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Qingyuan Association governs the left and right 2 battalions, and takes into account the jurisdiction of Sanli and Donglan 2 battalions, but the Sanli camp is in Hechi County, the Donglan camp is in Donglanzhou City, and the right camp is in Liuzhou Fucheng, so Qingyuan Association only has the left camp in Fucheng, a total of more than 400 people. There were more than 1,060 people in total, including www.biquge.info regimental training city soldiers in and around the city, as well as the guards of the gentry who fled from the east.

The sub-patrol of the Youjiang Soldier happened to be in Qingyuan City, but he was already a bad old man and didn't care about anything. Zhang Kaisong, the prefect of Qingyuan, and Zhang Cheng, the deputy general who commanded the Qingyuan Association, gathered all the guerrillas outside the city into the city, and ordered all the squires outside the city to enter the city, then closed the city gate and held out.

Luo Qiongshu led the crowd to the outside of Qingyuan City, saw that the city was heavily defended, and attacked twice, but could not enter the city, but lost more than 100 soldiers. Luo Qiongshu had no choice but to divide his troops into two routes, one route was 2,000 original holy soldiers, and then 5,000 new soldiers, and continued to attack Hechi and Donglan Prefectures to the west. The remaining 5,000 holy troops kept harassing Qingyuan City every day, secretly digging holes day and night.

Five days later, the tunnel was dug under the city wall, two coffins were filled with explosives, dragged into the tunnel, ignited and exploded, the Qingyuan city wall was blown down, and the five thousand holy troops rushed into the city like a tide and occupied Qingyuan City. Zhang Cheng, the deputy general of the Qingyuan Association, was killed on the spot, Zhang Kaisong, the Taoist of Youjiang Province and the prefect of Qingyuan, saw that the general trend had gone, jumped off the city tower and committed suicide, and the rest of Qingyong were either captured or fled in all directions.

After that, Luo Qiongshu led 7,000 holy soldiers to conquer Hechi and Donglan all the way, and then fully spread out with the division of troops, and then went to the southwest along the way, all the way to occupy Sicheng Mansion, Baise Hall, Yangwan Tuzhou Judgment, Longan and other cities. These places are all southwestern frontiers, remote administrative places, few villages, and sometimes the march is half a day without encountering people. Everywhere he went, the city was basically broken as soon as he arrived, and all the Qing soldiers he encountered fled in spite of the wind.

Also, in a place like Yangwan Tuzhou Judgment, the hereditary local official Cen Naiqing led less than 200 soldiers and governed nearly 200 villages, as soon as Luo Qiongshu led 3,000 holy soldiers, Cen Naiqing immediately surrendered, and his ancestors surrendered and surrendered for more than 200 years when they saw more than 500 people in the Manchu Dynasty, and now the 3,000 holy soldiers are transiting, how can they not be afraid? Even the entire Yangwan Tuzhou Judgment --- Xixiang Weiji is just a big village of more than 1,000 people.

Luo Qiongshu led 12,000 holy soldiers for more than a month, occupying nearly ten counties and prefectures, large and small, due to successive military disasters, the land is vast and the population is small, and the holy army has only replenished more than 3,000 people. However, when leading the troops to cross a basin in Yangwantu Prefecture, poison gas suddenly erupted from the crypt and lost two or three hundred people, so the holy army was less than 15,000 after the expansion.

When Luo Qiongshu led 10,000 holy soldiers to rush to the border of Xuanhua County, the administrative office of Nanning Prefecture, the front-line detectives reported that Li Kaifang had led the expanded holy army of more than 30,000 people, as well as more than 4,000 people from the Heaven and Earth Congregation in the Pennsylvania area, and had surrounded Nanning City for four days, except for the loss of more than 1,000 people, there was no progress at all.

Seeing Li Kaifang, Luo Qiongshu learned that nearly 7,000 Qing soldiers had gathered in the city of Nanning. There were many firearms on the city, and the city was well defended. Some of the congregations in the city who had been in contact with each other were arrested and killed, and some hid and did not dare to show their faces.

Without the cooperation of internal response, the siege was weak several times due to the lack of heavy artillery. The primitive method of climbing the ladder was adopted, which not only caused too great losses, but also had a very weak siege effect, so that the Qing soldiers in the city could easily defend it. Li Kaifang meant to wait a few more days, he had already sent someone to take the remaining concentrated sulfur * acid potion from Guilin two days ago, and was ready to copy the method of breaking Guilin City to break the city gate.

Why did so many Qing soldiers suddenly gather in the city of Nanning?

Li Kaifang told Luo Qiongshu that it was they who led the troops to capture Liuzhou Mansion, Si'en Mansion, Qingyuan Mansion and other places, causing the Qing soldiers and a cadre of gentry who fled there to flee to Nanning Mansion City one after another, plus Liu Changqing, the acting governor of Guangxi who escaped from Guilin City first, also went to Nanning to preside over the military affairs of Nanning City in the name of the acting governor, and mobilized part of the regimental training of the surrounding Xunzhou Mansion and Taiping Mansion, as well as the right battalion of the Xunzhou Association, the Kui Xuan Camp and the Shangsi Camp of the New Tai Association, all of which were quickly stationed in Nanning City to defend the city defense.

In this way, with the addition of the original 3 battalions of Zuojiang Town's original standard middle, left and right and Nanning City Defense Battalion in Nanning City, there are 7 battalions stationed in Nanning City of the 12 battalions under the jurisdiction of Zuojiang Town. In fact, Li Kaifang didn't know that if the rest of the military camps were not too far away from Nanning City, Liu Changqing might all be transferred to Nanning City.

Li Luo and the others outside Nanning City were having a headache, and Liu Changqing in the city was also suffering.

He couldn't wait to stuff all the troops that could be mobilized nearby into Nanning City. At this moment, he didn't care who would impeach him, because most of the whole of Guangxi had been lost, and according to his official experience, the holy decree in the capital to remove him or send him to Beijing for questioning must have been issued long ago. It's just that both Hunan and Guangxi are blocked by bandits, and the messenger has to make a detour from Guizhou or Guangdong, and he runs from Guilin to Nanning, so he can't reach it quickly, and a few days later, he will find himself.

And before that, he had another chance to save himself, that is, to join forces and hold Nanning City. As long as he guards Nanning City, maybe he will be dismissed, but at least he will not be imprisoned for questioning. If he took advantage of the battle to defend the city and hit the bandits hard, and then counterattacked back and recovered Si'en Mansion or Liuzhou Mansion, then he would have erased all the responsibility for his previous defeats in several battles, and maybe he would remove the word acting and turn him into an official governor of Guangxi.

In the past two days, he personally went to the city wall to patrol the defense day and night, and found a leader to relieve the actual military authority of Deliang, the chief soldier of Zuojiang Town, and personally commanded the deployment of the seven military camps. Very good results were obtained, and the bandits attacked several times, but they all returned in vain, but instead lost more than 1,000 thieves.

But before he could be happy for two days, the bandits came with reinforcements again, which already made him a little desperate, but what made him even more desperate was that the bandits' reinforcements still came from the Baise Hall in the northwest.

This not only means that the west and north of the entire Nanning Mansion are occupied by bandits, but also that the Xunzhou Mansion in the east is much more important than the Baise Hall in the west, and it must have sent troops to attack, so that the entire Nanning Mansion has been surrounded by bandits in addition to the Taiping Mansion by the sea, and this strategic encirclement has led to the fact that even if you hold Nanning City, it will be useless, and you will only survive. An enclave, not to mention anything else, a month or two later, even if the whole city has food to eat, there will be no salt to eat, and then there will be no strength to defend the city, only obediently open the city gate and surrender.

No, no matter what, you have to prepare a way out for yourself! Liu Changqing thought.

His retreat was naturally not to join the long-haired thief army. Fortunately, one of his cousins served as a guerrilla in the Xintai Xielong battalion, and as soon as he arrived in Nanning City, he transferred some of the property he had looted along the way to his cousin.

As early as when he served as the chief soldier of North Sichuan Town in Baoning Mansion, his wife and eldest son died one after another, leaving only the second son in his hometown in the countryside of Qujing. After escaping from Guilin to Nanning City, he sent one of his guards to his hometown, preparing to send his second son to Long Pingying's cousin to hang a military position and mix his background. Now it seems that it is just right to hit the right one, and the time will come...... Isn't it right?

Thinking of this, Liu Changqing let out a long breath, and with a way out, he was naturally not so panicked. However, this Nanning City still has to hold on for a few days, even if it is at a great price, it must be supported until the time when his son rushes to the Longping camp to ----- Pingxiang Tuzhou ----.

Just when Liu Changqing relaxed his mind, Li Kaifang and Luo Qiongshu also found a solution to the city.

In the past two days, it has rained heavily in Nanning, and the Yongjiang River outside the city has soared. According to some local congregations, the river rises at this time of year, and every time the river outside the city rises, it will pour into the city, passing through the inland river and the lake pond in the city, causing the city of Nanning, which is already a basin, to become a place of water.

On the one hand, the Yongjiang River is too big to block the flood, on the other hand, now Nanning City is a turtle in an urn, and there is no need to bury all the people in the city, after all, this city is about to become the territory of the Taiping Holy Kingdom.

It was still Li Kaifang who thought of ambushing Liu Changqing in Xiaoshui outside Daozhou City last time, and the soldiers lurked in the water through the air holes. They discussed that they could use the same method to infiltrate the city through the drainage tunnel connecting the Yongjiang River and the inland river in the city. After entering the city, while contacting the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society in the city, he secretly hid, and then suddenly attacked and captured the city in one fell swoop.