Chapter 12 First Night Battle
Jinpen Ridge, seven miles south of Changsha City, is a mountain that can only be regarded as a pitiful hill than those of Guangxi, with a height of only ten feet. However, this is the highest point in the south of Changsha City. On the west side of the mountain is the Xiang River flowing northward. The mountains are surrounded by mountains on three sides, becoming an important place outside the south of Changsha City that can serve as a barrier.
Zhu Han, deputy general of the Qing army Yuanzhou Association, stood in the Qing army camp at Jinpenling, looked at the Shaanxi soldiers who were playing and angrily and cursing slowly passing by at the foot of the mountain, and sneered: "This group of fucking Shaanxi Qiuba finally went to Shimapu."
Many of the place names in Changsha have the word "pu". Among the place names in Changsha, many of them have the word "pu", such as Xinkaipu, Heishupu, Datupu, etc. This is the place name on the official road from Changsha to Xiangtan. There are ten Huali between them. Shimapu is another official road in Changsha South City. The first official road on the official road from Changsha to Liling, followed by Dongjingpu, Baitianpu, etc. This means that starting from the south gate of Changsha, it is exactly ten miles to Shimapu, and it is still three miles east of Jinpengling.
When Zhu Han saw the Shaanxi soldiers passing by, he breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, these Shaanxi soldiers rushed to him to garrison, and finally he could breathe a sigh of relief. When Luo Bingzhang ordered him to take 800 Liuyang Township to station Jinpengling outside the city, Zhu Han was so scared that he was scared. Everyone knew that the hairy thieves on the Hunan territory were in a serious state, and it would be a life-and-death matter to go out of the city to garrison. But Luo Bingzhang comforted him that the hairy thieves would definitely come from Leiyang, Hengyang's road and water route, and they might not necessarily go to the south.
But Zhu Han also knew that a group of thieves' partial troops came from Anren, Chaling and Youxian to siege the city and plunder the ground. Judging from this attitude, he was going to fight to the official road of Liling. The Liuyang Township Warriors he led were just a group of newly recruited local team training. It would be okay for these people to bully the unarmed people, and let them fight against the fierce thieves to death. That would be a fantasy.
So at his strong request, Luo Bingzhang reluctantly agreed to send a army to guard Shimapu and Zhu Han's troops to respond, forming a horn, and agreed to allocate many firearms, gunpowder and medicine to Zhu Han. Then Zhu Han agreed to lead the troops to guard Jinpenling. He had just married a concubine recently, but he didn't want to lose his life. The Shui Lingling concubine would definitely run away with the others.
Looking back at the village warriors who were sitting in the camp in groups of three or three, Zhu Han had no choice but to say that the Hunan Governor's Office had not paid any salary for more than two months? Originally, the elders of Liuyang raised some money to pay for the salary, but Luo Bingzhang was embezzled to the group of Shaanxi soldiers at the foot of the mountain.
Zhu Han knew about this, but he didn't fight hard because he needed these Shaanxi soldiers to block his front. He would fight if he could, and if he couldn't fight, he would run away. Even if he was defeated in the end, he would have an excuse, that is, the court would not be hungry, and the silver soldiers were brave enough to fight for their own hardships. I, Lao Zhu, had no choice.
Zhu Han's wishful thinking was finally done. Once there was any disturbance in the stone horse paving, he could run back to the city immediately, and he had already thought about the reasons for his crime. This was the way of being an official in the Qing Dynasty. First of all, he had to be invincible before he could think of something else.
Zhu Han was very happy to watch the Shaanxi soldiers leave, and saw that the sun was already west, and loudly ordered his followers behind him and said, "Master, I am very happy today. I will make a few pots of wine to serve tonight!"
The sky gradually became darker. In the Qing army camp on Jinpen Ridge, some of the soldiers on the patrol went to chat with Zhou Gong first, while others gathered at the gate of the camp or under the post to gamble. No one would come to check the night tonight, because the chief general Zhu Han was drunk, and the other generals were all from the villagers, and no one would make things difficult for his brothers.
Just as the sentry soldiers were having a happy gambling, black shadows quietly came up from the front and back of the camp. The Qing army camp only had two camp gates, north and south. There were sparsely placed in front of the camp, with deer antlers as barriers, and thirty bronze cannons were arranged in front of the camp, but red medicine and medicine were not next to the bronze cannons. Because it was very dangerous for the red medicine to explode when it saw fire, Zhu Han didn't want to be accidentally ignited by any soldier, so the red medicine was placed in the baggage tent.
A soldier lost several times in a row. He murmured and cursed and stood up to the side of Xiao Jie. Just as he was having a good time, he saw more than a dozen people appearing in the forest outside the camp. The soldier was startled and looked closely and was so scared that he opened his mouth wide. He sat on the ground. More and more men with red turbans appeared in front of him. Everyone had long swords in their hands. Isn’t it the long-haired red turban thief they brag about to wipe out every day?
"Long, long hair..." Before the word "大大" was released, the soldier's head had been cut in half by a Taiping Army card knife hand that rushed forward. The hot brain spilled all over the ground. The soldiers who were whistling at the camp gate woke up as if they were dreaming, "大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大大�
But dozens of Taiping Army members rushed to the front and slashed their swords. More than a dozen Qing soldiers at the gate of the camp were immediately chopped up, and the remaining few dead people fled to the camp.
In an instant, countless heads rose up around the camp, and shouts of killing came overwhelmingly. The camp gates on both sides were simultaneously captured by the Taiping Army. There were two on both sides. Three hundred Taiping soldiers rushed into the camp with spears and swords, and slashed them when they saw them. The soldiers in the camp rushed around crying and shouting for their parents. The scene was in chaos.
The Qing army commander Zhu Han put on his coat in drunken eyes and walked out of the camp, shouting and shouting: "Why are you talking about? "
The follower outside the tent shouted in horror: "Sir, the long-haired thief attacked the military camp at night..." Before he finished speaking, the head of his follower had already rolled to the side, and the blood sprayed from his neck touched Zhu Han's face.
Zhu Han was so scared that he retreated three points in his breath. A cold light flashed in front of him. When Zhu Han hurriedly avoided, he felt a sharp pain in his chest. When he looked down, a spear pointed out from his chest, and then another cold light flashed. Zhu Han felt a chill in his neck and knew nothing.
Su Ji tried hard to pull out the spear in his hand, looked at Li Yiwen in front of him and said tremblingly: "Brother Li, is this man the official of Qing Yao?"
Li Yiwen laughed and said, "It should be so, you are very lucky. You killed a great official in Qing Yao for the first time."
Su Ji's face turned pale, and his hands were still trembling. Li Yiwen pulled Zhu Han's braid to lift the head. Su Ji could no longer help it, and squatted down and spit out in big mouthfuls.
Li Yiwen laughed and scolded: "Get up quickly after vomiting, and feel at ease when you see some blood. Come with me quickly!"
Li Yiwen carried Zhu Han's head and started running towards the place where there was resistance in the camp. Su Ji wiped his lips and gritted his teeth and followed. After Li Yiwen ran out a few steps, he raised his head and shouted loudly: "Listen, your general is dead, kneel down and surrender quickly, so that he can avoid death!" But the scene was chaotic and no one could hear it. Su Ji shouted louder and louder with his throat, and the Taiping Army beside him heard it.
Liuyang Bingyong, who was running around in the camp, was taken away because two camp gates were taken away and there was no place to escape. The brazier in the camp was overturned, and many camp tents caught fire. After hearing the shout, they all knelt down and begged for mercy. A few fierce soldiers were surrounded and killed one by one. A night attack on the camp ended in less than an hour.
After the Taiping Army, which had advanced into the military camp in the north and south, met at the Qing army camp, the two troops were the Taiping New Army led by Li Zuoche, Tang Erniu and Tong Qiangsheng. After that day, Tong Qiangsheng brought back the Qing army, Xiao Yungui immediately made a plan and asked the three to lead more than 1,000 Taiping New Army to detour from the small road, attacking the Qing army at Jinpenling at night, and he led a large group of people to attack Shimapu.
Li Zuoche and Tang Erniu, led by Tong Qiangsheng and others, crossed mountains and ridges and went straight to Jinpengling from a small road. They launched a night attack that night. They asked two hundred elite swordsmen to take the lead and broke into the Qing army camp from the north and south. The remaining new troops followed up with the last-ditch effort. Sooner or later these new troops would see blood. The eight hundred Liuyang Township Yongs in Jinpengling were the target of practicing by the Taiping New Army.
The battle situation was certain. Li Zuoche urgently ordered people to extinguish the fire in the camp, and then divided people to guard the Qing army's prisoners. After the battle, more than 600 township heroes were captured. Tang Erniu led people to search the camp tents in various places, sweep away the fish that had leaked the net, and searched for weapons, red medicine, firearms and other supplies. Tong Qiangsheng and more than a dozen people rushed back to Xiao Yungui's office to report the news with Zhu Han's head.
Tang Erniu led his men to search the Qing army camp one by one, and was surprised to find a lot of muskets, red medicine and medicine. A brief note was made. There were more than 300 muskets of various types, thirty copper cannons, 60 barrels of red medicine, and countless medicines. There were also a few food and grass. Even more than 60 war horses of the Qing army had not escaped, and they all became the spoils of the Taiping Army. The Qing army's swords, guns, bows and arrows were all owned by the new army. The new army with thousands of people finally got rid of the embarrassing situation of using sickles and hoes, and it was said that they had made a fortune.
Li Zuoche ordered people to gather the prisoners to guard the prisoners. Each ten people tied them up with a long rope, and they all squatted on the ground. More than 300 guards from the Taiping New Army were sent around. After Tang Erniu fired the equipment, Li Zuoche followed Xiao Yungui's instructions and concentrated the firearms and aimed at the official road at the foot of Jinpengling Mountain. As long as Xiao Yungui fired, the Qing army's defeated soldiers would definitely run here, and they would intercept the defeated soldiers.
When Tong Qiangsheng led his men to take a small road back to Xiao Yungui's army, it was already midnight. Xiao Yungui and more than 3,000 people were hiding in a dense forest south of Shimapu. Among these more than 3,000 people were more than 1,000 people from He Binpao Brother Association.
All the troops were resting in the dense forest. Tong Qiangsheng met the Taiping Army who was patrolling the post. Hearing that Jinpen Ridge had been taken down, the news quickly spread throughout the entire team and everyone was cheered up.
When Xiao Yungui saw Zhu Han's head, he suppressed his vomiting and sniffed a sip of dry tobacco and said, "I'm telling the troops to continue to rest. We will send troops before dawn to raid the Qing army in Shimapu!"
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