Late at night, Zhou Shixiang didn't feel sleepy at all, so he simply put on his clothes and walked to the riverside to look up at the starry sky. The stars in the sky are just like the scenes of his previous life. Everything was quiet in front of me, and the low hills in the distance were blurred in the night. The breeze blew across the river, through the dense forest, across his face.

Zhou Shixiang didn't ask the guards to follow, only the blind man Li followed behind him with a sledgehammer, keeping a distance of ten steps. The blind man Li broke one eye, and his vision should have been limited at night, but he could always detect any disturbance around him.

The patrol team walked by the river from time to time, and when they found that their commander was by the river, every soldier in the team would look at him with reverence, and it was this young man who made the Taiping army go from scratch to today.

Behind the reverent gaze, Zhou Shixiang captured nervousness and fear, but how could he not be nervous or afraid! It was because of nervousness, because of fear, that he could not sleep.

This is a big war, a battle that will decide the life and death of 100,000 Xiangshan people and more than 10,000 Taiping Army soldiers!

Anyone in the face of this big war will be nervous and afraid.

There is no superman in this world, and there is no god of war, there are just ordinary people.

Zhou Shixiang squatted down, held a handful of river water in his hand, and watched in a daze as the river water flowed from between his fingers.

On the other side of the river, there was a neighing of horses, where the camp of the cavalry battalion had gathered, where more than 200 horses had gathered.

On both sides of the river, hundreds of boats were parked one after another, ranging from large boats that could accommodate 100 people to small boats that could only accommodate three or five people.

It's the same as the barracks on the shore. The boat was also silent, except for the sound of the waves crashing against the bottom of the boat.

Hahamu, it's time for you to come!

Zhou Shixiang's hands loosened violently. The river was thrown down at once. He straightened up and looked to the north, solemn, with determination and longing in his eyes—a desire for victory.

"Who!"

The blind man Li Meng snorted backwards.

"It's me."

The person who came walked straight to Zhou Shixiang.

"General Qin!"

The blind man put down the hammer, walked to a tree with a crooked neck, and leaned in.

"Dashuai is still waiting for news?" Qin Zhisheng asked softly.

"I can't sleep, come out for a walk. How. You don't feel sleepy either? ”

Zhou Shixiang pulled Qin Zhisheng over, and the two sat on the ground together.

Qin Zhisheng smiled bitterly: "At the moment of the great enemy, who can still sleep boldly at this time?" ”

"We couldn't sleep. Someone can fall asleep. Oh, Ge Lao Liu is one, well, Jiang Bald is also one. These two guys were carried in front of him even if the coffin was carried in front of him. I'm afraid I can close my eyes and sleep for a while. ”

Zhou Shixiang laughed, and pointed to the blind man Li who was leaning on the tree with his crooked neck, "That guy is also one, if I hadn't come out, he would still be sleeping there with his head covered, and that posture, the sky would have to allow him to sleep." ”

Qin Zhisheng smiled and shook his head.

The blind man Li rolled his eyes when he heard this: Dashuai's words are too exaggerated, and his innocence is about to collapse. Can he fall asleep?

After laughing, Qin Zhisheng's face was full of worry. He said: "The marshal decided to fight Hahamu first, and he wanted to eat the Eight Banners in one bite, this battle was a vicious battle, a battle to the death, and the whole army, including the last general, were worried." ”

"I know what you're worried about, it stands to reason that we should fight Geng Jimao first, persimmons should be picked up and pinched, but have you thought about it, even if we eat Geng Jimao, it won't help the situation, Hahamu in the middle and Shang Zhixin on the right will still continue to advance towards Xiangshan, and they will not retreat because Geng Jimao is defeated on this road. In the same way, let's fight Shang Zhixin first, and Hahamu and Geng Jimao will also continue.

The territory of Xiangshan is too small, and the room for our activities is too small, and the persimmons are to be picked up and pinched, but this time they can only pick up the hard pinch, otherwise we have no room for maneuver. We only have one chance, and if we are wrong, we will never have it again, and after beating Geng Jimao, it is impossible for us to intercept them in front of the other two Qing armies, and it is impossible for us to have the spare strength to fight with them. Once they force them into Xiangshan City, I'm afraid it will be another new death. This time, there can be no more miracles. ”

Zhou Shixiang did not believe that the Taiping army could also stage the miracle of Xinhui in Xiangshan, because Xiangshan City had no strong basis at all, even if it could withstand the siege of the Qing army, and the tens of thousands of people in the city would also let the Taiping army either starve to death or kill people for food, no matter what, it would be death in the end. Chen Qice of Xinhui could not drive the sailors to the edge of Xiangshan City, and it was impossible for Zhu Tong and their men and horses to defeat the Qing army on land.

Once surrounded, the Taiping army was dead.

However, the rivers in Xiangshan are dense, and there are thousands of large and small rivers, and this kind of terrain is destined to be inferior to the Taiping army with water camps.

Zhou Shixiang could transport the Taiping army wherever he wanted to go through the water camp, but Hahamu couldn't. He can only move forward step by step, and he can't use the cavalry to intersperse the Taiping army, in other words, Hahamu's Manbaqi can only passively fight in Xiangshan, and he has no initiative to fight with the Taiping army, because his opponent has stronger mobility than him.

If Zhou Shixiang ruthlessly used the water camp to penetrate behind the Qing army and develop to Huizhou and even the Chaoshan area, the Qing army's three-way march could only be declared a failure. However, this is a way of life in exchange for sacrificing 100,000 Xiangshan people, and Zhou Shixiang will not do it if he dies. He will not give up the first base he chose for the Taiping Army, and he will not give up everything he has put in.

Zhou Shixiang chose a decisive battle, the strongest battle of the Qing army on the three routes.

The thief captures the king first, and the man shoots the horse first. If you don't eat Hahamu's Manbaqi, the crisis in Xiangshan will not be solved. As long as Hahamu is defeated, Geng Jimao and Monk Zhixin will not have the courage to continue the attack.

"Dashuai's decision is right, if you really take the Geng family boy, you won't be able to solve this game. Only by defeating Hahamu can we live all of it. Qin Zhisheng looked at the sky above his head and said slowly.

Zhou Shixiang said softly: "If you can eat the Eight Banners, the strength of the Han army under Geng Jimao is not strong, and you will definitely be scared to retreat." Shang Zhixin has suffered a big loss at our hands, and I don't think he has the courage to continue south. Even if he only hesitates for a day or two, we can calmly deal with it, after all, we can return to the army faster than theirs. If Shang Zhixin insists on seeking revenge on us, then we will do it again with him. The three-way Qing army has changed to one road, and no matter how much this battle is fought, it will be better than now. ”

"I just don't know how many of us are left after the battle with Hahamu."

Qin Zhisheng looked at the military camps on both sides of the strait, and felt indescribable melancholy in his heart, he didn't know how many people would be able to go back alive to see their relatives after the fierce battle.

"No matter how many people die, we have to fight, we can't lose. I have never been a mother-in-law, and I have never felt guilty about my dead brother, because I myself will die one day. But as long as our death can save the Ming, it will be worth it. (To be continued.) )