According to the general statement among the captives, there were at least 10,000 officers and soldiers who originally besieged Jingmen City; Zhou Huaian also worried that Liu Jurong, who had fled back after the round, would regroup and become a new obstacle and resistance to the Taiping Army.
This allowed the remaining water vessels that were obviously overused, risking disintegration and loss at any time, dragging their chasing troops northward to seize the opportunity. How could they all surrender after seizing the village overnight.
However, after seeing these surrendering officers and soldiers with his own eyes, Zhou Huaian was basically relieved. Obviously, Shandong Jiedu made Liu Jurong's army, not plainly able to change. Especially the soldiers and armor lost in the previous year's Raiders, it is not so easy to make up.
Therefore, when his main force attacked Jingzhou City, the besieged troops entering the gate city were gradually adjusted and replaced by him in batches, which was a true sense of the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled.
Therefore, in the temporary prison camp near the wall, almost all kinds of yellow-faced and thin people are holding the dry food paste provided by the Taiping Army and the potato powder soup with the skin in hand and mouth;
It was even conspicuously mixed with the gray-haired old man and the dry hairless boy. Obviously, while maintaining the army, Liu Jurong brought all the male labor that could be recruited to participate in the offensive.
However, in comparison, Jingmen City, which had changed hands twice and became dilapidated in the trenches, was not much better; in the end, only those who were able to stand up to meet the large troops were less than a thousand wounded.
The only one responsible for leading the team was a regimental lieutenant in the original three battalion squadron. As for the existence of other employment agencies that are higher or equal to him, they are basically dead or injured or missing on the battlefield; and he is the only one who can still jump around.
Zhou Huaian called on this lucky warrior in addition, and when he inquired about the enemy, he discovered that his name was Du Hong, who was a member of Yuezhou who had defected to the rebel army by the local soil group.
Later, after the Taiping Army went northward, it was merged with the rebels stationed there; after being broken up and renewed, because of active performance, he became a team leader of the supplementary battalion, and then he was promoted to the brigade commander by accumulating qualifications. Lieutenant.
He is quite a representative figure under the rule of the Taiping Army.
Then all the way, the Taiping Army was regrouped and continued to work hard. The water and land advancing like a broken bamboo attack has not much defensive force, or the defenses are all escaped and extremely empty in Changlin, Lexiang, Yiqing, Sidao, Nanzhang and other cities;
At a small price, he took the only water and land transportation that had hundreds of officers and soldiers to defend and resist. After Zhelinshu, Xiangyang, the seat of Xiangzhou Prefecture and Shannan Road, completely opened up to the armed forces of the Taiping Army. Embraced.
Just standing on a steadily moving boat and seeing the city of Xiangyang in the sky faintly appearing on the banks of the rushing river, Zhou Huaian thought of it for the first time, but things like "Huang Rong Xiangyang Postscript" and "The Heroine in the Military Camp" Literary works such as "Men".
Okay, put aside all these nonsense. According to the homework done in advance, this city originated from Beijinshu in the Spring and Autumn Chu Kingdom. Later, it was repaired and built by Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and Zhu Xu, the governor of Liangzhou in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. pattern.
Although it is not the "iron-struck Xiangyang" that was created repeatedly in the late Southern Song Dynasty. However, the existing pattern with a full circumference of nine miles and eight gates by land and water is also the location of a rare big city and Xiongcheng in the land of Jingchu and Jianghan. Bai Juyi once wrote the poem "Three Poems of Sending Wei Wei": Xiangyang Jiuli Guolouyin Lianyunshu.
On the east and south sides of the city are the Han River, which flows from north to south and turns to the east, as well as several tributaries that converge around the city; while the large areas of suburbs to the north and east are covered by the Purple Mountain, It is protected by mountains such as Lumen Mountain, Wanshan Mountain and Xianshan Mountain.
As for the pontoon bridge of Hanjinshu on the river, it is connected to the town of Fancheng on the opposite bank of Hanshui River; thus forming the advantage that the north and the south are mutually contradictory and the sound is connected.
At least compared to the several big cities that the Taiping Army had attacked before; such as Songping (Daluo) City in Jiaozhou, which is surrounded by rivers and three rivers on the back of the lake, or Jiangdong Runzhou Dan, surrounded by embankments and surrounded by two mountains. Tu Zhongzhen, etc., did not give in, but they were more successful.
It can be said that if you want to be siege under this kind of terrain, it is not impossible, but you have to pay a great price with the cooperation of waterways; and if you want to carry out a siege, you can deploy a wide range of troops. The room for deployment or deployment of attacking troops and equipment is quite limited.
Therefore, I have successively served as the governor’s office of the Sui Dynasty, the Dudu’s Office in the early Tang Dynasty, the Xingtai Shangshu Province, the Comforter, the Interview and Disposal Ambassador of the Mid-Tang Dynasty, and the Shandong Jiedu, Observer, Transit, and Salt Ambassadors in the late Tang Dynasty. Tie Xunyuan's resident and management office.
It is usually said that there are forty-seven thousand seven hundred and eighty households and two hundred and fifty-two thousand one. It's just that after Liu Jurong's Shandong army troops are mostly destroyed under Jiangling City, I don't know that there will still be defensive power left in this city.
This is because Liu Jurong, the head coach of the official army, can be called shrewd and capable and cruel in his local appointments; he controls the city quite tightly, and even adopts a strict attitude of Ning Fu not indulge.
Therefore, although there were peripheral militants of the Taiping Army who harassed the city from time to time, there has been little progress in investigating news and other intelligence work in the city of Xiangyang.
For a long time, Jiangling has only had two or three hands of indirect information provided by private business travellers to make inferences and judgments. Despite this, Zhou Huaian, who was on the verge of a big victory, still had the corresponding interest and confidence, weighing and calculating the length of the reorganized tens of thousands of tigers under his command.
"Pass my order,"
Thinking of this, Zhou Huaian cut his voice.
"Subordinates are..."
Suddenly, there was a harmony between the left and right.
"Let Wang Zhongba's navy blockade the river surface, and coordinate with the fifth battalion soldiers of the Fourth Army under the left formation Wu Xingchen to cross the water first, and then use the same formation and fire throwers as support and reinforcement."
"The camera took down Fancheng Town in Anyang County, which cut off Xiangyang’s connection and assistance to the north of Hanshui..."
"Observe military orders..."
The Zuo Jin Lang general Wu Xingchen, who was wearing a drape and becoming thinner and thinner, exchanged glances with several other people in a moment of excitement, and immediately bowed his head in joy.
After all, these old subordinates of these old stormy camps these days are all moving along with the trend and most of their performances are generally good, and there is basically no place or opportunity to shine.
Therefore, seeing the more and more powerful soldiers and talents gathered under the Taiping Army, the old rebels from the Stormrage Camp can't help but secretly feel a bit of urgency and crisis.
Although the leader has always been very concerned about his old feelings, he also treats those old brothers who have followed his side and worked hard. Even if you can't do anything after retiring from injury or illness, you will be able to provide a place to live and eat and drink for a long time. It is not a problem to ensure that you can spend the rest of your life without worry.
But the problem is that Wu Xingchen and the others are still young, and they still have a lot of time to make a difference; let him hand over his duties in the army, keep his military status and benefits to the rear, and have a leisurely life. Decent and favorable position, but the result is far from what he wanted.
Therefore, not only must he be conscientious and conscientious to be his true character, he must show a resolute attitude of leading the horse and the leader, different from those who are newly attached and effective; he must also try to seize every opportunity to make contributions to show and embody himself. The value and usefulness of these old brothers.
At least you must keep your current position and not be given more options for latecomers to dominate or even replace them. You know, in the increasingly complex system of the Taiping Army, there are hidden factions of various origins and relationships.
They not only forge ahead hand in hand under the concepts of "Taiping Field System", "Sacred Treasury System", "Taiping Outline", etc., under the common banner, goal and proposition; but also under the subtle differences of their respective demands and specific positions, they maintain mutual competition and A situation of checks and balances.
At the beginning, in addition to the old brothers who were the first to follow their home, there were also the Annan local faction led by Qu Chengyu, Zhang Biao, Qiu Huan, and Fan Chuo; together with the soldiers gathered in Lingnan, so Constitute the Wuling children; among them, there are nuances between the old school of Chaoxun's origin and the new school of Guangfu's origin.
In addition, there are Zhong Yi and Zhao Yingong as representatives of the so-called Liberation Faction, who surrendered and were captured anyway, and grew stronger. Among them, they are naturally divided into two groups: the Hakka soldiers of the Long March and the local Wuguan old group. Each has an inextricable relationship with Annan's local school.
Later, as the Yellow King's army marched northward, the Taiping Army went out of Guizhou and attacked the city in Hunan. After that, they successively collected and reorganized many old members of the rebel army. In particular, Wang Chongyin, Cao Shixiong, Zhu Cun, Zhang Juyan and other old rebel generals and generals successively handed over their troops to join in, making the competition situation they face more complicated.
Therefore, even if Wu Xingchen is still one of the first six masters appointed by the leader, he is also the crane tail with the strongest sense of crisis.
After all, Chai Ping, who has the highest status in Master Liu's book, has supported that person's natural kindness when he was down. As long as he didn't make a big mistake, he was one of the well-deserved deputies;
The Laoguan and Cheng Dajiao who stayed in Lingnei, although they were born with the lowest qualifications and did not stand out, they were the first old people to follow the front and back of the horse when he first joined the rebels.
Su Wuming, who belonged to the back formation, secretly took refuge in and hugged this thigh early, and he was subordinate to everything, and he belonged to a candidate who was easy to use and would not easily change.
On the other hand, Lu Fang, who was born as a school lieutenant, is an old acquaintance who has cooperated well in his early years, and he is basically content with the status quo. It is estimated that he will retreat to the rear to meet the generals at about the time. Pan is accompanied.
It’s like the last Liu Liumao is much better than him, because he is not only from the head of the king’s personal team, but also the only general of the horse army in the early rebel army. No matter how many candidates are added in the follow-up, he can’t. With his qualifications and prestige.
Therefore, under his thoughts and thoughts, it seems that he is the only one to show kindness and attitude at the latest, and he is no longer indispensable. If he can no longer work hard and have a chance to perform.
In addition, because he secretly inquired about the clues of something, it prompted him to make up his mind.
As everyone knows, now that the eight chief officers who have completed the eight military orders are currently only part of each, there is no direct appointment to whom. And only a few people have been implemented in the appointment of local defense officers.
As the great cause of assisting the Yellow King in the Eastern Expedition and the Northern Expedition was basically settled; coupled with the re-leveling of Hunan and Jingnan, rewards for meritorious deeds and appointment of corresponding duties are also imperative.
Although he firmly believes that the great cause of the Rebel Army must be achieved, he is also convinced that the theories and propositions of the Taiping Army will definitely change the world, but it does not hinder the desire and longing to take a step forward for his own sake.
If you miss this last chance to make a contribution on the battlefield, you may be left behind for a long time in the future. Therefore, he did not hesitate to ask Chai Ping, Su Wuming, and even Lu Fang to pass on words and stand for him, only asking for the starting position in the first match. (End of this chapter)