Wuzhou (now Jinhua, Zhejiang) is the westernmost town in Longyou County.
The Eighth Army You Lang who described Cangsang, Cheng Dayai, was also in the rain and fog, looking dumbly at the temporary station that suffered heavy losses and was full of injuries and illnesses. There are five full-fledged partial teachers, and that's all for now.
A total of more than two thousand young and strong brothers were gone; in addition, after gathering the soldiers who had fled and returned after being broken up one after another, there were probably more than one thousand people still missing. I don't know if he was captured or killed, or fled and went into hiding.
You know, these are all new soldiers and old members of the rebels that he has continuously trained, selected, incorporated, and eliminated during the battles in Jiangxi's sweeping and surrendering of military affairs. Even if the battles across Jiangxi were combined, there was not as much loss as this time.
Speaking of which, after so many years of fighting under the banner of the Taiping Army, his family’s ruined enmity had long been reported; but when he saw the opponent’s banner, he couldn't help but urge the troops to attack.
Because that was Zhang Zimian, the former imperial general Wuwei, and the deputy to the south of the army, who also defeated and besieged the chief culprit of the former general Wang Xianzhi. After the rebels broke through his retired Zhushan hometown, he disappeared, but he didn't expect to see another situation in Chuzhou.
Not to mention that the Fuzhou provincial governor who had fled from Jiangxi was full of irony and disturbed it; and it constituted a great obstacle to the Taiping Army's southern front war. Because Wei Quan satirized this person who was quite familiar with the methods and tactics implemented by the Taiping Army at the local level.
Therefore, in the southeastern part of Zhejiang where the hills and mountains are mixed with small plains, a certain sense of tactics of clearing the wild and strong walls, resisting and depleting was adopted. Local food and supplies, along with young adults, were forcibly gathered into the surroundings and docks.
If you dare to delay and resist, the light ones will be tortured at home and the heavy ones will be slaughtered on the spot; because they are the officers and soldiers shouting "It is better to be in the mud, not to be used by thieves." The slogan will be one. Villages and towns everywhere in the wild have become like ghosts.
When the Taiping Army came first, they were faced with only a bunch of old and weak women and children who had been poisoned and waited to be fed, but could not provide any assistance; and the dead bodies scattered on both sides of the road. Whether it was the source of local news and guides, or the people's foundation that could be mobilized, it seemed to have ceased to exist overnight.
After seeing this situation and situation, the Taiping soldiers under his command became even more enthusiastic and morale violent, and they wished to insert their wings and kill these poisoned people immediately, search them out, and put them to trial and punishment.
With the support of this kind of excitement and atmosphere, they broke a fence and a fort without stopping; they quickly executed a batch of large families with a simple and rude knife. In this kind of rapid fire-like pleasure and catharsis, the sharpness and vigilance are gradually worn down.
Then, they tasted the bitter fruit and the price of not enough, or lack of greed, under the city of Wuzhou. The so-called local counterparts in Kaicheng were quickly extinguished and killed by the officers and soldiers who had been prepared to sit and watch their success.
Then, in turn, he calculated the Taiping Army. After Cheng Dayao's soldiers entered the city more than half of the time, they were besieged by the army ambushing in the city, the soil group and the town army gathered outside the city, and at the same time raising the flag.
It was not until afterwards that Cheng Dayao realized his many shortcomings in military strategy and emergency response;
For example, when he was confronted by the enemy, he actually rushed with blood, thinking about the risk of desperate once again, assaulting the exposed Zhang Zimian to save the situation. If it weren't for Chen Du'er, who was beside the camp, desperately grabbed his mount, I'm afraid he would get in too.
In other words, from the beginning, he has stepped forward to fight more steadily, ignoring the deliberate provocation and harassment of the officers and soldiers. If he is not deceived by the impossibility, the pleasure and ease of sex, he may not be so easy to enter the game. It was such a terrible defeat.
Although as a follower from the old camp of Stormrage, there has always been the trust and support of the general governor, letting him take the lead in the situation in Zhenping Jiangxi. He also consciously did a good job at one time; but after meeting the real officer Jian Rui, he still suffered a lot for his contempt and negligence.
It is foreseeable that his failure will lead to the follow-up of the South Road strategy in which Jiangxi, Lingdong, and Fujian can be integrated into one line, and more problems and obstacles will appear. This is also the biggest sin he can hardly blame.
"My belly... After this matter, I am going to resign from this ministry..."
Thinking of this, Cheng Da-bite said to Chen Du'er, an army-bound officer Yu.
"Uncle Cheng... Lang Jiang, why is this? Our Taiping Army can't afford to lose.. How many defeats the Rebels have suffered earlier, this is not the case."
Chen Duer persuaded in surprise.
"I know, but if it's not like that, the hurdle in my heart can't be traversed..."
Cheng Dazhe said with a solemn expression.
"The chief governor saw that I was an old man who followed me in the early years. But I can see that now my skills and structure are not enough to bear the weight of this trust. Even if the chief governor continues to trust me. , I don’t have the face to stick to it anymore..."
"Na Lang will you...?"
Chen Du'er couldn't help but become more puzzled, did the other party feel discouraged and want to retreat.
"After resigning my post, I plan to go to the workshop for further training. In recent years, the Taiping army has grown bigger and bigger, and more and more people are working; I am afraid that I will leave too much, too much. too much.."
When Cheng Dayao said this, he looked at Dao Dao in the distance with a firmer determination.
"I will learn it again in the future, and then I will continue to repay the trust of the governor, so as to avenge the dead and wounded brothers..."
At this time, someone from outside hurriedly shouted again:
"Report, those native troops are here again... and they have prepared siege equipment."
And dozens of miles away, in the city of Wu in Wuzhou Prefecture, Zhang Zimian, who was gray-haired and arrogant, was also looking at the devastated battlefield outside the city in a complicated mood.
These Taiping thieves had obviously suffered more than half of the enemy's damage to their stomachs and backs, and they were able to summon their courage to fight and retreat without chaos, so that the new troops and soldiers who were responsible for besieging, chasing and intercepting the troops, were tired and depressed and gave up one after another.
Not to mention that it was so easy to catch hundreds of prisoners, and most of them were hard bones who refused to bend their knees to surrender and beg for mercy, and couldn't ask many useful things at all. Therefore, in order not to influence and shake the military's scheming, he had to order all of them to be executed.
Although it has just achieved a great victory, it is considered to have broken the rumors that the Taiping thief swept Jiangxi and Hunan, and there are few rivals. However, in his leisure time when he was alone, he couldn't help falling into a certain dazedness and loss.
Because he has always believed in allegiance and fighting, but the court that gave him too much sadness and disappointment is gone. There are also sloppy fish and dragons everywhere, no longer caring about the authority and system of the country.
The villa is now robbing the two capitals of the Huang Rebelling Puppet Dynasty, and the Taiping thief who swept south of the river, one south and one north divided the world's main general trends.
Nowadays, the royal banner is still honored, and only Huainan Town, which stands on its own in the north of the Yangtze River, is left, and the lingering remnants of the two Zhejiang provinces in the east of Jiangxi are left. It is even harder for these two Zhejiang provinces to have peace and kindness.
After all, he defeated only the Taiping thief from Jiangxi province. And the army led by the leader of the Taiping thief was still attacking the city to the north, and the news was not stopped.
You know, that was the second of the world's giants that swept Annan, Liangling, Jinghu, and even Jiangxi and Jiangdong, and finally got a foothold.
Now it occupies the seven places between the southwest and southeast, and the population under its jurisdiction is afraid that there are not millions of people. Even if it drives and entraps one or two of them, it will be an overwhelming situation or a disaster.
Although he had been martial arts prosperous in his early life for the country to fight thieves and horses, he also had the old and new hatred of his hometown being destroyed by the thieves; no one was more determined and determined in fighting thieves and protecting the realm.
But in the face of this situation, he was still faintly pessimistic and disappointed that he didn't know the way out. At the beginning, he escaped from his hometown in Zhushan relying on the desperate guards of the trilogy of the family next to him. The original idea was to go north to the court to make a difference.
However, on the way to Taizhou to board the ship and go to sea, he and his party were repeatedly attacked and robbed, which still made him realize that this is the way the world has gradually changed.
Therefore, he had to stop in Chuzhou, and merged a nearby self-reliant man and horse. Then he snowballed the seven counties in Chuzhou, about a dozen large and small people and horses.
Then Luyue, a local official who was born in another branch of Fanyang Lu's family and was stranded in the local area, was pushed to the position of the governor. Behind the scenes, he presides over the overall situation. Among them, the three thousand Wenling soldiers under the command of Liang Zan, the former Wenzhou defense envoy, were his greatest support.
Therefore, he had already given up on the idea of going north to serve the court, and instead wanted to unify the states in southeastern Zhejiang, and then seek evidence for the observation of the entire territory of eastern Zhejiang. Retreating in this way can protect one side of the country, and advance can turn the tide and the southeast.
In this way, once he restores the two-Zhejiang pattern, it is for the court to regain an important piece of the puzzle in the rich land of Southeastern China. There is also a natural foundation that is not subject to the implementation of the engine system in this troubled world.
After all, after witnessing with his own eyes the peace and turmoil in the world, he also learned from the pain that he must change and purge in order to clarify the top-down filth caused by the traitorous officials for many years.
Therefore, Chen Yan's subordinate, who was killed out of Fujian Province, became the best excuse and opportunity for him to merge the forces of Kuo, Wen, Taiwan, and Wu in southeastern Zhejiang one by one under the banner of united confrontation.
In fact, he did it personally. By coming to receive those lost, barren fields, he was able to gather the refugees and began to implement the law of military garrison on the frontier. On the one hand, it cut off the soil that has become thieves, and on the other hand, it is also self-sufficient.
On the other hand, we unite and win over powerful people such as rich surnames and big clans in the local area to achieve mutual protection. They also recruit and recruit the children of wealthy businessmen and officials in the city to enrich their tents and subordinates.
Therefore, it quickly spread and extended to Kuo, Taiwan, Wen, Wu and other places with Chuzhou as the center, forming a rare concerted effort to rejuvenate the weather.
The enemy went deep into the Fujian army and Taizhou territory, which had broken Chenyan, and caused the former deputy general in the south and the general of Wuwei, Zhang Zimian, to resound for a while in eastern Zhejiang.
Then, taking advantage of the victories, he began to patrol everywhere, appointing officials to severely punish illegal and troubled places; to comfort the people who are suffering; order the family of the surname Hao to continue to donate money and food, and unify the relief of the lonely homes in the city. .
Because he has also realized that in order to cut off the root cause of this thief's recurring troubles, in addition to the martial arts of frontal killing and annihilation, the same is also about the struggle for popular trends.
As for the Mingzhou governor Zhong Jiwen who has risen to the north, in a sense, he wants and has the biggest opponent in eastern Zhejiang. Because once the opponent enters Yuezhou, they will naturally get the status of the Zhedong Observatory and the upstream victory.
Despite this, this time he was still at stake in his lips and teeth, and he divided his troops to support the overall situation in the name of Luyo, the governor of the state. I hope that the opponent can hold on for a longer period of time under the pressing attack of the Taiping thief.
In this way, he was able to completely close the door from Shang to Fujian while dealing with the invading thief army from Jiangxi, so as to avoid the worries of going north to the decisive victory in the future.
Then, he saw a general hurriedly approaching, arching his hands and shouting:
"The general, Hengling Town, Songshan Town, and Longquan (Tu Regiment) Army, went on their own to attack Longyou... Said I want to give you a big surprise..."
"Outrageous..."
Zhang Zimian raised his thick eyebrows in anger.
According to his strategic deployment, after defeating the active offensive from Jiangxi Taiping thief, he should be trapped for a while, and then he should try his best to solve the remnant of Chen Yan entrenched in Pingyang and Fenshuiguan.
Then, without any worries, can slowly eat up this rather tough army of thieves. (End of this chapter)