As the two Taiping soldiers turned to leave, the remaining three Taiping soldiers continued to follow the Yongying camp in Yuyao County in the distance. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]

However, after following for a few kilometers, the head of the Wu Commander showed a frightened look on his face: "It's not good, it's been discovered by the Qing Demon, let's hurry up!" ”

Just as they hurriedly ran away, ready to lead the horses to escape, there was already a sound of horses' hooves in the rear, and when they fled, they turned around and skimmed, and saw three people wearing dark blue single-breasted shirts, black-trimmed dark blue trousers, gray cloth on their heads, and long leather boots on their feet.

But the scout cavalry of the Taiping Army, who had already fought with the Yongying of Yuyao County twice, knew that these were the Qing demons who had defeated them twice in a row: the Yongying of Yuyao County.

The three Taiping soldiers ran as hard as they could, they tried to run to their horses, and then fled on their horses, and it was stupid to stay and resist.

Although they discovered the attack of the cavalry of the Yongying of Yuyao County earlier, they also quickly turned around and ran, but it was still too late, and they saw the three cavalrymen of the Yongying Guards of Yuyao County galloping quickly, and the sabers in their hands had been drawn and raised high.

It didn't take long for the three cavalrymen of the Guards who rushed up to get close to them, and then waved their sabers in unison!

After a few breaths, the three Taiping soldiers fell in a pool of blood one after another!

One of the three horsemen of the guard, about thirty years old, turned his horse's head, then dismounted at the corpses of the men, turned them over slightly, and then got back on his horse: "These men should be the scouts of the thieves, and their horses should be nearby, find out the horses!" ”

After a while, they brought out three horses from a nearby grove!

"This harvest is not bad, three war horses are enough for me to wait for me to make a note on the military merit book!" The cavalryman at the head smiled.

Slashing and killing three Taiping soldiers is nothing, Yuyao County Yongying and the Taiping Army fought twice, and the enemy soldiers killed were more than 1,000 people, so killing a few enemy soldiers alone is not a big military feat.

Moreover, the merits of the Yongying in Yuyao County are not judged by the number of heads, and other armies will cut off their heads and ears in wars, but the Yongying in Yuyao County does not engage in these things, and the military merits are judged by the overall results.

But now the capture of these three horses is a lot of credit, Yuyao County Yongying in the purchase, captured horses are not small, the number of horses has reached nearly 400 horses, but most of them are not very good quality logistics horses, tall and strong riding horses are only less than 100.

Now that these three war horses have been captured, it can be regarded as a great achievement!

Knowing that there were enemy scouts on the edge of the army, Lin Zhe frowned, he didn't expect those Taiping troops to be so well guarded, and it seemed that many people had been sent to pay attention to the movements of his army.

It was naturally inappropriate to be known about the movement at all times, and immediately Lin Zhe ordered: "Order the pro-guard team to expand the scope of investigation, and let the first and second companies of the first regiment extend one kilometer to the left and right to maintain vigilance!" ”

Although the order has been made to expand the scope of the vigilance, Lin Zhe knows that his cavalry is too small, it is difficult to completely stop the enemy's reconnaissance approaching, and Lin Zhe has no good way to do this, he can't conjure up hundreds of cavalry out of thin air to drive away the Taiping army's reconnaissance cavalry.

However, this incident also made him feel the necessity of establishing a large-scale cavalry unit, even if there is a lack of horses in the south, even if it is very difficult to train cavalry, but the role of cavalry is irreplaceable by infantry and artillery.

Whether it is ancient or modern times, or even until the First World War, the reconnaissance ability of cavalry is irreplaceable by other arms.

Lin Zhe didn't expect too much, as long as he could establish a cavalry regiment with hundreds of cavalry, it would be enough to provide sufficient reconnaissance capabilities for his own army, so that it would not be like now, he could only rely on his own guard force to act as a reconnaissance force, and it was far from enough.

Although the cavalry of the personal guard under Lin Zhe had tried their best to drive away the Taiping army's reconnaissance cavalry, so that the Taiping army's reconnaissance forces could not get close to the reconnaissance, but the entire Yongying army in Yuyao County was exhausted, and such a big movement could not be concealed at all.

As soon as Yuyao County Yongying left Guangde, Lin Chengting had already received the news that Yuyao County Yongying had left the city!

"According to the detective, Lin Zhe has led the army to leave Guangde at noon today, because the Qing Demon of the Ministry is extremely strict about the surrounding precautions, we have not yet known the specific number of Qing Demons of the Ministry and the details, but the direction of the march of the Ministry is to the east, it is obvious that they want to rescue Changxing!" Dong Yanghong on the side carefully reported to Lin Chengting.

Although Dong Yanghong was defeated once in Changxing, and later when he was in Guangde, although Li Cong'an was more conservative, he still followed Li Cong'an and lost again. After suffering two defeats in a row, he should have been saddled with a certain amount of responsibility.

However, there are very few people in the Taiping Army who have a clear understanding of the Yuyao County Yongying, and Dong Yanghong is the few people who are most familiar with the Yuyao County Yongying, so he is not as unlucky as other generals who were defeated in the Battle of Guangde, but he is prosperous in official affairs, although the official position was not promoted from brigade commander to division commander, but Lin Chengting transferred him to the headquarters and led him to lead part of the cavalry of the military department to be responsible for reconnaissance affairs.

After Lin Chengting listened, he nodded slightly and said, "Be sure to pay attention to Yuyao Qing Demon at any time, and tell you as soon as there is a change!" ”

Immediately, even with a wave of his hand, Dong Yanghong went down, and he pondered alone at the rudimentary map on the table.

This time, he went south to northern Zhejiang, and put on a big posture to attack Changxing, and he had the move of conquering Changxing and entering Huzhou south and even attacking the hinterland of northern Zhejiang.

But in fact, he himself knows very well that at present, there are many difficulties within the Taiping Army, Tianjing is besieged, and the Taiping Army on the periphery of Tianjing now has only one strategic core, that is, to break the siege of Tianjing, but the number of troops is too small, and it is impossible to break through the Jiangnan camp and relieve the siege of Tianjing in a short time.

The Taiping army in southern Jiangsu and southern Anhui on the periphery of Tianjing was already running out, and now it is impossible to say anything about eastward and northern Zhejiang.

Although there is no large-scale Qing army in northern Zhejiang, there are tens of thousands of green battalions, flag soldiers and all kinds of messy regimental training.

It is quite difficult to break the defense line of northern Zhejiang and invade the hinterland of northern Zhejiang, not to mention, once the Taiping army gathers the main force to go south to northern Zhejiang, how can the Qing demons in southern Jiangsu, southern Anhui, Jiangxi and other places sit idly by, and will inevitably send troops to aid Zhejiang.

Not to mention anything else, as long as a partial division is sent south in the Jiangnan battalion, even if Changxing and Huzhou are taken at that time, the back road will not be blocked, and the more than 6,000 people waiting for Lin Chengting will be surrounded and annihilated.

This time, Lin Chengting went south to northern Zhejiang, what he did was not to invade northern Zhejiang on a large scale, his purpose was very simple, the primary purpose was to annihilate Lin Zhe's Yuyao County Yongying, and secondly, if he could control Guangde or Changxing, it would naturally be the best, as for going south on a large scale, it would depend on the strategic arrangements of the upper-level bosses of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

It is also interesting to say, although they are not very clear about each other's strategies or even guessed wrongly, whether it is Lin Zhe or Lin Chengting, their tactical intentions are very obvious, that is, it is not the gain or loss of one city or one place, but the annihilation of the enemy's living force.

Not to mention the tactical intentions of the commanders of the two sides, and to say that after Lin Chengting learned that Lin Zhe led the army to leave Guangde, he quickly issued a series of orders, and the target was directly aimed at the Yongying camp in Yuyao County.

As for Lin Zhe, he led the army eastward with a very cautious attitude, and at the same time, on the one hand, he sent scouts to reconnoiter the movements of the enemy army, and on the other hand, he also found out the movements of Lin Chengting's headquarters from the officials, gentry, and people along the way.

"The enemy army has now marched to Si'an, and the scout cavalry has also learned the news that the enemy advance has arrived at Changqiao, which is only fifteen miles away from Changxing!" Wang Luyun reported the situation to Lin Zhe in a timely manner.

After hearing this, Lin Zhe turned his attention to the map on the table, which was different from the map commonly used in the contemporary army, but a detailed military map drawn by the Yongying of Yuyao County.

Before going to Changxing, Lin Zhe looked for military maps everywhere because he had to march, but the few maps of northern Zhejiang and Huzhou that he finally got from the government made him dumbfounded.

Those maps are completely freehand landscape paintings: a city occupies a small half of the picture, the mountains are only represented with a few brushstrokes, there is a road between the city, dozens of miles and dozens of miles and so on are much better, this kind of map looks at the general direction is OK, but it is nonsense to use it for marching and fighting.

As a last resort, Lin Zhe had no choice but to ask the officers and the students of the camp academy to re-map the map according to the modern cartography method of Professor Hunter William.

Due to the short time and limited manpower, it can basically only be surveyed and mapped the place where Yongying passes through Yuyao County, and the maps are all a piece without a piece, they are all some local maps, and the complete splicing is only the area from Changxing to Guangde at present, and it is only limited to about 30 kilometers in a straight line.

Now Lin Zhe is looking at this map spliced together by multiple local maps, starting from Taihu Lake in the east and extending to Guangde, about 70 kilometers long, but only 20 kilometers wide, mainly in the open plain area between Changxing and Guangde.

As for other places, Lin Zhe does not have too many detailed military maps on hand at hand, so he can only use the traditional old maps first.

On the map, Changxing and Guangde are the two endpoints of the east and west, if Lin Chengting's main force is in Si'an, and the forward is in Changqiao, the enemy's forward and the main force are separated by a little distance.

Could it be that the enemy wants to intercept his eastern aid? That's why the main forces were left behind?

And now that he has not been long away from Si'an, it seems that he still needs to be cautious to see if the enemy's main force will continue to advance eastward tomorrow! xh118