"What?"

Zeng Guofan, who was concentrating on reading, was taken aback all of a sudden, he raised his head and said, "What's here?" The red thief arrived in Jiangxi? ”

As he spoke, he had already flown out the Chuanshan Legacy in his hand, which might only have one volume in all of China, and smashed it on Zhao Liewen's husband: "What did you say?" ”

"I said......" Zhao Lie wanted to say something, but when he saw Zeng Guofan's appearance, he couldn't help but sigh: "Yang Zaifu and Li Xubin's reinforcements are almost here!" ”

"Yes, yes!" Zeng Guofan breathed a sigh of relief: "Bao Chao's Thunder Army has also arrived in Jiangxi, and now the hearts of the people in Jiangxi are settled, and the hearts of the people are settled!" ”

Zhao Liewen had nothing to say, but Zeng Guofan thought of something: "Talking about today decades later, maybe I'm too flustered today, right?" I'll hurry up and write a letter to Lao Jiu! ”

Zeng Guofan said just do it, he stood up, walked to the desk, and picked up the pen, ink, paper and inkstone casually, but Zhao Liewen was helping him polish the ink, Zeng Guofan's hand was already shaking, he didn't even grab a pen, but the whole person fell: "Liewen, I just said to write a letter to Hu Runzhi, right?" ”

Obviously, Zeng Guoquan is good or not, but Zhao Liewen knows that Zeng Guofan's heart is completely messed up, so he can only say: "I heard that the monk king and Shengbao have retreated to Danyang!" ”

"Danyang? Dan yang? The monk king ......" Zeng Guofan reacted for a while: "All this is as I expected, Monk Greenqin has fought for the rest of his life, how can it be so easy to be defeated, and the loss is not big, right?" ”

"More than half of the horse team is lost!" Zhao Liewen didn't dare to increase Zeng Guofan's burden: "Shilang, you can rest assured, the so-called repeated defeats, repeated defeats and repeated battles ......"

Changing "repeated defeats" to "repeated defeats" is Zeng Guofan's own typology, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this sentence: "Yes, they are all full of people's rivers and mountains, and now the monk King Shengbao and Chun have retreated to Danyang, and the red thieves will never enter the Jiangxi ...... in a big way."

Zhao Liewen came to find Zeng Guofan. What I want to say is that Liu Jiehu will inevitably enter Jiangxi in a big way in the future, but seeing Zeng Guofan's reaction so fierce, he can only follow Zeng Guofan's tone and say: "And Jiujiang is just around the corner, it's just around the corner!" ”

"Yes, yes!" Zeng Guofan straightened out his anger at this time: "He will kill the thief Liu Jiehu one day and use his head as a wine glass...... Hey......"

Zeng Guofan thought about it and said again: "The weather in Nanchang is really bad......"

But from Zeng Guofan's fleeting eyes, Zhao Liewen had already seen that this was not just a problem of bad weather, and he said: "It's already the height of summer. The squire needs to rest more......"

Zeng Guofan is really a character who has been defeated and defeated repeatedly, and after a while, he has already regained his anger: "I was thinking about a woman just now, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Now the Hunan army doesn't know which Hunan army can still be called, I told him Zuo Jigao, if his method can't hold Liu Jiehu, he must get me a few thousand reinforcements, otherwise I will jump into the river......"

Anyway, Zeng Guofan's jumping into the river is already a traditional performance program among the Hunan army, and he doesn't mind giving Zuo Zongtang another performance.

……

Dan yang.

Zhang Guoliang already had a bitter face, and he said repeatedly: "The monk king, the victory handsome, and the handsome, the overall situation will be so unbearable, and the overall situation will be so unbearable...... How is that! ”

He always thought that with the thousands of horses of the monk king. This time they joined forces to go south, even if they didn't win a big victory, they could gather the team back, but now the battle report from the front made him tremble, and he even had the idea of abandoning the city and leaving.

Fortunately, after the red thieves defeated the Qing army at Zhuhu, they attacked towards Changshu, so they gave the three troops of Seng Lingqin, Shengbao and Hechun time to gather the remnants of the army, but the more they were closed, Zhang Guoliang over there was shocked. He said in a loud voice: "Monk King." When you went south, you took 30,000 men with you. Nearly 10,000 fine riders ......"...,

"The elite division of the country, the luck of the whole country, all in the monk king!" As soon as Zhang Guoliang said this, Shengbao over there couldn't stand it anymore, and he shouted loudly: "Zhang Junmen, what kind of system are you yelling at, we are fighting to the death with the red thief, it is really too many red thieves and horses, we can't parry, and the red thieves have sailors and foreign guns and cannons to attack, so we are forced to retreat!" ”

"But when you went south, you took 30,000 men with you!" Zhang Guoliang still said this: "Monk King, Shengshuai, and Hechun, you go to the south for a walk, maybe there will be a large group of people who have not been gathered!" ”

Shengbao also wanted to have such a miracle, but he knew better that this time more than 30,000 people went south, it was not easy to gather such a little strength, he just said: "Zhang Junmen, talk nonsense again, I will let you write this report with me on the battle with the Red Kou......"

Zhang Guoliang was originally a thief and didn't know how to write, not to mention that the twists and turns of this defeat are probably notoriously difficult to write, since the general situation of this defeat is explained, and the actual situation must be covered up, I don't know how to write it well.

"Xiang Shuai before, when he encountered such a situation, how did he write the recital...... "Monk Greenqin has already asked Zhang Guoliang for advice: "Although we are the children of the Eight Banners, it is not easy to write such a recital!" ”

Standing in Herong's position, he had no scruples, and he even wrote some actual situations, for example, at the lowest peak of the siege of Tianjing, among the Taiping army in Tianjing City, the so-called Guangxi old thieves are only a thousand or even nine hundred, and Zhang Guoliang thought of this: "In Tianjing City, the real long hair is only a few thousand, at most there are no more than 10,000, and today there are many long-haired thieves in the battle against Zhuhu?" ”

The so-called long-haired thief, that refers to the military age of participating in the Taiping Army, you must know that it takes at least a year to change from short hair to long hair, and He Chun has already replied smartly: "More than 20,000, and there are only more than 20,000 long-haired thieves in Tianjing City." ”

"Lord Xianfeng is unambiguous!" Shengbao said: "After this battle, we haven't had an official report for so many days, and I don't know how it ended!" ”

Although according to the rules, Monk Greenqin and Shengbao should send a detailed report to Xianfeng as soon as possible, but this battle was too mixed, so that until now, Monk Greenqin and Shengbao did not know how to write this official report, but only vaguely wrote a few brief reports, saying that the official army lost the battle, and the infantry and horse teams were all severely defeated.

Over there, Zhang Guoliang was not good at how to write a newspaper, but when he heard He Chun talk about the details, he sighed: "After several years of operation, I will pay for it...... Now I can only borrow troops from Tomina! ”

There are still 13,400 soldiers and horses in the Jiangbei camp of Tuo Ming'a, although they have been defeated by the Taiping army once, but compared to Jiangnan, it is much better, but Shengbao jumped to his feet and said: "Zhang Junmen, this time I have to sign your name, hey......"

Such a failure, the aftermath is a big problem!

……

"After the reserve brigade is transferred to Huzhou, there will be no main force of our army in the entire southeast of Zhejiang!" Xu Yuegui glanced at the troop deployment map twice, and said in a low voice: "Check whether you should be careful in that regard!" ”

As a matter of fact, the first division, the reserve brigade, and the cavalry brigade are all concentrated in Huzhou, while the third brigade is stationed in Suchang, and the second brigade is stationed in Jiangxi.

It's just that Liu Chang sighed: "It's easy to form one or two infantry brigades, just transfer a batch of independent regiments and independent battalions below, but it's hard to find a commander with weight!" ”

Xu Yuegui asked, "Brigade commander?" Isn't it okay to be promoted from the regimental commander. ..., Liu Chang has his own thoughts: "The history of our Hong Army is too short, it is not as good as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and even as good as your Heaven and Earth Society, many people are qualified to be a battalion commander, and it is more reluctant to be a regiment commander, let them be unprepared to lead a brigade, it is more dangerous than not having a main brigade......"

Strictly speaking, Xu Yuegui's criticism is indeed somewhat pertinent, because the main forces of the Hong Army are not in the old base areas in Zhejiang Province, and these independent regiments and independent battalions can only fight in their own prefectures and counties.

It's just that Xu Yuegui asked intelligently: "Isn't it okay for the cadres from the Dragon Lance Battalion?" ”

Liu Chang hesitated for a moment before replying: "To promote them to the position of the regimental level, they must first exercise for a period of time, no matter what, the situation in southeast Zhejiang is quite stable now." ”

In fact, Liu Chang also wanted to form a new infantry brigade, you must know that now more than a dozen independent regiments and independent detachments have been assembled in Zhejiang Province, and a large number of combat units are needed in all aspects.

However, it did not take much effort to form the infantry brigade, but it was not easy to find a qualified division and brigade commander, and there were not many cadres under his command who could serve as the commander of such a large corps, and he couldn't help but miss Lin Qirong in Jiujiang.

This Zeng Guofan is known as "my generation is not as stoic", at least he is also a qualified brigade commander!

"What about Lu Ziyun? Yun Tianzong, as well as Qu Jie, are already very good regiment leaders, so they can't be placed in the position of regiment leader for the rest of their lives, right? ”

Although Xu Yuegui has not been in the Rainbow Army for a short time, he has already understood the basic personnel situation of the Rainbow Army, but the commander of these main regiments, Liu Chang has no intention of letting him take charge for the time being: "They still need to exercise, right......"

Liu Chang suddenly remembered someone: "I forgot someone, if it wasn't for your reminder today, I would have forgotten him, so many counties and counties in Zhejiang really need to form a brigade." ”

"What did you say?" Xu Xianggui asked beside him, "Which one are you talking about?" ”