"Marshal Lei, you are indeed cautious enough!" Wei Changrong said jokingly. As soon as these words came out, the generals laughed, and the entire staff headquarters was filled with a joyful atmosphere.

Lei Hu was not angry, let alone angry. He just said loudly helplessly: "I didn't expect the Qing Demon to be so cunning and shameless in advance. What an eye-opener! ”

"If you weren't so cautious, I'm afraid you wouldn't have done this." Ruan Xihao couldn't help but say. If Lei Hu was not so cautious and saw the Qing army retreating southward, he immediately gave up attacking Wayaopu and pursued the retreating Qing army with all his might, then he would have gained some success anyway.

"You can't say that!" Wei Ze immediately objected, "We can't expect the Qing army to always be this virtue. Even if the Qing army will always be this virtue, we will have more opponents. If you have seen the map of the world, we have only a little bit of China in the world. In the future, we will conquer the four seas, Weiga Kyushu. There are many foreign countries to defeat, and many foreigners are actually quite capable of fighting. ”

The people in the General Staff had just come to believe that the earth was round, and they had never seen trains or ships, so they naturally couldn't think of how they could carry out an expedition to a territory thousands of miles away. No matter how imposing Weeser's words may sound to people in the industrial countries, in the agricultural countries they regard it as an agitation rather than a fact.

However, the loss of the fighter plane of Lei Hu can stimulate everyone's enthusiasm to find out the reason. So Weese's attempt to give Thunder Tiger an end didn't have much effect.

Ke Gongyu also interjected, "We haven't had much contact with Jiangbei Daying, but I don't know if they are all so virtuous!" ”

Lei Hu didn't want his little mistake to be mentioned repeatedly, so he replied angrily: "The Qing Demon Nest in Jiangbei is still in Jiangbei, where can they run even if they run?" Running to the Yangtze River? ”

Seeing that Lei Hu was really a little annoyed, the generals also knew that they couldn't make this joke again. More than a year ago, Lei Hu suffered a loss under Changsha City, and at that time, he saw Lei Hu's red eyes and shouting for revenge, but no general dared to make a joke about Lei Hu at that time. Everyone couldn't help but laugh this time, because the battle process was too inexplicable. When the Qing army fled, it was extremely cleverly designed, making full use of the conditions that could be exploited by a qiē.

As soon as the troops arrived in the vicinity of Yangzhou to fight, Lei Hu took a very conservative response when the situation changed. This kind of situation is intertwined by mistake, and when Lei Hu attacked the tile kiln shop, the local regimental training has been resisting. After Lei Hu solved the regimental training, the Qing army had already run away without a trace.

If that's all there is, people won't think it's ridiculous. After the troops solved the regimental training, occupied the tile kiln shop, and helped the local people extinguish the fire, now whether it is the Taiping army or the regimental training, the original most defensive object is the Qing army. didn't expect to be put on a live display by the Qing army. caused the Taiping army and the regimental training to be dead.

The Taiping army was strong in combat, and the fighting level of the regimental trainers was very poor, and there were no casualties in the battle. Under the ingenious design of the Qing army, the regimental training had no time to greet the Taiping army and negotiate conditions, so he was forced to fight with the Taiping army. After all, it is impossible for Tuan Lian to believe in the Taiping Army that came over, and for the purpose of defending his homeland, Tuan Lian resisted very resiliently. In other words, they didn't want to defeat the Taiping army at all, but put their guns indiscriminately, and the more cautious Lei Hu was a little confused. In the end, the regimental training was purely killed and wounded by Lei Hu's artillery, and hundreds of people were really unable to hold it psychologically, so the whole army fled. Even so, they dragged Thunder Tiger for nearly half an hour. It was at this time that the Qing army completely widened the distance between itself and the Taiping army, thus escaping.

"The next time we fight, we will focus on annihilation. I don't want to fight alone anymore, let's go again, just two armies! Completely surround the long base! Lei Hu said with annoyance.

"Playing this kind of long base is a little breakthrough, and both sides are outflanking. How many of us are there, and we don't have so many troops to completely surround us. Chief of Operational Staff Nguyen Hi Ho said.

Wei Changrong hurriedly spoke for Lei Hu, "The purpose of this battle was originally to seize the land, capture Wayao Town, and then go to Yangzhou City." It's a win! It's a win! ”

This is indeed a victory, even if the process is aggrieved, but the result is very good. Wei Ze said with a smile: "Marshal Lei took over the tile kiln shop, ensured the discipline of the troops in the process of participating in the firefighting, and solved various misunderstandings with the local people. I think we played well, but if we have to say that there is any deficiency here, it is that we do not understand enough about the relationship between the Qing army and the local people, so we have a deviation in judgment. So this time we will go to Yangzhou first, and we don't have to worry so much about the battle after that! ”

With Weeser's words, the discussion of this matter will end here for the time being. After the Qing army withdrew from Wayaopu, the north gate of Yangzhou was opened, and Wei Ze's fleet sailed along the canal to Yangzhou City, and there was no Qing army blocking it along the way.

After Wei Ze's handsome ship docked at the dock outside Yangzhou, as soon as he got off the ship, he saw a group of strange Taiping army generals waiting for Wei Ze on the dock. Seeing Wei Ze, a man in his thirties in the middle of the Yangzhou defender generals stepped forward and saluted Wei Ze, "King Qi, your subordinate Zeng Lichang is here!" ”

"Prime Minister Zeng, please get up!" Wei Zeli hurriedly stepped forward to help Zeng Lichang. Zeng Lichang official to Xia official and deputy prime minister, and he was also a well-known figure in the Taiping Army. He was originally Lin Fengxiang's subordinate, after Lin Fengxiang highlighted the Qing army's encirclement of Yangzhou and the Northern Expedition, Zeng Lichang led the troops to defend Yangzhou for more than a year, and the credit for ensuring Yangzhou was indeed extraordinary. At least Wei Ze admired this man.

"King Qi, I don't know where King Qi is going to be stationed?" Zeng Lichang asked.

"Our army is here this time to break through the Jiangbei camp, and the closer to the Qing Demon, the better." Weese replied.

Zeng Lichang was also not polite, he immediately replied happily: "If this is the case, please also ask the king of Qi to be stationed in the south of the city, and the Qing demon will have a camp outside the city." ”

"Good!" Wei Ze is even more polite, he came to Yangzhou to fight, and it will naturally be much easier to have an unpretentious guy like Zeng Lichang to cooperate.

Zeng Lichang immediately led the way in front and led Wei Ze and the others into the city. Wei Ze is the first time to Yangzhou, for this important city, Wei Ze is most impressed by Yangzhou ten days, followed by Yangzhou thin horse. Again, it's Xin Qiji's "Eternal Happiness? Jingkou Beiguting Nostalgia" wrote, "Forty-three years, I still remember in hope, Fenghuo Yangzhou Road." Further back is Jiang Kui's "Yangzhou is slow? Huaizuo Mingdu" in the extremely sad paragraph "Since Hu Ma peeped into the river, the waste pond arbors, still tired of talking soldiers." ”

In short, when it comes to Yangzhou, most of them are feelings of failure and sadness. The rest is the deeds of the Fengyue woman in Yangzhou.

After Wei Ze personally led his troops south to Yangzhou, he understood why Yangzhou was always so sad. As long as the Huai River is broken, it is a flat river from Huaiyin to Yangzhou. In addition to the 6 flatlands, there are canals and lakes, and there are also a large number of civilian boats that can be recruited. On the march on such a waterway, a seasick guy like Weese can withstand it.

There are plains all along the way, and it is very convenient to raise grain and grass. However, Yangzhou is the last big city to enter the Yangtze River from the canal, and when the southern regime is relatively strong, without exception it adopts the strategy of defending the river and guarding the Huai. Once the southern regime decayed to the point that it could not hold the Huai River, they had to make their last efforts in Yangzhou in order to resist the invasion from the north and hold the last stronghold on the north bank of the Yangtze River. The fate of Yangzhou becoming a battlefield is irreversible.

Wei Ze looked left and right on the side of the road in Yangzhou City, but saw that the houses were very beautiful. The Taiping army defended the city for more than a year, but the people of Yangzhou City did not look too hungry. In addition to proving that Zeng Lichang is quite good at fighting, the environmental foundation of Yangzhou's abundant grain cannot be ignored.

It is a big city, an important place, and a place of great wealth. Wei Ze finally understood that Yangzhou, as the last strategic place in the south of the Yangtze River, was not surprised to leave lamenting poems commemorating the war.

"Fortunately, I am a liberator, not an aggressor." Wei Ze couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Yangzhou City in 1854 is quite charming, although Wei Ze can not hesitate to carry out a comprehensive "transformation" of the city in order to build industry, but this can not help but let Wei Ze admire the style of this famous city in Jiangbei.

In terms of Jiangnan style, Yangzhou still has a more northern flavor than Suzhou and Hangzhou, but the charm precipitated in the city, although it is not completely exposed to the outside like a paste wall, but in every detail of Yangzhou City, this delicate feeling with a little bit of provocative femininity makes Wei Ze like it very much.

But Weeser is here to fight, not to be nostalgic. did not go to the Taiping army to rest in the Prime Minister's Mansion in Yangzhou, Wei Ze directly led his troops to the southern wall of Yangzhou City. In the eyes of the monocular, the camp of the Qing army is faintly visible. The burned houses outside the city are a testament to the many fierce battles that took place here.

The Qing army has no signs of attacking the city now, and I don't know if the series of camps in Jiangbei have received the news brought by the cunning Qing army that retreated from the tile kiln, let alone what kind of response strategy they will take.

After checking the situation outside the city a little, Wei Ze said to Zeng Lichang: "Prime Minister Zeng, your brothers in the south of the city will withdraw first and hand over the south of the city to us."

"Yes!" Zeng Lichang replied immediately. Zeng Lichang also knew a little rumor about Wei Ze, even if there were no rumors of being brave and good at fighting, the fact that Wei Ze was able to fight from Huai'an to Yangzhou was enough to prove Wei Ze's ability. Zeng Lichang was worried that Wei Ze would take over all the command of Yangzhou, and then ordered Zeng Lichang's troops to go out of the city to fight the Qing army. As soon as Wei Ze took over the order to take charge of the defense of the south of the city, Zeng Lichang's heart completely fell into his stomach, and it seemed that Wei Ze was really preparing to attack the Jiangbei camp of the Qing army by himself.

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