Chapter 233: Sprint

"It's a pity to let go of Wu Hongchuan, it's a pity to ......"

Heng Zhifu has been a Taiping Taishou for 20 years, and today he finally knows the danger of the soldiers, and he thinks about Wu Hongchuan, but he does not dare to go out of the city.

Not only him, but the civil and military officials at the head of the city did not dare to fire a shot, and fired a cannon, for fear that the red thief would turn around and kill Li. The water city was taken down.

Although there are thousands of brave soldiers in the city, but at first the Hengzhi Mansion brought 1,200 brave soldiers to fight, everyone also saw it with their own eyes, and even watched Liu Chang's rainbow army slowly marching in, the scorching sun was in the sky, but these officers and soldiers ignored the scorching sun, acted like the wind, and advanced and retreated as one, so that these civil and military officials only had one feeling: "This can be called the strongest soldier in the world!" ”

The strongest soldier in the world, the people of Chuzhou have never seen the world, and they can only use this word to describe the red thief in front of them.

However, after the red thieves bypassed Lishui City, they left a small army to trap Lishui City, this force was very small, only an infantry company and a cavalry platoon, but no civil and military officials dared to mention the battle of Lishui City.

Who can guarantee that he will propose a battle in the city, and when the frightened Heng Prefect will let him lead the brave out of the city to fight the red thieves, but who can guarantee that the green battalion soldiers and brave will not be like the 1,200 brave men who led the team out today?

Everyone can see clearly in the city that the red thieves have only killed or injured one or two dozen at most, but more than half of the 1,200 heroes in the Heng Governor's Mansion did not flee back, not to mention that these 1,200 heroes directly left Heng Taishou and ran back.

And the Taiping Prefect of Heng Mansion had no idea, and finally finished reading Wu Hongchuan, and he finally thought of one thing: "Except for Wu Hongchuan, who else can resist the red thief, it's not good, it's not good!" ”

Everyone knows what's going on with this badness, the reason why the red thief spared the city and didn't fight was because he didn't want to waste time here, but the target that was more important than the city was only the four thousand Min Yong brought by Rao Tingxuan.

Therefore, Heng Zhifu thought that Rao Tingxuan's 4,000 Fujian troops were completely unprepared, and he tentatively asked his subordinates: "Do we want to send someone to inform Rao Zongzhen, the red thieves must be going for them!" ”

"No, Lord Prefect, what if you provoke the red thief and turn around to attack the city?"

"I think it's okay for my wife to live peacefully."

"Rao Zhen, a famous general in Taifu Province, the big broken knife will be in southern Fujian, presumably such red thieves have no chance of winning when they meet them."

"Yes, presumably Rao Zhentai already knows the whereabouts of the red thief, so he doesn't need us to inform him."

"What's more, the red thieves have set up a heavy ambush outside the city, and sending troops out to report the news is bound to be a dead end."

Everyone's meaning is obvious, the red thief can't be provoked and can't be provoked, the current city is in danger, and the red thief must not be touched.

Heng Zhifu just respected everyone's opinions, but he sighed for a long time: "Everyone, if you don't move, you can only wait for death now!" There has to be a trick to break this endgame. ”

Everyone immediately shut up and stopped talking.

Everyone is a smart person, and they can hear the panic of the Heng Governor's Mansion, but everyone also has their own thoughts, this red thief has always respected scholars, and it is very welcome for Qing Dynasty officials to vote.

Now there are two living examples of Zhang Yuzao and Gao Liangcai, they are very mixed with the red thief, if they go to the past, they must also be able to get the weight of the red thief.

How do I get in touch with the Red Thief?

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Zhou Xiuying's cavalry battalion has always been the hardest unit in the entire Hong Army, most of the time in order to save horsepower, they have to lead the horses forward, and they have to personally brush and feed the horses.

It's just too much. Soon after the water city, the cavalry battalion finally became majestic, and everyone got on their horses and searched south at normal horse speed. ..., in view of Rao Tingxuan's habit of not camping and setting up strongholds, they may encounter the vanguard of Rao Tingxuan's Fujian army at any time, so although everyone was in a little anxious, they calmly rode their horses forward.

The whole horse team is very long, and when fighting in a dense forest and mountainous area like Chuzhou, the cavalry cannot play the effect of galloping and sprinting, and more often it becomes a vehicle to save the physical strength of the infantry.

Zhou Xiuying's forehead was already bursting with dirty beads, but she didn't have any anger at all, and said calmly: "Brothers, be careful, don't let the fat pig run away too hard, this fat pig arches up, and it is also very powerful." ”

She was originally born as the daughter of a local tyrant in the countryside, she has never bound her feet since she was a child, and even killed a pig with her own hands, and the officers and soldiers looked at her sassy and heroic appearance, and they all liked it very much: "Battalion commander, rest assured, we will never let this group of demons take advantage of us!" ”

"Hmm!" Zhou Xiuying told his subordinates: "Be careful, now we are the vanguard of the whole army, and we must not make any mistakes!" ”

"But I heard that Rao Tingxuan guy never set up camp, is it true? In that case, our cavalry will come in handy! ”

"If there is no camp, then our horse team will rush up, and a thousand Qing demons will rush across!"

Zhou Xiuying smiled, but she thought about Liu Chang for no reason, and felt a little more confident in her heart: "That's what the inspection says, everyone be careful!" Don't fail to rush into battle and lose your horse! ”

It's just that on this day, I searched south, and I never encountered Rao Tingxuan's Qing army, but in the evening, I got a piece of information from the merchants in the south. And. county, and it goes very slowly.

Therefore, the cavalry battalion continued to march south early the next morning, and as soon as dawn had already passed Bihu Town, but they were ready to do it in the clouds. And. When the county and Rao Tingxuan were preparing for the encounter, a large group of Qing troops with green flags were found on the opposite avenue.

"It's a clear demon!"

"A bandit?"

Neither side thought that they would encounter an opponent here, this group of Qing troops had two or three hundred people, according to the Qing army, that is, a "rise", they looked at the avenue in front of them suddenly appeared hundreds of cavalry, all shrewd and capable, obviously difficult to deal with.

The leader of the Qing army who led the team was a little clever, and he saw Zhou Xiuying leading the team at a glance, and immediately shouted: "Brothers, there are girls, have fun!" ”

Min Yong's morale dropped suddenly, and someone immediately shouted: "The general town said that as long as you rush to Fucheng, you will be paid an extra month's military salary." ”

"Rattan players, rattan players, come up!"

"Hurry up and set up the mountain splitting cannon!"

"What a handsome girl, you can have fun!"

And Zhou Xiuying over there saw that the Qing army did not retreat to both sides of the avenue, but put on a blocking posture on the avenue, immediately pulled out the saber, pulled the horse's head slightly, and shouted: "Cavalry battalion!" Follow me! ”

"Cavalry battalion, onward!"

After a few months of training, the horsemanship of the entire cavalry battalion has greatly improved, more than 100 horsemen began to trot with whistling, some of them were good at riding, they simply lowered their heads and hugged the horse's head, and some officers and soldiers picked up flintlock pistols and fired a shot at the ranks of the Qing army.

The shooting of both sides was inaccurate, and if such a shot was hit by a lead, it could only be described as unfortunate, but the tactics of the Qing army that had originally held on to the road soon became an ornament because of the gradual acceleration of the horse team.

Only the most elite infantry could not move in the face of the cavalry's charge like a landslide, and many Qing troops turned around and retreated to both sides of the avenue at the moment when the cavalry accelerated, and even the mountain splitting cannons placed on the avenue were not needed.

The rest of the Qing army's tactical movements also became deformed, he trembled and loaded with lead bullets and medicine, and did not fire a single bullet for a long time, and the speed of more than 100 iron horsemen became faster and faster, and the next moment, they had already found that the horse team had rushed within a hundred paces. …,

The officer found that it was the next step to fight this horse thief head-on on the avenue, but they had no extra choice, and the horse thief in front of him was somewhat similar to the red thief, but it was not very similar, it must be the legendary Liu Juehu, so he shouted loudly: "Desperately, we have to be worthy of Yao Zongzhen!" ”

It's just that as soon as he finished speaking, the horse team had already collided, and the horse team that had been scattered and charged suddenly deformed before the final sprint, and the two teams in front and behind were almost merged into one team, and the horse head and the horse head almost touched together, and then the whole horse team began to sprint again.

The horse team crashed directly into the ranks of the Qing army, and the sound of rifles, the smell of gunpowder, the pistol shooting, and the blood gushing out of the saber slashing on the people were almost mixed up.

The Qing army's sniper defense line on the avenue collapsed almost immediately, and the horse team continued to move forward like a tide, mercilessly slashing any target who dared to resist them.

It's just that they also have to face the shooting of the Qing troops who fled to both sides of the avenue, and the two sides either launched a confrontation or fought against each other, and the two or three hundred Qing troops lost a small half at once, and the morale of the remaining Qing troops was also low.

Especially those outlaws who are known as brave and sharp, have been cut down by more than half of the horse team of the rainbow army, but at this time, another Qing army was killed behind the Qing army, with a total of about three or four hundred people.

Seeing that the front team was in chaos, they immediately learned the lesson of the front team's setback, and began to get out of the way, and retreated directly into the dense forests and small soldiers' tombs on both sides of the road, trying to stop the advance of the horse team with firepower.

It's just that as the situation says, although they can use the existing terrain, they can't build barracks and fortifications, so in Zhou Xiuying's eyes, such a defense line is as weak as a layer of paper.

It's just that their cavalry battalion was entangled by the front team of the Qing army, and the Qing army saw the rear team coming and retreated like a tide, but no matter how fast they ran, how could the horse team chase in a hurry, Zhou Xiuying's silver saber was already full of blood, and I don't know how many Qing troops were cut down.

Many Qing soldiers saw that they could not outrun the horse team, so they knelt on the ground and surrendered, but before the sixty or seventy Qing troops fled into the defensive line formed by the rear team, the Qing army began to use guns, and the officers and men of the cavalry battalion retreated slightly and started firing on their horses.

It's just that there is no special cavalry gun, and the shooting rate on the horse with ordinary repeating rifles is not too high, and the two sides soon formed a standoff, and more Qing troops rushed over from behind, making the original weak defense line thicker.

And the cavalry battalion almost all dismounted and turned into infantry, and an officer reported the latest statistics: "Seventy Qing demons were captured, and dozens of seriously wounded people who were cut down did not have time to be contained, and at least sixty were hacked to death, and on our side, six were killed in battle, eleven were wounded, and twenty-seven military horses were killed or wounded, what should we do next?" ”

Zhou Xiuying laughed: "Next, I'll hand it over to the inspector!" ”

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