After the Taiping Army completely wiped out Wu Zhenchaoha's occupation of Puning County, the Navy Zheng Chengkui's troops and the Foshan Wang Zhaoxing's troops jointly surrounded Huilai County. After sacrificing the head of Xushun Duke Shen Yongxing and spreading dozens of cannons in one stroke, he threatened to massacre the city if the door was not opened, Cheng Mingyun, the magistrate of Huilai of Qing, was so scared that he opened the city and surrendered immediately. The Taiping Army seized another city without any effort.

After Zheng Chengkui entered the city, he immediately ordered Cheng Mingyuan to move the people in the city to the Jinghai on the beach, and selected more than 800 young and strong men to serve the army. At this point, except for the Jieshi Guards, the two cities of Puning and Huilai were completely controlled by the Taiping Army.

In order to unify command and strengthen strength, Zhou Shi ordered the various departments of Puning City, together with the surrender of the Green Camp, to merge into the fifth town of the Taiping Army, with Zhao Ziqiang as the head of the town general, and the voyage school was composed of Huang Si, Huang Mingyi, Xin'an, and Li Guoan, Conghua, to serve as the head of the voyage school.

The fifth towns captured many villages when they were harvesting grain in Chaozhou. Although the loss of Xitanghe Battle was quite large, it was more troops than when they set out from Guangzhou. In addition, the surrendered battalions and young and strong cities in Puning City, the fifth town actually had a force of 6,000, of which about 2,000 soldiers could fight. There were military rations transported by the Qing army from Chaozhou in the inner town of Puning City, which was enough for the fifth town to hold on for several months. In addition, when the Taiping Army retreated from Chaozhou City, it secretly hoarded grains from various places along the coast at several locations, and the number was enough to support the Taiping Army's war on the northern line.

The fifth town was newly established, and there were only about 2,000 soldiers who could fight. Zhou Shixiang pulled out another thousand people when he entered Jieshiwei south. Therefore, their mission was to defend Puning County and prevent any Qing army north of Puning from supporting the Jidu army in Huizhou. Zhou Shixiang also gave Zhao Ziqiang a secret order. If Puning was in trouble, the whole city must be set on fire before abandoning the city, and both houses and food must be burned. The same order was also sent to Wang Zhaoxing from Hui.

Zhou Shixiang asked Zheng Chengkui to send a ship to the third town of Taiping Army, forty miles southwest of Haifeng, Huizhou, to transport the C Brigade of the third town of Taiping Army, forty miles southwest of Haifeng, Huizhou, from Jiesheng Shou to Jinghai Shou to strengthen the troops on the northern line. He also ordered the A and Second Brigades of the third town of Huizhou to enter Haifeng and receive the second town of Lufeng at any time. He also ordered Qi Hao's troops in Haifeng City to send a battalion of gunmen to go to Jingsuhai with the third town of B Brigade of the third town. Zhou Shixiang and Zheng Chengkui negotiated and handed over the cannons to him after the war was over, but now they want to leave these cannons to enrich their defensive power. With hundreds of cannons in Wuzhen Chaoha, naturally there is no need for the artillery battalion to adjust artillery. As long as the gunner comes, it is enough.

Thousands of bricklayers who were trained in Guangzhou and were transported from Guangzhou to Jiesheng Station in Huizhou by Zheng Chengkui by boat by Zheng Chengkui. After the Taiping Army landed in Jinghai Station, they boarded the return naval warships, and rushed to Jinghai Station for a day and a night. After the Taiping Army ambushed Wu Zhenchao, they succeeded. These bricklayers who had received militarization training and organization rushed to Yunluo Trail under the leadership of Jiangtou, and thousands of people captured from Chaozhou villages followed them. Each of them carried thirty bricks and stones and twenty kilograms of rations. Once they arrived, they were led by a group of staff from the Military Commander's Office to start repairing bunkers and guardhouses along the official road. If there were not enough bricks and stones, they would be dismantled from the villages and towns that were already uninhabited nearby.

The people driven by Puning and Huilai and more than 10,000 people from the village who were captured in advance used various tools to dig trenches on the official road. Behind each trenches were rows of bunkers, and behind the bunkers were there a guardhouse as the command center of this line of defense.

Zhou Shixiang's purpose was to build a defensive fortification group of more than ten miles along the official road in the area from Yunluojing to Beishan Village. The reason why he chose this place instead of further south was because the area from Jieshiwei to Lufeng in the south was a plain, and Jidu had thousands of Mongolian cavalry under his command. He could not see the Taiping Army building a fortification group that could lock him down. The section from Yunluojing to Beishan Village was a mountainous and forest area. The construction of fortifications based on the official road could make the land as much as possible and reduce the amount of project. Even so, the time was limited. Zhou Shixiang gave the masons only three days, and these three days were also snatched from the Qing army with the main force of the First Town and the Iron Manwei.

Such a huge fortification construction was the first time that the Taiping Army had formed an army. It was large in scale. The construction period was short, and the manpower, resources, and management were extremely complex. It was a test of the Taiping Army's mobilization and organizational capabilities. Zhao Sihai, as a military officer, was ordered to preside over the construction of fortifications. All the people who could be sent from the Military Commander's Office were transferred here, and dozens of Folang Ji people were on the front line. Shang Keyuan, Geng Zhongde and others brought the instructors from the Military Preparation Training Institute and were also assigned tasks, urging the bricklayers and civilians to repair fortifications every day. Zhou Shiqi issued a strict order. Once the three-day deadline arrived, all those who had not completed were sentenced to beheaded, regardless of military and civilian officials. Under this strict order, there were high-intensity fortification constructions, which can be foreseen that many Chaozhou people would die in destruction.

If the fortification group on the northern line is completed, the Qing army's food supply road will be completely cut off. The second town will hide in Lufeng City as a turtle, and the first town will also be a turtle in the fortification group. The Qing army, without artillery, wants to open this fortification group that lasts more than ten miles by manpower. The difficulty can be imagined. If everything goes well, in the end, the army led by Jidu will be compressed by the Taiping Army within a region of dozens of miles between Jieshiwei and Lufeng City.

Lufeng and Jieshiwei were both built along the coast. Local people were either moved to Lufeng City or moved to Haifeng and Huizhou in the south. The food here was even plundered by the Taiping Army. Within a radius of dozens of miles, the Qing army might be able to find some food, but an army of nearly 20,000 people would undoubtedly be a fool to obtain food in this area. If Jidu was interested in being a fisherman, Zhou Shixiang would not stop him, but the premise was that he could find a boat that could go out to sea by the sea. Obviously, he could not do it.

Zhou Shixiang unintentionally led the Taiping Army to fight a head-on decisive battle with the Jidu Army, which was well-behaved in plains and places. Because he had no confidence in victory, he could only use the geographical advantage to trap the Jidu Army and starve them to death between the dozens of miles from Jieshiwei to Lufeng City. The only worry was whether he could block the Qing army in Jieshiwei so that the fortifications of Yunluoji could be completed on schedule.

On the 20th day, Jidu received a quick report from the Qing army left by Jieshi Guard. Only then did he realize that the main force of the Taiping Army had actually gone back and ambushed the Wu Zhenchao Ha artillery Battalion led by Shen Yongxing, Duke Xu Shun.

Ji Du was shocked and could not imagine it. Just like Duke Shun Shen Yongxing, he didn't believe that the Taiping Army could have wings and run from Huizhou to Chaozhou. Everyone in the Qing army had a question, that is, how did the Taiping Army run to Chaozhou.

After a moment of dazing, Wu Liuqi pointed out a possibility that the Taiping Army was not originally hidden in Chaozhou, nor did they sneak past them under their noses, but took a boat from Huizhou. They did not want to fight the army at the beginning, but were ambushing the Qing army's rear team. This could also explain why the Taiping Army hurriedly rescued the troops as soon as the Jidu army arrived at the Nanzhao Station. This trick was clearly to lure the enemy into deep, and then use the navy to successfully transport troops to the northern line, with the purpose of breaking the Qing army's food route. As for Shen Yongxing's Wuzhenchao Ha artillery Battalion, it is probably a coincidence that it was annihilated.

"Thief Scholar"

Jidu banged three words in his mouth. At this moment, he understood how thief scholar was.

The entire army of Wu Zhen Chaoha was wiped out by Shen Yongxing, which means that the Qing army lacked a powerful weapon to attack, and if they wanted to take Lufeng City, they could only use their lives to fill it up like last time. No one below Zijidu was so stupid that they did this stupid thing. The first thing they thought of was to return to defeat the Taiping Army on the northern line and ensure the smooth flow of food.

Wu Liuqi suggested: "The Taiping gang cut off my food route on the northern line, which will endanger the safety of our army. The last general asked the prince to immediately order the return troops to slaughter the enemy. Otherwise, the food route would fall into the enemy's hands, and the army would not be at ease."

The headmaster Nahai disagreed. He said, "The last general thinks that the general should attack Lufeng City immediately. The Taiping Army in the city has food storage. If we take it down, our army will not have to worry about shortage of food for at least one month. Within one month, Dasu from Fujian can always send troops to support. At that time, Dasu will come from the north and we will attack from the south and the Taiping bandits on the north side. Even if Dasu cannot send troops, we can directly attack the Taiping bandits if they break Lufeng City."

Wu Liuqi did not dare to say that Na Hai was absurd, but hesitated: "The Taiping gang in the northern front may not let us attack Lu Feng with all our strength."

"Our army is all elite. Are you still afraid of those Taiping bandits? Shen Yongxing's defeat was just a cunning Taiping bandit. He caught him off guard. If you really want to fight head-on, our army has thousands of cavalry. How capable is the Taiping bandits to resist our army?" Na Hai has the inherent pride of Manzhou people. In his eyes, the Taiping bandits formed by the Southern Barbarians are not a strong enemy. Haha Mu Monk, they all suffered a great loss of underestimating the enemy. Shen Yongxing's killing was caused by the sudden appearance of Taiping bandits in the rear. Really, the Taiping bandits were fighting against each other, and the Taiping bandits had no reason to win.

Nahai insisted on fighting Lufeng first, but Wu Liuqi dared not say much, but the Mongolian Zhenghong Banner Gushan Ezhen Surile dared to say it. He said, "Lufeng City is difficult to get off the Lufeng City. In my opinion, it is better to deal with Taiping Guts on the Northern Front and come back to deal with Lufeng City. Don't forget that Taiping Guts can completely wipe out our Wuzhen Chao. The main force must be on the Northern Front. This Lufeng City is a cover, but there are not many people. Even if they have ten courage, they dare not go out to attack us. If you are worried, I just leave a few Niulu cavalry to come down to see them."

Ji Du was a little difficult to choose. Seeing that Du Eryou lowered his head and was thinking, he asked him, "How should Sanbeile think our army should deal with it?"

Du Eryou slowly raised his head: "I think we should first deal with the Taiping gangs on the northern front and open up the food route, otherwise the army will not last long in Lufeng. If we attack Lufeng City forcibly, the casualties will be too great, and it will be a bit unworthy of the loss."

Ji Du thought slightly, nodded in agreement with Du Eryou's opinion, swept the generals in the tent, and said, "You can go back to the camp and prepare. Half an hour later, the left army will be the vanguard and the right army will assist the formation, and leave 4 Niulu Mongolian soldiers to monitor the Taiping bandits in the city. Nahai!"

"The last general is here!" The commander of the Left Army, Na Hai, quickly stepped out and responded.

"In this battle, Xu Sheng is not allowed to be defeated. If he is defeated..." At this point, Ji Du stopped and said coldly: "You don't have to come to see me!"
Chapter completed!