Xianfeng asked Jiang Zhongyuan, Zeng Guofan, and Zuo Zongtang to write a recital on the current situation, Jiang Zhongyuan was close to the capital, and he independently undertook a combat direction, and his recital was the first to arrive.

Zuo Zongtang was ordered to go to Zhejiang as a military training minister, and he had already led 5,000 troops out at this time. The Yangtze River will definitely not be able to go, and if you go north of the Yangtze River, you need to go north first, enter Henan, and then turn from Mengcheng to Suzhou, where Jiang Zhongyuan controls zhì. Then go to Xuzhou, and then go south along the seaside. Not only is this road long, but it is also impossible to avoid encounters with Taiping soldiers and students on the road. Since he could not avoid the Taiping army, Zuo Zongtang took a very simple route, marching east from Hunan, going through Jiangxi, and going straight to Zhejiang.

Although the distance is farther than Zeng Guofan, and he is still on the way to Zhejiang, Zuo Zongtang's recital is the second to arrive. After learning about Wei Ze and Wei Ze Chen Bing Xuancheng, Zuo Zongtang's thoughts in the compromises were similar to Jiang Zhongyuan's, and they all thought that Wei Ze was going to go down to Liangguang. Being in Hunan, Zuo Zongtang's news is more well-informed than Jiang Zhongyuan in Huaibei. It has been nearly three years since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom left Guangxi, and the Qing army in Guangxi has been emptied. Without pressure, the world will be very happy, their leaders Zhu Hongying and Hu Youlu conquered Guanyang and established the "Shengping Heavenly Kingdom", Zhu Hongying is called the king of Zhennan, and Hu Youlu is called the king of Dingnan.

The resistance of the people of the Guangdong Tiandi Association was not under Guangxi at all, and Chen Kai, the leader of the Guangdong Tiandi Association, revolted in Foshan and established the name Daning. Li Wenmao, Chen Xianliang and others in the suburbs of Guangzhou led tens of thousands of people to respond, and the rebel army was dressed in a red scarf, and the world was known as the "Red Turban Army". The uprising was huge, "in the middle of ten days, dozens of prefectures and counties were trapped", Shunde, Xiangshan, and Dongguan were recovered one after another, and the provincial capital Guangzhou was desperate, and Chen Kai and Li Wenmao led the righteous army to take advantage of the situation to besiege Guangzhou. In February 1855, Chen Kai and Li Wenmao were engaged in a fierce battle with Ye Mingchen, the governor of Liangguang who was defending Guangdong.

The situation is so critical, if Wei Ze is allowed to lead 50,000 elite troops who have passed through the battlefield to enter Liangguang, the situation of the Manchu Qing in Liangguang will really collapse. Emperor Zuo Zongtang immediately ordered the troops of the Jiangnan and Jiangbei battalions to fight against Wei Ze with all their might, and no matter what, Wei Ze could not be allowed to enter Liangguang, and at the same time mobilized Zeng Guofan and Zuo Zongtang's troops to defend the important places in Jiangxi. The Qing army in Fujian was also to be dispatched to participate in the bloody battle with Wei Ze.

Xianfeng's brows were almost twisted into a pimple after reading it, and Zuo Zongtang's construction was very reasonable. However, it only makes sense, at this time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is still a powerful force controlling hundreds of thousands of troops. The Qing army's troops in the Yangtze River basin are Zeng Guofan, Jiangnan Jiangbei Camp, Zuo Zongtang, and so on. Judging from the past results, these three armies together have about 1230,000 people, and at most they can die with Wei Ze.

These gangs and Wei Ze died together, and the next situation was naturally that hundreds of thousands of troops of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom began to wreak havoc in the Yangtze River valley like wild horses. Whether the two Guangzhous can be kept or not does not need to be considered, anyway, the Yangtze River basin does not need to think about it.

Zeng Guofan's recital was the last, and in the recital, Zeng Guofan first pleaded guilty again. In the Battle of Hukou, Zeng Guofan's Hunan army suffered heavy casualties, forcing Zeng Guofan to attempt suicide, and several months passed, and Zeng Guofan did not completely recover his strength.

In the compromises, Zeng Guofan also thought that Wei Ze would go south to Liangguang, and he also believed that once Wei Ze entered Liangguang, Liangguang would naturally not be guaranteed. After making this judgment, Zeng Guofan raised several questions. The first is who is the lord and who is the second between Wei Ze and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In terms of military strength and appeal, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is still far superior to Wei Ze. What's more, the Taiping Army already had a large and relatively stable territory. The Qing troops around the Qing army were either heavily damaged and temporarily unable to advance, or they simply did not accumulate the strength to attack.

At this juncture, if the troops were mobilized to attack Wei Ze, not to mention the difficulties of the expedition, all the previous efforts of the Qing army would be in vain.

For example, the Hunan Army, at this time, the main 6th Army was besieging Jiujiang City, and the other troops were holding on to cities all over Jiangxi. If the main force went to fight against Wei Ze, the Taiping army would naturally be able to relieve the siege of Jiujiang. If the news of the complete separation between Wei Ze and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was true, the Taiping army would not sit idly by and watch Wei Ze fight a decisive battle with the Qing army. At that time, the Taiping army, which was able to move freely, would definitely storm Hubei and Hunan. After the bloody battle between the main force of the Qing army and Wei Ze, his vitality was greatly damaged, and he was unable to save the situation in Hubei and Hunan.

What's worse is that if Wei Ze did not completely break away from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom only had to enter Jiangxi to cut off the grain route of the Qing army, Wei Ze sent troops to resist the attack of his defeated generals Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps, and attacked Zeng Guofan and Zuo Zongtang's troops with all his might. The Taiping army marched west to capture Hubei and Hunan. At that time, it was not a question of the collapse of the front, but the fact that the south of the Yangtze River was no longer the territory of the Manchus at all. Whether it is Wei Ze or the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they can calmly march into Liangguang.

Secondly, whether Wei Ze can seize Liangguang in the end. The cooperation between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Heaven and Earth Society has always been bad, otherwise they would have echoed each other with the Liangguang Heaven and Earth Society, which was in full swing. Even if Wei Ze goes south to Liangguang, he has to fight against the Qing army, and as a guest army, he has to fight against the Liangguang Tiandihui, and he is afraid that he will not be able to take Guangzhou in the short term.

And if the Qing army is mainly based on the strength of the two Guangzhous, it will be assisted by a small number of elite military operations to contain Wei Ze. It is possible that Wei Ze will not be able to stand in Guangdong, a place where he is not familiar with life. At this time, a decisive battle with Wei Ze can only allow Wei Ze to link up with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It is a safer way to separate Wei Ze from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and break them separately.

Zeng Guofan is also practical enough, he told the truth at the end of the twist, although it is indeed very dangerous to let Wei Ze go south to Liangguang, but the lesser of the two evils. It's better to let Weezer go further and then do it.

The view of the court minister who completely indulged Wei Ze, and Zuo Zongtang's view that he was very anxious to fight with Wei Ze could not satisfy Xianfeng. Zeng Guofan's plan was quite peaceful and upright, and it also took into account the reality of the Qing army at this time. Xianfeng finally decided to take Zeng Guofan's opinion, and he ordered the Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps to force Wei Ze so that Wei Ze could not return to Changzhou again, nor could he march into Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The Qing army in Fujian strictly guarded the Fujian border and guarded against Wei Ze's surprise attack on Fujian. Zuo Zongtang was responsible for containing Wei Ze's flank. As for Zeng Guofan, Xianfeng ordered him to hurry up and conquer Jiujiang City, and open up the Yangtze River waterway from Hubei to Hukou as soon as possible. Jiang Zhongyuan did his best to attack the Taiping army.

Soon, Xianfeng's orders were passed on to the Qing commanders in various places. As soon as Zuo Zongtang saw the order, he was extremely disappointed. As a very capable talent, Zeng Guofan can think of things that Zuo Zongtang can naturally think of. However, unlike Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang believed that Wei Ze was the Qing army's biggest enemy.

Because of the close correspondence with Jiang Zhongyuan, Zuo Zongtang knew very well that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could have such a situation today, mostly because of Wei Ze's own efforts. The territory of Huainan was laid by Wei Ze, and the Taiping Army guarding Huainan now is the elite Northern Expeditionary Army that Wei Ze rescued from the north.

Now the Taiping army relied on a large area of territory on the south bank of the Huai River to maintain the situation. This place constantly provided food, grass, and soldiers to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. If there was no Huainan area as a barrier, the Qing army would be able to confront Tianjing City across the Yangtze River at this time.

Put Wei Ze's tiger in Liangguang, in terms of the situation of Liangguang, Ye Mingchen is not Wei Ze's opponent in any case. Even if it costs a great deal to annihilate Wei Ze, but after defeating Wei Ze, the number one general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is naturally in danger for everyone, and at that time, when he sees the banner of the Qing army, he will not dare to act lightly.

After Wei Ze annihilated so many Qing troops, the Qing army lost the courage to fight Wei Ze. Without the addition of Zeng Guofan and Zuo Zongtang, it would have been impossible for the Jiangnan and Jiangbei battalions to have the courage to take the initiative to attack Wei Ze's troops.

But the emperor had already ordered and threw the hot potato that was chasing Wei Ze to Zuo Zongtang, and Zuo Zongtang had no choice. He can't say at this time that my subordinates are all new recruits, plus they are fighting in the field, so they can't beat Wei Ze. The emperor finally gave Zuo Zongtang the errand of the minister of military training in Zhejiang, but the result of telling the truth to the emperor was that the emperor did not trust him, was despised, and finally lost the opportunity to show his ambitions.

Sighing, Zuo Zongtang could only order the troops to continue to move west, and they should be cautious and not rashly engage Wei Ze's troops. As the self-proclaimed "Jinliang" of Zhuge Kongming, Zuo Zongtang is not the kind of "honest" person who roars angrily and rushes to death when he knows that he can't do anything.

On March 1, 1855, the last of Weese's men finally arrived in Zhenjiang. Having a big road to go is a great advantage of going south this time, but the people are hard to leave their homeland, if they don't go south willingly, forcibly taking them with them will only become a burden. Wei Ze didn't want to make a fuss about Liu Bei leaving Xinye and taking the people of Xinye with him. At least what we see in the history books is that the people suffered heavy casualties. If these people stay in their hometowns, they have a better chance of survival.

So Weezer told the troops of the Ra people to go back, taking only those who followed as soon as they heard the call. By March 1, a total of more than 7,000 local civil officials in Anhui and Anhui elders had chosen to follow Wei Ze. Wei Ze handed over the guard work to Hu Chenghe, and he himself went to Xuancheng.

On March 6, Wei Ze arrived in Xuancheng. As soon as they arrived here, the personnel who had come out to greet the General Staff immediately rushed up and began to complain. The troops temporarily controlled the news of the Tianjing Incident, but there was a limit to this kind of control. With the arrival of the troops' families in Tianjing City, the news of the killing of Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, could no longer be hidden. As more people arrived in the army, a new round of news spread. With the fall of the East Palace, thousands of brothers were killed and tens of thousands of family members were slaughtered. The army has been in Xuancheng for so long, and the army has already boiled the pot.

Officers and soldiers, they didn't see Wei Ze for a long time, and they knew that they were going to Liangguang, a place thousands of miles away, and everyone's hearts fluctuated, and rumors spread. If it weren't for the fact that the General Staff had a strong control over the troops, I am afraid that they would dare to cause a mutiny.

"Chief of the General Staff, you have to quickly explain it to everyone!" Wei Changrong said with a bitter face.

Seeing the general staff looking so anxious, Wei Ze couldn't help but be a little happy in his heart, the ability of the first general staff has been proven, and they are able to lead this army. Secondly, it is that the influence and prestige of Weeser in this army are irrefutable. With such appeal, he can confidently implement the next plan.

"Let's go, let's have a meeting with the brigade commander and the brothers above the brigade commander!" Weser strode towards the barracks. The officers of the General Staff followed closely behind Weese.

Whether it was an officer or a soldier in the barracks, they soon saw Wei Ze's figure. The expressions of confusion, confusion, embarrassment, and incomprehension on their faces were quickly replaced by expressions of joy. The officers and soldiers stood on both sides of the road, and they didn't know who shouted first, "King Qi is here!" ”

Next, the barracks resounded everywhere, "King Qi is here!" "King Qi is here!" cries of excitement.

Everyone knows that it was Wei Ze who led this army out of Guangxi, and everyone remembers that under Wei Ze's command, tens of thousands of enemies were killed, and everyone knows that it was these tens of thousands of corpses that paved the way to today.

The chaos in Tianjing City made these brothers completely lose confidence in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and what can make these tens of thousands of soldiers who have crossed the battlefield of death still be able to assemble is everyone's trust in Wei Ze and everyone's memories of past successes again and again. "King Qi is here!" The cheers came from the hearts of the officers and soldiers.

In the midst of this earth-shaking cheers, under the eager sight of the officers and soldiers, Wei Ze walked briskly towards the big tent of the Chinese army.

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