Nanyang, Ta Tianbao and Hao Yaoqi have been surrounded by Neixiang County for four days, but they have not been waiting for the Qing reinforcements from Nanyang Prefecture, and the upper and lower levels are a little anxious and discouraged.

Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao had only more than 3,000 old soldiers, but they drove more than 40,000 young and strong men from Hubei. Since entering Henan last year, the second generals have been active in southern Henan, conquering one prefecture and six counties, and killing more than 1,000 Qing troops. However, the second generals were unable to gain a foothold in southern Henan. In March, Ta Tianbao was defeated by Miao Chenglong's troops in Zhenping, losing four or five thousand people, so he had to join the army with Hao Yaoqi.

In the Battle of Zhenping, Miao Chenglong, the general of Nanyang of the Qing Dynasty, followed the order of Governor Jia Hanfu, and worked step by step. He would set up camps and dig ditches every ten miles, which made Ta Tianbao unable to leverage the advantages of the cavalry, and the attacks did not work several times. The food carried by the entire army was unsustainable and had to order a retreat. As a result, on the way to withdraw, he was attacked by the elite troops of Miao Chenglong's troops, and they were in chaos and collapsed fifty miles. After the war, Ta Tianbao gathered the remaining troops and only had more than 5,000.

After Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao joined forces, because Henan Governor Jia Hanfu commanded several Qing troops to approach Nanyang and there was no food in Nanyang City, Hao Yaoqi gave up Nanyang and led his troops to Xinye, Neixiang and Wuyang. At the same time, he urgently reported to the little tiger Li Laiheng, asking the little tiger to receive military rations.

Li Laiheng was active in the area of ​​Runing Prefecture east of Nanyang. In April, Dang Shousu led his army to attack the Huainan area, trying to raise food and grass from the local area, but was attacked by Qing generals Kuenbu and Jin Li who were guarding Huainan and Lujiang. He suffered more than a thousand soldiers and retreated back to Runing in a panic.

After receiving Hao Yaoqi's request for grain, Li Laiheng was unable to help him because his troops did not have much food and grass. On the one hand, he asked Liu Tichun to allocate some military rations for Hao Yaoqi to rescue him, and on the other hand, he sent messengers back to Wuchang, asking Yuan Zongdi, who was in charge of Wuchang, to collect grain and grass as soon as possible to transport it to the front line.

Yuan Zongdi did not have any food. The Zhongzhen Camp received Hubei from the Taiping Army for less than a year, but it carried more than 100,000 young and strong Hubei. When the Qing army was in Hubei, it even collected grain, which made the whole province of Hubei dilapidated and the landlords rebelled one after another. It can be said that Yuan Zongdi, the governor of Hubei, had not changed from a bandit to the role of governing a province. Bai Wang had been governing Jianghan for three years, making Jianghan an important base for the Dashun Army, and showed outstanding talents in resisting Zuo Liangyu and suppressing the rebellion of landlords. Compared with Bai Wang, Yuan Zongdi was really much worse, even though his status in the camp was much higher than Bai Wang.

Li Laiheng asked Yuan Zongdi to raise food, but Yuan Zongdi had no food, so he asked the Taiping Army in Hunan for help. Zhao Sihai, the governor of the Taiping Army, did not generously give food, but asked the envoy to bring back four words: "surround the site and attack the aid."

As the name suggests, "encirclement point attacks aid" means surrounding the enemy in a town and using it as bait to attract reinforcements from other places. The real purpose is to attack reinforcements and achieve the purpose of annihilation of the enemy's aid. The focus of the aid of the aid of the aid is to attack aid, so the focus of the deployment of troops is to attack aid, and the siege of the city is to assist.

"Encircling the point to attack aid" is obviously very suitable for the fighting habits of Zhongzhen Camp, because the field ability of Zhongzhen Camp is stronger than that of the Qing army in Henan, but it is much weaker when siegeing cities and villages. The Qing army in Henan defends the way of building a village to fight Zhongzhen Camp, which is based on its own strengths and against the other side. Zhongzhen Camp, which lacks siege equipment, is obviously not suitable for the Qing army's tactics, and thus suffers many losses. However, if Zhongzhen Camp adopts the tactic of "Encircling the point to attack aid", the advantage of the Qing army will be gone. Grasping the initiative in the battle into one's own hands, so that it will not passively deal with the Qing army, but actively deal with the Qing army. Of course, the key to the success of "Encircling the point to attack aid" lies in the first two words, that is, this point of the surround must be the place where the Qing army must rescue, otherwise it has nothing to do with the siege. The main force of the Qing army will not come to aid, nor will it mess up the pace of its march because it is too worried about the gains and losses of the encircled places.

Yuan Zongdi failed to get food from Hunan, and never complained that the Taiping Army was not good enough, because Zhongzhen Camp had already obtained too much resources from the Taiping Army. Without the support of the Taiping Army, Zhongzhen Camp would not even be able to take over Wuchang City. In this world, it is difficult to help people for a while, but it cannot help for a lifetime. The situation in Hunan is better than Hubei, but it is not much better. He has raised so many soldiers and is very tight about food. How could he give it to him as soon as he wants it?

Yuan Zongdi, who was not good at governing local governments, had very experience in marching and fighting. He could see the benefits of the word "surrounding the points and attacking aid" at a glance, and immediately informed Li Laiheng, Hao Yaoqi and others of this tactic.

Neixiang was the first place when Hao Yaoqi decided to surround the site to attack and assist, and it was also the first attempt of this tactic in Zhongzhen Camp.

Although Neixiang is a county town, it strangled the important roads of Nanyang, Nanzhao, Tangxian and other places. The Qing army stationed more than 2,000 green camps here. Once Neixiang is lost, Nanyang will be owned by the Taiping Army except for the prefecture city. Therefore, once Zhongzhen Camp besieged Neixiang, Miao Chenglong, the general general of the Qing Nanyang, will definitely come to rescue him. As long as Miao Chenglong is eager to rescue Neixiang, there will inevitably be problems in the march. At that time, seize the opportunity to solve Miao Chenglong's troops in one go. Not only can Nanyang Prefecture go further, Zhongzhen Camp can also advance northward and approach Kaifeng.

Unexpectedly, after four days of surround, the Qing army in Nanyang showed no sign of coming to rescue Neixiang, which made Hao Yaoqi feel depressed. In order to surround Neixiang, he took all his belongings. If Miao Chenglong could not be solved, he might have to retreat to Hubei.

Ta Tianbao's strength has suddenly become weaker since the battle of Zhenping, so this time he besieged Neixiang, and Hao Yaoqi was responsible for the battle. If he really wanted to attack Neixiang, Ta Tianbao thought that he could get the best of his foundation, but the loss was too great and not cost-effective. In the past few days, Ta Tianbao has not been idle, and sent troops to plunder the people's food and grass, barely getting hundreds of stones. However, this little food is not enough, so he came to Hao Yaoqi's camp and asked Hao Yaoqi's plan. If Miao Chenglong really didn't come to save Neixiang, would they really have to attack the city with all their strength?

"Old Ta, can those people in your new la fight?"

After seeing Ta Tianbao, Hao Yaoqi did not rush to talk about the war. Instead, he asked Ta Tianbao if he could take the blame for the young and strong man in the past few days.

"I saw a few battles between big and big, and I saw blood. Those who survived didn't understand the war, but they understood it even if they didn't understand the war." Ta Tianbao said angrily.

Hao Yaoqi smiled and asked Ta Tianbao seriously: "Old Ta, give me some truth, how many people can you do in battle?"

Ta Tianbao pondered slightly and sighed: "There are more than 500 left in my hometown, and those from Hubei can barely pick more than a thousand people."

"It's so big?"

Although Hao Yaoqi knew that Ta Tianbao was calling Miao Chenglong to fight hard in Zhenping, more than 7,000 people were collected, but he did not expect that there were only more than 1,000 elite troops.
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