readx;?? For some reason, Li You always had a very ridiculous feeling. www.biquge.info When the Taiping Army appeared in purple, Li You thought that Shi Dakai would soon usher in an opportunity to change history. As a result, a rainstorm suddenly made this possibility shattered.

The situation has taken a turn for the worse. The scouts around keep bringing bad news back. At this time, both Shi Dakai and the generals in the army realized that they were now in a crisis that they had not seen in several years.

"Mentor ......" dragged his tired body and stepped into Li You's tent, Shi Dakai didn't even untie the robe on his body, and sat down: "Our army has fallen into a heavy siege......"

The torrential rain began on the afternoon of the 15th and continued until the 17th. The army has been eating cold for several days. And that's not all, the rain gear was not well prepared, and many wooden barrels containing gunpowder were soaked in the rain and became unusable due to moisture. This also means that the combat effectiveness of the Taiping Army has been reduced by at least 30%. In fact, the war has not yet started, but the balance of victory and defeat has already tilted in favor of the Qing army.

Shi Dakai came to ask for advice. Li You is not Li Bojin, and he knows a lot about the military formation. At this time, he was unable to solve the death of the Taiping Army. In fact, at this time, there are only two ways to choose, first, to be able to fight your way out of the encirclement in the next bloody battle, and second, Shi Dakai disbanded the Taiping army and fled for their lives.

The second strategy, Shi Dakai didn't think about it at all. At this time, although the situation of the Taiping Army was critical, since he left Tianjing, Shi Dakai had encountered countless deaths, and he had not gritted his teeth and survived. If he is easily abandoned, how can he gallop from thousands of troops to this day?

In terms of the opinion of breaking through, Li You and Shi Dakai disagreed. Shi Dakai believes that since it has been surrounded as a Jedi, it is better to have a wreck, cross the river with elites, and capture the Qing army's defense line on the opposite bank, then the Taiping army will have a chance to breathe, and it only needs to repair for a few days to restore its combat effectiveness. At that time, even if the Qing army gathers, it will be difficult to shake the military formation of the Taiping army.

Li You believes that since the other side has been heavily armed and hindered by natural hazards, it is very difficult to force the crossing, so it is better to be ruthless and break through to any place around. For example, along the upstream, enter the Xikang area, or go down to the Minjiang River along the Daliang Mountain area. These places are good places to maneuver.

Li You's plan was noticeably more cautious. If it was before, Shi Dakai would definitely adopt this approach. But by this time, Shi Dakai had run out of patience. In fact, since the torrential rain blocked the army, the morale of the Taiping army has begun to move towards the brink of collapse.

You have to know. The rise of the Taiping Army started entirely by Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing and his entourage pretending to be ghosts, and in the hands of Shi Dakai, this is no longer a pure peasant rebel army, but a group of fanatical believers who have been brainwashed by religion.

However, these so-called fanatics, in fact, are some uneducated peasants, lack of deep-rooted cultural edification, when fighting a good war, the fighting spirit is naturally high, but the slightest setback in the war, will suspect that the strength of the gods they believe in is not enough, so the morale is low.

Encountering this sudden rainstorm, many soldiers have already privately spread that the Heavenly Father has abandoned the Wing King Shi Dakai, so it will suddenly rain and block the way of the Taiping army, otherwise how could such a thing happen.

The military judge has executed many people who spread rumors, but once some things take root in people's hearts, no matter how they explain and refute rumors, it will have no effect. Therefore, for Shi Dakai, he can't choose to retreat from all the strategies in front of him, and can only face the difficulties. If the victory is won, the military spirit will naturally be as strong as before.

Regarding Shi Dakai's difficulties, Li You can only express his understanding. Seeing the haggard Shi Dakai, Li You felt pity in his heart. sighed and said, "Okay, when you send someone to rush the ferry, I'll help you take the lead...... That's all I can do for the Taipings......"

Shi Dakai naturally knew that his master was powerful, and with Li You's horse, Shi Dakai calculated one more point in his heart.

"I don't know where this bastard has gone." Li You frowned slightly, it stands to reason that the Taiping army has been stationed in the area of Zidadi for two days, and Chi You should come to join him, but there is still no trace at this time. Li You tentatively searched for his breath, which was not far away, just circled around for dozens of miles, but did not get close to half a step. If it weren't for the emergency situation of the Taiping Army, Li You would have left Shi Dakai to look for Chi You.

After finalizing the general plan, under Shi Dakai's order, 2,000 Taiping troops who were familiar with water were selected. Take the boat built by the Taiping Army day and night in the past two days to rush to the crossing.

That night, Li You took a light boat, braved the heavy rain, and rushed towards the opposite bank with thousands of Taiping troops.

Looking at the Taiping Army beside him, Li You smiled bitterly. After two or three days of deployment, the Qing army had already built many hidden forts and positions on the opposite bank to prevent the Taiping army from storming and crossing the river. Day or night, the defense is tight. It can be seen from the rigorous organization of the opponent's formation that the Hunan army is guarding the opposite bank. The Hunan army's offensive ability is only average, but the level of defense is extremely high. This is the combat strategy formulated by Zeng Guopan, who has fought countless battles with the Taiping Army and has been defeated countless times, after learning from the pain: "Harden the village and fight in a daze", he would rather run himself into a hedgehog and wait for the opponent to attack, rather than attack rashly and be taken advantage of by the opponent.

The distance between the two sides of the strait is only about a mile, although the visibility is not high in the rainy night, but the telescope is not a rare artifact in the army, the Taiping army's actions, at the beginning, fell into the monitoring of the Qing army on the other side, and when the Taiping army began to cross the river, the Qing army was already in strict formation.

"Cross the river, cross the river!" Shi Dakai stood on the boulder on the bank of the river, regardless of the wind and rain falling on his body, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Soldiers, our army is now trapped like a heavy siege, life and death lie in this battle, if the river is successfully crossed, there will be no moat in front of our army, until there is no Qing army in Chengdu Prefecture, defeated, it will be rushed up by the Qing army around it, and there will be no place to die. ”

"Victory! Win! The soldier crossing the river also shouted such a sentence in his mouth, and immediately, thousands of boats raced across the river, rushing towards the opposite bank like an arrow from Xuan!

Li You had three sharp machetes tied to his back, one or two small daggers pinned to his belt, and a machete in his hand, which looked like a humanoid armory. On the battlefield, such a stylish shape is actually very dangerous. But Li You didn't care so much. He knew very well that he was going to kill a lot of people in this battle, so he needed a lot of sharp knives.

"Luo Bingzhang......" Li You sighed in his heart, his expression complicated. In fact, when he helped Shi Dakai break through, it already meant that he took the initiative to tear up the agreement with Luo Bingzhang.

But, so what? In Li You's heart, ten Luo Bingzhang are not as good as one Shi Dakai.