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Chapter 991 Gathering momentum for the first battle between the two sides

There was no other way for the Ling, although he felt that Xianfeng's idea was not very clever, but he nodded his head, thinking that he might as well give it a try.

So Xianfeng started to write and wrote a full page of imperial rice paper.

Then give it to the Regent and let him see if it works.

After reading it, he shook his head and said: "This tone needs to be changed, you and Mai Ke are now in an equal relationship, not a monarch and a minister, therefore, all Aiqing, I, and Holy Decrees must be removed;

"I won't use any other tone, you can change it for me. "Xianfeng has been practicing since he was a child, the emperor gave orders to ministers, how did he learn to be equal?

The spirit took the pen, brushed it, deleted and changed it, and after a while, it was finished, and it was handed back to Xianfeng.

Xianfeng read it, nodded, picked up the pen, and quickly finished copying.

Then he drew his own name.

After thinking about it, I used the imperial seal again.

In order to avoid the misunderstanding of Mai Ke, it is specially noted that this seal is only to show that I am me.

The Regent bowed his head in approval.

Then, about ten minutes later, the letter was delivered to Mai Ke.

The messenger was an old peasant, wearing a hat, who handed him the letter and walked out, leaving a reply and calling him to do so, and he waited outside.

Mai Ke shook the letter and looked at it, it turned out that it was given to him by Xianfeng.

Looking at the big seal and the four seal characters of "Xianfeng Imperial Seal", you know that it is like a fake.

Take a look at the content. It turned out to be a challenge book.

"Mai Ke's master's test:

"You and I are both high-ranking and powerful people, and in order to reduce the misery of life, I will challenge you! Starting tomorrow, we will start ten consecutive wars with you, one every ten days.

"The first one, tomorrow at eight o'clock in the morning. Location: Mangdang Mountain, the strength of both sides, 200,000 each!

"Second ......"

Then there is a list of ten battles, and it has been 100 days since the completion of this series of battles.

Finally, the letter also said: "The eldest husband will make a decision and wait for the big driver's reply." ”

So, in a hundred days, the daylilies are cold!

If you want to fight, I will fight, but when will I fight. Where to fight, it's up to you!

So, Mai Ke brushed a few strokes and wrote a reply on the original letter: "As you wish, we will fight tomorrow as scheduled! The date and place of the decisive battle in the future will be decided by the victor tomorrow and later!"

Then hand the letter back to the person who wore the hat.

Three minutes later, Mai Ke's reply was presented to the emperor.

Xianfeng hurriedly saw how Mai Ke replied to the challenge, and saw "As you wish." Tomorrow will be the battle as scheduled", I can't help but be overjoyed. said: "Mai Ke agreed!"

Regent doesn't think it's going to be so smooth, right?

took the letter handed by Xianfeng, saw the second half of the sentence, and felt that it was really the case, the article is here!

In the future, the time and place will be decided by the victor, and you, the emperor, will not want to think about it. Have you won a victory since you fought against the Celestial Army?

Without me here to help you and support the overall situation, you wouldn't have known what it would have been like to fail!

As for tomorrow's battle, you think you're well prepared. Do you know that the Celestial Army is more prepared?

In fact, he really overestimated the Heavenly Army.

The Heavenly Army really didn't make any special preparations, they were still far from Mangdang Mountain, and Mai Ke only informed Xiao Chaogui after approving Emperor Xianfeng's war letter, telling him that he would fight tomorrow.

They were now in the north of Mangdang Mountain, about thirty miles, and Mai Ke asked them to hurry to the designated place and prepare for a decisive battle.

The time for the start of the war is eight o'clock tomorrow morning, which is stipulated in the war book.

After Xiao Chaogui received the order, he immediately gathered his generals.

He now has six integrated armies, each with three divisions, each with a full strength of 10,000 men, and now all divisions are full.

In addition to the six integrated armies, there are two special divisions.

One is a master of hidden weapons with the elite of the Tang family as the backbone.

The other special division was a Chinese who came from other regions, and their ancestors were all driven abroad by the Manchus, and they did not share the sky with the Manchus.

Their main purpose was to pay off the blood debt.

In order to alleviate the oppression of hatred against them, they self-deprecatingly call themselves "debt collection groups".

The commander of the six integrated armies was headed by Xu Hua, and then Sun Gang, Jiang Hanxiong, Zheng Ping, Feng Zhikuo, and Zhao Shihua.

The commander of the secret weapon division turned out to be Yang Wei.

It turned out that as soon as he heard about the war against the Manchus, he couldn't sit still, put the responsibility of the mayor on his deputy, and returned to China.

It happened that the Tang family organized an independent division with hidden weapons as the main weapon, and Yang Wei was naturally promoted to be the division commander.

The division commander of the debt collection group is Ma Benchu, the leader of the Maldives, and in fact an overseas Chinese.

When the Celestial Army captured the Maldives, they cured Ma Benchu's old father's illness and brought him back to life from the realm of imminent death, so the family surrendered to the kingdom of heaven.

In fact, this time, Ma Benchu's old father Ma Yue also came, and he wanted to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors.

Now he is in the special division to serve the military, and his power and prestige seem to be no less than Ma Benchu.

Although the old man is not young, after being diagnosed and treated by Mai Ke, his body has increased by 20 percent, which is more old and strong than the old man.

Now he is not in a hurry to visit relatives and friends, he is bent on participating in the battle!

When Xiao Chaogui saw that everyone was here, he didn't tell everyone to sit, but to start talking while standing.

He conveyed Mai Ke's operational order, asking everyone to arrive at their destination within an hour, and then the four armies of Xu Hua, Sun Gang, Jiang Hanxiong, and Zheng Ping surrounded Mangdang Mountain from all sides; the two armies of Feng Zhikuo and Zhao Shihua were responsible for the main attack; and the two special divisions were mobile and ready to carry out special tasks at any time.

"We will definitely win this first battle, are we confident?"

"Use me in the first battle! Use me to win!" the eight replied in unison.

"Okay!

Subsequently, Xiao Chaogui commanded in the center, the six field armies marched in unison, and the two independent divisions advanced separately and rushed to Mangdang Mountain.

Along the way, they also supplemented all kinds of preparations that should be made. After all, the time from receiving the order to the emergency departure was less than half an hour, and it was impossible for them to be ready for everything.

Mangdang Mountain is located at the junction of the four provinces and is known as the "Fairy Peak".

Mangdang Mountain is famous for the Han Gaozu Liu Bang's snake slashing uprising, and Chen Sheng, the leader of the peasant uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty, is also buried here.

Confucius took refuge from the rain and gave lectures here, leaving landscapes such as Confucius Cliff and Confucius Mountain.

However, now the governor of Sacheon, Xu Zeol, has chosen to be stationed here, without relying on the ancients at all. The meaning of self-cultivation.

He had only one thought, his opponent was following him, and if he left this vantage point, he would put himself completely in the position of being attacked by a heavenly army.

Although he knew that his purpose was to be the right wing of Emperor Xianfeng and defend the emperor's army.

But he knew better that he was in charge of the Western Army Group, with a total of 200,000 troops, which was the Xiao Chaogui Corps against the Heavenly Army.

He wanted to make full use of the favorable terrain of the Mangdang Mountains and occupy the more than 20 large and small hills.

Now Governor Xu Zeol is standing on the main peak of Mangdang Mountain.

The main peak stands upright in the center. The altitude is one hundred and fifty-seven meters above sea level.

There are also Baoshan, Lishan Nanzhi around, Xishan is towering in the east, Loess Mountain, Tieshan, Fu Mountain, Taoshan are special in the west, Moshan, Mashan, Xushan, Zhoushan, Wangshan, Yushan, basically all in the north of the main peak.

Xu Zeol ordered: "Each of the twenty hills will send me 5,000 troops, and they will all be defended to me to the death! Whoever dares to throw the mountain for me, I will cut off his dog's head!"

I saw the deputy and the soldiers leaving in a hurry. Arrange to garrison, and he said to everyone: "The remaining 100,000 people." Defend the main peak for me, send 20,000 people to the foot of the mountain, intercept those heavenly troops, and prevent them from approaching!"

Not long ago, he received an order signed by the emperor and the imperial military division, praising the battlefield he had chosen. Let him prepare together to fight the following battle.

If you don't hesitate to pay a price, even if there is no one left, you have to win!

Xu Zeol smiled secretly while watching, these two people don't know how to count, there is no one left. How to win?

He is a descendant of the great agriculturist Xu Guangqi, and of course he does not look down on such elementary mathematics.

There is no guarantee that he will win the battle, but it is true that he expects to fight this battle.

He arranged the operational deployment and personally came to the foot of the mountain to make final preparations.

There is also one clause in the order: if you can win, it doesn't matter how fast or slow, if you can't win quickly, you must be prepared to fight for a long time, and the longer you delay, the better.

Only if it is delayed for a long time, can you wait for reinforcements.

He agrees with this.

Therefore, he scattered his troops on twenty hills to stall for time.

At this time, Mai Ke also arrived at Mangdang Mountain.

There was a huge pine tree on the top of the mountain, with a crown of two feet square, and Mai Ke had already noticed that it was empty, so he unceremoniously took it as a foothold.

Looking down, the Qing soldiers were rolling and climbing to the twenty hills.

20,000 people went to the foot of the mountain, many carrying things like horse stakes.

Another 80,000 people stood still in front of the tree.

These people are obviously Xu Zeol's elite.

At the foot of the mountain, there is an open plain that can be used as a battlefield.

Passing through the plain, there are two rivers passing through the border, one is the alkali river, and the other is the Shiwang leading river.

Mai Ke knew that in ancient times, this place was actually a piece of Ze country, with a lot of water in the east, west, north and south, and only the mountains were like small islands isolated in the water.

However, it is also affected by the scourge of the Yellow River, which has breached several times in history, and the sediment has surged down, eventually silting up the rivers and lakes around Mangdang Mountain and the ancient city of Mangdang.

Mai Ke couldn't help but think of his plan to govern Huanghuai, and this place might be able to restore its old appearance.

At this time, Mai Ke had already seen the deployment of the enemy's army, this was a deployment for a protracted war!

It turns out that what you said about a quick solution is a lie.

So Mai Ke contacted Xiao Chaogui and asked him where he had been, telling him that he was already waiting for them in Mangdang Mountain.

"We're still three miles away, we'll be there soon!" Xiao Chaogui said apologetically, Don't Mai Ke is still late, how can it be a little unreasonable.

"Don't worry! I see the enemy's deployment, and our deployment will also change, you ...... like this" Mai Ke began to lay out.

"No problem, we specialize in night battles!" Xiao Chaogui said excitedly.

"Also, on the main peak, you are so ...... Such ......".

(To be continued......)