The Qing army, who could not capture the northern line, was unwilling to be trapped to death, and under the command of Prince Jian Jidu, attacked Lufeng City again.￥f, the Qing army knew the predicament at this time. If they could not take Lufeng City, they would be starved to death. Therefore, in order to survive, the Qing army fought desperately and the offensive was very fierce.

The Taiping Army and Huizhou soldiers in the city fought back bravely under the command of Tieyi, the second town of the Taiping Army. Neither side was willing to give in. The battle lasted only more than two hours. The corpses piled up under the city, with more than 2,000 casualties in the Qing army, and more than 1,000 casualties in the Taiping Army. The city gate was in a hurry several times, but it was safe several times.

In the evening, a part of the cavalry brigade that was mobile between Lufeng and Haifeng appeared on the right wing of the Qing army under the leadership of the town general Shao Chengguo, causing Jidu to distribute Mongolian troops to intercept the Taiping cavalry to avoid being attacked by the opponent.

More than a thousand troops from Shao Chengguo's troops and Mongolian soldiers of the same strength launched a cavalry hedge on the plains, but they were defeated by the Mongolian soldiers. After hundreds of casualties, Shao Chengguo led his troops to break away from contact with the Qing army and retreated in the direction of Haifeng.

At this time, the Qing army siege was exhausted and could not capture it for a long time. The heavy casualties made the Qing army lose the courage to attack the city again. The victory of the cavalry failed to change their predicament. After dark, Ji Du had no choice but to order the troops to withdraw. The next day, under the persuasion of Beledueryou, Ji Du ordered the entire army to retreat to Jieshi Guard and wait for assistance.

Jieshiwei was a fort built by the Ming army to guard against the enemy at sea. The surrounding land was full of saline-alkali land and crops were not allowed to be planted at all. The people who originally lived in Jieshiwei were all fishermen who made a living by fishing. In the 17th year of Chongzhen, after Jieshiwei was occupied by Su Cheng's troops in the peasant army, they were first attacked by the Ming army in Huizhou. Later, because Su Cheng refused to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, they were attacked by the Qing army in Chaozhou and Huizhou. After more than ten years of war, fishermen who lived in Jieshiwei for generations were either killed by chaos or left their hometowns with their wives and moved to live elsewhere.

After the Taiping Army retreated from Chaozhou, it implemented a strong clearance in Huizhou. The former Su Cheng family and the Lufeng people who lived in Jieshi Guard and the Su family who depended on the Su family were all withdrawn by the Taiping Army, leaving only a few hundred elderly, weak and weak women and children who refused to leave. After the Qing army occupied Jieshi, they slaughtered all these elderly, weak women and children, but they did not have time to transport Chaozhou's military rations. After Jidu led the remaining troops to retreat to Jieshi Guard, in order to save military rations, he ordered the massacre of civil servants who accompanied the army, causing more than 1,700 civil servants to die tragically by the sea, and their bodies were brought into the sea by the tide.

Fish and shrimps are fed with food. Some corpses were not allowed to be brought into the sea by the sea, and they were just placed on the beach. Within two days, they were soaked and swollen. From a distance, they looked like big fish lying on the beach. Under the scorching sun, the corpses began to rot and stink. The maggots inside were squirming, which was terrible. This beach has become a forbidden place that the Qing army dared not come. At night, there seemed to be someone crying in the howling sea breeze, which made the Qing soldiers who were killing people numb and dared not look at the empty beach.

When executing the order to massacre civil servants, Liu Zhong, General Guide and Zhang Chaoduo, General Nanyang, were careful. They did not fully implement the order to kill civil servants, but secretly let them run away and asked them to run to Lufeng City in the south or Xuanwu Mountain in the north. I think the Taiping Army would not make things difficult for these civil servants. This move made more than a thousand civil servants survive. Many of them became members of the Taiping Army and avenged their companions who died tragically under the Qing sabers.

The large-scale massacre of civilians and the food saved by the Qing soldiers killed in battle made the Qing army's food and grass last from the original ten days to one month. Although the Qing army was uneasy, they were no longer as frightened as before. They always thought that reinforcements would definitely arrive, and they just had to stick to it. However, as time passed, the Qing army did not see any reinforcements coming. Dasu, in Fujian, seemed to have no idea about the major changes that took place in Guangdong, and there was no sound of gunfire in the north. Seeing the military rations exhausted day by day, Ji Du was panicked. The generals of his subordinates were also panicked, and the soldiers began to panic.

On March 18, Jidu suddenly ordered the supply of rations for the Zhili camp soldiers and asked them to go out of Jieshi Weibao to collect grain.

Grain harvest?

The soldiers of the Zhili camp were angry. Although this ghost place is dozens of miles long, it may have been plundered by the Taiping Army. There are wild vegetables on the mountain, but can that thing fill the stomach and be hungry?

This is not the case with our Zhili soldiers, but we want our Zhili soldiers to survive and die!

Unwilling to starve to death, the general held the general and snatched the military rations. However, they were chopped up by the Mongolian soldiers who had already prepared a lot. They were also called the Mongolian soldiers to kill them in the chaos. The remaining hundreds of Tongzhou soldiers fled to the fort in a panic. Some of them ran to the sea in a panic, but they were told to drown in the sea. About 300 Tongzhou soldiers and more than 200 Zhending soldiers ran to Xuanwu Mountain and rushed to the Taiping Army defense line in the north of the mountain. More than 100 other Zhili soldiers ran to Lufeng and were taken in by the Taiping Army in the city.

Zhengding General Yang Zhenwei knew that his subordinates had asked the Mongolian soldiers to drive out of the fortress, and he fainted after vomiting blood. After waking up, he couldn't say anything. He was so angry that he was hit by Feng. Yang Zhenwei, who had been hit by Feng, had no one to take care of him and ignored him. He was found dead in the house a few days later. His body stinked, but it was not caused by rot, but that he could not take care of himself and urinated and defecated all over his body.

The dignified general died so miserably, but he was the first person in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The fate of the Zhili Green Camp made Henan Green Camp and Chaozhou Green Camp also sad, and they began to escape. In the early stage, only a few bold battalions escaped secretly, but later they fled dozens or hundreds, and even officers from the Thousand General Level secretly ran away. On the 24th, the Henan Green Camp had a high degree of escape. In a striking scene, Liu Zhong, general of Guide and Zhang Chao, general of Nanyang, led all his battalions to escape to Xuanwu Mountain at night to surrender to the Taiping Army. There were 13 green camps below the general and 1,650 soldiers.

The Chaozhou soldiers did not run away, and when the Henan soldiers ran away, they were the first to notify the Mongolian soldiers and Manzhou soldiers, but the "loyalty" of the Chaozhou soldiers was exchanged for the massacre of them by Prince Jian's guard Goshha.

Chaozhou deputy general Zhang Xianyong shouted loudly about his injustice on his neck of the Mongolian soldiers and wanted to go to Prince Jian to complain, but the Mongolians did not listen to his defense at all and still chopped his head. When his head landed, Zhang Xianyong saw Prince Jian Jidu and Dutong Nahai, but the two refused to say anything about Zhang Xianyong's killing.

Ji Du knew that Zhang Xianyong was wronged and that the Chaozhou soldiers did not collude with the Henan soldiers, but he still ordered Su Rile to massacre Chaozhou soldiers because he did not have any extra food and grass to supply these Han people.

Alta is a distant relative of Lin Dankhan of Mongolia. According to the Han people's seniority, he is still the distant uncle of Abuna, King Chahar. Since the former king Ezhe was defeated by the Manchus, the Manchu Khan has been rewarded with great enthusiasm for Chahar in public and is very enthusiastic. In fact, he is trying his best to weaken the attack. Every time he goes to war, the Manchus are in other tribes with fewer troops. The Chahar is doubling the battle, and there are fewer male cows and sheep in the tribe, and the big and small Taiwanese jiji are complaining. Although the current prince Abuna is not happy, he dares not make a sound. He is afraid of the princess - the daughter of Hong Taikhan of Manchu. Now the sister of the Qing emperor, Makata, returned to his parents' home to complain. The wolf on the grassland and the eagle under the sky have now become a coward who is afraid of his wife, which is really unreasonable.

This Manchu is really not a thing. The Manchurian family is doing everything behind his back. Just say this time, it was clearly Prince Jian who lost the battle, which caused everyone to be surrounded by the long-haired Han people in this ghost place to starve. The remaining grain was still under the Manchus. The Manchus eat double portions, and the Mongolians can only eat a small portion, but there are still no meals. The man who recorded the cattle was so hungry that the man was screaming.

Aleta was so angry that he ran out of the tent and shouted loudly, but was hated by the guy. One day, he whipped himself in public under the pretext of being drunk in the army. Ezhen Surile was afraid that Aleta would not swallow this, so he started fighting in the camp first. So he asked Jidu for an institution and ordered Aleta to bring out the camp with four more than 300 babies left in the crippled Niulu and sent Lufeng to guard against the long-haired Han people in the south to attack.

It was said to be a precaution, but in fact everyone knew that the long-haired Han people would not come out at this time. They were very cunning and knew that the Qing army would have no food and could not capture their city, so they waited for the Qing army to starve to death, which would save their own casualties. The Taiping Army really dared to go out of the city to fight the Qing army, but others would not say it. Alta was confident that he could definitely destroy these southern barbarians completely.

Since the attack on the back, Wu Zhenchaoha was attacked, the army has been trapped here for more than 20 days, and the food is almost gone. In order to save food, the prince of Manzhou first ordered the killing of the civilians and then drove the green camp, in order to save all the food and provide it with the children of Manchu and Mongolia. But even so, the remaining food cannot last long.

Ezhen Surile asked people to hunt on Xuanwu Mountain. When some animals came back, they could get some meat. At first, they could catch pheasants, wild boars and other things. After two days, the wild boars disappeared. The long-haired Han people fell. More than a dozen unlucky hunting ghosts were cut off and the horse soldiers on the other side were thrown back into the camp. The rest said that they would not go into the forest to die. Later, some fool came up with a bad idea and said that they could catch fish in the sea. The angry man was so angry that he really had a big mouth: Our Mongolian children beat the heaven of immortality, but who had seen anyone who could go into the sea!

If you can’t hunt and catch fish, you can’t catch fish, so you can only go hungry. The Manchus were thinking about finding opportunities to break through, not killing war horses in the camp, and searching out all the bean cakes for horses to eat. The Mongolian men all complained that it would be better to eat this food for people, and this horse would be useful if they were eaten. Is this horse really useful? Is it necessary to be trapped here? It won’t take long, and if you don’t have food, you still have to kill the horses. If you feed one more bite, you will be wasted!

What the superiors think, Alta doesn't care. He doesn't want to be filthy from the Manchu governor anyway. It's better to be sent to Lufeng, but it feels like the emperor is far away.

The Mongolian men who came down the grassland were all very straightforward and did not have the insidious thoughts of the Manchus. They wanted to eat when they were hungry. What should they eat? Eat horses!

I'm hungry, don't say the orders of the Prince of Manzhou. Even the orders of the banner owner of his family are nothing!

On the night in Lufeng, Alta asked his children to find a few old horses to kill them, clean them up and put them on the fire to barbecue, and everyone ate meat around the fire. In a trance, it seemed as if they were back on the grassland in Chahar's hometown.

Although there was not much food, there was still some wine. Mongolian men were good at wine, and they finally had a meal of meat, so how could they not have wine? They all untied the milk wine in their skin and poured it down. After drinking, they didn't know who led the lead, and they sang Humai, which made the men think about home and cry and scream. The Taiping Kou, opposite, had a banquet and drank on the city wall every day to piss off the army. At this moment, they were a little stunned when they saw the Mongolians singing and crying at the barbecue party.

After a day, he became hungry again. Alta wanted to let the baby go and kill the horse again, but Taiping Kou from Lufeng City opposite sent an envoy to come over and said he wanted to discuss with them.

Although Alta was a Mongolian, he had traded a lot with Han merchants in Shanxi before, so he knew a little bit of Chinese in Northern China, so he asked his envoy to come over to ask questions. However, the long-haired Han Chinese had a strong accent. The two of them pointed and gestured for a long time before Alta understood that it turned out that the Taiping gang wanted to trade rice and flour with him.

Alta was a little hesitant. Trading a military horse with the Taiping Army was a beheading deal, which made the Manzhou people realize that it was a huge disaster. Not only did he beheaded, but his family had to be killed and sheep and were ruined by other tribes. But seeing the babies beside him all hungry and thin, he turned around and thought that the horses were killed and drunk. Which one was not a death sentence for the ban in the army? Prince Jian himself could not jump for a few days, so what did he think of so many mother-in-law and mother doing?

At that moment, Alta bit his teeth, took the idea, agreed to the messenger's horse sale, and then bargained. The Mongolian man is heroic and straightforward, but he is not good at doing business. Alta has done all the beheading, so he naturally doesn't want to suffer too much.

Unexpectedly, the messenger was like the merchants in Shanxi, very cunning. The mule was worth eight taels of silver, so he was so embarrassed to speak out that four war horses were only exchanged for one hundred kilograms of white rice! He immediately made Alta, the straight man who was so angry that he wanted to draw his sword and chop people on the spot!

But now he has a straightforward heart, but now he has a request for these bandits. It is not a good feeling to be hungry. Alta's anger was swallowed in his stomach, and he tried his best to squeeze out a smile on his face so that he could look more honest. He begged the profiteer to give him more. Finally, he talked to the chicken and duck for a long time, and the messenger became impatient. Finally, he set the price of two war horses for 100 kilograms of rice and returned to the city.

The price is no longer discussed, so you can change it if you do it, and you don’t leave. The messenger’s nostrils are facing the sky and his attitude is very arrogant. He doesn’t want to do this business, but he missed this store by himself. There are no shops that can do this with you when he goes to Xiacun. He will be sleepy for ten days and half a month. At that time, he may not be able to change it to a hundred kilograms of rice. If you don’t change it, you can eat it by killing the horse. Although the horse meat is full, if you eat it every meal, hehe. Who knows who will eat it?

Alta had a dark face and pinched his nose to admit the deal. There was no way, he didn't do it, but his children wanted to do it.

After a while, Taipingko pushed a few small cars out of the city. Alta also led ten war horses over. There was a little test on both sides, and it was really white rice without sand and soil. The Mongolian men couldn't help but smile and could open their stomachs and have a full meal.

After a while, the two sides became familiar with each other. Taiping Kou knew that the Mongols were greedy for wine, so he set the price of a horse and two jars of rice wine in two days. When the wine was delivered, he also brought a pig and said it was for everyone to have a friendship. It was so touched that the men on the grassland burst into tears: Compared to Manchus, the long-haired Han people were really fair and righteous, one heaven and one earth! There was a banquet that night and I was drunk.

The next day, another envoy came from the city opposite, but it was a Han official wearing Ming Dynasty uniform. Alta's attitude improved a lot this time, so he quickly asked the official to enter the account and sat down with a horse stool. The official arched his hand and took a letter from his sleeve to hand it to him. Alta took it and opened it, but he couldn't understand any of the words.

The official saw that the Mongolian leader was holding the letter and didn't know what he was looking at. He couldn't help but smile. He coughed and said, "Our Ming Emperor is the Buddha, and he refused to even ants to death. Although our Xingping Bo is a military general, he is also a great good man who eats vegetarian food and worships Buddha. This time, the two countries fought for their own masters, and they did not blame you Mongolians. The Manchus are so hateful. Even if they were defeated and waited for death, they would eat more and eat less. What's the reason? My uncle saw that you were so pitiful that you were starving with the Manchus here for nothing, so he asked me to come and pass on me.

The words of the Zuo Ling. If you are willing to come to join our Taiping Army, Bo Ye said that he is his own child and will never learn from the Manchus who are biased and do anything wrong. Officials are still officials, soldiers are still soldiers. They usually eat white rice and flour, and they will give them wine and meat every now and then. To be honest, there are many Manchus in our Taiping Army. Anyone who works hard, Bo Ye gave them to the high-ranking officials, and they are very happy. Zuo Ling is also a good man, so why should he work for the Manchus? If you come to join our army, you will be the first contribution. Anyway, you must be a general. It is not better than starving to death here?!"

Alta felt it was quite reasonable when he heard the official's words. However, when he thought that the Qing Dynasty was strict, he did not dare to agree. The Han official smiled slightly, as if he knew what he was thinking, and said, "Su Ling is afraid that the Manchus will harm your family and relatives? It's okay, then the Zu Ling changed my Ming Dynasty clothes, cut off my braids, and changed my name. Who knows you are a Mongolian? Even if you know in the future, how can you tell whether you are from Korqin, Bahrain or Urianha? This time, no one of Jidu and other people will run away. The entire army will be wiped out. The Manchu court will have to give you a pension to your family?... To put it bluntly, as long as you don't tell me, my uncle or Buddha, who can know?"

“Um…”

Guan'er's words made Alta very moved. Although the Qing army could hold on for a while, as long as reinforcements were not sent, they would definitely not be able to hold on. If the prince of Manzhou died, even if their Mongolians had the fate to run back, could the Manchurian court spare them?

After thinking about it, the left and right are dead, so it would be better to just turn the other way around and can also show the children a way to survive!
Chapter completed!