Chapter 167 The No. 1 Beard in the World
Chapter 167 The World's No. Beard
Following closely behind the Bo Camp was Song Laosan's Shu Camp. As soon as the two camps most trusted by Shao Quanzhong entered the city, the two camp officers, holding maps in their hands, headed straight for the palaces of Prince Yong and Prince Xin respectively.
That’s right, when the city was first captured, the Huai Army did not enter the palace, did not go to the Heavenly King’s Palace, and did not go to the Holy Treasury. Instead, they went to the palaces of Hong Renfa and Hong Renda in the imperial city.
There is no dispute that these two brothers are the culprits for the fall of the Heavenly Kingdom.
Forcing Shi Dakai away was nothing. As a prince, his usual arrogance and debauchery could be forgiven.
When Anqing fell and Tianjing was about to be besieged, Li Xiucheng wrote to Hong Xiuquan, asking him to transport more food and fodder from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian to Tianjing. As long as Tianjing had well-trained soldiers and sufficient food, it would almost never fall.
The Hunan Army is not a robot with unlimited endurance. After being besieged for a long time, it will inevitably become exhausted. It is not impossible to break the encirclement of the Hunan Army, launch a counterattack in one fell swoop, and expand power again.
But what did the two brothers do at this time? Anyone who took out silver to buy grain had to pay taxes to them first.
After buying the grain, transport it to the city and pay taxes again. If the taxes are not paid, the grain will not be allowed into the city.
The merchants who transported grain found it unprofitable, and finally they simply stopped selling grain here.
Tianjing finally fell due to lack of food and grass, and these two brothers cannot shirk their responsibility.
After the siege of Tianjing, the two brothers led the royal guards to search all the people in the city and take all the property. The people in the city did not rebel, which was purely because there were more soldiers than people in the city.
When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established its capital in Tianjing, the Holy Treasury contained 38 million taels of silver that the Taiping Army had looted along the way from Jintian to Tianjing - ahem, 38 million taels of silver seized from the treasury.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom ruled Tianjing for eleven years and occupied the richest territory in the south of the Yangtze River. Although it spent countless money, it also earned countless money. Logically, the Holy Treasury should have been full.
But when Tianjing fell, the treasury had less than one million taels of silver. Where did it go? All of it was taken away by these two big rats to their own homes.
What does it mean to value money over life and what does it mean to be short-sighted? These two brothers are exactly that.
I don’t know what’s the point of these two brothers asking for money, as they will lose their heads if the city is destroyed.
The common people at the bottom of society did not know about this, not even the Qing court's spies in Nanjing knew about it. Only Jiang Chunlin's top player, who received the middle and low-level generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, would complain in the top player's arms when he was drunk.
The military boots of the Huai Army's Bo Battalion and Shu Battalion stepped on the streets of Jinling, making a uniform sound.
All that could be heard was the sound of fierce fighting between the remnants of the Taiping Army and the Hunan Army at Taiping Gate in the distance, and it was quiet nearby.
The city was littered with starving people, with bones exposed from time to time, and a deadly atmosphere. The two city walls of the capital and the imperial city were completely unguarded.
This is why the Huai Army had to capture the city at the last moment. If it had been a day or two earlier, even if they had taken the Shen Ce Gate, they would have encountered stubborn resistance inside the three city walls.
Lin Bozai and Song Laosan had both been fighting for four years and had seen many tragic scenes. They couldn't help shaking their heads when they saw this tragic scene.
The two Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rats are capable of bullying their own people and making money at the cost of their lives, but they don't have any other abilities.
When Lin Bozai and Song Laosan led their men to rush into the imperial palace, the only two fat princes in Jinling City did not resist at all and knelt down to beg for mercy.
Lin Bozi looked at the "King of Bravery" in front of him with a grim smile. He was not brave at all. "Where is the money you looted?"
"No, no!" If you don't sacrifice your life, what's the use of you? Lin Bozi waved his hand, "Kill! Don't spare anybody in the palace!"
The sound of gunfire spread from the palace gate to the backyard, and the Bo Camp firmly controlled Prince Yong's palace.
The situation of the Shuzi Camp in Prince Xin's Palace is basically the same.
Shao Quanzhong and Haiqing were the second group of soldiers from the Huai Army Left Wing Battalion led by Shao Hengzhong to enter the city. Each soldier in this group had four horses and served as a transport team.
Shao Quanzhong was stationed in the Yongwang Palace, Shao Hengzhong was stationed in the Xinwang Palace, Song Qing's Qing Camp, Nie Shicheng's "Ting" Camp, together with the Qu Camp and the Yan Camp, began to transport treasures out of the two palaces. Hai Qing brought the military police to supervise.
This was a formal and organized robbery. In the vaults of the two princes, gold, silver, jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings were neatly arranged and classified. The Huai Army robbery team did not even need to collect and organize the items. They could just pack them up and take them away under the supervision of the military police.
Shao Quanzhong looked at this huge fortune and laughed loudly, "Sixth Lady, see, I'm rich, haha, rich!"
He hugged Hu Liuniang and kissed her on the cheek excitedly, "Fuck you, I've been robbing for so long, but I've never seen such a well-behaved fat sheep. You've laid out all the wealth of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom neatly, waiting for me to take it."
Hu Liuniang was also stunned. Shao Quanzhong hugged her and kissed her, and she didn't even care about being proud and excited.
Oh my god, the regular army is still good at robbing. The Hu family has been robbing since my father's generation. When have they ever seen so much money? Yu Ting is the number one bandit in the world, for sure, I didn't find the wrong person.
Forty-eight million taels of silver, three million jin, one thousand five hundred tons, there are six thousand people in the four battalions on the left wing, and each person has to bear five hundred jin.
The soldiers had never understood why horses were useful in a siege. Why did the commander go to such great lengths to transport more than 20,000 horses from Fengyang? How much of a burden would this add to the logistics? Now they understood.
Each man had four horses, three of which carried 500 kilograms of spoils, and he rode one horse, and they transported 1,500 tons of spoils at one time.
The soldiers experienced the joy that the Mongols felt after the looting.
More than 20,000 horses were quickly loaded and unloaded, and continuously transported out of the city, and the whole day was spent. The horse team did not stay in the camp after leaving the city, but went directly to Xiaguan Wharf to transport the captured spoils onto the warships.
When the Hunan Army finally wiped out the remaining bandits at Taiping Gate, they heard a huge explosion in the inner city. When they rushed to the city wall of Beijing, they saw a collapsed city wall and more than 5,000 hairy heads hanging on the wall.
Rushing further in, we found that the wall of the imperial city had just been blown down. There were more than two thousand hairy heads hanging on the wall, the ground was covered with blood, and the dust from the collapsed wall was still there.
Zeng Guoquan was very excited. It seemed that although the Huai Army broke into the outer city first, the two city walls inside had suffered heavy losses. The intensity of enemy resistance was probably similar to that we encountered at Taiping Gate.
Hehe, you fight to the death, and we gain the advantage. He waved his sword and said, "Charge in. The Huai Army has just captured the city. We must first enter the Heavenly King's Palace and the Holy Treasury!"
Zeng Guoquan rushed into the imperial city and saw two battalions of the Huai Army rushing out of the princes' palaces on both sides and rushing towards the palace. It was obvious that the resistance of Prince Yong's Palace and Prince Xin's Palace was also fierce, which helped to tie down the friendly forces of the Huai Army.
Zeng Guoquan led his men on horseback to charge straight at the palace, just getting ahead of the Huai Army and occupying a siege position.
Zeng Guoquan laughed loudly and raised his head to the sky, "The first person to enter Nanjing will be crowned king, but it does not specify whether it is the outer city or the palace city.
Hong Xiuquan's head belongs to our Xiang Army, and the Holy Treasury is also ours. You Huai Army have no share. Go home and cry!"
(End of this chapter)