On the side of the West Lake Bridge, Deng Yi and the others heard the news of the official army, and several people were happy, Xiao Yungui glanced at a few people, ignored them, and pulled Li Yiwen to the side and asked in a low voice: "Hong ...... Has the West Queen Niang ever returned to the city? ”

Li Yiwen replied: "The West Queen Niang entered the city half an hour early. ”

Xiao Yungui was a little relieved, this little girl was still back in the city, he touched his nose and stared at Li Yiwen up and down a few times, secretly thinking that this person turned out to be the loyal king Li Xiucheng, and he really had the style of a general.

Li Yiwen was uncomfortable by him, looked down at his clothes, and there seemed to be nothing wrong with him, he hugged his fists and said: "King Xi, Qing Demon Wang Jialin and Taqibu are gathering troops in Liuyang County in the east, how should we deal with it?" ”

Xiao Yungui woke up at this time, turned around and beckoned Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang to come forward and ask, "Qing Demon has arrived in Liuyang County, what should we do?" ”

Li Kaifang hugged his fists and said: "The Qing Demon King's family is very inward, he was stationed on the periphery of Anren before, and we waited to enter Changsha with the king of the west, he had two thousand soldiers and horses and did not dare to invite the battle, and the younger brother wanted to come this time He did not dare to attack Changsha, that is, he followed from afar." ”

Lin Fengxiang said: "The head of the king demon in Guangxi and I have fought many times, this time the demon and poisoned the people, my Taiping holy soldiers won a big victory yesterday, morale is flourishing, now the enemy has appeared, you can fight, first frustrate the enemy's spirit, even if you can't completely annihilate the demon, you must also fight the demon turtle in the city, dare not go out of the city for trouble." ”

Xiao Yungui sighed, looked at Li Yiwen and said, "Brother Li, what do you say?" ”

Hearing Xiao Yungui call his brother, Li Yiwen felt greatly honored, and hurriedly said: "My subordinates also thought that they could wave their troops to fight a battle, so that Liuyang Qing Demon would not dare to approach Changsha too much." "Yesterday, he couldn't get the war, and he was a little unwilling in his heart, so he naturally advocated fighting again.

Seeing that the two-to-one vote was decided, Xiao Yungui secretly thought about it and said: "It's okay, let's do it, Brother Lin will only return to the army this morning, so there is no need to go into battle, lead the other brothers back to the city first, and arrange for the defense of the city." The two brothers, Kaifang and Yiwen, entered the city and set up their respective headquarters and horses, and followed the king to attack the enemy in the east! ”

Li Kaifang, Lin Fengxiang, and Li Yiwen glanced at each other when they heard this, and Li Kaifang hesitated: "His Royal Highness the King of the West, I and Yiwen's headquarters are only more than a thousand people, and there are no less than 3,500 people in the Qing Demon, is there a little less than a little less troops?" ”

Xiao Yungui smiled faintly: "The Qing Demon is busy with the people, it must be scattered everywhere, Taqibu is a newly defeated army, seeing that my banner is coming, the Qing Demon must be scattered in a hurry, we don't have to work hard, just bring more flags, and besides, the Qing Demon is impatient to fight in the wilderness, I will take a thousand soldiers to see the Qing Demon." ”

Li Kaifang and the other three generals nodded secretly when they heard this, this is not Xiao Yungui's boasting or pride, at this time, the Qing Army's Eight Banners Green Battalion soldiers were rotten and rotten, and they only dared to use firearms and bows far away in battle.

When Ulantai, the admiral of the Qing army, selected the garrison of the Eight Banners to strengthen the front line of the Taiping Army in Guangxi, he once said: "The garrison of the Eight Banners has not practiced swords and spears, and there are no bows and arrows............ Only today, only with birds...... "The garrison of the Eight Banners is like this, and the Eight Banners of the Beijing Division are nothing more than that."

When Ulantai received a section with 2,000 soldiers from the original Qin Dingsan, the soldiers stationed in the Eight Banners were also "only issued to the instructor with the shotguns brought by the slaves...... The soldiers were mixed with swords and spears. "In the battle of Yong'an, the Eight Banners mixed with hundreds of Weining soldiers guarded the artillery positions, and were chased by seven Taiping soldiers with spears and short knives to discard more than ten large and small artillery positions, and threw themselves into the torrent, preferring to drown rather than hand-to-hand combat.

Among the Qing troops in Guangxi, Xiang Rongchu's army is definitely the first-class force in the green battalion. But it is also a self-proclaimed "short knife blunt spear, difficult to be a thief rattan brand needle." "Fighting is all about "bandits" before they get close, that is, they use guns indiscriminately, and when the guns are hot, they can no longer be fired. The bandits pounced on me with a rattan hob, and the front row stood uncertain, but retreated. "Therefore, Xiang Rong generally arranges multi-layer queues to fight and pays attention to loop bombardment, so he generally suffers little loss, and is even called a famous general. …,

The reason is because the Taiping army has a very strong self-confidence as a backing at this time, they despise life and death, regard death as home, and despise the enemy, full of self-confidence, which is in stark contrast to the declining morale of the Qing army, so only seven Taiping soldiers dared to rush to kill more than 100 Qing army guards.

On the other hand, the Qing army's sloppy military spirit and military discipline, the saying that the court is not bad for hungry soldiers is even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the Qing army usually can't support it for two days without food. In the battle of Guilin, the Qing army claimed to be ten provinces reinforcements one after another, Wang Jinxiu, Kailonga, Qin Dingsan, Yu Wanqing and others led 10,000 people, Jiang Zhongyuan, who had previously "led the disease back home", also led Chu Yong 1,000 people back to the front line with Liu Changyou, and the Qing army reached 20,000 in Guilin. Xiangrong and Liu Changqing were under the jurisdiction of Xiang, Gui and Sichuan soldiers to defend the city, Wang Jinxiu, Song'an, Yu Wanqing, and Li Mengqun were stationed at the north gate, Zhang Jingxiu and Dongyong were stationed at Feiluanqiao, Chaoyong was stationed at the west gate, Qin Dingsan and Changlu were stationed at the east gate, Xu Xiangguang was stationed in Nanliutang, and Jiang Zhongyuan and Liu Changyou were stationed in Cormorant Prefecture. The Qing army was corrupted in military discipline, plundered everywhere, set up a market in the camp, and publicly auctioned off the looted property. The magistrate of Guilin was very annoyed by these officers and soldiers who were looting everywhere, and felt that the officers and soldiers were even more ravaging the place than the long hair, and even ordered the Qing army that could be killed by the people to kill the people who could break into the house and rob them in self-defense, and "tell the people to kill themselves." It's just that at this moment, these Qiu Eight Masters brought the wind of robbery and plunder to the land of Xiangchu.

It was Xiao Yungui who said that it was not unashamed to attack the Qing army of Wang Jialin's department with more than 1,000 soldiers, and at that moment Xiao Yungui asked Er Li to return to the city to lead the troops to Liuyangmen in the east to meet him, and the three generals bowed down together to receive the order and went their own way.

Just as Lin Fengxiang turned around and beckoned everyone to escort Deng Yi and the others to leave, Xiao Yungui suddenly said: "Brother Lin, slow down, you leave these three people behind, I will take them to the battlefield to see what is a real fight!" ”

Lin Fengxiang was slightly stunned and said, "The king of the West is ......"

Xiao Yungui looked at Deng Yi and the others and said coldly: "A few Confucian scholars mentioned life and death in vain, and I will let them see my Taiping military might!" Lin Fengxiang didn't say anything more, bowed down and turned around.

At this time, Zuo Zongtang caught up breathlessly, Xiao Yungui smiled secretly in his heart, and said: "Mr. Zuo, the official army you are looking forward to is back again, this king is about to lead the troops to the battle, and he plans to take the three of them to the battlefield to watch the battle, I don't know if you are interested in going together, sir?" ”

Zuo Zongtang was stunned when he heard this, and secretly scolded Xiao Yungui in his heart for being shameless, if he appeared in the long-haired army in bright clothes and was recognized, then his charge of being a thief would really be confirmed, and he gasped angrily at the moment: "Left... Zuo is not available......"

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Yungui said with a smile: "Mr. Zuo, you don't have to refuse in a hurry, this king guesses that you are afraid of being recognized by the officials and soldiers, it is better for you to wrap your head with a towel, so that you can hide people's eyes and ears." Speaking of this, without waiting for Zuo Zongtang to speak, Xiao Yungui glanced at Deng Yi and the three of them coldly and said: "If you don't go, you can do it, if this king is defeated, maybe he will kill these three people in battle." ”

Zuo Zongtang's face changed greatly, and he said hatefully: "You are forcing people to go to Liangshan!" ”

Xiao Yungui touched his nose and smiled: "You don't have to say that, Mr. Zuo, don't you want to see how this king uses soldiers?" ”

Zuo Zongtang's heart moved, he really wanted to see how Xiao Yungui used his troops, Xiao Yungui was silent before, and defeated the Qing army in the north and south at the same time in one day, and it was only a day later, and he was going to go out to fight, he really wanted to see it, but his face was still angry, but he said: "It's okay, Zuo will see how the king of the west was defeated." ”

Xiao Yungui didn't think about Zuo Zongtang's curse, Haha smiled and waved his hand, and the knife hand under his hand escorted Deng Yi and the three of them to the east Liuyang Gate.

Soon after everyone arrived at Liuyang Gate, more than 1,000 people of the Taiping Army drove out of the city, Fengtian Zhu Demon Banner and the West King Banner took the lead, and then the two Sima to the front army flag was quite many, the flag was divided into five colors, among which the yellow silk and white border flag of the West King was the majority.

Zuo Zongtang looked at this formation, stroked his beard and frowned: "King Xi, why do you use so many banners? ”

Xiao Yungui smiled slightly and said: "There are more than 3,500 people in the Qing Demon Wang's Lin Division, and I only sent a thousand troops to attack him, so naturally I have to bluff with more banners." ”

Zuo Zongtang secretly said that this is the case, Xiao Yungui pointed to his banner and said: "This is the banner of my West Wang's department, yellow silk with white edges, and when Mr. sees my banner in the future, he will know that my soldiers and horses have arrived." Zuo Zongtang sighed, noncommittal.

Xiao Yungui ordered someone to prepare a horse for Zuo Zongtang, Zuo Zongtang was not polite, got on the back of the horse and wrapped his head with a scarf, followed Xiao Yungui, Deng Yi and the other three had to walk, and were escorted forward by Xiao Yungui's card knife hand, so the army waved their flags and shouted to look at Liuyang.