As they trekked through the frozen ice surface through the Huai River in the wind and snow, a group of people from Xincai on the other side climbed the embankment and fired their own flags from the tunnel. They were then brought into the Dingcheng City, Guangzhou Prefecture by people who suddenly appeared in the snow. Then, several messengers carried news from Henan on the north bank and rushed south through the wind and snow.

Outside Zhongling City, Haozhou Capital, in the snow-covered camp, Qian Jumei, the short and sturdy deputy general of the striking army, was also holding a large bowl and enjoying the condolences sent from the rear with the soldiers. It was canned vegetables stewed in a large pot, pork, mutton and blood sausage, fish pieces, and shrimp paste, thick so much soup, and it was enough to make the spoon stand up.

In another large iron pot, the steaming oil was made by constantly picking out golden crispy fried cakes and fruit strips and rice cubes in the steaming boiling oil. On the side, there were fire-headed soldiers constantly pinched and flattened the bread and fruits filled with beans and bacon filling; the overnight rice ball with oil residue was thrown in quickly.

For a moment, the air above the camp was filled with the fragrant aroma of fried food, and even blew upwards to the top of Zhongling City along the cold wind, causing a sound of saliva after a while. When I got up in the morning when I was frozen and killed, I wore a thick velvet jacket and ate a few pieces of fried food, and drank a bowl of full soup with soup. It was simply impossible to be more beautiful.

Although the cold weather hinders the practice and operation progress in the wild, it also brings a disguised benefit. It is that the crisscrossing and the rivers in Huainan are also frozen hard enough, so that the Pacific Boat Masters in Huainan can use various transformed sliders, ice sleds and other temporary transportation tools along the ice surface of the original river channel to continuously transport various supplies such as firewood, winter clothes, tent blankets and antifreeze plasters from the direction of Guangling.

On the other hand, it was due to the good news from Qian Jumei. Compared with the artillery teams and combat engineering groups that were still wasting their time on the road after Guangling City, the first one was the Xuanming letter from the Jiangling Grand Governor's Office. The two groups of the Prosecution Army in Huainan were ordered to send about 55,000 troops to the two groups of the Prosecution Army. After the war ended, each of them would go to the camp, supplement the battalions, and reorganize several battalions to form the twelfth order under the Taiping Grand Governor.

Qian Jumei also transferred from the position of the Left-Chang Lang General of the Fifth Army (Sailing Army) who was originally registered, and promoted to the First Class to the Right-Chang Lang General of the 12th Army. This is the first time that he has the qualification to stand alone on his behalf. Therefore, he still couldn't wait to see the arrival of the artillery team and the combat engineering regiment, so as to achieve a relatively perfect ending in the battle in Huainan.

However, this kind of thing was so anxious that it was so anxious that Zhong Ling was built into a turtle shell when blocking the four gates. Qian Jumei could only encourage and encourage these soldiers from different places and from various places, especially those from Liangling and Hunan, who had basically never seen Xue in her life.

In order to prevent them from losing non-combat personnel due to frostbite and freezing caused by the environment and soil, Qian Gumei has tried his best to urge them to apply ointment and medicine during the day, but he has to get up to patrol the camp and check the camps in the middle of the night, for fear that these southern soldiers who are not accustomed to the cold will collapse the camps or smoke the carbon gas and increase the loss due to negligence and mistakes that they did not notice.

On the other hand, there is a new problem that equipment becomes increasingly difficult to use under low temperatures in winter. Fortunately, ordinary swords and guns are just as long as they have leather hoods to cushion, they are not afraid of tearing the skin with their hands; however, some equipment with complex mechanisms such as muskets need to be maintained and lubricated at all times to prevent the spring from being frozen and not working; as for traditional crossbows, it is basically useless. The turbulent oil bombs and explosive bombs of the fire-dropping team also have some problems such as unhooked and unhooked.

Despite this, he was still so confident in front of everyone, all of which were full of wisdom and calculation. The corresponding planning and deduction of the siege, as well as the preparatory exercises, have not stopped day by day. Qian Jumei even sneaked into the city to explore the terrain and soil conditions, and confirm whether she could dig the city into a cave.

After all, with the strength of the Taiping Army today, it is hard to say that the loss was given to the more than 27,000 battle fronts under his command, and the daily consumption of the garrison and auxiliary soldiers was sufficient. Even though he had been frozen to death, exhausted to death, and injured hundreds of animals, except for the soup pot immediately, various teams dragging and carrying materials from the rear were still gathering like flowing water.

He was chewing his mouth with great care, thinking about the shortcomings and shortcomings of his arrangements these days, and saw Gu Quanwu, a captain with snowflakes, also came over and bowed:

"Deputy General, I caught a few escapees in the secret sentry in the north of the city last night."

"Isn't all four sects blocked, why are there still people running away?"

Qian Gumei couldn't help but be slightly surprised:

"It has been reviewed. It was a rope that was taken from the wall before dawn. There was also a deputy guard at the gate."

Gu Quanwu took a bowl of hot ginger tea boiled on the fire, and drank it all in one go before continuing:

"The deputy lieutenant of the gatekeeper? So, is the hearts of the people in the city starting to get messy? I'll go and ask in person!"

Qian Jumei noticed the key points in her words.

"Everything of the villain is true, and there is no more deceiving..."

After a while, the Huaixi Army's deputy lieutenant who was lying on the ground like a ball of mud, said with tears and snotty:

"There is no shortage of grain and equipment in the city. But the day before yesterday, Liu Dutong suddenly killed several leaders and his confidants, and then added his troops to kill a lot of people! The rest of everyone was panicked, not sure who would be the turn next time. The villain was so timid that he escaped first...

"You are not timid, but rather bold!"

Qian Jumei smiled undeniably and said: Turning back, he said to the many generals who were hastily summoned:

"Let everyone get moving, and act as a full-time attack according to the usual practice."

"Everything of all the equipment can be used or not will be brought out for me. Even the civil and military servants took up flags and guns and rods to form the camp outside the camp."

"After surrounding the city these days, maybe we will see the results today. Please work harder. If we can defeat the Huaixi army, it will be easier to celebrate the New Year."

With the break of wind and snow, the crowds of people inside the camp outside the city were running in full swing; it was clearly presented in front of the defenders on the city; it was like the last straw that overwhelmed the camel, the defenders on the city no longer tried their best to beat the gold drums, but ran around like fire ants in a somewhat changing drum sound.

Therefore, when the first deputy ladder lifted with all his strength, he boarded the Zhongling City Disc full of slippery ice-skating surface without any obstacles; the city gates frozen by water in the north of the city were also collapsed and broken into pieces with fierce impact; then they opened from the inside out and came amid the cavalry with many horse-hoof cloth bags gushing out.

These cavalrymen seemed to have been prepared, and rushed through the frozen moats regardless of everything, jumped over the frozen hard trenches and horse-repelling horses; although some of them fell into the trenches, or could not dodge and hit the horse-repelling horses and sharp obstacles, they were trampled by others without any pause or hesitation, and ran north without looking back.

Unexpectedly, the few posts and cruising teams in the north of the city could not stop them from breaking through with all their might. It was not until the Taiping Army rushed over from both sides that barely blocked the tail of the constantly gushing out of the horse team; and then fought face to face with the large groups of squads that came out immediately.

In just a few moments, the new forces that were gathered outside the city gate were rushing to kill the Huaixi teams that followed the breakout retreated step by step within a distance of the city gate. In the end, within a distance from the city gate, they became a desperate defeat to escape back;

Therefore, after a while, I saw dozens of long ladders easily boarding the city, and with the rushing up the warriors, the Taiping Green Flag, and then opened Qian Gumei from the south gate from the inside out; I suddenly saw the signal fireworks rising from afar in the sky, representing the invasion of the north gate.

At this time, the wind and snow became cold again, but it could no longer stop the Taiping Army from roaring and shouting in Zhongling City.

In the Huaixi breakout horse team that disappeared in the wind and snow, there was once a Huaixi governor, who was mostly in the Qizhou Prefectures in Huaixi, and Liu Hanhong, who was recruiting the commander of Huainan Camp. He also looked at the hidden direction of the city behind and breathed a sigh of relief. The peaceful thieves turned around to seize Zhongling City, but did not catch up to try to intercept his horse team.

However, the price was really heavy. In the past, he relied on the scattered rivers and scattered across Jinghu. The cavalry team composed of Shen Guang's children between the Jianghuai River was also losing again and again in the repeated battles with the Taiping Army, and only the more than 1,600 cavalry were left. In addition, the Shen Guang land that he relied on was damaged by the plague. Therefore, he could only escape the frozen Huai River to the north and look for a chance to recover in the Henan area.

But as long as he can survive this failure and setback, relying on his means of dealing with all parties and his ability to use his abilities to deal with others, whether he is temporarily dependent on others or taking the opportunity to occupy one more party, he still has the opportunity to make a comeback. As he thought so, he suddenly saw the white reflection in front of him, and the left and right riders slowed down from one horse, but he had already arrived on the edge of the ice surface of the Huai River.

Immediately, they took off the cloth wrapped around the horse's hooves that had been worn into pieces, and put a rattan jacket on the four hooves of the mount, and there were several iron sheets with tips on them. This was also one of the methods they had been able to rampantly scattered between the Yangtze and Huaihe River as "stubborn" horse bandits and bandits in the court's eyes.

After slowly stepping on the creaking lines under his feet across the ice, Liu Hanhong let go of the last little worry and concern in his heart. Even if someone chased him, who could escape after he arrived on the ice, who were accustomed to roaming in the winter?
Chapter completed!