With the main force of four infantry battalions and one cavalry battalion, Liu Chang immediately adjusted his strategy.

To Pujiang. The county town adopted the strategy of surveillance, and focused its main energy on searching for and suppressing the rout of the Qing army and sorting out the spoils of war.

Not to mention anything else, there are as many as ten small-caliber Western artillery pieces found on the battlefield now, although the caliber of these guns is only four to six pounds, which can only be used as a favorable supplement to the battalion-affiliated artillery and regimental artillery of the infantry battalion, but it also makes Liu Chang feel a lot more relieved.

More importantly, hundreds of foreign guns were seized this time, although the specific number is still being counted, but from Zheng Zhangyu's 60 foreign guns sent in one go, we know that this seizure is absolutely indispensable.

So many captures were enough for the whole army of the Hong Army to support for half a year, so the mood of the troops was very heavy, especially the Dragon Lance Battalion and the Panshi Battalion, which had rushed over from Wuyi's forced march, all took the initiative to ask for battle and demanded that Pujiang be taken immediately. County.

However, Liu Chang felt that Zhang Yuliang's troops were different from other troops. There were at least 2,000 combat-ready troops in the county, and the Hong army in Pujiang County was afraid that it would cost a lot of casualties, so it refused such a request.

However, there was a little problem with the 3rd Independent Battalion over there, and it turned out that Liu Chang had already made a guarantee that the 3rd Independent Battalion would abandon the silver, money, and tobacco and soil, and that the wounded must be transported back.

It's just that now although he has won a big victory, but more than half of the batch of tobacco and soil is missing, Liu Chang didn't know about this matter, but after he knew the details of the matter, he immediately gave an order: "It's too late to supply you now, but I will definitely transfer enough supplies in the rear to compensate you!"

At this time, Sun Huzi and Zheng Zhangyu were frightened: "Check, we have surrendered such foreign guns and cannons, and captured so many prisoners, we are already satisfied, don't scare us!"

But Liu Chang has his own thoughts: "If you don't believe it, you can't do it, since I said that I would compensate the three independent battalions, I must compensate in place!"

He turned to Sun Huzi and said, "Now the third independent battalion is a little tiger, you rock battalion must not let the independent third battalion compare!"

And the Pujiang at the moment. In the county seat, there were already gloomy clouds, and a torrential rain did not raise the mood of the Qing army.

This was all the result of the big defeat the day before yesterday, morale was low, and the brigade of the red thieves even went outside the city and shouted directly at the city, but the Qing army in the city did not dare to go out of the city to fight, and let them eliminate those militias who dared to oppose the red thieves outside.

Shi Jingfen also suffered some setbacks in Jinhua, they encountered two newly formed independent battalions of red thieves and some student soldiers, they thought it was a small battle with their hands on hand, but they almost messed up.

These independent battalions and student soldiers were not simple, and Shi Jingfen almost died in the fight, so he could only flee back to Jinhuafu City in a hurry, and sent someone to ask Zhang Yuliang for help.

In addition to Zhang Yuliang's defeat, how could there be any troops to support Shi Jingfen's Jinhua Mansion, that is, he sent a team of soldiers to the outside of Jinhua Mansion to go around the city and come back, which was originally just a trivial matter.

But now Zhang Yuliang has become murderous because of the return of these dozens of soldiers, he gritted his teeth and asked, "Is this true?" ”

"It's true!" A Qing soldier covered in blood knelt on the ground and cried out: "Shenrong, you want to avenge your brothers!" Brothers, it's so good to die!"

"Hateful! Hateful!" Zhang Yuliang jumped up from the stool angrily: "It's extremely hateful, Lanxi Mintuan, I don't share the sky with you!"

It turned out that he hated the red thief very much, and hated Liu Jiehu very much, but now, whether it is Liu Jiehu or the red thief, they have become cute in his mind, and the most hateful thing is the militia in Lanxi County. …,

He knew that the militia in Lanxi County had always been quite fierce, and the previous time Taiyong was dispersed in Changshan, and finally he was killed by the magistrate and the militia in Lanxi County, and these militia groups also dared to do some business without capital, and even passing officials and wealthy businessmen were killed by them as thieves, and their property was robbed cleanly.

Shi Jingfen has complained to him a lot in this regard, but he never thought that the audacity of these vigilante groups would reach this point!

He sent to Lanxi County to ask the militia to send troops to fight against the red thieves, and at the same time persuaded the gentry to donate money and food to the two teams of soldiers, because they carried a few foreign guns and some loot looted under Jinling City, the Lanxi militia was red, and the two soldiers were killed cleanly, and only this one escaped.

This always said that the situation at the time was a handful of tears and a handful of blood: "Shenrong, under Jinling City, they fought to the death with Changmao, and finally saved their daughter-in-law's capital, but they were seen by the Lanxi militia, so they robbed the money, the brothers died well, the brothers died well!"

Things are not as simple as this, poor people, there must be something hateful, these two soldiers under Zhang Yuliang, the military discipline is not what to do, killing people and setting fires is a common thing, this time it was just too much in Lanxi, which led to this tragedy.

But this time it really provoked Zhang Yuliang: "Lao Tzu fought desperately with the red thief in front, and how many good brothers were killed and injured, but you Lanxi County...... It's hateful, it's hateful, it's just a grain of rice and a penny to support, and you actually killed such a loyal and brave man as me!"

"I'm!" Zhang Yuliang was so angry that he wanted to cut people, even that day in the rout, he was not so angry, but the more angry thing was behind, this team of soldiers who only circled the city in Jinhua for a week told Zhang Yuliang: "The militia in Lanxi is lawless, we took Zhou General back, and they actually chased all the way to Pujiang. The county came, and we almost fell into it. ”

"I'm!" Zhang Yuliang has already made up his mind: "Let's go to Lanxi, let's kill happily!"

Immediately, an officer asked, "Shen Rong, this Pujiang. What about the county's defense? ”

"What should I do?" Zhang Yuliang immediately laughed and said: "Right now, there are six or seven thousand red thieves entrenched in Pujiang. In the county, we will take advantage of the situation at any time, we don't want this Pujiang, hand it over to the red thief!"

He is a guest army, and he has no responsibility to guard the country, so it is justified to withdraw the army.

Historically, after the Hong Army entered Taizhou, the first to kill Li Shoumo of Taiping Zhi County, was fooled to death by this Zhang Yuliang, Zhang Yuliang received Li Shoumo's gold and silver jewelry, patted his chest to stick to Shimen County, but when he turned around, he ran away with gold and silver, leaving Li Shoumo of Shimen Zhi County, who did not know, was stabbed to death by the Taiping Army.

And now, Zhang Yuliang also feels that the prospect of defending Pujiang County is very bad, the red thieves have transferred the main force to Pujiang, they are now besieging but not attacking, but as long as they are ruthless and drive the people to gather and attack the city, I am afraid that this Pujiang will not last long.

Zhang Yuliang is a butcher, but he is not a brave and unscrupulous person, since he knows that Pujiang can't be defended, he has long been ready to jump out, and now the incident in Lanxi has given him a good excuse: "Kill to Lanxi, let's not want Pujiang!"

"I promised you, I won't seal the knife for three days, double it now, don't seal the knife for six days, what do you want to do, what you want to rob, how to play!"

As soon as they heard Zhang Yuliang's order, they immediately cheered: "Go to Lanxi and have a good time!"

Zhang Yuliang gave another order: "Leave tonight, and bring the new brothers over to enjoy the happiness together!" As for the county magistrate of Pujiang, don't worry about him!"

This is the idea of drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle, it turns out that there are still some Tuyong, foot archers, and green battalion soldiers in the hands of Pujiang Zhixian, and the combat effectiveness is not strong, but he can still fight against bandits, and now he is determined to leave only an empty Zhixian and let him practice Zhuge Liang's empty city plan. ..., "Let's go!" Let the new brothers have a good time, and when they arrive in Lanxi County, they will not be sealed for six days!"

"Lanxi's inferior gentry evil group, how can you not take revenge after killing dozens of our brothers!"

"Six days without sealing the knife? It's really happy, when we were in Wuchang, we were stunned without sealing the knife for half a day!"

"It's better to go to Lanxi, red thieves are all hard bones, no oil and water!"

After Zhang Yuliang's orders were issued, the morale of the entire Zhang Yuliang was immediately invigorated.

They knew very well that if they continued to defend in Pujiang County, it would be a situation of defending to the death, and the red thieves were too strong in combat, and the two battalions would defeat them by five or six thousand people.

And now, the red thieves have transferred the dragon lance battalion and the Nanxi battalion, which have the strongest combat effectiveness, and most of the foreign guns and cannons in their battalion have been lost, how can this battle be fought!

Just when they couldn't find a way out, Zhang Yuliang issued an order that made them cheer, everyone went to rob Lanxi County, and what was grabbed.

They know very well the combat effectiveness of the militia group, although this Lanxi militia is known as brave, but it is also known as brave, they are real knives and guns and long hairs and red thieves have fought hard.

In this case, not to mention the Lanxi militia group, even the militia groups in Jinhua Mansion have gathered, and they are all confident to break it, not to mention that Zhang Yuliang is famous.

They have no grievances with Lanxi County on weekdays, and even sent two teams of soldiers to persuade each other with good words, but what happened to the result, it was the Lanxi militia that had the audacity to kill Zhang Yuliang's two teams of messengers, and only escaped from Zhou General and the rest of the others, and even chased them all the way to Pujiang. The county comes.

Some people were still skeptical about this matter, but he personally went to Zhou Jiangzong and ran around, and since he came out, he shouted: "Avenge the brother who died in Lanxi, we can't suffer this loss in vain!"

The morale of the entire Zhang Yuliang army has risen again, and the new brothers have been coerced by a thousand people, Zhang Yuliang is not carrying the name of this butcher in vain, and anyone who refuses to go to Lanxi County with him will be over.

He cut off twenty or thirty heads one after another, in this case, whether it is the new brave or the old brave, they have become crazy, not to mention, since entering Zhejiang, although the military salary has been paid once, but the army has not been paid for twenty days, I heard that the new military salary has not been sent yet, coupled with the defeat received by the red thief, so that the eyes of the entire Zhang Yuliang army are crazy red!

Go to Lanxi and grab money! Grab the food, grab the mother's door!