Gaomin Temple is located at the mouth of the Sanchai River at the confluence of the canal and the Yiyang River in the southern suburbs of Yangzhou, and is known as the four jungles of Zen Buddhism together with Zhenjiang Jinshan Temple, Changzhou Tianning Temple and Ningbo Tiantong Temple. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Legend has it that this temple was founded in the Sui Dynasty, repeatedly abandoned, and several changes its name, Hongguang first year Qingrui Prince Duoduo led the troops to cross the river in the south, once this temple was secluded as the king's tent. In the eighth year of Shunzhi, Wu Weihua, the governor of the two rivers, prepared to build a seven-level floating slaughter on the bank of the Sanxia River to alleviate the flood, and was called "Tianzhong Tower". This Tianzhong Tower is also the tallest building within a radius of dozens of miles, standing on the top of the tower, the Huaiyang land is unobstructed, and the canal scenery is also in full view.

Two days ago, Zhou Shixiang moved to Gaomin Temple, and he had already taken a fancy to the towers in the temple. The monks in the temple were driven away, the wings in the temple were all occupied by the staff officers of the military department, and the lookout soldiers with clairvoyant mirrors were also deployed on the top of the tower early. Of course, no matter how far you can see from this tower, there are always limitations, so the tanma is still sent out in teams as before, otherwise there will definitely be a place to catch the blind.

"Where's the handsome!"

"On the tower!"

Guo Xiong, an officer of the military department, hurried to the top of the tower with an urgent report just delivered by Xinyi Town on the right wing. The new town is the king of the horse harriers. Although the auxiliary minister's troops have a new prefix, their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the old four towns, and the most important thing is that the new town also has a cavalry of 800 people. After the battle of Guazhou, the cavalry of the original towns were transferred to the command of the military department, and they were also the reserves left by Zhou Shixiang for the decisive battle, but the cavalry of the new town was not transferred, and the reason for this was naturally Wang. The auxiliary minister has superb cavalry skills, so leaving him a few hundred cavalry will definitely make Xinyi Town stronger and make the right flank stronger.

King. The new town of Fuchen is now assembled in Wuzhuang and Chentao, twelve miles southeast of Gaomin Temple. The task of the new town is to ensure that the canal waterway is not cut off, and to serve as two sharp knives with Yu Shizhong's fifth town on both wings to ensure and relieve the pressure of the Chinese army.

King. The assistant minister reported that his vanguard had come into contact with the Qing army's Tanma, and the two sides had several battles, each with a victory or defeat. Compared with the previous two days, the Qing army's horse exploration activities today are frequent and numerous. The assistant minister estimated that it is very likely that the Qing army in Sanwan will be dispatched in a big way today and ask the military department to deal with it.

Zhou Shixiang walked down the tower with his hands in his hands, and said Guo Xiong said: "Gongjian Se and Wuerte also said that Fulin urged Ao Bai to fight a decisive battle as soon as possible, and now that the wind and rain have stopped, more than 30,000 Mongolian soldiers have also rushed to Sanwan, I am afraid that today is really the time for a decisive battle." If I wait any longer, I'm afraid Fu Lin won't be able to sit still, and I guess he is still anxious to go back to Beijing to see his concubine Dong E. ”

"Dashuai, can those Manchurians be trusted?"

Guo Xiong doubted whether the Manchurians who Zhou Shixiang had bought with heavy money and high-ranking officials would be moved as promised, or he had reservations, because he always felt that Manchurians like Suna were desperate Taiping troops who surrendered after being captured, while those Manchurian officers agreed to surrender as soon as they were bought, which gave people the feeling of unreliability.

"Whether it's a real surrender or a fake surrender, you won't know if you fight." Zhou Shixiang smiled, "You still need to be hard to strike iron, and you don't want to put your hopes on those Manchurians who are against the water, they promised to agree, but after the war, we will always wait and see, what we have to do is to kill the last batch first, so that they will know that it is very wise to vote for us." ”

"The big marshal is right, you have to be hard to strike iron..."

Guo Xiong briefly said the information sent by the Fifth Town, and Zhou Shixiang listened while giving instructions, and quickly walked out of the tower. At this moment, the banner of King Qi planted above the top of the tower can be seen very clearly by the Qing army in the distance. The wind and rain stopped, but there seemed to be a smell of commotion in the air.

In the camp of the Qing army in Sanwan, a team of military horses galloped out of the camp under the leadership of generals at all levels. On the side of the Taiping Army of Gaomin Temple, the same team of military horses galloped back and forth. Within a radius of dozens of miles, there were scouts sent by the two armies everywhere, and from time to time I saw smoke rising from the cooking smoke.

Qianhu Namutu took the cavalry of his headquarters as the eyes and ears of the whole army, and he had already fought several battles with the sentinels of the Qing army. The Qing army sent more horses than the Taiping army, and in several major locations, the Taiping army's horses could not be approached at all, so they could only observe from a distance and return. In some places, the Qing army made it impossible for the Taiping army to look at them from a distance, and once they found that the Taiping army was approaching, the Qing army would send cavalry to pursue them. Now there is a group of Qing cavalry of no less than 100 people behind Namutu who is biting him. At the same time, in the northeast, another group of Qing cavalry was rushing here, looking at the flag, it seemed to be a blue flag of the Mengba Banner to explore the horse, the number of about thirty or forty people.

After being chased by the Qing cavalry for a while, Namutu suddenly stopped beating his horse, and the Qing troops who were chasing them were all shocked when they saw this, and they all looked around. Sure enough, in the line of sight, there was a group of Taiping cavalry galloping towards him. The Taiping cavalry had hundreds of horses, led by a general with a yellow horse and a white robe.

As soon as Ma Harrier led his troops to arrive, he reined in his horse and accelerated, wanting to step forward and fight with the Qing cavalry. The cavalry behind him were Manchurians, Mongols, and Han Chinese, and they were all high-spirited. It is said that the soldier is bearish, and there will be a nest of bears, and the king of the horse harrier. The main general of the auxiliary minister is so capable of fighting that the soldiers who followed him also looked at the sky one by one, and there was no one in their eyes. Even if many of them were the former Qing army, but now in their eyes, they are the eldest in the sky, the second in the earth, and the third in the earth.

The Qing army already knew that the Taiping army had cavalry, and knew that the cavalry of the Taiping army had many Mongolian soldiers, and even Manchu soldiers. But because he didn't know the specific names of these people, after Shunzhi heard about it, he wanted to punish the Manchu soldiers who surrendered to the thieves, and he didn't know who to catch. He can't arrest all the families of the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers who went south and punish them as slaves.

Pursuing Namutu was a team of Manchurian Zhenghuang Banner cavalry, led by Zuo Ling Gekun. Coming from the northeast was the Mongolian blue flag, and the leader of the team was Sandai of the Zoling Sea. When they found that a large force of cavalry from the Taiping army had appeared, they did not retreat in fright, but joined forces in one place and put on a battle formation.

As soon as he saw that the Qing army did not run, but wanted to fight, Wang. The auxiliary minister was overjoyed, he was not afraid of anything else, he was afraid that these Qing soldiers would run away. If there were thousands of Manchurian cavalry, no matter how bold the horse harrier was, he would always be weak, but with less than 200 people, he would not come forward and swallow them, and he would be called a horse harrier in vain.

King. The auxiliary ministers led their troops to rush, Ge Kun and Hai Sandai could not stop it, and the two hundred Manchu and Mongolian cavalry were immediately killed and scattered, and Hai Sandai was also trampled to death by the Taiping army's war horse. Ge Kun led the remnants of the army out of contact with the Taiping army, but he still did not run. King. The assistant minister felt strange, leaned over from his horse, and found that several groups of Qing cavalry were coming here to fight horses. There are also many flags, there are two yellow, and there are also two red, and the number of people is roughly estimated to be thousands.

When reinforcements arrived, Gekun finally breathed a sigh of relief. The Manchu and Mongolian cavalry who arrived saw that the Taiping army was only a few hundred people, and several generals immediately shouted and commanded their subordinates to rush forward, wanting to surround and kill this group of Taiping cavalry.

King. Fuchen frowned slightly, he thought about it, and quickly put the soldiers together, no matter whether there were more cavalry in the Qing army, he would lead his troops to rush and kill them a few times first, so that their morale would be hit. More than 700 cavalry of the Taiping Army lined up in front of the arrows to attack the formation. Under the leadership of the auxiliary minister, he once again waved his sword and shouted forward, like a sharp arrow chiseled through the Qing army column, and then swept to the two wings, and in a short time, the Qing army was more than 100 horses and fell horses, and the casualties of the Taiping army were only more than 20 people. King. There are few opponents under the spear of the auxiliary minister, and the soldiers under his command are also killing under his encouragement, and the Inner Mongolian soldiers who participated in the war for the first time couldn't help but scold one by one, not that the southern barbarians have no cavalry, or they are so weak, how can they be so powerful!

"Back off, back off!"

Seeing that the Ming generals were too powerful, the Ming soldiers were also fierce, and his own casualties were not small, he ordered to retreat, and waited for the large number of soldiers to arrive to reunite and annihilate this difficult Ming army. Seeing the retreat of the Qing army, Wang. Where are the auxiliary ministers willing to let go of this rare opportunity, and they are busy beating horses and leading their troops to rush forward.

If both sides are infantry battles, even if one side is lower in combat effectiveness than the other, as long as the generals in command have enough courage and strict military discipline, and the soldiers can be restrained, then they can always hold on to the enemy for a while, and finally they will be defeated if they can't restrain the soldiers. And the casualties of being pursued and killed by the enemy soldiers in the rout are the biggest casualties in a battle. The cavalry duel is different, not only to see the ability of the horse, but also to see the cooperation of the queue, once the enemy is scattered, it is difficult to be together again. And the scattered cavalry, no matter how brave they are, will only fight on their own, and they are destined to be slaughtered by the enemy who rushed to kill the group.

The Manchu soldiers were defeated by the king as they retreated. The auxiliary ministers led people to intercept hundreds of people, and after a slash, hundreds of corpses came out of the muddy ground. King. The auxiliary minister was triumphant, and wanted to chase again and expand the results of the battle, but there was a horn in his ears, he reined in his horse and stood still, watched from a distance, and found that the Qing cavalry was rushing towards this time. Behind them, there were also infantry with no end in sight.

"It's the Tartar brigade, withdraw!"

King. Seeing that the main force of the Qing army was killed, the auxiliary ministers turned around and ran away without saying a word. It is true that he is brave and courageous, but he is not bold enough to lead hundreds of people to attack the Qing army brigade with tens of thousands of paces. To do that is not to be brave, but to be stupid.

"Report, Xinyi Town was attacked by the Qing army!"

"Report, the fifth town has been attacked by the Qing army!"

"Report, the first town was attacked by the Qing army!"

“.....”

In less than half an hour, an urgent report arrived at the head of Zhou Shixiang's case, he took people up to the Tianzhong Tower, took the clairvoyant mirror to look at the defense line of the first town in the north direction, and found that thousands of Qing infantry rushed to the defense line of the first town like a tide.

"The war has begun, the towns have been ordered, the general banner is dead, the hundred households are dead, the thousand households are dead, the command is dead, all are dead, I am on!" (To be continued.) )