All day on December 14, Hu Linyi was in the office of the governor of Huguang to discuss military affairs. The civil and military of Wuchang introduced too much to him, Hengyang in Hunan was conquered, and Changsha was besieged. Hengyang is an important town in Hunan, and the Guangfu Army arrived in Yongzhou a year ago, and it is not a surprise to attack Hengyang. But Changsha only sent people for help when it was besieged, and there was no news after that.

Nine years earlier, in 1852, the Taiping army had also besieged Changsha. During that siege, there were a large number of officers and troops in Hengyang, and the officers and troops pursuing the Taiping army from Guangxi soon came to reinforce them. In this siege of Changsha, the Guangfu army has captured Guangxi and Hengyang, and it is said that Baoqing also fell into the hands of the Guangfu army.

At the time of Anqing, Hu Linyi did not know that the Guangfu Army had conquered Yuezhou and mastered the exit of Dongting Lake. The last time the Taiping troops attacked Changsha, they were besieged by Manchu officials. And this time it was completely reversed, and Changsha fell into the full encirclement of the Liberation Army.

Guangxi and Sichuan, it is impossible for any reinforcements to come. Changsha is resisting the onslaught of the Guangfu Army with the strength of a city. As long as the Guangfu army conquered Changsha, it basically controlled the richest area of Hunan. Of course, Hu Linyi knew a lot of Wei Ze's old things, and this fierce general led his subordinates as the vanguard of the Taiping Army to attack Jiangning City. After taking Changsha, Wei Ze only had to walk the road he had walked again.

The situation reached such a point that Hu Linyi realized that he had just knew. He wanted to accuse Guan Wen of encountering such a big thing, but he didn't tell everyone the news. But after thinking about it, the official document is not without telling the Xiangjun about the recent situation. Compared with the actual situation, the official document said that the things are even much less than the actual situation. Even so, Hu Linyi followed the rules of officialdom and thought that the official document was exaggerating the facts. He never imagined that after encountering the Liberation Army, the officials of the Qing court would be able to say something milder than the truth when they asked for help!

At night, Hu Linyi really couldn't sleep, so he got up and took his soldiers to the head of Wuchang City. The winter night is very clear, the stars are dotted, just looking at the sky, Hu Linyi's mood is a lot soothed. Even now, even if there were so many people who could be completely trusted saying the same thing, Hu Linyi couldn't help but hope that he believed that the entire Wuchang civil and military forces were deceiving him.

There is no way to do it, if you really believe the facts they say. That means that the Guangfu Army has the ability to capture Hunan within a month, and this army can still build a strong naval army in such a short period of time. To admit that the Liberation Army has such strength, then we must admit that no one in this world is the opponent of the Liberation Army. Since the Liberation Army's expression so far is an unswerving effort to eliminate the Qing Dynasty, then the end of the Qing Dynasty has arrived. The fall of the Qing Dynasty was only a matter of time. As a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, Hu Linyi could not accept this fact.

Starting as a scholar and working to this day, Hu Linyi wants to realize his own value through guò loyalty to the imperial court and meritorious deeds. If the Qing Dynasty is defeated, what will be the result of Hu Linyi?

In the "Letter to the Manchu Officials of the Restoration of the Governor's Mansion", the Restoration of the Governor's Mansion used "thief bones, dog bones, and cheap bones" to characterize officials loyal to the Manchu Dynasty. Hu Linyi knew very well that if the Manchu Qing was still there, he Hu Linyi would be a loyal minister, and if the Manchu Qing was wiped out by the Guangfu Army, then Hu Linyi's reputation behind him would immediately become an irrefutable "traitor".

In the Confucian way, if the loser is falsely admitted as a loyal minister, it must also be a civil war between fellow Han Chinese. Once Huayi's argument was used as the standard, Hu Linyi could not find a single sentence from the Analects that could protect his reputation. Confucius can say that the king just did something wrong, and as a result, the world put a bad reputation on the king.

But after Confucius scolded Guan Zhong for not knowing etiquette, he immediately said, "Guan Zhong is the prime minister, the prince is domineering, and the people are given by him now." Microtubule Zhong, I was sent to the left! Guan Zhong may be a person who "does not know etiquette" in the eyes of Confucius, but Confucius thinks that Guan Zhong is a "benevolent" person, and he said twice in a row, "As benevolent!" As benevolent! It emphasizes Confucius's identification with Guan Zhong.

If he could really see his grandfather Confucius after his death, Hu Linyi could not believe that Confucius would agree with his service to the Manchus. Especially after Wei Ze of the Liberation Army raised the banner of China, Hu Linyi continued to fiercely resist Wei Ze's actions, and Hu Linyi did not think that he could be recognized by Confucius.

Thinking of this, Hu Linyi shook his head violently, Confucius said, "I don't know life, I don't know death?" As a man of culture, Hu Linyi believed that Confucius did not necessarily agree that there was an afterlife. In other words, to die is to die, and there is no need to be judged after death. Thinking of the attitude of his ancestor Confucius, Hu Linyi felt a lot better in his heart.

Thinking about it in the city, the night is already dark. A heavy fog rose from the river, and the stars twinkled in the sky for a while and disappeared. The fog gradually thickened on the river, covering the surface of the river and the embankment under the city wall, and the ships of the Hunan army and sailors anchored on the river also fell into the river fog.

The Hunan naval division brought back by Hu Linyi consisted of three large ships, ten medium ships, and more than 20 small boats. The small boat was completely invisible at this time, and the medium ship could only see a shadow. And the huge mainmast of the big ship can still be seen, the thick fog rises and falls, sometimes only the mast can be seen, and sometimes the fog flows, and the tall ship tower is also partially exposed, as if revealing the floating castle tower on the river.

In order to build this Hunan army sailor, Hu Linyi spent great energy. If the Guangfu Army really hits Wuchang City, this fleet will protect Wuchang City. Hu Linyi no longer wanted to think about what would happen after him. Wei Ze has the possibility of overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty and seizing the world, not because of Wei Ze's benevolence, but on Wei Ze's strong military strength. In this case, if Hu Linyi wants to protect his reputation, he can only rely on military force. If Wei Ze's recovery army can be eliminated, then the ability and virtue of Hu Linyi, the minister of Zhongxing, will only be praised by later generations.

"Prove it with war!" Thinking of this, Hu Linyi got up and went back to rest with his own soldiers. After thinking about so many things, Hu Linyi was really tired.

As soon as breakfast was eaten the next morning, Guan Wen sent someone to invite Hu Linyi. When they arrived at the governor of Liangjiang, the official said that the Guangfu army fleet had arrived near Wuchang, but they first sent envoys to negotiate with Wuchang. The official asked Hu Linyi if he wanted to meet him.

"Why don't you see it?" Yesterday, since it was decided to use war to decide the good and evil of both sides, Hu Linyi was also refreshed.

Half an hour later, a young man in an olive-green military uniform was ushered in. Seeing a group of high-ranking officials, the young man stood up and saluted, "I am Second Lieutenant Sun Likang of the Yangtze River Detachment of the Guangfu Army, and I am ordered to send a letter to the Manchu Governor of Hubei, Hunan and other places to supervise military affairs, food and salary, and governor affairs. ”

The second lieutenant's accent was strange, and it had to be described as a southern official dialect, but the emphasis was very different, and it sounded crisp and nice. This accent is very easy to understand, so after listening to this list of names, Hu Linyi was dumbfounded, the abbreviation of "Governor of Hubei, Hunan and other places to supervise military affairs, food and salaries and governors" is the governor of Huguang, most Manchu officials can't say such a complete name. It was a great surprise that the Liberation Army, as the enemy, could say such a whole list of names so fluently.

Huguang Governor Guan Wen was even more dumbfounded, he knew his official title, but he also memorized it for a long time. After the second lieutenant said this, he did not have a javelin to be complacent, and he continued: "I have been ordered to come for two purposes, the first is to hand over to you one hundred and thirty-one heads in Changsha City. After we captured Changsha, we cut off their heads and sent them to you, so that you could deal with them yourself. ”

"What?" The officials in the entire hall were dumbfounded. They didn't expect that the Guangfu Army had already taken Changsha, and it was not too surprising that the Guangfu Army had cut off the heads of a hundred officials. There were tens of thousands of civil and military officials of the Qing army who died at the hands of the Guangfu Army, and more than 100 people were counted as a ball. And this is just cutting off the head, Hu Linyi's wife and brother were directly stripped of the skin.

"This is the list, please check it against the list when you receive it." After Second Lieutenant Sun Likang finished speaking, he took out a page of paper and handed it to the soldiers who were in charge of guarding beside him.

Second Lieutenant Sun Likang continued: "Second thing, I have been ordered to come and ask if you are willing to surrender. If you are willing to surrender, we can avoid war. The Liberation Army treats prisoners preferentially, and your lives and property will be protected. ”

"Preferential treatment of captives? Haha, ridiculous! Guan Wen sneered, "If you treat the captives preferentially, aren't these heads you sent your captives?" ”

Faced with the official questioning, Second Lieutenant Sun Likang replied loudly, "These people are not killed because they do not surrender, but because these people kill the people. Our army captured a lot of Qing troops near Hengyang and then released them. At that time, there was a family member of a comrade from Hunan in our army who served in Changsha as a Hunan army. Some of the Hunan prisoners recognized our comrades and reported to the police after they were released and returned to Changsha. The Changsha government killed several of our comrades as relatives of the Hunan army. The person who gave the order was Mao Hongbin, the governor of Hunan. More than 100 people were killed because they were involved in the incident. Other than that, we didn't kill the captives. ”

Hearing this, all the officials in the hall were dumbfounded. They can understand this kind of thing, and knowing that there are relatives of the Liberation Army in their own army, they naturally killed them. I didn't expect the revenge of the Liberation Army to be so fierce.

The official was furious, and he lost the lives of more than 100 officials just for the lives of a few soldiers, is there any reason for this? ! Is there still a royal law here?! Is there justice in this?!

With a slam on the table, Guan Wen stood up and shouted angrily: "Do you believe that I will kill you now?" ”

Sun Likang smiled slightly, "I was clearly told before I came that I might be killed." But I'm willing to take that risk. And I was also told that if I was killed, then after our army conquered Wuchang and liberated the whole country, the officials in Wuchang City and the Nine Clans would kill me and pay for my life. The reason why we didn't kill the relatives of those officials in Changsha was because we didn't tell them that there would be such an outcome. If you don't teach, you will be punished. Now that I've made it clear to you what the outcome of this will be, you should bear the consequences. ”

Hearing that he was killed, and the nine clans would be exterminated, the official almost braided his hair straight up, and he roared: "You still dare to threaten this official? ”

Sun Likang, a second lieutenant of the Guangfu Army, smiled slightly, "I just came to convey the news, and the decision is not in my hands, so how can I talk about threats?" ”

Where did anyone dare to talk to the Governor of Huguang like this before, and Guan Wen was almost mad. didn't wait for him to order someone to drag Sun Likang out and cut him down. An official next to him immediately stood up and shouted at the soldiers: "Why don't you throw this thief full of nonsense out of the city?" What are you waiting for? ”

The pro-soldiers immediately picked up Sun Likang and walked out. Hu Linyi looked at this qi with a cold eye, although the official who played the round was slippery, but the dignified governor of Huguang, Lord Wen, did not stop it. The meaning of this really made Hu Linyi find it interesting. R1058