Chapter 124: The Capture of Guangzhou City (7)
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Just as Lin Fengxiang led the holy soldiers to fight in the east city, Yongxing Gate on the southeast side of Guangzhou City. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info a tall and burly leader dressed as a white flag general, with hundreds of Manchu banner soldiers dressed as brave soldiers appeared at the city gate.
Yongxing Gate is a convenient gate facing southeast, and as soon as you go out of the city gate, you can reach the embankment of Donghaoyong.
The gatekeeper is a Green Camp Commander. The wind in the city was not light, and the lanterns were shaking everywhere, and the light was dim. This military general of the fourth rank saw that someone was coming, so he brought two entourages to stop him, and just wanted to interrogate, he suddenly found that the person who was the leader was dressed as a leader with a white flag, and he hurriedly stepped forward to pay respects: "The last general of Guangzhou Xiecheng garrison is Sima Chaoliang, see Lord Zuoling!" βγ
"Humph! Ma Dusi, as a military general of the city guard, did not go to the north gate to fight with the bandits, and took shelter from the wind and rain in this Yongxing Gate, but it was idle. Zuo Ling sneered, his face turned blank at random, and said: "On the orders of Lord Tuo Endong, the deputy commander of the capital, Ma Dusi led his subordinates to go to the north gate to support, and the Yongxing Gate here was taken over by the general. β
"Huh? However, Lord Zuo Ling, the general Wei Zuobang, ordered the last general to lead his brothers to guard the Yongxing Gate and not to leave. You see? Ma Chaoliang sneered.
"Presumptuous! Wei Zuobang also listened to the orders of the deputy capital. Madusi, do you want to disobey? Zuo Ling asked.
"Lord Zuoling, you are also a person with a positive white flag, and Lord Deputy Commander and Lord Wei Zuobang are also from the White Flag, you should be very familiar with each other, or you should talk to Lord Wei Zuobang, so that the last general can do it." Ma Chaoliang smiled.
"It's familiar! In this way, the military situation is urgent, you first take your subordinates to Beicheng to support, and I'll talk to Wei Zuobang when I get back. Sagar waved his hand.
"Who are you? Dare to pretend to be the leader of the flag army! Come on, come ....... person" Ma Chaoliang was a little suspicious, deliberately tempted, and mistakenly said that Lord Deputy Dutong and Lord Wei Zuobang were both from the White Flag, and sure enough, after a temptation, he concluded that this Zuo Ling was not a military attache with a White Flag, a fake, could it be a thief and a traitor? So he hurriedly shouted, but as soon as he shouted, he was stabbed to death by this fake white flag leader.
The two attendants tried to flee backwards, but they were also hit in the back of the heart by several spears thrown by the soldiers who followed the pretend leader, and they fell to the ground one after another.
Then, the fake leader whispered to the soldiers behind him, "It's urgent. You follow me to seize Yongxing Gate, Xu An, you take the two of you to send a signal outside the city. β
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw dozens of people hiding from the wind and rain in the city gate rushing out, probably hearing Ma Dusi's shouts before he died, but he didn't figure out what was going on, and they all looked at this group of Manchu banner soldiers in disbelief.
"Look at what? The surname Ma was the thief outside the city, and Ben Zuo was ordered by the deputy commander of the right wing, Lord Ton, to kill the thief. A few of you, come and tell Ben Zuoling, who else is usually close to this thief surnamed Ma? The fake leader threatened.
"Adults, villains are just small soldiers, and they are not familiar with Master Ma, they are not familiar!" Several Qing soldiers who were forced to look at hurriedly spoke.
"Really unfamiliar? There are no more accomplices of thieves among you? β
"Absolutely nothing! My lord, we are all small soldiers, and we have been eating the salaries of the imperial court. Several clever soldiers hurriedly replied.
"That's it! Regardless of whether there are any accomplices of the thieves among you, you must be transferred out of this Yongxingmen. Now all go home and wait for the investigation, and you will not go up to the gates until the matter is clear. Do you understand? "The fake leader gave the order majestically.
"The little one understands! Brothers, let's go home and wait. "Under the leadership of a few clever soldiers, the soldiers guarding the city on the tower and in the cave quickly left. A few very young soldiers wanted to ask who would guard the city gate, but they were quickly pulled away by the eyes of those clever soldiers.
"Young Master Daguang, you still have a way! I'm going to send a signal to the auspicious light outside the city! Seeing the guards of Yongxing Gate leaving, the Qing soldier named Xu An led the two of them to run up to the city tower with a smile.
The fake leader immediately led the crowd to open the city gates.
It turned out that this fake leader was a well-known wealthy family in Guangzhou, a member of the Xu family, named Xu Daguang, who practiced martial arts since he was a child and did not like to read, so he took the martial arts exam. This time, at the suggestion of Xu Xiangguang, several elders of the Xu family secretly discussed and decided that the entire Xu family would take refuge in the Taiping Holy Kingdom. After dark, outside the east gate near the Xu family's residence, Xu Xiangguang sent someone to set up a string of lights with a wooden ladder, and the children of the Xu family in the city saw it and hurriedly reported, which led Xu Daguang to lead a group of Xu family children and soldiers to fill the Qing flag soldiers and seize Yongxing Gate.
However, Yongxing Gate is only an outer city gate, but a low-status green battalion soldiers and Minzhuang guards, to enter the inner city of Guangzhou, you also need to pass through the small south gate near Yongxing Gate.
After joining forces with Xu Jiabing to open the Yongxing Gate, Xu Daguang ordered 20 people to guard the Yongxing Gate, waiting to receive the Taiping Holy Army who entered the city. He led the rest of the more than 100 Xu family soldiers to take off the Manchu flag soldiers' uniforms, revealing the green battalion soldiers inside, and after careful inspection, they passed through the houses in the city and came to the small south gate less than a mile.
Although the small south gate is not a big city gate, it belongs to the inner city gate, and it is guarded by the Eight Banners soldiers. Whether he can deceive the city gate or not, Xu Daguang has no bottom in his heart.
"Quickly open the city gate, I am the general of the Guangzhou Xiecheng garrison, and I received an order from the general Wei Zuobang to go to the north gate to support the defense of the city."
I have to say that Xu Daguang is very lucky.
The Xiaonanmen guard is a Xiao cavalry school of XHQ, a six-grade general, but he has always been pampered.
It just so happened that tonight the fighting on the north city wall was fierce, and the rebels attacked the city fiercely at any cost, as if they had taken the wrong medicine, so Shen Dihui was afraid that the defenders of the north city would not be enough, so he sent someone to ask the Guangzhou general Mu Tern for reinforcements. Mutern sent people to urge the gates of the inner city to send some personnel and lead the people in the city to rush to support.
In such a bad weather with wind and rain, these Eight Banners soldiers are quite reluctant to defend the city, not to mention that they have to go to the city to lead the people and rush to the north city to fight against the thieves? Seeing that another team of people took the initiative to send them to the door, he was overjoyed, and asked that as long as forty people were assigned to his small south gate, the city gate would be opened.
Xu Daguang was overjoyed. Pretending to be embarrassed, I finally agreed.
When the city gate was opened, the Taiping Holy Army had not yet been seen coming in from the outer city. Xu Daguang was so anxious that he had to stand at the gate of the city slowly and deliberately delay.
The guard of the small south gate couldn't help but be furious, and urged Xu Daguang and others to enter the city quickly.
Xu Daguang saw that the Taiping Holy Army still did not rush over, so he had to continue to delay and deliberately find fault: "Bastard!" Ben will work hard all the way, just rest for a while at your small south gate! You little sixth-rank military attachΓ©, how dare you insult the fourth-rank imperial court officials? β
"What is the official of the four-rank imperial court, you are just a slave of my banner people. Do you dare to bully your master? What is your name? The little south gate guard didn't laugh angrily and asked.
"Oh, my lord, this person is not a city guard general, the villain knows him. He is a member of the Xu family in the city, and he took the martial arts exam with the villain five years ago. A flag soldier recognized Xu Daguang and said loudly.
I have to say that Xu Daguang is very unlucky. It was such a coincidence that he was recognized by the people who took the martial arts exam together at a critical time.
"Oh, that's good. Dare to pretend to be an official of the imperial court and fake military orders! The Xu family, I heard that the family is rich, hum, Lao Tzu won't peel off the skin for you today, count yourself as capable! The guard snorted.
Seeing that he was recognized, he couldn't drag it out. Xu Daguang sighed secretly in his heart, and just wanted to lead the soldiers to fight and seize the city gate, but he remembered the sound of low footsteps behind him. Looking back, even though it was dark, I could vaguely see a large group of soldiers with card knives rushing towards me.
"It's coming! The Holy Soldier has come in! Xu Daguang was overjoyed in his heart, and his body, which had been tense, relaxed, and now it was the Manchu banner soldiers who were nervous.