In December, the Twist Army marched north and entered Dengzhou (now Dengxian) in Henan. On the way, Liu Xian couldn't intercept it, and was reprimanded by the monk Greenqin.

Zhang Zongyu, Ren Huabang and others chose Tangpo in the southwest of Dengzhou to meet the enemy, and the twisted army arrived early, digging trenches and building fortifications at the right time, and deploying troops. On the 12th, the monk army launched an attack on the left, center, and right. The Renhua State Command first defeated the right side of the monk army, and then copied the enemy's center and left side from the flank and rear, defeating the monk army.

In February of the fourth year, the Twist Army returned to Lushan through Yiyang, and Monk Greenqin chased it all the way. The Twist army lured the enemy through the water, and then returned to the army to slam and copy it from behind with a team of horses. The monk army was terrified, and the battalion commanders, Fuke Jing'a, Jingse Buku, and others led their troops to flee first. The twisted army took advantage of the situation to kill the enemy bravely, and successively killed the enemy's wing chief Hengling, battalion commander Bao Qing, deputy commander Shu Lunbao, battalion commander Chang Shun and many others. Monk Greenqin was rescued by Chen Guorui and survived death.

After the two major defeats in Dengzhou and Lushan, Seng Lingqin was so angry that he executed Fukejinga and Jingse Buku, who were the first to retreat, in order to deter the subordinates, and then again applauded Liu Xian, Guo Baochang, Song Qing and other generals.

Monk Grinqin is determined to take revenge.

The Twist Army was originally preparing to march west into Shaanxi, but because the Qing army was very tightly blocked, it was decided to continue to deal with the monk army in Henan.

After the victory of Lushan, the twisted army went north to Xiangcheng and Yuzhou through Ye County, and returned to Changge and Xinzheng to transfer to Weishi County. By the end of February, the monk army that followed the Twist army arrived at the county seat of Weishi, and the Twist army had gone south to Yanling. The vanguard of the monk army of 3,000 people rushed alone and chased to the north Yanzhai slope of Yanling County. The Twist Army found that the pursuers were weak, so they lured the enemy with a small number of troops, and the brigade returned to the horsepower battle and defeated it.

In March, the Twist army moved south from Linying and Yuncheng, attacked Xiping, surrounded Ruyang, Liu Xian and Song Qingbu attacked fiercely, and Monk Greenqin also personally supervised the horse team to go south. Seeing that the monk army was chasing, the twisted army waved its army south and attacked the southern pass of Xinyang Prefecture.

Counting last year, it has been half a year of pursuit. Liu Xian did not make any worth mentioning military exploits, and the twisted army, which was good at avoiding the real and attacking the false, did not have a hard fight with him at all.

After half a year of pursuit, in addition to training his troops more well-trained, Liu Xian's only benefit was to expand the cavalry battalion in his army to eight squadrons. At the time of the previous major adjustment, there were only two squadrons left in the cavalry battalion that had been allocated a squadron and incorporated into the artillery garrison, and they could not raise their heads at all among the leaders of the Qin military camp. Now, with the eight hundred horses in hand, Wei Ming's voice can finally be amplified to normal.

When the monk army pursued Xinyang, the twisted army raised the flag and went north, and arrived at Yuncheng through Queshan, Suiping and Xiping, and then attacked the ditch and entered Suizhou. In April, Zhang Zongyu led the army to the north, traveling more than 100 miles day and night, and crossed the Yellow River from Li Baji, Kaocheng, Henan, into Shandong. In a few days, Yuecao County, Heze, Dingtao, Chengwu, Yuncheng, Juye, Jinxiang, Jining and other places, galloping vertically and horizontally, coming and going quickly, approaching the border of Zhili.

The Beijing division was shaken, and the Qing court reprimanded the monk Greenqin for twisting to the north, and the monk Greenqin jumped like thunder, leading the army for dozens of days without leaving the saddle, "the hands are tired and can't lift the reins, and the wrists are tied with cloth belts, and the horses are tied on the shoulders." Hundreds of soldiers died, and there were many complaints in the army.

In the past two months, Monk Greenqin followed the Twist Army and then pursued relentlessly, from western Henan, central Henan, eastern Henan, southern Henan, all the way to Shandong, thousands of miles, the department was dragged exhausted, hundreds of dead and wounded officers and soldiers in the army did not mention, even Monk Greenqin himself was dragged to "sleep and eat all waste, Heng untie the saddle and rest on the left, lead the fire and wine two giants, and chase the thief on the horse."

Liu Xiantun was stationed in Kaocheng, as the screen protection of Kaifeng, the capital of Henan Province, and the important town of Guide.

Because although the Henan Green Battalion has three towns, only Guide Town can protect Kaifeng nearby. Compared with Hanzhong Town, which has an establishment of as many as 8,000 people, there are only two battalions on the left and right sides of the town standard, and Guide Town, which has three battalions of Yongcheng, Kaocheng and Chenzhou, has a total military strength of less than 3,000 people. After deducting the free food, it would be good to have fifteen or six hundred people.

Therefore, the previous twist army crisscrossed eastern Henan, and the town of Guide was completely furnished. The role is not as big as the militia!

The two battalions under the jurisdiction of the governor of Henan, Fubiao and Kaifeng, although they are beneficial this year, are only 3,000 Ding Yong. It is okay to defend the city, go out to defend against the enemy, and seek a dead end.

Liu Xian's more than 7,000 soldiers bravely guarded the city, Kaifeng and returned to Germany, that is, they could all be taken care of.

At the beginning of April, the Twist Army entered Shandong and arrived at Qufu through Caoxian, Dingtao, Chengwu, Jiaxiang, Wenshang, and Ningyang. The monks were still in hot pursuit. Yan Jingming, the governor of Shandong, sent the political envoy Ding Baozhen to lead the provincial defense army into Yanzhou, in a vain attempt to flank the Twist army. In order to continue to exhaust the enemy army, the twisted army went north to Ningyang and Dongping, and after defeating the general army Fan Zhengtan on the way, it continued to go north to Dong'e, Pingyin, and Feicheng, and then turned south to Ningyang, Yanzhou, Zouxian, Tengxian, and Yixian, and entered Ganyu, Haizhou, and Muyang in Jiangsu through Lanshan and Tancheng.

After a series of dazzling marches, he returned to Tancheng from Pizhou, went west to Yixian, and defeated Ding Baozhen's troops twice near Lincheng (present-day Xixuecheng, Zaozhuang City). Go north to Ningyang and Wenshang.

Zhang Zongyu's crazy and rapid march made Liu Xian completely lose his plan to make meritorious service to the next level.

It's crazy, soaring two thousand miles in the middle of the month. It seems to be a headless fly, but in fact, it hits the weak point of the Qing army. This is not something that can be encircled and suppressed by 20,000 or 30,000 paces at all.

It is necessary to combine the operations of a large corps, encircle them on all sides, take advantage of the terrain and topography, force them into an enemy who is not good at cavalry, and then break the enemy head-on and annihilate them in one go.

In May, the army crossed the canal to Luojialou in the south of Fan County, the Jishan area in the southeast of Puzhou, and finally into the area of the Yellow River (the Yellow River Water Loop was formed in Puzhou, south of Fan County and northwest of Yuncheng in 1855 after the Yellow River broke in the Tongwaxiang of Kaocheng).

This is a place that is extremely unfavorable for cavalry play. Monk Rinqin did not care about the fatigue of not leaving the saddle for dozens of days, and the overseer was overjoyed.

But they didn't know that the Yellow River Shuitao area, a place that the government could not reach, actually concealed many scattered troops who had been scattered in various parts of Shandong, and they had to become bandit refugees who had to become bandits. These people joined the army one after another, making the number of the Twist Army increase to tens of thousands in an instant.

Then, the greatly strengthened twisted army galloped to the high-rise village area in the northwest of Heze, waiting for the monk army to come to the door. At this time, the monk army had been dragged by the twist army to be extremely tired, and many of them were so tired that they couldn't even hold the reins of their horses, so they had to use cloth bands tied to their shoulders to drive their horses.

Kaocheng, Dongming, Heze junction of the town of Qiyang.

Liu Xian lay leisurely on the rocking chair, rubbing a bowl of tea in his hand, thinking about the monk Lingqin eighty or ninety miles away. "You're going to die......"

When the Twist Army entered the Shuitao area of the Yellow River, Monk Lingqin led his troops to pursue on the one hand, and on the other hand, Liu Xian, who was in Kaocheng, and Guo Baochang, who were in Juye, were waiting for the opportunity to intercept them.

Liu Xianyou led the soldiers and horses eastward to the town of Qiyang. Guo Baochang's 2,000 Anhui troops entered Caozhou.

Liu Mingchuan's department, further south, was also stationed in the Lu'an area in order to pursue and intercept the army. There are more than 10,000 Shandong green battalion regiments of Ding Baozhen in the north.

It can be said that this attack of Monk Greenqin was not untargeted. Even if he doesn't win the battle, as long as he can stick to the Twist Army, Liu Xian, who is nearby, can immediately pounce. [Guo Baochang was too coincidental in time, and was directly marched into the army by Monk Greenqin]

On the periphery, Liu Mingchuan's Ming army and Ding Baozhen's Lu army were also quite close, and in no more than ten days, the Qing army could surround the Twist army in Heze to the death.

People always only think about their own interests, and do not think about other people's.

Monk Greenqin was conceited and bent on exterminating the Twist Army, not seeing the exhaustion of his own army, nor knowing the recent expansion of the Twist Army.

I don't know myself or the other, he died in a high-rise village, he really doesn't lose!