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On July 15, 1847, north of Guangzhou, at the foot of Baiyun Mountain.

When Seng Lingqin and Saishang Adu led an army of 20,000 to open a battle formation at the foot of Baiyun Mountain, Zheng Hong and Lu Siyuan had already led more than 5,000 soldiers under the banner of the Jishi Army, and they had been waiting for a long time.

Looking at a Dazhai standing on the southern slope of Baiyun Mountain, and the sun and moon flying high above Dazhai, Saishan'a suddenly said: "Monk King, really don't care about the bandits in Guangxi......

"No matter!" Monk Greenqin gritted his teeth and said: "The bandits are at most chaotic in the world, but Zhu Yi wants to take over the world!" He raised his hand and pointed to the large camp on the hillside, "How many days have you been?" The bandits of Baiyun Mountain can build such a strict village, which shows that they are talented! This Zhu rebellion should not be taken lightly! ”

The big village on the mountain is actually the handiwork of the young master of the He family, He Zhenglong, although this fat man is a famous talent, but he is not interested in the imperial examination. This fat man was a businessman, specializing in the construction of various projects, and in the words of later generations, he was a contractor! The construction industry inside and outside Guangzhou is very prosperous, and the business is very good, so he never thought of making a fortune by becoming an official in the imperial examination, and of course he never thought of rebelling! Taking the test for a show is just to seek fame as an umbrella, so that the government officials can find less trouble. And this time, he was coerced to Baiyun Mountain with him, as well as some craftsmen under him, with these people, of course, there is no difficulty in building a large camp.

"This bandit actually learned from the official army to set up a hard village!" Frowning, Saishana suddenly lowered his voice and said, "This can't be Zhu Yi's trick, right?" So that the bandits of Baiyun Mountain will stick to it. Attract the main force of the official army. He sneaked to Guangxi on his own. Gather the bandits under the signboard of worshipping God, and take Guangxi as a nest before I am ready......"

Hearing this, Monk Greenqin sighed and shook his head, and said with a somewhat wry smile: "Race table, you, don't think so much. We have only tens of thousands of soldiers who can fight, and we have already deployed two standard elite soldiers in Qiongzhou Mansion and Leizhou Mansion, and we have to divide our troops to Guangxi, and this battle cannot be fought. ”

"It doesn't matter if Guangxi loses it?"

"No matter!" Monk Grinqin waved his hand. "The imperial court is not the only one with our troops, the emperor will definitely transfer troops from Huguang, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan to Guangxi when he gets an urgent report, let's just fight the battle of Guangdong."

The bandits in Guangxi are not the White Lotus Sect, but the newly emerged God Worship Sect. But to say that Seng Lingqin really doesn't worry about Guangxi is self-deception, but he also knows that he has such a small number of soldiers in his hands, and he can't take care of the head and tail, Guangxi is not as important as Guangdong after all, and if he really wants to lose it, he can only resign himself to fate. However, this Guangdong cannot afford to be lost, and the imperial court adds tariffs to the official taxes and silver in Guangdong every year. There are no less than 7 million taels, which is worth several Guangxi!

Just as Saishana and Monk Grinchen were talking. The Qing army has already set up a battle array. It's not a complicated array, but two rectangular phalanxes from the outside. Cannons are placed at the front, followed by bird guns, carrying guns, and cold weapons such as broadswords and spears, and zuihou are cavalry.

The reason why there are two phalanxes is mainly that the troops dispatched by the Qing army are divided into eight banners and green battalions. The green battalion was cannon fodder in front, and the Eight Banners were in awe. However, the artillery of the Eight Banners was also pulled to the forefront, all of them were 9-pounder and 12-pounder foreign guns, and the gunners were also trained by French instructors, and the jishu was much stronger than the gunners of the Green Battalion.

In addition to the cannons, the armor of the Green Battalion and the Eight Banners is also different. The Eight Banners are wearing cotton armor on the battlefield, and there are eight different kinds of armor and armor, including yellow, yellow, red, red, blue, white, and white. The weapons in their hands were also very good, about 50% of the soldiers were equipped with foreign guns, and the rest were pikemen, sword players and cavalrymen. The foreign guns were still equipped with bayonets, but now they were all plugged in, and the cold light flashed under the sun, which was scary enough to look at.

But if you really have to take a closer look, you will find that some of the Eight Banners soldiers are old and young, the younger one is only twelve or thirteen years old, and the old one is almost sixty! It turned out that these people were the so-called Guangzhou Eight Banners New Army. Of course, the population of the Eight Banners in this era is a state secret, and it is said that there are hundreds of thousands of heavenly soldiers, so it should be a lot. But in fact, the number of banner people is not much, only about 15.6 million (Zhu Jishi does not know much about history, and he does not know how many people there are in the Eight Banners of this era), mainly concentrated in Beijing, Guanwai and the Mongolian steppe. There are not many banner people in the south, if there are eight banners in Guangzhou, there are a total of 6,000 in Chengding, and all of them are incorporated into the new army of the Eight Banners. This kind of army can really only deter the enemy from afar, and it will definitely not be able to bluff people if it gets close.

And the green battalion soldiers are troops wearing green numbers, all of them are tattered, and they look like a rabble! The weapons were also broken, except for a small number of green battalion soldiers who belonged to the Liangguang Governor's standard and had foreign guns in their hands, all of them were "domestic equipment" such as bird guns, carrying guns, spears, and knives. However, the "domestically produced equipment" of this green battalion is of very poor quality, especially all kinds of firearms are very easy to explode, and they are more dangerous to their own people than to the enemy! When using shotguns, guns, and artillery, basically no one dared to add enough gunpowder.

In addition to the fact that the weapons and equipment are much worse, the salaries of the Green Battalion soldiers are also much worse than those of the Eight Banners. In peacetime, a regular soldier of the Green Battalion was paid no more than two taels of silver a month. You also have to deduct the cost of military uniforms and some training and equipment, and the rest is naturally not enough to support your family, so the green battalion soldiers don't usually train much, and it is better to find another job to do if you have that kind of work.

However, once the war started, the salary of the green battalion soldiers doubled, and about one soldier could get six taels of silver a month, and there were rewards of various names. For example, a reward must be given before the promotion, and a reward number must be given before the team goes out to see the battle, and it must be explained in advance how much reward a soldier will give if he wins the battle. That's how they went out to fight. After the fight, the injury will be examined and rewarded...... In short, it is not easy to get the Green Battalion soldiers to go out to fight. It profoundly embodies the truth that fighting a war is fighting money! Therefore, the Qing Dynasty used the Green Battalion soldiers on a large scale several times to fight several big battles, all of which cost money like water.

However, it has not cost much to fight two battles with the World Army recently. It's not because the soldiers of the Manchu Green Battalion don't love money anymore, but because the battle of Lantau Island is there to go and no return! Thousands of people were wiped out, and there were 117 Han officials who rebelled, so naturally no one asked Emperor Daoguang for silver, and even the pension silver was also saved. As for the Battle of Penghu, there were people who came back alive, but they also lost nearly half, and it also broke out that Shi Degao led his troops to counterattack and attack Penghu, Long Yan was furious, and all the Fujian Navy Han officials who participated in the war were in danger, so no one dared to find the above to reimburse the military expenses. In addition to the 18 banner men, the rest of the green battalion soldiers who died in the battle could only die in vain.

However, these two big battles of "dead and white death" seriously hit the morale of the Guangdong Green Battalion. Since the court will repay the debt, what is the big guy's strength? Who is it that really killed him?

"Xiangjunmen, the first formation will be played by the superintendent of the competition platform!"

Monk Greenqin gave an order lightly, and then turned to Fu Fang: "Let's start!" ”

Fu Fang rubbed his palms excitedly and shouted loudly: "Order, the artillery team fires!" ”

"The Qing soldiers are going to open fire, let the big guys avoid the artillery."

On the Baiyun Mountain Dazhai, seeing that the artillery of the Qing army began to load gunpowder shells, Zheng Hong immediately issued an order for the troops to avoid the artillery. It's really unbelievable to say that Zheng Hong, a Yeluzi officer who is not even a halfway monk, summed up a set of experience in "positional warfare" in several encounters with the Qing army. It was to dig trenches, to build fortifications, and to put the infantry in the trenches to avoid artillery - who left him without artillery? I can only try my best to avoid the cannon. And it is certainly safer to let the infantry hide in the trenches than to repair the breastwork.

Zheng Hong and Lu Siyuan had already entered the trench at this time, and they showed their heads and two hands holding binoculars to look around, and saw clouds of white smoke rising from the artillery positions of the Qing army, and then they heard a loud rumbling sound, as if it was a muffled thunder rolling.

Almost at the same time, a few red deer bars not far away burst into fragments, splashing everywhere with dirt and gravel, and a large hole was broken in the fence of the camp behind them, and wood chips were scattered like raindrops.

The prelude to the bloody battle of Baiyun Mountain has begun! (To be continued......)