"It was the Huai Army that was acting with the Hunan Army?" The latest news reached Chenzhou, and the generals of the entire Chenzhou Twist Army became excited.

They didn't know very well whether it was the Hunan army or the Huai army that carried out the massacre in Wuyang, since Wuyang belonged to Huaibei, the Huai army naturally couldn't get out of it.

Ren Zhu stared at him and asked, "You said that the Huai army came straight to us?" ”

The leader of the Tanma immediately replied: "Exactly, the Huai army is in front, and the Hunan army is behind, coming towards Chenzhou." ”

All the generals of the Western Twist Army looked at each other, and they all saw surprise and hatred in the eyes of the other generals. Fighting back to Wuyang and killing the Hunan army and the Huai army has always been the greatest wish of the Twist Army, and now the Hunan Army is in front of the Huai Army and the rear of this formation has a great chance to make this wish come true in advance.

"Drag the Huai army away, and gnaw as much as you can." Zhang Zongyu is no longer building yì, but has begun to put forward his own ideas. The old Zhang family is the big leader of the Twist Army, and the most clansmen died at the hands of the official army. In order to be able to take revenge on the WWW.UUXS.CC, he did not lose his mind at all.

The generals, including Lai Wenguang, felt that this was the best way, but where to bring it was a problem. Zhuang Zhu said: "Go to Shandong." Shandong is a dangerous place, but it is a dangerous place, and the Huai army dares to go. If you take them to Luoyang, I'm afraid that the Huai army will not chase them so quickly. ”

This Jian yì was not immediately passed, and compared to the usual tactics of simply dragging the enemy away, this time everyone wanted to be able to turn back and bite hard. The Twisters are well-versed in mobile warfare, so they are particularly aware of the risks of this tactic. The reason why the Eastern Twist Army failed was that it felt that it had dragged down Seng Lingqin. As a result, the cavalry of Seng Lingqin still had combat effectiveness. In a head-to-head battle, they were still defeated by the Qing army.

"Let's take it to Luoyang first!" Lai Wenguang finally made a decision.

Two days later, Li Hongzhang led the Huai army to approach Chenzhou, and received the news that the Twist army had withdrawn from Chenzhou. Without the slightest hesitation, Li Hongzhang ordered the pursuit. This is a pursuit battle that has been staged dozens of times, and the Twist Army is familiar with the road and always controls the distance from the Huai army. In the plan, the Huai army was dragged away, and two days later, the speed of action was slowly reduced according to the situation, so that the Huai army could speed up to catch up. If the Huai army wants to shorten the distance, it has to speed up the march, and the twist army can rest for a while reducing the speed. When it arrives at the area planned by the Twist Army, the Twist Army can use the accumulated physical advantages to break it into pieces and change its tactics. If the Huai army is divided, the Twist Army will concentrate its forces to attack one of them, if the Huai Army does not divide the troops, the Twist Army will let one lead the Huai Army away, and the other parts will rest calmly and look for fighters.

The cavalry of the two sides scouted and galloped back and forth, and Lai Wenguang calmly summed up the information and ordered the staff to calculate the distance and prepare for the latest situation. Before the Tianjing Change, Lai Wenguang was only a civil official. After the Tianjing Change, he devoted himself to the military and refused to work directly for King Hong. Huainan was the territory laid by Wei Ze, and Li Kaifang's army also began to prepare for the establishment of a staff department. Lai Wenguang has seen the most. The most important thing in the pursuit battle is to calculate the situation of the enemy and the enemy, and it is difficult to mobilize the enemy when it is far away from the enemy. If you get too close to the enemy, you may be overtaken by a sudden outbreak of enemies, and there will be a battle beyond the calculation.

Now this is the case, the Huai army has increased its speed, and it has actually narrowed the distance between the two sides from more than fifty miles to more than twenty miles. The Hunan army behind the Huai army was a traditional slow and methodical method, slowly advancing at a speed of thirty miles a day, and the distance between the Hunan army and the Huai army became larger and larger.

"Let's speed up too, since the Huai army is willing to chase, let them chase!" Lai Wenguang said.

The current direction of retreat is Luoyang, where there is the troops of King Chen Yucheng, and the Huai army will definitely slow down.

Hearing the news that the Twist Army was speeding up, Li Hongzhang only said lightly: "Let's speed up too." ”

Another day passed, and Lai Wenguang found that Huai Jun was chasing after him so aggressively. It seems that he doesn't care that the twisted army will be broken into pieces, and he doesn't care that the twisted army will bite back.

The generals of the Twist Army, from Zhang Zongyu to Ren Zhu and others, could endure their temperament, and everyone continued to hurry, not moved by the Huai Army at all.

On April 9, the Twist Army walked for five days, and the Huai Army also chased for five days. The two sides have approached Zheng County. According to the Malay report, the troops of the Qing army had blocked the Tiger Prison Pass, and it seemed that they had no intention of letting the Twist Army enter Luoyang through the Tiger Prison Pass. Huai Jun thought that he already knew the news, and they still chased after him with a big grin.

For five days, the Twist Army ran more than 60 miles a day, and the Huai Army also chased after it like this, Zhang Zongyu said: "Let's fight back here!" ”

The Hunan army has to travel more than 100 miles from here, and according to their marching speed, it will take four days to hurry and hurry, and it will take two days for the Huai army to send people to ask for help, so five days is enough time for the army to gnaw away the Huai army.

Lai Wenguang didn't agree immediately, he said: "I think the Huai army is cheating, they don't know that we will take them away, I always feel that they have their own plans for doing this." ”

The generals of the Twist Army also nodded one after another, and it was very strange for the Huai Army to act like this. This is simply a posture of "you come to surround and sneak attack me". At this time, everyone felt that it would be good if they went to Shandong at the beginning, there were many mountains in Shandong, and when the Huai army chased to the mountains, the twisted army had thousands of ways to deal with the Huai army. Not in Henan, this is a plain, and it is really difficult to guarantee that the Hunan army will not suddenly kill from behind.

Ren Zhu continued to say: "It's not too late for us to go to Shandong now. The Huai army has been chasing them for so long, and they will be tired of chasing them again! ”

It's not wrong for everyone to think about it, Lai Wenguang ordered to go east in the direction of Shandong, prepare to pass through Zheng County, take a shot at Kaifeng, and then go to Lankao in the direction of Heze.

On April 11, the day after the Twist Army carried out its eastward advance, the Huai Army, which had been in hot pursuit, suddenly stopped. They were stationed in Zheng County, looking ready to rest. This kind of change is really annoying, the twist army didn't expect the Huai army to be so abnormal this time, thinking that the Huai army should not chase when the Huai army was in hot pursuit, thinking that the Huai army should chase when the Huai army pretended to be a dead dog. After being disrupted, Twist Jun was very uncomfortable for a while.

On April 13, Li Hongzhang had already joined Monk Lingqin at Tiger Prison Pass. He stepped forward and saluted, "The monk king really avoided the eyes and ears of the bandits and led his troops here." ”

Monk Greenqin smiled and said: "Master Li expected that the Twist Army would not flee west into Luoyang, and it was really like a god. ”

Li Hongzhang smiled with the kind of "self-humility" that is unique to the success of the scheme, "Monk King, even so, if the Luoyang gentry had not informed the Cantonese bandit Chen Gou to go west, I would not have been able to use this method. ”

Monk Greenqin sighed: "The Queen Mother and Prince Gong already know about Lord Luo Bingzhang's martyrdom, but Sichuan was taken away by Wei Wei, and it seems that the Cantonese bandits are also very worried!" ”

In calculating people's hearts, Li Hongzhang has his own strengths. After he learned that the Guangfu Army had captured Sichuan, he immediately judged that the Taiping Army would shrink its forces to defend Hanzhong. No matter what others think of the relationship between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and Wei Ze, Li Hongzhang firmly believes that the two are actually incompatible. According to the information obtained, Li Hongzhang judged that the relationship between the Twist Army and the Taiping Army was not in a state of intimacy.

Now that Li Hongzhang's judgment has come true, Huai Jun is also worried when he is chasing after him in the past few days. If Chen Yucheng of Luoyang personally led his troops over to participate in the flanking attack on Li Hongzhang's troops, the casualties of the Huai army would not be light. In order to confuse the Twist Army, the Hunan Army really fell behind the Huai Army one hundred and fifty miles. It is simply unrealistic to expect the Hunan army to come to the rescue.

Li Hongzhang was willing to take great risks not only to deal with the enemy, but precisely because he took huge risks, the Huai army was qualified to lobby the Hunan army and Seng Lingqin's troops to cooperate with the Huai army. The three parties have encircled and suppressed the Twist Army many times, but because no one is willing to be the bait sent into the wolf's mouth, they are always unable to give Lai Wenguang a fatal blow.

Now that Li Hongzhang is lucky, although he is proud on his face, he is also happy in his heart.

Monk Greenqin is also bold, and the plan has been carried out to such a point, he smiled and said: "Lord Li, this king will take the lead in going to Luoyang!" ”

The most important reason why the Eastern Twist Army suffered a great defeat under Seng Lingqin was that the Eastern Twist Army did not have a stable rear. The Western Twist Army crisscrossed Henan by Luoyang, and once things were wrong, they could flee back to Luoyang. After determining the situation of the Qing army, they could see the opportunity to start from Luoyang and start harassing Henan.

Once Luoyang was captured, the official army could coerce Shaanxi County and Tongguan, and cut off the rear road of the Western Twist Army. Without a rear base, the space for the Western Twist Army to move was greatly reduced. This plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle was carefully planned by Li Hongzhang.

Seeing that the monk Greenqin had a friendly attitude, Li Hongzhang said with a smile: "Please bring the monk king to bring someone who contacts the gentry in the city, and follow the monk king to Luoyang easily." ”

Monk Greenqin saw that Li Hongzhang had no intention of stealing merit, which gave him enough face. Monk Greenqin laughed, "This king is just joking, Lord Li has planned to such an extent that Lord Li should attack Luoyang and win the first credit." This king will stay here in the Tiger Prison according to Master Li's plan in advance, if the bandits try to rescue Luoyang, this king will let them have no return! ”

It was not until April 15 that Lai Wenguang realized that the Huai army might not be stationed in Zheng County, and that he was leading his troops to pretend to attack Kaifeng. It is completely different from the fierce pursuit of the Huai army a few days ago.

In recent years, the Twist Army has traveled back and forth in Henan, and there are their eyeliners everywhere. According to the eyeliner, although the Huaijun camp is in Zheng County, the camp feels like there is no movement. What's more, there was no food to buy in the camp. The more Lai Wenguang thought about it, the more wrong it became, he wanted to lead the troops to turn around and test the Huai army camp. Unexpectedly, as soon as he was about to attack, Tanma came to report that the Hunan army had rushed to the vicinity of Zheng County and had joined forces with the Huai army.

"Grandma's! Is Huaijun just scaring us? The generals couldn't help but scold their mothers. R1058