"Lord Belle, the Cantonese bandits' brigade has gone down to Qi County, 50 miles away!"

Tanma sent an urgent report again, but it made Seng Lingqin's wishful thinking come to an end. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIt's just noon on October 19 in the Gregorian calendar, and it's not time to set up camp and sleep, so why did you go down to the village?

"How big is the camp of the Cantonese bandits?" Monk Greenqin asked.

"I don't know about the lowly position, there are a lot of Cantonese bandit horse teams, and the lowly position can only look at it from a distance, and dare not approach the ......"

As expected, the Taiping army's horse corps covered their large army.

"Lord Belle, look...... Do you want to send troops to test it? As soon as the reported probe left, Fu Fang made a suggestion.

"Temptation? Zeng Guofan's Hunan army is not here! "Monk Lingqin regrets it a little now, why did he send out the cannon fodder for pathfinding?

"Is there any news from Zeng Guofan?" Thinking of Zeng Guofan, he asked another question.

"Zeng Guofan came to report that the Cantonese bandits of the Dezhou generation were powerful, and they were suspected to be the main force of the Cantonese bandits, and he had led his troops to retreat to Jinan, and together with Kong Bohai, he covered and protected Shandong, so as to protect the food and salary of the imperial court......"

"Cover Shandong? How can this Zeng Guofan be like this! He has already asked to raise the flag......" Monk Lingqin jumped to his feet and scolded when he heard the news. Zeng Guofan didn't dare to start a war with the Cantonese bandits who had just occupied Dezhou, so he took his troops to Jinan to avoid the limelight!

"Lord Belle, let's go and see the camp of the Cantonese bandits," Su Shun interrupted the monk who kept complaining about Zeng Guofan, "Let's go together and bring the horse team with 3 flags." ”

Although the New Army of the Eight Banners paid attention to foreign guns and artillery, it did not lose the cavalry and horse corps, and there were still a large number of horse corps in the new army system. Under each banner of the new army, there are three associations of infantry teams, two associations of horses, one association of artillery teams, and one association of baggage troops. The number of infantry, horseman, and baggage associations was the same, all 4,000 people, and the number of artillery associations was smaller, only about 700, equipped with 36 9-pounder or 12-pounder cannons. The 6-Banner New Army has a total of 48,000 horses and 216 cannons, which is definitely not bad in terms of equipment. Whether it is fighting artillery or cavalry, they are not afraid of the Taiping army. The only thing that is inferior to the other party is probably desperate, right?

"Go to a camp with a team of 24,000 horses!? Su Lao Liu, the lives of a few of us are too precious, right? Monk Lingqin was amused by Su Shun's suggestion, waved his hand and said, "In that case, why don't you bring all the horses of the six flags?" ”

The generals in the hall all laughed when they heard this, but Monk Lingqin looked at everyone with a serious face, what he said was not a joke!

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In the newly established camp of the Taiping Army, on top of a watchtower near the outside, Yang Xiuqing, the East King of the Left Auxiliary Army Division of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was holding a telescope and smiling at the overwhelming 6-flag horse team less than 2 miles away.

Tens of thousands of horses. Unfold in the wilderness in front of the great camp. As far as the eye can see, there are cavalrymen wearing red, red, white, white, blue, and blue cotton armor!

Pull the monocular to the longest, though. Yang Xiuqing clearly saw that there were many soldiers of all ages and young in the "Eight Banners Force" riding on horses. The old ones are afraid of fifty or sixty years, and the young ones are only thirteen or fourteen -- compared to the boy boy camp of the Taiping Army. It's just that I don't know which of these Eight Banners Boys or Taiping Boys is more fearless of death?

"His Royal Highness the King of the East. It's better to let your subordinate horse team go out and fight with the Qing Demon Horse Team! ”

Zhang Lexing, the Marquis of Chengtian, who walked up to the watchtower with Yang Xiuqing, respectfully saluted the East King and asked for battle.

The battle of Baisha Town made him see the power of the Taiping Army, since the Taiping Army is so good at fighting, then the world may really be the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! Zhang Lexing also began to take his marquis seriously...... It's not bad to follow the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as a founding hero, right?

Yang Xiuqing smiled and waved his hand: "The monk and demon head will not fight with you, as soon as your twisted army goes out, he will take the horse team and run back to the Jixian camp." He pointed to the menacing Qing army horse team outside, "The little blood of the banner people is here, and it can't grow in the ground that has fought Manchuria!" If the head of the monk really wants to fight us. It's not just the horse team that came with him. ”

Horse team, run fast! Isn't that the idea of Monk Grinqin? If the Taiping army brigade swarms out, then quickly turn around and flee for their lives -- this means that the main force of the Taiping army is in Qi County. If the Taiping army retreats into the camp and does not come out......

"Lord Belle, is the camp of the Taiping Army empty?"

Fu Fang stood on his horse. After looking at the monoculars for a long time, he put down the telescope and said to Monk Greenqin.

If you don't come out, it's an empty camp?

Monk Lingqin shook his head and did not speak...... At least you can't be sure that the main force of the Taiping Army is in Qi County, right?

"Why don't you turn the team over and fight?" Su Shun smacked his lips and suggested with a frown. Now this battle is really confused and wretched! Counting the losses of the Hunan army and the green battalions on the north bank of the Yellow River, the Qing army has lost more than 30,000, and the Taiping army has broken more than a dozen cities on both sides of the Yellow River!

"Hit what?" Monk Lingqin snorted, "If you want to fight, you will fight a big fight, fight a decisive battle, or you won't fight...... You can't fight like that in White Sands anymore! ”

Yes, now that Zeng Guofan has brought the cannon fodder soldiers to Jinan, he will have to take the main force of the Eight Banners New Army out if he wants to test it again. As for the more than 20,000 green battalion soldiers, they were already worthy of the imperial court's military salary if they didn't flee from the wind.

This time the temptation really didn't find out anything, but Seng Lingqin and the others returned to the camp in Ji County, and the holy decree of Emperor Daoguang urging the battle arrived!

It turned out that the Taiping army that went to Liaocheng and Dezhou had already invaded the territory of Zhili, and had just broken the empty defense of Cangzhou! In addition, there is a Taiping army from Anyang to the north, the momentum is even greater, and the banner of Yang Xiuqing, the eastern king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, is going north to Zhengding, along the way to break the county, coerce the people, and is snowballing like a growing team! The governor of Zhili, Ner, did not dare to be the enemy, and had already led his troops to retreat from Zhengding to defend Baoding, and at the same time complained to Beijing one after another.

Emperor Daoguang and the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, who originally had illusions about the Battle of Henan, were stunned and frightened.

Now there are not many defenders in Beijing, even if more than 50,000 people from the Governor of Zhili, Nerjing, are pulled into Beijing, they will not be able to gather 100,000 troops! Moreover, less than half of the resettlement project to relocate the children of the Eight Banners to the outside of the border has now been completed, and there are still nearly 200,000 old and weak women and children in the city of Beijing......

In addition, Emperor Daoguang himself still has a few elder brothers who are still stranded in Beijing City! The Taiping army saw that it was about to come to the city, should Emperor Daoguang go, or not?

The sky of the Qing Dynasty is about to collapse......

Outside the Longzong Gate of the Forbidden City, the large and small military planes in the Military Aircraft Department shouted in their hearts.

Millions of Cantonese bandits are about to hit Baoding! It is only more than 200 miles away from the city of Beijing, where the Emperor of Heaven of the Qing Dynasty stopped, and you can get there in ten days if you walk slowly! When the time comes, the city will be besieged, and the Manchu Dynasty will have 200,000 banner people and less than 40,000 banner soldiers, all of which will be meat on the chopping block, and the Cantonese bandits will be able to use their knives no matter what!

"What is Monk Glinqin doing! Why don't you fight with the Cantonese bandits in Henan? Why did you put the Cantonese bandits under the city of Beijing? How the hell did he fight......"

Mu Zhang'a was so anxious that he shouted in the small room of the military aircraft department, and all the military planes sighed.

"Or ...... Bring the 50,000 troops of the Nar Meridian to Beijing? "Xu Guangjin, the secretary of the Ministry of War, doesn't even have a single black hair now, it's all white! What a real overnight whitehead!

"That's right, transfer the Nerjing to Beijing, Beijing must not be lost, or it will be all over!" Qi Ying had just arrived from Tianjin, and he was escorting the 10 million yuan treasure notes of the Daqing Bank to Tianjin, which would be shipped to Shanghai and Yantai by Jardine Matheson & Co. -- the banknotes of the Daqing Bank now have several markets in Jiangnan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Sichuan. Among them, Jiangnan and Shandong were directly responsible for the Daqing Bank, and the markets in the remaining provinces were contracted to Jin merchants. 20 million treasure banknotes asked for 8 million taels of silver from Jin merchants, and this treasure banknote has depreciated by more than half before it reaches the people!

As for the 10 million yuan treasure money shipped to Shanghai and Yantai, Qiying did not ask for much, as long as Lin Zexu and Kong Bohai could give 6 million stone grains -- which also included the autumn grain of Daoguang's 28th year, and then transport them to Lushun by foreigners' merchant ships. But the problem is that these treasure notes are linked to the survival of the Qing court, if Beijing loses it, who will recognize the treasure money? If you don't recognize the treasure money, then 6 million Shiguzi can't be raised, and what about the hundreds of thousands of bannermen who moved to Guanwai and so many troops? What to eat?