The thunder and lightning that occasionally illuminates the night sky is heavy rain, but it is unable to suppress the screams of killing one after another, and there are scenes of flesh and blood flying around the barricades; and sitting on the outside of the imperial city. Cui Anqian in Chengtian Gate was also staring at Chang'an City amidst the wind and rain.
The flashing campfires that represented the Taiping bandits and the street strongholds were being extinguished one after another; but the roar of firearms that once brought great obstacles and troubles to the counterattack and recapture of the officers and soldiers was never able to sound again. Be thorough. However, his mind returned to the previous day in a moment.
If it were some days in the morning, Cui Anqian would definitely not easily launch this apparently hasty and risky counter-offensive, but would continue to observe for some time due to the rain's obstruction and delay to prepare and prepare more carefully. Stabbing to find out the flaws in the front of the thief army, to give more precise and powerful key strikes.
However, now he is already on the string and has to send it out. The reason is simple. The situation he has to face is much worse than he thought. In fact, since the Taiping thief appeared in the city of Chang'an, everything went wrong, and the various offensives and countermeasures organized by the camp and the battalion have been repeatedly frustrated in the face of these exceptionally stable firearms. And never tried to get much cheaper.
Therefore, when he discovered that the government and army units had already consumed and lost too much power in these piecemeal local offensive and defensive attacks; he finally made up his mind not to entangle with them everywhere in the city, and only after the entire line contracted the forces and turned to the defensive, he became stable. After staying in the faintly shaken and disorganized situation, the demise of the Tiande Army in Nannei once again sounded the alarm for him.
Although he did not hesitate to execute Chen Anping, the Confucian official who came out to report and sing bad, in order to temporarily settle down the left and right minds, he secretly sent his trusted family generals to reward and lose the army. From the beginning, he investigated the situation of the remaining military orders; the result was that he couldn't help being disappointed and couldn't be optimistic at all.
Because except for the Hedong Army under his direct leadership, the other soldiers and horses that belong to each other basically have different degrees of false reporting, concealing and fabricating facts; the difference is only the severity. The worst thing is the fact that they all concealed and greatly reduced their own casualties, escapes, and injuries. They also arrested civilians nearby to fill the army, making a lineup still in place;
It also exaggerated the corresponding material consumption as a way of self-fertility, and bought and colluded with stakeholders in the camp to cover up and sloppy; the result was that the camp was too optimistic about the actual military power and had a lenient assessment. It would be fine if it were in the past, and it can be fully rectified and clarified in the following days, but it is the way to take trouble and find death on the front line of the enemy.
After all, those thieves won’t be soft-hearted in a life-and-death battle because of his tricks; therefore, the officers and soldiers have won all the battles on various fronts during this period of time. Unsatisfactory results and unfavorable situations are the best portrayal and proof.
But if this is the case, at least there is still room for shrinking forces to defend the three inner parts of the North City for a while, but at this time more unfavorable news is reported. An epidemic began to appear in the Imperial City. The first sign was vomiting and diarrhea. I thought it was because of the current weather that heatstroke had caused Sha syndrome. As a result, the officers and soldiers of the organization developed symptoms of diarrhea and dysentery.
After searching after the incident, I realized that because too many people were killed in Ouchi, and the bodies were too late to be properly buried and burned, they were thrown away indiscriminately by the soldiers. In addition, a large number of loyal and loyal scholars who fled in increased the consumption of water resources. And pollution caused the plague to erupt within a short period of summer.
Although he quickly took decisive measures to block the news from the outside, he closed and isolated the corresponding areas inside, took away those who had been ill in the name of treatment, put them together in lockdown and waited for them to fend for themselves; the army was strictly prohibited. The water from the various canals in the imperial city can only be taken from the Taiye Pool and the Kunming Pool in the imperial city; but this kind of thing can only be suppressed for a period of time.
Then, Cui Anqian decided to recall and concentrate all the scattered forces; however, he greeted the chief of the party department stationed in Xianyang and Meixian in the east of the city, and the envoy of Tuoba Sigong who was also the envoy of Yinxia Suijiedu. He still remembered the stern appeal of Tuoba Sijian, the messenger of the Party Xiangjun, who was kneeling on the ground the day before yesterday:
"After staying, please let me inform this formation. You must try to avoid using cavalry to directly fight the Taiping Thieves. The thieves’ weapons are really powerful, and they are often killed by dozens of steps away; moreover, they have never seen this when they are also mounted on war horses. Things, the first battle is easy to be shocked by loud noises and fires, and the so-called forward movement is often disintegrated on the spot..."
On the other hand, the Shulu messenger sent to the west of the city to summon the Shatuo army also rushed into the air. Although it was the Taiping thief’s emphasis on the Sha Tuo Army that made him decide to send it out and exclude it from the sequence of the Chang'an Raiders; but now, it is also because of the thief army’s importance that he is determined to send it out. The Sha Tuo army was recruited again.
However, when he needed this good fighting force most, these Sha Tuo troops also disappeared out of thin air, giving the huge eastern suburbs to the front line of Huazhou all to the hordes of thieves. So Cui An's hidden anxiety and unspeakable doubts also seemed to have gathered to a peak all at once.
After all, as one of the four major feudal vassals that have been conquered, Helian’s Hunk Retreat can already be confirmed to have been defeated in the south of the city; Tuoba Si Gong’s Dangxiang soldiers and horses are also difficult under the attack of thief forces outside the city Standing, fighting and walking all the way back down; but Zhu Xieyi Sheng and his Sha Tuo flying cavalry, who once gave high hopes, disappeared at a critical moment.
Although in the north of the city near Longshouyuan and in Beiyuan, there is also a Uighur soldier who belongs to the Zhenwu Jiedu Envoy Qizhizhang; there are about eight or nine thousand horses and more than ten thousand tribes, but it can only ensure one. A last resort and a rather limited rear radius. However, if it is used in other places, it also means that the camp is recruited and discussed within the customs, thus giving up the guarantee for the transportation of the rear grain.
Therefore, after weighing many pros and cons and learning from the pain, Cui Anqian can only make up his mind by this sudden shower; before the camp situation continues to slide into further weakness and collapse, grasp this possibility is fleeting. The opportunity to put all of his strength desperately.
At least he had bet on this beginning within a short time, although after sending these troops out, it meant that under the barriers of wind, rain and night, he completely lost control and command of these soldiers and horses. It can only be hoped that the soldiers of each army can perform their own actions and have their hands cut off; but for the peaceful thief who is also blocked by wind, rain and night but caught off guard, wouldn't it be even more disadvantageous and unprepared.
"Report"
At this time, an urgent voice once again penetrated the rain curtain and rang in Cui Anqian's ears.
"In urgent news from the north, a thief army suddenly appeared under Danfengmen in Beinei; the number of Zhaoyi army battalions waiting to go in the middle road were rushed and dispersed without any precautions. Wu (Quanxue) prison (junyuan) at the prison gate So that the spot is gone;"
"... Then Zhaoyimeng (Fang Li) commanded his army to resolutely resist the thieves, and fought in chaos at the door, but he asked the battalion to send troops to help..."
Cui An didn't change his face, but his heart sank slightly and fiercely. The accident he least wanted happened. Obviously, the reaction and countermeasures of the thief army were much more intense and swift than he expected. (End of this chapter)