Chapter 10: The Battle of Yangzhou (1)
In the dilapidated room, Liu Xia sat on the top, Zhang Yuan, Liu Dazhuang, Niu Hu, Wang En, Yu Mingjun, Zhang Liang, Ma Peng, and Zhang Xuan sat at the bottom.
Behind Liu Xia stood Wang Shishi, and next to him stood a guard with clear eyebrows, who looked a little weak. According to him, his name is Xia Sai, and when Jing Xiao recruited soldiers again, he met him on the road and was chased by the Tartars, so he went down, originally Liu Xia saw that he was weak and didn't want him to join, but in Xia Sai's bombing words, Liu Xia accepted him, seeing that he was weak, so he asked him to be his personal guard.
The door of the house was tightly closed, and there were people standing outside, both openly and secretly, guarding the dilapidated courtyard.
It was already dark, but there was only a very faint light in the room, which was not even felt outside, in order to minimize the possibility of detection.
Liu Xia swept through the crowd and said: "We are now at a very critical moment, there can be no mistakes, I have told everyone before, our goal." Although we don't have the ability to drive out the Tartars now, we can give them a serious blow, and that's why I gathered all the soldiers today and asked you to prepare for battle."
After Liu Xia finished speaking, he swept the faces of everyone with a sharp gaze again, and the room was quiet for a while, Liu Dazhuang first said to Jing Xiao: "I am willing to go to the soup for the general, drive out the Tartars, and restore my China."
After Liu Dazhuang finished speaking, the rest of the people also bowed to Liu Xia, and then said in the same firm tone: "I am willing to go to the soup for the general, drive out the Tartars, and restore my China."
Liu Xia nodded with satisfaction, and then said solemnly: "The Qing army already knows our whereabouts, we can't stay in this Yangzhou city anymore, anyway, sooner or later, we will leave in advance."
"Let's evacuate in batches tonight, now there are many holes in Yangzhou City, you can go out, there is a forest not far from after you go out, we will meet in the woods, among which the logistics battalion plus the first brigade of the Tiger Roar Battalion and the general will leave together, and the rest of the battalions will be scattered and left, do you understand? What objections are there? ”
There is no objection to Liu Xia's distribution, and the reason why Liu Xia dares to separate the soldiers is mainly because he trusts the previous teams that he has assigned to various levels, and with these teams, Liu Xia can completely control this army.
Zhang Yuan hesitated for a while, and then asked Liu Xia, "General, what are we going to do after we go out?" How to hit a tartar hard? ”。
Zhang Yuan's words asked everyone's hearts, and they also wanted to know how to inflict heavy losses on the enemy, so they all looked up at Liu Xia, but Liu Xia didn't speak, just smiled slightly, and then said: "When the time comes, everyone knows for themselves, okay, now everyone should go and do things, at zero morning, everyone will try to reach the grove." Remember that the sooner the better, but don't be noticed by the Tartars, be careful."
Seeing Liu Xia's confident appearance, everyone was even more curious about what Liu Xia wanted to do, but Liu Xia didn't say it, they had no choice, and now Liu Xia asked them to work, so they could only let go of this doubt and devote themselves to transferring the team.
Everyone said goodbye to Liu Xia and left, Liu Xia looked at the back of everyone leaving, stood up, and thought with his hands behind his back.
"General, let's, what are we going to do now?" Wang Shishi looked at Liu Xia, who was calm, and saw that those generals were gone, but he had nothing to do, so he was a little anxious.
Liu Xia turned around and said to Wang Shishi: "You go and gather our army, we will also go to the grove tonight, and try to be the earliest."
"Yes, General"
"Xia Sai, you clean up the things in the house" Liu Xia looked at the weak guard behind him, and now Liu Xia still couldn't figure it out, why did he agree to him and let him join?
Xia Sai answered, and then ran around the house, carefully and carefully packed up his things, Liu Xia looked at Xia Sai's work, and secretly thought in his heart that this little guard was really handsome, if he was placed in the twenty-first world, he would definitely be a big star, and then a bunch of chased and shouted to dedicate themselves.
Xia Sai, who was doing things, felt that someone had been staring at him, and his face didn't feel red, which made Liu Xia even more interested.
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Outside, several generals who were going out at this time walked together and began to talk, Niu Hu said, "What does the general want to do?" Why is it so mysterious, my old cow is really curious."
"I don't know what the general wants to do, the general's mind is not something we can figure out," Wang En said in a sullen voice.
Liu Dazhuang said: "Our generals have always done things unexpectedly, originally we were with the general at that time more than 30 people, if these numbers were placed on ordinary people, they would either surrender, or flee, or fight to the death with the Qing army, and then the whole army was annihilated." But our general actually relied on himself to gather today's thousands of troops, which has to admire the general, as Brother Wang said, the general's mind is not something we can figure out. ”
Ma Peng saw that everyone said a word to you and a word to me, but he didn't make it clear, so he said in a thick voice: "Do you think the general will attack the army of Duoduo?" If that's the case, I'm going to the guy right away. ”
Everyone stopped and looked at Ma Peng in amazement, this guy who is usually brave and unscrupulous, can even figure out what others think? Although Ma Peng has not joined the team for a long time, everyone still knows him very well, this guy is bold, brave and strategic, let him go to war and charge, but if he is asked to figure out what others mean, he can't say if he kills him.
Ma Peng felt the eyes of everyone, his face was a little hot, he just said it unintentionally, he himself was bold, so he also thought of sneaking up on Duoduo's army, thinking of this, he said it, he didn't expect everyone to look at him like this.
Yu Mingjun looked at everyone's appearance, and then looked at Ma Peng's appearance, so he hurriedly said: "Didn't the general just say that he asked the brothers to gather the army and prepare to leave the city?" Brothers, don't dwell on this matter, when the time comes, the general will naturally tell me to wait."
After Yu Mingjun said this, everyone also came back to their senses, now is not the time to joke and laugh, there are still important things to do.
Ma Peng breathed a sigh of relief, so he hurriedly said to everyone: "I Ma Peng is far away, go first and say goodbye." After saying this, Ma Peng left in a hurry, what had just happened made him feel too depressed. He didn't feel so embarrassed when facing the general, Ma Peng secretly thought, he would definitely not intervene in the future.
As Mapen left, the others said goodbye to each other, and then each returned to his barracks and began to prepare.
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The sky was dark, I couldn't see my fingers, there were no stars in the sky, and the whole world was unusually quiet.
In the yard, because of the need to clean up things, the lights are now dimly lit, and there are people running in a hurry everywhere, some are moving things, some are feeding the horses, and some are loading supplies.
Soon everyone was assembled, and everything was loaded, Liu Xia walked out of the house, followed by Wang Shishi, a big man, and Xia Sai, who was holding a burden and panting a little.
Liu Xia looked at the team in front of him and nodded with satisfaction, the actual combat these days has made most of the people in the entire team become elites now, and a large amount of food is used as a backing, making the people who were originally yellow and thin become big people with huge bodies again.
"General, comprehensive battalion, scout team and logistics team, all assembled" Yu Mingjun stood straight, and then bowed to Liu Xia and reported his work.
Then Zhang Ning, the captain of a brigade transferred from the Huben battalion, also came over and said to Liu Xia: "General, the first brigade of the Huben battalion has been assembled."
Liu Xia nodded, the rest is the dozens of personal guards, originally more than a hundred personal guards, because each general was divided, and now there are still thirty or forty people left, but the combat effectiveness of the personal guards is also admired by the elite tiger battalion.
Liu Xia said solemnly: "Now everyone must be cautious and cautious, there can be no mistakes, we must not let the Qing army find out now, so use your greatest energy to do your own errands."
"The scout team is scattered around, check the news, then the horses don't need to ride, to prevent sound, the pro-guard team is in front, the logistics team is in the middle, and the tiger camp is distributed in the rear, everyone is ready, start to advance."
"Yes, General".
With Jing Xiao's order, everyone began to set up their respective positions, and then the scout team walked out one after another, and began to check the news around, and the other troops began to slowly walk outside the courtyard under the leadership of the personal guards.
Yangzhou City is very large, as a city that can accommodate 800,000 people, if it is small, it is impossible to squeeze so many people. It is indeed difficult for such a large Yangzhou city to go out at night, but Liu Xia has already found a route before, and now he just needs to follow this route.
Along the way, everyone is very careful to move forward, that is, the horse Liu Xia put a cloth on their feet to prevent sound, and the horse's mouth was also covered, at this time it was already Hai Shi (Hai Shi, equivalent to the current night between nine o'clock and eleven o'clock, the text belongs to nine o'clock), in ancient times, there were no various kinds of entertainment, they all slept very early, and now basically except for special places, the entire Yangzhou City has fallen into darkness.
In the dark Yangzhou City, several teams were slowly evacuated in different directions and with different numbers, and it was precisely because of the Qing army that many city walls collapsed when they attacked Yangzhou City, which gave Liu Xia and others a door to evacuate.
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