"Zhang Guoliang wants to run?"

As soon as he thought of this possibility, Fu Wendao felt hot all over, this may be one of the best opportunities in his life, if he cleans up Zhang Guoliang and goes to the two big provinces of Shandong or Henan, how should it be his turn, right?

It's just that he had to force himself to calm down, he couldn't help but calm down, the current situation in Jiangbei is very peculiar, although the Hong Army only has more than 10,000 regular troops and irregulars and militias with slightly fewer troops, but it has pressed Zhang Guoliang, Seng Wang, Shengbao, and Hechun, the remnants of these defeated generals are unable to move, and they have been defeated repeatedly.

But he also had to admit that these Qing troops still had some combat effectiveness, and they had a huge number of troops, and if they made a fatal mistake in judgment, then there was a possibility of capsizing in the gutter, so Fu Wendao carefully considered the specific details: "We must get more information, and we must ask Jiangning for support!" At least give a reinforcement battalion! ”

Within forty-eight hours, Liu Chang had already obtained the latest battle report from the front line, as well as a telegram forwarded by Fu Wendao from Yangzhou via Jiangning: "Zhang Guoliang seems to have signs of a northward escape, very good, very good......

Liu Chang looked at this information with a smile, and he said to Xu Yuegui opposite: "It seems that you have still made some achievements!" ”

"It's not just the grades!" Xu Yuegui said with a smile: "We are here according to His Highness's method, and now as long as Zhang Guoliang withdraws, Xuzhou can fall into our hands!" ”

For acquiring such a famous city without a fight, Liu Chang is also quite proud: "It's a pity that I have to hold down Fu Wendao, so that he can't be too anxious, and save Zhang Guoliang from beating him across!" ”

Xu Xianggui, who was beside Xu Yuegui, interjected: "Why didn't Your Highness completely defeat Zhang Guoliang, after all, this is a strong force in the Qing Demon!" ”

"What about the team!" Liu Chang replied: "It's just a remnant of the defeated army, and now according to Xuzhou Jiancheng, tens of thousands of people still don't dare to fight with me, not to mention that after rushing north, I still fancy his ability to cause trouble in the north!" ”

The follow-up reaction to the northward withdrawal of such a huge military group as Zhang Guoliang, Seng Wang, Shengbao, and Hechun, as well as the decision that Beijing may make. In the future, Liu Chang cannot make a clear judgment on the direction that this military group may retreat to, but one thing can be clear.

That is, Zhang Guoliang Group must have penetrated the Monkey King in the belly of Princess Iron Fan, and it can set off countless storms in the north, which will greatly benefit the New Year offensive of the Rainbow Army.

He was now worried about something else. That's the Russians vs. the Spaniards.

The volunteer movement carried out by the Spaniards in Guangdong was inherently insufficient. Although they can give Ye Mingchen a lot of support, it is still not enough to cause trouble, the Russians are the real big trouble, since they invaded Heilongjiang south in the summer. There is news of the defeat of the Qing army everywhere, and it seems that there is an intention to take the entire Guanwai and directly enter the Guannai.

Under such a double attack, Emperor Xianfeng and the Military Aircraft Department were already in a hurry, and many decisions were messed up, and it seemed that it was only a matter of time before the Northeast fell. But Liu Chang did not allow such a historical performance, so the Rainbow Army would have to stage a decisive battle with the Russian army in the Northeast and the Great Plain of North China.

According to the information from De Mons and many other friends of the Hong Army, this time the Russian army has made a bloody investment, and the number of troops they mobilized in the Far East and Outer Mongolia is 50,000 or 60,000, even if there are not 100,000 people, including Cossack troops who have won a hundred battles, border guards that the Russians are proud of, and artillery units that they have known as the god of war, and they have also mobilized troops from the interior. It's just that the current winter has affected their offensive.

As soon as the weather improves, then the troops of the double-headed eagle banner will sweep the entire Far East, but the most alarming thing for Liu Chang is nothing else, but the tsar and St. Petersburg have reinstated the former governor of Eastern Siberia, Mulajoviv, who is the most alarming opponent in the whole of China.

Historically. It was this man who won without a fight with a force of several thousand men, and took millions of square kilometers of land from China, and he can be said to be the most crucial figure in the history of Russia. At times, Liu Chang even doubted that this man was superior to tens of thousands of hard-working Russian infantry.

Now is the time to step up intelligence work. Therefore, Liu Chang said to Xu Xianggui: "In addition to Xuzhou, the work of Pheasant River Collection should also be stepped up!" ”

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Pheasant River Collection.

This large market town on the banks of the vortex river is now in the midst of a violent snowstorm, and a heavy snowfall has cleared the whole world.

It's just that today's Pheasant River set does not have the atmosphere of the New Year in previous years, and they are no longer talking about which girl's Peugeot, or whose family has made three or five more buckets of grain, and how to build a polder.

Weizi, or called the village, or other names, can be the standard military fortress of the two Huai villages and towns, whether it is Huaizi or regimental training, or other weapons, if you want to start an incident, you must first build a polder, sometimes it is directly in your hometown, using clan relations to build a fortress, and sometimes it is in the village where you have relatives and friends, no matter what kind of form, a polder represents that the force has its own foundation.

In history, when Seng Lingqin broke through the pheasant river set, he didn't know how many polders were broken, and the clan relations in these villages also underwent earth-shaking changes, some families were killed, some small families became the new masters of the village, and some families completely decayed, like a typical Zhang Lexing and Zhang Zongyu family, according to the incomplete statistics of the later genealogy, at least 100 people from the first two generations of the Zhang family participated in the twist army, most of them served as twist heads and died on the battlefield, As a result, there are only more than thirty people left in the third generation.

This kind of polder can be said to be the strongest military walled city that the twist can think of, dense gun holes, hundreds of pounds of cannons, the ditch that let go of the water, and the wall of two or three zhang high, in history, the twist built a polder, and finally fell in Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang's siege tactics, and such a polder also continued to last in the Huai army's hometown for nearly a hundred years, and even played an important role during the Anti-Japanese War.

At that time, there was a Weizi left by Zhou Shengbo, a famous general of the Huai Army in Feixi, and a group of middle and senior officers of the Gui Army gambled with Zhou Shengbo's descendants in the Weizi, who expected that an infantry brigade of the Japanese army would go out of the city to sweep, and just now swept to the Weizi where this group of gamblers was, and in a hurry, the Weiding and the guards used the Weizi to organize resistance, and they blocked the Japanese army who did not know the truth outside the Weizi for a night.

At dawn, the high-ranking officials of the Gui Army, who had been caught gambling on the head of Xingtou, jumped over the wall in anger, and pulled their teams over to openly confront the Japanese army's gambling action, the Japanese army, which had hundreds of infantry brigades, could not support under the siege of a large number of national troops, and was defeated and retreated, and suffered setbacks, and finally almost the whole army was wiped out, according to the history of the 60th Infantry Wing, after the war, the 60th Wing went to clean up the battlefield and found out more than 300 Japanese corpses, which became the most glorious battle in the history of the entire Anhui Anti-Japanese War, which was the famous Battle of Dashu Mountain.

And now the twisters of the Pheasant River set have to think about how to strengthen the walls and fortifications, they are discussing how to place the earthen cannons, and they are also discussing how to set traps, as well as all kinds of means.

Just talked about the interest, but someone said: "We were originally going to fight the autumn wind, and now we are talking about how to build a polder, I'm afraid it's not a good thing!" ”

As soon as they heard this, everyone felt that they had lost their luck, some people drank two sips of stuffy wine, and some people simply shouted: "Listen to Zhang Mengzhu, listen to Zhang Mengzhu, don't worry about us twisters!" ”

But how can you not worry, there is a lot of bad news from the south, Feng Sixian has attacked with a thunderous momentum, Zhang Lexing personally went out, the result was first a field battle was invincible, the Hong Army's artillery and Minnie guns exploded so that the twister did not dare to get up at all, and then there was the news that many polders were directly attacked, and everyone felt that the good days of the twist were coming to an end.

If it weren't for this heavy snowfall, maybe Feng Sixian would have killed the pheasant river directly, but the twister couldn't see any way out.

Now wine is the most popular commodity sold in the Pheasant River Collection, when I think of the guns and cannons in Feng Sixian's team like a storm, the twist has a lot more fear, and now hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in the quagmire of the Pheasant River Collection, the Taiping army complains that the twist is withdrawn too quickly, and the twist complains that the Taiping army is not on time, and the big thing is missed, not to mention that the flags of the twist blame each other.

In the past, Mrs. Pingping's Pheasant River Set has now become with Mars, you must know that because Pheasant River Set used to be the largest bandit nest in the vicinity, no one dared to make trouble here in the past, and it was even miraculously to the point that the door was not closed at night.

It's good now, there are men with big guns and small guns everywhere, and sometimes women also raise knives and guns, and Mars will come out without a word, and there is no silver in the waist bag, no rice, and even the New Year's goods can not be prepared, it has become a common problem in the entire Pheasant River Collection, many people are already complaining, Zhang Lexing should not be troublesome, and tens of thousands of Taiping troops and their families are all taken down, and now they are not having a good New Year.

Liu Sanniang came to the Pheasant River Set in such an atmosphere, when she first arrived at the Pheasant River Collection, she was even startled by the fire storm scene of the Pheasant River Collection, she never thought that the Pheasant River Collection could accommodate such a person, and there were not so many people in the past even if the big city was broken.

However, this kind of chaos is also convenient for her, and the more chaotic the occasion, the more she is like a fish in water, and she doesn't even need to speak, just listening to the conversation and getting a lot of accurate news from the twister's mouth.

She was ordered by Liu Chang and Xu Yuegui to sneak into the Pheasant River Collection.