There is no cavalry battalion in the fifth town, but the town guard directly under the town command post has a team of cavalry, which is responsible for the town general's guard and herald the flag in peacetime, and is used as a horse scout in wartime.
Because it is a cavalry, although there is only one team, Wei Zhong is a hundred households.
The cavalry under his command are all veterans of the Green Battalion, and the three general banners are all from the soldiers of the town generals, so they can be regarded as close associates.
Different from the cavalry of the old four towns of the Taiping Army, the cavalry team of the fifth town is quite reckless, and the team pays attention to not military regulations and generals, but brotherly righteousness, which is very similar to those horse bandits in the Qing army's horse team, and the composition of the soldiers is also similar, except for a few battalions who can cavalry, the rest are Chaozhou surrendered or captured bandits.
Wei Zhong was very confused now, and his subordinates were also in a similar mood, because they had not found any trace of the C Brigade until now.
At this time, two hours have passed since the C Brigade went south, and almost an hour has passed since they sent someone to the town command post to report the victory.
When I came over, I found the dozens of auxiliaries left by the C Brigade to clean up the battlefield, but the general flag that led the team didn't know where their brigade was now.
If you can't find the C Brigade, you can't do it, the town general led the whole town south to meet the C Brigade, if you can't contact the C Brigade, then how can this battle be fought Wei Zhong's heart sank a little, and he had a bad thought, was the battle won by the C Brigade in Guo's shop a deliberate release of water by the Qing army to lure them deep, and then turned around and ate the C Brigade, if not, how could the more than 2,000 people of the C Brigade not be found.
Wei Zhong didn't dare to think about it, he and the three general banners under his command combined, and decided to expand the search area to the south, even if they rushed to the Qing army camp, they had to find out whether the C Brigade was alive or dead, otherwise they would not be able to go back and explain.
When it was almost dusk, Wei Zhong led the cavalry team to the north of the Song family nest building, along the way, the horses ran and stopped, but there was no human population at all, passing by several villages, either the ruins and broken walls, or the people went to the empty building.
After stopping and retracting and feeding the horses, Wei Zhong first sent two soldiers back to the town command post to report where they were, and then he led the rest of the men to continue to push south to find them.
At present, in February, there is no spring in Guangxi, but it is a little cool.
After searching for so long, the cavalry were tired, but they didn't stop thinking about resting and going back.
"Wei Tou, there is someone ahead" It was when he was becoming more and more confused, a general banner beside Wei Zhong shouted in a low voice, as soon as this sentence was shouted, the cavalry team immediately became agitated, and they looked at it one after another, and sure enough, near the Song family's nest not far away, dozens of horsemen appeared in sight.
At dusk, because of the light, Wei Zhong and the others couldn't see clearly when they looked at the dozens of horsemen on the opposite side, but the other party saw Wei Zhong and them clearly, and obviously noticed this side, and even heard the sound of shouting and beating horses, and chased towards this side.
Wei Zhong put his feet in the stirrups, his body stood upright on the horse, trying to see as far as possible, his mount snorted a little anxiously, but he still couldn't see clearly.
"Wei Tou, is it the person of the C Brigade or the Qing dog" The surrounding cavalry soldiers asked a little nervously and excitedly, Wei Zhong shook his head, and only snorted: "It doesn't matter who he is, first light the fire rope and press the fire gun, if it's not right, let him go."
In his heart, he didn't think that it would be the people of the C Brigade, because the C Brigade only had a dozen cavalry guards, but there were dozens of cavalry who came.
After the order of the hundred households, some of the tired soldiers immediately turned over and dismounted, took out the hanging firearms from the side of the saddle, and another soldier held five reins in one hand and slowly retreated, this person was the so-called horse stake.
Half of the cavalry were armed with muskets, the rest were armed with bows, and the rest were armed with spears or sabers.
Before the cavalry gets on the horse, the gun must be loaded with ammunition and plugged with a wooden stopper to avoid delaying the loading when facing the enemy.
The dozens of horsemen on the opposite side finally arrived at a distance of about 100 steps in front of the Ming army, no matter what the light was, they could see it clearly, some people wore fur hats, some people wore helmets, and some people were bareheaded, and a money rattail could be seen hanging down at the back of their heads.
"It's a clear dog" Wei Zhong exclaimed.
Dozens of Qing army scouts were less than a hundred steps away from the front of the Fifth Town Cavalry Team, and they were all wearing leather armor or cotton armor, which looked like the elite of the Qing army.
Looking at the dozens of Ming cavalry in front, the Qing army was not nervous and afraid, and the leader of the team only looked at them with puzzled eyes.
Some Qing soldiers were still looking around, as if they were searching for something.
The cavalry team of the fifth town, which regarded Zhao Ziqiang as the head of the treasure, was no worse than the Qing army on the other side, and the body was all dressed in the leather armor of the Manchurian soldiers captured in the Chaohui War, the key parts were inlaid with iron leaves, and the red helmet was also the same as the high-quality Mongolian horse ridden by the Manchurians.
The horses are not bad, the equipment and weapons are not bad, and the number of people is about the same, so from the beginning of the meeting, Wei Zhong never had the idea of retreating.
He is a dead brain, this time the order he received was not to retreat all the way north, but to go south to find the C Brigade, so he couldn't find the C Brigade, no matter how tired and dangerous it was, Wei Zhong would not be able to take the person back with him.
On the opposite side of the Qing army Tanma is the Han army leader Liu Desheng's soldiers, all Liaodong people, several fathers and ancestors are still as early as the old slave period for the Manchurians to work for the coat, if they can earn a future in this southwest war, after returning to Beijing, it may be possible to enter the palace to guard the Qing Emperor, then it is really a great honor.
The leader of the Han army is called Cao Rong, who was originally not a member of the Han army banner, but the royal palace of the regent Dolgon's family.
After the death of Dolgon in the eighth year of Shunzhi, the current emperor recognized that he had committed a major crime, not only was the white flag taken by the emperor for himself, but also the clothes of the palace were also turned into the clothes of the internal affairs office and became the emperor's domestic slaves.
Fortunately, although the emperor did not like the Zhengbai Flag very much, there was not much discrimination against the clothing of the palace, because these Han clothing was the property of the emperor himself.
Cao Rong's elder brother Cao Xi was promoted from the palace guard to the second-class Han army guard in the inner court, Cao Rong was able to be released as a leader this time, it was his brother Cao Xi who invited the emperor for him, so that this brother can also have a good future.
When I was in Yunnan last month, Jingshi's brother wrote to me, saying that my sister-in-law had given birth to a son and named him Cao Yin. oshow7 t1706231537: