Chapter 258: Like soup and snow
"Dragon Lance Battalion! Invincible, invincible!"
"Nanxi Camp! Invincible striker, brave champion of the whole army!"
After all, these two infantry battalions are the core of Liu Chang's whole army, just like Bao Chao and Duolong A are to Zeng Guofan, and now Liu Chang's whole army has developed to the territory of three provinces and eighteen counties, but it is really used as the core force, that is, the dragon gun battalion and the Nanxi battalion.
And the cavalry battalion in charge of the search in front Zhou Xiuying and her subordinates are not inferior in this regard, although the cavalry battalion only dispatched more than 100 horsemen this time, but under the leadership of Zhou Xiuying, it also came out with absolute sharpness.
But soon, such a strange thing stopped temporarily, not because Liu Chang taught them anything, but because the cavalry battalion and the two infantry battalions both contained some refugees, they had just escaped from Zhang Yuliang's butcher's knife, and now they were still frightened, and said loudly to the officers and soldiers of the dragon lance battalion and the Nanxi battalion: "Zhang Yuliang is crazy, Zhang Yuliang is crazy, they killed people on the bank of the Longlan River, and the whole village was slaughtered by them!"
The officers and soldiers of the Dragon Lance Battalion and the Nanxi Battalion were a little skeptical about such rumors, no matter what, this Zhang Yuliang was still a general of the Qing Dynasty, although his officers and soldiers had very poor military discipline, but they did not dare to openly make the fact that they were engaged in a massacre under the control of the Qing Dynasty in Lanxi County.
But it turned out that they guessed wrong, they just walked forward for two or three miles, and they had already seen fire, black smoke and gloomy air in the distance, and Zhou Xiuying over there promised to have seen the world, and there were not a thousand but eight hundred lives in his hands, but he was shocked by the scene in front of him.
So many corpses! She had never seen so many corpses, she had never seen such a terrifying and bloody scene, she had never seen so many naked women and men being abandoned everywhere, but the next moment, Zhou Xiuying had already waved her horse chopping knife and shouted: "Brothers, is this Zhang Yuliang still human?" And a little bit of humanity? ”
"Nope! Absolutely nothing!" The officers and soldiers had already proudly watched Zhou Xiuying jump on her horse again, declaring her courage and determination to everyone: "Cavalry battalion, prepare to kill!"
On the other side, Zhu Ailan was also vomiting and looking at the scene in front of him, while kneeling in front of Liu Chang's horse: "Check, check, the life and death of hundreds of thousands of Lanxi are in your thoughts!"
Liu Chang felt that his two life experiences had made him strong enough, but the scene in front of him told him that it was far from enough, the entire village was slaughtered by Zhang Yuliang's rout and turned into ruins, this is really hell on earth!
Looking at the dead bodies floating in the river, Liu Chang hardened his heart, and he gave Zhu Ailan a task: "Zhu Yishi, please quickly gather the militia to fight Zhang Yuliang, and we will start fighting immediately!"
"Dragon Lance Battalion, Nanxi Battalion, did you hear my order?"
"I heard you!"
The officers and soldiers of the two infantry battalions reciprocated Liu Chang's call with a loud voice, and after seeing the scene in front of them, they gave birth to infinite hatred and courage, Liu Chang continued: "Now Zhang Yuliang and his troops have gone crazy, it is unreasonable, we are here this time to save hundreds of thousands of officials and people in Lanxi and in the midst of fire and water, hundreds of thousands of people in Lanxi stand with us, breathe together, and share fate, so this battle, no prisoners will be left!"
"No reserves! Start fighting!"
"Let's fight!"
After the officers repeated Liu Chang's order, they immediately mobilized the officers and men of the battalion and company, and they shouted loudly: "Line up, ready to load bayonets at any time, ready to shoot!" Get ready to shoot! Kill it!"
One by one, the infantry companies and artillery companies spread out one phalanx after another, and then, with the help of military music, they began to move forward slowly, and after walking less than two miles, they could already see the cavalry battalion fighting with a group of soldiers of Zhang Yuliang's army. …,
The cavalry battalion was on the horse and these soldiers of Zhang Yuliang's army started to shoot, Zhang Yuliang's army was not the opponent of the cavalry battalion at all, they called loudly, and soon hundreds of infantry troops rushed to support them, but the next moment, Zhou Xiuying's horse team retreated to both wings.
These Zhang Yuliang's subordinates thought that the Rainbow army was about to retreat, and immediately rushed up with cheers, and then they saw an endless red tide, one after another classical infantry phalanx, under the escort of the horse team, pressing towards them.
It's a red tide!
They were stunned for a moment, and they didn't react for a long time, until the Hong Army started the battle with a row of thunderous guns, and this team of Zhang Yuliang's soldiers swept away countless scum like waves of wheat blown down by the wind.
Then the infantry of the infantry battalion mercilessly took bayonets and stabbed these scumbags: "Kill! Not a single captive must be kept!"
What is the Division of Justice, this is the Division of Justice!
What is Qi Shi Pot Pulp, this is Qi Shi Pot Pulp, and soon a militia group will come out to guide the Hong Army to attack the main force of Zhang Yuliang's army!
It was the first time that the Rainbow Army had joined the battle with the assistance of the militia group, but they soon found that such a battle was very easy, even smoother than studying.
Speaking from his heart, Zhang Yuliang is a tiger general who is a member of the Jiangnan battalion, and his troops also have a certain combat effectiveness, but in the initial massacre, the entire unit has been disrupted, and they are no different from the madmen who collect looting and looting.
In this case, one after another Zhang Yuliang's infantry groups were easily crossed, and soon the Lanxi people had already organized one militia group after another, and they had a painful pain for Zhang Yuliang: "The Sichuan Yankees are not allowed to let go of any of them!"
"If you don't kill Guangchaoyong, I, Zhu Ailan, am not called Zhu Ailan!"
"Chu Yong also killed me cleanly, Liu Jiehu said, don't leave a mouth alive!"
In this case, it was clear that Zhang Yuliang's army had 3,500 people, which was superior to the strength of the Hong army, but there were militia groups and brave people who killed them in all directions, and even some hot-blooded people rushed over from the distant countryside.
They caught Zhang Yuliang's soldiers and executed them on the spot, and they also praised Liu Chang's words: "Liu Jiehu said, Zhang Yuliang's guy has lost his humanity, and there is no life left in this battle!"
One infantry group after another collapsed in contact with the Rainbow Army, which in fact brought great difficulties to the Rainbow Army's compilation of war history, so that the participating troops considered themselves to be the first to merit, but did not understand the course of the battle.
In fact, it is like a snowball, or to use an idiom to describe "like soup and snow", the whole battle has ended without suspense after the beginning of an hour, but now it is the opposite massacre, as long as it is Zhang Yuliang's bravery, the hated Lanxi people will be killed.
Zhang Yuliang's camp.
"An Yiyong has collapsed!"
"The Iron Soldier has broken down!"
"Ding Ziyong has also been defeated!"
Zhang Yuliang sent Shi Jingfen away, and before he could think carefully about the aftermath, there was already bad news coming over there, he didn't have to think about it, he knew that it was Liu Juehu's red thief who killed him, otherwise with the mud legs of Lanxi County, don't want to defeat his army.
It's just that in addition to the strength of the battalion, as soon as he came out of the camp, he saw countless soldiers defeated from the front line, and he shouted: "Don't panic, let's withdraw, let's withdraw from Jinhua is a way out, let's go to Yanzhou Mansion, we have to fight this lawsuit with He Genyun!"
It's just that he also knows very well that even if he fishes out part of the troops, his own troops are also crossed, and this kind of "leapfrogging" is not a loss of equipment or personnel, but the whole has been crossed out mentally, and he no longer has the courage to fight against the red thief. …,
He sighed: "Without this military exploit that has been earned by hard work all his life, he will be lost at the hands of Liu Juehu!"
It's just that he sighed, and fled directly in the direction of Yanzhou with the remnants of the defeated army.
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Although Ye Niangzi has not been seasick for many years, the scene after the massacre reminds her of the scene when she first got on the boat.
She couldn't stay on the war horse anymore, so she could only get off the horse and retch a few times, but she asked Liu Chang, "Can I go with you?" ”
"It's an honor!"
The two of them walked side by side, Ye Niangzi hugged Liu Chang's waist tightly, but asked: "How are you going to deal with the aftermath of this Lanxi situation?" ”
"No need for aftercare!" Liu Chang replied: "After this incident, Lanxi County has already been a grasshopper on the same rope as me, pull out some money and food, and they will inevitably clean up the aftermath, but I have to estimate how many soldiers this Lanxi County can produce!"
Sometimes he is poetic, sometimes he is compassionate, but in the final analysis, he is still a commander of a large army, and the commander of a large army often has to remember one thing: "Compassion does not lead the army." ”
Ye Niangzi immediately calculated for him, according to the past practice, in the area controlled by the Hong Army, there was about one independent company in a county, five or six township platoons and five or six semi-full-time basic militia companies.
But for Lanxi, they were killed too much by Zhang Yuliang this time, and there were definitely a lot of people who put this account on the Manchu Qing afterwards, and the number of volunteers who joined the army was probably ten times or even dozens of times that of other counties, and Liu Chang could get extremely rich human resources here.
"There should be an independent battalion in the county, right?" Ye Niangzi used calculations as much as possible to divert her attention: "Or add two independent companies, in this way, we don't need to keep too many troops in Jinhua Mansion, but can concentrate on attacking Ningshao!"
Liu Chang replied: "Give them the establishment of two independent battalions, and it is the establishment of a class A infantry battalion, and ......."
Liu Chang thought for a while: "They must have the intention to find Zhang Yuliang and the Jiangnan battalion for revenge, so they have to have a resounding name, and there are two independent battalions that can be mobile troops in Jinhua Mansion, and another independent battalion in Lanxi County!"
This is tantamount to using the human resources of Lanxi County to organize an infantry regiment, and the facts also prove that the Lanxi people will play a mainstay role in the Hong Army in the future, as the so-called "Yueqing Lieutenant General Ruian Shao, Taizhou 600 is a school officer, and Captain Lanxi has a brigade!"
ps: There was an accident, the update was a little late, sorry everyone
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