But in the gunpowder and clamor once again dispersed under the city of Yangzhou. Qian Jumei, who had just completed the change of defense and delivery, also led the horse and left the camp that had fought hard for a little half a month. And when he embarked on the journey of purging the rear, there was still some vague nostalgia in his heart. It's like an old opponent who is used to playing, regret and relief that he has to let go of before he can decide the outcome.
However, he wasn't really able to relax afterwards. The second and third line troops that he is currently leading are composed of a large number of garrison battalions and auxiliary soldiers. In addition to purging and suppressing places with the assistance of the "three detachments", they protect the newly established Eying fields and villages, and rebuild follow-up order and grassroots organizations. In addition, we also need to guard against and guard against Liu Hanhong in the northern states.
On the city’s head, a grand public sacrifice was just completed, in which the demon Dao Lu Yongzhi was executed and burnt to ashes, which slightly boosted the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city. Yang Xingyuan also watched indifferently at the lowering of the flag with the word "money" and the raising of the flag with the word "Zhu" in the city.
Next to him, Dai Yougui, one of the fellows and counsellors in Luzhou, also said:
"After staying, now the thieves are sharp and strong, and they cannot be used as the front. But they can defeat the crowd, not the enemy. But they can be used for a long time, if they avoid and leave, they will be captured."
"Huainan's scholars and people started from the public to the public, and there were a lot of them from the thieves' army. The public should send them to the city and choose the best and strong to fill the army. Then the thieves will stay in Guangling for a long time and spend more and more money, and they will all live. The heart of thinking is the time when the officer and the army win the opportunity..."
"Be it what you say..."
Yang Xing nodded stunnedly, but sighed in his heart. Now that the thieves under the city are regaining their strength, I don't know how long it will take before they will usher in the expected turnaround and victory.
In the northern territory of Haozhou, Zhou Zhizhong was already surrounded by the Huaixi Army under the banner of "Liu" and mixed colors. In the camp that was gradually being established, carts of carts and carts of looted objects, as well as a bunch of unkempt, crying men and women, were constantly being escorted over.
However, after taking and plundering Shouzhou all, Liu Hanhong, who was standing still under the bell in the city of Haozhou, did not have much joy. Because he has received news from his fifth younger brother Liu Hanyou, who had only paid his life after he fought in the battle near Qingliu City; you should know that he has specially selected five thousand horse-step athletes, including one thousand. The veteran of the horse team following his rampage in Jianghuai!
Even if five thousand stones were thrown into the water, it would be a big splash! However, according to the words of the people who fled back, these people were just a face-to-face battle under the clearing process. They were separated from the thief army and fought with firearms that covered the sky in the field battle. It was smashed and broke.
Are these Taiping troops so difficult to deal with and rival? Therefore, as a follow-up to the defeat, all the scattered people who escaped, including Liu Hanyou, have been controlled by his orders. Anyway, he secretly ordered Liu Hanyou to act, but basically no one knew about it.
In this way, once those peaceful thieves find clues and clues, and want to pursue them reluctantly, he can chop off the heads of these "self-initiated" and "privately provocative" people without hesitation, thinking of the confession and treatment on the table. past. If it is really tight, even Liu Hanyou can hand it over according to his psychological bottom line.
Although Goro is a brother who has followed him for many years, in addition to his bravery and cleverness in battle, his vision and pattern are also the same; if his head can be used to preserve his own foundation , Liu Hanhong also didn't mind the pain of giving up one or two. Thinking of this, he turned around and said to the others:
"The local money and grain must be searched in time, and Ding Zhuang must also grab enough as much as possible; think about as many as there are."
"Don't care about the attitude and meaning of those Tu Tuan Zhuangzi. If you don't listen to the greetings or persuasion, just open it for me!"
"Our roots and feet are still under our hands. There are not many people and horses, and they are not strong. Other people's hearts and hopes are nothing. No matter how much they are, they are empty heads... As long as we can gather soldiers and horses in a short time, even in Yangzhou city. The one who speaks can be treated like he fart."
"Not to mention that the Taiping Army in the south has already killed Jiang. We must also prepare for our lives. We must know that Yang Hanzi was surrounded by people in Guangling, and Sun Ru was also hiding in the mountain. There is only half a breath left in Yangcheng, who knows which one will be the next turn? Naturally, all the forces that can be used must be used?"
Having said that, he couldn't help turning his head and asked one of his subordinates:
"Has the messenger who crossed the river to Qin Zongquan in Caizhou responded? Is he going to sit back and watch Sun Ru and die in Huainan? There are also the Probation Army and Wuning Army in the three towns of Huai Shang. Does it make sense? Send someone to Caizhou to negotiate, saying that if he doesn't want to make any effort, if I can't stay in Huainan in the future, I won't be able to get him to go down and talk about food..."
At the same time, Sun Ru, who converged and accommodated the remnant of Bi Shiduo in the city of Shanyang, also received a message from the messengers who descended along the Huai River:
"Lian Shuai sent someone to support him, led by the Fourth General (Qin Zongheng)?"
Sun Ru's expression suddenly became a bit cloudy.
—I am the dividing line —
In Gaoyou County, near Yiling Town, a ruined area. In addition to the "Dongling Madonna Shrine" handed down in the Han Dynasty to worship Du Jiang, a strange woman, the southern Zhejiang temporary battalion soldiers headed by Lin Qianjun have just searched here. Then, amidst the sound of a gun, from the waist-deep grass on the rubble, a gray and autumnal fox suddenly appeared.
After a short shout and chase, Lin Qianjun was still able to shoot and hunt the skinny fox in the wild with his eyesight and hand. He shot this thin, miscellaneous fox with a continuous crossbow and nailed it to the ground. Then he was led again. After getting up and weighing the weight, he couldn't help but curled his mouth. It was too thin and weak even if he was shaved clean, I was afraid that there would be no more than three pounds of meat.
Of course, although the meat of this wild fox has a strong smell and is not very delicious, people who are really hungry and impatient will not care at all. What's more, he didn't have the ingredients such as spicy pepper and salt from the army that could suppress the taste. And after this little fox skin is peeled off, you can still make a fur hat or a two-handed mattress.
This is one of the most discoveries and results they have searched this way. In the past few years in Huainan, you have come and I have fought a lot. The most common thing is to expose the skeletons in the wilderness from time to time and the various wild animals active in the wilderness; the living people who can really meet in the wilderness are more and more. The less.
Therefore, as a peripheral search team, they have so far found five villages that are suspected of being human-traveling, and as soon as they saw the foreign sergeants, they disappeared or ran without a trace. Even because of the famine and the transit of refugees, even the birds, finches, and rabbits that are easier to find and catch in the wild, were all caught up.
So that it was supposed to be the end of the autumn season, but the sound of birds, chickens and dogs in a hundred miles is dead and quiet, and it is hard to imagine that this is in the rich world of Yangzhou. This made the soldiers of southern Zhejiang, who were used to the prosperous and prosperous places in Jiangdong, full of human fireworks and knowledge, felt a little uncomfortable and felt like a foreign place.
Of course, it's not that there is no sound at all. In the process of burying one's head on the road, occasionally lonely and creepy crows will be heard on the trees; and when camping at night, you can hear the wild dogs and even some jackals in the distant mountains and forests. The call of the leopard.
Afterwards, this structure was not as big as one entering the yard and one main hall, two large and small equipped houses, and most of the ancestral temple with its outer walls collapsed. It was simply cleaned and cleaned up from the weeds and rubble, as such a team ( Thirty-seven people) Search for staff’s booking campsite.
Although the main hall has collapsed in the rubble, and the two supporting houses are broken and shattered like a sieve from the sky, for these sergeants who need to camp in the wild, there are at least a few relatively complete pieces. The wall can be used for wind and shelter, and it is also more convenient to rely on the building itself to set up temporary partitions and guard posts for placing beasts, snakes and insects.
After that, the spare rubble on the corner of the wall was piled up to form an earthen stove, and a tin bucket filled with water was put on it, and it was slowly baked with dried firewood and sawdust. After the water splashed faintly, some dried cakes and rice dumplings were dipped in some water and applied to the side of the bucket to continue baking.
As the faint smell of grains began to disperse, the packhorses and mules gathered behind the broken wall of the main hall were almost fed and brought to the grass cakes and small pieces of soybean meal; and they snorted with satisfaction. The observation post on a towering tree in the yard has also been arranged to complete a section of lead rope that is easy to climb.
At this time, searching for Lin Qianjun by the dry pond behind Daozhengtang also made new discoveries. But it was a stone stele buried sideways in the floating soil, and some inscriptions were faintly visible, but it was the stele inscription of "Our Lady" left by the monk Huai Su in the 9th year of Tang Dezong Zhenyuan (793) when he passed through here.
However, while he was continuing to look at the inscription, a faint movement made him prick up his ears, holding a knife and looking sideways vigilantly. But no wild animals were found.
Later, he called other soldiers and searched the small courtyard by the pond behind the main hall, but found nothing. This couldn't help making people feel suspicious, and then more people were called, and they took tools and searched for all the debris on the ground. (End of this chapter)