Jiading County, the so-called Great Tomorrow Land Tartar Generalissimo's Mansion, where the so-called oath meeting was carried out. Zhou Lichun, who was the self-proclaimed generalissimo of the Great Tomorrow and the Tartars, began to hold a pledge meeting to prepare for the beginning www.biquge.info of the southern and northern wars. In the past few days, Zhou Lichun has asked the people of the Heaven and Earth Society to recruit soldiers everywhere, but the source of these soldiers is not mentioned. Some joined to get a share of land, and some wanted to fish in troubled waters and rob them. Some of them were simply joined by some of the Zhuangding, and after recruiting troops by various means in several surrounding counties, a large number of so-called troops were rushed into this Heaven and Earth Society. In less than two months, the army was expanded by 300,000. The speed of expansion is simply terrifying.

However, due to Chen Dingtian's reminder, Zhou Xiuying must not divide the troops in his hands. Especially the 1,000 infantry regiments trained by foreigners, plus the musket team law enforcement team or something, these can't be dispersed, and it can be regarded as ensuring that the real essence is not diluted. Zhou Lichun felt that he had an army of 300,000, and he could already be regarded as confident, and he began to prepare for the road of dominating the world.

"The Manchu Tartars have no way, occupy my Han family for many years, today I am ordered by heaven to recover my Ming Dynasty, follow the will of the country's surname, the Northern Expedition to the Tartars, expel the Tartars, and restore my Ming Dynasty. And I raised troops in Jiangnan, Jiangsu, and I am willing to follow the example of my Emperor Taizu, take Jiangnan as the foundation, set the capital in Nanjing, and attack the Tartars in the north. Today, Nanjing Yingtian, which is now Jiangning, is right in front of you, set off with me and conquer Jiangning, which will inevitably shock the world, everyone rush with me! ”

Zhou Lichun held a pledge meeting, and his troops began to attack to the west, and their goal was relatively clear, that is, to attack Jiangning as the capital. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang also obtained the country through Yingtian as Nanjing and the Northern Expedition to Mengyuan. As long as there is a little political acumen, people will know the importance of Jiangning, and this time they will definitely attack Jiangning first, so as to ensure their so-called legitimacy. It is even possible to obtain the location of the Ming Dynasty Tomb of Filial Piety, which will help to obtain the so-called "orthodoxy" in the future.

The so-called 300,000 troops were mighty, and they began to march towards Jiangning. However, they obviously didn't encounter resistance along the way, and most of the Qing troops along the way had already retreated, so those people of the Heaven and Earth Society felt good about themselves completely.

"Hahahaha, in front of my army of 300,000, the Tartars were also so frightened that they ran away, and they didn't dare to go out of Ali to meet the battle. Continue to attack with me, the whole army will attack with power, and Jiangning will be conquered, and we will eat and drink spicy! In Jiangning, the girls of Qinhuai River are all water and watery, and if they invade Jiangning, the girls of Qinhuai River are at your disposal. Zhou Lichun's habits of the rivers and lakes were broken out again, and he actually said that he was fragrant and spicy, and even took out the women of Qinhuaihe as a way to boost morale.

The morale of those soldiers of the Heaven and Earth Society really boosted a lot, and they began to attack Jiangning at a faster speed, but they all started to attack quickly along the way, preparing to reach Zhenjiang.

In Jiangning, the residence of Yiliang, the governor of Liangjiang.

"My lord, according to your orders, we have drawn all the forces around the rebels and have begun to evacuate. Officials from all over the country, as well as various soldiers and horses, have been evacuated. We have taken most of the food from the local people, and there is very little food left for the rebels. Therefore, if the rebels want to get food replenishment along the way, they will inevitably rob the people of food, and the people will inevitably hate them very much. ”

Yi Liang nodded and said, "Very good, just do it, take care of the Heaven and Earth Society rebels seem to be menacing, but according to me, they are just a group of rabble." The old man was not even afraid of the British barbarians with strong ships and guns, and would he be afraid of this rabble? Hmph, this rabble looks like 300,000, but for these traceless rabble, let alone 300,000, three million old men are not afraid. The old man has 50,000 elite soldiers of my Qing Dynasty in his hands, how can he be afraid of those guys? Order, I cleared the troops and horses, and the whole army attacked, striving to meet the rebels in Zhenjiang, and then in one fell swoop, the rebels gave me heavy defeats, or even completely defeated. ”

"Yes, sir!" Yiliang's pro-soldier said.

The soldiers and horses who had just arrived from Hunan to Jiangsu, under the orders of Yiliang, the governor of Qincha Liangjiang, began to advance towards Zhenjiang in the east. These Qing troops were different from ordinary local garrisons, these Qing troops were all transferred from the Changsha front, and they had combat experience with the Taiping army. These Qing troops are troops that have combat experience with the Taiping Army, not the kind of army that is very lazy and slack on weekdays. The combat effectiveness of these Qing troops is not comparable to the ordinary Qing army, although it may not be comparable with the army of the foreigners, and even the Taiping army may not be comparable, but it is obviously much better than those ordinary Tiandihui rebel armies.

These Qing troops marched towards Zhenjiang one after another, and they reached Zhenjiang one step ahead and deployed various positions for defense. Start the defense in accordance with the daily combat queue. Many of them carried muskets to fight, and the proportion of firearms used by this Qing army was as high as 20 percent, which was the proportion of firearms in the regular army of the Qing army.

After more than ten days of marching, the 300,000-strong army finally marched from the vicinity of Jiading to this Zhenjiang Mansion.

"Generalissimo, Zhenjiang Mansion has arrived, Zhenjiang is the east gate of Nanjing, as long as Zhenjiang is conquered, then Nanjing is our bag."

Zhou Lichun immediately shouted: "Give me the whole army to charge, rush!" Conquer Zhenjiang, recover Nanjing, and Northern Expedition to Tartar, we are all heroes of the restoration of the country! ”

"Rush!" The Tiandihui rebels began to charge violently, but Yiliang, who was in charge of command in Zhenjiang, did not make any moves.

Yiliang was also a person who fought the British army back then, and he was not the kind of ordinary person who panicked when he saw the army. The British army didn't scare him back then, and these Heaven and Earth Society rebels were just a small thing compared to the British army, so naturally they couldn't be too afraid. Although it is 300,000, it is not panicked in Yiliang's eyes.

"My lord, everything is going according to plan!"

"Very good, you are in charge, this official is waiting for your victory!" Yiliang said.

It was impossible for Zhou Lichun's hundreds of thousands of troops to charge at the same time, and they began to rush in waves. However, in this relatively narrow place, it is impossible for them to deploy all their forces at once. The Qing army relied on the Yangtze River for defense, using the waterway of Zhenjiang for defense, and backed by the Yangtze River and the hub of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, so that the rebel army of the Tiandihui could not outflank them. If the Heaven and Earth Society wants to conquer Zhenjiang, it will inevitably attack from the front.

The first tens of thousands of rebel troops began to attack, and Yiliang was in charge of command. He saw that tens of thousands of Tiandihui rebels began to attack, and immediately ordered the Qing army to start firing bows and crossbows.

"Whoosh Whoosh ......"

The troops of the Qing army were arranged in three rows and began to fire bows and crossbows in an orderly manner. This kind of intense war is nothing for this group of Qing troops, and the intensity of the confrontation with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is far beyond these, so naturally they will not be afraid of anything. Tens of thousands of troops fired arrows together, so that the rebel army of the Heaven and Earth Society began to suffer casualties.

"Wow......"

Many of the Heaven and Earth Society rebels faced these arrows and began to suffer casualties from the arrows. Even soon the Heaven and Earth Society rebels also had deserters. This kind of uneven Heaven and Earth Society rebel army, many of them want to join in the troubled waters, and even many of them are forcibly pulled in, if they fight a good battle, it is okay, but once the situation is slightly wrong, they will soon be able to protect themselves.

Soon, the Tiandihui rebels began to "sell their teammates" a lot, and many people deliberately hid behind their teammates, so that their teammates could bear the bows and arrows, while they hid behind. Although the density of the tens of thousands of arrows of the Qing army was not large, and even the casualties caused were not many, it was enough to make these Tiandihui rebels begin to become complicated.

"Bastard, give me offense, offense!" Zhou Lichun said angrily.

Zhou Lichun ordered his subordinates to start attacking quickly, forcing those Heaven and Earth Society rebels to attack.

"Daughter, let the law enforcement team enforce the law and enforce military law!" Zhou Lichun said.

Zhou Xiuying always remembered Chen Dingtian's words, so she hurriedly shirked and said: "Father, now that the number of law enforcement teams is small, I am afraid that we will not be able to effectively enforce military law!" ”

Chen Dingtian once told Zhou Xiuying that if he can, he should not fight, and avoid all kinds of senseless sacrifices. At this time, the number of people in the law enforcement team was large, but it was only more than 100 people, and it must be very difficult for these people to go to the tens of thousands of people in front of them to enforce military law, and even if they were not good, they had to fill in themselves. In order to avoid unnecessary sacrifices, it is better to quickly shirk it.

Zhou Lichun saw his daughter's refusal, although he was unhappy, but he couldn't say anything. He had no choice but to order the second group of troops to press up, thus forcing the first group to go back and continue the attack.

However, Zhou Lichun did not expect that once the second batch of troops pressed up, it would disrupt the past troop establishment. Originally, the establishment of the Heaven and Earth Society was also imperfect, and there were various kinds of hall establishments. There is even a lot of arbitrariness in their organization, and they are organized completely according to the arrangements and preferences of their superiors, so that the first army and the second army are mixed together, and problems suddenly arise in the command system.

"Rush me!" "Why should I listen to you?" "yes!" "Why should we listen to you?" ……

The first and second armies were unfamiliar with watching, and there were all kinds of inability to cooperate well between them. But they are now on the battlefield, so the Qing army will not stop.

"Set fire. Blunderbuss! Yiliang said.

"Bang Bang ......"

A large number of guns of the Qing army began to be fired, and the Qing army actually had a lot of firearms troops. This is not true that the Qing army used cold weapons. As for the fact that the Qing army despised firearms very much, this is not entirely true. In the Qing Dynasty, the research method adopted was the research and development method of "temporary cramming". After suffering the loss of firearms during the Ming Dynasty, they began to imitate the firearms of the Ming Dynasty. When Kangxi suffered the loss of Tsarist Russian firearms, he also began to imitate Tsarist firearms, and later used them to fight Kaldan all day long. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, after suffering the loss of foreigners' firearms, they also followed the imitation of foreigners' firearms.

In one sentence, these guys just don't remember to eat. If they did not suffer a loss, they would not take the initiative to study firearms. It would be incorrect to say that it is completely ignored, but it is far from attainable to say that it is valued. Only when they suffer a loss will they temporarily cramble to study, and the firearms of the Qing army are also quite numerous, but they are much worse than the firearms of the simple West at the same time, but there are a lot of them.

A barrage began to fire at the Tiandihui rebel army, and the Qing army also shot in three rows, this method was already an old tactic in the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing army was familiar with this aspect, and there was nothing unsuitable.

A large number of Tiandihui rebels were hit by firearms and rifles, and suffered a lot of losses. Even many Tiandihui rebels began to become deserters, and even a large number of them became deserters. Immediately after these Qing troops began to fire firearms, thousands of Tiandihui rebels began to desert. The quality of these Heaven and Earth Rebel Army is not strong, and even being a deserter is very fast.

In the face of the enemy's firearms, they have quickly begun to crumble and begin to become deserters. In less than half an hour, the results of the Tiandihui rebel army were almost zero, and even the various losses plus the deserters exceeded 10,000.

"Damn, these Qing troops are really cunning, they actually have their backs to the Yangtze River, otherwise I will attack directly from behind, they will die!" Zhou Lichun scolded.

Zhou Lichun scolded Yiliang for being cunning this time, and actually deployed a defensive position against the Yangtze River, so that Zhou Lichun's "means" on weekdays were not used. Zhou Lichun was born as a gangster, and their way of fighting was that they couldn't fight head-on, so they attacked from behind. If you can't be beaten from the front, then you can be knocked from behind.

However, the Qing army did not give him this opportunity, and directly relied on the advantages of Zhenjiang's proximity to the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and directly relied on the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal for defense. In this way, the Heaven and Earth Society rebel army can't do it, even if they want to make a detour to the back of the Qing army. Even the Qing army had to choose to fight against the water because it was the Yangtze River behind them.

"In a battle against the water, our army can be put to death and come back to life. As for the fact that it can also prevent the enemy from sneaking up from behind, these Tiandi Guild are from gangsters after all, and they don't really know how to fight, but they are just some gangsters' means. Yiliang snorted coldly.

The Qing army's bows and firearms were constantly firing, although in fact there were less than 10,000 Tiandihui rebels who were actually killed and wounded, but it caused tens of thousands of Tiandihui rebels to collapse and become deserters. The quality of these Tiantianhui rebel armies is not good, and in the face of the Qing army, which is relatively well-trained and has even experienced real wars, it is obviously not a real opponent.

The Qing army fought with its back, and the Tiandihui rebel army could not outflank the sneak attack. If mathematically speaking, the contact surface of the forces of both of them is the same, that is to say, the contact surface that can exert combat effectiveness is actually the same, and the forces of the Heaven and Earth Society have not been brought into play at all. On the contrary, in terms of the quality of soldiers, the Heaven and Earth Society is far inferior to the Qing army in terms of the quality of soldiers, the quality of officers, and even various weapons. What's more, this is a field battle, not a defensive war. If it is a defensive battle, it is still based on the city wall to defend, but this is in the field, but it is long to attack the enemy with its own shortcomings.

"My lord, this group of Heaven and Earth Society traitors is indeed a rabble. At most, we Cai killed and injured less than 10,000, but no less than 50,000 or 60,000 escaped. ”

"Order, ignore the traitorous deserters, and further divide their morale through those deserters. I don't believe that these heavens and the earth will be traitors, how much power they will have! Yiliang said. (To be continued.) )