Only two days later, Zhou Huaian had led the reinforcements on the road to Lianzhou.
Thanks to the post road system, the semaphore signal towers established in each post station with optical transmission; except for rainstorms with extremely low visibility, the transmission of news in the Pearl River Basin and gathering to Canton, Most of the time, it only takes half a day.
Coupled with the use of the winter agricultural slack time to organize a large number of work, the branch roads that have not been long after they have been leveled and hardened. It only took a day to gather the personnel and supplies; and also urgently gathered the shipping forces on the Pearl River to share the heavy transportation and follow-up supplies.
Therefore, in just one day, about five battalions were urgently mobilized from the territory of Canton, and they arrived in Yangshan County, which is adjacent to Huaizhou and Lianzhou. It's just that all the troops stationed in the local rebels have escaped. The news from the local population who fled from the north is also quite chaotic and contradictory.
Some said that the rebels that came out before were destroyed, and the city of Guiyang, the state city, was already the banner of another force; they also said that they had successfully defeated their opponents and were pursuing them; others said that they are now in pursuit. Guiyang City had been burned in the chaos, and only a piece of ruins remained. .
After entering Lianzhou, the fairly flat terrain of the Pearl River Basin began to slowly rise. The scenery of large paddy fields and canals and canals with rivers crisscrossing and endlessly is beginning to be separated by the undulating hills with terraced fields, fruit forests and tea trees from time to time in the field of view, and it has begun to show up with high development. On the shores of the Pearl River in Taiwan, a little bit of wildness and vegetation flourish.
As you get deeper and deeper, although the road is still not considered to be a majestic and dangerous mountain, it can be considered to be surrounded by peaks and cypresses. From time to time, you can see the gurgling stream flowing between the rocks, transparent and cool like a mirror. And to
And at the far end between the mountains and forests, you can even see some local villages with mixed surnames of Mo Yuman, who are dressed in short plaques and are farmed with water buffalo by the deporter;
And under the blue banner of Taiping floating among the marching teams, there is a flat-headed flat head with a hat and a small group of cards on his back, and a left crossbow and right arrow on his waist; it looks very clean and neat. It looks very energetic again.
As a follow-up to the Taiping Army, the direct team was expanded into a straight battalion with 1,100 people; the apprentice team was renamed the teaching brigade, directly enrolling about 400 people. All are equipped with mules and horses for walking mobility; and the former battalion constitutes the only three cavalry sequence in the Taiping Army. Then together with the Xiang team (the equipment team) and the throwing (grenadier) team, they were known as the "five straight team" personally led by Zhou Huai'an.
The sign of being members of the "five straight team" is that they shaved their heads uniformly (imitating Zhou Huai'an style short hair), initially in order to show some respect for the chief official of the monk's background and follow suit. Then it became a custom among the rebel army to embody the identity of "one's own person".
Of course, Zhou Huaian acquiesced to this behavior for the sake of hygiene and epidemic prevention and convenience of work; anyway, he usually can’t see it when he wears a helmet or hat, or when he wears a scarf or belt; but in some cases In special occasions where a crown-free is required, this color is called the existence of people becoming the head of the time, which is very distinctive and deterrent.
Later, it simply becomes a special symbol; only as a new pawn who has made no mistakes after joining the rebels for a year, can he obtain this kind of representative to cut off all the fetters and origins of the past, and then devote himself to praying for the lives of the poor in the world. A collective symptom of a special ritual in a great cause.
At least in this era, parents whose body, hair, and skin are not to be ruined lightly, is not just a matter of words; at least unless it is really desperate or firm in purpose, this kind of determination and willingness is not so easy to make. This also represents a huge risk of being killed or sent to officials when someone wants to flee or escape in the future.
"The front is Gounailing..."
Following him on horseback, Ge Congzhou spoke in a brown iron scale armor.
"After this dangerous point, you can go to Guiyang County..."
At this time, Wang Yanzhang (Wang Tianming), who opened the road ahead, suddenly heard the news of encountering the enemy; but when Zhou Huaian brought his team to catch up, the battle was over. Only Wang Yanzhang stayed to clean the battlefield and watch the captured places.
It is said that these enemies are lying in ambush on the nearby high slopes and in the mountains and forests. After Wang Yanzhang’s first group has passed most of the time, they suddenly rushed down with loud whistling drums and wanted to make the split offensive that intercepted; and then in the early stage. After the surprise and confusion, there is nothing left for the other party.
Those who can be placed in the first team are not all the old soldiers who have been fighting for a long time, or the jump capital order who is responsible for breaking through the battle; naturally they will not be given to them if they are not chaotic or courageous. The ambushers can take advantage of how many opportunities.
Relying on the accompanying large vehicles and the baffles, group plates and other objects on the vehicles, they built simple positions and defense lines on the spot; they easily blocked most of the chaotic arrows fired by these ambushes, as well as the number of dials. The uneven offensive.
Then, after the team that had passed in front came back and the team from behind came up to support them; the ambushes that rushed down the hillside under two double-teams became the fish in the cauldron stuck in the narrow and long valley. . In the end, only a few enemy soldiers staying on the hillside, grazing and watching, fled to the distance when the situation was not good.
As a result, Wang Yanzhang, one of the few school lieutenants with horses in the pioneer group, did not hesitate to pursue his tail. It is said that the enemy's corpses and wounded who were picked up by him on this road fell more than a dozen. A.
After torturing these abandoned prisoners, I realized that they were actually tuition soldiers conscripted by local miners and workshop laborers. They belonged to Chen Yanqian, a local tycoon in Guiyang; therefore, they were very difficult because of the harsh environment of their birth. It's a bit brave, but the organization and order are obviously terrible.
When the group charged, there was neither a decent batch and order, nor a buffer space that was sufficiently mobile and coordinated; it just flowed down in a swarm of chaos; after being shot and sniped by the crossbow , And even dodge and trample each other, causing more casualties than those from the rebels.
As a result, only a small number of people rushed in front of the rebel army, and most of them were still running around in circles and dodge arrows; they were easily blocked in front of the group cards and vehicles, and there were waves of swords and guns with ease. Out of the chop and stabbed to the ground.
It can be said that in addition to the courage, even the new pawns in Zhou Huaian's Taiping Army who have just trained for three months are seriously inferior. But what Zhou Huai'an cares more about is the armor and weapons obtained from these ambush soldiers; although they are old and of considerable variety, from the most common hatchets, sickles, and fork handles in the countryside to standard knives and hook guns. , Spears are available.
But Zhou Huaian still recognized some old things in it. That was the various weapons he had replaced and collected one by one in order to unify the equipment standard of the left-behind rebels. After re-repairing and refurbishing and stamping with the anti-theft mark, he entered the arsenal of the left-behind division.
Now that they actually appeared in the hands of these enemies in larger batches, it is obviously not a result that can be obtained through a small amount of loss and reselling channels; Zhou Huaian couldn't help but regain the darkness in his heart; if the other party is really the result of his guess , Then Chai Ping will really suffer a big loss if he fails.
In this kind of worried and rough mood, after stepping out of the mountain that obscured the view again, a city surrounded by two bifurcated rivers, surrounded by two bifurcated rivers, appeared in his strengthening. In the sight of the past.
It’s just that Zhou Huai’an did not wait for Zhou Huai’an to occupy a messy camp and began to order the siege, leaving only a curl of embers and residual smoke in Guiyang City. The one who opened the door to greet him was black with his face, and his armor was covered with soot. The Chai Ping waited. Zhou Huaian couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief immediately, as long as others are fine, everything else is easy to handle;
The so-called reason is that it is hard to find a general for a thousand troops. At least the Taiping Army, which is known as 50,000 troops, can still bear the loss of more than 4,000 men, horses, and equipment. But an experienced veteran like Chai Ping The generals of the rebel army could not lose in Lin Maofengjiao's existence.
As the origins of the Stormrage Camp system, although Laoguan and Cheng Dajiao have been proven to be reliable enough, their starting point is too low and they don’t have much experience in leading large forces. They need to be trained slowly in the process of garrisoning places; Su Wuming, Lu Fang, Wu Xingchen, Liu Liumao and others also came from the lower level, which is similar in reason.
Perhaps he has a considerable degree of courage and experience, but he is also inadequate in leading the army's military strategy and the change of the battle plan; at present, he can only let go of the battle when he is in charge of the situation; and the current physical condition of Wang Pan Not suitable for leading troops into battle.
In addition, although there are Huo Cun, Ge Congzhou, Wang Yanzhang and others, the subsequent addition of new sharp generals can be expected; but it also requires sufficient training cycles and room for growth, which can not be casually promoted.
Then I began to inquire about the specific situation of the follow-up development, only to know that when they had already set fire by the enemy, they used a Jedi counterattack to restore the decline, and also defeated and dispelled the enemy in the city with one blow, and finally forced them to run away from the north gate. Escaped.
It's just that the camps staying outside of the city are a bit inexplicable, and it happened when they were besieged in the city by the ambushed army.
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