Amidst the diffusing water vapor, the floating bridge that spanned half a mile across the Huai River seemed to arrive in a flash. Only after a long time, the Taiping Green Banner, which was spread like a forest, was erected among the military villages on the opposite bank that had been razed to the ground.
And Zhu Cun, who is the master general, is also very emotional, because this may be his last chance to lead the troops out. After all, as two brothers in the new dynasty at the same time leading the army outside, it is really enough to arouse taboo and criticism.
However, compared to Zhu San, his younger brother, who was able to serve in the Taiping Army very late, Zhu is already old enough to be in the Taiping Army, old enough to make him wealthy and safe to raise his old age and still benefit his descendants; but Zhu San just It's not the same, so without compromising the generality and position, he would rather give the opponent more opportunities to show up.
So after coming out of battle this time, he must find a way to write a letter and retreat bravely; even if he can't retire at once, he must temporarily retreat from the second-line guard position; in this way, the two brothers will advance and retreat one by one, in order to be created by the Taiping Army. Under the trendy system, each will carry forward their homes.
Afterwards, he cleared up his mood, and gave orders to a temporary military meeting in the ruins of the military village:
"This time the combat cycle is tentatively scheduled to be between four months and a half year. The most basic stop line is to open up the water transportation along the Huai River before snowfall, connecting Huaidong with the land of Dugui Road and Tianping Army. ..."
"During this period, the first target to strike was the Caizhou thief Qin Zongquan Ministry; Shipu of the Wuning Army came second; Zhu Xuan of the Taining Army came second; at the same time, the Navy gave priority to guarding and defending from peace. Lu Jun Wang Jingwu’s change..."
"Later on Jiangdong Sanlu's grain weapons, husband service, and Lingdong Lu's supplementary troops will arrive at the Yancheng Port of Chuzhou to gather together to cooperate with the six garrison battalions in the Chuzhou defense zone and fight against the Lianshui Army in Haizhou, Taining Town. Make a feint;"
"Therefore, we only need to focus on the Caizhou thief. This generation has been raging in the Central Plains and the Lianghuai for many years. This is the place of extra cunning who has been repeatedly suppressed. This time Cai thief has once again lost the foundation of his hometown party. The monkey crowned himself as the ruler of the Western Qin Dynasty, but he was cut off from the four difficulties inside and outside;"
"If it can be encircled this time, it will not be possible for him to escape and continue to be a disaster. Of course, those trapped miscellaneous currents and cannon fodder, no matter how much it is killed, there is no point in killing. You must firmly grasp the Qin family as the leader. Fight at the township party headquarters;"
"As long as these years of old thieves are exhausted, even if the Qin himself escapes, it will be of no avail, and it will be difficult to cause another storm. The only worry is the three nearby Huai Shang towns; therefore, we must try our best. Make quick decisions and don't give this generation a chance to react."
"As long as the action is fast enough, we can even go north to rescue the Tianping Army; after expelling Wei Bojun, the forces of Duji and Tianping Army will naturally be able to form sufficient advantage and coercion against the three towns of Huai. "
Afterwards, the 15,000 Taiping Army who had passed through Huaishui used small vehicles and boats to transport equipment and equipment at the mouth of Huanshui River, and traveled 80 miles lightly with mules and horses to reach the city of Qixian County, Suzhou City. Cai Zhou/Xi Qin Jun just reacted.
In an uproar in the city, the defenders of Qixian sent a messenger to ask for help while trying to close the gate for a while; however, the Taiping army rushed into the gate and exploded the relatively thin southern city with ease. Gate;
As a result, at the moment when the Taiping Army entered the city, the defenders in the city were also in an uproar and fled from the north gate facing away. So half a day after the Taiping Army captured Qixian, they came from more than 20 miles. Cai Jun from Yongqiao (City) Town outside came to help.
However, Zhu Cun used a tactic at this time to keep the banner of Cai Jun on the northern side of the city, and pile up firewood in many places in the city to set fire to cigarettes, and make people fight the drum horns; the result is this one. Cai Jun, who came to the aid, really joined the party, and almost without hesitation, he rammed into the ambush inside the north gate.
Then at this time, the other two partial divisions, who had divided their troops and circled the city, also slammed to the side and rear of the Cai army, blocked their retreat, robbed and captured all the Zi's heavy equipment mules and horses behind; therefore, after dark This Cai Jun also declared annihilation.
However, at this moment, Zhu Cun was still in the mood and shot again. Then he left only two garrison camps to guard the prisoners and capture them on the spot, and led most of the remaining men and horses with extra energy to the Zhouzhi Yongqiao (city) town in Suzhou overnight.
And the town of Yongqiao, where reinforcements were just sent, was almost unprepared and somewhat vigilant; he was disguised as Cai Jun’s Taiping striker, rushed into the city gate mixed in with the collapsed deserters, and dropped bombs all around. Arson was hacked and killed.
So when Zhu Cunqin led most of the troops, rushed to the city after a few hours, and the town of Yongqiao, which was relatively large and strong, was already open. The defenders in the city failed to regain the portal in a short period of back and forth fighting. Instead, they were defeated by the chosen fighters who broke into it, defeated several times with bullets and grenades.
Then in Zhu Cun’s formation, the sound of several light cannons hanging on the top of the city sounded, and the remaining defenders in the city also began to shake and chaos; although in the middle of the night, those who entrenched the city in their own battles The army showed the tenacity and tenacity of being an old thief.
However, their fierce rebellion in the style of rebirth has no effect. Although Cai Jun, who had retreated into Yacheng, used the cover of darkness to rush out of the houses and alleys and repelled the tentative attacks of the Taiping Army several times, but when the artillery carts and flying thunders were sent into the city overnight, they lost ground. The stubborn resistance has become an absolute noise among the ruins.
Therefore, after the dawn of the day, the new capital of the West Qin Dynasty, which was newly released less than a few months ago, together with the newly built palaces and platforms and piles of wealth and grain, as well as the family members’ family members who claimed to be headed by Qin Zongquan of the West Qin Dynasty and many generals of Cai’s army. The dependents have all become the trophies of the Taiping Army.
And Qin Zongquan, who was still trying to regroup in Songzhou, was informed by the survivors who fled the city, suddenly found that he had once again become a lonely person in the usual sense. However, before he ordered the execution of the messenger and took measures to block the news, the news spread first.
Therefore, when Qin Zongquan, who announced the promotion of the tent in Songcheng (now Shangqiu, Henan), hurried to the front hall, he found that more than half of the generals on the scene had not arrived, and those who had already arrived were all with the Qin clan. A family closely related.
However, before he had an attack on the spot, someone rushed in the next moment to report that it was because many people in the city had left the camp without authorization and rushed out of the city gates; therefore, it was only in one day, " The more than 30,000 men and horses of Qin Zongquan under the command of the "Western Qin King" known as the "Thousand Fifty Thousands" left more than half of them in a blink of an eye.
Therefore, for a while, Qin Zongquan discovered that he was only trying to retake the capital city bridge, and he even had problems maintaining the current situation; because the remaining troops were panic and everyone was disturbed, and he needed his follow-up suppression. And appease.
But all this did not end, as the news spread within a few days; under the secret connection and persuasion of the former Cai Jun pioneer commander Ma Yin and others who were released by the Taiping Army, Lingbi in Suzhou, Hongxian, Linhuan, Mengcheng and Yongcheng in Bozhou almost descended from the wind, and even the left-behind generals who killed Cai Jun took the initiative to descend.
From this, it can be seen that the Cai thief headed by the Qin clan has been raging on the Huai for many years, and how unpopular and unpopular. It is just that the local people have been afraid of his brutal and brutal methods and force and are unable to resist; therefore, they are now slightly depressed. And the unfavorable clues were met with fierce backlash without hesitation.
In other words, for these civilians who have suffered from the poison and the place "fish, rotten, birds scattered, people are cut off, and Jingzhen hides the wild", even after the fall of the Cai thief of the Qin clan who originally "predated the little people by four and feed on salt corpses", The situation they are about to face cannot be any worse than before.
Therefore, the Taiping Army only spread food on the spot while propagating some propositions and strategies along the way, and it seemed to have received very good results; the local people who had suffered from disasters understood the legend, and they also cannibalized people. After the Taiping Army, who also likes killing and refining medicine, it was not so, and the emotion of bottoming out was also very fierce and unusual.
Because the torture of the cruel reality has made these remaining people’s psychological bottom line so low that they can’t be lower; coupled with strict military discipline and appropriate means of comfort and rescue, it is easy to affect this vast area of Huanghuai. Spread across the plains.
This result was of course that the three towns of Huai Shang that had re-formed the "Three Kings Alliance" were unavoidably caught off guard, but at the same time it also posed a big problem for Zhu Cun. Because of the fact that the Caizhou thief had been rampant for so many years, even people from Linhuai in Sizhou, Suqian, and Xiapi in Xuzhou, who belonged to the Taining Army, came to join and invite soldiers.
In this case, the 5,000 people originally brought by Zhu Cun through Huai Shui would not be enough to take over and control these places, let alone continue to pursue and attack Qin Zongquan’s headquarters, and may produce The friction and confrontation of the "Three Kings Alliance" on Huaishang has come to an end.
But in any case, the chaotic situation in which all parties on the Huai River have been entangled for many years, and the rise and stalemate have taken turns, and because of the chain reaction brought about by this accident, a big breakthrough has once again appeared.
Therefore, in the "Three Kings Alliance" of Huai Shang, the only power is still intact and has no chance to border the Taiping Army. The leader of the Pinglu Jiedu/Qingzi Town, the "King of Qi" Wang Jingwu is located in Yidu City, Also ushered in the two call envoys of the front and rear feet. (End of this chapter)