The animal world of the head of the village

Chapter 439 Ambush the Taiping Army

After the plan was made, Huang Xiaohu sent the courier to Panlong County to deliver the message, and Fei Ge sent a letter to explain his thoughts and plans.

While waiting for Ji Wu and the others to come over, Huang Xiaohu personally participated in the process of changing the rights in Shouchun City, and also agreed with the common people in Shouchun City that they would never hurt innocent people and maintain the original harmony and stability.

Four days later, Ji Wu led an army of 2000 people and rushed to Shouchun City with Zhao Yali, Zhang Yalan and Little Yellow Emperor.

Huang Xiaohu had already arranged a residence for Zhao Yali and Zhang Yalan, which was the mansion of the guard of Shouchun City, and Huang Xiaohu did not drive away the original owner, because the mansion was big enough and had enough rooms, so Zhao Yali and Zhang Yalan still A little Yellow Emperor must be enough for the landlord to live in.

More than 100 female imperial guards accompanied them to take over the mansion, and Zhao Yali and Zhang Yalan brought all the tigers, so these tigers became their personal guards.

After Shouchun City was captured by Huang Xiaohu, Huang Xiaohu has been busy appeasing the hearts of the people, and has also sent spies to Qingyuan City to investigate information. If the spies have come back to report, it is said that the thousands of Taiping troops who escaped from Shouchun had already entered Qingyuan City. Yuancheng, and it seems that there is a big movement in Qingyuan City, and the target should be Shouchun City.

After Huang Xiaohu and Ji Wu's army joined forces, the total number was only more than 1000, and there were still more than 2000 surrendered troops that needed to be dealt with properly. However, Ji Wu said that [-] people had been sent from the barracks to Shouchun to take over the surrendered troops.

Sure enough, another day later, a commander of the barracks led 2000 soldiers to Shouchun City, took away more than [-] surrendered soldiers, and left another [-] soldiers to guard Shouchun.

According to Huang Xiaohu's calculation of the time, it took ten days just to pass through Shouchun City. If he marched at this speed, it would take at least two or three months before he reached Tianjing.

But Huang Xiaohu had no other better way, he couldn't go to Tianjing City alone, could he?

Ji Wu took over Shouchun City, Huang Xiaohu counted the soldiers and horses, and led [-] soldiers to set off for Qingyuan City.

Not long after setting off, Huang Xiaohu received information from Skylark, saying that a large crowd had been spotted dozens of miles away.

Huang Xiaohu immediately sent spies to investigate the situation, and then ordered the three armies to be on alert, ready to fight at any time.

The spies reported that thousands of Taiping troops were coming towards Shouchun City. It is estimated that the team sent by Qingyuan City was preparing to retake Shouchun City.

Huang Xiaohu learned about the military situation in advance, so he naturally had to make arrangements in advance.

The so-called camping on the spot and waiting for work with leisure, Huang Xiaohu ordered to ambush immediately in place, preparing to ambush the Taiping army.

Just on both sides of the road were forests, Huang Xiaohu's generals went directly into the forest and hid, until the Taiping army appeared, they could directly launch a surprise attack.

That night, Huang Xiaohu had already received a message from Skylark, saying that the group of people had approached, not far away two miles away.

Huang Xiaohu didn't expect the Taiping Army to march in a hurry overnight, so he ordered to prepare for battle at night.

After a while, I saw the flames soaring into the sky. It turned out that a large group of people were holding torches and rushing all night, and they probably wanted to camp and rest not far from Shouchun City.

Just when the Taiping Army brigade was halfway through, Huang Xiaohu gave an order that three thousand soldiers would immediately open fire, killing many soldiers and horses of the Taiping Army in an instant.

Taking advantage of the chaos of the Taiping Army, Huang Xiaohu personally led the troops out and directly fought with the Taiping Army.

Naturally, Huang Xiaohu was unstoppable, and encouraged by Huang Xiaohu, the accompanying soldiers all fought bravely to be the first, so the Taiping Army was almost powerless to resist, and fell into a rout in an instant.

Huang Xiaohu led the troops to charge left and right, and only killed the Taiping army, throwing away their helmets and armor. All those who resisted were beheaded. A large number of Taiping army fled into the dense forest, and the rest surrendered.

In the early morning, the battle ended. After counting the battlefield, Huang Xiaohu learned that there were 800 Taiping soldiers who were directly killed this time. The number, and more than a thousand soldiers were surrendered.

Based on this calculation, Huang Xiaohu roughly estimated that the Taiping Army dispatched about 6000 people this time. It is estimated that they planned to directly capture Shouchun City, but they did not expect to be ambushed along the way, and the entire army was defeated before they even arrived at Shouchun.

Huang Xiaohu only set off from Shouchun for less than a day, so after this battle, in order to treat the wounded and deal with the surrendered troops, he had to lead his team back to Shouchun City.

After returning to Shouchun City, Huang Xiaohu handed over the surrendered soldiers to Ji Wu, and then asked an officer in charge of logistics to take care of the wounded, and informed them that the wounded would be sent back to Panlong County to recuperate when they got better.

Huang Xiaohu felt very depressed when he came back after leaving for a day, so he went to Zhao Yali and Zhang Yalan to discuss the matter.

Zhao Yali said: "If this goes on like this, the Taiping Army has a large number of people, so they must be able to afford it, but you only have two or three thousand people, how can you afford it? Are you going to fight Qingyuan City soon? Qingyuan City I’m afraid it will be difficult for you to take down a big city in less than ten days and half a month.”

Zhang Yalan said: "Actually, Huzi's purpose is to go to Tianjing, and the main purpose is to recapture the treasure and get the dragon and phoenix jade ganoderma. Since it is only for the dragon and phoenix jade ganoderma, why do we need to fight? Can't we just go around? "

Huang Xiaohu said: "Do you think I want to fight? The roads in ancient times were really unreasonable and inconvenient at all. If you want to make a detour, maybe a dozen people are feasible, but thousands of soldiers and horses are still there." There are a lot of food, grass and equipment, how can I get around it?"

Zhao Yali said: "Since you can't go around, then why don't you make such a big fanfare. Huzi, do the math, if you attack Qingyuan City, how many people will you lose? The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has people, but our number of soldiers is really high." Not many, look at the fact that you have lost nearly 500 people since you fought Shouchun, right?"

Huang Xiaohu said: "Qingyuan City is a big city, and I also know that there are tens of thousands of defenders there, but if Qingyuan City is not captured, Shouchun will be in danger, do you understand? I can go out alone. There is no problem, but if I go to Tianjing, if something happens to you, I won’t be able to come back to save you.”

Zhang Yalan said: "So you were worried about our safety, but with Ji Wu here, why worry?"

Huang Xiaohu said: "Although Ji Wu is brave, she is relatively simple and innocent after all. She doesn't understand the insidiousness and cunning of us humans. If the other party uses tricks, Ji Wu may easily fall for it. In other words, Ji Wu can Protect you, but if the opponent's army is approaching, Ji Wu will easily lose the city, and the final outcome will be difficult to predict."

Zhao Yali said: "Then what do you think? Take down Qingyuan City, and then?"

Huang Xiaohu said: "As long as we capture Qingyuan City, I think we can reap a lot of benefits. For example, we can even expand our own team. If the time comes to defend Qingyuan City, if the other party does not send tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to attack the city, it will probably be impossible for us to attack the city." It will not threaten the safety of Qingyuan City."

Zhao Yali asked: "If Qingyuan City is taken down, who are you going to let guard it?"

Huang Xiaohu said: "Ji Wu defends the city, but I still need to send a few people to help Ji Wu, so I think Huang Zixuan and Guo Yi should be able to take on this important task."

Zhang Yalan said: "It's okay, at least there are two reliable helpers. After Ji Wu has a staff, it should be much better. Xiaoli and I don't know how to fight, otherwise we should help Ji Wu defend the city."

Huang Xiaohu said: "After Qingyuan City is captured, you will be very busy. You will also help out with many things, so don't think that you can be lazy."

Zhao Yali asked: "What can we help with?"

Huang Xiaohu said: "Qingyuan City is a big city with a population of hundreds of thousands. The work of appeasing the hearts of the people will be a very huge project. The two of you will be officials once and help resolve some disputes."

Zhang Yalan said: "Is this making us the county lords? Okay, Shengtang, come and close the door and let the dogs go!"

When Zhao Yali heard what Zhang Yalan said, she couldn't help laughing and said: "This job is good. Let the two of us go to court and be in charge of solving cases. I like it!"

Huang Xiaohu said: "The two of you brought the two tigers directly to the court. Those who have ghosts in their hearts probably peed their pants in fright, so I leave this kind of thing to you. In short, to be the master of Qingtian I want you to truly distinguish between right and wrong.”

After hearing what Huang Xiaohu said, Zhao Yali and Zhang Yalan expressed their great interest in being promoted to solve the case, and even began to urge Huang Xiaohu to capture Qingyuan City as soon as possible, so that the two of them could become county lords sooner.

The information in Huang Xiaohu's hands is already very clear, that is, Qingyuan City is basically a gateway to the north of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it is also a barrier.

Panlong County has a population of tens of thousands, while the population of Qingyuan City has reached hundreds of thousands, so Qingyuan City is a real big city and place. It is beneficial and harmless.

Huang Xiaohu understands that the reason why it is difficult to recruit soldiers now is that the population base in the sphere of influence is too small. Weiyang City, Qinglong City and Panlong County together may have a population of less than [-], so they can have a similar total It is not easy to have [-] soldiers.

If Qingyuan City was captured by Huang Xiaohu, the population base would suddenly increase by hundreds of thousands. If they went to recruit soldiers, at least it would not be as difficult as before.

At first, Huang Xiaohu's idea was too simple, thinking that he was invincible, so he could drive straight to Tianjing with 1000 soldiers and horses. As a result, Huang Xiaohu lost more than [-] soldiers and horses in just a small Shouchun City. It also made Huang Xiaohu realize his mistake, that is, to fight against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he must develop and strengthen his own power.

(End of this chapter)