Chapter 379: The Lake

This is the reason why Huo Qiu is in a hurry, this palace right twelve checkpoints, at this time there is no later fame, you must know that Zeng Guofan once praised him "Lin Qirong's perseverance, my generation is not as good", but although he is an old brother in Guangxi, but when Xianfeng arrived in Nanjing in the third year, he was just an ordinary holy soldier.

But after three years of Xianfeng, Lin Qirong can be said to have risen like a rocket, and in the fifth year of Xianfeng, he was already the twelfth checkpoint of the palace, and in the summer of the sixth year of Xianfeng, according to the trajectory of history, he should be promoted to prime minister, and in the seventh year of Xianfeng, he was directly crowned as a marquis - at that time, the entire kingdom of heaven except for the Wing King still existed, and there were only a few marquises.

But he is a cadre raised by Yang Xiuqing, and it can even be said that Yang Xiuqing is the basic team, but in history, from the sixth year of Xianfeng to the eighth year of Xianfeng, the Qing army has always used this reason to guide Lin Qirong to surrender, but Lin Qirong is unyielding and has never betrayed the kingdom of heaven until he was martyred with Jiujiang.

But in this time and space, he exposed the fact that he was a basic cadre of Yang Xiuqing, and even sent someone to communicate with Huo Qiu to express his willingness to take refuge, and Huo Qiu was also anxious because of this.

Lin Qirong, the general of the Heavenly Kingdom with more than 10,000 heavy troops, just had the intention to surrender to Cheng, and then he had a draw with Liu Changyou, not to mention that the loss of Wuchang was destined sooner or later, Jiujiang would face a steady stream of land and water attacks from Hulinyi, Hubei, in that case, it is difficult to determine whether Lin Qirong's willingness to set up sincerity can be implemented.

Shi Jingfen also agreed with his point of view: "Lin Qirong has always been excellent at guarding Jiujiang, and in five years he joined forces with Shi Dakai to defeat the Hunan army between the mouth of Jiujiang Lake, if our army and Lin Qirong are united, Jiangxi can be determined!" ”

The two regiment leaders below also understood the reason why Huo Qiu was angry. Lu Ziyun said directly: "It's just that with the strength of an infantry brigade, it can't open the battle situation in Jiangxi for the time being." I'm afraid I'll have to call in reinforcements. Even an infantry battalion! ”

When they first entered Jiangxi, they could be said to be invincible and invincible, but now they have suffered setbacks. It's completely too much territory to digest for the time being. Only for the sake of the guards, and Huo Qiu told them: "A regiment! One regiment is completely insufficient, and it is necessary to recover the whole province of Jiangxi. At least three more regiments of strength are indispensable! ”

With the strength of only six regiments, the whole of Jiangxi Province was recovered. This is Lao Cheng's opinion, but Yun Tianzong said directly: "That's not easy to do, now our Hong Army is fully implementing the Southern Jiangsu Campaign, and the First Division and the Third Brigade cannot divide their troops in Jiangxi, even if they end the Southern Jiangsu Campaign, but Hangjiahu and Suchang are two mansions." It is estimated that there are too many troops to be used, and it would be good to be able to send a regiment over. The only thing that can be relied on is the Shi detachment and the Qu detachment of Fujian Jianning Mansion! ”

These two forces are both collateral forces in the Rainbow Army, but in the case of the Southern Jiangsu Campaign occupying too many troops, Yun Tianzong felt that he could only use these two forces.

"Hmm!" Huo Qiu agreed with this judgment: "We don't have many troops in Jiangxi and Fujian provinces, so we should join forces, Tianzong, you should contact Shi Yunqing, and ......."

"In the future, we can't be so passive, we must fight one or two exciting victories to change the situation of the entire Jiangxi battlefield......

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Different from the stalemate on the battlefield in Jiangxi, the battle situation in southern Jiangsu can be described as overwhelming, although the Qing army has some green battalion garrisons in Suzhou and Changzhou, but where are these green battalion garrisons the opponent of the Hong Army.

At the end of the day, the Rainbow Army was able to annihilate at least hundreds, in fact, sometimes, the Qing Army's losses were much larger than the Rainbow Army's results, often in silence, hundreds or even thousands of Green Battalion soldiers were scattered in the sound of gunfire, and sometimes they had not even exchanged a shot with the Rainbow Army. …,

It's no wonder that they, as soon as they heard the news that Liu Juehu and tens of thousands of rainbow troops were coming like a tide, they were already panicked, how could they have the ability to resist, they could pull out and let go of a few shots and then run away, thank God.

In fact, in the tenth year of Xianfeng in another time and space, after the Jiangnan battalion was broken, the Qing army still had a large number of Jiangnan battalions in the Suchang area, and they were quickly broken by the Taiping army, all the way to the two prefectures of Suzhou and Changzhou, not to mention in this time and space.

Although there were several fierce resistances during this period, the overall situation has always been a triumphant advance, and the vanguard of the cavalry even reached the vicinity of Wuxi, and the two units of the 1st Division and the 3rd Brigade can be said to be racing along the Taihu Lake, ready to meet at any time on the north shore of Taihu Lake.

The fiercest battle took place on the water, although the Taihu Naval Division of the Rainbow Army made all preparations, but the intensity of the battle was still beyond expectations, and in individual battles both sides had several warship losses, but in the end it was the Taihu Naval Division that won in the end, and the Qing army had been forced to prepare to transfer a part of the Red Single Boat near Jinling to support.

And Zhu Jiumei's side also put their hopes on the newly built steam warship, and they have even launched the second steam paddle gunboat in the inner lake, preparing to use these two steam paddle ships to rebuild the order of power on the water.

The battle in Changzhou was particularly smooth, where the Rainbow Army not only invested all of the First Division, but also almost all the artillery, cavalry, baggage troops, and sanitary teams directly under the Rainbow Army Headquarters.

Therefore, they did not have a shortage of troops after occupying territory on the battlefield in Jiangxi, and they basically left behind a reinforced half of an infantry company or a reinforced company led by a deputy battalion commander in the county town in the rear.

This is obviously based on the lessons learned on the battlefield of Jiande, and it turns out that although the combat effectiveness of the Hong army is very strong, a reinforced platoon is lacking to resist the attack of the Qing army, and at least half an infantry company with reinforced artillery is required.

And the offensive of the rainbow army like a tide was unexpected, and he had already glanced twice at the map: "Where has the red thief arrived?" ”

Zhang Guoliang next to him said: "Monk King, the red thief's attack is extremely fast, according to the report, the attack only began on the 19th, and now the forward horse team has even advanced to the vicinity of Wuxi!" But the Red Thieves Brigade is still near Yixing. ”

"It's so fast!" The monk king also exclaimed: "It's just that the red thief attacked this time, the dragon spear attacked the west of Taihu Lake, and the rock attacked the east of Taihu Lake, and the two roads divided the troops, and the defeat was decided!" ”

Sheng Bao said loudly: "That's not necessarily, but the red thief conquered Wuxi, and the two red thieves joined together, and it would be difficult to clean up at that time!" ”

"So you have to be fast!" The monk king has already planned: "Now is a godsend, my army of 40,000 horses swept south, straight out of the Golden Altar, and then marched south along the south of Zhuhu!" ”

"Wonderful!" Although Zhang Guoliang is a general, but he was born smart, as soon as he heard the monk king: "Zhuhu Lake is a big lake in southern Jiangsu, just located between Yixing, the red thief dragon spear along the east of Taihu Lake, such as the division of troops along the east of the lake, then its soldiers and horses are blocked by the lake, I have 40,000 strange steps, enough to break the thief!" ”

"That's right! If the thief does not divide the lake, he will take Wujin directly! Now Shengbao has also discovered the secret: "The army went straight to Yixing along the lake and copied the back road of the thieves!" ”

Now the main force of the Qing army is accumulating in Zhenjiang and Danyang, and it can be said that it is the best choice to go south from Danyang to Jintan, and then launch an offensive along the lake, but the monk king said regretfully: "It's just that the two mansions of Su and Chang are really unbearable, and the thieves are like sheep and wolves, and they will be defeated by the wind, otherwise if the soldiers can hold on to the enemy in Wuxi Wujin Suzhou, it will be a victory for our soldiers.........,

Zhang Guoliang said: "Along the south of the Zhuhu Lake, if our army encounters an enemy, at most two or three thousand people, it will be able to break through!" ”

The monk said: "Although there is no help from the garrisons of Su and Chang, our army has more than 10,000 troops stationed in Ningguo and Guangdeshang, which can make Zhou Tian suffer from the thief's back and attack his back road in Huzhou, and also, what do you think of Fuji?" ”

Fuji is the current governor of Anhui and a Manchurian, so Shengbao immediately replied: "After Fuji Fuzhong entered Anhui, the Anhui situation changed, taking Lu'an, collecting Yingshan, Huoshan, Keluzhou, now Lujiang, Chaoxian, and Wuwei have also been recovered one after another. ”

Zhang Guoliang knew the details of Fuji: "The reason why Fuji has restored the county and county, and more than half of the work of Hechun, is that Zhou Tianshou is in Ningguo and Guangde, so why invite soldiers?" What's more, all the bandits under his command are regimental training, and there are really no soldiers to send! ”

But the monk king said, "Otherwise, what do you think of Heqincha?" ”

He Qincha is Zhang Guoliang's "more than half of the work of Chun" Hechun, he is a native of Manchuria Zhenghuangqi, first served as the governor of Jiangnan, and then supervised military affairs with the minister of Qincha, he smiled: "Fu Ji Fuzhong Cheng is too deep, I'm afraid he is unwilling to wait for me to take millet in the fire, but he is too deep, I'm afraid maybe he will divide a force out, this is also an unexpected joy!" ”

"The plan is too deep", these four words have exhausted the characteristics of the blessing of his people, and he is really not a handsome man who is insulted, but he is too scheming, maybe he will really send a partial division out.

"That's good!" Monk Lingqin has already decided: "With the Chunjunmen saying this, I will write to Fuji Fufu and tell him that Jiangsu and Zhejiang are in danger, and he will quickly send a capable general to support, as for aiding Jiangsu and Zhejiang, you can choose!" ”

He said again: "Zhang Junmen, after my soldiers go south, this Jinling and Zhenjiang will be handed over to you, you must not lose anything, if you can break the thief this time, you will never forget the great achievements of the military gate!" ”

Zhang Guoliang immediately knelt on the ground: "Thank you for the great grace of the monk king, a certain wish is to smear the liver and brain!" ”

The monk king said: "I have 40,000 strange steps, go south to Jintan, Yixing, such as mountains and seas, will break a battle to break the enemy, everyone, I have been in the Qing Dynasty for two hundred years, just look at this battle!" ”

Shengbao and Hechun, the two full of people, were in good spirits, and Shengbao said in a loud voice: "I and Hechun Junmen are both children of the Eight Banners, and the rivers and mountains of the Qing Dynasty should naturally be protected by us, Monk King, you can rest assured, I and Hechun Junmen will not retreat if we are killed!" ”

The backbone of the Manmeng noble force is almost all under the command of the monk at this moment.