Chapter 6o: The General of the Broken Army (7)

After noon on May 13, the governor of Jiangnan and Chun learned that the Shu Yue bandits on the opposite side were constantly approaching the location of the Qing army. After advancing from a distance of thirty miles to a distance of fifteen miles, the bandits finally stopped and occupied the southern side of a relatively flat terrain.

Admiral Hechun didn't need to receive a war letter from the Taiping army to probably understand the meaning of the Taiping army, and if Hechun was interested, he could have a decisive battle with the Taiping army in this area tomorrow. The arrogance of the Shu Yue bandits made He Chun furious, and the sentinels on both sides began to expel and kill each other for several hours, even if they failed to take advantage, He Chun probably figured out that the Taiping army on the opposite side was about 5,000.

He Chun is not stupid at all, these five thousand people are not something he can eat in a short period of time. After fighting against these 5,000 people for a long time, other reinforcements from the Cantonese bandits will arrive. The biggest advantage in Hechun's hands is nothing more than the strength advantage of 12,000 people, and the best way to wield this advantage is to divide the troops first at night and carry out a left and right flanking attack on this 5,000-strong Shu Yue bandits. After thinking for a while, He Chun finally picked up the arrow, "Yin Debu listens to the order!" ”

The commander-in-chief, Yin Debu, led 3ooo soldiers and horses to take advantage of the fact that it was not too late to make a detour to the west side of the Shu Yue bandits, and He Chun ordered Yin Debu to outflank the Shu Yue bandits that night. On the second day, when Hechun sent troops to fight the Shu Yue bandits head-on, Yin Debu came out from the flank and flanked them, attacking from both sides, and eliminated the Shu Yue bandits in one fell swoop.

Yin Debu was ordered to go, and He Chun was not stupid enough to think that Shu Yue bandits would be guys with no experience in war. He sent the guerrilla Colondo with a thousand men and horses to the north of the flat land where the Shu Yue bandits were located. This unit was to prepare for tomorrow's frontal battle, and secondly, to attract the attention of the Cantonese bandits. Sending several troops at the same time can be very effective in confusing the attention of the Cantonese bandits.

Wei Ze first received the news that a thousand Qing troops were coming straight to his side, and he immediately ordered four brigades and two thousand men to meet the enemy. The guerrillas of the Qing army, Cezanne and Wesé, were also old acquaintances, he was once a guard for the imperial guard, and in February 1852 he served as a guard for the then minister of the Imperial Mission, Cezanne A. Cézanne's suppression of bandits was unfavorable, and he was locked up and taken back to Beijing to punish the crime.

The minister was guilty but could not be connected to the imperial guards, Colondo originally wanted to return to Beijing, but was invited by the same commander and Chun to join the army, and after getting the consent of Emperor Xianfeng, Colondo defected to Hechun. After more than two years of fighting with the Taiping army, he accumulated merit to the guerrilla.

Therefore, when the guerrilla Colondo led a thousand subordinates to spend almost two hours and walk twelve or thirteen miles, and appeared in the predetermined flat area, what he saw was a neat column of Taiping troops more than a mile away.

After all, Colondo was a guerrilla, and seeing that the enemy was ready, he immediately ordered his troops to line up. Even if it is a force of 1,000 people, as long as the queue is neat, it is not something that 2,000 people can easily break. The Qing soldiers quickly completed the basic queue under the shouts and shouts of the officers. Looking at the array of thousands of people under his command, Cologne Chapter 6o Breaking the Army General (7)

Duo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Then, Colondo saw the Taiping army on the other side move.

Two years earlier, in February 1852, Cologdo had fought the Shu Yue bandits for the first time, and the strong fighting power of the Shu Yue bandits in that battle left a deep impression on the imperial guard Colondo. As a practitioner, Colondo determined one thing in his more than a year of military experience, the Shu Yue bandits he encountered near Yong'an were the real elite.

As time passed, Colondo couldn't remember exactly what happened that day. But when the two thousand bundles of Cantonese bandits on the opposite side began to advance neatly towards the Qing army array commanded by Corondo, Corondo suddenly appeared, and what he saw overlapped with what he thought he had forgotten.

That's the same exuberance, that's the same murderous. As soon as the action was taken, the array of 2,000 Shu Yue bandits gradually gained a sense of hierarchy. In the rear were about three hundred cavalrymen, who gently held on to their horses and showed no sign of charging.

There were about 200 infantry in the formation as the Chinese army, and about 1,500 infantry approached the Qing army without stopping. The flat terrain is just a way of saying, and there are gravel on the ground, and there are undulations of the terrain. The Taiping army on the opposite side stepped lightly over the obstacle they had encountered, and easily approached the troops of Cologondo.

Corondo was already dumbfounded, and the appearance of the Taiping Army officer who was holding a spear and rushing towards the Qing army's gun queue two years ago naturally appeared in Corondo's mind. The man was just running faster, but the brisk pace was no different from the brisk pace of the fifteen hundred.

Suddenly, a strong sense of crisis made Colondo want to turn around and run immediately. However, after all, he was a guerrilla of the First Army, and it was impossible for him to do so. So Colondo gave an order, "The back team becomes the front team!" Back to the camp! ”

Although the Qing army didn't know what they wanted to do as guerrillas, since they had spoken to adults, they didn't let everyone come forward to fight. This order was immediately executed, and the rear of the Qing army changed to the front team and quickly retreated in the direction of the Qing army's camp.

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