The chaos in Xinhui City spread rapidly from the east city to the whole city, and the killing of the Zhenlu camp caused the people in the city to suffer unrestrained disaster. In the chaos, the surrendered soldiers who had just joined the Taiping Army began to take advantage of the fire with their familiarity with the terrain in the city. In addition to them, the scattered soldiers of the Qing army were also catching fish, killing, extorting, and setting fire everywhere.

The chaos in the city was curbed after Zhou Shixiang entered the city. When he found that the Zhenlu Camp was massacring the civilians in the city, Zhou Shixiang immediately sent someone to recall Ge Zheng and ordered his Zhenlu Camp to take over the four gates of defense immediately and not be allowed to operate in the city.

However, even if Zhou Shixiang reacted quickly, he could not save the lives of thousands of people who had been killed by the Zhenlu camp, which made him very guilty afterwards. After all, the owner of this body was a real Xinhui people. The people in the city who had saved their lives from the Qing army were also his real villagers. Zhou Shixiang might even have relatives. However, Zhou Shixiang, as the conquerors of Xinhui City, took their lives, which made him deeply blame himself. At the same time, he realized that the participation of too many surrendered soldiers strengthened the strength of the Taiping Army, but at the same time it also made the Taiping Army's military discipline even more corrupt. After all, these surrendered soldiers were all veterans, and killing and robbing was common for them. It was almost impossible to expect them to be bound by the Taiping Army's military discipline immediately.

Strengthening one's own strength through the way of bandits was a development model chosen by Zhou Shixiang for the Taiping Army, but this does not mean that he really wanted to build the Taiping Army into a bandit-like team, especially if the army he built was not accepted as the murderer of the city. If the Taiping Army had to massacre the people every time they captured a place, what's the difference between this and the Qing army? How could he regard himself as a king? He would not be able to consolidate his foundation and gain the support of the Guangdong people.

Since ancient times, those who win the hearts of the people won the world. Although Zhou Shixiang did not dare to expect to win the world, he was never willing to lose the hearts of the people. When the Qing court had occupied most of China, the support of the people was strictly the most important thing for the Taiping Army, which was still a seedling.

The Taiping Army must never become a bandit-like team, nor can it become the executioner who massacred his compatriots!

After scolding Ge Zheng, Zhou Shixiang ordered Xiongwei Camp and Hujie Camp who entered the city to take over the encirclement and pursuit of the remaining Qing troops in the city, while the Guards began to conduct military control in the territory that the Taiping Army had already controlled.

Although Xiongwei Camp, Hujie Camp, and the Neighbor Camp also had some bad deeds after entering the city, they were much better than Zhenlu Camp. The biggest reason was that there were not many surrendered soldiers in the Green Camp in these three camps. Most of them were young and strong who participated in the Taiping Army since Luo Dingshi, and most of them were from poor families. Therefore, after entering the city, they did not start a massacre like Zhenlu Camp. Instead, they could effectively abide by the officer's orders and did not use swords against the people.

After the Guards were ordered to take control, the areas that the Taiping Army had already controlled were immediately blocked, mainly to block streets and alleys, no one was allowed to move, nor were the Taiping Army, which was not the Guards, were allowed to rob and set fire in these places.

As a hundred households in the Guards, although Bald Jiang He was also an authentic bandit like Ge Zheng, who was full of flesh, compared with the former who was jealous of killing him and ignored anything, the latter had too high awareness and much stronger self-control. At least after Zhou Shixiang's order was passed, he immediately led his troops to execute military orders instead of allowing his subordinates to do whatever they wanted in the city.

After Xiongwei Camp and Hujie Camp took over the search and suppression of the remaining Qing troops, they soon launched a street-to-all search in Xinhui City. This kind of carpet-like search made the Qing troops who wanted to hide in their houses unable to hide. They were either forced to resist stubbornly or surrendered their weapons. Some of them took off their military uniforms were directly tied up and held out by the people in the hiding place.

The large-scale massacre dominated by the Taiping Army ended after the Zhenlu Camp was transferred to the four gates to defend. Although there were few Taiping soldiers participating in the remaining ones, more were the remnants of the Qing army.

After learning that the Xinhui garrison Zheng Guodong had fled from the south gate, Zhou Shixiang did not send troops to pursue him. The escaped Qing army was no longer important in his eyes. What is important now is to completely stabilize the situation in Xinhui City. Then quickly rebuild the collapsed city wall, and he wanted to resist the upcoming main force of the Qing army in Guangdong here. Then defeat them.

If you want to gain a foothold in Xiangshan County, you must attack the main force of the Qing army in Guangzhou, so that they cannot encircle and suppress the Taiping army. In this way, the Taiping army can have a safe foothold in Xiangshan. Otherwise, facing the continuous attacks of the Qing army in Guangzhou, in this case, it is probably a luxury to gain a foothold.

Since it is necessary to deal with the Qing army in Guangzhou, if you choose to engage in small-scale battles or guerrilla battles with the Qing army in Xiangshan, it is better to use the captured Xinhui City to consume the strength of the Qing army in Guangzhou, turn Xinhui into a meat grinder like Verdun, and turn Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao and Guangdong Governor Li Rutai's Biao camp. In this way, if you go south to Xiangshan, you will be surrounded and suppressed by the main force of the Qing army.

Furthermore, Zhou Shixiang did not want to give up Xinhui City. Xinhui, as the southern gate of Guangzhou, has unique geographical advantages. Controlling Xinhui is equivalent to installing a nail under Guangzhou's nose, and can connect Xiangshan and western Guangdong into a piece, making it easier to contact Mingjun in the three prefectures of Lei, Lian, and the three prefectures.

The battle alone was never what Zhou Shixiang expected. He wanted to use the remnants of the Ming army in Guangdong to suppress the Qing army. Therefore, retaining Xinhui and controlling it has extremely important strategic significance. At least, controlling Xinhui City can inspire the Ming army to the west, attack the morale of the Qing army, and give the Taiping army room to advance and retreat. If Xiangshan really cannot gain a foothold, the Taiping army can also retreat from Xinhui to western Guangdong, rather than being surrounded and killed in Xiangshan County by the Qing army recaptured Xinhui.

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