The new two towns of the Taiping Army were ordered to attack Xingguo Mansion in the northeast of Ganzhou. The town general Zhu Qinglai personally led a brigade to defeat the five wooden cities set up by the Qing Xingguo guardian Kang Qingquan, and captured and killed more than a thousand Qing soldiers. At noon on the 24th, the Taiping Army advanced to five or six miles from Xingguo City. Kang Qingquan led his army to fight, but was defeated by the Taiping Army and retreated into the city. The next day, the Taiping Army began to attack the city. At that time, the heavy rain in the upper reaches caused the river to rise and could not cross. Zhu Qinglai then ordered to dig moats and plant piles on the dry road outside the north, two gates and the south gate to prevent the Qing army from breaking through.

After suffering a series of defeats, he lost contact with Nanchang and Ji'an, and an isolated city in Xingguo, and the Qing army was unstable. The Taiping Army besieged the city for only two days, and the Qing army collapsed and went out of the east gate to cross the river day and night to flee. The Taiping Army occupied Xingguo City, and the Qing Xingguo prefect Zhang Tianwen surrendered himself. Zhu Qinglai ordered Zhang Tianwen to remain the prefect of Xingguo, and ordered the people to issue appoint an appointment to Anmin, leaving hundreds of troops to conquer the local area. The other tribes took advantage of the situation to follow the Qing army and launched an offensive towards Ningdu.

The defeated Qing army was a guest army in the north, and had no idea of ​​the local land. On the way to escape, they actually harmed the people. At this time, the Ming and Qing dynasties were fighting, and the world was not stable. People with little wealth buried gold, silver and treasures and took them out when the world was peaceful. Some people saw the Qing army coming, but did not think that the Qing army had fled because of the prestige of the Qing army, and offered food. Unexpectedly, the Qing army arrested the people and asked who had money. Then they put the rich people on fire. If the miserable master refused to hand over the hidden money, they would be roasted to death. Some obese people often had oil on the ground after death, which was extremely disgusting and tragic.

In addition to torture and seeking money, the Qing army even plundered women. All the beautiful women in the people's homes were captured, or taken to remote places to be humiliated, or had fun with their fathers and brothers. Some Qing army lost their soldiers and robbed the ship when they fled their lives, so they simply tied the robbed women to the boat and made trouble on the boat day and night. If these robbed women cried a little, they would immediately chop off their heads.

The defeated soldiers of the Qing army aroused the country's evil actions. The people of Ningdu were angry and dissatisfied. Tens of thousands of people from both places spontaneously cut their pigs, besieged the county government, guided the Taiping army, or ambushed the Qing army on the road, or provided information for the Taiping army, which made the new two towns advance quickly, and in a few days, he went down to six county towns.

The atrocities of the Qing army in Xingguo, Ningdu and others were spread to Zhou Shixiang, who was commanding the attack on Ji'an City. He wrote a warrant on the spot, ordering that all the Qing army belonging to Xingguo, Ningdu, Guangchang and other places should not surrender. After receiving the warrant, Zhu Qinglai, who had surrendered and captured Qing army, immediately ordered that all the more than 600 Qing troops who had surrendered and captured were killed. At the same time, he ordered the seized Qing army to rob and return the property to the miserable, and the women also returned it. This move won the hearts of the people.

Yongning County belongs to Ji'an Prefecture. Due to the order of the Admiral's Office, 400 soldiers from the Green Camp were moved to the prefecture to assist in defense against the southern Guangdong bandits. The city's defense was managed by the magistrate to recruit young villagers and fill them with young people. The specific defense in the city was responsible for the general Xi Qianjun.

On this day, the magistrate Guan held a banquet in the back hall of the county government office to invite the big gentry in the city to discuss the raising of grain and pay, but a brave soldier guarding the city came to report that a large group of soldiers from Yongxin County came and were clamoring to enter the city.

Yongxin is east of Yongning. How did Yongqin's soldiers come to Yongning? Could it be that Yongxin has lost?

The magistrate Guan and the Xi Bar were surprised. Everyone in the county also changed their color. Everyone knew that the matter was important, so they surrounded the magistrate and looked at the city to see if it was really a defeated soldier from Yongxin to the east.

After everyone went to the city, they saw two or three hundred green camp soldiers making noises under the city. The soldiers were dressed in tatters, and many of them were wearing bandages, which seemed to be injured. Most of the soldiers had no weapons in their hands. Seeing that the defenders on the city did not open the city gate, the soldiers in the camp were angry and scolded their fathers and mothers.

Hearing these soldiers scolded them badly, the gentry frowned, but the magistrate Guan didn't care about these things. He leaned out and stretched his head and asked loudly, "Where are you from?"

"Yongxin!"

What a soldier of Yongxin?

The magistrate Guan suddenly felt a sudden heart, looked carefully, and asked again: "Where are you Mr. Yang Qian?"

The Yang Qianzhong mentioned in Guan Yongchao was Yang Xiaozhong, the nephew of the general Yang Wenyuan of Ji'an. He was exposed to his uncle, and Yang Xiaozhong took office as the general Qianzhong at a young age. In March, Guan Yongchao went to Fucheng to work in public, and Yang Xiaozhong had a drink with the prefect of Lu. At the banquet was Yang Xiaozhong. Although Yang Xiaozhong was a military officer, he was quite elegant, easy to study, and respected scholars. Every year, he paid for his own pocket to support poor students in the county to enter school, so he was highly praised by the gentry. Guan Gongxian had several friendships with Yang Xiaozhong. When he heard that there were Yongxin soldiers under the city, he naturally wanted to ask Yang Xiaozhong's whereabouts.

After hearing the shouting from the city, the general in the city walked out of the crowd and shouted with his neck tilted, "On the city, Taiping gangs have entered Yongxin City. Yang Qian asked the bandits to kill them. The bandits blocked the road to Ji'an. We have nowhere to run. Then we retreated to you, Yongning, come, you can open the city gate and let me wait in, otherwise the Taiping gangs will come, but no one will help you defend the city. They will chase them from behind and they will be called in a short time!"

The Taiping Kou is coming to Yongning?!

The county magistrate Guan and the gentry were all shocked. Two timid gentry were so scared that their legs became weak and almost fell to the ground. After hearing this, everyone changed their color, and their cheeks shook violently.

The magistrate Guan was very panicked. There were not many garrison troops in the county. A few days ago, the general transferred most of them with a transfer order. Now there are more than 200 soldiers left. If it weren’t for the urgent recruitment of more than a thousand young and strong men to go to the city to help the city, I’m afraid there wouldn’t be many people on the top of the city. He burned incense every day and waited for the Buddha to bless the Taiping Kou to go to the prefecture and the provincial capital. Don’t worry about his small place. He never thought that the Buddha wouldn’t bless him. The Taiping Kou who killed that day actually came. He was very panicked, but the magistrate Guan still cheered up and calmed his mind, and asked the general, “How many people did the Taiping Kou come?”

"Who knows this? I'm just escaping and running for life. Who dares to turn around and inquire? But I guess I'm afraid of a thousand people." The man always looked impatient.

No less than a thousand people?

The face of the magistrate Guan’s face was extremely difficult to see. If there were not many Taiping enemies coming, he would have mobilized the whole city to defend together and would have been able to survive. But there would be no less than a thousand people here, and the number of people in the city would probably not be able to withstand it.

The man fled all the way, and his throat had already smoked. Seeing that the city was so busy that he was asking around, he didn't open the door and let them in, he couldn't help but be anxious and shouted, "Why are you still going to delay? Let us enter the city quickly. If the Taiping gang fights over, we can still help defend the city."

After hearing this, a gentry shook his head, "County Master, you can't let them in. These defeated soldiers are unbelievable!"

After hearing this, the others agreed and disagreed with the defeated soldiers of Yongxin into the city because they were worried that the defeated soldiers would rob and cause chaos after entering the city, and the consequences would be much worse than those of the Taiping gangs. Nowadays, as long as they were not local soldiers in the hometown, they would be unbelievable. The general secretary had no idea, so they looked at the county magistrate Guan and listened to his decision.

The magistrate Guan was very hesitant and pondered without saying a word. When Yongxin soldiers outside the city saw that there was no response in the city, they were anxious and kept shouting and urging. The soldiers guarding the city naturally did not dare to open the city without the orders of the magistrate.

After pondering for a long time, the magistrate Guan made up his mind and gritted his teeth and ordered the general to wash the bar and said, "Open the door and let them in."

Mr. Xi Qian hesitated for a moment and said, "Are you not afraid of these defeated soldiers causing chaos?"

The magistrate Guan shook his head and said, "They are exhausted and covered in scars. How can they be willing to make trouble? Besides, they are all officers and soldiers of the court. As the magistrate appointed by the court, how can I refuse them outside the door?" There is one thing that Guan Guan did not say explicitly. He was afraid that if he did not let these soldiers come in, if he asked someone to report to the governor's office, he would be in trouble.

Seeing that the county lords decided, the gentry did not dare to object anymore. So General Xi Qian ordered people to open the city gate, and the two or three hundred Yongxin defeated soldiers outside the city rushed into the city excitedly as if they saw a savior. Fortunately, these defeated soldiers were very honest after entering the city, and the gentry worried about the robbery did not happen. The magistrate Guan asked General Xi to place the defeated soldiers in the military camp. After about half an hour, the sound of horse hooves could be heard from the distance outside the city, and dust poured into the air. The Taiping bandits were killed.

There were quite a lot of Taiping gangs who were attacking, with hundreds of cavalry alone, and the rest were infantry. I was afraid there were one or two thousand people. After the Taiping gangs came to the city, they did not start to attack the city immediately, but shot several letters of persuasion into the city. The first few were all kind words, but the last one was a threat to not open the city to surrender. After breaking the city, they asked the civil and military officials in the city, together with their whole family, to kill them.

The gentry was frightened, and some people persuaded Guan Magistrate to open the city to surrender, but Guan Magistrate gritted his teeth and would rather die than surrender to the thief. The leader of the army gave the general Xi Qianjun a lot of benefits to Guan Magistrate on weekdays. In addition, his whole family is in Ji'an Prefecture, so he dared not surrender. He was afraid that if he surrendered, his whole family would be killed by the Qing army.

In order to stabilize the hearts of the people and to inspire the young and strong people to strive for courage, the magistrate Guan opened a warehouse and took out all the taxes and silver that had just been collected in the county. With some money raised by the gentry and wealthy families, he gave each soldier ten taels of silver reward, while the young and strong man killed pigs and prepared wine. He also led the county magistrate and the lord and the lord to inspect the door. After some action, the people in the city were a little stable, and the situation seemed to be able to make a difference.

Late at night, something happened in the city. Dozens of people lit fires everywhere in the city. In an instant, the fire lit up, the wind helped the fire, and the city burned into a mess. The defenders on the top of the city were immediately in chaos! During the time, the Yongxin camp soldiers who were put into the city during the day rushed to the city gate to seize the city. They killed the Yongning soldiers who were guarding the city and opened the city gate with their bodies, and put the Taiping bandits who had been waiting outside the city into the city.

When the incident happened, the county magistrate Guan Zheng and the county magistrate Lin Yuankang discussed the city defense matter tomorrow. He reported that the Yongxin soldiers who were put in actually became the inner support of the Taiping Counterattack. Guan Zheng regretted it so much that his innocence was blushed. But at this point, he was powerless except to die to repay the king.

The county magistrate Guan went to the back hall in despair to find his wife and was about to hang herself to sacrifice her country. However, the county magistrate Lin Yuankang and Xiba took people to organize troops to fight against the Taiping Army.

"Hairy bandit, I'm fighting with you!"

Although Lin Yuankang, the governor of Yongxin County, was so scared that he was dying, he bravely waved a long sword and bravely rushed towards the Taiping Army with his old servants at home.

"Am I not as good as a weak scholar!"

The general Xi Qianjun was moved by Lin Yuankang's loyal and righteous behavior, and led his personal soldiers to fight with the Taiping Army for fear of death. However, although they were brave, they were outnumbered after all, and the Taiping Army had already been spread all over the city. The so-called general situation was hopeless, so how could they turn the tide? In just a moment, the general Xi and his personal soldiers were chopped into meat sauce by the Taiping Army.

Lin Yuankang was still fighting with the Taiping Army for several times. Although he tried his best to slash the Taiping Army to kill the Taiping Army, he was injured by no means a single person. The Taiping Army deliberately teased him, but after he was exhausted, he rushed forward and killed him. The county magistrate Guan was not dead, but in the final analysis, he was still afraid of death. The moment the rope was tied to his neck, he softened, so he was tied by the Taiping Army and sent to see their chief general.

The chief general of the Taiping Army did not enter the city, but was at the city gate. When the county magistrate Guan was taken to the city gate, he found that the Yongxin defeated soldiers he had put in during the day were all there, and the one who deceived him was also there.

The man was not always seeking credit for himself in front of the commander of the Taiping Army, but pulled the braid on the back of his head and shouted at his subordinates: "What kind of braids do a good man keep?" Then he took a dagger and cut off his braids. His subordinates followed suit, and everyone shouted and cut off the money braid on the back of his head.

The commander of Taiping Army saw the magistrate Guan who was taken over and asked his subordinate who was. When he learned that he was the magistrate of Yongning, the commander waved impatiently and said to his subordinates: "Bai Ri said that if he did not surrender, he would kill his whole family. Why did you bring people here?"
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