Jiang Zhongyuan's angry eyes widened, and the corners of his eyes were about to crack. He shouted with a single knife and shouted hoarsely: "Kill the thief!" Kill the thief! ”

However, on this battlefield with a loud killing voice, his shouting alone was too insignificant. The pro-soldiers on the left and right were dragged alive, looking at Jiang Zhongyuan's appearance that he still wanted to die here. The soldiers simply dragged down the single knife in Jiang Zhongyuan's hand, and then carried Jiang Zhongyuan on his back and began to flee for his life.

In fact, there was no shouting and killing on the side of the Qing army, only the screams that came out involuntarily when they fled for their lives, and the screams when those who ran slowly were killed by the spears that were mercilessly stabbed from behind. At this time, the pikemen of the Taiping army carried spears, shouted to kill the corpses of the Qing soldiers who walked all over the place, and began to pursue the fleeing Qing army. Behind these elite warriors armed with spears, the musketeers of five pawns had finished reloading, and they began to march behind the pikemen in neat steps under the command of the small drums. Although it is unlikely that the defeated Qing army was a deliberate trap, this does not mean that Wei Ze will put the elite pikemen in a possible predicament. Since this arrangement was included in the original plan, there is no reason to change the original plan without the appearance of irresistible external factors.

The pikemen of the various units had already been released to pursue the Qing army, and under the command of the horn and the command banner, the rest of Wei Ze's troops began to retract. A part of the trained warriors laid down their muskets, picked up their spears and rearranged the array.

The course of the battle that had already been fought was classic, it was a swarm of troops head-on to charge the well-organized army, and as a result, Wei Ze's troops did not stand at all waiting for the Qing army to rush up, and the artillerymen were ordered, and each cannon fell silent after firing the last three shells in a row. The infantry phalanx, under the command of drums and bugles, began to advance against the Qing army with the beat of drums.

It is very important whether an army has discipline or not, and the soldiers of a disciplined army, whether they carried a gun a year ago or a day ago, will firmly carry out the order to the end. Let them step forward and they will step forward, let them back down and they will step back. This can't even be talked about in the Ming Dynasty, Sun Wu said thousands of years ago that the soldiers are neat, although they can go to the fire and water.

Of course, the Qing army did not have the discipline of the European army in this era to stand there and be artillery, they were beaten in the shelling, and naturally they could not withstand the shelling, so they could only rush up desperately to fight with Wei Ze in close combat. And Wei Ze naturally did not leave the Qing army a chance to rectify the ranks, he ordered the troops who had already been in battle to advance.

Where can the running Qing army still have time to systematically load gunpowder and lead, and many Qing troops are simply pushed forward by the people behind. When both armies marched forward, it didn't take long to cover two or three miles. Then the Qing army was stunned, and when they rushed forward, a large part of it was an instinctive reaction to get rid of the cannons, and of course, the urging of the officers. But after running for this section, their attention could not return to the gun.

It was already the limit that Wei Ze's troops could maintain a basic formation and march two miles, even if there were already various problems with the formation of the troops, and they had long since just come out or were so neat. But it depends on who you compare it to. Compared with the Qing army, Wei Ze's front was still a complete front after advancing for nearly two miles. Even if some troops marched faster and some slower, the Qing army still could not take advantage of the gaps between the different troops.

In front of this group of chaotic Qing troops, when Wei Ze's troops reached a distance of 5o steps from the Qing army, the troops of each pawn came to attack the Qing army in three stages. The unprepared Qing army was stunned, and when the Taiping pikemen crossed the line and rushed in front of the Qing army to begin their fierce assassination, the Qing army soon collapsed and began to flee.

Lin Fengxiang, who was standing beside Wei Ze, was dumbfounded, fighting such a positional battle with the Qing army head-on has always been the weakness of the Taiping army. The field battles between the Taiping army and the Qing army were basically the skills that the old brothers in Guangxi had trained since childhood, and before the final battle, the Taiping army had to take full movement to ambush, lure the enemy, and outflank them. Moreover, in several field battles, before the defeat of the Qing army, the Taiping army suffered many casualties. This was the first time Lin Fengxiang had seen the Taiping army and the Qing army face each other head-to-head on the battlefield of the double default. Weese's forces were able to win a battle like this with ease. Every move of the Qing army fell under Wei Ze's control, and the final defeat was extremely simple and clear.

"Brother Wei, this is a win?" There was great suspicion in Lin Fengxiang's tone.

Weeser replied, "It will take a while to win completely." Closing is actually very slow. I thought about leaving Guanyang as soon as possible, but I was afraid of long nights and dreams. I don't know if I can go out this afternoon. ”

It's summer, the days are long, and the nights aren't that dark. Even if they marched all night, the troops were not afraid to carry torches. Besides, the Taiping army did not march at night, and when Yong'an was highlighted, it was not only a night march, but also a march in heavy rain. There weren't even torches back then.

"Is the Qing Demon so vulnerable?" Lin Fengxiang didn't care about how to withdraw from Guanyang at this time, and the process of the battle, especially the mode of Wei Ze's organization of the battle, made Lin Fengxiang feel a great impact. Because Wei Ze's troops were too neat, it was difficult for Lin Fengxiang to even give birth to the feeling that this was a battle.

"The leader of the Qing Demon is already very daring to fight. If it weren't for that, they wouldn't have been able to rush more than a mile anyway. changed to other Qing demons, but I was afraid that I would retreat when the artillery battle was unfavorable. Weeser gave a very normal comment.

Lin Fengxiang wanted to say something, but he wanted to say something. The whole battle showed his understanding of war, even if there were a thousand words, but he didn't know how to say it.

But the battle would not go on endlessly, and seeing that the distance of the pursuit was almost over, Weeser ordered the troops to be withdrawn. With the sound of the golden drums, the pursuing pikemen began to stop their pursuit. Everyone was really tired along the way, and a special unit to clean up the battlefield went up to search for the corpses of the Qing army, collected some Qing weapons and gunpowder that looked okay, and the troops returned to the city.

The fatigue after the battle hung over the entire army, and no matter which part of the fighters it was, the distance they had to travel in the whole battle was not a small amount. Wei Ze briefly praised the troops, and then announced, "I will go back to Jianghua and Yongming today, and after I go back, everyone will rest for three days!" If there is no military intelligence, we will rest for seven days! ”

Hearing Wei Ze's personal order, the tired warriors couldn't help but cheer. For nearly a month, the troops have only rested for three days, and the rest of the time is either training or marching to fight. Everyone was building up extreme exhaustion.

"Work hard, rush back to Jianghua and Yongming! Ninety-nine eighty-one is sad and eighty is difficult, how can there be the last trembling! Don't say anything, go out after eating! As the actual commander-in-chief of the unit, Hu Chenghe shouted.

After defeating the Qing army, the soldiers also knew that they had no worries, so although the troops were tired, they were generally relaxed. In addition, after conquering Quanzhou, he captured a lot of mules and horses, and he didn't have to carry too much luggage when he marched.

Weeser took the lead, and all the officers walked with the fighters. Lin Fengxiang was even more surprised. In the Taiping Army, not to mention Wei Ze, such a dignified prime minister, it is also very common for ordinary commanders to sit in a sedan chair.

During the march, Wei Ze and his officers often shouted slogans to the troops, "Are the brothers tired?" ”

"Tired!" The warriors replied in a matter-of-fact manner.

"Do you want to rest, brothers?"

"Yes!" The fighters shouted.

"When you get to Jianghua and Yongming, you can rest! Let's go! The officers shouted at the top of their throats.

Moreover, Wei Ze and the others also put up some signs on the road, which read, "There are still a hundred miles to the destination!" "Eighty miles from the destination!"

Lin Fengxiang wandered the rivers and lakes when he was a teenager, and set up a fortune seller, so he naturally recognized these words. He admired Wei Zezhijun's ability even more, and when everyone saw these words, they knew how far they had gone and how long they would have to go, so there were naturally a lot fewer complaints.

After two days of arduous marching, the troops finally rushed back to Vinh Minh. The camp had already been prepared, and the brothers, no matter how much, just crashed into the barracks and fell asleep.

Although he did not participate in the battle, Lin Fengxiang was quite tired from following Wei Ze and them on such a trek. But although Weeser looked tired, he did not go to sleep immediately. In Yongming County, there were nearly 2,000 people waiting for him. The one who stayed behind was Lin Asheng, the commander of the Fourth Division, who reported to Wei Ze that these nearly 2,000 people had come to join Wei Ze.

After Wei Ze annihilated Liu Changqing, there was a great shock in this area. Moreover, the Taiping army never looted, and the purchase of materials was given money. Moreover, the high-level leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom once discussed this issue, and the advice they came up with was "give more money". This is not simply buying people's hearts or showing off. In these years, the people are living in difficulty, and if there is an army that can give more money, it means that this army is very rich, and there is a future with such a force.

Anyway, life has reached the point where it can't be worse, and after having such a hope, those people who can't survive are willing to try to take advantage of the opportunity. In addition, Wei Ze killed more than 1,000 Qing troops, and the people who couldn't survive in southern Hunan also felt that they would not die so easily if they followed such an army. The people who had been waiting for a long time began to defect to Weze in large numbers.

Moreover, Lin Asheng told Sù Wei Ze that since these people defected to the Taiping Army, after eating a full meal for a few days, some people went back to pull their relatives to join the army. In a few days, the number of these people will continue to increase.

"Will we have four thousand?" Weser asked tiredly.

"There will be more, not less." After Lin Asheng answered the question, he asked, "Prime Minister, you went to Quanzhou this time, and the food you brought back was enough?" ”

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