Chapter 20 Northbound Strategy

"Help, help! Catch the bad guys! A quick and desolate woman's scream rang out in the bushes outside the barracks, and soon, a group of people rushed out of the woods not far away and rescued her, and the criminals who tried to commit the crime were immediately beaten and tied up, and then the group returned to the barracks, causing an uproar among the officers and soldiers of the barracks.

"Huh? It's the general system of stone. ”

"Hehe, that's Brother Luoyang."

"Why?"

"Hehe, there's a good show to watch now!"

Luo Yang sent someone to inform Zeng Shihe, the zai of the rear banner team, and then escorted Shi Feng to Shi Dakai's military camp outside the tent. In the noise of the guard troops, Shi Dakai hurried over, shocked and angry: "Luo Yang, what are you doing?" Still not letting go? ”

"Wing King, this Shi Feng is outside the barracks, and he wants to defile Miss Han, I'll catch it!"

"No, no!" Shi Feng shouted that he was wronged, and at the same time, revealed that Luo Yang intended to rectify himself.

However, Han Yan'er pear blossoms brought rain, and told how Shi Feng seduced her, deceived her, and led her outside the barracks, which was seamless and logical.

Shi Dakai's face was pale, and his sharp eyes scanned Han Yan'er and Luo Yang's bodies, "You guys didn't stay in the barracks, why did you get outside?" ”

"Wing King, because he injured Shi Feng, the last general was very annoyed, reflecting on the teachings of the Wing King, I wanted to visit him in the barracks, but who knows, I saw him pulling Miss Han to the outside of the barracks, so we followed!"

Zeng Shihe and several other senior generals also arrived, and they joined the interrogation, especially Han Yan'er, who became the core of the case, she was very resolute, and insisted that Shi Feng deceived and bullied her, thanks to Luo Yang's rescue.

"Take this dog slave and pull it out for me!" Shi Dakai was annoyed and angry.

There was chaos in the camp tent suddenly, and several senior generals begged bitterly, but finally saved Shi Feng's life, and Shi Dakai dismissed him from his post as the chief of the army and sent him to the front of the army as a pawn.

"Wing King, Luo Yang is wronged!"

"What else have you wronged?" Zeng Shihe's face turned pale.

"The Winged King should know!"

"Oh, I know, since Shi Feng can plot against Han Yan'er, you are wronged," Shi Dakai was very smart, and immediately understood Luo Yang's appeal: "Immediately restore the position of Luoyang Pioneer Commander, immediately lead the headquarters as the vanguard of the army, and go north!" ”

"Thank you, Winged King!" Luo Yang trembled with joy, originally he just wanted to take revenge on Shi Feng and expose his conspiracy, but unexpectedly, he also restored his military power! In this troubled world, a soldier is the king of grass.

Shi Dakai left the generals and Luo Yang, and made an estimate of the road to the north, the strategy of marching, the difficulties along the way and the enemy, because there was information about the vanguard troops, they knew that in this area, there were vast Yi inhabited areas, as well as Tibetan areas, although the main force of the Qing army had been transferred and attracted to the Yunnan-Guizhou area by another Taiping army, however, the Qing army armed on the way north was not scarce, and there were a large number of landlord regiments in each county and government, mixed with a different number of regular troops, and the elite of the Qing army left behind in Sichuan was also more than 20,000 or 30,000. And are all the elite soldiers of a hundred battles, with the Hunan army Hu Zhonghe Department, the Sichuan army Tang Yougeng Department is the most courageous, Sichuan Governor Luo Bingzhang, is also a wise and brave member of the Qing court, ten years ago, in Changsha, Hunan Province to intercept the Taiping army, killed the Taiping army general, the king of the West Xiao Chaogui, after that, has been governing Hunan, do everything possible to eliminate dozens of peasant rebels in the province, and then, vigorously support Zeng Guofan's Xiang Yong, train the Hunan army, become the core of the Hunan army, the general background, this person is shrewd and capable, ruthless, experienced, Three years ago, he led the first part of the Hunan army into Sichuan as the governor, immediately suppressed many peasant armies, and quickly defeated the mighty peasant rebel army of Li Yonghe and Lan Chaoding, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people, and firmly controlled Sichuan Province. Under his rectification, Sichuan's armament took on a new look, tens of thousands of regular troops were strong, and regiments were generally established in various localities to train villagers and soldiers, and to establish armor, becoming the sworn enemy of the Taiping army.

"Luo Bingzhang is an old thief, insidious and cunning, a fierce enemy of my heavenly kingdom, Tang Yougeng was originally the vanguard of Li Lan's righteous army, defected to the enemy, and now the general army of Chongqing Town, the battle is brave and unforgettable, Hu Zhonghe is tenacious and resourceful, and he cannot be underestimated!" Shi Dakai analyzed seriously.

"I'll find out!" Zeng Shihe and others said one after another that they should not only be cautious against the enemy, but also brave and tenacious, strike hard at the enemy, and go straight to Chengdu.

"What about you? Luo Yang? ”

"Luo Yang is a pioneer, what is there to say? I must repay the trust of the Wing King and the generals with good news! ”

"Good!"

Although Shi Dakai was sure that Sichuan was empty, he did not dare to be so confident, repeatedly emphasized the strength of the Qing army, the sufficiency of weapons, and explained to Luo Yang how to attack the enemy and how to reduce losses. However, it is not easy to clear the way north! ”

Several generals even estimated that in order to reach the city of Chengdu, several county towns passed through needed to be breached, and at least 2,000 soldiers would be lost.

Luo Yang secretly made up his mind in his heart to minimize this loss. "I don't believe it, we have the flowering cannon of foreigners, and we are still afraid of group training?"

"Hey, newborn calves aren't afraid of tigers." Shi Dakai looked at Luo Yang with complicated eyes, both appreciative and dissatisfied.

On the issue of troop scheduling, Zeng Shihe insisted on mobilizing 4,000 people as the vanguard, with cavalry, artillery, infantry, and spearmen as the coordinates, saying that he could be the vanguard commander and guide Luo Yang.

"Wing King, I thought that with only a thousand people, I would be able to clear the way for the army!"

"Huh?"

"Just give me five foreign cannons, enough shells, and some gunpowder!"

"What are you kidding?" All the generals looked at each other and shook their heads.

Luo Yang is not very sure, but since Shi Dakai can clear his wrongs, he has been a good person just now, although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has many drawbacks, in fact, it is still necessary to overthrow the corrupt and brutal rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, restore China, and fight against the great powers, no matter how short a soldier is, he is a warrior after all! He is also his own brother. Therefore, he is desperate, and he has to fight a bloody way to the north for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Hehe, only if you work hard, can you have military power and beauty. Luo Yang imagined the adoring expression of the coquettish Han Yan'er, his heart was as sweet as drinking honey, and he was suddenly ambitious.

"Yiwang, generals, Luoyang only needs five hundred, five hundred people are enough, back then, Guan Yunchang only needed five hundred swords and axes to take Lingling, and I Luoyang also needed five hundred soldiers and horses to clear the passage for the army and go straight to Chengdu!"