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Chapter 120: Fortified City

ps: Watch the exclusive story behind "Han'er Not a Slave", listen to your more suggestions for the novel, follow Qidian Chinese website official account (add friends on WeChat - add public account - enter qdread), and tell me quietly! Assassination has been a means of war throughout history, and it is even a means often used by politicians. When the two armies are in stalemate, assassination of enemy generals often breaks the stalemate of the battle and has an unexpected effect. Eliminating half of the old and weak among the dead soldiers, leaving only half of the strong. Zhou Shixiang's purpose is very simple. He wants this team of death soldiers to transform into a special forces soldier in the future, specializing in the battlefield disturbance and beheading tasks.

Given that he had not paid enough attention to Chen Mo's men and was completely stocked, the team of dead soldiers did not play a role in the war and even became a tool for "killer thief" Chen Mo to make money by robbing and making money by himself, Zhou Shixiang spent half a day to sort out a training method for special operations, and clearly ordered Chen Mo to strictly follow this training method in the future. The core of this training method is team consciousness. What Zhou Shixiang wants is the cooperative operation mode of the special forces, rather than the melee of the people in the martial arts world.

What surprised Zhou Shixiang was that Chen Mo, who was ignorant of the big words, understood the special combat concept he proposed very quickly and could even learn from it. Although some aspects were still not satisfactory, he began to train his subordinates according to Zhou Shixiang's requirements, which made Zhou Shixiang quite satisfied and gave up the idea of ​​transferring other personnel to form a special combat team.

He was not only trained as a special forces soldier, but also carried out special combat missions in the future. Of course, Zhou Shixiang hoped to provide Chen Mo with as much equipment as possible, but he could not make the weapons and equipment of the special forces soldiers in his impression that he could draw them, so he could only temporarily equip some tools such as iron hooks climbing the wall. After arriving in Xiangshan County, Zhou Shixiang wanted to send someone to Macau to purchase a batch of short guns for the special forces team to use. If not, he would ask someone to create a batch of crossbow arrows as much as possible.

The power of crossbow arrows is stronger than that of bows and arrows at short distances and has a higher hit rate. It is most suitable for unexpected assassination. Unfortunately, there are only thirty bows in the camp now and there are no crossbows. So we can only be equipped in the future. The archers in the bow are also half-baked, and none of them can be called archers. Otherwise, a few can be used as snipers when transferred to a special team, so that they can directly shoot enemy generals on the battlefield, which is much safer than infiltrating assassination.

Although the cavalry team had only more than 30 people, Zhou Shixiang gave the first team organization. The team was Zhu Er, who was born in the old brother of Daqiaoshan. Zhu Er had a big name called Gan. It sounded like pig liver, so Zhu Er didn't like the big name he called him. Because he was the second in the home, he liked people to call him Zhu Er Ge or Zhu Er brother.

Like Ge Zheng and Ge Yi brothers, Zhu Er did something to become a bandit in his early years. He was liked to tie up women from wealthy families the most. Over the years, he relied on his riding skills he had learned in the horse gang when he was young. He had never caught anyone. Compared to Chen Mo who was trapped in a prison and almost beheaded, his luck was not ordinary.

He was born in Daqiaoshan. He also knew riding skills and worked as a bandit back then. He was clever. Together, Zhu Er was the best choice for the cavalry team.

As soon as the cavalry team was formed, Zhu Er received his first task after taking office. He led people to Xinhui area to investigate the movements of the Qing army, and sent people to contact the Houjian that was moving in, so that the Houjian would hide in the southwest of Xinhui area. He also asked Duke Xiang of Song to distribute some people from the camp to receive the food that was about to be transported from Gaoyao.

Xiangshan County and Xinhui belong to Guangzhou Prefecture. From the map, Xinhui is the gateway of Guangzhou and is stuck between Guangzhou and Zhaoqing Prefecture. Its land and water transportation is the place where the four cities gather, and it is also the key place of the Pearl River Delta Prefecture. If the Taiping Army wants to go to Xiangshan, it must pass Xinhui. Apart from this, it is only possible to cross the Tanjiang River.

Tanjiang is also known as Junzi River. It is collectively known as the four major water systems of Guangdong, Xijiang, Dongjiang and Beijiang River. The three rivers of Xijiang, Dongjiang and Beijiang River merge into the Pearl River. Most of the counties under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou Prefecture are located in this Pearl River Delta Prefecture, and Xiangshan County is the southernmost county in this Triangle Prefecture. Xinhui is located in the lower reaches of Tanjiang River. Tanjiang River flows southward in Shuangshui Town, Xinhui County, and flows into Huangmaohai through Yinzhou Lake.

As a member of Xinhui, Zhou Shixiang naturally knew the flow of water in Xinhui. However, he knew that he was unable to make up his mind about how to live Xinhui.

Xinhui was originally a small county. Since the Ming Dynasty, the Xinhui city walls were not tall like most county-level county-level provinces. However, after the Qing army entered Guangdong to occupy Guangzhou and the Southern Ming army retreated to eastern and western Guangdong, Xinhui became the gateway to Guangzhou Prefecture due to its geographical advantages.

Since the third year of Yongli (the sixth year of Shunzhi), the Qing army has strengthened the Xinhui city wall several times. In the eighth year of Yongli (the eleventh year of Shunzhi), Li Dingguo led tens of thousands of troops from Liuzhou, Guangxi to attack Guangdong, and successively led Hengzhou, Lianzhou, and Gaozhou, defeating the Qing general Gao Hu, Gaozhou garrison Zhang Yue, Shang Kexi deputy general Chen Wu, Li Zhizhen, Leizhou general Xian Qiyu and other Qing army generals. On the third day of the third month of Li Dingguo, he personally arrived in Gaozhou, and the volunteer troops from all over Guangdong responded. The King of Pingnan of Qing, Geng Jimao, Jingnan, and Governor-General of the Governor, did not dare to fight, and concentrated their troops to defend the Guangzhou area, and sent a 800-mile fast horse emergency report to Beijing, requesting that Beijing send more Manzhou troops to Guangdong to resist the fierce coming of Li Dingguo.

Because Xinhui is located in the gateway of Guangzhou, the gains and losses of Xinhui are directly related to whether Guangzhou can be defended. Therefore, Jing and the two vassals sent elite soldiers from the vassals to garrison Xinhui. The guards were the Han army flag general, Yunlong and the right-wing general Wu Jinzhong. After these two generals entered Xinhui, they recruited civil servants in the city to strengthen the city wall, making the Xinhui walls as strong as Guangzhou Prefecture. At that time, Zhou Shixiang was in the city day and night and witnessed the Qing army driving civil servants to build a city. Every day, the city was exhausted and pulled out of the city were hundreds of corpses.

At the same time, Li Dingguo was originally determined to lead the main force to attack Guangzhou, but unexpectedly, he suddenly became ill in April. He had to send his subordinate general Wu Zisheng to lead troops to attack Guangzhou. When Wu Zisheng arrived in Xinhui, Xinhui City had already been built as solid as a golden rule by the Qing army. Wu Zisheng attacked for several months and could not break the city. In October, Li Dingguo personally led a large army to claim to have 200,000 attacks on Xinhui. He successively used tactics such as digging tunnels, cannons bombing the city, logging and filling trenches to carry out strong attacks, but they were all seen and defeated by the Qing army in the city. Afterwards, the city was besieged for several months. Finally, due to the arrival of the Han soldiers, led by Zhumala, the general of Jingnan, Manzhou, who came from the north, had to escape.

During the siege of Li Dingguo's army, the Qing army in the city actually killed people and fed without cutting off food and grass, which led to the parents, wife and children of scholar Zhou Shixiang who were both tragically killed. Even now, Zhou Shixiang, who was possessed by later generations, was very sad for him.
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