Be careful, but Zhou Shixiang didn't want to splash the cold water of the Ge Zheng brothers and dampen their enthusiasm, because he was also very optimistic about the smooth capture of Gaoyao City, as long as he didn't make any big mistakes and fought with gunpowder that didn't wear much out, it would not be much of a problem to take this county town where only more than 500 green battalions were garrisoned. However, for the sake of safety, he still wanted to ask Shao Jiugong, who had worked in the Green Battalion, for his opinion, after all, he was familiar with the situation in the Green Battalion, and he was sure to judge it as a staff officer.

Shao Jiugong thought about it for a while, compared the situation of the enemy and us in his heart, and then said very happily: "Qianhu, the garrison green battalion of Gaoyao City should be some foreign soldiers, this foreign soldier will not die to defend the city, if we go to fight, there should be a seventy or eighty percent chance of victory." ”

Listening to Shao Jiugong's words, the Ge Zheng brothers were immediately relieved, they were afraid that this Jiangxi Yanke would drag their feet. This followed Zhou Shixiang for a few days, but the two brothers didn't even see a ghost shadow of the Qing soldiers, and Zhou Shixiang didn't let them rob those towns along the way, and the supplies carried by the troops were almost exhausted.

"Since going south, my engineer battalion has not carried out the blasting of the city wall, so you might as well take Gaoyao City first, so that the Tartars will know the strength of our Taiping Battalion, but," Tie Yi is not worried about taking Gaoyao City, but is a little worried about Zhaoqing Mansion, "The only thing to worry about is Zhaoqing's side, if we fight Gaoyao City, it is impossible for the Qing soldiers of Zhaoqing Mansion not to come, if they are entangled, then we will be in trouble." ”

"What's the trouble?"

After hearing this, Ge Zheng said disapprehantly, "We are not stubbornly defending Gaoyao City, but we are just killing and grabbing things and running away, is it possible that his Qinggou in Zhaoqing can still follow us all the way?" Besides, Lord Qianhu said a long time ago, our front camp approached Zhaoqing this time, in order to make his Zhaoqing Qing army think that we were going to attack his mansion city, and if we didn't take Gaoyao City to scare them, they would definitely not take us in their eyes, and they really wanted to come out and bite us, so it would be troublesome at that time. ”

What Ge Zheng said was the strategic plan that Zhou Shixiang made when he led the front battalion to leave Xinxing Town half a month ago, and this plan was that the front battalion concentrated its forces to attack in the direction of Zhaoqing, sweeping away or scaring off the garrison green battalions in the counties under the jurisdiction of Zhaoqing Prefecture, so that the rear battalion could safely move to Xinhui from the opposite direction. To put it bluntly, this plan is the real intention of the former battalion to cover the rear battalion and replace the Taiping battalion with a feint attack on Zhaoqing and move into Xiangshan.

In order to cooperate with this plan, Zhou Shixiang racked his brains to recall the series of military operations of the Iron Army on the Long March in later generations, and also formulated a plan to lure the enemy, tire the enemy, and ambush the enemy. Imagine that in the later generations and the era of wireless telegraphy, the iron army could rely on amazing endurance and speed to confuse and defeat the enemy army that surrounded them, and this was still the era of cold weapons. In many cases, the Taiping camp may only be separated from the Qing army by a few miles, but even these few miles, in the absence of effective communication tools, it is difficult for the Qing army to find and mobilize more soldiers and horses to encircle and suppress.

The most important thing is that Guangdong's terrain and water network are numerous, and the hilly terrain is undulating, which is not suitable for cavalry combat at all, so the Qing army in Guangdong has hundreds of cavalry except for the Han army banner under the two feudal domains of Jingnan and Pingnan, and the rest of the Qing army has no cavalry at all, and some are only horses that pull things on their behalf. When Li Dingguo attacked Guangdong twice, he also sent out infantry troops, and he would rather bring more war elephants than more cavalry, because the terrain of Guangdong was not conducive to cavalry combat, and the cavalry was not useful at all.

Without the threat of cavalry, under the tactical command of Zhou Shixiang, the Taiping battalion could naturally rush left and right between the cracks of the Qing army, leading them behind the nose.

Avoid fighting with the Qing army with a large number of troops, avoid fighting a war of attrition with the Qing army, avoid a stalemate with the Qing army, only drag the Qing army with speed and endurance, and then choose the opportunity to destroy him!

Even if it was only a short day of jet lag, the Taiping Battalion could successfully jump out from under the noses of the Qing army, because the times limited the opponent.

The Ming officials and troops organized countless large-scale encirclement and suppression of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, with hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, but in the end, the Ming Dynasty was still destroyed by the rogue in the eyes of the officials and soldiers, and the reason for this was that Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others were fully aware of their shortcomings and strengths. If Li Zicheng and the others had used the rabble under their command to fight a head-on battle with the Ming army at the beginning, and did a battle for one city and one pool, I am afraid that in less than a year, they would have to go to see the king of Hades. Without the trouble of the rogues, how could the Ming Dynasty die at the hands of the Manchurian aliens.

At present, the successful example of the peasant army, the reappearance of the iron army in later generations, Zhou Shixiang has no reason not to use the same method, from another point of view, the Taiping camp is the peasant army, and the Qing army is the Ming army, or the Taiping camp is the Red Army, and the Qing army is the white army, exactly the same situation, Zhou Shixiang does not use the successful tactics of his predecessors, his brain is really embroidered.

In fact, as Zhou Shixiang expected, after the front battalion advanced from Xinxing to Zhaoqing, because it did not deliberately hide its whereabouts, but made a big fanfare, it was quickly discovered by the Qing army. Xu Erxian, the commander-in-chief of Zhaoqing, was very stunned by the Ming army that suddenly emerged from Yunwu Mountain, because just a few days ago, the Deqing garrison Tang Sanshui had just raised troops to recover the city of Luodingzhou, which had been captured by Li Dingguo's troops in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Judging from the map, Luo Dingka is the only way for the Ming army in Gaozhou to advance eastward, and if the Qing army of Luo Ding is not pulled out, the Ming army of Gaozhou does not want to launch an offensive against Zhaoqing, but now that Luo Ding has just been recovered by Tang Sanshui, the Ming army on the Gaozhou side has not taken any offensive, how can there be a man and horse under the banner of Nanming and the black uniforms of soldiers running under their noses?

Xu Erxian couldn't figure out whether the soldiers and horses wearing black uniforms were the Ming army in Gaozhou or other soldiers and horses in the Southern Ming Dynasty, so he strictly ordered the green battalions stationed in each county to quickly find out, but the green battalions in each county sent out one after another, but the news reported was varied, some said that it was the soldiers and horses of Li Dingguo in Gaozhou, and some said that it was the governor of Liangguang under the command of Lian Chengbi, and it was said that it was the men and horses under the command of Guo Zhiqi, a scholar of Nanming University, and it was directly said that it was the bandits drilled out of the Yunwu Mountain. But nowhere was it reported in a true tone, most of them were vague, and Xu Erxian was so angry that he scolded a bunch of waste.

After scolding his subordinates, Xu Erxian still had to cheer up and deploy troops, otherwise let this unknown group of men and horses kill under the city or burn and loot in the mansion, although he Xu Erxian is a banner man of the Han army and a close confidant of the king of Pingnan, but he can't stand the pressure from the governor's palace, if the governor puts a few bad words about him Xu Erxian on the fold to Beijing, he Xu Erxian's career is afraid that it will come to an end

Xu Erxian is really jealous of the current Liangguang Governor Li Shutai, because the identity of this adult is no worse than those two princes, not only was he born in the blue banner of the Han Army, but he was also favored by Emperor Meng Taizu back then, and he was the daughter of the clan Xu to be his wife, so in total, this Governor Li is a relative of the emperor.

In his early years, he followed Emperor Taizong Taiji to conquer Chahar and North Korea, attacked Jinzhou in the Ming Dynasty, and attacked Guannei Shandong from Beile Abatai, and was promoted to the Han Army's Blue Banner Meler Ezhen because of his military exploits. In the first year of Shunzhi, he also served as the Ministry of Criminal Affairs and participated in politics, and led the army to garrison Jinzhou. In April, he followed Prince Rui Dolgon into the customs and broke Li Zicheng; He also led troops to attack Shandong and Henan, beheaded Li Zicheng's general Zhao Yingyuan, and forced the Dashun army of 10,000 people to return to the Qing Dynasty. In the second year of Shunzhi, he followed Prince Yu Duoduo to break Li Zicheng in Tongguan, and then led the army south, conquered Yangzhou and Nanjing, and then divided his troops to pacify Suzhou, Songjiang and other places.

In the third year of Shunzhi, Li Shutai followed Boluo, the prince of Duanzhong, to invade Zhejiang and Fujian, and was awarded the second-class Ada Ha Fan and Tuo Sha La Ha Pan for his merits. In the fifth year of Shunzhi, Zheng Cai invaded Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other places in Fujian, and the Qing court ordered Li Shutai and Jingnan general Chen Tai to suppress Zheng Cai and restore Changle and Lianjiang counties. When Zheng Cai was defeated, Li Shutai was appointed by Zheng Cai as the governor Gu Shichen and others. In the sixth year of Shunzhi, Li Shuotai went north to conquer Jiang Huang, a rebel general in Datong, captured Baode, captured Jiang Jiu's henchman Niu Hualin and others, and once again increased the official to drag Sha Lahafan because of his merits.

In the eighth year of Shunzhi, Li Shutai was transferred to the Ministry of Officials, and the official worshiped the scholars of the Hongwen Academy. In the tenth year of Shunzhi, the Qing court listened to the recommendation of the university scholar Hong Chengchou and awarded Li Shutai the post of governor of Liangguang. Now it has only been a few months since the governor took office, and after taking office, Li Shutai has successively participated in the impeachment of a group of civil and military officials who were unfavorable in Li Dingguo's attack on Guangdong, and sometimes there are two kings of Pingnan and Jingnan to contend with each other, because of their status, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao dare not offend him.

The prince is like this, and Xu Erxian is the chief soldier. Even though he is also a native of Liaodong, he has also made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty, but compared with Li Shuitai, the imperial prince, he is simply a slave of a slave, in this case, how dare Xu Erxian let the unknown soldiers and horses approach Zhaoqing Fucheng, under his dispatch, there have been Xinxing, Sihui, Yangjiang and other counties garrison green battalions to the Taiping Army front camp to kill.

However, under the command of Zhou Shixiang, the front battalion relied on the long-distance rapid march and the cohesion of the upper and lower levels, and left these garrison green battalions far behind, and successfully ambushed the Sihui green battalion in Sihui County, completely annihilated the total of 380 battalion soldiers, and won the second victory since the departure of Luoding.

The battle of Sihui also greatly improved the morale of the Taiping Battalion, and the captured Green Battalion soldiers also strengthened the strength of the Taiping Battalion, at present, the total military strength of the Taiping Battalion has reached as many as 2,000 people, unless the Zhaoqing General Soldier Xu Erxian personally led the main force to come, otherwise the garrison Green Battalion of the counties in Zhaoqing Mansion came alone and was no longer the opponent of the Taiping Battalion

"Brother Ge is right, we have fought smoothly these days, but we have never captured a city, the Qing army is likely to underestimate us because of this, so I want to see, Gaoyao City not only to fight, but also to fight harder, and strive to take it in one go, in this way, the Qing army in Zhaoqing will feel scared, I don't know how many of us are, will we fight Zhaoqing Mansion again, in this way, they will shrink in the city and dare not come out, otherwise, today this Qing dog is behind our ass, tomorrow the Qing dog is blocked in front of us, How is it a head? The brothers are not immortals, and it is rare to hold on until now, and anyone who sees it will praise the elite, and if it drags on, the brothers are afraid that they will not be able to hold on. Qin Zhisheng, the general banner who has not spoken much in the military meeting, opened his mouth to say his thoughts, and reminded everyone that after this half month of marching and fighting, the nerves and physical strength of the soldiers in the front battalion have actually been stretched to the limit, if they can't properly replenish and recuperate, I'm afraid they won't be able to hold on.

The bald Jiang He listened to Qin Zhisheng's words, patted his thigh, and said: "Brothers, these days are indeed hard, we really need a place to rest for a few days, besides, the back camp is also going to run out of food, we can no longer raise food and grass, and people are afraid that it will be unstable." ”

When Ge Zheng heard this, he hurriedly said: "Since this is the case, then let's set off to fight Gaoyao City, or then the camp will really run out of food, and the gang of soldiers under Lao Tzu will not rebel?" ”

"The brothers are working hard for their wives and children, as long as they tell everyone about the situation in the camp, how can the brothers hold on for a while, Qianhu, give the order!"

Tie Yi got up and looked at Zhou Shixiang.