"Demon law, pig demon is casting demon spells......"

"The pig demon's spell is amazing, such a big ball can fly!"

"No wonder I couldn't get in last night, it turned out to be a pig demon spell......"

"The pig demon has a spell, we have a heavenly father, the heavenly father's spell must be more powerful than the pig demon!"

Four hot air balloons were suspended in the air for hundreds of meters, looking like four castles floating in the air, scaring the hundreds of thousands of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom soldiers below. Most of them were peasants who had no knowledge and believed in immortals, and when they saw these four big guys who could fly, they naturally thought of immortals and ghosts. Who made the top leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom never educate on the materialist view of the world? Not only do they not carry out materialist education, but they themselves are pretending to be gods and ghosts, and they will tell the fantasy stories of Xianxia to the people below all day long. This time, when I saw four UFOs with the same glow of the sun and the moon, everyone's first reaction was, of course, that there were gods or monsters appearing.

Dongwang Yang Xiuqing himself is also dumbfounded, what is this? Will Mao fly? Could it be that there are really immortals in this world!!

"Yang Xiuqing, do you know what's flying in the sky?"

This was shouted by dozens of people at the same time, and now the battlefield around Jixiao Town is in a hustle and bustle, and no matter how loud Zhu Jishi is, Yang Xiuqing can't hear it.

That's definitely not a good thing!

Yang Xiuqing said in her heart, either Zhu Jishi really has something to do with the gods and monsters, or Zhu Jishi is pretending to be a ghost, which is really hateful!

"His Royal Highness the King of the East, it's better to pretend to be the head of the Zhu demon, and go back to Beijing first before making plans." Li Kaifang quietly leaned over to Yang Xiuqing and muttered in a low voice. "The morale of the army is shaken. If you don't retreat, you're afraid you'll be defeated......"

Yang Xiuqing snorted coldly: "If you retreat today, you won't be defeated!" The decline is complete. Is there room for redemption? ”

Talking. His face was gloomy to the extreme, today's pre-military Q&A was just a strategy, wanting to use a fake peace talk to deceive the Ming army out of the turtle shell of Jihuang Town, as long as they left the fortifications, they would not let the Taiping army horse team go unchecked! But I didn't expect Zhu Jishi to know where Lu Dao got the four flying balls, and he didn't know what Lu Dao was, and whether he would kill people? Isn't that amazing......

When he was thinking nonsense, someone on the other side shouted in Hakka: "Yang Xiuqing." If you don't surrender, can you dare to fight? ”

Do you dare to fight? Do you dare to come out with this turtle shell?

Yang Xiuqing gritted his teeth: "Go and talk to the Zhu Demon Head, do you dare to fight in the wild?" As long as he dares to fight, I, Yang Xiuqing, will not be afraid of him! If you are defeated in battle, you will lose convincingly! ”

Yang Xiuqing also had a Hakka man with a loud voice, and shouted his answer to Zhu Jishi.

Zhu Jishi smiled and said to Luo Xuan beside him: "Luo Qing, it's time for you to make a contribution." ”

Luo Xuan smiled, and it was inconvenient to raise his hand in the trench, so he arched his hand and said: "The last general will not be dishonored!" ”

Zhu Jishi nodded. Said to the left and right: "Tell Yang Xiuqing and let him retreat 10 miles." I'm going to fight him in the wilderness! ”

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The battle and the field are set out on the plains to fight a dignified array! It's not as cool as squatting in the pit and playing with barbed wire before. Moreover, Zhu Jishi only has 26,000 soldiers and horses on hand, and Yang Xiuqing's soldiers are about 140,000, but there are more than 5 soldiers in 1! Yang Xiuqing doesn't dare to fight anymore, what else is fighting for the world? Go directly to Yingtianfu to be a happy prince.

Therefore, the two sides immediately agreed that on February 9, 1849, that is, the next day, they would be in the wilderness 10 miles south of the town of Jixiao.

As mentioned above, the town of Jiwei is surrounded by a plain with a flat river, and there is no danger to defend, so there is no need to seize any favorable terrain, so the two sides did not clash in the process of arraying in the field.

The Taiping army has a lot of soldiers, and the time required to line up is also long, so they have breakfast at the end of the day, and one person sent two white-flour buns for lunch, and then announced the true holy decree of the Heavenly Father, and the pig demon will fight in the wilderness, and bet on winning or losing in a battle! At the same time, it was also announced that yesterday's flying object was a Western object called a hot air balloon, and it was definitely not a demon law. It turns out that Yang Xiuqing's army also has foreign brothers who have seen the world, but only God knows whether ordinary Taiping soldiers believe it or not.

At two o'clock, the Taiping Army Brigade drove out of the large camp located 10 miles west of Jihuang Town, with the horse team in front and the infantry team behind, and the column was in full swing towards the predetermined battlefield, with a total of 130,000 people, of which there were about 60,000 horse teams, more than 70,000 infantry troops, and about 10,000 people stayed in the camp.

"Your Majesty, the Taiping Army has set off for the battlefield! There are more than 100,000 people, and Dongwang Daqi is also in the army. The Ming army's scouts quickly reported the news of the Taiping army's dispatch to Zhu Jishi, who was having breakfast with the officers above the Guards Regiment.

"Yang Xiuqing got up really early." Zhu Jishi grabbed the oil cake with his hand, and said with a smile while eating, "Let's not be in a hurry, it's not too late to go when we're done eating." ”

"Your Majesty, it's better to cool Yang Xiuqing for a while, our reinforcements must be on the way." Old Peel suggested with a smile.

There were two reinforcements he was referring to, one was 6,000 Guards cavalry, and they must have seen four hot air balloons reporting that were already on their way to the town. All the way is reinforcements from the Guide side, and there may be one or two corps. If the two reinforcements meet, Yang Xiuqing will be the turtle in the urn.

"It doesn't have to be." Zhu Jishi said with a smile, "Yang Xiuqing is cunning and suspicious, if we don't wait for our army for a long time, maybe we will have to flee." Let's set off after we leave, and by dinner, I will be the true lord of the world! ”

At 7 o'clock in the morning of February 9th, the Ming army in Jihuang Town also set off in a formation after breakfast, and the scale of the Ming army's dispatch was about 24,000 people, leaving the baggage regiment to guard Jihuang Town and guard the prisoners. The Ming army was smaller, the queue was more orderly, and the march was much faster, and the whole army arrived at the battlefield 10 miles away before 9 o'clock. At this time, the battle formation of the Taiping army was almost finished. The white fields were covered with red, and the front line was full of Heavenly soldiers with their heads wrapped in red cloths. Phalanxes and horizontal formations of different sizes moved to the sound of trumpets and drums, and the footsteps of more than 70,000 infantry and 60,000 cavalry made the entire ground tremble slightly.

The Taiping army's large array is divided into four parts, in the middle is the third army on the right in the east hall, the fourth army on the right in front and behind the foreign guns, and about 2,000 people in Yang Xiuqing's guards. These seven armies are all less than full, each army has only about 10,000 men, and the weapons and equipment have been "modernized." All of them are foreign guns and artillery, but there are not many rifles, no flowering shells, and not even many grenades. Placed on the left and right of the infantry array is the horse army of the Taiping army, two armies on the left and right, all of which are horse teams expanded on the basis of twisting bandits, although the number is large, but the formation is scattered, looking a bit of a rabble. In addition, two horse armies formed the fourth part of the Taiping Army's Great Array, which was placed behind the Taiping Army's infantry formation and was the reserve of the whole army.

"His Royal Highness the East King, the army of the Zhu Demon Head has not yet been arrayed, it is better to send a horse team to rush!" Li Kaifang held a horsewhip and pointed to the Ming army about 7 miles away and said to Yang Xiuqing.

"It's okay," Yang Xiuqing nodded with a gloomy face, and said to Zhang Lexing beside him: "King Yu, who will come in the first formation?" ”

"You can let Gong Hou and Su Hou each lead their own horse teams to attack." Zhang Lexing ordered Gong Deshu and Su Tianfu's two armies, they, like Zhang Lexing, were the general banner owners of the five banners of the twisted army that day, and now they are the marquis of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Yang Xiuqing nodded: "Okay, let them rush!" Tell them that if they can crush the Zhu Demon team, I will give them the title of king! ”

Zhang Lexing made a bow on the horse, just wanted to turn the horse's head to pass the lead, he heard a sound of horses' hooves, he turned his head to see, it turned out to be his nephew called "Xiao Yan Wang" Zhang Zongyu rode over, he said loudly to Zhang Lexing: "Uncle, I just came back to report at night, and found the horse team of the Ming army 40 miles southeast of us, there are thousands of people. ”

Before Zhang Lexing could speak, Yang Xiuqing said: "What kind of horse team, can it be elite?" ”

"They are reported to be extremely strong, and all of them are well ridden!" Zhang Zongyu had a light in his eyes when he spoke, and there was no knight who galloped on the field who did not love horses, and under his crotch was a Mongolian horse.

"All good horses?" Yang Xiuqing touched his chin and thought for a moment, and said to Zhang Lexing: "Lao Le, you take 4 horse soldiers to meet them!" (To be continued......)