Chapter 233: Back to Penghu Fourth Watch
Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a recommendation, ask for a subscription, Da Luo Luo, Xiao Luo Luo begged together
"What's the matter, didn't you ask Yanping Hou to pull the team out?"
At the end of Japan's "flickering trip" and also caught a Tokugawa little Lori Zhu Emperor, just returned to Penghu Dongtai Fort, received an urgent report from Hong Kong, the Qing army Yuehai camp concentrated 20,000 or 30,000 troops to besiege Baiyun Mountain! His good mood disappeared without a trace. There are only 5,000 people on Baiyun Mountain who can fight, and it is not a regular army, how can it withstand five or six times the Qing army? It would be a shame if the whole army was wiped out. And that Zheng Hong, how can he be "Yanping Hou", if you don't count Luo Xiangmei, he is the second-in-command in Zhu Ming's rebel group, if the Manchu Qing is slaughtered, how much will it affect morale?
What makes Zhu Jishi feel even more headache is what if Zheng Hong wins? Well, of course, it's not that I'm worried about Zheng Honggong's high shock, Zhu Jishi's position in the Zhu Ming Group is very solid. Instead, he was worried that Emperor Daoguang would learn a lesson, change his course, and reuse Hanchen to form Lian Yong to make his enemy. In this way, all the deployments he had planned before were in vain.
"It's not so easy to win, and the Eight Banners brought by Monk Greenqin are not so wasteful." Zuo Zongtang took Luo Xiangju's handwritten letter and looked at it, and said to Zhu Jishi with a smile, "It's okay to fight a dozen, the truth of the Eight Banners New Army can be discovered, and it will be good for our next use of troops." ”
"What's so real about the New Army of the Eight Banners? I think it's all false! ”
Wang Dehu is the general of Zheng Hong's system, so he is naturally full of confidence in the former boss. In his opinion, the rebellious policy drawn up by Zhu Jishi and Zuo Zongtang was too conservative. I am really afraid that the Manchus will launch the gentry to organize the people to fight a war of attrition. It is time to go north from the sea and land to Gyeonggi immediately. As long as the city of Beijing is captured. Show the signboard of the great tomorrow, and the world is afraid that it will not be passed on?
"Ming Gong, in the past month or so, seven or eight thousand brothers have come to take refuge!" Wang Dehu also handed Zhu Jishi a report from the General Staff of the Jishi Army.
"Lantau Island is almost overwhelmed, and the General Staff Department wants to arrange 5,000 of them to train in Penghu. In addition, the Worship of God also raised the flag in Guangxi, not playing our sun and moon flag, but playing the banner of 'Taiping King'. It seems that the surname Hong wants to set up another portal! ”
Hong Xiuquan's thoughts Zhu Jishi had known for a long time, so he didn't show a surprised expression.
"No matter what banner he plays, he will always go to make enemies of the Manchus, so let's not worry about it now."
Zhu Jishi muttered in his mouth, as soon as Hong Xiuquan was mentioned, he naturally thought of the Hunan army, Hunan, and Tianjing City of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It doesn't matter if Hong Xiuquan goes north to fight the Manchus, if he can fight with the Manchus in the Central Plains, it will save him a lot of trouble. However, they must not be allowed to stir up trouble in the two lakes and the south of the Yangtze River, lest they turn the richest region of China into a scorched earth, and then toss out a Hunan army to make things difficult for them. It's best to pass through the two lakes quickly and go north to Henan!
"Xuanjiao!" Come to think of it. He turned his head to look at Hong Xiaomei, who had been standing by his side, and the little beauty's face was a little ugly. is obviously worried about Hong Xiuquan's "betrayal" - Emperor Zhu must not want himself!
"Emperor, you call me?" The little beauty said timidly.
"You go to Guangxi in person and tell Hong Xiuquan that it doesn't matter if he sets himself up as king, but he is not allowed to get involved in the south of the Huai River!"
"Oh." The little beauty blinked and looked at Zhu Jishi with big eyes, "Emperor, you really don't object to my third brother setting himself up as king?" ”
Zhu Jishi smiled slightly, and said softly: "Xuanjiao, you go and tell your third brother, his brother and mother I will take care of him, if he is not satisfactory in the north, he can come to the same place, I always have him here." After speaking, he turned to Wang Dehu again, "Tiger, since Baiyun Mountain has made a big move, I won't stay in Penghu, I have to go back to Hong Kong immediately, Penghu here I still ask you to be more careful." ”
"Ming Gong, don't worry, now the Fujian sailors are shrinking in the port, and they don't dare to show their heads at all." Wang Dehu patted his chest and smiled.
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Here in the Taiwan Strait, the Manchu Qingshui Division does not dare to show its head, but on the side of Baiyun Mountain, the Qing army is pressing the Jishi Army to fight!
Zheng Hong and Lu Siyuan's troops had already abandoned the first trench and retreated into the Baiyun Mountain Village, leaning on several newly erected breastworks to fire at the Qing army's muskets. It was getting dark, but the Qing army still showed no signs of resting. Instead, he changed into the elite of the firearms battalion outside the Beijing Banner and continued to shoot at the Jishi Army. Moreover, there are also smart people in these Eight Banners Army, who have taken a lot of big wooden shields and erected them in front of their foreign gun team. In this way, it was difficult for the foreign guns of the Jishi Army to hurt the musketeers of the Eight Banners. The balance of victory and defeat suddenly tilted to the side of the Qing soldiers with many people and guns.
"Damn, damn it! It would be nice to have a few cannons! ”
Zheng Hong leaned against the chest wall, looked at the "shield array" seventy or eighty steps away, gritted his teeth and hated the authentic.
"How could the cannon be smuggled into Guangdong?" Lu Siyuan glanced at Zheng Hong, and there was some complaint in his heart. If I had run away earlier, I would have probably arrived on Lantau Island safely and securely, so why would I fight to the death with the Qing army here?
"Master Hou, why don't we break through tonight?" Lu Siyuan suggested in a low voice.
"It's better to guard Baiyun Mountain!" Zheng Hong thought for a while and said to Lu Siyuan, "Let's defend the mountains now, and we have enough food and ammunition...... There is not much danger. If you abandon the mountain and leave, it is very likely that you will be tail-attacked by the cavalry of the Qing army, and it is difficult to say what will happen at that time. ”
It is certainly safest to stick to the mountains, and this person with a little military knowledge knows it. However, the besieged Zuihou will definitely be destroyed. Of course, Zheng Hong and Lu Siyuan don't have to worry about this, because they have foreign aid! Zhu Jishi has a large army on Lantau Island, and they will be able to fight in two or three months at most, and they can probably afford this time.
"Master Hou, Lord Lu, the Tartar shield array is coming to us again, it seems that it wants to close the distance with us, what should I do!"
The anxious voice of Ding Crab, the commander of the musket battalion who was directing the troops to shoot at the Qing army, suddenly remembered.
"There must be hand-to-hand fighters behind this shield array!" Zheng Hong looked at the shield array that was slowly approaching Haha and smiled, "This monk Greenqin is more anxious than us!" ”
"Can he not be in a hurry? The army of the Ming Duke will come to attack Guangzhou at any time. Lu Siyuan smiled and patted a large wooden box beside him, "The whole box is full of grenades, a total of a hundred!" Yanpinghou, let's come together? ”
"Ah Crab, you go and gather a few brothers of the Jinyi Guard, and prepare to throw grenades." Zheng Hong beckoned to Ding Ah Crab and asked him to find a few officers from the brocade guard.
The ammonium grenade is the killer weapon of the Jishi Army, and like the Besemai rifle, it is a "non-proliferation" weapon. Therefore, Baiyun Mountain didn't get much, and it couldn't be equipped for all the soldiers at all, and ordinary soldiers wouldn't use it, only the Jinyi Guards who came from Hong Kong with Zheng Hong knew how to use it.
"Hurry up, keep up!"
Behind the shield array, Fu Fangfu's big guard was holding a sword in one hand and a rattan card in the other, beckoning hundreds of rattan soldiers of the Jianrui battalion to move forward with their waists bent.
The Jianrui Battalion is the elite of the three battalions outside the Beijing Banner, and these soldiers of the Eight Banners stationed in Beijing are treated very well, not only with flag salaries and flag land, but also with rewards of various names, so there is no need to worry about life at all, all they have to do is to practice martial arts. Of course, there are quite a few opium smokers! But there are also those who have practiced good kung fu. These people have become the elite hand-to-hand fighters of the Jianrui Battalion, and their combat effectiveness is much higher than that of the ordinary Eight Banners and Green Battalion. If you compare kung fu, even the elite of the Jishi Army can't beat them. Therefore, Fu Fang is now very confident that as long as he can cross the trench under the cover of the shield array, his sword player will be able to rush into the musketeers of the thief army and cut people.
"See that trench? Don't let them take the trench and drop bombs as soon as they get close! ”
Zheng Hong confessed as he handed out the grenades. As soon as it was issued, the big shield of the Qing army was moved to the edge of the trench, and it was less than 30 steps away from the chest wall that the Ji Shijun was holding.
"Bomb drop! Now for the bomb! ”
As soon as Zheng Hong's words fell, more than a dozen smoking grenades tumbled and flew out, and most of them fell behind the Qing army's shield array...... (To be continued......)