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The name of Li Dingguo was famous in later generations, but now, Zhou Shixiang has to admit that he was far away from the battlefield in Hunan. Sun Kewang, the Qin King who led the main force of the Daxi Army, was the mainstay of the Southern Ming Dynasty's resistance to the Qing Dynasty. In history, Sun Kewang finally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, which led to the decline of the situation in the Southern Ming Dynasty. However, Zhou Shixiang is not sure about the year when Sun Kewang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

However, just as Zhou Shixiang said to Duke Xiang of Song during Luo Dingshi, the major event of Sun Kewang surrendering to the Qing Dynasty may not be far away. Otherwise, why did Cheng Bangjun, the head of the Ministry of War of the Yongli court, suddenly disappear? The general Le Tongwu, who stayed in Gaozhou, who was in charge of the situation, also disappeared? Why did Lei Xianchu and Pang Tianci, who were preparing to accept Luo Ding, speak ominously about Gaozhou?

Zhou Shixiang clearly pushed Lei, Pang and others, and even regarded themselves as bandits. Why did the governor of the four prefectures Zhang Xiaoqi not take any action against Luo Ding? A reasonable explanation is that Gaozhou is an empty city, and Zhang Xiaoqi has no troops to send, or whether there is something major to the Yongli court that restrained the governor of the four prefectures, making him unable to free up his hands to deal with the band of bandits who are close to him.

This major event may be related to Sun Kewang. Otherwise, with the support of Li Dingguo army and the general Le Tongwu in charge of Li Dingguo, how could Zhang Xiaoqi have no choice but to do anything to the Taiping Camp with only a few hundred people?

Zhou Shixiang didn't know when Sun Kewang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. He knew that Nan Ming had only persisted for more than ten years and died. This year was the ninth year of Yongli (the twelfth year of Shunzhi). From the perspective of time, it was probably a few years before the demise of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Combined with Sun Kewang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Li Dingguo lasted for a few more years, so Zhou Shixiang had reason to believe that the Qin King Sun Kewang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, which he had always been worried about, either this year or next year. In this regard, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo would definitely have a battle. It was either Sun Kewang who was determined to be independent, or Li Dingguo who was determined to support Zhu Ming to win. But no matter which of the two won, it would be a catastrophic consequence for the Nan Ming's anti-Qing cause.

The enemy is in front of the enemy. However, he is killed by his own power, and he is not able to consume much energy from the Han people. Since Jiashen, the Ming Dynasty has fallen into a strange situation of brothers and internal comrades fighting each other. He has gradually given the great country to the Manchus. Twelve years have passed, but the tragedy is about to happen again. Zhou Shixiang is still regretting it, because he cannot change the ideas of those big figures, nor can he use his own power to stop this great change in the Southern Ming Dynasty. The only thing he can do is to lead the Taiping Camp to join this anti-Qing cause, which may be successful or failed, in order to be worthy of the Yanhuang blood he has flowed. In order to be worthy of his ancestors and ancestors.

In his previous life, his ID card had the word "Han". In this life, no identity proof is needed. He is also a Han man, a Han man who has a blood feud with the Tartars.

He was the Han for generations, and his descendants were all Han for generations!

Zhou Shixiang was a Han Chinese, and he was also a man, a son, husband, and a father. He sued his ancestors and his wife and children: Either I will die for the sake of death or I will die for the sake of death!

The deep hatred of blood destiny Zhou Shixiang was destined to be unable to survive and use his own knowledge to be a submissive citizen, a rich man or a high-ranking official in the Qing Dynasty. All he could do was kill people and kill more Tartars until he fell down.

Zhou Shixiang once had a dream. In the dream, he fell not far from the tall empty tomb outside Xinhui City, covered in blood. He vaguely remembered that he could no longer speak and breathe at that time, but he still crawled forward tightly, crawling forward little by little, so that he could die beside his parents, his wife and son...

Fuck him, damn, fuck him! I'll be dead, fuck him!

Xinhui City, I, Zhou Shixiang, must take it down, and not for anything else, but for revenge!

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Unlike the administrative divisions of Guangdong in later generations, the territory of a county is really large today. For example, Xiangshan County, a base planned by Zhou Shixiang for the Taiping Army, had three cities and one special district in later generations. However, in this era, such a large territory was only owned by one county.

The same is true for Gaoyao County. In later generations, there were at least a few counties in Gaoyao County. Now the mountains and rivers belong to one Gaoyao County, and the population is even smaller than those in later generations. Apart from Gaoyao County, Zhou Shixiang never saw a complete village on the way to the west. The more west the Taiping Army was, the more desolate it was, and there was no one for a hundred miles. What we saw was from plain hills to continuous mountain areas. The official road was already ruined. Most of the time, the Taiping Army was not walking, but pushing. On the mountain road, the speed of carriages and horses can be described as snail speed. No matter how anxious people are, they have no choice but to move forward little by little. Fortunately, there was no Qing army intercepting the front, and there was no Qing army chasing him from Gaoyao in the rear. As long as the weather is beautiful and it doesn't rain, the Taiping Army can step into Xinhui territory in another four days.

It was hot and the meat could not be preserved at all. The pigs and sheep seized from Gaoyao City were already limited, and they had been eaten up by the soldiers for a long time. How could they not bear to eat them and become smelly? When they found that the soldiers of each battalion liked to go to the small rivers and streams next to catch snakes and frogs when they were camping, Zhou Shixiang simply asked the hundred households to organize several teams to catch them. After they came back, they poured vegetable oil in a large pot and put salt on them. Then the soldiers distributed them to each team to make up for the physical exhaust caused by the lack of meat but had to continue to march.

Not only snakes, frogs, fish and shrimps were also needed to catch them. Hujie Camp was the most ruthless and directly piled up a small river to the end. Then two or three hundred people took various tools to scoop water. After great efforts, they actually cleared the river and caught nearly a thousand kilograms of green fish and grass carp. That night, the whole camp was filled with the fragrance of fish. Zhou Shixiang also ate a green fish. Although there was no soy sauce, chili, or chopped green onion, ginger, just some oil and salt, they were extremely delicious. He ate most of the whole green fish weighing more than five kilograms.

On the 22nd, after five days of march, the Taiping Army arrived at the Lingyang Gorge, the westernmost part of Gaoyao. The status of the Lingyang Ridge was in a slight position, and the name of Gaoyao County was also obtained from here. Before entering Lingyang Ridge, Zhou Shi ordered a team of soldiers to investigate. After confirming that there was no ambush of the Qing army, the large group of troops entered. That night, the entire army entered the Lingyang Ridge for a night. It was hot and there was no quilt covered at night and it was not cold. The only troublesome thing was that there were too many mosquitoes and there were not many herbs to repel mosquitoes. Therefore, the sound of officers and soldiers slapped the mosquitoes one after another at night, and they could not hear the sound until the second half of the night. However, it was not because the mosquitoes were all covered, but that everyone could not lift their eyelids and just wanted to sleep, so they didn't care about the mosquitoes.
Chapter completed!