The Qing Dynasty is about to end

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West of Chenzhou City.

Luo Yaoguo, the commander-in-chief of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's upper army, chief lecturer, and Angel of Peace, was riding on a tall horse at this moment. He was wearing a yellow silk robe and a red hood on his head. He was standing behind the formation of 20,000 Taiping Army soldiers!

At this moment, there are two other large formations of tens of thousands of people in the north and south of Chenzhou City.

In other words, the total number of Taiping troops besieging Chenzhou now exceeds the 40,000 that makes the Green Camp, militia, Lord Sun and Master Chen in Chenzhou city feel despair!

In fact, it’s not much. There are at least 400 million hungry poor people in the Qing Dynasty now, and only one in ten thousand has come out. Can that be considered a lot?

And these 40,000 people were not all under Luo Yaoguo's upper army and Xiao Chaogui's front army. Including the female soldiers led by Su Sanniang, Luo Yaoguo's upper army only had 12,000 people, and Xiao Chaogui's front army was even smaller, only 8,000.

In other words, only half of the Taiping troops stationed outside Chenzhou City today are regular Taiping troops, and the other half are Taiping militia.

The 20,000 Taiping militiamen all came from Daozhou, Xintian, Ningyuan, Jianghua and other one prefecture and three counties in the south of Yongzhou Prefecture. They were all poor people who had just been allocated land.

Although the land they were allocated was not much, if a man did not join the Taiping Army, he could usually only get one to eight mu of paddy field, or two or three mu of dry land, and more on sloping land. Women, children and elderly men could get even less land.

But the few acres of land allocated to the family, the high-interest loans of ten or eight taels that were exempted, and the floating wealth worth several stone of grain that were obtained can still allow people living in extreme poverty to see some hope. Some hope that they have only seen in their dreams, some hope that only the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom gave them!
In order to preserve these hard-earned hopes, they had no choice but to wrap red scarves on their heads, hold spears in hand, and join the battle to defend the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!
If they do not have such awareness, there will be amiable "village lecturers", "town lecturers" and presidents and secretaries of farmers' associations at all levels who will explain to them the principle of "killing the Qing demons and protecting the land" until they wake up.

Most of these "village lecturers", "town lecturers" and leaders of farmers' associations at all levels were the first to stand up when the "land and wealth were distributed" in various towns and villages, and they led the poor peasants in their towns and villages to deal a heavy blow to the local tyrants and evil gentry.

After the local tyrants and evil gentry were defeated, these leaders would be recruited to attend a 20-day short-term training in the "Lecturer Class" set up in each town. After the short-term training, there would be an assessment. Those who passed the assessment would be given the status of Taiping Army soldiers and the position of temporary lecturers - which meant that they could get five mu of paddy fields and a commission from the land tax submitted by each village and township.
In short, since these people had already paid enough tribute and received much more benefits from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom than ordinary people, they had no choice but to follow the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and carry out the anti-Qing cause to the end.

After two months of "snowballing" land distribution, Daozhou, Xintian, Ningyuan, Jianghua, Yongming and other counties in the south of Yongzhou Prefecture had basically been "divided", and hundreds of thousands of people had fallen into the hands of the Heavenly Kingdom.

This battle to advance eastward to Guiyang Prefecture and Chenzhou Prefecture was a test of the results of this wave of "land distribution."

According to the order of Southern King Feng Yunshan, 20,000 militiamen must be dispatched from Daozhou, Xintian, Ningyuan, Jianghua and other one state and three counties to follow the 20,000 Taiping troops led by Western King Xiao Chaogui and Taiping Angel Luo Yaoguo to march westward to Chenzhou City, and then escort the seized goods in Guiyang Prefecture and Chenzhou City back to Daozhou where the Southern King's Palace is located.

The mission that these 20,000 militiamen had to perform was actually not difficult or dangerous. They just wanted to take advantage of the slack season before the autumn harvest to hang out and collect some spoils.

With or without them, Luo Yaoguo and Xiao Chaogui could have conquered Guiyang Prefecture and Chenzhou.

But as long as they participated in the battles to attack Guiyang Prefecture and Chenzhou and got some spoils, they would be "both the people and the spoils"! They did the work of attacking the prefecture and the city, they took the good things in the prefecture and the city, and they also divided the things and land of the landlords in their own villages. When the Qing demons come again, will they still believe the demon saying that "only the main culprits will be arrested, and the accomplices will not be questioned"?
Even if they were simple and honest, weren't there the heads of the farmers' associations at all levels, as well as the township and village lecturers? How could they be united firmly around the Southern King Feng Yunshan?

Luo and Xiao were also very impressive this time, as they led 20,000 regular Taiping troops! Among them, 12,000 were the new Taiping troops who "focused on the soldiers and soldiers", and the other 8,000 were the Taiping front troops under the Western King. Although they were not so "progressive", their backbones were the old brothers from Guangxi who had extremely strong combat effectiveness!
Moreover, members of the God Worshipping Society had already infiltrated Guiyang Prefecture and Chenzhou.

However, the Qing army's defense in these two places was extremely weak. The main force of the Qing army was now mainly distributed in Quanzhou, Lingling and Lianzhou to prevent the Taiping Army from going south to Guangdong and Guangxi or going north along the Xiangjiang River into the Yangtze River Basin. As for Guiyangzhou and Chenzhou to the east of Daozhou, Sai Shang'a really couldn't spare any troops and could only rely on the local Green Camp soldiers and militia to defend it carelessly.

In fact, it is almost equivalent to giving up!
The new Taiping Army under Luo Yaoguo's command took this opportunity to gain some experience and increase their confidence in victory. They wanted to let everyone know that the Qing monsters were nothing special, so that they would have a psychological advantage when they encountered the Qing army in the future.

At this time, Luo Yaoguo turned his head and looked at the Western King Xiao Chaogui, who was riding a horse like him. The Western King was supposed to go to the battlefield in a sedan chair, but after Luo Yaoguo took out the "Tiantian Mirror", he decided that it would be better to ride a horse.

Seeing Luo Yaoguo's gaze, Xiao Chaogui immediately drew his sword, pointed it forward, and then shouted in a Hakka accent: "Kill the Qing monster and go to heaven!"

The Guangxi veterans of the two armies under his command had just finished singing "A Man Should Be Self-reliant" and their morale was at its highest. Now, hearing the shout of the King of the West, they immediately became excited and shouted frantically the slogan "Kill the Qing demons and go to heaven". They carried ladders, held shields and weapons, and rushed towards the city wall on the west side of Chenzhou like a tide, as if they wanted to knock down the high wall blocking them.

Inside the city of Chenzhou, in a low and dilapidated old house, the former captain of the Daozhou City Defense Camp, Bo Yongmeng, took a deep breath and drew out his ancestral sword, his eyes full of tears.

The Qing Dynasty is about to end!
It’s finally over!
He Boyong finally caught up!

The change of dynasties and the reform of the world may be a disaster that may destroy a family for ordinary people, but for people like Boyong who grew up in the Hunan army for generations, it is a great opportunity.

He, no, it should be his family, had been waiting for this day for more than 170 years. His ancestor had participated in an anti-Qing uprising, which was called the "Sanfan Rebellion" by the Qing demons. He was also an official of some importance. Although he had to surrender to the Qing Dynasty to save his life, he was very unwilling to surrender. He even left a plan for another uprising with his superior and a group of comrades.

This backup plan is in Yuezhou, where the two lakes meet!
It’s a pity that for more than a hundred years, the Qing Dynasty was an iron-clad empire.

Therefore, the Bo family could only pass it down orally from generation to generation, preserving this trick as an opportunity for their descendants until today!

He looked back and found that the huge courtyard was crowded with Xianghu heroes with red cloth wrapped around their heads, eager to try.

There seemed to be tears in everyone's eyes.

An expression of eager anticipation appeared on every face, which had become dark due to wind and sun.

They caught up too!

"Good! The chaos in the world is a good opportunity for good men like us to show off our power!" Boyong raised his sword and roared, "Kill the Qing monsters, divide the land, and rebel in heaven! Let's all rebel!"

"Kill the demons, divide the land, and go to heaven"

"Rebellion! They all rebelled!"

Inside Chenzhou city, there was a cry of rebellion!
(End of this chapter)