"What's going on?"

"Can anyone tell me what's going on?"

Shi Dakai roared, looking at the corpses of the Taiping soldiers everywhere in the valley, his heart was dripping blood. Who would have thought that there would be an explosion on the mountainside, falling so many boulders, killing five or six thousand people, and more than 10,000 Taiping soldiers were injured to varying degrees.

At that time, Shi Dakai was in the middle of the army, right in the valley, if he hadn't ridden a good horse and rushed out of the valley quickly at a critical moment, he might have been injured or even stoned to death inside.

"Report - His Royal Highness the Winged King, the entrance and exit of the valley have been blocked!"

At this moment, there was another thunderous roar from the direction of the valley, and I could feel that the earth was shaking.

Shi Dakai suddenly frowned and said, "What's the matter, isn't the explosion over yet?" ”

It's no wonder that Shi Dakai at this time is like being blind, he is isolated outside the valley, whether it is the situation in the valley or the situation on the other side of the valley, he does not know.

Soon, the sentry who came down from the mountain came back to report.

"Report - His Royal Highness the King of Wings, a large number of Shanghai army flags were found on the other side of the valley, with a scale of more than 10,000, and the rear army of our army encountered it and had a fierce battle."

"What?"

Shi Dakai was shocked, although he guessed from the explosion in the valley just now that it was likely that the Shanghai army was ambushed here, but the sentry reported that there was no main force of the Shanghai army in the valley, which made him think that it was just the Shanghai army deliberately blocking the road halfway in order to delay the Taiping army's return. Now that he learned that the rear army of the Taiping Army had encountered the attack of the main force of the Shanghai Army, he suddenly understood that this must be the main force of the Shanghai Army appearing here.

As for why the main force of the Shanghai army suddenly appeared here instead of Yuhuatai, Shi Dakai suddenly realized that he had been tricked.

"What a Li Weiguo, what kind of encirclement and rescue Zhao with this king, it turned out that he wanted to surround the point and send reinforcements, and ambushing this king halfway is his real purpose!"

Shi Dakai said through gritted teeth. At this moment, he hated and admired Li Weiguo, this was the first strong opponent he had encountered since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rebelled.

The adjutant general asked, "Your Highness the Winged King, what should we do now?" The more than 20,000 soldiers of the rear army can't get by, and in the face of the main force of the Shanghai army, I'm afraid they won't be able to hold out for long! ”

Shi Dakai didn't know, but he was weak, the valley was blocked, the Chinese army was hit by boulders, and although there were tens of thousands of people in the front army, it was a pity that they were all pretended to be people. There is no combat effectiveness.

Originally, Shi Dakai deliberately let the people pass through the valley as the front army, which was to let the front army be cannon fodder, but unfortunately the Shanghai army was cunning and did not attack the front army, but directly attacked the Chinese army, blocked the front army, and besieged the rear army.

"The rear army can't be saved, take advantage of the time they are blocking the Shanghai army, and seize the time to open the valley mouth. Pick up the Chinese army! ”

Shi Dakai ordered, there was no way, the deputy general hurriedly organized people to carry the stones, and opened the valley mouth as soon as possible.

On the other side of the valley. More than 20,000 elites of the Taiping Army were blocked by the valley and could not pass, and in the face of the main force of the Shanghai Army that appeared behind, they had to fight with all their might.

Knock knock!

Dozens of cannons of the Shanghai army fired a salvo, and the muzzle fire flickered. Black smoke spews.

One after another, the cannonballs roared and fell into the crowd of the Taiping army, and exploded violently, causing the Taiping soldiers to turn on their backs in an instant. Flesh and blood flying.

The drums were loud, and the infantry of the Shanghai army held muskets, and the spears were like a forest, bright and bright. They marched in a neat pace, firing incessantly, round after round, in an orderly manner.

The valley mouth was blocked, the Shanghai army was surrounded on three sides, and the more than 20,000 Taiping troops had no way to retreat, so they could only continue to charge and try to break a bloody road head-on.

However, the artillery fire was fierce, the bullets were dense like rain, and rows of strafing came over, and the Taiping sergeants were constantly shot and shot, and the screams came and went.

At a distance of just a few tens of meters, like a death blockade, the Taiping army rushed more than a dozen times and declared failure, and the corpses in front of them were all over the field, piled up like mountains, and blood flowed like rivers.

On the hill behind the Shanghai army, Zhang Xiaoliu and Chen Jingnan stood side by side.

Zhang Xiaoliu said excitedly: "Sure enough, Mr. Chen's expectations are not bad, Shi Dakai is very cautious, if the ambush soldiers are ambushed on both sides of the valley according to my previous thoughts, I am afraid that it will be discovered by Shi Dakai immediately, not only can we not ambush Shi Dakai, but even surrounded by Shi Dakai in turn, fortunately, follow Mr. Advice, plant explosives in the valley, cut off the main force of the Taiping army before and after, and then concentrate forces to eat their rear army, the Taiping army can not take care of each other, and the more than 20,000 rear troops will not be able to escape." ”

Chen Jingnan smiled slightly, and said: "Commander Zhang has won the award, and I am also temporary, thinking that Shi Dakai is known as the undefeated god of war in the Taiping army, and he must have something extraordinary, and he may find that we have set up an ambush in Liyu Mountain, so for the sake of safety, I persuaded Commander Zhang to change the ambush location." ”

Zhang Xiaoliu said: "Fortunately, I listened to Mr. 's words, otherwise if I can't successfully ambush Shi Dakai this time, I really don't know how to explain to my young master, and if I delay the young master's big event, I will be to blame for my death!" ”

Chen Jingnan said: "The most important thing in this ambush battle is the elite soldiers in the valley, they have excellent ability to bury explosives and shoot accurately, without them, it will be difficult for us to blockade the valley and cut off Shi Dakai's army." ”

"Sir, I mean that elite army!" Zhang Xiaoliu smiled and said: "That is an elite team trained by the young master himself, the Tiger Commando, which is extremely well-equipped, and it is not a musket, but a patriotic rifle, which can directly hit the torso within two hundred meters and accurately shoot the head within a hundred meters." ”

"It turned out to be a patriotic rifle invented by the Lord himself!" Chen Jingnan suddenly realized, and immediately said happily: "If our army can all be equipped with patriotic rifles, then there is still any army in the world that is the opponent of our Shanghai army, and the Lord will win the world just around the corner!" ”

Zhang Xiaoliu said with a wry smile: "The problem is here, it is not easy to manufacture this patriotic rifle, so far the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau can only produce more than 100 pieces per month, and I have to wait for a long time for tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Shanghai Army to be equipped with this rifle!" ”

Chen Jingnan said with a smile: "More than 100 per month, 1,200 a year, 12,000 in 10 years, double the number of workers every year, and 100,000 can equip the Shanghai army in ten years, which is enough to sweep the world, this time is just right, not too long." ”

Zhang Xiaoliu glanced at Chen Jingnan. Said with a smile: "Mr. only knows one but does not know the other, this patriotic rifle uses a new type of bullet, the complexity of the processing and production of this bullet is far more complex than the rifle, once the war starts, the rifle alone is not enough, the bullet consumption is very huge, if you can't keep up, it is in vain." ”

Chen Jingnan doesn't care about the military industry on weekdays, so he doesn't know about these things, so he said: "That's okay, anyway, the lord is still young." Then build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slow down the king, there is time, and there is no need to hurry. ”

"Yes!"

Zhang Xiaoliu nodded, glanced at Chen Jingnan, and smiled.

At this time, the fifteenth attempt of the Taiping army to break through failed, with more than 10,000 dead and wounded, and the remaining less than 10,000 people had lost confidence in breaking through, but they insisted on not surrendering.

Ultimately. The more than 20,000 people of the Taiping Army were wiped out, and there was not a single soldier who surrendered to the Shanghai Army, which shocked Zhang Xiaoliu and Chen Jingnan, and they both thought of Li Weiguo's words.

"Faith is invincible!"

In fact. In the early period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, none of the Taiping troops would surrender, such as the Northern Expeditionary Army, the Western Expeditionary Army, and the Eastern Expeditionary Army, until after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The veterans of the Taiping rebellion in the early days suffered casualties, and the rising stars did not have such a firm faith, and it was not until the later period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that the Taiping army surrendered one after another. There was even a situation where tens of thousands of people surrendered together.

But at this stage, it is a very difficult problem to want the Taiping army to surrender.

Eliminating more than 20,000 Taiping rear troops, Zhang Xiaoliu and Chen Jingnan quickly adjusted the direction of their attack, preparing to enter the valley and eliminate the Taiping army trapped in the valley.

This is the battle plan that Chen Jingnan made at the beginning, dividing Shi Dakai's 100,000 army into three sections, and then concentrating the main force of the Shanghai army to eat them one by one.

However, at this moment, a 100,000 soldier from the Shanghai army who had gone out to reconnoiter rushed over.

"Report!"

"Report to Commander Zhang, the Ninth Reconnaissance Platoon has found an emergency!"

"We found that the whole town was slaughtered in the subordinate town near Lianshan, men, women and children did not have a living mouth, we thought that the traces of horse hooves and horse manure left behind were enough to have 20,000 cavalry, so we tracked down along the way, including Tangshan, Jiuhua Mountain, the small villages along the way were slaughtered one after another, and later found a survivor in a small village, he said that it was the Taiping army that slaughtered their village, these Taiping troops are all cavalry, day and night, our platoon commander thought that this Taiping cavalry must be Shi Dakai's iron cavalry, he led people to continue tracking, order me to come back and report! ”

After Zhang Xiaoliu and Chen Jingnan listened, they both felt the seriousness of the matter, Shi Dakai's 20,000 cavalry did not take the official road to return to Tianjing, why did they take the mountain road, and it was day and night, and the villages and towns that Tuguang passed along the way, there were no chickens and dogs.

"This is clearly an attempt to cover up his whereabouts and carry out an ulterior military operation." Chen Jingnan said suddenly.

"Bring me the map!" Zhang Xiaoliu also realized this and hurriedly asked someone to get the relevant map.

Gathered in front of the map, Zhang Xiaoliu and Chen Jingnan thought hard and judged the whereabouts of the Taiping cavalry according to the location where they had been found to be slaughtered.

Zhang Xiaoliu pressed his finger on the map, slowly moved forward, and said at the same time: "Since they go out day and night, and they dare not take the official road, then they must be advancing along the mountain road." After Tangshan and Jiuhua Mountain, it is the direction of Zhongshan Xiaolingwei. ”

Chen Jingnan nodded and pondered: "You are right, they must be going in the direction of Xiaolingwei, and they may want to raid Yuhuatai!" ”

Zhang Xiaoliu suddenly smiled and said: "Fortunately, the young master didn't plan to stick to Yuhuatai at all, and now he has evacuated Yuhuatai and gone to the camp in Jiangnan." ”

Suddenly, Chen Jingnan understood, and hurriedly shouted: "It's not good, if the lord is still in Yuhuatai, nothing will happen, if he leaves Yuhuatai and withdraws his army to the Jiangnan camp, he will inevitably run into this cavalry on the way!" ”

"20,000 cavalry raids, the young master only has 5,000 pro-troops by his side, and he is on the march, I am afraid it will be difficult to resist." Zhang Xiaoliu immediately became nervous and said, "No, mine will go and save the young master immediately!" ”

Chen Jingnan stopped: "Even if it is too late now, I am afraid it will be too late, for the sake of today, I can only hope that the Lord can get out of danger safely, and Commander Zhang should attack Liyu Mountain with all his strength and annihilate Shi Dakai here." ”

Zhang Xiaoliu suddenly said angrily: "Fart, the young master is in danger, I naturally have to save the young master first." If something happens to the young master, what is the use of me destroying all a hundred Shi Dakai! ”

Chen Jingnan is too objective and rational in doing things, so he will speak like this, which is not conducive to Zhang Xiaoliu On the contrary, he is loyal to Li Weiguo, and he is completely emotional at the moment. I couldn't listen to Chen Jingnan's advice at all.

"Someone, pass my order, stop the attack immediately, change the rear team of the whole army to the front team, run forward, and quickly march to the Jiangnan camp, there must be no mistake, and those who violate the order will be shot on the spot!"

Zhang Xiaoliu is the commander of the Shanghai army, and in addition to Li Weiguo, he is the supreme commander of the Shanghai army. As soon as he gave the order, more than 15,000 officers and men in Shanghai quickly took action.

Chen Jingnan continued to stop: "Commander Zhang, even if you rush over now, I'm afraid it's too late, the Taiping army may not be able to kill the master, it should be able to capture the lord alive and go back to ask for merit and reward, Commander Zhang might as well capture Shi Dakai alive, as a bargaining chip in exchange for the lord coming back!" ”

"Surnamed Chen, don't make me mad!" Zhang Xiaoliu has lost his cool. shouted angrily: "A Shi Da is used to open a fart, will Hong Xiuquan open my young master for a Shi Da?" You don't have to dream, in order to catch a stone Dakai, if I delay time. missed the opportunity to rescue the young master, and let the young master be brought back to Tianjing by the Taiping army, then everything would really be over. ”

Chen Jingnan rolled his eyes, he had always been calm. Even if Li Weiguo has an accident, he will not lose control, so he can understand Zhang Xiaoliu's mood and don't blame him for scolding. just continued: "It's better to catch a Shi Dakai than to have no chips at all!" Besides, if you let Shi Dakai go this time, there will be no such opportunity next time, Shi Dakai is the pillar of the Taiping Army, you can't let it go! ”

Zhang Xiaoliu sneered: "I'm rushing over now, even if it's a little late, as long as the young master is not sent back to Tianjing, I will have the opportunity to rob and rescue the young master halfway, which is much safer than your bullshit grabbing Shi Dakai to change the young master!" Don't I think I, Zhang Xiaoliu, am stupid and don't know what you're calculating? Didn't you just decide that even if something happened to my young master, you could still support another person to be the master? In your eyes, it doesn't matter who is the master of the Shanghai army, as long as you can realize the hegemony of Wang Zuo in your heart, am I right? ”

Chen Jingnan was suddenly stunned, he did have this idea in his heart, everyone has a dead heart, and he Chen Jingnan is no exception, but Zhang Xiaoliu directly said that he was very shocked, and he suddenly found that he had underestimated Zhang Xiaoliu's IQ.

"Commander Zhang, you're too worried, I didn't mean that-"

"And what do you mean?"

Zhang Xiaoliu immediately took out a revolver and put it on Chen Jingnan's head, the meaning was obvious, as long as Chen Jingnan said half a word of dissuasion, the end would be a flowering head.

Chen Jingnan smiled bitterly, raised his hand obediently, and didn't dare to say more.

At this time, the Shanghai army had stopped attacking the valley and withdrew one after another to re-line, and the generals did not know what was going on, so they came to meet Zhang Xiaoliu one after another, and saw that Zhang Xiaoliu was holding a gun against Chen Jingnan, and they were all stunned.

"Remember to Lao Tzu, if you dare to have such an idea in the future, even if you are a celebrity in front of the young master, Lao Tzu will kill you directly!"

Zhang Xiaoliu glared at Chen Jingnan fiercely, put away the revolver, came to the queue of all the soldiers and soldiers, and shouted: "Brothers, now that our adults are in danger, if it is a moment later, the adults will be more dangerous!" What do you say we should do? ”

"Go and save the adults!"

"Go and save the adults!"

"Go and save the adults!"

The officers and men of Shanghai have always revered Li Weiguo, and when they heard that Li Weiguo was in danger, they shouted one after another and rushed to rescue him.

"Good!" Zhang Xiaoliu nodded and shouted: "Listen to my orders, set off immediately, run forward, even if you break your leg, climb to the place before the adults have an accident!" ”

"Yes!"

Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers in Shanghai shouted in unison, all of them were full of energy, and the teams ran quickly.

Fortunately, the training of the Shanghai army in peacetime is mainly armed cross-country and running, so running forward is like a common thing for the officers and men of Shanghai, and when they learned that Li Weiguo was in danger, they were even more emotional, and they couldn't wait to immediately fly to Li Weiguo's side to protect him.

Watching the army set off quickly, Chen Jingnan was a little daze, and a little smirk, his heart was complicated, as if he had lost something, and as if he had accidentally found something. (To be continued......)