Guangde is only more than 200 miles away from Hangzhou, and the fast horse that reports the battle report is enough to arrive in Hangzhou in one day, so Huang Zonghan received a handwritten battle report from Lin Zhe the next night. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]

And while reading this battle report, his heart was also amazed!

"The Ministry of Duty led an army of 1,000 and 5 to arrive outside the city of Guangde at noon today, and saw that there were countless tents in the camp of the thieves, and the rough number was no less than 1,500 people, and the headquarters was ordered to attack it ...... after a little rectification."

"Dare to fight head-on with the thief army with the same strength, and dare to take the initiative to attack, this Lin Zhe really deserves to be a young man, brave enough!" Huang Zonghan continued to watch while muttering to himself.

"Our artillery is sharp, even the thieves army broke the large array, at the moment the thief army launched a flank raid with three hundred cavalry, our infantry team met with muskets, the thieves rode the corpses dozens of routs, and the thieves retreated and ordered the infantry to attack again.

The thief army infantry then launched a charge against the headquarters, the headquarters first hit it with muskets, and then charged it with bayonets, the thieves were crushed at the touch of a button, hundreds of corpses in front of the battle, nearly 1,000 people were killed and wounded by the thief army, and 200 people were killed and wounded by our army, which was a great victory! ”

Although it was only a few simple sentences, Lin Zhe did not explain too much about the battle situation and detailed tactics at that time in the letter, for example, Lin Zhe did not say that they carried out a salvo attack on the enemy's cavalry and infantry at a distance of 500 yards, forcing the Taiping army to charge in advance, and finally suffered more than half of the casualties on the way to the charge, and was finally defeated.

And in the final casualty figure, he did not reduce the number of casualties of the enemy, and maintained the scale of thousands of casualties, but he greatly exaggerated his own losses, the Yongying camp in Yuyao County originally suffered only about 40 casualties, and Lin Zhe directly doubled the casualty figure several times, saying that it was more than 200 people!

Exaggerating his own casualty figures is not only to avoid the amazement of outsiders, but also the more important reason is that Lin Zhe wants to get more military spending from Huang Zonghan.

I have killed and injured so many people, so I have to replenish it, and it costs money to replenish the recruits, if you Huang Zonghan still want me Lin Zhe to defend northern Zhejiang for you, are you embarrassed not to give money?

However, what he didn't know was that although he had exaggerated his own losses, two hundred against one thousand, but still won the record in a dignified field battle, which made Huang Zonghan extremely amazed.

Although Huang Zonghan is not a military general, but as the governor of Zhejiang, he is in charge of the defense of northern Zhejiang, and he is more or less familiar with military affairs in the past six months, he is very aware of the contemporary Qing army in various parts of the country, there are few troops who dare to play field battles with the main force of the Taiping Army, and the tactics of the contemporary Qing army are actually very conservative, that is, relying on the fortified city for defensive operations, even if it is encountered in the field, it is also a variety of defensive offensives.

In history, the Qing army in the Jiangnan camp stayed on the edge of Tianjing for so many years, and they did not take the initiative to attack a few times, and they were all playing defensive operations.

Now that Lin Zhe's Yuyao County Yongying has defeated the Taiping army in the frontal field battle, how can this not surprise him, this surprise is even greater than the original Battle of Changxing.

The original Battle of Changxing was won, and it was said that it relied on the city wall to fight, but the Battle of Guangde was a dignified defeat of the Taiping army in the wilderness.

I didn't expect this Lin Zhe's ability to train soldiers and fight wars to be so strong, it seems that I have produced a pillar of the dynasty in Zhejiang!

This matter must be greatly publicized, and Huang Zonghan didn't even have time to find out the true situation of this battle, so he couldn't wait to give the court a fold.

In the excerpt, it is naturally not said that Lin Zhe, but that under the leadership of his governor, Zhejiang's handling of regimental training affairs has been fruitful, and the Yong battalion of Yuyao County led by Lin Zhe, the fourth candidate of Zhejiang Province, has won successive battles in Changxing and Guangde, and has defeated thousands of thieves and beheaded more than 1,000 with less than 100 casualties.

After this letter was transmitted to the Beijing Division, it caused a small shock in the imperial court!

Emperor Xianfeng, who was getting thinner and thinner by the news of the continuous defeat of the Qing army in various places, saw this fold and showed a rare smile, and even disregarded the emperor's prestige, and directly showed a smile in front of his subordinates!

"It seems that Huang Zonghan's regimental training in Zhejiang is still good, and this Lin Zhe is doing well!" Xianfeng continued: "Now that the defense of northern Zhejiang is very tight, since this Lin Zhe is good, then we must give him more burdens!" ”

Lin Zhe's victory in Guangde not only attracted the attention of the local government of the Qing court and the central court, but also attracted the attention of the upper echelons of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

"What is this Li Cong'an doing, more than a thousand elite heavenly soldiers were lost in Guangde, a place that has no name!" In Tianjing City, Qin Rigang looked at the battle report sent back from the Guangde front and frowned.

Originally, it was only a battle or loss of 1,000 people that could not enter his eyes at all, but the problem was that the defeat in this battle of Guangde was too poor and too strange.

According to the return of Li Cong'an, the defeated general on the front line, they were waiting for more than 2,000 people to meet the Qing Demon Lin Zhe's department outside the Guangde field, and this battle with a total of nearly 4,000 people on both sides only lasted for half an hour.

In just half an hour, a division led by Li Cong'an had nearly 1,500 men completely collapsed, and only less than 200 elite cavalry had escaped, while the other more than 1,000 infantry and artillery had all been lost.

Although Li Cong'an, in order to cover up his incompetence, exaggerated the number of Lin Zhe's subordinates, saying that Lin Zhe's subordinates had more than 2,000 demons, and also said that although he was defeated in the battle, he also killed and injured at least 1,000 people in Lin Zhe's subordinates.

But a clear-eyed person can see at a glance from this battle report that this battle report is watery, if it can really kill and injure thousands of enemy Qing demons in the battle, then when the battle situation is stalemate, and then invest those three hundred elite cavalry, it will definitely be able to save the defeat.

Before the invention of heavy machine guns and even tanks, the deterrent power of cavalry was beyond the resistance of infantry, and three hundred cavalry was enough to change the stalemate on the battlefield.

And now Li Cong'an has thrown away all the infantry and fled back with only more than 200 cavalry, so there are only two possibilities, one is that the infantry team is defeated too quickly, and it is almost enough for Li Cong'an to put the cavalry into the battlefield to change the stalemate, and the second possibility is that Li Cong'an does not dare to put the cavalry into the battlefield.

However, no matter which possibility it is, it is enough to prove that Li Cong'an's misery in Guangde is not just a simple answer as the loss of a thousand troops, it represents the emergence of a Qing demon army in northern Zhejiang that dares to fight hard with the Taiping army and can win.

And this is what Qin Rigang attaches the most importance to.

Although Qin Rigang didn't care about the loss of thousands of people, the main force of the Taiping army was now scattered all over the country, and a large number of troops were invested in Tianjing and Yangzhou in order to deal with the two large battalions of the Qing army, Jiangnan and Jiangbei, and in addition, the Northern Expedition and the Western Expedition also contained a considerable number of troops of the Taiping Army.

This leads to the fact that the Taiping army can mobilize not many troops in northern Zhejiang and southern Anhui, and they are all scattered and infiltrated troops, ranging from hundreds to two or three thousand, and now more than 1,000 people have been wiped out at once, which is enough to have a great impact on the Taiping army's infiltration offensive in northern Zhejiang.

Where did this Lin Zhe come from?

After Qin Rigang put down the battle report, he also had some doubts about this Qing Demon General who defeated his own subordinates Li Cong'an, and he had never heard of any Qing Demon generals in Zhejiang before.

However, Qin Rigang is a contemporary famous general in a high position and the Taiping Army, although he has some doubts in his heart, but this does not affect his judgment, and he immediately made a decision: "Order Lin Chengting, let him immediately lead the army to Guangde, and take down that Lin Zhe for me!" ”

And Lin Chengting, who was located dozens of miles east of Xuancheng, was also a little depressed after receiving Qin Rigang's order!

Lin Chengting was a commander in the Taiping Army, leading nearly 10,000 people in the department to be active around Wuhu and Xuancheng, and engaged in very frequent small-scale battles with the Qing army, and Li Cong'an was a division commander under his command.

When he learned that Li Cong'an suffered a crushing defeat in Guangde, he was so angry that he wanted to immediately cut Li Cong'an, but in the end he still didn't do it, the Taiping Army in 1853 was not the Taiping Army in 1856, and there was not so much infighting in the Taiping Army at this time, and the upper-level generals were still relatively united.

Moreover, this Li Cong'an is also an old Guangxi, and he followed him all the way to the north and south of the river and made countless achievements, it would be a pity to kill him just because of a defeat, so he gave Li Cong'an a chance to atone for his crimes!

After receiving Qin Rigang's order to go south to Guangde, he immediately ordered Li Cong'an to lead the remnants of his headquarters south to Guangde, and to monitor the Qing Demon of Lin Zhe's department in the direction of Guangde nearby, and he himself led more than 6,000 people from his headquarters to quickly rush to Guangde.

At this time, Lin Zhe, who was in Guangde, didn't know that his battle of Guangde not only attracted the attention of the local government in Zhejiang and the Manchu court, but also directly attracted the attention of the upper echelons of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

When Lin Chengting led a large group of Taiping soldiers and horses to Guangde, Lin Zhe, who was in Guangde, also received various rewards from Hangzhou.

Hangzhou directly sent 5,000 taels of silver and a large number of military supplies, including grain, etc., and also sent a group of official appointment documents and official robes, saying that Lin Zhe's previous reward for the meritorious service of the generals because of the victory in the battles of Changxing and Guangde has come down.

Watching his generals happily put on zombie official robes, Lin Zhe felt quite complicated in his heart, as a later generation, he had no good impression of the Manchu Dynasty, but he had no good impression of the Manchu Dynasty, but these scholar-born generals under his hands were very surprised by the reward of the imperial court.

Especially Bi Yutong, as the battalion officer of the Yongying in Yuyao County, he is in charge of the camp affairs of the Yongying in Yuyao County.

For his promotion, Bi Yu expressed great joy, and even knelt down directly to the north at the banquet, sighing about the emperor's enhao soup and the like.

Although the others are not so obvious, the joy on their faces can be seen one by one.

And these expressions of the crowd made Lin Zhe quite unhappy!

You must know that these people were brought out by him Lin Zhe, and what he hoped was that everyone could be loyal to him Lin Zhe himself, not the Manchu Dynasty.

But this unhappiness in his heart did not come out directly, but in his heart, he had already secretly made up his mind that he must strengthen loyalty education in the army in the future!

The loyalty situation in the Yongying camp in Yuyao County is still relatively good at present, especially the soldier class, these illiterate peasant sons only know that it is Lin Zhefa who pays them money to support their families, and they don't know what the imperial court is.

However, because the officer class is all from a scholar's background, and when many officers apply for the Suiying Academy, a large part of the purpose is to serve the imperial court, and Bo has a background, which has nothing to do with direct loyalty to Lin Zhe himself.

This situation could not continue in the future, and Lin Zhe felt that it was necessary to strengthen his influence in the Suiying Academy, and let these officers know that they were working for themselves, not the imperial court.

Just when the generals in the Yongying camp in Yuyao County were happy to be promoted and make a fortune, the main force of the Taiping Army led by Lin Chengting of more than 6,000 people was also slowly approaching Guangde. xh118