The flowering bomb slammed into the defensive wall of the Twister's enclosure, and in the huge explosion, fragments of masonry flew wildly. The defensive wall swayed, and it was impossible to see the feeling that it could almost resist a qiē when it was first built.

There was horror in Wen Yuewei's expression, her advanced understanding of war was still left more than ten years ago. Wei Ze commanded the second wave of the Northern Expeditionary Army to conquer the city and conquer the city, and it was invincible. In that months-long battle, Wen Yuewei saw too many things. For more than ten years, she had never seen a war that surpassed the Second Northern Expedition of Weese.

Even if the Hunan army was good at fighting, the Hunan army was not able to put strong pressure on Wen Yuewei. The Twist Army also built forts on the defensive walls, and as long as the Qing army advanced within a mile and a half, these artillery pieces would fire fiercely. But the Hunan army was not in a hurry to attack at all, they stopped two miles away, and then dragged out the artillery. It was a cannon on a strange car, and the cannon didn't look big, and Wen Yuewei didn't put this kind of small cannon in her eyes at first. When the shells fired by the artillery here flew over two miles and accurately hit the defensive wall of the Twist Army, Wen Yuewei only felt that the Hunan Army was lucky.

The shells of the Hunan army hit the defensive wall one by one, and only a very small number of shells did not hit. This situation made Wen Yuewei really know that things were not good. Although the defensive wall was built strongly, it could not resist the non-stop hitting of the shells. didn't have time to think so much, Wen Yuewei immediately ordered the cavalry of the Twist Army to go around the back of the Hunan Army to harass them.

"Grandma Wen, what should I do!" The guy who asked Wen Yuewei to go out of the mountain didn't expect the Hunan army to be so able to fight, those artillery pieces were not small, and although the defensive wall that the people worked hard to build was extremely strong, it did not collapse after dozens of cannons. But that's not too much. The exterior walls have long been blown up with potholes, and there are many large cracks in the interior walls. If you continue to be attacked like this, the defensive wall will not be able to withstand it for long.

Of course, Wen Yuewei knew this very well, but she had also seen a big scene, Wei Zechuang had passed through the battlefield of tens of thousands of corpses, and only after riding a horse did she understand how ordinary death was. So Wen Yuewei said flatly: "I'll talk about it when the cavalry comes back." ”

In less than an hour, the cavalry units were withdrawn. The leader of the cavalry jumped off his horse and shouted angrily: "These Qing demons belong to turtles, I took the soldiers around in a circle, but I couldn't see a gap." stepped forward to test it, and the Qing Demon was immediately a gun. I can't rely on it at all. ”

The Hunan army's response was so rigorous, Wen Yuewei felt that something was wrong. In the eyes of the brothers, Wen Yuewei said: "Evacuate the women and children to other places first, and everyone will wait for a while." ”

"Grandma Wen, everyone's belongings are in the fence. Women and children can go, but we don't. The leader of the Twisted Army, who was here, shouted angrily.

"If you want to fight the Qing Demon in close combat, you can only wait for the Qing Demon to come in. But no one knows what the situation will be when the Qing Demon Kill comes in. Wen Yuewei still didn't panic. She had seen how calm and methodical the Liberation Army was when they attacked the city. If the Hunan army also had that level, Weizi would not be able to resist at all.

Wen Yuewei has no longer set foot in the rivers and lakes for more than ten years, and a big reason is that after seeing the combat effectiveness shown by Wei Ze's department, Wen Yuewei is a little afraid of war. In the face of a clever opponent like Wei Ze, the Twist Army had no chance of winning at all.

Although the Hunan army in front of her did not have the feeling of being alive and vigorous like Wei Ze's troops, the orderly discipline and calm tactical steps made Wen Yuewei feel that things were getting more and more wrong.

"Since the Qing Demon wants to come in, we might as well let them in!" Someone has come up with a rather bold building yì. There are not many doors in the fence, and some doors have tricks. It's designed to be easy to defend and hard to attack. Narrow passages can be condescendingly very effective in killing attackers. If the Hunan army can be lured to attack in such a direction, it is better than letting the Hunan army attack such a fierce attack.

"Let the women and children go first here, and bring the demons over there." The leaders quickly came to a consensus.

The Hunan army's scouts discovered the retreating crowd, and under the lure of the Twist Army, they found that the door had been opened for half of the door. Bao Chao, who was in charge of the attack, snorted coldly, "Carving insect skills!" Ignore them. ”

This attack was not only the troops of Bao Chao's two battalions, Zeng Guoquan, Peng Yulin, Li Jiyi, and the four troops attacked at the same time. The Hunan army has already gained a stable territory, and it is now necessary to steadily encroach on the places where the Twist army is entrenched. He fought so many battles with the Taiping Army, and he also fought with the Guangfu Army. The Hunan army felt that the war strength of the Twist Army was too unseemly. Do they think that such a simple means can tempt the battle-hardened Hunan army?

The Hunan army was unmoved, and the pressure of the entire war shifted to the side of the Twist army. It cannot be denied that the breakthrough chosen by the Hunan army is very ingenious. Not only was it very convenient for the Hunan army to deploy its troops, but when the defensive wall of the enclosure was built, it was not expected that it would be subjected to such a powerful artillery bombardment. Once the defensive wall collapsed, there were no fortifications inside that could continue to resist the Hunan army.

Just when the leaders of the Twist Army were anxious, with a few cannon shots, the wall that had been hit by nearly 100 cannons collapsed with a bang. After a while, the sentry shouted hysterically, "The demon has been killed!" ”

"Withdraw!" Wen Yuewei made a decision immediately.

"Why withdraw?" The leaders of the home were shocked.

Wen Yuewei asked calmly: "Stay in Qingshan without worrying about no firewood, we are here to fight the Qing Demon, but we can't beat it." If everyone dies here, what will happen to the women and children who escaped? ”

The leaders were not as generous as Wen Yuewei, they shouted: "But the family is gone, where else can we go?" ”

"If the home is gone, we can build again. If there is no man, then there is nothing. It's still too late to leave, but these Qing demons are not the kind of people who rush to catch up. After Wen Yuewei finished speaking, she waved her hand and called the twisted army that came with her, and took the lead in retreating.

"Grandma Wen, let's leave now, I'm afraid that I will lose my affection with these people in the future." Someone next to him persuaded.

Wen Yuewei said coldly: "Now after we go back, we have to think about where we are going, if we wait here, it is not a matter of no love, it is something that everyone will die!" ”

Listening to Wen Yuewei's words, the leaders who retreated together were frightened, and they hurriedly asked, "Huaibei can't stay any longer?" ”

Wen Yuewei said with a gloomy face: "The Qing Demon's cannon is so powerful, they just knocked down the village one by one, how can we stay in Huaibei?" ”

The development of things is indeed as Wen Yuewei expected, the Hunan army is expanding its territory steadily and steadily. They have food in their hands, and they have a people who have fled. After the Hunan army arrived in a place, it built a fence and never acted rashly. As the head snake of the land, the Twist Army encountered this kind of anti-guest Hunan army, and it was impossible to start at all.

At the same time that Wen Yuewei made a plan to retreat to the south of the Huai River and began to implement it. Forced by the Hunan army to lose its coolness, the Twist Army pulled up tens of thousands of horses and horses to make a big attack.

Zeng Guofan just looked at the map and sneered. As the de facto commander, Zeng Guofan personally commanded every battle that was bound to be lost. Therefore, the actual implementation is ultimately left to the generals. However, after looking at the table of the Twisted Army, Zeng Guofan couldn't help but come up with his own opinion, "Just defeat them head-on here." ”

Zeng Guoquan ignored his brother's orders, and he put forward his opinion in front of the generals, "We divide the way of thinking, pass from here, and finally surround the Twist army in one place." If the twisted army disperses on its own, we will fight the largest one. ”

Not only that, Zeng Guoquan also pointed to the key points on the map. This is the backbone of the strategy and tactics that Zeng Guofan painstakingly managed. On the basis of Zeng Guofan, Zeng Guoquan and others can give full play to their abilities.

The generals had worked hard to build the fence in the previous period, but now that these forts were used as a basis for battle, they felt that they had finally felt the meaning of hard work at this time. There was no longer any need to carry such heavy marching baggage, and the Hunan army could start moving with only its own combat equipment. The daily march could extend from three to four hours. From marching thirty miles a day to marching forty miles.

Three days later, more than 10,000 Twist troops were surrounded by 30,000 Hunan troops. The battle lasted for two days, and less than 1,000 of the more than 10,000 twisted troops succeeded in breaking through. The other troops were all surrounded and annihilated by the Hunan army.

The Hunan army, which had won a great victory, did not stop complacently, and took advantage of the great losses suffered by the Zhuangzi controlled by the Twist Army near Wuyang, and the Hunan army began to chase and fight.

The village of Weizi, which had been trying to resist, had also surrendered, and the result of the surrender only made the actions of the Hunan army easier. A large number of children, young women were trafficked to human traffickers by the Hunan army. It also made a lot of money for the Hunan army.

Just before the Hunan army approached Wen Yuewei's enclosure, Wen Yuewei had already led her family and subordinates who were willing to follow her south. At this time, although the Manchu Qing Dynasty also had the so-called "Huai River defense line", in fact, this defense line did not exist. The Huai River is neither wide nor deep, and although it can also play a bit of an obstructive effect, it is far from the level of the moat. The Hunan army, the Huai army, and the Chu army only had garrison troops on the north bank of the Huai River at a certain distance, and they could block the Guangfu army trying to cross the Huai River at any time, at least they knew what the Guangfu army was doing.

Therefore, crossing the Huai River in the south was not strongly blocked, and it was the dry season at this time, Wen Yuewei took her family, clansmen, and subordinates to cross the Huai River easily.

Although the Guangfu Army was not prepared to go north, the organization of the Guangfu Army was much higher than that of the Huai Army and the Hunan Army. Hundreds of people who crossed the Huai River were immediately detained by the patrol.

Wen Yuewei is not angry or afraid. She said to the officer in charge of the interrogation: "We are the Twist Army, and we also went on a northern expedition with Wei Ze, the king of Qi, more than ten years ago!" ”

The officer in charge of the interrogation had not participated in the Northern Expedition, and he was amused to hear the woman who called herself the Twist Army so much about history. "The Governor led the Northern Expedition, but we have heard of it. But you said you participated, did you know only one of them? ”

Wen Yuewei smiled: "Of course, not only Wei Zedudu, I am also quite familiar with Lei Hu, if this person is still alive, you should always know, right?" ”

As soon as Wen Yuewei actually said the name of Lei Hu, the commander-in-chief of the Huaihe defense line, the officer in charge of the interrogation could no longer laugh. Wen Yuewei saw that her words had an effect, and she said calmly: "If you can help me get through, it would be great." After all, I haven't seen Lei Hu for more than ten years, but I don't know if he still remembers me. ”R1058