Chapter 372: No Way Back

Li You's sudden appearance interrupted Shi Dakai's military meeting. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info But Shi Dakai didn't care, Li Bojin's status in the Taiping Army was already transcendent. No one knew that Li Bojin's body was actually hiding Li You's soul.

In the Taiping Army, it was Shi Dakai who made a decision. When Li You appeared, the Taiping Army's military resolution had also reached its end. After a few words, Shi Dakai dismissed the generals.

The generals dispersed, and after Shi Dakai instructed his soldiers to prepare a meal for Li You, he immediately asked for the news of the Yin Fu. Shi Dakai has already obtained a lot of information from the returning Li Qi. Li You didn't hide it, he told him in detail about what happened to him in the underground world, and he didn't even hide the news of Chi You's birth from Shi Dakai. But for Shi Dakai's expectations, Li You also poured cold water mercilessly.

It is impossible for a Yin Talisman to help him change the current crisis. One or two Yin Talismans can turn a person into a hundred-man enemy, but in the melee of the army, it will not work.

"By the way, I have also met Luo Bingzhang......" After Li You finished talking about the Yin Fu, he began to mention it. Of course, he saw Luo Bingzhang so-called, but he only saw it from a distance when he assassinated the murderer, and what happened later was completely Zeng Guohuang negotiating with him.

"Huh?!" Seeing Li You mention Luo Bingzhang, Shi Dakai's eyes flashed with a fine light. He and Luo Bingzhang have been fighting for several years, and they have won and lost each other, and they also have deep vigilance against Luo Bingzhang.

Immediately, Li You told him about the agreement with Zeng Guohuang. Hearing Li You ask him to disband the Taiping Army, Shi Dakai's eyes were fierce, if he hadn't tried his best to forbear, I am afraid that he would have drawn his knife and slashed at Li You.

"Teacher!" Shi Dakai said angrily: "Do you think that the soldiers under my command are not Luo Bingzhang's opponents? ā€

At this time, Shi Dakai skillfully used the art of war, deceived the main force of the Qing army one after another, and crossed the Jinsha River.

Li You smiled bitterly. He had long known that it was impossible for Shi Dakai to listen to his advice at this time. Even if it were him, it would be impossible to heed such advice and suddenly throw away countless years of hard work.

And another point is that, in fact, the Taiping army still has the strength to fight, and if there is a little luck, it is not impossible to break through Luo Bingzhang's blockade or even defeat it. It can be said that the Taiping army only needs to cross the Dadu River to basically achieve its strategic goal and advance into the hinterland of Sichuan, and it is not possible to destroy the Taiping army in a short period of time.

Li You no longer persuaded. Since Shi Da was happy and had made up his mind, he let him do his own thing. Anyway, he had already anticipated the worst of things, and he had made a lot of preparations for it, and after sighing in his heart, he stopped arguing.

In the following period, the Taiping army made a slight repair, and then advanced all the way along the strategic goal, and the number of Qing troops along the way was small, and it was basically crushed at the first touch. But the situation is not promising. The intelligence system of the Qing army was not developed, and it was nearly a month after the Taiping army crossed the Jinsha River that Luo Bingzhang learned in the camp that the Taiping army had crossed the river.

Knowing that Shi Dakai had crossed the Jinsha River, Luo Bingzhang was furious, on the one hand he scolded Li You for being a liar, and on the other hand, he urgently telegraphed all kinds of troops and horses to come back to help. Luo Bingzhang couldn't hold back any longer, on the one hand, he summoned all the Tusi to try his best to delay the footsteps of Shi Dakai's army, and on the other hand, he personally led the elite of his headquarters to block the way of the Taiping army.

For nearly a month, Li You ate and slept every day. Although Shi Dakai's army was still fighting, Li You was not interested in getting involved. At this time, the Taiping Army was also like a huge machine, which was in the middle of loading, and Shi Dakai was so busy that he couldn't take care of Li You at all.

After entering May, the Taiping army occupied the small city of Ningyuan, used it as a base, set out from Mianning Xiaolu, and after a two-day journey, appeared on the south bank of the Dadu River on May 14.

When they arrived at the Dadu River, they did not see a single Qing army on the other side. The Taiping Army was excited, and Li You was also stunned. When he was in the vicinity of Chi You before, he had already seen many Qing troops stationed there. But at this time, these Qing troops were nowhere to be seen. It was only from the captured local population that there were signs that the main force was heading north of Sichuan because of the Taiping army's activities a month ago, so the troops stationed here had already gone north along the river to intercept the Taiping army. On the opposite bank, there were only hundreds of military horses in Tusi.

This news made Li You feel ridiculous. A thought even flashed through his mind: Is history going to be rewritten? What was the chaos that made the Taiping Army so smooth?

However, Li You's optimistic speculation was actually much earlier. The original Qing army was stationed here, because of the fear that the Taiping army would cross the river, the nearby boats had already been collected and destroyed, and there was a lack of boats to cross the river, and the 30,000 or 40,000 horses could not cross the river at their roots.

To this end, Shi Dakai ordered the army to build a boat to cross the river, and at the same time sent a large army to seize the Luding Bridge. But soon the bad news came, because Tusi knew about the arrival of the Taiping army in advance, and felt that his strength was weak and unable to defend the bridge, so he destroyed the iron bridge a few days ago!

Hearing the news, Shi Dakai was shocked and angry, gritted his teeth and said: "What a Wang Yingyuan, when this king crosses the river, you will look good." ā€

Wang Yingyuan is the local Tusi Qianhu. He didn't know that such a cautious move by him actually sounded the death knell for the Taiping Army's westward expedition.

After coming to Zidadi, Li You has been anxious in his heart. He always felt that something was going to happen. Sure enough, at ten o'clock in the afternoon, the downpour fell without warning, and the Dadu River, which was already flowing rapidly, became like a beast out of a cage at this moment, and the small boat built by the Taiping army could not cross the river at all.

Seeing this, not only did Li You feel that the big thing was not good, but Shi Dakai also faintly couldn't hold his breath. There is not much grain and grass carried by the army, and if it is delayed, the consequences can be unimaginable. Sent people to the surrounding cottages to buy grain, but none of the villages were willing to sell grain, but closed the village gates to resist the arrival of the Taiping army by force.

Hearing the report of his subordinates, Shi Dakai was quite angry in his heart. But he knew that the mountain people were cautious and had no good impression of the army, and that he was a guest and an enemy, and it was unlikely that he wanted to buy food from them.

Food is not a real problem at the moment. The real trouble is that the rain is endless. But the next morning, the Qing army had already appeared on the other side of the bank and began to set up defenses. Seeing this, Shi Dakai began to lose his breath.

But Shi Dakai knew very well that the army had marched to this point, and there was no possibility of retreating. Because he had already received news from the Qing army at night, Yuexi Tongzhi Zhou Qiyuan, led the army to cut off the east, and stationed in a place called Tie Zaizai. This place is exactly where the Taiping Army came from. Moreover, Admiral Hu Zhonghe, stationed troops in Anqing Dam, and Tang Yougeng, the head town, choked the upper reaches of the Dadu River...... Even Liu Rong, the political envoy of Sichuan, has already appeared in the Fulin area. South, south, north, west, in fact, there is no way back.