On the hilltop of Guyin Pingguan/Fushuiguan in Longzhou (now near Nanba Town, Pingwu County, Sichuan).
When I saw the road winding like a snake on the riverside again, the first team that had surmounted countless hills and streams and reduced its staff by nearly half; whether it was the exhausted Li Hanzhi or the exhausted Li Cunzhang, It is inevitable that there will be a kind of cordial and rejoicing mood.
Although it is still surrounded by mountains and flowing water. It's more about the dangerous peaks standing on the wall, straight into the sky; the Guanxia river is turbulent, and the turbid waves are rolling. But at any rate, he has walked out of the mountains and has such a path for normal passage.
It's just that Yu Hou Wang Guoer, who is with the army, still looks a little ugly, and stares at Li Hanzhi, who is full of blood and evil spirits without showing any weakness. Because in the Shimenzhai battle not long ago, he was only temporarily negligent and late to stay in the rear team to place the wounded. The visitor defeated Shimenzhai and made no one alive.
You must know that wantonly killing in the army, especially the unprovoked killing of prisoners, has always been explicitly prohibited and severely punished by the Taiping Army. Although many people can prove that it was the result of the defenders' attempts to resist and escape; but this is probably also for this pioneering soldier, which in a disguised way alleviated the burden and fetters.
But the other party's nonchalant attitude of disregarding human life made him a little vigilant and fearful. But once again I remembered part of the tasks and responsibilities that were specifically assigned before I went out.
After all, this man has many criminal convictions. In his early years, he not only gathered the crowd to defect to the Yellow Nest, but also abandoned it when the army went south, surrendering to Gao Pian and made the court's governor; later he went to join the Douga forces one after another; now, although he has contributed to the Taiping army, it belongs to black history. Lots of problematic personnel and key monitoring targets.
Of course, how could Li Hanzhi, who has been so involved in the past, fail to know the reason for the faint target and attitude changes from around him? It's just that he is consciously used to it; after all, everyone is like this. Even Zhuge's envoy, who claims to be the most generous and gracious to others, will inevitably send a number of relatives and children around him, thinking of a disguised supervision.
Therefore, compared with all these days, it is inevitable to be squeezed, admonishing and restraining all aspects of Waiting Officer Yu at every turn; he obviously prefers to stay with the talent officers in the camp and the order of catching students, investigating, and selecting fronts together. The former can always bring him different feelings with each passing day, while the latter is easier to resonate in martial arts and skills.
Li Hanzhi was slowly thinking about it. While drinking the pre-prepared tea soup, he knocked the hard biscuits with strong sweet and salty taste into small pieces with the back of a knife, and then smashed them in the helmet little by little, poking one after another. Chew it in your mouth and swallow it. Seeing Li Cunzhang with limping legs walked over and whispered:
"Don't take it, it's good to come out, otherwise I am afraid that it will not last long... Many people's legs and feet are worn out..."
Randomly he took it off from his back again, and unfolded a roll of some heavily worn oiled paper map, making rough gestures:
"The Erlang who is going down has confirmed that he has crossed the road. A few miles down the river to the south, this is where the Longzhou Zhisuojiang Oil City is located..."
"it is good!"
Li Hanzhi couldn't help but categorically said:
"After a short break, we will go to Jiangyou City..."
"Do you have to wait for the back team to follow, and now more than 800 people have come out..."
However, Li Cunzhang said with a face:
"We've all come to such a step, isn't it just the last strength?"
Li Hanzhi was determined to tap the unfolded simple map road:
"...Only by taking advantage of its unpreparedness to lay down Jiangyou City, there will be food, grass, wealth, Ding Zhuang, and a place for cultivation... Then go directly to Changming (now Jiangyou City, Sichuan), whether it is Jiange or Jiangyou. The defenders at Jianmen Pass have all become soft-shelled turtles in the urn of the enemy..."
However, what surprised Li Cunzhang next was that after Li Hanzhi announced the decision, these peacekeepers accepted without complaint, and they were naturally divided into two parts, one large and one small part; the lesser parts were all accepted. It was a wounded man who was not good enough, and stayed to wait for the supplement of the mule and horse team to follow up.
The remaining six hundred soldiers silently prepared equipment, medicines and checked dry food carriers, and quickly completed preparations for a new departure in an orderly manner. This kind of obedience and efficiency made Li Hanzhi unavoidably lament once again;
Such a forbidden, persevering and hard-working team, even if it is placed in the former Northland, is a first-class team; it can be used as a choice for pro-military and dental soldiers to occupy a party's foundation. However, in this Taiping Army, it was only the first unit temporarily deployed among the many camps of the Shanxi Encounter Army all the way to the north.
After only a few hours, the team followed the dirt road on the Jiangbian embankment to reach the underside of Jiangyou city, which was facing the river three times but looked a little ruined and depressed. However, under the turbulent river rushing, whistling mountain breeze, and the sun-deviated mountains; they were so close to one hundred steps away from the north gate of one of the three city gates that someone was surprised on the city’s head. Get up, yelling and inquiring loudly.
Then, in the short drumbeat that rang, the six hundred of them quickly spread out and divided them into several attacking columns, just so recklessly, they buried their heads and sprinted toward the city gate; they were hurriedly closed at the open city gate. Before getting up, he rushed to the door gap that was only left to pass sideways.
The next moment, the grenadier who rushed forward suddenly staggered, but was tripped on the ground by an obstacle that had been randomly discarded by the ground; the projectile in his hand also rolled out. Seeing that the rumbling gate was about to be completely closed, Li Cunzhang, who followed him, picked up the explosive bomb like flying, stepped on the edge of the gate, pulled out the line and threw his hand in.
The next moment there was only a touch, and with the gray smoke and screams bursting from the door gap, the closing of the city gate came to an abrupt halt. Then a number of soldiers came forward and Li Cunzhang stood against the city gate together, and suddenly pushed back the closed city gate slowly.
At this time, there were fierce roars and screams from the boat on the city head, as well as the rapid movement of arrows and falling rocks, but they still could not temporarily threaten them who rushed into the door. In between, he took the grenadier who had climbed up and rolled, ignoring the blood-scraped arms, and untied the remaining few grenadiers in the holster on his waist, almost one after another and threw them into the doorway.
The next moment, the figures of the defenders gushing out of the smoke and dust in the doorway, amidst the successive explosions of sparks and smoke, they screamed and screamed and rolled into one piece. The doorway was cleaned up again. At this time, Li Cunzhang also drew out his side knife and short double-haired blunt, and without hesitation, he opened wide along the way, and was slammed into the city gate by the stone.
And all of this is just a battle between the moments of the electric light flint. And when the pioneer team led by Li Cunzhang rushed out of the doorway and turned back towards the stairs leading to the gatehouse, and continued to storm and slaughter them, more Taiping sergeants also swarmed and roared along the doorway they opened. In the state city.
The local regiments and village soldiers recruited by themselves on the city wall suddenly collapsed in morale. They made screams and screams like "Demons are coming", and turned around and fled, desperately wanting to stay away from the "monsters" teachers killed by these fireworks.
So after the sky darkened, there were already two gates on the three gates of the ancient city of Jiangyou, as well as the seat of the prefectural government, all of which were planted with the peaceful green flag that fluttered endlessly. And at the only Nancheng gate that hadn't had time to take over, many officials, officials and people ran out, pushing and trampling each other.
Some of them fled to the river boat on the bank of the Nanmen River, and then let their lives go to the unoccupied places in the south; at the same time, they also brought the news of Linjiang Oil from Taiping Army soldiers to the rear of Jianzhou. .
Therefore, when Li Shouzhen, who was supervising the battle at Jianmenguan, received the Jiangyou enemy situation from the rear Pu'an City (now Jiange County, Sichuan), it was already two days later. And he stayed here for three days and four nights, it was also not very easy.
Because although he has repeatedly frustrated and blocked the offensives of the thieves, he obviously underestimated the imagination and creativity of those thieves. Since the Horseshoe Gorge before the customs was unable to transport and deploy the direct shooting power of larger firearms, they simply did not go out of their way to make ideas from other places.
As a result, the horseshoe gorge cliff top and the Lingtou trail, which were occupied by the official army and the thief army respectively, became the new focus of the fierce battle between the two sides. Those thieves stubbornly relied on their hand cards to cover the advancing firecrackers and dropped bombs regardless of damage, and little by little, removed (killed, blown up) and forced back a number of officers guarding the top of the cliff and Lingtou.
Then, after they got the position on the top of the cliff facing the direction of Jianmenguan, they transported several small cannons to the air conditioner regardless of the cost; so from the day before yesterday, the gate was placed high and lowered to put arrows and sling stones to suppress the counterattack. The defending army was about to endure the continuous bombardment from the top of the opposite cliff.
Although the intervals between these small guns were not short, the actual amount of casualties that could be caused on the barrier wall was quite limited, but it greatly damaged and weakened the morale of the defenders, and destroyed and damaged many defense equipment. Caused the collapse and mutiny on the wall to escape.
So, after he was shocked that Chengjiang Oil in Longzhou Prefecture had fallen, and that Jianzhou Pu'an, Wulian, and Huang'an, where he was the foundation of his own standing, might also be threatened by enemy forces, Li Shouzhen did not hesitate to go next. Decided; divided troops to the rear to defend and intercept the thief, because he could not bear the loss of his own foundation and the result of the enemy.
In fact, he simply couldn't believe it or didn't believe it at all. These thieves would fly over the insidious and dangerous road that had been blocked and cut off the passage in such a short period of time, and suddenly emerged from the rear. And I am more willing to believe that the riots and civil unrest that occurred in the south at this time were the result of misrepresentation.
Therefore, he is also prepared with both hands. If the thief sentiment is false, he will take advantage of it. If the thief sentiment is true, then after crossing the mountains, he may not have much power to continue fighting in a short period of time. On the occasion of a full counterattack.
Of course, if encountering the thief army from the west, and the East Road thief army that had fallen and entrenched at Lutou Pass, the worst result of a confluence and response will be formed; then he can only lead his troops to continue to retreat. Changming City in Mianzhou. But in any case, this Jianmenguan has become a place of abandoned children that cannot be kept for long. (End of this chapter)