Thirty miles north of Guangde City, Lin Chengting was listening carefully to the report of Li Cong'an, the commander of the division under his command. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]

"Lin Zhe is currently stationed in Guangde City, the Qing Demon of the Department has a strength of about 2,000 people, mainly in the infantry team, the cavalry team is very few, only about 50 horses, in addition to the artillery team of 100 people, six thousand catties of cannons, the team of Qing Demon is especially good at firearms, the infantry team is armed with foreign guns, can shoot from 300 steps away!" When Li Cong'an talked about the benefits of firearms in Yongying, Yuyao County, he had palpitations.

"In the first battle of Guangde, the defeat of our division was due to the long-range shooting of the Qing Demon foreign spear, and the cavalry and infantry of our division marched to a hundred paces away under the enemy's firearms, and more than half of them were killed and wounded under the enemy's firearms, and finally they were defeated!

"The soldier has a brave body and has nowhere to use!"

Although Li Cong'an knew that his final collapse in the Battle of Guangde occurred in hand-to-hand combat, he did not think that he was defeated by the opponent's bayonet charge, but by the opponent's musket.

If the opponent's firearms are average, and the range is only less than 100 steps, then their own troops will not suffer so heavy casualties in the process of charging, and they can rush up and start hand-to-hand combat with the enemy in one go, and with their own strong hand-to-hand combat power, they can completely defeat the Yongying of Yuyao County.

Lin Chengting frowned and said, "In this way, if the Qing Demon of the Ministry sets up a formation to stick to Guangde, then it is not feasible for us to attack head-on?" ”

Frontal field battle means that both sides have set up a complete formation, and when the time comes, Lin Zhe's Yuyao County Yong Battalion can perfectly give full play to its firepower advantage, splicing the current firepower of the Yuyao County Yong Battalion, and to be honest, a few thousand Taiping troops from the front can still defeat them.

"Yes, in my humble opinion, although we have an advantage in troops, and our soldiers will exceed the enemy army by several times, but in order to avoid indifferent casualties, we must try to avoid fighting tough battles!"

After Lin Chengting listened, he didn't speak for a long time, and only said after a while: "Since this is the case, then let's change the way, lure them out, and then find an opportunity to fight again."

Li Cong'an looked puzzled when he heard this: "Oh? But what should the enemy do if they cower in Guangde City? ”

Lin Chengting said: "This time you will lure them out!" ”

After Li Cong'an heard this, he suddenly realized: "The military commander Gao Jian, as long as we lure Lin Zhe out, then we can completely preset the battlefield and catch him off guard, but it's not easy to lure them out!" ”

Lin Chengting snorted coldly: "Attack the place that must be saved!" ”

As he spoke, his finger pointed to Changxing on the desktop map!

If Guangde is the western barrier of Changxing, then in other words, Changxing is also the rear of Guangde and the retreat.

Unless Lin Zhe planned to flee south directly with his troops over the mountains and forests, he would definitely stop the Taiping Army from attacking Changxing, and wouldn't it lead to it if he intercepted it?

Let's not mention Lin Chengting and Li Cong'an's plans, let's talk about Guangde City!

Lin Chengting appeared thirty miles north of Guangde City with a large army, and it was naturally impossible for such a big movement to hide from the reconnaissance of the peripheral cavalry of the Yongying camp in Yuyao County.

After learning that another main force of the Taiping Army had arrived thirty miles north of Guangde City, Lin Zhe immediately convened a military meeting!

"Now the exact location of the enemy forces has been determined? How many of them are there? Who is leading the troops? At the beginning of the meeting, Shi Qingxuan, the assistant of the supervision and training office, who was more anxious, hurriedly asked.

And the person in charge of the investigation is the pro-guard team, and these questions are naturally answered by Wang Luyun, the officer of the pro-guard team.

I only heard Wang Luyun say: "According to the report of my brothers, the enemy army is currently stationed in the area of Qiu Village, thirty miles away, with a total strength of at least 6,000 people, including at least 1,000 horse troops, and some foreign spearmen!" Although we haven't accurately found out who is leading the troops, according to the intelligence reality we have collected before, it should be the pseudo-army marshal Lin Chengting! ”

"Oh, Lin Chengting, how much do you know about this person?" Lin Zhe also spoke at this time.

Wang Luyun looked embarrassed: "We don't know much about this person, we only know that this person is one of the military commanders of Yueyi in southern Anhui, with nearly 10,000 subordinates, and he has been leading his troops to fight in various parts of southern Anhui, mainly in the Wuhu area, and the pseudo-commander Li Cong'an that we defeated before is this person's subordinate!" ”

Listening to Wang Luyun's words, Lin Zhe also had a burst of doubts, when did the Taiping army become so interested in northern Zhejiang, they had just defeated an enemy division of nearly 2,000 people, and now another army came, could it be that the Taiping army changed their previous strategy, gave up the Northern Expedition and the Western Expedition, and started the Eastern Expedition instead?

During this time, Lin Zhe has been studying the current strategy of the Taiping Army, but what puzzles him is that the Taiping Army, which can almost be described as being in full swing, stopped continuing to advance along the east of the Yangtze River after taking Jiangning, and instead stationed troops in Tianjing, and then divided the troops into the Northern Expedition and the Western Expedition.

In Lin Zhe's view, this strategy is completely incomprehensible, if the Taiping army continues to implement the eastward expansion strategy, then with the current strength of the Taiping army, it is not a big problem to continue to take Zhenjiang, Suzhou, Shanghai and even northern Zhejiang along the river.

If we talk about foreign interference, in fact, the great powers do not have a deep understanding of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and there are still many people who believe that the God religion of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is Christianity, so in the early days of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the great powers actually had a certain favorable impression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and no matter how bad it was, they maintained nominal neutrality.

As for supporting the Manchu Qing Dynasty in destroying the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, that was after 1860, and it was still several years away.

Therefore, if the Taiping army wants to advance eastward, the Qing army itself will not be able to resist, and as long as the Taiping army does not go directly to Shanghai stupidly, the Western powers will not turn a blind eye to it.

If the Taiping Army marched eastward and took the entire southern Jiangsu region, then northern Zhejiang and even the whole of Zhejiang could be taken lightly, plus the Taiping Army currently controlled southern Anhui and some areas of Jiangxi, it was completely possible to establish a stable rear in the south of the Yangtze River and obtain a steady stream of taxes to support subsequent military operations.

If Jiangnan is enough to take Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and even Guangdong, and then gather all the strength to march into Hunan and Hubei to defeat the Hunan army, then Kyushu is at your fingertips.

It is a pity that the Taiping Army gave up the eastward strategy at the beginning of 1853 and turned to the Northern Expedition and the Western Expedition, which is understandable, after all, it is to block the Qing army in Hunan and Hubei, but the Northern Expedition is completely incomprehensible.

History has proved that the Northern Expedition strategy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was a complete failure, and the Northern Expeditionary Army and the Northern Expedition reinforcements were all wiped out!

However, the dispersion of troops for the Northern Expedition and the Western Expedition, the southern Anhui and southern Jiangsu regions around Tianjing have long lacked sufficient troops, let alone advance eastward, even if it is extremely difficult to relieve the siege of Tianjing.

What is even more interesting is that in 1856, the Taiping army finally broke the Jiangnan camp, but within a few months, the Qing army once again gathered heavily in Tianjing to rebuild the Jiangnan camp, erasing the short-term strategic advantage that the Taiping army had finally obtained.

From these, it can be seen that although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom after 1853 still won frequently in local military affairs, it was already like a battle of trapped beasts, and defeat was already a foregone conclusion.

Therefore, from this point of view, the Taiping Army's Northern Expedition and Western Expedition in 1853 was an important strategic turning point for the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement, a turning point that brought the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom downhill, and as for the internal strife of the kings in 1856, it only accelerated the process of their demise.

Lin Zhe naturally did not know much about the events of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the future, and he could only judge the strategic situation of the Taiping Army based on the current known situation, as far as he knew, the Taiping Army had completely abandoned the eastward expansion strategy, and was only playing small-scale infiltration operations in northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu.

But today, the Taiping army actually sent more than 6,000 people to Guangde, what does this mean? Does it mean that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has changed its strategy of the Northern Expedition and the Western Expedition at the beginning of the year? Do you want to take southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang?

Lin Zhe didn't know the plans of the upper echelons of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and he didn't know that the reason why the Taiping army gathered in Guangde was all because of him!

In 1853, there was no situation where the Taiping army gathered the main force to attack Guangde, but the appearance of Lin Zhe, especially after the Taiping army that defeated more than 2,000 people in a row, attracted the attention of the Taiping army's high-level, so the main force was sent to Guangde.

This was not the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's eastward expansion strategy, they were just here for Lin Zhe.

If Lin Zhe knew this, I am afraid he would also feel gratified, as a time-traveler, there is no greater sense of accomplishment than changing the course of history.

It's just that he didn't know, he thought that the Taiping Army had changed its strategic direction and regarded the direction of northern Zhejiang as the main direction of attack, and he didn't know that Lin Chengting came to Guangde in order to defeat Lin Zhe, the Yong battalion of Yuyao County, instead of implementing any eastward expansion strategy.

However, no matter what, it is a fact that the Taiping Army is coming, and now what Lin Zhe needs to think about is how to face the battle!

"There are many thieves, I still have to be safe, rely on Guangde to hold on in the early stage, kill and injure their soldiers, wear down their morale, and finally go out of the city and strike down!" It was the first group of Shi Langyi who spoke.

It is said that war can make a man grow up quickly, Shi Langyi is such a person who grew up quickly in the war, a few months ago he was just a scholar who was holding a book and studying hard, he had only been taking the exam for seven or eight years, and he was about to run for three and had not yet been admitted, and he was also dead.

Just when he was thinking about whether to plough the fields and farm the land for a lifetime, Lin Zhe's Suiying Academy enrollment, with dreams and helplessness, he applied for the Suiying Academy, and finally was selected from dozens of people to become a student of the first phase of the Suiying Academy, and after graduation, he served as a company commander and began his military career.

In the Battle of Changxing, he commanded his sixth company to resist the onslaught of hundreds of Taiping troops with the strength of a company, and finally defeated the enemy army with a small number of casualties, and killed and wounded at least nearly 100 enemy soldiers.

After the Yongying in Yuyao County was expanded into two regiments, he was directly promoted to the commander of the first regiment by Lin Zhe.

Now he doesn't look like the scholar who didn't know anything except the Four Books and the Five Classics, but a middle-level officer who has a clear idea of the current battle situation.

After Shi Langyi spoke, he quickly got the recognition of others, although everyone present became full of confidence because of the two consecutive victories, but they also knew that their own troops were only a thousand people, and the other party had more than 6,000 people, and it would be a tragedy to rush into a battle.

The rest of us also think that prudence is the best!

After thinking about it for himself, Lin Zhe also felt that there was a huge disparity between the enemy and our forces, so it was better to be cautious!

However, when the Yongying generals of Yuyao County were cautious, closed the city gates, and vigorously built fortifications to prepare for a defensive operation, Lin Zhe suddenly received a report from the front-line reconnaissance cavalry.

"What? The enemy army crossed Quang Duc and went directly to the east? Lin Zhe didn't quite understand why the Taiping Army wanted to do this.

However, when he saw Changxing in the east on the map, he suddenly realized: "Their goal is Changxing!" ”xh118