"Kill the thief!"

Under the leadership of Wing Commander Hong Fei, 700 officers and soldiers lined up in a neat array while shouting to boost morale, while approaching within 100 steps of the Taiping Army. Previously, at the head of the city, many soldiers of the city defense battalion saw the clumsy appearance of these homeless people outside, and they were full of confidence in this battle.

The leader of the team, Hong Fei, is even more so.

In his eyes, this battle is a step given to him by God. If you can take it cleanly, you may be able to move the nest from Yuyang Mansion that you have been staying in for seven or eight years.

It's a pity that this relaxed and optimistic attitude quickly disappeared without a trace after noticing the actions of the thieves in front of him.

As early as when the official army opened the city gate and formed a team in front of the moat, the "panicked" thief army retreated a distance and also began to meet the whole team. What seemed to be a messy stance turned out to be neat in a very short period of time. The rabble on the surface hides high morale and fighting spirit. All kinds of signs prove that they are not a rabble at all, but a well-trained elite army!

At this time, Hong Fei already felt a little uneasy in his heart, but the troops had already left the city and were about to fight the other party. Stopping or turning around and withdrawing abruptly would only throw the queue into confusion and give the enemy a chance to take advantage of it, and what face would he have in the future when he insisted on going out of the city to fight?

Perhaps, the other party's queue is just a spectacle?

Everyone knows that a good training of troops does not mean that their combat strength is necessarily strong. Hong Fei was still confident in his city defense battalion, and decided to rush to kill one round first!

This thought made him ruin this army.

………

The battle lasted only half an hour.

When Hong Fei, who had been stabbed in the thigh, limped back to Yuyang Mansion City with the remnants of less than 300 defeated wolf bèi, the entire city fell into a dead silence.

Clear-eyed people can see that the preparation of the Taiping army has made a small mistake. If they chose to engage in a position that was one mile away from Yuyang Mansion City, the thief army outflanked from both flanks would be able to leave all members of Hong Fei's army behind. Because the position was not grasped well, Hong Fei was able to quickly return to the protection of the city defense and retreat into the city after forcibly breaking through.

What they don't know is that after fighting like this, the Taiping army has already released the water.

Although they fled back to nearly 300, the officers and troops who left the city were still heavily damaged. There were at least two or three hundred dead and wounded, and more than 100 soldiers of the city defense battalion were surrounded by the Taiping army that had bitten them to the death, and finally forced to surrender.

The city defense battalion wing of Yuyang Mansion has lost nearly half!

"The thief army is very cunning, and deliberately shows weakness to lure us out of the city to fight. Although he fought desperately, the thieves and soldiers were outnumbered, and they were finally defeated by ......"

Hong Fei was annoyed and remorseful in his heart, but it was too late to say anything, so he could only endure the pain of the wound and plead guilty, and at the same time try his best to defend himself. Although the city defense battalion suffered heavy casualties, the thief army on the opposite side also looked like a lot, and it could only be said that it was not a crime of war if it failed to fight the thieves!

"Well, go and heal your wounds."

The previous performance of the thieves, Yuyang Mansion City Guard also watched the city, and Hong Fei's request for battle was also approved by him. At this point, he could only sigh and wave his hand to let Hong Fei retreat for the time being.

Seeing the situation, the people in the city are panicking, Hong Fei, the main general, cannot move, otherwise it will only cause greater chaos. As for how to clean up the thief army outside, it will definitely not work by relying on Yuyang Mansion itself. The city guard stood stunned for a moment, watching the thieves outside clamoring and shouting, as if they were calling for battle again, and finally made up their minds - ask for help!

A moment later, the north gate and the east gate of Yuyang City opened a crack one after another, allowing the cavalry to leave the city.

The messenger who went out of the city from the north gate did not hesitate to go straight to Daqing Pass along the official road. The messenger at the east gate, after leaving the city, headed southeast, and ran to the county seat of Dengzhou, and prepared to inform the county towns along the way.

However, although Chen Wu did not arrange a large army in other directions, he secretly arranged cavalry to intercept it.

This kind of thing, Yan Xing, who was originally a horse bandit in the north, was the best at it.

With their personal command, all the messengers who came out of the East City Gate and rushed to Dingdeng Prefecture were all stopped by the horse team of the Taiping army. There was also a symbolic interception on the side leading to Daqing Pass, but after intercepting and killing the two, two riders still escaped the pursuit by "luck" and escaped the Taiping army with the speed of their horses.

It was determined that the news of the call for help was sent, and the Taiping army that was pressing the formation behind moved at full speed.

Daqingguan is just north of Yuyang Mansion, and the cavalry who reported the news can arrive in half a day. If the defenders of Daqingguan had reacted quickly, they would have arrived in less than a week, leaving them not much time to prepare.

To be honest, this battle is not easy to fight.

Although the plan of encircling the point and sending reinforcements was used to mobilize the defenders of Daqing Pass, there was a reorganized garrison brigade in Daqing Pass, that is, a 4,000 infantry army. What's more, because it was responsible for defending the pass, there were five brigades of infantry battalions in the 4,000-foot army. Chen Wu calculated that in the worst-case scenario, the defenders of Daqingguan might send 3,000 soldiers!

Since the distance between Daqingguan and Yuyang Mansion is not too far, and there are no Jedi comparable to Xiayang Valley on the road, there are not many terrain bonuses available for use. Even if there is a sneak attack advantage that can be waited for, the number of people is roughly twice that of the officers and soldiers, and it can still be called a tough battle.

However, this battle had to be fought again.

If we can't take advantage of this opportunity to take Daqingguan into our own hands, and if we try to plot against Daqingguan in the future, the difficulty will be at least 10 times greater -- this figure is not an exaggeration at all. Maybe even if Chen Wu didn't take the Daqing Pass, the empire would still not have enough troops to deal with him for a while, but this fortress was like a knife for the official army, firmly against the throat of the Taiping army, making it difficult for people to sleep.

In order not to have such a situation in which the initiative is in the hands of the enemy, Chen Wuzhi of Daqingguan is sure to win!

That night, the Taiping army completed a deception under the nose of Yuyang Mansion.

The two wings that fought with the officers and troops of Yuyang Mansion during the day were quietly replaced by hundreds of wounded and heavy personnel. They will cooperate with a group of straw men with military robes on the outside to deceive Yuyang Mansion. As long as there are a few people walking back and forth in the camp, the officers and soldiers in Yuyang City are far away and can't tell the difference. And even if they suspect something, after losing almost half of their troops, they don't dare to come out at all.

What if this is also a ruse set up by the thieves?

As for the real main force, including more than 5,000 infantry troops, as well as the infantry battalion and horse team, they drove for two days in a row and arrived at Dawangzhuang, which was forty miles away from Yuyang Mansion.

The scale of Dawangzhuang is not large, it is near the official road, and there are almost 600 villagers in it. After relying on the cavalry to raid here, all the villagers of Dawangzhuang were driven out by the Taiping army and concentrated in the innermost corner of the village. Subsequently, the 3rd Wing of the Volunteer Battalion led by Mo Guohao and the 3rd Wing of the 1st Wing of the Volunteer Battalion Division Yuanliang was stationed in and filled the place.

Due to the existence of Tuweizi, the terrain of Dawangzhuang is relatively high, and unless the official army can enter Dawangzhuang, it is impossible to see the situation behind Tuweizi.

Chen Wu's preset script was that when the defenders of Daqingguan passed here, Xu Shizhong's second wing of the Taiping Battalion would cooperate with the infantry archers to block the defenders of Daqingguan head-on. Due to the absolute superiority in numbers, coupled with the fact that in order to rescue Yuyang Mansion, the defenders of Daqing Pass will choose to attack and defeat the enemy in front of them. When the battle began, the 1st 3rd Wing of the Volunteer Battalion in Dawangzhuang took the opportunity to appear and block the retreat of the defenders of Daqingguan from behind.

Once the front and rear attacks are formed, the defenders of Daqingguan will become the turtle in the urn.

The remaining infantry troops lying in ambush in the distance can quickly reinforce the Taiping camp in front. In this way, the Taiping army could gather the strength of three wings on the front, plus the two wings after copying, and it was almost certain that the defenders of Daqingguan would be defeated. If an officer or army broke and fled from both flanks, the horse team could take the opportunity to chase and kill, or simply charge in from the flanks. Specific actions can be taken on the spot, depending on the situation.

"This plan feels a bit dignified!"

Dian Yong Xu Shizhong and they evaluated Chen Wu's strategy.

The army was divided into two parts, one frontal and the other cut off and outflanked, which was the most common tactic in the military history of the empire. Although there are certainly many advantages in waiting for work at leisure, it is a great test of the combat effectiveness of the troops. If one is not done well, the troops that intercept it head-on will be forcibly killed by the officers and soldiers. At that time, the officers and soldiers will be much more relaxed whether they are fighting or fleeing. Compared with the Taiping Army's several battles in Taiping County, there was not much trickery in this battle of Dawangzhuang.

"No way, it's terrain."

Of course, Chen Wu also wanted to replicate the kind of battle in Xiayang Valley that effortlessly annihilated the enemy's army, but without the right terrain to cooperate, it was impossible to take advantage of it.

It's not for nothing that the terrain is better than Dawangzhuang, but it's too close to Daqingguan. Several official roads leading to other towns in Songjiang County converged in the vicinity, and many caravans and passers-by passed. If the Taiping army stopped all of them, it would be difficult, not to mention, and it would be easy to cause movement, and the possibility of exposure would be greatly increased.

Seeing that what Chen Wu said was so conclusive, Dian Yong and the others knew that they were afraid that there was really no other choice.

This battle seems to be another tough battle for the Taiping Army after the bloody battle of Wu'an. The Taiping Army, which completed the expansion and training in the middle of the Bayan Mountains, what kind of performance will this battle have?

The high-ranking generals of the Taiping Army, including Chen Wu, regarded the defenders of Daqing Pass as a qualified touchstone!

I have to say that this group of officers and soldiers came faster than expected. Because Chen Wu and the others took the initiative to go north for forty miles, the defenders of Daqingguan actually saved more than a day. On the afternoon of the second day after the Taiping army was ambushed, the scouts who were released brought back the news of the Daqing Pass defenders.

It was a little less than Chen Wu expected, and the defenders of Daqing Pass dispatched a total of 2,600 people!

Among these people, there are roughly more than 100 people who help transport grain, grass, arrows and other heavy supplies. According to the speed of the march, it only takes one day to reach the side of Dawangzhuang.