Chapter Ninety-Six: The Great War of the Taiping Bridge
"Twenty-four?"
"Young! It's really young and promising. ”
In Nanyang City, Song Qing was sighing and appreciating Liu Xian's information at this time. It was only two years after the start of the army that he sat in the position of the actual commander-in-chief, with nearly 10,000 soldiers. Compared with it, how incompetent he must be after ten years of struggle to become the chief soldier of Nanyang Town!
When I was twenty-four years old, I was still working as a coolie in the countryside to earn food for my family.
"Why should Zhentai be arrogant." A military attache on the side said with a chuckle. "Zhentai has served in the field for many years, and the relationship is all over Zhongzhou, and the monk and king also look at Zhentai coldly. And this Liu Zongbing? Judging from his humble position, he is afraid that he will offend the monk king. ”
Song Qing's eyes looked at the bottom of the letter, "Yes." Otherwise, how could the monk king let him chase and block the Twist Army. "Zhang Zongyu is a horse team, Liu Xian is a foot team, how long should I run to block it. Song Qing couldn't believe it when he first saw the few lines under the letter.
Besides, before this, the monk king also let Liu Xian stay in Xiaogan for more than two months.
"Dead friends don't die poor. The monk thought that he had defeated the strength of the Twist Army in Huoshan, and that he wanted to suppress the remnants of the Twist Army was just a matter of capturing it. But he didn't want to lose the battle in a row, lose his troops, and lose face. If it weren't for the fact that General Liu was at the bottom, such an errand of blocking the cavalry with foot, nine times out of ten, it would have fallen on our Nanyang Town. ”
At present, Song Qing will not be polite to Liu Xian. He may burn a stick of incense for Liu Xian in his heart, thank you. In reality, he will not lean towards Liu Xian at all.
Throughout October, Liu Xianjun spent the day in the exhaustion of running around.
Zhang Zongyu adopted the "siege tactics", led the Twist Army to go to the Wei Clan, and lured the Monk Greenqin Manchu Mongolian cavalry to chase after him. The monk led the troops to chase after him, Zhang Zongyu went southwest to Ying, turned east to go to Yuncheng, and then went south to Xiping and Suiping, and then turned east to Runing, and then went south and north. It's hard to figure out the way.
Liu Xian had passed by three times in this moonlight mountain, and two of them did not stop, so you can wonder about the urgency of his army's march.
Liu Xian once said to Seng Greenqin that the various departments of the Qing army should be stationed in key areas, and one point would be connected into a line, and then the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners led by him would be interspersed back and forth, which should be able to restrain the twisted army in a state of madness.
As a result, Monk Greenqin ignored it.
Let's go. Follow Zhang Zongyu's baton, and the team has trained. Liu Xian, who completely gave up communicating with Monk Greenqin, was busy on the road for a whole October.
In November, Liu Xianjun returned to Tongbai again. It's snowflakes, and it's the first snow of the year. Monk Greenqin finally let Liu Xian go for the sake of the snow. But the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry under his command continued to chase Zhang Zongyu.
Now tens of thousands of twisted troops are advancing towards Xiangfan from Tang County.
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After dusk, the battlefield moved south. A cold moonlight shrouded the town on the upper reaches of the Tang River, which had been destroyed by the war. The air here seems to have frozen. There was no sound of the winter wind whistling, no neighing of war horses, only the withered grass growing on the ground, occasionally swaying gently.
Suddenly, the long neighing of a war horse broke through the silence of the night, and a wounded cyan war horse limped from a distance. It twisted its long mane and walked straight to the bottom of a large tree.
Under the tree, in the withered yellow grass, lay a man. The moonlight shone on a pale cheek, and the green horse barked lowly, sniffing him, licking him.
The man was awakened from his stupor, by the low neighing of the horse, and with great difficulty raised his hand and stroked the head of the green horse. When he touched the horse's chew, the man climbed onto the horse's back with great difficulty. The pain hit him so hard that he shook and almost fainted again.
The green horse took four hooves, left the big tree, left the battlefield, and slowly ran towards the vast distance.
Xiangyang West. On a protruding mountain beam, more than a dozen leaders of the Twist Army were gathering together with a heavy heart. They had already sent several teams to look for Zhang Zongjue, but none of them had been found.
Suddenly, Hua Bang, the director of the Blue Flag Banner of the Twisting Army, stood up and shouted, "Take the horse!" I'll look for it again! ”
Zhang Zongyu stopped him: "Brother Zhu, it's almost dawn, no......"
Zhang Zongjue is Zhang Lexing's youngest son and Zhang Zongyu's cousin. Whether it is family affection or unity in the army, Zhang Zongyu wants to find Zhang Zongjue 10,000.
The remnants and influence of Zhang Lexing are still deeply buried in the Twist Army.
But Ren Huabang cannot afford to lose.
Chen Daxi is dead, and Ren Huabang is one of the two pillars of the Twist Army. If he wants to have a case, Zhang Zongyu has no expectations at all.
In the past few days, it seems that the Twist Army has been hanging Monk Lingqin and running around, but what can be done without paying the price?
At the same time that the large army of the Twist Army advanced at a rapid pace, the two thousand elite Twist Army behind the palace paid the price of blood.
Zhang Zongjue is the chief general of the army behind the palace. Zhang Zongyu and Ren Huabang are a hundred unwilling and can't resist him. Because the leader of the Qing army's chasing soldiers is Monk Greenqin!
It was Zhang Zongjue's father-killing enemy.
From eastern Henan to western Henan, from Anhui to Hubei, one war after another. The Qing army is getting more and more tired, but the battle situation behind the palace is also becoming more and more thrilling.
In the end, in this battle, Zhang Zongjue disappeared on the battlefield.
Zhang Zongyu was very entangled in his heart. As the head of the whole army, he should have gone to the Taiping Bridge area early, but he risked turning back because of Zhang Zongjue's disappearance.
It's okay to say in the middle of the night, but it's dawn soon, if you don't leave...... It's dangerous!
But when he left, what would Zhang Zongjue do?
Zhang Zongyu really couldn't make a decision for a while. Suddenly, he stared down the hill with wide eyes, as if he saw something. Everyone looked down the mountain together: they saw a cluster of gray dots on the trail below the mountain, slowly moving towards the mountain. In the moonlight, I slowly made out that the gray spot was a horse, and there seemed to be a person lying on the horse's back. Ren Huabang and Zhang Zongyu were excited in their hearts, could it be ......
The two looked at each other and led the guards down the mountain. When they saw the people on the horses, they beat the horses very fast, and they were all pleasantly surprised. "It's the Lord!" I saw that although Zhang Zongjue on horseback was covered in blood, bruises, and his battle robe was torn to shreds, he was alive.
In the dark night, thousands of torches are burning, illuminating the mountains and rivers like day. A group of Manchurian cavalry shot like a sharp arrow in the direction of the Taiping Bridge.
The pursuit of the moon made the elite iron cavalry of the Qing Dynasty, who finally relied on to suppress the world, very tired.
The deputy capital Chang Xing'a and the wing chief Norin Pile were covered with wind and dust, and his lips were chapped, like cracked land in drought.
Chen Guorui, the chief soldier, led hundreds of elite horse teams to advance.
This was originally a Taiping army, but after the Qing Dynasty, he quickly gained a foothold, and then turned into a monk who loved the general, and he was really a fierce general. The department is known as 25 people and 100 people! [It's weird, doesn't it feel like it!! 】
Chen Guorui knows very well why he can win the favor of Monk Greenqin. He is a Han man who has a stable foothold in the army of Seng Lingqin, relying on his courage and fierceness.
When he arrived at Taiping Town, he still had no firm foothold, so he rushed towards the Twist Army camp outside the town.
Of course, the Twist Army will fight. But Chen Guorui's cavalry was fierce and fierce, and when the battle was not long, the Twist Army had to retreat, but Chen Guorui did not chase and kill.