However, by that night, the situation took a turn for the worse.
"Enemy attack..."
"The water is gone..."
"The Taiping Thief is here."
Li Cifei, the general of Wukang Town, was awakened by his anxious subordinates again amidst the roaring and shouting. In the camp of Wukang Town soldiers, there were people with disheveled clothes or bare-armed running around. The flow of people, as well as the fierce flames of fire from near and far.
Even if he was quite brave and bravely wielding a long-handled broad knife, and took the lead to chop off a number of messy pawns that rushed in front of him, splashing blood all over the place, but he was still unable to gather the courageous and frustrated them again. Can stop the general trend of running away.
In the end, he could only be separated by the burning fire, and the sound of the approaching fighting; helpless but sighed in grief and indignation, with the last dozens of his followers gathered around him, hurriedly sought to stay away from the fire. Go out where you are.
And when he stayed away from the burning camp, he fled to the distant Hangzhou Junben in front of the final move; but it was the town deputy Li Ju, who was also struggling to kill out from the other end with his men and horses, and the thieves who were in ambush blocked the camp gate. At the same time, the left and the right rush to the right, unable to get away and gradually fall to the ground after exhaustion.
At dawn the next day, when Li Cifei came back with his backup Yanguandu’s children, he saw the grass thieves’ car array standing along the riverside of the road, which stretched back and forth a lot. And the cutting edge was cleaned up and re-reinforced.
Obviously, when these peaceful thieves attacked Wukang town soldiers at night, they also received corresponding support and supplements; and they used a battalion at the intersection of roads, rivers, and Tianze to create one in vain. The inevitable basis is coming.
In the car formation, the newly transferred Jiangnan locals, the loyal and simple-looking old yellow sheep, were also asking the captives captured in the night battle in a wide voice.
"Where are you from..."
"There are a few more people in the family..."
"Why did you become a soldier in the first place? Was it because the family didn't have enough food or because they couldn't make it through."
"Our rebels only deal with the big and powerful, and we will not plunder and bully the common people. If there is hardship, we can still give out relief... In the final analysis, these poor people, what is there to make people plot? of.."
"On the contrary, you children from the village of the Penghu Family, who have spared their lives to work hard for these powerful families, working hard to preserve their wealth and power, but what is it for?"
"Is your life only worth the deceit and deceit of those "protecting the environment and the people"... I am afraid that you have not done anything less about burning, killing, looting and ruining places with them, but how much do you get from fighting and plundering? ..."
"Our rebels are completely different. Not only do we eat and wear warmth every day, we also have acres to bear depending on the amount of our efforts..."
"What, it would be better if you were from a salt farmer; don't you know that the generals of the rebels, the king of the sky, and the generals of the sky, are all salt sellers..."
"If it weren't for the people of Henan, who couldn't afford the imperial court's expensive and inferior salt per liter, and the whole body was swollen and dying, how could the two of them succeed... This is the source of natural intimacy."
"Nowadays, the rebel army eats the best blue and white salt, and the one sold in the army (about 0.15 kg) is only five dollars. It is not lower than the cost of your hard work to chop the grass and cook the stove to cook the salt..."
"Come on, bring him out a can of insight..."
. . . . . . .
And on the Gouli Mountain in the south of Dantu City, between the lush greenery of the cascade, a conspicuously towering wooden arm signal tower is swinging in the wind with multi-section curved arms for reflecting and reflecting light. It is a streamlined exchange of various messages and orders.
"Since the outpost in Xianghe Village, Gaitai Town and Baoqing Temple, there have been five banners of Hangzhou Badu..."
Ge Congzhou, who is in charge of holding the line, also talked in front of the sand table map.
"In the battle of Xianghe Village, the 6th Battalion of the Second Army and the two horse squads in the front line, confronted Tangshan and all commanded Rao Jing, killing hundreds of enemies, and defeating more than a thousand... The official army has been chased and advanced. By the side of Xiaoxiangdu, dozens of boats and a certain amount of baggage were captured."
"There is also a temporary fifth battalion, the seventh battalion in the squadron, plus a cavalry regiment. When Yu Gatai Town encountered the new city, Du Leng and Linping both attacked Cao Xin’s troops. Liu Meng'an and Ruan Jie, who belonged to Qingping Capital, came to help, but they retired by night burning fortifications. They are already regrouping and regrouping the team near Jurong..."
"Outside Baoqing Temple, the first mover composed of the jumping army and the selected front soldiers, even defeated the soldiers of Huangling, Yanxia, and the Virgin under the command of the potential capital Wu Wenju, forcing them to retreat sharply in the starry night... before and after they were killed. Several hundred, the lieutenant of the battle has won more than one hundred mules and horses..."
"Are the defenders in Dantu City still quiet... This old dog is really calm..."
At this time, Sima Gao Jichang, the teacher responsible for supervising the construction, suddenly spoke.
"It's okay, no matter whether he can sink or not, this Dong Chang's Hangzhou army has to deal with it with all its strength..."
Zhou Huaian was an understatement.
"It doesn't matter if you lose most of the camps outside the city. As long as you hold the corner of the river with the cooperation of the navy; as long as you solve the Dongchang road, even if the old thief Zhou in the city is as stable as Mount Tai, it will be fine. It's just a slight difference between dying early and dying late..."
By temporarily setting up signal towers on the commanding heights of the hills near Dantu and the towers and pavilions of the temples, Zhou Huaian can still grasp the dynamics from the outer battlefield relatively quickly, and methodically control the chips and trump cards in his hand, gradually Into the corresponding local battlefield.
Several Taiping army generals, such as Zhu Cun, Zhang Juyan, and Cao Shixiong, have also been assigned by him to sit in and integrate the other rebel forces guarded in Jurong, Yanling, and Qu'a; they are not asked to take the initiative to attack or confront the enemy, As long as the city is strictly guarded and the enemy is not allowed to take advantage of it.
Compared with most Taiping army generals from Lingnei, they are obviously more familiar with these traditional rebels; and they can control them with the cooperation of fewer capable personnel. And if the official army rushes to attack, these cities will become wedges and iron felts that entangle the enemy, and then, with the help of the main force of the Taiping army, they will be smashed and crushed.
In addition to these other rebels with uneven strength, Zhou Huaian still has 12 battalions of soldiers, the 21st battalion’s garrison and new and temporary personnel, and the reserve of seven supplementary battalions. Dominate and invest in this battlefield.
Therefore, in most cases, the Taiping Army has only to wait for work or wait for work, supplemented by flexible and flexible late-competition methods to deal with the all-round offensive of this route.
At this time, a shout suddenly came from the post on the outside.
"The city of Dantu moved..." (End of this chapter)