The next day, in the face of a thousand rebels who begged to rejoin the captive army, Tan Shaoguang was furious: "Repeated villains, rebels and betrayers, how can they become soldiers of my begging army, Tan will never agree, don't insult the reputation of the captive army!" After saying that, he ordered people to take these thousand rebels as prisoners, and together with the prisoners of the Qing army and Xiangyong, they were imprisoned, handed over to the local garrison that took over later, and sent to Huang Yukun, the minister of justice, to be assigned to various mines to mine or become laborers for railway construction. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Tan Shaoguang was extremely disgusted by these people who followed Qiu Changdao's rebellion and witnessed the slaughter of those brothers who were unwilling to surrender by the Qing soldiers. If it weren't for the Holy King's stipulation, he couldn't easily kill prisoners, and after all, he had contributed to the Holy Country, according to Tan Shaoguang's mentality, he would have the heart to kill them. Therefore, it is already polite to treat them as ordinary prisoners.

On the third day after the occupation of Quzhou City, the 3rd Division B rushed to Quzhou City under the leadership of division commander Lin Qirong.

The 3rd Division B should have rushed to Quzhou a few days earlier and attacked the city together with the 9th Division. Unexpectedly, when passing through Wuyuan on the way, he actually encountered the local green battalion soldiers of Huizhou Mansion and the local regiment training, besieging Wuyuan County, which had been captured by Li Guanlong of the Fourth Division.

So, Lin Qirong, who had not experienced a war for a long time, led the 3rd Division B to meet him, and killed 600 green battalion soldiers and 2,000 local regiments and townsmen. If it weren't for the order of the General Staff, he had to rush to Quzhou City, Lin Qirong really wanted to take advantage of the situation to move north and attack the capital city of Huizhou.

Because of this, he was delayed for a few days, and rushed to Quzhou with more than 1,000 prisoners, only to learn that the Ninth Division had occupied Quzhou City with the cooperation of Xizuo.

The 9th Division and the 3rd Division B, the two divisions combined their troops and attacked Jinhua Mansion in a mighty way. In three days, they swept all the way to Longyou and Tangxi counties, which were recaptured by the Qing army.

On the third day of the fifth lunar month, the 4th Division B, which was stationed in Lanxi, under the leadership of the current division commander Li Guanlong, also rushed to Jinhua Mansion and surrounded the city of Jinhua Mansion.

The strength of the three divisions, a total of more than 30,000 people, blocked the entire Jinhuafu siege.

As early as when the captive army conquered Quzhou City, Shi Jingfen, the prefect of Jinhua Prefecture, and Kuiling, the deputy general, led a Qing army of 2,000, plus 2,000 regiments, and mobilized the people in the city to consolidate the city defense, prepare materials for defending the city, and hold Jinhua City; On the one hand, he sent an urgent report to Huang Zonghan, the governor of Zhejiang in Hangzhou, the provincial capital, for help.

However, until the captives besieged Jinhua City, there was no news from Hangzhou. Shi Jingfen, the desperate prefect of Jinhua Mansion, has already had his mind sprouting, and his thoughts of surrender are secretly born. However, because of the relationship between Jinhua and General Kuiling, Shi Jingfen did not dare to act without permission.

The 30,000 troops of the captive army besieged Jinhua City for two days, and every day and every night they just ordered people to shout, saying that they were given three days to let the Qing army in the city open the city gate and surrender, if not, they would be severely punished after breaking the city.

For a time, people's hearts fluctuated, and the Qing army and regimental warriors in the city were in a hurry. The big families in the city are even more closed, in order to protect themselves.

On this day, the three division commanders discussed how to break it, and Lin Qirong said: "Lin already has a plan, but I don't know if it can be done!" ”

It turned out that when Lin Qirong sent troops from Jingdezhen, he arranged to bring two mysterious people, who were the original wife and eldest son of Shi Jingfen, the prefect of Jinhua.

When Lin Qirong was stationed in Jingdezhen, he had already inquired about the Qing demon officials in the area around Jingdezhen. In this census, it was found that Shi Jingfen, the prefect of Jinhua, was the Leping family next to Jingdezhen.

So, when he received an order from the General Staff to besiege Quzhou, Jinhua, Hangzhou and other places, Lin Qirong took Shi Jingfen's original wife and eldest son with him in the army.

It's a really ruthless move.

Shi Jingfen is an upright official, serious in his work, exhaustively studying the source of trouble, and understanding the pros and cons. Originally, he was a little dissatisfied with the officialdom of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he had the hardships of the common people, but because of his upright character, he was still the prefect when he was about to be sixty years old.

A while ago, the hometown of Leping was occupied by the Holy Country, and the hometown sent a letter, saying that everything was fine, and the captive army did not embarrass them, but the land was to be sold cheaply, with a slight loss, but it was not like the legend of the court that all the officials and gentry were killed and confiscated from the family property.

Through letters, Shi Jingfen learned that the Cantonese thieves in the south were not as bad as the imperial court promoted.

Now, looking at his wife and son in his hometown, they were all mobilized by Cantonese thieves to persuade him to surrender, and he immediately made up his mind to sacrifice Jinhua City.

Between life and death, it is natural to choose life; And between the family, the family and a court that they are not satisfied with, there is no doubt that the family is chosen.

So, the next day, in the name of rewarding the soldiers guarding the city, Shi Jingfen personally escorted a few jars of rice wine and a few loads of dishes, and went up to the city wall to send it to Kui Ling, the deputy general who supervised the battle.

Kui Ling did not doubt that he had him, and he was grateful, and happily enjoyed the wine and dishes sent by the prefect with his subordinates.

Naturally, this meal was done with hands and feet. The deputy general of the Jinhua Association, Kui Ling, a guerrilla, a capital division, and several thousand generals were all put down, and they were tied up in a coma by this old and cunning Shi Zhifu faction's cronies.

Then, Shi Jingfen, in the name of the Jinhua prefect and the deputy general of the Jinhua Association, Kui Ling, announced the surrender of the Holy State, and ordered the city gate to be opened to welcome the captive army into Jinhua City.

So, on the fourth day of the siege of the city by an army of 30,000 captives, the city of Jinhuafu fell into the hands of the Taiping Holy Kingdom.

Tan Shaoguang was naturally overjoyed. In this battle in Zhejiang, he was the main commander of the troops of these three divisions, assisted by Lin Qirong and Li Guanlong. He hurriedly reported the good news to the Holy King of Guangzhou.

However, for the well-equipped and well-trained low-level soldiers of the Ninth Division, it was easy to occupy Quzhou City in front, and then it was easier to occupy Jinhua City, which made them extremely depressed.

If there is no war, there will be no military merit!

finally had such a big opportunity to go on the expedition, but I didn't expect that even the next two big cities didn't have to fight a tough battle, and they took advantage of it, which made them useless.

Fortunately, however, there will be a new expedition soon.

On the eighth day of the fifth month, the three divisions of the captive army were divided into two routes: Lin Qirong led the third division of B, along Yiwu, Pujiang, and Zhuji, and finally arrived at Shaoxing Fucheng; Li Guanlong left two regiments of the 4th Division B to defend the area of Jinhua and Quzhou, and the rest, following the 9th Division led by Tan Shaoguang, went south, all the way along Wuyi, Yongkang, Dongyang, Xinchang, Shengxian, Fenghua, Ningbo, and finally went north through Yuyao to besiege Shaoxing.

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At the same time, the 14th Brigade stationed in the capital city of Taizhou was eager to make meritorious contributions, leaving half of the garrison, and gathering more than 3,000 people to attack Tiantai and Ninghai counties in the north.

The 10th Division, which added many Western warships and Qing warships, greatly increased its military strength. After recruiting thousands of sailors in Shanghi, and gathering more than 2,000 people from the original Xiaodaohui rebels who had fled and hidden, it finally reached 11,500 people.

In order to occupy the area south of the Yangtze River as soon as possible, Lu Shunde decided to immediately send troops when the Qing army was defeated and there were not many troops in the area of Songjiang and Jiaxing.

Chen Tianshi led the 8th Division to attack Taicang Prefecture and Suzhou Prefecture.

And he divided the 8 main regiments of the 10th Division of the Navy Division into three parts.

The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments led five Western warships and more than 50 ordinary warships to cruise along the Huangpu River and the Yangtze River estuary, blockading the Yangtze River estuary and completely cutting off the Manchu Qing Dynasty's shipping from the south of the Yangtze River to the north.

The fourth, fifth, and sixth main regiments of nearly 4,000 naval divisions, led more than 50 ordinary warships, starting from Songjiang Prefecture, passing through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and entering Taihu Lake, completely cutting off the transportation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so that the entire Zhejiang and Suzhou Prefecture could no longer be transported to the north to support the Jiangnan camp.

In addition, cooperate with the Eighth Division to attack Suzhou Mansion.

The 7th and 8th main regiments, led by Lu Shunde himself, formed a powerful combined fleet consisting of two captured French warships, three British warships, another fourth-class warship, and another fourth-class warship, plus more than 10 captured Manchu ordinary warships.

Lu Shunde prepared that his part of the sailors would first attack Zhenhai and Ningbo Fucheng, wait for the arrival of Lu Shi Tan Shaoguang and them, and then work together to capture the eastern Zhejiang region in one fell swoop.