Chapter 43: Seeking the World (7)
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Shengbao took a team of 7,000 horses as a pioneer, and took the lead in starting from Shunde Mansion, all the way straight to the Daimyo's Mansion, and in less than a day's effort, the team had traveled seventy or eighty miles, and it seemed that it would arrive at the city of the Daimyo Mansion in less than two hours.
"Report!" A cavalryman galloped from a distance, and when he saw Shengbao, he quickly turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee and said: "Report to the deputy commander, the Daimyo's Mansion has fallen into the hands of thieves, and there is a divine word on the banner, which seems to be done by a cult!" ”
Although Katsuho was reckless, he was quite good at marching and fighting, the army did not move, and the horses had scattered in all directions, and the horses who reconnoitred the daimyo's mansion were the earliest, so they were the first to come back to report the news.
"Humph!" Katsu Bao snorted coldly and said disdainfully: "These cults are really stupid, they dare to make a move in the Daimyo's Mansion, but they can make trouble in the realm of Zhili?" Command all arms to fight! ”
General Fang Zhaoxuan frowned and pondered for a while, and then said: "Lord Dutong, since the cult dares to make a move in the Daimyo's Mansion, presumably all parts of Henan have already fallen into the hands of the cult. ”
Shengbao suffered a big loss in the last battle with the British and French forces, and has always been ashamed, and now that he has the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, how can he give it to others, and categorically refused: "Zhaoxuan's words are wrong, the cult of the Daimyo Mansion has just taken action, and its foothold is not stable, most of the sergeants are just peasant people, the weapons are broken, the orders are not neat, and they are not vulnerable to a single attack, we should take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to attack the city by thunderous means, as long as the thief army of the Daimyo Mansion is defeated, the thief army in Henan will naturally be afraid, and this battle can be a big victory!"
"However, if the thief army holds the city to the death, our army will be difficult to receive, and when the thief reinforcements arrive, won't our army lose the opportunity?"
Shengbao's face sank, "Do you think that I led seven thousand elites and couldn't defeat a small daimyo's mansion?" ”
"The last general will not dare!" Fang Zhaoxuan broke out in a cold sweat, he couldn't afford to despise his superiors.
"Hmph, forgive me for not daring!" Katsu Bao snorted coldly, "I've made up my mind, you don't have to say it anymore!" ”
Fang Zhaoxuan was helpless, and said: "In this case, please also ask Lord Dutong to allow the lower official to lead five hundred elite horsemen to lead the way in front, so as not to fall into the ambush of the thieves!" ”
Shengbao said impatiently: "The hinterland of the Central Plains is a flat river, and there are no high mountains and dangers, where is the ambush?" What's more, a group of peasants are just in the market, and what art of war do they know? Since you are earnest, I will allocate you a thousand fine horsemen to make a detour to the south of the Daimyo's Mansion, and when I capture the city, it will be considered your great merit to cut off the way of the thieves! ”
Fang Zhaoxuan saw that Sheng Baozhen was angry, and he didn't dare to say more, so he took a thousand elite horsemen to lead the way.
Sheng Bao led the horse team to travel more than ten miles, the road gradually narrowed, and a dense forest suddenly appeared around, he drove most of the day's road, people and horses were already stuck, and in the scorching sun exposed to the sun all morning, the whole body was soaked with sweat all over the body, at this time felt the cool breeze sent by the forest, and the spirit was immediately lifted.
Instinctively, he observed his surroundings: a dirt road that could accommodate eight horses, running through the woodland, with woods on both sides, but not very dense, and no hills or highlands, but anyone who knew a little about the art of war would not choose to set up an ambush here.
And even if there is an ambush, Shengbao is not worried, he once participated in the battle with the Taiping army, except for a few long-haired troops in Jiangning that are really fierce and abnormal, most of the rest of the long-haired army are people with agricultural tools, although they are known as tens of thousands of tens of thousands, but they are just indiscriminate, and they are not vulnerable at all, so although the Qing army does not have an advantage in numbers, it rarely suffers losses when fighting with long-haired fields.
The True God Cult is just a kind of rebellion of the people, Shengbao took it for granted that they were equated with those miscellaneous armies of peasant uprisings, and with their own elite cavalry, against these miscellaneous soldiers, if the other party did not have three times the strength of his own, there would be no chance of winning at all, not to mention how could two legs run over four legs, and take 10,000 steps back, even if the battle situation was unfavorable and they wanted to run, they would only have to stare dryly!
Therefore, the battle of the Daimyo's Mansion is bound to win.
Shengbao raised his hand and signaled the whole army to move slowly, rest and rest in this cool forest, recuperate, and wait for this forest, and then walk for ten miles to be the Daimyo's Mansion, a victory is waiting for him!
He was looking forward to winning the first feat, and the picture of being promoted to the knighthood, suddenly a bullet shot out of the forest on the right, grazed the tip of his nose, and shot through the throat of a white-flag cavalryman beside him, and the blood plasma gushed out like a spring in an instant, dyeing the white flag blood-red.
"There is an ambush, don't panic, the rear team becomes the front team, quickly withdraw from the woodland!"
As soon as Shengbao's words fell, the guns in the surrounding woods crackled, and countless bullets smashed into the horse team like a storm, shooting on the cuirass of the cavalry, and on the thighs, many war horses were shot in the head, and before they could even scream, they immediately fell to the ground and died, pressing the rider on their bodies hard.
Foreign guns? Is that possible? The battle in front of him was completely different from what Katsuho had imagined, how could this group of mountain and wild villagers get their hands on foreign guns? Is there a foreigner behind it?
It doesn't make sense, what do foreigners do to support these farmers? He couldn't figure it out, and he didn't have time to think about it, the surrounding woods were waving flags and shadows, and he didn't know how many thieves were hiding in them, let alone how many foreign guns they had, just judging from the density of the shooting, their number seemed to be more than twice as many as the Anglo-French army at that time!
In other words, he is fighting an army of tens of thousands of people armed with foreign guns! Katsuho was taken aback by his conclusion, no matter how incredible it was, but it was happening right in front of his eyes, bullet after bullet, so frightened that he left his troops and rushed out of the forest under the protection of his guards.
Although these soldiers had not participated in the battle of Bali Bridge, they had also heard some gossip and were already a little afraid in their hearts, and at this time they didn't even see the enemy's appearance clearly, and they saw that their comrades around them died one by one.
This road is not wide, and there are woodlands full of ambushes on both sides, only to see the men and horses of the Qing army rushing into each other, although many were shot, but there are not a few who trample on each other and die.
Suddenly, the gunfire stopped, and countless thieves rushed out of the dense forest shouting and killing, and the more than 1,000 people and horses gathered at the entrance of the forest were besieged and could not move, so they had to kneel and surrender one by one.
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