The funerals of Ge Zheng and Peng Dazhu, two old brothers from Daqiao Mountain, were very simple. Like the Jiangxi soldiers who died in battle, they also found a space in the city to dig the ground and buried it. Similarly, no monument was erected. ¤,

Ge Yi was deeply in love with his brother and was too sad for his brother's death. He fainted when his brother was buried in the soil. He frightened Zhao Sihai and the others at that time. Later, the doctor took a look and said that he was too excited and his qi and blood were attacking his heart. He would take care of him for a day or two and then he would be fine.

People die and buried.

If injured, he will be treated.

Those who cannot be cured can only wait for death and then be buried in the soil.

Everything is simple, and the hearts of those who survived are hung on the city walls and on the Qing army besieged outside the city.

After three strong attacks, the Qing army, which had less than 5,000 troops, finally stopped its crazy behavior and did not take their lives to continue to fill the bottomless pit of Xinhui City. However, the Qing army camp outside the city still stood, and layers of defense lines were still tightly surrounding Xinhui, making the Taiping Army in the city breathless.

According to Zhou Shixiang's instructions, Duke Xiang of Song once again counted all the remaining materials in the city, including grain, salt, vegetable oil, tinea oil, lime, wood, weapons and other materials, and the results were not optimistic.

Song Xiang privately suggested to Zhou Shixiang to break through immediately, because the food in the city can last for at most about ten days. Ten days later, if the Qing army has not withdrawn, the Taiping army will have no food to eat. If you want to break through, you must start immediately. Otherwise, you will not have the strength to break through in a few days.

The proposal to break through was proposed by someone in the initial army of the Qing army, but it was rejected by Zhou Shixiang. Now, he still does not agree to break through. The reason is very simple. The soldiers in the army cannot leave their wives, children, and escape alone. Zhou Shixiang really dared to order a break through, because the city gate was probably not open. The city was already killing each other.

The officers of more than a hundred households also had a strong dispute over whether to break through. The officers from the former Green Camp soldiers led by Shao Jiugong and Li Fuguo supported the breakthrough. They were all alone in the Taiping Army and had no family concerns, so they naturally did not want to wait for death in the lonely city of Xinhui.

On the contrary, Qin Zhisheng, a hundred households in the camp, firmly opposed the breakthrough. Zhou Shixiang naturally understood Tieyi's opposition, because Tieyi's subordinates were mostly his workers in the Laofengzhuang Copper Mine, and the families of the officers and soldiers of the camp were all in the city. If Tieyi agreed to abandon his family and break through, then he would be a ghost.

Qin Zhisheng's fierce opposition to breaking through the siege surprised Zhou Shixiang. Qin Zhisheng was alone when he fell into Daqiao Mountain with Hu Quan. He has never married or had children for so many years. Therefore, he is the same as Duke Xiang of Song and Li Fuguo. He has no small burden in this city, so he should support breaking through. After all, breaking through can give him more chances. If he stays in this city, he will probably die. But he never thought that Qin Zhisheng seemed to have eaten a weight and refused to break through. He even scolded him for running away when he quarreled with Li Fuguo and others. I won't run away!

Zhou Shixiang never had any idea of ​​guessing his subordinates' psychology, but this time he couldn't help asking Duke Xiang of Song to find out why Qin Zhisheng was so fiercely opposed to breaking through.

After a moment of silence, Duke Xiang of Song told Zhou Shixiang that Qin Zhisheng and Hu Quan were both working in Li Chengdong's army. Hu Quan was Li Chengdong's personal soldier, while Qin Zhisheng was the chief of the general under Zheng Kuiguo, under Li Chengdong's subordinate. In the second year of Yongli, Li Chengdong led his troops to attack Ganzhou, Jiangxi, but he never thought he was defeated and drowned.

After Cheng Dong's death, there were no leader, and the generals surrendered, and the retreated. At that time, Zheng Kui Kingdom was ordered to guard Xinyuan City. After the Qing army approached, Zheng Kui Kingdom actually abandoned the city regardless of the thousands of soldiers in the Cheng Dong army's army's family. As a result, the Qing army entered the city and killed all the thousands of families.

Duke Xiang of Song said that there may be people Qin Zhisheng loved among the families of the thousands of soldiers in the army. Because from that time on, every April 9th, when Xinyuan broke the city, Qin Zhisheng would find a place to drink alone in the back mountain. Once, Ge Yi accidentally saw Qin Zhisheng covering his face in the direction of Xinyuan in the northeast.

Is there anyone in Xinyuan City that Qin Zhisheng admired or his relatives were massacred by the Qing army? It has been so long since Qin Zhisheng, the person involved, himself, and others can only guess. Zhou Shixiang had no intention of exploring this matter in detail, but he felt that this matter was probably not much different from Duke Xiang of Song. It was precisely because of the abandonment of the city that caused the tragic death of thousands of elderly, weak women and children today that Qin Zhisheng would rather die than break through, because he knew more than anyone that the so-called breakthrough was actually abandoning the city and abandoning the elderly, weak women and children who could not follow the army to break through.

The bald man Jiang He is the most vicious among the brothers of Daqiaoshan. When Zhou Shixiang was discovered by them, Jiang He was also the most vicious towards him. However, it is strange that Jiang He has a great life and has won Luo Ding to this day. This guy has never suffered any injuries, and he has not even encountered a dangerous situation, which makes people sigh.

Regarding whether to break through, Jiang He was neutral. He neither supported Shao Jiugong, Li Fuguo, and Tieyi and Qin Zhisheng. Instead, he said that everything was heard from Qianhu. If Qianhu said breaking through, he would break through. If Qianhu said breaking through, he would defend.

This is a waste of time, which is similar to the later saying "who supports whom in the central government" in later generations. Those who hold the same attitude as Jiang He include Lin Huasheng, Lin Huasheng, Zhang Erjiang and others.

Song Erniu and Zheng Erniu, two names with Niu, were beaten to death and refused to break through. Their situation was similar to the camp, and they both had wives, children, and children in the city.

The two sides had a fierce dispute, and the military discussion was in the end without a result, because the main purpose of Zhou Shixiang summoning the generals was not to discuss the breakout, but to make detailed arrangements for the city's defense, and to make up several gaps caused by the Qing army's strong attack. Now, the military discussion was dismissed because the direction of the military discussion turned to whether to break out.

Finally, Zhou Shixiang announced that due to Ge Zheng's death, one of the 100 households in the Zhenlu camp was vacant, and Ge Yi was now in charge of the position. Then he ordered the generals to retreat first and he wanted to discuss with Duke Xiang of Song again.

Unexpectedly, after the generals returned, news about the Taiping Army breaking out was spread in the city. For a moment, the five major camps of war soldiers and the old and weak in the back camp were panicked. The elderly, weak, women and children even cried in the back camp, fearing that Zhou Shixiang, the thousand households would abandon them.

The cry of women and children naturally caused chaos in the military camp. The officers and soldiers from the back camp surrounded their test households and households, questioning whether there was a breakthrough. With the enthusiasm of the crowd, some soldiers even took off their military uniforms angrily and threatened to no longer work for the Taiping Army.

The incident happened too suddenly, which surprised Zhou Shixiang for a moment because he repeatedly reminded the officers attending the meeting that no one should disclose all the news about the breakthrough. However, the fact is that his ban order did not work, and the rumors about the breakthrough became more and more intense in the city, almost reaching a level of shaking the morale of the army.
Chapter completed!