"Dashuai looks very good today!" Several accompanying officials congratulated respectfully.

"Uh-huh!" Luo Bingzhang was really happy, because, what he was most worried about finally did not happen, the Dadu River, just because of the heavy rain, the river rose sharply, and blocked the way of Shi Da's army, and three days later, Shi Da's army began to build a large bamboo and wood raft to cross the river north, the Qing army's Chongqing town commander-in-chief, the brave and good Sichuan general Tang Yougeng army of more than 5,000 people, has arrived on the north bank of the river, intercepted, the Dadu River is boiling and rolling, the raft is difficult to advance, and the guns and artillery bombardment of Tang Yougeng's army, Shi Da's army retreated. The Qing army has fully realized the strategic deployment of encircling Shida Kaijun with the river as the boundary.

Tang Yougeng is a family of soldiers, although he participated in Yunnan Li Yonghe, the Lan Dynasty Ding peasant rebel army in the early years, but, since the beginning of the case, loyalty, sacrifice life and forget death, has established a great military exploits, known as the "Southwest Tiger idiot", in order to show his personal strength, comparable to the Three Kingdoms Xu Pestle.

Not only that, although the spies he sent and worked hard to break into the Taiping army did not realize the beheading plan to directly assassinate Shi Dakai, they succeeded in dividing and dispatching Luo Yang, the most capable general in the Taiping army. Went south to Mianning and Xichang.

Luo Bingzhang's burning gaze stared into the distance and sneered softly: The most capable general in the Taiping Army? Hmph, even one of the governor's pink spies can't be defeated, and he has become a minister under the skirt!

In Yuexi County, Yang Yinggang, a general of the Qing army, also got the news spread by Han Yan'er, and it was also through extremely hidden channels that Han Yan'er told him that the Luoyang army was completely harmless, and only a few soldiers needed to be sent to monitor, and the rest of the main force of the Qing army could go north to surround Shida Kai's army.

Yang Yinggang was still suspicious, but looking at the blood-dripping Feiyan'er on the envelope, his eyebrows suddenly fluttered. If he hadn't served as a personal officer under Luo Dashuai's scenes, he wouldn't have known this secret.

Xichang City, the former prefect's yamen, Luo Yang was bringing some officers to pack up the documents left after the defeat of the Qing army, Han Yan'er came in and nodded to him, so Luo Yang gave an order and followed her out.

"Brother Luo, since you are in contact, it should be that!"

"Huh?"

Han Yan'er gestured with the seal on the palm of her hand: "You are the main general, only your token, people are willing to believe it." ”

"Don't you have an inside acquaintance?"

"Yes, but people won't believe it, right?"

Both of them said very implicitly, even the Taiping soldiers who followed around them were unaware, and the two were conducting a secret transaction.

"You see, what makes me different from others?" Luo Yang spread out his hands and smiled bitterly.

He absolutely refused to provide any special items that belonged to him, otherwise, once he successfully rescued Shi Dakaijun in the future, and Han Yan'er, the Qing Demon side turned against each other, and the other party took out these things, which would endanger his political life!

"There must be, right?" Han Yan'er was unwilling.

Luo Yang leaned close to her ear and whispered a few words, she shook her head and smiled-"You are my woman, you are my token!" Oh this, how about I give you a trouser belt? ”

On the one hand, he was dealing with Han Yan'er, wanting to use her to contact the Qing army and paralyze the Qing army, and on the other hand, Luo Yang also had to plan for the worst in the future, so he secretly wrote two posts, although he used modern simplified words, the basic meaning was not bad: Han Yan'er was a secret agent of the Qing Demon, and this commander temporarily used her to paralyze the Qing Demon.

folded these two stickers, sealed them, and handed them to Jiang Zhi and Ouyang Jiong, the brigade commander of the artillery battalion, respectively, which means that in the future, if Shi Dakai blames him, he can have two witnesses.

More than 2,000 soldiers and horses were stationed in Xichang City, intensively collecting gunpowder and other raw materials, and collecting and purchasing food materials.

The production of gunpowder, the need for sulfur, charcoal saltpeter, etc., and the need to collect grain to the villages, all took a lot of twists and turns, the more difficult, the more happy Luo Yang was, so that he could delay time, and he himself stepped up to ask the officers about the knowledge of strategy and tactics, and asked the veterans to tell the stories on the battlefield to broaden their horizons. He also repeatedly observed the drills of the troops in order to grasp first-hand information and familiarize himself with the environment of the future commander.

Some of the sketchy maps discarded by the captured Qing army made him love to put them down, and he studied them repeatedly, and had a real understanding of the map and situation of the whole country.

"If all my troops are replaced with new weapons and equipment, how much combat effectiveness will they have!"

It's a pity that there are no modern machinery to make new weapons, and there are not enough intellectual elites to develop them, so the best result is to import them from Western countries, right? In order to be able to deal with Western countries, the most important thing is to go east, enter the Yangtze River Delta area, and then conditionally negotiate with the foreign powers......

In the more than five days in Xichang, Luo Yang has tried more to think about problems and grasp the overall situation as an independent commander, and at the same time, he has left Kong Fangzhou, the commander of the reconnaissance cavalry brigade, to ask for advice, knowing how many Taiping troops are active on the land of China, and how many elite Qing troops.

The main force of the Qing army, Xiang Yong, under the leadership of Zeng Guoquan, has occupied Yuhuatai for a long time, approaching Tianjing, the general of the Heavenly Kingdom Li Xiucheng counterattacked to no avail, the war was burning on the edge of the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang and others, also in Zhejiang and Jiangsu, victorious, gradually encroaching on the sphere of influence of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but, up and down the Huai River, although Zhang Lexing was defeated and died, its remnants of the army twisted the army, there were still hundreds of thousands of people, galloping vertically and horizontally, at the same time, there was a sour talent Miao Peilin, gathered more than 300,000 regimental exercises, Rebellion is impermanent. The Taiping army invaded the northwest, and the Hui people in Shaanxi revolted, which quickly evolved into a brutal national vendetta. The great powers basically satisfied the interests of the traitorous treaties signed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, such as the Treaty of Tianjin and the Treaty of Beijing, and openly and privately supported the Qing government, and the Chang Sheng Army and the Chang Jie Army caused huge losses to the Taiping Army......

In the past five days, Luo Yang has learned enough knowledge of the times, and only then has he had a new and sudden sense of insight, and he feels that he has truly integrated into this conflicted society.

There is also a secret front going on, Luo Yang told Zhao Yu to lead a group of soldiers, heavily guarded, and closely watch Han Yan'er's whereabouts, of course, Han Yan'er's explanation is to protect her safety and protect her own heart and soul.

Although Han Yan'er expressed her dissatisfaction, she did not express it excessively, because she was trying to win over Luo Yang and had to learn to adapt to him.

Luo Yang didn't know what difficulties Shi Dakai encountered in the Dadu River, how much loss he could have, and when it was most appropriate for him to go to the rescue, but he firmly grasped one. As long as Han Yan'er showed a look of joy and her emotions were high, it would be Shi Dakai's bad luck, anyway, he firmly believed that she must have a secret channel to learn about the situation between the two armies more than two hundred miles away.

At noon on the 28th day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, Han Yan'er's eyebrows fluttered and danced, which aroused Zhao Yu's suspicions, and when Luo Yang went to see her in person, he could clearly feel her extreme joy.

In fact, as long as the situation of encirclement of the Qing army is created, it should return to the battle, and now, half a month has passed, if Shi Dakai has not grabbed the Dadu River, he must have encountered great difficulties and a tragic crisis, and it is time to go back.

"Sister Yan'er?"

"Huh?" Han Yan'er glared at Luo Yang sternly, because the two had a tacit understanding, and now, they must not call her name publicly.

"Run away, Shi Dakai's spies secretly planted here already know your identity!" Luo Yang said bitterly.