Li Guolou is not interested in Zuo Zongtang's luxury chariot, the Royal Old Summer Palace is in and out casually, the human eye is higher than the top, except for the dragon chair, he doesn't dare to sit on other things, his eyes are not in his eyes, he sat down respectfully and asked: "Zuo Dashuai is looking for me something."

Zuo Zongtang picked up a pair of reading glasses on the lattice and put them on the bridge of his nose to see what Li Guolou looked like

This pair of glasses has a great origin, it was given to him by the Empress Dowager Cixi, and it is a relic of Emperor Qianlong, but Cui Yugui, the chief eunuch of the palace management treasury, opened his mouth to ask for a bribe of 6,000 taels, so angry that Zuo Zongtang did not want to reward him, after Li Hongzhang threaded the needle, Zuo Zongtang spent 3,000 taels of silver to get this pair of glasses, Zuo Zongtang also comforted himself, and the relics of Emperor Qianlong were worth 3,000 silver

"Guolou, like a man, I remember the last time I saw you, I still wore a jade wrench on my hand."

"Zuo Dashuai has a really good memory, and I still remember the first time we met," Li Guolou could only say in passing, without refuting Zuo Zongtang's words, after he became an official, he didn't even show his gold watch, and he never wore a jade wrench

Zuo Zongtang bowed slightly, took off his glasses, carefully put the glasses into the box, and then said: "Guolou, I've been out for more than half a year, don't you miss home?"

Li Guolou showed a smile and pulled the corners of his mouth and said: "How can Zuo Dashuai miss home, but since he wants to serve the country, he should do his best to serve the country, how can he give up halfway and turn back to the truth, the official already has a horse leather shroud, and he still realizes that he will not destroy Lei Heng and Ma Hualong, and he will not return to Beijing."

"Well, young people have this ambition, this handsome will definitely fulfill you," Zuo Zongtang was very satisfied, Li Guolou replied, he looked at his subordinates, and it was not difficult to be awarded a baron by virtue of Li Guolou's military exploits, but he still stayed in the northwest to fight, and based on this, Zuo Zongtang believed that this person was ambitious, and did not rely on his appearance and literary talents, and mixed in the Beijing Division, praising the powerful and stinky feet

Li Guolou lowered his eyebrows and bent down slightly: "Xiaguan thank you Zuo Dashuai for cultivating and allowing the younger generation to make a meager contribution."

"Hey, you have too few people, otherwise how can Lei Heng escape from Yan'an, you have the ability to train soldiers, you have to find a way to train more soldiers," Zuo Zongtang is good at calculation, judging from the casualties of Li Zi's battalion, he knows that Li Guolou did not have the strength to intercept the fleeing elder brothers, but Li Guolou's merit is greater than the victory, recovering Yan'an City, compressing the rebels to the southern plains of Yan'an, from two points, Li Guolou still has a strategic vision

Li Guolou heard the sound outside the strings, Zuo Zongtang, an old fox, what could be hidden under his nose, he blushed slightly, lowered his head and said: "It's still Zuo Dashuai, after understanding the lower officials, I will definitely learn from the Chu army, after the battle, one soldier and one pawn, and the other subordinate officials have nothing to say, when the situation in Yan'an is complicated, there are troops who want to fight fires and grab food, there are troops who are desperate to chase each other, and there is no subordinate relationship between them, and the subordinates have limited ability and cannot coordinate the relationship between various departments, so they will let Lei Heng make chaos so far."

"Well, it's not easy to be a qualified commander, you don't blame yourself, this commander knows that you are only a battalion, and it is not easy to develop this scale" Zuo Zongtang can't blame Li Guolou too much, the military department is according to the size of the army, the salary, military supplies, and the army is not enough, you need to find a way to raise money, Li Guolou himself posted money to serve the country, such a person is really rare, but it is a pity that Li Hongzhang's grandson is not a person of his own line, so he can only see Prince Gong's face, and do more practical things for the Westernists together

"Serve the country, and the subordinate officials should do their duties," Li Guolou raised his eyes and glanced at Zuo Zongtang, who was full of suspicion, called him to the car and said something inconsequential

Zuo Zongtang covered his mouth with his left hand, coughed for a while, and then spoke: "Ben Shuai, I heard what the zodiac said, you have the ability to be a counselor, and you have seen many things more thoroughly, I would like you to analyze the development of the situation between the enemy and us, and how our army should deal with the current erosive situation."

Li Guolou's heart was full of joy, but the expression on his face was not moving, as calm as a mountain, calm as the surface of the water, and fake politeness: "Zuo Dashuai, you say this, how dare you talk nonsense, if you say it wrong, don't you let Zuo Dashuai laugh?"

"Guolou, but it doesn't hurt to say it, this handsome knows that you are thoughtful, draw inferences from one another, and your skills are unparalleled in the world," Zuo Zongtang put a high hat on Li Guolou, anyway, it is a common problem of literati, and the idea of the three stinkers became Zhuge Liang's high opinion with a little modification

Li Guolou had no choice, he had no authority to transfer troops in the Great Northwest Battle, so he could only take out a good idea to share with everyone, and by the way, he got the title of senior counselor, and he took the opportunity to give his hand and said: "Zuo Dashuai, then the subordinate is not polite, the subordinate thinks that Lei Heng's department is not to worry, this is a climatic rogue who has not become a climate, as long as Lei Heng is not given a chance to breathe, there is no basis for the flow of our army to be surrounded on all sides, and it will be eliminated under the strategy of rapid advance, according to the normal situation, there is no big mistake, Lei Heng's department will not survive in the autumn."

Li Guolou paused and was silent, looked up at Zuo Zongtang, and spied on Zuo Zongtang's expression, which is also the way of the official, learn to speak according to the chief's preferences, if the chief does not like it, he will see the wind and change the topic, and even the other way around, if the chief likes to listen to him, he will continue to speak, and see Zuo Zongtang's expression is not moving, it seems that his words did not move Zuo Zongtang

Li Guolou's eyes rolled and he said: "Zuo Dashuai's subordinates think that as long as Lei Heng's subordinates are not allowed to jump out of the encirclement, the remnants of the elder brothers' associations will not be able to turn the sky and sit and wait to be killed, it is Lei Heng's end, but it is Jinjibao Ma Hualong's subordinate Tang Tu, and now he is besieging Jinjibao on both sides, although Liu Songshan has taken the lead in capturing Tongxin City and Wuzhong Fort, but it is still too early to defeat Ma Hualong, according to the established strategy, it may not be possible to distinguish the winner and loser until next year, and the time is delayed, Xining Ma Shou rate must cross the Yellow River to support Ma Hualong, and the lower officials think that the strategy of attacking Jinjibao should be adjusted."

Li Guolou sold a pass, pointed out that Zuo Zongtang besieged Jinji Fort on both sides, and the shortcomings of the key places were not to be said

Zuo Zongtang knows that the more talented the literati are, the more unruly and unruly people are, he is such a person, hearing that Li Guolou has a high opinion, his heart is itching, and he took out the map of the Dark Gray Jinji Fort, and humbly asked for advice: "Guolou, you can tell me what are the shortcomings of the siege of Jinji Fort on both sides."

Li Guolou's vanity was extremely inflated, and he did not dare to reveal his inner thoughts, and he said: "Our army adopted the policy of step-by-step and the strategy of attacking the heart first, and successively captured Wuzhongbao, Tongxin City and other forts in the north of Jinjibao, the Hui army suffered many casualties, Chen Daoqin's battlefield uprising was a heavy blow to the enemy, and the Jinjibao battle was further favorable to our side, but due to the shortening of the battle line, the relative concentration of troops, and the retreat of the Pingliang Hui army led by Mu Shenghua to the Jinjibao area, the enemy's strength increased, and the available troops exceeded 80,000, the Hui army relied on the Qin and Han two canals to dig trenches and build walls, and the infantry defended against the wall, while the cavalry took the initiative to attack, and constantly attacked our army from the east and west, giving our army a great blow”

Zuo Zongtang stared and said: "Guolou, you can tell me how to change the use of official hats or money to buy"

Li Guolou smiled and said: "Zuo Dashuai, you said that it is a small way, of course you have to use it, but these depend on people and success, there are days to succeed, and the officials will never rely on others, but rely on geography, Zuo Dashuai, Jin Jibao, but it is located on the edge of the Yellow River, there is no art of war, everyone will sit back and turn a blind eye to this Yellow River."

Li Guolou pointed his finger at the mother river, the Yellow River, he was a ruthless man, and pointed out a poisonous plan to use the water of the Yellow River to flood the Jinjibao area

Jinjibao has two dangerous places: one is the west gorge, which is not only the mouth of the Yellow River Bronze Gorge, but also the mouth of the Qin and Han two canals; One is the east Yongning Cave, it is the mountain water communication through the Qin Canal culvert place, the Qin and Han two canals meet here, the north flows into the Yellow River Gorge to control the water inlet, Yongning Cave controls the water outlet, these two places have a great relationship with the safety of Jinji Fort, now the water outlet Yongning Cave has been within the control of Liu Songshan Xiang Army, Li Guolou has no clear words, that is, Liu Songshan Xiang Army does not need to desperately attack Jinji Fort, only need to occupy this strategic place, and then the Qing army only needs to seize the mouth of the Yellow River Bronze Gorge and use the water of the Yellow River to turn Jinji Fort into ** The sea turned all the enemy's fortifications into a swamp, and the enemy could not win, and the enemy would let the enemy's food rot and starve to death if he starved to death, and hundreds of thousands of enemies in Jinji Fort

Zuo Zongtang picked up the map with both hands, haha laughed wildly, he is not a nerd who eats the ancients, opens his mouth and closes his mouth The sage's quotations, otherwise he would not have been dormant for more than ten years before he came out, Zuo Zongtang is a big devil, he prides himself on the art of war, everyone is saying that the conspiracy and trickery belong to the above board, Li Guolou's vicious scheme, in his eyes, belongs to the strategy, the superior strategy, without a fight, and the soldiers who surrender to the people are to rely on flooding the Jinji Fort

"Good plan, there are so many counselors, none of them dare to mention this idea, hey, it's not a good thing for a scholar to have a common life, or the national building is loud, when the hero can have this kind of thought, this handsome is worth the trip, a plan is worth 100,000 troops, Li Guolou is really the blessing of the Qing Dynasty, the old man asked you, did you come up with it yourself, or did your subordinates put it forward," Zuo Zongtang still didn't believe that Li Guolou was a scientific detective, and Hualang should be a leading figure in the literary world

Li Guolou blushed and had a thick neck, he already had the potential to become a leader in the literary world, Jingshi made friends with Mao Changxi, Dong Xun, Lu Runzhen, Tan Zongjun and other literati, if people knew that he was such a despicable person, he would use the water of the Yellow River to plague hundreds of thousands of Hui people, this literati would ruin his reputation for a lifetime, and even some radical literati would break off relations with him, which was no different from Xiang Yu's slaughter of the city, hey, Sisi was embarrassed and said: "I will mention this matter of Zuo Dashuai, don't use this strategy, don't mention the name of the lower official, the lower official is a civil official, I don't want to be criticized in righteousness."

"Hey," Zuo Zongtang waved his hand and said: "Guolou's words are bad, how can there be good and beautiful things in a war, everyone in the enemy-occupied area is an enemy, the old man has never had the so-called scruples to fight, winning is the key, the beautiful words surround you, if you lose, of course, the old account is counted together, and you deserve to be scolded for thousands of years, you are still young, don't be bound by etiquette, if this strategy is completed, it will be recorded in history, you don't push the credit, don't let the old man become the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Liang wants to get."

Zuo Zongtang regarded Li Guolou as a thousand years of hard to find Zhang Liang, which made Li Guolou flattered, and felt that he had a long conversation with Bole, which completely changed his view of Zuo Zongtang, originally he was wary of Zuo Zongtang, and always wanted to suppress Zuo Zongtang, and the forces above the court were now slightly favorable, but he did not reach the state of putting his heart in his heart

Li Guolou was a little uneasy, pointed to the map and said: "Zuo Dashuai's subordinates are afraid that the return army will also see this move, so the Qingtongxia Pass will become the key to the contention between the two armies, in addition to occupying this dangerous pass, it is not easy for our army to sit firmly, so I can't do it now, Ma Hualong is showing weakness to Jinjibao and pulling the cowhide with him, first negotiating on the table, making him think that our army has no ability to continue to attack Jinjibao this year, and so on, and then let Lei Zhengwan and Lei Shengyuan return to the Qingtongxiakou, otherwise the troops will be stretched, I am afraid that the battle of Qingtongxiakou will become the grave of our army."

Zuo Zongtang was shocked and looked at Li Guolou deeply, he didn't expect that Li Guolou's scheming was so deep, he was plotting and plotting together, and he was fighting a psychological war with the enemy without seeing the smoke of gunpowder, this person would never be satisfied with the status quo, but unfortunately he had no ability to restrain Li Guolou's ambitions, Zuo Zongtang couldn't guess Li Guolou's true thoughts, he could only implicitly sprinkle it, but he smiled and pretended to be scheming, looking at the team outside the car window

Li Guolou didn't say much more, this time he showed his edge, Zuo Zongtang left a deep imprint in his heart, he was convinced that in the future, Zuo Zongtang would use one of his hands to get the pair of gold-rimmed glasses, and wanted to take a closer look at what the three thousand taels of silver glasses were like, thinking that Zuo Zongtang had not seen his small movements

"Don't move," Zuo Zongtang snatched the glasses box and glared viciously, even his son couldn't touch the glasses, how could he let Li Guolou touch them

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Zuo Zongtang's gold-rimmed glasses really existed in history, in fact, it really cost three thousand silver