Chapter 341: Encounter

"Prepare the horses! Go to Yanzhou!"

Liu Chang's voice landed loudly, and a staff officer who had just graduated from Shanye Military Academy immediately asked: "Check, Yanzhou's military affairs are urgent, and the army of the fifth or sixth route is mixed there, isn't it too dangerous!"

"It is precisely because of this that I want to be with the soldiers there, and the rise and fall of the country is here!"

The development of the Battle of Yanqu has exceeded Liu Chang's imagination, at first he was just preparing to eliminate the main force of Li Yuandu and Deng Shaoliang and block the road of the Hunan army's eastward advance, but he did not expect that the battle situation would change so quickly, and now this battle has represented a decisive battle in the southeast pattern.

He must go to Yanzhou and share the fate with the soldiers there.

It's just that Shi Tinglan is now against Liu Chang doing this, she said: "Ah Chang, you have to think about it for me and my eldest sister!" It's too dangerous for a gentleman to stand under a dangerous wall, it's better to send a general over!"

"The rise and fall of the country, in this battle, the soldiers should use their own lives, as the commander of the whole army, how can I not go! Although tens of millions of people have gone to me!"

Saying that, Liu Chang had already jumped on the horse, and he continued: "What are you afraid of, less than a year ago, I was still bare-handed, no one and no gun, with one hand to defeat this half of the country, do you think I am a rich man today!" If you are willing to go to Yanzhou with me, come with me!"

"I'm coming!" Over there, Yang Changmei had already jumped on the horse: "That's right, I'm just a peasant girl, my brother is just a poor charcoal burner, today's little bits, although it is not easy to come by, but when I turned to war, what fear did I have!"

"I'm here too!" Shi Tinglan saw that Yang Changmei had already mounted the horse, and she had already followed the horse: "I'm here!"

"I am willing to share the glory and disgrace with the inspection!"

"The country is the time to employ people, and I am willing to rise and fall with the country!"

Liu Chang's headquarters has a lot of war horses, and even the guard platoon has a lot of war horses, and in an instant, Liu Chang has more than 30 horses, and the civilian personnel of the commander have also picked up pistols and rifles: "Check, you ride in front first, we will follow immediately!"

It's just that Shi Tinglan asked again: "Who will be sent to stay here?" ”

Now the personnel of the command, including combatants and civilians. Almost all of them picked up guns, and in this case, someone had to stay here, otherwise they would not be able to find the headquarters in all aspects, and it would inevitably be a little bad conjecture.

Liu Chang immediately named a person: "Zhang Kaiyun, you stay here, I won't forget your performance today, every drop of sweat you shed." It's as precious as blood!"

Zhang Kaiyun's face had turned into a bitter gourd face, and he said, "Check, let me go together!"

"Keep it!" Liu Chang had already urged the horse to gallop away: "Xiang Yanzhou!"

"Xiang Yanzhou!"

The entire thirty horsemen galloped away on the avenue, and the infantry behind them also began to march in order, the speed getting faster and faster, and their morale was getting higher and higher.

Zhang Kaiyun sighed. What a great opportunity it is today, how can I be named by the inspection, and now this headquarters is almost an empty city except for a few personnel such as cooks and grooms.

blame yourself for being too conspicuous.

……

Deng Shaoliang still had tears in the corners of his eyes, but his heart kept beating, and he said to the left and right: "Don't slow down, if you slow down, the red thief's horse team will catch up!"

Although the tactics of attacking the east and attacking the west were used to draw away the main force of the dragon lance brigade, the situation showed little signs of improvement. Along the way, small teams of red thieves appeared, and there were even dozens of horse teams in pursuit, and the original troops were getting smaller and smaller.

When they left the city, there were still 3,500 people, and they had already left behind the wounded, their families, and other related personnel, but the result of running over in the middle of a day and night was that the number of people was reduced by nearly a third. …,

Now there are less than 2,000 people left in the entire team, and the occasional gunshots can still be heard behind them, but fortunately, the Quzhou militia and Lian Yong did not copy Deng Shaoliang's rout as a fat sheep. Even so. Deng Shaoliang was still terrified.

The sun had just risen, but where had the enemy army been? He still didn't know anything.

A staff general boldly said: "Junmen, it's not okay to go on like this!" The team has to run away, so let's take a break, have breakfast, and then hurry!"

"Can't slow down" Deng Shaoliang himself didn't eat half a drop ......of rice water overnight, but the next moment he estimated that the red thief was still quite far from his own team, and finally made up his mind: "Rest for a quarter of an hour, everyone enter some rice water!"

With Deng Shaoliang's words, these soldiers immediately sat on the ground, kicking their breath in a big gulp, they didn't seem to have any strength, they had already fought with the dragon lance brigade of the Hong Army in Quzhou City for several days and nights, and yesterday they ran frantically for dozens of miles in one day, and they didn't even rest at night, nor did they drink a sip of water or eat a mouthful of food.

It was just that the situation suddenly became chaotic, some were looking for water to drink, some were nibbling on flatbread, and some were looking for some food in the nearby villages, but they were energized by this momentary respite.

Deng Shaoliang sighed: "I have been fighting horses for decades, and from the end to today's defeat, it was Li Yuandu who misunderstood me, Li Yuandu misunderstood me!"

A quarter of an hour flew by, and Deng Shaoliang over there had already shouted loudly: "Get up, all line up according to the head of the battalion, we will kill from behind the red thief this year, and fight back and forth with Hu Xingren and Zhang Yuliang!"

It's just that the order is still a little chaotic, so tired running, how can a quarter of an hour of hard work to breathe, especially some veterans are even more tired, until two quarters of an hour later, Deng Shaoliang initially mastered the troops: "Brothers, hold on for a while, hold on for a while, when you arrive in Yanzhou, I invite everyone to have a big meal, beautiful girls can pick at will!"

It's just that at this moment, sporadic gunshots suddenly sounded from the side, and soon the avenue on the right had already walked over the brigade of rainbow troops.

"It's a red thief!"

"It's a clear demon!"

Neither side expected to meet their opponents here, and they didn't react for a while.

This team is the Lanxi County army led by Zhou Xiuying, not only the county ** battalion that has undergone preliminary training, but also the township soldiers and basic militia who have been transformed from regimental training, and there are farmers who put down farm tools.

For such a mixed team, Zhou Xiuying fully demonstrated the quality of a cavalry officer, and she found that the quality difference was too great, so she came up with a very simple solution, that is, except for the ** battalion and township soldiers with combat effectiveness, the rest were formed according to their origins to form the concept of local troops.

A company or a platoon is often a fellow villager of the same township or village, and most of the time the platoon commander is a well-known local tyrant in the township or village.

It's just that the speed of the troops' march is not very satisfactory, and they only walked more than ten miles yesterday, but fortunately, these soldiers are all from peasants, and they are not afraid to go far, when they got up today, Zhou Xiuying had already made a hearty breakfast, and even promised to kill dozens of pigs in Yanzhou Mansion, so that the whole team set off at dawn.

What Zhou Xiuying is doing now is to bring this army to Yanzhou Mansion to increase the strength of the Nanxi Brigade to a greater or lesser extent, but in front of her eyes, groups of Qing troops suddenly appeared, and the other party was looking at her with surprised eyes.

"Deng Shaoliang?"

Zhou Xiuying had already thought of the other party for the first time, she secretly complained, she didn't expect that Zhu Dun had already laid down Xi'an County, but let go of such a big target, and now her subordinates are simply confused, how can they be a bunch of tofu scum...,

But she didn't think so much about it the next moment, she urged the horse to gallop forward, and shouted loudly: "The brothers of the cavalry regiment, as well as the brothers of Lanxi County, rush with me......"

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"Monk King, that's Wulinggang!"

The monk king and Sheng Bao immediately used the monoculars from the West to pay attention to the defensive deployment of Zhen Changyu's camp, and the monk king took a look and said: "Sheng Kezhai, can you have more than enough?" ”

Ke Zhai is the word for Shengbao, he said with a smile: "I originally thought that the red thief had three heads and six arms, but now it seems that it is nothing more than that, compared to the deployment of the Yue bandit in Gaotang, it would be good to have three points of skill!"

He fought with the Northern Expeditionary Army, and was repeatedly trapped by the Northern Expeditionary Army's ability to build cities, and the Taiping Army's Northern Expeditionary Army's ability to build fortresses was extremely strong, often transforming small villages on the plain into strong fortresses that could not be conquered by horse teams and tens of thousands of foot troops, and even hundreds of old Taiping Army troops could rely on a transformed small city to fight against tens of thousands of troops for several months.

And now Shengbao's ability to build the city in front of him seems to be much weaker, only a chest wall, a small number of horses and other fortifications, it can be said that the fortifications are hasty, Shengbao has a team of 10,000 people, can only press up, it seems that the defense of the red thief can be crushed.

"Don't be careless, don't be careless!" The monk said: "It's better to do what we say, this time to attack, if you can succeed, then it is the best, if you can't succeed, then you deliberately retreat, then I will lead the horse team to kill, the red thief is cut off, the red thief is only deployed here a few hundred people, vulnerable to a single attack!"

"Hmm!" Sheng Bao has his own little Jiujiu in his heart: "Let me retreat and achieve your reputation as a monk king, that is absolutely impossible!"

He is the same as the monk king, he is stubborn, but his stubbornness is shown on the surface, even if the governor is there in person, Shengbao doesn't even give a small stool, so he lets the family stand there and receive his own lecture, so you can know how stubborn he is.

Therefore, he had a belly of anger in his heart for the monk king who had replaced him, and always felt that he had worked hard to block the Taiping army in Gaotang, but he was taken away by the monk king, so he said to the infantry team: "Meet the brave on the narrow road, and when I see the red thief in a hasty formation today, I know that it is nothing more than that, today's battle, only allowed to advance, not allowed to retreat, only allowed to attack, not allowed to defend, and those who violate the order are killed!"

After speaking, Shengbao personally urged the horse to step forward, and prepared to launch the first wave of offensive: "Those who retreat are killed!"