The news that Chen Yucheng's entire army was annihilated and captured alive reached the rear camp of Hong Xiuquan, and the morale of the army was greatly frustrated and demoralized.
Others don't know the real strength of the Taiping army, but Hong Yang and the two are well aware, in addition to the 70,000 people under the command of Chen Yucheng, who served as the vanguard, the Taiping army behind them is divided into three routes, thirty miles apart and marching to Luling in unison.
Hong Xiuquan personally sat in the middle of the road, including the old Shixie department that was incorporated and the remnants of the Yellow Turban that descended from the Central Plains, there were 100,000 strong people who could go into battle, and 150,000 old and weak women and children who were transported with bluffs, and this road was the core force of the Taiping Army.
On the right route, under the command of Yang Xiuqing, there were 70,000 strong people who could fight, and 80,000 old and weak people who could transport heavy baggage.
On the left route, under the command of Xiao Chaogui, there are 60,000 people who can be called combat power, and 70,000 old and weak people who are carrying heavy baggage.
Including Chen Yucheng's vanguard team, the real strength of the Taiping army that could go into battle was around 280,000, and the number of old and weak women and children was about 350,000.
There are more than 600,000 people in total, known as one million, which is not a small number, and the momentum is not huge.
But how can there be a large number of people, after a battle, 70,000 troops were annihilated, and the vanguard general was captured alive, which could not help but make the Taiping soldiers panic.
What's more, nearly half of the people were coerced by Hong Yang, and they didn't intend to die for the Taiping Army, the news of Chen Yucheng's capture spread, and people kept leaving the barracks and quietly absconding at night.
Hong Yang and the others were furious, and led their troops to set up camp in Nanye County, greatly increasing the number of night patrol troops.
As long as the absconding person is caught, he will be killed, and his relatives and relatives, even his fellow townsman, will be punished.
One person absconded, many people sat together, killed more than 10,000 people in one go, whether it was an old and weak woman or a strong man, as long as he dared to leave the camp and abscond, he was sentenced to beheading.
It was only after a bloody crackdown that the mass desertion was curbed.
Although the method of breaking the wrist of a strong man is effective, it is not a long-term solution.
Hong Yang and the others also knew that in order to make those people who were coerced into joining the Taiping Dao die for themselves, in addition to continuing to use religious brainwashing, they should also fight a big victory, reverse the decline, and make all followers believe that the Taiping Dao will definitely achieve hegemony in the future.
The Taiping army camp under the cover of night stretches for fifty miles, the fences are connected, and the people shout and neigh, and the momentum is huge.
Hong Xiuquan summoned more than 100 civil and military staff members such as Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui, and various generals, generals, and soldiers in his tent to discuss the strategy of breaking the enemy.
The candles in the big tent are brilliant, the great sage and good teacher, the Tiangong general Hong Xiuquan sits in the middle and sits high, the Digong general Yang Xiuqing sits on the right side, and the Rengong general Xiao Chaogui sits on the left side.
More than 100 civil and military staff members lined up on both sides, and the momentum was huge, even compared to the Jinling court.
"Xu Huang has been fighting for many years, and he is very good at using soldiers, and the Shanyue tribes who fought dare not look up.
Now according to the Luling, by virtue of the topography, I flooded my army of 70,000 in one breath, and captured General Yucheng alive, it seems that it is difficult to compete with it in the opinion of this general, it is better to wave the army to the east to attack Jian'an County, so that Xu Huang will inevitably lead the army out of Luling and pursue our army.
At that time, they could fight the Han army in the wilderness, and with outnumbered enemies, they would surely win.
Yang Xiuqing, who had a clear appearance, stroked his beard and said.
"Brother Xiu's words are wrong" Without waiting for Hong Xiuquan to speak, Xiao Chaogui, the general of Rengong, stood up and retorted: "According to the spy report, the reinforcements led by Chen Qingzhi and Huang Zhong have arrived in Linru, which is only about two hundred and fifty miles away from Luling, and it is estimated that it will be able to meet Xu Huang in about three days."
If the two Han armies are combined, the momentum will inevitably be great, even if it is a field battle, it is difficult for our army to win.
In a certain opinion, our army should rush day and night, besiege the city before Chen Qingzhi's reinforcements entered Luling, drive the old and weak women and children to charge in front, consume the arrows of the Han army, desperately fill the lives of 100,000 old and weak, and also take Luling, and completely annihilate Xu Huang's defenders. ” "What your brother said is very true" Hong Xiuquan, who was in his forties, with a dark complexion and thick eyebrows and big eyes, praised his head, "As long as Xu Huang's main force is annihilated, Chen Qingzhi's reinforcements are not to be feared, as long as Chen Qingzhi is broken, he can drive straight into the territory of Poyang, Jian'an, and Huiji, and when the time comes, hundreds of thousands of Shanyue people will be included under his command, and it will definitely be able to make up for the losses in the Battle of Luling." ” "We are willing to be instructed by the great sage and good teacher" The civil and military staff of the Taiping Army, dressed in yellow clothes and wrapped in yellow scarves, bowed their hands together and received the promise loudly.
Everyone supported Hong Xiuquan and Xiao Chaogui's views, which made Yang Xiuqing feel depressed, and said with a face like frost: "That Xu Huang is superior in force, Lin Chong is also the enemy of ten thousand people, even the adults have been captured alive, who can fight against each other?"
At this moment, the captain of the guard, Pegasus, came to report: "Report to the great sage and good teacher, there is a big man outside the door, who led more than 100 people to come to take refuge, claiming to be the leader of Xiongxi, and I don't know what to do."
Hong Xiuquan was overjoyed: "There are strong men to vote, our army is lucky, please come in quickly" The lieutenant took the order and left, and soon led more than 100 people to the tent.
I saw that the person at the head was more than nine feet tall, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and a leopard's head and ape arms; A five-flowered horse in his crotch, holding an eighty-pound bull head and five teeth boring, is majestic, like a god descending to earth.
Ao Bai turned over and dismounted, strode into the handsome tent, and arched his hand towards Hong Xiuquan: "Presumably this one above is the great sage and good teacher, and a certain Xiongxi leader who is one of the five streams, Ao Bai, heard that the great sage and good teacher are aiming in the world, so he led his troops to vote." ” "Haha, with the assistance of a strong man, the big thing can be decided" Hong Xiuquan laughed and got up to return the salute.
"Wait, something hasn't been finished" Hong Xiuquan's voice did not fall, and was interrupted by Ao Bai stretching out his hand.
"It's okay for a strong man to speak straightforwardly."
Hong Xiuquan was very patient.
Ao Bai arched his hand and said: "There are five streams in Wuling, which are Xiongxi, Manxi, Chenxi, Youxi, and Wuxi, which are called Wuxi by the Han people.
The leader of Wuxi is Shamoke, but in the eyes of Aobai, this Shamoke is not worth mentioning, I am the number one warrior of Xiongxi, and it is not my opponent to tie up the other number one warriors of Sixi.
Therefore, it is okay for me to serve you in the Taiping Dao, but I must give a certain high-ranking official a good fortune."
"I don't know what position Ao Zhuangshi wants," Hong Xiuquan asked calmly.
Ao Bailang laughed and said: "Don't be too high, isn't your Yigong General captured alive by the Han army, so you will reward me with the title of this Yigong General."
Listening to Aobai's words, the full tent of civil and military all frowned and snorted coldly: "What a big breath, General Yigong is second only to the Third Duke, and the sixth general after General Shenggong and General Rengong, how can you covet a barbarian leader who has just come to vote?"
Hong Xiuquan stroked his beard and said with a smile: "General Yigong is waiting for a vacant position, and he needs to be promoted, and the strong man Mao recommended himself, and the division has no opinion, but I don't know how the strong man will serve the public."
Ao Bai shouted: "There are two oxen, and there are two strongest and strongest oxens in the army."
There was a shortage of horses in the south, and the Taiping army mainly relied on ox carts to transport baggage, and there were at least tens of thousands of cattle in the entire Taiping army, so there was naturally no shortage.
Hong Xiuquan gave an order, and soon someone selected two large cattle with sharp horns and led them to the front of the handsome tent.
Ao Bai strode out of the handsome tent, and after some teasing, the two scalpers were furious, you don't like me, I don't like you.
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"Moo" each other, the four hooves dug up the dirt all over the ground, pouted the bulls and fought together, the more fierce they became, the more angry they became, and they looked like they didn't share the sky.
"Who of you can separate these two oxen" Ao Bai arched his hand towards the full tent Wenwu, looking forward to his own pride, "If someone can separate, I, the righteous general, will not do it" Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and angry cattle can't be provoked, not to mention two horned cattle that kill red eyes, who dares to pick up the horns in case the two cattle share the same hatred and spread their anger to the persuaders, it is a trivial matter to be poked two holes in the buttocks, and it is not impossible to bury Qingqing's life in vain.
Seeing that no one was accosted, Ao Bai was proud: "You are optimistic" Striding up to the inextricable scalpers of the two buckets, he stretched out two iron palms the size of a fan, each grabbed a horn, and shouted: "Open" The two oxen were fighting to the death, and suddenly encountered a huge force, and the horns of the ox were almost broken, and they made a "moo" cry when they landed, and they separated.
Ao Ao was still unsatisfied, suddenly stretched out his iron arm, slammed the neck of the left ox, and at the same time used the iron leg to pinch the ox's leg, and shouted: "Down" Hearing only a boom, the six or seven hundred pound scalper let out a frightened scream, and was forced to fall to the ground by Aobai.
It wasn't enough to put a scalper, so he concocted it in the same way, wrapped it around the neck of the right cow again, shouted loudly, and flipped to the ground.
"Ugh" At this moment, the tent was full of civil and military forces, and the more than 1,000 Taiping soldiers who were watching the excitement around them opened their mouths one by one and were dumbfounded.
Not to mention the strength of the bullfight, he actually fell to the ground alive, and the power of the overlord is nothing more than that Hong Xiuquan was the first to react, high-fived and praised: "Great, the overlord who pulls out the mountain and covers the world is nothing more than that, in this world, if the Ao Zhuang is called the second, who dares to boast of the first From today onwards, the position of the righteous general is the Ao Zhuang Yours."
This division appoints you as the vanguard, and tomorrow the front will open the way, and a certain and Xiu compatriots and noble compatriots will lead a large army to follow, go straight to Luling, and capture Xu Huang alive" Ao Bai was overjoyed, and bowed to Hong Xiuquan and said: "Haha Meng's great sage and good teacher are heavy, Ao Bai will definitely go all out to help our army break through Luling and point to Jinling as soon as possible."
After Ao Bai showed his hand, the civil and military forces were all impressed, and they bowed their hands together: "We pay homage to General Yigong, with the help of the general, our army will definitely be like a tiger with wings, and it is just around the corner to take Luling."
Hong Xiuquan ordered the military kitchen to set up a wine feast, and washed the dust for Ao Bai overnight, and after eating and drinking, tomorrow the 600,000 army will drive straight in and kill under Luling City.
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