"Your response is good."
Zhou Huaian looked at these ardent, angry, or slightly dazed faces, and couldn't help but nod his head applaud and said decisively:
"But in my opinion, it can be more proactive, and it is no longer limited to our stakeholders. After all, this is a living human life, and every moment there is a stake in the city..."
The generals headed by Chai Ping suddenly responded with a heavy and convincing response.
"Follow the teachings..."
"What the governor taught is..."
"Subordinates understand..."
"That... but I don't know how Huang Wang should negotiate..."
However, after all, some people couldn't help asking this key point: it was Yuhouguan Zhang Guibian who was following Wang Yanzhang, but Wang Yanzhang gave him a helpless look.
"Don't worry about these for now... If his old man can't control the situation, we will clean up and reorganize it..."
Zhou Huaian continued without hesitation:
"If it is really from his instruction, it is also seriously contrary to the purpose of my Taiping Army, let alone there is nothing to say; as long as my Taiping Army is in Chang'an for a day, I can't sit back and watch such a cruel and tyrannical thing! Naturally it is within our means. , Even if it can save an innocent citizen..."
"Next, in addition to the direct camp with me in Midtown, the other grenadier teams, teaching brigade, minor corps, striker and combat engineering corps, all who can come in handy will be brought to me... during the period. Those who dare to resist and continue to do evil will implement military laws on the spot!"
"Telling..."
"Yes..."
"Let's go..."
Dozens of generals on the scene could not help but lift up their spirits, and like Bo Yun, who loves you for half of the day, rushed to take the lead. Of course, Zhou Huaian had the evidence for such a decision.
Although most of the troops involved in the war in the pass have been withdrawn, as well as the corresponding enlistment of armed civilians and temporary staff; however, there are more than 40,000 mobile troops remaining in the pass, especially in various strongholds in the south of Gyeonggi, as well as on the front lines of Lamtian Pass and Dachang Pass. .
There are approximately fifty battalions of foot cavalry; moreover, most of them are relatively lean and concise in new rotations. After excluding one-third of the cavalry and their accompanying cavalry battalions, there are probably 20,000 new talents on standby. They can fully invest in the suppression and elimination of Chang'an City.
In addition, if there are more needs in the follow-up, you can also retreat the more than 50 battalions that have been retreated and repaired and supplemented in the vicinity of Shannan, and then pulled back along the widened Wuguan Road. And this is related to part of the dividends obtained in this war.
In this battle of Guanzhong and the offensive and defensive of Xijing, apart from the seizure of piles of armored flags and military assets; the biggest gain was those brought into the pass by the main force of the Hedong official army and the four major army troops. There are tens of millions of horses, cattle and sheep herds full of mountains and valleys.
Although I came to the pass and died a lot of diseases due to unacceptable water and soil, and suffered losses and consumption in the course of combat, and killed a part of it in order to be used as emergency rations; but in the end, it is still a considerable amount that is enough to make people jealous. number.
Among them, there are as many as 80, 90,000 horses left behind or captured in the battlefield, and later retrieved, and at least one-third of them are tamed military horses that can be directly ridden with saddles; and then the rest Most of them can also be used as the most basic military use of workhorses and gang horses.
In terms of the quality of the horses obtained, it far surpasses the sum of all previous wars, including several types of northern horse breeds in this era.
For example, the famous Dangxiang horse from Hetao Pingxia area; Yunzhong horse from Daibei mountains; Yinshan horse from Tartar outside the Great Wall; Hedong horse from Taiyuan and Jinzhong basin; Uighur horses in the Dudu’s Mansion and so on.
As for other livestock seized half as many as this amount, there are also separate uses for transporting animal power to breed fur and meat.
Moreover, it is different from the limited seizures of the previous pieces when fighting in the south. These horse breeds and other herds are all under the names of various tribes, and they are seized in large quantities according to the male-female pairing breeding population; also comes with ready-made herdsmen and grooms who take care of the horses, which can be described as a very thoughtful one-stop delivery. Served.
Therefore, the establishment of the Taiping Army in the pass also suddenly realized the happy trouble of the huge transformation from "people and other equipment" to "equipment and other people". Therefore, the priority before the withdrawal of the Taiping Army after the war was to transport these herds, especially horses and horses, back to the territory of the Shannan Dongdao non-stop.
Because it can be expected that these war horses will be used as the basis for reproduction and value-added in the future, coupled with the availability of personnel and equipment, as long as the assembly training in the eastern Shannan area can be completed, the cavalry force of the Taiping Army will also usher in a qualitative and scale leap. .
The most intuitive change is that the fifty battalions that stayed in the pass and were divided into three formations, the first realization of the ride on the head and the mule horse (trailer), are just corresponding to the new combat series. Training will take time.
Therefore, regardless of the cost and consumption, it is entirely possible to sacrifice a part of the mobility animal power as the premise to allow them to return to the customs in a short period of time; and even for Chang'an to devote himself to the battle sequence, there is no big problem. This is also where Zhou Huaian's confidence lies in his follow-up response.
Of course, when it comes to that point, the layout of many things and the short- and medium-term plans related to it will really have to be overthrown. But regardless of what kind of conspiracy and calculations were involved in the sudden outbreak of massacre in Chang'an, or what kind of attempts and planning, Zhou Huaian didn't need to bother and bother.
As long as the relative military superiority and the upper hand are dignified and crushed right now, "struck by force" and "response to all changes with the same" are good; at least in the face of the upright army advance, what ghost tricks and shamelessness There is not much room for further development without the use of counter-top methods.
In fact, with the order of Zhou Huaian, who was sitting in the gate tower, the city became more denser in the thunder of summer cannons; those scattered in the city for nearly a day and night, and the chaos of exhaustion and enthusiasm faded more and more. The army, like a beach at low tide, is busy leaving behind the wealthy children in his hands; and leaving behind many messes covered by smoke and fire, blood and tears.
However, with the roar of the city and the interspersed and division of the Taiping Army strike team, there was not much fighting spirit and organization, the order was broken, and the rebellious soldiers moved closer to the north of the city; at this time it was the turn of some other people. It's hard to wait. Soon, the Daming Palace, where Huang Chao stayed, greeted hasty visitors again.
At this moment, the yellow nest in Hanliang Temple is bald wholesale wearing a black laurel tube cloth loose uniform, and surrounded by a group of Fu Mu and palace people, each hand holds a silver piece of silver. The handle whisk and the handle of Ruyi inlaid with agate, with a look of love and affection, teased their two children, one big and one small, in turn;
Therefore, the number of people who came to report was enough to hang out in the lower half of the drum pavilion for more than an hour, and then the youngest king of Yidu, who was yawning and yawning as the youngest, was tired, and was punishable by his older brothers. After he took him away, he was able to introduce him in. At this time, they were already sweating all over their bodies.
"Come on, what's the matter?"
After re-immersing himself in the yellow nest in the cool wooden soup pool, he took the initiative to ask through the curtain: The leader of the army, the left servant and guardian envoy Lang Lizhou, and the general manager of the gate, Yang Jingbiao, almost alternately praised:
"The minister, please tell the king, the banner of the king of Hailing has been returned to the city."
"The Taiping Department in the south of the city is also moving in full force, and it has begun to advance from street to street..."
"Now I have crossed Jingshan Square and taken directly between the two cities..."
"Holy, this is the reason that this person has acted like this, I am afraid that he has already planned and planned, but it is necessary to prevent it, and it must be something..."
However, Huang Chao's face suddenly sank behind the curtain, and after a long suffocating silence, he said:
"I know it, let's step back..."
"Swing, follow the lonely to the Lingqi Palace..."
After a while, Huang Chao, who had cleaned his body, said to the servant left and right: And the location of the Lingqi Palace is where Empress Cao now rests the sick body. It's just that for the sake of her health and well-being, whether it is an internal or external life wife or an old family member of the past, she needs to give permission before she can go to see her.
This is certainly not because of the death of the Liu family whom Huang Chao once loved. He believes that he has spent all his life in the world and has accepted all kinds of beauties. How can he care about the life and death of a woman, even if this woman gave birth to a child for him, it will be a little bit worse. Pay attention to some. Not to mention the lighter and heavier under the crisis, he is not too old to be confused.
However, it was for another reason that made him feel a little bit knotty and did not hesitate to isolate the "fat-wife" in disguise after returning to the palace. Because she behaved so well, whether Huang Chao admits it or not, she can't deny it. She acted decisively in such a situation of internal and external troubles, and preserved her two children and the dignity of being a great Qitian family.
But on the other hand, she was not immune to the cheap son-in-law from getting too close; although Huang Chao gave her a face-to-face instruction before the personal conquest, leaving a blank edict that she could use to the south if necessary, but obviously she was able to do so. The incident and subsequent developments were far beyond my expectations.
And in this, although it is not as unbearable as the people say, it is unconvincing that there is no interest at all. More importantly, Huang Chao discovered for the first time that he, who has always been a Confucianist, seems to have different thoughts and plans.
Therefore, just in case, the day after he was welcomed back to the palace, he transferred the guards under the name of the middle palace on the grounds of strengthening the inner court's defense, and scattered and enriched them among the people in front of the palace. Then the inner guards of Weihe Mansion were sent to move Empress Cao to the Lingqi Hall to "raise"; but no more actions were taken.
After all, she is still a well-known queen in the middle palace, and she personally protected and rescued many ministers and military officers' relatives during the previous Chang'an turmoil; there is also a "good son-in-law" who holds a heavy hand and cannot be ignored. Diligent in greetings every day. Today's Daqi really can't stand up to more chaos and internal troubles.
In fact, today is also the second proactive meeting since Huang Chao returned to the palace. He still vaguely remembered the calm and indifferent look in Cao's before he was sent away; but now he has to meet him again. Thinking of this, Huang Chao sighed more and more heavily. (End of this chapter)