Daijiazhuang is a small town more than ten miles west of Gaomin Temple. As the name suggests, this village is a gathering place for families with the surname Dai.

The "Qi" army flag of the fifth town of Taiping Army rose on a high slope in front of the village two days ago. At that time, there was no one in the village, or no living person. The fifth town found more than a hundred frozen corpses from the village. From the doors that were kicked down in the village, it can be seen that the village was looted. It is obvious who ransacked this small village. After burying the villagers in the village, Brigade A of the fifth town drove into the village. Brigade B began to build circular fortifications on the north side of the village entrance, and Brigade C built simple fortifications on the east side.

On that afternoon, the sky suddenly became dark, and then dark clouds rolled up from the north to the south. The dark clouds were very dark. Not long after, the sky became dark and the strong wind gradually rose. The air was filled with leaves and hay blown by the strong wind. In the "Woooooo" wind, the Huaiyang land was as terrifying as a disaster world.

The sound of jars and jars blown down by the strong wind are everywhere in Daijiazhuang. From time to time, the roof is blown up by the strong wind, and the tiles and hay are falling into bundles. The village is full of panic. The soldiers of Brigade A are desperately fixing the tent under the strong wind, and the soldiers living in the house are also busy holding wooden boards and blocking the windows. The soldiers who are building fortifications at the entrance of the village put down all their work, and digging hard and hard ground in the air with the shovel. The officers are worried that heavy rain will soon be rained. If the drainage ditches cannot be dug in time, the fortifications will be flooded by the rain, and all the hard work will be soaked.

Thousands of Taiping soldiers worked desperately in the wind. Liu Zhiwu, a hundred household commanding under the northernmost wind vent, was blown down by the strong wind and hit a piece of wood. A big bag suddenly appeared on his forehead. His face and ears were red, but they were not smashed, but frozen. After getting up from the ground, Liu Zhiwu waved his hands repeatedly to signal his subordinates not to care about him and work quickly, otherwise everyone would suffer at night.

After a busy life in the strong wind, the fifth town finally built fortifications and fixed the camps, neatly arranged. Then the soldiers wearing straw raincoats appeared in the strong wind, letting the strong wind whistle in their ears, they remained motionless, and their eyes were staring at the distance.

In the strong wind, there were hooves, but several horses and horses spread out in batches. These horses were the eyes of the whole town, carrying the alert for the enemy situation of the whole town, and their existence and their efforts would ensure that when the enemy soldiers sneaked over, their comrades could organize to meet the enemy in the shortest time. Although the wind was very strong, it might rain heavily immediately. It was impossible for Qing soldiers to sneak attack in this weather, but they still rode on their mounts and traveled in the strong wind. All of this was just for them to be soldiers, only for them to be Taiping Army, only for them to be the continuation of the Qi family army, only for the strict and almost cruel military law.

The fifth town will stand under the eaves of the corridor in the strong wind, frowning and looking at the dark clouds in the sky. Not far away, the big flag of the word "Qi" was blown by the strong wind, and from time to time, the debris blown by the strong wind was slapped on Yu Shizhong's face, but he did not hide in the eaves of the corridor, and always stood there motionlessly looking into the distance.

Li Kuangming, the deputy general of the fifth town, was not a descendant of the Qi family army like Yu Shizhong, but a descendant of the Bai Gan Bing. His father once sank the "Bozhou Rebellion" with Qin Liangyu, and later he fought with the Qi family army to the distant northern Hunhe River. Therefore, in terms of emotion, Li Kuangming had deep feelings for the Bai Gan Bing and the Qi family army, which made him, as Yu Shizhong's deputy general, cooperated with Yu very tacitly.

Seeing that the wind was so strong, Yu Shizhong didn't enter the house under the eaves of the corridor. Li Kuangming couldn't help but persuade: "Brother Yu, it's too strong, so let's go into the house to avoid it."

Yu Shizhong moved his body, but did not enter the house. Instead, he asked Li Kuangming: "What did you find when you explore the horse?"

Li Kuangming shook his head and told Yu Shizhong that he had not found anything. Yu Shizhong thought about it and told Li Kuangming to send more horses tonight, and the various brigades and camps should also add more posts. Not only should he add more posts on the Minggang, but he should also add secret posts, because his eyelids always twitched, and he always felt that something big would happen in the storm.

Li Kuangming agreed and went to arrange this matter. After he left, Yu Shizhong still did not enter the house under the eaves of the corridor. His body seemed to be stationary, but his eyes fell on the banner of the word "Qi" swaying in the strong wind. He was very proud that he continued the blood of his father and brother in the Taiping Army. He was also very grateful to Zhou Shixiang. If it weren't for Zhou Shixiang, he would probably be a embarrassed person who was driven away by the Qing soldiers and had nowhere to go. How could he rebuild the Qi family army? How could he have the status of becoming a marquis today? But at this moment, Yu Shizhong faintly complained to Zhou Shixiang because he didn't understand why Zhou Shixiang was increasingly reluctant to listen to the advice of his subordinates and why he was so slaughtered.

Suzhou broke its promise and killed surrendered generals, Guazhou killed prisoners, Bianjiahekou killed prisoners

Yu Shizhong was increasingly unable to understand what the young coach who led them from Guangzhou to here was thinking. He was not present in Suzhou, but he saw the incident in Guazhou. He stopped the Bianjiahekou, but it was useless.

The young general seemed to be becoming more and more stubborn. He only thought that bloody killing could drive the Manzhou Tartars out of the land of the Han people, but he did not know that this almost barbaric massacre would make the Qing army more fiercely resist and add too many unnecessary casualties to the Taiping army. If the prisoners could be used for good use, at least one new town of soldiers would be available, rather than being as tight as it is now.

Yu Shizhong could tolerate killing prisoners alone. After all, Zhou Shixiang's consideration was not completely wrong. There were heavy troops in Shunzhi, so it was inappropriate to contain more than 10,000 prisoners at once. However, even though Shunzhi had already mobilized heavy troops to encircle, Zhou Shixiang still insisted on advancing north, which was a bit arrogant. Can the high morale really offset the huge gap in military strength between the two sides?

Yu Shizhong did not think that the Qing army with more than 30,000 troops could be defeated in one fell swoop with more than 30,000 troops. He believed that after two consecutive victories were won, the main force of the Taiping Army should immediately retreat south, break away from contact with the Qing army, and only stabilize Guazhou, and the other towns retreated to Jiangnan for rest and rest. When flowers bloom next spring, they would mobilize the army to advance north again. After all, the Taiping Army had the support of Jiangnan money and food, but the Qing army did not. Shunzhi stayed in Yangzhou for one more day and could only turn it up.

The Qing Dynasty dragged an inch into the abyss of destruction. On the premise that everyone in the world knew that he was unable to cross the river and headed south, there would always be someone on the Qing Dynasty who would jump out to be the second "thief scholar", perhaps Wu Sangui, or perhaps others. The other party would rise, and perhaps there would be no decisive battle in the future, and the Qing Dynasty would collapse and perish on its own. At that time, the Taiping Army could defeat its troops without fighting, and restore the whole country without fighting. The most important thing is that there would be fewer people.

When prosperity occurs, the people suffer; when death occurs, the people will suffer.

Over the past ten years, too many people have died from all over the country. Yu Shizhong could not bear to see the surviving Han people suffering again and again, so he knelt in front of Zhou Shixiang that time and begged Zhou Shixiang to withdraw his troops. Then he personally led the fifth town to recover Zhejiang and Fujian, completely integrate several southern provinces, and accumulate strength for the Northern Expedition next spring.

However, Zhou Shixiang did not adopt Yu Shizhong's opinion, but instead ordered him to lead his troops to the left wing of the entire army and send it out from afar, as if he wanted to see it without seeing it.

Zhou Shixiang even issued strict orders, and any other person in the army dared to withdraw troops, and military law was carried out. This order made no one dared to withdraw troops in front of Zhou Shixiang. With his strong prestige in the army, Zhou Shixiang led the decisive battle. He divided the new town and the fifth town that could be fought on both wings, and he led the remaining 14,000 people of the first town, the second town, the third town and a brigade of the third town. In the middle, Iron Man Guard, the new town and the 3,000 cavalry drawn from each town were reserved.

Gaomin Temple is the decisive battle place chosen by Zhou Shixiang for himself and the decisive battle place chosen by Shunzhi. He believed that Shunzhi would definitely come. Yu Shizhong also believed that the Qing army would definitely come to the decisive battle as the general thought, but at this moment, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He was really not optimistic about this decisive battle. Now he could only hope that attacking Yizhen's 15th Town and New Three Towns could restrain part of the power of the Qing army. In this way, this decisive battle would probably have hope of a draw.

After another long sigh, Yu Shizhong shook his head. Although he did not agree to the decisive battle and was not optimistic about the decisive battle, he still decided to do his own thing. Even if he died in battle, he would firmly block the Qing army invaded by the left wing for the central army.

Suddenly, a drop of raindrops fell on the eaves of Yu Shizhong's head, and then more raindrops fell. Soon, the sky and the earth were covered with whiteness. The heavy rain poured down and fell on the Huaiyang land. The strong wind pulled the raindrops and flew around, and the banner with the word "Qi" sounded "splitting" in the wind by the raindrops.
Chapter completed!