In Guangxi, the fifth town of the Taiping Army was ordered to attack Guilin, the capital of Guangxi, by land.
On the 7th, Hu Mingyi, a brigade and former Xin'an Qianhu, led his troops from Wuzhou Fumenyi, crossed Longjiang and Zhaotan Eryi, and occupied Yong'an Zhoucheng, where the defenders had abandoned the city and fled.
On the 9th, the town general Zhao Ziqiang led the town guard and the B Brigade and the C Brigade to Yong'an Prefecture, and then the whole town went west to Guilin, and successively captured Pingle, Gongcheng, Yangshuo and other cities.
Along the way, the Qing army fled in despair, and none of them dared to fight with the Taiping army.
On the 14th, Chen Weixin, the governor of Guangxi in the Qing Dynasty, heard Ma Zuo's report that the Taiping army had a lone army of about 2,000 soldiers who ventured into the Dongjiang Station, which was only more than four or ten miles away from the capital city, and in order to curb the Taiping Army's offensive, Chen Weixin ordered Guilin's general soldier Xu Tianyou, Gui Pingfen to guard Wang Yanbin, Cangwu to guard the Tao, Chen Hongye, and Cangwu soldiers who fled back from Wuzhou, and Li Bensheng, who fled back from Wuzhou, to lead troops to Dongjiang Station to block, wanting to eat this rushing Taiping army.
Xu Tianyou didn't want to lead the troops, but when he heard that the Taiping army was all infantry, there was no cavalry, and the recent Taiping army was still in Yangshuo, dozens of miles away, he felt that this was a good opportunity and agreed to take the order.
There were only more than 3,000 defenders in the plains of Guilin City, and after seeking the line to supervise the return of the army, Chen Weixin knew that the Taiping army of Wuzhou would attack Guilin, so he ordered Pingle and all the battalions of the counties under the jurisdiction of Guilin to withdraw to Guilin, although this move made the Taiping army capture more than a dozen prefectures and counties without much effort, but also made the Guilin defenders more than 9,000 people, plus the young and strong in the city, more than 10,000 people can be used.
With Xu Tianyou out of the city of soldiers and horses, Gui Ping guarded Wang Yanbin has more than 1,000 people, Cangwu guards Chen Hongye has more than 700 people, and Li Bensheng of the military patrol road risked his life to flee back and gathered a group of strong soldiers, plus a group of bandits recruited by the official reward, but also barely gathered more than 1,000 soldiers, but the main force is still the Guilin town mark under Xu Tianyou, with more than 300 cavalry and more than 1400 infantry troops.
Before Xu Tianyou's troops left the city, Governor Chen Weixin took Feng Jin, the governor of Guilin Prefecture, Yao Shitai, the governor of Guilin Prefecture, and other officials to set up a banquet at the head of the city to set up a campaign wine.
At the end of the day, the Qing army met the C Brigade of the Fifth Town of the Taiping Army, which had entered Dongjiangyi.
The Fifth Town C Brigade was originally the B Brigade of the Second Town, and the Fifth Town was transferred from the Second Town a few months ago.
After the baptism of several battles, the soldiers of the C Brigade have long lost the tension they had when facing the Qing army, and in their opinion, the green battalion soldiers on the opposite side are just here to deliver food.
In the team, a few veterans even joked: "Don't rush forward too fast today, or your butt will be broken by the master again."
"The little master that the veterans are talking about is Yu Youming, the only son of Yu Shizhong of the brigade school.
Yu Youming fled south with his father since he was a child, and it can be said that he was born in troubled times and grew up in the army.
His father, Yu Shizhong, did not let the Qi family army have no successor, so he devoted all his efforts to teach him.
Yu Youming lived up to his father's expectations, he was good at guns, sticks, knives and halberds, and he was young and vigorous, and he always relied on martial arts to kill the enemy regardless of military orders.
Last time when Lufeng was besieged by Jidu, Yu Youming killed more than a dozen Qing soldiers at the head of the city, and when he saw that the enemy troops under the city could not stand the casualties and began to flee, he actually climbed the ladder dropped by the Qing army and jumped down to chase and kill, and after a while, he cut off the heads of two real Tartars and ran back.
Although this move was heroic, he went out of the city without a military order, and his father Yu Shizhong was so angry that he wanted to march in anger.
Fortunately, the second town of the boss, Tie Yi, came to stop him after hearing about it.
Yu Shizhong couldn't enforce military law, so he practiced family law and beat his son on the school field.
I don't want to, such a knockdown made Yu Youming famous in the Taiping Army, that is, even Zhou Dashuai knew that the old Yu family had a little Wenyang who could pick and cut off immediately.
When the fifth town was ordered to march west from Chaozhou, Yu Shizhong was such an only son, and the danger of facing hundreds of thousands of Qing troops in the southwest was too great, so Yu Youming was not allowed to join the expedition, and Yu Youming knelt on the school field for half a day.
After a conversation between father and son, Yu Youming finally got his wish and marched with the ranks.
The veterans laughed at themselves in public, but Yu Youming was not annoyed, the old man in his own house didn't give his son affection, and opened his ass in front of so many people, so what's the matter with asking people to laugh now.
What is lost left and right is not the face of Lao Yu's family, Lao Tzu doesn't want this face, what does his son want.
Besides, as long as you can kill the Tartar to avenge your grandfather and uncle, what if you lose face Accustomed to hearing the veterans laughing, Yu Youming simply joked with them: "Old brothers, don't just laugh at me, I'm afraid that the battalion soldiers will not be beaten later, we will move too smoothly, you run too fast and can't hold back, and when the military order comes down, everyone will be beaten."
Haha" "We are beaten, and the master can't run away.
But we have rough skin and thick meat, and we should tickle it when we hit a hundred boards, and if the young master has fine skin and tender meat, if he blooms again, he will twist and pinch when he walks, hehe, the little lady will frown when she sees it."
Everyone talked and laughed, not taking the Qing army on the opposite side in their eyes, and their morale was high, as if the thousands of Qing soldiers on the opposite side were really muddy.
But when they heard the drums in the Qing army on the opposite side, whether it was the veterans or the young master Yu Youming, they all put away their smiles and quickly spread out according to the previous exercises.
This C Brigade is completely trained by Yu Shizhong of the brigade school according to the tactics of the Qi family's army, and it is also the only one in the Taiping army that does not practice according to the infantry drills of the army marshal's mansion, because Zhou Dashuai made a special exception to let the bloodline of the Qi family army continue in the Taiping army.
With the flag, every forty people in the C Brigade formed a small formation in the shape of a herringbone, staggered front and back, separated from left and right.
At the front of the small array, the four people leaned on the ground to support the bamboo five wolf stalks, on the sides were ten-pole spears, and at the end were the boring handles and knife players.
The sharp bamboo branches at the front end of the wolf were not cut off, allowing the war horse to instinctively avoid it.
Relying on the superiority of troops and cavalry, Xu Tianyou, the chief soldier of Guilin, ordered to rush into battle.
He did not underestimate the enemy, nor was he careless, but really analyzed the strength of the Taiping army on the opposite side before deciding to attack, because he did not believe that the more than 2,000 Ming infantry could block his double soldiers.
Then the battle situation was not as Xu Tianyou expected from the beginning, when the more than 300 cavalry he marked penetrated into the gap between the small formations of the Taiping army, but no matter how hard he whipped the whip, he could not make the war horse speed up a point, but the boring handles and spears on the side of the small formation of the Taiping army continued to sweep towards the side of the Qing soldiers.
The riders parried with their sabers, most of them were crossed by boring handles, and then several spears were stabbed, and they immediately fell off their horses, screaming incessantly.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Qing troops in the rear team wanted to bypass the rush and kill, but the bird-gunners who hid behind the herringbone formation ran out to shoot and were knocked down again.
The expected stepping formation turned into a one-sided massacre of the Ming army, which shocked Xu Tianyou, who witnessed all this.
The infantry brigade also rushed up, and the Qing army could not be said to be unproductive, nor could it be said that it was not diligent, and even Li Bensheng, who called the Taiping army to kill the courage under the city of Wuzhou, gritted his teeth and rushed forward with his subordinates, but although the Qing army had the advantage in strength, the Taiping army's front was not moving.
Slowly, with the continuous orders of Yu Shizhong, the brigade school, one by one, the changing banners were passed on, and the Qing army was stunned to find that they were surrounded by the Taiping army, which had much fewer troops than themselves.
A strangulation battle unfolded bloody in Dongjiangyi.
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