Chapter 12: The First Night Battle
The Jinpen Ridge in the south of Changsha City, this mountain range can only be regarded as a poor small hill compared to those big mountains in Guangxi, the height is only more than ten zhang, but here is the highest place in the south of Changsha City, the west side of the mountain range is the surging Xiangjiang River flowing to the north, the mountain range is surrounded by hills on three sides, and it has become an important place that can be used as a barrier outside the south of Changsha City.
Zhu Han, the deputy general of the Yuanzhou Association of the Qing army, stood in the Qing army camp in Jinpenling, looking at the Shaanxi soldiers who were laughing and scolding slowly at the foot of the mountain, and sneered: "This group of fucking Shaanxi Qiuba is finally willing to go to Shimapu." ”
Many of the place names of Changsha have a shop word, in the place names of Changsha, many of them have a "shop" word, like the new shop, the black stone shop, the big support shop, etc., this is the place name from Changsha to the Xiangtan official road, between the shop and the shop is ten miles. Stone horse shop is another official road in the south of Changsha, the first shop on the official road from Changsha to Liling, followed by Dongjing shop, Baitian shop and so on. That is to say, starting from the south gate of Changsha, it is exactly ten miles to Shimapu here, and it is still three miles east of Jinpenling.
Zhu Han breathed a long sigh of relief when he saw the Shaanxi soldiers passing, but fortunately, these Shaanxi soldiers rushed to garrison him, and he could finally breathe a sigh of relief. When Luo Bingzhang ordered him to take 800 Liuyang Township Yong to garrison Jinpenling outside the city, Zhu Han was so frightened that his face was pale, everyone knew that the long-haired thieves on the border of Hunan were making trouble now, and it was a matter of life and death when they went out of the city to garrison. But Luo Bingzhang comforted him and said that the long-haired thieves would definitely come from the avenues and waterways of Leiyang and Hengyang, and they would not necessarily take the south road.
But Zhu Han also knew that a partial division of the long-haired thieves came all the way from Anren, Chaling, and Youxian to attack the city and plunder the land, looking at this jiashi, he was going to kill the official road of Liling, and the Liuyang Xiangyong under his command was just a group of local group training that had just been recruited, and it was okay for these people to bully the unarmed people, and let them fight with the fierce long-haired thieves that was whimsical.
So at his strong request, Luo Bingzhang reluctantly agreed to send a team of soldiers and horses to garrison Shimapu and Zhu Han's department echoed each other, forming a rivalry with each other, and promised to allocate a lot of firearms, gunpowder and medicine to Zhu Han, Zhu Han only then agreed to lead the troops to guard Jinpenling, he just married Concubine Fang, he didn't want to lose his life, the concubine would definitely run away with others.
Looking back at the villagers sitting listlessly in the camp in twos and threes, Zhu Han couldn't help it, who called the Hunan Governor Yamen who had not been paid for more than two months? Originally, Liuyang's father and elder scraped together a little silver to pay money, but they were also misappropriated by Luo Bingzhang to the group of Shaanxi soldiers under the mountain.
Zhu Han knew about this, but he didn't fight for it, because he needed these Shaanxi soldiers to block in front of him, and he could fight if he could, and run away if he couldn't, even if the Zuihou soldiers were defeated, he still had an excuse, that is, the court was not bad for hungry soldiers, and the soldiers were brave and not desperate, and I couldn't help it.
Zhu Han's wishful thinking was finally completed, once there was any trouble in the stone horse shop, he could immediately run back to the city, and the reasons for the offense had already been thought of, this is the way of being an official in the Qing Dynasty, first of all, you must be invincible, and then you can think of anything else.
Zhu Han was very happy to see the Shaanxi soldiers go away, see that the sun was already in the west, and loudly ordered the relatives behind him: "Master, I am very fucking happy today, make a few pots of wine to accompany the dishes for dinner tonight!" ”
The sky gradually darkened, and in the Qing army camp on the Jinpen Ridge, some of the soldiers on patrol rushed to chat with Zhou Gong first, and some gathered at the camp gate or under the sentry to shout and gamble, no one will come to check the night tonight, because the main general Zhu Han is drunk, and the other generals are all villagers, and no one will embarrass their brothers.
Just as the patrolmen were having a good time, black shadows quietly touched up from the front and back of the camp under the hill. The Qing army camp only has two camp gates in the north and south, and some wooden stakes and antlers are sparsely placed in front of the camp as barriers, and there are thirty copper cannons arranged in front of the barracks, but the red medicine and medicine are not next to the copper cannons, because the red medicine is very dangerous to explode when it sees fire, and Zhu Han doesn't want to be accidentally ignited by any soldier, so the red medicine is placed in the baggage camp. …,
A soldier Yong lost a few handfuls in a row, muttering and cursing in the country dialect and got up to the side to solve a little, and when he was happy to solve it, he saw more than a dozen people faintly emerging from the forest outside the camp. The soldier was startled, and when he looked closely, he opened his mouth wide in fright, and sat on the ground, and more and more red turban men appeared in front of him, and everyone had shiny long knives in their hands, wasn't it the long-haired red turban thief they boasted about exterminating every day?
The word "long, long-haired ......" has not yet been exported, and the head of this soldier has been cut in half by a Taiping Army brand swordsman who rushed forward, and the hot brains are sprinkled on the ground, and the soldiers on duty at the gate of the camp have just woken up like a dream, "The long-haired thief is here!" Only then did a terrible cry sound.
However, dozens of Taiping soldiers rushed to the front quickly, wielding knives and chopping indiscriminately, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers at the gate of the camp were chopped up when they climbed bravely, and the remaining few escaped to the camp without their lives.
Suddenly, countless heads of people rose up around the camp, shouting and killing came overwhelmingly, the camp gates on the north and south sides were broken by the Taiping army at the same time, and there were two or three hundred Taiping soldiers on each side with spears and broadswords rushing into the camp, cutting people when they saw them, and the soldiers in the camp bravely cried and shouted for their mothers to run in all directions, and the scene was chaotic.
Zhu Han, the commander of the Qing army, put on his coat drunkenly and walked out of the camp and scolded: "What the hell is arguing about? ”
The relatives outside the tent shouted in horror: "My lord, the long-haired thief attacked the barracks at night......" Before the words fell, the head of the relatives had already rolled to the side, and the blood spraying wildly in the neck stained Zhu Han's face.
Zhu Han was suddenly frightened and retreated, a cold light flashed in front of him, when Zhu Han hurriedly dodged, he only felt a sharp pain in his chest, and when he looked down, the tip of a spear protruded from his chest, followed by another cold light flashed, and Zhu Han only felt a cold in his neck and knew nothing.
Su Ji struggled to pull out the spear in his hand, looked at Li Yiwen in front of him and said in a trembling voice: "Brother Li, is this person a big official of the Qing Demon?" ”
Li Yiwen laughed and said: "It should be, your kid is not lucky, he killed a demon official for the first time." ”
Su Ji's face was a little pale, his hands were still trembling, Li Yiwen pulled Zhu Han's braid and lifted the head, Su Ji couldn't help it anymore, squatted down and spit it out.
Li Yiwen scolded with a smile: "Hurry up after vomiting, you will be solid when you see some blood, come with me quickly!" ”
Li Yiwen carried Zhu Han's head and began to run towards the place where there was still resistance in the camp, Su Ji wiped his lips, gritted his teeth and followed. After Li Yiwen ran a few steps, he raised his head and shouted loudly: "Qing Demon, listen, your lord is about to die, quickly kneel and surrender, you can avoid death!" But the scene was chaotic, no one could hear it, Su Ji opened his throat and shouted, followed by the Taiping army on the side and shouted loudly, and the sound became louder and louder like a snowball.
The Liuyang soldiers who fled in the camp were seized because of the two camp gates, there was nowhere to escape, and they were hiding in all directions, the braziers in the camp were overturned, and many camp tents were on fire, and after hearing this shout, they all knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and a small number of fierce soldiers were surrounded and killed one by one, and a night attack on the camp ended in less than an hour.
After the Taiping army that broke through the military camp in the north and south met in the Qing army camp, the two troops were the Taiping New Army led by Li Zuoche, Tang Erniu, and Tong Qiangsheng. After Tong Qiangsheng brought back the news of the Qing army that day, Xiao Yungui immediately made a plan to let the three of them lead more than 1,000 Taiping new troops to detour through Jinpenling from the small road, and attack the Qing army in Jinpenling at night, while he led a large group of men and horses to attack Shimapu.
Li Zuoche, Tang Erniu under the leadership of Tong Qiangsheng and others crossed the mountains and crossed the mountains from the small road to Jinpenling, launched a night attack that night, they let two hundred elite swordsmen take the lead, from the north and south together into the Qing army camp, the rest of the new army then followed up to make up the knife, these new troops will see blood sooner or later, Jinpenling eight hundred Liuyang Xiangyong was so the Taiping New Army as the object of training. …,
The battle situation was certain, Li Zuoche hurriedly ordered people to extinguish the fire in the camp, and assigned people to guard the prisoners of the Qing army, and after the battle, more than 600 villagers were captured. Tang Erniu led people to search the camp tents everywhere, sweep away the fish that slipped through the net, and search for weapons, red powder, firearms and other baggage, Tong Qiangsheng took more than a dozen people and rushed back to Xiao Yungui with Zhu Han's head to report the news.
Tang Erniu led people to search the Qing army camp tent one by one, and was pleasantly surprised to find a lot of muskets, red medicine and medicine, a rough count, there are more than 300 muskets of all kinds, 30 copper cannons, 60 barrels of red medicine, and countless medicines. He also got a lot of grain and grass, and even more than 60 war horses of the Qing army never escaped, and they all became trophies of the Taiping army. The Qing army's swords, guns, bows and arrows were all owned by the new army, and the new army of thousands of people finally got rid of the embarrassing situation of using sickles and hoes, and it can be said that they made a fortune.
Li Zuoche ordered the captives to be gathered together and guarded, and every ten people were tied up with a long rope, and they all squatted on the ground, and more than 300 Taiping New Army guards were sent around them. After Tang Erniu finished ordering the equipment, Li Zuoche ordered the swordsmen to gather the firearms according to Xiao Yungui's instructions, and aimed at the official road under the Jinpenling Mountain.
When Tong Qiangsheng led people to take the path and rushed back to Xiao Yungui's army, it was already midnight. Xiao Yungui led more than 3,000 people to lurk in a dense forest south of Shimapu, and among these more than 3,000 people, there were more than 1,000 people from the He Bin Pao Brotherhood.
All the troops were resting in the dense forest, Tong Qiangsheng met the Taiping army patrolling, and heard that Jinpenling had been taken, and the news quickly spread throughout the entire team, and everyone was shocked.
When Xiao Yungui saw Zhu Han's head, he resisted the desire to vomit, and took a hard puff of dry smoke and said: "Order the army to continue to rest, and before dawn, we will send troops again to raid the Qing army in Shimapu!" ”
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