recommends "The Four Years of Yongli", which is also the theme of Nanming:

In the fourth year of Yongli, Chen Wen appeared in Zhejiang, where the large-scale anti-Qing movement was coming to an end. Faced with the most ferocious and cunning enemy in the history of China, and surrounded by a group of pig-like teammates, the lone traveler is determined to reopen the path of military modernization that had been cut off in the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty. Since then, the tide has been turned and the building has been tilted

After the vanguard battalion and the Mongolian soldiers were defeated and retreated, there was no need for Mingjin, Liu Zhong, the general soldier of Guide, and Zhang Chao, the general soldier of Nanyang, withdrew their soldiers, and when the two went down to the foot of the mountain, they saw Dutong Nahai Zhengtie looking at them with a blue face from a distance, thinking of the whip they had received before, and the two generals were suddenly uneasy in their hearts, afraid of being beaten again, but they did not dare to leave, so they only stepped forward. No, Nahai didn't whip the two of them again, not even a word of scolding, just looked at them coldly, half a sound, and galloped away with Goshha to beat the horse to the big tent of the Chinese army.

Looking at Nahai's distant back, Liu Zhong and Zhang Chao glanced at each other, their eyes were suspicious, and they didn't know how the hot-tempered Manchurian capital had changed his character. There was a sound at the foot of the mountain behind him, and the second general looked back, his face was also ugly, but it was the Taiping army on the mountain who threw the corpses of the Henan battalion soldiers who died in battle to the foot of the mountain, and even those who were injured did not let go.

The defeated Henan battalion soldiers watched the corpses of their companions being thrown down by the Taiping army, helpless and desperate, and those who knew each other could only shed a few tears. But he said that he didn't dare to go up to save people. The Han army also withdrew in frustration, leaving only more than 300 people, and the co-leader Cai Yuanfeng passed by Liu Zhong and Zhang Chao angrily and went straight to the Chinese army's tent. It didn't take long. Then Prince Jane's Goshha came to give an order, ordering Liu Zhong and Zhang Chaochao to speed to the big tent of the Chinese army to discuss the military meeting. This order made Liu Zhong and Zhang Chao's hearts jump suddenly, lest Nahai and Cai Yuanfeng sue them from Prince Jian, and the prince was angry and wanted to cut off their heads. But he was afraid to be afraid, but the second general didn't dare not go, and rushed to the Chinese army's tent with his head hanging down like a difficult brother.

On the way, Zhang Chao even instructed his own soldiers about the aftermath. Explain to them that if they are really punished by military law, their family property will be inherited by the second son, as for the eldest son who couldn't control the crotch bird and the maid in the early years. Divide some of his land.

The Zhili battalion and the Chaozhou battalion also retreated, but it was slower than the Henan battalion. When the Henan soldiers retreated, Zhang Dan, the general of Tongzhou, and Zhang Xianyong, the deputy general of Wu Liuqi's command of the Chaozhou soldiers, were still commanding his men to attack the mountain, and once forced the Taiping army to retreat. Until they found themselves alone in the battle. Zhang Dancai had no choice but to order the troops to retreat.

As soon as the Tongzhou soldiers retreated, the Chaozhou soldiers also retreated, and the Zhending soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and hundreds of remnants of the soldiers also withdrew under the leadership of the guerrilla Jiang Long. When retreating, the young Tongzhou soldier who was shouting to avenge his uncle asked Suna to lead the people to catch up, and when he raised his knife to resist, he suddenly heard the Manchurian words shouted from Suna's mouth, and the young soldier was so frightened that he threw away his weapon and ran down the mountain like a ghost. As a result, he stepped on the air and fell, and his body landed on the tip of a severed tree. A "poof" sound pierced him through.

Before he died, the young man waved his hands at his companions at the bottom of the mountain, shouting, "It's a GI, it's a GI, there's a GI in the thief!" ”

After withdrawing, Zhang Dan, the general soldier of Tongzhou, and Zhang Xianyong, the deputy general of Chaozhou, received orders to rush to the big tent of the Chinese army, and the injured Zhending general Yang Zhenwei also rushed over with the support of his own soldiers. When Yang Zhenwei arrived, the Chinese army's tent was already crowded with dozens of generals and colonels from Manchuria, Mongolia, Han army, and green battalion. No one finished speaking, everyone was silently looking at the commander Dingyuan General Jidu, waiting for the general to speak.

Yang Zhenwei's face was pale because of excessive blood loss, and he was still a little unstable under the support of his own soldiers. This move moved Yang Zhenwei so much that his nose was sour. His sobbing made Situ, the third leader of the forward battalion on the side, red-eyed.

There are now only more than 100 soldiers left in the four Niulu of the forward battalion, and the commander Ji Dali was killed in battle, and only one person was left in Xitu, and the casualties were not heavy. It was really a fiasco, a real fiasco, the forward battalion has never had a defeat since its formation, and I don't want to lose so badly today that even the military flag given by the emperor has been lost. Thinking of this, Xitu was even more sad, and he howled and cried in the big tent of the Chinese army.

Mongolian Zhenghongqi Gushan Ezhen Surile's face is also very ugly, he is a Chahar people, and his ancestor Guerbush was originally a Mengniu Quarqua Beizi. When Houjin Nurhachi, Guerbush led his troops to return to Houjin, and was named "Horse" by Nurhachi, and set up his subordinates as an assistant leader, and organized them into the Mongolian Left Battalion. During the Tiancong period, after Hong Tai's three large-scale conquests of Chahar, most of the southern Mongolia returned to Houjin, Hong Tai will belong to the original Mongolian Niu Lu outside the Manchurian Eight Banners plus the new Inner and Outer Karaqin Mongolia combined into the Eight Banners Mongolia, the initial number is only more than 7,800 people, and now the Mongolian Eight Banners together with the outer Mongolian Domain Mongolia have 112 Niu Lu, more than 48,200 soldiers. Su Rile was awarded the Red Flag Gushan Ezhen in the sixth year of Shunzhi, and he was also the commander of the Mongolian soldiers who went south this time, and his department was to transfer 16 Niu Lu belonging to the two red flags, with a total of 5,800 soldiers.

Since Fujian's southern edict entered Guangdong, the Mongolian soldiers have fought twice with the Taiping cavalry in Huanggangling and Beishan Village, the first time they folded more than 80 soldiers, the second time they folded more than 200 soldiers, and the casualties of the two battles were 316 people, but the number of casualties of the Taiping cavalry was more than that of the Mongolian soldiers, which made the Mongolian soldiers below Su Rile have a contempt for the Taiping army. However, today's battle made Su Rile and those Mongolian generals no longer dare to despise the Taiping army, and Su Rile felt even more painful for the casualties of his subordinates.

There are more than 1,300 Mongolian Niu Lu soldiers who entered the mountain pass with the forward battalion, and only more than 400 people returned alive.

Zhang Dan, the general soldier of Tongzhou, was afraid that Jidu would hold him accountable because he had retreated without permission despite the Zhending troops during the first attack on the mountain. Therefore, he lowered his head and buried it in the back, not daring to let Jidu see himself, and he was also buried behind Liu Zhong, the chief soldier of Guide. Zhang Chao, the chief soldier of Nanyang, after the failure of the first attack, the two of them were quite a little protective of their strength and did not contribute to the work, so they were naturally afraid of being held accountable. Zhang Xianyong, who led the Chaozhou soldiers on behalf of him, stood directly next to the Mongolian leader Rakshen, their Chaozhou soldiers had done their best, and the admiral was killed in battle, and Ruodu would still be held accountable for their defeat. I can't say anything.

The 25-year-old Dingyuan general Jidu did not hold his subordinates responsible for the defeat, nor did he mean to cut anyone's head, but sat behind the desk and looked at the map on the table in a daze. It's like a few years older. Jidu did not speak, and no one in the tent dared to squeak. The Qing army camp was quiet, so quiet that even the sound of the breeze blowing the banner could be heard.

The losses in this battle were too great, and the Green Battalion together with the Manchu, Mongolian and Han armies. In total, there were more than 5,000 casualties. Coupled with the Wuzhen Chaoha artillery who was ambushed by the Taiping army, there were no less than 10,000 casualties, and almost half of the southbound army was gone. Such a large casualty still did not break through the Taiping defense line of Xuanwu Mountain, which made the generals not know what to do, Xuanwu Mountain was strangled by the Taiping army for a day, and the army could not get food and grass supply for a day. The army only stored grain for ten days, and if Xuanwu Mountain was still in the hands of the Taiping army after ten days, the army would have to starve to death.

It's about the survival of the army. No one could speak, and Nahai stood up. Once again, it was proposed that the division should return to attack Lufeng City, where the defenders had fewer troops, and take Lufeng's grain and grass to resolve the crisis of grain and grass shortage, and then decide whether to recapture the grain road. Nahai's proposal was naturally put a few days ago, because Lufeng City was not easy to fight, and there were more than 1,000 casualties in the previous siege, but he didn't even go to the city. In the absence of artillery, it is not possible for a wise man to attack a city with human lives alone. But in today's battle, Nahai's proposal was immediately supported by many people, and now it seems that compared with Xuanwu Mountain, where the terrain is more favorable to the Taiping army, it is still easier to take Lufeng City.

The generals were discussing, and the staff leader Yiertu brought in a forward battalion of wounded soldiers, but it was the Taiping army who let him come back and asked him to bring a message to Jidu to surrender immediately.

"The thief Xiucai wants the king to surrender him?"

No matter how depressed Jidu is, it is impossible to lose his fighting spirit due to the frustration of the war, he is the Prince Jian of the Qing Dynasty, and he has the blood of the old Prince Zheng Jierharang, and he is the second seat of the Council of Princes and Ministers of the Qing Dynasty, and he is the general of Pingyuan! What's more, he is Aixin Jueluo!

It's just that he was defeated twice, but Kejidu still has more than 10,000 troops in his hands, including thousands of cavalry, but Zhou Shixiang let people say that he surrendered, which is also arrogant. This move made Jidu's face instantly swell red, which was caused by being despised and humiliated!

"The whole army will fight again, this king and the thief Xiucai will not stand together! Su Rile, tell your sons and daughters to go up, and this king's Goshha also to go up, this king doesn't believe that this Taiping Kou is really iron! ”

The enraged Ji Gu could not defeat two battles in a row, and the morale of the whole army was low, and he even had to organize troops to attack again.

"Lord, I can't help it! Today's army has lost its heart, and it is impossible to fight again, the Taiping Kou occupies a favorable position, and the sons and daughters are always brave enough to be strong in that terrain, my people are all cavalry, and asking them to storm this mountain pass will undoubtedly send them to death! ”

As soon as he heard that Jidu wanted all the Mongolian soldiers under his command to go up, Su Rile was startled, he still has more than 4,000 soldiers left, but there are 4 Niu Lu left in Lu Feng to monitor the Taiping Kou in the city, and there are only 8 Niu Lu and 3,000 soldiers in the army at present. If you call these 8 cattle records according to Jidu's meaning, if you still can't beat them, then I'm afraid it will really hurt your vitality.

Su Rile's words made Nahai angry, and he stepped forward and asked, "You mean that the lives of your Mongols are more precious than the lives of our Manchurians!" Taiping Kou is stuck in our grain road, don't fight? Do we have to wait for the sons and daughters to be so hungry that they can't hold knives and guns, and can't walk, waiting for those thieves to come and collect the corpses for us! ”

Nahai is the master of Manchuria, the master of the Mongols, before the war, although Su Rile is Ezhen, but he did not dare to contradict this Manchurian commander, but now he has lost so badly, the forward battalion is about to die, and now he belongs to him The Mongolian soldiers are the most, the strongest, he is actually confident, and he contradicts Nahai Dao: "I didn't say I wouldn't fight, but I couldn't fight today!" The lives of Manchurians are precious, but the lives of our Mongolians are not so cheap! ”

As soon as he said this, the Mongolian officers in the tent suddenly made a commotion, which made Nahai tremble with anger. In order to prevent his subordinates from needless casualties, Su Rile even pulled the Han army and the Zhili battalion together, saying that they all suffered heavy casualties, the morale of the army was low, and the people were tired.

Liu Zhong, Zhang Chao and other green battalion generals heard Su Rile's words, and they had a great sense of confidant, this battle cannot be fought no matter what, even if they want to fight, they have to rest for two days and bury the dead, otherwise, the soldiers who have the strength and spirit will dare to attack the mountain. But they didn't dare to say anything to echo Su Rile, nor did they dare to say that their soldiers could still fight, so they were silent there.

Cai Yuanfeng was born in the Han Army, although he is a son of the Eight Great Families, but now the Manchurian master is arguing with the Mongols, and he has no part to speak, and he is also cautiously standing in the crowd without offending anyone.

"Shut up to this king!"

Jidu was so angry by the quarrel between Su Rile and Nahai that he slapped the table and roared.

The prince was angry, Nahai and Su Rile didn't dare to quarrel anymore, and they both kept their mouths shut. The tent fell into a moment of silence, and suddenly Du Eryou took two steps out, and bowed to Jidu: "How to fight, please also ask the prince to take a charter out, if the prince has a charter, I, Du Eryou is willing to personally lead the troops." After saying that, he retreated without saying a word.

"Three Baylors."

Jidu was very pleased, but what kind of regulations could he have, Su Rile was unwilling to lead his men to attack, even if he could force it, but the result was likely to be that the Mongol soldiers refused to contribute.

After a long silence, Ji Du also came to his senses and realized that it was impossible to fight again today, so he opened his mouth and ordered the generals to go back to camp and prepare for the Taiping army to attack the camp, whether to fight Xuanwu Mountain again or return to attack Lufeng City until tomorrow. Hearing this, except for the Manchurian generals, everyone else breathed a sigh of relief, especially Liu Zhong, Zhang Dan and other green camp generals were even more amnesty.

On Xuanwu Mountain, Zhou Shixiang walked to the Iron Man Guard who was sitting on the ground resting, and found the Iron Armor soldier who killed Ji Dali, the commander of Manchuria, and after encouraging the other party a few words, he thought about whether to give a lecture to the Iron Man Guard, and then cheer up the morale of the army, so he climbed to a big rock and shouted: "Why are you fighting!" ”

This drink stunned the blind man Li, and the secret way was broken, and I hadn't arranged the people who responded, so how did the handsome start.

Sure enough, a group of iron guards who were resting were stunned by the sudden question of the big handsome, but no one answered, the scene was very embarrassing, quite cold, Zhou Shi smiled, looking at the blind man Li's gaze was very unkind.

Suddenly, a soldier stood up a little uneasy and a little nervous, seeing someone get up, Zhou Shixiang was overjoyed, and the blind man Li was also in good spirits, asking the Bodhisattva to bless this soldier to say some exciting words, such as fighting for the Ming Dynasty, fighting for the commander or something.

In the expectant eyes of Zhou Shixiang and the blind man Li, the soldier finally said boldly after holding back for a long time: "Back to the big handsome, I don't fight for anyone, whoever gives me meat to eat, I will give my life to whom!" (To be continued.) )