"Look, my lord, these are the little cubs of the long-haired Northern Expeditionary Army." Xue Zhiyuan pointed to Tan Shaoguang and the others and said.

"We overestimated them, just these little beggars, can we still send so many soldiers and horses?" Daoist He looked at the tattered outfits of the little long-haired people and said with great contempt.

"Sir, rest until I take the heads of these little cubs and present them to you." Xue Zhiyuan had just returned to the imperial court and tried his best to show himself.

"Well, the action should be sharp, and the speed should be won." Daoist He nodded, he didn't pay attention to these little long hairs.

Xue Zhiyuan led 1,500 Qing soldiers and viciously rushed towards Tan Shaoguang's department.

"Shizi, I am Tan Shaoguang, I used to be a card knife player under the account of the King of the West, and then I followed Prime Minister Lin to the Northern Expedition." Tan Shaoguang cut Yang Xiaoshan's bracelet and anklet with a knife, and introduced himself.

"How's the Northern Expeditionary Army? How many others have fled? "Yang Xiaoshan already knew that the Northern Expeditionary Army had failed.

"Shizi, all the people you see now are the last remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army. Prime Minister Lin, Prime Minister Li and all other brothers were martyred. Tan Shaoguang choked up a little.

Of the 25,000 Guangxi brothers, there are only more than 600 children left, which shows the tragedy of the Northern Expedition. Yang Xiaoshan didn't have time to say this to Tan Shaoguang, and saw that the Qing soldiers were about to kill.

"Cloth in a circular formation, everyone gather together, don't rush forward." Yang Xiaoshan shouted, don't panic at this time, surrounded by so many Qing soldiers, once you are alone, you will die.

Don't look at the age of these children, these people have been experienced since the Boy Scouts, even if they encounter such a dangerous situation, no one panics, after all, the Northern Expedition has survived such a difficult situation, and there are many winds and waves.

As soon as the two armies fought, the upper and lower divisions had been divided, although the Taiping army was young, but its movements were extremely solid, and the weapons in their hands were very firm, and the Qing army, which had a large number of people, fell behind, and many people were stabbed down, covering their wounds and wailing. The morale of the Taiping army is getting higher and higher, and their movements are very neat and uniform, and they look like veterans at first glance.

In the face of such a battle situation, Xue Zhiyuan was anxious and angry, he didn't expect that these little long hairs would be so hard. He was unwilling to be embarrassed in front of He Daoist, and forced his subordinates to launch a second wave of offensives.

The second wave was even more unbearable than the first wave of the offensive, it turned out that the Qing army still relied on the strength of the outnumbered people, and had a little courage, but after the battle, this courage was also lost. The second wave was forced to attack, which was simply perfunctory, they only shouted on the periphery, and very few people really went up to fight, which made Xue Zhiyuan jump to his feet.

"If you don't use something, you know you can't be trusted. Don't go down quickly, I'll come! He Daoist led the troops to the front of the battle and scolded Xue Zhiyuandao.

Xue Zhiyuan had such a big face and big eyes, he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into, and he swept the ground in a majestic manner, his whole person wilted, and he muttered in his mouth: "Why are these children so able to fight?" ”

"Push the cannon over, the archers prepare." He Daoist secretly sighed that he was fortunate that he was well prepared, but he had made a package ticket in front of Lord Shengbao, so he had to make more preparations.

Tan Shaoguang and these children have no armor against bows and arrows at all, and once the Qing army launches a long-range attack, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"Rush up, stick to them, fight them." Yang Xiaoshan immediately commanded that the Qing army must not be given any chance to launch a long-range attack.

The 600 Taiping army challenged the 4,000 Qing army, Yang Xiaoshan had no choice, this was no way.

Tan Shaoguang and others were extremely heroic, in the face of the heavy encirclement of the Qing army, they were not afraid, and the 600 Taiping army rushed left and right in the encirclement of the Qing army, and they could still maintain the formation without chaos.

However, the number of Qing troops was too much, and the Taiping army was never able to break through, and their physical strength was extremely consumed, and many people were almost at the limit of their physical fitness. Yang Xiaoshan tried his best to constantly replace the distrained fighters to the back, but as time went by, more and more people couldn't move the weapons in their hands and could no longer replace them.

"Shizi, the brothers can't hold on, what should I do?" Tan Shaoguang was almost desperate.

Yang Xiaoshan couldn't answer, the gap in numbers was too big, he did everything that should be done, but now there is nothing to be done, this is a dead end, and it is a miracle that it can support it until now.

At this critical moment, there was the sound of an arrow at the mouth of the ravine, and then there were eighteen arrows rising in the sky.

On the flat horizon, like a rising tide, countless cavalry figures poured out, like rolling waves, coming from heaven to earth. They held the five-colored flag, and the weapons in their hands were like shining waves, gradually gathered together, the horses roared, the horns roared, the earth shook, the mountains shook, and the earth trembled.

"Who is it?" He Daoist was taken aback, when did such an overwhelming cavalry appear on the land of Henan? How many people he can't tell, tens of thousands? Probably around 100,000. Xue Zhiyuan next to him was even more frightened, he had never seen such a big battle, this was 100,000 cavalry, far more than 200,000 infantry.

The boundless sea of cavalry was still churning, and finally eighteen banners were raised.

The leader was a middle-aged man, about forty years old, tall and mighty, with a big beard, quite heroic. He is the head of the Eighteenth Road Twist Army, and the Twist Army Alliance advocates happiness.

"Twist" is a Huaibei dialect, which means "one group of shares". In the first few years of Xianfeng, the southern part of Henan and the northern part of Anhui were plagued by famines, and there were constantly rebel armies emerging here.

They inquired about the abnormal movement of the Qing army in Guide City to the north, thinking that the Qing army was going to secretly transport imperial grain and tax silver to the capital, so they came together for the first time and prepared to rob the Qing army.

This is really a team that sees through the clouds, and thousands of troops come to meet. The Twist Army was originally dominated by cavalry, and the Twist Army from all walks of life soon gathered here. Because it was the first joint operation, almost all the twisted armies brought all their belongings, for fear of being looked down upon by other twisted armies, so it caused such a big sensation in Lijiagou, and the concept of 100,000 cavalry was simply an unstoppable torrent.

"Alliance leader, we seem to have made a mistake, these Qing soldiers seem to be here to encircle and annihilate Changmao." The Taiping Army's hair is so eye-catching, you can tell that it is long hair at a glance.

"The Taipings? Save them, their Prime Minister Lin and I have a relationship, and we have cooperated together before, they are good people and worth dating. Zhang Lexing recalled the situation when the Northern Expeditionary Army entered Henan, and at that time he cooperated with Lin Fengxiang around Kaifeng to resist the Qing army.

At this time, it was the turn of the Qing army to be dumbfounded, this was really the praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches.