Three or four thousand?

This is not as simple as the three or four hundred people led by Zhu Hailan, and it can be organized into two infantry regiments in a main force like the Dragon Lance Brigade.

What's more, Qu Jie and Zhu Dun have already seen the quality of the three or four hundred people brought over by Zhu Hailan, and they really have nothing to say, they are all veterans of the rest of a hundred battles, even if there are some old people, women, and children, but they have also seen big scenes, even if they can't lead the troops, it is also excellent to be a township official in the local area.

One can imagine the combat effectiveness of these three or four hundred people who can break south all the way to the vicinity of Huzhou with a small force of several hundred people under the heavy interception of the Qing army, and each of them is gold, no, more precious than gold.

Therefore, Qu Jie and Zhu Dun have already made up their minds, although there are only three or four hundred people who have come, but they have decided to regard this as a reinforced infantry battalion or a two-battalion detachment, as long as these veterans are allowed to rest and recuperate, and then incorporated into new soldiers, it is a combat unit, and even expanded into an infantry regiment There is no problem.

But Qu Jie and Zhu Dun didn't expect that there were three or four thousand people behind this!

That's three or four thousand precious seeds! These three or four thousand people are enough to form an infantry brigade, and such an infantry brigade can at least fight against 10,000 Qing troops!

Not to mention, Qu Jie and Zhu Dun are determined to use these thirty or forty veterans who have survived a hundred battles as the basis to form a force, you must know that even they themselves do not have such rich combat experience as these backbone veterans, and you must know that there are veterans who participated in the Taiping Army during the Jintian Uprising!

Therefore, Juton immediately asked for battle: "Brigade commander, let me answer!" No, it's the whole brigade that pulls up to pick it up! ”

Qu Jie has always been kind: "That's right, our entire infantry brigade is pulled up, we must not lose a new brother, we don't want Huzhou!" ”

"Don't want Huzhou?" Zhu Dun was suddenly surprised, you must know that Huzhou is the end point of the first phase of the spring offensive: "You really don't want Hangzhou?" ”

"Don't Hangzhou!" Qu Jie immediately said: "There are three or four thousand new brothers from the Heavenly Kingdom, what else do I want to do in Huzhou, no matter Zhao Jingxian, let's cross Huzhou and pick up the new brothers as much as possible!" ”

"Good!" Zhu Dun already has the bottom: "Zhu Hailan Chengxuan, I can still trouble you!" ”

Although the relationship between the two sides is friendly, but with Zhu Hailan, the female Chengxuan of the Eastern Prince's Mansion, the contact between the two sides is smoother, and Zhu Hailan glanced at his exhausted subordinates and shouted: "Brothers, we are safe, but there are still thousands of brothers going south with us behind, they are waiting for us to rescue them, will they do it with me?" ”

"Willing, willing, all of them broke out from the Tianjing City, why don't you want to!"

The troops that were already exhausted are now rejuvenated, this is the elite of the rest of the battle, this is the basic army of Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East.

Therefore, Zhu Dun said repeatedly: "Don't worry, don't worry, you take a rest first, let us take the lead, you eat well, this time we would rather not Huzhou Mansion, but also pick up the good brothers from the north one by one!" ”

Qu Jie also added: "That's right, no one is missing, one is missing, I'm looking for trouble with you Master Sanshi!" ”

The entire dragon spear brigade is indeed the first main force of the rainbow army, although there are many new recruits in the army, but in a hurry to complete the strategic development immediately, the whole army no longer seeks to capture the capital of Huzhou for the purpose, encountered the key villages, camps, in addition to having to conquer, most of the time is bypassed, they have successively received five Taiping troops southward.

Most of these Taiping troops were three or four hundred, and as few as two or three hundred, and Zhu Hailan led them, they were all soldiers and horses led by Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, who they supported, had died in this turmoil. ..., but for the scale of this turmoil, they have always underestimated the scale of this turmoil, Wei Huichang, the king of the north, Qin Rigang, and Chen Chengrong, who conspired with them, are really red-eyed, and they are bent on killing everyone in Tianjing City who has anything to do with the king of the east.

In history, Wei Huichang and Qin Rigang killed more than 20,000 people in one go, but in this time and space, five or six thousand people from more than 20,000 people collectively went south to Liu Changliu to become a family, you must know that he is Yang Xiuqing's brother-in-law, not to mention that Yang Changmei is now in Zhejiang.

Although there are still individual recruits and children, no matter who they are, after the long journey from Nanjing to Huzhou, they will quickly grow up and become real men who can stand up to the sky.

And what makes Qu Jie and Zhu Dun even happier is that there are almost no high-ranking officers and high-ranking officials in the Taiping Army going south, and Zhu Hailan, the female Chengxuan of the Eastern Prince's Mansion, is almost the highest-ranking one among them, and in addition, there are only some middle-level officers such as generals and general systems.

You must know that in the first wave of massacres, the senior cadres of the Dongwang Mansion have almost been slaughtered, and in the subsequent continuous massacres, Wei Changhui.

In addition to receiving these veterans who have survived a hundred battles, the strength of the entire dragon lance brigade has also increased a lot, and as soon as these veteran backbones have a dragon lance brigade to take over, they can immediately return to the division and march north to meet the brigade behind after a little rest.

However, even if they went dozens of miles to Jiangsu, and even sent a horse team deep into Jiangsu, the Taiping army that was contained was not as Zhu Hailan said, there were three or four thousand people, plus Zhu Hailan, and the sporadic containment of personnel, the total was only more than 2,000 people.

But even if there are only more than 2,000 people, it is enough to make Qu Jie and Zhu Dun overjoyed, this is more than 2,000 veterans!

You must know that in the entire Dragon Lance Brigade, there are only 180 veteran cadres who have joined the army in Xianfeng in four years, and there are only 300 veteran backbones before Xianfeng marched into Taizhou in five years.

It's just that Qu Jie and Zhu Dun both went deep into Jiangsu on the one hand, and they were curious about how the so-called three or four thousand veteran backbones were missing by a small half, and only then did the news come from Hangzhou Mansion and Jiaxing Mansion.

The Panshi Brigade and the Jiaxing Detachment both contained a part of the Taiping Army veterans who went south from Tianjing, and their gains were quite a lot, and even Jiaxing Mansion, which was far away from Hangzhou, contained more than 400 Taiping troops, and Hangzhou Mansion was the capital of Zhejiang Province, so there were even more Taiping troops rushing there.

After the initial large-scale containment, there were fewer Taiping troops going south, and the cadres of the Dragon Lance Brigade felt that they had reached the limit of accommodating 2,400 veteran backbones, after all, the further they went, the fewer Taiping troops they contained.

And now that the Hong Army has crossed the Huzhou Mansion and penetrated far into Jiangsu, Qu Jie has decided to retreat south after only containing single-digit Taiping veterans for two days.

"There are more than 2,400 people on our side, at least more than 1,000 in Hangzhou, and 400 in Jiaxing, which is almost the three or four thousand people that Zhu Hailan Chengxuan said, and even more!" Qu Jie said: "It is estimated that the rest are lost on the road, but we also tried our best, and no one is missing!" ”

You must know that as deep into Jiangsu as now, there is such a strong city as Huzhou City behind it, Qu Jie is also taking a big risk, fortunately, the veterans of the Taiping Army who have been accommodated are very effective, although there is no unified system, but with the Hong Army to conquer the city, it is all top

You know, these are the real long-haired thieves in the Taiping army, the Qing army has fought countless battles, but each battle is just to annihilate hundreds of long-haired thieves, until the Battle of Anqing, Chen Yucheng will be his "first branch of the party, the battle can be defended" Liu Lin's troops are arranged in Chigangji, a Jedi with no water and no food, resulting in Liu Lin's more than 4,000 people being annihilated, which created a record of thousands of long-haired thieves lost by the Taiping army in a campaign. For this reason, Zeng Guofan said triumphantly: "Since the disturbance of the Cantonese bandits, our army has beheaded no more than a few hundred long-haired old thieves. This time, the number of long-haired old thieves has been eliminated to as many as 4,000, which is unprecedented", and even said that Liu Lin was annihilated as "famous for the fierce eagle and relied on by the four-eyed dog." This time, the old thief was killed, and the merit arrived at Taqibu Yuezhou and Li Xubin Jiujiang. ”

And now that they can contain 2,400 old Taiping soldiers, Qu Jie and Zhu Dun are both satisfied, even Zhu Hailan, who assisted them in containment, feels that this containment battle has reached the level of perfection, and there is indeed no one missing.

Therefore, she agreed with Qu Jie's suggestion: "The brothers who withdrew from the south of Tianjing this time have almost been accommodated, and only five or six people have been accommodated in the past two days. ”

Zhu Dun also agreed with this opinion: "This time, let the brothers from Tianjing have a good rest, and let our dragon spear brigade attack Huzhou Mansion!" ”

Although there are many points left unconquered, with these 2,400 veterans, it is enough for the Dragon Lance Brigade to take Huzhou.

It's just that as soon as he said this, someone over there had already reported: "There is another large group of Taiping troops surrounded by the Qing army in the north, numbering nearly a thousand, and the horse team has already gone to meet it!" ”

"Beware of deception!" Zhu Hailan immediately felt that something was wrong: "Be careful It's a trick of the Qing Demon, go south to the teams, each team has been contained, how can there be a thousand-person brigade and I don't know?" ”

But this is a force of nearly 1,000 people, so Qu Jie was greatly moved: "Let the horse team of the cavalry regiment go over to pick it up, if it is really your own person, it is Qixun!" ”

Not to mention that he was moved, that is, Zhu Dun and the ordinary cadres below were moved, and Zhu Dun even suggested: "Not only should we send a horse team, but also send an infantry battalion over, Zhu Chengxuan, I will trouble you this time, so as not to have a misunderstanding with the brothers from Tianjing!" ”

Zhu Hailan was skeptical, she said repeatedly: "Be careful of deception, you have to be prepared!" ”

She really couldn't think of which unit of the Taiping Army in Dongwangfu was this southbound brigade?

But Qu Jie had already replied: "All the brothers who go south from Tianjing, no one can be missing!" ”