Be careful, Zhou Shixiang didn't want to pour cold water from Ge Zheng's brothers to dampen their enthusiasm, because he was optimistic about successfully taking Gaoyaocheng. As long as he didn't make any major mistakes and tried to get this county with only more than 500 green camps stationed. However, for the sake of safety, he still wanted to ask Shao Jiugong, who had worked in the green camp. After all, he was familiar with the situation of the green camp and was sure to make a judgment with him as a consultant.

Shao Jiugong had a plan and compared the situation between the enemy and us in his heart. Then he said readily: "Qianhu, Gaoyaocheng's green camp should be some foreign soldiers. These foreign soldiers will not be able to do their best to defend the city. If we fight, we should have a chance of winning."

After hearing Shao Jiugong's words, Ge Zheng's brothers were relieved. They were afraid that this Jiangxi man would drag him down. After running with Zhou Shixiang for a few days, the two brothers did not even see the ghost of a Qing soldier. Zhou Shixiang refused to let them rob the towns along the way. The supplies carried by the troops were almost exhausted. If they didn't find a city to fight, the brothers would probably get sick.

"Since we head south, my engineer battalion has not yet blasted the city wall. You might as well take Gaoyaocheng first, so that the Tatars know how powerful our Taiping Camp is. However, Tieyi is not worried about taking Gaoyaocheng, but he is a little worried about Zhaoqing Prefecture. "The only thing that is worrying about is that if we attack Gaoyaocheng, the Qing soldiers of Zhaoqing Prefecture will not come. If they are entangled, then we will be in trouble."

"What's the trouble?"

After hearing this, Ge Zheng disagreed, "We are not defending Gaoyaocheng to the death, but we just rushed in and snatched things and ran away. Could he be the Qing dog in Zhaoqing be able to go with us all the way? Besides, Lord Qianhu said long ago that our former camp approached Zhaoqing this time in order to make him think that we are going to attack his city and not take Gaoyaocheng to scare them. They will definitely not take us seriously. If they really want to come out and bite us, it will be troublesome at that time."

What Ge Zheng said was a strategic plan set by Zhou Shixiang when he led the front camp from Xinxing Town half a month ago. This plan was to concentrate his efforts to attack Zhaoqing, clear or scare away the green camps in the garrisons of various counties under Zhaoqing Prefecture, so that the rear camp can move safely to Xinhui from the opposite direction. To put it bluntly, this plan is the real intention of the previous camp to cover the rear camp and replace the Taiping camp in the feint attack of Zhaoqing to turn into Xiangshan.

In order to cooperate with this plan, Zhou Shixiang racked his brains to recall the series of military operations of the later Iron Army during the Long March, and also formulated plans to lure the enemy, exhaust the enemy, and subdue the enemy according to the cat-drawn tiger. Although his plan was so naive in later generations, in this era, Zhou Shixiang firmly believed that the Qing army would be confused and defeated by the Taiping Camp's actions because they did not have any advanced communication tools, nor any transportation tools that could move quickly. Just imagine that in later generations, the Iron Army could rely on amazing endurance and speed to confuse and defeat the enemy that surrounded them. Moreover, this was an era dominated by cold weapons. Many times, the Taiping Camp may only be a few miles away from the Qing army, but in these few miles, in the absence of effective communication tools, it would be difficult for the Qing army to discover and mobilize more troops to encircle and suppress them.

The most important thing is that Guangdong has many terrain and water networks, hilly terrain is unstable, and it is not suitable for cavalry combat at all. Therefore, except for Jingnan and Pingnan, the Qing army in Guangdong had hundreds of cavalry flags under the Han flags of the two vassals of Pingnan, the rest of the Qing army had no cavalry at all, and some were just slow horses that transported east and west. When Li Dingguo attacked Guangdong, they mostly dispatched infantry troops. They would rather bring more battle elephant soldiers than bring more cavalry. The reason is that Guangdong's terrain was not conducive to cavalry combat, and cavalry brought in was useless at all.

Without the threat of cavalry, under Zhou Shixiang's tactical command, the Taiping Camp could naturally rush left and right between the cracks of the Qing army, leading them behind their noses.

Avoid fighting with the Qing army with a large number of troops, avoid fighting attrition with the Qing army, avoid fighting a stalemate with the Qing army, and dragging the Qing army to run with speed and endurance, and then killing him at the right time!

Even if there is only a short time difference of one day, Taipingying can successfully jump out of the Qing army's nose because the times limit the opponent.

The Ming Dynasty's official army organized countless large-scale encirclements and suppression against Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and often had hundreds of thousands of troops. However, in the end, the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the bandits in the eyes of the official army. The reason was that Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others fully realized what their shortcomings were and what their strengths were. They knew to use their own strengths to attack their weaknesses, rather than foolishly use their own weaknesses to attack their strengths. If Li Zicheng and others had a head-on battle with the Ming army at the beginning and fought for a battle of one city and one pool, they were afraid that in less than a year they would have to meet the King of Hell. Without the bandits' concerns, how could the Ming Dynasty be destroyed by the foreign races of the Manchus?

The current successful battle examples of the peasant army and the reappearance of the iron army in later generations, Zhou Shixiang had no reason not to use the same method. From another perspective, the Taiping Camp was the peasant army, while the Qing army was the Ming army, or the Taiping Camp was the Red Army, and the Qing army was the White Army. In the same situation, Zhou Shixiang did not use the successful tactics of his predecessors, his mind was really funny.

The fact was as expected by Zhou Shixiang. After the front camp moved from Xinxing to Zhaoqing, it was soon discovered by the Qing army because it did not deliberately hide its whereabouts, but instead made great efforts. Zhaoqing general Xu Erxian was very surprised by the Ming army that suddenly emerged from Yunwu Mountain, because just a few days ago, Deqing garrison Tang Sanshui had just raised troops to recover Luodingzhou City, which was captured by Li Dingguo's troops in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

From the map, Luo Dingka is the only way for the Ming army in Gaozhou to advance eastward. If the Qing army in Gaozhou does not pull out Luo Ding, the Ming army in Gaozhou will not be able to launch an offensive against Zhaoqing, but now Luo Ding has just been recovered by Tang Sanshui, and the Ming army in Gaozhou has not taken any offensive. Why is there a soldier under the banner of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the soldiers wearing black clothes running under his nose?

Xu Erxian could not figure out whether the soldiers in black uniforms were the Ming army of Gaozhou or other soldiers of the Southern Ming Dynasty, so he ordered the green camps in each county to quickly find out. However, the green camps in each county sent one group after another, and the news reported was a variety of. Some said it was the soldiers of Li Dingguo, some said it was the governor of Lian Chengbi, some said it was the men of Guo Zhiqi, the Grand Secretary of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and directly said it was the bandits that emerged from Yunwu Mountain. In short, there was a lot of information gathered at the General Office, but none of them reported it in a definite tone. Most of them were vague, which made Xu Erxian so angry that he cursed a bunch of waste.

After scolding his subordinates, Xu Erxian still had to cheer up and mobilize troops to deploy, otherwise this unidentified team would kill and kill and loot in the palace. Although Xu Erxian is a Han army bannerman and a confidant of King Pingnan, he could not withstand the pressure from the Governor's Office. If the Governor gave a few bad words from Xu Erxian on his memorial to Beijing, he would probably end his career.

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Xu Erxian was really afraid of Li Shutai, the current governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Because this adult's identity is no worse than those two princes. Not only was he born in the Zhenglan Banner of the Han army, he was favored by Emperor Taizu at that time, he regarded his daughter Xu as his wife. Therefore, this Governor Li was a royal relative.

Not only did he gather his daughters of the royal family, Li Rutai also had great military achievements. In his early years, he followed Emperor Taiji of Emperor Taiji to attack Chahar and Korea, attacked Jinzhou of the Ming Dynasty, and attacked Shandong from Bele Abatai. He was promoted to the Han army's Zhenglan Banner Meilezhen for his military achievements. In the first year of Shunzhi, he also served as the Ministry of Justice to serve in politics and led his army to garrison Jinzhou. In April, he followed Prince Rui Dorgon into the pass and defeated Li Zicheng. He also led his troops to attack Shandong and Henan, and killed Li Zicheng's general Zhao Yingyuan, forcing 10,000 Dashun troops to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. In the second year of Shunzhi, he followed Prince Yu Duoduo to defeat Li Zicheng in Tongguan, and then led a large army south to conquer Yangzhou, Nanjing, and then divided his troops to pacify Suzhou, Songjiang and other places. During this process, Li Rutai could be said to have his hands covered with blood from the Han people.

In the third year of Shunzhi, Li ledtai followed Prince Duanzhong Boluo to attack Zhejiang and Fujian, and was named second-class Adahahafan and Tuoshalahafan for merit. In the fifth year of Shunzhi, Zheng Cai invaded Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other places in Fujian. The Qing court ordered Li Ruitai to join forces with General Chen Tai of Jingnan to suppress Zheng Cai, and recover Changle and Lianjiang counties. When Zheng Cai was defeated, Li Ruitai won the governor Gu Shichen and others appointed by Zheng Cai. In the sixth year of Shunzhi, Li Ruitai went north to fight against Datong's rebel general Jiang Guan, captured Baode, and captured Jiang Guan's party member Niu Hualin and others, and was promoted to Tuoshalahafan again due to merit.

In the eighth year of Shunzhi, Li Rutai was transferred to the Ministry of Personnel and was appointed as the Grand Secretary of Hongwen Academy. In the tenth year of Shunzhi, the Qing court followed the recommendation of Grand Secretary Hong Chengchou and appointed Li Rutai as the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Now it has only been a few months since the Governor took office. After taking office, Li Rutai successively impeached a group of civil and military officials who were unfavorable when Li Dingguo attacked Guangdong, and there were sometimes confrontation postures between the two kings of Pingnan and Jingnan. Because of their identity, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao dared not offend him.

The prince is like this, let alone the general Xu Erxian. Even though he is from Liaodong and has made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty, compared with the royal relative Li Rutai, he is simply a slave. In this case, how could Xu Erxian dare to let the unknown troops approach Zhaoqing Prefecture City? Under his dispatch, the green camps of Xinxing, Sihui, Yangjiang and other counties come to the front camp of Taiping Army.

However, under the command of Zhou Shixiang, the front battalion relied on long-distance marching and cohesion of the wholeheartedness, left these garrisoned green camps far behind, and successfully ambushed the Sihui Green Camp in Sihui County, annihilated 380 soldiers from all over the country, and won the second victory since Luoding set off.

The Battle of the Four Constitutions also greatly improved the morale of the Taiping Camp, and the captured Green Camp soldiers also strengthened the strength of the Taiping Camp. At present, the total military strength of the Taiping Camp has reached as many as 2,000 people. Unless Zhaoqing General Xu Erxian personally led the main force to come, the garrisoned green camps of various counties in Zhaoqing Prefecture will no longer be a match for the Taiping Camp.

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"Brother Ge is right. We have fought smoothly these days, but we have never captured a city. The Qing army may underestimate us because of this. So I think that Gao Yaocheng must not only fight, but also fight harder, and try to take it down in one go. In this way, the Qing army in Zhaoqing will be scared. I don't know how many of us will attack Zhaoqing Mansion again. In this way, they will crouch in the city and dare not come out. Otherwise, today this Qing dog is chasing behind our butts.

The clear dog in front of us, what is the end? Brothers are not gods, and it is rare to hold on until now. Anyone who sees it will praise the elite. If you drag it on, you may not be able to hold on." Qin Zhisheng, the general flag who has always been silent in the military convention, spoke out his thoughts and reminded everyone that after the past half month of marching, the nerves and physical strength of the soldiers in the front battalion have actually reached the limit. If you cannot properly rest, you may not be able to hold on.

After hearing Qin Zhisheng's words, bald Jiang He patted his thighs and said, "Brothers have been suffering these days. We do need a place to rest for a few days. Besides, the back camp will be out of food. We can no longer raise food and grass, and people will be afraid that they will become unstable."

When Ge Zheng heard this, he hurriedly said, "Since that's the case, then let's set out to attack Gaoyaocheng. Otherwise, the camp will really cut off the grain, and the soldiers under my army will rebel?"

"Brothers are fighting for their wives and children. As long as you tell everyone about the situation in the back camp, brothers can hold on for a while. Thousand Houses, please give the order!"
Chapter completed!