield technology, the high city walls are simply an insurmountable barrier. The city of Changsha, just after the Qing soldiers fought to the death, was as strong as a rock, and tens of thousands of people could not take it down for several months.

Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing took a look and used the large number of ships they collected to leave Changsha and start heading north along the river. Before leaving, they did not forget to enfeoff Zhao Kuo, who was fighting alone in Guangdong, was the Marquis of Pingnan.

In order to protect the Heavenly King's Edict arrived at Zhao Kuo, who had already abandoned Shaozhou and entered the hinterland of Guangdong, several old Guangxi men died.

They would never have imagined that the promotion order sent with blood was only impatience and disdain in the hearts of this future gangster.

But Zhao Kuo also breathed a sigh of relief. As long as they, the old farmers, headed north, they would advance like magic.

In January 1853, the Taiping Army captured Wuhan, and the Hubei Governor Chang Dachun died. The Taiping Army increased to 500,000. Zeng Guofan organized the Hunan regiment training, which was the Hunan Army.

Anqing was captured in February 1853, and Anhui Governor Jiang Wenqing committed suicide.

Nanjing was captured in March 1853, and Jiangning General Xianghou and Liangjiang Governor Lu Jianying died in battle. Nanjing was renamed Tianjing and established as the capital. The Qing army built Jiangnan and Jiangbei Daying.

One big city a month.

Moreover, in Wuchang alone, the Taiping Army Saint Curry had one million taels of official silver and Xianfeng's silver.

These shocking bolts were enough to scare Xianfeng, the barbarian in Beijing. Compared to the terrifying Taiping Army, Zhao Kuo, a mere division of his army in Guangdong, was nothing more than psoriasis.

If there is no force to deal with him, and the neighboring provinces are too busy to take care of themselves, they will not help Guangdong Qing Yao. Of course, even if they have the ability to help, they will not help. Why do they take the risk to help others get promoted? All provinces are eager to set up heavy troops on the border. As long as Zhao Kuo doesn't come to them to play, he can play whatever he likes in Guangdong. That's Ye Mingchen's business, it's nothing to do with his brothers.

Suddenly, Guangdong was in danger. The people here were originally fierce, gangs were rampant, and the administration was extremely corrupt. The Qing soldiers could not do anything except smuggling opium and gamble. Historical records show that the salary of the Qing soldiers in Guangdong accounted for only one percent of their income. The rest? You want to go for yourself. As a result, Ye Mingchen was blocked in Guangzhou, and there were only 15,000 Qing soldiers in the city.

But Zhao Kuo did not use magic like Hong Xiuquan, turning the 50,000 Taiping Army into 500,000 in a few months because he did not entice the people.

The Taiping Army was snowballing. When they arrived at a place, they often took away all the people. Joining the Taiping Army was based on the family, so there were many people, but not all fighters. For example, in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the sergeant was in charge of four soldiers and four homes, and the sergeant's house was a church. Every week he would take his family and four subordinate families to worship. This was not only an army, but something like the Aum Shinri religion and the American People's Temple Teaching. Of course, you can also think of the Gypsy nation.

Zhao Kuo had no intention of building a male and female camp because he wanted to embrace the thighs of foreigners. Although these things can strengthen his own momentum, the barbaric and chaotic times that look at the number of people and organizational levels still have the value of intimidating Qing soldiers, but it will be troublesome in the future.

Therefore, Zhao Kuo only recruited children, young and strong soldiers to join the army, and because there were too many soldiers, he was strictly screened.

Therefore, a few months after the Shuaiqi arrived in Huizhou, Zhao Kuo's subordinates only expanded to more than 30,000 basic soldiers. Of course, if you raise your arms, you can also pull up 100,000 people. But Zhao Kuo felt that he would find a group of farmers to be soldiers and squeeze in the city to do nothing?

Many people became his auxiliary soldiers and were sent to various villages to implement the policy of clearing the countryside. The remaining young and strong recruits who had no opium were allowed to stay in the camp and receive some strict military training.

He wanted to build his own base. This time he left a Guangxi old man in Fogang with amazing combat power for three years in the south and north as the base army. This batch of basic army had 1,000 people, supplemented by 3,000 newly recruited Guangdong soldiers. This army was used to monitor the Kunshou tribe in Shaozhou.

"Damn, if you dare to go to the end, you will chop off Kunshou jj for me!" This was the order issued by Zhao Kuo to the Fogang defenders.

This land admiral wanted to play the trick of regaining the city by his colleagues, but he didn't dare to play it anymore. In fact, leaving the city wall, the Eight Banners were just a group of pigs. When the Taiping Army turned around, the scouts had not had time to send them out, and they had already run back to the city. They couldn't even put a trap on the group of people!

They are all raised by their parents, they eat empty salary, pay military salary, smoke smoke, kill the people, and make contributions. It is great to brag about Guangzhou and Beijing. Who is full and can live with your beast?

So once the troops stationed in Fogang immediately caused the entire Fogang Hall and half of Shaozhou Prefecture to be corrupt, because Zhao Kuo issued the famous "Clean Township Order"!

In fact, as soon as he entered Guangdong, Zhu Qingzheng, who was full of thoughts, made a statement: "Build the city high, accumulate grain, and slowly become king."

To put it bluntly, the famous policy of Mr. Zhu Yuanzhang when he raised an army is to build a solid base.

Gao Zhucheng: Increase the defense of the base center, because in the barbaric era where manpower fights hard, a solid city is equal to control the radiated grain-producing land. To put it bluntly, only if there is a city, there is the power to collect rented grain;

Gathering grain: In the era of cold weapons, grain is military supplies and logistics support! How much food you have can determine how many soldiers you can recruit and how far you can hit;

Retarting the king: This is naturally the meaning of shooting the first bird. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, rebel soldiers were rising from all over the country, and the corrupt Yuan Dynasty should be too busy to take care of it. It is a policy, and whoever calls the king will send the main force to do it! Therefore, this strategy is a strategy of accumulating strength to keep a low profile.

Of course, Zhao Kuo wanted to build a base. From the beginning of entering Guangdong, he was no longer a bandit like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!

Because Guangdong has nowhere to retreat and snowballs, Comrade Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing can't defeat Changsha and roll north. Where can he Zhao Kuo roll? Roll into the sea? Or to Annan (Vietnam)? Or to Guangxi to fight guerrillas?

It can only be a military goal to permanently occupy Guangdong.

To occupy Guangdong, you must face the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Ye Mingchen!

This is a great story about Comrade Ye Mingchen, "Su Wu at the Sea".

In the parallel world where Zhao Kuolai was, this "Su Wu on the Sea" is synonymous with idiots.

According to the biographies of the Qing Dynasty, Ye Mingchen, whose courtesy name was Kunchen, was from Hanyang, Hubei. In the 15th year of Daoguang, he was elected as the magistrate of Shuji and appointed as editor. In the 18th year, he was appointed as the magistrate of Xing'an, Shaanxi. He lived in Yanping Road, Jiangxi Yan Road, Yunnan Censor, Hunan, Gansu and Guangdong. In the 28th year, he was promoted to the governor of Guangdong. In the 29th year, the British wanted to fulfill the appointment to enter the city, and Mingchen and Governor Xu Guangjin insisted on not allowing it, and joined forces with the militia to be strictly guarded.

Since the trade was stopped to control it, the British began to discuss the matter. They discussed their merits and granted the first-class baron and gave them a flower feather. In the 30th year, they pacified the bandits of Yingde and were given a flower feather. In the first year of Xianfeng, they were killed by Wu San, a bandit from Luo Jing, and were appointed as the prince Shaobao. In the second year, Guangjin went to Guangxi to supervise the army, named Chen, and took over the Luo Jing's attack and went to Gaozhou. In the autumn of that year, the leader of the bandits of Luo Jing, Ling Shiba, was appointed as the governor, and went to the South and Shao areas to supervise the suppression. He was appointed as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and was also the Minister of Commerce.

During the Second Opium War, he made a famous strategy in the face of the British and French army: "Don't fight, disagree, defend, die, surrender, and leave!

Then he was caught in Kolkata, India, and was exhibited like a monkey, and he was fuckingly timid and called himself: "Suwu on the sea"!

But Zhao Kuo is not Niu Bixixi's British army. He does not have a battleship with hundreds of cannons and does not have a well-trained modern army army. He is just a peasant uprising thief chief who brainwas a group of peasants and gang members every day!

How many times are the rebels and the Qing soldiers in this day?

But they are just a group of illiterate fools and savages.

Ye Mingchen is definitely the mainstay of Confucianism. If he was not so unlucky, he encountered the Second Opium War. If he was like his predecessor Lin Zexu, he would provoke the First Opium War and die on the way to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, he would definitely be the first official in the ages like Lin Zexu of the Qing Dynasty.

But like Comrade Wei Changhui of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he was fucking bad luck.

If your life is bad, it will be useless if you do it!

His greatest contribution in Guangdong in history was to maintain the absolute rule of the Qing Dynasty in Guangdong. No matter how chaotic the situation was, whether it was foreigners or the troubled heaven and earth, he always insisted on the normal holding of the imperial examination. Even in the "Red Soldiers" (Heaven and Earth) uprising in Guangdong, he always insisted on the imperial examination, maintaining the ladder for the rise of Confucians who wanted to be officials, and relying on these Confucian elites to organize a large number of civil affairs bureaus. These institutions played a great role in extinguishing the Red Soldiers uprising.

Even in the Second Opium War, foreigners occupied Guangzhou and sent mixed security patrols in the foreign countries to the surrounding areas, the militia bureau still dared to bombard these foreign masters, and of course they were knocked down. However, at that time, the militia bureau he organized was a force that the Qing court relied on.

The Qing rulers were too smart and had discovered that the people were afraid of officials, officials were afraid of foreigners, and foreigners were afraid of the people; they were counting on the people to drive foreigners out of this set of rules of the game.

These are all Ye Mingchen's contributions.

In Zhao Kuo's eyes, these Confucian officials like Ye Mingchen all have a famous feature: that is, they look like guard dogs in the Qing Dynasty. To the outside world, facing foreigners like lions, they look like bastard dogs, put their heads at the door, and their belly is up, and they shouted: "Bite me! I can't beat you anyway! But I died by rushing to the door, and I am worthy of the Qing master."

But when facing the people, they bite them hard and showed no mercy at all.

Ye Mingchen was suppressing various rebellions in Guangdong and was decisive and determined during the uprising. At the peak of the Guangdong Red Mutiny, Ye Mingchen personally convicted the prisoners. Sometimes he massacred the rebels and captured nearly a thousand people in the day. Usually, "800 arrested rebels were beheaded on the execution ground every day." "If only three hundred to four hundred people were executed a day, it would be considered very few." In June, July, and August in 1855, 75,000 people were killed. Yung Wing, who had just returned from the United States, wrote, "Oh my God! What kind of scene is this! Blood flows all over the ground, and the headless corpses piled up like mountains on both sides of the street, waiting to be buried, but there is no sign of being prepared to be cleared... The land has been completely penetrated by blood, emitting a filthy smell, so that about two thousand yards around it are shrouded under the turbid air that spreads the plague."

The power to the outside is a mangy dog, while the people inside become red-eyed wolf; this is the elite of the Confucianism of the Qing Dynasty.

When the British and French powers attacked the city, he must be a mangy dog, but if the people who couldn't survive attacked the city, he would definitely be a beast to maintain the rule of the Qing Dynasty. He would bite it mercilessly without any fangs.

This is the essence of Confucianism.

Zhao Kuo was sure that he belonged to the common people, so how could he not be afraid of the idiot Ye Mingchen? He guessed that even if he surrendered, Ye Mingchen would definitely be slow to himself.

"This is a fucking beast and a fool." Zhao Kuo could only shake his head and sigh. Under Ye Mingchen's guard, Guangzhou was not so easy to get, so he would create a siege of Changsha.

Therefore, Zhao Kuo's first step was to eliminate the network of the militia bureau woven by Ye Mingchen throughout Guangdong.

He had to do that.
Chapter completed!