Things that are not satisfactory are always eight or nine, but they are the same as those who talk to others.

I knew that Jingmenzi had a talent, and dreamed of riding an iron horse to fight in the south of the city.

"Farewell to Commander" Song Dynasty: Fang Yue

——I am the dividing line—

As the sun rises, the last trace of residual dew evaporated, the noise of interaction between the earth platform and the brigade and the head of Guangling City on various places made the huge city lively again. Although it is still a stalemate stage of siege without attacking, it does not mean that the siege of Taiping horses can do nothing.

Especially those high platforms and wooden buildings with puffing sounds and smoke spread, and there were also soldiers screaming and bloody corpses at the top of the city from time to time, falling from the top of the city like fallen leaves. Some people couldn't help but want to shoot and think they were counterattacked, but were hit by the exposed hands, feet, head and shoulders without hesitation, and blood splattered and fell back.

In response to this are the large castles in the camp below the city that roared and fell on the city's head from time to time, or the crossbows that were enough to penetrate the rear basin of the city wall. They were also mixed with jars filled with strong tinder oil. On the city head in the middle, there was a tragic black smoke and fire, and the human body rolled and ran into pieces.

The operators of the Taiping Engineering Battalion in the preset positions under the city were so orderly and step by step, repeating the operations day after day; just like using the skill of dripping water, they gradually eroded the patience, spirit and morale of the defenders on the city; until they could not bear it, they would change to another wave of people.

Within the projection range of bows and arrows and tanstones on the city, there are also trenches that are winding like spider webs constantly expanding and extending in various movements of digging soil with the naked eye. Some of the trenches have been dug up and soaked in the moat water that has flown in, but there are still more trenches with blocking wood plates that have appeared again.

As the only opportunity for the defenders to take the initiative to counterattack is to wait until the night harassment battle after dark. However, as these gullies extend and expand, the repeated night attacks and harassment exchange ratios have become more and more unworthy; on the contrary, the Taiping Army's gunners began to target the torches patrolling at night and carry out a new round of counterattacks beyond the range of traditional crossbows.

——I am the dividing line—

In Jiangling City, as the aftermath before the official opening of the National Games, it was the official submission ceremony of the last batch of Tuman tribes such as Feishan Barbarians and Meishan Barbarians in Hunan.

Among them, Feishan Barbarians came from Shaozhou (now Shaoyang, Hunan), also known as Feishan Dongman. Feishan Dongliao, Xizhou Barbarians, Wugang Liao, etc. It is named because of the Feishan area. It is said that it is named because the residents jumped into the mountains like flying. Qin was called Qianzhong Barbarians, and Han was called Wuling Barbarians. Currently, there are four major "barbarian chiefs" (also known as "Qianshou"):

First, Pan Jinsheng, known as Pan Dahu, based on the Eight Caves in the southeast, with Feishan Cave as the center; second, Yang Chenglei, known as Yang Shenyong, based on the Five Caves in the southwest, with Jinping Cave as the center, and often united with Pan Jinsheng; third, Changshiyi, based on the Three Caves in the northeast, and fourth, Yang Zaisi, respected Yang Taigong, based on the Four Caves in the northwest, with Langxi Cave as the center.

The Meishan Man comes from Xuzhou (now Xinhua and Anhua, Loudi City, Hunan). It was called "Jingman" during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, "Changsha Man" in the Han Dynasty, "Mo Xie" in the Sui Dynasty, and "Meishan Man" in the Tang Dynasty. It is another large local barbarian community with strong local customs. (It is also one of the ancestors of the Miao and Dong people in later generations)

The "Meishan Barbarians" are also divided into ten caves. The leaders are called "Left Jia leader", "Right Jia leader", or "Dong Zhu", "Dong Chang". The people of Dong had Fu, Su, Xiang, Lan, Qing, Zhao, Bu, and other surnames who moved to Meishan to avoid the war, such as Chen, Zou, Liu, Luo, etc.

They had lived on both sides of the tributaries of Jiangxia, with high mountains and dense forests all year round. Relying on many broken terrain between mountain valleys and rivers, small pieces of land formed villages and gathered in settlements, farming and animal husbandry and hunting for a living; but because the local production is relatively monotonous and scarce, daily use of salt, iron, silk and cloth needs to be imported from the outside world.

Therefore, the communication with the Tang land was relatively close, and the degree of culturalization of language customs was higher than that of the Xiyuan Manchus who were separatist and independent. However, when the years were not good, many local barbarians would regularly go out to the Tang land to "make a living" under the leadership of the village leaders, such as participating in trafficking and selling coolies.

However, if the local government is mediocre, incompetent or weak, some people will turn to robbers who are not in charge and join the corresponding gang of water thieves and mountain sheds. When encountering a relatively strong official ruling, they will naturally surrender to their subordinates and become hard-working people, and even actively join the army and work hard for them.

Therefore, the guards and commanders of Jinghu in all dynasties generally recruited some of these brave and brave barbarians to fill the lineup of the army, guarding other places or Yanbian to prepare for the enemy. Just like the expeditionary army that Gao Pian recovered Annan, there were these Hunan barbarians.

The most famous one is Xiang Zhu, a military envoy from the barbarian camp who was once the governor of Jingnan when Gao Pian was appointed as the governor of Jingnan. Later, he led his troops from Huainan to flee to Lizhou to seize control of the country. He was also from one of the branches of the Shimen Man (now the Tujia Autonomous County of Shimen), who was born.

Originally, according to the normal historical trajectory, it was not until the Northern Song Dynasty that the county seat was initially established in the local area. Then in the Huguang development at the junction of the Song Dynasty, it was completely incorporated into the direct rule of the traditional government with military settlement and pacification. However, in this time and space, they encountered the unprecedented strangeness of the Taiping Army.

As Xiang Zhu and other forces who had originally dominated the three prefectures in Xiangxi died one after another, the Shimen and other places, which were formerly Xiang Zhu's old nest and foundation, were occupied by Duan Yanmo, the deputy envoy of Jingnan Jiedu, who had fled, and they were killed in the local area. Pan Jinsheng and Yang Chenglei, the strongest among the four Feishan chiefs, also lost a large number of Dong Ding and young men in this process.

Seeing that these two families were inevitably declining, the great chief Chang Shiyi from the three caves in the northeast took the opportunity to attack and joined forces with another great chief Yang Zaisi to defeat the two families. The hometown of Jinpingdong, which Yang Chenglei relied on, was defeated because of this, and he had to flee to Feishandong.

However, at this time, the pursuing troops that the Taiping Army had penetrated into the upper reaches of the Lishui River also appeared in front of them for the first time. As a great chief of the local barbarians, Chang Shiyi wanted to negotiate with the Taiping Army at this time, and to obey and hand over Pan and Yang families in name, to continue to maintain the current situation. However, Qu Chengyu led the pursuing troops to teach them a good lesson using realistic means.

They used the accumulated engineering explosives to bomb and explode in one fell swoop. The Feishan Dadong where Pan is located was located on the winding mountain road, and used multiple obstacles set up by towering trees. Then they lit the Dadong Village wall with projectors as a cover, and sent the cart full of blasting objects to the door, and blasted it together with the blockage behind and Man Ding.

The next thing happened when these barbarians collapsed and fought thousands of miles into a natural morale. With the largest scale, the strongest, the most powerful, the most powerful and the most powerful (more than ten thousand), the Feishan Dadong, which narrowly won by the mountain gorge, captured almost all the old, weak and young, and thus became the newly established Anhua Town of the Taiping Army.

The remaining Dongzhai in the surrounding area was also frightened and frightened. Therefore, they finally signed many things like showdowns to build roads, accept the government's control, pay local taxes, regular labor service, and freedom of trade. During this period, they also experienced the reciprocity process of Chang Shiyi's rebellion and attack and robbing the caravan, but were defeated by the subsequent siege troops led by Wu Xingchen.

Therefore, under the military offensive of the Taiping Army, as well as economic blockade and people's livelihood, it took several years to manage and digest the barbarians in the territory, and then the hundreds of miles of areas with the most representative Feishan Dadong as the core at the junction of Shaozhou, Langzhou and Lizhou were included in normal control.

Yang Zaisi, the last remaining chief among the Feishan Barbarians, chose another way to understand the current affairs. Not only did he send people to intercept and capture the defeated Chang Shiyi and his remnants, but after the Taiping Army pacified Jiangdong, he gradually handed over the land and household registration book of his subordinates, and claimed that he would return to his hometown, just to give his children a future.

Yang Zaisi and his hundreds of relatives who came with him would settle down in Jiangling City; then he would get the title of a national affairs discussion and give him a certain level and treatment to his old age. His two sons would go to the Grand Lecture Center for further study.

As for the Meishanman, whose strength is more scattered and relatively closed areas, it is much simpler. Because in later generations it was a large ore vein and a shallow mine close to the surface; therefore, after the mountain roads that could be passed through by pack horses and trolleys, it was easy to incorporate it into the influence and control system of the Taiping Army by bartering it.
Chapter completed!