Chapter 114: Pocket Sleeve Pocket
The Qing infantry and cavalry shared part of the burden of the baggage company, then the infantry tightened their leggings, the cavalry tightened their saddles, and the whole army began to gallop in the direction where the Goxinga horse whip was pointing. Not only were the cavalry who opened the way fast, but the infantry with their rifles on their backpacks were not left behind, shouting slogans and shaking the ground with their neat footsteps.
"Library, library, library......" Listening to the neat sound of running from the bottom of the mountain, Li Xiucheng and the young people around him took a breath of cool air at the same time.
"The array is so tightly organized during the run, and I can't let the little demon escape today." The young man put away the slightly flirtatious demeanor he had just had.
"Yucheng, he can't escape." For the little fellows who came in and made some awkward noise, Li Xiucheng always felt a little embarrassed to say anything.
"Big brother is careless, the ambush under Pukou City will not fail, and the sailor will also go in vain." Chen Yucheng was not polite at all.
"There are still tricks, and there are ......" Li Xiucheng was extremely embarrassed.
Of course, Guo Xing'a, who was running wildly, would not know that he had been targeted by the two giants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at the same time, and he was nervously calculating the speed of the Qing army and the Taiping army in front of him, and he couldn't afford to lose this race. The company commanders and instructors of the infantry had already lent their horses to the baggage company, and they themselves tightened their leggings and ran with the soldiers.
"Brothers, hold on! We are racing against Longhair, and if we win, Liuhe is ours, and Liuhe City is in front. Get rid of the long-haired leper dog and go straight to Liuhe Gentle Township! "The instructors are running by example, and at the same time boosting morale.
"Get rid of the long-haired leper dog and go straight to Liuhe Gentle Township." The Qing army, who had just done whatever they wanted in Tianchang, heard that they were about to enter Liuhe City to be happy, and they moved their two legs quickly.
Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng on the top of the mountain, as well as Guo Xing'a who was running wildly, were all watching the distance between the two teams, and finally when the Taiping army was only less than two miles away from Dayi Mountain, the Qing army rushed through the gap of less than two miles. The two teams were already able to see each other clearly, and then they passed by. The galloping Taiping army put the artillery in the rear line, and the bows and muskets of the front team could only express the depressed mood of the Taiping army.
"Go and ask Zhang Lexing to transfer cavalry to help!" Looking at Guo Xing'a, who was standing out of the encirclement, Chen Yucheng said to Gong Deshu beside him.
Li Xiucheng doesn't like Zhang Lexing who listens to Xuan or not, this guy from the Twist Army and the Taiping Army are not of the same mind at all, only Chen Yucheng likes to call these guys. But his ambush on all sides failed to make a contribution, and although Li Xiucheng was displeased, he didn't say anything. All the units of the Taiping Army under the mountain also chased in the direction of Guoxing's escape, and several troops and horses gradually moved away with a cloud of smoke and dust.
Guo Xing'a ran for almost sixty miles in one go, although he threw off the Taiping army that followed near Pukou with the advantage of war horses and leggings, but after bypassing Baguazhou, a group of Taiping cavalry in the north caught up again. The clothing and banners of these cavalrymen were very different from those of the Taipings, but their shawl hair was very indicative, and the menacing faction did not look like they had come to the rescue of Goxinga. The number of cavalry is not particularly large, and they are not very adapted to the geographical environment of the southern water network and the dense hills, but they can still bite Goxinga.
The horses of these cavalry were excellent, and the equipment was not particularly outdated, with bows and arrows, flintlock pistols, horse lances, sabers, etc., and Guo Xinga also saw a few meteor hammers in the telescope. After catching up with the Qing army, these Taiping cavalry also wanted to impact the Qing army that was moving at high speed, and Mu Shun could only rush to the battle with the cavalry battalion. The cavalry of the Taiping Army has outstanding riding skills, and the equipment is not particularly backward, even against the Mongolian iron cavalry of the monk Grinqin will not suffer too much loss, but unfortunately their opponent is Guoxinga.
Their bows and flintlock muskets could not reach the Minne rifles of the Qing army, and their horse lances were not the opponents of the *, so it was easy to stay up to the distance of the sabre, and the first echelon of the Qing army still used the * American cavalry. Their already loose sharp-angled formation was beaten to pieces by the Qing army with strong firepower, and in the face of the Qing army charging against the wall, they could only show their outstanding equestrian skills, how fast and how fast they ran.
After a round of hedging, the Taiping army lost three adult horses without even touching the Qing cavalry, and they wisely chose Mingzhe to protect themselves. They no longer carried out any attacks and temptations, but followed the Qing army like obedient babies, and the two sides maintained a strange situation of peaceful coexistence.
"My lord, I'll take someone to rush another wave and drive these flies away!" Mu Shun looked down on the cavalry of the Taiping Army, and these people gave Mu Shun the feeling that it was more difficult to catch, and it could basically be easily solved after being caught.
"They won't fight you anymore, we can't afford to go around in circles! As long as they don't cause trouble, ignore them! "Goxinga is now on the run, and his willingness to cause trouble has been minimized.
"When did the Taiping Army have cavalry, we must be careful in Jiangnan in the future!" Although Guoxinga is not optimistic about the combat effectiveness of the Taiping cavalry, it is not worth it to be attacked by these people.
"My lord, these people are not long-haired, they are twisters!" Bo Ritu interjected on the side.
"What's that?" Goxinga was very unfamiliar with the words mentioned by Bo Ritu.
"My lord, it's a twist, a bandit, a twist!" Bo Ritu said all the names he could think of.
"Isn't the Twist Army supposed to be in Henan and Shandong!" The twisted army in Guoxing's impression is to solve the gang of monks and gentrins in Shandong.
"There aren't many in Shandong! Anyway, there are, twisters were active in Anhui, Henan, Shandong, Suzhou, Hubei, Shaanxi, Jin, and Zhizhi eight provinces in the past. However, adults can rest assured that the southernmost twist is active in the northern Anhui River and western Anhui, and rarely appears in the south of the Yangtze River. "Bo Ritu has played against the Twist Army in Henan, so I know better.
"Trouble!" Guo Xing'a had a very vague impression of the Twist Army except for killing Seng Lingqin, and suddenly became a new opponent, and he only felt anxious.
Of course, the Qing army did not go straight to Liuhe like the officers flickered, Liuhe was the key point of the Taiping Army's heavy defense, and Guo Xing'a was not crazy, of course he would not touch the tiger's butt. A group of soldiers chased behind, and Guo Xing'a rushed to the place where the heavy troops were gathered, so it could only be called self-defeating. After the Qing army bypassed Baguazhou, they did not go northeast to Liuhe, but fled directly east to Yizheng. After all, Yizheng is still occupied by the Qing army, and a group of Zhang Guoliang's subordinates are there, and Guoxing'a can escape as long as he throws the Taiping army at them. As for whether the ritual sign will be lost because of this, that is not something that Guoxinga needs to consider.
Out of vigilance against the Taiping army's naval divisions, the Qing army did not take a shortcut along the river, but took the dry road in the north. But as soon as the Qing army crossed the Chu River again, Guo Xing'a saw a scene that could make his nose crooked. The Taiping army stationed in Liuhe actually dispatched, they blocked the road for Guoxing'a to flee southeast to Yizheng, and what was even more hateful was that they also set up a big banner with ten big characters on it; "Capture Guoxinga and destroy the blue flag!"
After Guo Xing's anger passed, he felt a chill down his spine. "Annihilation of the blue flag" is understandable, after all, the military flag of Guoxinga is the blue dragon flag. But where did the phrase "capture Guoxing'a" come from, let alone Jiangbei, Guoxing'a didn't report his name even in the Wuhu area, and no one in the Qing army was captured, how did the Taiping army know. Guo Xing'a, who had always thought that he was a transparent person, was suddenly exposed, and the shock in his heart was indescribable. He will know that his soldiers once introduced the people of Guoxing Aqi in detail to a fellow named Chen Yi, and even introduced his wonderful performance near Wuhu. It was the detailed report after Chen Yi returned to the team that made Li Xiucheng, Chen Yucheng and others attach so much importance to Guoxinga, and mobilized almost all their forces in northern Anhui to round up Guoxinga.
A team of more than 1,000 people is really nothing for a battlefield with a scale of hundreds of thousands of people, and the Taiping army can easily solve them as long as they mobilize tens of thousands of people. The main reason why Guo Xing'a has been rampant for so long is because no one pays attention to him. Guo Xing'a has never done good deeds without leaving a name, few people know about him, and Li Shixian of Wuhu is still not sure how many teams the Qing army has. Guo Xing'a is like a thief, he can make trouble in the heavenly palace when no one notices, but once he is noticed and taken seriously, he immediately has no spells.
The Qing army was forced to flee north again, but when they fled to the foot of Lingyan Mountain, the Qing army was already scattered and the soldiers were tired. Guoxing, who didn't want to run alive, gave the order for the whole army to rest. One is to restore the strength of the troops, and Guo Xinga is also ready to deal with the pursuers behind the buttocks.
The village where the Qing army temporarily stopped was called Longhuying, a col backed by Lingyan Mountain. Not to mention that this place can occupy the commanding heights of Lingyan Mountain, there is also a way into the mountain, as long as the Taiping army enters this mountain pass, Guo Xing'a is confident that he will solve them in a short time. After dealing with the pursuers in front of him, Guo Xing'a could safely and boldly flee to Yizheng and even Yangzhou.
After a brief rest, the Qing army began to build positions, digging trenches and setting up bunkers. After some tossing, the Qing army began to lie down in the trenches to rest, while waiting for the fish to take the bait. However, an hour after the outpost had already discovered the advance of the Taiping army, there was still not a single enemy waiting in the col.
Goxinga wanted to give up several times, but felt that he should wait patiently, and finally he waited for the tragedy brought back by the scout. The Liuhe defenders blocked the pass, but they had no intention of marching and instead built a strong defensive line on the pass. And when Guo Xing'a built a position and waited for the foolish wife, the Taiping army chasing from Pukou had already outflanked the Qing army from both sides. The Qing army set up a pocket array, and the Taiping army put a bigger pocket and covered the pocket of the Qing army. The Taiping army completely surrounded Lingyan Mountain, and the Guoxing Asuo department has now been surrounded by the Taiping army, and it is truly surrounded layer by layer.
"Build permanent fortifications and stand by for help!" Guo Xing'a was a little depressed, and he was completely defeated this time.
Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng saw the Qing army walking out of the hidden fortifications in the telescope, and both of them were afraid for a while. If it weren't for the obstruction of an ordinary soldier, they would have ordered the Liuhe defenders led by Wu Dingcai to chase them into the mountains. If Wu Dingcai really entered the mountain, now not only Guo Xing'a has fled, I am afraid that Wu Dingcai will also take it.
"If you really say it every time, you really know him!" Chen Yucheng looked at the root of Guo Xing'a's failure with a smile, the ordinary Taiping Army soldier who could always guess Guo Xing'a's thoughts.
"From the time when there were only a few hundred of this little demon's subordinates, the villain fought with him, and his every move, the villain was too familiar." Huang Daping, who has become an ordinary soldier, is quite emotional.
"What a lesson I've learned from thousands of elites!" Listening to Huang Daping's emotion, Li Xiucheng rushed to his head with an evil fire.
Li Xiucheng was really distressed, all of his thousands of elites in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were sent to Guoxing'a by Huang Daping to practice. Although it is claimed that there are 40,000 or 50,000 people to the outside world, in fact, Li Xiucheng has only managed to equip less than a few thousand people who have entered Jiangsu and Zhejiang with all-British equipment. These people are not the best people under Li Xiucheng, and they can only be treated so well because they are close to the coast. Li Xiuwei planned to hand them over to Tan Shaoguang as his own guards after they were rigorously trained. As a result, Tan Shaoguang had never seen this army, and this luxuriously equipped unit had been wiped out, and then Tan Shaoguang's whereabouts were unknown. If it weren't for the fact that he still admired Huang Daping, Li Xiucheng really wanted to strangle him with his own hands. Although he escaped death, Huang Daping was also demoted from a division commander to an ordinary soldier.
The hatred of thousands of elite mourners, the bloody rain in Wuhu, and the life and death of Tan Shaoguang are unknown, Li Xiucheng wants to make a break with Guoxing'a in this Dragon and Tiger Camp.