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Even if the young leader is burning with anxiety and runs fast at the beginning, he can't keep up with the team after running for five or six miles. Even though the young leader of the team was burning with anxiety and ran very fast at the beginning, he could not keep up with the speed of the team after running for five or six miles.
The team marches with no distractions. Although the trot doesn't look fast, the team maintains a relatively scientific marching speed. The troops marched without any distractions. Although the trot did not look fast, the troops maintained a relatively scientific marching speed. The team marches with no distractions. Although the trot looks slow, the team maintains a relatively scientific marching speed. After a dozen miles, the villagers who have been left in front of the team have been left behind. They try their best to keep up with the team's speed.
When they are about to reach Li's Village, the scouts have sent back information. The Qing Army has more than 200 people. A group of Qing Army is blocking the fleeing villagers in the valley, but the villagers use the terrain to keep them out of the valley. Another group of more than 50 people is wreaking havoc in the village.
The General Staff immediately comes up with a battle plan around the map. First, the Fire Team will block the retreat of the Qing Army attacking the valley, and the main force will deal with the Qing Army in the village first.
Hu Chenghe is also a member of the General Staff. He is a little puzzled. With the current strength of the team, it is not difficult to divide them into two groups and destroy the Qing Army attacking the valley at the same time.
Vézé explains: "Concentrate our forces, fight with numbers, and fight a battle of annihilation! As the saying goes, it is better to break one finger than to hurt ten fingers. You do the math. We have 200 people this time. We send out 50 people to contain 150 Qing Army, and the remaining 150 people fight 50 people. This is three against one. After killing fifty Qing soldiers, we still have the upper hand in terms of numbers, even though 200 people are fighting against 150 people. If it is one against one, no matter how weak the Qing Army is, they will not be afraid of us seeing that the number of people on both sides is about the same. In a fight, they will definitely be afraid of more people. "
"At the beginning, 50 brothers fight 150 Qing Yao soldiers. They will not be afraid of us, will they?" Hu Chenghe just finished speaking, but he also knows that he is wrong. Since they were prepared to annihilate the Qing Army in two waves, the 150 Qing Army brothers would not be afraid of the 50 Taiping army brothers. This way, they would not run away. By the time the Qing Army realized that they were at a disadvantage, it would be too late to run.
After the plan was completed, the troops were immediately divided into two teams. Under the leadership of the local youth, the troops attacking the valley took a detour towards the direction of the valley. Vézé led 150 of his brothers and charged straight at the Qing Army inside the village.
The Qing Army had no idea that destruction was imminent. They were still wreaking havoc in the village. The chickens in the village had already been slaughtered. A few of them were hanging over the fire to roast. There were also a few big bags of mud in the fire. He guessed that some of the "skilled" Qing Army soldiers had made beggar's chicken. The Qing Army was slaughtering pigs, and the pigs screeched as they were pressed down. The Qing Army laughed as they discussed how to make pork after slaughtering the pigs.
Because they did not expect that the villagers would really be able to call for reinforcements, the Qing Army did not even prepare their guns. A portion of the Qing Army who did not have food to cook went in and out of the houses in the village. Every time they went in and out, they would bring out some tools. If the Qing Army thought it was valuable, they would naturally keep it. If they thought it was useless, they would throw it on the ground and continue searching other houses. If they found something that the Qing Army thought was valuable, the Qing Army couldn't help but let out a cheer of joy.
Just as the Qing Army was casually looting, the sound of a horn suddenly rang out. The Taiping army had avoided the road leading to the village and charged out from the forest beside the village. The Qing Army did not expect to suddenly encounter the Taiping army. They were all dumbfounded.
From the panicked shouts of the Qing Army, Vézé confirmed that the Qing Army who attacked the Li Family Village were the Qing Army under Liu Changqing that Vézé had not completely annihilated. This Qing Army was brave and courageous. As soon as they opened their mouths, Cantonese came out.
No matter how they shouted, it was useless. Wei Changrong led the pikes and chased them from the south to the north of the village like chickens. Just as they reached the north of the village, a group of Taiping army troops charged out from the bamboo forest and fired a volley of guns at the Qing Army from a distance of about 20 steps. The musketeers were also followed by the long gunmen. They rushed forward and madly stabbed the Qing army. A moment later, other than the dozen or so Qing soldiers who were kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, the other thirty or so people were all killed.
First, they tied up the Qing Army and left two soldiers to watch over them. The rest of the troops headed straight for the valley. At that moment, the valley was filled with the sounds of killing. By the time Vézé arrived, he discovered that the villagers had already built a hideout near the valley. The hideout occupied a high slope. When the Qing Army attacked from the back, the villagers threw stones down from the slope. Relying on this primitive method, they blocked the Qing Army's attack. Behind the slope, there was no other escape route. The villagers were guarding it with their lives.
This valley was a Beheading Valley. Fifty Taiping army brothers surrounded the Qing Army from behind and used their muskets to block the Qing Army's escape route. The Qing Army, who had been chasing the villagers, had no way forward or back. They were like turtles trapped in a jar. After Vézé and his brothers met up, several volleys of muskets completely disrupted the Qing Army's formation. The pikes and the pikes fought hand to hand, wiping out the Qing Army in the valley.
After saving the people of the Li Family Village, the Village Head looked at the corpses on the ground. His lips began to tremble. Although there were many fights between the locals, it was a fight between the people. The goal was to seize water, seize land, seize land, and resist rent. Although there were often fights between tens of thousands of people, it was only to injure people, not to kill. In a large-scale fight between tens of thousands of people, the number of people who died was controlled at around a dozen.
When the people owed a blood debt, it was a familial hatred. Basically, it was the type that would not rest until one side was dead. Even if they invited a large number of "regular soldiers" or "mercenaries" from other places, they would still act with propriety. If the outside helpers started a massacre, the enemy would only blame the debt of blood on the main family that invited the helpers. Unless there was a deep hatred, it was better not to kill.
The mentality of the people fighting was completely different from that of Vézé's soldiers. On the battlefield, if you didn't kill the enemy, you could only wait to be killed. Vézé and his brothers came to kill. After more than a month of training in Yongan City, Vézé wanted to build a killing machine. Moreover, the Qing Army was good at bullying the people. If they fired their guns from afar, they might not be overwhelmed. But once they fought in close combat, their true colors would be revealed. The soldiers didn't say anything. After running back and forth for two days, they weren't in a good mood. Facing a group of people from the Qing Army who were weak in close combat, there was naturally no need to be polite. Needless to say, before the battle, Vézé had given the order not to leave anyone alive. At the last step of the battle, the Taiping army didn't care whether the Qing Army on the ground was dead or alive. They used their spears to stab the vital points one by one. The Qing Army, who originally wanted to pretend to be dead and escape, also died for real.
"This …, this Lord!" The Village Chief's form of address also changed. His tone contained respect, fear, and some anger. "This Lord, you've killed the Qing Army. What do you expect us to do?"
After Hu Chenghe heard this, he laughed coldly. "It was you who sent people to find us for help. We ran dozens of li back to save you. Could it be that we were wrong to save you?"
The village chief didn't know what to say after hearing the obvious attitude of the village chief. Before the Qing Army killed their way into the village, the villagers had already discovered the Qing Army. Naturally, everyone first fled to a place of refuge that had been prepared beforehand. The Village Chief only sent people to ask for help from Vézé and the others with the mentality of trying it out. After all, Vézé's mouth was shouting that he wanted to rebel and attack Wuzhou. In the Village Chief's imagination, Vézé and the others should have some ability. If 300 people ran back, even if they couldn't beat the Qing Army, they would be able to scare the Qing Army. The two sides were in a deadlock for a while. The Qing Army saw that they couldn't get anything out of it and would probably just take the loot and leave.
Furthermore, the Village Chief even thought that since the village had already been robbed by the Qing Army, even if Vézé and the others returned, the Village Chief could use the robbery as an excuse to pay less or even not pay a thank you gift. After all, Vézé's troops had left too deep of an impression on the Village Chief yesterday. After eating and using the straw for the door planks, the straw was tied up and the door planks were put back in place. The troops did not offend the villagers in the slightest. This group of well-mannered youths inevitably gave people the impression that they were weak. The Village Chief had never imagined that this group of "weak youths" he had taken seriously would become ruthless murderers on the battlefield.
Now it was the Village Chief's turn to be troubled. Now that over 200 soldiers had died, the Li Family Village could not escape responsibility no matter what. Based on Vézé and the others' ability to slaughter the soldiers as if they were chopping vegetables, the Village Chief would not dare to make trouble for Vézé and the others. Then the Li Family Village would very likely have to face severe retribution from the government.
Thinking of this, the Village Chief felt his head swell.
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