On the evening of April 8, Yang Xiuqing was promoted. All the soldiers and horses had returned to the camp at this time, but Wei Ze, the brigade commander under the Southern King, did not return. At the mouth of the Dayuan Valley, one of Wei Ze's subordinates lined up a spear array, blocking the way for the Qing army to escape. The Taiping army finally annihilated the Qing army near Tanikou.

However, the commander of this pawn only knew that Wei Ze led his troops to chase Xiang Rong who escaped, and the Taiping army chased and killed all the way, except for seeing hundreds of dead bodies of the Qing army along the way, and did not see Wei Ze's troops after chasing through Longliao Ridge. Yang Xiuqing knew that Wei Ze was extremely brave, he was worried that Wei Ze would chase his head unconscious, and he would bite Xiang Rong who was fleeing and insisted on letting go. Although he ordered the troops to be withdrawn, he sent people to continue the pursuit, and he must call Wei Ze back.

The battle was a great victory, annihilating at least 5,000 Qing troops in one fell swoop. The elite Qing troops of the northern and southern battalions besieging Yong'an were almost wiped out in this battle. Not to report the defeat of Longliao Ridge yesterday, the Taiping army basically annihilated the main force of the Qing army, and no longer worried about the pursuit of the Qing army.

Yang Xiuqing arranged for the generals of the Taiping Army to prepare for tomorrow's battle, as long as the Qing army's Liu Changqing headquarters that was blocked in front of the Taiping army was resolved, the Qing army's strategy of encirclement before and after would be completely bankrupt.

After assigning the task, Yang Xiuqing did not immediately order the generals to go back, he still wanted to wait for Wei Ze to come back. Yang Xiuqing was very impressed by Wei Ze, a subordinate who showed loyalty to Yang Xiuqing when he was assigned to the King of the South. Of course, this impression is also based on Weese's bravery and skillful fighting.

Before highlighting Yong'an, Wei Ze robbed the grain and grass of the Qing army. After highlighting Yong'an, when Yang Xiuqing inspected the troops, he noticed that Wei Ze's troops had walked in the rain for a day, and there was no sign of malaise.

It was precisely because of this feeling that Yang Xiuqing crossed the Southern King Feng Yunshan and directly ordered Wei Ze to block the mouth of the Dayuan Valley. After the war, it seemed that Yang Xiuqing's order was extremely correct, and Wei Ze led the troops to complete the task. According to the report of the brothers who returned, the Qing army killed by Wei Ze's troops was "like a mountain of corpses". If Wei Ze had an accident in the middle because of the fierce pursuit of the Qing army, then Yang Xiuqing would feel extremely regretful.

After waiting for a while, no news came back about Weese. Yang Xiuqing couldn't wait like this, and was about to disperse the tent, when the guards outside hurriedly brought in a person, and when the person saw Yang Xiuqing, he immediately stepped forward to salute, and there was strong excitement in his voice, "King Qidong, Lvshuai Wei has returned." He caught Ulantai, the leader of the Qing Demon Southern Battalion! ”

After saying this, there was a sensation in the entire military tent. In this battle of Dayuan, the Taiping army surrounded and annihilated Ulantai's troops, but they searched in the pile of dead of the Qing army, and only found the bodies of four general soldiers, and did not see the bodies of Ulantai at all. Everyone was very angry about this. Ulantai was an old rival of the Taiping army, and fought against the Taiping army from shortly after the Jintian Uprising. In Longliao Ridge, it was Ulantai who killed more than 2ooo members of the Taiping Army. Unexpectedly, Wei Ze actually captured Ulantai alive, this news is really unbelievable.

"Where is Weezer now?" Yang Xiuqing stood up and asked.

"Lvshuai Wei will be here soon." It was Zhang Yingchen who replied, and his voice was full of passion.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Wei Ze to enter the big tent with a few of his subordinates. I don't know how many miles Wei Ze has run, but I saw Wei Ze and the others with hot air on their heads. As soon as he entered the big tent, Wei Ze immediately saluted Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, and then pointed to a Qing army general carried by several Taiping soldiers behind him and said: "Qiqi Dongwang, this person is the Qing demon leader Ulantai. ”

Then Wei Ze pointed to the head that the other brother was carrying in his hand and said, "King Dong, this person is Qin Dingsan, the chief soldier of the Qing Demon. He resisted stubbornly and was killed by us. I had to cut off his head and come back to report it. ”

Yang Xiuqing had seen Ulantai on the battlefield, he strode up to Ulantai and carefully identified it for a while, and couldn't help laughing, "Sure enough, it's Ulantai!" ”

Some of the generals have also seen Ulantai, and Ulantai was hit by a musket in the stomach, and he was dying at this time, with more air out and less air in. Even if he was carried into the big tent, he didn't look like he was conscious.

Hearing that Yang Xiuqing confirmed that this person was Ulantai, the generals couldn't help but shout: "Kill this Qing demon!" "Kill him!" "Break him up!"

Although Ulantai has been defeated by the Taiping army many times, he really has too many Taiping army lives in his hands, and no one has any mercy for the dying Ulantai at this time.

Yang Xiuqing's face was full of excitement for revenge, and he ordered loudly: "Order!" The armies are gathered. We cut out the heart of this guy in Ulantai and pay tribute to the brothers and family who died in Longliaoling! ”

Ulantai was already dying, and when he was disemboweled, he just snorted a few times, and it was over before he even screamed. Among the thousands of Taiping soldiers, they roared like a tsunami. When the population of Ulantai was cut off and the head of the chief soldier Qin Dingsan was hung high on a flagpole, many Taiping soldiers who had relatives died in Longliao Ridge couldn't help crying loudly.

After dealing with these, Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, raised his account again. "Wei Ze obeys orders!" Yang Xiuqing said.

"The subordinates are here!" Although Wei Ze was tired enough, when he had an order, his waist was still as straight as a flagpole.

Yang Xiuqing said condescendingly: "Wei Ze, this king has promoted you to be the inspector!" In the future, I hope you will fight bravely to kill the enemy, and don't live up to the good intentions of this king! ”

"Yes!" Weser replied excitedly.

In the official system of the Taiping Army, under the kings are the prime minister, and under the prime minister are the inspector, the commander, the general, the general system, the supervising army, the army commander, the division commander, the brigade commander, the pawn commander, and the two Simas. Although the Taiping army is now outnumbered, even if it is a military commander, it is 5oo to 1ooo people, but the post of inspector is finally a high-level person in the Taiping army.

Wei Ze thought that he would at least be promoted to a division commander, but if he was lucky, he could be promoted to army commander this time. Unexpectedly, Yang Xiuqing promoted Wei Ze to the highest position on the basis of not changing the superstructure of the Taiping Army.

After sealing Wei Ze's new official, Yang Xiuqing ordered the account to be dispersed. At this time, there was no station, and Wei Ze and the others went straight to the place where they sent their brothers yesterday to stay to guard the supplies. No one had seized it yet, and the Qing army's pursuing troops were also settled, and the brothers lit a fire and put the bamboo rice by the fire to bake. Hu Chenghe, the second pawn who stayed at the mouth of the Dayuan Valley, hurriedly asked, "Lvshuai Wei, how did you catch Ulantai?" ”

When Wei Changrong heard this, he said triumphantly: "The brigade commander was clever and calculated that there was a Qing army hiding in the valley, and after chasing to Longliao Ridge, he no longer continued to chase, but came back and went straight to the valley. As a result, Ulantai took Qin Dingsan and hid in a cave in the valley. Thanks to Zhang Yingchen's resolute execution of the order, the brothers did not let go of any place, and they found Ulantai and them. ”

Speaking of this, Wei Changrong sighed, "I didn't expect Qin Dingsan to dare to do it, but it's a pity for that brother." ”

Hu Chenghe listened to a general idea, but he didn't fully understand, and he continued to urge Wei Ze to speak. Wei Ze didn't want to speak, so he let Zhang Yingchen tell it. Zhang Yingchen was also the hero of this time, and he immediately spoke triumphantly.

When entering the valley, Wei Ze asked Zhang Yingchen to lead the reconnaissance team to explore the road in front, and asked Zhang Yingchen not to let go of a dead end. Zhang Yingchen immediately released the reconnaissance troops and ordered them to search carefully. There were quite a few Qing troops who fell in the valley, and more than half of them fell to their deaths. In addition, those who did not die, the Taiping Army helped them to be freed from their pain and exhaustion forever.

But one of the brothers came to a cave and went in and searched for it. And Qin Dingsan, the chief soldier of the Qing army, had a very high kung fu, and he suddenly killed the scout who touched the cave, and the scout was killed by Qin Dingsan without even saying a word. Qin Dingsan thought that there were so many people in the Taiping army entering the valley, and it was likely that there would be no one missing. Weese's reconnaissance unit has a system, and each soldier has a direction and scope of responsibility, as well as a mechanism for coming back to report. One person was missing, not only was he revealed, but he was also immediately notified to Zhang Yingchen.

Zhang Yingchen immediately searched the suspicious area carefully, and after appearing in the cave, he suddenly fired a shot into the cave. The Qing army didn't expect this, and an exclamation exposed the Qing army's existence.

Because the scout was missing inside, Zhang Yingchen and others launched a smoke and fire attack on the rather deep cave, and the people in the cave couldn't bear it anymore and escaped. Qin Dingsan was killed, and Ulantai was shot. The captured Qing army confessed who these two men were. Wei Ze didn't bother to escort the prisoners, so he killed all the Qing troops together. only brought back Ulantai and brought back Qin Dingsan's head.

After listening to Zhang Yingchen's colorful narration, Hu Chenghe regretted it. He was responsible for blocking the mouth of the Dayuan Valley, because of his outstanding military achievements, he was appreciated by Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, but because Hu Chenghe's boss Wei Ze did not come back, the king of the east only said that he would give Hu Chenghe a big promotion, but he did not specifically seal the official. However, this credit is very inconspicuous compared to the capture of Ulantai.

At this time, the meal was already hot, and the brothers continued to talk while eating. Now that Wei Ze has become a checkpoint, he is a few levels higher than the military commander. Although everyone didn't understand much about the control of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hu Chenghe still knew very well that under Wei Ze, the chances of promotion were greatly increased.

Wei Ze didn't care about these things, the so-called dojo in the shell of the snail lion was very similar to the official system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, when there were not so many people at all, he formulated a detailed official system, purely to find trouble. And in this situation, whoever has soldiers in his hands is the powerful faction. Even if Wei Ze is a brigade commander, he has more than 3oo subordinates in his hands, and he is the real commander of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which accounts for 1/3o of the 10,000 troops and horses. Although some generals have been appointed commanders and division commanders, there are not many under them. Wei Ze, the officer directly under the East King, didn't need to bird them at all.

So Wei Ze said: "Brothers, now that we have killed Ulantai, and Xiang Rong took more than 300 soldiers with him when he fled, where do you think we should go next?" ”

The brothers didn't have any ideas, but Zhang Yingchen felt that he might just take advantage of the defeat of the Qing army to lead his troops back to Yong'an, and then make the next step after taking advantage of the northern and southern camps in Yong'an. This construction has been approved by many brothers.

After Zhang Yingchen finished speaking, Hu Chenghe said: "Brigade commander, my subordinates still think that we should go to Wuzhou." There are many brothers in the Wuzhou Heaven and Earth Society, and there must be two or three thousand people when they pull it up. Conquer Wuzhou and gather people locally, and the Qing demons in Guangxi are not to be feared. ”

Wei Changrong didn't interject, but his heart was clear. Zhang Yingchen is a native of Yong'an, so he naturally hopes to fight back to Yong'an. Hu Chenghe is a native of Wuzhou, so he wants to go to Wuzhou. Wei Changrong and Wei Ze followed the Taiping army to fight, but they didn't think about going home. Observing Wei Ze carefully, Wei Changrong couldn't help but nod slightly when Wei Ze was fighting Wuzhou when Hu Chenghe said that he was fighting.

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