Shimapu is located southwest of Changsha City, only more than ten miles away from the Zodiac Gate, and you can run there in one breath. In Fucheng, the 1,500 elite Gansu and Shaanxi green battalions led by Yin Lipei braved the lunar calendar in late August. "The scorching sun" took me a whole day to get there.
Then I made a complete mess of a perfectly good town and finally settled down. Of course, no one thought there was anything wrong with it.
The Green Camp of Gansu and Shaanxi are elites! It is normal to engage in some vandalism, looting and burning in war zones... What happened in the Green Camp is not called corrupting military discipline. Military discipline has long since ceased to exist in the Green Camp. One or two dollars a month is a little more than that. There is also a lot of deductions, so why talk about military discipline?
As for Fucheng, Yin Lipei and the others who led the troops, they were quite satisfied with the performance of their group of soldiers. They marched a long distance of more than ten miles, pulled several artillery pieces, and carried many axes. Heavy weapons, the march can be completed in one day... In the middle, we set up a good meal at Yuhua Pavilion, and wasted a lot of time! At this marching speed, it is enough.
And what's even more valuable is that all the soldiers walked or rode horses along the way, and no one rode in a sedan chair! All weapons and baggage were carried by the soldiers themselves, without hiring a porter! In addition, all day and night, all the soldiers Except for General Fucheng, no one in the army smoked foreign cigarettes!
In the Qing Dynasty, this kind of army that personally marched, carried the baggage and weapons, and did not smoke foreign cigarettes, did not count regiment training. Among the economic and political armies, apart from the Gansu and Shaanxi Green Camps, only the Sauron soldiers could do it, right? , against a mere few thousand long-haired thieves, do you still need to lure the enemy?
As for why there are demons in long hair...that's nonsense!
When the Chengyong Batulu, Yang Fang and Yang Qinyong of the Jiadao period faced the English in Guangdong, they also felt that their foreign guns and cannons used Western magic to shoot far and accurately, in order to "break the devil" , he also collected a lot of toilet bowls, black dog blood and women's underwear and lined them up in front of the array! What a joke... That's probably how the long-haired Western Bull Demon King came too!
But this time it was the entire 1,500 Ganshan Green Battalion, including the 300 cavalry! They were about to charge, and the 300 cavalry and the 1,200 troops would crush them. How could the long hair of the cavalry resist them? Can he survive? A single charge can't kill hundreds of them? Then "multiply ten" to report, and he will have the official position of the admiral and the title of Batulu... perfect!
As the intoxicating foreign smoke inhaled into his lungs, General Fu Chengfu began to have wild thoughts. As he thought about it, he felt a little sleepy. Just when he was about to let his pretty-faced Goshiha wait on him to fall asleep, suddenly there was a message outside the door. There was a quarrel. "Sir, Master Fu..."
"Master Fu is asleep, Master Yin, please come back tomorrow!" "No, the hairy soldiers are coming!"
"Ah...he's coming in the middle of the night?" "Quickly, wake up Master Fu!" "Master Fu, Master Fu..."
Fucheng, who was dazed from smoking, was also a little dizzy, and he couldn't tell whether he was dreaming or waking up.
It's late at night, and Changmao still hasn't slept? Working night shift? Being a Changmao is hard enough. I wonder how much military pay Hong Xiuquan paid them?
While he was thinking wildly, Lieutenant General Yin Lipeiyin, who was still wearing a linen coat, had already entered the room. As soon as he entered the room, he smelled the intoxicating smell of cigarettes. Kill the enemy? "Sir, there are a lot of long-haired ones coming outside the town with torches, and they are lining up!"
"Line up?" Fucheng waved his hand in confusion, "No, it's okay... Changmao is setting up camp! Sleep, sleep, we'll talk tomorrow."
"Camp? It doesn't look like setting up camp. It seems like we are going to fight at night!"
Night fight? How could it be possible? Fucheng yawned and said, "How many birds are there? Fighting at night? Aren't you tired? And those long hairs are really sticks, and there are nine out of ten birds blindfolded, and you can see them as soon as it gets dark. No, what kind of night battle are you going to fight? Just sleep peacefully! Wait until dawn tomorrow, and when our Gansu and Shaanxi horse teams go out, we will trample them to death!"
Hearing what Fucheng said, Yin Lipei was also a little shaken. He made a confession, turned around and was about to go out. Then he walked to the door of the house and suddenly heard several "boom, boom, boom" sounds, and at the same time, there was "wow" sound. There was a sound! "Thunder?" Yin Lipei was stunned, suddenly felt something was wrong, and immediately shouted, "Hit the cannon! Hit the cannon... The long hair is bombarding us!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there were four more "boom, boom, boom, boom" sounds, and almost at the same time, there was a loud "knock, click, click" sound of heavy objects hitting the ground. Then I heard the people and Gan in the town. The Shaolv battalion soldiers started shouting.
"Shangmao...Shangmao is here!" "Shangmao also has cannons!"
"Damn it, this Changmao doesn't sleep and fights at night!"
"The rent is heavy and the interest rates are high. It is difficult for the poor to survive these days...
Fucheng's "Yan" also woke up. He never thought that the Taiping Army could march long distances for two or three days and then immediately go into night battle without sleeping. Such an army has not appeared in the Qing Dynasty for many years, right?
The ancestors of the Qing Dynasty who entered the Guan Dynasty to rule the world were just so diligent, right? How could this long hair... This is bad, the long hair actually worked so hard! "Boom, boom, boom..."
The gunfire sounded again!
The hustle and bustle outside became even louder, and there was also the faint "ding-dong" sound of weapons clashing and the sound of "Langmao coming in"... I don't know if it was the long-haired men in the town who were causing trouble. , was blasted out of the camp by the long-haired cannon! "My lord, my lord, beat the drums quickly and gather the troops...Hurry and give rewards to the big soldiers below, and then send out troops to meet the enemy! You can't huddle in the town. It’s been under bombardment here!”
It should be said that Yin Lipei, the deputy general of Tongguan Xie, had rich experience and knew that he could no longer stand up to being beaten like this.
Although the Taiping Army only had four cannons in total, and probably could not kill a few people, the morale of the Gansu and Shaanxi soldiers below collapsed and they became chaotic. If the camp roared, they would be defeated without a fight. "Boom." Boom boom boom..."
Another burst of artillery fire!
At the same time, the Taiping Army's shouts and drums rang outside, as well as "crackling" explosions. I don't know if they were shooting or setting off firecrackers to scare people? And inside the town, it was even more chaotic. There were shouts, curses, noises and other miscellaneous noises everywhere, and it was about to get completely out of control.
"Quick, quick beat... Quickly change the clothes of this town, this town is sending troops to meet the enemy!" After hesitating again and again, Fucheng finally gave up on the idea of ​​​​escape from the battle and issued the order to beat the drums and gather the troops.
In the south of Shimapu Town, Luo Yaoguo was standing in the darkness. Forty or fifty steps away from him, a bonfire had been lit, burning brightly, blooming with light, illuminating a side of the sky that was fluttering in the wind. The banner of "Angel of Peace". Stone bullets were fired in Mapu City.
This firepower is indeed a bit weak, but it is enough to harass and intimidate the Qing troops in Shimapu. Moreover, Luo Yaoguo also ordered Yu Dabao in advance to lead dozens of Taiping soldiers who could imitate a few Qingyao with a Shaanxi accent. Sneaked into Shimapu Town in advance to create chaos.
If those Gansu and Shaanxi green battalions are unwilling to go out of town and work the night shift, they won’t have a good night’s sleep either!
Chapter completed!