Two little children were hidden in the depths of the haystack, and when the straw covering them was lifted and they were exposed to several adults, the little ones shrank into a ball of fright, and they did not dare to come out. Seeing that the two little ones were only two or three years old, Diao Degui smiled: "These two little ones can be sold for money." ”

Diao Hansan dragged the two small things up, and regardless of their shouting, he carried the little doll to several shelters set up by the Hunan army. To be precise, these are two containment sites, one for receiving stolen goods. Young women are always an important commodity for the Hunan army. A woman can be a wife for Xiangjun, and she can also buy and sell. Now they've added little ones. In Shandong, Henan and Hebei, not only boys can sell for a price, but girls are also very valuable. Girls can work from an early age, and when they grow up, they can get a bride price when they get married. So sometimes boys don't sell very well, and little girls have always been very popular. Seeing the two little dolls carried by Diao Hansan, many Hunan soldiers had a look of jealousy in their eyes.

In addition to children and young women, there are also some who surrender. The Hunan army took these "rebels" to the outside of the village and forced them to kneel on the ground, while the Hunan army, who had been prepared for a long time, shot the "rebels" in the back of the head with their handcuffs. The cries and cries of the rioters before they died came to an abrupt end with the sound of gunfire. Some of the men who had been taken from other places had already dug large pits, and they were responsible for transporting the bodies to the edge of the pit and throwing them in. When the Hunan army killed all the "rebellious people", these people buried all the corpses.

The entire village completely fell into the hands of the Hunan army, not only the houses, but also large tracts of land and farm tools. It's not just this one village, in the area controlled by the Twist Army, the Hunan army slaughtered one village after another.

Zeng Guofan had already begun to recruit people from Huaibei, Henan and other places. Although the court will make the people feel that something is wrong. However, the whole of China is a situation of more people and less land. The imperial court said, "When you are a tenant for three years, you will be able to get a share of the land." No matter how outrageous this statement sounds, it also has the magic that makes people can't help but want to try.

Huaibei is next to Henan, and the people who plucked up the courage to believe in the government arrived at the local area, and their tenants not only had fields, but also houses and farm tools. The news soon spread back to his hometown. As a result, a large number of people flocked from other regions to the Hunan army's controlled territory.

Of course, the Twist Army was not a group of people who would let Zeng Guofan lead the army to slaughter, and in the face of the ruthless killing of the Hunan Army, the Twist Army immediately launched a counterattack against the Hunan Army.

On January 16, 1865, Zeng Guofan gave his younger brother Zeng Guohua a pillar of incense. This time last year, Weeser ordered the execution of some of the convicted members of the Guangzhou Liberation Shoe Smuggling Syndicate. Killing these people is a bit singular, and it doesn't fully show the importance that Weeser attaches to corruption. Therefore, Wei Ze instructed Zeng Guohua, Ye Mingchen, and many high-ranking Manchu officials who resolutely refused to surrender after being captured were executed. In this way, Wei Ze's attitude towards corruption is expressed, "corruption is already a contradiction between the enemy and us."

The execution of Zeng Guohua and these people has always been public. There is a special note on it in the Guangzhou Daily. Four months later, Tsang finally confirmed the death of his younger brother, Tsang Kwok-hua. Zeng Guofan didn't know the news of his brother's killing when he was in the first seven years of his brother, so he naturally wanted to pay tribute on the anniversary.

At this time, Zeng Guofan was also stationed in Suzhou, and after the incense, he went to see Jiang Zhongyuan. After the two met, Jiang Zhongyuan asked Zeng Guofan, "Brother Disheng, are you going to go to Wuyang County?" ”

Wuyang County is the territory where the Twist Army started, and it is also the area that the Hunan Army focused on besieging at this time. When Zeng Guofan still had two lakes as his backing, Jiang Zhongyuan was never able to break through the Huai River defense line, and the Twist Army Group with Voryang as the core caused him too much trouble.

"After I went to Wuyang, I was afraid that I would go to the northwest to fight." Zeng Guofan made a great prediction.

Jiang Zhongyuan looked puzzled, and now Monk Lingqin was leading the cavalry to fight the Taiping army in the northwest. The Huai Army, the Hunan Army, and the Chu Army, the three armies must be responsible for guarding against Wei Ze's northward advance. Could it be that Zeng Guofan got some news, and the imperial court might drop Zeng Guofan to go to the northwest?

"Minqiao, going to the northwest is just a guess." Zeng Guofan Zhengse said, "If we could use the means of sweeping away the rebellious people, now I am afraid that the rebellion of the Cantonese bandits would have subsided long ago." Wei Gou could not have seized Jiangnan in any case, and it became the trend of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. ”

Although there was no reproach in Zeng Guofan's tone, Jiang Zhongyuan felt a little fever on his face. He had always been resistant to many of Tsang's policies, and now judging from the results, Tsang's disposition at that time was the only way to resolve the war. If you can't kill not only the rebels, at least you can kill the rebels. Without the chaotic people, there will naturally be no basis for the survival of the rebels.

This time in Wuyang proved the power of Zeng Guofan, and the crazy slaughter was carried out at the same time as the construction of a stockade strictly controlled by the Hunan army. Zeng Guofan's policy of "Ming host and guest" and "hardening the village and fighting a dumb battle" played a very good role in dealing with the Twist Army. The purpose of Zeng Guofan's trip to Wuyang this time was to sit here and completely sweep away the surrounding twist army. Only after the situation in Huaibei is settled, then can we talk about dealing with Wei Ze.

"Brother Disheng, won't Wei Ze take advantage of the situation to go north?" Jiang Zhongyuan is still quite concerned about this matter. No matter how hard the Hunan army and the Huai army tried, Wei Ze could mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops to the north with a single order. At that time, no one could stop it. All the efforts were in vain.

"Wei Gou is very patient, if he doesn't manage the territory he has already occupied, I'm afraid he won't rush to seize new territory. At this time, we can only sort out the place first, if we don't wait for Wei Dog to go north, we will collapse first, it will be a big joke. Zeng Guofan said in a flat tone. He didn't mention anything about turning defeat into victory, let alone eliminating Wei Ze, but simply said that he couldn't be eliminated by other forces.

After Wei Ze seized all the land south of the Huai River in a short period of time, Jiang Zhongyuan's biggest worry in the past two years was that Wei Ze would move his army north to take Beijing and eliminate the Manchus.

Let Jiang Zhongyuan take the initiative to surrender to Wei Ze, Jiang Zhongyuan categorically refused. But the situation of this ruined country is in front of him, and Jiang Zhongyuan feels that everything is burning when he thinks about it. Moreover, when the Taiping Army revolted, Jiang Zhongyuan could still refer to the Taiping Army who believed in God as a chaotic people. When Wei Ze used the Analects to accuse Jiang Zhongyuan and other Han officials under the command of the Manchus of being "thief bones, dog bones, and cheap bones", Jiang Zhongyuan was really speechless. Even if the heart is weak in this kind of scolding battle, it is just a problem that can be solved by sleeping. But Wei Ze really waved his army north, and Jiang Zhongyuan really couldn't think of any other way to save the Qing Dynasty except for dying in battle.

With Zeng Guofan's cleverness, Jiang Zhongyuan believed that Zeng Guofan would definitely see the same outcome. But in terms of coping, Jiang Zhongyuan is timid in doing things, while Zeng Guofan can still follow his own steps. This bearing made Jiang Zhongyuan extremely admired.

Zeng Guofan probably saw Jiang Zhongyuan's thoughts, and he said indifferently: "Minqiao, you must think that we can't win against Wei Gou." But when Wei Dog was only tens of thousands of horses, I waited for the army at that time to really gather to fight Wei Dog, could I really win against him? ”

Jiang Zhongyuan doesn't like to brag, he thought about it carefully, compared the training, and after the equipment, he shook his head, "Really put it on the ground, and never flinch to the death." I'm afraid that we will die before Weese. ”

Zeng Guofan nodded in agreement, "That's it." What sets Wei Dog apart is that in addition to being able to fight, he is also good at running places. We are not as good as him in war, and we are not as good as him in business, so naturally we seem to be defeated everywhere. In the past, we had two lakes, Fujian and Zhejiang, and Weigou and Liangguang. We are not as good as him in war, and we are not as good as him in business, so naturally Wei Gou occupies a huge territory. Now we are only in Huaibei, if the top priority is to quickly rectify the local government affairs, we can collect taxes and levy troops. If we can pacify the chaotic parties in other places as soon as possible, with the current territory in the imperial court, we may not really lose to Wei Gou. ”

Under the difficult situation to this point, Zeng Guofan can still have such a firm attitude and position, Jiang Zhongyuan is really convinced. He said seriously: "Just listen to Brother Disheng's teachings." ”

Wen Yuewei, the female leader of the Twist Army, had participated in the Second Northern Expedition led by Wei Ze ten years ago, when she was about twenty years old. More than ten years ago, Wei Ze did not hesitate to turn around and go south after receiving back the Taiping army near Tianjin. Wen Yuewei "borrowed" the map from the Guangfu Army, and then wreaked havoc in Hebei and other places.

That time, Wen Yuewei and they made a lot of benefits, and it can be said that they returned to Voryang with great satisfaction. More than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and Wen Yuewei is also in her early thirties. She is married and has children. But I didn't expect to have to shoot again now.

"Grandma Wen! The officers and soldiers were ruthless this time. Kill people when you see them, and several other leaders have gone to Henan and Northwest, and you have to take action here. "The person who cried in front of Wen Yuewei was Wen Yuewei's nephew in terms of seniority, but he was about the same age as Wen Yuewei.

More than three years ago, the Taiping army was defeated by the Huai army, and the Twist army, which maintained a cooperative relationship with the Taiping army, was frightened. Fortunately, the Qing army later retreated to Huaibei. After this toss, the Taiping army went north and asked if the Twist army was willing to go together. A considerable number of people in the Twist Army chose to join the ranks of the Taiping Army, and marching into the northwest could always create a new situation. In areas like Huainan and Huaibei, where there are many enemies, everyone can at most protect themselves.

Because she became a biological child, Wen Yuewei had no intention of going on an expedition. She didn't expect the Twist Army to march northwest, and the official army would take advantage of the weakness to enter. In the past, when the strength of the Twist Army was strong, the official army only begged the Twist Army not to make trouble and not to fight with the official army. Therefore, Wen Yuewei underestimated the official army, thinking that when the army did not take the initiative to make trouble, she could always live a peaceful life for a few years.

It turns out that Wen Yuewei was wrong, so at this time, as one of the famous leaders who stayed here, Wen Yuewei could only fight for herself and her family, and in the news, the Hunan army was not ordinary brutal.

"Call everyone together!" Wen Yuewei said. R1058