Han’s Son is Not a Slave

The elites of the Guangzhou Green Camp were basically lost in Xinhui, some of them were captured by the Taiping Army and adapted, and many of them were even in the ranks of the Taiping Army in person.

After the Battle of Xinhui, Lin Jinzhong tried his best to collect battalions from the counties under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou Prefecture, and forced a group of masters to join the army. Only then did he reluctantly rebuild the Guangzhou Green Camp. There is a huge shortage of soldiers in the battalions in each county, and some are even less than half of the original. The most typical one is the Xiangshan Green Camp.

Before the battle of Xinhui, there were more than 1,600 people in the Xiangshan Green Battalion. As a result, 700 people were transferred to participate in the siege of the city. After the war, 300 stronger soldiers were transferred to supplement the government camp. Finally, facing the overwhelming force of the Taiping Army, only 500 were in hand. Even the old, weak, sick and disabled can only sacrifice the grandson Mazi to the Qing Dynasty.

This practice of tearing down the east wall to make up the west wall not only weakened the strength of the battalions in each county, but also weakened the strength of the Guangzhou government battalion. The combat effectiveness of the original Guangzhou green battalion was no longer comparable. During the attack on Zengcheng, if the artillery team of the Guangzhou Superintendent did not show their prestige, it would have been impossible to force the Zuoying of the Taiping Army's infantry army to abandon the city and retreat.

The retreat of the left battalion of the Taiping Army's infantry gave an illusion to the Guangzhou Green Battalion, thinking that the true strength of the Taiping Army was just like that. Even Hu Qili, who commanded the Qing Army, gave a very low evaluation of the Taiping Army's field capability, and had a low opinion of the Taiping Army. The leader of the army, Zhou Shixiang, even made the attribution that he did not know the soldiers but knew them ignorantly.

The generals are like this, and the soldiers are even more like this. They chased the Taiping army all the way, and their artillery team inflicted heavy damage on the Taiping army, so I ordered an attack. Everyone in the Guangzhou Green Camp really dared to take the lead. The Taiping army, who can walk, can take their heads and ask for a reward from the superior.

Now that the situation has changed, the Taiping army has set up an ambush on the other side of the Lutou River. When the cannons sounded, the false fire of the green battalion soldiers immediately dissipated. When the commander-in-chief had all run away, the new recruits and the master were naturally unwilling to be left behind, and ran faster than anyone else.

The rabble-like crowd of more than 3,000 Guangzhou Green Battalion remnants receded like a tide, causing the following superintendents to be in chaos. When the Taiping Army was shelling, the pacesetters only had a few sentries to enter the shelling circle, and several supervising generals who led the team took the men and horses out of the shelling circle in time, so the loss was not great. But before they could re-deploy the formation, the defeated green battalion in front rushed in like a tidal wave, causing the pacesetters who had received several posts to collapse.

Seeing that the pacesetter was about to be wrapped up by the defeated soldiers of the green battalion, Wu Tai, the superintendent of the team, knew that it was not good. They quickly retreated with their respective subordinates, slashing and killing the battalion soldiers who were chasing the team while retreating. In this way, they finally left the battalion soldiers behind and stabilized their position on the east bank of the Lutou River for more than three miles.

At the same time, Hu Qili, who was in command of the Qing army, passed the military order at the same time, ordering the superintendents to hold on to their subordinates. They pursued the Qing army without hindrance.

After Wu Tai discussed with the other two generals. Immediately, they called out their archers and placed them at the front of the pacesetter team. After the green battalion soldiers rushed over in a hurry, Wu Tai pulled out his long sword and threw it on the ground in front of him. At the same time, he shouted: "Those who dare to pass this sword, behead!"

Lin Jinzhong was riding a horse when he escaped, so he ran the fastest, and was the first to notice that the pacesetter in front was in a combat alert posture. After seeing those archers raising their bows at his battalion soldiers, Lin Jinzhong couldn't help but get angry, and immediately scolded: "You **** of the superintendent. What are you doing, don't let us go!"

"Lin Zhentai, the last commander was ordered by General Hu Can to defeat the army, and also ask Lin Zhentai to immediately take in a whole team of soldiers and horses to fight against the Taiping bandits! If Lin Zhentai can't restrain his men and let them attack my pacesetter brigade, then Hugh, the end general has executed the military order from above!"

Wu Tai rode his horse forward without showing any sympathy to Lin Jinzhong, the chief soldier, and refused to give way.

Lin Jinzhong's guerrillas, Yu Tianen and Wu Tai, both worked in the Ming army. Later, they joined the green camp and saw that Wu Tai led people to block the way and threatened Lin Zongbing. It wasn't Lao Tzu who saved you, you still don't know where you are buried! You quickly give way to me, and if you don't give way, the Taiping bandits will catch up, do you really want Lao Tzu to die at the hands of the Taiping bandits to feel at ease!"

"Military orders are like mountains, don't give way!" Wu Tai's attitude was very firm.

"My mother's stubbornness, six relatives don't recognize it! Brothers ignore him, and rush with Laozi to see if they dare to shoot arrows!"

Yu Tianen was furious, and with a wave of his anger, he took the lead and rushed forward.

Lin Jinzhong wanted to stop him, but after hesitating for a while, he let him go. He also wanted to see if the superintendent really ignored him.

"Raise the bow!"

To Lin Jinzhong's surprise, Wu Tai actually ordered the archers to prepare to shoot the advancing battalion.

Seeing Wu Tai's real action, and then seeing the arrows held by the archers flashing cold light, Yu Tianen stopped abruptly, thinking of Wu Tai's nature, his tone softened instantly, and he almost pleaded: "Wu Tai, President Wu Qian. , if you have the ability, bring someone up to fight the Taiping bandits, and stop us from doing anything!"

"The military order is like a mountain, don't retreat!"

Wu Tai coldly put down the next sentence, ignored Yu Tianen, waved his hand, and all the archers and the pacesetters pressed forward together.

"What are you doing?"

Lin Jinzhong was terrified, and instinctively pulled the horse back. Yu Tianen also jumped backwards a few times like a rabbit in fright. A group of green battalion collapsed soldiers also retreated under the pressure of the pacesetters, but they were bumped up again by the battalion soldiers behind who were eager to escape and did not know what was going on in front of them, creating a noisy mess.

It was hard to stop the mount. Lin Jinzhong's expression was extremely difficult to see. On the opposite side, Wu Tai and the other officers who were inspecting the standard were all looking bad. The archers held their bows diagonally. It didn't look like they were bluffing. I was afraid that someone in the superintendent would care about his position as the chief soldier, and let someone shoot him directly by using this title.

In the distance, the screams of the Taiping army and the unpleasant suona sound were getting closer and closer.

Wu Tai didn't dare to let this matter go any further, he shouted: "Lin Zhentai, the commander of the last general is at hand, please also ask Lord Zhentai to gather his subordinates quickly to avoid delay, the Taiping bandits are coming soon!"

Seeing that Lin Jinzhong didn’t dare to call someone to attack the pacesetter team, another Qian Zong, Jiang Wei, knew that he was guilty, so he persuaded him, “If Zhentai goes back here, he will definitely be unable to escape from the defeat if he comes to Zhentai. If the soldiers fight again, they will lose to the Taiping bandits, and no one will say that Zhentai is wrong. At that time, I will also explain a few words for Zhentai."

Jiang Wei's words spoke of Lin Jin's loyalty. He had already lost once in the Xinhui. If he loses again this time, and in such a miserable manner, he will definitely not have his own good fruit to eat when he returns to Guangzhou. Will take their own head is the military law. If so, listen to them. Gathering the soldiers and horses and fighting the Taiping Army again, this is considered a good face. After all, the people who supervise the target this time also participated in the battle. Didn’t they also run back before? Big brother doesn't talk about second brother, the law does not blame the public, the Governor can't bring himself to justice no matter how eccentric he is? If he really wanted to do this, he would complain to the court and King Hepingnan himself. This battle was ordered by Hu Qili, not by Hu Qili's orders. His Guangzhou green camp will not enter the ambush of the Taiping bandits!

That's it!

Lin Jinzhong was heartbroken, gritted his teeth and shouted at the officers who had escaped: "What are you doing, hurry up and gather your soldiers! With the superintendent, I'm afraid that the Taiping bandits will not eat you!"

All the officers are you looking at me. I see you, no one will move. They really couldn't have the courage to fight the Taiping army again. The previous good situation was defeated and the army was defeated. Even if they gathered up this group of terrified battalions, it would be a success. Turning around and going back is a death sentence! He. Damn, why should we do the life of death, he supervises himself not to do it!

The officers all scolded the superintendent for being disrespectful. No one was willing to listen to the commander-in-chief's words to gather the defeated troops. Seeing this, Lin Jinzhong became anxious. He picked up the whip and gave the nearest Yu Tianen a whip, cursing: "The Governor-General can kill Lao Tzu's head, and Lao Tzu can also be the first. Kill your heads!"

After he finished speaking, he whispered to Yu Tianen and the others whose face was blushing: "You hurry up and gather up the soldiers, if there are soldiers in hand, we can protect our heads. If there are no soldiers, we will go back to Guangzhou like this, the Governor-General can spare me. Over us?.... He supervises and asks us to turn back, and we really turn back. Go, take the soldiers aside first, and act according to the opportunity. Don't let go here, you can always go elsewhere, right? Wait for him to supervise also defeat To the Taiping bandits, we will have nothing to do."

The remarks made several officers wake up and hurriedly took their own soldiers to action to gather up the defeated soldiers. Wu Tai then directed the inspector to push forward several dozen steps, frightening the green battalion's defeated soldiers to no longer dare to riot. Run, obediently gathered by their respective officers. However, the collapsed troops of more than 3,000 people can't be gathered in a short time, and there are Taiping troops chasing behind. It was not easy for Lin Jinzhong to lead a group of over 1,000 defeated soldiers, and the others fled around like headless flies, unable to catch them.

The Taiping army also found the Qing army superintendent lined up in front. Ge Yi and Tie Yi, who were in command of the front line, ordered to stop the advance at the same time, and gathered back the subordinates who were chasing the defeated Qing army. The brigade commanders also took the time to rectify the queues and prepare for the next battle.

What the chief officials of the two sides did not know was that on a low **** in the northwest of the battlefield where they faced off, several pure white and several blue and red flags had already appeared.

Under the pure white flag, the armored white flag commander Suna smiled and said to the deputy commander beside him: "There are many warriors who dare to fight in the green camp of the Han people. He was able to rectify his subordinates in a short period of time and confront the Taiping bandits. Judging from the formation alone, this pacesetter is indeed an elite soldier, um, it is rare. This thousand commander is small, and I will guarantee him to be a general after the war. "

After he finished speaking, he turned his head and smiled at the flag soldiers behind him: "My sons and gentlemen will follow me to meet the Taiping bandits of the Nanbanzi for a while. They just chased the Green Camp so badly, we have to save face for the Green Camp~www.wuxiaspot.com ~Otherwise, the Taiping bandits would think that the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty are all so cowardly, haha.”

"Don't we come to Guangdong to support the Han soldiers. If the Han soldiers are useful, what do we need to do!"

A group of flag soldiers echoed and laughed, and those who were gearing up did not pay attention to the Taiping Army at all.

Tong Erhan also cooperated and complimented a few Manchu soldiers, and then asked Suna to say: "Leading the Lord, dealing with this group of Taiping bandits will not work for the Manchu warriors under the Lord's command, I will just bring my son."

"you?"

Suna laughed, and was quite relieved about the combat effectiveness of the Han army flag. Since Tong Erhan is going to take the lead, let him make a first move. Bring it here, Ben Zuo Ling wants to see if this thief show has three heads and six arms, or else it will always make the Han army suffer a big loss."

"Hey, Master Zuo Ling, just take a look!"

With Suna's approval, Tong Erhan was refreshed and ordered his subordinates to say, "Blow the horn and tell the trash at Green Camp that our men from the Eight Banners are here!" To be continued.