In Ji'an City, Liu Guangbi, the admiral of Qingjiangxi, frowned and looked at the sun in the sky. After five consecutive days of rain, the weather finally turned clear. When the sun shone on the earth, the Taiping Army outside the city cheered, but the Qing army inside the city was nervous that the rain stopped. The Taiping gang outside the city was about to attack the city!

The heavy rain in the past few days has prevented the Taiping Army from taking effective offensive against Ji'an City. Only those artillery placed under the sheds have fired a few shots on the city during the rain stop, so as to tell the Qing army in the city not to have delusions. No matter how heavy the rain is, the Taiping Army will not stop in Ji'an.

The main force of the Qing army in Ji'an City was the main force of the Jiangxi Green Camp brought by Liu Guangbi from Nanchang, with more than 6,000 soldiers. Most of these green camp soldiers participated in the defense of Ganzhou that year. Many of them had followed Jin Shengheng. Wang Deren had returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, and a small number of them were the former Ming army of Li Chengdong who surrendered with the generals. Because there were many officers and veterans, the Qing army had a higher combat effectiveness.

Liu Guangbi was a rare and powerful general in the Qing army. He was also a member of the Zhenglan Banner of the Han army. He followed Hong Tai to attack the Ming Dynasty and surrounded Daling River, and led troops to capture three Ming army's forts in one fell swoop. Later, the Ming army supervisor Zhang Chun, general Wu Xiang and others led their troops to rescue the siege of Daling River City. Liu Guangbi took the lead in the formation, killed two Ming army's subordinate generals, and led his troops to attack the chariot formation, which led the Ming army to a chaos. After the war, he was awarded the position of Meile Zhangjing in the same position and promoted the position of Gushan Ezhen in the Han army. In the 13th year of Shunzhi, he advanced to the position of Adahahafan and served as the admiral of Jiangxi. He was personally given a saddle and horse and bow and arrow by Shunzhi.

In addition to the 6,000 main forces of Jiangxi Green Camp brought by Liu Guangbi from Nanchang, there were more than a thousand model soldiers under the command of General Yang Wenyuan in Ji'an City. In addition, Yang Wenyuan transferred more than 2,000 garrison troops and flood soldiers from the prefecture counties before the Taiping Army arrived in Ji'an, barely making the defenders in the city reach 10,000. In addition, the Qing army also recruited a large number of young and strong people in the city and plundered the neighboring villagers to help defend, so that the city could use up to 30,000 manpower. According to military strategy, the siege soldiers need three times, and the siege soldiers need five times, so Liu Guangbi estimated that the total strength of the Taiping Army outside the city should be about 100,000, otherwise the thief scholar would not have the courage to surround Ji'an.

In fact, the Taiping Army that sieges did not have so many troops. The first town had the Fourth Brigade, the Fifteenth Town had the Third Brigade, the New Town had the Fourth Brigade, and the New Town had the Fourth Brigade, with more than 27,000 horse and infantry. There were also more than 4,000 surrendered soldiers, plus his own guards and young soldiers, Zhou Shixiangtun's total strength under the city of Ji'an was only a little over 30,000. If you siege a little, and you will not stop, it would definitely be unwise in terms of military tactics, and the casualties of the siege must be extremely large, but Zhou Shixiang was confident that he would seize Ji'an with the smallest casualties.

The source of this confidence is the powerful artillery advantage of the Northern Expedition Army. In the battle of Ganzhou, Zhou Shixiang not only obtained the smooth road to Jiangxi, but also obtained countless weapons accumulated in the city, including more than 300,000 kilograms of medicine alone, which means that the Taiping Army's artillery advantage would be maximized. If the heavens had not been good these days, Zhou Shixiang had already ordered a strong attack on Ji'an, rather than delaying for several days in vain.

After the weather cleared, Zhou Shixiang stared at Ji'an City with a thousand-mile mirror for a moment, and then ordered all the surrendered soldiers to be driven up. Hearing this order, Ge Yi, Qi Hao, Wang, Fu Minister and others immediately understood that the general was going to formally attack the city.

"The last time I shoot in the book city, I will not open the city after a stick of incense, and the city will not be kept after the city is broken!"

Another saying that the chickens and dogs are not left is naturally the massacre of the city. This order made Ge Yi and Wang Fuchen and other generals cheer up, but the soldier Dong Changqing changed his face and stepped forward to persuade him: "Master, the Qing army in the city is large, but there are also many people. They were only coerced by the Qing army and then participated in the defense of the city and became enemies with our soldiers involuntarily. If the massacre of the city is carried out after the city is broken, it would be too heavy to slaughter, which would damage the reputation of our benevolent and righteous army of the Northern Expedition Army. In the future, the people of Jiangxi Province will regard our soldiers as enemies, which will be detrimental to our great cause of the Northern Expedition."

"I only said that after the Northern Expedition, the innocent should not be killed or robbed the people's property. How could I say that our Taiping Army is a benevolent and righteous army?"

Zhou Shixiang put down the Qianli Miles Miles and corrected Dong Changqing's wrong statement. He said to Dong Changqing: "Does the young and strong in the city have weapons? Will our army be killed by them after siege? If the answer is yes, they will not be innocent. I will not ask why they appeared in the city. I only know that their existence is my resistance to breaking the city. Being kind to anyone who holds weapons to reject my Taiping Army is the greatest irresponsibility to my soldiers."

Zhou Shixiang said again: "The word "benevolence and righteousness" is the most unhelpful. I only hope that all the foreign races in the world know that our Taiping Army is a tiger and wolf army, and do not listen to them praise me as a benevolence and righteous army. The foreign races fear power but not virtue, and the enemies of the same race are even more so. If they cannot make them know the power of our Taiping Army and the cruel consequences of opposing me, they will never know fear. In the world, only if they are afraid can they know how to advance and retreat, and know how to be tactful. Indeed, our Taiping Army is the King's Army of the Ming Dynasty. This northern expedition was to restore the three Chus and take the Nandu directly, but they even slaughtered Manzhou, attacked Huanglong, and welcome the emperor to return to Shenjing. As our army songs sang, holding a steel knife and killing Hu'er before he stopped!"

"The general also said that he would kill Hu'er with ninety-nine steel knives and stop. He would slaughter the Hu people in Manzhou, but this is not Hu'er in Ji'an City, but I am a Han Chinese!"

Dong Changqing was not a mother-in-law, but the city of Ji'an was indeed Han people. After the orders were made, the people who died were not Manchu, but Han people. Therefore, they couldn't bear it and insisted on giving advice.

Zhou Shixiang asked him, "The Hu barbarians are Hu'er. If they are Han'er, why did they accomplice the tigers of Manzhou? If they are Han'er, why didn't they open the door to welcome our Han army into the city, and why did they resist us by relying on the city? There are more Han people in the world than Manzhou, but why have they killed the most since the rebellion of the army, not Manzhou?"

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Dong Changqing was speechless, but hesitated for a moment and still wanted to persuade him. Zhou Shixiang waved his hand and signaled that he didn't have to say anything more. He said, "If there are few people in the future and if you want to successfully capture the entire province of Jiangxi, Ji'an City must be slaughtered. But what you said is right, it is wrong to kill Qinghong without asking about it." Speaking of this, Zhou Shixiang hesitated for a moment and changed his order: "After breaking the city, all soldiers will be killed, all the Qing and the three Qing guards in the upper city will be killed, and all the pseudo-Qing officials and all the Tartar gentry will be destroyed, and the remaining people will live."
Chapter completed!