Chapter 120: The Empty City
After successfully conquering the Yulong Pass, the two or three hundred garrisons stationed in Longliao Ridge and Pingchonggu could not resist the Ling Li offensive of Yang Xiaoshan's 4,000 elite soldiers, and they surrendered one after another. Yang Xiaoshan traveled day and night, breaking through three levels in one day, opening the passage to Guilin, which was also the way to survive in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
"Quickly send a good news to the East King, the front line of Yulong Pass is under the control of our Taiping Army." Yang Xiaoshan asked the herald to go to Yong'an to report the victory.
Yang Xiuqing, who received Xiaoshan's good news, breathed a sigh of relief, although it was expected that Xiaoshan would be successfully conquered, but such a tense moment could not come in case of anything, and the lives of tens of thousands of people in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were all bet on Xiaoshan's body, and no accident could happen. "Fortunately, Xiaoshan fortunately fulfilled his mission and successfully completed his task, and he was the right person." Yang Xiuqing sighed, and the big stone in her heart finally landed.
The next step is how to transfer more than 30,000 soldiers and civilians from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. At this moment, the Taiping army and the people are half apart, and although the family can enter the heavenly kingdom together can make the heavenly soldiers fight with peace of mind, but once the army is marched, these family members who cannot fight will become a burden. Especially on the way from Yong'an to Guilin, there is no waterway, and you rely on a pair of feet to walk, which is really slow.
Yang Xiuqing decided to take advantage of the night to transfer, and ordered everyone to bring only clothes and light weapons, and no bottles and cans. The captured iron cannons and guns that were inconvenient to transfer were buried in the ground and hidden, and since they could not be taken away, they could not be cheapened by the Qing army. This is a battle against time, and once it is caught up by the Qing army at this moment, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will definitely suffer a heavy blow.
Fortunately, God helped, the spring rain in Yong'an has been continuous recently, the night is hazy, there is no moonlight, and the sound of rain also covers some of the sound of transfer. Yang Xiuqing commanded the brigade to desperately march towards Yulong Pass. In order to save time, Yang Xiuqing asked everyone to carry dry food with them, without cooking on a fire, and everyone ate dry food while rushing to the road.
The next morning, the Qing army found that the city of Yong'an was empty. Ulantai was the closest to Yong'an, and he was the first to rush into the empty city with his team.
"What's going on? Where have the bandits gone? Ulantai said angrily, at the last moment of the siege of half a year, he actually let the bandits escape, and his mood was extremely bad.
"Search me to see if there are any remnants of the bandits left in Yong'an, and every house must be carefully searched for me." Ulantai was unwilling to say, he didn't believe that none of the tens of thousands of bandits were pulled down?
The Qing army searched Yong'an on a large scale, and finally found only one blind man who was seriously injured. Several Qing soldiers carried him to Ulantai, "Lord Dutong, only such a bandit is searched." ”
"They all went to the Little Heaven, and I, a blind man who was dying, didn't want to run away, I just wanted to go to the Big Heaven as soon as possible. You demons are too late. The blind man laughed, full of irony, and ridiculed the Qing army for coming too late.
Ulantai was full of anger, "Damn, you are looking for death blind man!" He drew his saber and slashed the only celestial soldier in the city.
The blind man died, blood was spilled all over the ground, and he finally got his wish to go to the great heaven.
Ulantai still felt incomprehensible and shouted: "These hateful Yongan people did not report to the officials and soldiers, causing the bandits to abscond, all of them are unforgivable, and they will be punished according to the same party of the bandits!" Today to the evening, Yong'an will not seal the knife! ”
When the Qing soldiers received this order, it was like a shot of chicken blood, and they openly robbed Yong'an City, as long as they encountered a little resistance, or a little unpleasant to the eye, they were stabbed in the head. Ulantai took the defeat out of the residents of Yong'an, and actually connived at the Qing soldiers to kill and plunder everywhere. Yong'an City suddenly became a hell on earth that killed thousands of people and shed blood, killing and plundering the endless days.
It didn't take long for Sai Shoufu to learn that the Taiping Army had left Yong'an, and he was also greatly alarmed, and the last thing he wanted happened happened. On the one hand, he wrote a melody and lied that he had "conquered Yong'an" to report the good news to Xianfeng, and on the other hand, he scolded Ulantai and urgently ordered him to pursue quickly and intercept the Taiping army.
After the Qing soldiers looted Yong'an, they left Yong'an City very reluctantly at the urging of Ulantai.
Ulantai had already detected the whereabouts of the Taiping army at this time, he was not a fool, he knew that he had to intercept the Taiping army before it reached Yulong Pass, so he repeatedly urged his subordinates to pursue them to death.
But it backfired, "What's going on in front, why did it stop?" "The more anxious Ulantai is, the more the team is in constant trouble.
"Report to Lord Tutong, the bandits in the front area planted a lot of mines, killing more than 30 brothers, so the brothers dare not leave." The pro-soldier reported back.
"By, bypass, do you still need me to teach this?" Ulantai was furious, "It's really a bunch of things that don't have long heads." He cursed. In the order that Sai Shoufu gave him, his words were never sharper, and his tone was quite tough, he felt that Sai Shoufu was really angry with him, and Xiang Rong was so strong in the limelight recently, so he was particularly important to Shoufu. I can't figure out that the black cauldron that sent the bandits to escape this time is going to be carried by himself, so he is so anxious that his heart is like fire.
It didn't take long for the team to stop again, after walking for a while. It turned out that the Taiping army discarded a lot of valuable things along the way, some porcelain, jade and even silverware were discarded, and those soldiers could not resist such a temptation, and immediately looked around. Some people even come with their hands for the sake of the ownership of these things, and the situation is quite chaotic.
"This is clearly a delaying tactic for the bandits, and these pig heads are fooled for a little profit!" Ulantai was furious, he knew that this was a trap for bandits, but people died for money, birds died for food, and he couldn't stop the team from snatching these utensils. It was not until he personally organized his own soldiers to form an inspection team, and once he discovered this situation, he first destroyed these utensils, and then grabbed the soldiers who were fighting for it and whipped them thirty times, that he finally suppressed this situation.
Ulantai's ranks continued to be in good condition, leaving just enough time for the Taiping army. When Ulantai arrived at the Yulong Pass an hour ago, the Taiping army's brigade had just passed through the Yulong Pass, and Qin Rigang, who was in charge of the broken tail, led more than 2,000 people to be stationed on it and stopped Ulantai's army.
"Damn it!" Ulantai looked at Yulongguan with great disappointment, with a look of remorse. He could even see the old and weak of the Taiping Army climbing the mountain on the road behind the Jade Dragon Pass. If you don't connive at the soldiers to rob Yong'an, if you don't encounter landmines, if the soldiers don't rob the property left by the bandits, as long as one is achieved, you can catch up with the Taiping army, but unfortunately there is no if at this time.
"Push our heavy artillery over and give me a bang!" Ulantai shouted. Fortunately, I expected this moment, and I came over with a few large carts loaded with a few heavy guns, which finally came in handy at this time.
"If you can quickly blast open this Jade Dragon Pass, you can still catch up with the tail of the Taiping Army." Ulantai comforted himself.