On the official road from Yisuhe City on the edge of the Xiangjiang River to Jiangshe City on the north bank of the stream, a large group of infantry of the Qing army was advancing rapidly. The soldiers in the queue were all short and strong, wearing uniforms with the word "Yong", wearing straw sandals, and carrying The luggage was carried, the swords, the shotguns and the guns were carried, and the few horses were used to drag the two very clean cannons.
"You're so old, go faster, otherwise it will be dangerous..."
A man wearing a pure black coat and a sixth-grade top hat, who was as short as the soldier below, with a tanned face and a pair of small eyes, urged the soldiers below and took a water bottle from his belt. , he raised his head and took a sip of "yellow soup". Under the stimulation of alcohol, he suddenly became more energetic after not sleeping all day and night.
After cheering up, he took a deep breath of the slightly cold morning air, threw off his feet wearing straw sandals, and walked forward quickly.
When the two to three hundred little soldiers under his command saw him, a sixth-grade officer, enduring hard work and walking as fast as flying, they all became more energetic and quickened their pace, rushing along the official road. This little officer who spoke Guangxi dialect He is General Manager Qian of the "Changsheng" Yongying Camp in Yulin Prefecture, Guangxi, and his name is Feng Zicai!
Even though he is just a small general, he has a general, an honor that even a deputy general may not get. After following Xiang Rong to pacify Bobai's Tiandihui rebels, he was given the title by Xianfeng because of his particularly bravery in combat. "Sergulengbatulu"!
Of course, this soldier of Sergulengbatulu is not a Green Camp smoke soldier, but a rebel who followed him from the Tiandihui. In fact, they are just a group of paupers who can't survive. In order to earn a living, they fight. Together with him, he joined the Tiandihui rebel army led by Liu Ba. Later, because he had no food to eat like Liu Ba, he was recruited by Bobai County Magistrate You Changling and became a Tuan Yong. Now, in order to have a good meal, he also After following Xiang Rong all the way to Hunan to fight, this time he was assigned the task of being a vanguard to Xiang Rong, his guilty and meritorious boss.
According to Xiang Rong's instructions, Feng Zicai's two to three hundred soldiers bravely served as the vanguard of thousands of troops supporting Xiangtan County, advancing while clearing the road!
It is said that they are opening the way, but in fact they are used as cannon fodder in front of them. If they encounter the Taiping Army's brigade, these two or three hundred people will not be needed. Feng Zicai, you can be a loyal martyr! But he was born in the Tiandihui, and he is jealous of others. Mr. Feng Zicai, the brave man named "Batulu" and Feng Qianzong, had no choice but to lead the troops and walk in front of the brigade. However, Feng Zicai was not an honest boy. He also had his own life-saving tips, which was just one word—— quick!
As long as he is fast enough, it is very possible to break through the enemy's ambush circle before it is formed. After all, he is not a big fish, with only two to three hundred people under his command. Xiang Rong, Jiang Zhongyuan, and He Chun behind him are the big fish. !
If he could keep a distance from the middle and rear team, even if the Taiping Army really had an ambush, they would probably let him go. The team moved forward quickly for about two quarters of an hour, at a river more than ten feet wide. Stopped before.
Feng Zicai looked back and saw that the two thousand elite soldiers behind him, led by Xiang Rong, had been completely wiped out by him. He looked forward again and saw a wooden bridge across the river in front of him. To the north of the bridge was a town. The town was deserted.
Feng Zicai's eyesight was very good, and he could see some figures in the cold town from a distance. Most of them were skinny and ragged. According to Feng Zicai's experience, these people should be poor households in the town or people from nearby villages who came to beg for food. Most of the beggars in the town had fled because of the Taiping Army's siege of Xiangtan County. The only ones who couldn't run away were still struggling here.
When those people saw Feng Zicai's men approaching, they did not flee. They continued to watch in a daze on the streets of the town.
Feng Zicai thought: "If there is an ambush in the town, those people should flee immediately to avoid being affected, right?"
Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth and said: "I'll take you... The shotgunners and the gunmen all lit the matches, and the knife players were ready to kill people! Two small cannons were set up under the bridge and aimed at the big tree near the town. The house closest to the bridge, if the brothers crossing the bridge are ambushed, fire!"
"twitter!"
After some arrangements, Feng Zicai himself drew out his sword, took a shield from a Qing soldier, bent his waist, and was the first to step onto the wooden bridge. His brothers were also veterans, so he didn't need to say anything. , they automatically divided into two formations, front and rear, with the shield in front and the shotgun and gun behind, and we headed up the wooden bridge together.
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"Old Mother Diurei, you are the second and fifth generation again!"
In Jiangshi Town, in a two-story building facing the wooden bridge, Su Sanniang put down her telescope and wrote a curse word in a low voice.
She had always pretended to be a lady in front of Luo Yaoguo, but in front of the people below, she was the eldest sister of the Tiandihui, how could she be so civilized? "Sister," Li Shoucheng, who spoke with a Hakka accent, immediately came up to her, "These twenty-five-year-olds He is a pathfinder. Fight or let go?"
"Let it go? Why let it go? If Gelinqin is willing to ask his men to sacrifice people's heads, why don't I, Su Sanniang, dare to do it?" Su Sanniang said with a smile, "He can't go back to Yisuhe City now. The King of the West is behind him. , I’m in front of him!
But don't hit him too hard, so as not to scare Seng Gelinqin, who will be hard to surround if he runs around. Let's ask Chen Picheng's boy soldiers and Li Cuihua's female gunmen to set up an ambush, and don't fight out all the young men. , I want to leave some in the town so I can catch big fish. Let the new brothers prepare, and when the clear demons are fooled, go kill them for a while and see some blood!"
"Yes!" Li Shoucheng clasped his fists, turned around and went to deliver the order...·
"Brother Four Eyes, Brother Four Eyes, Li Junshuai asked your people to fight Qing Yao... wait until Sister Cuihua's gunmen start fighting and then kill them! At that time, Sister Cuihua's people will target Qing Yao's sword soldiers. , your men charge their shotgunners!"
Chen Picheng, a young man who was ambushing in a shop at the entrance of the town, was holding a waist knife he picked up from the corpse of a Qing demon officer, and looked at the Qing team that was crossing the river into the town through the wooden bridge with red eyes. When the demon was sharp, a boy of fourteen or fifteen years old brought him Li Shoucheng's order.
"Understood!" The young man Chen Bucheng nodded, took a token and inserted it into his belt, then put the sword back into the scabbard, stretched out his hand again, "Bring the grenade!"
Immediately, a young man took out a grenade with a wooden handle and wrapped in layers of oil paper, then tore the oil paper open and handed a nitrate sugar hand grenade produced by Angel Mansion to Chen Picheng.
Then, another young man took out a fire seal, pulled out the condom and blew on it a few times to make the fire inside burn brighter, and then handed the fire seal to Chen Bucheng. Chen Bicheng held it in one hand like this Grenade, holding a fire stick in one hand, squatted behind the half-open door of the shop, staring in the direction of the wooden bridge.
More than 200 Qingyao came in two formations, the front and rear. The front formation had already crossed the wooden bridge and entered the town. When they passed by the shop where Chen Bucheng was lurking, a few people separated and walked to the shops on both sides carrying sword cards. As if to search, one of them walked towards the house where Chen Bucheng was lurking.
However, Chen Bucheng and his friends didn't panic at all, they just watched the man walking towards death step by step with cold eyes!
Suddenly, the man's head seemed to have been hit by something, and it tilted to the right. There was blood coming in and out, and then there was a burst of gunshots!
Chen Picheng didn't even look where he was shooting. He just calmly lit the fuse of the grenade with the fire stick in his hand, then raised the grenade and shouted "God bless us!" and rushed out of the shop. The Qing Yao who fell to the ground flew past and rushed towards the dozens of Qing Yao who were raising their guns to shoot!
"Pah, pah, pah.."
Another burst of gunshots was fired, but Chen Bucheng was unscathed! This was certainly not because of the emperor's blessing, but because the gunmen under Feng Zicai were aiming at the Taiping snipers on the commanding heights on both sides of the street in front of him and opened fire - in Chen Bucheng's case. Before rushing out, Li Cuihua's female snipers opened fire first and knocked down seven or eight Qing saber players. Of course, these Qing shotgun soldiers would fire to suppress the Taiping snipers. When they discovered Chen Bucheng , the trigger was pulled.
Chen Picheng was extremely calm at this time. As he ran, he recited the numbers in his mind: "One, two, three...ten!"
When he said "ten", he suddenly used all his strength to throw out the grenade in his hand, and then fell to the ground.
The grenade with its fuse burned out drew a beautiful parabola in the air, and then, under the influence of gravity, it turned upside down and slammed into the Qingyao Formation. It hit a shotgun soldier squarely on the head. .
"I'm so old-fashioned..." "Boom!"
The shotgun soldier just cursed, and his "demon life" came to an end with a violent explosion!
Chapter completed!