That evening, however, the situation took a turn for the worse.

"Enemy attack."

"It's out of the water."

"The Taiping Thieves are here"

Li Cifei, the general of Wukang Town, was once again awakened by his subordinates who were full of panic in the midst of this chaotic shouting and shouting; The camp of the Wukang soldiers was full of people running around in disheveled clothes or shirtless, as well as the blazing flames that were steaming from far and near.

Even though he was quite brave and vigorously wielded his long-handled broadsword, took the lead in slashing several pawns who rushed in front of him, and splashed blood on the ground, he was never able to reunite them who were bold, and he could not stop the general trend of running away.

In the end, he could only be separated by the burning firelight, and the sound of the approaching battle; Helpless but sad and angry, he sighed loudly, and with the last dozens of relatives gathered around him, he hurriedly looked for a place away from the fire and ran out.

And the last thing before he got away from the burning camp and fled to the distant Hangzhou Junben formation; But it was the scene of Li Ju, the deputy of the town, who also fought hard from the other end with men and horses, blocked the camp gate by the thieves in ambush, and rushed left and right without getting out, and gradually fell to the ground with exhaustion.

Waiting until dawn the next day, when Li Cifei came back with the supporting Yanguandu's disciples to reflexively attack, he saw the grass thief car formation standing along the river by the road, which actually extended and expanded a lot, and cleaned up the front line and re-strengthened.

Obviously, while the chariot formation of these Taiping thieves attacked the Wukang town soldiers at night, they also received corresponding support and supplements; And the camp was used to create an unavoidable stronghold at the intersection of roads, rivers, and fields.

In the midst of the car formation, the newly transferred locals from Jiangnan, the loyal and simple old yellow sheep, were also asking the captives captured in the night battle in a loud voice.

"Anyway, where are you?"

"There are a few more people in the family."

"Why did you become a village soldier in the first place, is it because the family can't eat enough, or can't get by?"

"Our righteous army only deals with big and powerful people, so we don't plunder and bully the small people. In the end, these poor people, what is there to plot? ”

"It's you, the township children of the Penghu family, who risked your lives to work hard for these powerful families, and worked hard to protect their wealth and power, but what is it for?"

"Is your life only worth those few deceptions and deceptions about 'protecting the land and the people'? I'm afraid that they have done a lot of things to burn, kill, plunder and mutilate places, but how much do you have to do what you get from the war and plundering? ”

"Our rebel army is completely different, with us not only is fed and clothed every day, but there are still acres of land to bear according to the amount of effort."

"What, it's better if you're from a salt household; Don't you know, why don't the generals of the righteous army who initiated the uprising, the king of the heavens, and the general Huang Wang, all come from salt sellers? ”

"If it weren't for the people of Henan at the beginning, they couldn't afford to eat the expensive and inferior salt of 100 yuan per liter of the imperial court, and their whole bodies were swollen and dying, how could these two have succeeded. This is the origin of natural intimacy. ”

"Nowadays, the food under the rule of the righteous army is the best green and white salt, and the one (about 0.15 kilograms) sold in the army is only five yuan, which is not lower than the cost of your hard work of cutting grass and burning stoves to cook salt."

"Come, bring him a jar out and see what he knows."

。。。。。。。

And on the Gouli Mountain in the south of Dantu City, between the green shades of the cascading Congzhang, a conspicuous wooden wrench signal tower is swinging in the wind to refract the reflection of multi-section curved arms, and like flowing water, sending and receiving all kinds of messages and orders.

"Since the outpost battles encountered by Xianghe Village, Gaitai Town and Baoqing Temple, the banner of Hangzhou Badu has appeared five times."

Ge Congzhou, who was responsible for sticking to his own position, also talked eloquently in front of the sand table map.

"Among them, in the battle of Xianghe Village, the sixth battalion of the second army and the two regiments of horses in the front of the army, against the capital of Tangshan, Rao Jing's headquarters, killed hundreds of enemies and defeated more than 1,000. The officers and troops have been pursued and advanced to the side of Xiaoxiangdu, and dozens of boats and baggage have been captured. ”

"There is also a provisional fifth battalion, the seventh battalion of the garrison plus a cavalry regiment, in Gaitai Town, encountered the attack of Du Ling, the capital of Xincheng, and Cao Xin, the capital of Linping, and after fighting all day, Liu Meng'an and Ruan Jie's troops under Qingping came to help, and they retreated by burning the fortifications at night; At present, it is already near Jurong, regrouping and regrouping. ”

"Outside Baoqing Temple, the pioneer composed of the jumping team and the selected front soldiers, even broke the three towns of Huangling, Yanxia, and Zhennu under the command of Wu Wenju, the hidden capital, and forced them to retreat in a hurry. Hundreds of kills were captured before and after, and the deputy general was beheaded and more than 100 mules and horses. ”

"The defenders in Dantu City are still silent? This old dog is really calm. ”

At this time, Sima Gao Jichang, the teacher who was in charge of supervising the construction, suddenly spoke.

"It doesn't matter, regardless of whether he can sink or not, this Dong Chang's Hangzhou army will have to deal with it with all his might."

Zhou Huai'an said lightly.

"It doesn't hurt to lose most of the camp outside the city. As long as you guard the corner of the river with the cooperation of the sailor; As long as Dong Chang is solved, even if the old thief of Zhou in the city is as stable as Mount Tai, it is just a slight difference between early death and late death. ”

Through the temporary signal towers set up on the commanding heights of the hills near Dantu and the towers and pavilions of the temples, Zhou Huai'an can still quickly grasp the dynamics from the peripheral battlefield, and methodically put the chips and hole cards in his hands into the corresponding local battlefield.

Several Taiping army generals such as Zhu Cun, Zhang Juyan, and Cao Shixiong have also been assigned by him to sit in and integrate the other parts of the righteous army in Jurong, Yanling, and Qu'a City; They don't want to take the initiative to attack or meet the enemy, as long as they defend the city to the death so that the enemy doesn't have a chance to take advantage of it.

Compared with most Taiping generals from Lingnei, they were obviously more familiar with these traditional rebels; And with a small number of capable people, it can be mastered. And if the official army came to attack, these cities would become wedges and iron felts that entangled the enemy, and then with the cooperation of the main force of the Taiping army, which rushed to help, they would be crushed and crushed.

In addition to these other rebel armies with uneven strength, Zhou Huai'an still has 12 battalions of soldiers, 21 battalions of garrisons and new and temporary personnel, and seven supplementary battalions of reserves, which can be used and put into this battlefield.

Therefore, in most cases, the Taiping army can only wait for work or wait for the battle, supplemented by flexible and mobile means of preemptive action, to deal with the all-out offensive of the officers and troops along this road.

At this moment, there was a sudden shouting from the outer-looking post.

"The city of Dantu has moved."

Sorry, it's a bit confusing, that's all for now.

(End of chapter)