Chapter 45: Returning to the Teacher (5)

In the big tent outside Jining City, Wei Changrong faced the two leaders of the Twist Army, and said seriously: "This time to fight Jining, you don't need two people to make a move!" ”

Sitting on Wei Changrong's left hand side was Wen Yuewei, the second-most powerful female leader among the many twist armies who followed Wei Ze, after a short period of battle, her skin that had been slightly tanned by the sun when she joined the gang was covered with another layer of dust. This made Wen Yuewei's already not very sufficient feminine taste weaker, and the whole person looked like a handsome young man.

After listening to Wei Changrong's words, Wen Yuewei frowned, "Lord Wei, what you said is what King Qi meant, or what you meant?" ”

This question is quite level, and Wei Changrong didn't even know how to answer it for a while. This was the result of consultations with the General Staff. However, in the end, it was not that the Twist Army would not be allowed to participate in the battle against Jining, but that the Twist Army should be prevented from plundering the city as much as possible.

On this matter, Weeser and the General Staff were very consistent. They need the Twist Army to wave their combat power in the battle to annihilate the Qing army. On the battlefield, no matter how fierce and cruel the Twist Army was to the Qing Army, the Taiping Army could accept it. However, the Taiping army itself did not have a plan to loot the city on a large scale, so it was naturally impossible to let the Twist Army fool around in the city.

Of course, Wei Changrong wants to take the responsibility himself, but this is no longer something that Wei Changrong can take down if he wants to. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Wen Ling, why do you have to fight Jining?" ”

"Humph!" Wen Yuewei sneered in a very mocking tone, and then looked at Liu Yongjing, who was sitting opposite Wen Yuewei. Seeing Wen Yuewei's gaze, Wei Changrong also looked at Liu Yongjing. Liu Yongjing was the largest gang in the Twist Army when he was acting with Wei Ze, and some small gangs have recently joined Liu Yongjing's team, making the strength of this person much stronger than when he first came out.

Liu Yongjing is much older than Wen Yuewei, and his sneer is not as straightforward as Wen Yuewei looks, but what he said is more clear, "Master Wei, don't you just want me to wait for me to enter Jining City, but you still pretend to say that we don't need to do anything." When this TM invited us to go north, you cried dad and shouted to ask us to go north with you, and now that you have finished your business, will you start crossing the river and tearing down the bridge? ”

Wei Changrong groaned slightly, in addition to disagreeing with Liu Yongjing's saying that the Taiping Army cried for his father and mother, he asked the Twist Army to go north together, but he agreed with what Liu Yongjing said about other departments. Wei Changrong just didn't want the Twist Army to enter Jining City, and at this stage, the Twist Army was useless to the Taiping Army.

In a private discussion with Wei Ze, Wei Ze told Wei Changrong about his future response to the Twist Army, that is, to throw the Twist Army north of the Huai River and let them "get along" with the Qing Army themselves. This group of twisters was originally from the north of the Huai River, and they also had many advantages in their hometown. If the Taiping Army can still go north in the future, it will be a large army of more than 100,000 and 200,000 troops to fight northward.

Wei Changrong had no feeling about Wei Ze's "100,000 and 200,000 large troops", and it was difficult for him to imagine what such a huge army looked like, so he was also confused for a while. At the same time, he fully understood Wei Ze's core idea, "Twisting the army is not his own people".

Since the Twist Army is not Wei Ze's own person, the Twist Army will definitely not look at the problem on Wei Ze's side. As it turned out, this was true, the Taipings did not want to carry out senseless raiding of the city, and the Twisters had a completely different view from Wei Ze. Wei Changrong tried to convince the two leaders of the Twist Army on the other side, after all, in the early days of Wei Ze's Northern Expedition, these two could also be called quite cooperative.

"Two, you've already grabbed it in Linqing City, I think you might as well just stop it. Now you are under the banner of our Taiping Army, and the looting will eventually come to our Taiping Army. And we have long told you that we, the Taiping Army, are against looting. Wei Changrong persuaded very seriously.

"That's!" Liu Yongjing strongly denied Wei Changrong's words, "Brothers come out with you, it's all your head pinned to the waistband of your pants, and you don't want to die." You just beat the brothers with such walnuts and dates? Are you calling Hanako? ”

Wei Changrong sneered, but did not reply immediately. The Twist Army fought a lot of battles in the north, but the casualties were very minor, after all, they were responsible for chasing and killing the fleeing Qing army. Wei Changrong and the others also cleaned the battlefield, although this time they gave up the pursuit battlefield to the Twist Army, and defeated the Qing army head-on on the battlefield, the Taiping Army completely controlled it. Judging from the seizures, the property on the Qing army was probably at the level of more than one or two silver per person.

Wei Ze defeated more than 20,000 Qing troops before and after, and the average person in the Twist Army could get three or four taels of silver. For small households, getting three or four taels of silver in more than half a month is not a small amount. However, for the heroes who eat rice on the knife edge, this money is really small.

After the Taiping army captured Linqing, Wei Changrong guarded Linqing. Some of the small and small numbers of the Twist army, which had not been able to grab any spoils of war, refused to go north again, and when they saw that there were few Taiping soldiers in the city, they simply plundered in the city. After Wei Changrong appeared, he drove these people out of Linqing City.

Looking at it now, the minds of the Twist Army are the same, even the Twist Army gang, which has been relying on the scale effect to seize most of the spoils on the battlefield, also wants to make a windfall before the end of this Northern Expedition. Undoubtedly, the city of Jining is their last chance.

However, Wei Changrong still wanted to continue to fool around, it was not impossible to tear his face with the Twist Army at this time, but it was better to tear his face at this time than to wait until after crossing the Yellow River. As long as you take the fleet, it is very easy to cross the Huai River after crossing the Yellow River. Besides, after the Yellow River, you will reach Huaibei, which is the hometown of the Twist Army, and it is very easy for everyone to part ways.

Holding the flickering thought, Wei Changrong smiled and said: "Two, even if you can't loot in Jining City, there is Xuzhou City." Why are you in a hurry at this time? ”

Without waiting for Liu Yongjing to speak, Wen Yuewei spoke, "Once you cross the Yellow River, will you wait for us?" Master Wei, do you think we don't know anything about you? What you want is to defend the Huai River, and implement the strategy of guarding the Huai River. This time in Jining, in order to be able to raise boats in Weishan Lake, you must fight. As for arriving in Xuzhou...... Hehe, you have crossed the Yellow River, what are you doing in Xuzhou? ”

At this point, it's hard to discuss any further. Wei Changrong's expression was full of doubts, he didn't know how Wen Yuewei knew the Taiping Army's strategy of "guarding the river and guarding the Huai". And this strategy must have been told to her by a certain level of officers within the Taiping Army. There were people inside the Taiping Army, Wei Changrong was quite surprised by this.

"Master Wei, just say, do you want us to enter Jining?" Wen Yuewei saw that Wei Changrong was silent, so she simply asked.

After all, the heroes of the rivers and lakes are real, not to mention that if they can't do a vote in Jining, they really have no other chance. Wei Changrong naturally couldn't let these guys blackmail, he sneered: "Since you already know that our Taiping Army will not plunder, then you should know that I will not let you enter Jining City." If you think there's nothing to be gained by following us, I think we might as well leave it at that, what do you think? ”

It seemed that Liu Yongjing and Wen Yuewei thought the same, they glanced at each other, and then stood up. Wei Changrong also stood up, "Two, since we have been working together for so long, if we quarrel over a little benefit, it will be too childish." One thing I'm going to tell you is, what kind of guy did you use before you followed us north? What guys do you have on your hands now? Just these muskets, weapons, not to mention whether you can buy them or not, and even if you do, how much will it cost you? A dozen taels per person, that's still too little. So, if you want to say something that our Taiping Army didn't let everyone benefit, I think you should save it. ”

The cooperation with the Twist Army, at least with the two largest forces of the Twist Army, ends here. Wei Changrong even temporarily halted the arrangement of attacking Jining, and the troops began to shrink their defenses. Although it is unlikely that the Twist Army will suddenly merge with Wei Changrong, it is impossible to have the heart of harming people, and the heart of preventing people is indispensable. In addition to taking care of his own affairs, Wei Changrong also hurriedly informed Wei Ze of the rear team.

This toss and turn wasted a day. And the Twist Army basically left Wei Ze's troops, there were only nine small teams, and the Twist Army of more than 500 people expressed their willingness to follow Wei Ze.

Wei Ze simply asked these people if they were willing to join the Taiping Army, and the brothers happily expressed their willingness. These people were formed into Wei Ze's cavalry troops, and the commander of the troops was temporarily served by Feng Yixiao, a good man who had captured Shengbao. Feng Yixiao is a good man who is directly under Qinghe, and when he came to Wei Ze, he also brought more than 30 cavalry, judging from his immediate kung fu alone, he does have extraordinary ability, and Wei Ze really has no time to rectify the cavalry troops now.

The horses got the news that after the Twist Army left the Taiping Army, not only did they not go south, but they went north quickly. The Twist Army did not attack Weese's troops, and it would be nice if everyone could break up peacefully. And Wei Ze also had some rather shady words that he didn't say, and there was a twist army "after breaking in the back", and Wei Ze's trip to the south would only be smoother.

It was also when the Taiping army began to attack Jining City again, and the Twist Army, which was marching quickly to the north, also held a meeting, and the leaders of the four major Twist Army gathered together, although Liu Yongjing could still show considerable confidence when facing Wei Changrong, at this time when there were only his own people, he still couldn't help but show timidity. With an unconfident expression, Liu Yongjing asked Wen Yuewei, who was sitting in the second seat: "Wen Ling, do you think the imperial court will not be thrown down?" ”

Wen Yuewei's face was cold and expressionless, and she said coldly: "If the Qing army really wanted to chase them, they would have chased them down a long time ago!" I'll say it again, if you're afraid of a war, then hurry back and follow Wei Ze and them to withdraw, if you really want to get a vote in this Zhili and Shandong before leaving, then don't be afraid of anything. ”

After finishing speaking, Wen Yuewei continued to scan the surrounding leaders with a cold gaze, and everyone was stunned.

Wen Yuewei continued: "Everyone fought with Wei Ze, so they naturally know how many Qing troops he killed on Linqing's side. That's more than 20,000 people. We don't want to defeat Fucheng and go to Tianjin. As long as we can knock down Linqing and the surrounding counties, that's how much money! Now in Linqing City and near Linqing, where is there still a Qing army? Do you have the courage to fight this battle? ”

"Yes!" At the instigation of Wen Yuewei, the leaders of this gang of twisted troops also had a fighting spirit.

"Very good, then let's assign how to call!" After Wen Yuewei finished speaking, she cherished a map centered on Linqing very much, and pounced on the table very carefully. The map is relatively simple, but the charcoal style is the standard for military maps in Weeser's troops.

Wen Yuewei pointed to the map and began to assign tasks.

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