(Thank you Lingyuxuan, anxious and righteous Zhang Bashan, melancholy de romantic, and like water flowing four big rewards!) Thank you very much! ）

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It turned out that the Qing army that ambushed Chen Tianshi was the right battalion of Nanshaolian Town, so to speak, the three battalions directly under Nanshaolian Town stationed in Shaozhou Mansion City were really the same as Mr. Zuo said, with a total of 3,000 people. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info lost the right battalion, so now there are only about 2,000 people in the remaining second battalion in Shaozhou Fucheng, plus the flood defense soldiers who have little combat power, at most there are only more than 3,000 people.

In this case, it is really difficult to lure out the Qing Demon in the city, who said that the holy army he brought this time was nearly 20,000 people, and the momentum was too huge. Luo Xuan secretly calculated in his heart.

"General, the officers and men fled in a hurry, and they only brought some money with them, and there were many stored weapons and food, which they had not had time to move. The villain just knew, so he took the military masters to get it, how about it? Qin Xinhui leaned over and said.

"Master Qin understands the righteousness, and the Holy Army appreciates it very much! This inspection point will thank Master Qin for the Holy Army. Luo Xuan turned his head to Lu Shunde and said, "You take some people to follow Master Zhang, and fill all the things left by the Qing Demon into the Holy Treasury." ”

After speaking, he said to the sturdy Zhang Bashan: "Leader Zhang, I won't tell you that Luo Mou was also the leader of the Heaven and Earth Society, but he has been messing around in Guangzhou Mansion and Wuzhou Mansion. Now that he is the left checkpoint of the Taiping Holy Army Palace, his words are a bit weighty, I don't know if Leader Zhang is interested in joining my Holy Army? ”

"I can't ask for it! Subordinates, see the inspector! Zhang Bashan was overjoyed. He was just here to look for an opportunity, to see if he could lead a group of brothers around him to join the Holy Army and achieve great things.

Luo Xuan couldn't see his careful thoughts, so he invited directly. Of course, the most important thing is that he also wants to contact the congregations of heaven and earth in Shaozhou Mansion and even Guangzhou Mansion, Huizhou Mansion, Zhaoqing Mansion, Fogang Hall and other places through this pull-out.

As early as the night before his departure, the Holy King came to him to discuss in detail about the march into Liangguang. The Holy King once said that there were many brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society in Shaozhou, Guangzhou, Zhaoqing and other state capitals, but their forces were scattered, and if Luo Xuan came forward and united the Heaven and Earth Congregations in the entire Guangdong area as the leader of the old department of the Heaven and Earth Society, it would be extremely helpful to conquer all parts of Guangdong.

Luo Xuan has always believed in the words of the Holy King. Of course, he would not have thought that the reason why Feng Yunshan was so sure was because he knew from later history that the Tiandihui in Guangdong had a great uprising, and Chen Kai, Li Wenmao, Kuang Neng monk, Liang Peiyou and others led hundreds of thousands of self-proclaimed "Hong soldiers" to occupy more than 30 Fuzhou counties throughout Guangdong, and finally besieged Guangzhou for more than half a year, almost capturing the city of Guangzhou.

Thinking of the names of those leaders of the Heaven and Earth Society mentioned by the Holy King, his heart lit up. Originally, he proposed to the Holy King that he personally go to Guangzhou Mansion to contact those leaders of the Heaven and Earth Society to raise troops to revolt, but was stopped by the Holy King. The Holy King said that he had arranged for He Lu, the superintendent of the Holy Fifth Army, to lead a group of Holy Army brothers to Guangdong, launch uprisings of the Heaven and Earth Congregations in various places, and cooperate with Luo Xuan to conquer all parts of Guangdong.

Luo Xuan knew that the Holy King was worried that it would be dangerous for him to go to the hinterland of the Qing Demon, and he was the chief general of the Eastern Route Army this time, so it was indeed not suitable to leave the army, so he did not go. Although the Holy King had already made arrangements, he didn't know anything about it, so he couldn't help but feel apprehensive.

Now, there happened to be Zhang Bashan, the leader of Lechang's Heaven and Earth Association, who came to take refuge, and he wanted this Zhang Bashan to help him find out the news. After leaving Guangdong for many years, Luo Outline is no longer so clear about the distribution of the Tiandihui Party forces near Guangzhou Mansion, let Zhang Bashan lead the way, and then send Lu Shunde and other old brothers of the Tiandihui who originally followed him to Sanshui County, Dongguan County and other places, on the one hand, at the same time, through some gang channels of Zhang Bashan, to obtain some intelligence information about the Qing Demon.

When I asked, I was pleasantly surprised to find that this Zhang Bashan turned out to be a person from Sanshui County, Guangzhou Prefecture, because he was framed by traitors a few years ago and was pursued by the government, so he fled north to Shaozhou, and settled down, surrounded a group of congregants, and slowly developed. This time, he defected to the Taiping Holy Army, also for the purpose of returning to his hometown to take revenge with the strength of the Holy Army. It's just that he has been in Shaozhou all these years, and he is not very familiar with the congregations in Sanshui County and Guangzhou Prefecture, but he has a group of small people who are still active in the Tiandi Hall in Sanshui, presumably, through these people, he can contact the local leaders of the Hui Party.

At the moment, Luo Outline appointed Zhang Bashan as the brigade commander, selected more than ten brothers from his subordinates, and placed them under the command of Lu Shunde, Lu Shunde and dozens of other Cantonese holy army soldiers scattered and set off, sneaking to the vicinity of Guangzhou Mansion to find out the news and plot anti-Qing forces.

The army rested in Lechang for a day, recruited more than 1,000 people to join the holy army, and left 200 holy troops and 300 paiwei to garrison Lechang City, and then continued to march.

Fortunately, after the Wujiang River, Lechang is all the way flat, the river is slow and stays, and the river is a lot deeper, but you can sail.

Zuo Zongtang organized 5,000 paiwei, and some people in Lechang City, to carry all kinds of baggage onto more than 20 wooden boats collected, and bundled all kinds of bamboo rows together to form simple bamboo tube boats. Luo Xuan continued to send Chen Tianshi to lead more than 1,000 holy armies, along both sides of the Wu River, as a vanguard, to take the lead in setting off, all the way to reconnoiter and clear obstacles.

The army then went down the Wujiang River and marched towards the capital of Shaozhou.

In order to show the enemy's weakness and attract other states and counties to come to the rescue of Shaozhou, Luo Xuan discussed with Zuo Zongtang and sent troops separately on the way. Chen Yucheng led 4,000 soldiers of the Fourth Saint Army to disembark on the way and attack Ruyuan County in the west. And Luo Xuan also personally led the elite of the 6,000 holy army, secretly disembarked on the way, turned eastward, and ambushed in the mountains and forests between the Wujiang River and the Zhenjiang River by land.

Then, at Zuo Zongtang's suggestion, the army deliberately marched a little slower, and they were in place with Luo Xuan.

On the way, Zuo Zongtang ordered 5,000 pai tails to make more than 1,000 wooden frames, a batch of weeds, wrapped in some military uniforms, shaped like a Taiping holy soldier, and put them on the boat. The soldiers of the Holy Army who followed him asked about its role, but Zuo Zongtang smiled incomprehensibly and said nothing.

Lechang to Shaozhou City, only more than 100 miles, and down the river, but it was also a full third day to reach the art continent of 20 miles upstream of Shaozhou City.

Yizhou is an island island formed by the impact of sediment in the middle of the Wujiang River. It is about 20 miles away from the Fucheng waterway, and only 15 miles by land, and the middle is the deep mountains and old forests.

The army stopped moving. It turned out that Chen Tianshi on the shore sent someone to report that at the corner of the Yizhou River section, a large number of footprints and traces of wooden stake debris were found, and it was suspected that the Qing Demon had done something in this section of the river.

Zuo Zongtang was not only not worried when he heard this, but was overjoyed, and said: "This Qing army finally has someone who knows the soldiers, otherwise it is all a bucket of rice and a bucket, blindly timid and stubborn, Zuo doesn't know what to do!" ”

He ordered all the holy soldiers and Paiwei to disembark, and carried all the supplies on the bamboo raft to the east bank, and then had people deliberately break the rope that tied the boat, and the boat and the bamboo raft carrying the wooden fake soldiers rushed downstream. Sure enough, at the corner of the Yizhou River section, the bottom of the boat was broken and leaked by a hidden pile buried in the water, and several boats rolled over half-diagonally, sinking into the water with fake soldiers, and floating downstream with their military uniforms wrapped in wood. Bamboo rafts are blocked from the water because they are submerged in the water.

Then, Zuo Zongtang asked the saints to throw some old military uniforms into the river, and he and Chen Tianshi led the saints and the tails of the cards to hide and rest.