In Chuzhou on Huainan Road, outside the ruins of a village that had been burned by the fire, the Kunpeng Green Banner of the Taiping Army was flying.
A finely forged beast swallows the drape of a thin-scale water-patterned steel breastplate, and the extraordinarily sturdy Huainan Clashing Army Lieutenant Qian Jumei, suddenly threw an empty can into the sky, and he heard a bang. A pre-installed firecracker hit the spot, and the flock of crows that had fallen into the ruins was once again started to fly.
"Thinking again is really good archery!"
Qian Gumei couldn't help clapping his hands and exclaimed:
"The deputy has been praised, but is it the merit of this excellent equipment?"
The military academy named Xu Zaisi was a firecracker with a slender body hanging down, and he lowered his head and said in a modest voice:
"It's not like saying that. If you have the same vision and accuracy as you think again, you only have to gather the hundred and eighty people in the battlefield to fight and fight against the leading generals and warriors. How many people can resist and endure it? I'm afraid it's not a good way to lighten the enemy's power with a few enemies."
Qian Jumei was half applauded and half thoughtful: He had personally seen that this military academy, who was said to be an Orion in the mountains of western Zhejiang, used this equipment longer than the ordinary standard firecrackers, and his eyes were quick and fast. Killed more than four enemy soldiers who were hiding in ruined buildings and weeds, implying a sneak attack.
"Vice-shou, Zuojin has already searched carefully, even under the rubble has been dug up, and haven't found any more livelihoods?"
At this time, another member of the Fengchen and Bloodstained Ministry turned Chen Zhang back to the way of resurrection.
"The Huaixi generation is really sinful!"
Qian Gumei couldn't help but sighed heavily and complicatedly:
The current fire in the village was of course not put down by the Taiping Army for the sake of epidemic prevention, but was caused by a local self-help behavior in a certain sense. After all, even during a disaster-like epidemic, there are always all kinds of weird and strange things happening. And some ugliness and sins that are obviously from the selfish side of human nature have also been concealed under the panic and death caused by these epidemics.
For example, blocking roads in groups on the grounds of dock walls and village joint security to drive and kill out-of-towners who may pass by; or those who have left their homes in groups, looting and slaughter may be neglected or preventive. It is a village to guard against emptiness, and it is no longer a rare thing.
Some people even began to fake the names of the "three detachments" of the Taiping Army and began to swindle and deceive those rural households who had no masters and were desperately ill. There are even armed groups that have emerged, blatantly blackmailing and looting under the banner of the Taiping Army, slaughtering those settlements that deliberately surrendered.
The villages burned this time are also for the same reason, but the fire was not put down by foreign attackers to destroy the crimes afterwards; but the local villager Ding Zhuang, who was slaughtered and killed, in despair. Personally set fire to destroy their own homeland, to try to stop these swimming weapons like hyenas and jackals;
Of course, after the fire started, it was not able to stop the tragic ending of their being mutilated and killed for long. On the contrary, it aroused the ferocity of pushing waves to support the combustion; but fortunately, it happened to be able to cruise to the nearby Qian Gumei. At the end, the search personnel of the Taiping Army were not burned down in the ancestral hall at the last point, but only found more than a hundred women and children who had been smoked to death.
Therefore, relative to the rear, it has gradually stabilized, and started to try to grow winter wheat and jicama Huang, Qi, He, Shu, Lu and other states along the river; Qian Jumei and his headquarters have moved to Chuzhou. The burden became complicated and heavy all of a sudden. He even had to put down some of his figure and posture and asked Zhu Cun, who was in charge of encircling Guangling City in Yangzhou, for help.
For example, with the help of the dozens of horse regiments as a mobile unit under his command and the boat division deployed from Jiangdong, in order to cooperate with his forces at hand to complete the blockade and partition tasks for the northern states. Otherwise, he would do his best to culminate and encircle him, and he would not be able to completely cut off the roots of similar incidents in the case of a steady stream of fleeing and transiting to the north.
But this time, as an orthodox general, Zhu Cun supported his views and believed that the strategy he adopted was appropriate; however, unexpectedly he rejected his request because of the division of forces between the east and the west. Although the people and horses have their own tasks and goals, they also differ in the general direction.
Therefore, it is not a problem to carry out mutual response and support operations at the tactical level, but at the moment it is really inappropriate to use the mobile force to be deployed in case to strengthen the other forces. This is the main goal of the Huainan Raiders-Guangling Most of Yang Xingmin in the city will create some kind of opportunities and uncertainties.
However, just when Qian Gumei consciously had nothing to say about it and could only make other plans, then he received a batch of equipment, mules, horses, vehicles, boats, and heavy grains and supplements from the other party. . This also made him let go of those faint speculations and other thoughts, and he was a little bit emotional and sighed. Under the Taiping Army system, after all, it was completely different from the old dynasty, and it had its own style of doing great things and prospering.
Therefore, with this batch of supplementary military resources, he has reorganized and expanded more auxiliary pawn team sequences, and further armed those who belonged to the villages and the management area; in addition to ensuring the basic labor for resuming production, he will respond accordingly. Ding Zhuang was armed and trained to form a patrol team with a certain range of activities.
Relying on these temporary auxiliary forces to support and maintain the situation in the rear, he then mobilized more troops from the states along the Yangtze River, and relied on mules, horses, boats and carts adapted to local conditions to form multiple strike teams that responded more quickly to deal with the situation. At the same time, some of the "old rebel forces" that had been disbanded and managed by labor were re-used.
For example, among them was Gu Quanwu, half of the fellow in eastern Zhejiang who had defected from the Huaixi Army. He was originally from Yuyao, Yuezhou (now Yuyao, Zhejiang). The monk who had worked for some time also followed Dong Chang, the original Hangzhou Badu soldier and horse envoy. Later, when Huang Chao crossed the border, he was dissatisfied with Dong Chang's withdrawal and self-protection, so he followed Henan. The bandit was born in Qizhou, who was also named "Red Flag Five", and patrolled Han Quanyi's subordinates;
Later, Han Quanyi was annexed by Liu Hanhong, the capital of Huaixi capital appointed by Huang Chao, and he became the subordinate of Liu Hanhong general Du Xiong; he made a lot of efforts in the Huaixi army and the multi-party campaign. However, the Huaixi Army always looked at the Chongxiang Party and the relationship between relatives, and gave priority to reusing the children from the hometown selected by Shenguang Land. So although he is known for his courage and toughness, he is not very proud in other respects except for some rewards.
Later, the Taiping Army led by Zhu Cun formally landed in Jiangbei. The former leaders of the Western rebels headed by Han Quanyi competed to surrender. Before Han Quanyi went to Jiangling, he also remembered this old ministry's letter solicitation. Then he did not hesitate to rush over; he became one of the pawns leading the sweep.
When Qian Gumei came to preside over the local situation in Jiangbei, he would naturally just follow the front and back of this fellow of Eastern Zhejiang. At least in suppressing local anti-riots and riots, as well as dealing with and discriminating those gangsters from the north, the performance is still quite effective and well-equipped.
This time, he was able to successfully block these near this unnamed village, obviously from the armed plundering group of Huaixi Army background, and it was also his credit. In other words, he is very familiar with the style and methods of these former colleagues in the Huaixi Army, and can always guess the pace and trajectory of the opponent at the critical moment.
Therefore, it can be regarded as Qian Jumei's somewhat passive situation regarding Huaixi's strategy, which somewhat saved some face. And this Gu Quanwu is also very interesting and good at figuring out, always eager to do some dirty work that is not convenient to be seen in the light or drifting away in the dark area; for example, lead a team to deal with those severely ill areas that are isolated, or let Those who had some reputation and reputation, but were more stubborn, disappeared into the "bandit trouble" ahead of time.
Although this style and method of acting is not in some respects, but the other party is happy to see it as an inevitable process of gaining trust and closeness; Qian Gumei does not agree with it, but it is not convenient to openly denounce it. I can leave him alone. Qian Gumei was thinking about it, suddenly raising her head with feeling.
Seeing Gu Quanwu with fresh blood and other peculiar smells in his hands, with a tough look and respectful expression, he hurriedly walked to the side and bowed his head to him and said:
"Vice talk, most of those captured have already confessed..."
"Any other findings?"
Seeing his seemingly rewarding expression, Qian Gumei couldn't help asking:
"Deputy Chen clearly sees that, that's the case. Some of the culprits escaped from Luzhou... It is said that there were people who led and led them at the time!"
Gu Quanwu quickly replied:
"So, isn't it the remnant of the Yang family in the place and merged with the Huaixi bandits"
Qian Gumei couldn't help but said with a stern expression: But suddenly he discovered some of the speculations and doubts before, and he was able to get the number right.
—I am the dividing line —
And in Guangling City, which was shrouded by night, a group of people rushed out in the darkness following the slowly opened gates, and then turned into a roar that was triggered in the trenches outside the camp, and the horror shook the sky. Yelling and noise.
At the other end of the city, in the blind spot that the fierce fire cage and lamps can't illuminate, it is some human bodies that fell from the city dish with a rope in the dark, and then completely disappeared under the wall. The sound of water ** In the darkness.
On the wall, Yang Xingyun was also watching these warriors who had disappeared into the darkness one after another, although he could not be sure how many of them could truly pass through the blockade of the thief army and return to the epidemic-prone countryside. But as long as he can disturb the rear of the Taiping thief, he can naturally make peace with any forces. (End of this chapter)