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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 572: Xueshuai¡¯s Appointment

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    In the past, Lin Baotong was the last soldier of Dongdian's children's camp. When he was fifteen or sixteen years old, he had been fighting with the soldiers of Dongdian.  +The Taiping Army has always had the tradition of using Tong Ying's young soldiers. The soldiers in Tong Ying are fanatical in their beliefs and brave in combat, and are very popular among the generals of the East Palace.  At that time, Lin Baotong always believed that the most important thing when going into battle to kill enemies was to work hard and practice martial arts well, so he always maintained the title of No. 1 in martial arts in Dongdian Tongying.

    It's a pity that his martial arts skills were rarely put to use after he entered the Shanghai Jiangwu Academy. As a subject for the Jiangwu Academy, martial arts was just one of the subjects. What subverted Lin Baotong's traditional combat concepts was the concept of firearms taught by the instructors.  , because what he is about to join is a thermal weapon force that uses only firearms.

    Although Lin Baotong did not understand it and did not agree with the tactics of intensive firepower and large-scale use of firearms that lacked the spirit of martial arts, he believed that a weak and timid person could kill a strong person with a rifle. This was unfair.  The blasphemy of martial arts.  But he still completed all the infantry subjects at the Jiangwu Hall, and finally became a lieutenant company commander. With doubts and contradictions, he went to the front line with his comrades in the Fifth Army.

    Lin Baotong's company fought for the first time in Guangnan Prefecture, near Yunnan. His company of more than 100 people encountered an army composed of Qing troops and local regiments with more than 800 people. He strictly followed  The infantry drill conducted intensive firepower on the enemy. As a result, the enemy suffered casualties of one-third of its men and was quickly defeated. However, except for one soldier who accidentally injured a comrade due to nervousness, Lin Baotong's company had no other casualties in the company.

    The result of the first battle shocked Lin Baotong greatly.  In the past, if the East Palace soldiers and horses used a mix of hot and cold weapons, muskets and bows and arrows were only long-range auxiliary attacks. When the enemy rushed in front of them, they would inevitably have to fight hand-to-hand.  The casualty rate in hand-to-hand combat is extremely high.  But now his company relied on advanced firearms to defeat eight times the number of enemies, while he suffered zero casualties. This was something that was unimaginable before.

    What Lin Baotong didn't know was that Xi Wang spent a lot of money to build a hot weapon army just to achieve this goal. Just like in history, the British and French allied forces defeated tens of thousands of Manchu and Qing northern troops, with only a few hundred casualties. In this era, hot weapons gradually replaced cold weapons.  The era of mixed use of hot weapons.  Later, Lin Baotong gradually accepted this method of warfare, and he gradually understood what the instructor said.  The spirit of martial arts does not apply on the battlefield, where there is only the difference between the dead and the living.

    Today, Lin Baotong once again saw the so-called martial arts spirit. More than ten female soldiers of the Qing army were dressed in beautiful clothes.  They only brought swords and guns and stood in front of the Qianju Street position to call for formation. Because the Qing army came all female soldiers and there were only about ten of them, the Taiping troops on the position did not fire without the company commander's order.  Instead, he watched curiously as these female soldiers screamed.  Let the men led by the Taiping Army come out to fight in a one-on-one fight.

    Lin Baotong was a little dumbfounded. If a group of Qing army men came to call for battle, his soldiers would shoot them mercilessly. But facing a group of women, these soldiers who had not seen a woman for a long time really couldn't do it.  .

    "Company Commander Lin, the other party is calling for formation. You are the commander of the formation. What do you think we should do?" Lin Baotong's silence was interrupted by the female military staff officer who had just lectured him.  He scratched his head and said, "Should we shoot them to death randomly? They are all women, and it is unjustifiable for a group of us gentlemen to bully a few women."

    Zhou Xiuying¡¯s face darkened.  Wei Wei said sulkily: "First of all, they are enemies!" Then he pulled out the captain's sword from his waist, jumped out of the barricade and walked forward. As he walked, he said: "I am also a female generation, I will go to meet her, Qing Yao and the female general.  ?It¡¯s so fresh!¡±

    Han Baoying also drew out her sword and followed. The actions of the two women scared the guard company commander to the point of losing his soul. When they were about to stop him, Zhou Xiuying said loudly: "You are raiding the formation from behind. No one is allowed to get close. This is  Military order!" After saying that, he rushed forward quickly.

    The person calling the formation on the opposite side was Li Suzhen, the sister of Qing general Li Mengqun. The Taiping army blocked the way down from Wuhua Mountain and Yuantong Mountain. The Qing army was unable to get out of the conflict, and the Taiping army was not in a hurry to attack the mountain, but kept firing cold shots.  , which greatly demoralized the Qing army. Li Suzhen could not bear it anymore and took more than ten female soldiers down the mountain to call for battle.  Originally, she didn't plan to go back alive. She only hoped that the Taiping Army would rise to the challenge and rely on her martial arts to kill a few people, which would be a backstop.

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? out???? did not dare to come out and challenge the Taiping Army, Li Suzhen originally thought that the Taiping Army did not dare to come out to challenge, but now she saw a few people, the first two approached and then saw that they were also female generals.

    Li Suzhen pointed a spear in her hand, just like in the play. After giving her name first, she shouted out the general's name. Zhou Xiuying suppressed her laughter and scolded loudly: "You will know when you are a prisoner." Li Suzhen heard this.  Yan was furious, and the two women quickly approached and fought each other. Han Baoying, the guard company commander, Lin Baotong and others led more than ten Taiping soldiers to the side to raid the formation.

    The light and shadow of spears and swordsAmong them, Zhou Xiuying regained the thrilling feeling that she had not experienced for a long time. The feeling of fighting against the Qing army in Shanghai and other places came back. She was already proficient in martial arts. Although Li Suzhen was also a general warrior, she could never catch up  Last week, Xiuying was very skilled in martial arts. After meeting more than a dozen people, she was stabbed in the wrist by Zhou Xiuying's long sword. After the spear fell to the ground, Zhou Xiuying's long sword was placed across Li Suzhen's jade neck.

    Seeing that the general was captured, more than a dozen female soldiers wanted to fight for it. Han Baoying pulled out her long sword and screamed: "What are you doing standing still? Come on, copycat!" Lin Baotong and others came to their senses and stepped forward to fight together.  .  The group of female soldiers was naturally no match. After a few were killed, the rest were injured and captured.

    The Qing troops on the mountain seemed to be indifferent, and no one came down to rescue the dozen female soldiers. Once Zhou Xiuying saw that the Qing troops were firmly guarding the narrow road in the mountain, she did not plan to attack the mountain, and withdrew the prisoners behind the barricade.

    Just after returning to the barricade, I saw Chen Bingwen, commander of the Fifth Army, rushing in with a team of personal guards. The first thing he said after meeting was: "Two aunts, please stop making trouble, okay?  Go back quickly, Chen Shuai is angry."

    Zhou Xiuying had a cheerful temperament and fought happily for a while. She was in a good mood and nodded in agreement. However, Han Baoying pouted her mouth and cursed in a low voice: "How dare he get angry? If he dares to curse me after returning, I will turn around and leave!"  "

    Returning to Chen Yucheng's base camp headquarters, Chen Yuguo started by scolding him. Zhou Xiuying didn't dare to say anything. Most of them were scolding Han Baoying. Han Baoying could bear it at first, but after Chen Yucheng said a few more words,  , Han Baoying snorted and turned away, leaving Chen Yucheng there.

    Chen Yucheng was also furious: "Put this undisciplined Major Han in solitary confinement! Don't let her out without my order!" Zhou Xiuying wanted to persuade her, but seeing that there were so many people, it was difficult to speak, so Han Baoying groaned again  He made a sound, without any excuse, turned around and followed the disciplinary military police of the Fifth Army.  Seeing this, Zhou Xiuying had no choice but to apologize and chased after Han Baoying.

    Chen Yucheng looked at Han Baoying's fragile and undisciplined back and sighed softly: "The daughter of King Yi is really spoiled." Chen Bingwen couldn't help laughing and said: "Chen Shuai, it seems that she will only do this in front of you."

    Chen Yucheng was slightly startled and said hurriedly: "Don't talk nonsense, I have Wanmei." The Wanmei Chen Yucheng was talking about was Zeng Tianyang's granddaughter Zeng Wanmei. Zeng Wanmei is now in the Fourth Army of the Tianjing Garrison.  During their tenure, the two often exchanged letters, and it had been a long time since they had seen each other.

    Chen Bingwen said yes and stopped mentioning the matter for fear of embarrassing Chen Yucheng. Then Chen Yucheng interrogated several captured female soldiers and learned that the captured Qing army female general Li Suzhen was the sister of Qing army general Li Mengqun, so he summoned several  A staff officer analyzed the possibility of using Li Suzhen to persuade the Qing army to surrender on the mountain.

    Whether Qing commanders Peng Yulin and Li Mengqun would surrender because of Li Suzhen, several staff members agreed that there was little hope, but Chen Yucheng still insisted on giving it a try. If Peng Yulin could surrender, after the Yunnan governor surrendered, it would have a great impact on the advancement of the war in Yunnan.  Great help, worth a try.

    Finally, Chen Yucheng ordered someone to bring a captured deputy general of the Qing army, and ordered him to go up the mountain with his own handwritten letter to persuade Peng Yulin to surrender.

    The deputy general of the Qing army returned to the mountain with Chen Yucheng's autographed letter, and Peng Yulin still received him.  The deputy general was Hui Qing's subordinate, and he escaped with Hui Qing. He was originally worried that Peng Yulin would accuse him, but when he saw Peng Yulin, he felt that Xueshuai seemed to have aged a lot overnight.  .

    After reading Chen Yucheng's letter, Peng Yulin pondered for a moment and then said: "This matter is of great importance and cannot be decided based on a letter with only a few words. I would like to ask Chen Yucheng to meet alone. Can you go back with me to send a message?"

    Jiang naturally agreed, and immediately returned to the Taiping Army after receiving Peng Yulin's reply.

    After reading Peng Yulin's letter, Chen Yucheng fell silent. After Chen Bingwen took the letter and read it, he snorted and said: "If you want to surrender, surrender, if you don't surrender, fight. Why else would we meet? I see this Peng Yulin  I¡¯m just playing tricks to deceive you, Chen Shuai.¡±

    Chen Yucheng thought for a moment and then said slowly: "Peng Yulin and I had an agreement before. During the Battle of Guilin, we let them return north. Both sides kept their promise not to attack each other. This shows that Peng Yulin is a trustworthy gentleman.  , Besides, he proposed to meet at Qianju Street, which is under the jurisdiction of our army, so we are not afraid of him playing any tricks. If he doesn¡¯t go, he will be looked down upon by Commander Xue.¡±

    Seeing that Chen Yucheng had made up his mind, Chen Bingwen immediately deployed a large number of soldiers and horses to guard Qianju Street, and then asked the deputy general to bring back a letter. The two parties agreed to meet in front of the Taiping Army position on Qianju Street at 1:00 in the evening.

    After the deputy general rushed back to the mountain to bring the letter, Peng Yulin was about to order someone to arrange a meeting down the mountain. The deputy general couldn't help but persuade him: "Shuai Xue, it is too dangerous to meet in front of the long-haired formation."

    Peng Yulin said calmlyHe smiled and said: "I had a gentleman's appointment with Chen Yucheng, and this Marshal Chen is also a trustworthy person." So he ignored the dissuasion from the left and right, and after making arrangements at the last moment, Peng Yulin prepared to go down the mountain with a few personal guards.

    When I came to the base of the mountain, I saw Li Mengqun standing here. He shouted loudly from a distance: "Xue Shuai! You can't go down the mountain!" (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
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