It was already late at night, Chen Yucheng was wearing a dragon inspection robe, standing on the wooden wall and looking at the Qing army's dirt mountain, and muttered: "It seems that a stalemate has formed." At this time, he heard a crisp voice behind him and smiled: "Don't worry about Chen Checkpoint, my subordinates have sent you a clever plan." ”

When Chen Yucheng looked back, he saw a woman in military uniform standing behind him with a sword, and in the hazy moonlight, he saw that this woman had bright eyes and a pretty face like a flower, but there were two very cute dimples on her face. When Chen Yucheng saw this woman, he stepped forward and took her hand and said happily: "Evening sister, why are you here?" ”

This Taiping general is Zeng Tianyang's granddaughter Zeng Wanmei, who is sixteen years old, when Zeng Tianyang was assigned to the West Palace, Zeng Wanmei also followed her grandfather into the West Palace, and has been in Hong Yuner's splendid camp. There has never been any mention of Zeng Wanmei in the history books, so Hong Yun'er was a little surprised when she heard about this woman, but then she was relieved, after the defeat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Hunan army wantonly plundered Tianjing, and the documents of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were all burned as demon books, and even some poor surviving materials were preserved by foreigners, or they were rural history and Qing history manuscripts, how many of these are true? There are too many heroes in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom who have not left biographies and names, not to mention Zeng Wanmei, a weak woman?

Zeng Wanmei was grabbed by Chen Yucheng's little hand, her pretty face turned slightly red, and she bowed her head and said, "Xiwang Niang ordered me to send you a letter." Chen Yucheng and Zeng Wanmei have already known each other, and the two are quite affectionate, Hong Yun'er ordered Zeng Wanmei to send a letter this time because she was too worried about Chen Yucheng.

Chen Yucheng was pleasantly surprised: "Xiwang Niang has a letter?" At that moment, he took the letter handed by Zeng Wanmei and opened it to read, and after reading it, his brows furrowed slightly.

Zeng Wanmei saw that his face was strange and asked, "Brother Chen, is there anything wrong?" ”

Chen Yucheng shook his head and said: "Xiwang Niang's letter said that if the battle of Nanchang has become a stalemate, you should jump out of the Qing Demon Front and guerrilla in the hinterland of Jiangxi. Regardless of the gains and losses of one city and one place, it is important to eliminate the main force of the Qing Demon. ”

Zeng Wanmei sighed and said: "What does Xiwangniang mean that we don't want to consume with the Qing demon under Nanchang City, take the initiative to retreat, and look for an opportunity to destroy the enemy?" ”

Chen Yucheng nodded and put the letter away: "Exactly, I don't think this is what the West Queen meant, most likely it was the West King's idea." When I came, the king of the west instructed me many times, if I can win, I will fight, and if I can't win, I will leave. Fortunately, the West Queen sent a letter to remind me. ”

Zeng Wanmei blinked and said, "Then what should we do?" ”

Chen Yucheng looked up at the moon and said: "I asked the villager guide here just now, look at the moonlight tonight, there is a moon in the moon, the moon is hazy, and I think it will be foggy weather in Nanchang tomorrow." Although tomorrow's fog will be inconvenient for our army to fight, I expect that the demons on the other side will be the same as me. It can also be controlled by fog. I want to start retreating tonight. ”

Zeng Wanmei hummed and said, "But what about Yang Fuqing and Yang Guozong?" ”

Chen Yucheng snorted lightly and said: "At the beginning of the Battle of Nanchang, I persuaded him to break the Qing Demon reinforcements first, but he didn't say that the Qing Demon in the city had no fighting spirit and wanted to break the city. I have a shortage of soldiers and horses, although I have lost several times in a row to clear the demon reinforcements, but I can't always gather and annihilate them, so we have today's situation. Yang Fuqing is so happy. Moreover, he arranged our department to fight against the Qing demon reinforcements in the south of the city, and it seems that he also has the idea of killing people with a knife. ”

Zeng Wanmei hurriedly said: "I can't imagine that Dongwang's people are so bad, Brother Chen, let's retreat." Leave them alone. ”

Chen Yucheng shook his head and said: "The King of the West also said that we can't do the thing of betraying our teammates in the West Palace, but we won't let anyone slaughter them." Well, let's do it, late sister, you and the artillery team and the baggage team will go first tonight, and I will go to see Yang Fuqing later, and inform him that tomorrow our troops will retreat and jump to the rear of the Qing demon to attack the Qing demon. ”

Zeng Wanmei hummed softly, Chen Yucheng called his personal guards to take Zeng Wanmei down to prepare, and ordered the artillery team and the baggage team to start retreating overnight, but he took more than ten personal guards to Yang Fuqing's camp in the east of the city.

Zeng Wanmei followed the guards to the life-saving hall of the baggage camp, only to see that it was full of wounded soldiers of the Taiping Army in the West Temple, and many life-saving officers and female soldiers of the women's battalion were busy rescuing the wounded here. Zeng Wanmei also rescued the injured in the life-saving hall, and when she saw this, she didn't care about the greetings of the guards, so she rolled up her sleeves and stepped forward to help.

After a while, Chen Yucheng's general order was issued, and the life-saving hall began to collect the wounded, except for the wounded who were being treated, the rest of the people began to pack up and prepare to retreat, and the whole camp was brightly lit, they carried the wounded onto ox carts and carriages, and transported them to the Ganjiang River to be picked up by the sailors, and the rest of the materials were packed and put on the carriage to take away.

I don't know how long it took, after Zeng Wanmei helped the army life-saving officer to do amputation treatment for a wounded person in Zuihou, she watched the wounded patient being carried away by the life-saving officers of the Taiping Army, she washed off the blood on her hands and walked out of the camp.

"Younger sister, why haven't you left yet?" Chen Yucheng's voice came, and when Zeng Wanmei looked back, she saw Chen Yucheng with a few guards directing the retreat, and when she saw her, she walked quickly.

Zeng Wanmei took two steps and smiled slightly: "Brother Chen, I'll help you leave." Well, what did Yang Guozong say over there? ”

Chen Yucheng's face sank, and he said heavily: "He said that if our West Hall is afraid of the Qing Demon, we can leave by ourselves." ”

Zeng Wanmei sighed and said, "The people in the East Hall have always been so arrogant, Brother Chen, are you angry?" ”

Chen Yucheng said lightly: "It doesn't matter if he Yang Fuqing insults me alone, but I can't joke with the lives of tens of millions of soldiers, the battle of Nanchang has become a stalemate, and it is urgent to break it, if the other reinforcements of the Qing Demon come again, I am afraid that it will be difficult to get out, he is unwilling to go, we can no longer accompany him in the West Palace, I decided to bring five thousand soldiers and horses tomorrow, and the rest of the men and horses will retreat to Poyang first." ”

Zeng Wanmei couldn't help but worry when she heard that he was going to be the queen of the palace in person, and stepped forward to hold his hand and said, "Brother Chen, why don't I stay with you in the palace?" ”

Chen Yucheng lowered his face and said, "Nonsense, have you forgotten the instructions of the King of the West?" Unless all the men in the West Temple are dead, you female soldiers will not be allowed to go into battle. Then he shouted behind him: "Chen Mazi! ”

One of Chen Yucheng's personal guards stepped forward and said, "The subordinates are here!" ”

Chen Yucheng said: "You take Zeng Wanmei and the artillery soldiers and horses to go first, if she leaves alone, I will punish you!" ”

The guard Chen Mazi responded loudly, and Zeng Wanmei saw that Chen Yucheng was so resolute, so she had to be careful, and followed Chen Mazi to go first.

After Zeng Wanmei left, Lai Wenguang, a Taiping Army general beside Chen Yucheng, smiled slightly: "Chen Checkpoint, it seems that when the war in Jiangxi is over, we can drink your wedding wine when we return to Sufu." ”

Chen Yucheng and his subordinate generals are also like brothers, this Lai Wenguang is an old brother in Guangxi, who has experienced many major battles with the King of the West, and is also an old acquaintance, and they often laugh with each other. At this time, when Lai Wenguang said this, Chen Yucheng's face couldn't help but heat slightly, and said with a dry smile: "My sister told me that after her grandfather's three-year filial piety period has passed, she will talk about getting married." ”

Lai Wenguang nodded and said, "Yes, although our old brothers in the West Hall believe in God, the filial piety of our ancestors must always be kept." Chen Checkpoint, I'm just worried that if we withdraw from the battle this time, will the East King's side embarrass the West King......"

Chen Yucheng shook his head and said: "The King of the West has explained it when he comes, and when he is about to fight, let me make my own decision, but if there is anything that is not in harmony with the friendly army, he will deal with the King of the East." Brother Lai, let's do our own thing. ”

Lai Wenguang nodded and said: "Yes, Yang Fuqing's child is not enough to conspire, our West Hall can't afford to spend here with him, Xi Wang Niang is right, let's kill more demons, he wants to occupy the city in the East Palace, and he will occupy the city himself." ”

Chen Yucheng nodded and said: "Yes, I have already informed Yang Fuqing, no matter what, we will leave tomorrow for another day, whether he wants to send troops to take over, or retreat, we can let him." Brother Lai, if the army marches and fights in the fog, it is impossible to command the various departments with the command flag, but can only command with war drums, gongs, horns and other things. ”

Lai Wenguang praised: "Okay, that's exactly how it should be, hear the war drums and advance, hear the gongs and retreat, hear the horn and burst into battle, and the fog can only be commanded by sound, and I will reorganize the meaning expressed by each sound later, and send it to all departments, and tomorrow we must unify the order." Moreover, in the fog, it is most easy to lose its way, and the army should have more simple Sinan, which can be of great use tomorrow. ”

Chen Yucheng nodded, but frowned and said: "Tomorrow is foggy, you can't see anything, and the use of firearms is restricted, but how is this good?" ”

Lai Wenguang also frowned and said: "The subordinates are not familiar with the use of firearms in the dense fog, and there is no more way. ”

Chen Yucheng nodded and said: "In this case, tomorrow I will order all the swords and guns to be prepared, and our soldiers and horses in the West Hall are not afraid of the Qing Demon except for using firearms and swords to fight hand-to-hand!" Lai Wenguang nodded yes, and immediately ordered all the ministries to prepare to go.

That night, the Taiping army and all the units of the Qing army were quietly preparing, and on the third watch day, the Qing army and the Taiping army all made food to feed the soldiers, and followed a group to the front of the camp, and the departments issued new orders, listening to the sound of drums, gongs and horns.

The men and horses of the Qing army also adjusted the cannons, and fired the cannons as soon as they waited for an order. The musket corps of the brigade was assembled as a reserve and waited in the second-line barracks. In the tunnel, the Qing army planted tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder, pulled out the lead, and just waited for the order.

On the fourth watch, the sky was still dark, although the sky was not bright, but the fog had begun to appear, and the fire could not be seen within a few steps in the dense fog.

The Qing army obviously didn't expect this fog, Rong Lu looked at the sky, and muttered softly: "This fog is not the right time, it seems that we will have to pay more attention to the changes in the sky in the future." (To be continued......)