With the sound of whistles and flutes blowing, and amid the cries, whistles, the Taiping Army rushed into the town without much effort along the red gap; and continued to work hard to smoke the last remaining enemy located in the garrison in the town, using the means of arson and shooting poisonous smoke balls to smoke out all kinds of things.

The ambushers arranged in the inland direction of the Lukou Guard were also, led by the new teacher Sima Gao Jichang, intercepted the people who fled from the back door as scheduled, and the ships and supplies they hid in the reed marsh. The ones who dared to stop the army were just a group of tea merchants. This matter seemed ridiculous, but they had seen it with their own eyes.

In addition, because of the news of the news nearby, the town and the city were also used as a pass. Among the garrisons, nearly 10,000 people gathered in a manner like a needle. Therefore, the guards of various merchants and the earthen groups, and the young and strong armed on the spot, reached more than 2,000. There were more than 600 arches and crossbows alone, and more than 400 collars of various colors.

Therefore, the idle forces nearby did not dare to invade or provoke. Instead, they were merged with several upstream and downstream forces, and burned and plundered more than a dozen rural lands. They even defeated the armed expropriation teams from Tanzhou a few days ago. Then, after losing half of the manpower, they simply couldn't stand the harassment and collapsed on the way back.

All the equipment and supplies were obtained from the local area, so for a while, it became a little exaggerated and arrogant, and thus obtained the support and effectiveness of more nearby villages. This time, the Taiping Army, which was transiting the border, was just an armed expropriation team from Xiangtan County to the south, and it was completely kicked on the iron plate and failed.

In addition to the routine wealth and goods among the tea merchants and offices here, the rebels seized rice, wheat, salt, rapeseed, oil, and wine, and other things that allowed the whole town to eat for more than half a year. There were even more than a thousand livestock from merchants and thousands of dans of tea. This was the biggest gain before heading to Tanzhou.

Not only can those livestock be used to replace and supplement the loss of animal strength along the way, this tea is a panacea for most people in this era. External application can cure insect bites and skin ulcers, and internal administration can regulate the gastrointestinal and prevent and alleviate most acute diseases. Even as a placebo for various headaches and fevers, it can deceive yourself to deal with it.

In addition, from the seized spoils, it was discovered that the other party actually had more than one plural different flags, including the official army, the rebel army, and the United Group, which were obviously used to correspond to and deal with their respective camps and subordinate forces. This is also a philosophy of survival that can be achieved through the chaos of this stronghold led by merchants.

It is impossible to say that with the joint efforts of this group of merchants, they can really make a situation or achieve a temporary climate; and become a famous separatist force in Hunan. Unfortunately, they stood in the way of the Taiping Army that emerged from nowhere and made the wrong choice.

So as the price of choosing the wrong position, the towns and towns were from the Huishou to the east to ordinary merchants, and in the households, as long as they were people who called themselves, one of them had walls (street lights), while the ordinary armed personnel who were accomplices were killed eleven times; the rest were shipped together with the local young and strong people, and transported to the previous grain station for labor under supervision.

This is also the basic countermeasures and experiences that have been passed by Guizhou; as an important stronghold and key force that has just been captured, the one that is most likely to be incited and changed and recurred is these young and middle-aged people. Therefore, after spending some time to force them to be reconciled and resettled, although there may be ineffective supervision and escape, there will be no chance of forming a subversive synergy in a familiar environment.

If the original location of these young and middle-aged people has to rely more on the order and sense of security established by the rebel army; otherwise, the hungry people who are wandering around will tell them how a stable life under strict control is hard-won.

In fact, since sending troops out of Guizhou, Zhou Huaian has never recruited any soldiers from refugees. Compared with the practice of rebel generals who used to release grain and provide relief while carrying many refugees to serve as the front-end and add trenches; Zhou Huaian was even more reluctant to let these disorderly and train, and there was no miscellaneous organizational and collective concepts, destroying and polluting the advanced military system that he had worked hard to build.

Therefore, even if the location of the grain station was established and needed to be operated for a long time, he even refused to collect more refugees who were used for settlement and engineering labor, and emphasized the need to identify and eliminate more. For those young and strong people who came to invest with various purposes along the way, they would also be assigned to the places along the way to participate in logistics and labor.

In terms of replenishing the source of troops, he prefers to use the poor at the bottom of the city; especially craftsmen, apprentices, small handicraftsmen, freeing slaves, even boatmen, porters, porters, coolies, etc. In addition, there are fishermen and boatmen who are familiar with water activities. If they are in mountainous areas and hilly areas, there will be miners and mountain people.

Their only characteristic is that they are not bound by the countryside and are willing to work hard for their livelihood, rather than going to lose land and bankrupt farmers to be at peace, and there are so many organizational and group obedience concepts. Although there are common problems and problems, they are still active group objects that can guide and transform at a limited cost and cost.

The series of systems and systems he created for this, ideological theory, different stage goals, real interests and long-term planning were not to transform all of this for his own use. Therefore, when he entered the city of Tanzhou along the Xiang River, which had no obstacles, and had reached a real 24,000 troops.

Of course, except for the original tenth battalion, the other five battalions were strong soldiers who were reorganized along the way, while the rest were all rough equipment that lacked training and were just good at showing off. They could only use them to make up the numbers and fill the momentum or cooperate with the garrison to suppress the ten supplementary battalions in the local area.

During this period, there were some groups and people who were unwilling to accept the dispersion and reorganization, and hoped to maintain the establishment to join, but were persuaded to retreat in disguise by the Taiping Army; they just provided a period of cooperation with the Taiping Army, and then returned them with the rewards given in the capture of the strongholds. Otherwise, at least they could double the replenishment battalion.

No matter what kind of small groups are broken up and organized, the personal dependence and relationship bonds formed by the original clan and the township party are far from the same melting pot as the military system that is prohibited in the long run. However, the small groups and the township party organizations that have been joined in the original system can easily confuse the originally simple obedience and management relationships of superiors and subordinates into more complex clique relations that are based on the interests of closeness and distantness.

This is also the major drawback of most peasant military systems in this era. Most of the superiors and subordinates are filled with village parties and clan groups; and with this as the core of the military's combat effectiveness and the backbone of the army, if you really fight your life, you may have the legacy of the ancient style that will never stop.

However, without much institutional constraints and only relying on personal prestige and means, it is easy to cause great ups and downs due to success or failure. Often, when they are united, they will gather together for a while, and when they are not in harmony, they will disperse themselves, and even if they are willing to meet each other, they will think that it is common.

Even when Huang Chao was cultivating and reorganizing the army in Lingnan, he only slapped and cleaned up the General's Mansion, and formed the three wings of the main formation, mainly composed of the eight sons of the Huangmen and the old brothers of the Salt Gang; however, the existence of the peripheral existence like the Nufeng Camp still lacks sufficient constraints of the system and regulations, and can only rely on personal skills and relationship sources as aided to ensure the basic order.

When encountering an ambitious and dissident who are generally good at adhering to the open and have their own opinions in private, they are completely powerless and lack corresponding sensitive reactions and deterrence. Therefore, now that the civil strife in Ding Hui's army was not like some accident but more like the product of a game between the upper class of the rebel army and the result of the need to be cleaned up.

Therefore, Zhou Huaian was strict orders during the middle of the dispatch of troops. Even if conflicts arise and people are directly driven away, we must resolutely avoid such sources of pollution and cancers from being mixed into the system.

If Zhou Huaian was like a traditional rebel general, he would be a common practice when he saw people hungry, and the resources he had at present could have drawn tens of thousands of people from the places along the way in a short time; however, he would have respected such things full of chaos and uncertainty.

You should know that a large part of the experiences and lessons learned from the successes and failures of many peasant uprisings in history were inexplicably caused by a shower, a wind, a sudden small accident, an ordinary conflict, and even the timidity and retreatment of several people. As a result, in the obvious advantages and advantages, these huge numbers of cannon fodder were swept away and brought into a situation where they failed and even failed and died.

This is no longer a philosophical story of a lion leading a hundred sheep to defeat the enemy. At least the sheep flock has the effect of a meek and follower, and even a cliff can jump down according to inertia. Instead, a lion leading a hundred pigs that may run around at any time and cannot catch them, and may also be frightened by the crazy pigs that are frightened and hit and stepped on to death.

With this thought and plan in mind, Zhou Huaian silently looked at the Tanzhou Prefecture City, which was lingering like white veil on the river, with a clear gray tone and faint luster, or the former county of Changsha, the location of Changsha City in later generations.

Located south of the remnant Yunmeng Lake, including the vast Dongting of Yanbo, 800 miles away, the seven prefectures under the rule of the Hunan Capital Tuan Lianguan Observation and Disposal Envoy (now central and southern Hunan Province), which was only 118 years old, is the largest and oldest city.

However, when the fleet pierced the morning mist on the river and approached, it was surprising to find that the ancient city located between the main stream of Xiang River and Liuyang River, surrounded by the spreading fire and smoke, moaning and screaming in pain. In the moat waterway connecting the city, there were also floating corpses and blood flowing out one after another.

Zhou Huaian suddenly understood why there were chaos on his way.
Chapter completed!