Perhaps thanks to the onslaught of the armed fleet at sea, the last soldier of Zhou Lang crossed the Lower Tamsui Creek without seeing the Qing army.

In the final analysis, the opponent is not an elite, and so far, the attention of the Manchu court is still focused on the whole body of Chen Zhou of the Northern Expedition.

As for what happened to Chen Zhouquan, Zhou Lang also wanted to know, but since the Qing army occupied Donggang and occupied Fengdanxun upstream, the connection between Dagu Port and the county seat was cut off, and the news from the north was cut off.

Zhou Lang also promised that Chen Sanmei would go north to rescue his brother, but he didn't know the situation now.

However, as long as the Qing army in Donggang is defeated, Zhou Lang will also flow upstream, and not only will the siege of Fengshan County be relieved, but also Zhou Lang can indirectly penetrate into the Pingtung Plain, which is a grain producing area.

As for Chen Guanghui in Fengshan County, Zhou Lang's attack on Donggang is equivalent to indirectly rescuing him, he has no opinion on Zhou Lang's infiltration of Pingtung, if he has an opinion, Zhou Lang is not without ambition for Fengshan County, and he, the generalissimo of the South Road Auxiliary State appointed by Chen Zhouquan, also wants to sit down.

The army still marched in three ways, the calm Zhao Wen was still the vanguard, Chen Zhizhi accompanied him with a hundred artillery pieces, Zhou Lang's old battalion and Hong Jiuzhi's department were in the center, and Wang Fuqian and Chen Xiaoshou were responsible for escorting the baggage to the rear.

When Zhou Lang arrived at Donggang, Zhao Wen had already built a camp, and the figure of the Qing army also appeared in front, about six or seven people, all horsemen, facing each other from a distance, seeing Zhou Lang following up, the other party actually retreated. I can't catch up, because there is still a river in front of me, a river much smaller than the lower freshwater stream, called Donggang Creek, formerly known as Lili Creek, named after the aboriginal Lili Society settled in the surrounding area.

Zhou Lang's purpose of smuggling down Tamsui Creek was originally to keep it secret, and it was much easier to cross Tamsui Creek and Donggang Creek, forcing one person to swim over the bamboo pole of Baoyigen. The reason for keeping it secret is to attack the enemy unprepared, although Donggang is a seaside flood land, but there are other Qing army flood places nearby, along the Donggang Creek on Shuo three miles of the top of the mountain is a market town, the official name is the Gangdong Li Kanding Street, with the Lower Tamsui Creek Inspection Division, between the Northeast Wuli Donggang Creek and the Lower Tamsui Creek, there is also a market town, called Xinyuan, the Qing army has a new garden flood, garrison a thousand total one, one hundred soldiers, these two places and the East Port watch each other, but also the East Harbor deep into the inland must pass through.

Zhou Lang's purpose was to directly sneak across Donggang Creek, block Donggang's retreat to the north, and completely annihilate the Qing army in Donggang.

He was no longer satisfied with the purpose of driving the Qing army away, and if this Qing army was not eliminated here, it would be eliminated in Kunding or Xinyuan, and if he let them go, it would be troublesome for them to enter the hinterland of the Pingtung Plain and win over the landlords.

But now that the Qing army has discovered the movements of Zhou Lang's army, their current situation, there is an enemy fleet attack at sea, and the main force of the enemy army appears on the rear road, in this case, the rational choice is to flee.

Now crossing the river may not be able to block the other party.

Zhou Lang immediately changed his plan and ordered Zhao Wenshuai's 1st Brigade to cross the river immediately, and if the enemy fled north, he wanted to pursue and delay the opponent.

Ma Dalei led the 500 elites of Zhou Lang's old battalion, marched lightly along the river, and crossed the river at the right time, so as to take the Kunding Street before the enemy.

Ordered Hong Jiuzhi to lead the second brigade with ten small cannons and part of the baggage along the river to the north, if Ma Dalei conquered the top of the mountain, he would cooperate with the other side to defend this place to prevent the Qing army from fleeing north, if Ma Dalei fell into a bitter battle, he would be assisted by artillery.

Zhou Lang stayed in place with Chen Xiaoshou's Third Brigade and all the baggage, intending to respond at any time.

"Military, what do you think?"

After I finished giving the order, I remembered that he still had a military officer to consult and fill in the gaps.

Wang Fuqian sighed: "The handsome man is resolute and resolute, very decisive, and he is extremely admirable. ”

Wang Fuqian was a little afraid to put forward his opinions, to be honest, he was stunned just now, few people would be as desperate as Zhou Lang in the face of emergencies, and act quickly almost without thinking.

This is the character that Zhou Lang has cultivated in the modern business war, the rapid development of modern society, so that decision-makers must be improvised, seize the fleeting opportunity, so sometimes Zhou Lang will react extremely keenly in the face of market changes, habit.

This is also used to leading the team, and he has always made his own decisions, so after the incident, he didn't even think about discussing it with others. Of course, there are also teams that meet and discuss in the face of market changes, but this kind of team is generally a mature large company, not the kind of founding team that Zhou Lang brings.

The difference is that in the past, the number of people with a team rarely exceeded 100 people, but now it is a few thousand, Zhou Lang still made a decision, and afterwards he felt that he was not a little cautious.

Seeing that Wang Fuqian wanted to speak and stopped, Zhou Lang asked, "What are your military opinions?" ”

Only then did Wang Fuqian say: "The subordinates are reckless, and the subordinates think that it may not be a blessing for Zhao Shen to block the enemy's retreat." ”

Zhou Lang was puzzled: "How can you see it?" ”

Wang Fuqian said: "If the retreat is cut off, the enemy will fall to death, and he will resist stubbornly." The art of war has clouds, and there are three and one! ”

Zhou Lang nodded: "The truth is this, but I just want to annihilate the Qing army!" ”

Wang Fuqian said: "Kill the enemy, it's not bad." But it should be routed first, and then pursued, in order to get twice the result with half the effort! ”

Zhou Lang felt that what Wang Fuqian said was so reasonable, Chinese literati are smart, but suddenly a question flashed in Zhou Lang's mind, why the literati of the Qing Dynasty were so smart, or the ancients were full of tricks, but in modern times, they just couldn't defeat the great powers, and those strategies didn't seem to work.

The literati are not too fond of strategy, ignoring a fundamental problem, war is flesh and blood, of course, the strategy based on strength can indeed play a greater role, but the fundamental is still hard work, the literati attach importance to strategy, but despise the courage of the horseman, which may be the reason why the military in the late Chinese dynasty is often backward at the ideological level.

"I still have to fight in a stupid battle!"

Zhou Lang couldn't help but think of Zeng Guofan's proverbs, and felt that Zeng Guofan, a literati, really touched the true wisdom.

But he couldn't dampen Wang Fuqian's enthusiasm, and Zhou Lang still blamed himself: "It's Ben Shuai who is not thoughtful." ”

Wang Fuqian hurriedly said: "The big handsome don't have to blame himself, his subordinates are just the axe of the class, and the big handsome is the old man." Although it is said that chasing the dead at the end of the rank is twice the result with half the effort, but our army has no horsemen, I am afraid that we will not be able to achieve all the results. ”

This is Wang Fuqian to make up for Zhou Lang, the Qing army is not all cavalry, if you can kill all the enemy infantry, it is equivalent to total annihilation, Zhou Lang is not so harsh.

"Does the military advisor think that the Qing army will escape?"

Zhou Lang cares about the results.

Wang Fuqian shook his head: "I'm afraid I can't escape." The marshal's order to prohibit it is too fast, and I am afraid that it will be too late. ”

Sure enough, the Qing army was blocked.

Zhao Wen's crossing of the river is really a forced crossing, the soldiers are holding bamboo poles to swim over, bamboo poles are old bamboo brought with the army for camping, the number is large, one person and one bamboo pole, Taiwan soldiers can swim more, a few can't, mutual support is also over.

As for the fishing boats that smuggled down Tamsui Creek before, because the mouth of Donggang Creek was under the nose of Donggang, the fort could be covered, and Zhou Lang could not come from the sea, so his current location is located one mile north of the mouth of the sea, and it is also one mile away from Donggang.

In fact, the Qing army felt that he was unlucky.

They have stayed well in Donggang, and they have given up the attack on Dagu Port, and the other party will still come to the door.

Don't talk about it, don't mention the strong ships and cannons in front, and even gamble on the back road ruthlessly, and use this desperate plan to not be afraid of retribution.

The Qing army did find out in advance, and the horses were not sent to investigate, they never thought that the pirates would attack from both sides, and they sent those horsemen to ask for help, the pirates' naval guns were too fierce, and they were worried that they would not be able to hold on. Accidentally found that the opponent's army had appeared behind him, and Tanma immediately went back to report.

After receiving the return of the horse exploration, Li Nanxin had plans to retreat, after all, the sea was blocked, the back road was blocked, and the situation was unfavorable. But he didn't expect the other party to be so decisive, so he sent someone to investigate again, trying to find out the deployment of the opponent's troops, and reported that the thieves had crossed the river.

This is equivalent to completely blocking his back road.

Li Nanxin is a military attache in Zhengyin, born as a martial artist in the 36th year of Qianlong, and is 60 years old this year. Even if he doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it, when he reaches his age, he will have quite a feeling, not to mention that he was born in the Zhengyin Martial Arts Examination, and he likes to read very much. He reads to the depths and has his own opinions. He has written three essays, "On the Heart of the General", "On the Salt Administration of Fujian Province", and "On Taiwan".

Seeing the enemy's actions, he also felt a little headache, and the other party was too stunned!

The veteran Li Nanxin immediately knew where the real threat was, and he immediately transferred troops out of Donggang to attack north, and he had to open up a way to retreat. After all, it is too dangerous to die and live later, his age is more willing to seek stability, more willing to fight a dignified battle, and it is the routine of young people to take risks to win.

Li Nanxin was also very decisive, and as a result, Zhao Wen encountered a hard battle.

Zhao Wen crossed the river with bamboo poles, although some measures were taken before, but most of the gunpowder was soaked in water, and his men were all infantry, and the weapon was a rifle, and without gunpowder, the power was reduced by half.

Fortunately, Zhao Wen was a cautious and steady person, and after he landed on the shore, he immediately ordered the soldiers to set up obstacles first, and built three bamboo walls on both sides of the official road near the river embankment with sharpened bamboo. The bamboo wall is connected to the river embankment on one side and the local rice paddies on the other, which is equivalent to completely cutting off traffic.

Then he asked the soldiers to dry the gunpowder behind the bamboo wall, thinking that the enemy would not come so quickly, who knew that as soon as the bamboo wall was erected, the opponent's army would arrive, and the army was neat, which was a little different from the Qing army encountered before.

Zhao Wen can only let people prepare for war immediately, the bamboo wall provides good protection, but the bamboo wall is actually not high, and people can stand behind and shoot.

However, due to the fact that only half of the rifles were fired, the firepower was greatly affected, and the accuracy of the smoothbore guns was really not flattering, and as a result, the enemy actually attacked.

More than 100 people on the other side, divided into five teams, holding round shields, rushed quickly, rushed up and did not fight, but wrapped oilcloth around the bamboo wall, threw down a dozen people, but also burned the first bamboo wall.

Zhao Wen ordered the soldiers to retreat to the second bamboo wall, and the other party did the same and burned the second bamboo wall. After forcing Zhao Wen back to the third bamboo wall, this was the last bamboo wall, but Zhao Wen didn't know what to do. When he was in the left camp, he blocked the landing of the Qing army, set up trenches and other obstacles, and the Qing army gave up after a slight attack, but this Qing army was stubborn, so he had no idea for a while.

But he was very sure that the third bamboo wall must not be abandoned, and the other party could not stop it at all. But his subordinates can't retreat, they must carry it to the death, once the other party crosses the bamboo wall, head-to-head, and the gunpowder is soaked in water, it is very unfavorable to Zhao Wen.

The Qing soldiers burned the last bamboo wall, and Zhao Wen led people to continue to hold out behind the blackened, even fiery bamboo wall. The Qing army attacked with bows and arrows at the other end, with a particular emphasis on the bamboo walls on the official roads. Seeing that the gap was about to be opened, Zhao Wen saw that the first-line soldiers couldn't hold on, so he immediately supplemented the second-line soldiers, and the second-line soldiers put on bayonets, just to fight hard.

But at this time, the bamboo wall in the center was not only burned by the Qing army, but also demolished by the infantry, revealing a gap of more than one zhang, and no one expected that the Qing army would send a team of horsemen to rush in from here. Zhao Wen's second-line soldiers held bayonets and struck this cavalry of more than 20 people, suffered heavy casualties at once, and were killed by the cavalry with the help of impact.

Zhao Wen saw the situation at the back, and his heart was ruthless, so he took a hundred people to kill them with bayonets, and the target was the horse soldiers, the purpose was to plug the gap.