"Three thousand five hundred soldiers?" Du Jincian immediately asked: "Three ladies, what the hell is going on?" You made it clear to me!"

Liu Sanniang swept Du Jinchan, she didn't expect that Du Jinchan in Zhang Lexing's family had not gotten specific news so far, could it be that Zhang Lexing had anything else in mind?

She quickly dispelled this idea, there will be no other thoughts, absolutely not, now hundreds of thousands of twists will starve to death if they don't open Luzhou again, how dare Zhang Lexing have any other thoughts, she immediately said the truth: "This time Feng Sixian, the old red thief, played a stinky chess, he thought that there were a lot of foreign guns and foreign artillery, and he got an extra battalion of soldiers from Jiangnan to help, so he attacked Luzhou from Chaohu Lake in Hezhou, that is Luzhou!"

That's right, since Anqing fell into the hands of the Taiping army, Luzhou has become the focus of contention in Anhui, but more often the city is in the hands of the Taiping army, and the Qing army finally recaptured the city and took him as the capital of Anhui Province: "We have been in trouble for so many years, and we have never opened a big city like Luzhou, but now that Feng Sixian has lost his brain, we naturally have to push it and take down the provincial capital!"

According to the information obtained by Liu Sanniang, Feng Sixian only brought 3,500 old rainbow soldiers to attack Luzhou this time, and there were some local armed forces attached to the rainbow army with them, the total number would not exceed 800, which added up to about 4,000 people, but they had many foreign guns and foreign artillery, and if they wanted to open Luzhou, it should not be a big problem.

In this way, for the twister, it is a godsend, and he can even take the entire Anhui Province in one go, you must know that as long as the red thief fights with the Qing army and the local heroes near Luzhou, then the Anhui army can take advantage of the chaos to pick up a big advantage.

After saying this, Du Jinchan could only smile at Liu Sanniang: "Three ladies." I keep everything you said in mind, as long as Luzhou is opened, the position of Liu Evil Wolf should come to Brother Zhang Long!"

Liu Sanniang also smiled: "That's good." That's good, I'll let all of us do our best. ”

Du Jinchan's heart relaxed slightly, as long as Feng Sixian and the Qing army fought to the death in Luzhou, at that time, the Twist Army would be killed, and it would be a situation that swept the whole of Anhui.

She could hear the sound of the fast horse galloping, and she could also hear the excited shouts of the twister, Luzhou seemed to be a big cake under the twist, but she was suddenly a little cold.

If the situation is not as Liu Sanniang said. Is that twist a big loss?

You must know that after the Twist Incident, although many county towns were taken, it took a lot of effort to open these county seats, and as for the state capital, none of them were taken. You must know that Zhang Lexing was attacking Maozhou at the beginning, and only then did he turn around and capture the Pheasant River Collection. Seeing the confidence and smiles on the faces of the twisters, Du Jincian felt that they were too confident.

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Luzhou.

This city, which was later called "Hefei", has a bit of the taste of "China's largest county" at this time, and it is the origin of the Huai Army. Lujiang, Feixi, Feidong and several other local powerful forces fought each other, but they united to form such a force as the Huai Army, which can be said to be a turning point in Chinese history.

It's just that now that Luzhou City has changed owners, Liu Chang stood at the head of Luzhou City and asked Feng Sixian beside him: "Do you say that Zhang Lexing and Gong Blind will come?" ”

Feng Sixian said very solemnly: "Of course I have to come, His Royal Highness came to Luzhou to supervise the battle." How could Zhang Lexing not come? If he doesn't come, won't he live up to His Highness's good intentions!"

Liu Chang said slowly: "I'm really worried that they won't come, if they don't come, wouldn't this good situation we have laid out be a waste of it, not to mention that they will return to Huaibei." I don't know how much more I have to do. ”

For such a mobile combat team as the Twist Army, Liu Chang still attaches great importance to it. You must know that this Twist Army supported the Taiping Army for several more years, and it was not until 1868 that they were finally defeated, and they lost the base of Pheasant River Collection, and almost traveled through most of North China, entering Ganshan in the west, Jiaodong in the east, reaching Lugou Bridge in the north, and Yangzhou in the south.

In order to pacify these tens of thousands of twist troops, the Qing Dynasty did not know how many generals were killed, how many tens of thousands of taels of silver were spent, and how many states and counties were lost, so Liu Chang had a determination to directly eliminate this twist in the bud and strive to achieve complete success in one battle.

An old official wearing a Qing Dynasty Ming costume on his side immediately complimented: "Your Highness, please rest assured, they just don't care, what can they do?" Now that the soldiers are gathered, the twisters are some horse teams, and how can they be the opponents of our army!"

"Brother Yuan Wei!" Liu Chang immediately replied: "I invited you to sit in Luzhou, but I didn't say a few good words!"

This person is none other than the famous Luzhou prefect Hu Yuanwei, the reason why he is famous, not that he has any means to reach the sky, in fact, this is the officialdom is not very proud of the dismissal of the prefect, in the prefect for more than ten years, and finally had to be dismissed and retained, the reason why he is famous is because he is the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, surrendered to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom The highest official in the Qing Dynasty.

According to the notes of the Qing army and other materials, this Hu prefect can be said to be extremely evil, he had bad intentions in Luzhou, and fornicated with Changmao, but in order to better fornicate with Changmao, he actually invited another old opponent of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Jiang Zhongyuan, the founder of the Hunan Army in the real sense, and asked Jiang Zhongyuan to take Xiang Yong to help Luzhou.

According to these Qing army accounts, Hu Yuanwei's invitation to Jiang Zhongyuan to help Luzhou was completely an act of banditry, and Luzhou had neither courage, nor food nor pay, and was a place of death, but Hu Yuanwei claimed in his letter that Luzhou had enough food and was not a bandit. It was entirely because of Jiang Zhongyuan's hard work that Luzhou was able to hold on.

Of course, Jiang Zhongyuan was not responsible for the reinforcements of the Qing army outside the city, although tens of thousands of Taiping troops stormed Luzhou, but famous Qing generals such as Li Hongzhang and Fuji were all fighting steadily and steadily, taking three steps back, and never falling for the strategy of luring the enemy by bandits.

In the end, Jiang Zhongyuan was defeated, but this shameful Hu Yuanwei surrendered to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and became a shameless traitor, so Hu Yuanwei was disgruntled and a real traitor from the time he was born.

It's just that Hu Yuanwei can't make his own voice, he can only carry the infamy behind his back and don't know what to do, but in this time and space, Liu Chang remembered him again.

He served as the prefect of Anhui for at least 15 years, although since the surrender of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in 1854, he was used as one of the pawns of the Taiping army, but the Taiping army did not have much trust in him, only gave the name, although he received some chores in Tianjing, but he was very unwilling, and even repeatedly killed.

This time, the king of heaven went north to Anhui, but he pulled Hu Yuanwei in Tianjing, so Liu Chang called him Hu Yuanwei's name, and even had the heart to let him sit in Luzhou, so Hu Yuanwei also worked hard and made great contributions to the Hongjun entering Luzhou without a fight, but those past years made this Hu Governor particularly good at saying compliments: "What are the good words of the subordinates, this is the truth purely from the heart, His Royal Highness will come to the provincial capital, and Zhang Lexing's twist will naturally be wiped out." ”

It's just a compliment, Hu Yuanwei still has the right to speak on the land of Luzhou: "Now we have arranged 10,000 rainbow soldiers, 6,000 righteous soldiers, plus township soldiers and militia, no less than 60,000 or 70,000 people, not to mention one Zhang Lexing, that is, ten Zhang Lexing, all of them are the same ending!"

Liu Chang was worried that Zhang Lexing refused to be fooled: "If Zhang Lexing doesn't come, it will take us another year or two to extinguish these twists!"

It's easy to win the twist, but it's not easy to extinguish, the Qing army in order to extinguish the twist, I don't know how many generals and how many soldiers have been lost, and finally the tactics of building a chain of dock forts dragged the twisted army to death, in the field, they can never be in the upper hand, not to mention that now the Taiping army is running north to the Anhui realm, if they combine with the twist, so that the twist army is transformed into a professional combat group, it will be more troublesome.

Hu Yuanwei has been in Anhui Province for so many years, and he is more familiar with twists than Liu Chang: "They must come, and they must come!"

He continued to talk: "Your Highness must know that the twist is a gang, and it is for profit!" Zhang thief has taken hundreds of thousands of twisters south since the spring, trying to break the old camp of Chaohu in my country and Zhou, but after half a year, he has gained nothing, and he has lost many twists to 10,000 people, which has hurt morale, and now if Zhang Lexing can't win a few battles to boost morale, I'm afraid he will be set up!"

"Set up?"

"That's right!" Hu Yuanwei has a very good understanding of the inside story of the twisters: "Roast on the fire, the twists are all rabble, it doesn't matter if you win, if you lose, you will naturally roast this alliance leader!"

Pan Dingxin, who was next to him, had not been favored by Liu Chang as a general, and now he quickly stood up and said: "The old prefect is right, Zhang Lexing has to come!"

"Now the situation in the southeast is the most complicated in Anhui Province!" Liu Chang immediately changed the topic: "Fish and dragons are mixed with dragons, there are many heroes, although it is certain to defeat, it is difficult to clear up!"

This territory in northern Anhui can be said to be the old base of the Twist Army, I don't know how many people have entered the Twist, and if you want to completely eliminate the Twist and countless Taiping Army, Qing Army and local tyrant armies in such a place, you can't rely on the thunder alone, you must rebuild the local administration with extremely meticulous work.

Historically, because of the turmoil, Wuyang County was set up in Pheasant River Collection, but the chaos in northern Anhui has continued, but Hu Yuanwei said: "Your Highness, I think that if you want to clear northern Anhui, there is a person who can help a lot, I don't know if Your Highness wants to see it?" ”

"Who?"

"Miao Peilin, although there are few people now, it is worth using!"

Liu Chang shook his head again and again: "Raise tigers for trouble, lure wolves into the house!" Not to be!"

He knew what kind of character this Miao Peilin was, it was not worth it at all, and it might even cause even greater disasters, but at this time, someone rushed up to the city wall, and then knelt down with beads of sweat: "Your Highness, Zhang Lexing has come to Lujiang with 130,000 twists!"