Outside the city of Jiangling, among the troops going away, Shandong Jiedu Shi Liu Jurong, with a scorched beard and bruised eyebrows, glanced at the "Tai Ping" flag floating on the top of the city, as if he wanted to Draw it deeply into the center of the eye, breathe out a sigh of relief, and slapped away.
The enemies who have fought in the city are so different from the past. Not only can they be able to conduct field battles with the officers and soldiers in a decent manner, but they can also fight in the chaotic and complicated city. Not only does it have a complete range of well-equipped soldiers, but it also has a variety of uses and ambushes.
Therefore, it is not so much the grass thieves of humble and humble origins, it is more like a well-trained official army.
As far as Liu Jurong is concerned, since Qizheng is not enough to gain the upper hand and victory, then the only thing to do is to transfer in in time to quickly stop the loss and save the strength. After all, his enemy is more than the grass thief that suddenly appeared in front of him; and the causality that led to the defeat of the Jiangling Raiders was also quite suspicious and problematic, and he had to keep a hand for himself.
After all, in order to attack the important town of Jiangling, he had lost 30 to 40% of the 50,000 troops that he had led south; he divided the troops to overcome the Hunan provinces and the food and peripheral areas and went to 30%; plus the disadvantages of repeated battles in this city of Jiangling. Loss; as a Shandong Jiedu envoy, he commanded the military administration of the seven prefectures, and subordinated the cornerstones of the remaining eleven prefectures, which was already in jeopardy.
Compared with the titles of Shangshu, Xiangzhou Provincial Governor, and General You Jinwu, Shandong Jieshuai is the biggest foundation for him to stand in the ruling and opposition; as long as he can continue to hold power, no matter how big losses and losses are, he can pass the The confession and the place required by the imperial court were restored.
And the foundation of this Shandong Jianya is the dental army on the inside and the camp soldiers on the outside. Then there are the defenses, guards, soldiers and horses of the various prefectures under its jurisdiction; outside are the united children of the Shandong prefectures, the local soldiers (in the front), and the Tutuan army (in the front).
Only hate that before and after the battle of Jiangling, he successively damaged more than a dozen generals under his command; especially in the battle of kicking camp outside the city, several generals were sunk in the firearms of the grass thieves.
Among them, from the Guilin defender to Yongqiao Town’s deterrence, he followed Zhang Huchen, the courageous township general, who was in front of the horse, and was burned to coke on the spot when he rushed into the enemy camp; and there was also a nephew who had followed him for many years and was also detained by the military. Ya Liu Congxin, a few steps away from his side, was killed by a cannon stone thrown to death without a whole body; and then another clan brother Liu Yiqiu, who was also a battalion cruising soldier and horseman, was drowned in the grass thief when he broke off. In the middle of the attack. . .
This is undoubtedly a painful loss for Liu's trilogy, who has always been fighting father and son soldiers, killing enemy brothers and gangs, township party and relatives as the mainstay of the army. Therefore, he couldn't help but give birth to a strong retreat on the spot.
However, for Zhou Huaian, who finished the command in Jiangling City, in the end, under the leadership of the Shandong Jiedu Envoy Liu Jurong, there were still two to three thousand officers and soldiers who managed to escape from the battlefield and look north, but they were helpless. Things are up.
It's not that he didn't want to completely leave the opponent behind in the first battle, or try to win the merits of a large imperial court; it's just that the army has expanded several times in size during this period, but the organization and training standards are correspondingly high. But it has dropped significantly;
Although it has gone through a lot of combat training and running-in in the previous stage, the problem that it is difficult to last under high-intensity continuous combat has emerged from this. On the other hand, those cavalry units formed in the south gradually showed the problem of insufficient horsepower in larger-scale battles.
Therefore, once the time of the attack is prolonged, it is easy to show unsustainable fatigue; especially in the face of an enemy who wants to break through and get out of the enemy, there is more than enough blood to intercept and tenacious. Containment, it seems a bit weak and not enough.
Therefore, when both the inner and outer parts of the city must be paid close attention to, he can only give priority to the part of the food that has been served on his plate in the city, and for the time being let go of the enemy who is less likely to outflank the enclosed area in the battlefield outside the city.
In the end, the navy "battle ship" chasing along the river almost lighted up all the artillery and arrows on the ship, and the loaded pawns had landed ashore before returning one after another; but in addition to causing more damage In addition to the many follow-up killings, it has not been able to leave the formation of the official army as before.
After all, although the rebels suffered a great defeat, they still retained a considerable part of the elite officials of the mountain (south) east (dao) camp. Even in the midst of defeat and contrarian warfare, he still has more stamina and resilience and he is good at drowning.
Therefore, under the support of them as the core, only a short time to stop the reorganization, the defeated officers and soldiers can be reunited; and the cost-effectiveness and results of the subsequent pursuit and harassment are getting lower and lower.
After retreating from Jingmen County, there was even Yu Li Mingxiu who flew through the plank road secretly to stay in an ambush, and the front and back flanks severely damaged and defeated a follow-up temporary team. Then the Taiping navy who was in charge of alerting the river also saw an officer who came to respond under the banner of Jiangxi Recruitment Envoy Cao Quanzhu.
In the city of Jiangling, with the Shandong Army’s Dajun and the general flag captured from the battlefield outside the city, the city’s head was hung up for the first time; the remaining officers and soldiers who were still encouraging each other to resist, seemed to have been transferred to the end. A trace of blood and bones, crying or screaming at the scene, but most of them lost the will to resist and stopped.
There are also very few stubborn people who are quite resolute and heroic who want to commit suicide on the spot, but because of the fatigue of a long battle, once they relax, they can't even wipe their necks and poke their eyes, and become anticlimactic. Severe self-harm injury.
As a result, this somewhat anticlimactic battle of Jiangling came to an end.
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On Jiangxi Road, outside the city of Poyang in Raozhou Prefecture (now Boyang City, Jiangxi), Yang Shigu, who had just arrived at the local wharf by boat, also looked at the scene of turmoil in front of him, and was a little speechless. But then he spent a lot of time and finally found a familiar old acquaintance in the local area.
"Master Yang, why are you still here..."
The man dressed as an ordinary citizen couldn't help but be surprised.
"In the battle between Poyang and Leping and Yugan, the rebels lost several battles. The left commander of the navy army, Xiang Xian, was not in battle, and the rest of the generals were all cast into the army..."
"Now Huang Wang's main formation has led his army to retreat to Xinzhou (now Shangrao, Jiangxi) for reorganization."
As a result, their solitary riverboat reloaded a few rebel soldiers who had fled to the nearby vicinity, pulled out the anchor and set sail and continued to follow Yu Shui southward. After crossing the also abandoned Yugan County and arriving at Guixi County in Xinzhou, I encountered the first in-situ fortification and the rebel forces behind the palace; and then they once again learned from them that the General's Mansion had been standing in Yiyang. news.
It was the next day before Yang Shigu saw Huang Chao in the general mansion temporarily set up by Yiyang County.
"Brother Shigu, it's good if you can come back, just come back..."
Huang Chao, who looked a little lean and haggard, immediately grabbed his arm and shouted.
"Hurry up and settle down for Brother Yang..."
Looking at this scene, Yang Shigu suddenly felt a little touched. He suddenly felt that after losing the glitz, chaos and confusion brought about by riches and extravagances, the one who could not be beaten and hammered at the beginning, he became more and more courageous in adversity. The King of Huang is back again.
"But I don't know if the things (property) shipped out of the ship are still in order..."
However, immediately after the other party came to a sentence, his eyes sank again and turned into a certain bitterness, and then Yang Shigu said in a difficult voice.
"It's pretty safe..."
"That's good, then these things will be of great use to me"
Huang Chao continued without realizing it.
"But you have to continue to bother..."
"..."
Yang Shigu nodded helplessly, at least he could continue to contribute to the rebels.
"You also know that the situation in the military mansion is a bit bad right now. All who can escape have fled, and there are also many who have defected to the army..."
"The current plan is to try to bring back the rebel brothers who were previously assigned, and work together to overcome the difficult situation..."
"I also plan to make peace with the officer and army... I thought it would be a temporary delay."
After greeting and reassuring, and explaining the current situation for a while, Huang Chao stared at him with scorching eyes.
"Now that the manpower in the military mansion is withered, I hope you can go there for me to explore the truth and truth... Be sure to convince the Zhang thief that the rebels have the meaning of pleading for peace..."
"it is good"
At this moment, Yang Shigu's heart was suddenly surging. There were thousands of words to his lips, and in the end there was only one word that was so important. After he turned and left.
"Why didn't you tell Junjun Yang that we also echoed Zhang Thief among the officers and men..."
Someone turned out after the wall of the front hall of the county government office, but Shi Huang Rui, the leader of the right, questioned.
"That's to better win the trust and Zhang Yitou..."
Huang Chao sighed with embarrassment.
"In today's rebel army, there are not only many people who want to secretly communicate with Guangou... If you do not act secretly, it will only ruin the overall situation and the lives of Brother Yang..."
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