After Qi Hao and others were hung up to the city, Duke Xiang of Song immediately took them and the envoy separately and interrogated them separately. This was a matter of course. Qi Hao did not feel dissatisfied with the Taiping Army because of this. If he were to be the same, he would be careful to sail the ten thousand-year-old ship. After all, no one knew whether the Qing army would use the same method to send spies to the city. He remembered clearly that when he was ordered by Li Dingguo of the Western Prefecture, there were spies from Qing army mixed into the city among the refugees and then set fires everywhere at night. If the defenders had not discovered and suppressed them in time, it would have been not that Qi Hao would not have abandoned Hengyang, but that he had already asked the Qing army to seize it.

Duke Xiang of Song first interrogated the envoys, and later interrogated Qi Hao and his subordinates respectively. After several confirmations, there was naturally no problem, but Duke Xiang of Song was still not relieved. It was not until Qi Hao took out his seal from the general officer issued by the Yongli court of the Southern Ming Dynasty that he completely eliminated Duke Xiang of Song.

The seal given by Qi Hao, the general of the army, was sent by the Yongli court after the Ming and anti-Qing Dynasty. After the Ming and anti-Qing Dynasty, the Ministry of War of the Yongli court issued a unified letter according to the registration list of Sun Kewang. However, most of the time, the general had nothing to do with the Yongli court. The ones who could really command him were Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo. For the Ming generals who were originally from the Daxi Army, the Yongli court was just a Buddha statue on the incense table.

After Qi Hao was forced to abandon Hengyang due to the great power of the Qing army, Li Dingguo seized his position as general and served as the general in the army, but the general seal was not taken back. Although Li Dingguo was angry that Qi Hao abandoned Hengyang, he also knew that this was forced by the situation. Even if he was forced to fight in Guangdong because of Sun Kewang, he naturally did not need to do the evil people to the end. After all, although Qi Hao was not his direct line, he was also a member of the Daxi Army, and he took the initiative to join him in Li Dingguo. If he was too harsh to face Qi Hao, it would be no good for his reputation as Li Dingguo if he was too harsh in his love.

Zhou Shixiang naturally had one official seal from the Southern Ming Dynasty. However, compared with Qi Hao, the general seal, it was much lower, only the Luo Dingzhou General Secretariat. This seal was not given to him at the beginning, but was given to Hu Quan by Cheng Bangjun, the Lang of the Ministry of War of the Yongli Court. Now that Hu Quan is dead, this seal naturally falls into the hands of Zhou Shixiang, who is already the actual leader of the Taiping Army.

The first level of official position was to crush people to death. The person who came was a general, but his family was just a general who had not yet been officially recognized by the Yongli court. Compared with the two, Zhou Shixia seemed to be weak. This brought a question: how to treat Qi Hao, the general of the Ming Dynasty who came to surrender.

The problem is easy to solve, and it concerns the power of the Taiping Army command and his own life. Zhou Shixiang is not vague. He said bluntly in front of Qi Hao and his subordinates that the Taiping Army welcomes you to surrender. Now he is willing to be appointed as the General Banner of the Army. I wonder if you are willing.

I thought Qi Hao had been a general officer after all, but now he could only be a general flag. The difference is quite large. I must have resentment in my heart. I didn't expect that after hearing this appointment, Qi Hao said nothing and agreed happily. His cheerful appearance made Zhou Shixiang feel a little embarrassed, and he secretly made him judge a gentleman with a villain's heart. Imagine that he followed Zhang Xianzhong to fight in the early years. He was much better than his second-generation scholar, and he could retreat from Li Dingguo.

When he retreated west, he led his brothers to resist the Qing Dynasty. Although he heard the envoys say that they were doing more bandit activities than fighting with the Qing army, and even with some people in the Qing army's green camp, he did not surrender to the Qing Dynasty. He did not turn his gun and attack his former colleagues, and he resolutely came to sue even though he knew that Xinhui had been surrounded by the Qing army. This alone was enough to let go of everything. Such people were not the only people who only had fame and fortune in their eyes, and how could they be suspicious of themselves?

From Qi Hao, Zhou Shixiang learned about the situation outside the outside world after Xinhui was besieged. Last month, a Ming army in Dong'an tried to move closer to Xinhui, but was defeated by the Qing army. More than a thousand soldiers from Zhou Beifeng from Haibei Province had boarded a boat into the river estuary, but did not break through the blockade of the Qing army's Guangdong Navy. After breaking a few ships, he hurriedly retreated from the river estuary. Just half a month ago, he heard that a Ming army landed on the shore on Hailing Island in Yangjiang, but there was no movement afterwards. Apart from these, Qi Hao did not have much external news. This information was learned by him and the Qing army's dirty hooks at that time through the other party's second words.

These news made Zhou Shixiang sigh inwardly. Although he sent more than a dozen groups of envoys to the outside world before the Xinhui siege, the one who really had hope was Gaozhou. He hoped that the small butterfly wings in Luo Ding could affect the war in the Ming and Qing dynasties because of his arrival, and at least it would make Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo no longer have internal conflicts at this critical moment. However, now it seems that this hope is probably gone. From time to time, Sun Kewang is afraid that he is fighting with Li Dingguo very anxiously. Tens of thousands of elite soldiers of the Western Army were killed by the command of the two princes.

Without Li Dingguo's third eastward advance, the situation of Xinhui would be a dilemma. It would be a dream to expect those South Ming army with no combat effectiveness and the navy that could only dominate the water to solve the Taiping army's crisis. What's more, few generals from the South Ming army scattered in Guangdong could see the impact of the Taiping army's occupation of Xinhui on the situation in Guangdong. Otherwise, why would there be only one or two troops moving without seeing other generals moving towards Xinhui?

It is better to seek oneself than to ask others. It seems that the dilemma of Xinhui still has to be solved by Taiping Army itself, but how to solve it?

The Qing army encirclement on three floors outside the city made Zhou Shi at a loss. Without abandoning the elderly, weak, women and children, he had almost no chance of breaking through. But if he really abandoned the elderly, weak, women and children, and expected the soldiers in the city to run away with him, it would be even more unrealistic than a foolish dream.

Fortunately, after suffering two losses, the Qing army no longer had the courage to attack Xinhui again. The food in the city could last for three or four months. The only troublesome thing was eating salt. Careful about eating salt, Zhou Shixiang naturally asked Qi Hao how they entered the city and whether there was a way to get out of the city and transport salt back along this road.

If Qi Hao and the others can come in, they can naturally go out. As long as there are not many people, this passage outside the Xicheng can be said to be the only passage for the Taiping Army to communicate with the outside world. But it is easy to go out, but where can we find salt? They can't grab salt from the Qing army. If there is any trouble, the Qing army is not a fool. Naturally, they know that there must be a mistake in the defense line. If it is investigated, the road on the river will definitely be broken. At that time, Xinhui City will be a lonely city.

Qi Hao had a headache for a moment, but one of his brothers suddenly said that it was not impossible to transport salt into the city, but the price was probably higher.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Shixiang and Duke Xiang of Song lit up their eyes and both asked about this person. According to this person, he and Qi Hao were looking for food everywhere when they were weeding on the mountain, and accidentally made a connection with a person from the Guangdong Navy. Although this person was from the Navy, he was also very brave in the road. He was famous and brave. He only recognized the money but not the people. If the money was enough, he would be afraid of killing his mother. At the beginning, they would mostly give it to this person to take action after they got some money. At this time, the man and Qi Hao had a little embarrassed face and were mostly confused about their words. However, Zhou Shixiang and Duke Xiang of Song could not hear it. They thought that they would go down the mountain to kill people and rob things, and then handed the stolen things to the people of the Navy to take action in exchange for the food they needed.

Zhou Shixiang has never done this, but why has Duke Xiang of Song never done it? Which of the bald men, Jiang He and Ge Zheng, and his group have never done it? Being a bandit requires the awareness of a bandit, and being a bandit requires the way to be a bandit. If you don’t kill and set fire, what should you do?

In troubled times, people's lives are like ants, killing people and setting fires. Zhou Shixiang has long been clear about it. The world will not be peaceful for a day, and such things will not be cut off for a day. The difference is that one will die.

Seeing Qi Hao's shameful face, Zhou Shixiang quickly changed his mind and asked him if he could contact the navy to see if he could buy the salt urgently needed by the Taiping Army from him. It doesn't matter if the other party is unfaithful, and silver is not a big deal. As long as there is salt, the price is not a problem, and I am afraid that there is no salt!

Just like that, Qi Hao and others rested in the city for two days, then sneaked out of the city late at night along the way. They used the connections they had when they were bandits to talk to the navy. When the other party heard that they wanted salt, they gave the price directly, one hundred taels a bag of salt (50 kilograms).

The price is really ridiculous. Although it is a chaotic world, the price of salt is much higher than that of the peaceful age. However, a bag of salt can cost at most ten taels of silver. This person suddenly increased ten times. Qi Hao was so angry that he scolded this guy for having a son without fucking. But after the scolding, he still went back to report it to Zhou Shixiang. Zhou Shixiang did not have such an excited reaction as him. After pondering, he asked him to go to the back camp to find Duke Xiang of Song to get 1,000 taels of silver to take with him. He left the city at night and transported ten bags of salt into the city tonight.

Zhou Shixiang didn't care about money, so Qi Hao naturally didn't care. In this way, the problem of Taiping Army's salt shortage was solved by the unscrupulous figure of the Qing army's Guangdong Navy. Basically, Qi Hao had to take people out of the city every three days. He didn't want to buy more at once, but there were not many people leaving the city, otherwise the Qing army would find it and there would be nothing left.

The problem of salt was solved, the house was demolished and the house was barely demolished and water was barely responded. The food could still last for a while. The Taiping Army sat in Xinhui City and did not go out of the city to attack at night, allowing the Qing army to surround him like this.
Chapter completed!