Chapter 184: The Eastern Crusade Begins

Dong Haichuan and others heard that Liu Mingchuan had divided 5,000 troops to defend the huge city of Beijing, and their energy consumption was extremely high, and the original 5,000 people could not be used together. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

First of all, Liu Mingchuan only left 1,000 people to guard the Forbidden City, and the garrison was set up in the barracks of the former personal guard camp outside the noon gate.

Yang Dongfang has not shown up for more than a month, and the Huai army has been nervous from the beginning, being vigilant night and night, arranging for people to lurk, to slowly numbness, so that his own people are too tired to play and wait for the rabbit, and even Liu Mingchuan is bored.

Even he could guess that if the new emperor didn't return to Beijing for a day, Yang Dongfang wouldn't bother to show up.

Yang Dongfang intended to avoid the Huai army without fighting, the deep meaning of this is still worth thinking about, and after hearing that Taiyuan was lost, Yang Dongfang appeared in Shanxi and Shandong, he showed an expression that was really so.

Secretly admired Yang Dongfang's good game, most of the Huai army was on the line of Beijing, so they had no energy to care about Shanxi, so the New People's Army took the opportunity to capture Shanxi, and also captured Tongguan, and the loss of contact in the northwest caused another heavy blow to the Qing Dynasty.

Yang Dongfang's purpose is to cut off the flesh of the Qing Dynasty piece by piece, and eat the huge Qing Dynasty in one bite, judging from the map, the New People's Army has occupied a piece of high ground and looks down on the east.

From the south to the north, a dive offensive could be launched in various places, which was extremely unfavorable to both the Qing and Hunan Hans, so the worried Liu Mingchuan began to suggest a counterattack to retake Shanxi.

Shanxi's threat to Zhili is too great, and the New People's Army must not be allowed to sit big in Shanxi, otherwise one day the New People's Army will rush out of Taihang Mountain, and then it will be troublesome, and the situation will be out of control at that time.

When Liu Mingchuan wanted to carry out a tentative counterattack on Shanxi, he didn't expect that Yang Dongfang would decisively knife him, and the pigs should be killed when they were fattened, and they did not appear in the Forbidden City for more than a month, Yang Dongfang judged that the Huai army would inevitably become lax.

Sure enough, when the New People's Army appeared in the Forbidden City, it was pitch black inside and outside the palace, and the Forbidden City has now become a ghost city.

Yixun didn't dare to go back to Beijing, let alone live in the Forbidden City, and the others didn't dare to live in the palace city, so the Huai army simply guarded the four gates, basically maintaining the order of the inner city and the outer city.

"Hey! Habit is a terrible weakness. ”

Liu Mingchuan did not arrange for people to be in the Forbidden City, the New People's Army quickly came to the noon gate, in order to avoid being discovered, Yang Dongfang did not go to open the palace gate, because in the dead of night, it would be exposed in advance, so the sacks were piled up in the corner of the wall, and the Forbidden City was turned out from the southwest wall by the Taiye Pool.

There is still a spark in the Huai army's garrison, which is very easy to find, and the artillery of the people-friendly army is aimed at the dark flat place in front of the palace road, and the firing range is adjusted.

"Action, Wan Lei will bypass me from the left, urge Yonghao to take Du Lei to me from the right to bypass to block the back road of the Huai army, as soon as I hear the sound of artillery, I will attack from the left and right, we must fight quickly, solve the battle in half an hour, and clean up the battlefield."

"It's handsome!"

With a simple arrangement, the night attack of the New People's Army began, and the two detachments quietly bypassed the left and right like nightingales.

"Fire!"

"Boom, boom!"

It was not the Forbidden City outside, and Yang Dongfang was not afraid of being damaged, so he blew up the barracks of the original guard battalion.

The power of the siege guns was quite powerful, and the old walls were pierced, and they were quickly blown up, revealing the originally square closed camp.

The shells continued to bombard, falling into the courtyard, setting off the tiles in all directions, the beams toppling, and the flames smelling of burning.

"Ahh What's going on! ”

Most of the Huai army was still asleep, how could they know that someone was bombarding them on such a cold day, and they were panicked for a while, and they were blown up and dodged in all directions, and the riflemen of the New People's Army took the opportunity to rush over and hit the Huai army.

The Huai army that reacted was only a few dozen people on duty, and their resistance was quickly repelled by the fierce New People's Army, and these Huai troops did not steadily earn the opportunity to distribute muskets and load the Huai troops in the battalion.

Ten minutes, only ten minutes after being beaten, the Huai army seemed to have left the southeast battlefield, and without any experience in fighting this kind of house resistance battle, the New People's Army rushed in from all sides to encircle and defeat them, and half of them surrendered to the ground.

"Good! It was a good fight. "Yang Dongfang is still very satisfied, of the thousand people he is bringing now, there are four or five hundred recruits recruited in Pingyin, and the new guard regiment of the group, I didn't expect such a result, I am very pleased.

"Quickly clean up the battlefield, collect weapons, and then give each of the brothers in the Huai army a silver tael, tell them that the Chinese do not fight the Chinese, and strive to let them all sing a song to listen."

Soon Liu Mingchuan led people over, but Yang Dongfang left again, leaving a mess, and the smoke of gunpowder was still in the air, and half of the 1,000-strong troops were killed and wounded, which made him lose face.

was slapped hard.

"Lord Junmen, this is the letter left by the new bandit Yang Dongfang."

Tang Dingkui, the surrender officer, handed over the letter left by Yang Dongfang, and Liu Mingchuan took it out and looked at it, and only one line was written in it: "I will lend you 600 rifles for a use, and you are welcome to continue stockpiling goods." ”

"Damn!" Liu Mingchuan crumpled the low strip into a ball and stomped it under his feet.

What kind of person do you think of me, as an armor, you can come when you want, you can leave when you want, fight once just to get 600 rifles, and be shameless, I have never seen such shamelessness.

There is a dignified fight, and he is also a big man who accounts for hundreds of thousands of troops in four or five provinces, how can he be such a scoundrel.

I can't fly!

Liu Mingchuan complained weakly, but then Yang Dongfang left him more trouble than this, only to see Tang Dingkui report again: "Junmen, the new bandits left a thousand taels of silver, he said that one or two for each of our officers and soldiers, which is considered the passage fee for prisoners, and also said that the Chinese do not fight the Chinese, the Han do not kill the Han, I hope you can change your evil and return to the right." ”

"Don't say it." Liu Mingchuan slapped the past/

"My lord, what should I do with this silver!" Liu Mingchuan's general Nie Shicheng asked.

Now Liu Mingchuan was entangled, and Yang Dongfang gave him a problem.

Yang Dongfang began the battle with the Huai army in the city of Beijing, and in the south, the New People's Army was also ready for the eastward expedition and began to attack the Hunan army.

Nanning! Crusade Command!

Tie 13 waited for the people in front of him: "The spring offensive of 1865 is now begins, and our first stage goal is to eat Liangguang and Hunan, push the battle line to the border between Meizhou and Chaozhou in Guangdong and the Heavenly Army in the southeast, Shaoguan in the east and central to Guangdong, Chenzhou in Hunan to control the Meiling Ancient Road, and Dongting Lake in the northeast, as for Yueyang, it will be in charge of the Eastern Expeditionary Army in the middle road. ”

"Yes!"

"Then go ahead with the plan! The Qiangui Eastern Advance Regiment attacked from Qinzhou to Hepu, aimed at Lianzhou Mansion, captured Lianzhou, and attacked Huazhou and Gaozhou. ”

The Qiangui Eastern Advance Regiment consisted of Tao Sanchun, who had followed Li Xiongxiong into Yunnan, and Huang Chongying, a subordinate of the former Yanling State who had defected to Baise (the Baise Hall had conquered two months earlier), and Huang Chongying, who had later formed the Yellow Banner Army in Vietnam.

"The Nanning Armed Security Brigade attacked Yulin (Yulin) from the direction of Lingshan, and then joined up with the Qiangui East Advance Regiment to attack Yangjiang Zhili Prefecture and Guangzhou from the coastal frontline."

"Yes!" Li Xiaozhu stood up and replied, when Yang Dongfang left, he stayed to manage all the security regiments in Nanning, and he obtained most of the captured French Minnie rifles, so basically everyone in a security regiment is equipped with muskets, so there is an armed security brigade.

"The Xunyu Water Division continued to advance along the Xun River to Pingnan, conquered Tengxian County, and waited for the order to attack Wuzhou! Attract the troops of Xi Baotian and Mao Hongbin, and serve as a good auxiliary for the early attack of my other men. ”

Liang Peiyou, the former king of Dacheng Guopingdong, who had just been appointed, stood up: "Yes"

Liang Peiyou was originally a sailor of Dachengguo, and it was because he had a water boat that he conquered Wuzhou, developed his own territory in Wuzhou, and confirmed the king of Pingdong, and there were many of his former subordinates in this area.

Now that he had the gunboats and merchant ships captured by the New People's Army from the French, he was more confident and prepared to conquer Wuzhou and take Guangzhou before the snow.

"The Guinan Independent Brigade stabilized Xunzhou, and was responsible for being the backing of the Xunyu Water Division, and clearing the puppet Qing army forces and militia groups on both sides of the Xunjiang River."

"Yes!" Li Wencai also stood up.

Tie 13 finally emphasized: "In the end, I will lead the 2nd Division and the 2nd Regiment to seize the city along Wuxuan and Xiangxian, and cooperate with the 20th Regiment and the 21st Regiment in Qingyuan Mansion to seize Liuzhou." I will put the 22nd Regiment in Hengzhou (Heng County) as your reserve, Miss Bai Li is in charge here, I hope she and the 22nd Regiment will not be a reserve, but when your security regiment is behind to help you maintain stability, do you understand what I mean? ”

"Yes!" (To be continued.) )