Chapter Ninety-Five: The Winged King's Advance to the East (7)
That's it for today! I recorded a day's watch, but I really don't have the energy to write more!
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It's a pity that Luo Bingzhang's new army is advancing too slowly, so he has no choice but to stay, and the 20,000-strong partial division of the Hunan army is advancing in the direction of the main force led by Zeng Guoquan.
Only 30,000 depressed Sichuan New Army and 50,000 Tian Yong were left in the original encirclement to search for the whereabouts of the Yiwang army.
At this time, the Winged King did not escape the encirclement, the army under the command of the Winged King did break into pieces, but only a small part escaped, and the rest of the people were dressed up as Tian Yong of the Sichuan Army, and the Winged King's army stayed in eastern Sichuan for a long time, and there was no shortage of Sichuan people in the team, as long as they didn't stay together at close range, it was no problem to pretend to be a good one.
The small army that escaped disguised the main force and attracted the main force of the Hunan army to pursue. Yiwang's strategic plan is aimed at the characteristics of the slow march of the Sichuan New Army, to use a part of the force to camouflage the main force, to lead the mobile Hunan army away, now that the strategy has been achieved, the two armies of the Hunan army have been attracted by the main force of the disguised Taiping Army, and everything else has become simple.
Of course, in order to ensure the suddenness of the outbreak of combat as much as possible, Wing Wang designed a deception. He asked the two teams under his command disguised as Tian Yong of the Sichuan Army to find a small force of the Taiping Army at the same time, and then these two Tian Yong fought for merit, and then the scale of the fight continued to expand, and finally evolved into a melee of thousands of people, and after this melee was transmitted to Luo Bingzhang, he led the new army to suppress it without thinking too much.
Luo Bingzhang didn't pay much attention to these Tian Yong who came to arrest strong men, and for their merit riots, Luo Bingzhang's code of conduct has always been to suppress them strongly.
By the time Luo Bingzhang's army arrived, the "Tian Yong" of the weapon had reached tens of thousands, which made Luo Bingzhang's face turn pale. These undisciplined bastards.
But what made his expression change greatly was that Tian Yong, who was still fighting just now, suddenly became the main force of the Taiping Army when the main force of the New Army began to suppress it.
Looking at the Taiping soldiers who were wearing Taiping army uniforms and screaming and slaughtering the soldiers of the new army one by one, Luo Bingzhang was almost stupid.
Luo Bingzhang is a loyal Manchu courtier, for the Taiping army he has always taken the tough suppression, this person is a little courageous, but these courage is based on the rear command, in person to the front line of combat Luo Bingzhang is the first time, especially looking at those who were cut off by the Taiping soldiers head and cut off arms, white brains and bright red blood splashed, so that his whole person almost collapsed in fear.
"Capture Lu Bingzhang alive!" The Taiping army saw the Manchu Qing official who was protected by layers in the new army, and launched a charge one by one with a roar.
"Surrender or kill!"
Luo Bingzhang's personal soldiers were selected from the veterans who had been in battle for a long time, although they saw that the situation was a little bad, but these personal soldiers still traveled their own functions very well, they didn't care about the army, and protected Luo Bingzhang to quickly escape from the army.
Lu Bingzhang was extremely frightened, but under the protection of his own soldiers, Luo Bingzhang finally regained a trace of courage.
He ordered the army to launch a counterattack. However, at this time, the Taiping army had already entered the new army, and the 30,000 new army was in chaos, and the soldiers could not find the generals, and the soldiers could not find the soldiers, especially Luo Bingzhang's banner was broken by the artillery of the Taiping army, which made the new army fall into a complete collapse.
The momentum of the Taiping army was like a rainbow, pushing 30,000 new troops horizontally.
By the time Luo Bingzhang was extremely embarrassed and was received by the Hunan army that had returned to help, his 30,000 new troops were still less than 1,000 by his side, and they were all in shock, and it was difficult to fight again in a short time.
As for the 50,000 Tian Yong who were scattered, Luo Bingzhang couldn't take care of it at all, and now that he thinks about it, those 50,000 people must have become the prisoners of the Wing King Shi Dakai.
When Zeng Guoquan saw Luo Bingzhang and saw his expression of wanting to cry without tears, his heart was also awkward. If it weren't for the fact that he led the army to pursue the enemy's camouflaged main force, with the 50,000 main force of the Hunan army, Shi Dakai would never have found this opportunity.
"Lord Lu, don't worry, the last general will march immediately, and he will definitely try his best to save your army!" Looking at the Sichuan New Army, which had less than 1,000 people, Zeng Guoquan also felt that Luo Bingzhang was really pitiful at this time. Think about the fact that an hour ago, he was the largest military group on the battlefield with an army of 80,000, but now he has lost all his money, and he almost folded into it.
"So tired of the general! This officer wants to entrust the new army to the general, and this officer wants to go to Changsha to meet the adults! Lu Bingzhang understands that now that he has suffered a big defeat and a loss, it is not a small trouble to continue to command the new army. He was not worried about losing his official position because of this defeat, victory and defeat were a common thing in soldiers, and he himself had a good relationship with Prince Gong and the Empress Dowager Xi, even if he lost one, it was nothing.
"Lord Lu will definitely be able to help his brother when he goes to Changsha, and he will send someone to send him there!"
Lu Bingzhang nodded, this time it was bigger than the head planting, but compared with the great rout of the Hunan army since Anqing, his defeat this time was nothing at all.
Lu Bingzhang left, with great depression.
But the people who stayed behind were also uncomfortable, Zeng Guoquan was put on a position by the Wing King, so naturally he would not let him go, and the 50,000 army joined forces and rushed towards the main force of the Wing King.
But when they caught up, they only saw a mess, many corpses of the new army and Tian Yong, the number was no less than thousands, and there were many seriously wounded people who fell to the ground and wailed, and these numbers were more than 10,000 terrifying thieves. It's like an open-air camp for wounded soldiers.
For these wounded, Zeng Guoquan naturally couldn't ignore them, he ordered his generals to make every effort to treat these wounded, and through the wounded, he also understood Shi Dakai's sinister intentions.
The Taiping army launched this battle very suddenly, the new army did not resist strongly, less than 2,000 were killed, only 3,000 were seriously wounded, and the rest basically surrendered.
For the surrender of troops, Shi Dakai incorporated those who were willing to cut off their aspirations to join the Taiping Army, and gave each of those who did not want to join the Taiping Army a knife. Shi Dakai is not a murderous demon, so naturally he can't do a massacre, but it is absolutely impossible to leave these surrendered troops that cannot be taken away to Zeng Guoquan in vain.
And the solution that Shi Dakai came up with was that his life could be saved, but what was left for Zeng Guoquan could only be the seriously injured, and it was under the effect of this idea that more than 15,000 seriously injured people were left at the scene. Zeng Guoquan's people were dragged to death, and Zeng Guoquan was worried about the lack of troops and fell into the ambush of the Wing King, so he had to temporarily put aside the idea of attacking.
But staying is not without benefits, those who escaped the Taiping army's search for Tian Yong slowly gathered over, three hours later, Zeng Guoquan's military camp actually gathered nearly 20,000 Tian Yong, the others either fled or were taken away by the Wing King.
Zeng Guoquan was overjoyed, and immediately reorganized these Tian Yong, used them as the logistics force of the army, took care of the wounded and transported grain and grass, and the main force of his Hunan army was finally freed to pursue Shi Dakai.
But what made Zeng Guoquan extremely depressed was that Shi Dakai's main force at this time had long since disappeared, and he wanted to find it again, but he had already disappeared.