Only two days later, Zhou Huai'an was already on the road to Lianzhou with reinforcements.

Thanks to the armplate signal towers that were built in each post station along with the post road system, using optical communication; In addition to the extremely low visibility of the rainstorm, most of the time it takes only half a day to pass the news back and forth in the Pearl River basin and gather it in Guangfu.

In addition, a large number of laborers were organized during the winter slack time, and the feeder roads were not long after they were leveled and hardened. It took only a day to gather men and prepare supplies; It also urgently summoned the shipping forces to and from the Pearl River to share the baggage transportation and follow-up supplies.

Therefore, it only took one day to advance lightly and quickly, and about five battalions were urgently mobilized from the territory of Guangfu to support them, and they had already arrived in Yangshan County, which is adjacent to Huaizhou and Lianzhou. It's just that the local rebel army headquarters have already fled; The news received from the local population who had fled from the north was also quite confusing and contradictory.

Some say that the rebel army under the former rebel army has been wiped out, and the state city of Guiyang is already the banner of another force; They also said that they had successfully defeated their opponents and were in pursuit; Others say that the current Guiyang City has been burned in the chaotic battle, and only a ruin remains.

After entering the territory of Lianzhou, the relatively flat terrain of the Pearl River Basin began to slowly rise. The scenery of the large paddy fields and canals that the river is sweeping and unobstructed begins to be divided into the view from time to time, and the undulating hills full of terraced fields, fruit groves and tea trees are divided and become somewhat fragmented; It began to show a little bit of wildness and lush vegetation that was very different from the highly developed Pearl River.

As we go deeper and deeper into it, although it is still not a majestic and dangerous mountain along the way, it can be regarded as surrounded by peaks and loves, and the pine cypress is lush; From time to time, you can see the gurgling stream flowing between the mountains and rocks, transparent as a mirror and cool to the face;

And at the far end between the mountains and forests, you can even see some local Mo Zhiman, who wears short clothes of zebra cloth and drives water buffaloes to plough the mountain fields, and the villages with Han surnames are mixed;

Under the blue banner of Taiping fluttering between the marching teams on the road, there is a flat head with a hat and a small group card on his back, and a left crossbow and right arrow on his waist; It looks very neat and energetic.

As a follow-up to the Taiping Army, such as the direct subordinate team expanded into a direct battalion of 1,100 people; The apprentice team was renamed the teaching brigade, and there were about 400 people directly. All are equipped with mules and horses for transportation; and the front battalion constitute the only three cavalry sequences in the Taiping army. Then, together with the appearance team (equipment team) and the fire throwing (grenadier) team, it was known as the "five straight teams" led by Zhou Huai'an.

As the symbol of the members of the "Five Straight Teams", they were uniformly shaved into a mustache (imitating the original Zhou Huai'an-style short hair), which was originally to show some respect and follow-up to the chief officer who was born as a monk, and then it became a custom among the rebels to reflect the identity of "their own people".

Of course, out of consideration for health and epidemic prevention and service convenience, Zhou Huai'an acquiesced to this behavior; Anyway, I can't see it at all when I usually wear a helmet or hat, or a scarf or a belt; However, in some special occasions that require no crown, this color is called the existence of the head of the Shiren, which is very distinctive and deterrent.

Later, it simply became a special symbol; Only as a new soldier who has not made a mistake after joining the rebel army for a year can he obtain this special ritual collective sign that represents the severance of all past fetters and origins, and thus devotes himself to the great cause of asking for the lives and survival of the poor people of the world.

At least in this era, the fact that parents who are exposed to the body and skin should not be denied is not something that is just a matter of words; At least unless you are really desperate or have a firm purpose, this kind of determination and willingness is not so easy to make. This also represents a huge risk that when someone wants to flee or break away in the future, it will be difficult to move an inch in the area not controlled by the rebels, and even be killed and sent to the office.

"There's Dog Pee Ridge ahead."

Riding a horse and following beside him, Ge Congzhou, who was dressed in brown iron-scaled armor, spoke.

"After this danger, you can enter the territory of Guiyang County."

At this time, Wang Yanzhang (Wang Tianming), who was opening the road in front, also suddenly came with the news of encountering the enemy; It's just that when Zhou Huai'an came up with a large group of men, the battle was already over. Only Wang Yanzhang was left to clean up the battlefield and guard the captured headquarters.

These enemies are said to have been lying in ambush on the nearby high slopes and in the forests; After most of the vanguard group led by Wang Yanzhang had gone through, they suddenly rushed down with a loud roar and drums, intending to do the dividing offensive that cut off the waist; And then after the initial surprise and confusion, there is nothing more about the other side.

Those who can be placed in the vanguard group are almost all veterans who have been in battle for a long time, or jump in the order of jumping in charge of attacking and breaking the formation; In the face of danger or courage, these ambushers will naturally not be given much opportunity.

They only relied on a few large vehicles accompanying the march and the baffles and regimental plates on the vehicles, and built a simple position and defense line on the spot; Easily blocked most of the random arrows fired by these ambushes, as well as several uneven attacks.

Then, wait until the team that has passed in front of you turns back and kills back, and the team behind also comes up to support; Under the two scabs, these ambush soldiers who rushed down the hillside became fish swimming in the kettle blocked in the narrow valley road. In the end, only a few enemy soldiers who remained on the hillside to sweep and watch, saw that the situation was not good and fled into the distance.

So Wang Yanzhang, who was one of the few captains in the pioneer regiment who had horses, did not hesitate to pursue him; It is said that more than a dozen enemy corpses and wounded were knocked over by him along the way.

After torturing these left captives, it was revealed that they were actually local miners and factory laborers who were recruited into the Tutuan soldiers, and belonged to a local tycoon in Guiyang, Chen Yanqian; Therefore, because of the difficult background environment, he is very brave, but the organization and order are obviously miserable.

When the group rushed, there were no decent batches and sequences, nor did they open up enough maneuverable and mutually coordinated buffer spacing; It's just a swarm of mess that flows down in waves; After being shot and sniped by crossbows, they dodged and trampled on each other, and their own casualties were even more than those from the rebels.

As a result, only a small number of people rushed to the front of the rebels in formation, and most of them were still running around in circles and dodging arrows; was easily blocked in front of the group sign and the vehicle, and waves of knives and guns came out with ease and stabbed to the ground.

It can be said that in addition to his commendable courage, even the new soldiers in Zhou Huai'an's Taiping Army, who had just been trained for three months, were seriously inferior. But what Zhou Huai'an cared about more was the armor obtained from these ambush soldiers; Although it is old and has a considerable variety of muffles, there are all kinds of knives, sickles, fork handles, and standard knives, hook guns, and spears, which are the most common in the countryside.

But Zhou Huai'an still recognized some old things in it. That was the miscellaneous weapons that he replaced and collected one by one in order to unify the equipment system of the rebel army left behind. After being repaired and refurbished and stamped with a mark to prevent theft, it was placed in the arsenal of the Remaining Division.

Now that it has appeared in the hands of these enemies in large quantities, it is obviously not the result that can be obtained by a small number of lost and resold channels; Zhou Huaian couldn't help but feel cloudy in his heart; If the other party is really the result of his own guess, then Chai Ping will really suffer a big loss if he doesn't get it right.

In the midst of this worrying and bumpy mood, after stepping out of the mountain that obscured his view, a rough city high in a narrow valley, surrounded by two bifurcated rivers, appeared in his strengthened vision.

It's just that Kai didn't wait for Zhou Huai'an to occupy a messy camp and began to order the siege of the city, leaving only embers and residual smoke in Guiyang City, but the door was greeted by Chai Ping, whose face was blackened, and his clothes and armor were full of soot. Zhou Huaian couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief immediately, as long as others are fine, everything else is okay;

At least the Taiping Army, which claims to have a military capacity of 50,000, can still afford the loss of more than 4,000 horses and equipment along the way, but an experienced old rebel general like Chai Ping cannot afford to lose money in the presence of Linmao Fengjiao.

As the origin of the Raging Wind Battalion system, although Lao Guan and Cheng Da have proven to be reliable enough, the starting point is too low and there is not much experience in leading a large army, and they need to be slowly tempered in the process of garrisoning the place; Su Wuming, Lu Fang, Wu Xingchen, Liu Liumao and others are also from the low-level Jane, and it is a similar reason.

He may have a considerable degree of courage and experience, but he is also deficient in the military strategy and imminent change of the battle in leading a large army; At present, it is only suitable to let go of the battle when you are in charge of the situation; At present, Wang Pan's physical condition is not suitable for leading troops into battle.

In addition, although there are Huo Cun, Ge Congzhou, Wang Yanzhang and others, the subsequent addition of new sharp generals can be expected; However, it also needs sufficient cultivation cycle and growth space, and it is not something that can be pulled out casually.

Then they began to inquire about the details of the subsequent development, only to learn that they had already saved the decline by the enemy's arson, and also broke and dispersed the enemy in the city in one go, and finally forced them to flee through the north gate.

It's just that the camp left behind outside the city is a little inexplicable, and it actually happened when they were besieged in the city by the ambushed Tutuan army.

(End of chapter)