"In March and April, the red thief was first proud of the Taiping, and the whole Taiwan was chaotic, and Liu Jiehu led its dragon lance, Panshi, Huang Tai, Niu Dao and other more than ten battalions to attack Zhejiang, Huangyan and Xianju were all victimized, and the officials and people were taken captive countless of them, fortunately, there was a general Wu Hongchuan clan, although a small setback in Xianju, immediately retreated to Jinyun, broke the red thief in the city, and took the county seat of Xianju, the hearts of the people in Zhejiang were settled, this is the work of the younger brother's strategy, and the situation in Zhejiang has changed." (Excerpt from the collection of letters of He Guiqing et al.)

"At that time, the people who attacked Jinyun, the most elite dragon spear, rock, cattle knife and other battalions of the red thief willow outright, all over the mountains, one or twenty miles all saw the red flag, and carried dozens of heavy artillery, wrapped in the immortal residence, Jinyun good people are very numerous, at that time Jinyun Zhixian was afraid of the enemy like a tiger, the thief did not arrive and abandoned the city first, escaped into the countryside, the county was shocked, fortunately there was a military staff general red boat is not afraid, although the body was 17 still led the public to refuse to kill the thief, the thief attacked the city for two days, before and after the charge reached more than 40 times, the corpse is like a mountain, it is the leader of Zhou Xiuying's family, according to the cloud for the Shanghai knife will accumulate years of female thieves, led more than 2,000 thieves to repeatedly break our officers and troops, and today it was finally broken by me......

Fierce battle for several days, thieves burned more than 2,000 corpses under the city, wept and left, the military staff will see the enemy retreat, immediately led the troops to attack, all the way to the outside of Xianju County, the red thieves looked at the wind and fled, our soldiers were indignant, took advantage of the situation to kill into the county, the enemy left a lot of corpses, soon the red thieves re-killed two teams of soldiers, our soldiers temporarily retreated, only cut the head of more than 50 levels of ......" (Chuzhou Zhenluo sticks to Jinyun to recover Xianju County, the palace is in the middle of the file)

"Xianfeng five years three or four, the red thief has repeatedly won in central Zhejiang and northern Fujian, fortunately there is a military staff general Jinxian victory, the whole Zhejiang people are settled!" (Excerpt from the forbidden and destroyed reactionary book "Qing History Manuscript")

It must be noted that the reactionary Chinese ruling class represented by Liu Chang and their ruling instruments never took the initiative to mention the Jinxian Campaign. As if this battle did not exist, only a few books quoted the original war report claiming that in this battle, he broke through the Wuhong Boat Department in Chuzhou Town and killed a member of the Wu Shen General, which is another lie made up by the Chinese reactionary army, as we all know, Wu Hongchuan General has been fighting on the front line of the battle with the Red Turban Thief for a long time, and has repeatedly broken the Red Thief, this is only the first time he was "killed" by the Red Turban Thief!

According to the palace archives and other materials at that time, it can be verified. At that time, the Red Thief Liu Jiehu mobilized all the elites, including all the main infantry battalions and a large number of auxiliary troops, in an attempt to wander through Zhejiang, but this time the vicious plan was broken by the heroic Jinyun soldiers and civilians led by Wu Hongchuan, and the Red Turban Thief had to pay the price of more than 3,000 killed. Embarrassed to run back to its peaceful lair! (Edited by the Foreign Propaganda Office of the People's Federation of the United States of America, Bai Siwen, "A Real Red China", Part VII, "The History of the Squadron Woven with Lies", reactionary materials, confiscated by the Cultural Department of the Shanghai Municipal Government)

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But for the Hong Army, they quickly forgot about the so-called "Jinxian Victory" or the so-called "Jinxian Battle", and there was only one thing they remembered more clearly.

In fact, even Liu Chang remembered it very clearly, when he got a report from the Dragon Lance Battalion: "The Ox Knife Company has withdrawn!" ”

Now that the Dragon Lance Battalion has withdrawn from Xianju County, it should come back with the Ox Knife. In order to express his recognition of the troops' combat exploits, Liu Chang personally rode his white horse to guard the intersection, waiting for the Ox Knife Company to withdraw.

There had just been a light rain, and the road had become a little muddy, Liu Chang asked Huo Qiu beside him, "The retreat of the knife should be smooth, right?" Didn't suffer anything, did you? ”

Huo Qiu told him: "I haven't heard of this news, but I heard that there are a lot of Qing demons in Jinyun, and Chuzhou Town has used all the strength to eat milk, and the cattle knife even retreats carefully!" What is this sound? ”

Liu Chang also pricked up his ears. He said hesitantly: "It seems to be the sound of horses' hooves, and the horse team of the Qing Demon is coming?" ”

After a while, a large team of horses appeared in front of Liu Chang, Liu Chang looked from afar, and the first thing he saw was Zhou Xiuying riding on a horse wearing a small tight coat and carrying a horse chopping knife, but the next moment he was taken aback: "There are so many military horses!" ”

He saw that Zhou Xiuying's cattle knife was almost all on a horse, and they got at least seventy or eighty riding horses. Although they are all relatively short Mongolian horses, and the quality of the horses seems to be average, Liu Chang doesn't know when Zhou Xiuying's cattle knife company turned into a horse team.

"What's going on? What's going on? Liu Chang turned around and asked Huo Qiu: "Why do we have an extra horse team?" He could see that Zhou Xiuying's Ox Knife Company was not a real horse team, but just some infantry riding on Mongolian horses. But with such a force, Liu Chang has an extra mobile force.

Of course, the riding skills of these infantry are comparable to Liu Chang, only a few people like Zhou Xiuying and others can skillfully control the war horse, Liu Chang looked at Zhou Xiuying, and suddenly had a feeling.

Her posture of charging on a horse with a chopping knife should be very, very heroic, right?

"Where did the horses come from?" Liu Chang's tone was full of surprise: "We don't have so many military horses in our entire Rainbow Army?" ”

"Captured!" Zhou Xiuying told Liu Chang: "When we retreated, we found a military horse farm in Chuzhou Town, which was not large, and the green battalion soldiers in it were almost as good as they were, but they still paid more than 70 horses. ”

"Yes, yes!" Liu Chang didn't expect that the Ox Dao Company would have such an unexpected gain: "This time you have made a fortune!" ”

Zhou Xiuying's face also had a smile on her face, and she rode on the horse as easily as if she was on flat ground: "Check, you have to double the military salary you give us to the Ox Knife Company!" ”

Raising horses is not an easy task, Liu Chang knows this very well, the cost of raising a horse is enough to raise several infantrymen, but the next moment Liu Chang decided to beat Zhou Xiuying first: "Leave you sixty horses, two platoons." ”

Zhou Xiuying was so angry that she waved the horse chopping knife in her hand: "Check, your disposal is unfair, this military horse was captured by our cattle knife company, how can it be transferred to other companies!" ”

She looked quite good when she was angry, and Liu Chang was in a good mood: "When the next batch of Minnie rifles and revolvers arrives, I will leave a batch for your company." ”

Zhou Xiuying's smile bloomed all of a sudden: "Really? ”

"Really!"

Under the leadership of Zhou Xiuying, the horse team of the Ox Knife Company and the company of the Cattle Knife Company accelerated their speed, and they began to run, and the infantry walking fast could actually keep up with the speed of the cavalry, which surprised Liu Chang.

But after a closer look, he found that the cavalry was stop-and-go, stopping from time to time to wait for the infantry to catch up, Huo Qiu said to Liu Chang next to him: "It's good if there is a horse team in this battle, and the Qing Demon can't run away, shouldn't the Ox Knife Company also be expanded into a battalion?" In that case, one infantry company, one cavalry company, just right! ”

"I heard that Lu Ziyun is one of the twin clouds of Nanxi!" Liu Chang also spoke casually: "As soon as Lu Ziyun leaves, Nanxi Shuangyun will be one less cloud. ”

Huo Qiu and Liu Chang said very directly: "I can let Zhou Xiuying, Niu Dao Lian and the horse team go, but Lu Ziyun kept it for me, I took a fancy to this person, and I asked him to be the company commander of the third company in Nanxi." ”

This Lu Ziyun has such a big face, Huo Qiu doesn't even want a knife and a horse team, as long as such a Lu Ziyun stays in the Nanxi camp.

Liu Chang has his own thoughts: "I haven't made up my mind yet, I don't necessarily follow your method, but Lu Ziyun will definitely keep it for you!" ”

However, Liu Chang smiled again: "How much effort did it take to attack Xianju and Jinyun this time, and in the end, it was worth mentioning that this horse team was finally obtained!" ”

Liu Chang is also telling the truth, in terms of the results, this Xianjin battle is not worth mentioning, originally wanted to fight a battle of annihilation, and in the end it eliminated three or four hundred Qing soldiers, and the rest of the Qing army fled from the wind, and did not let the Hong army pick up any cheap at all.

However, Huo Qiu was very curious: "Checkpoint, what are you trying to do this time to attack the Immortal Residence?" Now that the battle is over, it's time to show the bottom! ”

Liu Chang smiled mysteriously: "You'll know in a few days!" ”

Although the battle did not achieve the combat goal, but after a few days, the entire Rainbow Army knew the true purpose of the battle, although the process of fighting was a little ugly, but the Rainbow Army perfectly completed their campaign mission - mobilized the main force of Chuzhou Town in the direction of Jinyun and Xianju.

And taking advantage of the opportunity when Chuzhou Town mobilized the main force to the direction of Jinyun, Ni Tingmo, who had been controlling Yongjia County, suddenly dispatched the main force to attack Qingtian County, which was guarded by Chuzhou Town, and then continued to attack westward after capturing Qingtian County, and now the troops are approaching Lishui.

Liu Chang's intention to mobilize the main force of Chuzhou Town is to cooperate with Ni Tingmo's round of offensive, and everyone has now understood!

Now that Chuzhou Town has no care about attacking Taizhou, they themselves are difficult to protect, and it is obvious that Ni Tingmo is preparing to take down the entire Chuzhou capital as his own territory.

In the Red Turban Army, he is the second person, the deputy marshal of the official residence, but in fact, after getting the territory of Yongjia County, his position is embarrassing, and he only has one or two thousand people under his command.

For this reason, he even rejected Qu Zhenhan's proposal to let him go south to attack northern Fujian, but recruited troops everywhere and expanded his troops by more than two times, but although Yongjia County is a place with good soldiers, it can't feed so many troops, so he can only march to Chuzhou.

And now he and Liu Chang have reached an agreement that will benefit both parties immensely, Liu Chang will lead the main force of Chuzhou Town for him, he can capture Qingtian County without any scruples, and then take the opportunity to take the entire Chuzhou capital.

And although Liu Chang worked hard and mobilized the people, in the end he only got a little result that seemed insignificant, but it was not a failure of the division, the troops of the entire Chuzhou Town were attracted by Ni Tingmo, and it was even possible to attract some reinforcements that were originally going to be sent to Taizhou to be sent to the prefecture, and now Liu Chang does not need to worry about his flanks, he can just clean up the Huangyan Town in front of him.

That's right, it's time to take all of Taizhou!

ps: I saw that many old book friends are back, I am very moved, and I will strive for the fourth watch tomorrow, and ask you for a precious monthly pass before the fourth watch (to be continued......