Han’s Son is Not a Slave

After three battles and three victories, Yu Shizhong ordered the retreat without hesitation. {166 No pop-up window in the library} Brigade C officers and soldiers retreated to Yumeng Mountain behind Songjiawolou, and Yu Shizhong was preparing to fight an ambush. In order to prevent the Qing army from finding out, the Brigade did not build a fire and bury the stove, but the officers and soldiers ate dry food together with cold water.

The Qing left-wing commander who rushed to the northern line under unified command was very puzzled by the sudden retreat of the Ming army. The side ordered Liu Desheng, the deputy general of the left wing, and Qi Wannian, the leader of the Han army flag, to be the front, and the troops of the whole section and the subordinate generals Zhou Guoding and Lu Sanxiang were in the middle, and Xu Tianyou and Tong Zhengliang were in the back. More than 4,000 soldiers searched north and advanced.

Regardless of whether the Taiping army with the banner of "Qi" is the reorganized Qi family army, the whole festival cannot allow him to retreat so peacefully. The northern line suffered three consecutive defeats. If the Ming army could not be severely damaged or destroyed, the morale of the army would be irreversible. And such a capable Ming army is always wandering beside the Qing army like a wolf, which is not a good thing, and the next step of the line supervisor is Guilin. This Ming army is the biggest obstacle in front of the Qing army. Since sooner or later we have to fight with them, we might as well do it now. After a long delay, no one knows how the war in Guangxi will change. After all, the Qing army's food and grass are a little tight, but the Ming army in Liuzhou still has the strength to fight.

After Xian Guoan received the whole festival report, the last Ming army who resisted on Xiaobei Mountain fell under the spears of the Qing soldiers. Wang Sheng's side also defeated the Ming army reinforcements from Liuzhou, and the Qing army won the battle of Xiaobeishan. The purpose of Xian Guoan's capture of Xiaobei Mountain was not to attack Liuzhou City, but to lock the Ming army in Liuzhou. His real goal was Guilin in the north. The county king Luo Keduo attacked the Hunan Taiping Army together, and completely opened up the connection between Guizhou and the north.

According to the confessions of the prisoners of the Ming army, the Taiping army that entered Hunan was led by its commander-in-chief thief Xiucai, and the soldiers and horses he led were also the main force of the Taiping army's Western Expedition King Qin, so Xian Guoan became more and more enthusiastic about winning Guilin. The whole festival came to report to lead the troops north to destroy the Taiping army, which was quite capable of fighting. After thinking about it, Xian Guoan agreed. For the sake of safety, he ordered Wang Sheng to send a cavalry to the whole festival. The door can use the horse-drawn light artillery to be used by the Qing army on the northern front, and the rest of the soldiers and horses will immediately take over the fortifications of the Ming army in Xiaobeishan, and at the same time strengthen the defense of the main camp.

The Qing army on the northern front regrouped and marched north under the command of the whole section, and had cavalry to help out, and morale recovered a lot for a while. Although the previous three battles were defeated in a row, the casualties of the Qing army were only more than 2,000 people, and they were not injured. What Qi Wannian, Xu Tianyou and others were afraid of was not the Ming army, but the intractable weapons in their hands. Now that there are cavalry to help, and artillery to blast, it is no longer that there is no way to deal with it before, and it is naturally courageous

As time passed, the Qing soldiers got closer and closer to Yumeng Mountain, where the Brigade was ambushed. More than 2,000 soldiers of the Qi family who ate rough food to fill their stomachs crouched in the mountains and forests, their heads and bodies were densely covered. Withered grass, from a distance, seems to blend in with the mountains and forests. No one could know that there would be so many soldiers in ambush here.

Yu Shizhong on the mountain frowned deeply. He knew that after he retreated, the Qing army would definitely send troops to the north, so he set up an ambush on Yumeng Mountain and wanted to eat the Qing army that was advancing north, but he did not expect that the other party would be Having gathered so many soldiers and horses to come here, there is a lot of meaning to find him and Yu Shizhong to compete with him.

There are more than 10,000 Qing soldiers, and there are cavalry and artillery. There are only more than 2,000 people on their side, and there are no artillery. There are only a few tiger squat guns with a short range. How to fight this ambush battle, Yu Shizhong is also in a dilemma. According to the original deployment, I am afraid that on the way down the mountain, Brigade C will suffer heavy casualties.

After the reorganization, the Qing army had the support of cavalry and artillery, and the demoralized morale that had just been driven by the Ming army to run all the way was gone, and they crossed the stone bridge in front of Songjiawolou with great momentum. Under the bridge, is a small river that flows down from several streams on Yumeng Mountain, and the end of the river is the Liujiang River.

Yu Shizhong felt a little regretful. If he knew that the Qing army was coming in large numbers, he would definitely blow up the stone bridge, so that even if the ambush failed, at least the artillery of the Qing army could not be transported.

In the direction of Liuzhou, the sound of cannons could no longer be heard. Combined with the large-scale northward march of the Qing army, Yu Shizhong guessed that Xiaobeishan had already fallen into the hands of the Qing army, otherwise it would be impossible for Xian Guoan to send so many troops to the north.

Yumeng Mountain is not as controllable as Xiaobei Mountain. There are fewer Qing troops coming, and Yu Shizhong can naturally ambush them, but there are more, and there are cavalry and artillery, Yu Shizhong finds it difficult. .

He thought about whether to give up the ambush and evacuate Yumeng Mountain after dark. But this idea was given up by him only in a flash. He disobeyed the military order and led his troops to the south without authorization, in order to wash away the shame of fleeing without a fight for more than ten days, and to relieve the siege of Xiaobei Mountain. Xiao Beishan is lost, but his Brigade C is still there, and the enemy is still there!

This battle, if it is not good, it must be fought, and if it cannot be won, it must be fought!

Yu Shizhong was cruel, but now the situation is that he only prepared a table of meals, but there are several tables of guests, how to make the guests have food and wine to eat, but it is a very embarrassing thing for him

Dozens of cavalry horses of the Qing army marched on their horses while being alert. They gradually drifted away, opening a curtain for the advance of the entire Qing army. At this moment, they were the eyes of more than ten thousand Qing troops. But if there is any trouble, they will find out the first time, and accurately return the situation to the army behind.

From ancient times to the present, although horse exploration cannot determine the outcome of a war, it can determine the ownership of the battlefield. Although the Qing army was powerful, it did not dare to take it lightly. The Qing army also urgently needed to know the intelligence on the battlefield and ahead.

Along the way, the Qing army's horse-seeking did not encounter the Ming army's horse-seeking, nor did they encounter the interception of a small group of Ming troops. They searched the neighborhood carefully. In the nest of Song's house, where they most suspected that there might be hidden soldiers, more than a dozen Qing troops went in bravely and searched carefully, but they were not relieved. The leader of the Qing army breathed a sigh of relief, looked up at the Yumeng Mountain in front of him, made a gesture, and suddenly four or five men touched the mountain.

These Qing troops were very careful about their horses. As sentries, of course, they knew the dangers of the mountains, and they knew that the mountains and forests were the most sudden ambushes. The rows of trees on Yumeng Mountain in front of me don't know how many soldiers and horses they can hide. If they suddenly come out from above, it will definitely be a threat to the main force of the Qing army who will come later.

However, there are countless terrains like Yumeng Mountain in the southwest boundary, and Songjiawolou is the best ambush location nearby, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Ambush. Perhaps the Ming army that had driven them extremely viciously just now really withdrew.

After a random search at the foot of the mountain, and after about a mile or more, a few Qing troops had no strength or interest to search for the horse. The reason for them to give up the search If the Ming army did not ambush within this distance, then their ambush would be meaningless. Because they hid too far and really rushed down the mountain, the Qing army under the mountain had enough time to react, and it was impossible to achieve the purpose of a surprise attack.

One of the horses was uneasy, and with the fire gun in his hand, he shot two guns up the mountain indiscriminately.

Seeing birds coming out, a smile appeared on the face of the Qing army scout horse, and a few companions around laughed at ease. If someone was lying in ambush here, there would be so many birds coming out. The Qing troops who went up the mountain thought it was safe to go down the mountain, but they didn't know it. At this moment, there were countless pairs of eyes on the mountain staring at them.

Halfway up the mountain, Lei Er and his two companions, whose mouths were gagged with cloth strips, were about to jump out of their hearts. At the same time, they admired the Ming army hidden here more and more. Their military discipline was too strict. There was no movement in the middle, so strict that the bird fell on the treetops and knew nothing of the crowd below.

The Qing army will suffer.

Lei Er and his companions looked at each other, thinking that the Ming army would launch an attack, but after waiting for a long time, they did not see any signs of these Ming army descending the mountain to kill.

Yu Youming nervously watched the Qing army's sentry head down the mountain. He breathed a sigh of relief and licked his thirsty lips, but he didn't dare to turn around to see where his father was. That.

After the Qing army inspected the horses and left, they mounted their horses to search forward one after another. As the exploration horse went north, the Qing army brigade in the rear also moved.

Hearing the voice of the Qing army brigade in the distance, Yu Youming was shocked. He glanced at Song Jia, a veteran soldier with a gun beside him, and found that Song Jia had a spider with strange hair on his hand. Yu Youming was a little hairy, but Song Jia didn't react at all, just stared at the foot of the mountain~www.NovelMTL.com~ It seemed that he had nothing in his hands.

In front of him, he reported that there was no danger near the horse, but he didn't dare to be careless. In this way, if the Ming army really has an ambush, they can quickly respond to the front team and kill those ambush soldiers.

Yu Youming did not know that the Qing army was very stable, so he only sent a few hundred soldiers from the foot of the mountain. From the dense leaves of a big tree above his head, a very low voice came: "Qinggou has only passed a few hundred soldiers, and the flag of the brigade school will let them pass."

Yu Youming was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said in a low voice, "Got it!"

The Qi family's army on the mountain did not move, leaving hundreds of Qing soldiers to pass in front of Songjiawolou at the foot of the mountain. It has to be said that Yu Shizhong led the troops well. Among the more than 2,000 Qi family soldiers, there were many talented recruits, but all of them firmly adhered to their duties and did not make any sound.

After the hundreds of soldiers in front passed, Qi Wannian rode on a horse and led the rest of his subordinates to set off. He was very cautious, because the Ming army with the banner of "Qi" was so capable of fighting that it made him feel a little scared when he thought about it now. Because the opponent is too good at fighting, the more cautious he is, he does not sway to lead people over like Liu Desheng, but he will not dare to lead people over until the person in front has passed a long distance and nothing happens.

As for the possibility that the disappearing Ming army might set up an ambush somewhere and wait for me, it is not that I did not think of it, but the nearby horses have been searched and there is no sign of ambush, and the Ming army is only two or three thousand people. , Relative to the army he led, setting up an ambush seems to be a bit of a joke. He was quite looking forward to the fact that the Ming army would set up an ambush nearby, which would save him from going to them.

After the whole festival passed in front of Songjiawolou, he believed that the Ming army had already withdrawn, and he would probably find nothing. But it didn't take long for the front to explore the Malay news to find traces of the Ming army. (To be continued.)