On the rainy wilderness that is gradually far away from Changsha City, the fleeing figures in twos and threes become more and more sparse with the shouts of chasing and coming.
"I can't do it anymore, you should run away quickly..."
Once served as the history of Gushi County but now as an officer under the tent, Wang Shenchao, who was already running blue, sat down in the mud, facing the two brothers who turned back and dragged him to continue running. Out of breath.
"Seeing that it is not far from the forest, you may still have a way to survive if you hide in the forest..."
"Brother, how can this be done? We have agreed that if we go out together to join the army for wealth, we will also go back to the glorious lintel together... What is it to leave you behind?"
The other two younger brothers with muddy heads and muddy faces shouted in tears one after another.
"You two bastards, don't care about me anymore. One can take off one, and the most important thing is to continue the incense of the family..."
However, Wang Shenchao waved away and scolded.
"Even if it is Gushi's hometown in Gwangju (now Xinyang, Henan), I can't go back, but I can find a place to live in a foreign country...
"I had known it earlier, so I voted for that Wang (Xu) butcher and his brother-in-law (Liu Xingquan) in Shouzhou (now Shou County, Anhui Province);"
One of the younger brothers promptly complained that it was a terrible way.
"At any rate, it was also caused by someone to pull our brothers away, so I don't have to die like Li Chou Lian'er to be this stranger..."
"I'll stay with the big brother... you just go one step ahead..."
Another staggering figure approached, leaning on a branch, but it was his cousin Wang Yanfu, who was in the army with a bleak expression and wounds on his body.
"At the end of the second year of Qianfu's second year (875), I followed the governor's history and voted for the general to fill the sky (Wang Xianzhi). Consciousness, please give me the feeling of surviving..."
They were arguing when they saw several grass thief riding pawns carrying a pennant chasing here. Wang Shenchao couldn't help but kicked and beat his two younger brothers who had enough power to drive them away. Go; watching them crawling into a jungle and waiting for a moment, only then did they describe the bleak face of the chasing rider holding the sword and spear, holding their head and kneeling on the ground, making a look of surrender.
Then, he was caught by a rope that was immediately thrown down and tightened and dragged and swayed. The injured Wang Yanfu did not receive this treatment. The other party just shouted with a very heavy accent.
"Can this guy still walk,"
"Able to walk, he just got hurt, he can still walk..."
Wang Shenchao suddenly felt a sense of danger, and hurriedly said.
"Then get up and jump a few times..."
However, the other party unceremoniously pointed the tip of the spear, and Wang Yan replied, somewhat out of breath.
At the edge of the woods not far away, the remaining number of horses rebels chased after him. Wang Shenchao could only worry about his prospects while praying for his escaped brother.
. . . . . .
After nightfall, the city of Changsha was once again illuminated by torches from the streets and lights in the buildings. The preliminary results of the battle outside the city have also been counted and sent to Zhou Huaian.
Although this untimely rain hindered the follow-up pursuit and the efficiency of the battlefield information transmission; but in the chaos of the city camp alone, more than 3,000 corpses of officers and soldiers were left. They were captured or invited on the spot. There were more than one thousand prisoners. Among them, there were more than 600 corpses of mixed horses, and more than a hundred horses were recovered from the horses that were abandoned or abandoned alive.
This is an authentic Northland warhorse with complete saddles, high head and wide shoulders. Even if it is injured, it can be used as a breeding base; it is also suitable for dragging and riding compared to those in the south, but it is not resistant to sprints and lacks continuity. Explosive, relatively low southern horse breeds such as Qianma, Guima, and Guoxiama are far more powerful;
It's like the difference between the later generations of off-road big Jeep and small country pickup and trailer truck. This is more than a mountain of arms and arms, a trophy that Zhou Huaian valued.
Of course, because of the haste of the Rebels in the early and intermediate stages, the casualties caused by this one after another will not be small, and even rough statistics are slightly more than the total number of incoming officers and soldiers. From another aspect, the overall performance of the Taiping Army is still within its own expectations;
Although it is not perfect in many tactical details, it is slightly rough and has insufficient experience in front of the battlefield, and even made a lot of mistakes and errors in the emergency; but the overall training and organizational advantages are still over time. The transition and the jerky period can be fully utilized; and the collective scale effect from quantity to qualitative change is effectively used to make up for these mistakes and omissions.
Therefore, after struggling with these indiscriminate officers and troops, the damage of the battalions of the main battle fronts, which are the main combat forces, is not obvious. Basically, they have not reached the level of injury; only supplements and short-term running-in are required. Can quickly restore basic strength. Mainly as the teaching brigade of the emergency fire brigade, the small half of the casualties after the first rush to the top were a bit painful; and the New Third Battalion was eventually broken up and the losses were greater.
However, among the two major camps in the north and east of the city, more than a dozen supplementary battalions of the rebels of the other divisions were being prepared, but because they happened to face the intrusion of the official army, they directly destroyed most of them; therefore, they accounted for the bulk of the various casualties. There are many others who escaped in the wild and failed to gather them back. .
Zhou Huaian, as the first collective award after the war, was to re-assemble the remnants of the new third battalion who had not returned the enemy’s face to face, and re-convene them on the spot; before many new and old battalions came, they announced that they would give priority to replenishment. After the compilation, the third battalion of the back battalion will be awarded, which is the designation of the eleventh front battalion.
As a result, he was awarded the exclusive title of "Xieshi" written by Zhou Huai'an "his hand". Since then, he has been able to embroider on the horizontal edge of the Taiping Green Banner of the camp, as a long-lasting commemoration and honor. This is also after the battle commemorative in the army, another reward that makes people particularly jealous but has to be convinced.
As the saying goes, not everyone has the courage to be the first to attack the enemy but to dominate the crowd, and not to retreat for a long time until the arrival of support. And this battalion happened to be where the various Long March athletes and frontier guards occupied a considerable proportion; they were used to drowning in an outnumbered battle group in the long-term fight against the barbarians and the barbarians.
When the commander of the battalion commander Wang Gui was killed on the spot by a horse, the deputy commander Zhong Yi was seriously injured immediately after the command battle, and Sun Xiu was replaced by Sun Xiu again and again. . . Until it was beaten by an enemy rider and collapsed. As a result, the friendly forces were reorganized and assembled and put on the battlefield, gaining particularly valuable time and buffer space.
The fighting spirit and tactical qualities demonstrated during this period are undoubtedly enough to become one of the models and considerations used by the Taiping Army to carry forward.
But by the second day, when the last group of chasing men also pressed the captives and captured the team to return; unfortunately, the leader of the army was not found, Li Hanzhi; only one leader was resisted. In the end, Yang Shihou, the general who attracted most of the attention of the Taiping Army.
. . . . . .
At the same time, to the southwest of Changsha City, the upper reaches of Liuyang River, which has been temporarily ignored, Li Hanzhi was sitting on a small fishing boat with only a handful of pros and unarmed shirts, wearing only single clothes and dejectedly sitting on a small fishing boat, struggling to paddle the water. Away.
Of course, the secret envoy and guest of Shannan Jiedu Liu Jurong sent by Shen Bin. Ziziwen’s guy is not as tough and stubborn as he says; after sending someone to take him to see scenes such as "ants on the tree" and "fish-flavored pork", it is easy to choose Compromise and cooperation. Although it's not knowing everything is endless, it is also the result of answering all questions.
From this, Zhou Huaian also obtained more news about the rebels from the imperial court; it served as a judgment and deduction for his next action.
For example, Shannan Jiedu's Liu Jurong, who once uttered a rant to keep the thief in order to save wealth, this time it was a rare occasion to urge his subordinates to march south; obviously there was a hidden result.
For another example, because he was dissatisfied with the personnel transfer of the imperial court, and he had grievances that he neither moved the town nor entered the army to fight for the thief, he was still the Jiangxi recruiting envoy Cao Quanluo who was sitting on the upper reaches of the Han River. Pursuing and intercepting the Huang Chao army down the river.
He was thinking about it when he heard a new report.
"Wang Zhongba asks for the crime..."
Zhou Huaian was taken aback for a moment, and then he was called in.
However, he found a bundle of wattles, bare-chested and carrying a weight of eight catties, and his back had been pierced with blood. Okay, this is really a real guilty plea, and I don't know where he heard and saw the means.
"Your matter has a cause, but it is inevitable. I will punish you to behave like you. Have you ever been convinced..."
Even though he thought so in his heart, Zhou Huaian still said in a serious way.
"Be convinced, this is what I deserve, even if I give up my life, it doesn't matter..."
He said very neatly.
"It's just that, please deal with it as soon as possible so as not to delay business..."
"I naturally care about it..."
Zhou Huaian glanced at him slightly in surprise.
"You leave your post without permission and you are out of touch with other departments, causing the officials and soldiers to cross the border and the north of the city to collapse. It is really hard to blame. According to the law, you should be punished for sixty and yelled for half a month..."
Under the current military discipline and rules of the Taiping Army, most of the punishments that are too complicated, or purely degrading, or refer to the physical injury greater than the symbolic meaning, have been spared, and only a limited number of punishment methods have been retained.
"Besides, it's useless for me to take your life. It's better to use a white body as the efficiency of my ministry for five years... You can be convinced of the effect of the funeral..."
"Take care of yourself..."
Wang Zhongba was stunned for a moment, and there was no time to think.
"Considering that the military is in a hurry, and you still need to lead the way and the forerunner, I will use ten lashes in public for the time being,"
Zhou Huai paused and said.
"The rest of the punishment will be recorded after Gangneung's siege is released, and then you can make one by one. I hope you can know the shame and be courageous, dare to move forward and be cautious..."
"Thank you, the leader, for giving me this opportunity to redeem again, and I should try my best to return it..."
He suddenly fell to the ground and said loudly.
"Leaders please wait and see..."
At this moment, Zhou Huai was celebrating with a slight flutter in his heart; another person who was still worthy of use got into my pocket; as the so-called reason is that the work is not as good as the past, is it even after five years of working under his own hands? Can you get out of your own trap and grasp
Of course, he had such a plan, mainly because there were too few generals that he could use together; he would have the idea of digging the corner of the friendly army. And this Wang Zhongba has at least both bravery and sufficient experience, as well as self-seeking; of course, if the consequences he causes are too serious, he doesn't mind using this person to kill him and try to follow suit.
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