Thirty miles north of Lianzhou City, Mabuwei, a team with a tired face passed by, in a hurry, all wrapped in red scarves, dressed in blue uniform uniforms, and looked high-spirited. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but it was the vanguard of the Holy Second Army that set out from Linwu and attacked Lianzhou.

Tan Shaoguang is now the commander of the Holy Second Army, but because Lin Fengxiang is the main general, he can only lead the vanguard of the Holy Second Army, as the vanguard force, and take the lead in attacking Lianzhou.

"Lord Marshal, thirty miles ahead is Lianzhou City. At the current pace of marching, we will be there before dark today. A brigade commander said to Tan Shaoguang.

"Let the brothers slow down, just seven or eight miles away from Lianzhou City before dark, then everyone will have a good rest in the first half of the night, and start attacking the city in the second half of the night." Tan Shaoguang commanded.

As soon as the brigade commander wanted to give the order, the three detectives rode up and hurried over, saying, "Urgent report, Lord Marshal, Lianzhou City was destroyed by a group of heaven and earth congregations last night. There is a person who claims to be Chen Yihe, the commander of the Holy Fourth Army, who said that he has something to report and asks to see the marshal! ”

"What? Lianzhou has been captured? Take me to meet Master Chen and see what's going on. Tan Shaoguang exclaimed.

"I've seen the marshal!" A stout man saluted Tan Shaoguang, it was Chen Yihe, who was about to rush back to Linwu from Lianzhou to report the good news.

After seeing the official photo presented by Chen Yihe, Tan Shaoguang was sure that he was a brother of the Holy Army, and his originally tense face also relaxed, and asked, "Brother, what's going on?" Tell the little brother about it. ”

Chen Yihe told him about the fact that he was ordered to find Yin Shangying, the leader of the Jiahe Heaven and Earth Society, and later followed Yin Shangying and others to attack and capture Lianzhou City in the middle of the night, and said: "Lord Marshal, the military discipline of the people of the Heaven and Earth Society is sloppy, the Qing Demon forces are insufficient, and they have no combat power, and the garrison is lax, which is a great opportunity for our Holy Army to expand its power." Please also lead the troops out quickly. ”

"Brother, don't worry, the younger brother knows how to do it! Brother has worked hard all the way, so let's rest first. Tan Shaoguang said with a smile.

"Order, let the brothers speed up their march a little faster, and rest in Lianzhou City tonight. Tomorrow we will go to capture Yangshan. ”

Tan Shaoguang shook off his legs and strode forward.

The brigade commander looked at the young marshal with admiration, he didn't ride a horse, and he would rather work hard to be with the soldiers, which was really rare. Although Tan Shaoguang is young, he must take the lead in every battle, be unstoppable, treat his brothers in the army like relatives, be strict with himself, and be deeply loved by the soldiers.

In the evening, under the leadership of Chen Yihe, the two thousand soldiers of the Second Holy Army made peace with the congregation of heaven and earth who went out of the city to greet them.

"Brother Tan is really young and promising." Yin Shangying smiled on his face, but he was quite disappointed in his heart, the person who led the troops of the Taiping Holy Army was so young, he didn't know what his combat strength was, and he only cared about greeting him, and he didn't see the situation clearly.

Tan Shaoguang also said with a smile: "Tou Yin has received the award!" Now that you and I are both members of the Holy Army, we are a family, so there is no need to boast. I wonder if there are people under Leader Yin who are familiar with the nearby terrain? ”

"The closest to Lianzhou is Yangshan County, could it be that Brother Tan wants to take Yangshan?" Yin Shangying looked surprised, could it be that he underestimated this young man, he had just arrived in Lianzhou City, and he was not ready to rest, so he wanted to capture Yangshan. "There are some local brothers in Lianzhou, and they also know the Heaven and Earth Congregations in the vicinity, so they must be familiar with the situation and can help."

"Well, there's Leader Lao Yin!" Tan Shaoguang is just looking for someone who is familiar with the terrain, the forward of the two thousand holy second army he leads, there are 1,500 equipped with the best bird guns, sufficient ammunition, and some cupola cannons are carried with the army, a small county town, he doesn't care about it.

After the battle in Chenzhou, he successively conquered Lanshan, Linwu, Yizhang and other places, and his 2,000 soldiers have grown into veterans of bloody wars, and he has also become a leading general with rich combat experience. Moreover, he gradually figured out the characteristics of the Manchu garrison.

Generally speaking, in remote small states and counties like southern Hunan and Guangxi, the Manchu Qing Dynasty only stationed one or two battalions, and even if it was a larger state capital, there were only 1,000 green battalions. The dispersion of troops was the most fatal problem in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and although Tan Shaoguang was young, he also saw it. It is no secret that the military discipline of the Green Battalion is corrupt and their combat effectiveness is low. To deal with such an army, with his 2,000 bloody division, and the firearms and equipment are quite sharp, even if he has twice the number of enemies, Tan Shaoguang is confident that he can defeat them.

"Lord Marshal, this brother is a native of Lianzhou. According to him, the river outside the city of Lianzhou is called Lianjiang. Although the water flow in this Lianjiang River is turbulent, it can be carried by bamboo rafts, and it can go down the river to Yangshan City, and finally flow into the Beijiang River to Guangzhou. A small leader of the Heaven and Earth Society suggested.

That's great! Tan Shaoguang was overjoyed, he was worried about the difficulty of marching, the most physical consumption, if he could take a bamboo raft down the river, not only the speed was fast, but also could save physical strength, and he would go all out to attack the city. However, in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, he still let the sentry scout ride his horse and reconnoiter all the way along the Lianjiang River. And he entrusted the brothers of the Tiandihui to collect and make bamboo rows overnight, and prepared to take 2,000 soldiers to Yangshan early the next morning.

Early the next morning, on the surface of the Lianjiang River outside Lianzhou City, hundreds of bamboo rows had been laid out. Tan Shaoguang, under the leadership of Yin Shangying, jumped on the bamboo row, and after only a slight shake, it was as stable as the ground.

Yin Shangying led a thousand brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society to follow Tan Shaoguang's two thousand Saint Army soldiers to attack Yangshan together.

Going down the Lianjiang River, the bamboo row is very fast, all the way under the leadership of the sentinel and the local Tiandihui brothers, it arrived outside Yangshan City the next morning.

Yin Shangying looked at the Yangshan city wall and said, "Brother Tan, I heard from the brothers in Lianzhou that Yangshan is not far from the provincial capital, and the Qing Demon has a heavy army of the Yangshan Association here, and there are about 1,000 Qing soldiers in the left and right battalions. It's unwise to storm the city, why don't you let my brothers and others sneak into the city, contact the brothers in the city as an internal response, and wait until it gets dark tonight to attack the city? ”

Tan Shaoguang smiled: "What Leader Yin said is very reasonable. However, although my 2,000 soldiers have repeatedly attacked the county seat, they have all attacked at night, and have never attacked the city during the day. This time, he attacked the city during the day, one broke through Yangshan early, and the other took it as a way to train troops, and he was used to attacking the city during the day. ”

Yin Shangying couldn't help but be slightly angry, so he stopped persuading him.

Secretly, this Marshal Tan is still too young to support him, and the Holy Army sends such a person to general, isn't it that he doesn't know people? If there is no internal response, do you think that the city of this government is so easy to conquer? When you hit your head and bleed, I will help you to look like I am too villainous, or not, I will let my brothers sneak into the city first, and contact the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society in the city as internal responses to make preparations.

Tan Shaoguang ordered the Holy Second Army to unfurl the banner, disperse the formation, and launch the siege in a bright and bright manner, and did not let Yin Shangying and others attack the city, only let him lead the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society to beat drums and shout and cheer on the side.

Yin Shangying put back the card knife that had been pulled out, and he was even more angry. Could it be that you look down on the ability of your brothers? So obsessed, I want to see how you attack the city.

The Qing Demon at the head of Yangshan City set up cannons, and the Taiping Holy Army surrounded by the city fired two cannons, and several Holy Army soldiers were killed and wounded, but the rest of the Holy Army were not affected at all, scattered in formation, and continued to rush towards the city wall.

Approaching, less than half of the Qing soldiers on the head of the city are equipped with shotguns, these more than 100 shotguns are loosely scattered, seeing the Taiping Holy Army charging, regardless of the distance, they slammed the ground and opened fire, but no one was injured, the Qing Army's shotgun shooting distance was only more than 100 steps, how could it hurt the Holy Army more than 200 steps away?

Hurriedly refilled the gunpowder, and when he wanted to show his head again, he saw that the thousands of bird gunners of the Taiping Holy Army under the city had squatted on the ground, posing and aiming at the city. As soon as dozens of Qing soldiers showed their heads, there was a deafening gunshot, and they were shot and fell to the ground, frightening the rest of the Qing soldiers to crawl on the ground with their heads bowed and tremble.

Yin Shangying and the congregation of heaven and earth beating drums looked straight. It turns out that the battle can still be fought like this, and the firearms are so sharp! I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, fortunately, this holy army was not an enemy!

The Qing troops at the head of the city over there could not stand up, and they had not been trained to shoot from the shooting holes, and they lost their courage, so they just crawled on the ground and waited for the gunfire of the enemy troops below the city to stop. Unexpectedly, the gunfire lasted for half a pillar of incense. As soon as the gunfire stopped, when the Qing soldiers got up, they found that hundreds of Taiping holy soldiers had climbed up to the top of the city, wielding long knives in their hands, and slashing and killing.

Soon, the Qing army had no fighting spirit, and those who fled, and the only cowardly ones surrendered on their knees. In less than half an hour, Yangshan City was broken by two thousand holy troops.

Yoon Sang-young just thinks he's a joke! The rest of the Heaven and Earth Brothers were also in mixed moods. I thought that after breaking through Lianzhou City, I would give it to the Holy Army in vain, and I was unwilling to do it. But it turned out that this careful thinking was not worth mentioning at all in front of the powerful holy soldiers. It's no wonder that this young Tan military commander can look at no one in his eyes and attack the city directly without the help of his brothers. This is to have absolute confidence in one's own combat power.

I can't help but look forward to when I can have that sharp firearm and a strong combat power in a battle.