Chapter 159: Crossing the Line of Fire
Shi Lang said intermittently: "The last general is incompetent, and many soldiers have been damaged...... Please ask Lord Cheng to come to the table for impeachment. When the end is a little better, he will also take his own guilt......"
Cheng Yi said secretly in his heart, but he lost five or six hundred green battalion soldiers who his grandmother didn't love his uncle and didn't love, and he was suddenly ambushed, what kind of crime was it? It was the thousands of chaotic military that suddenly appeared that died!
He asked anxiously: "Is General Shi sure that there are thousands of thieves?" β
"The enemy is hidden in the mountains and forests, and it is difficult to know the exact number...... Only what the last general saw, it should also ......be around two thousand," Shi Lang struggled, "Lord Cheng should quickly ask for help from the last general's uncle, where his army goes, the rebellious army will be destroyed......"
Cheng Yi instructed his subordinates to carry away Shi Lang Haosheng to take care of him, and instead called the defeated army that retreated to the city to inquire.
These soldiers were all killed in horror, and they only cared about fleeing for their lives, where did they know how many enemies there were, but when the prefect asked if there were thousands of rebels, they all nodded yes. What's more, the entire hillside is full of thieves, and it is difficult to count them all.
Cheng Yi was also panicked in his heart, and went to discuss with Master Jialazhang Jingda Hasselblad who was stationed in Jian'an. The latter heard that at least two or three thousand rebel troops were haunting the vicinity of Jian'an, and he had no objection to inviting troops to Yu Shifu, and was worried that Shi Fu would be slack, so he solemnly reported to Turai and asked him to help coordinate the dispatch of the Han army.
Jian'an was less than 300 miles away from Shi Fu's station near Pucheng, and early the next morning, Shi Fu, the chief soldier of Fujian, had already received two urgent reports.
One of them is the Jian'an Tang Newspaper, which said that the Jian'an Green Battalion was ambushed by thousands of rebels, losing more than 500 people, Li Jian'an, the history of the unified army, was killed in battle, and Shi Lang was also seriously injured when he helped the battle.
When Cheng Yizheng wanted to win over Shi Fu, he put the responsibility for the defeat on Li Jian'an's head, anyway, everyone else was already dead, so what did it matter if he had an extra pot?
Shi Fu was very surprised, his nephew fled the camp without authorization, and the person sent to chase him reported that he was suspected of going to Shaowu Mansion, how could he appear in Jian'an now? And Shi Lang, who has always been resourceful and good at fighting, was seriously injured, but he didn't know what the injury was.
However, from this point of view, Shi Lang did not rebel, which made him a little relieved, otherwise it would be a pity to kill this nephew in the future.
The next letter was a letter of request for help from Cheng Yi, the prefect of Jianning, and the garrison of Jian'an, which was in danger of transporting grain, and asked him to lead his troops to assist in clearing and escorting grain trucks along the way. He also said that Dahasu had reported to Lord Turai that it was advisable to send troops south first, and that the official order would arrive on the same day.
Shi Fudang even ordered the army to pack up their baggage and prepare to pull out the camp and rush to Jian'an. First, his current duty is to guard the Jianning Mansion, and if something happens to the army's grain and grass in the Jianning Realm, he will also be responsible. Second, he saw that Boluo's army was attacking the city everywhere, and he could only defend the front line of Pucheng and had nothing to do. If you can win thousands of heads in Jian'an this time, it will be a big feat.
The next day, Shi Fuqin led an army of 7,000 to reinforce Jian'an, and there were only more than 2,000 men and horses left in the Pucheng area.
On the outskirts of Pucheng, on the side of the official road, three ragged refugees stared at the blank eyes, numbly watching a group of soldiers walk by in the distance, and they didn't know if they recognized the majestic word "Shi" on the banner.
After a long time, when the blessing department disappeared from their field of vision, the eyes of these refugees instantly became clear.
One of the tallest of them whispered, "Five thousand nine hundred and twenty foot soldiers, one thousand and thirty cavalry, eleven cannons, and forty-eight wagons of baggage......"
The other two nodded slightly, and also reported the number they had counted, which was basically not much different.
Then the three of them divided into three paths and successively sent the information to the "merchant" several miles away, and the latter immediately sent horses to gallop in the direction of Shao Wu.
On the day that the Shifuba camp went south, the dragon guard army and the brigade of the broken camp also started at the same time.
A day later, Zhu Linmiao looked at the defense map of Shi Lang's headquarters left by Shi Lang in his hand, and raised his eyes to look at the terrain in the distance. There were no enemy troops in the eastern hills. β
Zhu Linmiao took out the map and drew a check mark on a hill.
On the side, Zhang Jiayu looked at a few hooks connected on the map, and said to Zhu Linmiao: "As expected by my lord, most of Shi Fu's men and horses stationed in the lower reaches of Xingxi have been transferred to Jian'an. β
Zhu Linmiao smiled and nodded, "In this way, there is a gap nearly ten miles wide to the west of Pucheng. He put away the map and ordered, "Send people to closely monitor the movements of the Qing troops on both sides." The whole army camped on the spot and slept. Tonight when the ugly time comes, silence the torches, and forbid the burning of torches, we must pass through this gap without us noticing! β
"Yes!" Zhang Jiayu immediately turned around and went to arrange specific matters.
More than ten miles is quite wide, but in fact, it is not very easy to let tens of thousands of troops, especially those carrying cannons, baggage, etc., pass through without anyone noticing.
The Qing army only needed to send even one scout and look at it from afar, and the whole operation would be declared a failure.
By the early hours of the morning, the first quarter moon.
Visibility was extremely low, and each soldier could only faintly see the backs of their teammates in front of them.
More than 100 soldiers from each division of the camp held a long rope in their hands and lined up in a column, and the three divisions walked side by side. Everyone couldn't see the ground around them clearly, and could only trust the rope in their hands completely.
After rigorous training, the soldiers of the Dragon Guard followed one after another, and through almost identical steps, they kept an eye on the backs of their comrades in front of them in the dark, and they always maintained a neat formation.
In this way, the brigade of 18,000 men was immersed in absolute silence, and walked nearly twenty miles away in one night, passing through the defense area of the Shifu headquarters without being noticed by anyone.
By dawn, they had arrived only fifteen miles away from Xianxia Pass.
Zhu Linmiao ordered the large army to hide in a mountain forest, stand on a high place and take out the binoculars to look north, and the pass of Xianxia Pass has been faintly shown in the objective lens.
There was only one last step left to reach the established strategy, he put away the binoculars and said to Zhang Jiayu: "Inform Zheng Chenggong that you can move on to the next step." β
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Pucheng was the first stronghold obtained by the Qing army after entering Fujian, and it is now the most stable "big rear" of the Boluo army.
Because of the serious injury to his finger and the fact that his physical condition was not very good during the period of capture, Durd could only temporarily hand over his subordinates to Mu Teng's custody and "recuperate" in Pucheng for a period of time.
Zheng Chenggong was sitting opposite him, drinking wine one after another in his glass, surrounded by beautiful women, they had been spending several days with beautiful wine and beautiful women.
A gust of wind swept in the window, blowing a chill above Zheng Chenggong's head.
He subconsciously touched his forehead, so smooth that his palms were numb. He didn't even dare to look in the mirror these days, because he knew he was going to smash it offβthe bald head and rat tail in it would drive him crazy.
Chen Wang didn't know where he was at this time? He raised his head and drank a glass of wine, staring at the beams of the house, the day before yesterday I heard that there was a large team of soldiers and horses in the Shi Fu Department, and Shi Lang's side should have been completed.
He was in a trance, when he suddenly heard a beautiful girl whispering in his ear: "Do you remember the lotus flowers outside Quzhou City?" β
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