Chapter 43 - As a last resort
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"The hairy demon escaped, Chen Tianzhu, Zhang Shoudai, and Yang Guangshu gave the head, and the capital city has been captured by the heavenly soldiers......"
"Tens of thousands of Qing demons were annihilated, and the thieves fled, only leading hundreds of remnants into the middle of the river......"
Under the supervision of the Taiping soldiers, several captives cut in from the southwest corner of the county seat, ignoring the artillery of the city wall and the threat of the fortress outside the city, and came directly to the foot of the city wall. The captives seemed to have deliberately chosen a loud voice, and the voice was deafening.
He shouted loudly, tears rained down, and his cry was sad.
seemed to be mourning the tragic ending of the Battle of Fucheng, but no matter how Liu Xian looked at it, he felt that they were afraid and sad for their own lives.
His face was pale, and before he could speak, Li Ying on the side angrily pointed at the shouting captives and scolded the traitors, "Come on, come on, smash them for me-"
"A group of rebels, gossip to confuse the public, intent to mess with the hearts of our army, gossip to confuse the people-"
Liu Xian was not as excited as Li Ying, but Tie Qing's face directly made all the leaders behind him look awkward. "Cao Huailiang. Take your rocket launchers and bomb them for me—"
"Remember, there's only one shot—"
"Mark the order-" Cao Huailiang responded sonorously, turned around and strode away.
In less than half an hour, a roar echoed at the head of the city, and when the sound fell, it was silent.
Liu Xian was sure that Nanzheng City was not lost, and Yang Guangshu, Chen Tianzhu, and Zhang Shoudai did not lose their heads, otherwise today's Taiping Army would not have let a few captives shake the hearts of the army with words, but directly picked up the heads of those three people.
This is something that anyone with a clear mind can figure out, but under this situation, this scene, and this shape, there are many people in Guxian County, who are not clear-headed.
Li Ying and Liu Xian naturally tried their best to stop the spread of this remark, but they could stop it there. In addition to the soldiers and brave soldiers at the head of the city, there were many young people organized by the county government, and the rumor that Nan Zheng had been broken soon spread throughout the city.
Li Ying had no choice but to organize all the forces of the county government to clarify and suppress the commotion in the market, but the people's hearts were shaken, and even though the military and civilians of the whole city were once again quiet under the strong suppression force, people's hearts were inevitably overshadowed.
Liu Xian didn't even have the heart to talk to the two little girls, he looked at the map all day long, sometimes he could sit all morning, he didn't move, and all he thought about was the war.
Under the rule of the entire Hanzhong Prefecture, except for Chenggu and Fucheng, is there anyone in the rest of the country who can party the Taiping Army?
Liu Xian really couldn't find it, and he couldn't think of an excuse why the Taiping army couldn't enter the pass.
We have to find a way to turn the tide of things!
Liu Xian needs to show his light in this big battle, and this light is not enough to burn the western camp of the Taiping army. He's going to be the protagonist who turns the tide -
"What?" Li Ying was shocked, his face turned white, and he jumped up a foot high all of a sudden. "No, no, absolutely not. I don't agree—"
His head shook and wanted to pluck the drum, Li Ying still had his former composure and city government there at the moment.
"My lord, I'm sure, I'm sure!" Liu Xian pointed to the location of Feng County and said with certainty. "Chen Bo is also a swordsman, and he has the meaning of intersecting with me in the past. I'm absolutely sure I'm going to convince him! Then contact a few locks on the mountain in Feng County, there are hundreds of people who dare to fight, and at the critical moment, a knife in the back of the bandit is enough to protect Feng County! ”
Liu Xian came up with a clever trick after thinking about it for a few days, and it turned out that he secretly sneaked to Fengxian County, enveloped his friends on the green forest road in the past, and started with the Taiping Army outside. Striking at the Taiping Army's outstretched mobile force and stumbling Chen Decai's feet.
Of course, Li Ying disagreed. The city can be defended, completely relying on Liu Xian's army, and the pillar of Liu Xian's army is completely Liu Xian's. Under the current situation, if Liu Xian wants to sneak out of the city, how big is the risk of Chenggu!?
But in the end, he was persuaded by Liu Xian. "My lord, Feng County must be preserved. Otherwise, the bandits and the Ganshan thugs will be connected, and the northwest may change color! ”
The True God Cult thugs are numerous and cohesive, but they are not good at sieges. In the more than half a year since the incident, there have been only a dozen cities destroyed, and most of them have been taken by relying on the efforts of the city. But the Taiping Army is different, unless it is a heavily guarded county, such as Chenggu, otherwise Chen De has the ability to eat any county-level city.
The confluence of the Taiping Army and the True God Cult is definitely far more powerful than one is equal to two.
Liu Xian did not tell Li Ying from the gains and losses of officialdom that if the Taiping army really merged with the True God Sect thugs, the civil and military forces in the city of Hanzhong Mansion would definitely be severely punished by Beijing, but Li Ying could get a reward and take the opportunity to take the position, and Liu Xian could also do it, but he didn't get much. Liu Xian did not move, sitting and watching the situation change viciously, which was beneficial to Li Ying and himself.
He started to analyze Li Ying from the overall situation. If the Taiping True God merges, how much danger will there be to the Qing court. The northwest was discolored, Xinjiang and Qinghai were unstable, and half of western China was not under the control of the Qing court.
Li Ying agreed to Liu Xian's adventure. His loyalty to the Qing court was still very high. And in the process of speaking, Liu Xian directly linked his actions to the general trend of the entire Northwest, but Li Ying was the 'supreme' to decide whether to save zài, and in an instant, a sense of mission and a spirit of fearlessness and sacrifice filled Li Ying's chest and mind!
It was with this spirit of sacrifice and dedication that Li Ying decisively agreed. For this reason, he also issued his first official document since he served as the Tongzhi of Hanzhong, to Fengxian. pressed a big hat of "Jianfeng County Military" for Liu Xian.
That night, a small crack opened at the north gate of Chenggu, and Liu Xian took Zhang Zhongkui and four guards out of the city gate. Along the way, Liu Xian naturally took Zhang Zhongkui and the five people to see the stitches, and smoothly found out the encirclement of the Taiping army's heavy camps.
Chenggu is 300 miles away from Fengxian, on the way a single big river has to pass through Wenshui, Baoshui, Zijin River, Lane River four, there are many mountains, but also to avoid the Taiping army scattered in the countryside of the small troops, six people ride horses, it takes four days to reach Wudu Mountain.
Wudu Mountain is just a general name for a large mountainous area in the east of Feng County, Liu Xian really wants to find one of the South Mountains, and the old nest of Chen Bo, a leopard in the forest, is under the green cliff of Nanshan.
Qingya East Ditch, Qingya West Ditch, Shimenzi, Chenjiaping, Xujiagou, and the five villages around Qingya are all regarded as his bases.
Different from Liu Xian in Chenggu, Chen Bo, an armed bandit with swordsmen, is more intense. This is also no way, Fengxian is in front of Baoji, Lianyun plank road along the way 500 miles, more than 10 large and small post stations, there are more than eight or nine inspection divisions, the green battalion is stationed in both places There are thousands of soldiers, and this Guanzhong and southern Shaanxi, Sichuan Guanyi Avenue has been seen into the eyes. Although Liu Xian is on the edge of the city of Hanzhong Mansion, it is much easier to make a living than Chen Boring, how can Chen Boring not sharpen the knife in his hand faster!
Chen Bo has one hundred and fifty or six old men, and if he comes forward to contact the green forest heroes in the mountains and wilderness of Feng County, he can gather at least five hundred people.
"Fifth brother, the swordsmen in Xing'an and Dingyuan have all voted for long hair, and some people in Yangxian and Xixiang have also voted for long hair, if this Chen Bo also voted for long hair, aren't we throwing ourselves into the tiger's mouth?"
Zhang Zhongkui once again called out this old saying, and he said it seventeen or eighteen times along the way.