The battle, which began relatively suddenly, progressed very quickly, and did not take more than half an hour in total.

When it was over, it stopped abruptly, because everyone was gone.

The strongest fighting groups, including the Seven Tigers, were eaten, and it was even less likely that other individual combatants would pass through this meat grinder.

Xu Hua and Xi Zhu each saw their own battlements of dead and wounded soldiers, as if they had lost their souls, and they wanted to cry without tears.

During this period, it was also the time when Mai Ke's attention was not here.

He had just contacted two places, one was Shi Dakai, commander of the Southwest Corps in the Lianghuai region, and the other was Lin Fengxiang, commander-in-chief of the Northeast Corps, and asked the two of them to prepare for war.

At the same time, go to war!

Although he received a letter from Xianfeng that Xianfeng demanded that the second battle be fought ten days after the end of the first battle, Mai Ke did not agree, but replied that the time and place of the second battle and the subsequent battles were determined by the winner of the first battle.

Therefore, Mai Ke arranged two battles without giving in.

Mai Ke had already made up his mind that the course of the war must be dominated by me, and it will never be affected by anyone!

Mai Ke's reply is a word, as for whether Xianfeng agrees, Mai Ke doesn't care. The first of the two battlefields that Mai Ke contacted just now was that the sixth master wanted to transfer more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Northeast Group Army of Xu Guangjin, the governor of Liangguang, to Xuzhou, and Mai Ke's plan was to let Lin Fengxiang, the Northeast Corps of the Heavenly Army, resolutely block them and not give them a chance to concentrate.

Now Lin Fengxiang's sharp knife troops have been inserted into the west of Nianzhuang, blocking the passage of Xu Guangjin's corps to Xuzhou.

The brigade led by Zhang Wen, chief of staff of the Corps, had also driven to the east of the village in Nianzhuang and squeezed Xu Guangjin's group army into the village.

Mai Ke gave them two orders.

One is to continue to surround the enemy and not let the enemy run out of the encirclement.

The second is to be ready to attack, ready to capture the village at any time. Destroy the enemy.

At present, the number of the Celestial Army is about 100,000 more than the enemy, and it is not too easy to annihilate the enemy in one go.

The information stored by Mai Ke through the movement of the spirit rhino. also knew that Xu Guangjin was a little anxious now, and kept using boot carving to send messages to the sixth master in Xuzhou, asking him to send an army to meet them.

Without external response, they really don't have the courage to walk out of the mill.

In fact, now Xu Guangjin hates himself a little, and his hesitation at the beginning made him delay for three or four hours.

After receiving the sixth master's order to concentrate on him, he felt that he had no obligation to obey the order.

After all, the current sharding is responsible. It was originally formulated by Xianfeng and the imperial military division, and so far, no one has announced that the previous order is revoked and invalidated!

His delay gave the Heavenly Army an excellent opportunity, just so that Lin Fengxiang's vanguard occupied a strategic place in the west of Nianzhuang.

Seeing that the Heavenly Army that had defeated him earlier blocked the way, he was shocked and knew that the dish was broken!

That's when he wanted to turn back the clock. Go back two hours ago, then he will not hesitate to pull his troops to Xuzhou.

It's one thing for him to be afraid of the Heavenly Army, and even more afraid of Mai Ke being in the army!

Mai Ke is in. He must not fight.

In this way, he missed another opportunity.

If Lin Fengxiang launched a decisive attack while his foothold was not stable, he would still be able to rush out.

As soon as he delayed like this, Lin Fengxiang stood firm, and Zhang Wen also pressed up from behind.

In this way, he will not dare to act rashly.

Since they dare not move, let them stay for a few more days, maybe a while. What action will the arrogant Sixth Master take to provide an opportunity for the Heavenly Army to take advantage of.

Another contact was Shi Dakai, who was directly behind the second line of defense of the Qing army on the Huai River, in order to prevent them from converging with Xianfeng's forces.

They have successfully reached the designated front line, except for the western section handed over to Wu Wenrong to be in charge. He is responsible for the middle and east ends.

He must be prepared to be on his back!

In fact, it is already a belly and back enemy!

This was the middle road, Zeng Guofan had already established a second line of defense in Suxian, so he not only abandoned the cities along the Huai River with the most decisive moves, but also prepared for battle around Suxian.

He prepared a total of three strategic locations.

The first strategic place is the county seat of Suxian, which is the base camp of the Huguang Group Army, but it is controlled by Zeng Guofan, which shows that the governor of Huguang has great trust in him.

The second strategic place is the double stack set, which is actually a village and town, and there are two soil pushes before and after the village and town, so it is called the double pile set.

Although it is a small country town, it is a military location.

The main force of Feng Yunshan's Southern Corps must pass through here, and when the time comes, it will be intercepted and defend the base camp of Su County.

It is personally seated by the governor of Huguang, Cheng Zhicai, which shows its importance.

Further north, Zeng occupied the Rift Mountain north of Suxian, near the main city of Huaibei, where the emperor had chosen to be stationed.

The person in charge here is Zeng Guoquan, the fierce general of the Hunan Army, the younger brother of Zeng Guofan.

This stronghold must be uprooted in Mai Ke's mind!

In other areas, it depends on whether the enemy wants to cross the line.

Anyone who wanted to cross Shidakai's defensive line, whether they came from the south to meet the emperor's front-line troops, or from the north, and wanted to join the defenders of the Huai River, they had to be cut off.

Since the cracked mountain had to be fought, Mai Ke decided to go there to join in the fun.

Then he got out and came down from the top of the pine tree.

Before that, he looked around, and first saw a tall and wide pile of dead people, which immediately startled him, why did so many people die?

He hurriedly looked around and found the secondary peak next to the main peak, where seventy or eighty thousand Qing soldiers were hiding.

If you don't look at them from a condescending position, it's really hard to spot them from elsewhere!

And it seems that it is very difficult to attack from below, not to mention anything else, even where they are, aren't they always passively beaten?

However, since Mai Ke discovered them from above, he also had an idea on how to subdue them.

Since they themselves are hiding in a dead end, as long as they put a troop at the exit outside, it is to close the door and fight the dogs.

When attacking, condescendingly, a burst of shelling, a round of fire, basically reimbursed.

With a plan to destroy the enemy, Mai Ke no longer paid attention to these deserters, and immediately flew to the foot of the mountain to see the corpses.

At this time, Xiao Chaogui had already begun to do some selection and sorting work.

Mai Ke immediately used his spirit rhino to move, and quickly opened the two stacks of corpses, from which he found out that he had not yet died.

The men quickly moved aside.

Then there is the distinction between those who are absolutely dead, such as those whose heads have been cut off, and those whose waists have been cut in two.

After distinguishing between these, those who have died, but whose main parts and main vital organs have not been fatally damaged, are all lifted out and immediately treated.

These people are the most dying and urgent, so the first priority is to treat them.

According to Mai Ke's judgment of the situation, these casualties of the enemy had no chance to serve the Manchus again, so they were essentially subjects of the heavenly kingdom.

As a result, there is no priority for differential treatment according to status.

Some differences are only based on the need, according to the degree of injury and the proximity of the near-death, to decide who will be rescued first and who will be rescued later.

In fact, now the speed of Lingxi's rescue is very fast, and all the life-saving and healing have been over in a second.

However, the end result is still very sad.

Of these 40,000 people, a full half or 20,000 people are completely dead!

The 20,000 people who were rescued are still as always, with a 20% increase in physical fitness.

The 20,000 people were all allocated to Xu Hua, and he was equivalent to getting a unit with an overall combat effectiveness increased by 20%, of course, his remaining 10,000 people were still the same as before.

One thing worth being happy about is that the Seven Tigers who became a family, all of them came back to life.

The seven fathers and sons were reborn after death, and the joy was infinite, thinking of the pain of being powerless in front of their relatives when they saw them, they couldn't help but hug each other again and cry in unison!

The cry was so loud that it shook the mountains and the sky changed dramatically.

Fortunately, the seven quickly stopped their cry of sorrow, and then found the reason for their salvation, which was Mai Ke's place, and the seven of them were all on their knees!

Kowtow to Mai Ke! Kowtow! Kowtow ten!

Where is Mai Ke willing to accept this, and hurriedly pushes it up, but after mixing this and kneeling down that one, where can he take care of it?

was so anxious that Mai Ke shouted: "Come and help!"

But not a single one moved!

Everyone is talking in their hearts: "This is the same as everyone else, my life has been saved, and I should kowtow!"

In the chaos, Mai Ke didn't care, and he didn't care, they had enough to count.

Then the seven fathers and sons stood in front of Mai Ke and announced loudly: "From now on, our father's seven lives are your Mai Ke's! We will do whatever you ask us to do, and there will be no two words! If we violate this oath, the sky will be thundered and thundered!"

Mai Ke said: "Okay, you follow me for the time being, and be my guard!"

The captain of the guard didn't know where to hide, but when he heard Mai Ke shouting, he immediately came out: "Here!

"These seven people will be handed over to you, training, or missions, you can arrange them!"

Da Niu saluted: "Guarantee to complete the task!"

Mai Ke said to the seven people again: "This is the captain of my guard, Da Niu, his martial arts are terrifyingly high, only a little worse than me, I have time to ask him for advice." ”

The seven agreed.

Da Niu was depressed: "I said that I don't have such sarcasm! Are you praising me, or are you hurting me?"

Lead the seven and go.

Mai Ke called over to Xiao Chaogui and told him where the enemy's 80,000 horses were hiding, ignore them now, and just send 10,000 or 20,000 people to guard this crossing.

Xiao Chaogui immediately decided that Xu Hua's army would continue to plug the gap here, because whether they were veterans or newcomers, they were more familiar with the environment and opponents.

"Where are the rest of our armies going?" Xiao Chaogui asked.

(To be continued.) )