"The Huainan soldiers are in chaos, and the campfires are like flowers in the daytime.
In March, without hearing about the war of officials, the family of the emperor's office is empty.
The wind blows the weeds and weeping birds, and the rain is dark and the city is noisy.
If you want to hang the hero, there is nowhere to ask, the setting sun goes to the east of the water. "
The name of "Huainan Rebellion"
—I am the dividing line —
In the Qilian (mountain) road, one of the three roads into Shu, the snow-capped mountains dominate all the year round, straight into the clear blue sky and white clouds. The gradual dyeing, the endless mountains, the mottled kip stones, the turbulent rivers and scattered villages and fields, and so on, all set off the extraordinarily small and humble.
And in a thin and inconspicuous circle winding up among the mountains, a group of ant-like horses and horses rushed along. They were covered in dust, heads and faces, and they didn't know how long they had been driving away. They saw that the mount's mouth and nose were already full of solidified saliva, and the robe was covered with frost and sweat-soaked dirt.
Until one of the riders suddenly fell out of their front hoofs, and led the knight into the dust and mud, he slammed out and landed on the mountain wall, but struggled and never stood up; the others galloped away. After waiting for this, the people in China were shocked, and stopped in one after another.
When they dragged the knight out of the wailing horse, they found that the other party had already vomited blood and fell into a severe coma. They couldn't wake up no matter how they slapped and called, and the horse also broke its foot. Unbearable to reuse.
One of the knights couldn't help but angrily fell off his sweaty helmet, and muttered to the leader:
"Du Ya, can't go on any longer, neither this man nor the horse can bear it, and there will be more damage!"
"Then don't set up the account, choose a place to rest for a while before leaving!"
The leader called Duya sighed helplessly:
Then, they quickly found a depression on the side of the road that was hanging down the mountain creek, and freed all the things carried on the horseback, and laid a paving on the ground to form a temporary camp; while leaning on the sword, Place the spears and bows and arrows diagonally within reach, helping each other to release the armor and tabards that can be screwed out of the water.
The other riders were not idle either. One wave tied the injured rider in a coma to another flight attendant horse for replacement; the other group silently stepped forward and held the injured horse together, and then one of them pumped. The knife was stabbed under the horse's neck, and blood spurted out like a fountain of blood, and he was caught in the wound with a skin water sac quickly by his eyes and hands.
After bloodletting and receiving several bulging skins, the broken-legged horse finally stopped neighing; then, someone unfolded the folded holster on the saddle, took out many knives of various sizes, and re-started it from the horse's carcass. To the back of the foot, the back buttocks, and the side of the neck, many bloody meat pieces were cut out, and they were hung on the back of the saddle with hooks;
Then, someone offered a water sac filled with fresh horse blood, especially warm water, to the leader Du Ya; watching him take it without hesitation, he took a few big mouthfuls of booze, and then passed the other horse blood sacs down. Drink each; it's like a proficiency that has been done countless times. Then a small bonfire was also raised, and a lot of naan cakes soaked in horse blood and dried preserved bread were baked.
At this time, there was a small figure that was hugged from the specially made saddle seat on the horseback. But it was a child whose head and face were covered up tightly by a tou and gauze. Du Ya then took out a large copper pot that was a little bumpy and bumped from the corresponding pack horse, poured out yellow tea soup on the cup-shaped lid, and gave it to it with both hands.
Then, the first pump of water from the mountain stream was given priority to the children, and gently splashed on the arms and face is considered to be clean and cool; other talents then pumped water and poured it on themselves and the mount. , Immediately washed the next red and black water color.
And among the resting knights who saw this scene, some people sighed secretly:
"Suo (Xun) Dalang is really a wolf-hearted thing. It's not enough to lead the troops to murder the leader (Zhang Huai-shen) on the grounds of welcoming him, and even the whole family will be killed? If not all of them, just I'm afraid that the youngest one won't be able to escape; it's a pity that little lady..."
"It was Zheng Xianggong of the dynasty who supported him, and he was backed by the soldiers and horses he brought to the towns in Hexi. Not to mention the branch of the Zhang clan, even the Li and Cao of the Guasha clan. , The Long clan of Suzhou, and the (Uighur) Pugu family of Xizhou, shouldn’t they also succumb to the power of his Soxhlet
"Even if he changed the parents and sons of Taiwei Zhang (Yi Chao) (Zhang Huai Ding), wouldn't everyone have blind eyes? Didn't the leader (Zhang Huai Shen) stand up with his own hands? Is it possible to eradicate the merits of the liver's blood and dedication and dedication?"
"People in the world are righteous after all, and they will never be a shameless person who regards him as perversely and harms Shangguan..."
"That's also a future thing. The most important thing for us right now is to escort Xiao Langjun out of danger. After all, the blood of Lord Yiding cannot be cut off from our hands. This is the first-line opportunity that Li (Mingzhen) Changshi has won for us. ."
"Although this is the case, but when they ran all the way, Soxhlet's gangs are also in hot pursuit, and who dare to accept and shelter, it is best to just pretend to be a gift to pass through the border without knowing it, such a desperate situation. When will you be the head!"
"It's not like I'm talking about it. As long as we can drive all the way into Shu and seek to meet the emperor in Xichuan, we can temporarily settle down for my generation...Walking in the middle, even the prime minister may not be able to cover the sky with one hand... "
"I only hope so..."
All that is left is a sigh with complicated meaning;
The limited amount of firewood burned out at first sight, and then someone brought more newly cut branches and leaves from a distance, and then pressed on the charcoal fire and suddenly turned into a thick smoke, the raw horses that had been cut down. The meat was also covered, and it was smoked to prevent spoilage on the surface.
However, it didn’t take long for this hastily smoked and roasted, I heard the birds in the distant mountains behind me, and once again the horns that made their complexion changed greatly, because it came from staying behind. Rangers warned.
"I'm on it so soon? Is there anyone in the local area who provides them with assistance?"
Du Ya also muttered to himself in a somewhat unbelievable way:
—I am the dividing line in the escape —
Under the Guangling city of Yangzhou, digging overnight and gradually reaching the winding trenches near the city.
Lin Qianjun, the temporary third camp team of southern Zhejiang, was also looking at this magnificent giant city that occupies almost all of his vision. I couldn't help sighing again, if it wasn't for some internal response or disorder, what would be the means to win this Huaizuo famous capital.
The current status quo is that although his troops defeated most of the official army and soil regiments in Yangzhou, they were unable to completely encircle the metropolis. Because the huge city of Guangling is tens of miles long and three feet wide, there are eleven gates of various types of land and water.
Among them, the three main gates, the west, the south, and the north, each have three doorways and a double front and rear urn city. It can be said that the city defense system has been inherited in the past dynasties. Therefore, the more than 10,000 attacking East Route Army gathered with Hailing County as the core cannot completely control all the city gates by dividing the troops.
Once the greed for the full allocation of troops is reduced, the Shouhao Army occupying the city will easily form a partial advantage for each to defeat; therefore, the newly arrived deputy general of the attacking army, Qian Jumei, simply redeploys the centralized force advantage. , Focusing on the western part of the city with the largest number of land and water gates.
Then only in the south and north of the city, lay down the rangers and outposts that are only enough to provide security, and only wait for the police to attack nearby. As for the relatively narrow three east gates surrounded by the Caohe River, they simply gave up completely and put them down. A posture of letting go.
As a result, the various temptations and containment methods of the Shouhao Army in the city have ceased a lot; the Taiping Army’s combat direction has also shifted from being surrounded and suppressed by obvious incompetence, and began to set up barriers to block and intercept. Those officers and soldiers who are constantly gathering from other places and want to defect to the city of Yangzhou and the soil groups.
At least for the time being, the number of combat troops in the Eastern Front Army may be limited, but there are more than enough heads of labor to provide follow-up operations. Therefore, under the cover of the bluffing feints initiated by Qian Gumei and the small noises and harassment operations at night.
With a large number of husbands gathering in front of the battlefield carrying lights and working together day and night, when the inland defenders finally recollected and wanted to harass and contain them, they found that most of the round-the-city operations had already been carried out; Instead, he stepped on a buried firearm when he attacked at night, and suffered a small loss.
Then, relying on the firearms and formation tactics that the Taiping Army is good at, plus the few but precise but quick-reacting maneuvers in a small area. Although the frequency of peripheral battles suddenly increased, but the corresponding pressure and consumption of the Eastern Front Strike Force was reduced a lot;
After these seven or eight days of fighting, not only a lot of seizures were made; they even used the miscellaneous people gathered from outside as the pretexts and introductions to prepare for the Shouhao Army who came out of the city to fight for several battles, but they were still counting. There was not much downside in the battle; the basic requirement of restraining the enemies in front of them with the outnumbered opponents was fulfilled.
In this way, among the Eastern Front attacking troops, there was a lot of noise about this surrendering officer who was a junior officer and a lieutenant who was born in the local area of western Zhejiang; the last question about his ability and why he should use a surrender to boycott himself, etc. It also disappeared immediately; and it turned into a compliment for the general's vision and spirit.
After all, a battlefield with no room for opportunism is itself the best touchstone of ability. And unless it is a person who is jealous, jealous and irrespective of the overall situation, under the current internal atmosphere of the Taiping Army, no one will reject and resist the leader who can bring himself advantages, advantages and prospects for victory.
Of course, no matter how lively the fighting here under Yangzhou City is, it can’t compare to the military reports that have been advancing all the way along the Central and Western Lines; there are a lot of Mian, Huang, Qi, Shu, Lu, and other rebels in the territory. With the states, they changed their flags or went down almost overnight.
It wasn't until the light soldiers hit Chuzhou territory, at the foot of Langya Mountain and Tieshan Mountain, that Qingliu, the city of Zhoucheng, was blocked by the general Shouhao Army, who was based on the mountain, and Tao Ya led the 30,000 soldiers and horses to the west. Stopped in the footsteps.
Therefore, Lin Qianjun will inevitably become impatient when he hears the news. Compared with the confrontation under Yangzhou City where there is a limited scale of conflict, he used to be the general purpose of the southern Zhejiang Allied Forces. Isn’t it an opportunity to make achievements in China
Although he has accumulated enough qualifications in the temporary camp in southern Zhejiang, he wants to join the firearms sequence dominated by the archer team (gunman) or the fire thrower (grenadier).
Just as he was hiding himself in the trench and thinking to himself, he suddenly saw the city gate on the opposite side of the road, and suddenly the raised railing was opened from the inside out following the turning of Kang Dang. (End of this chapter)