In Chuzhou on Huainan Road, outside a village ruins burned by a fire, the Kunpeng green flag of the Taiping Army was floating.

A delicately forged beast swallowed fine scales and steel sheets with a chest-protected cloak. Qian Jumei, the deputy general of the Huainan attacking army, suddenly threw out an empty can into the sky. With a clang, he was already hit by a loaded musket beside him, and the crows that were plunged into the ruins were shocked again.

"It's really a good shooting technique to think about it again!"

Qian Gumei couldn't help but applaud:

"I've been too proud of this equipment, is it because of the excellent achievements?"

The military academy named Xu Zaisi has a musket with a slender tube hanging down and lowered its head and said humbly:

"That's not what I said. If I were as accurate as Zaisi's eyes and hands, I would only gather the 180 people in the battle formation to attack the leading generals and the warriors, but how many people could resist and bear it? I'm afraid it's not a good way to fight against the enemy with a small number of enemies and lightly rub the enemy's power."

Qian Jumei said half-approvingly and half-thoughtfully: He saw with his own eyes that this military academy, which is said to be a hunter in the mountains of western Zhejiang, used this equipment longer than the ordinary standard musket, and quickly killed more than four enemy soldiers who were hiding among the ruins of buildings and weeds.

"Secretary, Zuo Jin has searched carefully, and even the rubble has been dug. No more survivors have been found?"

At this time, another general of the tribe, Chen Zhang, was also turned back to report to the death.

"The people of Huaixi are really guilty!"

Qian Jumei couldn't help but sighed heavily and complicatedly when she heard this:

The current fire in the village was of course not let go of the Taiping Army for the need to prevent the epidemic, but was caused by self-rescue behavior in a certain sense in the local area. After all, even during the epidemic that was like a disaster, there were always all kinds of strange and strange things. Some ugliness and sins that were obviously from the selfish side of human nature were also covered up by the panic and death caused by these epidemics.

For example, it is no longer rare to block roads on the grounds of dock walls and village joint protection, to drive away and kill foreigners who may pass by; or to group of refugees who leave their hometowns, and the ways of looting and massacre may be negligent in preventing problems or preventing empty villages.

Some people even began to pretend to be the "Three Detachments" of the Taiping Army and began to cheat, harming those local households who were unruly and were ill and rushed to seek medical treatment. There were even armed groups that emerged, openly extorting and looting under the banner of the Taiping Army, and slaughtering those settlements that were intended to surrender.

The same is true for the villages that were burned this time, but the fire was not put down by foreign attackers afterwards to destroy their sins; instead, Ding Zhuang, a slaughtered and killed local villager, set fire to his own home in desperate despair, trying to stop these wandering arms like hyenas and jackals;

Of course, after the fire started, it did not stop the tragic ending of their murder and killing for a long time. Instead, it aroused the fierceness of the ignition of the ignition. However, unfortunately, unfortunately, the Qian Jumei team, who had been parading nearby, came over. In the end, the search personnel of the Taiping Army did not burn the ancestral hall building at the last point, only found more than a hundred women and women who were smoked half dead.

Therefore, now, relative to the rear, he has gradually stabilized and started to try to plant the Huang, Qi, He, Shu, Lu and other prefectures along the river, which have been moved to Chuzhou, and the burden of the head of the headquarters has suddenly become complex and heavy. He even had to put down some of his figure and posture and seek help from Zhu Cun, the general of the attacking army responsible for surrounding Guangling City in Yangzhou.

For example, he used more than a dozen cavalry teams under his command as mobile troops and the boat divisions transferred from Jiangdong to cooperate with his troops to complete the blockade and partition tasks of the northern states. Otherwise, he would have been able to kill and encircle them with all his might, and he would not be able to completely cut off the root of similar things while the north was constantly fleeing and transiting.

However, this time, Zhu Cun, who was the chief general, supported his views and believed that the strategy he adopted was appropriate; however, unexpectedly rejected his request, the reason was that although the troops in the east and west groups had their own tasks and goals, they also had different masters and subordinates in the general direction.

Therefore, it is no problem to carry out mutual echo and support operations at the tactical level, but it is not appropriate to use the mobility force drawn in case of any situation to strengthen the other side of the force. This will cause some opportunity and uncertainty for most of Yang Xingmin's troops in Guangling City, the main goal of this Huainan strategy.

However, just when Qian Jumei felt that she had nothing to say about this and could only make other plans, she received a batch of equipment, mules, horses, vehicles, boats, and grains and grass allocated by the other party. This also made him let go of some vague speculation and thoughts, and felt a little bit of emotion and sigh. After all, this Taiping Army system was completely different from the old dynasty, and he had the style of doing great things and prospering great things.

Therefore, with this batch of supplementary military resources, he reorganized and expanded more auxiliary teams, further armed the subordinates of the villages and escorts. While ensuring the basic labor to resume production, he armed and trained the corresponding Ding Zhuang and organized a patrol team with a certain range of activities.

Relying on these temporary auxiliary forces to support and maintain the situation in the rear, he then drew more troops from the prefectures along the river, relying on mules, horses and boats to transport according to local conditions, forming multiple strike teams with faster responses to deal with the situation. At the same time, he reused some of the "old rebel troops" who were originally broken up and organized in charge of labor.

For example, there is half of the fellow Zhejiang native Gu Quanwu who came from the Huaixi Army. He was originally from Yuyao, Yuezhou (now Yuyao, Zhejiang), and a monk who had been a few days also followed Dong Chang, the former military envoy of the Eight Capitals of Hangzhou. Later, when Huang Chao passed by, he was dissatisfied with Dong Chang's retreat and self-protection, so he followed Han Quanyi, the commander of the Qizhou patrolman of Henan Province, who was born in the name of "Chinqiwu", and was under the command of Han Quanyi, the patrolman of Qizhou who was also named "Chinqiwu".

Later, Han Quanyi was annexed by Liu Hanhong, the commander of Huaixi appointed by Huang Chao, and he became the subordinate of Liu Hanhong's general Du Xiong; he made a lot of efforts in the Huaixi Army's war with many parties. However, the Huaixi Army always valued the relationship between the party and the kinship, and gave priority to the children of his hometown selected from the land of Shenguang. Therefore, although he was brave and called strong, he was not very proud of other aspects except for some rewards.

Later, the Taiping Army led by Zhu Cun officially landed in Jiangbei. The former leaders of the Western Rebel Army led by Han Quanyi competed to surrender. Most of them chose to hand over the remaining troops and go south to buy property as an apartment. Before Han Quanyi went to Jiangling, he also remembered that this old subordinate had sent letters to recruit him. Then he joined over without hesitation; he became one of the front pawns who took the lead in sweeping the local area.

When Qian Jumei is now in charge of the local situation in Jiangbei, he naturally only followed the countryman from the east of Zhejiang. At least in suppressing local rebellion and riots, as well as dealing with and identifying the bandits and soldiers from the north, he is still quite effective and very good at it.

This time, the armed plundering groups that were successfully blocked near this unknown village were obviously from the background of the Huaixi Army. It was also due to his contribution. Or he was particularly familiar with the style and methods of these former Huaixi Army comrades, and could always guess the pace and trajectory of the other party at critical moments.

Therefore, it can be said that Kuai Gumei has saved some face in the face of some passive situation against Huaixi's strategy. Moreover, Gu Quanwu is also very tactful and good at guessing, and always actively asks himself to do some dirty work that is inconvenient to light or wander in the dark area; for example, leading a team to deal with severely ill-affected areas where he is isolated, or allowing those Hao's County Wangjia, who has a good reputation and reputation, but is more stubborn, to disappear into the "bandits" ahead of schedule.

Although this style and method are somewhat unfavorable, the other party enjoys it and regards it as an inevitable process of gaining trust and closeness; Qian Jumei does not agree much but is not convenient to publicly rebuke it, so she can only let him go. Qian Jumei is thinking about it so much, and suddenly she looks up with some emotion.

I saw that Gu Quanwu, who was still wearing fresh blood and other odors on his hands, looked tough and looked compassionate, hurried to him and reported to him:

"Sub-conspirator, most of the captures have already admitted it."

"But are there any other discoveries?"

Qian Jumei couldn't help but ask:

"Person Dean Ming believes that this is true. Some of the thieves escaped from Luzhou. It is said that someone led and led the way for them at the beginning!"

Gu Quanwu quickly replied:

"So, isn't it because Yang's remnants in the local area merged with the Huaixi bandits?"

Qian Jumei couldn't help but express her expression: But she suddenly discovered that some of the previous speculations and doubts were correct.

——I am the dividing line—

In Guangling City, which was shrouded in the night, a group of people rushed out of the darkness with the slowly pushed open gate, and then turned into the roar of touching trenches in front of the camp, as well as the shouts and noises that were fighting and shocking.

At the other end of the city, in the blind spots that cannot be shined by the fire cage and lamps, some human bodies fell from the city plate with ropes, and then completely disappeared into the darkness of the rippling sound of water under the wall.

Yang Xingmin, who was on the wall, was also watching these warriors who disappeared in the dark one after another. Although he could not ensure that many of them could truly pass through the blockade of the thief army and return to the diseased countryside. However, as long as he could disturb the rear of the thief, he could naturally make peace with any force.
Chapter completed!