And near Xinjin County, Shuzhou, the mouth of the Tuojiang River at dawn. As the first sun across the mountains shone on the verdant ground on both sides of the river, it also shone the scorched black fragments of the burned ships in the river water, and with the waves of the tide that hit the shore, it impacted. Between the shallows overgrown with grass.
However, Liu Jurong, who is the capital of the southern travel camp, looked at the rushing river, but there was not much joy and joy that he had just achieved such a great victory. Because, after the night attack was successful, people were sent to search the results of the beaches along the river, only to find that the concrete results that can be confirmed did not seem to be as great as those generals claimed.
The stranded or sunken enemy vehicle and ship wrecks found before and after, I’m afraid there are only a dozen or so; the rest are just small and medium-sized river ships in the usual sense, or even the three-piece plate fishing boats used by ordinary people to fish, or It's just a small paddle used to connect and cross the river. Not to mention that with the exception of some familiar flag battles with armor and weapons, even the iconic firearms of the thief army have not captured much.
Among the thousands of first-levels that have been captured, there are even those with white beard and hair or women with hair buns. Do these daring people really regard him Liu Deliang as a big headscarf for those who do not care about world affairs in the imperial court
You know, he is a jinshi and no. 1 in Wuke, and he is placed as a general of the Wuning Army in Xuzhou; he also participated in the Pangxun rebellion, and then he returned to the imperial court to serve as an envoy to Yongqiao Town. Also put down the Wangying Rebellion in Western Zhejiang. Nowadays, it is even more aimed at the simultaneous advancement of the thief army by water, and has painstakingly used geographical advantages to set up multiple ambushes for fireboat night attacks; why are these common tricks and activities in the army unskilled
However, he had to pinch his nose in the memorandum sent to Xingzai to appeal to the soldiers who "struggled to kill thieves"; otherwise, apart from the few people he brought out, all the people in the camp will do nothing more. No one has listened to his words from the southern envoy. But what bothered him even more was the vigorous fighting spirit of the army in the camp as the thieves retreated.
But in Liu Jurong's view, it is not so much that these generals are so eager to kill thieves to serve the country, but rather that some old habits in the army make them impatient to re-emerge. For example, on the basis of chasing and defeating the enemy, he went to Shuzhou and Meizhou to treat his children well, or raised some money, food, and military resources by himself.
However, this time Liu Jurong could no longer tolerate and indulge their thoughts. Because, at least he still understands that at the moment when the enemy is present, how can it be to repel the thief army on the south side? , The threats from the north and east are still there. Therefore, every force under the management of Nanmyeon Xingying is invaluable to one's traveling.
We must know that now, in addition to some of the soldiers and horses and united children brought out by Chengdu, he is full of people from the dragon, sword, Han, and Mian prefectures; there are as many as seven military orders and serial numbers. Of course, under the current situation of the enemy, we can still work together to defend Xinjinzhi, which is known as the "Five Waters Confluence" as the shield. But if they were released, it wouldn't be so easy to bring them back together again.
Therefore, he could only act decisively in front of the military method, and executed Li Junan, the most happiest but the lowest-ranked Hanzhou Deyang Shouchou deputy in the army, on the grounds of "underestimating the enemy's advance and the thieves retreating." Shocked and purged the impetuous arrogance in the army. On the grounds of self-rewarding and gifts, he sacrificed the word "drag" to other generals.
Then, he himself went out to patrol the camp himself, not only to restrain the soldiers who were on the periphery, so as not to cause excessive persecution and cruelty to the locals, he also counted on the cooperation of the civilians and civilians in these places; at the same time, he also temporarily avoided those soldiers who were secretly thinking about them. Generals. The bad things tossed up in Xinjin City.
Then Liu Jurong led the guards to patrol all the way, the river was already empty and clear of thieves; as the river water became clear again from muddy to clear, even the thieves who had noisy flags on the water before. The battleship is like a dream. However, he still didn't dare to take it lightly.
Because what he saw and heard along the way and the spies' rewards were enough to convince him that the previous massive night battle submarine attacks led by the arson ship did not damage the roots of the thief army, but only made him retreat temporarily. . However, just as he was determined to return on his way home, he suddenly heard a faint noise from the other side.
As the last bit of mist on the river dissipated, on the official road in the direction of the east bank across the Minjiang River, a stretch of people and horses trotting high and trotting along with the flags suddenly appeared. And the banner held in the air was faintly familiar to Liu Jurong, and he couldn't help but threw the whip into the ground with a furious curse:
"Bastard stuff."
"Report..."
Subsequently, the messengers who came quickly and flogged, also brought about the rebel army envoy Man Cun of Maozhou who stayed in Xinjin City, Li Lang Observation Envoy Xi Yan, Longzhou Governor Song Daobi and others, successively went out to chase the enemy. Breaking news. However, what made Liu Jurong a little bit colder was that the generals had once joined forces to block the city gate, which led him to receive the news that was already delayed.
"Tong Tong, as it is, I still ask for instructions..."
At this time, the guard commander beside him couldn't help but turned to Liu Jurong who was furious, and whispered:
"Quickly return to the city, gather the remaining soldiers and horses, and go to meet them!"
Liu Jurong sternly shouted: "Even if these arbitrarily attacked dogs can only kill ten thousand times, it is difficult to dispel his hatred, but Liu Jurong, who is a southern capitalist, cannot deal with the aftermath; otherwise, after losing these new forces. , Depending on how long the people left in his hands can hold; this is the most basic truth.
However, when Liu Jurong hurried back to Xinjin City to dispatch troops and generals and rushed out; outside the Pengshan City of Pengzhou Prefecture, downstream, on the narrow and flat area on the banks of the River, it was already radiated fiercely like spring thunder. Shrouded with the roar of fireworks bursting.
A large number of officers and soldiers, who seemed to be attacked by both sides of the land and water, were also struggling to maintain an irregular formation, while rushing to the left and right, constantly shaking the front lines set up by the Taiping army, which had cut off the retreat; and then lined up in rows. Falling into the death net of various firearms such as earth mines, wire fences and grenadiers, flying flares, scatter cannons and so on.
From time to time, hordes of official and military establishments are broken up; or they collapse and lose their fighting spirit during an unbearable period, and then they flee desperately into the mountains to the west; or they are everywhere. Under the scorching fire and scorching fire, the unscrupulous stepped eastward into the river, becoming drowned or killed floating corpses.
Some people rushed to the bottom of Pengshan City in the midst of the smoke and fireworks without knowing the direction; then they were either stabbed to death in the sinkholes and thorns, or they were knee-deep in the silt of the trenches and couldn't be pulled out for a while. At this point, he was so dirty that he begged for mercy and became a prisoner in front of the assistant soldiers and the bamboo spears and short bows of the armed servants from Weilong.
"The slight contraction and retreat are naturally for the purpose of retracting the fist and then hitting harder..."
And on the mountain bag overlooking the corner of the battlefield, Wang Zhongba, a general of South Road, also said to the generals around him:
"If you can't be willing to pay the price of these more than a dozen vehicles and ships, how can you draw the officers and soldiers who are confined in Xinjin City and strike them? Isn't the situation already opened, the door of Chengdu will also be open to us? ?"
Accustomed to the unimpeded logistic supplies created by the chief governor; accustomed to sophisticated ordnance and sufficient horse-carriage shipping capacity; accustomed to well-dressed, well-trained, prohibited soldiers and persevering soldiers; but can only concentrate on the process of seeking to achieve the goal of war after that. It is also difficult for most people to go back to the past and take the past with the courage to follow the current.
And as their opponent? Refugees, beggars, bandits, insurgents, and even cruel and ferocious vassals are not enough to fully describe these various existences. The rebels of the past are no better than going there, but there are more hopes and expectations for survival in troubled times. So they all failed one after another and only the Taiping Army could truly rise.
Thinking back to the demands and careful thoughts that had occurred before, it was a bit ridiculous and nonsense. At this time, the vehicles and ships swimming on the river to the north also sounded the early warning cannons again. Soon after, as the river gradually extended, more and more fierce platooning sounds, a deep red and white heart flying bird battle flag, also began to appear on the northern edge of the battlefield.
Upon seeing this, Wang Zhongba couldn't help but sneered:
"But it's an uninvited hawker..." (End of this chapter)