When Li Dingguo's army besieged Xinhui last year, the Manchu and Han Eight Banner soldiers from Beijing arrived in Guangzhou under the leadership of Jingnan general Zhu Mala and then marched to Xinhui after resting for three days, and the cavalry of the department arrived in one day. This time, there were 400 cavalry of the Han army under the command of Ban Zhifu, and all of them were experienced in a hundred battles, and half of them were still the coated servants of the king of Pingnan. These clothed minions are Shang Kexi's old Dongjiang in the past, and some even followed Mao Wenlong and Houjin to fight, although now thirty years have passed, many of them are full of gray hair, but they still ride war horses to fight, it can not be said that they are not fierce, and even worse, three generations of grandparents and grandchildren are in the army.

Xinhui is in an emergency, rescue soldiers such as firefighting, in the past, Ban Zhifu must have led the cavalry to Xinhui first without saying a word, but now he is not in a hurry, and he is not worried, before leaving the city, the king of Pingnan will make Xinhui's information clear, but only a Nanming miscellaneous card, and did not carry siege equipment, Xinhui is so strong, Li Dingguo's tens of thousands of troops can't take it, how can this Taiping army help him?

There is a cloud in the art of war, the siege of the city requires ten times the number of soldiers, if there is no ten times the number of soldiers, then it must be fought quickly, and if the battle is indecisive, it should be retreated quickly.

The things in the book of war, Ban Zhifu never believed that he fought with decades of experience, in his opinion, the Taiping army would never be able to take Xinhui City, this time it was called aid, but in fact, it was the former branch to annihilate this bold and reckless Nanming miscellaneous card.

The Taiping army has just ambushed Wu Jinzhong in Guifeng Mountain, and has coerced tens of thousands of people to accompany the army, the morale of this will definitely be high, and the thief generals who lead the army must also be very high-spirited, so the reinforcements do not need to rush to Xinhui. Instead, it is better to wait for the Taiping army to suddenly appear when it hits a shit under Xinhui City, and then take the cavalry as the vanguard. Destroying them is the way to use soldiers. Only in this way can we exchange the greatest victory at the minimum cost.

When receiving the order, Ban Zhifu had already told Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, about his plan, and Shang Kexi also recognized this, so that the reinforcements did not march quickly after leaving the city, otherwise, the 400 cavalry with blue flags would have galloped towards Xinhui long ago.

When the sun rose overhead, Ban Zhifu waved his hand to signal his subordinates to stop advancing, and then called his own soldiers to let him go and inform Lin Shanzhi, the chief soldier of the Green Battalion. Let his men rest and cook on the spot, and then set off again in half an hour. This place is called Sanzhou, and it is only more than 30 miles away from Xinhui.

After Lin Shanzhi received the order, he immediately ordered the green battalion soldiers to stop advancing, and after explaining a few words to several subordinates, he sent his horse to see His Royal Highness.

The green battalion soldiers here did not set up camp for themselves first, nor did they rush to prepare food for themselves first, but went to wait for the flag soldiers with blue flags to fall off their horses and rest. Several generals of the Guangzhou Green Battalion followed several flag officers like dogs, passing on the requirements of the flag officers from time to time.

The flag soldiers are served by the green battalion, but the green battalion is served by the young and strong people. The 2,000 young men were requisitioned and sent by the Guangzhou government, and basically none of them were authentic Cantonese people. Most of them are villagers near Guangzhou, and some have moved from Huizhou and other places. The original Cantonese had already been killed by the Qing army, in order to enrich the population of Guangzhou. The Qing army then moved people from all over Guangdong to Guangzhou, but until now, the population of Guangzhou has not recovered the number of Dingkou before the massacre, and the latest Dingkou of Guangzhou last month shows that the total population of Guangzhou is only more than 160,000, of which 90,000 are Dingkou. In addition to these 160,000 new Cantonese who migrated over, there were also thousands of Ping, Jing and the two feudal clans in Guangzhou who brought them from Liaodong.

In the troubled times, the fate of the master must be extremely bitter, except for a few who can be lucky enough to turn into soldiers. Most of the rest are cannon fodder, and very few can return home alive. It's good to be able to die happily. I'm afraid that I'll be eaten alive as food. In the first battle of Xinhui to defend the city, the Qing army ate more than 70,000 people in the city. He also ate more than 4,000 people, and the streets and alleys were filled with bones, and the dry well made people dare not look at it.

Under the whipping of the Qing army, the people were doing all kinds of work with fear, and if they moved slowly, they would be beaten to death. The more than 2,000 soldiers of the Guangzhou Green Battalion said that they were the Guangzhou Green Battalion, but in fact they were not from Guangzhou, but the Ming army that Shang Kexi had received one after another all the way south. The city of Guangzhou is actually a foreign place for these Guangzhou green battalion soldiers, and the attitude of local soldiers and foreign soldiers towards the people is naturally different, if it is a local soldier, the villagers, even if they are tyrannical, they will not fight to the death, but the foreign soldiers are different, in their eyes, these Guangzhou people have nothing to do with them, so they will naturally not show mercy.

Most of the people knew their fate when they were recruited by the prefect's yamen, but they all believed that they could come back alive, for no other reason, in recent years, the Ming and Qing dynasties had fought each other, and the Qing army had won too many times, so that ordinary people knew that the Qing Dynasty was definitely going to sit on the throne. Since the Qing army will definitely win, it is obviously a hundred times better to be a master for the Qing army than to be a master for the Ming army, no matter how bad it is, these two thousand people can always survive half of it, right?

The people have no other hope, but they can eat enough, and if they can't eat, they hope to live, and it's better to die than to live.

With this thought, none of the people surprisingly had a grudge against the Qing army, and even those who were beaten could not have hatred, but blamed themselves for being late and deserving of being beaten by the military master. As for the little food they can only eat, they are even more satisfied. There is a good chance of survival, and you can hang your life, what else can you do?

When Lin Shanzhi saw Shang Zhixin, Ban Zhifu was also there. His Royal Highness the Prince was not as depressed as before, and was talking to Ban Zhifu about something, when he saw Lin Shanzhi coming over, he raised his still very young face and nodded slightly.

"Slave Lin Shanzhi greets His Highness!"

Lin Shanzhi "horn" flipped his sleeves twice, knelt on the ground with one leg and saluted Shang Zhixin, and then kowtowed three times. This head was knocked extremely heavy and heavy, Shang Zhixin saw it in his eyes, and he couldn't help but be satisfied. Ban Zhifu next to him saw it, but he was not annoyed, you Lin Shanzhi are not even a flag person, why do you call yourself a slave in front of His Royal Highness the Prince! Also learn from our flag man to salute, not ashamed!

"Mr. Lin is polite, get up." The corners of Shang Zhixin's mouth curled slightly, and he waved his hand at Lin Shanzhi.

"Your Highness!"

Lin Shanzhi slowly stood up after hearing this, and took a step back, his demeanor and expression were obviously extremely respectful to Shang Zhixin

Author's note: There won't be too many recent updates because things haven't been dealt with. (To be continued)