Chapter 45: Liangshan River
Ulankang is Ulantai's younger brother, born to the same mother, although Ulantai is arrogant, but his martial arts are indeed real. However, Ulankang is a mediocre and completely unassertive person, perhaps because all the aura was sucked away by his brother. He did everything according to his brother's will, and he was extremely loyal to his brother. It is precisely for this reason that Ulantai is very relieved to let his younger brother lead a battalion alone and stationed it in the area of Liangshan Village.
Ulankang has average skills, usually likes to play with birds, fight crickets, typical Eight Banners gentlemen, and the affairs of the military camp are taken care of by his subordinates. The people below saw that the main general was not interested in military affairs, so no one really asked about things. All of them are passable, perfunctory, lax in military discipline, and a monk for a day and a clock for a day.
"My lord, it's not good, the Taiping Army is here." A guard came in a panic to report.
"What? Take me to see it. Ulankang was playing with the birds, and when he heard this, he hurriedly put down the bird cage and panicked.
Ulankang climbed the wall of the camp and looked up. A group of Taiping soldiers were harvesting rice under their own camp, and this time Ulankang was in trouble, and the head of Saishang Aqincha said, so that the armies could not hold out, and the Taiping army was strong and cleared, starving them to death. But now that the Taiping army is collecting grain under their noses, how can they deal with this? Ulankang's small head couldn't turn at once, he was a cowardly and incompetent person who was afraid of responsibility, so he asked his entourage to write a letter to his brother Ulantai asking for his life.
When Ulantai received his brother's letter, he was furious. Holding on is just so that the bandits can't get food, and everyone is getting food under your nose, which is equivalent to slapping you in front of you, and you still let them easily take away the food? Ulantai scolded his brother in reply, and then ordered him to attack, not allowing the bandits to take away the grain.
On the way, the letter came and went, and the Taiping army had already collected a day's food. The next day, the Taiping army came to collect grain again, and Ulankang immediately led his team out of the village to meet the battle.
Who knew that the Taiping army did not fight with it at all, and as soon as they saw the door of the Qing army's fortress wide open, they immediately threw down the rice in their hands and ran away, and all the kung fu ran away in a blink of an eye. Ulankang pursued to the Liangshan River and stopped, because his entourage reminded him that his brother had been cut off by the Taiping army because he had crossed the river in Sanlihe last time, and he had regretted this incident later. After hearing this, Ulankang hesitated, and began to be timid, this river can't be crossed easily, so after thinking about it, he simply collected the team and returned to the camp to ask his brother if he could cross the river.
Yang Xiuqing, who was watching the battle from afar, was secretly surprised by the Qing army's cautious actions, and he couldn't imagine that there were such careful people in the always reckless Ulantai army, and he thought that this strategy was useless, and he was a little annoyed.
"Strategist, how can it be good if the enemy doesn't take the bait?" The attendant beside him asked.
"Let's let the brothers beat all the rice first, the demons have become smart this time, since they are not fooled, let's finish the grain." Yang Xiuqing shook his head, it is up to people to make things happen, but fortunately, it is not a loss if the food can still be hit. What he never expected was that it was not because the other party had a brain and was not fooled, but because he had no brains and was too mediocre to report everything, so he accidentally escaped this ambush.
Ulantai received a report from his younger brother again, this time he was even more angry, he gave the Taiping army two more days to get food, and he knew that the Liangshan River was just a small river, and the river was not deep, and people and horses could wade through it in a short time, and there was no such thing as being bypassed by the enemy. In reply, Ulantai scolded his younger brother for not adapting measures to local conditions, and told him that he could cross the river, but he must not let the bandits collect grain with peace of mind, and if the bandits came to steal the grain again, they would send a horse team to drive him away.
Ulantai was so stupid by his younger brother that he couldn't do anything about it, and the letter was full of instructions, so he almost went up to teach him. He began to regret letting his younger brother lead the army alone, and planned to transfer him back after a while and replace him with a talented person. Although his younger brother is loyal to him, it is better to be his inner chamberlain.
On the third day, the large rice field in Liangshan Village had almost reached the stage of sweeping, and to Yang Xiuqing's surprise, this group of Qing demons was dispatched again, and it was more than 1,000 cavalry led by Ulankang who came out of the camp gate with a roar, howling and coming straight to the Taiping army.
Yang Xiuqing rode a horse and held the command flag, calmly observing the situation on the battlefield. The cavalry of the Qing Demon brandished their sabers, rode their horses to race, and rushed over with an arrogant attitude. When all the Qing soldiers crossed the river, Yang Xiuqing waved the flag and fired three cannons. The Taiping army in ambush on the upper reaches of the Liangshan River dug a weir and went downstream to pay tariffs. Originally, the water level only reached the people's chests rose sharply, and suddenly the river overflowed out of the embankment, and this area became a flood swamp, and the Qing army was in chaos. The horse's hooves were so deep in the soft mud that they couldn't move no matter how much the whip was drawn.
Wu Lankang was even more panicked in his heart, and sighed secretly in his heart: "The big thing is not good, I fell for the plan of the bandits." He ordered his subordinates to abandon their horses and walk back, and they wanted to withdraw to the camp.
The Qing soldiers walked in the waist-high water, deep and shallow, and they were too tired to walk far, and they took off their leather armor and weapons one by one.
A scene that made the Qing army desperate appeared, a naval army floated on the Liangshan River, and the leading boat was planted with a military flag, and on the flag was a big "Luo" character, which was the army led by Luo Xuan. Most of them took the small boats they had just collected, some on small sampans, some on canoes, and some even made a large bath and went down the river, cutting off the back road of the Qing army.
I saw that only one of these Taiping soldiers was rowing, and the others were either armed with spears or holding bows and arrows. When encountering a Qing demon who has no ability to resist, it is a long spear to go up, and the efficiency is basically a piercing and an accurate. When encountering someone who still wants to resist stubbornly, he will be shot to death with arrows. The above explained that the Manchu Eight Banners would not accept prisoners and kill them all.
For a while, the Qing army cried for his father and mother, and there was a lot of wailing. Wherever the Taiping boats went, the blood of the Qing army stained the waters of the Liangshan River.
"Be careful, don't shoot indiscriminately, don't shoot the horse to death." This is a reminder to pay attention to the protection of loot.
"Hurry up, the people in front of you have been stabbed to death so much, I usually see you eat a lot, why is your strength so small." This is to blame his teammates for not giving up.
A battle has become a one-sided slaughter, and everyone's attention is no longer on how to kill the enemy, but to obtain greater merit and more loot.
Not far away, several soldiers of the Qing army desperately supported a Qing army general wearing a flower feather on his head, howling like a wounded beast and trying to flee for his life, this person was Wu Lankang.
On a slightly larger wooden boat, Luo Xuan put down the bow and arrow in his hand, and when the battle reached this point, he couldn't close his mouth for a long time, and looked at Yang Xiaoshan with a smile, "Brother Yang, this big official is left for you to shoot." ”
"You're welcome, the credit is everyone's, you shoot me not the same." Yang Xiaoshan also said politely.
"We have never fought such a smooth battle, and this is the opportunity that your little mountain brother has won for us. Those of us who have just joined the Taiping Army have not been able to do anything, but after this battle, our hearts are much more steady. Luo Outline thanked, it turned out that after Yang Xiuqing told Xiaoshan about the strategy that day, Xiaoshan immediately recommended Luo Outline to complete the ambush.
"Okay, let's shoot together, you all have to thank Master Yang more!" Luo Xuan instructed the brothers on the ship to shoot arrows together.
"Thank you, Master Yang." Everyone was also very excited, the credit came too easily, and the team wiped out more than 1,000 cavalry of the Qing army without one person dying, which was all effortless.
As soon as the words fell. Good fellow, although it is not a thousand arrows at once, but everyone hates these Manchu relatives and nobles, arrow after arrow, Ulankang was shot alive into a hedgehog, his head, chest, and limbs were all full of arrows, and he fell like a dead pig, and soaked straight in the dirty mud. The guards around him were no better, they were also killed by random arrows, and went with Ulankang.
The Liangshan River was victorious, Ulankang was killed, and then his camp defended by more than 100 people was also broken by the Taiping army. Countless supplies such as grain and salt were seized, and now the Taiping army could finally breathe a sigh of relief.