"There are really a lot of tricks of Emperor Zhu on barbed wire."

Liu Tianwang muttered in a low voice.

He's right.

Originally, in this land of China, where did everyone fight so many tricks.

As a result, Emperor Zhu came.

First what kind of wooden tray flowered bullets, and then what rifled guns, steel-shelled rifled guns, grenades, and this barbed wire.

Zhuge Wuhou is not as good as him.

"Heavenly King, the barbed wire of the Ming army is too vicious, it is constantly chopped, and it can't be pushed down, if you send people to destroy the barbed wire, you have to withstand bullets Just these two barbed wire arrays, I don't know how many lives will be sent to fill it."

Ran Tianyuan smiled bitterly.

In front of Liu Tianwang was a wire brought back from the battlefield.

Liu Tianwang slashed a few times with his sword, and finally cut it off.

But he knew.

This was because his own sword was sharp enough, and the barbed wire was also placed on the table with enough force points to be cut, and if it was pulled up in the air, it would only cut a dent with a single slash.

It's okay to destroy this barbed wire with an iron heart, but as Ran Tianyuan said. It takes a lot of human life.

There were few people who went, and on the way they might have been solved by the rifled guns of the Ming army.

There are many people who go, and that is to fill it with human lives.

"It's okay, the Wan Ming Army in front of me is just a bait, fishing for the big fish of Emperor Zhu."

Liu Zhixie showed a confident look on his face, as if everything was under control.

But I always muttered in my heart, this Wanming army is so difficult to gnaw.

In the future, even if Emperor Zhu is surrounded.

Can you bite it?

"Have you detected the movement of the main force of the Ming army?"

Liu Zhixie asked.

Zhang Hanchao on the side said: "I just reported that the reconnaissance cavalry found that the Ming army brigade had crossed the Wei River, and now it should have arrived at the Daimyofu City!" ”

"Daimyo's Mansion City?"

Liu Zhixie turned his head to look at the map hanging on the big tent of the Chinese army.

"It's coming so fast!"

"Heavenly King, Emperor Zhu's guard regiment has a total of 17,000 people, one cuirassier brigade, two mounted infantry brigades, and an artillery brigade, equipped with a large number of mules and horses, and almost two horses per capita can be allocated, and the speed of the march is very fast." Ran Tianyuan said with some envy.

Emperor Zhu's Guards Regiment was not an all-cavalry group like ordinary Mongol herdsmen.

His Guards Regiment was a fully mule-horse army based on a large amount of heavy equipment.

His artillery brigade alone has twenty-six four-inch large-caliber howitzers, in addition to which the brigades also have specialized artillery battalions, equipped with mortars as firepower for front-line support.

"We're going to get moving now, too." Zhang Hanchao said, "There are 17,000 people under the command of Emperor Zhu, and there are 10,000 people in the Luoding Mountain Department of the Ming Army here, and the Ming army is not much in the first place, but now it is divided into two parts, the art of war is cloudy, and the strength is lazy, we can stare at Luoding Mountain with a partial division, and the main force will go south and fight with Emperor Zhu in the field!" ”

"Will you fight in the wilderness? Where is the battle? Liu Zhixie said as he stared at the map.

"It's better to be there. At the turn of the Zhangshui Wei River, Nanguan Tao Town! Zhang Hanchao said, "The Ming army is stationed in the Daimyo's Mansion today, and it will be possible to arrive here in two days at most, if you don't want to spend two rivers in a row, it is the best choice to spend the river in Taozhen in Nanguan." ”

Liu Zhixie's eyes immediately saw this small town located between the city of Daimyo and the county seat of Guangping.

The Zhangshui Wei River flows through one south and one north, and meets at the junction of Zhili and Shandong, the terrain is flat and open, and there are rivers flowing through, which is suitable for the garrison of the army and the long-term battle.

A battle of hundreds of thousands of troops.

Usually the winner and the loser will not be determined in a short time, so the location of the battle should also be particular, and the place where the battle will be stationed must have a flowing water source.

Moreover, this place is also close to Quang Binh, the terrain is flat, and the dispatch of large armies is also convenient.

"Then here it is!" Liu Tianwang took a deep breath, "The survival of the Kingdom of Heaven is here, don't worry about the Luoding Mountains first, just dig a trench to surround them, and the rest of the army will all go south, and this king will fight with Emperor Zhu and Weizhi!" ”

The friendship between the Naoli Daimyo Mansion and the Dongchang Mansion.

Nanguantao Town, this place is at the junction of the two provinces.

To the east is Guantao County, Dongchangfu, Shandong, and to the west is Yuancheng County, a daimyo prefecture.

On the afternoon of January 12, 1794.

Heavy snow has been going on for seven or eight days in the Great Plains of North China.

Snowflakes fluttered and fell with the northwest wind, piling up on the ground in layers, turning the entire plain into a white picture.

At this time.

The vanguard of the Ming and Taiping armies had already taken place in a skirmish between scouts and cavalry.

However, Emperor Zhu did not deliberately hide his traces.

After arriving at Nanguan Tao Town, he erected the dragon flag of the Great Tomorrow Regiment and the Great Tomorrow Sun and Moon Flag, as well as the military flag of the Great Tomorrow Guards Legion.

On a great plain as far as the eye can see.

Ten miles away, you can see three big flags flying over the military village.

Hou Ran Tianyuan, who led the Taiping Army to the front line, held a telescope to check the defensive position of the Guards Regiment of the Great Tomorrow.

The Guards Regiment relied on the town of Nanguan Tao to build fortifications.

There were three barbed wire fences on the outermost periphery, and a trench was dug, and the town behind the trench was blocked by a low wall, so that it was impossible to see the inside of the town.

But it is the defensive position composed of these three barbed wire, trenches, and town walls, and I don't know how many people will have to die to defeat it.

Ran Tianyuan took a deep breath.

Of course, he knew the current situation in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

If the army returns to Guanzhong now, then I am afraid that the contradictions between the princes will erupt due to the barrenness of Guanzhong, and the struggle for territory and wealth between them will be extremely acute.

Opposite.

Now there are two strong enemies in the kingdom of heaven, so that the princes are temporarily united with the outside world. It doesn't matter if you lose or lose, you won.

The Heavenly King Liu Zhixie took advantage of this to integrate the army of the princes, and after this battle is fought, the Heavenly King's power in the Heavenly Kingdom can be further advanced, right?

Of course.

The premise is that this battle can be won.

Lost the fight.

I don't even know if there is a chance to be the king of Pingxi.

Come to think of it.

Ran Tianyuan suppressed the vague uneasiness in his heart, and said to the herald soldiers beside him: "Order all departments to dig deep into the camp and continue to monitor the movements of the Ming army. ”

He turned his head to look at the three flags in the snow.

Tomorrow afternoon.

The main force of the Heavenly King will come

Night falls.

The people of the town of Nanguantao had already fled before the war.

Most fled south to the Ming-controlled state capital.

After all, since the war of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Ming Junqiu's Wang Shi was not guilty, and his character was established.

On the side of the Qing army, there will be looting almost without a fight, and there is no need to talk about the Taiping army.

As long as the city is broken, all the people will be coerced, and all the goods will be gathered.

Only the Ming army, for more than three years now, has not reported any "bad records".

Of course.

In Liaodong, this kind of thing can't be spread out.

After all, the largest selling newspapers in China are all media under the control of the Ming Dynasty.

This ability to control public opinion is comparable to that of later generations of Mi Di.

At this time, in Xuzhou Mansion, the Ming Dynasty established a large number of refugee camps.

When the war ended, collective farms would be established in various parts of North China, or immigrants would be emigrated to eastern and northern Liaoning.

At this time, in the big tent of the Chinese army in Tao Town, Nanguan, where the Ming army was stationed, the candles made of whale oil were lit, and the big tent of the Chinese army was brightly lit.

"The main force of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has gone south, and more than 30,000 people in Ran Tianyuan's vanguard have arrived, and Liu Zhixie's Chinese army has also crossed Zhangshui and is moving to the southeast, and it will arrive tomorrow afternoon at most."

"Liu Zhixie has transferred all the elites, and all the old books have been taken out, this is really a desperate bet." Tao Biquan Road,

Zhu Daohua smiled and said: "It's a good bet, it's convenient to gather and annihilate, as long as you win this battle, you can go north to attack Yanyun." ”

Gather and annihilate.

This is ideal.

But as the saying goes, everything is not perfect.

In reality, it is very difficult to achieve the ideal situation.

Therefore, if this battle can leave sixty percent of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's government soldiers, it will be regarded as an unprecedented glorious victory.

"This Liu Zhixie hit more than ten times the strength of the army to fight with me, the numerical advantage is amazing, but the gap between his army and my Guards Legion is huge, so the key to this battle is not how to win, but how to win as much as possible, it is best to kill Liu Zhixie, and then let Qi Lin in Guanzhong be the king of Pingxi"

Zhu Daohua said.

"Your Majesty, Liu Zhixie must also know the huge gap between his army and my Guards Corps, since he is here, he will definitely not fight step by step, there will definitely be some conspiracy." Tao Biquan said.

"Conspiracy? For example. ”

"Like a night attack!" Tao Biquan said, "If it is a dignified battle, their firepower is too weak to fight us, and the losses in the daytime attack are too great, so they will definitely choose to attack at night." ”

"Fight at night, fight at night! Order, the army rests in place, and we are here waiting for the arrival of Liu Tianwang's army! ”

Liu Tianwang's army is coming.

Hundreds of thousands of troops marched south with their heads covered.

After walking for several days, he finally camped at the foot of the dog barking ridge, ten miles east of Tao Town, Nanguan.

It didn't take long for me to stop.

Liu Zhixie went to inspect the battalions non-stop, and made a wish to seal the officials, and promised to give the soldiers under his command the Central Plains after the battle.

The morale of the soldiers of the kingdom of heaven has been boosted to the point of not being speakable.

"The decree of the king of heaven, the survival of the kingdom of heaven is in this move, you and other soldiers fought bloodily, after breaking the Ming court, they will be rewarded for meritorious deeds, and the soldiers in the outer battalion will be divided into at least 20 acres of land, and 20 acres of good land will be obtained for small merit, and 50 acres of good land will be obtained for medium merit."

The loud knights on horseback roared one battalion after another.

Publicize Liu Zhixie's reward to the three armies.

"Hooray! Long live the Heavenly King! Long live Heaven!! ”

Suddenly.

Cheers rang out.

When Liu Zhixie heard this cheer, he couldn't help but think: It seems that this land still has to be given.

Emperor Zhu's Ming army was so obedient one by one, and they all had tangible benefits for the soldiers below.

The upper layer should be enveloped.

But the creeps below can't be ignored either.

The morale of the Ming army has always been so stable, and it seems that there is no time to be low.

It is probably that people's rewards and punishments are public.

"When this battle is over, we must also learn from the Ming Court, reward the fields, publicize the rewards and punishments, and treat everyone equally."

Liu Tianwang said.

"Heavenly King, Emperor Zhu will be stationed in the Nanguan Tao Town in front now." Ran Tianyuan rushed back from the front line to report.

"Good! Case. All the armies are well rested, and the three meals tomorrow must be prepared properly, so that the soldiers can eat well and be perfect tomorrow. Fight the Ming army again! ”

(End of chapter)