"Jin Cai, well done!" The division commander patted Zhou Jincai's shoulder with a satisfied smile in the division headquarters. In the matter of Zhou Jincai's promotion to regiment commander before, the party committee's attitude was ambiguous, the personnel section of the staff department wavered, and the division commander strongly praised Zhou Jincai's outstanding combat ability, which allowed him to obtain the qualification for promotion. Since he said this, the division commander must take responsibility.

Zhou Jincai personally went to the front line to direct the troops to attack, which has proved his bravery. Moreover, finding the enemy's flaws and breaking through the enemy's defense system is even more of a great achievement. In the future, Zhou Jin will not make mistakes, that is a matter for the future. At least now Zhou Jincai has proved with his own actions that the division commander's judgment of Zhou Jincai is correct.

Regarding the teacher's praise, Zhou Jincai only smiled reluctantly, "I tried my best." ”

His feelings at this time were not high, and the battle was indeed won. Zhou Jincai was attacked by the enemy and routed the enemy's squad with a swift bayonet battle, after which he did not kill them all, but chased after the fleeing Hunan army. To be sent out on such an almost lifeless mission is either to really see death as home, or there is a way back. Zhou Jincai didn't think that the Xiang army really had people who regarded death as home, and in fact his judgment was correct. The Hunan army set up a very hidden passage to enter and exit their core defense system, and the fleeing Hunan army could manage a large group of pursuers behind it in order to survive. It was precisely because of the wolf-like pursuers behind them that they had to flee back to safety faster.

The seemingly impregnable fortress finally showed its flaws, and Zhou Jincai commanded the troops to launch a fierce attack. The Hunan army thought that it would be easy to hold the narrow passage that could only accommodate one person, but when a dozen grenades were thrown through the passage, the Hunan army realized that the war had exceeded their imagination. The seemingly solid defensive position was breached in an instant. The soldiers of the Guangfu Army who were alive and well fought through the gap, absorbing their previous experience, and the troops did not engage in a shootout with the Hunan army, but directly began hand-to-hand combat. Under the fierce attack, the Hunan army's defense system collapsed.

But at the end of the battle, in front of Zhou Jincai, the two commanders of the Hunan army saw that defeat was inevitable after fighting, and they actually committed suicide with their guns. This move gave Zhou Jincai a lot of shock. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that there were people among his enemies who dared to commit suicide to exercise their dignity.

Zheng Yufeng, a first-class combat hero who was vigorously promoted in the Liberation Army a few months ago, committed suicide bravely at the last moment, which is a model of a soldier who mentally overwhelmed the enemy. Zhou Jincai, who accepted such propaganda and truly admired it, was shocked by the same fierceness of the enemy.

The suicide of Zhao Huanlian and Zhou Kuanshi, the commander of the Qing army, had no impact on the division commander, and for the division commander, the battle was so fierce that it was no longer a big deal to fail to capture the commander of the Qing army. The troops did not slaughter prisoners in such a fierce battle, which allowed them to hand over to the commissars.

The Liberation Army has long lost the mentality of just rebelling. At that time, everyone subconsciously thought that they were part of the Manchu system, and they had a sense of reverence for officials. The current Guangfu Army does not consider itself to be Manchu people at all, ordinary soldiers are ordinary people who are very close to the Guangfu Army, and the civilian and military generals of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are all scum, and they are far inferior to ordinary soldiers. It doesn't matter if they live or die. Whether or not there is an enemy commander who can catch him alive simply means whether the war of annihilation has been carried out thoroughly enough, nothing more.

The Qing army of Hengyang and Baoqing was destroyed at the same time, which not only allowed the Guangfu army to gain a firm foothold in Xiangxi, but also opened the Xiangjiang River channel. The countdown to the Manchu rule in Hunan began. This news not only brought the Hunan government and the Hunan army to the end of the world, but also greatly shocked the Qing court. In Zeng's strategic plan, the Qing army could go down the river with all its might to attack the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom after occupying the upper reaches. At the beginning, the more mainstream opinion of the Qing court was that the Liberation Army would send troops from Jiangxi.

On December 15, 1861, Emperor Xianfeng finally received a letter from Hunan. Concubine Yi had an expression on her face that couldn't hold back her nervousness, and when she handed a few copies to Xianfeng, her hands were trembling slightly.

Xianfeng has been dealing with court affairs with Yi Guifei for a while, and Yi Guifei has gradually become calm from the initial excitement, such a gaffe is a rare thing for Yi Guifei in the near future. Even if he was mentally prepared, Xianfeng took the fold and just looked at it for a while, and the whole person was stiff.

The Guangfu army first quickly captured Hengyang and Baoqing, and continued to march eastward to approach Changsha. Mao Hongbin, the governor of Hunan, begged the imperial court to send rescue troops as soon as possible, and if the rescuers could not reach Hunan in the short term, the whole of Hunan would be in danger.

In addition to the twists and turns of Hunan Governor Mao Hongbin, the Huguang Governor Guan Wen in Wuchang, Hubei Province also came to the concert. In the middle of the recital, the official wrote that a strange fleet of ships of the Guangfu Army was down the river and approached the outside of Wuchang City. All the ships of this fleet had no sails, and even less sailors for oars. Although there were also smoke-sprayed chimneys, there were no two large wheels on foreign ships. In this way, such a ship was up and down the river, with several guns on board, and the fire was fierce. The naval division of the Hunan army was suddenly attacked by such ships and was crushed. The official begged the imperial court to mobilize the Hunan army and sailors to return to the battle. Otherwise, Wuhan will not be protected.

The map of the Yangtze River basin has been seen thousands of times, and Xianfeng does not need to look at the map to understand what a great change the situation has been. If the Guangfu army seized the two lakes, the Taiping army ravaged Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The entire south of the Yangtze River has completely fallen into a situation of erosion. A few years ago, the Qing court tried to avoid the worst. But I never expected that the strategic situation of the Qing army, which had greatly improved because of the recapture of Huainan, would suddenly become the worst situation.

He was expelled from Beijing by the British, and was able to return to Beijing after signing the Beijing Treaty. Emperor Xianfeng's already poor body became even worse at this time. For more than a year, he has been strong to deal with government affairs. Although the Taiping army is fierce, it is still an army that can be understood. A glorious army with a fierce reputation is shrouded in an elusive fog. Now when this army came to the fore again, Xianfeng saw from the folds that it was a more ferocious force than the foreigners.

Before the British attacked Beijing, they fought a battle with the Liberation Army, and the Liberation Army hyped up how it had beaten Britain and France. Xianfeng very much hoped that this was a nonsense made up by the Liberation Army, and with the fierce nature of Britain and France, when they heard this outrageous lie, they would definitely teach the Liberation Army a hard lesson. More than a year has passed now, and Britain and France have allowed the Liberation Army to publicize their exploits. I don't think it's a lie.

Compared with the Liberation Army, the Qing Dynasty was forced to flee from the capital after its defeat, and finally had to sign a humiliating treaty with the British. There was also Russia taking advantage of the fire, and France and the United States demanded the same trade rights as Britain. The difference in combat effectiveness between the two sides is already very obvious at this time, if the Liberation Army is allowed to rage like this, will the Qing Dynasty really perish?

Under the intense torment in his heart, the young emperor couldn't help but stand up, and then he only felt a heat surge in his chest, his throat and eyes were sweet, and then a mouthful of blood spurted out. Blood spurted onto the folds spread out on the table, splashing red plum blossoms. And Emperor Xianfeng fell straight back.

At the head of Wuchang City, thousands of miles away from Beijing, Hu Linyi, the acting governor of Hunan, looked at the battle on the river with a pale face. A few days ago, he was originally in charge of the logistics of the Hunan army in Anqing, but suddenly received a distress letter from the governor of Huguang, Guan Wen, saying that the water division of the Guangfu army was raging in Wuchang and asked the water division of the Hunan army to return to help quickly.

Hu Linyi was well aware of the ferocity of the Liberation Army. His wife and brother fought against the Guangfu Army in southern Ganzhou a few years ago, and after the defeat, he was skinned and hung on the head of Ganzhou City as a human skin lantern, as a proof that the Guangfu Army had the actual right to control Ganzhou to "deter Xiaoxiao".

But the Guangfu army is in the south of Hunan, where can it quickly establish a naval army that can fight under the city of Wuchang. It is okay to loot the boats and build some small boats temporarily. But such a fleet would never be able to threaten Wuchang. According to the official description, the ships of the Guangfu Army sailors who arrived in Wuchang could only be compared with the large ships of the Hunan army. This is even more unrealistic. Not to mention whether the Liberation Army can build such a big ship, such a big ship cannot be built in a short period of time.

It's just that Guan Wen is the governor of Huguang, and Hu Linyi, who is now acting as the governor of Hunan, is a subordinate of Guan Wen. Moreover, the official document is a banner man, and becoming the governor of Huguang is obviously a personnel arrangement used by Emperor Xianfeng to balance the forces of the Hunan army. And in terms of contact in the past few years, Guanwen is not a person who likes to make a fuss. Now he is like a mournful letter sent by Kaoyan, but I am afraid that there are indeed some problems in it.

With such doubts, and the need to transport grain, grass, ordnance, and ammunition from Hubei, Hu Linyi still led a fleet of Hunan naval divisions back to Wuchang.

After seeing Wuchang, Hu Linyi was confused by the latest information. Not only did the official text still maintain his statement, but the civil and military personnel of Wuchang also said the same thing, and a fleet of the Liberation Army hit the city of Wuchang several times. Those warships that did not use sails and oars went back and forth on the river, and the Hunan army sailors who stayed in Wuchang City were beaten to the ground.

Of course, this fleet has not been blocked at the gate of Wuchang all the time. They came every seven or eight days, and after some harassment in the three towns of Wuhan, they went away. Wuchang was better, and the Hunan army in Hankou, north of the Yangtze River, was annihilated by the Guangfu army. This Guangfu army did not disturb the people, nor did it occupy Hankou, but "bought and sold by force" in Hankou.

The official army in Jiangbei could not defeat the Guangfu army, and the Yangtze River was cut off by the Guangfu army.

This introduction made Hu Linyi puzzled, the Taiping army did not loot everywhere, Hu Linyi actually knew. However, after the occupation of Hankow, it was too strange to start trading with local merchants.

However, according to the law of the first few times of the Guangfu Army, they will appear outside Wuchang City in two days, and if the Guangfu Army does not adjust its habits, Hu Linyi will soon be able to see the fleet of the Guangfu Army. R1058