Lars left with a thousand soldiers and pursued Li Zhen's army.
Gao Chuan and Jiang Hong exhaled, with happy expressions on their faces.
Earlier when they were walking through landmines, both of them were walking behind and finally survived. However, the two of them looked at the team of less than 300 people and felt desolate and sad in their hearts. They were less than twenty feet away, but they The garrison soldiers in the three towns were all killed and injured. The layers of corpses accumulated and the gurgling blood were all so dazzling.
In the eyes of the two people, the crackling burning torches around them had turned blood red, reflecting the bloody killings tonight. Jiang Mu led the soldiers into the camp, cleaned up the camp and settled down. Yang Xiuqing stood in the camp and ordered: "Jiang Mu, immediately search for weapons used by Li Zhen’s soldiers.”
"As commanded."
After Jiang Mu received the order, he immediately asked his soldiers to search.
After a search, nothing was found, not to mention a gun, not even an unused bullet. After hearing the situation reported by Jiang Mu, Yang Xiuqing's expression was gloomy, and she had the urge to scold her. Li Zhen is too cunning. Not even a gun or a bullet was left behind.
Yang Xiuqing was helpless to the extreme. She looked at the sky, was silent for a long time, and then ordered: "Let's go, the army continues to advance. Follow Lars and catch up. We must capture Li Zhen."
The army left Li Zhen's camp and chased in the direction of Longtan Town.
There are more than 10,000 troops, a mighty force.
It's just that those soldiers who were injured but not dead were in misery, and no one cared about them at all.
Compared with the speed of the foreign soldiers under Lars' command, the speed of the army led by Yang Xiuqing was almost half slower, and they were left far behind. Li Zhen led the soldiers on the road. When he learned that the foreigners were chasing him, he also ordered Full speed ahead.
Both sides chased each other at extremely fast speeds.
An hour later, the two armies left Yang Xiuqing far behind.
Li Zhen shouted: "Stop."
When the army stopped, Lu Shaochuan immediately said: "Be on guard and prepare to fight."
When there were still pursuers behind him, Li Zhen asked the army to stop. He was obviously preparing to deal with the pursuers who were following him, so Lu Shaochuan asked the soldiers to prepare for battle. The same was true for the soldiers who had been running all the way. The enemy troops behind were disgusted. Now Lu Shaochuan gave an order, and every soldier clenched their guns and got ready to fight.
Long Ao led his twelve brothers to protect Li Zhen with a serious look on his face.
Huang Qiang's Sharp Knife Battalion looked for favorable terrain and prepared to snipe the opponent's generals.
Li Zhen looked at the generals under his command who started preparing without getting orders. He couldn't laugh or cry. He waved his hands and said: "Lu Shaochuan, Long Ao, Huang Qiang, I didn't give orders. Why are you so anxious?"
Lu Shaochuan said: "Commander, the enemy is coming, of course we must prepare to fight."
Long Ao and Huang Qiang nodded, both agreeing with Lu Shaochuan's opinion.
Li Zhen said: "Who said that the chasing foreigners are enemies? We must be so nervous to let the soldiers relax their guard. Huang Qiang sent soldiers from the Jiandao Battalion to spread out to prevent the spies sent by Yang Xiuqing from approaching, and to ensure that there would be no contact between Lars and I. Leak the news."
When Li Zhen said this, the three people were extremely surprised.
Lu Shaochuan chuckled and said: "Commander, you mean the foreign army..."
Halfway through the words, Li Zhen interrupted: "Well, just understand."
Huang Qiang said: "Commander, I will make preparations immediately."
Long Ao stood next to Li Zhen holding the Daguan Dao, as if he were Guan Gong, and praised: "With this move of yours, Yang Xiuqing was sealed to death invisibly. As long as you want to kill Yang Xiuqing, you can take action at any time."
Li Zhen smiled lightly, his face full of pride.
The mercenaries led by Lars were indeed prepared by Li Zhen who notified Mas in advance. In fact, Li Zhen thought that Mas would not necessarily agree. After all, Mas wanted to go to Guangzhou, but Li Zhen stayed in Shanghai to do business with the Taiping Army. , What surprised Li Zhen was that Maas agreed immediately and spent huge sums of money to build an army for Li Zhen composed entirely of retired soldiers from Britain, France, Germany and other countries, and then used it according to Li Zhen's intention by Yang Xiuqing.
In fact, the reason why Maas was so cheerful was because he made countless money from his transactions with the Taiping Army, which made him believe in Li Zhen more. Otherwise, Maas would not be so cheerful.
Not long after, Lars arrived with a large army, echoing Li Zhen's army.
All foreign soldiers made this clear at the beginning of recruitment, so they were not surprised.
Lars rode up to Li Zhen, got off his horse, saluted Li Zhen, and said: "Master Li, I'm glad to see you. Although this is our first meeting, I have admired your name for a long time. Today It was eye-opening to see Mr. Li defeat Yang Xiuqing's 14,000 men with two thousand soldiers. You are indeed a legendary general in the East."
Lars can speak Chinese and his pronunciation is clear, but he still has a unique foreign flavor.
Li Zhen stretched out his hand and said, "Mr. Lars, nice to see you."
Lars was flattered and shook Li Zhen's hand, shook it twice, and then reluctantly left.
The young general in front of me is really approachable.
Li Zhen continued: "Thank you Mr. Lars for the award. I am just a little smart person. China has thousands of years of history and there are countless brilliant and legendary generals. If Mr. Lars has leisure, you can take a look at Li Mu and Lian Po. The deeds of famous generals such as Bai Qi and Wang Jian, these people are the real legends. From the Warring States Period to the Qin and Han, Three Kingdoms, Tang, Song and other dynasties, there have been countless illustrious generals. Those are the real legendary generals."
"sure."
After hearing this, Lars remembered Li Mu, Lian Po and others in his heart, and made up his mind to go back and see them.
In the past, Lars heard that the French king Napoleon had read the art of war written by a sage from an ancient eastern country and praised it greatly. Now after Lars listened to Li Zhen's introduction, he felt even more that Li Zhen, a native, recommended it. is of great value.
Immediately, Lars said: "Master Li, I have a question I would like to ask."
Li Zhen waved his hands and said, "It doesn't hurt to just say it."
Lars said: "If Mr. Li wants to deal with Yang Xiuqing, no matter when and no matter where he is, he can give us an order. As long as a thousand elites led by me take action, we can definitely take down Yang Xiuqing, especially now that Mr. Li and If Yang Xiuqing is fighting, as long as we take action, we will be able to defeat Yang Xiuqing by surprise, but why didn't Mr. Li give the order?"
Li Zhen laughed and said: "I want to kill Yang Xiuqing. I can do it myself without you taking action. It's not difficult to defeat Yang Xiuqing's army. It's just that I have my own arrangements and my own plans. This time I stopped to meet you. Firstly, I want to see you, and secondly, I want to ask you something."
Lars was smart enough not to ask any more questions and said, "Please show me, sir."
Li Zhen ordered: "You don't need to pass on any news to me, you just need to gain a firm foothold under Yang Xiuqing. Even more, you need to let the kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom see your strength, and let them all want you and take you under their wing." For my own benefit, I have only one request for you, which is to drive a nail deep into the city of Nanjing and nail it firmly into it."
After Lars heard this, he nodded heavily in agreement.
