On the morning of January 13, 1852, on the city wall of the eastern city of Changsha, two men about 4o years old took several personal soldiers and horses to watch the array of the Taiping army from afar.

"Jiang Gong, is that the bundle of Yue bandits?" Among the two people watching, the man with a full face, drooping eyes, and a lion's nose and wide mouth asked another man sitting in a chair with a wrinkled face and a thin face.

It was Jiang Zhongyuan who was called Jiang Gong, and when he heard this question, he snorted coldly, "Ji Gao, that team of people is the bundle of Yue bandits, this thief will not be destroyed, and the Yue bandits will not die." ”

This man with a high character, a lion nose and a wide mouth, and a meaty face is Zuo Zongtang, the trusted aide of Hunan Governor Zhang Liangji. Zuo Zongtang was able to understand Jiang Zhongyuan's feelings, and on January 6, the vanguard of the Taiping army converged with the Taiping army outside the city, and after receiving support, the Taiping army planned to launch an attack on the Qing army's position in the south of the city.

At this time, not only did the main force of the Taiping Army arrive in Changsha, but the Qing army also gathered in Changsha. The Qing army in Changsha, which had been prepared in advance, took the initiative to attack under the persuasion of Jiang Zhongyuan, in a vain attempt to deal a head-on blow to the Taiping army. The attacking Qing army took the initiative to attack the Taiping army in the south of the city, but was defeated.

During the battle, Jiang Zhongyuan, who was riding a horse and bravely attacking the Taiping Army, was stabbed in the right cheek by a Shu Yue bandit, and fell off his horse at that time. If it weren't for Chu Yong's efforts to rescue, I was afraid that Jiang Zhongyuan would have confessed on the battlefield. Because he was shot, Jiang Zhongyuan could only sit on the chair and be carried by his own soldiers. And according to the news, Jiang Zhongyuan was once defeated by Shu Yue bandits. Therefore, Zuo Zongtang can very well understand why Jiang Zhongyuan has some temper when facing these Yue bandits.

Zuo Zongtang has a lot of respect for Jiang Zhongyuan, so naturally he will not deliberately expose this scar. Moreover, Zuo Zongtang is a little particularly concerned about this type of Cantonese bandits. Although he failed to be famous, Zuo Zongtang is a celebrity in Hunan, and his knowledge is excellent. He knew that this group of Cantonese bandits was the type of Han people, and this alone had the value of careful observation. Not to mention that this bundle of Cantonese bandits has defeated too many Qing troops, and among the Qing armies gathered in Changsha, this bundle of Cantonese bandits are all very famous.

In the morning, Zuo Zongtang learned that the Taiping army had lined up with great fanfare and attacked the Qing army in the east of Changsha City. Zhang Liangji, the governor of Hunan, trusted Zuo Zongtang very much, and handed over the actual plans of Changsha to Zuo Zongtang, and he just gave orders according to Zuo Zongtang's construction number. Zuo Zongtang set up several positions in Cai Gong's Tomb, Xiaowu Gate, and School Yard in the east of the city to prevent the Taiping army from moving freely in the south and east of Changsha City. And it was the famous Cantonese bandits who attacked the Qing army's position.

The target of this attack by the Cantonese bandits was Ma Long, the general soldier of the Qing army near Xiaowumen. Those who have not fought with the Shu Yue bandits, Ma Long's general soldier is one. Zuo Zongtang simply invited Jiang Zhongyuan to watch the battle, wanting to get some guidance from this famous figure in the two lakes.

After watching it for a while, Zuo Zongtang couldn't help but sigh: "This Cantonese bandit can be so neat and ...... when marching, if it suddenly kills with a team, I'm afraid it won't be able to resist." ”

"Ji Gao, I once thought so." Jiang Zhongyuan replied. Zuo Zongtang was a little puzzled by Jiang Zhongyuan's words, and the taste in his words turned out to be completely unoptimistic about the Qing army. Looking at the way of marching of the Cantonese bandits, the queue took a horizontal line, and the rows of troops marched forward stupidly. If this is just a drill, walking so slowly and neatly during a war is simply a matter of eating the ancients.

In Zuo Zongtang's view, the formation of the Yue bandits is even more unreasonable. The distance between the thin horizontal formations is too large, and if they are attacked by the column, they will be cut through it, and there is no way to move flexibly.

Undoubtedly, this is not Zuo Zongtang's opinion alone, and the view of Ma Long, the chief soldier of the Qing army, is also the same. However, Ma Long's troops suddenly attacked the Taiping army on the opposite side in a column mode. Condescending on the city wall, Zuo Zongtang praised Ma Long's tactics, which were indeed the correct way to deal with the Yue bandits. The column was cut diagonally into the horizontal line, and as soon as it cut into the horizontal line, the horizontal line's front immediately became chaotic. The troops of the Shu Yue bandits are all horizontal teams, once someone escapes back, it will be a chain reaction, and the teams of people and horses behind will be coerced by the front team that has fled from the front to retreat, and they will not be able to resist at all.

Jiang Zhongyuan did not express any approval or even appreciation, he said coldly: "Let's talk about it after watching it." ”

Half an hour later, Zuo Zongtang's face trembled, and he saw the Qing army under Ma Long's command crying for his father and fleeing for his life.

After more than half an hour, the horizontal flesh on Zuo Zongtang's face stopped trembling, and the fat on his body began to tremble. Not only did the entire army under the general army of Ma Long's department collapse, but the two Qing armies that came to aid were also collapsed by the horizontal team of the Yue bandits. The troops of the Shu Yue bandits looked like they had been advancing slowly in a horizontal formation. But there is an old saying that you are not afraid of slowness, but only of standing. The troops of the Shu Yue bandits have always marched according to their own patterns, and the troops fighting the Qing army head-on have not stopped, nor have the troops responsible for following up and outflanking. Condescendingly, it was clear that the Shu Yue bandits had defeated the Qing army with clean and neat actions, and when the Qing army tried to hold on to the group, the Shu Yue bandits had already completed the team mobilization and launched an attack in the form of a three-sided attack. The Qing army was eventually defeated and collapsed. Since the gates had been sealed, the Qing army fled under the city walls and crowded together like ants.

Because there was artillery of the Qing army at the head of the city, the Shu Yue bandits did not send infantry to be reluctant. They pulled out their cannons and began to bombard the Qing army, the shells hit accurately and fiercely, and the screams of the Qing army's people were clearly heard at the head of the city.

The corners of Zuo Zongtang's eyes drooped downward, and now because of shock and anger, the tips of his eyes looked a little upward at this time. However, this angry gaze did not have any actual lethality, and he could only watch as the Qing army was beaten and began to flee along the city wall. And the position of Xiaowumen and the school field in the east of the city was taken away by the Shu Yue bandits.

At this time, the Taiping army outside the city and the Qing army at the head of the city began to shell, coupled with the musket fire in the battle, the east of Changsha was already full of smoke, and Zuo Zongtang could no longer see the enemy's figure clearly. But he has an excellent memory, and the battle is still vivid.

The victory of the Shu Yue bandits began with the Qing army's initiative to attack, and the Shu Yue bandits, who were originally oblique to the Qing army, did not rearrange, let alone temporarily retreat, they took the soldiers in the middle of the army as the axis, and took about 25 people as a team on the battlefield, the left side of the team retreated, and the right side of the team moved forward, and after a while, the direction of the queue was completely changed.

After turning, the five inconsistent teams of Shu Yue bandits turned out to be a neat and fierce again after a slight adjustment. Then this horizontal column brushed up against the Qing army. The Qing army rushed across the column in a column, and the high superiority of the column was instantly wiped out, and the disadvantage of the small firepower area of the column was vividly waved at this time. After being hit head-on by muskets, the Qing army was in disarray. The pikemen in the back row of the Shu Yue bandit musket team took advantage of the situation and slaughtered the Qing army.

No matter what tactics the Qing army adopted, the Shu Yue bandits always met the battle in a horizontal formation, hitting with guns at a distance and stabbing with spears at a distance. The Qing army had no way to deal with it.

Zuo Zongtang watched the Qing army suffer enough in the shooting, and the musket team of the Shu Yue bandits was not afraid of the muskets of the Qing army, and advanced while shooting. In the end, they overwhelmed the officers and soldiers with firepower.

Taking advantage of the fact that there were enough muskets on both sides and the position was filled with smoke, the pikemen of the Cantonese bandits rushed violently, killing the officers and soldiers on their backs, and the whole army collapsed.

Thinking back to the situation of the battle, Zuo Zongtang couldn't help but have a suspicion of who was the official army and who was the bandit. In the face of this bundle of Cantonese bandits, compared to bravery, discipline, and tactics, the officers and troops were completely a rabble. Turning his head to look at Jiang Zhongyuan, who had been shot in the right cheek, Zuo Zongtang suddenly understood how Jiang Zhongyuan fought bravely when he went into battle in person. Being able to escape a life in the position of the Yue bandits, Chu Yong can definitely be called brave and good at fighting.

was thinking about it, but saw a long pole erected in the team of Cantonese bandits outside, and a human head was picked on top. Below the white cloth banner was written black and red words, "The level of the Qing Demon Chief Soldier Ma Long".

The black and red color should have been written on it dipped in human blood, and the word "Ma Long" was written as "Ma Long" by the Shu Yue bandits. The Manchu exams had to use the customized characters on the Kangxi Dictionary, and if you went to take the exam, you would never be able to understand guò. At this moment, Zuo Zongtang heard Jiang Zhongyuan, who was silent throughout the battle, speak, "This word is really ugly!" ”

This evaluation is a bit out of place, but Zuo Zongtang doesn't know how to evaluate it at this time. Is it all waste to scold the Qing army? Or pretend to be generous and appreciative that the Cantonese bandits can fight? Zuo Zongtang didn't want to choose any evaluation. He was in a mess in his heart, when the Taiping Army Brigade rushed to Changsha, Zuo Zongtang also looked at it from a high place, it was a force of forty or fifty thousand people, although some of them looked like a weak brigade from a distance, and it was even likely to be women, children, old and weak. But if the remaining 20,000 or so Taiping troops are as good at fighting as the bandits of Guangdong, I am afraid that this Changsha City will not be able to hold it.

At this moment, I saw that the Taiping army erected two more long poles. Zuo Zongtang thought that there were two more general soldiers who died in battle, and he was already in a shocked mood, and he was even more panicked at this time. You can look intently, and there is no head on the long pole. It's still black and red, it's still a simple word, and the banner on the long pole on the left reads "Micro Tube Zhong, I Wear the Left Side!" The banner on the long pole on the right reads, "Yidi Manchu Qing Dynasty implemented the shaving order, and the Han people's clothing and crown have been cut off since then. ”

If the defeat of the battle only caused uneasiness to Zuo Zongtang in the city, it did not make Zuo Zongtang lose the will to continue fighting. And these two paragraphs of words dipped in blood made Zuo Zongtang feel a burst of horror, and the Shu Yue bandits on the opposite side showed themselves to be upright and upright. At this time, Zuo Zongtang still felt that the Manchu court was an official government, and also thought that the Shu Yue bandits under the city were traitors and bandits. But he couldn't immediately come up with a reason that could refute these two sentences in a dignified manner.

Microtubule Zhong, I wear it on the left! This sentence had a strong lethal effect on the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there must be people reading sage books among the Shu Yue bandits opposite, Zuo Zongtang was completely sure of this.

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