"Humble duty has always been diligent!"

Wang Shude turned over and dismounted before Xiang Guoqing and them, knelt on the ground and said heavily: "The lowly rank is dedicated to serving the court, and he will die after doing his best!" ”

"Good, good minion!"

Ta Yinbu praised it from the bottom of his heart, and had a good impression of Wang Shude, and secretly said that this Han man was good, and he looked like he had read the book. Although those Han scholars are insatiable guys, as long as these scholars are willing to honestly help the Manchus manage the Han people, the Manchus get the Han people's country, and if they don't throw some bones to feed these scholars, how can they honestly serve the emperor. The same is true of these Han troops, as long as they work hard for the Qing Dynasty, can the Qing Dynasty still treat them badly? If there were no Han scholars and these Han soldiers working for the Qing Dynasty, how could they manage it by relying on the Manchurians alone.

Tayinbu was very disgusted with those princes and ministers in Beijing who were clamoring to seize power from the Han people, these people knew that they were making trouble for the emperor, and they really wanted to take over the power of those Han officials, and they could be expected to contribute to the Qing Dynasty? If you don't come to make the Qing Dynasty, you will burn high incense!

Du Shutai and Xiang Guoqing were so messed with by Wang Shude, and they could only secretly scold Wang Shude for being shameless, and at the same time, they also turned over and dismounted to Tayinbu to express their loyalty to the Qing Dynasty.

Tayinbu smiled and raised his hand: "Get up, as long as you are honest and diligent in doing errands, and when you kill the Taiping Kou, I will tell the two princes of Pingnan and Jingnan to let them be promoted to your officials." ”

"Thank you, Counselor!"

Du Shutai and the three of them were happy, and Ta Yinbu was a general of the Eight Banners. It is also a character in Guangzhou who is second only to General Hahamu and Ezhen Galai Daoga, and he has come forward to speak for his own good words, and he is worried that his prince does not look down on himself?

Gangtaa looked at the three Han army generals with a smile and a word. Suna looked disdainful. Look down on these guys who only know how to pat on the back.

Tayinbu ignored Suna, looked at the sky, and ordered: "Don't go to the town, military affairs are important, let's hurry up and wait until the next village to rest." He was anxious to return to the heavy responsibility of the rear of the Taiping Army, and he had no intention of delaying in Lotus Town. If you want to send an order to let the Manchurian soldiers lift their spirits, it is not hot yet, what are you doing with your heads hanging down one by one.

Present. The Qing army, under the leadership of Dayinbu, continued to march south, walking for about three or four miles, but the sound of fire rang out in the forest on the left side of the road.

The "bang" firecracker alarmed the Qing army, accompanied by the sound of firecrackers. Five or six of the Han bannermen who walked in front fell.

"What's going on? Go ahead and see what's going on!"

Tayinbu reined in his horse, frightened by the sound of the gun. While sending the guards to check it out. Suna and Gangtaa were also alarmed by the sound of guns, and each ran over with his own soldiers, Goshha beating horses.

"Wow!"

Several of the guards who went out on horseback were all elite vests with white flags, all of whom were brave and fearless of death in the cattle records, and their kung fu and hands were very solid, and they were all experienced. After they beat their horses and galloped over, they soon came to report that the Han army in front had been harassed by the Taiping army, and four of them had been killed by the other side with firearms. Wounded two. Now the Han army is chasing the Taiping Kou who fled into the forest.

"The Taiping army is harassing?"

Tayinbu looked ahead and frowned. Instructed the guards: "You go and pass my order, tell the Han army not to chase, the main force of the Taiping Kou is still in Lingshan Town in Panyu, and it should be their small group of men and horses who attack us, I am afraid that they want to drag us down and ask Wang Shude to withdraw the people and continue to hurry, don't fall for the tricks of the thieves." He added, "You go ahead to investigate, and if you find anything wrong, you will come back and report immediately." ”

"Wow!"

Several of the guards turned their horses around again and ran to the front, and after telling the Han army Tayinbu's order, they beat their horses and ran forward.

It was Wang Shude's banner soldiers who were attacked by the Taiping army, and there were six casualties without seeing the shadow of the Taiping army, so angry that Wang Shude personally led people to the forest to search for the Taiping soldiers who were fighting black guns, but the other party ran away after the sound of the guns. Wang Shude led people to chase them for half a mile but failed to catch them, and when his own soldiers came and said that the Manchurians wanted him to withdraw, he could only reply.

With this lesson, the flag soldiers have been vigilant. Xiang Guoqing had the shadow of a crushing defeat by the Taiping army, and he kept telling his subordinates to closely monitor both sides of the road, even if it was windy and grassy, they had to take a closer look, so as not to be beaten by the small group of guerrillas of the Taiping army. He was so cautious, which naturally made his flag soldiers quite noisy. Fortunately, the Taiping troops who attacked the Qing army did not appear again, so that the Qing army finally arrived in Daliang Town at dusk.

I thought that there must be a Taiping army in Daliang Town, so Tayinbu ordered to prepare for battle, and also prepare for a fierce battle, after all, there is a fortress in Daliang Town that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Taiping army can cause damage to the Qing army by relying on favorable terrain. However, several guards who were scouting the horses in front reported that there were no Taiping troops in Daliang Town, and there were no Han people, only a long man's head hanging on the fort.

No Taiping Army?

Tayinbu is a little surprised, although Daliang Town is not big, it is also a small fortress, the traffic is also convenient, it is the connection point between Zengcheng and Xiangshan, the geographical location is very important, why the Taiping Army did not garrison here?

With a stomach full of confusion, Tayinbu led his troops into Daliang Town, and sure enough, as the guards said, there was no one in the town. Wang Shude was a little unconvinced, and led his banner soldiers to search from house to house, but no one was found after searching for a long time, and not even a grain of grain was found. But everything that could be used was basically taken away by the Taiping army.

"Taiping Kou is afraid of poverty, mother. It's cleaner than the bandits! ”

Wang Shude, who had a belly full of fire, reported the situation to Tayinbu, who asked him to lead people to clean up some clean houses for the Manchu soldiers to rest, and to make a fire to cook for the Manchurian soldiers on National Day. Tonight, the Qing army will rest in Daliang Town and set off after dawn.

In order to prevent the recurrence of the Taiping attack during the day, Ta Yin Bu ordered Gang Ta'a to lead people to guard, set up a number of open and secret posts, and piled a lot of fires around the town, so that if the Taiping army dared to attack at night, they would be discovered by the Qing army before they approached the town.

Tayinbu's arrangement was not unreasonable, and sure enough, in the middle of the night, there was a sound of guns outside the town. However, because the Qing army had already taken precautions, the attacking Taiping army did not succeed, but lost more than a dozen people, and a wounded Taiping soldier was captured by the Qing army.

Tayinbu interrogated this Taiping prisoner at the first time, and learned from the captive that he was a sergeant belonging to the left battalion of the Taiping Army's infantry army, and was originally ordered to raise food in the Zengcheng area, but after discovering that Tayinbu led the Qing army south, they followed all the way. They did the attack during the day, and they didn't do it after the Qing army was prepared, and waited until late at night, never thinking that the Qing army was still prepared, and they lost more than a dozen people instead of succeeding.

Ta Yinbu tortured and asked where the main force of the captured Taiping army was, and the prisoner could not be beaten, saying that their military commander led a large team of men and horses to fight Guangzhou, and now Zengcheng, Panyu and even Shunde are all responsible for raising food squads, and there are not many people.

Tayinbu didn't believe it, and continued to order people to torture the captive, but no matter how the Qing soldiers tortured, the captive still said the same. The prisoner cried and begged for mercy, saying that he really didn't lie to Tayinbu, that he had only been in the Taiping Army for more than two months, and he was only a big soldier, and he really didn't know anything else.

This time, Ta Yin sent a letter, believing that it was the small group of people and horses left by the Taiping army in this area to collect food that attacked them, and not the news that he led his troops to the rear of the main force of the Taiping army leaked.

After relieving himself, Tayinbu had the wounded soldier dragged out and cut down. After that, he ordered the Han army flag to continue to strengthen the guard on the National Day, and the rest of the Qing army went to sleep.

That night, nothing happened.

The next day, before dawn, Tayinbu ordered the whole army to continue southward, and their aim was to the rolling stone slope five miles behind Lingshan Town. It was the only way for the Taiping army to retreat from Lingshan Town back to Xiangshan. (To be continued.) )