Hearing the drums in the city and the shouts of "the Qing demon is defeated", the Qing army on the northern defense line fled even faster, lest they run slowly and ask the officials to leave behind as substitutes. From the top of the city, the battalion lost its armor and abandoned its armor, the flag fell and the camp collapsed, which was really a defeat like a mountain, so that Song Xianggong and all the battalion elders on the city head were in tears - since the fall of Guangzhou, he had never seen the Qing army so embarrassed.

As soon as the northern front collapsed, the Qing army on the western defense line along the river could not support it. At the beginning of the war, the Qing army was broken through two lines of defense by the Taiping army in front of them, and now the remnants of the army rely on the last line of defense and the Taiping army to make the final resistance, and the commander of the army is Wang Shiqing, the deputy general of the Guangdong Green Battalion.

Since the beginning of the war, Wang Shiqing has been complaining about his suffering, and he has constantly sent people to the chief soldier Lin Shanzhi to ask for help. But Lin Shanzhi has no soldiers and horses in his hands to transfer to him!

In the siege battle of the prince and governor of Pingnan a few months ago, the biggest loss was the Guangdong Green Battalion under Lin Shanzhi. Before the war, he brought 3,500 main forces of the Guangdong Green Battalion, and there were thousands of Green Battalion soldiers in Guangzhou Prefecture and County for him to command, but after the war, Lin Shanzhi's descendant Guangdong Green Battalion was left with less than 2,000 people, and almost all the soldiers in the Prefecture and County Battalion under his command were buried under Xinhui Jiancheng.

Thinking of the loss of more than 1,000 descendants, Lin Shanzhi had the heart to hang himself, you must know that he can become the chief soldier of the Guangdong Green Battalion, relying on his gang of old brothers who used to be Li Zicheng's Dashun Army, later the Hubei Town Soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and then the Qing Dynasty Green Battalion soldiers! With these subordinates who have added more than ten years of sword blood, Lin Shanzhi was able to emerge from the many generals under the Pingnan Domain and become the chief soldier of the Guangdong Green Battalion, and he was also one of the candidates to serve as the governor of Guangdong. But after the Xinhui battle, the descendants under him were reduced by almost half, how did this not make Lin Shanzhi feel distressed, and also made him regret it, he knew that this Xinhui City was so difficult to fight, he was confused at the beginning to bring all the elites over, and only then did he ask for the battle in front of the letter of the prince of the world! As for the county battalion soldiers who are used as cannon fodder. Mr. Lin never cared about their lives or deaths.

Although the governor Yamen and the Pingnan Wangfu later transferred another 4,000 people to Lin Shanzhi, these 4,000 soldiers were all pieced together from various prefectures and counties, and all factions under the Pingnan Domain.

For Lin Shanzhi, it's okay if the command doesn't move, but it's a big deal to move the prince of Pingnan out at that time, and there are those Han military flags to watch, and these guys have to obey if they don't accept it. If you don't obey orders, you have to obey orders! But the rest of the soldiers who were temporarily pulled into the army were not a question of whether they commanded or not, but that these people were helping ordinary peasants before they were forcibly recruited into the barracks by the local government, and they didn't even hold knives beforehand, and it was not a joke to expect such recruits to go into battle to kill the enemy!

Fortunately, His Royal Highness the Prince of Pingnan was reasonable and knew that these soldiers could not be used, so he did not let Lin Shanzhi use them, as long as they did some miscellaneous work in the camp. After besieging the city for a few months, Lin Shanzhi still managed to let these recruits train a little, and they finally looked good. If you can't go into battle, it's still okay to line up and carry a flag and be strong.

With so much of his family's foundation, Lin Shanzhi no longer dared to fill his subordinates into the bottomless pit of Xinhui City like the Battle of Xinhui in June, and he always looked forward to His Royal Highness the Prince of the World being able to withdraw his troops. But His Royal Highness the Prince of the World was determined to fight hard with the thieves in the city, and he had to attack the city despite the lack of food and grass, but which siege was not his Lin Shanzhi's Guangdong Green Battalion rushed ahead, and which time it was not his Lin Zongbing's people who died the most. But what can be done about this? There are Han Junqi and the gang of bastards who supervise the Fu to press. It was not his turn to avoid the battle and preserve his strength.

After the three strong attacks, there were less than 1,000 people left in Lin Shanzhi's lineage, and at this point, they were divided a lot by the capitals and co-spinning people under the Pingnan Domain. The only thing he can really call on in his hands is the personal soldiers around him. Without the support of his descendants, the battalion soldiers transferred from all over the country below did not take him, the nominal highest commander of the Guangdong Green Battalion, even more seriously, and those officers did not even come to ask him, the chief soldier, for "strategy" in the past two days.

It doesn't matter if he doesn't come, it's all come to this point, Lin Shanzhi is not interested in putting on the prestige of his chief soldier in this unstable camp, the only thing he is looking forward to now is two things, either His Royal Highness the Prince of the World orders the withdrawal of troops, and everyone runs back to Guangzhou hungry; Either the reinforcements from Guangzhou arrive or the grain and grass can be transported, and then everyone gritted their teeth and surrounded him for a few more months, and they didn't believe in the thieves in the hungry city!

No matter which of these two things is realized, Lin Zongbing is full of optimism about the future. So he doesn't ask about the things in the army, it's useless to ask, now the big and small things are decided by His Royal Highness the Prince, and what he says can't even reach His Highness, and it is considered heaven to be able to listen to the ears of several Metropolitan Lords. Today, when he was ordered to go to the Great Tent Military Council, he was also doing the same thing as before, shrinking the turtle, not expressing his opinion on anything, just waiting for the order of His Royal Highness the Prince of the Prince, but this time he saw something that made his jaw drop - Geng Zhongde, the commander of the Jingnan Domain, and Hu Qili, the general of the Governor and Fu Pacesetter, wanted to retreat without authorization.

When the generals of the Pingnan Domain discussed withdrawing from the army behind His Royal Highness, Lin Shanzhi had quietly returned to his camp tent, and when Wang Shiqing sent someone to report the emergency, Lin Shanzhi was urging his own soldiers to load the gold and silver treasures looted in his tent in the past few months.

Wang Shiqing is a brother who has been with him for more than ten years, and there are hundreds of his own descendants stationed on the riverside, Lin Shanzhi has to care about the life and death of these people regardless of the life and death of others, otherwise he, the chief soldier, will really become a bare-bones general.

"When things cannot be violated, Shiqing can make his own decisions."

Hearing the general soldier brought back by his own soldiers, Wang Shiqing was puzzled, what does it mean to be inviolable? Although the thieves in the city are frantically attacking the defense line, there are still thieves on the river to reinforce the water division, but the Qing army still firmly occupies the advantage of troops, under the layers of defense lines, the thieves are fierce for a while, but they can not last, as long as all parties cooperate in place, as long as he Wang Shiqing is still holding the river defense line, the thieves will not be able to turn the sky! But why do you want me to decide when you want to say something that cannot be violated?

"What else did Lord Lin say?"

"That's it, nothing else has been said." The pro-soldier was also a clever man, looked around, and said in a low voice: "My lord, when the little one arrived in the tent of the chief soldier, the general town was busy asking people to load the car." ”

"Loading?"

Wang Shiqing was stunned for a moment, and then frowned, without waiting for him to ask in detail, there was a commotion in the camp, and then there was the news that the Yellow Flag soldiers had run away, and this side had not recovered from the news that the Yellow Flag soldiers had run away, and there was a shout of "Qing Demon defeated", and now Wang Shiqing finally understood what Lin Shanzhi meant by that sentence, and without saying a word, he called a few cronies over, and ordered them to quickly gather his subordinates to follow him to withdraw.

A cronie said worriedly: "My lord, let's retreat, those guys can't stop it, but the thieves will be able to echo the river, and then it will be broken!" ”

"The yellow flags are all gone, what are we going to do!" Wang Shiqing glared at this cronie angrily, and ordered him to act quickly, it was too late to call the thieves to hold him back. If you want to run, you can run.

All the subordinates didn't want to fight for a long time, and when they heard the arrangement of the deputy general, they all breathed a sigh of relief, and went to prepare without saying a word. (To be continued.) )