"Fourth uncle! This time, it's happening! Wei Changrong's face still had the blackened marks of extinguishing the fire, but he had already shouted happily.

Wei Ze didn't answer this sentence, he reproached with palpitations: "Changrong! What if the gunpowder explodes? You're too careless! ”

The battle for the sneak attack on Quanzhou was very smooth, and the troops annihilated Liu Changqing's headquarters a few days earlier, and then used the captured Qing army to open the gate of Guanyang City and take Guanyang City lightly. Wei Ze only rested for one day, and then left a small number of troops to defend the city, and led his brigade to raid the whole state. The battle began at dawn, and the walls of Quanzhou, which had been blown up by the Taiping army, were not repaired, and the troops swarmed in through the gap, defeating the Qing army. As a result, before the Qing army escaped from Quanzhou City, they actually set a fire to the place where they were hoarding supplies.

Wei Changrong led the troops in front and immediately led people to extinguish the fire. Because of the swiftness of the action, the fire only burned a small amount of supplies. After finding a lot of gunpowder from the fire, Wei Changrong was overjoyed, but Wei Ze was frightened.

Wei Changrong didn't care about Wei Ze's reproach at all. The Qing army used Quanzhou as a transit point for transporting supplies to southern Hunan, and among the seized materials were large quantities of grain, gunpowder, lead, and salt, and even the carts of mules and horses transporting materials fell into the hands of Wei Ze's troops. Wei Changrong asked, "Fourth uncle, are we really going to fight Yongzhou?" ”

Yongzhou is in the northwest of Daozhou, if Yongzhou can be conquered, it can continue to march to the northwest and go straight to Hengyang. This used to be one of the strategic goals of the Taiping Army, and it was also a very good operational direction. But the reason why Wei Ze has this plan is not because he wants to fight Hengyang.

For Weese, interest in conquering the fortified city was very limited. "If you lose your land, you will lose your land; If people lose land, people and land will survive. "If the Qing army's troops can be continuously eliminated in the movement war, the Qing army's city is nothing at all. After solving Liu Changqing, Wei Ze was already allowed to go back and forth from Guanyang to Quanzhou, and the feint attack on Yongzhou was to mobilize the troops of the Qing army and annihilate them in the movement.

Liu Changqing's defeated army has confessed, and now the minister of the Qin Mission, Cezanne, has fled to Yongzhou, whether Yongzhou can be captured or not, it means that Cezanne will immediately summon the Qing army to come to the rescue. If the minister is killed, his subordinates will all lose their heads without exception. The Qing army could not simply sit idly by, and it must have rushed back to Yongzhou as soon as possible. From the front line of Daozhou to Yongzhou, the road is very rugged, and many places are even in the terrain where one man is in a hurry, Wei Ze even considered that he might be able to fight a front and rear attack with the Taiping army in Daozhou when the Qing army was moving, and annihilate the main force pursued by the Qing army from Guangxi in one fell swoop. If this is really the case, the next capture of Changsha is almost a certainty.

It's just that these ideas require the cooperation of the Daozhou Taiping Army, and what Wei Ze needs now is to quickly settle all the captured supplies. Due to their lack of experience in requisitioning grain, Wei Ze's troops have been eating grain seized from the county grain depot these days. What was seized in Quanzhou was grain that was delivered to the front line of the Qing army, and the quality of the two was too different. At least one piece of military rations was delivered to the Qing army at the front, but there was meat in it.

After replenishing military supplies, gunpowder and lead, which were once scarce, were no longer a problem. There was wine, meat, and rice, and the troops ate and drank, and Wei Zexian's troops fell into a state of exhaustion. This is also something that can't be helped, whether it is a recruit or a veteran, since joining Wei Ze's troops, in addition to fighting and training, he has only once rested for three days. After eating and drinking, it is normal to be sleepy and lazy. When Wei Ze went to patrol the city, even the brothers patrolling and watching the city were a little confused.

At this time, Wei Ze felt that there was something wrong with his original plan, and people were not machines, but they needed to be relaxed. After a series of battles, you need to rest, even for a long time. Weser himself is full of energy and can concentrate a lot, which does not mean that everyone in the army can be like Wesser.

Standing at the head of the city, Wei Ze couldn't help but wonder if his thoughts were wrong. Even so, Wei Ze saw from a distance that a small group of men and horses were coming from outside the city, judging from the attire, it was not Wei Ze's troops, but the brothers of the Taiping army. But Wei Ze observed this Cheng Dù, but the brothers who were guarding the city yawned and did not react to the idea in the distance. It's not that they see clearly, but they don't pay attention to it at all.

"That's not going to work!" Weeser was finally sure.

It was Lin Fengxiang who came, and he was also a familiar figure with Wei Ze in the Taiping Army. Xiao Chaogui, the king of the West, was afraid of Wei Ze's youthful spirit, so he didn't dare to send a guard to come at all. Even if he is the lowest-ranking prime minister in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Wei Ze is the prime minister anyway. The imperial guard is also at the Sima level, and Wei Ze is leading the troops outside, so he really doesn't listen to the advice of the guards, so he doesn't listen. It was because he was afraid of Wei Ze's youthful spirit, so Xiao Chaogui sent Lin Fengxiang, who was familiar with Wei Ze, to come. At this time, Lin Fengxiang was already a military commander, although his status was lower than Wei Ze, but Xiao Chaogui believed that Wei Ze really didn't dare to fight against Lin Fengxiang.

When Lin Fengxiang conveyed the will of the Western King Xiao Chaogui to Wei Ze to return to the army, Wei Ze immediately expressed his obedience to the order. Lin Fengxiang is not a talkative person, he simply asked: "When is Brother Wei going to return to the army?" ”

"Has the King of the West ever explained where to return to the army?" Weeser asked.

"Back to Daozhou?" Lin Fengxiang replied.

“…… Back to Daozhou? Wei Ze originally thought that even if he didn't attack Yongzhou, he would just return to Yang. I didn't expect this guy to go back to Daozhou.

"King Xi has instructed that Brother Wei must be allowed to return to Daozhou." Lin Fengxiang didn't have as many ideas as Wei Ze, he simply ordered.

Wei Ze didn't argue in the end, he knew that arguing with Lin Fengxiang was pointless. The troops finally set off for the south, first returning to Guanyang, then taking the main road to Jianghua to join Yongming and Luo Xuan, and finally Wei Ze's whole army went to Daozhou.

As soon as the marching order was given, the commanders at all levels in the unit gave a message, "There were many complaints in the ranks."

"What are the brothers complaining about?" Wei Ze already knew that his original idea was wrong at this time, before he went out of Guanyang to Quanzhou, the morale of the troops was extremely high because they had cities to fight and were very sure of the battle. Even if there was no rest after the advance army, the continuous movement annihilated Liu Changqing's troops and then captured Guanyang. The troops are still in high spirits. But when the whole state was really conquered, the troops ate and drank, and the originally high morale seemed to be drained at this time.

didn't say anything, Wei Ze was afraid for a while, "Do I still want to fight Yongzhou?" ”

Since the morale of the troops was already like this, Wei Ze had no choice but to hurry up and let the troops return to Yang. With the morale of the troops so low, what was needed was a place to rest. This Quanzhou city is not a good place to rest, theoretically there is a liaison between Wei Ze and Daozhou, but this communication line is very fragile and can be easily cut off by the Qing army. What is needed for rest and recuperation is a safe and secure defense system, and if he is besieged by the Qing army from all sides, Wei Ze does not think that he has the mind to rest calmly.

Moving the officers and speaking to the soldiers in person, Wei Ze tossed for most of the day, and finally brought the troops out of the city of Quanzhou. The mood is depressed, the morale is low, and the weekday training is still there. There should be no shortage of basic preparations for the march. Unlike before, for the first time, Weezer had a real baggage army, dozens of carts, and nearly a hundred mules and horses. It was loaded with materials seized from the whole state, and the large army marched towards Guanyang.

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