Luo Keduo had never seen the Taiping Army's civil fortifications, but Jidu had seen it, but he was dead.△↗,. Unlike the defense line built by the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong, the bunker guardhouses built by the Taiping Army were mainly based on geographical advantages, not for advancement, but for defense. Speaking of which, such civil fortifications were placed in the northern plains, which was a dead target. As long as the Qing army cut off the food and grass from these defense lines, no matter how strong the defense line was, it was useless. If the Qing army did not need to fight, the Taiping army in the defense line would collapse. If it did not collapse, it would have to starve to death. No matter how much food it was, it would be a day to eat it.

But this is on the Hunan-Guizhou border, the mountainous Hunan-Guizhou border, and there are only a few roads in and out of the Hunan-Guizhou border! So Luo Keduo had no other choice, either to force the Taiping Army fortifications that could not be seen at a glance, or to think of another way.

The battle to attack Pingxiyi was a good thing. Zhenglan Banner easily took this important road, and the Taiping Army could be described as escaping by looking at the wind.

Prince Ping, who easily took down a land, was very happy. He rushed into Pingxiyi amid the cheers of the soldiers, preparing to launch a larger offensive and earn greater contributions, but he couldn't laugh quickly. The expression on his face was as dark as Prince Jian Jidu who was in Chaohui last year.

"The Southern Barbarians are too cunning!"

Zhaka really couldn't think of any other words besides "crawling" that could describe the Ming army in Guangdong.

The Southern Barbarians were too cunning and sarcastic. The line of defense in front of the Qing army could be said to be a corpse under one foot of the ground.

Suna built a defense line in Jingzhou, exhausting more than 4,000 surrendered soldiers and civilians. However, more than 20,000 people died in this defense line in Yuanzhou.

Zhou Shixiang didn't want to die so many people, but the civil fortifications of this era rely entirely on manpower and no machinery can be used. In addition, many places of this official road entering Guizhou are stone-based pavements, which makes it very difficult to destroy it.

The construction period is short and the time is tight, so Zhou Shixiang could only fill this line of defense with his life. The construction period lasted for a month. According to the statistics of the staff in charge of the construction of the military headquarters, there were roughly 13,000 natives and more than 9,000 Han soldiers and civilians who died of exhaustion on this official road that was only 32 miles long.

It can be said that this is a line of defense paved with corpses and a line of defense covered with the blood of the Han people. The high-intensity construction work not only killed tens of thousands of lives, but also broke out in resistance from the natives and the people. During several suppressions, more than 2,000 Han people were killed.

The specific details and death figures of the Yuanzhou defense line were ordered to be closed down by Zhou Shixiang, but it is strictly prohibited to be destroyed.

Anti-Qing is the Han people's struggle against Manzhou, and sacrifice is inevitable. Just as the Qing army used the massacre of the city to force the Han people to give up their resistance to achieve the so-called massacre for the good purpose of the Han people. In the Taiping Army's struggle against Qing, countless Han people were also sacrificed. Their sacrifice was only for one thing, that is, the burial of the Manzhou tribe.

There is no absolute right or wrong in the world.

Anti-Qing is right for Zhou Shixiang, and is the most correct thing; but for those who were sacrificed because of anti-Qing, it is probably wrong.

Right or wrong was never considered by Zhou Shixiang. He only knew that if he did not resist, he would not be able to avenge his parents; if he did not resist, the Han people would be slaves to the Manzhou people for more than two hundred years; if he did not resist, the descendants would be proud of the Qing Dynasty.

So he had to resist, even if his resistance actually caused more of his compatriots who had finally survived the war.

If you don’t resist, more people will survive; if you resist, you will die.

This sounds incredible, but it really happens. In fact, the Han people in Hunan suffered more suffering than the Qing army when they arrived. Many Han people do not want to become citizens of the Ming Dynasty and restore the Han family's clothes, but are thinking that the Qing soldiers will rescue them as soon as possible. The reason for this is that the Taiping Army implemented Zhou Shixiang's "blood drawing" strategy in Hunan.

What is blood draw?

Draw blood from the Han people in Hunan to support the Taiping Army on the Hunan-Guizhou border.

Draw blood from the Han people in Hunan and block the Yunnan, Guizhou and Qing dynasties.

What is blood?

Money and food, as well as production materials, chicken, duck, fish, and even life

Luo Keduo tentatively launched an attack on the Taiping Army defense line in the north. As a result, before the leader of the army approached the opponent's guardhouse, the sound of cannons began, followed by the sound of guns. The soldiers were brave, and the few rounds of arrow rained, which was shocking to see, but the arrow made a "bang" sound on the Taiping Army bunker behind the trench, and it was not effective at all.

The Taiping Army did not show its head at all, they hid in the bunker like turtles. If the soldiers approached, they would fire their guns. If they didn't come, they would wait. The trenches were also dug intimidatingly, both wide and deep, one by one, every few dozen steps, and there was either a sharpened branch or a water filled with water. When the people fell in, they were either stabbed to death or drowned alive. There was no possibility of survival, because the walls of the trenches were cut very smoothly by the Taiping Army, and there was no place to help.

How to fight this battle?

How to pass this road?

The soldiers looked at each other from the top and bottom.

I thought I had to go there, but I didn't have to walk on this official road that was made like a turtle shell by the Taiping Army. I could take a detour. But the horses could not walk on the path. If the horses passed by, I could only walk on the widest part at most, and it would be difficult to walk on the narrow part alone. The Taiping Army obviously touched the surrounding terrain. However, the trees around the path were cut down from top to bottom, and there were no dead corners. In the vicinity, the bunkers and guardhouses were built, and the places where the bunkers could not be built were also filled with stones and

Rolling the wood, garrisoning more than a dozen soldiers can achieve the effect of being a one-man pass, and tens of thousands of soldiers cannot open. Even if the Qing army can pass through the small path, the Taiping Army's defense line has been built dozens of miles along this official road into Guizhou, and it is also responsible for the district. The Qing army broke through one place and had another place, one layer after another, and it is endless. There are so many small paths to walk on? Just walk the small path, how many soldiers can you pass through. If there are few people and don't take the trouble, you will be bound by the Taiping Army in a blink of an eye. If there are too many people, it is useless. You can't get through at all!

Luo Keduo had the strength to be indifferent, and had nowhere to be angry. The Han army guide who led the way told Prince Ping that there was another place to pass the army. Prince Ping was overjoyed when he heard this. After asking, he shook his hand and slapped the Han army guide.

The Prince Ping was really beaten to death by this slap, and the Han army's teeth fell off.

Why is Prince Ping so angry?

Because the Han army mentioned the place is a hundred thousand mountains!

When the Qing army was unable to advance in Pingxi Post, the local soldiers who sneaked over for bounty began their adventure to get rich.

If these local soldiers gathered together as an army, they would not even be able to defeat the Qing army's battalions because they had no idea what marching and war was. They only knew to rush around and then run away. This kind of mob has a use, and if it was useful, it would not be called natives.

However, when these local soldiers became enemies of the Qing army as individuals, they became the biggest nightmare of the Qing army.

When the Qing army was in a dilemma at Pingxi Post, the small groups of people sent out to explore the way or collect grain were constantly attacked. Even at night, enemy soldiers would sneak into the camp to wipe out the necks of the night patrol soldiers and then cut off their heads.

After more than 80 people were cut off their heads in succession, Luo Keyi realized the seriousness of the matter. He immediately sent troops to search everywhere and cleared the woods near the barracks to prevent enemy soldiers from infiltrating. The guard posts were doubled at night, and the patrol team made preparations from time to time. Under such measures, the attacking enemy soldiers no longer sneaked into the barracks.

But then, Luo Keyi discovered that the small groups of enemy soldiers who attacked him targeted the liaison soldiers he sent to Guiyang, as well as the guards at the post stations in the rear, and the auxiliary soldiers who transported food and grass.

The losses were getting bigger and bigger. On the most days, 17 people were killed and more than a dozen trucks of food were robbed.

Luo Keduo was furious and began a counterattack. The Qing army went out on a large scale, mobilizing the official road and the mountainous areas on both sides of the post station, and adding troops to garrison the key roads of each checkpoint. As a result, he satisfied the prince of the county. His counterattacks in recent days were very fruitful, and he captured and killed more than 200 natives who were intending to attack the Qing soldiers.

From the native captives, the Prince of Ping and the senior management of the Manchu army heard the "Reward Order of Hunting Manzhou Heads" issued by the Ming army in Guangdong for the first time, and knew that their heads could exchange half a piece of fat pig or equivalent items from the Ming army in Guangdong.

According to the natives, the price offered by the Ming army in Guangdong to the Manzhou soldiers was the same, and there was no official title, which meant that Luo Keduo, the dignified Prince of Manzhou, was only worth half a piece of pork.

This made Luo Keduo furious.

However, the good situation did not last long. The Qing army once again discovered that natives were attacking them, and the number of people was increasing. Some military posts were even attacked by hundreds of natives at the same time.

For a moment, the natives on the Hunan-Guizhou border seemed to have all dispatched. They came from all directions to harvest the Qing army's heads in the night. At first, they simply attacked the Manzhou soldiers, and later even the Green Camp soldiers attacked together.

The Qing army was tired of such endless small-scale attacks, but gradually the Qing army also summarized the experience of being attacked by the natives. Luo Keduo ordered the Guizhou Green Camp troops transferred to the mountains to fight and use them to attract some natives to surrender, so that they could use the Han Dynasty to control the land and the earth to make the land.

Under this policy, the number of natives attacking the Qing army on the Hunan-Guizhou border began to decrease, and more natives were captured by the Qing army. But from beginning to end, the Qing army could not cross the northern line.

The initiative of the war was firmly controlled by Zhou Shixiang, who acted as a turtle, and he was waiting for the best opportunity to attack.

The tide of the attacks of the Qing army by the natives in Guizhou was caused by the natives in Guizhou, and the risk of their lives to go down the mountain to attack the Qing army was because they were jealous.

After seeing the local soldiers coming from Hunan who earned a lot of money and food from the heads of Manzhou people, the local people in Guizhou were naturally moved. They learned from the local people in Hunan that the rewards of Taiping soldiers were not limited to real goods, gold and silver, and even more so on the targets. They only looked at the heads they received, and they paid real money and silver immediately without dragging corners. This made the natives who were already strong in the folk customs were very enthusiastic. In addition, the local soldiers in Hunan repeatedly attacked the Qing army in the early days, they all said that the Qing army was easy to bully, so they dispatched a large scale. As a result, the Qing army was unable to defend, and the pressure doubled, and they also gained benefits from the Taiping army, but they were quickly suppressed by the Qing army that came back to their senses.

When the natives in Guizhou failed to make a fortune and were robbed, the Taiping Army in Hunan extended a "friendly" hand of help to them.

Teams of Taiping soldiers who sneaked from the mountains found Guizhou people under the leadership of Hunan local soldiers and taught them how to "mopping up" the Qing army, how to carry out "guerrilla warfare", and how to "fight one shot and change another place"

Weapons and even Mianjia equipment were generously sent by the Taiping Army, and the exchange of heads of the local people in Guizhou was completed quickly, and even some difficult villages could advance money and grain in advance.

Compared with the brutality of the Qing army and the friendship of the Taiping army moved the local people in Guizhou.

However, they did not know that on the other side of the mountain and on the other end of the junction of the two provinces, the Taiping Army in western Hunan proposed a sensational slogan.

The slogan is "Stones need to be cut through, thatchs need to be cut through, and natives need to change their seeds!"
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