Luling City, too shou mansion.
Xu Huang and Lu Xiangsheng persuaded the young Chen Yucheng together: "Chen Zhuangshi is a martial artist, a young hero, why bother to be willing to fall, and be a traitor today, when today's son is magnificent, there is a lot of tolerance, if the strong man is willing to get lost and know his way back, he will repent, and he will be valued."
For the sake of the country, the name will go down in history, it is better than two corpses in the name of rebellion."
"Whew" Chen Yucheng spat at Xu Huang, and Xu Huang turned his head and flashed, "If the husband dies, he will die, if he thinks Chen is a man, please quickly push out of the door and behead the public."
I, Chen Yucheng, am the spirit of heaven, thank you."
Lin Chong was furious, and he shot the case: "It's really something that doesn't know the height of the sky, like you, the marriage is not working, right, you raised your parents, and I will push it out to show the public."
The sword and axe hand who had been serving in the hall for a long time had already been furious, and the three major court generals persuaded him to surrender at the same time.
This kind of person doesn't cut off his head and keeps it for nothing Xu Huang was also a little angry, knowing that Chen Yucheng was unable to persuade him to surrender, so he was silent at the moment.
Just when Chen Yucheng was about to be pushed out of the door and beheaded to show the public, Shi Yi hurried over and said: "The three generals are angry with thunder, this Chen Yucheng is certainly stubborn, but he is also an important figure in the Taiping Army, ranking sixth."
Instead of beheading the public, it is better to send someone to escort to Jinling to ask for merit. ” Xu Huang, Lu Xiangsheng, and Lin Chong thought about it for a while, and it was the same thing.
Killing a Chen Yucheng is at most to boost morale, but if Chen Yucheng is escorted to Jinling, it will definitely be able to greatly increase his prestige, and let the civil and military of the imperial court know that not only the generals who conquered the Central Plains can make meritorious contributions, but also the soldiers of the southern expedition can also be useful.
"Come on, put Chen Yucheng in a prisoner car, and send a fast horse to Jinling overnight" Xu Huang stroked his beard and changed his mind.
Immediately, Lu Xiangsheng selected a capable soldier, carried 200 soldiers, stuffed Chen Yucheng, who was tied up with five flowers, into a prisoner car, and hurried away in the starry night to Jinling to ask for merit.
Just sent Chen Yucheng away, another scout came to report: "Qiqi three generals, Hong Xiu has newly recruited a Wuxi barbarian warrior named Aobai and appointed him as the general of Yigong."
And Yang Ping, Xiao Tian and other rebels led 800,000 troops to approach our Luling, and now it has passed through Xinxing, and it is only a day's journey from Luling. ” Lin Chong frowned: "800,000 is so much, can you scouts find out the exact number, the enemy lies about 800,000, there is 800,000?"
The scout saw sweat on his forehead, and arched his hand: "General Huilin's words, the thief army is coming all over the mountains, and it is like an ant colony, we have really never seen this kind of formation, and we can't estimate the exact number of people." ” Xu Huang stroked his beard and smiled: "Hehe Zhongxun, don't be embarrassed by the scouts.
Such a big formation, not to mention a few spies, even you and I have never seen it.
According to Chen Yucheng's 70,000 people and claimed to be 100,000, Hong Xiuquan's 800,000 people are converted, not to mention 500,000 or 600,000."
Lu Xiangsheng stretched out five fingers: "Including the old and weak women and children, Lu estimates that there are at least 500,000."
Looks like it's time for our tunnels to come in handy."
"Yes, this tunnel has been excavated for more than half a month, and now it is indeed time to come in handy."
Xu Huang agreed, and then sighed, "It's just that after this fire, I'm afraid there will be tens of thousands of innocent undead in Luling City."
Lu Xiangsheng was also thoughtful: "That's also something that can't be helped, once the success is ten thousand bones, which dynasty is not the rise of the dynasty with millions of bones piled up in the battle pit of Baiqi Changping to kill Zhao 400,000, Xiang Yu killed Qin in Julu Pit to kill 200,000 Qin troops, and Huangfu Song used the corpses of 100,000 Yellow Turban troops in Guangzong to build a Jingguan."
And this time, the battle of Luling will surely go down in history."
Xu Huang immediately repelled the princes, summoned the civil and military forces of Luling to come to the meeting hall to discuss countermeasures, and after some planning, formulated a strategy to burn Luling.
After the plan was formulated, everyone acted separately, and Yi led 5,000 soldiers to urge the 30,000 residents in Luling City to move outside the city.
Although the people are reluctant to give up, and their hometown is even more difficult to leave, they also know that where Taiping Road passes, whether they are old, weak, women and children, they are all coerced to join the army.
Therefore, between life and property, the people of Luling City still chose the former, and they helped the old and the young, carrying the coils on their backs, leading the cattle and sheep, and followed the men and horses led by Shi Yi out of the city from the north gate of Luling, and retreated to Shiyang and Baqiu in the north.
Just when Shi Yi retreated with the people, Lu Xiangsheng led 5,000 elite soldiers to pile firewood, straw, hay and other flammable materials separately around many houses, and also piled up a lot of firewood and grass around the four city gates, but they were arranged very cleverly, just like the people have been piling up here on weekdays, not deliberately.
It was not enough to just pile up flammable materials, Lu Xiangsheng also ordered people to sprinkle a large amount of flammable materials such as sulfur, fire nitrate, and pine oil in the firewood and grass piles to increase the fire.
After doing all this, he finally led his troops to retreat to the tunnels dug in advance.
Since learning that the Taiping army was marching north, Lu Xiangsheng has been planning with Xu Huang to burn the Luling Tomb.
Half a month ago, he ordered 40,000 soldiers to dig tunnels day and night, and until today, more than ten criss-crossing tunnels have been secretly dug under Luling City, which can accommodate thousands of strong people bowing their bodies and shuttling quickly.
These tunnels crisscross each other, and the dozen or so secret exits are cleverly concealed and difficult to detect.
Moreover, Lu Xiangsheng arranged a large number of flammable materials at these exits, and set fire to the city after entering the city with the Taiping army.
Finally, more than a dozen passages gathered at the north gate of Luling City, converged into a passage to the north, stretching for five or six miles, and after the ambush soldiers lurking in the tunnel set fire to the city, you can unconsciously exit Luling along this tunnel, and then watch on the wall, watch a big drama of burning the city.
Just when Lu Xiangsheng and Shiyi were busy separately, Xu Huang and Lin Chong were not idle, and led their troops out of Luling to the south to meet the Taiping army.
Why should you outnumbered the Taiping army and not directly let the thief army into the city, because in this case, it will make the Taiping army suspicious, in case the enemy detects that Luling City is a trap, and if you withdraw in time, it is likely that your efforts will be lost.
After fighting with the Taiping army, it will greatly weaken the vigilance of the Taiping army, and greatly increase the success of burning the Luling.
Moreover, Xu Huang and Lin Chong planned to drag out the battle until the evening, so that the Taiping army would enter the city after dark, so that the extremely tired Taiping army would choose to spend the night in the city, and then it would be the time when Lu Xiang set fire to the Luling Tomb.
Xu Huang and Lin Chong led their troops to the south for twenty miles, and lined up to meet each other on the north bank of the Lu River.
Everything can be repeated again and again, the water attack has already been staged once, and it is absolutely impossible to let Hong Yang plan again.
Moreover, the Taiping army learned the lesson of Chen Yucheng's defeat, and no longer divided the troops to advance, but gathered five or six hundred thousand together, and ordered the old and weak women and children to lead the way. 560,000 people are enough to cut off the stream, and it is almost impossible to break the embankment and flood again.
At this moment, it is the end of the first month, and the wind and sun are beautiful.
After Xu Huang and Lin Chong waited for two hours on the north bank of the Lu River, the sky began to become turbid, and dust flew all over the sky, covering the sky and the sun, and the rising sun in the sky gradually became dim.
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The birds overhead let out a panicked wail, fluttered their wings, and fled in all directions.
"Report the great sage and good teacher, the Han army lined up to meet each other on the north bank of the Lu River" Scout Pegasus came to Hong Xiuquan and reported loudly.
Hong Xiuquan frowned and groaned: "Oh, it seems that the Han generals have some guts, we thought that the Han army would defend the city and wait for reinforcements, but I didn't expect to dare to go out of the city to meet the enemy, how to deal with it" Ao Bai carried the bull's head and five teeth boring, and flew to Hong Yang with five flowers, and excitedly begged for battle: "It's good to come, I'm afraid that the Han army will not come out of the city, only out of the city to fight, can I kill his piece of armor without leaving it, please allocate 50,000 soldiers and horses to me, and wait for me to take Xu Huang's head and come back, and dedicate it to the horse."
Xiao Chaogui said: "Xu Huang bravely went out to fight, and asked General Tiangong to allocate three people, 50,000 each, to cross the river to encircle and suppress the Han army. ” Hong Xiuquan obeyed, ordered Ao Bai to lead the middle road, Xiao Chaogui to lead the left road, and Yang Xiuqing to lead the right road, each with 50,000 people, and marched forward together.
With the earth-shaking drumbeat, the 150,000 Taiping troops began to rush across the Lu River.
Xu Huang and Lin Chong led their troops to stand on the north bank of the Lu River, and the whole army bent their bows and opened crossbows, shooting indiscriminately, and immediately shot down thousands of Taiping troops.
The powerful rain of arrows made it impossible for the Taiping army to cross the Lu River.
Hong Xiuquan was furious when he watched it from a high place, and ordered: "Order the old and weak women and children to charge in front" With Hong Xiuquan's order, the old and weak women and children who were responsible for transporting the baggage in the back were driven in front by the sturdy Taiping Army with knives and guns, used as cannon fodder.
While charging, a pontoon bridge was erected over the Lu River.
The Han army rained down another rain of arrows, and these old and weak women and children without a piece of armor suffered heavier casualties.
About 20,000 people died under the indiscriminate arrows, drowned by the river, and trampled on each other, and the water of the Lu River was immediately blocked.
Seeing this, Ao Bai led the troops first, stepped on the corpses of the river and rushed across the Lu River, and the Taiping army with 50,000 heads wrapped in yellow scarves and holding yellow flags followed closely behind, and rushed across the Lu River in one go.
As the Chinese army of Aobai took the lead in crossing the river, Yang Xiuqing and Xiao Chaogui also led their troops to kill the Lu River, formed a formation on the north bank of the river, and exchanged bows and arrows with the Han army, separated by more than 100 zhang, and confronted each other.
Ao Bai was the first to go out, holding a five-tooth boring, and scolded loudly: "A certain is the first warrior of Wuxi, and so is Ao Bai, the general of Taiping Daoyigong, Xu Huang He is quickly going out of the battle to die" t1706231537: