Chapter X: Meritorious Service
Pingnan Huazhou is a small town, surrounded by mountains, and only a small road in the south is the only exit to the outside world. Hu Yihuang is a local landowner, and his home is also a high-walled courtyard, so it is not so easy to rush in.
More than 200 Qing soldiers were stationed at the intersection outside the south of Huazhou, led by Li Qianzong, who was in charge of the local garrison. He wears a red head, stares at goldfish eyes, a slightly crooked lip under the bridge of his nose, and smokes opium with big yellow teeth.
"My lord, we caught a fat fish this time. I didn't expect this surnamed Hu to dare to kill people and rebel. "A flattering way.
"Needless to say, let the brothers take care of it, don't let the big fish slip away." Li Qian was always proud, this time it was really lucky, that day it happened that he rarely led the troops to patrol near Pingnan County, and happened to meet the errand who was killed and fled back.
"This Hu family compound is really hard enough, and the brothers have been beaten to the ground several times." The general said fiercely, obviously he suffered a lot of losses.
"Don't worry, we're in a hurry, the guy in hand is useless. I will send someone to inform the deputy general of Xunzhou. Tell the brethren to endure a little more hardship and wait a few more days. As soon as the adjutant general came, he set up the cannon, and no matter how hard the Hu family's compound was, it would be completely finished. "Li Qian is full of confidence, Vice General Li Dianyuan is his distant uncle, and the fat water does not flow into the fields of outsiders, this time he finally showed his face, this is a great achievement in counterinsurgency. God opened his eyes, it was the unique terrain of Huazhou that allowed him to trap hundreds of people in the Hu family. In other places, his more than 200 people would not be able to surround the Hu family's compound. (At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the vice general was from the second product, and the thousand total was the sixth product)
"I heard that this old Hu family is a rich master, and the family's silver is boxes and boxes."
"If you take Hu Yihuang in one fell swoop this time, let alone silver, it won't be a problem to get a few watery girls to make the brothers feel refreshed!" Li Qian always smiled.
Meng Deen led the way, Hong Xuanjiao took Xiao Chaogui's five hundred elite soldiers day and night and finally arrived at Pingnan Huazhou in the evening of the next day, and the spies in front reported that it was less than half an hour's journey away from the Qing soldiers.
Hong Xuanjiao ordered the whole army to rest in place, and then called for a meeting with Brigademarshal Meng and Brigademarshal Li to discuss tactics. (In order to ensure the success of this operation, Xiao Chaogui handed over his capable subordinates to Li Kaifang to Hong Xuanjiao's command.) )
Li Kaifang, in his thirties, has a calm personality, a capable style, and is also very good at military training. He pondered for a moment, "More than 200 Qing soldiers are camped at the intersection, and the division commander and I can each lead 200 people to attack from the east and west, and the Meng brigade commander will take 100 people to be responsible for answering and supporting at any time." ”
"Why don't I take people to South Road, let's serve them in a pot." Mund's suggested.
"No, I understand Lvshuai Li's thoughts. Let's leave a gap so that they don't resist desperately. Hong Xuanjiao guessed Li Kaifang's intentions.
"That's exactly what we mean, although we have the advantage in numbers, but after all, we have never been on the battlefield, in case the enemy desperately resists, the casualties will definitely be not small. We are here this time to smoothly pick up the sect leader, and the casualties will inevitably affect the speed of the march behind. In the event of an accident, we can't afford to take the risk. Li Kaifang was still very thoughtful.
"Without further ado, we split up. Lao Meng, you send a competent person to report to the Yang family. Once in position, we attacked with torches and at the same time. Hong Xuanjiao stood up and finally ordered.
The sun was still half a head left in the sky, and a gust of autumn wind blew with a little coolness, and the sky was already dark.
The Qing soldiers, who were standing guard in the camp, suddenly noticed a fire on the mountain to the east. When he was wondering, he noticed that there was also a fire on the mountain to the west, like a torch still spinning in a circle, which seemed to be a signal. He immediately realized that something was wrong, and even crawled to report to Mr. Li Qian.
"It's not a good thing, Mr. Qian, there are enemy troops on the mountains on the east and west sides." The sentry reported to Mr. Li Qian.
Li Qian was also taken aback when he heard this, there are mountains in this radius of hundreds of miles, where did the enemy army come from? But he didn't have time to think about this, so he hurriedly left the camp tent, and looked up to see hundreds of torches rushing towards his camp on the east and west.
"Mr. Qian, the big thing is not good, the camp in the north is on fire, and someone deliberately set it on fire, I'm afraid that the Hu family's spies have mixed in." One of them always ran out of breath to report.
"Calm down! Stabilization! Mr. Li Qian pretended to be calm, "Summons gather, quickly summon gather!" ”
Before he finished speaking, Hong Xuanjiao and Li Kaifang's team had already arrived, and the torches were thrown into the barracks of the Qing army with a killing cry, and suddenly the flames were in the sky, and there was a sea of fire.
"Quick, quick, get me a horse." Mr. Li Qian finally panicked completely and prepared to slip away.
But at this time, almost all the Qing soldiers were running for their lives, and whoever cared about him ran south on their own.
At this time, Hong Xuanjiao had already rushed in with the centaurs, slashing and killing all the way, and happened to collide with Li Qianzong. As soon as she saw that this person was wearing a red hat and a thousand general uniforms, she knew that she had met a big official, and immediately rushed over with a pair of mandarin duck knives.
Mr. Li Qian still had some skills in his early years, although he had been hollowed out by opium in recent years, and at this time, he was also in a hurry to jump off the wall. When he saw that it was a female general, he was a little more courageous, and he raised a single knife and slashed at Hong Xuanjiao's head.
Hong Xuanjiao was very calm, her right hand knife held Li Qianzong's knife, and her left hand knife slashed at his waist. This is going to be cut, and Mr. Li Qian will cut it in two.
Li Qian never imagined that this woman could hold her knife with such great strength. Seeing that Hong Xuanjiao's left-handed knife was coming towards his waist, fortunately, he still had a bit of a physical foundation, and a lazy donkey rolled around, and he dodged it very embarrassed.
Only then did Mr. Li realize that he was not the opponent of the woman in front of him at all, and he turned his head and was about to run.
How could Hong Xuanjiao give him a chance to slip away, he chased forward with an arrow step, and slashed at Li Qianzong's head with a knife in his left hand.
Li Qian always heard the sound of a knife behind him, and knew that it was not good, so his body was crooked. His head was dodged, but unfortunately there was no way to completely dodge it without a body. Hong Xuanjiao's knife slashed down his left shoulder.
"Oops!" With a scream, Li Qianzong's left arm was unloaded by Hong Xuanjiao. Before he could finish calling, Hong Xuanjiao's right-handed knife slashed horizontally again. This time, Li Qian was not so lucky, Hong Xuanjiao's knife was cut down along his neckline, a head flew up, and Li Qian was killed on the spot. His head rolled on the ground a few times, and finally stopped at the stake of the barracks, his eyes still open, and he did not expect to die at the hands of a woman.
"Mr. Qian is dead, Mr. Li Qian is dead." The Qing soldiers next to him all shouted.
A small number of Qing soldiers who were still resisting also lost their fighting spirit after hearing this, and knelt on the ground and begged to surrender, and the battle soon ended. Hong Xuanjiao and Li Kaifang chased and killed each other, and then returned to the camp.
Hong Xiuquan also arrived with his own soldiers at this time, and what caught his eye was the burned camp, the corpses of the Qing soldiers, and a row of kneeling Qing prisoners.
Hong Xuanjiao and all the soldiers greeted the sect leader together, "Meet the sect leader Hong, there are 230 demons, 62 people died, 45 people were captured, 123 people escaped, and we only injured a dozen brothers." Here is the head of the Qing Demon Thousand and his red top. ”
Hong Xiuquan was overjoyed, and helped Hong Xuanjiao, "Sister Xuan, you have made a great contribution!" ”