Chapter 54 - Tacit Understanding
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Since Jin Yishan received the order to cover the retreat of the Taiping army, it has been three or four days now~ time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
During this time, in order to set up his traps, and also to let Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang, the two old foxes, be fooled, he went to the telephone during this time...... Strictly order Jin Yishan to do whatever it takes...... You have to do your best to stop the Qing army!
In order to carry out Zhang Yun's orders in the past, during this time, Jin Yishan had only four or five thousand cavalry troops left.
Of course, the Taiping army was even more miserable, Yang Desheng and Zhou Yuancheng could only lead 30,000 or 40,000 infantry, trembling under Zuo Zongtang's horses' hooves, as for the cavalry troops...... The cavalry units of the Taiping Army have long been lost, and there is no one left!
It can't be said that there is not a single cavalry, at least Yang Desheng and Zhou Yuancheng and other high-ranking officials of the Taiping Army still have horses and horses, of course, they can't support the wall like this!
It was also conveyed to Zhang Yun by Li Qing through the radio, 1510......
However, such a payment is not without results, at least Zuo Zongtang's cavalry troops have been disabled, although it is still much more powerful than Jin Yishan...... But he didn't dare to bite it tightly anymore, and forcibly chased the Taiping army to attack!
After all, the more than 30,000 cavalry of Jin Yishan and the Taiping Army are not vegetarians, and the price paid by Zuo Zongtang to cripple such a cavalry force has exceeded his estimate.
At this time, he only had a few 8,000 cavalry...... Some of them were still wounded, so in this case, he didn't dare to bite the Taiping army anymore, but camped on the spot and waited for Li Hongzhang's hundreds of thousands of troops to arrive.
In fact, even if there were only 8,000 cavalry troops left, Zuo Zongtang was confident that he would continue to pursue, because he firmly believed that the remnants of the Taiping army who fled in front of him would be even more unbearable than himself!
But he always has to leave some seeds for the cavalry troops in the future, plus Yixin's stroke...... made him, who was originally loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, also have a trace of other thoughts.
This thought, not that he changed his slave idea, in fact, Zuo Zongtang is still loyal to the Manchu court, but as an old fox in the officialdom, he has already begun to think about a little back for himself, and the sixth prince suffered a stroke like this.
If he didn't think about the way back for himself, he would have waited until the last 10,000 cavalry on his hand were gone......
Then it's time for him to return to his hometown, but Zuo Zongtang is still young, and he doesn't want to leave the power field like this.
So Zuo Zongtang finally chose to let go of the remnants of the Taiping Army, people always have to think a little more about themselves, after all, people are not for themselves, and the heavens and the earth will be destroyed!
Thanks to Zuo Zongtang's desire to preserve his troops, Yang Desheng and the others finally have a way to live, and they don't have to burn the jade in the Zhoukou area!
But despite this, the Taiping Army, who had been frightened, almost all of the soldiers from the top to the bottom showed their strength to eat milk and ran towards Zhumadian.
The thousands of cavalry troops who followed Jin Yishan closely, at present, only these thousands of cavalry troops can give them a sense of security!
After another six or seven days, they finally arrived at Zhumadian, and at the same time, Zuo Zongtang, who had joined Li Hongzhang, finally mustered up the courage to pursue again.
After receiving the reward of the rear probe horse, Jin Yishan had no choice but to turn the horse's head and continue to stop the pursuit of the Manchu troops.
Especially Zuo Zongtang's more than 10,000 cavalry, he is Jin Yishan's mortal enemy, if he can't stop these more than 10,000 cavalry...... The remaining tens of thousands of Taiping infantry couldn't escape from Zhang Yun's side at all.
On a gentle slope.
Jin Yishan looked at Zuo Zongtang opposite with a solemn face, and his heart was full of thoughts...... It was originally put in an ordinary army, and with a loss rate like theirs, the army would have collapsed a long time ago!
However, both the Manchu army and the Patriotic Army have already seen the hope of completely destroying the other side, and after this battle, they should not be able to hear the other party's name, so they still have morale.
And this morale is based on the fact that the other side will definitely be destroyed, and if there is a big battle together, one side will show a little defeat...... Then it will naturally form a chain reaction, and the complete defeat will be like a mountain, even if Sun Wu is irretrievable......
Jin Yishan and Zuo Zongtang obviously understood this truth, so although they had been facing each other for so long, the two of them had not given the order to attack for a long time!
But even if the opposite side is the top card of the Qinglou, there will always be a day when you are tired of watching it, not to mention that the opposite side is still his mortal enemy, how many brothers fell under the other party's gun, Zuo Zongtang took the lead in raising his hand......
"Rush ......"
Thousands of horses galloped in an instant...... The two sides are getting closer and closer, because they are not far apart, so the two sides only have the opportunity to fire two or three shots, and the guns are completely useless!
The rest of the war is to use sabers to speak, not to mention cavalry charges, even if they are infantry charges, once they are close to the enemy, the slender Mauser 98k rifle is not as effective as a burning stick.
In this case, the cavalry units of the Patriotic Army also drew their sabers, and both sides were ...... in this vast plain A bloody battle has begun!
At the beginning of the war, there was no formation, and all the men and horses were all in chaos, you have me, and I have you......
The entire battlefield is full of hoarse shouts, as well as the screams of people before they die, of course, occasionally mixed with a gunshot......
Less than half an hour after the battle began, more than half of the people on both sides fell, and most of the Manchu cavalry troops fell under the grenades.
By this time, both sides were also beginning to get tired and afraid, and since they were both riding war horses, the circle of engagement was getting bigger and bigger...... When I got to the back, both sides had a tacit understanding to stop!
It's not about who beat whom, it's been ...... In this tug-of-war for the month, both sides can be said to know each other very well, and the war has been fought until now, and there is no need to care about success or failure.
It's simply impossible to make the other party bow their heads...... Zuo Zongtang looked at the army of four or five thousand people behind him, and his mood was complicated for a while!
What follows is the tacit understanding between the two sides...... Each withdrew a few miles, while each sent a small number of troops to the battlefield to collect the corpses of their comrades.
On this point, the two sides have cooperated many times, and there is no need to play any more heart-to-heart eyes!
Actually, at the beginning...... Zuo Zongtang played a few tricks, but Jin Yishan seized the opportunity to clean up a few handfuls, and since then he has been a lot more honest and no longer dares to make ghosts in this kind of thing.
During the time he waited for his subordinates to clean up the corpses of his comrades, Jin Yishan thought a lot......