In Chuzhou, the low Tieshan and Langya mountain communities that wind diagonally from north to south are like an irregular spine raised on the flat land of Huainan, and Hongzepu (the predecessor of Hongze Lake) is formed in series with large and small lakes to the north. , It happens to divide the land between the Huai River and the Yangtze River into two large areas of Huaidong, which is a large flat river network, and Huaixi, which is scattered with hills and waters.
As one of the hubs and key points, Zhouzhi is outside the city of Qingliu. Unidentified soldiers and horses from the north were already in the sound of the horns, and they did not hesitate to raise their swords and spears to form an offensive formation; they began to separate out many small groups of pawns, chasing and chasing the Taiping Rangers who wandered around. And detective.
And Liu Hanyou, the capital who gave orders in the center, also believed more in his sons. Because most of them moved from the North to Jianghan, and then from Jianghan to Huainan, the heroes and current thieves who fought for thousands of miles and fleeing in the war;
I have defeated all kinds of local officials and army and defeated the rebels one after another, not to mention the annexation and slaughter. I don’t know how many local armed forces. Also, under the crusade and pursuit of the imperial court and the vassal army, they are still suffering from death and injury. The toughness of docking to survive, and the Jedi come back again and again.
Therefore, whether the official army or the rebel army, the grass thief, the tuguan or other weapons that explain their names, in their eyes, they use love to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, or just a temporary name for their benefits; not to mention. Have the corresponding awe and compliance with other similar emotions.
Of course, Liu Hanyou, as the leading general, has the corresponding prudence and attention to the enemy. After all, these Taiping thieves have landed a large area south of the river, which is naturally the basis for their martial arts and strength. At least the Zhenhai camp, which was destroyed at the beginning, can be regarded as the head of the powerful army in the southeast.
If it weren’t for these peaceful thieves’ acting styles, they would be obviously too rigid and cruel for most people under the banner of the same righteous army; and blessing Huaixi with enough aggressive and threatening posture, even Liu Hanhong himself might not have enough thoughts and ideas. Determined to be the enemy to the end.
At least after Yang Xingmin gained power and became bigger, it was a big confession, but after these peaceful thieves intervened in Huainan, could it be possible to stop looking at Shu at this point, and have nothing to do with the Huaixi prefectures or Qiu? I'm afraid the situation facing the Liu brothers will be even worse.
Therefore, it is necessary to assess the situation and attack the enemy overtly in order to follow the trend, and secretly use it as a response and foreign aid, in order to maintain the current situation of stalemate. This is the most basic way to keep one's wealth and power.
Liu Hanyou still remembers the dignity, worry, and sighs that his brother had never seen before; whether it was the court admiral who once drove him, Cao Quanzhu, who was known as "Cao Nandi", was the dignity of the balance. Wang Duo, the "wealthy prime minister", who almost brought him to death, has never seen such a concern.
In the original words of the older brother, he hadn't understood or understood from the early years what exactly the master of the peace thief who started in the Lingnei wanted to do. Isn't it true that everyone cuts off and dominates, so that they can be taken and dominated, so that they and their subordinates can enjoy wealth and wealth
If you have to do some kind of righteous principles and high-sounding propositions to constrain and confine yourself to your family, is it not happy and comfortable? However, when he finally understood what the "Monk Zhou" wanted to do and his purpose, it was already too late.
It turned out that this person wanted to use this as the distinction and discrimination of the world's obedience, and to smooth out the undesirable things in the world. However, Liu Hanhong and others, who are vying for power on the Huaixi side, are naturally unavoidable if there is a chance in the future.
But at this time, he has established the general trend of dominating the two ridges and having Jinghu. Even the Daqi New dynasty, who has entered the two capitals and Guannei, has to try his best to win over and show his favor; let alone the intricacies of the Guandong and Lianghuai. The local power.
As for the orders of the King of Huang and the new dynasty of Qi, they can be restrained and restrained; it is better to learn from those foolish men and women who have been passed on by word of mouth, and believe that the chief governor of the Taiping Thief is like the current Buddha or Bodhisattva. Transformation, and have a natural compassion for the suffering creatures in the world.
Therefore, after the limited temptation to hand over with it across the river, one after another frustrated and defeated. The eldest brother can only bend his knees to show weakness by pretending to be humble. In the false and peaceful situation of peace and quiet for the time being, he has to pass for a while without having to think about these troubles and worries, and he concentrates on dealing with and dealing with the various forces in order to obtain all of Huainan. .
However, with the steadily retreating of their own forces, the collapse of the Lu's one-party civil strife and the rise of Yang Xingmin, it is inevitable that the military forces of those peaceful thieves will inevitably be drawn over. So in the words of the older brother before leaving:
The current Huaixi Recruitment Headquarters cannot bear the price and consequences of being openly hostile to it, but it is also unable to sit back and watch its prospects for defeating the Yang family. The key to all this lies in the ability to cope with Liu Han. On the scale.
Therefore, Liu Hanyou, who was hiding in the army, suppressed the slightly disturbed and eagerly complex mood, and once again emphasized to the left and right:
"Remember, my generation only harassed and burned the corresponding grain, grass and carts and horses, and don't faint and attack the thieves directly."
"All means are mainly to contain, as long as it can't maintain the full force of attacking and pursuing the city, it will be enough..."
"If it is arbitrarily advocated, and thus ruined the big plan of the brother, even if your generation is immediately killed in battle, a certain family will not let go of the relatives in the village!"
After that, this army ran with all its strength again, like a black and turbid wave, passing over the barren fields and the ruins of the village burned to white background, and then, in the northern outskirts of Qingliu City, where the fighting was in full swing, it encountered The first band of thieves came to fight.
Seeing that the opponent lined up in such a rush, the array was in the unobstructed wilderness, and there were almost no cover-ups such as refusing horses, arranging guns, and walls. Liu Han couldn't help being shocked and overjoyed. Is this how these thief forces shouted
Shouldn't the usual good fighting army, facing the impact of the horse team, be the big armor, long spears and heavy shields in the front, supplemented by the bows and crossbows in the back. Or is it simply to use the superior horse team to rush straight ahead to reverse the attack; or is it to avoid the limelight at a disadvantage, and roundabout to contain the flanks? .
Although he was so puzzled in his mind, it did not affect him to take advantage of the trend and encourage him to shout:
"Zukajiro worked hard with me, and the first kill is right in front of my eyes."
Before he finished his words, he saw a puff of smoke rising from the enemy formation in the distance; a Huaixi cavalry who rushed to the forefront suddenly burst out of thin air. . This is like a terrible aura that is unknown; one after another, someone turns into fragments in the air, or disappears with the horse's head and upper body out of thin air.
And looking from above them, you can see that as the air faintly whizzes through the dense swishes, one after another splashes of sand among these rushing cavalry, and then gives the cavalry that is right next to you. It was overturned and overthrown on the ground, but it was like a stone thrown into a rushing mountain stream, and it was quickly trampled on by others in no time.
Therefore, just for a moment, these Huaixi cavalry, who were almost unmoved by this casualty, still maintained an unrelenting momentum, had already rushed to the front of the enemy within dozens of steps. It was seen that these peaceful thieves still did not have any tendency to change their formations, but crouched down a row from the front row, revealing the jerk in the air layer by layer in the back row.
Suddenly, a thinner light smoke enveloped them one after another, and the faintly visible descriptions suddenly became distorted and weird. This time, the Huaixi cavalry, who were more advanced in the lead, seemed to be lashed by the invisible force in the air, or they were installed with transparent obstacles. With the mount that suddenly lost its strength and stumbled, it slumped head-on among the dust.
At this time, the Huaixi Cavalry, who became thinner and thinner as they continued to fall from their horses, rushed to the enemy's position within ten steps of their bravery, and began to wave their spears, spears and hand axes. The blood burst into the thieves array to smash sporadic gaps, and then tripped over again by invisible power, overturned in the dust.
The rest of the Huaixi cavalry who followed up were also shocked by the strangeness of the casualties, and then lost the courage to continue the battle; seeing that they no longer considered their goals and throwing weapons indiscriminately, they all called out. The horses turned sideways and scattered left and right, and gave up the battlefield to running to follow up with a large group of teams;
However, the roar that was almost close at hand rang out one after another. From the rear of these seemingly thin and extremely thief forces, clouds of gray and white smoke rose again; and they became faintly visible trails and tracks in the sky. The arc, plunged into the Huaixi pawns of the brigade that had caught up, and a bloody and tragic scene broke out.
At this moment, whether it was the five-color group cards used by these Huaixi soldiers to guard against arrows, or the standing formations taller than the shoulders, they were both pierced and torn apart in front of some indescribable huge force. The soldiers at the back turned into countless broken pieces of large and small pieces, and continued to blast and splatter them on the bodies and faces of Zakanjin.
And this invisible huge force, even after being blocked and deflected, continued to bounce and hit, smashing the next one, and the next obstacle, before it was exhausted and turned into one deeply embedded in the mud A sphere; however, in the array of pawns where the re-emergence passed, there was already a scarred gap scattered with stumps and struggling groans, long or short.
However, the blow from the face did not end. Those thief army arrays that dragged the wounded and the dead to replenish, began to burst out more dense sparks and smoke; almost head-to-head, head-on to disrupt the momentum and formation. Huaixi's pawns ran through them head-on, overturning one piece after another, and began to panic and flee and evade.
"Go back, fast back... Go back and do it again..."
And Liu Hanyou, who was splashed with a red and white face by the flag bearer who suddenly burst his head beside him, couldn't help but screamed in shock: Then his mount suddenly wailed and knelt down on the ground with a bent leg, and put him on the ground. Throwing off forward, the man who fell on the spot was not able to stand up immediately.
When Liu Hanyu lost his helmet and was lifted up by the soldiers, all the situation before the battle was irretrievable. After losing the banner and the guide of the Chinese army, there was no one anymore. Accepted the order to reorganize and fight again. And the seemingly incomparably thin array of thieves, but in a certain kind of drums and flute sounds, they began to divide into many sections and slowly advanced.
And as they walked for a while, stopped for a while, and stomped on the street, the green smoke that still spit and bloom from time to time from their hands became the battlefield of shifting offensive and defensive battles, driving all the defeated troops to flee like a tide. symbol. Any hesitant or stagnant figure in the field of vision will be fired and fired by them without hesitation, turning into a live target full of blood spurting on the spot, let alone wanting to concentrate and fight stubbornly.
On the head of Qingliu City, the defenders, who were excited and inspired by the arrival of this unknown reinforcement, also followed the sudden turn of the battlefield in the northern suburbs, as if they were suddenly pinched by the throat of fate, and Qi Qi gradually lost his voice with cold hands and feet, and even started crying in a low voice.
In the direction of the main camp of the Taiping Army in the south of the city, a special flaring gun mounted under the iron-panel-shaped assault cart, also along the aisle cleared and paved by the engineers, braved the head of the city and slammed the guns like rain. , Rolling woods and falling rocks, ash bottles of hot coals, as well as the corpses that were shot down by the fire guns and crossbows that were pushed on the ramparts and behind the carts; close to resist the tightly stuffed The city gate is located. (End of this chapter)