Chapter 249: Retreat

"Check!"

"The inspection is up!"

"Checkpoint, why did you come up, did the dragon lance battalion come?"

Seeing Liu Chang coming up in person, the cadres were all overjoyed, so they almost grabbed Liu Chang's hand and asked what was going on, and Liu Chang also told them very cooperatively: "I came up with the cavalry battalion of Commander Zhou, and I have run seven horses all the way!" ”

Over there, Sun Huzi said: "Check, if you come up, we will have confidence, no matter how capable Zhang Yuliang is, our Panshi Battalion can also hold it, and there will be reinforcements on the side of the Third Independent Battalion!" ”

Liu Chang disagreed with this point of view, he told Sun Huzi: "Lixing, I brought the cavalry battalion up, but in addition to the cavalry who straddled the horses, there are less than a hundred horsemen around me now, and we have to use them when we are critical, so we have to withdraw tonight!" ”

"Withdraw? How can so many wounded of the 3rd Independent Battalion be evacuated? ”

Liu Chang already had an arrangement: "Before the horses of the cavalry battalion came out, they had been fed with beans and drank enough water, and it was their turn to fight!" We can't leave a single wounded body behind, this is the tradition of our Rainbow Army! ”

"But why withdraw?"

Some cadres disagreed: "The loot here in Zhengyimen is piled up, and we don't have enough vehicles in our hands, so we can't transport them away for a while!" ”

"It's going to be ours!" Liu Chang said confidently: "I'm just emulating someone!" ”

"Who?"

"Thirty checks back to the carbine!"

Thirty checkpoints back to the carbine, talking about the famous Chen Yucheng, he is the right of the palace thirty checkpoints, and this time the carbine is not about how good Chen Yucheng's marksmanship is, but that he has a Fulong team in his hands, and the number of troops is not much, even if he is crowned the king of England, he is known as the commander of the army of 1.24 million, and this Fulong team is only a thousand people.

But this Fulong team is repeatedly defeated by the Qing army, Chen Yucheng usually does not use this Fulong team, until the two sides fought fiercely until dusk, seeing the collection of troops, only to make this Fulong team killed, this hand back to the horse gun often killed the Qing army defeated, so that the Hunan army has been looking for a way to defeat Chen Yucheng, and finally Bao Chao and Duolonga summed up that they must not fight with Chen Yucheng head-on, saving Chen Yucheng to kill this hand back to the horse pistol.

And now as soon as Liu Chang said this term, the cadres of the Panshi Battalion and the Third Independent Battalion immediately understood: "Check, understood, we will withdraw immediately, and tomorrow we will kill the Qing Demon and return to the horse gun!" ”

In order to prevent the people from taking the opportunity to enter the camp to snatch the spoils of war, in the case of the war in front of the extremely urgent situation, the Panshi battalion still sent a reinforced platoon to guard there, but throwing the six camps of Zhengyimen to the Qing army was the biggest burden of the Qing army.

Chen Yucheng likes to feint defeat the most, and another blow back to the horse pistol to kill the Qing army is chilled, and today Liu Chang is also determined to draw a gourd in the same way: "Zheng Yimen's pots and pots, all thrown to Zhang Yuliang is no problem, as long as Zhang Yuliang is handed over hundreds of foreign guns, killing him is terrified and even the capital is back!" ”

Fortunately, thanks to the cavalry battalion's horses, some of the wounded were transferred to the horses, and some of the lightly wounded were still able to march on foot, and some of the seriously wounded were transferred to the carts, and the infantry quietly retreated in the night.

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Under the same night sky, Zhang Yuliang was also counting tomorrow's battle.

The intensity of today's battle was beyond his expectations, the red thief was indeed a rare thief, and so far, Zhang Yuliang's subordinates have suffered nearly 600 casualties, and they have only taken a few outlying strongholds.

This is not the dragon lance battalion and the Nanxi battalion with the strongest combat effectiveness among the red thieves, but the Nanxi battalion that ranks third, so Zhang Yuliang immediately said to his subordinates: "Tomorrow, everyone will work harder, as long as this red thief is defeated, Zheng Yimen has everything on the side of Jinshan and Yinshan!" In addition to equipment, baggage, grain, lead, and gunpowder, Zheng Yimen even abandoned a lot of silver and opium, which was enough for his troops to use for more than half a year.

And his subordinates, all of them and Mr. Qian, said: "Don't worry, the villains must fight hard, the red thieves are already exhausted today, and they will work hard tomorrow, and they will definitely leave all the thousand red thieves in Zheng Yimen!" ”

"As long as I win this battle, I will definitely be able to rise to the rank of Xiezhen or Zhentai!" Zhang Yuliang told everyone his plan: "No one will be treated badly, after all, this is Zhejiang, there is heaven above, there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below, He Guiqing Zhongcheng and Wang Youling must not treat us badly, tomorrow I will hit Zheng Yimen, how much gold and silver baggage I get, I don't want a penny, I will give it to the brothers as a reward!" ”

"Good!" There was another cheer below, and Zhang Yuliang said again: "Today's new brothers, they are working very hard, and there are many casualties, I personally pay out of my pocket, and first take 1,500 taels out to the new brothers!" The old brethren are not in a hurry, for tomorrow there will be silver! ”

This so-called "new brother" is the defeated courage of the co-optation, don't look at the fact that they were rushed all the way back to Pujiang County by the red thieves yesterday, but after being contained, under the command of the new leader, they fought vigorously, and finally suffered nearly 200 casualties, accounting for the majority of yesterday's casualties, and their initial performance is like two people.

Du Si, Qian Zong, and General Manager all called out hello, so Zhang Yuliang said again: "Tomorrow we will come up with more soldiers and horses, and I am also a daughter to buy horse bones, brothers, don't think I'm biased!" ”

Tomorrow morning, Zhang Yuliang is ready to take out all the family funds, and now he even takes Pujiang. The county's infantry archers and inspectors were mobilized, and hundreds of brave men were temporarily summoned to make a strong move, and the total number of troops assembled reached more than 5,000.

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The retreat of the Hongjun was carried out in an orderly manner, but soon the third independent battalion encountered difficulties: "There are too many colors in the independent third battalion, and there are many brothers who have sacrificed, and it is a little difficult to withdraw now!" ”

"What's so difficult?" Liu Chang asked Zheng Zhangyu, who came to report: "What problems do you need me to solve for you!" ”

"There's still some capacity, but a few of our big trucks are already full of silver and tobacco!"

This is the most valuable part of the loot, and I don't know which Qing army was dizzy and actually brought these dozens of boxes of tobacco to the battlefield, if it is transferred, it can be worth at least tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Therefore, Zheng Zhangyu said: "If you throw away the tobacco and silver, you can barely evacuate the wounded." ”

"Then throw it away!" Liu Chang has already made a decision: "Lose them all, I can take it back tomorrow with a return of the carbine!" ”

"These things are very valuable, and they can be towed away by two or three big carts!" Zheng Zhangyu has his own thoughts: "In case we don't come back tomorrow, I'm afraid it will be gone!" ”

"If it's gone, it's gone!" Liu Chang told Zheng Zhangyu: "I will bear this responsibility, if there is a loss, I will supply you with the three independent battalions with a lot of money, and I will suffer the loss!" ”

When Liu Chang said this, Zheng Zhangyu didn't have anything to say, he just saluted Liu Chang with a military salute: "Check, thank you to the wounded in my Daili camp!" ”

"Don't thank me!" Liu Chang's heart was very hard, and he told Zheng Zhangyu: "Remove the body as much as possible, this is sacrificed for our Hongjun, don't be afraid to throw away tobacco and silver, people are more important than anything else!" ”

"Got it!"

As soon as Zheng Zhangyu returned to the 3rd Independent Battalion, he said: "The inspection point has been advised, start to retreat, throw away all the silver, tobacco and soil, and do everything possible to transport the wounded and corpses back, if you can't transport them back, I, Zheng Zhangyu, will drag them back!" ”

It turned out that some of the cadres of the Third Independent Battalion were preparing to bury part of the body in order to free up a load of silver and tobacco, but now when they heard Liu Chang's words, they asked one after another: "What should I do if the tobacco, silver, and money are lost?" ”…,

"The inspector said, he is responsible, and he is responsible for how many losses our independent third battalion has!"

These words were so hard that tears fell from the eyes of many wounded and soldiers, and the scene and conversation at this moment will always be remembered in their impressions.

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It's dawn.

Zhang Yuliang has already made the greatest determination: "Brothers, come back with a deputy general rank for me, you can all be promoted and make a fortune, I, Zhang Yuliang, can't treat you badly!" ”

He told his subordinates: "No matter how quickly the red thieves come in reinforcements, why will they be able to rush from Wuyi tomorrow, when it will be too late!" ”

"And we have already contacted Shi Jingfen Shifutai, he led the brave out of the city to intercept the red thieves, in addition, there are still Lanxi militia groups that can fight, I have already sent two people to Lanxi County to ask the militia to help!"

"Today's fight, no matter how much gold and silver there is, I Zhang Yuliang don't want a penny, it's all yours!" Zhang Yuliang's words quickly aroused Bing Yong's enthusiasm: "And I said, we can have a good time, and we won't seal the knife for three days!" ”

Zhang Yuliang can't say where to seal the knife, after all, where is the thief area, it's just Zhang Yuliang's words, as long as he can muster up the morale of the officers and soldiers, he will slaughter the villages and towns near the Zhengyimen battlefield, and Zhang Yuliang will not hesitate to do so.

Speaking of which, Zhang Yuliang is the real butcher, and the morale of the entire Qing army of 5,000 people is also with a few fanaticism.

The same soldier bravery, given to those weak generals in Zhejiang, and handed over to a butcher like Zhang Yuliang, that is a completely different result, especially those new soldiers, all of them are praising that yesterday Zhang Yuliang took 1,500 silver out to the new brothers as a reward, bereavement and soup and medicine expenses.

In fact, this amount of money is nothing at all, but the key is that Zhang Yuliang used such a gesture to make these new brothers crazy and willing to serve him, so these new recruits and new warriors are the most fanatical group of people.

They originally thought that they would encounter fierce resistance, but after they came out of the battle, the red thieves only fired a few shots from a distance, and began to flee, and the army fought all the way to Zheng Yimen.

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