Chapter 19: Punish the Wicked Thief severely

When I came to the crowd gathered around, there were pools of blood on the ground, and there were two corpses of a man and a woman lying next to them. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Hu Damei and Liang Litai were interrogating the people around them, and a sturdy young man next to them, with injuries on his body and the corners of his eyes, was standing with his head bowed to the side.

Sister Hu happened to lead the female soldiers to inspect here, so she came over to deal with it. At this time, she approached Feng Shaoguang angrily and said, "King Nan, this captain violates the tenth paragraph of the Holy Sect. He wandered here with a few entourages, and when he saw the beauty of the daughter-in-law of this family, he had evil thoughts, raped the woman, was found wounded, and gathered the soldiers in the battalion to attack, which was not as good as livestock. Please order his beheading! ”

"King Nan, this is Hu Gou, the newly attached pawn of Yongfeng Ji the day before yesterday, and he is very famous among the new brothers. If they are beheaded immediately, they may cause unrest to the new members of the army. Is it to make him guilty and make meritorious service? Liang Litai said carefully.

"How can it be tolerated for violating the Ten Heavenly Rules of the Holy Religion, especially Article 7, raping people's women, and killing two lives of the people, which damages the image of my heavenly holy soldiers?"

Feng Shaoguang ordered the guard battalion to escort Hu Gou and his entourage and others, and then went to the public court on the street, and Mingjin asked the people to come and watch.

After listening to the accounts of more than a dozen people present and questioning the deceased's neighbors in detail, Feng Shaoguang learned what happened.

Hu Gou and his group, when they were wandering on the street, passed by the gate of a house and found a young and beautiful woman alone in the courtyard. Then they had evil thoughts, and several people pretended to beg for a glass of water to drink, entered the courtyard, and after checking that there was no one around, they suddenly closed the courtyard door, and several people took turns to go up and forcibly humiliate the beautiful woman. After finishing the incident, when Hu Gou and the others were about to leave, they were discovered by the in-laws of the beautiful woman who happened to be home.

Although this father-in-law is old, his body is also strong, and he blocked the hospital door with a flat burden, so his mother-in-law took the opportunity to call dozens of neighbors to come over to help. A group of people grabbed Hu Gou and a few people, and they beat him up, and even wanted to send him to report to the official, but they were frightened by Hu Gou's words that he was a senior official in the Taiping Army.

Hu Gou and the others took the opportunity to escape, and after returning to the camp, they found more than 100 old acquaintances they knew, armed with knives and forks, and slaughtered back to the courtyard of the bitter lord with great momentum.

The beautiful woman lost her virginity due to humiliation, and after being saddened, she took advantage of the chaos to commit suicide by throwing herself into a well in the courtyard. His in-laws were grief-stricken, and under the persuasion of their neighbors, dozens of people were filled with anger and prepared to go to the Taiping Army to complain and ask for explanations. Unexpectedly, as soon as they arrived at the entrance of the street, they were bumped into by the rampaging Hu Gou and his group, without saying a word, Hu Gou and others surrounded the old husband and wife, and beat them for a while, and the neighbors wanted to come forward to help, but they were also frightened away by the fierce soldiers.

This blow brutally beat the two bitter masters and their wives to death.

Everyone's remarks made Feng Shaoguang angry in his chest, and shouted to everyone: "Fellow villagers, my holy army will never tolerate such scum, its banditry behavior is extremely evil, where is Lu Qi, the commander of the pro-guard battalion?" ”

"Lu Qi is here, please ask King Nan for orders!" Lu Qi hurriedly squeezed out of the crowd to see.

"This king now announces that Hu Gou and others, who have done evil, will be removed from the Holy Sect! Lu Qi, you are responsible for arresting all Hu Gou and others who insulted women, and after verifying their identities, they will be beheaded on the spot, and their heads will be hung on the flag of the Holy Army for three days to show their admonitions! Feng Shaoguang couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, and continued to shout loudly, "The rest of those who participated in the beating of the two old men will be beheaded together." The commanders, two horses, and pawn commanders involved in the holy soldiers were all demoted by one level. ”

"Yes!" Lu Qi and Liang Litai on the side hurriedly responded. They had never seen the Southern King so angry.

Soon, amid the screams of the onlookers, a total of 13 people including Hu Gou were beheaded, and the heads of 6 people, including Hu Gou, who had insulted women, were hung in public, and the rest were collected and buried.

Seeing this, the neighbors of the bitter lord were all grateful. The people in Daozhou City praised the Taiping Army for its strict military discipline and good governance. For a time, there were legends in the streets and alleys that the Southern King was benevolent and loved the people, and the Taiping Army had strict military discipline.

So, after this incident, there was no robbery in Daozhou City, and the people's lives were stable.

Feng Shaoguang also asked Lu Qi to announce some Taiping Army policies, to be friendly to the people, not to attack the people and disturb the people, and to trade fairly. When the people inside and outside the city learned of this, they all beat gongs and drums, and they rejoiced.

"Liang's majesty is not strict, please punish the king of the south!"

"Lin Mou is not effective in controlling the officers and soldiers in the army, please punish the king of Nan!"

Back at the original Daozhou Prefecture Office, which was renamed Cloud Dao Palace, Lin Fengxiang and Liang Litai carefully knelt in front of Feng Shaoguang.

"Get up." Feng Shaoguang gently helped the two of them up, and said in a stern tone: "Brother Lin, Brother Liang, you are both Yunshan's arms and beloved generals, you have been commanding the army for a long time, and there is no need for me to say more about how important military discipline is in the army." Now that our holy army has just entered Daozhou, we must set an example for the people in the city, and we must not bully the people and act recklessly! ”

"Subordinates keep in mind the teachings of King Nan and strictly restrain their subordinates!"

"You two go back to the camp and take twenty sticks for yourself. Be sure to restrain your subordinates, find a dangerous place outside the city to station, and train every day, no rest! Feng Shaoguang waved his hand and asked them to go back to the barracks to arrange.

Feng Shaoguang just ordered Lu Qi to transfer more than 60 people from the personal guard battalion and the new subordinate people, and put them into the detailed camp, making up the number of 100 people.

Feng Shaoguang came from the information age and knew best the importance of grasping information. He knew that in the present era when communication was still basically dependent on people to send letters, in order to collect information, especially the movements of the Qing army and other military information, it was necessary to make detailed arrangements and arrange for spies to reconnoiter and collect intelligence.

Feng Shaoguang knew that at present, both the Taiping army and the Qing army did not realize the importance of intelligence, and it was not until Zeng Guofan came out to preside over the war that he attached great importance to intelligence. It's like, more than a year after the Taiping Rebellion, the Manchu Qing side still can't figure out whether the "big leader" of the Taiping Army is Wei Zheng (Wei Changhui), Feng Yunshan, Hong Xiuquan or Hu Yixuan, and finally knows that the "big boss" is surnamed Hong Xiuquan, but he has never been able to figure out what his original surname is, some say the surname Zhu, some say the surname Zheng, and some say the surname Jiao, but few say that he was actually surnamed Hong. Even after the Tianjing civil strife occurred in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it took nearly a month for the Manchus to confirm that they knew that the Taiping army really had civil strife. This shows how low the intelligence work of the Manchus was.

In this way, it is all the more necessary for Feng Shaoguang to give full play to his intelligence advantages. When he was thinking about how to train a large number of fine workers as soon as possible, Zeng Guanlan came to report excitedly, and there was news from Zeng Tianyang.

"On March 22 of the second year of Renzi, the heavenly soldiers arrived at Xiaoshui outside the city of Yongzhou Mansion along the river, and the Qing demon had already been prepared, and the demon head Yunnan Governor Bao Qibao, Heng Yongchen Guidaotai Zhang Qiren led the army to defend the city, and Sun Yingzhao, the chief soldier of Yongzhou Town, and the prefect Xu Jiarui, Lingling Zhixian Hu Tinghuai and other demon head supervisors blocked the northwest corner of the city and camped, more than 5,000 people in the city, and more than 3,000 people outside the city, and the inside and outside the city were horns for each other."

"The Qing demon demolished all the houses outside the city in advance, and demolished the bridge in the main road of the river ditch, the Xiaoshui River is wide, the river is rising, the water is deep and urgent, and my heavenly soldiers have been defeated and retreated across the river several times. The formation confronted the Qing demons in the city on the west bank of Xiaoshui for three days, shelling each other and causing casualties to each other. On March 23, the king of the east explored that the Qing demon head Admiral and Chun and others led reinforcements from Dong'an to Yongzhou Fucheng, and the demon head guerrilla Zhang Guoliang also led a small number of troops to reinforce bravely, and the demon head Bao Qibao in the city led his troops out of the city to the lower reaches of Xiaoshui, wanting to cut off the heavenly soldiers to the Changsha waterway. And Liu Changqing and other troops who are chasing after him are also about to arrive on the outskirts of Yongzhou, and the King of Heaven and the East King is worried that if there is any more stalemate, it will be detrimental to our heavenly kingdom. In the early morning of the next day, the king of the east ordered to abandon the attack on the capital city of Yongzhou, and our army entered the Xiangjiang River along the west side of Xiaoshui and went north downstream. On March 24 of the second year of Renzi, he was in Tan City, Lingling County. ”

After reading the letter in his hand, Feng Shaoguang was completely relieved! On March 24 of the second year of the Tianli calendar, that is, the 26th day of April of the lunar calendar, the original set of calendars founded by Feng Yunshan has 366 days a year, which is one month and two days later than the lunar calendar. That is to say, four days ago, the main force of the Heavenly Kingdom had already moved north along the river, leaving Tan City, which was later called Lengshuitan, and marching in the direction of Changsha.

Now it's okay, I finally broke away from Hong Yang and the others, and rested independently in the Daozhou area, just like the Taiping Army in the original history, and developed and expanded! Feng Shaoguang thought excitedly.

However, he didn't know how many troops the Qing army would have to pursue the main force of the Heavenly Kingdom, and according to the usual practice of the Qing army's commanders, he would definitely send troops to follow and pursue all the way, hoping to help attract more troops. However, when the Qing army found that Daozhou was occupied, it would definitely send troops to encircle and suppress it, hoping that its troops would be insufficient, and in any case, there would not be much time left for them, so they must seize the opportunity to strengthen their strength.